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    Allen, Charles.   THE SEARCH FOR SHANGRI-LA. £5.00    
      A Journey into Tibetan History.   305pp. Index. Colour photos.   Fine in fine dustwrapper..   1999 Reprint Little Brown.
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    Avedon, John F.   IN EXILE FROM THE LAND OF SNOWS. £10.00    
         386pp. Index. 45 photographs in b/w, 14 in colour. Endpaper maps. Four years travelling through the Tibetan communities of India.   Fine in chipped dw.   1984 First edition, Michael Joseph.
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    Baker, Ian.   THE HEART OF THE WORLD. £12.00    
      A Journey to the Last Secret Place.   513pp Index. Card covers. Many photographs and illustrations in b/w. Expedition to the Tsangpo Gorges.   Fine.   2007 Souvenir Press.
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    Barber, Noel.   FROM THE LAND OF LOST CONTENT. £5.00    
      The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet.   224pp. Endpaper maps of Lhasa. Armed resistance to the Chinese and the Dalai Lama's escape.   Fine in fine dw.   1969 First edition, Collins.
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    Barber, Noel.   THE FLIGHT OF THE DALAI LAMA. £10.00    
         160pp. 26 b/w photographs and 2 maps.   Fine in very good dw.   1960 First Hodder.
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    Batchelor, Stephen.   THE TIBET GUIDE. £10.00    
         466pp. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Many superb colour photographs.   Fine in wrappers. Not issued in hardback. A lovely book.   1987 First edition, Wisdom Publications.
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    Bell, C.A.   GRAMMAR OF COLLOQUIAL TIBETAN. £5.00    
         190pp. Card covers. The author was 'Late of the Indian Civil Service, Late Political Officer Sikkim'. First published in 1905. Dialogues and phrases that relate to the British penetration of Tibet.   Fine.   1996 Third edition Curzon.
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    Bell, Dick.   TO THE SOURCE OF THE YANGTZE. £14.00    
         381pp. 32pp of colour photographs. 3 maps. Through China to Tibet by hovercraft. Signed by the author on the title page.   Fine in fine dw.   1991 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    Bell, Sir Charles.   PORTRAIT OF THE DALAI LAMA. £22.00    
         414pp. Index. 49 photographs and 2 maps. Bell was British Resident in Lhasa from 1920.   Very good. Boards a little faded.   1946 First edition, Collins.
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    Berry, Scott.   MONKS, SPIES AND A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. £18.00    
      The Japanese in Tibet.   352pp. Index.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1995 First edition, The Athlone Press.
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    Bonington, Chris and Clarke, Charles.   TIBET'S SECRET MOUNTAIN. £4.00    
      The Triumph of Sepu Kangri.   254pp. Index. 90 photographs in colour and b/w. 7 maps.   Fine in fine dw.   1999 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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    Bower, Hamilton.   DIARY OF A JOURNEY ACROSS TIBET. £18.00    
         309pp. Index. Folding map. 29 b/w illustrations. Facsimile reprint of 1894 original. Pictures rather smudgy.   Very good.   1994 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi.
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    Bryner, Edna.   THIRTEEN TIBETAN TANKAS £22.00    
         153pp.Colour frontispiece, 15 full page collotypes of the tankas and 14 other b/w illustrations. 'The Buddhist Birth Stories told by the magnificent Banner Paintings of the City Art Museum of St Louis.'   Very good in fading and chipped dw.   1956 First, Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills, Clorado
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    Bull, Geoffrey T.   WHEN IRON GATES YIELD. £10.00    
         254pp. 3 maps. British missionary in Tibet held by the Chinese for three years.   Very good in very good dw.   1956, Reprint, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    Burman, Bina Roy.   RELIGION AND POLITICS IN TIBET. £10.00    
         180pp. Index.   3 British Library rubber stamp marks. Otherwise very good in very good dustwrapper.   1979 First edition, Vikas, New Delhi.
