Trans-Himalaya Discoveries and Adventures In Tibet - 3 Vols

London: Macmillan & Company, Limited, 1909-1913. Swedish explorer, geographer and illustrator Sven Hedin made four major expeditionary trips to Asia thoughout his lifetime. In the first, from 1893 to 1897, he visited the Pamir Mountains, traveled through the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Region of Western China and across the Taklamakan Desert where he visited the 1500 year old abandoned… Read more about this item

London. Macmillan and Co. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. thick8vo. 22cm, first edition, In Two Volumes, xxiii,436 & xvii,441 pp., 2 frontis portraits (Lord Minto & Hedin), with 338 illustrations from photographs, water-colour sketches & drawings by the author, 10 rear maps (3 large folding), rear ads, index, burgundy cloth, gilt decoration of front covers (Tibetan), gilt spine titles, top… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan, 1909 (1500 gram rate) One volume only, red cloth gilt titled and decorated, top page edges gilt, has split to head of lower joint, backstrip sunfaded with frayed head, bookseller rubber stamp to base of fep, paper scar to paste down, some scattered foxing throughout, hinges cracked but tight, xxiii + 436pp + 188 images on plates and… Read more about this item

New York: MacMillan, 1909. First American edition. Slight fraying with a nick to one crown and one foot, inner hinge paper cracked at one joint, but quite sound, spine gilt faded but still legible. All-in-all a presentable copy. First American edition. Two volumes. xxiii, 436p, 4p ads; xvii, 439p, 4p ads. Illustrated, including ten maps, three folding. Maroon… Read more about this item

London.: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1909.. 2 volumes, 10 maps - 3 folding, 388 black and white illustrations from photographs, water colour sketches and drawings by the author. Volume I: xxiii + 436pp, 4 pages publisher's adverts, Volume II: xvii + 441 including index + 2 pages of publisher's adverts. Red cloth covered boards with gilt device stamped in… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. P.l., xxiii, 436p., 7 maps, 4p. ads; xvii, 439p., 3 f/o maps, 4p. ads. 2 volumes, bound in burgundy cloth with gilt image to front board of each volume, and gilt lettering to spines. Spines with very light wear at head and heel. Top edges… Read more about this item

SBW Publishers, New Dehli, 1991. 1991 rep. hardcover. 442pp, 450pp, 453pp, near VG in near VG dw.. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1909. First American Edition. As usual, offered without the third volume, which was published in 1913. On his third expedition, 1905-08, Hedin investigated the Central Persian desert basins, the western highlands of Tibet, and the Transhimalaya, which for some time afterward was called the Hedin Range. He visited the 9th Panchen Lama in the cloister… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Co.. Very Good. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols, maroon cloth, gilt decoration, 10 maps total, b/w illustations, both vols have a portrait frontis illustration, top edge gilt; Vol 1: hinges crackedspine cloth dulled, paper a little yellowed; 2 vols plates: vol. 2 4 colored plates; some pages uncut; 2 Volumes .

New Delhi: SBW Publishers, 1991 F-/F-. 3 vols. 8vo. original black cloth (a few marks) in dustwrapper (edges a little rubbed); pp. xvi (last blank), 442, with 4 illustrations; viii (last blank), 450, with 4 illustrations; viii, 454 (last blank), [2 (advts.)], with 4 illustrations. Heavy set (2.6 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. vol 3 is 1913. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped illustrations to front and gilt top edges. Vol 2 is faded and vol 3 is a lighter red with faded spine. All have rather badly cracked front and rear gutters and vol 3 has split hinges. All spine edges are chipped. Vol 3 has a… Read more about this item

London, Macmillan, Volume I and II reprinted 1910; Volume III first edition 1913.. 3 vols; each c420pp. 8vo. Original cloth, spotted and bumped, b&w and colour plates and fold-out maps, foxing to preliminary and endpapers, leaves at pp. 305-322 of vol I loose, hinges a little weak, otherwise a very good set.

Gyan Publishing House , pp. 1968, Maps (Partly Folded) Indian Edition . Hardback. New.