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1981rif. 90423Freiburg - Basel - Wien, Herder, 1981, Auflage: 1. kartoniert, gebunden; chamoisfarbene Einbände, mit schwarzen, farbig illustrierten Schutzumschlägen / 18 Bände / Anz. Seiten: je 138 / 24,2 x 30,5 cm / mit zahlreichen, farbigen Abbildungen auf Tafeln / Zustand: gut, leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Schutzumschläge etwas berieben und leicht bestaubt [2 Warenabbildungen]
2025rif. x-9819693578Springer Nature 2025. Hardcover. New. 299 pages. 9.26x6.11x9.21 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Jogi's Curse - An Indian government official is cursed by a wondering jogi (priest) and the prophecy is tragically fulfilled; An Underground Wonderland - Fantastic photo-illustrated article on the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; Adrift in the China Seas - Sent off to fetch help for their crippled steamer, H.W. Millard, G. Grant Simmons and their companions are blown off course and suffer an eight-day ordeal; "Watu Wa Miti" - R. St. Barbe Baker founded the "Men of the Trees" in Equatorial Africa to preserve trees which were continually being burned to secure land for cultivation - with photos; The Man Who Wanted a Change - A factory hand seeking escape travels to the South Seas, only to return sadder and wiser; Two Years in Borneo - Part I - Oscar Cook spent eight years there, the last two of which were quite strenuous - with photos; "The Man With the Buried Head" - photo of alms-seekers in India; The Promotion of Private Smith - The inside facts of an affair involving Private Smith, a young soldier in the American Army, stationed in the Philippines; The Last of the Bushrangers - Mrs. Mary J. Nichols reflects on the old pioneer days in Tasmania and the 'sticking-up' of an isolated station by the last gang of bushrangers that operated in the island - with photos; Forbidden Nepal - Hugh Walter had unusual opportunities to visit this closed state and provides interesting glimpses of the manners, customs, and principal religious festivals of the Nepalese - with photos; White Man's Magic - While exploring the interior of New Zealand the author and his companion fell afoul of a rascally Maori tohunga, or medicine man; Where Cannibals Roam - Part II - An eventful journey into the unknown interior of Papua, with photos; "Old Peter" - C.N.C. Hayter, formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, describes instances of 'second sight' he witnessed among Eskimos, thus providing independent corroboration of a story about apparent Eskimo telepathy in this publication a few months ago; What Happened to Spott - A funny story about a miserly old South African storekeeper and a black mamba snake; The World's Largest Goldfish Farm - founded by Eugene Shireman of Martinsville, Indiana - with photo. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
2025rif. x-1032970863Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 274 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.45 inches. Routledge hardcover
rif. awd-103New York, Kathmandu, Shivastan Publishing, 2004. In-8 agrafé, couverture bleue sur papier du Népal (24 pp.). Tirage à 200 ex. illustrés et signés au crayon. Dernier peintre et poète beat, proche de Warhol (pour qui il apparaît dans Kitchen et Chelsea Girls), Rene Ricard (1946, 2014) a aussi révélé Jean-Michel Basquiat dans Artforum en 1981. Très bon état.
rif. 9623273827-11-1Amer Bible Society. New Revised. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Amer Bible Society unknown
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to be the lineal descendants of Raleigh's ill-fated "Lost Colonists," with whom, in 1587, the friendly Red men abandoned the settlement of Roanoke and went out into the wilds to start life afresh; Left in Charge - A 19-year-old, just six weeks from home, finds himself in charge of a lonely South African sheep farm, only to have alarming things begin to happen, including a skirmish with sheep stealers; The Money-Finder - An amusing story involving a peppery West African Commissioner, a wily native chief who tried to avoid paying his taxes, and a young officer who was a bit of a conjurer; The Boy Who Sought Adventures - Part III - B. Wicksteed continues his amazing young adventures; The Opium-Smugglers - In the ancient walled city of Manila the author met a friend who told him this strange story; My Mystery Job - A queer story told by a builder's foreman concerning a remarkable job he had been called upon to undertake; Whose Hippo? - A nasty legal battle ensues after a Hippo is shot; The Land of Mystery - Part III of III - Col. E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Colonel Gallowhur continue their travels through unexplored Nepal - with many lovely photos; The Djimat - The figurehead of an old sailing ship goes missing during alterations and the superstitious natives of Java are sure trouble is sure to follow; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1884rif. 1220-22Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus 1884. 8°. XXVI, 330 S. mit 20 Taf., dav. 1 als Frontisp., 1 doppelblattgr. u. 1 gefalt., 4 mehrf. gefal. Tabellen, 5 Karten, dav. 4 gefalt. sowie zahlr. Holzstich-Ill. im Text. HLn.-Bd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschildchen. Schmutztitel etwas gebräunt, sonst innen sehr gut erhalten. 2 Karten mit kl. Einriss im Falz. EA. [4 Warenabbildungen]