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    Chapman, F.Spencer.   MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAINEER. £5.00    
         446pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs. Includes `Helvellyn to Himalaya' and `Lhasa, The Holy City'.   Very good. Spine faded. Inscription.   1951 First thus Chatto.
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    Coleman, Peter (edits).   A HANDBOOK OF TIBETAN CULTURE. £12.00    
      A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources throughout the World.   430pp. Index. Paperback edition.   Very good.   1995 Rupa, Delhi.
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    Conefrey, Mick.   EVEREST 1920. £10.00    
      The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain.   310pp. Index.   Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.   2022 First edition, Allen & Unwin.
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    Craig, Mary.   TEARS OF BLOOD. £5.00    
      A Cry for Tibet.   374pp. Index. 38 photographs. Foreword by HH the Dalai Lama. History of Tibet 1950-1991.   Fine in fine dw.   1992 First edition, Harper Collins.
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    Craig, Mary.   KUNDUN. £5.00    
      A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama.   392pp. Index. 27 illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   1997 First Harper Collins.
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    Dalai Lama, H.H.the and Hopkins, Jeffrey.   TANTRA IN TIBET. £10.00    
         252pp. Index. Card covers.   Fine.   1987 Snow Lion Publications, New York.
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    Das, Sarat Chandra.   INDIAN PANDITS IN THE LAND OF SNOW. £13.00    
         92 + 28pp.Facsimile reprint of 1893 original.   Very good indeed.   1992 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi.
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    Das, Sarat Chandra.   INDIAN PANDITS IN THE LAND OF SNOW. £16.00    
         92 + 28pp.Facsimile reprint of 1893 original.   Very good indeed in wrinkled dw.   1992 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi.
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    David-Neel, Alexandra.   MAGIC AND MYSTERY IN TIBET. £13.00    
         320pp.   Very good. Owner's name.   1967 Reprint, Souvenir Press.
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    de Lesdain, Count.   FROM PEKIN TO SIKKIM through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet. £16.00    
         301pp. Index. Folding map. 32 b/w photographs. Facsimile reprint of 1908 original. Pictures rather smudgy.   Very good.   1995 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi.
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    Etherton, Colonel P.T.   THE LAST STRONGHOLDS. £49.00    
         297pp. Index. 79 b/w photographs. Account of Himalayan and Central Asian travels by ex-Consul-General at Kashgar. In the original red cloth.   Very good. Owner's name.   1934 First edition, Jarrolds.
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    Feigon, Lee.   DEMYSTIFYING TIBET. £5.00    
      Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows.   241pp. Index. A history examining the links with China.   Ink mark on lower edge. Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper.   1996 First edition, Dee, Chicago.
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    Filippi, Filippo de (edits).   AN ACCOUNT OF TIBET. £45.00    
      The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J., 1712-1727.   478pp. Index. Folding map. From Srinagar to Lhasa and back to Patna and Delhi in the 18th century. Reprinted in the 'Broadway Travellers' series.   Very good indeed.   1937 Revised edition, Routledge.
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    Fleming, Peter.   BAYONETS TO LHASA. £14.00    
      The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904.   319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps.   Very good in rubbed dw. Edges spotted.   1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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    Fleming, Peter.   BAYONETS TO LHASA. £12.00    
      The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904.   319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps.   Very good in chipped and worn dw.   1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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    Fleming, Peter.   BAYONETS TO LHASA. £16.00    
      The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904.   319pp. Index. 30 b/w illustrations and 4 maps.   Very good in very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy   1961 First edition, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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    Fraser, Lovat.   INDIA UNDER CURZON AND AFTER. £25.00    
         496pp. Index. Large folding map. 4 tissue-guarded plates. Long sections on Tibet, Persia and the Frontier. An adulatory record of Curzon's administration by the former editor of 'The Times of India'.   Front endpaper removed. Private library label but no other library marks. Otherwise a nice copy.   1911 First edition, Heinemann.
