114. Tibet.- Advis certain, d’une plus ample descouverte du Royaume de Cataï..., first edition , title trimmed slightly affecting text, small marginal water-stain to top right corner, moiré silk endpapers, small paper label on verso of front free endpaper, later red morocco, gilt, [not in Copac] , 8vo, Paris, Sevastian Chappelet, 1628.
est. £1000 – £1500
This work includes a letter by the French Jesuit François Godin, reporting the apparent discovery of Cathay; this report was subsequently proved to be a misrepresentation of an important journey into Tibet by Antonio de Andrade. In 1624 the Portuguese missionary Andrade, originally stationed in Agra, travelled to Tibet where he was received by the royal court and granted permission to establish a mission, which continued for some twenty-five years.