Specimens of the Umin and Uchen characters in the language of Tibet. Illustration by Lieutenant Samuel Davis from Captain Samuel Turner’s Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, 1800. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno’s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817.

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