About this title: The account of the authors 18 months of travel in the years 1906-1908. The book is in 3 volumes and gives a lively account of the authors travels and adventures in Tibet. The author skips the heavy technical jargon and has adopted an easy style of writing that would be appealing to the expert as well as an interested reader. The book is full of ...
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Edition: Facsimile
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: SBW Publishers, New Delhi
Date Published: 1991
Description: F-/F-. 3 vols. 8vo. original black cloth (a few marks) in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed); pp. xvi (last blank), 442, with 4 illustrations; viii (last blank), 450, with 4 illustrations; viii, 454 (last blank), [2 (advts. )], with 4 illustrations. A near fine set. [Neate H68]. read more
Binding: HARD BACK RED
Publisher: MACMILLIAN CO, NE W YORK
Date Published: 1909
Description: FAIR NONE in NONE jacket. 6X9. The volume includes 388 illustrations from photographs, water colour sketches, and drawings by the author and 10 maps......vol. I: spine is rubbed, edges fraying, corners bumped, front/back inner boards are cracked at the hinges, binding good, book plate on front inner board, fore edges deckled, unmarked tanned text, gold gilt letteringon spine and cover are clear and visible vol. II: the inner front board at the hinges is cracked on the inside and outside of ... read more
Description: First edition hardbacks two large octavo volumes Brown cloth pictorial gilt. 388 Illustrations and 10 maps xxiv + 436 pp + 4 pp; xviii + 441pp + 2pp Front free end papers have been pasted to inside cover. Corners on both volumes rubbed and starting to wear. Cloth at bottom edge of spine on Vol I badly worn. Condition otherwise generally Good. read more
Description: New. Set of 2 (complete) Oversized Hardcover no DJ. NEW NEW NEW; never read; never sold. Nothing more to say. New in shrinkwrap. No remainder mark. Reprint. 1968. Oversized Hardcover no DJ. read more
Description: F Fair condition, 436 pg and 439 pg, maroon hardcovers. Pub: 1909, Macmillan, NY. 388 illustrations and 10 maps. A 9 1/2 x 12 inch fold-out map of the sources of the Brahmaputra, Sutlej and Indus.; a 26 x 13 inch fold-out map of Trans-Himalaya with 8 inch closed tear; an 18 x 13 inch fold-out map of Tibet showing the route of Dr. sven Hedin with a 6 1/2 inch closed tear. Volumes formerly owned by Danbury Library with usual library marks. Covers and spines of both volumes are heavily worn and ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1910
Description: Good. Octavo 5.5" x 9" [Antq]. Two volumes. Bound in maroon half calf over cloth. A reprint edition. Volume I: 7 full page b/w maps, 2 color and 186 b/w illustrations, xxiii + 436pp + 4ads. Volume II: 3 folding color maps, 15 color and 373 b/w illustrations, xvii + 423pp + 2ads, top edge gilt. Both volumes have moderate shelf-wear with corners rubbed and hinges cracking but holding. A nickel-size chip to the spine of volume two. The text is generally clean and tight with a little foxing to the ... read more
Edition: 1st Ed(AsSuch) 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcovers
Publisher: MacMillan Co., New York, NY
Date Published: 1910(c 1909)
Description: 388 Illustrations & 10 Maps. Good. No DustJackets 875pp(Index) Cloth worn at fore-edge corners, nicked on spine, cloth tear at head of Volume 1, o.w. both clean copies. NO ink names etc. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan.
Date Published: 1910-13.
