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1904177840Simla: Intelligence Branch Topographical Division June 1904. The race for Lhasa A rare intelligence map produced during a spectacular move in the later stages of the "great game" showing Younghusband's route as far as the fortress at Gyantse. The map incorporates both existing information gathered by pundits and also the fruits of surveys undertaken by British cartographers during the advance. We have traced a single copy held by the British Library shelf number 57690.1. The Younghusband Expedition under a pretext of bringing the Tibetans to heel aimed at closing a Russian backdoor to the Raj. Departing in winter 1903 Younghusband and his force crossed the Tibetan border on 12 December and began the push to Lhasa. Reaching Guru in March 1904 British forces massacred Tibetan troops blocking their path the Massacre at Chumik Shenko and following a protracted effort to seize control of the fort at Gyantse in May and June they swept along the eastern road reaching Lhasa in early July. "Some fifteen years earlier as a young subaltern Francis Younghusband had dreamed of entering Lhasa alone disguised as a Yarkandi trader. Now in full diplomatic regalia and with a small armed escort he rode into the holy city. The Tibetans their morale broken offered no resistance" Hopkirk p. 183. In addition to its geopolitical goals the expedition was tasked with surveying the Tibetan interior. Captain Charles Ryder an experienced Survey of India cartographer joined the expedition as the mapping officer and information gathered by his team was fed back to Intelligence Branch in Simla and incorporated into field maps. This example dated June 1904 charts the expedition's course from its December 1903 departure point of Siliguri up to Gyantse where Younghusband was still bogged down and gives known elevations and the course of alternative routes into Tibet to be followed by troops advancing in Younghusband's wake. Along the route there are markings for the expedition's camps lines representing the journeys of detachments from the main expedition and a delineation of the makeshift telegraph line running up to Kang Ma. A pair of crossed swords and a date note the site of the Massacre of Chumik Shenko. The northern and north-east portions covering Lhasa and the territory to the west are sketched according to the valuable information gathered in the 19th century by pundits such as Nain Singh Rawat and Kishen Singh. Rawat the first non-European to win a gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society was also the first member of the Survey of India to reach Lhasa. His cousin Kishen Singh made four surveying expeditions of Tibet and Central Asia the fourth producing a detailed map of Lhasa and its environs. The map shows the course of the Tsangpo and Nyang Chu and some of the geographical features of Younghusband's planned route east to Lhasa including the pass at Karo-La and the large lake of Yamdok Tso both of which were explored in detail by Kishen Singh in 1880. The expedition and the more detailed surveys by Ryder and others that followed its success built on the achievements of the pundits giving Britain an unparalleled cartographic knowledge of the Tibetan interior. Heliozincograph printed on cloth 780 x 670 mm. Traces of couple of contemporary purple ink annotations. Clean and bright barring couple of minor stains old folds and creasing: very good. Peter Hopkirk Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa 1983. hardcover
19684545Bangkok: The Social Science Association Press of Thailand 1968. First edition in English of the Dalai Lama’s first book on Buddhist philosophy. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the Dalai Lama on the title page in Tibetan "with prayers." A near fine copy in an excellent dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially signed. The Opening the Eye of the Western Eye is a succinct thorough overview of the doctrines of Buddhism as they have been practiced for a thousand years in Tibet. The Dalai Lama here discusses the need for religious practice and the importance of kindness and compassion. Originally written for Tibetan lay people this was the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy to appear in English. Written for both Tibetan and Western readers Opening the Eye of New Awareness is the Dalai Lama's first religious work. It is not an edited transcript of public lectures but is His Holliness' own summation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Completed in 1963 just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education it is a work of consummate scholarship by a twenty-seven year-old geshe wise beyond his years. The Social Science Association Press of Thailand hardcover
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
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
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
200011409New York: Thames & Hudson 2000. First Edition. Hardcover 216 pages. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Red cloth boards with gilding on outer spine. Blind stamp on front board. Bumping to outer spine and boards. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Age wear to text block and throughout text. Significant scuffing to dust jacket. Rubbing creasing and bumping to dust jacket. Age wear to inner dust jacket. Thames & Hudson 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
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
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
1985BN253208Stuttgart : Thienemann Edition Erdmann 1985. 1985. Als Kundschafter des Papstes nach China : 1656 - 1664 ; die erste Durchquerung Tibets. Johannes Grueber. Hrsg. von Franz Braumann nach d. Briefen Johannes Gruebers u.d. Berichten seiner Biographen Athanasius Kircher u. Melchisedech Thevenot Alte abenteuerliche Reiseberichte <br/><br/>Als Kundschafter des Papstes nach China : 1656 - 1664 ; die erste Durchquerung Tibets. Johannes Grueber. Hrsg. von Franz Braumann nach d. Briefen Johannes Gruebers u.d. Berichten seiner Biographen Athanasius Kircher u. Melchisedech Thevenot Alte abenteuerliche Reiseberichte China / Tibet / - Grueber Johann und Franz Braumann Stuttgart : Thienemann, Edition Erdmann unknown
1991BN253911Frankfurt Suhrkamp Verlag 1991. 1991. Onkels Tochter keine sonst: Heiratsbündnis und Denkweise in einer Lokalkultur des Himalaya <br/><br/>Onkels Tochter keine sonst: Heiratsbündnis und Denkweise in einer Lokalkultur des Himalaya Ethnologie / Verhaltensforschung Himalaya / Tibet / Magar - Oppitz Michael Frankfurt, Suhrkamp Verlag unknown
1988BN312036Carlsen Verlag 1988. 1988. Softcover. Rick Master Nr. 8. Im Bann der Schlange. <br/><br/>Rick Master Nr. 8. Im Bann der Schlange. Tibet und Duchateau Carlsen Verlag paperback
