The opening of Tibet. An account of Lhasa and the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English government in the year 1903-4. Written, with the help of all the principal persons of the mission, by Perceval Landon; introduction by Colonel [Francis Edward] Younghusband

Landon, Perceval

Published by Doubleday, Page and Co, New York, 1905

About this Item

First American edition, large 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 484, [2] ads for Kipling's Kim; title page printed in red and black; mounted color frontispiece and 51 illustrations on 48 plates; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine; lightly rubbed, but a very good, sound, and clean copy, or better. Christmas gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1905. Yakushi L57b.

Seller Inventory # 67365

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The opening of Tibet. An account of Lhasa and the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English government in the year 1903-4. Written, with the help of all the principal persons of the mission, by Perceval Landon; introduction by Colonel [Francis Edward] Younghusband
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page and Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1905
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Asia
  • China
  • Tibet