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HEARN (L.).-
En glanant dans les champs de Bouddha.
1925 P., Mercure de France, 1925, in 12 broché, 258 pages
Bookseller reference : 1543
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HEARN (Lafcadio).
Kwaidan. Histoires et Etudes de Choses Etranges. Traduit de l'anglais par Marc Logé.
Paris Mercure de FranceMercure de France s.d. In-8 de 302 pages,1 frontispice, broché
Bookseller reference : 14928
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HEARN (Lofcadio).
Esquisses martiniquaises. Traduit de l'anglais par Marc Logé.
Paris, Mercure de France, Collection d'auteurs étrangers 1924. In-12, broché, 245 pp.
Bookseller reference : 5867
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Hearn, Lafcadio
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
New York: The Macmillan Co 1904. 541pp colored frontis with tissue-guard index. Prev owner's signature lightly written on the front flyleaf. Decorative cloth boards lightly wrinkled on the rear board gilt. An extremely attractive copy. The author's contribution to the Western knowledge of Japan covers the religions traditions and customs art and decoration and literature written by someone with understanding of their beliefs. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Macmillan Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017405
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Hearn, Lafcadio
OCCIDENTAL GLEANINGS. Sketches and Essays Now First Collected by Albert Mordell. 2 Vols. lst ed
NY:: Dodd Mead & Co. Ex-lib. with end-page spine & edge marks; VG Hardback set;. 1925. ISBN: text unmarked. no DJs. xlii 275; ix 289 pp. Catalogs: TRAVEL. Keywords: TRAVEL PHILOSOPHY ESSAYS. Dodd, Mead & Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : BOOKS026337I
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HEARN, Lafcadio
Two Years in the French West Indies
small 8vo [19 x 13 cm]; 431 pp, frontis, illus, plates, 6 pages of music. original cloth, spine ends worn, head of spine chipped, small tear, shelfwear, internally clean, good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An often referred to and well-respected account, mainly on Martinique, but also on Trinidad, St. Pierre, St. Kitt's, St. Lucia, Granada, etc. The author is most well-known for his works on Japan. Griffen 4923: "A series of light, amusing and evocative sketches of Martinique at the end of the 19th century." Smith H80: 'This tells of the two years the author lived in the West Indies in the late 1880's, a time which captivated him. . . An appendix includes some Creole melodies, and the illustrations are interesting'.
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HEARN, Peter
The Sky People; A History of Parachuting
4to; 160, [vii, index], well illustrated in color & bw, bibliog. original cloth, dj (short tear), previous owner's blind-stamp on endpaper, else fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Some of the earlier history and the related photos are quite remarkable.
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HEARNE, SAMUEL.
Reise vom Fort Prinz Wallis in der Hudsonbay nach dem nördlichen Weltmeer. Aus dem Englischen von M.C. Sprengel.
Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1797. Contemp. hvellum (2),229 pp. Stamps on title-page. Internally clean. Without map.
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HEARNE, SAMUEL.
Reise vom Fort Prinz Wallis in der Hudsonbay nach dem nördlichen Weltmeer. Aus dem Englischen von M.C. Sprengel.
Halle, Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1797. Contemp. hvellum (2),229 pp. Stamps on title-page. Internally clean. Without map.
Bookseller reference : 53744
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HEARNE, Samuel; edited with an introduction by Richard Glover
A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, A North West Passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772
4to [33 x 26 cm]; xliv, 458 pp, complete with 5 folding maps including large folding map frontis hand colored in outline, 4 folding engraved plates, errata page. original marbled boards with later leather spine, gilt spine title lettering and decorations in blind, a few margins with light foxing, a fine uncut copy with wide margins, copy of Simon McGillivary Junior with his signature dated 1822 on title page. A pi The epic journey by Hearne, who was the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean, at the mouth of the Coppermine River, by land and discovered the Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River system. Hearne was employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada for twelve years. He recorded in detail the lives of the Indians and the natural history of the regions seen on his three trips. The book's publication, three years after Hearne's death, was due to the famous French explorer La Perouse, who found Hearne's manuscript when he captured Fort Albany, Hudson's Bay, and stipulated, as a condition of surrender, that the manuscript be published. Sabin 31181: 'The author will be remembered as the first white man that ever gazed on the dreary expanse of the Arctic of Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the Continent of America. . . a beautiful volume'. Streeter sale 3652: 'This day-to-day record of three trips northwest by land from Hudson Bay was printed from Hearne's manuscript three years after his death'. 'A painfully honest chronicle of his epic journey. . . a classic in the literature of northern discovery' [Newman, Empire of the North]. TPL 445. Cox II, p. 171. Hill 141. Lande 1220. Simon McGillivray (1783?-1840) entered the London firm of McGillivray, Fraser and Co. in 1805, and in 1813 became a partner in the Montreal-based McTavish, McGillivray and Co. He played a leading role in the merger of the Hudson's Bay and The North West companies in 1821 [McCord Museum]. A fine copy of a cornerstone of Arctic exploration with excellent provenance.