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    Furen, Wang and Wenqing, Suo.   HIGHLIGHTS OF TIBETAN HISTORY. £10.00    
         206pp. Index. The Chinese version of Tibetan history and of British involvement there. Card covers.   Fine.   1984 First edition, New World Press, Beijing.
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    Goldstein, Melvyn C.   THE SNOW LION AND THE DRAGON. £24.00    
      China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama.   152pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   1997 First edition, University of California Press.
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    Goodman, Michael Harris.   THE LAST DALAI LAMA. £5.00    
      A Biography.   364pp. Index. Bibliography and notes. B/w photographs. From childhood to exile.   Very good.   1986 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson.
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    Goodman, Michael Harris.   THE LAST DALAI LAMA. £5.00    
      A Biography.   364pp. Index. Bibliography and notes. B/w photographs. From childhood to exile.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1986 First edition, Sidgwick & Jackson.
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    Gould, B.J.   THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS. £18.00    
      Recollections of an Indian Political.   252pp. Index. 12 plates and 8 maps. Service in Tibet, Persia and on the North-West Frontier 1907-1940.   A good copy in worn dustwrapper.   1957 First edition, Chatto & Windus.
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    Griswold, A.B., Kim, C.H. and Pott., C.H.   BURMA KOREA TIBET. £21.00    
      Art of the World.   277pp. Index. 71 illustrations in colour tipped-in, 5 maps and many further illustrations in b/w.   Very good in very good original slipcase. Inscription.   1964 First edition, Methuen.
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    Hardy, Justine.   THE OCHRE BORDER. £10.00    
      A Journey through the Tibetan Frontierlands.   191pp. 4 colour photos and 16 in b/w. From Manali into Spiti through the Parvati and Pin valleys.   Fine in fine dw.   1995 First edition, Constable.
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    Harrer, Heinrich.   SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. £5.00    
         288pp. 29 black and white plates. Escaped German prisoner becomes friend of the Dalai Lama.   Very good.   1953 Second impression, Hart-Davis.
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    Harris, Clare E.   THE MUSEUM ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. £25.00    
      Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet.   314pp. Index. Illustrated in colour and b/w.   Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper.   2012 First edition, University of Chicago Press.
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    Hedin, Sven.   TRANS-HIMALAJA. £85.00    
      Entdeckungen und Abenteuer in Tibet.   In 2 volumes. 405pp and 406pp with foding maps in colour at end of each volume. Index. 10 maps. 397 illustrations from photographs, watercolours and drawings by the author. In the original red cloth. Text in German. In the original decorated brown cloth.   Hinges of vol 1 cracked and one plate loose. Vol 2 very good.   1909 Brockhaus, Leipzig.
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    Herzog, Lena (photographs).   PILGRIMS: BECOMING THE PATH ITSELF. £10.00    
         177pp. 4to. Landscape. Colour photographs taken at Bodhgaya nd Mount Kailash. Text by Werner Herzog.   Fine in fine dw.   2002 First edition, Arcperiplus.
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    Hicks, Roger and Chogyam, Ngakpa.   GREAT OCEAN. £10.00    
      An Authorised Biography of the Dalai Lama.   207pp.   Fine in fine dw.   1984 First.
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    Hicks, Roger.   HIDDEN TIBET. £10.00    
      The Land and its People.   148pp. Archive and modern photographs in b/w. Commentary to photographs by biographer of Dalai Lama who was able to select from The Library of Tibet and the Dalai Lama's personal collection. In soft covers.   Fine.   1988 First edition, Element Books.
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    Hopkins, Jeffrey (edits).   TANTRIC PRACTICE IN NYING-MA. £10.00    
         239pp. Index. Card covers.   Fine.   1996 Revised edition Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York.
