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ref. A9786206143772Paperback / softback. New. paperback
ref. 11074Northbank Simla 27 May 1915. 1 page 6 x 4½ inches intricate embossed coloured crest. unknown
1960ref. 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
2013ref. SONG3642385850Springer 2013-09-16. 2014. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.40x1.30x9.20. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
1975ref. 858B25Nepal: Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies 1975. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A first edition copy of this introduction to The Hanuman Dhoka. A scarce pamphlet published by the Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies based at the Tribhuvan University in Nepal. A first edition copy. The Hanuman Dhoka is a complex of structures within the Royal Palace of the Malla Kings and also of the Shah dynasty om the Durbar Square of central Kathmandu Nepal. With four illustrations and a map.Collated complete In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally very smart with some light fading to the wraps. Internally generally firmly bound with pages 25-28 loose with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies unknown
2013ref. DADAX3642385850Springer 2013-09-16. 2014. hardcover. New. 6.40x1.30x9.20. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
ref. A9781138852464Hardback. New. hardcover
1972ref. 72359Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy 1972. First edition 8vo pp. 16 327 1; portrait frontispiece; original red cloth-backed boards dust jacket; very good sound and clean in a very good slightly chipped dust jacket. Poems and short biographies of 13 of Nepal's leading poets in a shoddy Nepalese publication filled with "distinctive characteristics that makes us unique among the nations of the world. Royal Nepal Academy unknown
ref. A9781138547162Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1903ref. 77071Leipzig 1903. Leks8vo. Blått originalt helshirtingbind med påklebet vignett på fordekkelen. XV 319 s. Gjennomillustrert med fotografier i teksten samt plansjer utenom pagineringen. Verlag von Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn. Tysk. Pent eksemplar. unknown
ref. ria9786206143772_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Hopeful Lies is a collection of essays. It is an attempt to establish one's role in the society and to look at social phenomena from different subject experiences. The essays are interdisciplinary and deal with a variety of topics- gene paperback
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ref. 9291440213.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2014ref. 4774GB2014. Berlin Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014. XX 459 p. Hardcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Stamped. hardcover
1969ref. 231259Thapathali Kathmandu Nepaul: H. M. G. of Nepal Ministry of Forests Department of Medicinal Plants 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; Its Bulletin ; no. 2. Physical description; vi 144 xxi p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. i 3d group. Subjects; Nepal. Godavari Khola Valley. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepaul: H. M. G. of Nepal, Ministry of Forests, Department of Medicinal Plants paperback
ref. 68-2885Kathmandu Nepal: Royal Nepal Airlines ca. 1965. Boarding Pass Sealed in Plastic. 8 x 18 cm. Very Good. B&W images within. Text in Nepali & English. Kathmandu, Nepal: Royal Nepal Airlines [ca. 1965?]. unknown
ref. 15-11187London et al: ca. 1957. Travel Memorabilia. 8vo. Brochures Booklets Pack of Matches Cards & other Miscellania Very Good. Illustrated. Text in Italian German French & English. London, et al: [ca. 1957]. unknown
ref. 15-11222Kathmandu Singapore Bangkok et al: 1957 - 66. 8vo. Booklets Maps Brochures Very Good. Illustrated mostly color. Text in English French & Chinese. Kathmandu, Singapore, Bangkok, et al: [1957 - 66]. unknown
ref. 19-2756Kathmandu Nepal: Department of Tourism 1981. 20.7 x 11.2 cm. 19 pp. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. Illustrated with Black and White photos and maps. Kathmandu, Nepal: Department of Tourism, 1981 paperback
1979ref. 207710Dehli.: Indian Book Depot Map House. 1979. Colour map on blush coloured paper 44.2 x 63.6 cms; 53.6 x 75.9 cms sheet inset map of air service routes folding into pictorial card wrappers 25.5 x 19.3 cms issued into colour pictorial paper folder in very good condition. Map shows Nepal and surrounding borders with India Tibet and China provinces picked out in colour international and state boundaries sealed roads railway lines canals lakes springs rivers towns and villages tourist places temples and the inset map shows air services from Nepal to Thailand and India. The rear wrapper shows a view of Pashupatinath Temple the oldest Hindu temple in Kathmandu. . Indian Book Depot (Map House). unknown
ref. 8180694461.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. Jarlbro, OlofIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1971ref. 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
1972ref. S0-7URQ-3CL61972. Hardcover. Good. Nepal Antiquated Book Publishers Kathmandu 1972 reprint. Moderate external wear and bumps some small stains to textblock edge pages yellowed with occasional minor blemishes binding firm gift inscription to front endpaper. hardcover