(Lhasa, Tibet, Nepal, Buddhism, Himalayas), a collection of ...

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(Lhasa, Tibet, Nepal, Buddhism, Himalayas), a collection of twenty four titles relating to travel and the history, religion and people of Tibet and Nepal, including William Woodville Rockhill: 'Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892', Washington D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, 1894, 1st edition, large folding map + 27 plates + 13 ills. in text as called for, original cloth gilt. William Woodville Rockhill (1854-1914) was a United States diplomat, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China. A narrative of the author's second journey through Mongolia and Tibet, which was described in diary form. He started from Peking on Nov. 30, 1891 and travelled northwards to Hwang-ho via Kalgan, thence to Lan-cho, Sining-fu, Kumbum Monastery, Tsaidam, Changtang, Tangla Range, Chamdo and Batang. Scarce; Schuyler Jones: 'Tibetan Nomads. Environment, Pastoral Economy, and Material Culture', Thames & Hudson, 1996, 1st edition, numerous photographic illustrations in colour and black & white, maps, diagrams etc, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper; Suydam Cutting: 'The Fire Ox and other Years. An Account of his Travels in Tibet, Nepal, Assam, and other Far Eastern Lands', L, Collins, 1947, 1st edition, profusely illustrated throughout, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Francesco Maraini: 'Secret Tibet', L, Hutchinson, 1952, 1st edition, numerous illustrations from photographs by the author as called for, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; F. Spencer Chapman: 'Lhasa: The Holy City', L, Chatto & Windus, 1938, 1st edition, 8 colour plates + 64 pages of photographic plates as called for, original yellow pictorial cloth gilt; A. Henry Savage-Landor: 'Tibet and Nepal', L, A & C Black, 1905, 1st edition, ex South Morningside circulating library, 75 colour plates as called for, orig. decorative cloth gilt; Heinrich Harrer: 'Seven Years in Tibet', L, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953, 1st edition, colour frontis, map + black & white photographic plates as called for, original cloth gilt, d/w, and 'Return to Tibet', 1984, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus others including Sis and Vanis 'On the Road through Tibet', [1957], profusely illustrated from photos, Oakley 'Holy Himalaya', 1905, Fleming 'Bayonets to Lhasa', 1961, Tucci 'The Religions of Tibet', 1980, 'Karmapa the Black Hat Lama of Tibet', 1976, Bailey 'No Passport to Tibet', 1957, Schary 'In Search of the Mahatmas of Tibet', Ford 'Captured in Tibet', 1957, Mathiessen 'The Snow Leopard', 1978, etc etc (24)