Trans-Himalaya -- Discoveries and Adventures In Tibet In 2 Volumes

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. Worn condition. Covers rubbed and marked. Edge-wear. Splitting to spines and outer hinges. Inner hinge cracking. Foxing. Teg. 1909. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth covers. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xxiii, 436pp; xvii, 441pp + plates & ads. 207 plates (8 with colour) + 10 maps (3 folding; with colour). Heavy set - extra… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes (complete when published, a supplement was later published), octavo size, 949 total pp., with signature of Sven Hedin. In an age rife with exploration, Swedish explorer and travel writer Sven Hedin (1865-1952) made four expeditions to Central Asia, studying the topography and geology of the… Read more about this item

TRANS-HIMALAYA - Discoveries and adventures in Tibet, Sven Hedin, 3 vols, Vols 1 & 2 published 1909, this imp 1910 and the rarer Vol3, published 1913. Original red cloth, gilt titles, some sun fading and minor insect damage to boards, VG+ inside including B&W and colour plates...and superb large fold-out maps of Hedin's remarkable journeys across southern Tibet, Kailas, etc...including… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. The second volume only of Sven Hedin's illustrated travelogue about his time in Tibet. Volume II only of what would eventually become a three volume work.Illustrated with 388 photographic images, and with three folding maps to the rear. Collated, complete.Sven Hedin… Read more about this item

First American Edition, First Printing. Two volumes (complete when published, a supplement was published a few years later). Quite rare thus. Swedish explorer and travel writer Sven Hedin (1865-1952) made four expeditions to Central Asia, studying the topography and geology of the region, as well as both the prehistoric and modern culture. Painstakingly dedicated to his research, Hedin documented his… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan. Good+. 1910. Hardcover. Two volumes. Volume 2 is a 1910 reprint. Brick cloth. Wear to edges and spine ends. Front end pages of volume 1 are separated from binding. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. Hardcover. A facsimile of the First Edition of 1909. 5.75 x 8.75in. xiv. 442pp.; vii. 450pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Both volumes are NEAR FINE showing some natural discoloration of the gutters, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.

Macmillan's Colonial Library, London, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 900 g; XIV, 442, 8, & VIII, 450, 8 pages, in 2 volumes both with blind stamped decoration to the top left of the front panel and gilt titling to the front panel and the spine. There are… Read more about this item

New York 1910, Macmillan. Red pictorial cloth, two vol. set, 436+441p., 17 color, 360 b.w. photos & illus., 7 maps,3 fold out maps, index, good copy, top gilt, spine head & tail and corners bit rubbed, contents clean. Q U I T E S C A R C E The documentary expedition of discovery to places yet mapped or explored… Read more about this item

N.Y. & London 1910-13, Macmillan.Red cloth, spine head/tails worn, 3 vol. set complete, 436+441+436p., index, 543 b.w. 33 photos, 14 maps, head/tail of vol. 1,2 worn,vol. 3 very good mixed set New York vols. 1-2, London vol. 3. FIRST EDITIONS The documentary expedition of discovery to places yet mapped or explored by a westerner. The expedition consisted of some 37… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Greenwood Press. VG+. 1968. Hardcover. Hardbacks in Very Good+ condition without dust jackets. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 442, 450 pages. Previous owners blind impression. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag 1909 Upptackter och afventyr i Tibet. 3 volume set. Over 400 illustrations, folding map to rear of volume 3. HB, all 1st Editions. Text in Swedish. Red cloth with silver mountain design to top front, gilt lettering. Spines sunned. Vol 3 lacks title page and frontis, has different patterned endpapers… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. Fair. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 426, [2 ads] pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white drawings and photographic plates. Herein this prolific Swedish explorer recounts and illustrates his early travels in Tibet. Faded reddish cloth adorned with nice gilt illustration on front. Backstrip lettering rubbed but… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Co, 1909-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Two volumes, published by Macmillan, 1909. Purple/maroon cloth with gilt decorations, top edges. Hinges of first volume visible, weakening; second volume beginning to become visible. Evident wear of cloth at edges, especially fraying at head/foot of spines. Newspaper clippings tucked inside first volume, with darkening of half-title page. Owner's… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/no jackets. Two volumes. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of books, previous owner's name erasures with some loss to front endpapers and dedication page of vol. 1as well as contents page of vol. 2, flower pressed at pages 112-13, vol. 2 else clean and unmarked; no… Read more about this item

Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. New Edition. 441 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Half bound red leather with red cloth covered boards. Black and white photographic and colour illustrated plates throughout. Pull-out map to final page. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Two volume set, 1909, hardcovers with half-leather boards, octavo, 665pp. and 593pp., illustrated in color and b&w + fold out maps at rear. Books good with mild sun to spines, mild shelfwear to spine ends and corners, bindings tight, texts have some foxing and soil to endpapers, musty odor to both volumes,… Read more about this item

New York: MacMillan. Very Good. 1909. First US Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, maps laid in rear; v. 1 hinges reinforced with archival linen, some wear to cloth tips; v. 2 less used, both spines faded ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Macmillan and Co, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Complete 2 volume set with all maps and plates present except for plate number 312 in Volume 2: "If this continues a few days longer, we are lost" on page 270, which is missing. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn on both volumes, but they remain… Read more about this item

MacMillan and Co. 1909. 2 VOLUME SET, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front boards, top page edges gilt, frontispiece, 1: xxiii + 436pp + 4pp adverts + 188 plates + 7 maps to rear, 2: xvii + 441pp + 2pp adverts + 199 plates + 3 maps to rear, VG- (moderatre bruising… Read more about this item