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Pages 73-112. Features: Cover illustration of Rudyard Kipling - veteran of English letters, Port of Empire, and a master of fiction; Photo of FDR's neutrality declaration; Six photos illustrate widespread havoc left in the wake of recent 90 mph winds, including the wrecked scenic railway at Ramsgate; Two pages of prominent photos document the diamond Jubilee of His Highness the Maharaja Gaekwar - a prince brought from obscurity to rule Baroda; Two pages of photos illustrate the Union Jack flying on the Abyssinian frontier - The Somaliland Camel Corps in British Somaliland; Page of reproductions of paintings hitherto unknown in Tibet - the art of Ajanta; A path along which Buddhism spread from India - page of photos illustrating Signor Tucci's latest expedition to Tibet; Six photos describe modern life and ancient legend in Tibet - a complicated exploration; Five photos of a Bull "Derby" in the island of Madura - Malay cattle breeders who drive their beasts in races; Book review of "Miracles and Adventures", by M. A. St. Clair Stobart; Article on the discovery of oscillating electrical circuits; Page of illustrations explain how electric oscillation is used in wireless and medical work; One page photo portrait of H.R.H. Prince Edward of Kent returning to London from Sandringham; Photo of the latest addition to the German Navy, the "Admiral Graf Von Spee"; Photo of HMS "Apollo"; The Italo-Abyssinian War - six photos; Page of photos of British and French warships in port and at sea; Centrefold aerial photo of Kenilworth Castle; Photo of grand birthday party for general Goering in the Berlin State Opera House; Photo of new high-speed German airliner, the "He.111" adopted by Lufthansa; The abbey's Chatham effigy cleaned - the "Eagle Face" modelled from life by Mrs. Wright; Photos of personalities of the week include Samuel Begg, Hugh Ruttledge, Samuel Rothafel ("Roxy"), Percy Thomas, John Gilbert, the Aga Khan, Malcolm Macdonald, Ramsay MacDonald, coal industry negotiators, and the "retirement" of Yehudi Menuhin at tea with members of his family; Light on the "Dark Age" of the northern Sudan - Nubian tombs containing art relics and signs of slave-sacrifice at a master's burial - remarkable discoveries at Firka; Page of photos of Wilhelm Backhaus in concert; one page Johnnie Walker ad shows three people at bar; Halfpage photo- illustrated ad for the Rover "Fourteen" Streamline Coupe; Colourful Dewar's ad on back cover features flu bugs cowering at sight of man in busy rainy street holding bottle of whisky; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 225-264. Features: Cover photos of dramatic Paris rioting and street-fighting; Twelve dramatic photos of Paris street-fighting and its aftermath; Photo of the French "National" cabinet; Photo of Monte Carlo were gold sovereigns and dollars are now used instead of counters on a gaming table; Great photo of M. Martenot and his very early version of an electronic piano; Two photos of the first Munich carnival procession under Nazi hospices Two pages of photos entitled Government "Coup D'état"in Austria - military action against the socialist in Vienna and Linz; Lovely photo of exquisite Irish gold work believed to date from about 700 BC - a magnificent collar; large colour self-portrait by Richard Parkes Bonington; Page of photos of French royalists - there exiled "King", their leaders, and their newspaper; Review of the book "The Book of the Greyhound", by Edward C. Ash; Two pages of photos of wild dogs from around the world; Two pages of photos document the family tree of a new breed of "Boar-Hound", created through German experiments; Fantastic centrefold photo illustrates the courage of "Papa Gastounet" - the veteran statesman in his car in the midst of the crowd on his arrival in Paris to form a national government; Fascinating photos and text describe unknown monasteries of mysterious Tibet visited during a recent journey by the Royal Academy of Italy Expedition; Page of photos illustrates reptile skins and some fashions made from them; Chinese porcelain; Photos of great fissures in the earth in Bihar, India, caused by an earthquake; Interesting page of illustrations explains precautions against Thames pollution - testing water drift with floats; Photos of personalities of the week include Capt. B. E. Miles, Lieutenant Commander R. L. Tufnell, the signers of the Balkan Pact, Washington Singer, Dr. Bernard Hollander, Douglas Freshfield, the Maharajah of Darbhanga, Mary Duchess of Hamilton, Gen. Sir