W. Y. Evans WentzLivre Rare Book
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1951027916New York - London - Toronto 1951 OXFORD UNIVERITY PRESS Hardcover
1996126265New Delhi - Madras, Asian Educational Services 1996 In-8 22 x 13,5 cm. Reliure éditeur toile bleue, auteur & titre blancs sur le dos et le premier plat de couverture orné d’une vignette, XII-440 pp., 77 illustrations hors texte, sommaire, table des illustrations, appendices, index. Exemplaire en très bon état.
1979pl2261Mercure de France Broché 1979 In-8 (15,8 x 24 cm), broché, 154 pages ; mors frottés, quelques traces et rousseurs sur les plats et le dos, assez bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1979030348France 1979 Mercure De France Soft cover Very Good 1st Edition
1995203499Heft Nr. 651. Zürich, TA-Media, Juli 1995. Fol. Mit zahlreichen meist fotografischen Abbildungen. 108 S. Illustrierter Or.-Kart. - Erste Seite mit kl. Besitzvermerk
196457408Hutchinson of London, 1964. Travels in New Tibet (Foreword by Edgar Snow) 248 S. (24 cm) Leinen mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe
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 books
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
1905303029ABNew York, Doubleday, Page, 1905. 4° (26,5 x 18,5 cm). XV, 484 S., 1 farb. Frontispiz und ca. 52 s/w Photos auf Tafeln. Grüner Original-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und blindgeprägtem Hakenkreuz auf dem Vorderdeckel, Kopfgoldschnitt.
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 a 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 books
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
195421425Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1954. 4°. (2),138 S., mit Abbildungen. Orig.-Karton.
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
1954551895Bandra, Bombay: Fernandes. 1954. XVI, 159 S. ; 73 Abb. ; 1 Karte. 22,5 cm. Zustand: Gut gering gebräunt (Innen); Schnitt oben gering angestaubt; Einband Außen hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren; Schutzumschlag hat Mängel - gemeint ist hier mehr als leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Halbleinen (Roter Leinen)
196023005Rutland etc., Tuttle, 1960. 4°, XXXI, 131 Seiten. mit farbigem Titelbild und zahlreichen Abbildungen in Kupfertiefdruck, meist auf Tafeln. Illustrierter Orig.Halbleinen mit Seidenbezügen, Goldprägung und OSU im Orig.Schuber.
1960EEzz4870Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Tuttle (1960). 4°. XXXI, 131 S., 2 Farbtafeln sowie zahlr. Abb. im Text u. auf Tafeln, OLn. mit OUmschl. eingerissen. In englischer Sprache. Mit Bibliographie und Register.
1959121770Rutland: Tuttel 1959. XXXI,131 S., sehr zahlr. Taf. Lit.verz. Reg. 4° HLn.. *Einband lichtrandig*.
192151607London, Murray, 1921. XXVIII, 235 S. Or.-Lwd.
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
1988051051London., 1988. Led by Chang Chengfa, Robert M. Shackleton, F. R. S., John F. Dewey, F. R. S., and Yin Jixiang. Published by The Royal Society. 413 Seiten mit Karten, Abbildungen und Diagrammen im Text. Eine mehrfach gefaltete geologische Karte in hinterer Buchtasche (in den Faltungen mehrfach mit Tesafim geklebt). Zusätzlich in hinterer Buchtasche: zwei Mikrofisch-Karten - Geological Evolution in Tibet (113 Seiten ?). Zustand: Aus einer Institutsbibliothek ausgeschieden, der Schutzumschlag ist bverieben und hat kleine Einrisse, Vortitelball und Titelblatt (ebenso die beiliegende Karte) mit Bibliotheksstempel - entwertet. 4°. H OLeinen mit OUmschlag.
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
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
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
199112292BBNew York, Hudson Hills Press, 1991. 4°. 112 S. Mit vielen teils farb. Abb. OLn. mit OU.
