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191359889Cambridge: At the University Press 1913. Tall 8vo. xii 283 1 pp. including 1 pp. of publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 39 plates 5 maps 4 large folding. Blue-green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing to head & foot of spine wear to lower corners rear inner hinge just starting still VG bright copy w/ ownership markings on front pastedown removed bookplate on rear pastedown. First edition of this classic work recounting the author’s journey from Shanghai to Tibet collecting plants and specimens through Western China and southeast Asia. He discovered many species unknown in Europe and the Americas including the Tibetan Blue Poppy introduced their seeds to many botanical gardens and details such adventures as swinging across a bottomless gorge on a cable of twisted bamboo avoiding impending avalanches and more. At the University Press, hardcover
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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