Percy Radcliffe, the young king of Afghanistan Zahir Shah, the constituent Council of the United Ireland party, and Mr. Gillie Potter at the Oxford Union; Nice one page De Reszke cigarette ad; and more. One page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: Rare 2-page colour Senior Service cigarette ad; London's traffic problems; Russia raises the curtain on her aircraft and missiles; Triumphant week for R.A.C. Rally winners and Arkle... but a rugged one for jockeys and Etonians; The Men who are challenging Gen. De Gaulle; Sensational photo from Mt. Hermon Academy, Massachusetts, USA... Football game continues while science block burns just outside stadium!; My plan for Rhodesia - Sir Edgar Whitehead; Chinese Craftsmanship in Jade and Porcelain; The Art Patron of Merseyside; A Gold Treasure from the realm of Nestor; Hello Dolly in Drury Lane; Treasures from Tibet on show in London. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Pages 273-312. Features: Nice colour-illustrated ad for Arthur Guinness, Son & Co.Ltd. features Pelicans; Five pages of photos of horrific flood damage to North Devon, West Somerset and Lymouth; The marriage of Mr. Anthony Eden to Miss Clarissa Spencer Churchill; Six photos of Chinese occupation in Tibet; Two-page photo montage of 22 performers at the Edinburgh Festibal of Music and Drama; Six photos from Fiji where homage was paid to the memory of the late King George VI by local people; The Tragedy of the Gouffre Lepineux, the world's deepest cave - four photos and an illustration related to the death of spelunker M. Marcel Loubens; Aerial centerfold photo of Lynmouth flood devastation; Important discoveries at Nimrud, including the great frieze of Assur-Nassir-Pal; Cyril Falls writes of his experience aboard the S.S. United States; Interesting article on stoats; Six photos of the opening ceremonies of the Sixth Edinburgh Festival; Photos of personalities of the week, includingMr. Anthony Eden and his bride, formerly Miss Clarissa Spencer Churchill; Photos of Eva Peron's funeral processions; Channel swimmers Victor Birkett and Kathleen Mayo; *Beautiful* colour-illustrated ad for New Berry Fruits by Meltis Ltd. inside back cover; Classy colour ad on back cover for the Hooper four-door sports saloon, design No. 8294, on Bentley; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
xxxi + 131pp. + plates out-of-text, 32cm., revised edition, cloth, VG, X71660
In 8°, brossura edit. ill., pp. 150; copia molto buona. (XE1/A) (XE1/A)
[9] + 182 + [5]pp., 23cm., in the series "Bibliotheca Indop-Buddhica Series" no.42, cart.cover, dustwrapper, G, X71730
This is a very good softcover copy in the publisher's original tan printed wrappers with light wear. Very clean inside and out, but one previous owner name and address in ink on the front endpaper, otherwise completely clean. Edges of text block pages tanning. Fold-out map at the end is intact. Not illustrated. Scarce work on the geography of Tibet produced originally in the early 19th century by an incarnate Lama, about whom little is known. This work is number XXV in the publisher's 'Serie Orientale Roma'. 10" high X 6" wide, 286 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
78 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Assam Border of Tibet; Homesteading in North-West Canada (in the Peace River Block); Survey in Johore; The Site of the City of Kalar in Kalar Dasht; The Grand Teton, Wyoming; The Kukanga Swamps; The Earthquake-Series of Ito (Japan); The Return of the Lively in 1831; The Este Map. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Many black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features include: Transcending Materialism - Tibetan Buddhism in America; The Way of the Buddha; The Meditative Tradition of Tibet; Jamgon Kontrul of Sechen; Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche; Tail of the Tiger/Karma Dzong Meditation Centers; The Bodhisattva Path; The Ten Oxherding Pictures; and more. Average wear. Some soiling to front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy of this interesting work. Book
Features: On Wildlife - Ambassadors for Wildlife; The Building of Tibet; Measuring the Roof of the World; Power Places of Kathmandu (Katmandu); A man and his castle - a visit with Reihnold Messner; The Eight Summits; Bhutan Diary - a Kingdom Comes of Age. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Xinjiang - Tibet Mountain Bike Expedition; The Dyaks of Borneo; Walking to Cape Londonderry, Western Australia; Time and Tide; The Flight of the Arctic Tern; The Chariot Animals of Queen Shub-Ad at Ur; Henry S. Evans - Profile of Accomplishment. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Once around Lesotho; 1990 Cueva de Aqua Carlota Expedition; Early Lamellar Body Armor in China and Tibet; The Way to Shangri-La in the Alps; The Ria Deseado - a Mosaic of Marine Life. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
