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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: 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
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
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.
[9] + 182 + [5]pp., 23cm., in the series "Bibliotheca Indop-Buddhica Series" no.42, cart.cover, dustwrapper, G, X71730
In 8°, brossura edit. ill., pp. 150; copia molto buona. (XE1/A) (XE1/A)
xxxi + 131pp. + plates out-of-text, 32cm., revised edition, cloth, VG, X71660
180 pages. Bibliography. References. Index. "Focuses on the topography, environment, historical development, buildings, and townscape of old Lhasa. Introduces future plans and issues concerning the safeguarding of Lhasa's historical townscape in the face of urban development. Includes 25 new maps never before published, satellite photos, historical maps and photos, watercolours, information on old buildings, and many new colour photos." - dust jacket. Dust jacket attractive in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Average wear and usual library markings to book bound in scarlet cloth with hinges taped. A worthy reference copy. Book
London, John Murray, 1972, in-16, tela editoriale con sovraccoperta, pp. XI, [1], 174.
8vo., Second Impression, with 2 full-page maps in the text, page-edges browning; blue cloth, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same month as the first edition. The harrowing account of a young Polish officer's captivity under the Russians, and his eventual break for freedom from Siberia across the Gobi to Tibet.
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.308
Formato cm. 25 x 18. Pagine X, 806 + 58 tavole Brossura editoriale di colore grigio. Lieve danno al margine inferiore del dorso della II parte. Tracce d'uso. All'interno alcune gore. Intonso ed in stato di conservazione complessivamente buono. Prima ed unica edizione di questo ponderoso studio sulla religione ed i riti di alcune popolazioni dell'area tibetana.
188 pages. Features: Cover photo of Mother Teresa; American Airlines ad features Margaret SanGemino; Gorgeous Monet ad features gold earring on model with black background; Safire on Machisma; Murder Most Foul; Great two-page color-photo ad for Ralph Lauren Western Wear; Blackglama ad appears to feature Angela Lansbury wearing mink; Very artistic ad for Pierre Cardin Man's Cologne; Lauren Bacall is featured in a Fortunoff ad; The World of Mother Teresa - photo-illustrated feature article; Warring over new missiles for NATO; Chivas Regal ad; One-page ad for the Look 37 ski binding; One-page Bermuda tourism ad; Britain's Establishment Spies - Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean; Hidden Splendors of Tibet - color-photo-illustrated article; One-page Cuisinart ad; Beautiful Alfred Dunner/Fortrel ad featuring model in red top; Twins Reared Apart - a living lab - with photos of Jim Lewis and Jim Springer - Thomas Bouchard's lab; Big Business on the Offensive - they are now the biggest lobby in Washington; Peter Pan and How He Grew - James M. Barrie's timeless play of youth was inspired by his unique friendships with children; The Party's Over for Political Parties; Gorgeously photo-illustrated Jewel fashion feature - with photos of designers Angela Cummings, Kai-Yin Lo, and Kristin Moore; Artistic ad for Crayons footwear; The Year of the Trichologist; Featured Home - a former industrial library is domesticated by Angus Bruce and others; Garlic article; Camp ads; and more. Above-average external wear. Faint library stamp and small check mark atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo, cloh in dj, ex library but no marks, very good. Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong tells the extraordinary story of the Dalai Lama's family, the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, and the enduring political crisis that has seen remote and bleakly beautiful Tibet all but disappear as an independent nation-state. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals, playing an utterly determined and unique role in a Cold War high-altitude superpower rivalry. Here, for the first time, he reveals how he found himself whisked between Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, Jawaharlal Nehru, and the CIA, as he tried to secure, on behalf of his brother, the future of Tibet. About the Author: Gyalo Thondup, the older brother of the Dalai Lama, lives on a hilltop compound in Kalimpong, India, that also houses the noodle factory he set up with his late wife, Diki Dolkar (Zhu Dan).
