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1962Best.-Nr. 30019New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1962. First edition of the Dalai Lama's first autobiography. Octavo original half cloth illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page with the added words "with prayers." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa the capital of Tibet and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959 following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is without a doubt one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read" Stanley Gosh Saturday Review. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 5520London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1962. First edition of the Dalai Lama's first autobiography. Octavo original black cloth illustrated. Signed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the title page with the added words "with prayers." Near fine in a excellent dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example uncommon signed. Recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso was brought to Lhasa the capital of Tibet and enthroned two years later as the fourteenth Dalai Lama. In 1959 following the Chinese suppression of the Tibetan national uprising he was forced to seek asylum in India. As Tibet's leader-in-exile he has worked tirelessly not only on behalf of the Tibetan people but as a voice for human rights worldwide. "My Land and My People is without a doubt one of the most moving memoirs I have ever read" Stanley Gosh Saturday Review. Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover books
1968Best.-Nr. 4545Bangkok: The Social Science Association Press of Thailand 1968. First edition in English of the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the Dalai Lama on the title page in Tibetan "with prayers." A near fine copy in a excellent dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially signed. The Opening the Eye of the Western Eye is a succinct thorough overview of the doctrines of Buddhism as they have been practiced for a thousand years in Tibet. The Dalai Lama here discusses the need for religious practice and the importance of kindness and compassion. Originally written for Tibetan lay people this was the Dalai Lama's first book on Buddhist philosophy to appear in English. Written for both Tibetan and Western readers Opening the Eye of New Awareness is the Dalai Lama's first religious work. It is not an edited transcript of public lectures but is His Holliness' own summation of Buddhist doctrine and practice. Completed in 1963 just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education it is a work of consummate scholarship by a twenty-seven year-old geshe wise beyond his years. The Social Science Association Press of Thailand hardcover books
1991Best.-Nr. 58943Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press 1991. First edition. xxvi 158 pp w/index. Spine sunned else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. World Bibliographical Series Volume 128. Oxford & Santa Barbara: Clio Press hardcover books
1876Best.-Nr. 321932London: Trübner and Co. Ludgate Hill 1876. First Edition. Frontis. 4 folding maps 6 plates 2 in text. clxi 354pp. 8vo. Bound in modern full grey calf several small of stamps of Canterbury Public Library. First Edition. Frontis. 4 folding maps 6 plates 2 in text. clxi 354pp. 8vo. First British Mission to Tibet went in 1774 under Scotsman George Bogle 1746-1781 command and established a relationship between Tibet and British India. In 1811 Thomas Manning followed. Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 26913New York New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1892. xiii 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that ".Starting from the frontiers of Siberia and coming out at the other end of Asia on the coast of the new French colony of Tonquin M. Bonvalot and his companions traversed not only that portion of Thibet which several English travelers such as Dalgleish and Carey and the great Russian Prjevalsky had explored but going beyond the limits which their predecessors had reached forced their way over the table-lands and came out on the other side this journey being one which no European had ever accomplished." Title page with the small somewhat faint previous owner name stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; he served as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 7" x 10" size; bound in the original light lavender-purple color illustrated and decoratively gilt-stamped & titled cloth gilt spine titles top edge gilt. A little edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding contents and map clean and in very good condition. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
