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193274978Chicago: Lakeside Press 1932. First edition of this obscure publication done for the Chicago 1933 World's Fair. Octavo. 64 pp. plus photographic portrait of the donor Victor Bendix. A very good copy.Dr. G. Montell was born in Pajala Sweden on 7 November 1899. His research focused on Inner Mongolia Outer Mongolia and the Chinese Summer Palace at Chengde Jehol. He was a member of Sven Hedin's Sino-Swedish Expedition to Central Asia in 1929–1933 and the extensive ethnographic collection which he acquired on behalf of Hedin is now housed in the Ethnographic Museum Statens etnografiska museum in Stockholm. He subsequently became Director of the Asian Department of that museum Lakeside Press unknown
201275473Boston and London: Shambhala 2012. First edition of this translation. Large octavo. lxi 1 618 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering front cover with an Asian deity in gilt marbled brown endpapers. Matching publisher's slipcase. An excellent copy of this Tibetan classic.The epic of Gesar is the longest single piece of literature in the world canon encompassing some 120 volumes; here the first three volumes are translated telling of Gesar's birth his mischievous childhood and his youth spent in exile and his rivalry for the throne with his treacherous uncle. For hundreds of years versions of the Gesar of Ling epic have been sung by bards in Tibet China Central Asia and across the eastern Silk Route. King Gesar renowned throughout these areas represents the ideal warrior. As a leader with his people's loyalty and trust he conquers all their enemies and protects the peace. The example of King Gesar is also understood as a spiritual teaching. The "enemies" in the stories represent the emotional and psychological challenges that turn people toward greed aggression and envy and away from the true teachings of Buddhism. Shambhala hardcover
1916317545London: Houghton and Stoughton 1916. First edition. Illus. x 246pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarter crimosn morocco and cloth sides. Fine. First edition. Illus. x 246pp. 8vo. Houghton and Stoughton unknown
1901267917New York: Baker & Taylor 1901. First edition. Illus. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow pictorial cloth. Very good. Bookplate. First edition. Illus. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Annie Royle Taylor was the first Western woman to travel to Tibet. Baker & Taylor unknown
191141098London: Constable and Company Limited 1911. First Edition. xvi 343 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth t.e.g. others uncut. Minor wear at extremities front hinge tender else near fine. First Edition. xvi 343 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Lively account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August 1906 and travelled through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary with other observations and photographs by W. N. Fergusson and C. H. Meares. Yakushi F29 Constable and Company Limited unknown
1876321932London: Trübner and Co. Ludgate Hill 1876. First Edition. Frontis. 4 folding maps 6 plates 2 in text. clxi 354pp. 8vo. Bound in modern full grey calf several small of stamps of Canterbury Public Library. First Edition. Frontis. 4 folding maps 6 plates 2 in text. clxi 354pp. 8vo. First British Mission to Tibet went in 1774 under Scotsman George Bogle 1746-1781 command and established a relationship between Tibet and British India. In 1811 Thomas Manning followed. Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill unknown
1937317730Washington D.C.: White House 1937. 4to. Framed and glazed. 4to. Like FDR Suydam Cutting who came from a prominent New Jersey family was a graduate of both Groton and Harvard they graduated 5 years apart. Cutting went to Turkmenistan with TR Jr. and Kermit in 1925 and travelled to Tibet on several occasions between 1928 and 1937. He visited Lhasa with permission of the Dalai Lama to whom he presented gifts. Cutting acted as de facto American representative there as this letter suggests and published a memoir of his experiences The Fire Ox and Other Years 1947.<br /> <br /> A remarkable letter recording the ambivalent American position on Tibet in the 1930s. White House unknown
195019569New York: The Greystone Press 1950. DeLuxe Edition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red embossed leatherette fine in fine original slipcase. From the library of CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton. DeLuxe Edition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by son and father on half-title "To Dr. and Mrs. Frank Stanton / Lowell Thomas Jr. / Lowell Thomas". The Thomas's successful expedition was made in 1949 and produced a number of splendid color photographs of the country and its people the first the author believes to have been reproduced in a book. The Greystone Press unknown