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    Howarth, David (edits).   MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE. £5.00    
      The Memoirs of his Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet.   255pp. Index. 34 photographs in colour and b/w.   Fine in very good dustwrapper.   1962 First edition, Weidenfeld.
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    Howarth, David (edits).   MY LAND AND MY PEOPLE. £5.00    
      The Memoirs of his Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet.   255pp. Index. 34 photographs in colour and b/w.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper..   1962 First edition, Weidenfeld.
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    Huc, R.E.   LAMAS OF THE WESTERN HEAVENS. £14.00    
         351pp. Folio Society edition of Huc's travels. New translation. Introduction by John Keay. Original engravings.   Fine in decorated boards.   1982 First thus, Folio Society.
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    Huc, R.E.   LAMAS OF THE WESTERN HEAVENS. £16.00    
         351pp. Folio Society edition of Huc's travels. New translation. Introduction by John Keay. Original engravings.   Fine in decorated boards with original slipcase.   1982 First thus, Folio Society.
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    Jigmei, Ngapo et al.   TIBET. £19.00    
         4to. 296pp. Long essays by Chinese and Tibetan scholars on a range of cultural topics with very many excellent photographs in colour.   Fine in fine dw.   1981 First edition, Gallery Books.
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    Johnson, Russell and Moran, Kerry.   THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF TIBET. £21.00    
      On Pilgrimage to Kailas.   122pp. Magnificent colour photographs. The author and photographer completed the circuit of the mountain seven and ten times.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 First US., Rochester, Vermont.
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    Johnson, Russell and Moran, Kerry.   KAILAS: THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF TIBET. £21.00    
      On Pilgrimage to Kailas.   129pp. Magnificent colour photographs. The author and photographer completed the circuit of the mountain seven and ten times.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 First edition, Thames and Hudson.
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    Kaulback, Ronald.   SALWEEN. £19.00    
         331pp. With 29 plates and folding map. Travels in South-Eastern Tibet. Identical to first edition with book club imprint only on spine.   Very good.   1938 Reprint, Travel Book Club.
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    Kaulback, Ronald.   SALWEEN. £49.00    
         331pp. 29 plates and folding map. Travels in South-Eastern Tibet.   Very good. Owner's name.   1938 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PLANT HUNTING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. £20.00    
         383pp. Facsimile of 1930 original. The North East Frontiers in 1926.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper. Owner's rubber stamp mark.   1974 Reprint, Minerva Press
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   A PLANT HUNTER IN TIBET. £31.00    
         317pp. Index. 19 photographs. Folding map. From Assam into south eastern Tibet.   Very good indeed. A clean, bright copy with a little rubbing to the corners.   1937 Reprint, Cape.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PILGRIMAGE FOR PLANTS. £14.00    
         191pp. Index. 36 b/w photographs. Autobiography. Full bibliography of his books and other publications.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper..   1960 First edition, Harrap.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE. £35.00    
         347pp. 2 maps. 13 b/w photographs. Travels on the borders of Burma and Tibet.   Very good indeed. A lovely copy. Neat inscription on the verso of the frontispiece.   1937 First edition, Jonathan Cape.
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    Kingdon-Ward, F.   PLANT HUNTER'S PARADISE. £14.00    
         347pp. 2 maps. 13 b/w photographs. Travels on the borders of Burma and Tibet.   Front endpaper removed and front hinge slack. Inscription.   1938 Second impression, Jonathan Cape.
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    Kling, Kevin (photographs).   TIBET. £10.00    
         Brief text and 96 photographs, 91 in colour. Card covers.   Wrappers curling a little.   1990 Thames & Hudson.
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    Landor, A Henry Savage.   TIBET AND NEPAL. £22.00    
         233pp. Index. 75 paintings in colour and b/w by the author. Facsimile reprint of A & C Black 1905 original.   Very good indeed.   1993 AES, Delhi .