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Heat Moon, William Least
Blue Highways
421 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Heat Moon, William Least
PrairyErth (a deep map)
624 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Heat Moon, William Least
PrairyErth (a deep map)
624 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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HEATH (Edward).
Travels. People and places in my life.
London, Sidgwig & Jackson, 1977 in-4, 224 pp., illustrations, reliure éditeur, jaquette
Bookseller reference : 1213
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Heath Bowman:
HOOSIER
Vg (no dj, red cloth lightly worn head and tail of spine, gilt lettering spine and front board, a clean bright copy with no marks or inscriptions, faint browning to unevenly cut fore-edges) octavo 260pp. First edition. SIGNED by the author. The story of the Hoosiers, the citizens of Indiana. Illustrated with monochrome photographs, and with bibliography.
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HEATH W. LOWRY.
In the footsteps of Evliya Çelebi. The Sayahatname as guidebook.
New English Original bdg. Oblong large 8vo. (18 x 18 cm). In English. [xii], 92 p. Since 1993 Heath W. Lowry has been the Atatürk Professor of Doltonian & Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University. Prior to that time he was a founding member of the Ilisiory Department ; it the Bosphorus University in Istanbul (1973-1980), and a Senior Research Associate al Harvard University's Donabarton Oaks Research Library & Collection in Washington. D.C. (1980-1983) Between 1983 and 1993 he established and directed the Institute Turkish Studies in Washington D.C Currently together vith his position at Princeton University, he serves as an Advisor to Enver Yücel, the Chairman of the Babçesehir University Board of Trustees. In January 2011 he joined the faculty of Bahçesehir University as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Since 2005, Heath Lowry has traveled extensively in northern Greece. The preseni study is the oiitconie of those visits. Wherever fie has göne. he has been acconipanied by Evliya Çelebi and his Seyahatname. As a resiilt ol" those travels,he has piiblished several books and numerous articles, ali of vhich reflect the debt ie ovves the 171'1 century traveler. The present study is intended as to Evliya Çelebi and to the rapidly disappearing legacy in Northern Greece.
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Heath, Arthur H
Sketches of Vanishing China
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25" x 9" 184 3 pp with 24 tipped-in color plates reproducing watercolors bound in original yellow cloth with red lettering. Mild spine slant light dust soiling to boards lower corners bumped gift inscription dated 1976 on front free endpaper otherwise clean. Heath says in the Foreword that the book "was written just previous to the Great War and Chinese Revolution and as it is composed of jottings from my diary it is consequently very scrappy but at any rate it describes many very interesting excursions and how the country looked to me in that period. Thornton Butterworth Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23337
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Heath, Edward
Travels: People and Places in My Life
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creaseing to front dust flap and slight curling up of upper and lower front edges 224pp. The British Prime Minister Ted Heath's visits to many parts of the world including Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain.
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Heath, Layne
CW2 - 1st Edition/1st Printing
New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0688052657 . A nice first edition/first printing in Near Fine seemingly unread condition in alike dust-jacket with light shelf wear; is a suspenseful military thriller that follows the day-to-day lives of two brothers in the U.S. Army as they train to be officers.The book revolves around the relationship between the two brothers as they navigate the ups and downs of military life. The story is fast-paced and full of unexpected twists and turns.; 8vo; FSA . William Morrow and Company, Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31732 ISBN : 0688052657 9780688052652
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Heath, Sandra
Summer's Secret
(Signet Regency Romance) Was Summer Stanway a beautiful young, twentieth-century American, mourning a lost love and facing an empty future? Or was she Olivia Courtenay, a stunning young widow in Regency England, following a path of fiery passion and flaming fulfillment ever deeper into a darkening maze of mystery and malevolence? Her head told her one thing, her heart another, and all she knew for sure was what happened to her when the devastatingly handsome, devilishly desirable man named Brand took her into his arms and stripped away her defenses. Was he the wrong man at the right time, or the right man at the wrong time? Summer no longer cared as his kisses lit up a past that seemed the greatest present of all... Book
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HEBBE, JOHANN GUSTAV.
