The Exploration of high asia

the exploration of high asia

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The Exploration of High Asia Books from the library of Michael Ward with a selection from stock

Welcome to the latest catalogue from Meridian Rare Books. We are pleased to offer a selection of books from the library of Michael Ward (1925-2005), together with some items from stock.

Michael Ward made important contributions to Himalayan climbing and exploration, high altitude physiology, and the cartography of Everest. Born in London, he was educated at Marlborough College, where his housemaster was Edwin Kempson, a member of the 1935 and 1936 Everest expeditions. Ward’s interest in climbing led him to research the possibility of an approach to Everest from the south side, resulting in the 1951 Everest Reconnaissance led by Eric Shipton, in which Ward participated. Confirmation of a southern route opened the way for the successful 1953 expedition, which Ward joined as doctor. His association with the expedition physiologist, Griff Pugh awakened interest in high altitude physiology, and the two men later conceived and participated in the Silver Hut expedition 0f 1960-1, a mountaineering/scientific expedition during which Ward and 3 others made the first ascent of Ama Dablam. Ward’s interest in high altitude physiology led to the co-authoring, with John West and Jim Milledge, of the first text book on the subject.

Ward made two medical trips to Bhutan in 1964 & 1965, visiting the remote Lunana region. His career as a surgeon left little time for serious climbing, but in 1980-1 he headed the successful expedition to Kongur, another joint climbing/scientific project.

In 1985 he accompanied as doctor the Tibetan Plateau Geotraverse. On retirement, he devoted his time to scholarly pursuits, writing on the cartography of Everest, the Pundits, and an excellent history Everest: A Thousand Years of Exploration (Ernest Press, 2003). Shortly before his death, he began work on a book-length treatment of the Pundits, a project that was completed by Richard Sale and published as Mapping the Himalayas: Michael Ward and the Pundit Inheritance (Carreg, 2009).

The present catalogue offers many titles from Ward’s library, identified in each case by his bookplate and ownership inscription. These relate primarily to the exploration of the Himalayan Kingdoms of Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan, but also cover the wider area of Central Asia that formed the focus for the so-called Great Game between Britain and Russia.

The books reveal a particular interest in the Pundits - the local men trained by men of the Survey of India for exploration and surveying in regions to which Europeans were unable to gain access – but Ward also collected works by Hedin, Stein, Waddell, and other great names associated with Central Asia. Ward’s interest in botany is reflected in books by a number of authors, notably Frank Kingdon Ward, Frank Ludlow, and George Taylor (with whom Ward corresponded).

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1-2-3 1. Bailey, F. M. China-Tibet-Assam. A Journey, 1911. London: Jonathan Cape, [1945]. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. 175; photo. illusts., one sketch map, one extending map; previous owner’s Chinese inkstamp at front, else very good in the original cloth, d.-w., which is chipped and soiled. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi B34. A Narrative of the author’s journey from the Tibetan frontier near Yenching on the Mekong to Sadia in Assam through the Mishmi Hills.

2. Bailey, F. M. Mission to Tashkent. London: Jonathan Cape, [1946]. £95

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Neate B06; Yakushi B36. In 1913 Bailey and H. T. Morshead explored the regions of north Assam and South Tibet with the pundit Kintup. A report of their findings was published in 1914, but the present account is Bailey’s fuller narrative of the expedition, during which “We solved the mystery of the Tsangpo Gorges and mapped the country forming the geographic frontier between Tibet and Assam” (Foreword). The letters with this copy, all written at different times, relate to Ward’s attempts to find photographs of Namcha Bawar. Blakeney’s letter suggests “that if Col. Bailey is not too old, he could help as much as anyone, and may have pictures to send you”; Bailey writes “I am afraid my own photos are not very good & I lost my camera in the Tsangpo Gorge. I have one or two in a large album but I think Sherriff and Ludlow have very much better ones than mine & I would advise you to get in touch with them”. Bailey’s wife later writes “I have a great many photos but they are all in albums … I know Bhutan well”.

First edition. 8vo. pp. 312; photo. illusts., one sketch map, one extending map; very good in the original cloth, d.-w., which is chipped and soiled, with internal tape repair to head of spine. Loosely inserted letter from the author’s widow Irma Bailey to Michael Ward (dated June 13th). Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

4. Bell, Sir Charles. Tibet Past & Present. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1924. £350

Yakushi B35. Bailey was sent by the Government of India in 1918 to examine and report on the Bolshevik revolution in Russian Central Asia.

He travelled with L. V. S. Blacker and P. T. Etherton from Srinagar to Tashkent via Gilgit and Kashgar, returning in 1920.

First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 326; b&w & coloured photo. plates, 2 folding maps; near-fine in the original cloth, in the original d.-w., which is somewhat browned to spine, and has been carefully strengthened internally to the joints. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

3. Bailey, F. M. No Passport to Tibet. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, [1957]. £250

Neate B77; Yakushi B257a. From 1908 to 1919 Bell acted as Political Officer in Sikkim, and his experience in this position led to his selection as special ambassador for Britain to Lhasa - Bell became the first European diplomat to enter Lhasa, in 1920. His influence was instrumental in securing the agreement of the Dalai Lama to the first Mount Everest Expedition. He returned to Oxford to pursue his studies of the Himalayan kingdoms, and the present work gives a history of Tibet, and overview of its people and culture. Copies in the original dust-wrapper are particularly uncommon.

Second Impression (same year as first). 8vo. pp. 294; photo. illusts., eight sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, d.-w., which is slightly frayed with internal tape repairs. Loosely inserted letter from the author, dated 27th Sept 1964, to Michael Ward, a letter from the author’s widow Irma Bailey to Michael Ward (dated June 13th), and a letter on Mount Everest Foundation letterhead from T. S. Blakeney to Ward. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, with a signed offprint of his article ‘The Exploration of the Tsangpo River and its Mountains’ loosely inserted.

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5. [Bhutan.] Great Britain. Parliament. East India (Bootan). Papers relating to Bootan. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 15 February 1865. £1,750 First edition. Small folio. pp. [iv], 339; one folding map; minor chipping or marginal tears, small tear to one fold of map, else very good in recent boards with the original printed blue wrappers retained, paper lettering piece to spine, single erasure mark to each wrapper. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi G249. This report provides an account of Anglo-Bhutanese relations at the time of the Anglo-Bhutanese war of 1864, and details of Sir Ashley Eden’s mission of 1863-4. Eden visited the Bhutanese to contest their harbouring of Sikkimese dissidents after the Anglo-Sikkimese war of 1861, and to protest against outrages conducted on British territory. The mission failed, with Eden humiliated, and this led to the 1864 war. A further report appeared in 1866 (Further Papers relating to Bhutan), not offered here.

6. Boeck, Karl. Indische Gletscherfarhten. Reisen und Erlebnisse im Himalaya. Leipzig and Stuttgart: Deutches Verlag, 1900. £395 First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 470, ii (ads); photo. illusts., 4 folding photo. panoramas, 6 plans and 3 maps (2 in colour and folding); bumped to head of spine, else very good in the original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed.

Yakushi B437. An early photographic record of Boeck’s two tours, around Nanda Devi and into Sikkim through the Singalila Range. The extending photographic panoramas show Nanda Devi, Everest, and Kangchenjunga.

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7. Bonvalot, Gabriel. Across Thibet. Cassell & Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1891. £450 First English Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xii, 218, [16, pubs. list] & viii, 230, [16, pubs. list]; frontis. to vol. I, one folding map, numerous woodcut plates, many full page; very good in the original ppictorial cloth, gilt, a little darkened on spine, slightly rubbed. Inscribed to the flyleaf of vol. I “The Cuthbert Peel Award Presented to Michael Ward by the Council of The Royal Geographical Society 1973”, with Ward’s ownership inscription and bookplate to each vol.

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Yakushi B479b. A translation of De Paris au Tonkin a Travers le Tibet Inconnu, first published in Paris in 1891. A fascinating narrative of the author’s journey with Henri d’Orleans from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 1889-90.

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8. Bower, Hamilton. Diary of a Journey across Tibet. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894. £750 First US edition [same year as UK]. 8vo. pp. xvi, 309; frontis., woodeng. plates and illusts., one folding map, one folding profile; chipping to dedication leaf, slight marginal age-toning, a little shaken in the original cloth, gilt, image of yak to upper cover. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

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Yakushi B533. In July 1891 Bower travelled covertly into Tibet with Dr W. G. Thorold and the pundit Atma Ram, intending to reach Lhasa.

The Tibetan authorities stopped them before they reached their intended destination, and Bower was forced to exit the country. His illicit entry was not altogether sanctioned by the British Army, though he had been asked to look out for signs of Russian activity. Bower made an official secret report about his journey, as well as the present public narrative.

9 9. Bruce, C. G. Kulu and Lahoul. London: Edward Arnold, 1914. £450 First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 307, 8 (pubs. list); photogravure frontis., photo. illusts., one key map and one folding map; slight browning to free endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, lettered in silver, a few minor marks, scuff line to upper board. Ownership inscription (from Marlborough College) and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate B198; Yakushi B592. Bruce’s account of climbing and exploration in the region between Garhwal and Kashmir, which included a party of Gurkhas, Captain Todd, and Bruce’s wife, who contributed the final chapter “A Lady’s Point of View’. Bruce himself later led the Everest expeditions of 1922 and 1924.

10. Buchanan, Walter. ‘A Recent Trip into the Chumbi Valley, Tibet.’

From ‘The Geographical Journal’, [vol. 53 no. 6], June 1919. £35 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. 403-410; photo. illusts.; very good in the original printed wrappers. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to first leaf of text.

A journey from the Chumbi valley to Phari Dzong, the first since the Younghusband expedition 1903-4.

11. Burkill, I. H. Notes from a Journey to Nepal. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1910. £250 First edition thus. 8vo. pp. [ii, title-page], [59]-140, iii; single-page map; near-fine in the original boards, recased with new endpapers.

Yakushi B626. Published as Volume IV, no. 4, of Records of the Botanical Survey of India. In November, 1907, Burkill walked along 100 miles of the Nepalese border before being granted permission to travel to Katmandu in December, visiting the Trisuli valley, and leaving Nepal via Pherphing.

He collected plants, and the present work compares his finds with those of Nathaniel Wallich and previous visitors to the country. Observations on the regions in which Burkill collected give way to the long enumeration of the plants observed, and indeed the present work, which is uncommon in this separate form, is largely devoted to the botany of Nepal.

