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	[TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: [TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: "DBYANGS-GSAL-BZ'UG". A Calligrapher's Manual for Writing the 'Lan ca' Script. A Manuscript Giving the Alphabet and Ligatures of the Religious 'Lan ca' Script Used for Special Buddhist Texts in India, Mongolia and Tibet. Mongolia, 19th century. Format: 10 x 31 cm. Lvs 9, numbered 1-9 in Tibetan. Containing one "title page", 16 pages of text and one page with closing text. Loose within later Oriental silk cloth covered boards. The text is written in rows comprising the alphabet and ligatures of 'Lan ca' in black ink; followed by regular Tibetan script in red ink and the transcription in Mongolian characters in black ink. First and last leaves mounted on old paper with some wear and marginal holes. Frayed at margins and a few leaves with marginal repairs. A charming specimen. € (euro) 2200.00 [Appr.: US$ 3295.6 \| £UK 1982.25 \| JP¥ 291104] Book number: 37040 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BELL, SIR CHARLES ALFRED: Grammar of colloquial Tibetan. Second edition. Calcutta, The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1919. Small 8vo. Pp. xiv, 224. With 3 folding tables. One large folding map in pocket at rear, repaired in outer margin, without any loss. Publisher's cloth. Bell (1870-1945) served the Indian Civil Service from 1891 and lived in Bhutan and Sikkim for several years. He was in charge of the diplomatic relations of the British Government with Tibet and Bhutan. This grammar was first published in 1905 as part of a "Manual of Colloquial Tibean". This edition is enlarged and revised. Cf Cordier BS 2940. Cf Yakushi (1984) B108. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 449.4 \| £UK 270.5 \| JP¥ 39696] Book number: 99255 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BONVALOT, GABRIEL: De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1892. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), 507. Three pages at end with contents missing. With one large folding map and 108 illustrations (of which some full page) after photographs taken by Prince Henri d'Orleans. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, e.g. Bookplate. A narrative of a journey taken from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 1889-90. Bonvalot travelled together with Prince d'Orleans. Cordier BI 2436. Yakushi (1984) B220. € (euro) 480.00 [Appr.: US$ 719.04 \| £UK 432.5 \| JP¥ 63514] Book number: 777045 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAS, SARAT CHANDRA: An Introduction to the Grammar of the Tibetan Language with the Texts of SITUhI SUM=rTAGs, Dag-je Sal-Wai Mé-Long and SITUhI SHAL-LÜN. Two volumes in one. Darjeeling 1915. 4to. Pp. (x), 2, (2), xxvii, (1), 62; (2), 55, vi; 2, 88, 5, (1); 2, 28; 36. With 7 plates. Original cloth. With the ownership stamp of A. Foucher, noted Buddhist scholar. Some light spotting to a few pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Das based this work on Csoma de Köros' grammar first published in 1834. He has supplemented it with materials drawn from Situ Sum-Tag, the exhaustive commentary on Thon-mi Sam Bhota's Sum-chu-pa and Tag-jug-pa. On Das' second visit to Tibet in 1881-82 he found a manuscript copy of Situ-Sum-Tag at Tashi-Lhunpo, in the library of Sengchen Lama, Prime Minister of the Tashi Lama. In 1894 permission was obtained to publish the work at state expense because of it's importance to students of Tibetan literature. However, not until 1911 he secured a block-print copy of Situ-Sum-tag from Ekai Kawaguchi, the well-known Japanese Tibetan scholar and traveller. Kawaguchi revised the book in proof because Das was unabled to do that due to weak eyesight. Yakushi (1984) D38. € (euro) 1400.00 [Appr.: US$ 2097.2 \| £UK 1261.5 \| JP¥ 185248] Book number: 22042 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Arjopa. Die erste Pilgerfahrt einer weissen Frau nach der verbotenen Stadt des Dalai Lama. Leipzig, Brackhaus, 1928. Pp. 322. With one map and 45 illustrations. Original cloth with colourful pictorial dustjacket (pasted on to the cover). The back cover of the jacket slightly stained. First German edition, translated from "My journey to Lhasa" (see next item). The author was a French woman who travelled for many years in Asia and became a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1923 after years of preparation Alexandra David-Neel and her young companion Yongden crossed the mountains into Tibet, disguised as beggers and after four months' adventurous and dangerous walking they finally reached Lhasa, which at the time was closed to women. Aschoff 364. Robinson p. 9 Yakushi D 86e. € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 299.6 \| £UK 180.25 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 99133 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Heilige und Hexer. Glaube und Aberglaube im Lande des Lamaismus. Nach eigenen Erlebnissen in Tibet dargestellt. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1936. Large 8vo. Pp. 296. With one map and 22 illustrations. Some light staining at beginning and end. Original cloth, printed in green. With pictorial dust jacket. Third German edition (first 1931). Yakushi (1984) D 46: "The author describes her impressions of monasteries visited in Gangtol, Lachen, and Chorten-Nyima as well as those which she saw in Tibet". Aschoff 365. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 269.64 \| £UK 162.25 \| JP¥ 23818] Book number: 99146 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Magic and Mystery in Tibet. New York 1932. Pp. xvi, 320. With many illustrations. Preface by Dr. A. D'Arsonval. Publisher's black cloth. First American edition. Originally published as "Mystique and Magiciens du Thibet" in Paris 1929. Alexandra David-Neel was speaking and writing all of the Tibetan dialects and was a practising Buddhist. In this work she describes the Lamas and their religion, magic and mystic theories, spiritual training, rites, etc. Yakushi (1984) D 46. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99622 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Magic and mystery in Tibet. New York 1933. Pp. xvi, 320. With many illustrations. Preface by Dr. A. D'Arsonval. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt. With colourful dustjacket. Fourth printing of the American edition (first 1932). Originally published as "Mystique and Magiciens du Thibet" in Paris 1929. Alexandra David-N. was speaking and writing all of the Tibetan dialects and was a practising Buddhist. In this work she describes the Lamas in Tibet and their religion, magic, rites, etc. Yakushi (1984) D 46. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99164 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Meister und Schüler. Die Geheimnisse der lamaistischen Weihen. Auf Grund eigener Erfahrungen dargestellt. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1934. Pp. 191. With one frontispiece and 35 illustrations. Original cloth. A German edition translated from the French by A. Ditzen. A continuation of the "Heilige und Hexer" (Lpz 1931). Alexandra David-Neel was a French woman who travelled for many years in Asia and became a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1923 she became the first Western woman to enter Lhasa. Aschoff 367. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99147 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA & LAMA YONGDEN: Mipam. Der Lama mit den fünf Weisheiten. Ein tibetischer Roman. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1935. Pp. 336. Original yellow cloth, printed in gilt. Translated from the French by Dr. Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski. A novel about the life of the reincarnated Lama Mipam. It is the first novel written by a Tibetan lama mainly for Western readers. Lama Yongden was the adopted son of Alexandra David-Neel, with whom she shared all her travels. Aschoff 2105. € (euro) 80.00 [Appr.: US$ 119.84 \| £UK 72.25 \| JP¥ 10586] Book number: 99145 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Mönche und Strauchritter. Eine Tibetfahrt auf Schleichwegen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1933. Large 8vo. Pp. 290. With 29 illustrations and one map. Original cloth, spine faded and worn. Translated from the French ("Grand Tibet", Paris 1933) by Dr. Karl Pfannkuch. Yakushi (1984) D 49. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99148 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DUBEUX, LOUIS & VALMONT, V.& RAYMOND, XAVIER: Tartarie, Béloutchistan, Boutan et Népal. AND: RAYMOND, XAVIER: Afghanistan. Paris, Frères, 1848. Pp. (iv), 388 + pp. 79. With 24 engraved plates and one folding map of Turkestan. Uncut and unopened copy in original printed wrappers, spine slightly chipped. First edition. A beautiful copy. A description of the countries devoted to the history, language, religion, customs, literature, climate, topography, minerals, etc. based on Hamilton, Kirkpatrick and others. Ten of the plates belong to the part about Afghanistan. Our copy has all the plates according to the list of plates. However another issue with one more map and / or another plate might exist (?). Included in "L'Univers. Historie et description de tous les peuples". Yakushi D166. € (euro) 280.00 [Appr.: US$ 419.44 \| £UK 252.5 \| JP¥ 37050] Book number: 35147 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	EVANS-WENTZ, WALTER YEELING (EDITOR): The Tibetan Book of the Dead or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. London, Oxford University Press, 1960. Pp. lxxxiv, 249. With 6 plates and 5 illustrations. Publisher's cloth, printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed. With annotations in the text. Third improved edition (first 1927). The translation of the various texts was performed by Tibetan Buddhists, primarily by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (1868-1922). See Aschoff, "Tibet, Nepal ..." 1992, nr. 466. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99843 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FERGUSSON, W.N. & [BROOKE, JOHN WESTON]: Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. London, Constable and Company Limited, 1911. Pp. xvi, 344. With one front portrait, two folding maps and many illustrations in the text made from photographs by the author and John W. Brooke. Publisher's pictorial cloth, upper edges gilt. Bookplate (Stig Wilton). A nice copy. This work is mainly based on diaries kept by John W. Brooke during his two journeys through China and Tibet in the years 1906 - 08. He wanted to organize an expedition into Tibet to investigate the much debated question of the relation of the Sampo and Brahmaputra Rivers. At this time it was not possible to enter Tibet from India (due to a newly signed treaty between India and Russia) and he therefor decided to enter Tibet from the north (from China). He was ruthless murdered in the Independant Lolo Land in December 1908. Cordier BS 4396. Yakushi F29. € (euro) 760.00 [Appr.: US$ 1138.48 \| £UK 685 \| JP¥ 100563] Book number: 29121 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FOUCAUX, PHILPPE ÉDOUARD: Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. Pp. xxxii, 231, (1). This grammar is the first published French work treating the Tibetan grammar. Foucaux (1811-1894) was a leading authority on Tibetan language and culture. Cordier BS 2933. Not in Vater or Zaunmüller. BOUND WITH: BURNOUF, ÉMILE & LEUPOL, L.: Méthode pour étudier la langue sanscrite. Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1841. Pp. (iv), xv, (1), 239. Contemporary boards, calf spine, worn and spine restored. Occasionally some light staining. € (euro) 1000.00 [Appr.: US$ 1498 \| £UK 901.25 \| JP¥ 132320] Book number: 29040 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FRANCKE, AUGUST HERMANN: Sketch of Ladakhi grammar. In cooperation with other Moravian missionaries. [Published as Extra No. 2 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. LXX, part I, 1901]. Calcutta 1901. Pp. (vi), 63. Interleaved copy. Modern marbled boards, calf spine with red title label. Includes an Appendix containing idioms and useful sentences with literal translation. Francke was a Moravian missionary-scholar stationed in Ladakhi. Sir Grierson revised this grammar and corrected its terminology. Cordier BS 2938. Not in Yakushi. € (euro) 600.00 [Appr.: US$ 898.8 \| £UK 540.75 \| JP¥ 79392] Book number: 34004 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FREUDBERG, H.M.: Ueber die Ziege von Thibet aus deren Wolle die kostbaren, orientalischen Shawls verfertiget werden, dann über die Versuche, Möglichkeit und Art, diese Thiere in Europe, und vorzüglich in Oesterreich einheimisch zu machen. Nach öffentlichen und Privat-Notizen bearbeitet.Brünn, I.G. Trassler, 1824. Pp. 44. With one folding plate. Original printed wrappers. Some light staining throughout. Interesting account about Tibetan goats (Capra hircus) and their valuable wool which is used for making precious shawls. Already in the 18th century the cashmere shawl became high fashion in Europe and it became an important trade commodity from the East. This account discusses the possibilities of breeding the Tibetan goats in mountainous areas of Europe where the climate and vegetation is similiar to the conditions of Tibet. The process of dying, spinning and weaving the wool would be economically possible through modern machines and methods. One chapter contains observations made of Tibetan goats raised in France and at end some comments about breeding goats in Austria. An uncommon work printed at Brünn, the former capital of Moravia (Austria). Not in Yakushi or Aschoff. € (euro) 1000.00 [Appr.: US$ 1498 \| £UK 901.25 \| JP¥ 132320] Book number: 99941 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GORDON, THOMAS EDWARD: The Roof of the World being the Narrative of a Journey over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1876. 4to. Pp. xiv, 172. With one folding map, 24 tinted lithographs, of which one panorama (with a few tears) and 4 coloured, and 42 illustrations in the text. Two plates loose. The map is "Part of the preliminary map of East Turkistan. To illustrate the Reports on Sir Douglas Forsyth's Mission to Kashgar, 1873-74". Publisher's green cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, and small repair to very lower part of spine and covers. A crisp copy of this charming and classic work. First edition. Gordon travelled together with Captain Trotter and Biddulph, starting out from Leh to Kashgar reaching the Pamirs over the Karakorum Pass. The lovely illustrations (except the four coloured) are facsimile copies of Gordon's sketches made on the spot. The four coloured plates are faithful copies of his original water-colour drawings. Cordier BS 2820. Yakushi G88. € (euro) 3600.00 [Appr.: US$ 5392.8 \| £UK 3243.75 \| JP¥ 476352] Book number: 99328 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HANNAH, HERBERT BRUCE, ESQ.: A grammar of the Tibetan language litery and colloquial. With copious illustrations and treating fully of spelling, pronounciation, and the construction of the verb, and including appendices of the various forms of the verb. Calcutta, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1912. Pp. xxii, 396. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, faded. Stamp on title page (University of Calcutta). Cordier BS 4405. Yakushi H39. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 749 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 35058 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN: Mount Everest och andra asiatiska problem. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1922. Small 8vo. Pp. 246, (1). With 3 plates and 9 maps or plans in the text. As issued, unopened. Original printed wrappers. First edition. An account about different expeditions to Mount Everest followed by descriptions of Tibet, Persia and Mesopotamia. In the preface Hedin claims that it was the French and not the British who first discovered Mount Everest. The mountain was already in 1733 included in d'Anville's map. This work has been translated into German (Lpz 1923) but without the chapters on Persia and Mesopotamia. Hess p. 42. Yakushi (1984) H 111. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99337 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN: Mount Everest. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1926. Pp. 205. With 8 full page illustrations by G. Baus and 12 illustrations (including 9 maps) in the text. Original green cloth. Partly with some minor staining. Work describing the early attempts on Mount Everest. Second German edition (first 1923) enlarged with important material on Tibet. Yakushi (1984) H 111b. € (euro) 150.00 [Appr.: US$ 224.7 \| £UK 135.25 \| JP¥ 19848] Book number: 43011 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN, AND OTHERS: Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902. 7 volumes of text [Parts 1-4, 5:i-ii, 6:i-iv] + Two volumes of maps (as issued in parts i-iii). Stockholm, Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1904-07 and 1920 (6:iv). Text volumes in 4to. Map volumes in folio. Comprises: 1.The Tarim River pp. (vi), 523 + 56 plates and maps; 2. Lop-Nor pp. vi, 716, (1) + 76 plates and maps; 3. North and East Tibet pp. vi, 593 + 87 plates and maps; 4. Central and West Tibet pp. (iv), 654 + 73 plates and maps; 5:1. Meteorologie by Nils Ekholm pp. xii, (ii), 401 + (ii), 47 + 13 plates with 52 meteorological maps.; 5:2. Les observations astronomiques by K.G. Olsson pp. (iv), 472; 6:1. Zoologie by Wilhelm Leche pp. (iv), 69 + 5 plates; 6.2. Geology by Helge Bäckström & Harald Johansson pp. (ii), 18 + 2 geological maps; 6:3. Racial types from Western and Central Asia by Hedin pp. (iv), 4 + 86 leaves with Hedin's drawings. 