Nachrichten von den Azorischen Inseln besonders von der Insel Fayal. Aus dem Schwedischen Auszugsweise übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Rühss.
Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. IV,52 pp. A few brownspots.
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HEBBE, JOHANN GUSTAV.
Nachrichten von den Azorischen Inseln besonders von der Insel Fayal. Aus dem Schwedischen Auszugsweise übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Rühss.
Weimar, Landes=Industrie=Comptoirs, 1805. Unbound, but stitched. IV,52 pp. A few brownspots.
Bookseller reference : 40758
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Heber, Franz Alexander.
Böhmens Burgen, Vesten und Bergschlösser. Prag, C. M. Medau, 1844-1849.
7 Bde. Mit 6 (5 grenzkolor.) gefalt. Karten und 306 (1 gefalt.; statt 335) lithogr. Tafeln. Halbleinenbände der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung. Quer-4to (ca. 26 x 20 cm). Bd. 6 ohne Tafel 14; Bd. 7 ohne die Tafeln 11-38. Stockfleckig; einige Tafeln lose. Nebehay/Wagner 241.
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HEBERT, François (Idée originale et conception) - GIROUX, Renée-Héloise (Textes)
Etes-vous tintinologue? (2 volumes)
1984 Editions du Royaume de la bande dessinée (vol. 1) - Editions Casterman (vol. 2) - Vol. 1 sans date, 1984 pour le vol. 2 - 2 volumes in-8 agrafé de 48 pages chacun - Illustrations en N&B dans le texte
Bookseller reference : 126323
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Hecht, Susanna
The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xvi 612 pp. Bound dark green cloth title in silver on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white maps and illustrations. Includes bibliography and index. Fine in Fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> The University of Chicago Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004174 ISBN : 0226322815 9780226322810
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HECK CHRISTIAN
UNTERLINDEN GUIDE DU VISITEUR
DELTA 2000. NON DATE. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 64 pages. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleurs hors texte. Couverture rempliée. Manque la page de garde et la page de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 910-Géographie générale. Voyages
Bookseller reference : R160134014
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HECKEL & WOLF
Horolezecka Zastaveni
Praha: Olympia 1988 unclipped DW has some short tears to edges with minimal chipping loss cloth boards slightly handling soiled photographs in B&W of Czech expedition to Hindu Kush Afghanistan and Pakistan in b&w throughout; text in Czech poetry the individuals in these photographs lost there lives in an earthquake caused avalanche in the Peruvian Andes in 1970 Vilem Heckel who took these photographs included. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9 - 12" tall. Olympia hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010501
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HECQUARD, HYACINTE.
Voyage sur la Cote et dans L'Intérieur de L'Afrique Occidentale.
Paris, Bénard et Compagnie, 1855. Royal8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Edges rubbed. Top of spine repaired. (4),409 pp., 3 large folded lithographed maps, 5 lithographed plates (incl. frontispiece).
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HECQUARD, HYACINTE.
Voyage sur la Cote et dans L'Intérieur de L'Afrique Occidentale.
Paris, Bénard et Compagnie, 1855. Royal8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with gilt lettering. Edges rubbed. Top of spine repaired. (4),409 pp., 3 large folded lithographed maps, 5 lithographed plates (incl. frontispiece).
Bookseller reference : 54165
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Hector Malot
Sans Famille dessins par E. Bayard
J. Hetzel et Cie 566 pages in4. Sans date. Cartonnage éditeur rouge dos à nerfs tranches dorées. 566 pages.
Bookseller reference : 5962
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HEDERICH, BENJAMIN.
Anleitung zu den fürnehmsten Historischen Wissenschaften, Benanntlich Der Geographie, Chronologie, Genealogie und Heraldica, Der Historia Universali, Notitia Auctorum, Den Römischen Antiquitäten und der Mythologie, so fern folche einem politen Mensche...
