Bell, Charles Alfred

Manual of colloquial Tibetan [with] English-Tibetan colloquial dictionary

Kathmandu: Katna Pustak Bhandar, 1978. Late edition, reprinted from the third, two volumes in one as issued, 8vo, pp. [14], x, [2], 184, [12], 562, [12], 562; lacking the map; full red cloth, gilt title on spine, pictorial endpapers; a touch soiled, corners bumped, text clean but for a couple pages stained in ink, very good. Bibliotheca Himalayica Series II Volume 15. Charles Alfred Bell was Ambassador to Tibet, a Tibetologist, and the biographer of the Dalai Lama. His Colloquial Tibetan was the authority on the subject for many decades after its first edition in 1905. Item #63354

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