1987BN312075Carlsen Verlag 1987. 1987. Softcover. Rick Master Nr. 4. Im Schatten des Chamäleons. <br/><br/>Rick Master Nr. 4. Im Schatten des Chamäleons. Tibet und Duchateau Carlsen Verlag paperback
1990BN312016Carlsen Verlag 1990. 1990. Softcover. Rick Master Nr. 15. Bei Vollmond Mord. <br/><br/>Rick Master Nr. 15. Bei Vollmond Mord. Tibet und Duchateau Carlsen Verlag paperback
199572778Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House 1995. First edition 4to pp. 416; high quality text illustrations throughout of original documents; parallel text in Tibetan Chinese and English; full gold cloth fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of 107 documents with scans transcripts and translations. The documents are for the most part edicts and orders meant to bolster the CCP's claim to Tibet. Cultural Relics Publishing House 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
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
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
199523917London: Cultural Relics Publishing House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 7501008760 . Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; No date 1995. Foreword dated October 1994. Gold papered boards with red lettering on spine and front board. Blue lettering and silver illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 285 x 213mm. "China is an ancient vast and multi-nationala caountry and as part of the Chinese nation the Tibetan people's role has developed through history." - from the Foreword. "This book is a collection of 107 photoprints of precious Tibetan historical archives seals and other cultural relics presented in Tibetan Phags-pa Mongolian Chinese Manchu and Mongolian languages" - from the Postscript. Title and preliminary pages in Chinese and English. With Chinese and English translations of the texts of the archives. . Cultural Relics Publishing House hardcover
19991313617PN. New. 1999. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
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
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
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
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
199081695Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1990. First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Galen Rowell Photographer. Format is approximately 9.25 inches by 13.5 inches. 6 162 pages. Introduction by Galen Rowell. Illustrations color. Maps. Nobel Peace Prize Citation. Chronology of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Index. DJ has some wear tears and soiling. Signed by Galen Rowell on first page. One of the world's spiritual leaders and a renowned wilderness photographer combine their vision of Tibet in this stunningly beautiful book. Essays by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama appear with Galen Rowell's dramatic images in a moving presentation of the splendors of Tibet. Galen Avery Rowell August 23 1940 - August 11 2002 was a wilderness photographer adventure photojournalist and climber. He became a full-time photographer in 1972. He pioneered a new kind of photography in which he was not merely an observer but considered himself a participant in the scenes that he photographed - he considered the landscape part of the adventure and the adventure part of the landscape. Rowell conceived a technical approach of extending the dynamic range to be captured on film. He developed a set of graduated neutral density filters and had them produced by Singh-Ray a filter manufacturer. They were sold under his name and became a standard for dealing with high contrast scenes. Galen Rowell also mastered the technique of using balanced fill flash which allowed him to lighten the deepest shadows in a subtle way to match the relatively narrow dynamic range of color reversal film. He won the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography in 1984. One of the world's spiritual leaders and a renowned wilderness photographer combine their vision of Tibet in this stunningly beautiful book. Essays by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama appear with Galen Rowell's dramatic images in a moving presentation of the splendors of Tibet's revered but threatened heritage. When Chinese communist troops invaded Tibet in 1950 the author was fifteen years old and the spiritual and temporal ruler of a nation the size of western Europe. Tenzin Gyatso the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet appealed to the United Nations for help and then fled across the Himalaya in winter to a border town where he anxiously awaited political aid that never came. Like the mythical kingdom of Shangri-La Tibet had sought isolation from the rest of the world. Diplomatic relations and foreign visitors had been shunned and few people in the West knew what cultural and natural treasures lay threatened there. In the years that followed the Dalai Lama struggled to maintain peace in Tibet and to protect his people's ways but in 1959 he was forced to flee to India where he remains today. There he has established a government in exile in Dharamsala that has endeavored to preserve Tibetan culture while preparing for a peaceful return to a free Tibet. As the Chinese cautiously opened select Tibetan doors to visitors in the 1980s a sickening realization stole over the rest of the world: Tibet had been ravaged by the Chinese occupation. All but a dozen of Tibet's six thousand monasteries had been destroyed. Much of the once-bountiful wildlife had disappeared. A sixth of the population had perished. The picture seemed so bleak that many wondered whether there was anything worth saving in this wounded land. The Dalai Lama's heartening answer and Galen Rowell's magnificent photographs leave no doubt that the mystery and enchantment of Tibet though seriously endangered are still alive. To Tibetans the Dalai Lama is an incarnation of the Buddha of compassion. He has spent the last thirty years tirelessly advocating nonviolence and compassion to all living things as the answer to Tibet's plight. "My religion is simple" he says "my religion is kindness." My Tibet movingly elaborates this message: here the Dalai Lama offers his views on how world peace happiness and environmental responsibility are inextricably linked. He explains the meaning of pilgrimage for Tibetan Buddhists and gives an engaging account of his early life in Lhasa the capital of Tibet. In addition he reveals many sides to his nature' compassion profound faith common sense generosity a playful sense of humor in personal reflections matched here to 108 photographs of the land he hasn't seen since 1959. Together the breathtaking photographs which express Rowell's own commitment to the natural world and the Dalai Lama's observations help preserve the enduring meaning of Tibet's culture religion and natural heritage. University of California Press hardcover
