L'Asie inconnue. Dans les sables de l'Asie. Traduit du suédois par Charles Rabot. Ouvrage accompagné de 8 cartes et de reproductions photographiques de l'auteur [- Vers la ville interdite [...]. Ouvrage contenant 4 cartes et de nombreuses illustrations d'après les photographies prises par l'auteur].

2 vol., 8vo (1st vol.: sl. spotting on title and very occ. in the rest of the vol.).

Publ. pictorial green cloth, a.e.g. (soiled).

First French translation by the geographer Charles Rabot (1856-1944) published in the same year as the first edition in Swedish. Both are travel accounts about Asia: the 1st, from Stockholm to the Tarim Basin (through the Taklamakan Desert, Gobi, Lop Nor, etc.), the 2nd is entirely devoted to Tibet (with small incursions in India). Both volumes are illustrated with reproductions of photos by the author himself (40 full-pp. in each vol., 2 title-vignettes) and with one in-text map in each vol. and 3 full-page maps in vol. II (vol. I has its 2 maps missing). The Swedish topographer and explorer Hedin (1865-1952) made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nor, the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin, etc.