Berlin, C. G. Nicolai, 1733. 8vo. In contemporary Cambride style mirror-binding with four raised bands. Spine with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Binding with considerable wear, scratches to boards, leather on spine cracked and spine-ends chipped with a bit of loss of leather. Inner hinges split. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to title-page. (14), 512, (16) pp. + 3 engraved plates and 6 folded maps.
Bookseller reference : 62965
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HEDIN (Dr Sven)
Trois ans de luttes aux déserts d'Asie. Ouvrage traduit du suédois et résumé par Charles Rabot
1899 Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1899, grand in-8 de (6)-279-(1) pp., rel. d'ép. demi-chagrin bleu-nuit à coins, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, tête dorée, couvert. conservée, illustrée sur le 1er plat d'une photographie dans un médaillon, sans rousseurs, très bel ex.
Bookseller reference : 18720
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HEDIN (Dr Sven)
Trois ans de luttes aux déserts d'Asie. Ouvrage traduit du suédois et résumé par Charles Rabot
1899 Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1899, grand in-8 de (6)-279-(1) pp., rel. d'ép. demi-chagrin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, bon exemplaire sans rousseurs.
Bookseller reference : 20703
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HEDIN Dr Sven
VERS LA VILLE INTERDITE
Gd in-8 relié, Reliure éditeur toilée rouge, Livre de prix, Ed. Felix JUVEN, 1904, Traduit du suédois par Charles RABOT, 404 pages, Ouvrages illustré de documents et photographies en noir et blanc prises par l'auteur, Coll: L'Asie inconnue, Etat Moyen
Bookseller reference : 000634
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HEDIN Sven
My Life as an Explorer. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY
Cassell 1926. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with coloured frontispiece original tissue guard present 167 illustrations a number full-page by the author in the text and pictorial endpapers neat contemporary signature on half-title verso; dark red cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a very good bright clean copy. Cassell, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19555
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HEDIN Sven
Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet Vol 1 only
London: MacMillan 1909 1500 gram rate One volume only red cloth gilt titled and decorated top page edges gilt has split to head of lower joint backstrip sunfaded with frayed head bookseller rubber stamp to base of fep paper scar to paste down some scattered foxing throughout hinges cracked but tight xxiii 436pp 188 images on plates and 7 maps. First edition in British issue. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. MacMillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010930
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HEDIN, S
Transhimalaja. Entdeckungen und Abenteuer in Tibet. Bd 1 u. 2 (von 3).
Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1909. 18, 405 u. 10, 406 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. u. 5 Karten (davon 3 farbig u. mehrfach gefaltet) auf zus. 109 Taf. (davon 1 mehrfach gefalt. u. 1 doppelblgroß), 9 Farbtaf. (davon 1 mehrf. gefalt.). OLwdbde m. montierten farb. Deckelillustrationen (etwas verblichen u. minimal bestoßen, Bd 1 im unteren Rand u. der oberen Ecke stärker feuchtrandig u. -wellig u. stellenweise auch etwas spakig u. stockfleckig, Bd 2 gut; 1 Karte eingerissen).
Bookseller reference : 1320209
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HEDIN, S
Zu Land nach Indien durch Persien, Seistan, Belutschistan. 2. Aufl. 2 Bde.
Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1920. Gr.-8vo. 12, 407, (1) u. 8, 394 S. Mit 308 Abb. auf Taf. nach Aufn., Aquarellen u. Zeichnungen d. Verf. Hlwd unter Verwendung des Orig.-Einbandes (bestoßen u. beschabt, die 2 Karten in sauberer Farbkopie beiliegend).
Bookseller reference : 1005308
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Hedin, Sven
Central Asia and Tibet; Towards the Holy City of Lassa. 2 volumes.
