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200172622Beijing: Encyclopedia of China Printing House 2001. First edition limited to 3000 4to pp. 215 1; color illustrations throughout; text in Chinese and English; pictorial paper boards; fine. Features items in the collection of the Tibet Museum in Lhasa. Includes sections on prehistoric culture the "non-separated relationship between the Tibetan Local Government and the Central Government" culture and arts folk culture and cultural relics. Encyclopedia of China Printing House unknown
1886153413China: c.1886. Qing China's final frontier A late-Qing map of Tibet incorporating the research of the scholar-official Huang Peiqiao whose Xizang Tukao 1886 is one of the most detailed 19th-century Chinese sources on the geography and culture of Tibet. The map represents recent Chinese advances in scientific cartography the grid marking the longitudinal layout of this important part of the Qing frontier. This example is closely related to the four-page map found in Huang's study but is engraved here as one continuous block and likely represents one of the trial versions executed during the book's preparation. Provenance: exhibited in "The World on Paper: From Square to Sphericity" Hong Kong Maritime Museum December 2019 - March 2020. Woodblock-printed map 193 x 461 mm on single sheet 232 x 584 mm engraved by Han Xian Chinese title outside neatline. Vertical creases where sometime folded small closed tears repaired with tissue on verso toning: a very good copy. unknown
0954196163.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
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
198090009<p>Collectible Original Painted Handmade Tibetan Dragon Incense Box. 18'" Inches long x 4" wide. Made in Tibet in C.1975-1985 Purchased Woodstock Monastary. Excellent condition. Box opens. Perfect for year of the Dragon. Purchased in the Nineteen Eighties in the Tibetan Monastery in Woodstock New York. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans</p>
2021BIBHB0186976392021. Hardcover. New. About the book �: This book tells us the old histories of the Tibetan�s that a female demon living among the mountains in north India mated with a monkey from the forest of Tibet and from this union sprang the Tibetan race of people. The greater part of this literature is of a sacred nature telling of their creation of the formation of the world of Buddha and his miraculous birth and death of his reincarnation and the revisions of his teachings. This book has 49 little stories and that tell us the people sit around there boiling tea made over a three stone camp-fire. About the Author�: Albert Leroy Sheltion he was born in the year 1875. He was an American medical doctor and a protestant missionary in China specially in Batang in the Kham region of eastern Tibet from 1903 until 1922. He authored a popular book about his experiences and collected Tibetan cultural items to museums. He wrote a book called Tibetan folk tale. He was shot and killed by brigands in 1922 while travelling by mule near Batang. The Title 'TIBETAN FOLK TALES written/authored/edited by Translated By A. L.Shelton Shelton Of Tibet' published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121299992 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 193 Pages. The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: hardcover
2003Q-0789496119DK ADULT 2003-10-13. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! DK ADULT hardcover
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
19963596ml1996. Soft Cover. Good. Gd. condition : An examination of Tibet / China relationship . AH6 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
20201-1907222618Strange Attractor 2020. Paperback. New. 440 pages. 8.00x5.75x1.50 inches. Strange Attractor paperback
2009SONG1907222618MIT Press 2020-09-08. paperback. Used: Good. 5.89x1.34x8.28. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MIT Press paperback
2009DADAX1907222618MIT Press 2020-09-08. paperback. New. 5.89x1.34x8.28. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MIT Press paperback
7500064802.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
22817Seal 7 October 1835; letter Woodford 4 February 1843. About 2 x 5 inches neatly laid down with a 2 page letter by Vigne in fine condition. Godfrey Thomas Vigne 1801 1863 English traveller author of A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni Kabul and Afghanistan and of a Residence at the Court of Dost Mohamed: with Notices of Runjit Sing Khiva and the Russian Expedition. In the RGS Journal Vigne contributed Outline of a Route Through the Panj-áb Kábul Kashmír and into Little Tibet in the Years 1834-8. In his letter Vigned writes of the autograph: It was written in my presence and at my request by Ahmed Shah King or Gylfo of Little Tibet upon my taking leave of him to return to Kashmir & the Panjab after my first visit to him I so I believe having been the 1st European that had ever penetrated into that country Little Tibet. 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
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
113991The Social Science Association Press of Thailand. Bangkok. 1968. The Social Science Association Press of Thailand. Bangkok. 1968. First edition. Hardback in DW. Coloured frontis. Many photographs and a few line drawings. Prelims lightly soiled otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is slightly soiled sunned to spine and torn along top edge with a small splash of grey paint also to top edge of front panel. 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
2006Q-1932771921Earth Aware Editions 2006-10-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Earth Aware Editions hardcover
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
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
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
2010Q-1840226382Wordsworth Editions Ltd 2010-09-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Wordsworth Editions Ltd paperback