2254Santa Anta CA. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art. 2003. 4to. 256 pp. Hardcover with DJ and decorative slip case. Elaborate exhibition catalog of a collection never seen outside of Tibet. Tibet : Treasures from the Roof of the World. Berger Patricia ; Clark Robert W. ; Bartholomew Terese. Santa Ana Calif.: The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in collaboration with The Bureau of Cultural Relics Tibet 2003. Cloth with illustration set in to front cover 31 cm. 256 pp. with color plates. Exhibition catalogue. In a cloth and boards slipcase. Very good copy in a dust jacket in very good condition. Slipcase in very good condition. Hardcover 0967961246 $150.00 unknown
19403554907186281940. Hard Cover. Published in Peking China 1940. From the Foreword: The contents of the Tripartite Conference between China Britain and Tibet held at Delhi and Simla India in 1913-1914 have hitherto been kept secret in accordance with the agreement between China and Britain.Here is given a selection of valuable papers including the claims of the Tibetan Plenipotentiary on the boundary line the counter-claims of the Chinese Plenipotentiary the proposal of the British Plenipotentiary under pretext of mediation and the proceedings of the Conference. Publisher's pale brown wrappers. A Softcover. A VG copy page block browned internally light foxing to the wrappers. A solid VG copy. Not issued with a D/W. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
140946550Sante Fe NM: Clear Light Publishers 1989. Revised Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Revised edition. Signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso on the title page. viii 88 pp. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth affect lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with slight wear at extremities and previous gift inscription on front free end paper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small closed tears to edges light scuffing and security sticker adhered to spine panel at verso. The Dalai Lama's collection of spiritual wisdom surrounding compassion kindness and love. Clear Light Publishers unknown
19225331Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1922. Loose sheet mounted on linen. Good-. Eric Teichman. Map printed in color measuring 26.5 x 25 inches. With a Tibetan glossary. Provides Teichman's routes as well as other routes along with villages monasteries or groups of farms. Edgewear with light stains here and there. In. From Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet Together With A History of the Relations between China Tibet and India and mounted on linen. The map was clearly used perhaps in the field as evidence of wear including a split in the paper not the linen on which it's mounted suggests. From the collection of Asian books and maps formed by Albert Ravenholt. On verso Ravenholt has written "Teichman's Kam 28 degrees 25' - 33 degrees 20'. [Cambridge University Press] unknown
198746988Beijing: New World Press and People’s Publishing House of Tibet 1987. Folio. 164 pp. Over 75 colour plates numerous black & white text illustrations. Embossed-blue silk gilt lettering front cover & spine illustrated endpapers minor shelfwear w/ d.j. minor shelfwear VG/VG copy. First edition of this work reproducing the beautiful biographical paintings of Phags-pa 1235-1280 drawing from 25 surviving scrolls of painted silk now stored in the Sa-skya Monastery in Tibet. Phags-pa served as State Tutor under Kublai Khan when he moved his capital from Shangdu Duolun in inner Mongolia to Beijing establishing the Yuan Dynasty. New World Press and People’s Publishing House of Tibet, unknown
201787733Leuven: Peeters 2017. First Edition. First Impression. Thick octavo 24.5cm; original pictorial card wrappers; xxxvi34-940pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. A Fine copy of this substantial monograph on Tibetan ache lhamo theatre as it was performed in the pre-modern era before 1950 and as it is still performed today in the Tibet Autonomous Region and within the Tibetan diaspora in India and Nepal. 87733. Peeters unknown