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    Levenson, Claude B.   THE DALAI LAMA. £5.00    
      A Biography.   291pp. Index. 14 b/w photographs. Translated from the French.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1988 First edition, Unwin Hyam.
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    Lyte, Charles.   FRANK KINGDON-WARD. £13.00    
      The Last of the Great Plant Hunters.   218pp. Index. 26 b/w illustrations and 2 maps.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 First edition, John Murray.
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    MacGregor, John.   TIBET. £16.00    
      A Chronicle of Exploration.   373pp. Index. 28 b/w illustrations and 8 maps.   Very good indeed. Endpapers slightly marked by removed tape.   1970 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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    Mangeot, Sylvain.   ADVENTURES OF A MANCHURIAN. £5.00    
      The Story of Lobsang Thondup.   281pp. 17 b/w photographs and 4 maps. Loves, adventures and escapes in China, Tibet and Bhutan.   Very good indeed.   1974 First edition, Collins.
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    Maraini, Fosco.   SECRET TIBET. £5.00    
         251pp. Index. Book club edition. Fully illustrated with 62 pages of photographs.   Very good.   1954.Readers Union, Hutchinson.
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    Maraini, Fosco.   SECRET TIBET. £5.00    
         251pp. Index. Book club edition. Fully illustrated with 62 pages of photographs.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.j.   1954.Readers Union, Hutchinson.
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    Maraini, Fosco.   SECRET TIBET. £14.00    
         251pp. Index. 60 plates. A jouney from Sikkim to Lhasa.   Very good. Owner's name.   1952 First edition, Hutchinson.
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    Maraini, Fosco.   SECRET TIBET. £14.00    
         251pp. Index. 60 plates. A journey from Sikkim to Lhasa.   Very good. In chipped dw. Owner's name.   1956 Reprint, Hutchinson.
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    McDonnell, Hector (illustrates).   A JOURNEY TO TSAPARANG £24.00    
         Drawings from a sketchbook of a journey in Tibet. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author.   Fine.   1986 Gschwendtner Blatter, Pfarrkirchen.
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    Mehra, Parshotam.   THE McMAHON LINE AND AFTER. £35.00    
      A Study of the Triangular Contest on India's North-Eastern Frontier between Britain, China and Tibet, 1904-47.   497pp. Index. 9 maps.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper.   1974 First edition, Macmillan, India.
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    Merrick, Henrietta Sands.   SPOKEN IN TIBET. £85.00    
         198pp. Index. Map. 29 b/w photographs. American woman treks from Darjeeling to Gyantse. In the original black cloth.   Very good indeed apart from the number 39 on the front endpaper in colour. Neat bookplate   1933 First edition, Putnam's, New York.
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    Migot, Andre.   TIBETAN MARCHES. £10.00    
         288pp. 39 b/w photographs and a map. Travels on the borders between China and Tibet.   Very good.   1955 First, Hart Davis.
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    Moorcroft, William.   A JOURNEY TO LAKE MANSAROVARA £25.00    
      in Undes, a Province of Tibet.   142pp. Index. First published in 1816. This reprint is edited with a preface by J.L.Gupta.   Very good in very good dw.   1987 Reprint, Gian Publishing House, Delhi.
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    Moules, Leonard.   THREE MILES HIGH. £-10.00    
      Northwards to Tibet.   116pp. Small 8vo. 8 plates of b/w photographs. Missionary travels to Tibet througn Kumaon from Munsiari, where he was based, to Millam.   Rear hinge split and glue showing on endpapers.   No date (preface dated 1947), Christian Literature Crusade.
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    Murphy, Dervla.   TIBETAN FOOTHOLD. £14.00    
         206pp. Index. 26 b/w photographs. With the Tibetans in exile in India at Dharamsala. Her second book.   Very good in very good dw.   1966 First edition, John Murray.
