New York: Agricultural Missions, Inc., 1948. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 240, [2]; original burgundy cloth; touch of foxing to top edge, else fine in a chipped and price-clipped dust jacket. The first half of the book describes a semi-fictional account of a Chinese family. The second half is..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1956. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 221, [3], text in russian; original red printed boards, endpapers toned, else fine. More
Peiping (Beijing): Henri Vetch, 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 147, [1]; 7 plates (1 folding); original full red cloth; corner bumped, 2 pages with pen annotations and 1 with underlining, the rest clean, owner's signature on verso of half title, good. More
Hankow: published by the author, 1936. Second edition (actually the first after a limited "manuscript edition"), large 8vo, pp. [16], 152, [4], xlii, [8]; folding chart; 25 plates; original full blue cloth; lower hinge cracked, upper free endpaper with large excision at corner; very good. A "fable" attempting to garner..... More
Bonn: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 1992. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 564, [2]; text in German, text illustrations and 5 tipped-in color illustrations; original printed paper wrappers; fine. Indica et Tibetica 20. More
Calcutta: Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, [1957]. Reprint edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 128; portrait frontispiece; original yellow boards; fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. From the jacket: "It deals with the Tantric rituals, Mudras, Chakras, exorcisms, different magic powers, miracles, Siddhis then prevalent among the Budha Acharyas practicing Tantricism." More
Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Los Angeles: International Society for Trans-Oceanic Research, 1989. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols, pp. 197, [3]; [5], 204-409, [1]; text illustrations; original printed paper wrappers; light toning to wrappers, else fine. With one page prospectus laid in. ISTOR books numbers 1 & 2. More
Aberlour: The British Society of Russian Philately, 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. 193-288; text illustrations, largely of cancels; original printed stiff paper wrappers; wrappers toned, text clean and sound, near fine. One of a six-part series on Russian philately, with a particular focus on the cancellations of individual offices and..... More
[Toronto]: University of Toronto Press, [1963]. 8vo, pp. iv, [2], 229, [1]; text illustrations; original blue printed paper wrappers; spine sunned, date stamp on upper wrapper, text clean and sound, very good. Includes chapters on "Concepts of the soul among the ObUgrians," "Early concepts about the universe among the Evenks,"..... More
Patna: J. P. Jayaswal research Institute, 1959. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], xlv, [1], 119, [1]; transliterated Tibetan text, with English translation and introduction; original full broan cloth; light rippling to boards, mostly from production with no sign of moisture damage, about fine. Volume 2 of the K. P. Jayaswal..... More
Bonn: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag, 1992. First edition, 8vo, pp. 170, [6]; text illustrations; original orange cloth; fine. More
New Delhi: Afro-Asian Convention on Tibet and Against Colonialism in Asia and Africa, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 79, [2], [48] (ads); 16 pages of plates, text illustrations printed in red; original pictorial paper wrappers; light wear to wrappers, near fine. A broad outline of Tibetan culture and history..... More
[Taipei: Southern Materials Center Inc., 1982]. Facsimile edition, 4to, pp. [4], iii, [9], 263, [1]; tables, diagrams and illustrations in text; original burgundy cloth boards; fine. More
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Tokyo: Nihonsansho no Kai, 1981. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [2], 101, [3]; text in Japanese; 22 pages of plates; original full tan cloth; fine in original glassine dust jacket and slipcase. More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, [1956]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 454; 48 pages of plates; original blue buckram, map endpapers; spine faded, very good. Inscribed by the author to Marshall Ayeen. Ayeen served as governor of Herat and Badakhassan provinces before leaving for exile in the US post..... More
Washington CD: The Smithsonian Institution, 1928. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 83, [1]; 25 pages of plates; original printed paper wrappers;. More
Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 113, [3]; 16 pages of plates; original printed paper wrappers, unopened; a touch of toning to plates, fine. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections volume 135, number 1. More
Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. 246, [2]; 28 pages of plates; original printed paper wrappers, unopened; some tape residue to wrappers, else fine. More
Jerusalem & New York: Israel Program for Scientific Translations & Daniel Davey & Co., Inc., 1965. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. v, [1], 521, [1[; 11 folding maps laid in, text illustrations and tables; original full green cloth; ex-library with stamps on title page and label residue on spine..... More
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1961. First edition in English; 8vo, pp. [10], 758; text illustrations, tables, three color folding maps in back pocket; original full red cloth; fine. A translation of the Russian: Pochvy yuzhnoi Chasti Sibiri (ot Orala do Baikala), originally published in 1955. More
New York: The Century Co., 1891. First collected edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 409, [1]; x, [2], 575, [1]; frontispiece and wood engravings through text; original full green cloth; gilt title on cover and spine, t.e.g.; endpapers of volume two splitting from boards, text clean and sound, bookplates..... More
Sarnath: Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, 2004. First edition limited to 550 copies, 8vo, pp. xxix, [1], 115, [1]; text in Hindi; original full orange cloth; fine in fine dust jacket. More
Sarnath: Rare Buddhist Texts Research Project, 1995. First edition, limited to 550 copies, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 686; text in Hindi and English; original full brown cloth; dust jacket with light edgewear, else fine/fine. A collection of papers produced for a seven day workshop. Topics include Buddhist, Jain, Saiva, Vaisnava..... More
Sarnath: Central Institue of Higher Tibetan Studies, 1997. First edition limited to 550 copies, 8vo, pp. [2], xxix, [3], 216, [2]; frontispiece; original full publisher's cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. From the publisher's note: "This work is meant as a concise commentary on a Dinesen Sutra: the great people..... More
New York: Sphrograph Co., [ca. 1960]. Facsimile edition, small 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxix, [3], 242; original full burgundy cloth; fine. More