12. Burnaby, Captain Fred. On Horseback through Asia Minor.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. £850 First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 352, [errata slip], 24 (ads.) & xx, 399; mounted photographic port. frontis. to vol. I, 3 maps; some foxing at front and rear, else very good in the original decorative cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed.

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Burnaby was a colourful figure in the British Army, at a time of great tension between Britain and Russia - the so-called Great Game. Burnaby rode for five months through Asia Minor and Armenia, thereby aiming to gain information about Russian activity on the frontiers. He also wished to assess the readiness of the Turks for the then increasingly likely war between Turkey and Russia. Though better known for his other Great Game book, A Ride to Khiva (1876), his On Horseback through Asia Minor is in some ways the more important work.

13. Burrard, S. G. & H. H. Hayden. A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1907-8. £1,500 First edition. 4to. 4 parts, parts 1-3 bound in one. pp. [v], 46, [v], [47]-117, [v], [119]-230 & [i], iii, [207]-308; one chart of the Himalayan & Tibetan mountain ranges, 2 photogravure plates of pictures by Colonel G. Strahan and of the Nojli Tower, 51 maps, charts and sections including many folding and one large folding map at rear of part 4; parts 1-3 bound without wrappers in later half calf, bookplate of the Association of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club, part 4 in original printed wrappers, very worn to spine, some staining to lower margins partially affecting contents, with loosely inserted title-page and prelims. printed for the binding of all four parts together. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward at front of bound volume.

Neate B221; Yakushi B637a. Burrard & Hayden’s excellent survey proved an invaluable work for both surveyors and explorers. The work’s four parts comprise: The high peaks of Asia; the principal mountain ranges of Asia; the rivers of the Himalaya and Tibet; the geology of the Himalaya.

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Yakushi C09. The authors were members of the Church Missionary Society, based in China. Cable, with Eva and Francesca French, travelled beyond the Great Wall into the Gobi desert, from Shansi through Hami, Urumchi, Barkel and elsewhere.

16. Caraman, Philip. Tibet: The Jesuit Century. Tiverton: Halsgrove, [1998]. £20 First UK ed. 8vo. pp. v, 154; illusts., 4 sketch maps; fine in the original cloth, d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

An overview of the period of Jesuit expeditions to Tibet from 1624 to 1721.

17. Chapman, F. Spencer. Lhasa The Holy City. London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. £95 14

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First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 342; 8 coloured plates inc. frontis., b&w photo. plates, one folding map; some spotting, else very good in the original twotone yellow cloth with blue band, gilt, slightly soiled on spine. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate C28; Yakushi C142. Chapman accompanied a British mission under B. J. Gould to Lhasa, where the mission remained for six months. Chapman stayed on after the mission to make an ascent of Chomolhari, described in his book Helvellyn to Himalaya (1940).

18. Chapman, F. Spencer. ‘Lhasa in 1937.’ Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, vol. XCI, no. 6, June 1938. £50 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. [497]-507; 12 photo. illusts.; very good in the original printed wrappers, RGS instamp to upper wrapper. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to first leaf of text.

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The lecture Chapman gave at the RGS in 1937 about his visit to Lhasa.

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14. Burrard, Sir Sidney. Mount Everest and its Tibetan Names. A Review of Sir Sven Hedin’s Book. Dehra Dun: The Geodetic Branch Office, Survey of India, [1931]. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. [iv], 18; 2 images of “The Himalayan area embraced by the arms of the River Kosi” on one plate; very good in the original cloth-backed printed boards, RGS inkstamp to upper board. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to flyleaf (doctor on the 1953 Everest Expedition).

Yakushi B643; S & B B51; not in Neate or Perret. Survey of India Professional Paper no. 26. Burrard’s review of Hedin’s Mount Everest (1926) primarily concentrates on the latter’s claim that the true Tibetan name for the mountain, based on evidence from D’Anville’s map of Tibet (1733), should be Chomo Lungma.

15. Cable, Mildred & Francesca French. The Gobi Desert.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1942]. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. 303; 3 coloured plates, photo. illusts., 1 map to text, 1 extending map; previous owner’s inkstamp to flyleaf, else very good in the original cloth, d.-w., which is frayed and slightly faded on spine, with internal paper repairs. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

19. Cheong, W. E. Mandarins and Merchants. Jardine Matheson & Co., a China agency of the early nineteenth century. London and Malmö: Curzon Press, [1978]. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 298; 3 sketch maps or diags.; good in the original printed card wrappers, a little creased and finger soiled. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward.

Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 26. Jardine Matheson were the sponsors of the Kongur expedition, 1980-1, led by Ward.

20. Curzon, George N. The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus.

London: The Royal Geographical Society, n.d. [1898]. £250 First edition. 8vo. pp. [i], 83; illusts. to text, large folding map at rear; previous owner’s bookplate, good in the original quarter calf, gilt, t.e.g., worn on spine, particularly at the foot.

Yakushi C140a. Curzon - later the Marquess of Kedleston - spent the years 1887-94 on a series of travels, beginning with a world tour, and concluding with “a daring foray through the Pamir to Afghanistan in 1894” (ODNB). In the present work, which initially appeared as an article in the Geographical Journal of the RGS, Curzon identifies the source of the Oxus visited during his travels through the Pamirs.

21 21. De Beer, Dora H. Yunnan 1938. Account of a Journey in SW. China. [Printed … at the University Press, Oxford], 1971. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. [iv], 88; 8 photo. illusts.; very good in the original wrappers, with loosely inserted an ALS from de Beer to Michael Ward, dated 4 Dec 1972. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate D10; Yakushi D126: “Two attempts to climb Sanseto, the highest peak in the Yalung Shan near Li-kiang, after leaving Rangoon and crossing the Irrawady, Salween and Meking Rivers”. The letter from De Beer congratulates Michael Ward on his autobiographhy, In This Short Span, which she had just read: “It seems to me a notable contribution to Himalayan literature”.

22. Deasy, H. H. P. In Tibet and Chinese Turkistan being the Record of Three Years’ Exploration. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. £750 Second impression. 8vo. pp. xvi, 420; port. frontis., 7 plates and photo. illusts., one large folding map; slight staining to inner margin of titlepage, tear with loss to fold of map at lower margin (slight loss of letters), archival tape repairs to some folds of map, else good in the original cloth, gilt, illustration mounted to upper cover, some darkening to spine, discolouration to cloth on boards. A presentation copy from the author, inscribed to front blank “With the Author’s Compliments H H P Deasy”, and with the bookplate of The Cavalry Club, subsequent ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi D123. Deasy (1866-1947) was an Irish Army officer stationed in India between 1888 and 1896. In the years 1896-9 he travelled on the borders of Kashmir, Tibet, and Turkestan, for which he won the Royal Geographical Society’s Founder’s Medal in 1900. This copy of Deasy’s account was presented to The Cavalry Club; presentation copies of the book are uncommon.

23. Desideri, Ippolito. An Account of Tibet. The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pisoia, S.J., 1712-1727. ed. Filippo de Filippi. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., [1932]. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, 474, [8, pubs. list]; illusts., one folding map; good in the original cloth, gilt, faded on spine and partly discoloured on boards. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi F74a. Desideri (1684-1733) was chosen by his Jesuit superior to undertake a mission to Tibet. He reached Lhasa in 1716, and stayed there until December 1721, when he was recalled by the Vatican. His studies

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of the Tibetan language, Buddhism, and other aspects of the local people, were written up, but were only recovered in 1875, when the full extent of Desideri’s achievement became known.

24. [Ewart, J. M.] The Story of the Frontier Province by E. J. M. Peshawar: Government Press, 1922. £495 First edition. 8vo. pp. [v], 73; 9 photo-type plates inc. one panoramic, one diagram and one panorama in pocket at front, large folding map in pocket at rear; rear hinges cracked, front hinge broken, else very good in the original cloth, lettering faded.

This is a scarce history of the North West Frontier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with some discussion of the local peoples. The map, heliozincographed in Calcutta, was published under the direction of Colonel St. G. C. Gore, Surveyor General of India, in 1903, with corrections to 1910. Worldcat locates only 3 copies of the work, all in North America. A later version of this title was published in 1930, revised by E. B. Howell.

25. [Ewart, J. M.] The Story of the Frontier Province. Peshawar: Government Printing and Stationery Office, 1930. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. [ix], 92; 10 photo-type plates, one folding diagram; very good in the original cloth, slightly dusty, in the original d.-w., which is a little browned on spine.

A revised version of the 1922 edition by E. B. Howell.

26. [Farrer, Reginald.] F. H. Fisher. Reginald Farrer, Author, Traveller, Botanist and Flower Painter … with additional notes by E. H. M. Cox & W. E. Th. Ingwersen. The Alpine Garden Society, n.d.

[1932]. £45 One of 250 copies of “A Bound Edition of Alpine Garden Society’s Bulletin Vol. 1. no. 10.” 8vo. pp. [iv], 38; 25 photo. illusts.; light marginal toning to plates, else a very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards, bumped to lower outer corners.

A brief overview of Farrer’s career is followed by two further chapters, ‘Additional Notes on Farrer’s Burmese Expedition’ of 1919-20 and ‘Selected Field Notes of the Farrer-Purdom Expedition to Kansu, 1914-15.’

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28. Ford, Robert. Captured in Tibet. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1957]. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. 256; photo. illusts.; very good in the original cloth, d.-w. which is frayed with some loss, internal paper repairs to spine and joints. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi F131a. The author was in Tibet when China invaded in 1950.

Imprisoned as a spy, he spent the next five years in captivity, described in the present work. Ward notes on the flyleaf “I met him on a ski-run in St. Moritz”.

29. Gill, Captain W. J. ‘Travels in Western China and on the Eastern Borders of Tibet’, an article in the entire issue of The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 48, pp. 57-172. London: John Murray, 1878. £225 27

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27. Fleming, Peter. Bayonets to Lhasa. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. £25 First edition. 8vo. pp. 319; photo. illusts., sketch maps; good in the original cloth, gilt, d.-w., which is a little faded on spine, rubbed. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi F105. A readable history of the British forced entry into Tibet under Sir Francis Younghusband in 1903-4.

8vo. pp. 2 (ads.), ccvii, 300, 3-6 (ads.); 4 folding maps inc. one to accompany Gill’s article; very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly marked.