Description: A mixed set. 3 volumes. Volume I: (1st US edition). 7 full page black and white maps, 2 colour and 186 black and white illustrations, xxiii + 436pp + 4ads, top edge gilt, first and last leaves lightly foxed, hinges split, spine rubbed, head of spine torn with loss. Volume II: (1910 UK reprint). 3 folding colour maps, 15 colour and 373 black and white illustrations, xvii + 423pp + 2ads, top edge gilt, neat stamp of a prior owner front free endpaper, endpapers evenly browned, upper and lower ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MacMillan & Co, London
Description: 1909-1913. 3 vols. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt, teg. (vols. 1 & 2 have bookplates, edges rubbed with minor wear to headcaps, occ. spotting, mostly to leaf edges & endpapers; vol. 3 is in similar condition with new endpapers, some leaf edge staining to half title & an inobtrusive label removal mark to the spine); pp. xxiv (last blank), 436, 4 (advts. ); xviii (last blank), 442 (last blank), [2 (advts. )], with 388 illustrations & 10 maps (in vols. 1 & 2); x, 426, [2 (advts. )], with 156 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London
Date Published: 1910-13
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. No signatures. Cloth spines faded. Some rubbing and a few 1/8" tears to cloth at spine ends. Some careful and professional strengthening to cloth along ends of spine with clear substance, halting any further spread of incipient slight fraying. No splitting to gutters at hinges. Rear hinge of Volume I a little loose. Tissue guards present to frontis in all volumes. Foxing to tissue guards. All plates and maps present. No tears to folding maps.; xxiii, [1], 436, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1909
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. Volume II only! Please note: Volume II only. Standard copy. Inner board ffep shows faint trace of offsetting, small book plate at inner board, small tiny ink inscription at top edge (inner board). Spine shows light sunning, light faint scuffing to top and bottom spine edges, board panels are good+, bottom edge and corners edge, top gilt edge very good. No markings to interior. No dustjacket. A very good readers copy. Binding is very good. History Case. Pasadena's ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Company
Date Published: 1909
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. Volume II only. Book shows wear at top of spine from rubbing and fraying, bottom shows much less, spine lightly sunned, binding is very good and solid, gilt lettering on spine very good, front panel design good, pages are clean and include fold out maps. Cornes lightly bumped a great readers copy, solid no markings. Previous owners book plate on inner board, hint of offsetting to ffeps. No dustjacket. History Case. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: MacMillan & Co Ltd, New York
Date Published: 1909
Description: Good + 8vo 1st US edition. Original burgundy cloth, titles in gilt on spines, gilt vignettes on front boards. Top edges gilt. Ex-library with stamps on top and bottom edges of text blocks and, in much smaller print, on title pages. Rear pockets and barcodes. Spine labels removed, leaving some discoloration. Spines and top front edges a shade sunned, small tear at head of spine of vol. 1. front hinge of vol. 1 cracked, but binding is solid. 388 illus from photos, water-color sketches, and ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: MacMillan Company, New York
Date Published: 1909
Description: Illus w/photos/sketches/maps. G/no DJs; spines faded, frayed; gilt tops; hinges splitting. over 388 illus from photos, watercolor sketches & drawings by author and 10 maps; 3 fold-out maps are loose from book read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Date Published: 01/12/1999
ISBN-13:9788120614161ISBN:812061416X
Description: Used-Good. THIS IS A HARD TO FIND OR RARE TITLE. PLEASE ALLOW 7-21 DAYS FOR DELIVERY, BOOK IN GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION. ITEM WILL BE SHIPPED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FROM WAREHOUSE. PLEASE EMAIL WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR QUERIES. read more
Edition: 1st Amer. ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MacMillan Co., New York
Date Published: 1909
Description: 388 b&w photos; 10 maps. Good. Orig. red cloth. Vol. II neatly rebacked. Solid. Complete., without DJ's. 9 x 6", 436 & 439 pp., Not included is a third volume which was published in 1913. Both volumes show the usual wear for books of the size, but the. Contents are solid and the maps including three folding ones are intact. Vol. II has been rebacked and the original spine cloth preserved, although the spine title is faint. Dital images available upon request. A classic, meant to be read. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: 0 H
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Date Published: 1909
Description: Both volumes of this two volume set are in good condition in deep red cloth covered boards with faded text stamping on the spine and with the gilt illustration of a Tibetan on the front boards. Both are ovtavos measuring 8 1/2" by 5 3/4" with the cloth at the heads and heels of the spines heavily worn and rubbed and beginning to fray. The back strap of volume 1 has a closed tear to the cloth of some 5" in length which has been repaired. There is a prior owner's name written in ink on the front ... read more
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