6:iv. Archäologie. 'Die chinesischen Handschriften und sonstigen Kleinfunde Sven Hedins in Lou-lan by Karl Hilmy and August Conrady', pp. xv, 191, (2) and 53 illustrations on 52 plates. Above we have listed the number of plates as they are given in the work but actually several plates have the same number (a, b, and c) which means there are more plates than given numbers. Many of the plates are double page or folding and / or several are in colours. Contemporary half calf, spines with five raised bands, title labels (by Gustaf Hedberg). The map volumes contain pp. (x) and 84 double page maps, 27 facsimile after Hedin's original drawings and one index map. Maps are loose as issued in original printed wrappers with ties. A handsome copy from Ericsberg castle. The last volume (6:iv) in original wrappers, was first published in 1920 and has been added to this set.First edition, limited to 300 copies. This was Sven Hedin's second expedition. It started in Russian Turkestan and went via Kashgar along the Tarim River into the Lop Desert and Eastern Tibet. In 1901 the expedition left Charkhlik, on the edge of the Taklawaka Desert, intending to cross Tibet in a diagonal direction to the sources of the Indus. Only five days journey from Lhasa they were stopped by officials and redirected to continue west ward towards Leh and India. Hess p. 49. Yakushi (1984) H 102. € (euro) 16000.00 [Appr.: US$ 23968 \| £UK 14416.25 \| JP¥ 2117120] Book number: 99727 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN, AND OTHERS: Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902. Eight volumes of text [Parts 1-4, 5:i-ii, 6:i-iii] + Two volumes of maps. Stockholm, Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1904-07. Text volumes in large 4to. Map volumes in folio.1.The Tarim River pp. (vi), 523 + 56 plates and maps; 2. Lop-Nor pp. vi, 716, (1) + 76 plates and maps; 3. North and East Tibet pp. vi, 593 + 87 plates and maps; 4. Central and West Tibet pp. (iv), 654 + 73 plates and maps; 5:1. Meteorologie by Nils Ekholm pp. xii, (ii), 401 + (ii), 47 + 13 plates with 52 meteorological maps.; 5:2. Les observations astronomiques by K.G. Olsson pp. (iv), 472; 6:1. Zoologie by Wilhelm Leche pp. (iv), 69 + 5 plates; 6.2. Geology by Helge Bäckström & Harald Johansson pp. (ii), 18 + 2 geological maps; 6:3. Racial types from Western and Central Asia by Hedin pp. (iv), 4 + 86 leaves with Hedin's drawings. Above we have listed the number of plates as they are given in the work but actually several plates have the same number (a, b, and c) which means there are more plates than given numbers. Many of the plates are double page or folding and / or several are in colours. The map volumes contain pp. (x) and 84 double page maps, 27 facsimile after Hedin's original drawings and one index map. One more part 6:iv "Archäologie. Die chinesischen Handschriften und sonstigen Kelinfunde Sven Hedins in Lou-lan by Karl Himly and August Conrady", was published in 1920 , see item .....Uniformly bound in contemporary half red calf, rubbed at extremities, gilt upper edges. (Gustaf Hedberg). Spines to map volumes partly restored. First edition, limited to 300 copies, of Hedin's monumental work on Central Asia. This was Sven Hedin's second expedition. It started in Russian Turkestan and went via Kashgar along the Tarim River into the Lop Desert and Eastern Tibet. In 1901 the expedition left Charkhlik, on the edge of the Taklawaka Desert, intending to cross Tibet in a diagonal direction to the sources of the Indus. Only five days journey from Lhasa they were stopped by officials and redirected to continue west ward towards Leh and India. Hess p. 49. Yakushi (1984) H 102.Provenance: Copy of Erik Trolle, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1905-9. With dedication by the author. € (euro) 12000.00 [Appr.: US$ 17976 \| £UK 10812.25 \| JP¥ 1587840] Book number: 99962 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	JACKSON, MONICA & STARK, ELIZABETH: Tents in the clouds. London, Collins, 1956. Pp. 255. With 36 photographical illustrations and 5 maps. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dustwrapper (slightly chipped at foot of spine). First edition of the first women's Himalayan expedition. In 1955 three female mountaineers, two of them wrote this book, set out to find a way through the lower gorges to the glacier valleys of the Jugal Himal on the Nepali-Tibetan border. Another aim was to check and correct the only existing map of the area. They made the ascent of an unknown peak of over 22000 feet and named it Gyalgen Peak after their chief Sherpa. Neate J04. Robinson p.17. Yakushi (1984) J06a. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99189 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	KAWAGUCHI, EKAI: Three Years in Tibet with the Original Japanese Illustrations. Madras, Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909. Tall 8vo. Pp. xvi, 719. With 11 plates from photographs (including one folding of Mount Gaurishankara) and one folding sketch-map of the author's route. Further more textual illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers, lightly stained, a little chipped on back cover, extremites worn. Small library stamp on outer edges. First edition of a narrative of travels in Tibet between 1897 and 1903 by a Japanese monk. It was originally published in a Japanese newspaper. This was the first visit to Lhasa by an outsider since the time of Huc and Gabet, more than 50 years earlier. The Shramana Ekai Kamaguchi travelled indisquise and mainly by foot through large parts of Tibet. His account contains accurate observations of the country and its inhabitants. He spent one year in Lhasa studying original Tibetan translations of sacred Buddhist texts. Scarce, especially in original printed wrappers. Cordier BS 4382. Yakushi (1984) K 35. € (euro) 900.00 [Appr.: US$ 1348.2 \| £UK 811 \| JP¥ 119088] Book number: 20094 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.

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	[TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: [TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: "DBYANGS-GSAL-BZ'UG". A Calligrapher's Manual for Writing the 'Lan ca' Script. A Manuscript Giving the Alphabet and Ligatures of the Religious 'Lan ca' Script Used for Special Buddhist Texts in India, Mongolia and Tibet. Mongolia, 19th century. Format: 10 x 31 cm. Lvs 9, numbered 1-9 in Tibetan. Containing one "title page", 16 pages of text and one page with closing text. Loose within later Oriental silk cloth covered boards. The text is written in rows comprising the alphabet and ligatures of 'Lan ca' in black ink; followed by regular Tibetan script in red ink and the transcription in Mongolian characters in black ink. First and last leaves mounted on old paper with some wear and marginal holes. Frayed at margins and a few leaves with marginal repairs. A charming specimen. € (euro) 2200.00 [Appr.: US$ 3295.6 \| £UK 1982.25 \| JP¥ 291104] Book number: 37040 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BELL, SIR CHARLES ALFRED: Grammar of colloquial Tibetan. Second edition. Calcutta, The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1919. Small 8vo. Pp. xiv, 224. With 3 folding tables. One large folding map in pocket at rear, repaired in outer margin, without any loss. Publisher's cloth. Bell (1870-1945) served the Indian Civil Service from 1891 and lived in Bhutan and Sikkim for several years. He was in charge of the diplomatic relations of the British Government with Tibet and Bhutan. This grammar was first published in 1905 as part of a "Manual of Colloquial Tibean". This edition is enlarged and revised. Cf Cordier BS 2940. Cf Yakushi (1984) B108. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 449.4 \| £UK 270.5 \| JP¥ 39696] Book number: 99255 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BONVALOT, GABRIEL: De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1892. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), 507. Three pages at end with contents missing. With one large folding map and 108 illustrations (of which some full page) after photographs taken by Prince Henri d'Orleans. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, e.g. Bookplate. A narrative of a journey taken from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 1889-90. Bonvalot travelled together with Prince d'Orleans. Cordier BI 2436. Yakushi (1984) B220. € (euro) 480.00 [Appr.: US$ 719.04 \| £UK 432.5 \| JP¥ 63514] Book number: 777045 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAS, SARAT CHANDRA: An Introduction to the Grammar of the Tibetan Language with the Texts of SITUhI SUM=rTAGs, Dag-je Sal-Wai Mé-Long and SITUhI SHAL-LÜN. Two volumes in one. Darjeeling 1915. 4to. Pp. (x), 2, (2), xxvii, (1), 62; (2), 55, vi; 2, 88, 5, (1); 2, 28; 36. With 7 plates. Original cloth. With the ownership stamp of A. Foucher, noted Buddhist scholar. Some light spotting to a few pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Das based this work on Csoma de Köros' grammar first published in 1834. He has supplemented it with materials drawn from Situ Sum-Tag, the exhaustive commentary on Thon-mi Sam Bhota's Sum-chu-pa and Tag-jug-pa. On Das' second visit to Tibet in 1881-82 he found a manuscript copy of Situ-Sum-Tag at Tashi-Lhunpo, in the library of Sengchen Lama, Prime Minister of the Tashi Lama. In 1894 permission was obtained to publish the work at state expense because of it's importance to students of Tibetan literature. However, not until 1911 he secured a block-print copy of Situ-Sum-tag from Ekai Kawaguchi, the well-known Japanese Tibetan scholar and traveller. Kawaguchi revised the book in proof because Das was unabled to do that due to weak eyesight. Yakushi (1984) D38. € (euro) 1400.00 [Appr.: US$ 2097.2 \| £UK 1261.5 \| JP¥ 185248] Book number: 22042 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Arjopa. Die erste Pilgerfahrt einer weissen Frau nach der verbotenen Stadt des Dalai Lama. Leipzig, Brackhaus, 1928. Pp. 322. With one map and 45 illustrations. Original cloth with colourful pictorial dustjacket (pasted on to the cover). The back cover of the jacket slightly stained. First German edition, translated from "My journey to Lhasa" (see next item). The author was a French woman who travelled for many years in Asia and became a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1923 after years of preparation Alexandra David-Neel and her young companion Yongden crossed the mountains into Tibet, disguised as beggers and after four months' adventurous and dangerous walking they finally reached Lhasa, which at the time was closed to women. Aschoff 364. Robinson p. 9 Yakushi D 86e. € (euro) 200.00 [Appr.: US$ 299.6 \| £UK 180.25 \| JP¥ 26464] Book number: 99133 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Heilige und Hexer. Glaube und Aberglaube im Lande des Lamaismus. Nach eigenen Erlebnissen in Tibet dargestellt. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1936. Large 8vo. Pp. 296. With one map and 22 illustrations. Some light staining at beginning and end. Original cloth, printed in green. With pictorial dust jacket. Third German edition (first 1931). Yakushi (1984) D 46: "The author describes her impressions of monasteries visited in Gangtol, Lachen, and Chorten-Nyima as well as those which she saw in Tibet". Aschoff 365. € (euro) 180.00 [Appr.: US$ 269.64 \| £UK 162.25 \| JP¥ 23818] Book number: 99146 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Magic and Mystery in Tibet. New York 1932. Pp. xvi, 320. With many illustrations. Preface by Dr. A. D'Arsonval. Publisher's black cloth. First American edition. Originally published as "Mystique and Magiciens du Thibet" in Paris 1929. Alexandra David-Neel was speaking and writing all of the Tibetan dialects and was a practising Buddhist. In this work she describes the Lamas and their religion, magic and mystic theories, spiritual training, rites, etc. Yakushi (1984) D 46. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99622 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Magic and mystery in Tibet. New York 1933. Pp. xvi, 320. With many illustrations. Preface by Dr. A. D'Arsonval. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt. With colourful dustjacket. Fourth printing of the American edition (first 1932). Originally published as "Mystique and Magiciens du Thibet" in Paris 1929. Alexandra David-N. was speaking and writing all of the Tibetan dialects and was a practising Buddhist. In this work she describes the Lamas in Tibet and their religion, magic, rites, etc. Yakushi (1984) D 46. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99164 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Meister und Schüler. Die Geheimnisse der lamaistischen Weihen. Auf Grund eigener Erfahrungen dargestellt. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1934. Pp. 191. With one frontispiece and 35 illustrations. Original cloth. A German edition translated from the French by A. Ditzen. A continuation of the "Heilige und Hexer" (Lpz 1931). Alexandra David-Neel was a French woman who travelled for many years in Asia and became a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1923 she became the first Western woman to enter Lhasa. Aschoff 367. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99147 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA & LAMA YONGDEN: Mipam. Der Lama mit den fünf Weisheiten. Ein tibetischer Roman. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1935. Pp. 336. Original yellow cloth, printed in gilt. Translated from the French by Dr. Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski. A novel about the life of the reincarnated Lama Mipam. It is the first novel written by a Tibetan lama mainly for Western readers. Lama Yongden was the adopted son of Alexandra David-Neel, with whom she shared all her travels. Aschoff 2105. € (euro) 80.00 [Appr.: US$ 119.84 \| £UK 72.25 \| JP¥ 10586] Book number: 99145 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA: Mönche und Strauchritter. Eine Tibetfahrt auf Schleichwegen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1933. Large 8vo. Pp. 290. With 29 illustrations and one map. Original cloth, spine faded and worn. Translated from the French ("Grand Tibet", Paris 1933) by Dr. Karl Pfannkuch. Yakushi (1984) D 49. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99148 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DUBEUX, LOUIS & VALMONT, V.& RAYMOND, XAVIER: Tartarie, Béloutchistan, Boutan et Népal. AND: RAYMOND, XAVIER: Afghanistan. Paris, Frères, 1848. Pp. (iv), 388 + pp. 79. With 24 engraved plates and one folding map of Turkestan. Uncut and unopened copy in original printed wrappers, spine slightly chipped. First edition. A beautiful copy. A description of the countries devoted to the history, language, religion, customs, literature, climate, topography, minerals, etc. based on Hamilton, Kirkpatrick and others. Ten of the plates belong to the part about Afghanistan. Our copy has all the plates according to the list of plates. However another issue with one more map and / or another plate might exist (?). Included in "L'Univers. Historie et description de tous les peuples". Yakushi D166. € (euro) 280.00 [Appr.: US$ 419.44 \| £UK 252.5 \| JP¥ 37050] Book number: 35147 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	EVANS-WENTZ, WALTER YEELING (EDITOR): The Tibetan Book of the Dead or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. London, Oxford University Press, 1960. Pp. lxxxiv, 249. With 6 plates and 5 illustrations. Publisher's cloth, printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed. With annotations in the text. Third improved edition (first 1927). The translation of the various texts was performed by Tibetan Buddhists, primarily by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (1868-1922). See Aschoff, "Tibet, Nepal ..." 1992, nr. 466. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99843 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FERGUSSON, W.N. & [BROOKE, JOHN WESTON]: Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. London, Constable and Company Limited, 1911. Pp. xvi, 344. With one front portrait, two folding maps and many illustrations in the text made from photographs by the author and John W. Brooke. Publisher's pictorial cloth, upper edges gilt. Bookplate (Stig Wilton). A nice copy. This work is mainly based on diaries kept by John W. Brooke during his two journeys through China and Tibet in the years 1906 - 08. He wanted to organize an expedition into Tibet to investigate the much debated question of the relation of the Sampo and Brahmaputra Rivers. At this time it was not possible to enter Tibet from India (due to a newly signed treaty between India and Russia) and he therefor decided to enter Tibet from the north (from China). He was ruthless murdered in the Independant Lolo Land in December 1908. Cordier BS 4396. Yakushi F29. € (euro) 760.00 [Appr.: US$ 1138.48 \| £UK 685 \| JP¥ 100563] Book number: 29121 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FOUCAUX, PHILPPE ÉDOUARD: Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. Pp. xxxii, 231, (1). This grammar is the first published French work treating the Tibetan grammar. Foucaux (1811-1894) was a leading authority on Tibetan language and culture. Cordier BS 2933. Not in Vater or Zaunmüller. BOUND WITH: BURNOUF, ÉMILE & LEUPOL, L.: Méthode pour étudier la langue sanscrite. Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1841. Pp. (iv), xv, (1), 239. Contemporary boards, calf spine, worn and spine restored. Occasionally some light staining. € (euro) 1000.00 [Appr.: US$ 1498 \| £UK 901.25 \| JP¥ 132320] Book number: 29040 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FRANCKE, AUGUST HERMANN: Sketch of Ladakhi grammar. In cooperation with other Moravian missionaries. [Published as Extra No. 2 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. LXX, part I, 1901]. Calcutta 1901. Pp. (vi), 63. Interleaved copy. Modern marbled boards, calf spine with red title label. Includes an Appendix containing idioms and useful sentences with literal translation. Francke was a Moravian missionary-scholar stationed in Ladakhi. Sir Grierson revised this grammar and corrected its terminology. Cordier BS 2938. Not in Yakushi. € (euro) 600.00 [Appr.: US$ 898.8 \| £UK 540.75 \| JP¥ 79392] Book number: 34004 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	FREUDBERG, H.M.: Ueber die Ziege von Thibet aus deren Wolle die kostbaren, orientalischen Shawls verfertiget werden, dann über die Versuche, Möglichkeit und Art, diese Thiere in Europe, und vorzüglich in Oesterreich einheimisch zu machen. Nach öffentlichen und Privat-Notizen bearbeitet.Brünn, I.G. Trassler, 1824. Pp. 44. With one folding plate. Original printed wrappers. Some light staining throughout. Interesting account about Tibetan goats (Capra hircus) and their valuable wool which is used for making precious shawls. Already in the 18th century the cashmere shawl became high fashion in Europe and it became an important trade commodity from the East. This account discusses the possibilities of breeding the Tibetan goats in mountainous areas of Europe where the climate and vegetation is similiar to the conditions of Tibet. The process of dying, spinning and weaving the wool would be economically possible through modern machines and methods. One chapter contains observations made of Tibetan goats raised in France and at end some comments about breeding goats in Austria. An uncommon work printed at Brünn, the former capital of Moravia (Austria). Not in Yakushi or Aschoff. € (euro) 1000.00 [Appr.: US$ 1498 \| £UK 901.25 \| JP¥ 132320] Book number: 99941 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GORDON, THOMAS EDWARD: The Roof of the World being the Narrative of a Journey over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1876. 4to. Pp. xiv, 172. With one folding map, 24 tinted lithographs, of which one panorama (with a few tears) and 4 coloured, and 42 illustrations in the text. Two plates loose. The map is "Part of the preliminary map of East Turkistan. To illustrate the Reports on Sir Douglas Forsyth's Mission to Kashgar, 1873-74". Publisher's green cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, and small repair to very lower part of spine and covers. A crisp copy of this charming and classic work. First edition. Gordon travelled together with Captain Trotter and Biddulph, starting out from Leh to Kashgar reaching the Pamirs over the Karakorum Pass. The lovely illustrations (except the four coloured) are facsimile copies of Gordon's sketches made on the spot. The four coloured plates are faithful copies of his original water-colour drawings. Cordier BS 2820. Yakushi G88. € (euro) 3600.00 [Appr.: US$ 5392.8 \| £UK 3243.75 \| JP¥ 476352] Book number: 99328 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HANNAH, HERBERT BRUCE, ESQ.: A grammar of the Tibetan language litery and colloquial. With copious illustrations and treating fully of spelling, pronounciation, and the construction of the verb, and including appendices of the various forms of the verb. Calcutta, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1912. Pp. xxii, 396. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, faded. Stamp on title page (University of Calcutta). Cordier BS 4405. Yakushi H39. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 749 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 35058 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN: Mount Everest och andra asiatiska problem. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1922. Small 8vo. Pp. 246, (1). With 3 plates and 9 maps or plans in the text. As issued, unopened. Original printed wrappers. First edition. An account about different expeditions to Mount Everest followed by descriptions of Tibet, Persia and Mesopotamia. In the preface Hedin claims that it was the French and not the British who first discovered Mount Everest. The mountain was already in 1733 included in d'Anville's map. This work has been translated into German (Lpz 1923) but without the chapters on Persia and Mesopotamia. Hess p. 42. Yakushi (1984) H 111. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99337 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN: Mount Everest. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1926. Pp. 205. With 8 full page illustrations by G. Baus and 12 illustrations (including 9 maps) in the text. Original green cloth. Partly with some minor staining. Work describing the early attempts on Mount Everest. Second German edition (first 1923) enlarged with important material on Tibet. Yakushi (1984) H 111b. € (euro) 150.00 [Appr.: US$ 224.7 \| £UK 135.25 \| JP¥ 19848] Book number: 43011 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN, AND OTHERS: Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902. 7 volumes of text [Parts 1-4, 5:i-ii, 6:i-iv] + Two volumes of maps (as issued in parts i-iii). Stockholm, Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1904-07 and 1920 (6:iv). Text volumes in 4to. Map volumes in folio. Comprises: 1.The Tarim River pp. (vi), 523 + 56 plates and maps; 2. Lop-Nor pp. vi, 716, (1) + 76 plates and maps; 3. North and East Tibet pp. vi, 593 + 87 plates and maps; 4. Central and West Tibet pp. (iv), 654 + 73 plates and maps; 5:1. Meteorologie by Nils Ekholm pp. xii, (ii), 401 + (ii), 47 + 13 plates with 52 meteorological maps.; 5:2. Les observations astronomiques by K.G. Olsson pp. (iv), 472; 6:1. Zoologie by Wilhelm Leche pp. (iv), 69 + 5 plates; 6.2. Geology by Helge Bäckström & Harald Johansson pp. (ii), 18 + 2 geological maps; 6:3. Racial types from Western and Central Asia by Hedin pp. (iv), 4 + 86 leaves with Hedin's drawings. 6:iv. Archäologie. 