London, Boston, Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 569, [1]; errata slip laid in; map endpapers; 24 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 6 plates; Issued as no. 12 in the publisher's Studies on Modern Asia and Africa series. Printed in India on..... More
[Barrytown, New York]: Station Hill Press, 1989. 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 170, [2]; frontispiece; near fine in original blue pictorial wrappers. This book contains "is the central text of the famous classic known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, which early in this century was..... More
London: Constable, [1957]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 319, [1]; map endpapers, folding map, frontispiece and 30 photographic illustrations onb rectos and versos of 12 plates; original blue cloth stamped in silver on spine; front board with some dampstaining; the dust jacket with tears and wear, especially on the..... More
Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. 187, [3]; double-page map, 19 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; original red cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards, preserving the original dust jacket, but showing tape repairs, tears and small losses at the extremities, and the front joint..... More
London: Luzac & C., Limited, 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. 320; frontispiece portrait, foldiing maps and 77 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 27 plates; original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, preserving the original unclipped dust jacket; light wear at jacket extremities and front panel with a small spot..... More
Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1979. 8vo, pp. [4], xvi, 552; lexicon in double column; fine copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth, and in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Series II, volume 6 in the publisher's Bibliotheca Himalayica series. First published in Berlin in 1898. "This is the only existing comprehensive..... More
Calcutta: Susil Gupta Private Ltd., 1958. Second Indian edition (first published in 1877), 8vo, pp.xii, 208; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, small chip at the top of the spine of the dust jacket, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. More
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. 8vo, pp. [6], 172, [2]; 1 map; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 2/4 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Seven papers from PIATS 2000. "This book is an indispensable introduction to local history..... More
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 313, [1]; 28 illustrations and maps in the text; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 2/5 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Twelve papers from PIATS 2000. "This book investigates..... More
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. 8vo, pp. xvi, 136; 98 full-page illustrations from photographs (many in color) on rectos and verfsos of 48 plates; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 2/7 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Nine papers..... More
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 256; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 2/8 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Ten papers from PIATS 2000 "provide examples of the colourful and lively range of Tibetan self-expressions..... More
Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 376; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 2/10 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Fourteen papers from PIATS 2000. This volume "is one of the first to include scholarship on..... More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006. 8vo, pp. [6], 256; 18 illustrations from photographs (some full-page); fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 10/2 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Twelve papers from PIATS 2003. "Since the occupation of Tibet by..... More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2003. 8vo, pp. xvi, 245, [3]; 2 maps, 9 illustrations in the text (8 full-page); fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 3 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2001. 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 483, [1]; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 1 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. Bon is the indigenous religion of Tibet, and is also known as Yungdrung Bon. It..... More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2007. 8vo, pp. xii, 235, [3]; 41 illustrations from photographs (many in color) on rectos and versos of 8 plates, 2 maps; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 13 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble..... More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2004. 8vo, pp. xxix, [1], 900, [2]; 29 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates, 2 maps, 7 diagrams in the text; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 5/2 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex..... More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2007. 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 254, [2]; 11 plates and 14 diagrams in the text; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 5/5 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. This from the Languages of the Greater..... More
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2007. 8vo, pp. xxx, [2], 858, [2]; 4 maps, tables; fine in original pictorial yellow cloth. Issued as volume 5/1 in Brill's Tibetan Studies Library series, edited by Henk Blezer, Alex McKay, Charles Ramble. This from the Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, edited by George..... More
London: Humphrey Milford, 1915. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 789, [1]; 4 color maps (3 folding), map endpapers; per maps, 4 additional color maps (3 folding) by B.V. Darbishire; original green clothg, gilt-stamped spine; ex-Minnesota Historfical Society, with a bookplate marked withdrawn, perforated stamp in title page, and a shelf label on..... More
太嶽新華書店 Combat Drama Club / Taiyue, 1948. First ediution, 7" x 5", pp. [2], 168; stapled self-wrappers; 72 pages of music at the back; very good. OCLC notes 169 pages, possibly a colophon. The last leaf here is the cast of characters. The subject of the opera is Liu Hulan..... More
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1975. First edition, issued as volume 3 in the publisher's Geoecological Research series, 8vo, pp. [10],114, [2] ads; portrait of Kingdon-Ward, 2 large folding maps showing the extent of Kingdon-Ward's travels; generally fine in original printed green wrappers. More
London: Golden Vista Press, 1930. First edition, 12mo, pp. 72; portrait of the author from a drawing; original printed gray paper-covered boards, preserving the original dust jacket with is slight stained; very good, clean and sound. "Account of the leader of a British expedition to Tibet in 1922-23. Dr. W...... More
[Taipei]: Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, [ca 1984]. Large 8vo, pp. [2], 206; printed from typescript; printed tan wrapper backed in black cloth, light overall wear; very good, clean and sound. The text is a word list and dialogs meant to modify and supplement the full instructional text of..... More
[Des Moines: Iowa Geological Survey, 1916]. Offprint from the Iowa Geological Survey, 4to, pp. 173-276 (i.e., 64 pages); folding map, illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers with tears, rear wrapper detached, but present; overall toning; a good copy, with the pressure stamps of the Bureau of Geology and Mines..... More