Gill’s article records his journey from Shanghai to Chengdu in Sichuan, from where he made a circular tour of the region. He then continued, with William Mesny, into eastern Tibet, ascending on to the Tibetan plateau and reaching a tributary of the Jinsha River. The men travelled for another 24 days before reaching Talifu, the western capital of Yunnan. Up to this point their route had not been previously surveyed, and Gill’s observations form the basis for the large map that accompanies his article. Gill subsequently wrote up his narrative as The River of Golden Sand (1880). This volume also contains Captain H. Trotter’s article ‘On the Geographical Results of the Mission to Kashgar, under Sir T. Douglas Forsyth in 1873-74’ (with map).

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30. Gordon, T. E. The Roof of the World being the Narrative of a Journey over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876. £1,500 First edition. Tall 8vo. pp. xiv, 172; 24 tinted lithographs inc. frontis. and one folding panorama, lithos. to text, one folding map; occasional foxing, else good in the original cloth, gilt, image of sheep skulls extending from spine to adjacent section of boards, recased with repair to the head and tail of spine, a little worn. Bookplate of Anders Boliner, subsequent ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate G35; Yakushi G190a. Thomas Gordon was a member of the British Army who served in the Indian Mutiny campaign, and also saw duty in Persia.

In 1873 he joined the Second Yarkand Mission to Kashgar, led by Thomas Forsyth. The mission had diplomatic and economic aims, and notably sought a commercial treaty with the Amir, Yaqub Beg. Gordon and other members of the mission, including Henry Trotter and John Biddulph, travelled further west to explore the Pamirs. This is Gordon’s account of the mission and of his travels, illustrated after his original sketches taken on the spot.

31. Goré, F. ‘Notes sur les Marches Tibétaines du Sseu-tch’ouan et du Yun-nan.’ [Extrait du Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrème-Orient, t.

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to Nanga Parbat in the Himalaya. On his return from the expedition, he and his colleagues were made prisoners-of-war, and Seven Years in Tibet tells the story of his internment and subsequent escape.

First separate edition. Large 8vo. pp. 80, [10]; 3 plates of photo. illusts., two folding maps; some creasing, good in the original printed wrappers, “R.G.S. Cancelled” inkstamp to upper wrapper, browning and wear to margins of wrappers. A presentation copy from the author, inscribed “Au Major General Sir C. Pereira En mémoire du Brigadier General G. Pereira et de son séjour à Yerkalo Sept. 1923 Francis Goré”; and with an ALS presenting the offprint, and a typed leaf entitled “Le Brigadier-General George Pereira (1865-1923)” in which Goré provides information about Pereira’s stay at Yerkalo.

35. Hayden, Henry & César Cosson. Sport and Travel in The Highlands of Tibet. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, [1927]. £75

Pereira travelled from Peking towards Lhasa in 1921-3, but died at Kanze near Batang before he had completed his travels. He met and stayed with Goré shortly before his death. Goré’s article contains geographical and historical notes on the Tibetan marches, as well as details of “excursions” made in the years 1920-2.

First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 262; photo. illusts., one large folding map; ex-lib.

Geographisches Institut d. Universität Berlin with inkstamps to prelims., occasionally thereafter, and to verso of map, good in the original cloth, gilt, library label to foot of spine. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi H152; Czech (Asia) p. 101. “Hayden, a member of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1904 as a geologist, started from Darjeeling to Lhasa in 1922 with his friend Cosson. Then they explored Tibet; the first to the North-West, i.e. the Great Central Plateau for two and a half months, and the second to the South-East into the Tsangpo and its tributaries for one month” (Yakushi).

32. Grenard, F. Tibet. The Country and its Inhabitants. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904. £125 First UK edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 373, 32 (pubs. cat.); folding map frontis.; good in the original cloth, recased with new endpapers and restored to head of spine. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi G267a. “Personal narrative of the Dutreuil de Rhins’ exploration in Tibet of 1890-95, and general account of Tibet” (Yakushi).

33. Grover, Captain [John.] Lord Aberdeen and the Ameer of Bokhara: in reply to the Edinburgh Review. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. £150 “Fourth Edition”. 8vo. pp. 22; printed notice tipped-in at p. 3; offsetting from another item to final leaf, disbound.

Not in Yakushi. In the early 1840s, two British officers (Connolly and Stoddart) were captured by the Emir of Bokhara, Nasrullah Khan, and imprisoned on charges of spying. Concern for the two men grew in Britain, and a committtee formed in London tasked with their return. John Grover, president of this committee, in 1843 sent the missionary Joseph Wolff to investigate the disappearance of the two officers (see Wolff’s account, item 112 in this catalogue). By 1845, Grover decided to make public his findings in a work entitled The Bokhara Victims, which accused Lord Aberdeen, then Foreign Secretary, of inaction. The book was anonymously reviewed in the Edinburgh Review, and Grover quickly penned this, his rejoinder.

The work contains an appendix reproducing a letter sent by Joseph Wolff from Bokhara, which established the fate of the two British officers.

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34. Harrer, Heinrich. Seven Years In Tibet. Translated from the German by Richard Graves. With an Introduction by Peter Fleming.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 288; coloured frontis., photo. illusts., one double-page sketch map; age-toning to margins, else good in the original cloth, which is slightly faded to spine, in d.-w., which is a little chipped.

Loosely inserted postcard from the Henrich-Harrer Museum, signed “With best wishes Heinrich Harrer” and with his name in Tibetan below (card creased across). Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate H40; Yakushi H90b; Perret 2167. Harrer took part in the 1938 first ascent of the Eiger’s North Face, and the following year joined an expedition

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36. Hedin, Sven. Through Asia. London: Methuen & Co., 1899. £350 Second edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. xx, 663 & xii, 665-1278; photogravure frontispiece to each, numerous illustrations including 4 coloured, 4 sketch maps, 2 large folding coloured maps; very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., slightly bumped to upper board of vol. I. Ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Michael Ward.

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Yakushi H171b. “This work does not claim to be anything more than a plain account of my journeys through Asia during the years 1893 and 1897” (Preface). Hedin’s travels took him through the Pamir steppes, the deserts of Taklamakan and the Lob-nor region, Tsaidam and Southern Tibet. They form part of the tradition of Central Asian exploration catalogued by Hedin himself in the opening chapter of the work.

37. Hedin, Sven. Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the Holy City of Lassa. London: Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1903. £350 First UK edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. xix, 608 & xv, 664; 8 coloured plates, numerous b&w plates and illusts., four folding coloured maps; labels at rear of each vol., previous owners’ bookplates at front, good in the original plum cloth, gilt, t.e.g., somewhat and unevenly discoloured and stained.

Ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Michael Ward.

Yakushi H174b. Hedin’s account of his explorations of 1899-1902 in the Kunlun and Taklamakan desert, made in the wake of Przhevalsky’s own travels. Hedin was the first to uncover the sand-buried cities of the so-called “Silk Road”. His attempt in 1900-1901 to reach Lhasa was foiled by the Tibetans. Hedin was ultimately beaten to his goal by Ekai Kawaguchi, a Japanese traveller and Scholar.

38. Hedin, Sven. ‘Through Unknown Tibet’ in The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, vol. XXV, Part 1, 1909. £45 First edition thus. 8vo. pp. 1-48, [2] [Hedin’s lecture at pp. 1-17]; frontis. of Hedin with members of the reception given for him in Manchester, 8 photo. illusts. and one folding map to Hedin’s article; very good in original printed wrappers, which are a little soiled to lower margin of upper cover.

Hedin’s lecture was given on February 12, 1909, at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall. Details of the meeting at which Hedin spoke appear later in this issue, as well as notes recording his visit to Manchester University and to a further meeting of the society (pp. 34-44).

39. Hedin, Sven. Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909 & 1913. £1,250 First editions. 3 vols. 8vo. pp. xxiii, 436 [4, ads.], xvii, 441, [2, ads] & xc, 426, [2, ads.]; numerous plates and illusts., maps, four folding maps; slight browning to endpapers and to maps, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., a little sunned on spines.

Inscribed to the flyleaf of vol. I “The Cuthbert Peel Award Presented to Michael Ward by the Council of The Royal Geographical Society 1973”, with Ward’s ownership inscription and bookplate to each vol.

Neate H68; Yakushi H177c. Hedin’s account of explorations in the years 1906-8, when he departed from Ladakh and crossed through Srinagar and Leh to Shigatse; he then returned to Lake Manasarowar along the Tsangpo, descended the Indus, and reached Simla following the Sutlej route.

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40. Hedin, Sven. ‘Journeys in Tibet, 1906-1908.’ An article in The Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. XXV, no. 4, April 1909, pp. 165199. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1909. £45 8vo. pp. [iv, ads.], [169]-224; illusts. and one folding map relating to Hedin’s article; good in the original printed wrappers, upper wrapper creased, soiled. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward.

Hedin wrote Trans-Himalaya as a full narrative of his expedition in these years.

41. [Hedin, Sven.] The Chinese Lama Temple, Potala of Jehol - Exhibition of Historical and Ethnographical Collections made by Dr. Gösta Montell, member of Dr. Sven Hedin’s Expeditions and Donated by Vincent Bendix. A Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, [1932]. £175 First edition. pp. 64; port. frontis. of Bendix, photo. illusts.; good copy in the original pictorial wrappers, a little browned to margins with chip to lower wrapper. A presentation copy from Hedin, inscribed: “To Miss Vallory Memling with kindest regards from Sven Hedin, Dec. 3 1932 New York”.

This brochure, issued to mark the opening of the Bendix Lama Temple at the ‘A Century of Progress International Exposition’ in Chicago, contains a 6pp. preface by Sven Hedin.

42. Hingston, R. W. G. A Naturalist in Himalaya. London: H. F. Witherby, 1920. £125

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First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 300; photo. illusts., one sketch map; crease to corner of title-page some spotting, a few leaves carelessly opened with slight loss (not affecting text), some spotting, previous owner’s inkstamp to half-title, good in the original cloth, gilt, darkened on spine, which is also worn at head and foot. A presentation copy, inscribed to flyleaf “Sir William Edwards with best wishes from R. W. G. Hingston”, and with the ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, with his brief note to flyleaf.

Yakushi H336. Hingston spent the years 1914-16 in Hazara, between Kashmir and the Indus, and the present work describes his observations at this period. Ward’s note reads “Hingston was a noted naturalist and medical officer (ex IMS & RAF) on the 1924 Everest Expedition”.

