Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet: Together With A History of the Relations between China, Tibet, and India
by Teichman, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cambridge: University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Library blindstamp on front board. 3/8" tear to cloth at head of front joint. 1/4" and a couple of 1/8" splits to cloth at tail of spine. 3/8" and smaller loss of cloth at edges of corners of boards. Some rubbing to cloth at edges of spine and boards. Library rubber stamps throughout to margins of leaves and plates and versos of maps. Some short tears along folds to large folding map in pocket at rear. Some splitting to gutter at front hinge. Gutter broken at rear hinge. Binding a little shaken. All plates and maps present. ; First printing. xxiii, [1], 248 pages + 64 b&w photographic plates + 8 maps (including 1 large folding colour map in pocket at rear). Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering and publisher's emblem on spine. ; Ex-Library; 8vo .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 5007
- Title
- Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet: Together With A History of the Relations between China, Tibet, and India
- Author
- Teichman, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1922
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
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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