196885865Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1968-1970. First Thus. Three volumes. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's navy blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spines and front boards. Dustjackets. xix; 319pp.; xiv; 1; 326pp.; xv; 1; 235pp. All vols clean and tight very light wear to the cloth with some minor scuffing to corners and spine ends; internally clean a little thumbing to the page edges in places. top-edges a little dusty; in clean bright pictorial dustjackets with soiling to the paler regions and some shallow fraying to the spine ends the front panel of "The People of Tibet" has a patch of abrasion to the front panel possiblyy from a poorly removed label. A very good clean set. <br /> <br /> First published in 1928. Bell was for a large portion of his life the British Political Officer for the Bhutan Sikkim and Tibet regions of "British India" and was in effect considered the unofficial British Ambassador to Tibet. Although he resigned from these appointments in 1919 Bell was despatched on a diplomatic mission to Lhasa in the early 1920's for which he was subsequently knighted and became close acquaintances with the Dalai Lama being chosen to represent Tibetan interests in the Simla Convention where Great Britain and China met ostensibly to decide the fate of Tibet. The Clarendon Press unknown
197985781Berkeley: Dharma Publishing 1979. Third printing. Two quarto volumes; cloth hardcovers dustjackets; 210pp paginated continuously; illus. Both volumes clean tight and unmarked - Near Fine. In the original dustwrappers slightly rubbed at extremities v.II with a small loss to rear panel and a closed tear at base of front flap-fold Very Good overall. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn with his printed bookplate to pastedowns.<br /> <br /> Photographs taken by the author and her husband Lama Anagarika Govinda during an expedition to Central and Western Tibet in the years 1947-49. A remarkable record of Tibetan geography architecture and sacred art in the period immediately preceding the Seventeen Point Agreement which ceded sovereignty over Tibet to China. Dharma Publishing unknown
1909215622Leipzig.: F. A. Brockhaus. Dritte Auflage Third Edition. 1909. Photographic frontispiece folding map with outline colour numerous monotone and black and white photographic plates & illustrations a few in colour x 414 pages 23 x15 cm text in German; original pebbled cloth embossed in gilt and black coloured illustration laid down on the upper board spine a little sunned edges a little bumped front free endpaper abraded at the top edge presumably by the removal of a name occasional very light foxing a very good copy. German edition of Sven Hedin's "Adventures in Tibet". . F. A. Brockhaus hardcover
1857AB1069Paris:: Gaume freres 1857. 1857. 2 volumes. 12mo. xv 1 430; iv 524 pp. Early quarter red gilt-stamped calf marbled boards; rubbed. Bookplate; binder's rubber-stamp of L. Brisset Valognes. A folding map is expected with this title other issues not present here. In fact there are different issues of this work with different paginations. "French missionary-traveller was born at Toulouse on the 1st of August 1813. In his twenty-fourth year he entered the congregation of the Lazarists at Paris and shortly after receiving holy orders in 1839 went out to China. At Macao he spent some eighteen months in the Lazarist seminary preparing himself for the regular work of a missionary. Having acquired some command of the Chinese tongue and modified his personal appearance and dress in accordance with Chinese taste he started from Canton. He at first superintended a Christian mission in the southern provinces and then passing to Peking where he perfected his knowledge of the language eventually settled in the Valley of Black Waters or He Shuy a little to the north of the capital and just within the borders of Mongolia. There beyond the Great Wall a large but scattered population of native Christians had found a refuge from the persecutions of Kia-King to be united half a century later in a vast but vague apostolic vicariate. The assiduity with which Huc devoted himself to the study of the dialects and customs of the Tatars for whom at the cost of much labour he translated various religious works was an admirable preparation for undertaking in 1844 at the instigation of the vicar apostolic of Mongolia an expedition whose object was to dissipate the obscurity which hung over the country and habits of the Tibetans. September of that year found the missionary at Dolon Nor occupied with the final arrangements for his journey and shortly afterwards accompanied by his fellow-Lazarist Joseph Gabet and a young Tibetan priest who had embraced Christianity he set out. To escape attention the