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Lhasa : An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission sent there by the English Government in the Year 1903-4 [Volume One only]
by Landon, Perceval (1869-1927)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hurst and Blackett. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume One only. Spine faded. 6mm loss of cloth at head and tail of spine. 50mm split to cloth at head of rear joint. Moderate rubbing to boards. Bookseller's rubber stamp, Oxford Book & Stationery, New Delhi. Provenance: Ex libris bookplate Gerald Stuart Lysaght. ; Volume One only of two volumes. xix, [1], 414 pages + portrait frontispiece + 13 photogravure plates + 5 colour plates + 117 illustrations within the pagination (some full page; 2 in-text illustrations printed in red, "Private Seal of the Dalai Lama" on page vii and "Great Seal of the Dalai Lama" on blank page following page xix). 5 full page maps (3 within the pagination, 2 colour). Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt Tibetan lettering "Om Mani Padme Hum" and Buddhist symbols on front board.Top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 238 x 163mm. Perceval Landon accompanied the 1904 Younghusband expedition to Lhasa as a correspondent for the "Times". .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24490
- Title
- Lhasa : An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission sent there by the English Government in the Year 1903-4 [Volume One only]
- Author
- Landon, Perceval (1869-1927)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hurst and Blackett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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