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    Nomachi, Kazuyoshi (photographs)   TIBET. £16.00    
         198pp. 4to. Text by Robert A.F.Thurman. Superb colour images by leading Japanese photographer, not just natural beauty but section on the damage done to Buddhist sites.   Fine in fine dw.   1998 Local Colour, Hong Kong.
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    Norbu, Thubten.   TIBET IS MY COUNTRY. £10.00    
      As told to Heinrich Harrer.   264pp. 19 illustrations in colour and b/w.   Fine in laminated dw.   1960 First Hart-Davis.
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    Pallis, Marco.   THE WAY AND THE MOUNTAIN. £5.00    
         A collection of his writing about Buddhism and Tibet. 226pp.   Fine.   1991 Revised paperback edition.
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    Pallis, Marco.   THE WAY AND THE MOUNTAIN. £10.00    
         216pp. 18 plates. Exploration of the Tibetan spiritual tradition.   Fine in chipped dustwrapper.   1961 Second impression, Peter Owen.
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    Patterson, George N.   UP AND DOWN ASIA. £10.00    
         150pp. Collection of sketches set in India, China, Tibet. Many in Kalimpong.   Very good in very good dw. Publisher's compliments slip pasted to front endpaper.   1958 First edition, Faber.
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    Patterson, George N.   TIBETAN JOURNEY. £12.00    
         232pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs. 1950 winter trek from south eastern Tibet to Assam. Meeting with Kingdon-Ward.   Very good indeed. A bright copy.   1954 Reprint Faber.
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    Patterson, George N.   PEKING VERSUS DELHI. £16.00    
         310pp. Index. 4 maps. Frontier disputes in the Himalayas leading to the war of 1962.   Fine in fine dw.   1963 First edition, Faber.
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    Peissel, Michel.   THE LAST BARBARIANS. £10.00    
      The Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet.   253pp. Index. 17 illustrations in colour and b/w. Story of 1994 expedition and account of previous exploration.   Fine in fine dw.   1998 Souvenir Press.
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    Peissel, Michel.   THE LAST BARBARIANS. £10.00    
      The Discovery of the Source of the Mekong in Tibet.   253pp. Index. 17 illustrations in colour and b/w. Story of 1994 expedition and account of previous exploration.   Fine in fine dw.   1997 First Henry Holt, New York.
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    Perry, Art.   THE TIBETANS. £25.00    
         153pp. 4to. 77 black and white photographs. Caption index.   Fine in very good dw.   1999, First, Viking Studio, New York.
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    Powell, Andrew.   HEIRS TO TIBET. £5.00    
      Travels among the Exiles in India.   384pp.   Very good.   1992 First edition, Heinemann.
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    Richardson, Hugh E.   TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. £21.00    
         327pp. Index. Map. History by former head of the British Mission in Lhasa.   Fine in very good dw.   1984 Second edition, Shambhala.
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    Richardson, Hugh E.   TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. £5.00    
         308pp. Index. Folding map missing. Ex-public library copy in dw with sellotape marks on endpapers.   Poor but a complete text.   1962 First, Oxford University Press.
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    Richardson, Hugh E.   TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. £5.00    
         329pp. Index. 2 Maps. 30 b/w photographs.   Very good.   1984 Paperback reprint of the 1962 second edition, Shambala, Boston.
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    Richardson, Hugh E.   TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. £18.00    
         327pp. Index. Map. History by former head of the British Mission in Lhasa.   Fine in chipped dw.   1984 Second edition, Shambhala.
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    Richardson, Hugh E.   TIBET AND ITS HISTORY. £12.00    
         327pp. Index. Map. History by former head of the British Mission in Lhasa.   Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper.   1984 First Shambala edition, Boulder, Colorado.
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    Rijnhart, Dr. Susie C.   WITH THE TIBETANS IN TENT AND TEMPLE. £76.00    
      Narrative of Four Year's Residence on the Tibetan Border and of a Journey into the Far Interior.   406pp. Index. 13 photographs and a folding map. American missionary who escaped from Tibet after the death of her infant son and loss of her husband on attempt to reach Lhasa.   Very good. Some bubbling of cloth over the boards but a bright, clean copy.   1901 Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh.
