BELL, Sir Charles.

Tibet Past & Present.

Name: Tibet Past & Present.
Brand: BELL, Sir Charles.
SKU: 122924
Price: 472.00 USD
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Stock Code 122924

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 (23 x 15.5 cm); 2 folding maps, coloured frontispiece, 92 photographic illustrations; publisher's original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motifs to boards, illustrated bookplate to front pastedown, crease to upper board, touch of rubbing, a near fine copy; [xiv], 326 pp.

Marshall, 1234; Yakushi B110a.

Provenance

Provenance: Dr George Mahn (bookplate).

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