Kuloy h k editor (4 risultati)

#416 of a limited edition of 1000 copies (per publisher's statement) - reprint of the 1879 second edition. [8], i-clxv, [3], 1-362, [3] pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Half-leather binding - leather spine and blue cloth boards with leather corners. Some scuffing and darkening to leather; spine's lettering still fairly bright; light staining to front board. Dark blue top edge. Sewn-in blue silk ribbon page marker. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. With four foldout maps and ten b/w illustrations (frontispiece portrait of British colonial administrator Warren Hastings replaced with portrait of Pancen Lama Lobzang Paldan-yeshes at editor Kuloy's discretion).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The scarce reprint of this important book, enhanced by its Nepal/Indian authenticity and unique printing style. Clean, dark blue cloth hardback with silver titles to spine. Hand-made, plant-based end-papers, impressed with what appears to be at least some hand-stamped illustrations on a map that includes Kashmir, Tibetan Plateau, Nepal and the Ganges Plain. Repeat end-paper to rear. Trifling small marks to front ep. Half-title, slightly mis-aligned title page (from manufacture) with a little loosening to paper gutter, binding remains firm and contents tight, bright and clean. Title page verso has stamped: "First published 1852 Re-published 1979". The purpose of the Series is stated to be: To make available works on the civilizations and nature of Central Asia and the Himalayas. Copyright H. K. Kuloy. Printed in New Delhi. Contents (15 Chapters) with ink stain to lower text on this page only. Original title-page reproduced (facsimile). List of "Contemporary Illustrations (14) most not included in the original edition). Full-page black & white portrait of Thomas Thomson. List of 2 maps: Mountains of Northern India and sketch map of route from Nubra to Karakoram (maps at rear). 4 pp. Introduction to this 1979 edition (Kathmandu Aporil, 1979. H.K.K.). 5pp. Preface. Text: (with full-page black & white illustrations) pp. 1-493, Index pp. 495-501. Large fold-out map bound-in, before Index, showing both the mountains of Northern India and superimposed, Thomson's route in red. One small 3 cm fold-tear touching top border of map. Second map is a one page Sketch Map of Route opposite page 408. (Appears to be a facsimile from First Edition). Clean white pages throughout with no browning, suggesting better quality, lower chemical content paper. Illustrated glossy jacket with some small nicks, lightly marked on folds. Flaps have an interesting bibliographic list of BH Series 1, Vols 16-27.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good copy in blue linen boards with gold printing on the spine and without a DJ. Stated 2nd printing of the original 1800 edition as a limited edition of a 1000 copies (DELUXE EDITION: 100 and LIBRARY EDITION: 900, PRESENT COPY IS NO 277). Some general wear to the boards. Small piece missing near the center of the spine which does affect the text. Illustrated with full page plates and a foldout chart in a foreign language. A larger book requiring additional postage for international and priority orders. 4to; ~ 473 pages.…

Condizione: guter bis sehr guter Zustand. guter bis sehr guter Zustand, geringe Gebrauchs- und Alterungsspuren: Papier teils etwas vergilbt, aber Seiten sauber und ordentlich - Schutzumschlag sehr defekt mit Fehlstellen Reprint der Originalausgabe von 1800 - Limited Edition of 1000 Copies (Nr. 482) - "The purpose of Bibliotheca Himalayica is to make available works on the civilizations and nature of central asia and the Himalayas." - with an introduction by Hugh Richardson "In 1783 Captain Samuel Turner of the East India Company's army was commissioned by Warren Hastings, to whom he was related, as envoy to Tashilhunpo in Tibet on the occasion of the discovery of an infant successor to the Third Panchen Lama who had died in 1780. On his return after a year's absence he continued his military career in India until the end of the century when he retired to England and, in 1800, published his "Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet-" Hitherto the popular idea of that country had been mainly based on hearsay scraps of fact and fable. Now Turner provided the first eyewitness account generally available to English readers. It was received with interest and was soon translated into French. Not that Turner was the first European to enter Tibet. His visit followed up the successful mission of George Bogle whom Hastings had sent to Tashilhunpo in 1774. Bogle, like his friend the Third Panchen Lama, died prematurely in 1780 but his lively diary was not published until 1876. Before him there had been, from the beginning of the seventeenth century onwards, a little stream of visitors, mainly Jesuit and Capuchim missionaries, but their information did not become widely known until quite recently. Turner's work therefore remained for over half a century the locus classicus on Tibet. The age in which he lived demanded a "philosophic" approach and the examination of phenomena, however strange and curious, with a sober scientific eye. The age also imposed on him an elegant, rather elevated prose style. From behind that formal facade, little of Turner's personality emerges. One can see that he had those essentials for dealings with Tibetans, patience and tact, and that he was able to get on with people of different ways; but compared with the warmth and gaiety of Bogle, his manner seems, perhaps, a little condescending. What is abundantly clear is that he had a mind trained to enquire and observe accurately and to record his findings with balanced judgement. In his principal task of reporting on political and commercial matters, he describes competently what he saw of conditions in Bhutan, the relationship between Tashilhunpo and Lhasa, and the all-important relationship between Tibet and China; and he gives a careful list of the articles imported and exported by Tibetans ." Buchreihe: Bibliotheca Himalayica, Serie 1, Volume 4 Seitenanzahl: 473 Seiten mit vereinzelten Bildern und Falttafeln Format: ca. 23 x 29 Leinen Englisch. …