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YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.
India and Tibet.
A History of the Relations which have subsisted between the two Countries from the Time of Warren Hastings to 1910; with a Particular Account of the Mission to Lhasa of 1904.
Second impression in the same month as the first. An intriguing character, protégé of Lord Curzon, soldier, explorer, and Forward Policy exponent of the Great Game, whose later years were spent promoting various mystical beliefs. Younghusband was eponymous Political Officer of the 1903-04 British Expedition. "Record of Younghusband's expedition... and the events which led up to it" (Yakushi).
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt. top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of the Dalai Lama and 25 other plates, 2 folding coloured maps at the rear. Light browning and some mild marginal foxing, neatly recased with new endpapers, spine relined, cloth a little spotted, a few minor snags to the spine, a very good copy.