1971rif. 3117894New York: Harry N. Abrams. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. First American edition. Fine. In fine dust jacket. Folio unpaginated 17" x 12 1/4" Publisher's cloth chemise with bone clasps very near fine with traces of mild shelf-wear and discoloration at spine. Uniform toning at edges of chemise. Pleasing copy of this remarkable production with full-color photos throughout and gatefold maps at close of text. Extra shipping cost due to weight. ; 17" tall' x wide 12 1/4" . Harry N. Abrams hardcover
1975rif. I 256Kathmandu: White Lotus 1975. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Government of Nepal. Kathmandu Valley Vol. 1.2 White Lotus paperback
1960rif. 232261960. South Asia photo album recording Darjeeling Nepal Calcutta and Agra in the 1960s in a post Independence view of how religious life urban crowding tourism and Himalayan community identity were being documented by a foreign traveler across India and Nepal. The album showcases the various landscapes of cultural and religious identity throughout South Asia with Muslim architecture in Agra Buddhist and Hindu temple spaces in the Himalayan region crowded Calcutta streets captioned in French as an overpopulated refugee city and repeated portraits of Nepali villagers Sherpas women and children. In the decades after 1947 Indian cities such as Calcutta were absorbing refugee movement housing pressure and widening informal street economies while Himalayan communities in Darjeeling and Nepal were increasingly pulled into road building porterage mountaineering border trade and tourism conditions that form the broader social world around the album's portraits and landscapes. Photo archive of 150 silver gelatin photographs and a small group of color snapshots most measuring 2.5" x 3.75" album measuring 10.5" x 14" Darjeeling Nepal Calcutta and Agra circa early 1960s. Black paper leaves with corner mounts and French captions opening with a map of India labeled in French and moving through place based sequences. Agra pages include captioned views of the "Le Mausolée d'Itimad ud Daula" façades pierced marble screens and views of the Taj Mahal. Buddhist material includes a page captioned "Temple Bouddhique" with rooflines bells carved doors and ornamental details. Nepal and Darjeeling sections show prayer flags strung across roads mountain slopes a ridge top cabin bundled men in traditional clothing and a captioned portrait of "Le sherpa Tensing Norgay." Other leaves caption "Nepalais" and "Mère Népalaise" pairing a woman carrying a child in a basket with village children hillside portraits and small groups gathered outdoors. Calcutta appears through elevated city views dense commercial streets market scenes bridge approaches pavement sleeping and sitting areas and close portraits captioned "mendiantes" and "fumeuse de pipe." A color image captioned "Danseuse du Kashmir" and several small color snapshots extend the album's attention to costume and regional customs. By the 1960s Independence had ended British rule but it had not eased the pressures of displacement poverty overcrowding and uneven development that shaped eastern Indian urban life and the Calcutta pages make those conditions visible through street congestion market trading informal rest spaces and the compiler's own language about refugees and overpopulation. In the Himalayan sections the album does not directly picture hunger land scarcity or labor migration in explicit terms yet those pressures formed the lived context of many Nepali and Sherpa communities during this period when cash income often depended on carrying service work seasonal movement and the new international economy of trekking and mountaineering that made figures such as Tenzing Norgay globally recognizable. Minor edge and corner wear from cornering; images clean and clear; binding and boards intact. A 1960s record of post Independence South Asia combining sacred architecture urban hardship and Himalayan portraiture. unknown
Roy. 8vo., First English Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, 10 plates (one large and folding) in photogravure, 63 illustrations in the text and a large folding coloured map (lightly spotted; one short tear without material loss in one fold); original cloth gilt, gilt back, mildly rubbed at joints, corners lightly bruised else a remarkably bright, clean copy of a very scarce work. Classic account of a journey by a Japanese monk through Tibet to Nepal between 1897-1903, and including a year's residence in the forbidden city of Lhasa disguised as a local doctor. His extraordinary narrative, detailing a series of events that ought never to have occurred at all, was originally published in a long series of articles written for two leading Japanese newspapers, and subsequently issued in book form (in Japanese) by Hakubunkwan. This is the first appearance in English. ONE OF THE RAREST MODERN BOOKS ON TIBET AND A VALUABLE PRIMARY SOURCE. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF WHICH THIS IS A WELL ABOVE AVERAGE COPY. Cordier BS 4382; Yakushi K35.
1952rif. 0269011952 La Libreria Della Stato Soft cover Very Good
1953rif. arm1in8 broché sous jaquette illustrée couleurs, 347pp+nombreuses planches nb. Seul le premier cahier a été coupé. Tirage courant, mais on trouvera en première page un envoi de Sir Edmund HILLARY himself, ainsi que la signature du photographe de l'expédition, Alfred Gregory.
