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Verlag: Vintage Books,Gurgaon/India, 1992
Anbieter: Fabri Antiquariat Dr. Jürgen Aschoff, Ulm, BW, Deutschland
Travels in Cashmere and Tibet. Originally: Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet. Facsimile reprint of the original 1863 edition. Col. Frontispiz, some col. full size plates. Green cloth HC, with illustr. DJ. New. xvi, 385 S. The author, an officer in the British forces in India, travelled with a fellow officer for six months through Cashmere and Tibet. Their route took them from Srinagar, through Zoji la and Hemis to Ladakh. One of the first accounts of Ladakh by a European, lighthearted and interesting, an army officer escaping the heat of the plauins by "a tramp through the mountains." Yakushi K104.
Verlag: Alpha Edition, 2019
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Verlag: Alpha Editions 2019-02, 2019
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Verlag: Alpha Editions, 2019
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Verlag: Alpha Editions, 2019
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Zustand: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was fir.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. New. book.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1863
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth worn with tears at head of spine, some loss to cloth at corners of boards. Gilt on spine and front board faded. Hinges broken. Joints weak. Half-title and frontispiece lacking, facsimile copies tipped-in. Bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper "Vernon Howard - Mountaineering Books - California, USA". Some foxing.; Variant state with only 44 rather than 45 illustrations listed in the printed list of "Illustrations" on pages (xv-xvi). The omitted illustration is the portion of a Tibetan Praying Wheel, which in the other variant is illustration number 11 of 45. The present state of the "Illustrations" leaf has illustration 11 as "Seventh Bridge, Sirinugger" (this illustration is number 12 in the other state), and renumbers the remaining illustrations up to the final number 44. (iii)- xvi, 385 pages + 15 plates (7 tinted), lacking half-title and frontispiece. Title vignette + 27 in-text illustrations. Original dark purple-brown pebble grain cloth boards, with gilt stupa illustration on spine, gilt circular illustration with Tibetan letters on front board. Page dimensions: 222 x 140mm. Title page printed in red and black. Original brown coated endpapers. "With the fullest sense of the responsibility incurred by the addition of another volume to the countless numbers already existing, and daily appearing in the world, the following Diary has been committed to the press, trusting that, as it was not written with intent to publication, the unpremeditated nature of the offence may be its extenuation, and that as a faithful picture of travel in regions where excurstion trains are still unknown, and Travellers' Guides unpublished, the book may not be found altogether devoid of interest or amusement. " - from the author's preface. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Pleasures of the Plains; Cashmere; A Halt in the Valley; Little Thibet; Ladak and the Monastery of Hemis; A Retreat to the Valley; Last Days of Travel; The Religions of Cashmere and Thibet; The Temples of Cashmere; The Mystic Sentence of Thibet; A Sketch of the History of Thibet. Illustrations: Ladak; View in Sirinugger; Solomon's Throne; Hurree Purbut; Martund; Pandreton; Lamieroo; Road to Egnemo; Rajah's Palace, Ladak; Monastery of Hemis; Seventh Bridge, Sirinugger; Hindoo Temple in the Himalayas; Gunesh; Birth of Krishna; Temple Decoration, Himalayas; Ancient Jain Temple; Chubootra, or Resting-Place in the Himalayas; The Head of Affairs; An Unpropitious Moment; Kismut; Crossing the Sutlej; A Halting-Place in Cashmere; Latticed Window, Sirinugger; Sacred Tank, Islamabad; Painting versus Poetry; Love-Lighted Eyes; Vernagh; Cashmerian Temple Sculpture; Patrun; Roadside Monument, Thibet; Road to Moulwee; Rock Sculpture; Thibetian Monument; Natives and Lama; Thibetian Religious Literature; Inscribed Stones; Inscribed Stones; Monument at Hemis; Painted Stone; Buddha; Snow Bridge; Kangree; Ancient Hindoo Temple; Fukeer of Solomon's Throne. [References: Yakushi K104; Hopkirk 204.] The 7 tinted lithographs are those facing pages 84, 108, 122, 182, 306, 318, and 336 (also the frontispiece is a tinted lithograph, which is lacking in this copy, but a facsimile copy has been tipped-in). This variant does not have, or call for, the Tibetan Prayer fragment.
Verlag: . London, Richard Bentley, 1863, First edition., 1863
Anbieter: Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvi, 385, 8 [ads dated July 1863] pp, 17 plates including 8 tinted or color lithographs, mounted portion of Tibetan Prayer Wheel, 8 other plates, 28 other illustrations in text including title page vignette. later antique style calf backed marbled boards, gilt title lettering on red leather label, minor wear to lower edge, title page lightly stained in margin, else near fine, clean throughout, in attractive binding. Yakushi k104. The author gives an early account of Ladakh, travelling from Srinagar, through Kashmir, Tibet. The plates are excellent and the mounted part of the prayer wheel is from the Monastery of Hemis. A picture of this book is available on request.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1863
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. xvi, 385 pages + colour frontispiece + 15 of 16 plates (7 colour) + title vignette + 27 in-text illustrations. One plate is missing, the pasted-down portion of a Tibetan Praying Wheel that is called for to face page 200. Half-calf and marbled boards. Rebacked in 2005 with a new calf spine. Half-title page present. Gilt-titled morocco spine label. Gilt rule on spine. Spine is titled "Cashmere & Tibet // 1863". Condition: . Moderate foxing to frontis. Some foxing to other plates, mainly to margins. 2 1/4" by 3/4" surface chip to marbled paper on front board where sticker or label removed. Leather rubbed and worn at corners of boards. 1" by 3/8" piece of leather missing at tail corner of rear board. Provenance: Blind-stamp on title page of "Edward Allen Poole". [References: Yakushi K104; Hopkirk 204]. "With the fullest sense of the responsibility incurred by the addition of another volume to the countless numbers already existing, and daily appearing in the world, the following Diary has been committed to the press, trusting that, as it was not written with intent to publication, the unpremeditated nature of the offence may be its extenuation, and that as a faithful picture of travel in regions where excurstion trains are still unknown, and Travellers' Guides unpublished, the book may not be found altogether devoid of interest or amusement. " - from the author's preface. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Pleasures of the Plains; Cashmere; A Halt in the Valley; Little Thibet; Ladak and the Monastery of Hemis; A Retreat to the Valley; Last Days of Travel; The Religions of Cashmere and Thibet; The Temples of Cashmere; The Mystic Sentence of Thibet; A Sketch of the History of Thibet. Illustrations: Ladak; View in Sirinugger; Solomon's Throne; Hurree Purbut; Martund; Pandreton; Lamieroo; Road to Egnemo; Rajah's Palace, Ladak; Monastery of Hemis; [Praying Wheel (missing) ]; Seventh Bridge, Sirinugger; Hindoo Temple in the Himalayas; Gunesh; Birth of Krishna; Temple Decoration, Himalayas; Ancient Jain Temple; Chubootra, or Resting-Place in the Himalayas; The Head of Affairs; An Unpropitious Moment; Kismut; Crossing the Sutlej; A Halting-Place in Cashmere; Latticed Window, Sirinugger; Sacred Tank, Islamabad; Painting versus Poetry; Love-Lighted Eyes; Vernagh; Cashmerian Temple Sculpture; Patrun; Roadside Monument, Thibet; Road to Moulwee; Rock Sculpture; Thibetian Monument; Natives and Lama; Thibetian Religious Literature; Inscribed Stones; Inscribed Stones; Monument at Hemis; Painted Stone; Buddha; Snow Bridge; Kangree; Ancient Hindoo Temple; Fukeer of Solomon's Throne.; 8vo.