Author: HEDIN, SVEN: Title: Transhimalaya. Upptäckter och äfventyr i Tibet. Original parts in three volumes. Stockholm 1909-12.
Description: . As issued in parts in 19 original wrappers. Spine to one wrapper torn and one wrapper chipped. As issued loose in publisher's pictorial red cloth (three volumes), spines faded. Pp. (xx), 665, (3); 593, (3); 591, (8). With ten maps, mostly folding and coloured, and more than 100 full page or double page plates, of which several in colour. Numerous illustrations throughout the text. First edition of Hedin's narrative of his expedition to Tibet in 1906-1908. He surveyed the mountains north of the upper Brahmaputra which he called the Transhimalaya. Hess p. 23.
Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, orient, asiatica, central asia, himalaya, south asia, tibet, tibetan, hedin, travel, exploration,
Price: EUR 480.00 = appr. US$ 521.69 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 100252
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