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Travels in Cashmere and Tibet. Originally: Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet. Facsimile reprint of the original 1863 edition. Col. Frontispiz, some col. full size plates. Green cloth HC, with illustr. DJ. New. xvi, 385 S. The author, an officer in the British forces in India, travelled with a fellow officer for six months through Cashmere and Tibet. Their route took them from Srinagar, through Zoji la and Hemis to Ladakh. One of the first accounts of Ladakh by a European, lighthearted and interesting, an army officer escaping the heat of the plauins by "a tramp through the mountains." Yakushi K104.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarter red leatherbound, marbled covers have gilt at spine. Boards show some wear, scuffing, edgewear. Corners are worn, frayed, with exposed board. See photos. Spine has gilt text and is worn with softened ends. See photos. Binding is fragile, with one loose leaf; rebound at some point with some signs of discreet repairs. See photos. New pastedowns and feps have some writing in pencil. Frontispiece is present. Illustrations are bright and clear, 17 plates, 9 of which are color lithographs; 28 in-text illustrations. Some marginal toning, a little edgewear, a small chip to edge of plate facing pg. 176. See photos. Interior is gently age-toned, with some edgewear to a few sheets. See photos. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.** PS2025.1231** 385 pages. 5 1/8 x 8 inches** First Edition, complete with all plates and illustrations. Nine color plates drawn by the author, eight additional plates and 28 in-text illustrations (45 total). Rebound, or recased, in quarter leather with marble boards; binding is fragile with one plate loose. Interior is generally Very Good, with a few marginal smudges, a page turn-down at p. 347, some edgewear where gatherings are out of alignment. Overall condition is Very Good Minus on account of the binding. Copies of the First Edition with the Prayer Wheel plate facing page 200 are Very Scarce.** William Henry Knight was a Captain in England's Forty-Eighth Regiment. This is his only known work. Captain Knight journeyed through Kashmir and Tibet in 1860 in the company of another officer and a porter. Having spent a year and a half in India with his regiment, he had managed to obtain a six months' leave of absence in order to escape the hot season and journey through the cool foothills of the Himalayas. Knight's goal in this volume was to represent "a faithful picture of travels in regions where excursion trains are still unknown, and Travelers' Guides unpublished."** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010389"**.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth worn with tears at head of spine, some loss to cloth at corners of boards. Gilt on spine and front board faded. Hinges broken. Joints weak. Half-title and frontispiece lacking, facsimile copies tipped-in. Bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper "Vernon Howard - Mountaineering Books - California, USA". Some foxing.; Variant state with only 44 rather than 45 illustrations listed in the printed list of "Illustrations" on pages (xv-xvi). The omitted illustration is the portion of a Tibetan Praying Wheel, which in the other variant is illustration number 11 of 45. The present state of the "Illustrations" leaf has illustration 11 as "Seventh Bridge, Sirinugger" (this illustration is number 12 in the other state), and renumbers the remaining illustrations up to the final number 44. (iii)- xvi, 385 pages + 15 plates (7 tinted), lacking half-title and frontispiece. Title vignette + 27 in-text illustrations. Original dark purple-brown pebble grain cloth boards, with gilt stupa illustration on spine, gilt circular illustration with Tibetan letters on front board. Page dimensions: 222 x 140mm. Title page printed in red and black. Original brown coated endpapers. "With the fullest sense of the responsibility incurred by the addition of another volume to the countless numbers already existing, and daily appearing in the world, the following Diary has been committed to the press, trusting that, as it was not written with intent to publication, the unpremeditated nature of the offence may be its extenuation, and that as a faithful picture of travel in regions where excurstion trains are still unknown, and Travellers' Guides unpublished, the book may not be found altogether devoid of interest or amusement. " - from the author's preface. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Pleasures of the Plains; Cashmere; A Halt in the Valley; Little Thibet; Ladak and the Monastery of Hemis; A Retreat to the Valley; Last Days of Travel; The Religions of Cashmere and Thibet; The Temples of Cashmere; The Mystic Sentence of Thibet; A Sketch of the History of Thibet. Illustrations: Ladak; View in Sirinugger; Solomon's Throne; Hurree Purbut; Martund; Pandreton; Lamieroo; Road to Egnemo; Rajah's Palace, Ladak; Monastery of Hemis; Seventh Bridge, Sirinugger; Hindoo Temple in the Himalayas; Gunesh; Birth of Krishna; Temple Decoration, Himalayas; Ancient Jain Temple; Chubootra, or Resting-Place in the Himalayas; The Head of Affairs; An Unpropitious Moment; Kismut; Crossing the Sutlej; A Halting-Place in Cashmere; Latticed Window, Sirinugger; Sacred Tank, Islamabad; Painting versus Poetry; Love-Lighted Eyes; Vernagh; Cashmerian Temple Sculpture; Patrun; Roadside Monument, Thibet; Road to Moulwee; Rock Sculpture; Thibetian Monument; Natives and Lama; Thibetian Religious Literature; Inscribed Stones; Inscribed Stones; Monument at Hemis; Painted Stone; Buddha; Snow Bridge; Kangree; Ancient Hindoo Temple; Fukeer of Solomon's Throne. [References: Yakushi K104; Hopkirk 204.] The 7 tinted lithographs are those facing pages 84, 108, 122, 182, 306, 318, and 336 (also the frontispiece is a tinted lithograph, which is lacking in this copy, but a facsimile copy has been tipped-in). This variant does not have, or call for, the Tibetan Prayer fragment.…

