BELL, Sir Charles.

Tibet Past & Present.

Stock Code 113301

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924

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Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peoples, with particular emphasis on the period 1908-1924, when Bell was Political Officer for Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibet.

First edition. 8vo, xiv, 326, pp., 2 folding maps, coloured frontispiece, 92 photographic illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, a very good copy.

Marshall, 1234; Yakushi B110a.

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