1916Best.-Nr. 317545London: Houghton and Stoughton 1916. First edition. Illus. x 246pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarter crimosn morocco and cloth sides. Fine. First edition. Illus. x 246pp. 8vo. Houghton and Stoughton unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 317730Washington D.C.: White House 1937. 4to. Framed and glazed. 4to. Like FDR Suydam Cutting who came from a prominent New Jersey family was a graduate of both Groton and Harvard they graduated 5 years apart. Cutting went to Turkmenistan with TR Jr. and Kermit in 1925 and travelled to Tibet on several occasions between 1928 and 1937. He visited Lhasa with permission of the Dalai Lama to whom he presented gifts. Cutting acted as de facto American representative there as this letter suggests and published a memoir of his experiences The Fire Ox and Other Years 1947. A remarkable letter recording the ambivalent American position on Tibet in the 1930s. White House unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 267917New York: Baker & Taylor 1901. First edition. Illus. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow pictorial cloth. Very good. Bookplate. First edition. Illus. 285 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Annie Royle Taylor was the first Western woman to travel to Tibet. Baker & Taylor unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 249685London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson Thavies Inn 1927. First edition. With frontispiece and 44 plates from photographs most with images recto and verso. Large folding map in pocket at back. xvi 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black cloth. Minor rubbing and soiling name cut away from top corner of flyleaf else a fresh copy. Very good plus. First edition. With frontispiece and 44 plates from photographs most with images recto and verso. Large folding map in pocket at back. xvi 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Czech Asia p. 101 Richard Cobden-Sanderson, Thavies Inn unknown books
Best.-Nr. 28631TRADE CATALOGUE-TIBET A FEW BRIEF DATA ON THE EARLY HISTORY AND RELIGION O TIBET AND TIBETANS. New York: Jacques Marchais n.d. circa 1943. 8vo. Wrappers. 16 pages. Firs edition. Both a trade catalogue and a brief history of Tibetan art in Jacques Marchais Gallery and Museum issued in the middle of the Second World War. Very good. unknown books
1911Best.-Nr. 41098London: Constable and Company Limited 1911. First Edition. xvi 343 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth t.e.g. others uncut. Minor wear at extremities front hinge tender else near fine. First Edition. xvi 343 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Lively account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August 1906 and travelled through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary with other observations and photographs by W. N. Fergusson and C. H. Meares. Yakushi F29 Constable and Company Limited unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 19569New York: The Greystone Press 1950. DeLuxe Edition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red embossed leatherette fine in fine original slipcase. From the library of CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton. DeLuxe Edition. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. The Lowell Thomas's Tibet Expedition Inscribed to the Stantons. Inscribed by son and father on half-title "To Dr. and Mrs. Frank Stanton / Lowell Thomas Jr. / Lowell Thomas". The Thomas's successful expedition was made in 1949 and produced a number of splendid color photographs of the country and its people the first the author believes to have been reproduced in a book. The Greystone Press unknown books
1857Best.-Nr. AB1069Paris:: Gaume freres 1857. 1857. 2 volumes. 12mo. xv 1 430; iv 524 pp. Early quarter red gilt-stamped calf marbled boards; rubbed. Bookplate; binder’s rubber-stamp of L. Brisset Valognes. A folding map is expected with this title other issues not present here. In fact there are different issues of this work with different paginations. "French missionary-traveller was born at Toulouse on the 1st of August 1813. In his twenty-fourth year he entered the congregation of the Lazarists at Paris and shortly after receiving holy orders in 1839 went out to China. At Macao he spent some eighteen months in the Lazarist seminary preparing himself for the regular work of a missionary. Having acquired some command of the Chinese tongue and modified his personal appearance and dress in accordance with Chinese taste he started from Canton. He at first superintended a Christian mission in the southern provinces and then passing to Peking where he perfected his knowledge of the language eventually settled in the Valley of Black Waters or He Shuy a little to the north of the capital and just within the borders of Mongolia. There beyond the Great Wall a large but scattered population of native Christians had found a refuge from the persecutions of Kia-King to be united half a century later in a vast but vague apostolic vicariate. The assiduity with which Huc devoted himself to the study of the dialects and customs of the Tatars for whom at the cost of much labour he translated various religious works was an admirable preparation for undertaking in 1844 at the instigation of the vicar apostolic of Mongolia an expedition whose object was to dissipate the obscurity which hung over the country and habits of the Tibetans. September of that year found the missionary at Dolon Nor occupied with the final arrangements for his journey and shortly afterwards accompanied by his fellow-Lazarist Joseph Gabet and a young Tibetan priest who had embraced Christianity he set out. To escape attention the little party assumed the dress of lamas or priests. Crossing the Hwang-ho they advanced into the terrible sandy tract known as the Ordos Desert. After suffering dreadfully from want of water and fuel they entered Kansu having recrossed the flooded Hwang-ho but it was not till January 1845 that they reached Tang-Kiul on the boundary. Rather than encounter alone the horrors of a four months’ journey to Lhasa they resolved to wait for eight months till the arrival of a Tibetan embassy on its return from Peking. Under an intelligent