Cesar Cosson (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1927 FIRST EDITION. Original black cloth with gilt lettering spine. EX-LIBRARY. LACKING the original dust jacket. The book has spotting to covers and spine, some splotch marks spine, library stamps on EPs, title page, introduction page, and library blindstamp on every photo plate. Old owner bookplate on front pastedown. The pages are generally clean with no writing or marks, no foxing, no tears. Solid binding. Complete with all pages, photos and large folding map in rear pocket. The large folding map has library blindstamp in top area, small splits at fold intersections but is otherwise clean and sound with bright image side. The book measures 228mm tall x 155mm and has 262 pages, 87 b/w photos, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Black cloth with gilted tiles to the spine. This copy is VG+. Ex Library from the Mechanics-Merchantile Library in San Francisco with the usual, stamps/markings. Folding map in back pocket. 262 pp. With frontispiece and 44 plates. Tips and spine edges moderayely worn, gilting on spine still bright, modest other wear. Interior is modestly, evenly age toned with a minimum of foxing. SCARCE in the US. ( only two other copies as of August 2020).

Wit 88 plates. Without map. London, Cobden-Sanderson 1927. 262 S., OCloth. Spine and corners bumped. Spine at bottom with little waer. Cloth stained (foxing). Edges a little stained, otherwise internally good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1927. First edition, 1927. Account of a journey through parts of Tibet in 1922, illustrated with 44 black and white plates from photographs. Map absent from rear pocket. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, 262 pages. Covers rubbed with lightly bumped corners and short closed tears to the spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with an Asian type red square name stamp on the title page, additional notation on front free endpaper: "To "Pousse Cailloux" from an old friend of the author", dated, 1929, with the address part of the mailing label to "Pousse Cailloux" in Scotland tipped onto the pastedown endpaper along with a note. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Original black cloth, folding map within rear paste down. 262 pages (additional XVI). Dust wrapper slightly tanned on spine, complete.

hardcover. 1927 First Edition. xvi, 262pp, 87 illusts, folding map, original black cloth, some foxing to prelims, light foxing to foreedges, VG. Hayden, a member of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1904 as a geologist, started from Darjeeling to Lhasa in 1922 with his friend Cosson. Then they explored Tibet, firstly to the North West, the Great Central Plateau for two and a half months, and secondly to the South East into the Tsangpo and its tributaries for one month. With an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband. Yakushi H152. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Xvi, 262 pages + frontispiece + 86 plates on 44 leaves + large colour folding map in pocket at rear. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library. Library date due label on rear endpaper. No other library stamps or markings. Some bruising to corners of boards. Some rubbing and fading to cloth covers. Gilt lettering on spine rubbed and faded. Edges of spine and boards rubbed. Gutters intact. 1/2" tear along the corners of the folds on the folding map. Contents: Introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband; Preface; Preliminary Arrangements for the Journey; Darjeeling to Gyantse; Gyantse to Lhasa; Lhasa in the Early Spring; The Region of the Great Lakes: Lhasa to Shen-Tsa; The Region of the Great Lakes: Naktsang; The Region of the Great Lakes: Namru; Thakpo; Return to India; Epilogue; Index. Illustrations: Sir Henry Hayden; Cesar Cosson; Members of the Expedition; Homburg Hats in Tibet; A Suspension Bridge in Sikkim; Changu Lake and Rest-House; The Chumbi Valley; Champutang; Gautsa; Gyantse Peasants; Frozen Falls at Dothak; Bam Tso and Chumolhari; Nangkartse Dzong; Yamdrok Tso; Lhasa from the Potala; Kyi Chu Valley at Lhasa in July; Ferry-Boats at Chaksam on the Tsangpo; The Junction of the Tsangpo and the Kyi Chu Rivers at Chushul; Old Beggar-Women at Lhasa; Yaks Ploughing; The Gate of Lhasa; A Square in Lhasa; Four Sha-pes; Dikyilinga; The Potala; The Audience on the Slopes of the Potala; The Pageant; The Pageant; The Pageant; The Pageant; The Pageant; Kusho Mondrong, The Tsarong Sha-pe, Cesar Cosson; The Dalai Lama's New Country House; Carved and Painted Facade; Hyang-Pa-Chen; Nyen-Chen-Thang-La Range from Hyang-Pa-Chen; The Goring Glacier; Approach to the Goring La from the North; Camp at Mara; Quiet Yaks; Crossing the Goring Glacier; A Temporary Nomad Encampment; Cosson's Bag to June 1922; Cosson with Burhel; Tibetan Gazelle (Goa) ; Tibetan Antelope; Wild Sheep (Burhel) ; Antelope; Cosson and his Wolf; The Dzongpon of Shen-Tsa; Tangra Tso; Kya-Ring Tso and the Shen-Tsa Snowy Peaks; Camp on the Paro Tsangpo; Breaking Camp on Nya-Pa; Ngang-Tsi Tso; Lake-Terraces of Tangra Tso; On the Shores of Kya-Ring Tso; Three to a Shovel; A Tibetan Dance; Crossing a Cliff; Natives of Namru; Kusho Nishimba and his Servants; A Summer Holiday; Floods at Lhasa; A Skin Boat: Embarking; Ponies Crossing the Kyi Chu; A Skin-Boat and the Boatman's Sheep; Women Storing the Harvest; An Audience of Lamas; The Audience at a Tibetan Play; Lhagyiri Dzong and Monastery; On the Road from Lhagyiri to the Photrang La; The Road below the Te-Khar La; Camp at Dingna; Kusho Mondrong's House at Won; The Tsangpo above Tse-Thang; In the Mountains above Lhapso; The Lhapso Valley; Snowy Range Beyond the Tsangpo; The Tsangpo below Lhapso; A Ruined Fortress near Chumdo-Khyang; Changing Transport in the Ya-Lung Valley; Samye; The North Gate of Samye; The Chief Temple at Samye; The Temple of the Reincarnation; Sir Henry Hayden's Grave. References: Marshall 2458 - "includes detailed comments on life in Lhasa in the early 1920's"; Pinfold 92; Yakushi H81. Hayden and Cosson's journey is notable for its visit to the less frequented northern plateau area of Tibet. They also made a second journey southeast of Lhasa to the Tsangpo River and its tributaries. ; Ex-Library; 8vo.

London, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1927. X,262 pp. B./w. plts. Orig. hardcover (Dark-brown cloth, gilt title). - Spine-ends & corners very sl. worn. Some foxing. Otherwise fine.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 262; 2 portraits and 85 illustrations largely from photographs on rectos and versos of 43 plates, plus a large folding color map in rear cover pocket; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine; very good, sound, and clean. Ownership signature of L. L. Fermor on front free endpaper. Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, OBE, FRS (1880-1954), was a British chemist and geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy and a director of the Geological Survey of India (1930-1935). "Hayden, a member of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1904 as a geologist, started from Darjeeling to Lhasa in 1922 with his friend Cosson. Then they explored Tibet; the first to the North-West, i. e. the Great Central Plateau for two and a half months, and the second to the South-East into the Tsangpo and its tributaries for one month" (Yakushi H152). Yakushi H-152.