Search Results: Tibet from Focloir

Central Asia 002 Lamb, Alastair. Britain And Chinese Central Asia: The Road to Lhasa 1767-1905. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960, xi, 388 pages, 5 maps, bib, index. In red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, spine is sun faded. Overall, a good to very good copy, clean, tight, no marks. $40.00 Box A 92

Tibet hamg Heim, Arnold, 1882-1965. Minya Gongkar, forschungsreise ins hochgebirge von Chinesisch Tibet; erlebnisse und entdeckungen. Mit 3 tafeln (karten, panoramen), 26 zeichnungen im text und 147 photographien, darunter 6 farbige tafeln. Bern/Berlin: Verlag Hans Huber, 1933, 244 pages. incl. maps. illus. plates, maps, diagrs. Hardbound volume, cream colored cloth which has staining and darkening to spine. There is some minor fraying to head of spine and edge of spine. From the library of a private high school with bookplate and book pocket. Doubt if it was ever read, shelved in the faculty library. Good, solid copy. Uncommon book. $75.00 Box A 115
Notes: "Die nachfolgende reisebeschreibung ist eines der resultate der expedition, die von der nationalen Sunyatsen universität in Canton unter meiner leitung in den jahren 1930-31 durchgeführt wurde."--Vorwort.

Tibet nwro Nebesky-Wojkowitz, René de. Oracles and demons of Tibet: the cult and iconography of the Tibetan protective deities. Kathmandu: Tiwari's Pilgrims Book House, 1996, xiv, 666 p, indexes, illus. Very good, clean tight copy in good dust jacket. This work was reprinted by various Indian and Nepalese publishers but all share the same dust jacket, probably shared the same printer. Appears to be a reprint of the Oxford 1956 edition. $75.00

Tibet 001 McKay, Alex. Tibet and the British Raj. The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947. (Series: London Studies on South Asia, No. 14. The Centre of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies). Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997, xxvi, 293 pages, two maps, nine black and white photos, notes, bib, index. Fine in like dust jacket. $42.50