Color Maps Illustrator (14 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book in good condition. 53 Maps; 302 Illustrations, 192 In Color (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Like New. Appears unused with no marks or inscriptions. Light general shelf wear.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Second Printing. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Museum of Natural History. Good/Good. 1988. Second Printing. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 362 p.p., Shelf lean; shelf wear; side edge of front panel dust jacket rubbed; corners of cover and head of spine bumped; stain on back dust jacket panel; original price intact; pages clean and unmarked. . Color Illustrations and Maps (illustrator). …

Full leather. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. BLACK LEATHER WITH GOLD LETTERS AND ZIPPER TO CLOSE WITH CROSS. EB 16.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. T. and A. D. Poyser (Pitman Press); Berkhamsted, 1977. Hardcover. A Very Good, blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some discoloration/sunning along board and spine edges, dent bottom front board edge, trace scattered foxing top text block edge, some age toning to pages, previous owner handwritten ink name top front free endpaper, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, mild edge/corner wear, spine fade, couple of faint creases bottom front flap, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice and clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 307pp., appendix, bibliography, tables, indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale (the glare in the photograph is from the Mylar). Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE Author has made a study of the Hen Harrier over many years and his field notes and sketch book of this exceptional bird of prey go back to the 1940's. The book opens with the world distribution of the harrier family, then there is a fuller treatment of the Hen Harrier in Europe and North America (the Marsh Hawk), its history and present status. Further chapters detail hunting methods and prey selection, the breeding cycle, migration and distribution. The Jacket has a clear protective cover on it.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stated 2nd Edition, revised. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettered and stamp of the Royal Geographical Society on front cover. Library stamps and markings. 285 pages. 34 illustrations and maps, 6 of which are folding. Large color map of Tibet at rear. Many of the plates are stamped with library stamps on blank side. Sarat Chandra Das (1849-1917) was a Bengali scholar of Tibet. Das has been described as "a traveler, explorer.linguist, a lexicographer, an ethnographer and an eminent Tibetologist." Das was also a British spy. Born in Chittagong, Das trained as an engineer in Calcutta. He became headmaster of the Bhutia Boarding School in Darjeeling. Bhutia was a school for Sikkimese and Tibetan boys, many of who would be trained to fill a special place in the British colonial regime, the role of a Pundit. Das became a "pundit" (and an instructor at the school) for British intelligence. Pundits acted as a network of British-trained operatives who were tasked to make inroads in the foreboding inner regions of Asia where white embassies could not gain entry. Tibet and other inland areas were increasingly gaining attention from competing British, Russian and Chinese economic and strategic interests. Derek Waller speculates that the character of Huree Chunder Mookerjee in Kipling's Kim was based on Das, p.193. As a teacher, Das learned Tibetan to speak with his students. He read the limited books on the region available, notably of Bogle (1773-5) and Manning's travels (1811) to Tibet. Manning and Bogle were the last successful British explorations of Tibet, a nation who steadfastly resisted western intrusion. Das's language ability secured him entry with his colleague, Lama Ugyen Gyasto, to Tashilhunpo monastery in 1879, as the Prime Minister wished to learn Hindi from him. In 1881, Das returned to Tashilhunpo and made his way to Lhasa, Sakya, and the Tsangpo River. There he met with Thupten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933) and returned to Darjeeling with a Yak loaded with over 200 Tibetan manuscripts. After Das was revealed to be a British agent, Tibetan authorities increased restrictions on travelers and the Minister who had sponsored his entry was put to death. What makes Das's expedition so interesting is that he successfully brought back a wealth of information on an unknown land to the larger world. The Tibet that Das glimpsed is now gone, with the passage of history and the destructive forces of modernity and Chinese domination. This book compiles the story of Das's journey, his reports, photographs, diagrams, ethnographic observations, etc of a lost Tibet. Das went on to become an important Tibetan scholar and author an extensive multi-volume dictionary. The British would not successfully return to Tibet until 1903-4, with Colonel Francis Edward Younghusband's exhibition (invasion and massacre of ~5000 Tibetans). (Significantly, Younghusband was the President of the Royal Geographical Society, which notably published the 1902 edition of Das's book. An interesting, and dark connection to Das's legacy.) Ref: Derek Waller's The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. University Press of Kentucky, 1990, pp. 193-209. Also, Samanth Subramanian's superb piece in the New York Times Magazine, March 20, 2016, p. MM61. Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, Kodansha, 1992. Yakushi D55, Yakushi D356. Marshall 1459.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slender large format hardcover in lightly shelf worn jacket now under mylar. Tight and unmarked. Oversized and overweight Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.