Lot 511
Tibet
A Collection of 11 Works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Bell, Sir Charles The People of Tibet. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; [Idem] The Religion of Tibet. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket stained and price torn; Sandberg, Graham Hand-Book of Colloquial Tibetan. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1894. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Waddell, L. Austine The Buddhism of Tibet. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Limited, 1934. 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt; Macdonald, David Twenty Years in Tibet. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1932. 8vo, original yellow cloth gilt; David-Neel, Alexandra With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1931. 8vo, original red cloth; Harrer, Heinrich Seven Years in Tibet. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. Fourth impression, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped; Francke, Rev. A.H. A History of Western Tibet. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., [n.d.]8vo, original blue cloth, ownership inscription to front free-endpaper; Waddell, L. Austine Lhasa and its Mysteries. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1906. Third edition, 8vo, original cloth, some wear to dust-jacket; McGovern, William Montgomery To Lhasa in Disguise. [N.p.:] Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; Candler, Edmund The Unveiling of Lhasa. London: Edward Arnold, 1905. 8vo, original green cloth gilt (11)
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of Kingcausie