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Collection of Early Works on Tibet

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:112.00 USD Estimated At:450.00 - 650.00 USD
Collection of Early Works on Tibet
<B>Collection of Early Works on Tibet</B></I> including:<BR><B>A.E. Pratt<I> To the Snows of Tibet Through China.</B></I></B></I> (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1892), first edition, 268 pages, illustrations, fold-out map, original blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations, 8vo (6.75" x 9.5"), light shelf wear to boards, former owner's book plate on the inside front cover, spine darkened, a very nice copy in very good condition.<BR><B>Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi<I> Three Years in Tibet.</B></I></B></I> (London: The Theosophist Publishing Society, 1909), first edition, 719 pages, with the original Japanese illustrations, 11 photogravures, fold-out map, map of Tibet laid in, brown cloth boards with gilt titles, gilt top edge, 8vo (6.5" x 9.5"), light shelf wear to boards, a few light pencil notations in the margins, spine slightly darkened, former owner's book plate on the inside front cover and half title page, else very good.<BR><B>Sir Charles Bell<I> The Religion of Tibet.</B></I></B></I> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931), first edition, 235 pages, illustrated, two fold-out maps, original blue cloth boards with gilt titles, 8vo (6.25" x 9"), corners bumped, light shelf wear to boards, former owner's book plate on the ffep, internal contents sound, very good condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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