teacher they meanwhile studied the Tibetan language and Buddhist literature and during three months of their stay they resided in the famous Kunbum Lamasery which was reported to accommodate 4000 persons. Towards the end of September they joined the returning embassy which comprised 2000 men and 3700 animals. Crossing the deserts of Koko Nor they passed the great lake of that name with its island of contemplative lamas and following a difficult and tortuous track across snow-covered mountains they at last entered Lhasa on the 29th of January 1846. Favourably received by the regent they opened a little chapel and were in a fair way to establish an important mission when the Chinese ambassador interfered and had the two missionaries conveyed back to Canton where they arrived in October of the same year. For nearly three years Huc remained at Canton but Gabet returning to Europe proceeded thence to Rio de Janeiro and died there shortly afterwards. Huc returned to Europe in shattered health in 1852 visiting India Egypt and Palestine on his way and after a prolonged residence in Paris died on the 31st of March 1860." / "His writings comprise besides numerous letters and memoirs in the Annales de la propagation de la foi the famous Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tartarie le Thibet et la Chine pendant les annees 1844-1846 2 vols. Paris 1850; Eng. trans. by W. Hazlitt 1851 abbreviated by M. Jones London 1867; its supplement crowned by the Academy entitled L’Empire chinois 2 vols. Paris 1854; Eng. trans. London 1859; and an elaborate historical work Le Christianisme en Chine &c. 4 vols. Paris 1857-1858; Eng. trans. London 1857-1858. These works are written written in a lucid racy picturesque style which secured for them an unusual degree of popularity. The Souvenirs is a narrative of a remarkable feat of travel and contains passages of so singular a character as in the absence of corroborative testimony to stir up a feeling of incredulity. That Huc was suspected unjustly was amply proved by later research. But he was by no means a practical geographer and the record of his travels loses greatly in value from the want of precise scientific data." Britannica. Gaume freres, 1857. hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 3890New York: Cornelia & Michael Bessie HarperCollins 1990 First American edition. Large octavo. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Black cloth backed burgundy boards withs gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. . Cornelia & Michael Bessie (HarperCollins) hardcover books
1991Best.-Nr. 1319262Bruxelles: P & T Production 1991. Hardcover. Quarto; Limited edition 3939/4000; VG/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine red with black print; Boards in glossy illustrated paper clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Text in French; 62 pages illustrated color. 1319262. FP New Rockville Stock. P & T Production hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 190878DK ADULT 2003-10-13. Hardcover. New. New in shrink wrap! DK ADULT hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 206262000. Softcover. VG one copy inscribed and signed by artist. Black wraps. Unpaginated. 19 color plates. Includes a two-page essay by Tom Breidenbach "Longings and Higher Selves" and wonderful large color illustrations. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 2241Element 2003. An understanding of how Tibetan Buddhism deals with life's most profound challenges how to cope with suffering and how to obtain release from the cycle of rebirth. Hardback w/ D.J. unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 866691905. TIBET THE OPENING OF TIBET. An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent there by the English Government in the Year 1903-1904. Written with the help of all the principle persons of the Mission by Percival Landon special correspondent of the "Times." Introduction by Colonel Younghusband. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1905. First edition. 4to. green cloth lettered in gilt t.e.g.; prelims. 484 pp. A nice clean copy. near fine. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 2254Santa Anta CA. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art. 2003. 4to. 256 pp. Hardcover with DJ and decorative slip case. Elaborate exhibition catalog of a collection never seen outside of Tibet. Tibet : Treasures from the Roof of the World. Berger Patricia ; Clark Robert W. ; Bartholomew Terese. Santa Ana Calif.: The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in collaboration with The Bureau of Cultural Relics Tibet 2003. Cloth with illustration set in to front cover 31 cm. 256 pp. with color plates. Exhibition catalogue. In a cloth and boards slipcase. Very good copy in a dust jacket in very good condition. Slipcase in very good condition. Hardcover 0967961246 $150.00 unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. I-512-280LOMBARD 1986. Paperback. Good. Volume 3. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. LOMBARD paperback
1986Best.-Nr. I-512-281LOMBARD 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Volume 3. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. LOMBARD paperback
1986Best.-Nr. I-512-279LOMBARD 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Volume 3. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. LOMBARD paperback
1986Best.-Nr. I-512-282LOMBARD 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Volume 3. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. LOMBARD paperback