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    Roskelly, John.   LAST DAYS. £5.00    
         211pp. 33 small colour photographs. Climbs on Tawoche and Menlungtse.   Fine in fine dw.   1992 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton.
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    Schary, Edwin G.   IN SEARCH OF THE MAHATMAS OF TIBET. £14.00    
         312pp. Index. 16 photographs. American travels from Srinagar to Darjeeling via Tibet in 1917.   A good copy in chipped dustwrapper   No date (1930s) Travel Book Club.
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    Schell, Orville.   VIRTUAL TIBET. £10.00    
      Searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood.   340pp. Index. Western fascination and fantasies with the idea of Tibet.   Very good in very good dw.   2000 First, Henry Holt, New York.
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    Schiefner, F.Anton von, and Ralston, W.R.S.   TIBETAN TALES FROM INDIAN SOURCES. £16.00    
         lxv + 368pp. Index. 58pp introduction by C.A.F. Rhys Davids. Reprinted in 'Broadway Translations'.   Very good.   No date (1926), George Routledge and Sons.
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    Seaver, George.   FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND. £21.00    
      Explorer and Mystic.   391pp. Index. 13 b/w photographs and 4 maps. A biography   Near-fine in very good dw.   1952 First edition, Murray.
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    Seth, Vikram.   FROM HEAVEN LAKE. £5.00    
      Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet.   Novelist's first book.   Fine.   1987 Paperback reprint.
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    Seth, Vikram.   FROM HEAVEN LAKE. £24.00    
      Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet.   178pp. His first book.    Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1983 First edition, Chatto & Windus.
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    Shakya, Tsering.   THE DRAGON IN THE LAND OF SNOWS. £25.00    
      A History of Modern Tibet since 1947.   574pp. Index. 17 b/w photographs and 9 maps.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1999 First edition, Columbia University Press, New York.
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    Siegel, Jennifer.   ENDGAME. £26.00    
      Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia.   273pp. Index. Map. Close anaysis of events in Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet before and after The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2002 First edition, I.B.Tauris.
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    Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh.   A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET. £22.00    
         291pp. Index. 48pp of illustrations.   Very good indeed in chipped dustwrapper.   1968 First edition, Weidenfeld.& Nicolson.
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    Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh.   A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET. £14.00    
         309pp. Index. 62pp of b/w illustrations. Card covers.   Fine.   1995 Revised edition, Shambhala.
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    Snellgrove, David and Richardson, Hugh.   A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TIBET. £25.00    
         291pp. Index. 48pp of illustrations.   Very good indeed. Slight indentations to spine cloth.   1968 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson..
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    Snelling, John.   THE SACRED MOUNTAIN. £10.00    
      Travellers and Pilgrims at Mount Kailas in Western Tibet, and the Great Universal Symbol of the Sacred Mountain.   457pp. Lavishly produced and colour-illustrated enlarged paperback edition.   Fine.   1990 East West Publications.
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    Snelling, John.   THE BUDDHIST HANDBOOK. £10.00    
      A Complete Guide to Buddhist Teaching and Practice.   373pp. Index. Card covers.   Fine.   1997 Reprint, Rider.
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    Somerville-Large, Peter.   TO THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD. £10.00    
      Yaks and Unheroic Travel in Nepal and Tibet.    225pp. Index. Journeys to Everest Base Camp and Mount Kailas.   Very good in very good dw.   1987 First edition, Hamish Hamilton.
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    Starks, Richard and Murcutt, Miriam.   LOST IN TIBET. £12.00    
      The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane and the Will to Survive.   210pp. Endpaper maps. 17 b/w photographs.   Ver good indeed in like dustwrapper.   2004 First edition, The Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut.
