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1884Best.-Nr. 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]
1971Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. 2092902138102648Yuzankaku 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 359 pages Size: 37.5cmx27cm Number of books: 1 Yuzankaku paperback
1982Best.-Nr. 2092902143900082Japan Nepal Society 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 51 Japan Nepal Society paperback
1982Best.-Nr. 2092902143800083Japan Nepal Society 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 51 Japan Nepal Society paperback
1975Best.-Nr. I 256Kathmandu: White Lotus 1975. Paperback. Good/no dj. 1.00. Government of Nepal. Kathmandu Valley Vol. 1.2 White Lotus paperback
1960Best.-Nr. 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
1909Roy. 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.
1952Best.-Nr. 0269011952 La Libreria Della Stato Soft cover Very Good
1953Best.-Nr. 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.