little party assumed the dress of lamas or priests. Crossing the Hwang-ho they advanced into the terrible sandy tract known as the Ordos Desert. After suffering dreadfully from want of water and fuel they entered Kansu having recrossed the flooded Hwang-ho but it was not till January 1845 that they reached Tang-Kiul on the boundary. Rather than encounter alone the horrors of a four months' journey to Lhasa they resolved to wait for eight months till the arrival of a Tibetan embassy on its return from Peking. Under an intelligent teacher they meanwhile studied the Tibetan language and Buddhist literature and during three months of their stay they resided in the famous Kunbum Lamasery which was reported to accommodate 4000 persons. Towards the end of September they joined the returning embassy which comprised 2000 men and 3700 animals. Crossing the deserts of Koko Nor they passed the great lake of that name with its island of contemplative lamas and following a difficult and tortuous track across snow-covered mountains they at last entered Lhasa on the 29th of January 1846. Favourably received by the regent they opened a little chapel and were in a fair way to establish an important mission when the Chinese ambassador interfered and had the two missionaries conveyed back to Canton where they arrived in October of the same year. For nearly three years Huc remained at Canton but Gabet returning to Europe proceeded thence to Rio de Janeiro and died there shortly afterwards. Huc returned to Europe in shattered health in 1852 visiting India Egypt and Palestine on his way and after a prolonged residence in Paris died on the 31st of March 1860." / "His writings comprise besides numerous letters and memoirs in the Annales de la propagation de la foi the famous Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie le Thibet et la Chine pendant les annees 1844-1846 2 vols. Paris 1850; Eng. trans. by W. Hazlitt 1851 abbreviated by M. Jones London 1867; its supplement crowned by the Academy entitled L'Empire chinois 2 vols. Paris 1854; Eng. trans. London 1859; and an elaborate historical work Le Christianisme en Chine &c. 4 vols. Paris 1857-1858; Eng. trans. London 1857-1858. These works are written written in a lucid racy picturesque style which secured for them an unusual degree of popularity. The Souvenirs is a narrative of a remarkable feat of travel and contains passages of so singular a character as in the absence of corroborative testimony to stir up a feeling of incredulity. That Huc was suspected unjustly was amply proved by later research. But he was by no means a practical geographer and the record of his travels loses greatly in value from the want of precise scientific data." Britannica. Gaume freres, 1857. hardcover
1852215573London.: Office of the National Illustrated Library. 1852. Two volumes 19 x 12.5 cms original gilt decorated cloth top edge gilt a little soiled still a good attractive set of a classic work. <br>Volume I: folding map black and white wood engravings viii 293 pp 1 publisher's adverts owner's inked inscription on the flyleaf; <br>Volume II: black and white engravings x 304 pp publisher's adverts some offsetting. <br>Early edition in English translated by William Hazlitt son of the great essayist. One of the world's great travel classics. Written by Abbé Evariste Régis Huc a French missionary and explorer. Huc and his travelling companion and fellow priest and Lazarite missionary Joseph Gabet were among the very first Europeans to have reached Lhasa and Huc's account remains a vivid first hand history of western contact in China and Central Asia. . Office of the National Illustrated Library. hardcover
199385837London: Serindia Publications 1993. First Edition. First impression. Quarto. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 319pp; illustrations in color and b/w. A fine unworn copy. In the original dustwrapper similarly Fine. From the library of noted poet / translator / Buddhist scholar Nathaniel Tarn with his printed bookplate inside front cover. Serindia Publications unknown
195687668Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1956. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo 25cm. Printed paper-covered boards hardcover; 194pp text; 82 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones each with a printed caption on facing tissue-guard; five large folding maps in color housed in rear pocket. Some mild toning and hand-soil to binding; minor bump to base of front board; overall a well-preserved Very Good or better copy with the text complete clean and unmarked. Issued as the twelfth volume in the Institute's "Serie Orientale Roma."<br /> <br /> A scholarly study of the lands flora fauna and peoples of the Amnye Ma-Chhen Range in eastern Tibet based on explorations made in 1924 and 1926. A notable work mapping for the first time the course of the headwaters of the Yellow River. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente unknown
