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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No marks, no inscriptions.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A VG+ copy of the stated "First Edition" in good price clipped jacket with short closed tears upper edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped. Both volumes in this set are immaculate and unmarked except for former owner's name on front end pages; many interesting period photos in both vols.; bindings firm; boards fine, well-protected by very good d.j.s having minimal wear. Collectible first edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. Illustrated wraps, colored green with white lettering. Spine has a diagonal tear at upper side and rubbing along the spine's edges. Binding is tight. Content is clean, no markings. Includes: Drawing, Maps.Appendix: List of Stairways. 111 p. 5.05 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches. 0.39 lb. Trudie Douglas, Illustrator. Bill Chase, Maps by (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Very Good +. First Edition. Dust Jacket Condition: Size: 4to. Maps by John Grimwade (illustrator). Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 7th Ed. 1897 printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light water damage to edges of front end pages (does not affect text). Founded in 1827, Baedeker guides gained popularity during the second half of the 19th century (so much so that Baedekering became part of everyday language). They were an invaluable and essential part of civilized travel in the fin-de-siecle. Baedeker guides were known for both their accuracy and attention to detail. Included in each are intricate colored fold-out maps and floor plans. Baedekers comments and recommendations open a fascinating window into the mores of a world now past.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 7th Ed. 15th Edition. 489p., maps. Bound in publishers red cloth. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear. Library markings. Founded in 1827, Baedeker guides gained popularity during the second half of the 19th century. The guides contain, among other things, maps and introductions; information about routes and travel facilities; and descriptions of noteworthy buildings, sights, attractions and museums, written by specialists.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7th Ed. Red cloth. 15 ed. lxxxii, 489 pages 19 maps (some folded) 45 plans (some folded) 16 cm. With 19 maps, 37 plans of towns, and 8 ground plans. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. Founded in 1827, Baedeker guides gained popularity during the second half of the 19th century (so much so that Baedekering became part of everyday language). They were an invaluable and essential part of "civilized travel" in the fin-de-siecle. Baedeker was known for both its accuracy and attention to detail. Included in each are intricate colored fold-out maps and floor plans. Baedeker's comments and recommendations open a fascinating window into the mores of a world now past. An interesting side note: Literary references to Baedeker's abound, from E. M. Forester's A Room with a View to Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad. T.E. Lawrence is reputed to have used Baedeker's guide to Palestine during his Doctoral work in the Levant and prompted his Allied superiors to make facsimile copies during WWI. During the Luftwaffe's Vergeltungsangriffe the guides were important enough to be reportedly cited by Gustav Braun von Stumm, that "We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide."[3] In the so-called "Baedeker Blitz" of 1942 the English cities of Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York, and Canterbury were bombed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket has fair amoutnt of edgewear, with small chips and tears, and vertical crease to front and back. Boards have slightly darkened spiine with small white blotch there, as well. Pages of text are clean, lightly age toned and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.…

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

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

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.…