pp. (1) [Publisher's catalogue], vii, 304, 22 [Publisher's catalogue], (1) + Plus Frontis and full page drawings. Lacks first fly leaf. Age stained. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Gilt decorated and lettered spine. Binding soiled and worn. Hardbound. Captain Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was an Irish-born novelist, adventurer and traveler. He lived in the United States from 1840-1849, and served in the Mexican War. Allibone II, 1766-7. TRAVEL/7
xviii + 442pp., softcover, 24cm., Good condition, X78860
Contents: 1. Historical. 2. Doctrinal. 3. Monastic. 4. Buildings. 5. Mythology and Gods. 6. Ritual and sorcery. 7. Festivals and plays. 8. Popular Lamaism. Appendices. Index. "The special characteristics of the book are its detailed accounts of the external facts and curious symbolisms of Buddhism, and its analyses of the internal movements leading to Lamaism and its sects and cults. It provides material culled from hoary Tibetan tradition and explained by Lamas for elucidating many obscure parts in primitive Indian Buddhism and its later symbolism. Thus a clue is supplied to several dispute doctrinal points of fundamental importance, as for example the formula of the casual nexus. "With this view the nabulous Tibetan "history" so called of the earlier periods has been somewhat critically examined in the light afforded by some scholarly Lamas and contemporary history and all fictitious chronicles, hitherto treated usually as historical and rejected as authoritative for events which happened a thousand years before they were written and for a time when writing was admittedly unknown in Tibet." 598 pp
In 8°, pp. xxi, (1), 1275. Tela editoriale blu con titoli oro. Sovracoperta figurata. Copia in buono stato. (Unito con:) WYLIE, Turrell V. A place name index to George N. Roerich's translation of The Blue Annals. Roma, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1957. Pp. 41. Brossura editoriale.
Libro in lingua inglese. Libro segnato.
125pp.with 2 maps, 1st edition, 23cm., softcover, in the series "Uralic and Altaic Series" vol.106, some foxing on upper edges, Good condition, ["The Annals of Kokonor is an invaluable Tibetan history of the Kokonor region…". This work contains the second chapter in transcription with English translation, with extensive notes, bibliography and index], X77487
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over price clipped dj lightly rubbed at edges, clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault save for slight speckling top edge) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
Vg/Vg (protective transparent wrapper over. not price clipped clean green cloth with bright gilt titles on spine, internally no fault) octavo 281pp. First edition. Biography of Lobsang Thondup. Describes how the civil war in China was lost and won, what Tibet was really like in the twilight of its independence, and why India guards her Himalayan borders so jealously. Maps to endpapers, b/w photographs.
16 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: The Russo-Japanese War; J.P. Planta, well known Nanaimo Public Man, Passes Away; C.P.R. Harbour Improvements - removal of Sehl's Point; W.W. B. McInnes likely to be next governor of the Yukon; The Mullally Sisters; Britannia Mines, Howe Sound, B.C. - History, Geology, Characteristics of Ore Bodies, Development; Chumbi the Key to Thibet (Tibet); Hardships of Russian Workmen; The Centenary of Shrapnel - Its Inventor and his history; Japan's Military System; London Society's Love of Tattoing; Lord Brampton's Reminiscences; Report on the White Pass and Yukon Railway; and much more. Wonderful illustrations of Victorian Women's attire adorn back page. Dozens of advertisements including "Farm For Sale - Lake District - 72.47 acres - A Bargain at $1,500.00." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue crack through central portion of each page. Book
In 8°, brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 199, (3); buon esemplare, modeste fioriture al taglio superiore. (XC5/B) (XC5/B)
In 8°, pp. 199, (7). Brossura editoriale figurata. Copia in ottimo stato. Collection: Les grandes classiques.