195034774New York: The Greystone Press 1950. First Trade Edition. Extensively illustrated from the author's photographs over 100 of them 32 of which are in colour. 8vo publisher's tan cloth the spine lettered in gilt within a black label map endpapers printed in red and blue and in the original colourful pictorial dustjacket. 320 pp. A fine copy in a fine jacket the text very fresh and bright and nearly as new a bright and cheerful 1950 Christmas inscription on the half-title. A VERY EARLY ACCOUNT OF THE DALAI LAMA AND TIBET. This account was written at a time when only a handful of Westerners had been given permission to visit "the forbidden land". In fact the author and his father Thomas Lowell were only the seventh and eighth American citizens granted that rare privilege. Thomas Jr.'s narrative is an invitation to high adventure as he describes their dangerous journey from India over the towering Himalayas and into a real-world Shangri-La. The journey ends with a marvelous sojourn into the Holy City of Lhasa to visit the "Boy-King" the Dalai Lama to receive his blessing. The Greystone Press hardcover
107479London H. M. S. O. 1904 1904 1905 1910. . First editions folio 4 parts in 1 vol. Comprising: I. Papers relating to Tibet CD 1920 1904 x 314 pp. large folding map. II. further papers relating to Tibet CD 2054 in continuation of CD 1920 iv 29 pp. III. Further Papers relating to Tibet No. III. CD 2370 in continuation of CD 2054 xxvi 277 pp. IV. Further Papers relating to Tibet CD 5240 in continuation of CD 2370 xvi 229 pp. Handsome modern green half morocco green moiré boards gilt lettered direct 3 original upper wrappers bound at end a very good set.<br /> A scarce complete set of official documents relating to the Younghusband expedition a miltary operation by the British Indian Government to counter Russian expansion in the East.<br /><br />The first report concerns the Younghusband expedition and its background from the conclusion of the Sikkim Expedition dated October 1889 to January 1904. The map shows the routes between Tibet and India. The second report concerns the arrival of the expedition dated December 1903 to April 1904 at Gyantse. The third report covers the period March 1904 to December that year. It covers the Lhasa Convention and the subsequent conflict between the Indian and British Governments over the provisions of the Convention. The final report contains documents dated September 1904 to April 1910 concerning British relations with Tibet from the signing of the Lhasa Convention to the flight of the Dalai Lama to India.<br /> Marshall 1703 1906 1907 2009; Yakushi G250. London, H. M. S. O., 1904, 1904, 1905, 1910. hardcover
1993152003Dharamsala.: Various. 1993- 1999. Fourteen informative booklets dealing with issues on Tibet. Titles consist of: Gedhun Choekyinyima. The World's Youngest Political Prisoner c. 1996; Dharamsala. A Guide to Little Lhasa in India 3rd Edition 1996; Facts About Tibet. Tibetan Youth Congress 1998; Briefing Paper for Travellers to Tibet 1993; Central Tibetan Administration Telephone Directory 1996; Potala Issues 7 & 9 published in Beijing 1993; An Outline of Contacts between Dharamsala and Beijing. Tibetan Responses to Chinese Allegations 1997; Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Publication List 1999; Official Tibetan and Chinese Positions on the Issue of Tibet. Comments on a Xinhua Interview on Tibet Third Edition 1996; Comments on a Xinhua Interview on Tibet 1994; Environmental Destruction of Tibet: Its Effect on Asia 1996; The Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama c. 1995; Tibet. A Threadlike Path Offprint 1997. <br> <br>All in original wrappers some wear and rubbing but generally very good. Size of publications vary from 13 x 92cm to 16 x 24.2cm. An interesting collection in good condition. . Various. unknown
1934131686London: The China Inland Mission 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. London The China Inland Mission September 1934/ November 1933. Octavo 157 3 CIM information pages with 2 illustrations plus 21 pages of plates. Cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; flyleaves a little tanned; an excellent copy. The author was 'For Twenty-two Years a Missionary in China'. The China Inland Mission hardcover