New York Greenwood Press 1969 hardcover. Reprint edition of the 1903 original. With over 400 photos and drawings 5 maps-- the color plates are here printed in black-and-white. -- Hardcover 608664 pages 2 volumes. Condition: near fine no jackets as issued. Greenwood Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40598
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HEDIN, Sven (translated by E G Nash)
Jehol - City of Emperors
Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co London 1932. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: xiv 1 278 pages illusrated b/w photos line drawings. Original covers no dust jacket. Shelf wear some minor spotting mainly to page edges contents clean discrete booksellers stamp verso rear cover. "Translated from the Swedish by E.G. Nash." Sven Hedin was a Swedish explorer who devoted a number of years to exploring Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. "Jehol the City of emperors is truly a dead city. The founders of the Manchu Dynasty K'ang Hai and Ch'ien Lung created it as a place for hunting military exercises and that religious devotion which they knew so well how to combine with a certain Machiavellianism in mundane affairs. Now its glories have almost departed and it is doomed to complete ruin in the space of a few years." Chapters include: The road to Jehol; The Potala; The flight of the Torgot; The Hsien-Kung temple-monastry; Some other temples in Jehol; The visit of the Tashi Lama to Jehol; K'ang-Hsi the founder of the Summer Palace in Jehol; Ch'ien-Lung's court at the Summer Palace; Lord Macartney's embassy; Hsiang Fei the concubine of an emperor; Ho Shen an emperor's favourite; Chia-Ch'ing's death in Jehol; Hsien-Feng's death in Jehol. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3529. . This book weighs over 1Kg and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3529
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HEDIN, SVEN:
Jehol City of Emperors.
Kegan Paul London 1932. First English edition. Plates. 8vo 10 x 6 1/4 inches 278-pages. Original orange cloth. Binding damp marked and with splits to the cloth of lower joints. Headbands bruised corners bumped upper fore corner of first few leaves bumped signature on front pastedown. Internally good. Kegan Paul, London, 1932. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 21669
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HEDIN, Sven; Translated from the Swedish by FH Lyon F H
The Silk Road
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Turquoise faux-silk cloth stamped with red lettering. Shelf wear and discoloration to the endpapers. Binding tight and square. Previous owner or bookseller pencil notation to front free endpaper. The dust jacket is edge-worn with chips tears and creasing and protected now in a Mylar sleeve. viii 322 pages with Index. Illustrated with 31 black and white plates and a fold-out map of the author's motor car expedition 1933-1935. This book is the author's memoir of 10000-mile expedition mandated by the Chinese government to find suitable routes for roads to accommodate automobile traffic along China's ancient Silk Road. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012596
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Hedin, Sven
The Silk Road
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd 1938. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates a coloured folding map at the rear octavo pp x 322 for-edge foxed otherwise reasonably clean internally just slightly used yellow cloth a bit used and foxed the spine dull the lower cover creased and slightly marked covers a little bowed. . First English edition. Cloth. Good. George Routledge & Sons Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017294
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Hedin, Sven
Through Asia. Two volumes.
New York Harper & Brothers 1899 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition First Printing in U.S. -- Subtitle: With nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. "A plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 to 1897." Detailed descriptions and sketches of glaciers; cultural activities; in the desert without water; artifacts and Tibetan inscribed stones; camels; travel companions; the Mongols. Folded maps at rear of each volume v.2 detached. Translated from Swedish by J. T. Bealby. -- Hardcover with bright cover decoration gilt and red two volumes of 1255 pages TEG top-edge-gilt. Condition: good-only v.1 has 3.5-inch surface tear; hinges cracked with loose title-pages; spine tips with some wear; sale stamp and numbers on free-endsheet. Otherwise the covers are bright the bindings tight the pages bright and clear. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40550
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HEDIN, Sven
Through Asia two volumes