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    Subedi, Abhi.   EKAI KAWAGUCHI. £18.00    
      The Trespassing Outsider.   175pp. Index. 64 illustrations in colour and b/w.   Fine in pictorial boards.   1999 Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu.
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    Thubron, Colin.   TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET. £5.00    
         227pp. Index. Map. Journey from Nepal round Mount Kailas.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2011 First edition, Chatto & Windus.
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    Tucci, Giuseppe.   TIBET, LAND OF SNOWS. £31.00    
         216pp. Index. 190 colour and b/w photographs. 1 map. Translated by J.E.Stapleton Driver. Detailed descriptions of Tibetan Buddhism, Culture and Art.   Very good in dw with some loss.   1967 First edition, Elek Books.
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    Tucci, Guiseppi.   TO LHASA AND BEYOND. £18.00    
         193pp. Index. Many b/w photographs. Folding map.   Fine in fine dustwrapper. An outstanding copy.   1983 East-West Publications.
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    Turner, Samuel.   AN ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF THE TESHOO LAMA IN TIBET £22.00    
      Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan and Part of Tibet.   xviii + 473pp. 13 rather smudgy b/w folding views. No map. Facsimile reprint of 1800 original.   Very good indeed.   1991 Asian Educational Services, New Delhi.
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    Turner, Samuel.   AN ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF THE TESHOO LAMA IN TIBET £35.00    
      Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan and Part of Tibet.   xxviii + 473pp. 4to. 13 b/w views and illustrations, some folding. No map. High quality facsimile reprint of 1800 original. Early Western account of Bhutan.   Fine in fine dw.   2005 Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi.
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    Van Alphen, Jan and Aris, Anthony (edit).   ORIENTAL MEDICINE. £32.00    
      An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing.   271pp. 4to. Index. Illustrated with 190 colour photographs and 40 in b/w. Study of Indian, Tibetan and Chinese traditions.   Fine in fine dw.   1995 First edition, Serindia.
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    Verrier, Anthony.   FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND AND THE GREAT GAME. £15.00    
         238pp. Index. 26 b/w photographs and 4 maps.   Very good in fine dw. Paper beginning to darken.   1991 First edition, Cape.
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    Waller, Derek.   THE PUNDITS. £25.00    
      British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia.   327pp. Index. 9 illustrations and 9 maps.   Fine in dustwrapper with a single short tear.   1990 First edition, University Press of Kentucky.
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    Waller, Derek.   THE PUNDITS. £26.00    
      British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia.   327pp. Index. 9 illustrations and 9 maps.   Very good in very good dustwrapper.   1990 First edition, University Press of Kentucky.
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    Williamson, Margaret D.   MEMOIRS OF A POLITICAL OFFICER'S WIFE IN TIBET, SIKKIM AND BHUTAN. £16.00    
      In collaboration with John Snelling.   240pp. Maps and index. Card wrappers. Her husband had been Consul General in Kashgar and served as political officer responsible for relations with Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet. They married in 1933. Illustrated with family photographs.   Fine.   1987 First edition, Wisdom Publications.
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    Woodcock, George.    INTO TIBET. £22.00    
      The Early British Explorers.   277pp. Index. 10 b/w plates and 2 maps. The travels of Bogle, Turner and Manning.   Fine in fine dw.   1971 First edition, Faber.
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    Woodcock, George.   INTO TIBET. £10.00    
      The Early British Explorers.   277pp. Index. The travels of Bogle, Turner and Manning. Ex-public library copy with dw laminated to boards.   Very good. Front endpaper removed.   1971 First Faber.
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    Wright, Alison.   THE SPIRIT OF TIBET. £5.00    
      Portrait of a Culture in Exile.   Large format paperback. Tibetan culture in India. 176 colour plates with foreword by the Dalai Lama.   Two small tears to rear card cover, otherwise very good indeed.   1998 First Snow Lion, Ithaca, New York.
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