Full burgundy cloth boards, rebacked preserving original cloth. Upper with gilt medallion, spine lettered in gilt. Brown pasted and free endpapers. , Size : 8vo. (230 x 155 mm), Near fine example. 16 plates, as corresponds to list of illustrations, plus 28 vignettes in-text. , 385 pp., plus ads at back. Occasional spotting, boards lightly rubbed, interior else clean and crisp.…

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xvi, 385, 8 [ads dated July 1863] pp, 17 plates including 8 tinted or color lithographs, mounted portion of Tibetan Prayer Wheel, 8 other plates, 28 other illustrations in text including title page vignette. later antique style calf backed marbled boards, gilt title lettering on red leather label, minor wear to lower edge, title page lightly stained in margin, else near fine, clean throughout, in attractive binding. Yakushi k104. The author gives an early account of Ladakh, travelling from Srinagar, through Kashmir, Tibet. The plates are excellent and the mounted part of the prayer wheel is from the Monastery of Hemis. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Full subtitle: 'With a comparative review of the systems proposed by H. Cranmer Phillipps, R.N. and by Captain Levin Joergen Rohde, of the Royal Danish Navy, Knight of the Dannebrog, &c. &c.' The letter was previously attached by four small pieces of red sealing wax on the verso of its blank second leaf to the title-page of the pamphlet. Letter and pamphlet are now detached, with traces of wax adhering to both, but not affecting the text of either. LETTER: 12mo, one page. Good on aged paper. Addressed to Sir William Symonds (1782-1856), Surveyor of the Navy, naval architect and rear admiral. He troubled Symonds the previous summer with 'a book upon naval signals'. 'The appearance of another work upon the same subject has induced me to write the accompanying little tract, which perhaps you may find time to glance over. I am only anxious for a fair trial of my system.' PAMPHLET: octavo, thirty pages. Several illustrations of flags. Disbound. Aged and creased. Cropped ownership inscription of 'W. Symonds R.N.' at head of title. The pamphlet performs 'the disagreeable, and perhaps somewhat invidious task, of pointing out the more prominent defects in Captain Rohdes' system', and contrasts it with 'his own plan', ending with four pages of 'NUMERAL SIGNALS. [.] The Numbers to be shewn over A WHEFT.'.…

Half-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. xvi, 385 pages + colour frontispiece + 15 of 16 plates (7 colour) + title vignette + 27 in-text illustrations. One plate is missing, the pasted-down portion of a Tibetan Praying Wheel that is called for to face page 200. Half-calf and marbled boards. Rebacked in 2005 with a new calf spine. Half-title page present. Gilt-titled morocco spine label. Gilt rule on spine. Spine is titled "Cashmere & Tibet // 1863". Condition: . Moderate foxing to frontis. Some foxing to other plates, mainly to margins. 2 1/4" by 3/4" surface chip to marbled paper on front board where sticker or label removed. Leather rubbed and worn at corners of boards. 1" by 3/8" piece of leather missing at tail corner of rear board. Provenance: Blind-stamp on title page of "Edward Allen Poole". [References: Yakushi K104; Hopkirk 204]. "With the fullest sense of the responsibility incurred by the addition of another volume to the countless numbers already existing, and daily appearing in the world, the following Diary has been committed to the press, trusting that, as it was not written with intent to publication, the unpremeditated nature of the offence may be its extenuation, and that as a faithful picture of travel in regions where excurstion trains are still unknown, and Travellers' Guides unpublished, the book may not be found altogether devoid of interest or amusement. " - from the author's preface. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Pleasures of the Plains; Cashmere; A Halt in the Valley; Little Thibet; Ladak and the Monastery of Hemis; A Retreat to the Valley; Last Days of Travel; The Religions of Cashmere and Thibet; The Temples of Cashmere; The Mystic Sentence of Thibet; A Sketch of the History of Thibet. Illustrations: Ladak; View in Sirinugger; Solomon's Throne; Hurree Purbut; Martund; Pandreton; Lamieroo; Road to Egnemo; Rajah's Palace, Ladak; Monastery of Hemis; [Praying Wheel (missing) ]; Seventh Bridge, Sirinugger; Hindoo Temple in the Himalayas; Gunesh; Birth of Krishna; Temple Decoration, Himalayas; Ancient Jain Temple; Chubootra, or Resting-Place in the Himalayas; The Head of Affairs; An Unpropitious Moment; Kismut; Crossing the Sutlej; A Halting-Place in Cashmere; Latticed Window, Sirinugger; Sacred Tank, Islamabad; Painting versus Poetry; Love-Lighted Eyes; Vernagh; Cashmerian Temple Sculpture; Patrun; Roadside Monument, Thibet; Road to Moulwee; Rock Sculpture; Thibetian Monument; Natives and Lama; Thibetian Religious Literature; Inscribed Stones; Inscribed Stones; Monument at Hemis; Painted Stone; Buddha; Snow Bridge; Kangree; Ancient Hindoo Temple; Fukeer of Solomon's Throne.; 8vo.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet | Captain William Henry Knight | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2019 | Alpha Editions | EAN 9789353297749 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …