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| ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (As Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist). London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd. 1914. Later edition (1879). 240pp, frontis portrait of author, 15 illustrations. 16mo/16.5cm. Decorated cloth gilt, rubbed at extremities, light soil, rear hinge paper cracked, 3 word notation and stamp of Lahore book dealer on ffep, signature of previous owner ("Abdul Aziz Faruki/B.A. (Alig.)/Bombay 1919") on 2 front blanks, title page slightly browned from protective tissue of frontis portrait, notations in English and Arabic script (Urdu ?) on rear free end paper, otherwise clean and good. A copy of the famous and much reprinted imaginative work which helped to introduce Buddhism to the West. Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) was an English poet, educator and journalist who had spent time in India in the 1850s as the principal of a small college in Poona. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 003264 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| PALLIS, MARCO Peaks and Lamas New York, Alfred A. Knopf Inc/Borzoi Books. 1949. In effect the third edition though the author chooses to describe it as, "Revised and completely reset." after the original edition of 1939 and a revised edition of 1942. xvii, 397, xiii pp, 3 maps, 75 monochrome illustrations from photographs by the author and friends, epilogue, index. Illustrated red cloth gilt, light wear, in edgeworn and slightly chipped dj, internally fine. An account of two trips to the Himalayan-Tibetan borderlands of Sikkim and Ladakh where he began his study of Buddhism and Buddhist art. Marco Pallis (1895-1989), mountaineer, musician, art historian and Buddhist, was initiated into a traditional Buddhist lineage as Thubden Tendzin. He makes a strongly worded statement in an "Additional note" to his Introduction that in view of the substantial changes he had made to the text, "the present version of the book is the only one to be regarded as fully authoritative and any prospective translators into foreign tongues must be sure and base themselves on the American text, no other." Dogra p 205; Warikoo 381; Yakushi P12a. USD 42.00 [Appr.: EURO 28 | £UK 25.5 | JP¥ 3612] Book number: 003929 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| POTT, P.H. Een,,Duivels-dans" in Tibet's Grensgebied (Devil Dancing in Tibetan Border Areas) from, Bijdragen:Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde.Deel 114 s'Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff. Undated offprint (ca. 1959?). pp 197-209, 2 figures, 4 photo illustrations. Text in Dutch. Semi-stiff printed wrappers, light wear, internally fine. VG+. An account of devil dancing at the Gye-mur monastery in Lahul in 1952. Peter Hendrik Pott (1918-1989) was Director of the National Museum of Ethnology (Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde) in Leiden, from 1955 to ?. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1720] Book number: 002566 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, RENE VON. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY MICHAEL BULLOCK Where the Gods are Mountains: Three Years Among the People of the Himalayas London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1956. First English Edition. From the German, Wo Berge Goetter Sind. 256pp, 2 maps, 24 photo illustrations. 8vo/22cm. Red cloth gilt, light wear in slightly soiled dj with several closed edge tears (no loss), internally fine. VG+/Fair. The popular version of the Austrian anthropologist author's classic, Oracles and Demons of Tibet.. (s'Gravenhage, 1956). Yakushi N19. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1376] Book number: 001987 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, RENE VON. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY MICHAEL BULLOCK Where the Gods are Mountains: Three Years Among the People of the Himalayas New York, Reynal and Company. N.d. [1956]. First American Edition. From the German, Wo Berge Goetter Sind by Michael Bullock. 256pp, 2 maps, 24 photo illustrations. 8vo/22cm. Green cloth, shelf wear only, internally fine. VG+/Fair. The popular version of the Austrian anthropologist author's classic, Oracles and Demons of Tibet.. (s'Gravenhage, 1956). Yakushi N19 (b). USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 003068 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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