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
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. (Circa 2000). 23pp, wrappers little light foxing, a good copy otherwise. When referring to this item please quote stockid 160078. More
Medicine between Science and Religion. Explorations on Tibetan Grounds.
New York. Berghahn. 2011. Black and white illustrations, 371pp, bibliography, notes, index, front endpapers a little marked, very good copy in paperback. Epistemologies of Healing. Volume 10. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176434. More
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas. An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1996. Black & white photographic illustrations, xiv + 304pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Paperback covers slightly worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174714. More
The Brown Trout. (Salmo Fario).
[New York.]: [circa 1910.]. Chromolithograph printed on thin card, 23.7 x 30.6 cm, upper margin a trifle foxed, edges a little worn with few very small tears (no loss), in very good condition. Attractive image after the wonderful illustrations prepared by Sherman Foote Denton for the "First Annual Report of..... More
The Song of King Gesar.
Edinburgh. Canongate. 2013. 392pp, slight rubbing on extremities, good paperback copy. "For thousands of years, bards had told the story on the grassland and in farming villages. Jigmed himself had heard it many times - the story of a hero, King Gesar. But they had been poor storytellers, who could..... More
Knowing Dil Das. Stories of a Himalayan Hunter.
Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. xvii + 193pp, index, notes, glossary, a very good paperback copy. "Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. It is also about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where..... 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
A Grammar of Tshangla.
Leiden. Brill. 2008. Colour photographic illustrations. Yellow illustrated boards, x + 488pp, bibliography and index, 2 pages publisher's adverts. As new - very good copy. 25 x 16cm. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 5/10. "A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description..... 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
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
The English Student. January 1924, Volume X: No. 1 to December 1924, Volume X : No. 12
Shanghai. Commercial Press Limited. 1924. 12 issues bound in one volume. Numerous black & white images throughout. Fully rebound in Japanese silk covered boards, new head and tail bands and endpapers. Leather title label lettered in gilt. iv + 1048pp. The text block pages are browned, some pages have been..... More
The Tibetan Art of Healing.
London. Thames and Hudson. 1997. Preface by Deepak Chopra, reproduced paintings by Romio Shrestha. Many colour illustrations throughout, 192pp, 31 x 23cm, bibliography. Spine faintly sunned but an excellent paperback copy. This book is a practical guide to the search for physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. The Tibetan scholar Ian..... More
The Mummies of Urumchi.
New York. Norton. (c. 1999). Maps, including colour map lower dustjacket cover, black and white illustrations, frontispiece, 16 colour photographic plates, 240pp, notes, bibliography, index, front free endpaper little marked, very good hardback copy. 24 x 18cm. "In the museums of Urumchi, the wind-swept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous..... More
From the Land of Lost Content. The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet.
London. Collins. 1969. Maps, decorative endpapers, 224pp, appendix, bibliography. Dustjacket little worn with few small chips, edges trifle foxed, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174010. 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
Inside the Treasure House. A Time in Tibet.
London. Victor Gollancz. 1990. Map, full-page, photographic colour illustrations, 221pp, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Inside the Treasure House unravels the myth of Tibet, revealing its rich heritage and its modern complexities. It is a moving portrayal of its people, their hopes, their way of life, their memories..... More
A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea.
London. John Van Voorst. 1837. Illustrated with nearly 200 black and white woodcuts, xviii + , index, 526pp, original dark green cloth covered boards, lettered in gilt, head of spine creased, joints tender, corners rubbed, original yellow endpapers with the ex-libris bookplate of C. J. Peackock and a neat handwritten..... More
A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea.
London. John Van Voorst. 1837. Illustrated with nearly 200 black and white woodcuts, xviii + , index, 526pp, original dark green cloth covered boards faintly discoloured, lettered in gilt, head of spine creased, joints tender, corners rubbed, original yellow endpapers with the ex-libris bookplate of C. J. Peackock and a...... More
A Grammar of Sunwar: Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and Glossary.
Leiden. Brill. 2008. Colour photographic illustrations. Yellow illustrated boards, xxi + 315pp, 3 pages publisher's adverts. As new - very good copy. 25 x 16cm. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 5/7. "This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is..... More
Dreamworld Tibet. Western Illusions.
Thailand. Orchid Press. 2004. First English edition. Black and white and colour illustrations, xii + 284pp, notes, lists, index, sources, a very good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175608. More
In Search of Shambhala.
London. Jonathan Cape. 1996. Reprint. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Colour photographic plates, vii + 264pp, bibliography. Ex library copy with stamps inked, upper edge trifle browned, dustjacket spine sunned, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174020. More