London: Methuen & Co Ltd 1898. 2 VOLS well illus large 8vo two folding maps pp xx 1278 top edge gilt fore-edge un-trimmed scattered foxing green decorated cloth gilt very slightly worn slight tears to both spine heads. Sven Anders Hedin 1865 - 1952 was a Swedish geographer topographer explorer photographer and travel writer as well as an illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered the Transhimalaya once named the Hedin Range in his honor and the sources of the Brahmaputra Indus and Sutlej Rivers Lake Lop Nur and the remains of cities grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. Between 1893 and 1897 Hedin investigated the Pamir Mountains travelling through the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang region across the Taklamakan Desert Lake Kara-Koshun and Lake Bosten proceeding to study northern Tibet. He covered 26000 kilometres 16000 mi on this journey and mapped 10498 kilometres 6523 mi of them on 552 sheets. Approximately 3600 kilometres 2200 miles led through previously uncharted areas. He started out on this expedition on October 16 1893 from Stockholm travelling via Saint Petersburg and Tashkent to the Pamir Mountains. Several attempts to climb the 7546 metres 24757 ft high Muztagata called the Father of the Glaciers in the Pamir Mountains were unsuccessful. He remained in Kashgar until April 1895 and then left on April 10 with three local escorts from the village of Merket in order to cross the Taklamakan Desert via Tusluk to the Khotan River. Since their water supply was insufficient seven camels died of thirst as did two of his escorts according to Sven Hedins dramatized and probably unhistoric account. Bruno Baumann traveled on this route in April 2000 with a camel caravan and ascertained that at least one of the escorts who according to Hedin had died of thirst had survived and that it is impossible for a camel caravan traveling in springtime on this route to carry enough drinking water for both camels and travelers. According to other sources Hedin had neglected to completely fill the drinking water containers for his caravan at the beginning of the expedition and set out for the desert with only half as much water as could actually be carried. When he noticed the mistake it was too late to return. Obsessed by his urge to carry out his research Hedin deserted the caravan and proceeded alone on horseback with his servant. When that escort also collapsed from thirst Hedin left him behind as well but managed to reach a water source at the last desperate moment. He did however return to his servant with water and rescued him. Nevertheless his ruthless behavior earned him massive criticism. In January 1896 after a stopover in Kashgar Hedin visited the 1500 year old abandoned cities of Dandan Oilik and Kara Dung which are located northeast of Khotan in the Taklamakan desert. Beginning of March he discovered Lake Bosten one of the largest inland waters of central Asia. He reported that this lake is supplied by a single mighty feeder stream the Kaidu River. He mapped Lake Kara-Koshun and returned on May 27 to Khotan. On June 29 he started out from there with his caravan across northern Tibet and China to Beijing where he arrived on March 2 1897. He returned to Stockholm via Mongolia and Russia. First English edition. Cloth. Good. Methuen & Co Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006814
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HEDIN, Sven
Through Asia
8vo [24.5 x 17 cm]; 2 volumes, xx, 663; xii, [iv], [667]-1,278 pp, frontis in each volume (photogravure), hundreds of illustrations including many plates, some in color, from photos and drwgs, maps including 2 large folding colored, index. original green pictorial cloth, gilt title lettering on spines and covers, top edges gilted, small label removed from spine, bookplate removed from endpaper, some minor wear, very good sound and solid copy, interiors clean. A picture of this book is avail A narrative of the author's expeditions through Central Asia 1893-1897 with much on the peoples, archaeology, conditions, by the foremost Asian explorer of his time. Author travelled from Kirghiz, Lake Aral to Tashkent, Margelan, Syr-Daria, Isfairan Valley, Alai, Russian Pamirs, Murghab, Kashgar, Tenghi-tar, Tagharma, Kirghiz, Kashgar, Merket, Kargalik, Khotan, etc including Tibet, Mongolia, climbing mountains, enduring the hardships of deserts, and making numerous scientific and archaeological discoveries.
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Hedin, Sven
Through Asia: Volumes I and II
First edition. Very good hard covers, Vols. I&II. Penned and stamped by previous owners. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration to front and spine lettering. Light shelf and handling wear, bumped corners, creasing to spine head and foot. Rough cut pageblock discoloured and foxed, leading to pastedowns and end papers. Pages tightly bound. Whilst periodic foxing throughout the volumes, text, photographs and illustrations are clear. Additional photgraphs available upon request CN Used
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Hedin, Sven Anders
Durch Asiens Wüsten. Drei Jahre auf neuen Wegen in Pamir, Lop-nor, Tibet und China. Mit 107 Abbildungen und 5 Karten. 2 Bände (komplett).
Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1922. Groß-8°. 23 x 16 cm. XII, 236 VI, 245 Seiten. Hellbraune Halbleder Handeinbände mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln.
Bookseller reference : 2095FB
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Hedin, Sven, Asienforscher (1856-1952).
Exlibris. O. O., [nach 1902].
104:81 mm. Sven Hedin war aufgrund seiner Verdienste 1902 (als letzter Schwede überhaupt) von König Oskar II. in den Adelsstand erhoben worden. Sein Exlibris, das das Motiv seines Adelswappens aufnahm (ein blauer Globus mit dem lichten Abbild Asiens), findet sich am vorderen Innendeckel der Bücher seiner über 2000 Bände umfassenden Bibliothek. Auf dem Spruchband unter dem Wappen steht Hedins Motto "Voluntate Et Labore". - Auf Trägerpapier montiert und mit einer ms. Legende versehen.
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HEDIN, SVEN.
Bagdad,Babylon,Ninive. Med 354 Bilder samt 5 Kartor.
Sth., 1917. Orig.helshirt. XV,807 pp.
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