Meeting with the XIV Dalai Lama. Environment and Different Cultures with the same Objective of Peace.
Rome: Palazzo Giustiniani. 1993. 23pp, a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159557). More
Tibet
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[Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Suggested Site Seeing].
[Samarkand]. No details of publisher. [1980s]. Single sheet folded thrice, colour map on one side with tourist spots, other side has useful travel information, addresses, and routes, some small neat pen marks, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161869). More
A Survey of Tibet.
Lhasa. Tibet People's Publishing House. 1987. Colour illustrations, 196pp, text in Tibetan and English, bookplate tipped in paste down endpaper, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 156694). More
Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, During the Late Russian Invasion of Khiva; with Some Account of the Court of Khiva and the Kingdom of Khaurism.
London. Allen. 1884. Volume I (of 2) only. Portrait frontispiece, xxxii + 392pp + 47 page publisher's advertisments at rear, lacks errata leaf, signature of a prior owner upper margin title page and on one blank. a little light occasional browning preliminary leaves. Original cloth little worn and rubbed in... More
A situation analysis report on "girls trafficking in Sindhupalchowk" : Mahankal and Inchowk Village Development Committee.
Katmandu. Agroforestry, Basic Health and Cooperative. [2000s]. 23pp, wrappers little light foxing, a good copy otherwise. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160078). More
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薩迦寺. [Sajia si]. [Sakya Monastery].
北京. [Beijing]. 文物出版社.[Wen wu chu ban she]. 1985. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Map of the Sakya Monastery, 109 coloured plates with captions in Chinese and Tibetan, upper cover showing one of the halls in the Sakya Monastery, generally very good with light rubbings on covers, paperback. Text in Tibetan and... More
The Cult of Kumari : Virgin Worship in Nepal.
Kathmandu. Tribhuvan University Press. 1975. Black and white illustrations, 67pp, bibliography, foxed covers and endpapers, cover extremities worn, a sound paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159374). More
The Festivals of Nepal.
Calcutta. Rupa. 1988. Reprint. Colour photographic plates, 288pp, bibliography, index, a good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 148837). More
Bokhara. Architectural Monuments.
Bokhara. Aurora Art Publishers. [1971]. Complete set of 16 pictorial cards. Good copies in pictorial wrapper which is little browned at extremities. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161870). More
Maverannahr Book Painting.
Leningrad. Aurora Art Publishers. 1973. Complete set of 16 pictorial cards, information sheet loosely inserted. Good copies in pictorial wrapper which is little browned at extremities. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161872). More
Shah-i Zindah.
Uzbekistan. Aurora Art Publishers. 1972. Complete set of 16 pictorial cards. Good copies in pictorial wrapper which is little browned at extremities. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161871). More
In Exile from the Land of Shadows.
London. Joseph. 1984. Endpaper maps, 383pp, index, foxed edges and endpapers, dustjacket little worn, a good hardback copy toherwise. This book is the product of four years travelling through the Tibetan communities of India. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161252). More
Soundings in Tibetan Civilization.
New Delhi. Manohar. 1985. 1 folding map, black and white illustrations, xiix + 397pp, foxing upper and fore-edge with occasional foxing to preliminaries and endpapers, dustjacket worn, a sound hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 158865). More
Temptations of Sunshine and Wilderness.
China: Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House. 1994. Map, colour and black photographic illustrations, 219pp, appendix, a very good harback copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 148232). More
Three Tibetan Mysteries. Tchrimekundan, Nansal, Djroazanmo. As performed in the Tibetan Monasteries.
Taipei. SMC Publishing. (circa2004). [Reprint]. Translated from the French version by H. I. Woolf. Black and white line illustrations by V. Goloubew, 268pp., paperback, very good copy. Originally published in 1924, this book contains three traditional Tibetan dramas, the Tchrimekundan, Nansal and Djroazanmo, with an introduction and index for each... More
Resistance and Reform in Tibet.
United Kingdom: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 1994. 20 illustrations, maps, 314pp, appendix, index, small split head of spine, otherwise a good paperback copy. Much writing about Tibet and especially on Tibetan responses to Chinese communist rule has been sentimental and highly polemical. Also, many publications on recent development... More
The History of Central Asia. Volume I: The Age of the Steppe Warriors.
United Kingdom. I B Tauris & Co Ltd., 2012. Maps, colour photographic illustrations, 352 pages, indices, bibliography, notes, quarto, dustjacket. This is a sumptuously illustrated history of one of the most compelling and mysterious regions on earth. It is a unique travelogue and resource by a latter-day Richard Burton: required... More
Portrait of the Dalai Lama.
London. Collins. 1946. Maps, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, 414pp, index, endpapers and edges foxed, dustjacket little worn, now protected; a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160303). More
Gurdjieff. Making a New World.
London. Turnstone Books. 1973. Endpaper colour maps, 320pp, appendix, indices, dustjacket extremities worn, a good hardback copy. Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, -- 1872-1949. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160629). More
Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh.
Pakistan. Emjay Books International. 1986. Maps, xx + 164 + clxviii pp, browned endpapers, some foxing upper edge, dustjacket spine sunned and overall little worn, stamp front free endpaper, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161178). More
Studies on the History and Literature of Tibet and the Himalaya.
Nepal: Vajra Publications, 2013. Colour plate, black and white illustrations, 210pp, small bump upper right corner, paperback covers lightly discoloured in places, a good copy otherwise. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161240). More
The Golden Road to Samarkand.
New York. Viking Press. 1973. Maps, colour and black and white illustrations, 280pp, bibliography, notes, index, 4 small cellotape marks covers, a good hardback copy. Contents include: lexander the Great : an invader from the West -- Hsuan-tsang : a pilgrim from the East -- Mahomet and Kutayba, the Sword... More
Kongur. China's Elusive Summit.
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1982. Colour and black and white illustrations, 224pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket extremities worn with top edge light foxing, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 155925). More
Shambhala. The Road Less Travelled in Western Tibet.
Singapore. Marshall Cavendish. 2006. Map, colour photographic illustrations, 181pp, paperback, a very good copy. In Shambhala, Laurence travels to Lhasa, where he obtains an ancient Buddhist scripture entitled Shambhala Sutra, stolen from Tashilumbo Monastery. By following Shambhala Sutra as a road map, Laurence goes on the road to look for... More