"First pictorial account of the POTALA , former residence of the Dalai Lamas". Profusely illustrated in color. Plan of palace and chronology. Book measures 8.5" x 11.5" with 121 pages. In pristine condition.
In 8°, t.t. edit. con titoli in oro al dorso, pp. XVI,235,(1) con circa 40 tavv. fot. b/n f.t., 3 mappe del tibet ripiegate, copia molto buona. (YB9/d) (La spedizione standard è SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata - piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine) (YB9/d)
AA.VV The rise of esoteric buddhism in Tibet. India, Motilal Banarsidass 1979 italian, 272 ST1095A Copertina rigida, volume in buone condizioni, segni di usura causati dal fattore tempo sulla copertina, interno in ottimo stato, legatura salda, testo in inglese 272 pagine circa Copertina come da foto
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 15 plates; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Appendices include a list of plants introduced by the author to England from Asia, and a register of known plants from that region not in cultivation here.. Scarce in the dustwrapper.
First Edition. Un volume (16x24 cm) di 286 pagine; qualche fioritura solo alla prima e ultima pagina bianca. Tela editoriale blu (no jacket) con titoli dorati. Belle condizioni per questo volume sulle leggende buddiste del Tibet della famosa scrittrice ed esploratrice (1868-1969), nota soprattutto per essere stata la prima donna occidentale a giungere a Lhasa nel 1924, città vietata agli stranieri all'epoca, dopo otto lunghi mesi di marcia partendo dalla Mongolia e attraversando il Tibet. Nella sua lunga carriera di esploratrice, fotografa, orientalista e antropologa scrisse oltre di trenta libri di viaggi e alcuni testi sul Buddhismo.
16mo br, ed wraps, pp.140 reincarnazione dalai lama
In 8° gr., tutta tela editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata (con minime fioriture), pp. XII,168, con 16 tavole b/n f.t.; copia molto buona. Fascicule 35. (XC1/B) (XC1/B)
22.5x15cm, brown cloth gilt, 256pp, b&w line drawings. 1st ed. Famous and controversial autobiography. A very good to fine copy in teared at top of spine but attractive dustwrapper.
In-8 p. (mm. 222x138), tela edit. verde con titolo e decoraz. dorate al piatto e al dorso (manca la sovraccoperta), con alcune tavole in b.n. f.t., come da Indice, ampiamente descritte. L’opera, con una approfondita introduzione, è così suddivisa: “The Chikhai Bardo and the Chonyid Bardo - The ‘Bardo’ of the moments of death - The ‘Bardo’ of the experiencing of reality - The Sidpa Bardo - The after-death world - the process of rebirth”. The Appendix e l’Addenda (Yoga - Tantricism - Mantras, or words of power - The Guru and Shishya (or Chela) and initiations - Northern and Southern Buddism and Christianity - The Medieval Christian judgement”. "Prima edizione inglese". Si tratta della prima traduzione inglese del testo Tibetano Buddista “Bardo Thodol”, realizzata dallo scrittore americano Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965), antropologo e pioniere nello studio del buddismo tibetano e nella sua trasmissione al mondo occidentale. Il titolo fu inventato da Wentz per la similarità con l’antico “Libro dei morti” egiziano, e come il testo egizio anche questo tibetano diventò un importante classico della spiritualità universale. Solo antica firma di apparten. ms. al frontespizio, altrimenti esemplare molto ben conservato.
W.Y. EVANS-WENTZ The tibetan book of the great liberation : or the method of realizing 'Nirvana' through knowing the mind : preceded by an epitome of Padma-Sambhava's biography and followed by guru Phadampa Sangay's teachings. London \etc.!, Oxford university press 1981 italian, 261 ST1097T Brossura editoriale, volume in buone condizioni, lievi segni di usura causati dal fattore tempo sulla copertina, interno in ottimo stato, legatura salda, testo in inglese 261 pagine circa Copertina come da foto
Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
