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Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet - Together With A History of the Relations between China, Tibet, and India
by Teichman, Eric
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 817769054X
- ISBN 13
- 9788177690545
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Varanasi: Pilgrims Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2000). Softcover. 817769054X . Owner's inscription dated 1923. A few spots of foxing to endpapers. No tears to the folding map. A 3/8" tear at lower end of gutter at rear endpaper. Hinges weak. Some minor rubbing to cloth boards and to ends of spine. Slight bruising to lower corners of boards. A nice copy of an important background book for the political history of Tibet in the first half of the twentieth century. Uncommon in this condition.; [2], xxiii, [1], 248, [1] pages + plates + 7 maps. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. A facsimile reprint edition. The plate illustrations are not reproduced clearly. This edition does not have the folding map from a pocket at rear, although this is called for in the list of maps. This edition with a new 1 page Preface by Bob Gibbons, dated 2000. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20160
- Title
- Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet - Together With A History of the Relations between China, Tibet, and India
- Author
- Teichman, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 817769054X
- ISBN 13
- 9788177690545
- Publisher
- Pilgrims Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Varanasi
- Date Published
- (2000)
- Keywords
- 817769054X
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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