Foreword Aurel Stein (4 results)
Published by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London ET AL 1943
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Slight edge wear. Some foxing of front endpage, title page, and a few early pages.
Published by Oxford University Press, Indian 1943
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. LIBRARY REBIND. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by Oxford University Press 1943
- Hardcover
Seller: Gareth Roberts, Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMS, United KingdomGareth Roberts
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ;usual stamps/markings. Light wear to boards & page edges little grubby with some minor highlighting otherwise a clean, sound copy. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 44A*.
More imagesPublished by Oxford University Press, Indian Branch, London 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, , New ZealandRenaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Circular blind-stamp of the "Preparatory Research Council / American Aero-Medical Mountain Mission" on the front endpaper and title page. Dust wrapper spine has some tears and losses and signs of label removal.; xvi, 447 pages. Green cloth boards.… Page dimensions: 247 x 182mm.The dust wrapper and endpapers are of hand made paper manufactured in Bhutan for the Tibetan market. The front panel of the dust wrapper has the same type setting as the title page. Printed in India. Scarce, particularly with the dust wrapper. Aurel Stein's Preface is dated "Camp, Bahawalpur January 1, 1943". "His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishe Tendzin Gyatsho, was born on the sixth of June 1935 near Kumbum in the district to the south-east of Lake Kokonor which the Tibetans call Amdo. A visit to Lhasa in 1940 in connexion with his installation gave opportunity for much of the work which has been done on these books. Based on an examination of syllables, the books show how it is that Dalai means Ocean, that Lama means one who is Above All, that Kumbum means the Hundred Thousand Images, that Lhasa means the Place of God, that the word Serthringaso which we render as Installation means the Request to Take Possession of the Golden Throne, and that the names of the Dalai Lama mean The Holy One, The Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Of Excellent Intellect, Of Absolute Wisdom, Holding the Doctrine, The Ocean" - from the author's "General Preface". Basil Gould and Hugh Richardson, working for the Indian Civil Service, featured very prominently in the story of Britain's political relations with Tibet in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Hugh Richardson became a notable British scholar of Tibetan history, many of Richardson's writings on Tibetan history were collected in the book "High Peaks, Pure Earth" (1998). For more on the British cadre in Tibet before 1950, see Alex McKay's "Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre 1904-1947" (1997), and the works of Sir Charles Bell. ; 4to.
