Description:
Oxford: Privately printed., 1914. First edition, pp.35, frontis portrait. A very good copy in original boards. Paper spine professionally repaired. Theodore Duka (1825-1908), a Hungarian army officer, studied medicine in Britain, worked as a doctor in India and became fluent in several Indian languages. Erdelyi 1.079.
Search Results: Tibet from John Randall (Books of Asia)
You searched for:
- Subject: Tibet from John Randall (Books of Asia)
Results 1 - 3 of 3
In Memoriam Theodore Duka (1825-1908). (A Lecture read before the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, October 27, 1913)
by Stein, Marc Aurel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$820.13NZ$63.91 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
NZ$820.13
NZ$63.91
shipping to USA
More Photos
Puteshestvie cherez Mongoliiu v Tibet, k stolitse Tale-lamy [A Journey across Mongolia to Tibet, and the Capital of the Dalai-Lama. Translated from the French]
by Huc, R.E., and Gabet, J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,991.74NZ$63.91 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Moscow: K.S. Henry, 1866. First edition in Russian, 8vo, pp.[ii], vi, 322, [ii]. A very good copy in later half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt. Slightly foxed throughout, a few ink stains. Red Chinese chop on title. Russian newspaper clipping (1880's) about Mongolia and Baikal bound in at end. The Russian translation of Huc and Gabet's account of their travels undertaken in 1844-46, first published in Paris in 1850 as Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine, which proved so popular that it was rapidly reprinted and translated into several European languages. Évariste Régis Huc (1813-1868), a French Lazarist missionary, was first sent to China in 1839, and went on to travel extensively in China, Tartary and Tibet. In 1844, with his fellow missionary Joseph Gabet (1808-c.1850), he was ordered to approach and study nomadic Mongol tribes. Assuming the dress of lamas they embarked on an 18-month voyage to Lhasa, and were the first Europeans to enter the…
Read More Item Price
NZ$1,991.74
NZ$63.91
shipping to USA
Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet. With Forewords by Lord Rawlinson & Sir John Maffey. Edited, with an Appreciation, by Basil Mathews.
by Starr, Lilian A.
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$585.80NZ$63.91 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Fourth impression, pp.253, portrait, 6 illustrations, 2 maps. A very good copy in original cloth. Spine and corners lightly bumped. A fascinating account of the two expeditions made by Lilian Agnes Starr (1885-1977), a nurse of the Peshawar Mission Hospital, into Tibet and Afghanistan. The first, in 1922, was a vacation with her single servant to Leh, capital of Ladakh, reveals an immensely rich culture brought to life by Starr's frank and vivid descriptions. The second expedition, in 1923, was a far more dramatic affair which earned Starr no small amount of fame in England and elsewhere. In 1923 the British cantonment Kohat, near the Afghanistan border, was raided by Afridi tribesmen and British citizen Mollie Ellis was captured. It was Lilian Starr who was chosen to find Mollie Ellis and negotiate her return, and upon her successful return was lauded world-wide. The writing, directly from Starr's personal journal and diaries, is frank and lends a…
Read More Item Price
NZ$585.80
NZ$63.91
shipping to USA