Search Results: lhasa and its mysteries with a by l austine waddell

NY:: Dover Publications,. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. 0486257630 . With 8 maps and 185 black and white illustrations. A paperback reprint of the 1905 Dutton edition. Some light foxing on edges, else very good in illustrated wraps. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Lhasa and its mysteries : with a record of the expedition of 1903-1904.

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Paperback / softback. New. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854-1938) served in the Indian Medical Service, which took him to Darjeeling, Burma and Tibet. Illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings, this 1905 publication presents his eyewitness account of the recent British expedition to Tibet. Later chapters vividly portray the city of Lhasa and its inhabitants.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 7x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Paperback. New. 9x7x1.

Cambridge University Press, 2015. Paperback. New. 792 pages. 8.54x5.51x1.77 inches.

Methuen & Co. 1929. Some tidy underlining, octavo, grey cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, red illustrations to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 532pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name & inscription to fep, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, heavy tanning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing & light tanning to page edges, light foxing to pages)

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1906. Third and Cheaper Edition, published by Methuen in May 1906. No dustwrapper, wear to edges of boards, spine strip has a four-inch split to the lower left-hand side, top half-inch above the title panel is mostly gone. Top corner of f/ep has been cut out (probably had a previous owner's name on), binding split inside back cover and at half-title, folding map of Lhasa and b&w plate at p331 is loose but still present, last (blank) page also loose but still present, a tear to one of the folds of the map inside back cover. But otherwise a not too bad copy, with all the maps and plates present, of this hard-cover book. Originally published in March 1905, the book describes Tibet, including Gyatse, Lhasa and the Tsangpo Valley, which the author visited while accompanying the British Expedition to Tibet as Cultural Consultant. Please Note: this is a heavy book, packaged weight would be about 1500g, so extra postage would be required from buyers outside the UK.… Read More

Hardcover. Fair. London: John Murray, 1905, first edition. Fair, though affordable first edition with color plates. In brown circa 1905 buckram. Several maps separated at folds; looks like all present. A few pps. small bends at corners, offsetting on library stamps on several pps. Color repros. of Dalai Lama, and a color illus. from a "colour photograph" of the forbidden city. Fair.

London: Methuen & Co., 1929 8vo. original decorated beige cloth (ex-Ambassador College Library, with discrete rsm to top & bottom edge, biro number to fore-corner of title page, rems of label to pastedowns, prev. owner's initials to FFE, cloth a little rubbed to spine where former markings removed, occ. pencil annotation & leaf edge speckling, but otherwise clean & unmarked; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xx, 530, [2 (press opinions)], with numerous illustrations (some in colour) & 8 maps (incl. one colour folding). Heavy item (1.65 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy, well preserved despite the library provenance. . Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

London: John Murray. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound (not recently) in green cloth boards. Light brown staining to lower margin of front endpaper and preliminary leaves. 1 plate (facing page 412) with 25mm tear to blank margin with paper tape repair. Provenance: Athelstan Joseph Alexander Kean, with ex libris bookplate on front endpaper. Bookseller's ticket W. H. Smith & Son's. ; First printing. xxii, 530 pages + colour frontispiece + 110 plate leaves (two colour) + in-text illustrations + 8 maps (including three folding, one of which is a large colour folding map of the "Route to Lhasa", compiled by Waddell, and showing Sikhim, Bhotan and Central Tibet). Final unnumbered leaf with printer's imprint not present. Page dimensions: 220mm x 144mm. Rebound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Waddell was the chief medical officer on Younghusband's military expedition into Tibet in 1904. This volume… Read More

Dutton. Oatmeal cloth with red titles and design on front and spine. No DJ. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1906.

London: John Murray, 1905. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. large 8vo, original decorated grey cloth hardcover, illustrated throughout with maps plans illustrations etc, all plates correct and present as list, 530 pages, covers browned, spine rubbed with a couple of tear to top and bottom with no loss, presentation note to front endpaper, otherwise good and complete.

London: John Murray, 1905 . Leather. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. The second edition of Laurence Waddell's richly illustrated account of the British Mission to Lhasa of 1904-1905. The second edition of this work, published the month after the first.Waddell provides an account of the British Mission to Lhasa, led by the legendary British explorer and soldier, Colonel Younghusband, and his army of 2,800 Indian soldiers.Illustrated with three colour plates, eight maps of which three are folding, and one-hundred and eleven half tone plates. With further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.With the cloth of the publisher's original front board bound in to the rear.Retaining the original half title.With the armorial bookplate of John Fraser to the front pastedown.Waddell has been regarded by some as having been a real-life inspiration for the character Indiana Jones. Rebound in half tree calf, with marbled paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. A touch of rubbing to joints and minor… Read More