'Die chinesischen Handschriften und sonstigen Kleinfunde Sven Hedins in Lou-lan by Karl Hilmy and August Conrady', pp. xv, 191, (2) and 53 illustrations on 52 plates. Above we have listed the number of plates as they are given in the work but actually several plates have the same number (a, b, and c) which means there are more plates than given numbers. Many of the plates are double page or folding and / or several are in colours. Contemporary half calf, spines with five raised bands, title labels (by Gustaf Hedberg). The map volumes contain pp. (x) and 84 double page maps, 27 facsimile after Hedin's original drawings and one index map. Maps are loose as issued in original printed wrappers with ties. A handsome copy from Ericsberg castle. The last volume (6:iv) in original wrappers, was first published in 1920 and has been added to this set.First edition, limited to 300 copies. This was Sven Hedin's second expedition. It started in Russian Turkestan and went via Kashgar along the Tarim River into the Lop Desert and Eastern Tibet. In 1901 the expedition left Charkhlik, on the edge of the Taklawaka Desert, intending to cross Tibet in a diagonal direction to the sources of the Indus. Only five days journey from Lhasa they were stopped by officials and redirected to continue west ward towards Leh and India. Hess p. 49. Yakushi (1984) H 102. € (euro) 16000.00 [Appr.: US$ 23968 \| £UK 14416.25 \| JP¥ 2117120] Book number: 99727 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN, AND OTHERS: Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899-1902. Eight volumes of text [Parts 1-4, 5:i-ii, 6:i-iii] + Two volumes of maps. Stockholm, Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1904-07. Text volumes in large 4to. Map volumes in folio.1.The Tarim River pp. (vi), 523 + 56 plates and maps; 2. Lop-Nor pp. vi, 716, (1) + 76 plates and maps; 3. North and East Tibet pp. vi, 593 + 87 plates and maps; 4. Central and West Tibet pp. (iv), 654 + 73 plates and maps; 5:1. Meteorologie by Nils Ekholm pp. xii, (ii), 401 + (ii), 47 + 13 plates with 52 meteorological maps.; 5:2. Les observations astronomiques by K.G. Olsson pp. (iv), 472; 6:1. Zoologie by Wilhelm Leche pp. (iv), 69 + 5 plates; 6.2. Geology by Helge Bäckström & Harald Johansson pp. (ii), 18 + 2 geological maps; 6:3. Racial types from Western and Central Asia by Hedin pp. (iv), 4 + 86 leaves with Hedin's drawings. Above we have listed the number of plates as they are given in the work but actually several plates have the same number (a, b, and c) which means there are more plates than given numbers. Many of the plates are double page or folding and / or several are in colours. The map volumes contain pp. (x) and 84 double page maps, 27 facsimile after Hedin's original drawings and one index map. One more part 6:iv "Archäologie. Die chinesischen Handschriften und sonstigen Kelinfunde Sven Hedins in Lou-lan by Karl Himly and August Conrady", was published in 1920 , see item .....Uniformly bound in contemporary half red calf, rubbed at extremities, gilt upper edges. (Gustaf Hedberg). Spines to map volumes partly restored. First edition, limited to 300 copies, of Hedin's monumental work on Central Asia. This was Sven Hedin's second expedition. It started in Russian Turkestan and went via Kashgar along the Tarim River into the Lop Desert and Eastern Tibet. In 1901 the expedition left Charkhlik, on the edge of the Taklawaka Desert, intending to cross Tibet in a diagonal direction to the sources of the Indus. Only five days journey from Lhasa they were stopped by officials and redirected to continue west ward towards Leh and India. Hess p. 49. Yakushi (1984) H 102.Provenance: Copy of Erik Trolle, Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1905-9. With dedication by the author. € (euro) 12000.00 [Appr.: US$ 17976 \| £UK 10812.25 \| JP¥ 1587840] Book number: 99962 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	JACKSON, MONICA & STARK, ELIZABETH: Tents in the clouds. London, Collins, 1956. Pp. 255. With 36 photographical illustrations and 5 maps. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dustwrapper (slightly chipped at foot of spine). First edition of the first women's Himalayan expedition. In 1955 three female mountaineers, two of them wrote this book, set out to find a way through the lower gorges to the glacier valleys of the Jugal Himal on the Nepali-Tibetan border. Another aim was to check and correct the only existing map of the area. They made the ascent of an unknown peak of over 22000 feet and named it Gyalgen Peak after their chief Sherpa. Neate J04. Robinson p.17. Yakushi (1984) J06a. € (euro) 100.00 [Appr.: US$ 149.8 \| £UK 90.25 \| JP¥ 13232] Book number: 99189 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	KAWAGUCHI, EKAI: Three Years in Tibet with the Original Japanese Illustrations. Madras, Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909. Tall 8vo. Pp. xvi, 719. With 11 plates from photographs (including one folding of Mount Gaurishankara) and one folding sketch-map of the author's route. Further more textual illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers, lightly stained, a little chipped on back cover, extremites worn. Small library stamp on outer edges. First edition of a narrative of travels in Tibet between 1897 and 1903 by a Japanese monk. It was originally published in a Japanese newspaper. This was the first visit to Lhasa by an outsider since the time of Huc and Gabet, more than 50 years earlier. The Shramana Ekai Kamaguchi travelled indisquise and mainly by foot through large parts of Tibet. His account contains accurate observations of the country and its inhabitants. He spent one year in Lhasa studying original Tibetan translations of sacred Buddhist texts. Scarce, especially in original printed wrappers. Cordier BS 4382. Yakushi (1984) K 35. € (euro) 900.00 [Appr.: US$ 1348.2 \| £UK 811 \| JP¥ 119088] Book number: 20094 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.