Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892.
by ROCKHILL, WILLIAM WOODVILLE
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About This Item
Washington.: Smithsonian Institution.. 1894.. Large folding map with some small loss repaired along most folds, black and white photographic and line illustrations, xx + 413pp, index, appendices include vocabularies for Salar and San-Ch'uan T'u-jen as well as a short article on Central Tibet Plants by W. Botting Hemsley. Bound in maroon cloth with leather spine original upper wrapper bound in. Some light browning throughout but overall a very good and clean copy. "Narrative of the author's second journey through Mongolia and Tibet, which was described i[n] diary form. He started from Peking on Nov. 30, 1891 and travelled northwards to Hwang-ho via Kalgan, thence to Lan-cho, Sining-fu, Kumbum Monastery, Tsaidam, Changtang, Tangla Range, Chamdo and Batang. R150. Yakushi - Catalogue of the Himalayan Literature. .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163524
- Title
- Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892.
- Author
- ROCKHILL, WILLIAM WOODVILLE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution.
- Place of Publication
- Washington.
- Date Published
- 1894.
- Keywords
- Mongolia, Tibet, zz_Gallery_Antiquarian, zz_ListOn_eBay
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