43. Holdich, Thomas. Tibet, The Mysterious. London: Alston Rivers, n.d. [1904]. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. [xii], 356; photo. illusts., several maps inc. one large folding map at rear; occasional markings to margins, old sellotape repairs with stains to inner fold of large map, hinges partly cracked, good in the original cloth, gilt, which is slightly bubbled.

Yakushi H383. An overview of the major explorations of Tibet, from Friar Odoric of Pordenone in 1328 to the travels and surveys of Rawling and Ryder in 1904.

44. Holland, T. H. Report on the Geological Structure and Stability of the Hill Slopes around Naini Tal. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1897. £1,250 First and only edition. 8vo. pp. [ii], viii, 85; 11 plates at rear, one large folding geological map of Naini Tal in rear pocket; a very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards, soiled, minor wear to extremities.

Not in Yakushi. Scarce. Thomas Henry Holland (1835-1926) worked for the Geological Survey of India, and in 1894 he gained local celebrity for predicting the approximate date of the rupture of the Gohna dam. According to the DNB, “His energy, personality, analytical talent, and eye for economic significance, commended him to the government of India”. In 1894 he was appointed deputy superintendent of the Survey, and by 1903 he had become its director. The present example of his work resulted from his observations at Naini Tal while on his way in 1894 to report on the Gohna landslip. Holland noticed evidence suggesting instability of the station’s hill slopes, and undertook the present survey both to gauge the extent of the danger, and to provide a model for surveys of other stations. The accompanying clear and detailed map of the area indicates the level of expertise that he had reached.

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45. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of A Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. London: John Murray, 1854. £1,250 First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xxviii, 408 & xii, 487; 12 lithos. plates inc. one folding, one unlisted coloured plate, woodengs. inc. some full-page, two folding maps; archival tape repair to one fold of second map, else generally very good in contemporary full calf for the Signet Library, sometime rebacked to style with contrasting lettering pieces, minor wear to edges of boards. Ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Michael Ward.

Neate H108; Yakushi H399a. “A classic of early Himalayan travel and exploration” (Neate). Hooker explored parts of the eastern Nepal hitherto completely unknown to Europeans, and made the first complete circuit of Kangchenjunga. As a result of his botanical studies and collections, which included almost seven thousand different species, Hooker became responsible for the introduction of numerous plant species to Great Britain, many of which are now commonplace.

compiled the present work from official British Parliamentary papers of 1873-84 to emphasise Russia’s “progressive, if not agressive, advance towards India” (p. 56). Jerningham later became Governor of Mauritius, and also of Trinidad and Tobago.

48. Kaulback, Ronald. Tibetan Trek. London: Hodder & Stroughton, 1934. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. 300; b&w photo. illusts., 2 sketch maps; good in the original cloth, faded on spine. Ownerhip inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi K77. In 1933, the author travelled in south east Tibet, northern Assam and Burma with Frank Kingdon Ward, who provides the book’s Introduction.

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46. [Howard-Bury, C. K.] ‘Two Months Leave in Kumoan and Tibet. By C. K. H-B.’. An article in The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle, 1905, pp. 111-8. Winchester: Warren and Son, 1906. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. [viii], 143; photo. illusts. inc. 6 relating to HowardBury’s article; foxing at front and rear, else very good in the original cloth, lettered in silver.

Charles Howard-Bury joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1904, and was posted to India “where he went travelling and big game-hunting. In 1905 he secretly entered Tibet without permission and was rebuked by Lord Curzon” (ODNB). The present article relates details of HowardBury’s illicit visit, as well as articles on ‘Pig-Sticking at Bareilly. By H. A. V. [H. A. Vernon]’, ‘Shooting in Bareilly. By B. W.’, the anonymous ‘A Shooting Trip in Greece’, and ‘A Trip to New Zealand’ By J. L. P.

47. Jerningham, Hubert E. H. Russia’s Warnings collected from Official Papers. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1885. £250 First edition. 8vo. pp. vii, 56; inner hinges partly cracked, ownership inscription of C. F. MacCabe with his bookplate to front pastedown, else very good in original cloth, gilt. From the library of Peter Hopkirk, with his bookplate.

Jerningham (1842-1914), a British MP and member of the Liberal Party,

49. Kaulback, Ronald. Salween. London: Hodder & Stroughton, [1938]. £450 First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 331; b&w photo. illusts., 2 sketch maps, one folding map; very good in the original cloth, slightly marked to upper board, in original linen dust-wrapper, which is a little frayed to head of spine, and browned on spine. Ownership inscription of D E Pilley Richards, subsequent ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward with a note by him to flyleaf about Dorothy Pilley.

Yakushi K78. The author and N. J. F. Hanbury-Tracy entered Tibet from Upper Burma in the early summer of 1935, spent the following 18 months travelling 3000 miles in the hinterlands of east Tibet. Here they explored the Salween-Tsangpo divide, following the course of the Salween to its source, and collecting specimens for the British Museum. Michael Ward’s note identifies the previous owner of the book, D E Pilley Richards, as Dorothy Pilley, author of Climbing Days.

50. Kaulback, Ronald. ‘A Journey in the Salween and Tsangpo Basins, South-Eastern Tibet.’ Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, vol. XCI, no. 2, February 1938. £50 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. [97]-122 ; 25 photo. illusts., 1 sketch map, one large folding map; very good in the original wrappers, RGS inkstamp to upper wrapper. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to first leaf of text.

Kaulback lectured in 1937 on his explorations of the Salween-Tsangpo divide, made with N. J. F. Hanbury-Tracy in April 1935-December 1936.

with the intention of entering Tibet, a country then closed to foreigners. He succeeded in reaching Lhasa, where he spent a year. Eventually discovered by the authorities, Kawaguchi escaped at great personal risk, returning to Japan in May 1903. His success in reaching the capital of Tibet, at a time when several Europeans had failed, brought him great renown in his own country, and his account of the journey and sojourn were translated into English in the present version by the author himself. This copy once belonged to the Theosophist Association, founded by Helena Petrovna ‘Madame’ Blavatsky, the publishers of the book - this was perhaps a file copy.

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53 51. Kawaguchi, Ekai. Three Years in Tibet. The Theosophist Office, Adyar, Madras; Theosophical Publishing Society, Benares and London, 1909. £575 First English edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 719; port. frontis., 9 photo. plates, illusts. to text, one folding plate of Gaurisankar, one folding map; some pencil annotations, particularly at front, minor spotting, inkstamp of the Blavatsky Association to title-page, partially erased note to flyleaf “Loaned from the Blavatsky Association”, tape repairs to verso of folding map, good in contemporary cloth, gilt. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi K83. Kawaguchi, a Japanese priest, travelled to Nepal in 1899

52. Keay, John. When Men and Mountains Meet. The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-75. London: John Murray, [1977]. £20 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 277; illusts., sketch maps; near-fine in the original cloth, d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate K10; Yakushi K93. An overview of exploration in Central Asia and the Himalayas, from William Moorcroft to the Yarkand Missions.

53. Kemp, E. G. Wanderings in Chinese Turkestan. London: Wightman & Co. Ltd., [1914]. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. 31, 8 plates of sepia illustrations; embrowning to free endpapers, else very good in the original green cloth, gilt, stain to upper cover.

Yakushi K115. This is a very rare account by one of the first women travellers to Yarkand and Kashgar reprinted from The Chinese Review.

Kemp was a landscape painter, and the illustrations are taken from her original sketches.

54. Kirkpatrick, Colonel William. An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul, being the Substance of Observations made during a Mission to that Country, in the Year 1793. London: Printed for William Miller, 1811. £2,250 First edition. 4to. pp. xx, 386, [2, Index]; folding map, 13 engraved plates, one hand-coloured plate of ‘The Khalidge’ (a pheasant); minor spotting, offsetting from some of the uncoloured plates to text, else a very good and wide-margined copy in full calf, sometime rebacked to style with raised bands and contrasting lettering piece.

Yakushi K214a. This is an account of the first visit by an Englishman to the valley of Kathmandu. Kirkpatrick took part in a mission to Nepal in 1793, to attempt to mediate between the country’s authorities and the Chinese. The first half of the book contains details of the route taken by the mission, and the remaining portion of the book offers information on the country’s geography, culture, economics, extent, and history. It remains an important work on the area.

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55. Lamb, Alastair. Britain and Chinese Central Asia. The Road to Lhasa 1767 to 1905. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1960]. £95

58. Landor, A. Henry Savage. Tibet & Nepal. London: A & C Black, [1905]. £150

First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 388; 5 sketch maps; minor spotting to fore-edge, else very good in the original cloth, d.-w., which is a little frayed with internal sellotape repairs. Author’s compliments slip loosely inserted, bookplate of Michael Cavenagh Gillett, subsequent bookplate of Michael Ward with note in his hand to flyleaf.

First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 233; 50 coloured plates, 25 b&w plates, captioned tissue guards, 1 folding map; light foxing to endpapers, else very good in the original blue cloth, Tibetan symbols blocked in darker blue and gilt to upper cover, reprised on spine, lettered in black, t.e.g., slightly darkened on spine. Ownership inscription (from Marlborough College) and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi L61; Inman A & C Black Colour Books 81. A “Highly imaginative account” (Yakushi) of the author’s travels in Western Nepal. Landor claims to have climbed “one of the Lumpa peaks” - at 23, 490 feet “the highest mountain altitude ever reached by a human being”. Landor says of his achievement, “I think it was partly due to the constant nourishment I took all the way up that I was able to break the world’s record in mountaineering, going several hundred feet higher than other mountaineers, with comparative ease”. His unwillingness to reveal the names of his guides hints at the true nature of his ‘achievement’.

Yakushi L40a. “This book, using only British documents, is indispensable to an understanding of the problems that India of today has inherited along its Tibetan frontier with China and an introduction to the related problems of Pakistan and Burma” (Yakushi). This copy originally belonged to Michael Gillett, author of “Hill Trips” or excursions in China (1937). Ward’s note reads: “This copy belonged to M. C. Gillett, formerly Consul in Kashgar after Eric Shipton … Gillett revised the classic work ‘Afghanistan’ by W. K. Fraser-Tytler”.

56. Lambert, E. T. D. ‘From the Brahmaputra to the Chindwin.’

Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, vol. LXXXIX, no. 4, April 1937. £20 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. 309-326; 1 sketch map, 2 plates of photo. illusts.; very good in the original wrappers, RGS inkstamp to upper wrapper.

Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to first leaf of text.

Surveying in the Naga Hills.

57. Landon, Perceval. Lhasa. An Account of 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. London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1905. £450 First edition. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. pp. xix, 414 & xi, 426; port. frontis. to each, 13 coloured plates, 23 sepia photogravures, most with captioned tissue guards, numerous b&w photo. illusts., 1 large folding map, 3 singlepage partly coloured maps, three b&w maps or plans; a matched set with previous owner’s inscription to flyleaf of vol. II, good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., cloth non-uniformly faded to boards. Ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Michael Ward.

Yakushi L57a. The author was The Times’s correspondent with the Younghusband mission to Tibet. He offers here details of the march, of the seiges at Gyantse (both of the British and of the Tibetans), and of the protracted negotiations at Lhasa.

59. Le Messurier, Colonel A. From London to Bokhara and a Ride through Persia. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. £850 First edition. 8vo. pp. 320; 11 sketched plates, 6 plans inc. 2 not listed, 3 folding maps; foxing to free endpapers, minor spotting, else very good and unopened in the original cloth, gilt, heavily sunned on spine.

The author, after two years on furlough in England, decided to return to India “via the Caucasus and Persia, with an off-chance of getting a peep at the Russian railway beyond the Caspian” (p. 3). Le Messurier travelled via Georgia to Baku and on to Bokhara; he returned to Baku and travelled south through Persia to Bushire. During the journey, Le Messurier gained important intelligence regarding Russian activities - his printed account was presented to the Viceroy of India, Lord Dufferin, before publication and wrote up his experiences in this readable work.

60. Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. Tibet the Sacred Realm. Photographs 1880-1950. Philadelphia: Aperture Books, [1983]. £35 First edition. Oblong large 8vo. pp. 159; numerous b&w photo. illusts.; very good in the original cloth, in d.-w. which is creased and frayed with slight loss to upper board. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi L245a. The catalogue of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1983. The photographers include John Claude White, Sven Hedin, Alexandra David-Neel, Ilya Tolstoy, George Taylor, George Sherriff, Joseph Rock, Heinrich Harrer, and others.

61. [Ludlow, Frank & George Sherriff.] Harold R. Fletcher, ed. A Quest of Flowers. The Plant Explorations of Frank Ludlow and

George Sherriff told from their diaries and other occasional writings.

Edinburgh University Press, 1975. £150

First edition. 8vo. pp. xxix, 587; illusts., sketch maps, map endpapers; very good in the original cloth, d.-w, rubbed. Signed by George Taylor to the contents leaf , and with Taylor’s bookplate and a TLS from him to Ward loosely inserted. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, with a long note by him to the half title, and a loosely inserted signed offprint of his article ‘Exploration of the Bhutan Himalaya’.

Yakushi F115: “Two botanists, Ludlow and Sherriff, explored extensively in the remote field of the Eastern Himalaya. It includes the botanical expeditions: NE-Bhutan in 1933, Tibet and East Bhutan in 1934, Black mountains of Central Bhutan in 1937, temperate and alpine Bhutan in 1949, &etc.” Taylor (1904-93), a director of Kew, joined Ludlow and Sherriff in Tibet; he contributed an ‘Historical Introduction’ to this book, and also signed this copy. The long note by Michael Ward at the front relates his meetings with Ludlow and Taylor.

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62. Ludlow, F. & W. T. Stearn. New Himalayan and Tibetan Species of Corydalis (Papaveraceae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany, vol. 5 No. 2, London, 1975. £25 First edition. 8vo. pp. [ii], 47-69; 15 plates; very good in the original printed wrappers, slightly rubbed. Inscribed by co-author “With W. T. Stearn’s compliments and good wishes”.

Ludlow died in 1972, and his work on the corydalis was assisted and seen into publication by Stearn, who provides an introduction to the present work.

The work describes 15 new species from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Assam.

63. MacGregor, John. Tibet. A Chronicle of Exploration. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1970]. £25 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 373; illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, d.-w., which is slightly frayed, and a little browned on spine.

Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi M32. An overview, from the Jesuit travellers to the Younghusband expedition of 1903-4, including a chapter on the Pundits.

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65. Peissel, Michel. Mustang A Lost Tibetan Kingdom. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1968. £25 First UK edition. 8vo. pp. 288; photo. illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

64. Mason, Kenneth. The Representation of Glaciated Regions on Maps of the Survey of India. Dehra Dun: Geodetic Branch Office, Survey of India, 1929. £150

Yakushi P122. An account of the author’s journey to Mustang in 1964.

Mustang had been a Tibetan kingdom, but a tributary of Nepal since the eighteenth century.

First edition. 8vo. pp. [iii], 18; errata slip; 2 photo. plates, 2 folding leaves of diags.; very good in the original cloth-backed printed boards, soiled, with, loosely inserted, a 4pp. leaflet of ‘Corrections to “Professional Paper no. 25: The Representation of Glaciated Regions on Maps of the Survey of India”, 1929’, with a replacement version of the second folding leaf, and a preprinted note sending the corrections to A. R. Hinks at the RGS. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Reprint of the 1838 first edition. 8vo. pp. 112; one folding table, 3 folding maps; good in the original printed boards, frayed to extremities of spine.

Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Not in Yakushi. Professional Paper no. 25. This technical paper for the Survey of India addresses the failure of the Survey to pay “notice to the snow-line”, and to delineate in its maps the “individuality” of glaciers themselves. Mason discusses to this end the formation of glaciers, and then shows and discusses the symbols designed for expressing glaciers on maps.

66. Pemberton, R. B. Report on Bootan. Calcutta: R. K. Maithra, [1961]. £20

A reprint of the scarce 1838 edition, for the Indian Studies Past & Present series.

67. Petech, Luciano. The Kingdom of Ladakh C. 950-1842 A. D. Roma: Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1977. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 191; very good in the original card wrappers, minor age-toning to edges of wrappers. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi P171. Published as no. 51 in the Serie Orientale Roma, Petech’s book “aims at giving a connected account of the history of the kingdom of Ladakh from its origins to its downfall” (Preface).

68. [Pundits.] T. G. Montgomerie. ‘Memorandum on the Trans-Himalayan Explorations made during 1868-69.’ N.p., n.d. c.

1869. £450 Extracted from a larger work.

4to. pp. [i, part-title, ‘Report on the Trans-Himalayan Explorations in connection with the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, during 1869’], liii-xciv; one large folding map; prelims. and final leaf relaid to inner margins, map creased, good in recent cloth, slightly faded on spine. Ownership inscriptions and bookplate of Michael Ward.

In 1868, the Pundit Mirza Shuja - known by the Survey of India simply as the Mirza - reached Kabul and proceeded to Badakshan via the Hindu Kush. He reached the Oxus at Iskasim, and headed east to the Punja fort in Wakhan. In early 1869 he left Punja to cross the Pamir steppe, reaching the source of the southern branch of the Oxus; from here he followed a tributary of the Yarkand

river to Tashkurgan, and proceeded to Kashgar, then to Yarkand and the Karakoram pass. He covered over 2000 miles, and extensively enlarged British knowledge of the relatively unknown region between British India and the Russian Empire. The present article by T. G. Montgomerie “is the primary source for the travels of the Mirza between 1868 and 1869” (Waller The Pundits, p. 279, n. 6); it seems to have been extracted from a large work. The map shows the Mirza’s route from Badakshan to Kashgar.

69. [Pundits.] Trotter, Captain H. ‘Account of the Pundit’s Journey in Great Tibet from Leh in Ladakh to Lhasa, and of his Return to India via Assam’. An article in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. 47, pp. 86-136. London: John Murray, 1877. £225 8vo. pp. cciii, 300, 6 (ads.); 14 folding maps inc. one to accompany Trotter’s article; tears to folds of maps neatly repaired, spotting to fore-edge, in the original cloth, gilt, slightly marked.

Trotter’s important article relates the journey of Nain Singh, one of the Pundits trained and employed by the staff of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India to explore the Himalayan kingdoms of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and the like. The present volume of the Journal also contains: Sir T. Douglas Forsyth ‘On the Buried Cities in the Shifting Sands of the Great Desert of Gobi’, Robert Michell’s ‘The Russian Expedition to the Alai and Pamir’; as well as others on Madagascar, Bolivia, and China.

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70. [Pundits.] Hennessey, J. B. N., ed. Report on the Explorations in Great Tibet and Mongolia , Made by A—-k in 1879-82, in Connection with the Trigonometrical Branch, Survey of India. Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Branch Office, 1884. £1,500 First edition. Small folio. pp. 121; five folding maps in pocket at rear; duplicate copy from the Royal Geographical Society, with inkstamps to title and to verso of each map, recently bound with the original boards and a new cloth spine, new endpapers and map pocket, bookplate and library rules of the RGS pasted at front and rear, a few minor marginal tears to contents, now preserved in a purpose-made fall-down-back box. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi H240. This is the extremely rare original report of the final explorations by the Pundit Kishen Singh, his “crowning achievement … he left Darjeeling on 24 April 1878 and ended with his return there on 12 November 1882, over four and one-half years and 2,800 miles later. HIs epic journey led him from Lhasa across Tibet into China almost as far as Outer Mongolia, from where he returned by a different route to southeastern Tibet, and then continued west along the border between Tibet and Assam, in northeastern India” (Waller p.127). Some 1,700 miles of Kishen Singh’s explorations was over territory only previously known from Jesuit surveys of the early eighteenth century (whose measurements he showed were largely correct).

recent wrappers incorporating remains of original wrappers.

Yakushi D54. Das was employed as a Pundit by the Survey of India, and he explored the area between North Sikkim and Lhasa in the years 1879 and 1881, when he reached Lhasa. The present work, according to the Preface, collects “reprints from the contemporary papers, of the speeches and lectures of my brother Sri Sarat Chandra, as to what he saw and learnt about the little known works of Indian Aryans, in the countries beyond the Himalayas during his sojourn in Tibet” (p. v). The lectures examine the early history of Buddhism in Tibet, though Appendix III prints details of an 1877 trip to Sikkim by Nobin Chandra Das, Sarat’s brother.

72. [Pundits.] Das, Sarat Chandra. Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet. Edited by W. W. Rockhill. London: John Murray, 1902. £575 71

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71. [Pundits.] Das, Sarat Chandra. Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow … Edited by Nobin Chandra Das. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1893. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 92, 28; creasing to prelims., chipping with loss to corners of title-page, previous owner’s inscription to title-page, good in

First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 285; port. frontis., illusts., four folding plans, 2 folding maps; split to fold of one map, old sellotape repair to stub of other map, previous owner’s inscription at front, a little shaken in the original green cloth, gilt, rubbed, minor bubbling to upper board.

Yakushi D55. Das was employed as a Pundit by the Survey of India and explored the area between North Sikkim and Lhasa during the years 18791881, when he reached Lhasa. His reports were initially published in the 1880s, but this is the first edition to collect his journeys together.

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73. [Pundits.] Kinthup, H. R. Thuillier & H. C. B. Tanner. Explorations on the Tsang-po in 1880-84 by Explorer Kinthup with Extracts from Col. H. R. Thuillier & Col. H. C. B. Tanner’s Reports 1886-87. Dehra Dun: Printed at the Trigonometrical Survey Office, Survey of India, 1911. £1,250 First edition. 4to. pp. [i], 16; one large folding map; very good, bound with the original upper wrapper in cloth, slightly faded on spine. Ownership inscriptions and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Not in Yakushi. This is the exceptionally scarce report of Kinthup’s explorations in Tibet, notably with a view to establishing the identity of the Tsangpo and Brahmaputra rivers. Kinthup (or Kintup) was sent into Tibet by the British authorities, planning to release in the Tsangpo a series of logs that would be recorded on their descent by British officials, thereby aiming to confirm the identity of the two rivers. Kinthup entered Tibet in 1880, but was enslaved, and had his equipment and notebooks confiscated. In 1882 he escaped, and continued with his task of releasing the logs into the river, sending at the same time a letter from Lhasa to warn the British authorities about the delay. Sadly, the letter was not received, and the logs were not recorded on their descent.

On his return, Kinthup passed himself off as a religious pilgrim, and undertook extensive surveys of the Tsangpo, from which he concluded that the two rivers - the Tsangpo and the Brahmaputra - were indeed the same. He returned to India in 1884, largely unnoticed. The present work testifies to Kinthup’s achievements several decades after the event, but Kinthup himself was able to assist Bailey and Morhead in 1913 when they returned to the region and confirmed his identification (Bailey’s account is given in item 3 of this catalogue).

74. [Pundits.] Burrard, S. G. Records of the Survey of India Volume VIII (in two parts): Part II [only]. Exploration in Tibet and Neighbouring Regions 1879-1892. Dehra Dun: Office of the Trigonometrial Survey, 1915. £1,750 First edition. Part II only (of II). Small folio. pp. 6ll., [216]-411; photogravure frontis. of Kishen Singh, 12 folding maps in rear pocket; very good in the original cloth-backed printed boards.

Provenance: Pencillled ownership inscriptions of H. W. Tilman, ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

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Neate B220; Yakushi B641. An excellent record of the achievements of the Pundits, who explored and surveyed the Himalayan kingdoms for the British during the later nineteenth century. Coordinated by Thomas George Montgomerie, these explorations extended the Survey of India into regions then closed to the British themselves. Burrard’s two volumes collected together the various narratives and findings of the Pundits, originally published in the nineteenth century; as Burrard writes in his preface, “They have been republished in this new form partly because many of the old publications are now out of print”. This second volume contains accounts of explorations by Kishen Singh, Lama Serap Gyatsho, Kinthup, Ugyen Gyatso, Rinzin Nimgyl, Hari Ram, and Atma Ram (who accompanied Captain Bower in Tibet). This copy has a distinguished provenance: once owned by Bill Tilman, himself a major explorer of the Himalaya who successfully climbed Nanda Devi and joined several Everest expeditions in the 1930s, it subsequently belonged to Michael Ward, doctor on the successful 1953 Everest expedition.

75. [Pundits.] Rawat, Indra Singh. Indian Explorers of the 19th Century. Account of the Explorations in the Himalayas, Tibet, Mongolia and Central Asia. [New Delhi:] Pubications Division Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India, [1973]. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 228; illusts., map endpapers, very good in the original cloth, without d-.w., bumped to upper outer corners. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi R93. An account of the Pundit surveyors, with a Foreword by R. H. Phillimore of the Survey of India.

76. [Pundits.] Waller, Derek. The Pundits. British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. The University Press of Kentucky, [1990]. £150

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First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 327; photo. illusts., 9 sketch maps, map endpapers; very good in the original cloth, d.-w. which is faded on spine and chipped. A presentation copy, inscribed at front “To Dr. Michael Ward, with best wishes Derek Waller”. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi W35; S & B W02. Waller’s book is the first scholarly study of the Pundits.

77. [Pundits.] Sale, Richard. Mapping the Himalayas: Michael Ward and the Pundit Heritage. Carreg Publishing, 2009. £45 Softback version, first edition.

8vo (246 x 189mm). Text vol: pp. 208; 16pp. colour photo. illusts., numerous black and white illusts.; original limp card wrappers, new. Map case: 44 maps of all the Pundit journeys, of the Everest region and northern Bhutan based on Michael Ward’s survey work; all housed in a purpose-made slipcase. The text volume and map case are both housed in a card slipcase.

This book, begun by Michael Ward, was completed following his death by Richard Sale. The book has a Preface written by Michael Ward, intended to begin the work he had planned on the Pundits. The

book keeps to Michael Ward’s original plan: It begins with details of early journeys made by Europeans to the Himalayan kingdoms of Afghanistan and its neighbouring emirates, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, before moving on to the work of the Survey of India and the Pundits. Ward carried out some survey work during the 1951 Everest Reconnaissance expedition, the results of which were incorporated into maps of the region. Later, on two trips to Bhutan as a medical advisor to the king, he was given permission to trek in the remote Lunana district and used Pundit techniques to prepare the first accurate map of the area. The two chapters on Michael Ward’s time on Everest in 1951, and in Bhutan in 1964 & 1965, draw extensively on his diaries for these trips, making available information for the 1951 Everest expedition not published before, and reproducing survey maps that Ward produced on these occasions.

78. Rachewiltz, I. de. Papal Envoys to the Great Khans. London: Faber and Faber, [1971]. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 230; illusts., 1 sketch map; very good in the original cloth in d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Description of the Papal envoys and missionaries sent to ‘Cathay’ around the time of Marco Polo.

79. Rennie, David Field. Bhotan and the Story of the Dooar War. including Sketches of a Three Months’ Residence in the Himalayas, and Narrative of a Visit to Bhotan in May 1865. London: John Murray, 1866. £1,250 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [i], 408, 32 (pubs. list); frontis. and three plates, illusts. to text, one folding map; very good in the original cloth, gilt, bookplates removed from fixed endpapers, two nicks to cloth in head of spine, now preserved in a purpose-made leather-edged slipcase. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi R179. In 1864 Ashley Eden headed a British mission to Bhutan to negotiate a treaty, and declared war when the Bhutanese failed to accept. After an initial defeat, British forces overcame the Bhutanese, and agreed the Treat of Sinchula, signed in November 1865. Rennie served as surgeon to the 80th Regiment during the war, and provides here an overview of the country, of Eden’s mission, and of the war.

80. Rock, Joseph. The Amnye Ma-Chhen Range and adjacent regions. A monographic study. Rome: Istituto Italieno per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. [xi], 194 + 82 plates, each with facing text leaf, and 5 folding maps in pocket at rear; very good in the original papered boards, slightly soiled. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

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81. Rockhill, William Woodville. The Land of the Lamas. Notes of a Journey through China, Mongolia and Tibet. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 399; illusts., 2 double-page maps; ex-lib. with inkstamps and perforation stamps to prelims., and occasionally throughout, good in later half calf, gilt. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

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Neate R62; Yakushi R284. Rockhill was an American scholar-diplomat who won acclaim for himself with his travels in Mongolia and Tibet. This book records his first expedition of 1888-9, when he crossed China from Peking to Kok-nor in Tibet. He had hoped to reach Lhasa, but in fact diverted south east. As a result of his explorations, he was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution on his second journey to Tibet in 1891-2.

82. Saunders, Trelawney. ‘The Himalayan Mountain System.’

[Offprint] From the Geographical Magazine for July, 1877. £450 First separate edition. 4to. pp. [2, “List of Observed Peaks”], 173-182; one folding engraved map of ‘The Himalaya and Tibet”, one folding engraved map showing divisions of Himalaya after Hodgson; first map ?cropped at head and foot by binder, else very good in the original printed wrappers, chipping to upper cover, minor browning to margins of wrapper. Contained in a purpose-made portfolio. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to inside board of portfolio.

Not in the usual bibliographies. Trelawney Saunders was an Assistant in the Geographical Department of the India Office. His essay on the Himalayan system has its source in Clements Markham’s Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet … (1876), which outlined a Himalayan system formed of three chains. Criticisms of Markham’s outline were made in the Calcutta Review (January 1877), and Markham published a reply in the Geographical Magazine (May 1877). “Mr. Trelawney Saunders also published a further and more exhaustive reply to the “Calcutta Review” in a valuable article illustrated by maps, and also by a list of peaks, with their altitudes, taken from the manuscript records of the Great Trigonometrical Survey [of India]” (Markham A Memoir on the Indian Surveys, 2nd ed., 1878, p. 353). The Geographical Magazine ran under the editorship of Markham from 1872-8, when it merged with the Proceedings of the RGS; volumes of the magazine are rare, and offprints from it even more so.

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Exploration in the Eastern Himalayas and the River Gorge Country of Southeastern Tibet - Francis (Frank) Kingdon Ward (1885-1958) - An Annotated Bibliography with a Map of the Area of his Expeditions.

Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1975. £250 First edition. 8vo. pp. [ix], 114, [2, pubs. list]; port. of Kingdon Ward, two large foldings maps; very good in the original limp card wrappers, slightly soiled. Signed by the authors “Dr. Michael Ward to remember his visit to Heidelberg - Febr. 26-March 1, 1985 Ulrich & Heidi Schweinfurth”, subsequently signed by George Taylor (who provides the book’s preface).

Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi S239. A biographical study of the plant hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward, with a bibliography of his books and articles. George Taylor who provided the Preface, and has signed this copy, himself travelled in the region and had known Ward for 25 years.

84. Shaw, Robert. Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshgar (formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey over the Karakoram Pass. London: John Murray, 1871. £750 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 486, [2, ads.], 16 (pubs. cat.); 4 coloured lithos., 3 wood-eng. plates, illusts. to text, two folding maps; recased with new endpapers, good in the original cloth, gilt, strengthened to head and tail of spine.Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi S401a: “The author travelled to Yarkand and Kashgar, and returned to Leh through the Karakoram and Sasir Passes in 1868-69. In 1870 he accompanied with the Forsyth’s first Kashgar Mission; thence he stayed at Leh in 1871 as British Joint Commissioner, and he died there in 1878” (Yakushi).

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85. Skrine, C. P. Chinese Central Asia … With an Introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1926]. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 306, 8 (ads.); coloured frontis., photo. illusts., one folding panorama of the Kongur massif, one folding map, map front endpapers; some spotting, sellotape repair to lower fold of map with staining and slight adhesion damage, else good in the original cloth, gilt, faded and creased on spine. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, with a note at front by him about the book’s map.

Yakushi S592. “The author was appointed Consul-General at Kashgar, and started off from Srinagar to Kashgar through Gilgit, Hunza, Mintaka Pass and Tashqueghan in 1922 on a journey of two and a quarter years. Then he explored Qungur [Kongur] peaks, and made tours to Yarkand, to Khotan, and to Keriya” (Yakushi). Michael Ward’s note reads: “The map on the frontispiece [i.e.

front endpapers] was used for the Reconnaissance of Kongur in 1980. It was the only one we had. The G.J. map in Skrine’s article is similar”. Ward led the 1980 Kongur expedition, and returned the following year for the first ascent by Boardman and Tasker.

86. Skrine, Sir Clarmont. ‘Shiwakte, Qungur and Chakragil.’

Reprinted from The Himalayan Journal, vol. XVII, 1952. £45 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. [73]-79; 4 leaves of photo. illusts., one sketch map to text; very good in the original printed wrappers. A presentation copy inscribed to upper wrapper “With the Author’s Compliments”.

A description of travels by Skrine and his wife in the Kongur region, with references to Shipton, Tilman, and Aurel Stein.

87. Smith, Jim. ‘Everest - Man and Mountain.’ An article in Land and Minerals Surveying, vol. 8, no. 7, July 1990. £20 8vo. pp. 311-362 [article at pp. 321-328]; illusts.; fine in wrappers. Signed by the author to first page of his article. Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to front wrapper.

Published to mark the bicentenary of George Everest’s birth.

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88. Stein, Sir [Mark] Aurel. Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. £1,500 First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xxxviii, 546, [2, ads.] & xxi, 517, [2, ads.]; numerous b&w photo. illusts., coloured plates, folding panoramas, three folding maps; “Presentation Copy” blindstamp to each title-page, minor spotting, old sellotape repair to inner fold of map at rear of vol. I, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly shaken, soiled to upper board of vol. II. Ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Michael Ward.

Yakushi S716. Aurel Stein remains one the great figures of Central Asian exploration. His first three expeditions to the Central Asian desert interior, in 1900-1, 1906-9, and from 1913 to 1916, proved rich in their discoveries, and made his name. The present two volumes contain his narrative of the 1906-9 expedition, when, starting from Khotan and travelling eastwards, Stein reached and surveyed the so-called Cave of a Thousand Buddhas

89. Stein, Sir [Mark] Aurel. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. £500 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 342, [2, advertisements]; 16 coloured plates, numerous black & white illustrations from photographs including 8 folding panoramas, one large folding coloured map; very good in the original brown cloth, gilt, medallion in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g., neatly restored to head and tail of spine, label removed from upper board. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, bookplate of Charles J. R. Annandale.

Yakushi S723a. An invitation to deliver a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston, U.S.A., afforded Stein the opportunity “to describe [his] travels and discoveries … in a condensed form suited for a wider public”. The result is the present work. Stunningly illustrated with photographs of the land and with colour plates of some of the Buddhist cave paintings which Stein (controversially) sent back to India and Britain, On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks offers one of the most evocative yet informative accounts of the region.

93. Teichman, Eric. Travels of a Consular Officer in Eastern Tibet.

Together with a History of the Relations between China, Tibet, and India. Cambridge at the University Press, 1922. £575 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 248; photo. illusts. on 32 plates, 8 maps inc. one large folding map in rear pocket; hinges slightly cracked, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, corners bumped partially affecting contents, darkened on spine. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

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90. [Stein, Aurel.] F. H. Andrews Ancient Chinese Figured Silks excavated by Sir Aurel Stein at Ruined Sites of Central Asia …

Reprinted … from ‘The Burlington Magazine’ July-September, 1920.

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1920. £85 First separate edition. 4to. pp. 20; folding wood-eng. frontis., b & w illusts. to text; very good in original printed wrappers, which are browned.

91. [Survey of India.] S. M. Chadha. Survey of India through the Ages. [Printed at the 105(DLI) Printing Group of Survey of India], ?1990. £75

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Colonel Sir George Everest, CB, FRS (1790-1866) a celebration of the bicentenary of his birth 8 November 1990 at the Royal Geographical Society, London. [London: 1990].

4to. pp.[i], ii], 75; 10ll. of illusts.; fine in the original printed wrappers, with loosely inserted 2 stapled leaves of those involved in the conference.

Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to each work.

These two works arose from the conference on the work of Sir George Everest and the Survey of India in 1990. Chadha, author of the first work, was one of the speakers. Ward was a member of the organising committee for the event.

92. Taylor, George. ‘Plant collecting in South-Eastern Tibet’ and ‘Meconopsis from the Vicinity of Lhasa’. Two articles in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. LXXII, 1947, pp. 130-144, 166177 & 309-312. London: the Royal Horticultural Society, 1947. £125 First edition. pp. [iv], 492, cxvi; coloured and b&w photo. illusts. and one folding map to Taylor’s articles; very good in contemporary buckram, gilt, with loosely inserted two letters from Taylor to Michael Ward, with a note

by Ward to flyleaf. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

An account of Taylor’s 1938 travels in Tibet with Frank Ludlow and George Sherriff.

Yakushi T57a. Teichman (1884-1944) joined the British consular service in 1906, and in 1907 became assistant Chinese secretary in Peking, serving under Sidney Barton. He returned to London in 1921, but went back to Peking to replace Barton in 1922. The present work provides a record of his travels in the China-Tibetan borders in 1918 and 1919, when he explored the Kham region that straddles Tibet and Szechuen.

94. Thomas, John. Himalayan Journey. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Ltd., 1944. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. 60, 8 (pubs. list); minor creasing to corners, very good in the original printed wrappers, slightly chipped and soiled, staples rusted.

Published as volume no. 53 of The Rampart Library, this is an account of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Chapter four, ‘Mountain Magic’, describes the views of Everest, Makalu, Kanchenjunga, and others.

95. [Tibet. Younghusband expedition 1903-4.] Tibet 1903-4 Medal. £395 A bronze medal, showing the head of King Edward VII to the obverse, an image of the Potala Palace to the reverse above the words “Tibet 1903-4”, original clasp and ribbon, engraved to the edge “9 Yak Driver Chambi S & T Corps”; minor bruising to edge, else in very good condition.

The Tibet Medal was awarded in 1905 to members of the Tibet Mission under Sir Francis Younghusband. The mission turned into a rout at an early stage, when the British-Indian army overwhelmed a Tibetan force at Guru, fifty miles insides the Tibetan border. The Tibetan stronghold of Gyantse Dzong presented the only military obstacle to the invading forces on the road to Lhasa, and this fortress was taken in July 1904. Lhasa was finally reached 3 August 1904. The bronze medal was issued to camp followers, as in the present instance - a Yak driver with the Supply and Transport Corps.

96. Tung, Rosemary Jones. A Portrait of Lost Tibet. London: Thames and Hudson, [1980]. £25 First edition. Square 8vo. pp. xvi, 224; numerous b&w photo. illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, d.-w., closed tear to fore-edge.

Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi T271. In 1942 the Americans Ilya Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan crossed Tibet to investigate the feasibility of using the caravan routes to transport military supplies (the difficulty of the journey soon convinced them that this was not practicable). Their photographs taken during the expedition are reproduced for the first time in the present work.

97. Turner, Samuel. An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1806. £1,750 Second edition (1st ed. 1800). 4to. pp. xxviii, 473; one folding engraved map, 13 copper-engraved plates including one folding; browning to map and plates, corner tear to one leaf (H2) not affecting text, occasional spotting, else a very good copy with wide margins in recent half calf. Ownership inscription (in pencil) and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi T277a. An early narrative of travels into Tibet. A first embassy under George Bogle had been sent in 1774, but with the advent of a new Lama, Turner was asked by Warren Hastings to make a second embassy to the country in 1783. The same route was followed in both instances: from India, a crossing was made of the Bhutan Himalaya from Bhutan to Gyantse and Shigatse via the Chumbi Valley and Tang La. The plates accompanying Turner’s account of the journey show views along the route, as well as a facsimile of Umin and Uchen script.

98. [Turner.] Aris, Michael. Views of Medieval Bhutan. The Diary and Drawings of Samuel Davis 1783. London: Serindia; Washington: Smithsonian, [1982]. £50 First edition. Oblong large 8vo. pp. 124; illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi A251. Davis accompanied Samuel Turner’s mission to Bhutan and Tibet in 1783.

99. Waddell, L. A. Among The Himalayas. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1899. £350

100. Waddell, L. Austine. Lhasa and its Mysteries with a Record of the Expedition of 1903-4. London: Methuen & Co., [1929]. £375 4th ed. [1st pub. 1905]. 8vo. pp. xx, 530, [2, Press Opinions]; numerous photo. illusts., 8 maps and plans inc. one large folding at rear; very good in the original decorative cloth, in the original d.w. which is browned on spine and chipped with slight loss to extremities.

Yakushi W05. Waddell from 1901 was based on the North West Frontier, and took part in the British expedition to Tibet of 1903-4. This is his account of it, published originally in 1905.

First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 452; 26 fullpage b&w illusts. after originals by A.D. McCormick and the author, 74 illusts. to text, 6 maps and plans, inc. a large folding coloured map; rather shaken in the original decorative blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., somewhat darkened on spine, wear to extremities. Bookplate of the Cavalry Club, ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Neate W01; Yakushi W03a. Waddell was a medical officer based for a time in Darjeeling.

In 1888-96, he travelled through Sikkim and the regions bordering Nepal and Tibet. His account of these explorations also discusses ascents of Kanchenjunga and Kabru. Among the Himalayas in addition provides much valuable ethnological information relating to the region, in particular concerning the Lepchas.

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101 101. Ward, F. Kingdon. The Mystery Rivers of Tibet. A Description of the Little-Known Land where Asia’s Mightiest Rivers gallop in harness through the narrow gateway of Tibet, its peoples, fauna, & flora. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1923. £675

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Yakushi K191. Ward describes a 1913-4 plant-hunting expedition to the eastern borders of Tibet. The book is particularly uncommon in the dustjacket.

102. Ward, F. Kingdon. From China to Hkamti Long. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. £1,250 First edition. 8vo. pp. 317, [1, ad.]; photo. illusts., one folding map; minor spotting, else very good in the original cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, slightly discoloured along upper edges of cloth and at head of spine, in the original d.-w., which is worn with loss along upper margins, browned on spine.

Yakushi K192. “The author’s second attempt to march overland to India from Likiang, on the borders of Yunnan. He explored Yunnan and Szechwan in 1921, and Yunnan, Szechwan, Tibet and North Burma in 1922. This is a feat which had been performed only three times; in 1895 by Prince Henry of Orleans, with two companions; in 1906 by E. C. Young; and in 1911 by F. M. Bailey” (Yakushi).

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103. Ward, F. Kingdon. The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. London: Edward Arnold, 1926. £950 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 328; photo. illusts., one folding map; some foxing, occasional pencil marginalia, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, vertical crease to cloth at head of spine. Loosely inserted is a 4pp. letter from Jean Rasmussen (Kingdon Ward’s wife) to Michael Ward, dated Torremolinos, 26/2/69, and a photographic negative by Kingdon Ward.

Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi K194. Frank Kingdon Ward undertook many expeditions to the regions between Tibet, China and Upper Burma, primarily for planthunting. This books records his 1924 expedition with Earl Cawdor to Southern Tibet. At this point, the Tsangpo carves its way through the Eastern Himalaya, via a series of gorges, into the plains of India. The gorges had only been partially explored, and Ward and Cawdor extended their exploration farther than any previous visitor, successfully discovering many new plant species. This copy contains a letter from Jean Rasmussen, Kingdon Ward’s widow, to Michael Ward, discussing her attempts to find for him a copy of Kingdon Ward’s Assam Adventure. The book also contains an envelope with a photographic negative, captioned to the front of the envelope “Native Cane suspension Bridge 80ft long, 40ft above river made of Rattan cables, Upper Irrawady … F. Kingdon Ward”, and, in a different hand, “Note the almost tropical luxuriance of the jungle at 3000ft in a very wet region”.

104. Ward, F. Kingdon. Plant Hunting in the Wilds. London: Figurehead, n.d. [1931]. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 79; 8 photo. illusts.; a little foxing to fore-edges, else a very good copy in the original cloth, in the original d.-w., which is chipped and soiled.

Yakushi K196. Published for the ‘Pioneer Series’, this is Kingdon Ward’s account of his plant hunting expeditions to Tibet, Assam, Burma and Indo-China in 1913, 1924, 1927-8 and 1929 (the American ‘Giant Panda’ expedition).

105. Ward, F. Kingdon. ‘The Himalaya east of the Tsangpo.’

Reprinted from The Geographical Journal, vol. LXXXIV, no. 5, November 1934. £50

First edition. 8vo. pp. 329-364 [article at pp. 345-351]; some staining, good in the original printed wrappers. Signed to the front wrapper by Ed Hillary.

Ownership inscription of Michael Ward to first leaf of text.

First separate edition. 8vo. pp. 369-97; 4 photo. plates., one sketch map, one folding map; a little creased in the original printed wrappers, sightly spotted, inscription and date in ink to upper cover.

Not in the usual bibliographies. The naming of Mount Everest, signed by the first man to climb the mountain. Waugh’s notice, just 2pp. long and dated Dehra, March 1st, 1856, marks the beginning of the Everest story in Britain. In this brief article, Waugh imparts to the members of the RGS news that the Survey of India’s peak XV “is higher than any other hitherto measured in India, and most probably it is the highest in the whole world.” He continues: “I was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Geo. Everest, to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. I have always scrupulously adhered to this rule, as I have in fact to all other principles laid down by that eminent graduist.

But here is a mountain … without any local name that we can discover … I have determined to name this noble peak of the Himalayas ‘Mont Everest.’” There follows a second notice in which B.H. Hodgson suggests that Everest does have a local name - Devadhunga - which should be adopted. In the discussion following the reading of these two papers at the RGS, the president Sir Roderick Murchison hopes that, whatever its name in India, in England at least peak XV “would always be known by the name of Everest.” The final say goes to Colonel Everest himself, who objects to the application of his name to peak XV because the word Everest “was not pronounceable by a native of India.”

A plant-hunting expedition to Zayul, in Eastern Tibet, with Ronald Kaulback.

106. Ward, F. Kingdon. Plant Hunter’s Paradise. London: Jonathan Cape, [1937]. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 347; photo. illusts., 2 extending maps; very good in the original cloth, in d.-w. which is a little chipped. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi K198. Details of the author’s expedition to North Burma and the Burma-Tibet border in 1930-1.

107. Ward, F. Kingdon. Modern Exploration. London: Jonathan Cape, 1945. £25 First edition. 8vo. pp. 124; a few illusts. to text; very good in the original cloth, d.j. (soiled with a few closed tears).

Neate W17; Yakushi K200. An historical overview of exploration, with sections devoted to the various areas explored, and such aspects as mountaineering and cave exploration.

108. Ward, M.P., F. S. Jackson & R. W. D. Turner. Report of I.B.P. Expedition to Bhutan October-December 1965. N.p. [?London], n.d. c. 1966. £250

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First edition. Folio. 1pl., 109ll., each photostatted to rectos only, collation including two folding tables; one folding map (taken from Ward’s RGS article on Bhutan from December 1966); folds of tables sellotaped as issued and now browned; else very good in original buckram. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, and with loosely inserted a signed offprint of his article ‘Medicine in Bhutan’ reprinted from The Lancet, April 10, 1965.

In 1964 Michael Ward and Frederic Jackson visited Bhutan, primarily to offer medical advice to the Bhutanese king. During their stay, they were given permission to visit the region of Lunana in north Bhutan, which had previously been visited by only one other European, the botanist Frank Ludlow, in the 1930s. They were allowed to return the following year, and as part of the International Biological Programme they undertook medical observations of the people of Lunana for a month. Ward and Jackson then took the opportunity to explore the Bhutan Himalaya further (an article on their explorations appeared under Ward’s name in the Alpine Journal in 1997). The present item reports on the medical aspects of the 1965 expedition, with preliminary chapters on the topography and population of Bhutan, and other aspects of the country. We can find a single other copy of the report at the University of California, San Diego (among papers given

by Ward to the archives).

109. Waugh, Lieutenant-Colonel A.S. & B. S. Hodgson.

‘Papers relating to the Himalaya and Mount Everest.’ An article in the complete issue of Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, no. IX, April & May, 1857. London: Edward Stanford, 1857.

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Political Officer, and then he stayed in Sikkim as the first Political Officer for twenty years. He entered Talung glacier in 1890, and Lhonak in 1891. When he visited Lhonak again as a member of the Sikkim-Tibet Boundary Committee in 1902, he explored there fully. In 1903-04 he accompanied the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa. Moreover, he visited Bhutan as a government delegate in 1905 and in 1907, and explored Eastern Bhutan in 1906” (Yakushi).

112. Wolff, Joseph. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly. Printed for the author by William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh, 1852. £425

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112 110. Wellby, M. S. Through Unknown Tibet. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. £750

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First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 440; port. frontis., photo. illusts. inc. some fullpage, four folding maps in pocket at rear; some browning to maps, prelims. carelessly opened with fraying to fore-edge, shaken in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat dampstained with considerable fading to spine. A presentation copy, inscribed to flyleaf “To Charles R. Burnett from the author Montagu Sinclair Wellby 26 May 1898” and with the publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi W106. Wellby, with Neill Malcolm, explored Tibet in 1896, attempting to find a new route to China, and to ascertain the extent of Russian influence in the region. Crossing the Lanak La, they followed a route to China farther north than that taken by Hamilton Bower in 1891-2, and reached Peking via Chang Tang and the Koko-Nor. Presentation copies of the book are uncommon.

111. White, John Claude. Sikhim & Bhutan. Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier. London: Edward Arnold, 1909. £950 First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 332; 6 tissue-guarded photogravures including port. frontis. of White, 35 b&w plates from photographs, one large folding coloured map; some old sellotape repairs with staining to map, numerous pencilled notes to margins identifying mountains and other locations in Bhutan, else very good in the original green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward, with a long note by him to flyleaf.

Neate W56; Yakushi W134. “In 1887 the author visited Sikkim for the first time, and joined the expeditionary force of the Sikkim-Nepal War in 1888 as Assistant

7th edition. 8vo. pp. xxi, 346; final leaf partly torn, else good in the original blindstamped green cloth, gilt, largely unopened, somewhat discoloured, watermarks to margins of boards partially affecting endpapers. A presentation copy, inscribed by Wolff on the dedication and title-page verso, and additionally at the end of the preface, in English, Italian and Hebrew.

Yakushi W206. ‘The Great Game’ - the phrase used to describe the ongoing struggle for control in Central Asia between Britain and Russia during the nineteenth century - is usually attributed to Arthur Connolly. In 1841, Connolly went to Bukhrara to negotiate for the release of Charles Stoddart, a fellow Briton who had been emprisoned there in 1838. By 1843, with the fate of the two men yet unknown, Joseph Wolff - a charismatic Jewish Christian missionary - undertook a further mission to Bukhara to assist Connolly and Stoddart. His discovery of their fate, and his own narrow escape from the murderous intentions of the Emir of Bukhara, are related in the present work, the popularity of which led to its being much reprinted.

Wolff was in the habit of inscribing copies of the later editions, and this copy was presented by him to Elizabeth Vaughan.

113. Wood, Frances. Did Marco Polo go to China? London: Secker & Warburg, [1995]. £15 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 182; one sketch map; fine in the original cloth, d.w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

114. Woodcock, George. Into Tibet. The Early British Explorers.

London: Faber and Faber, [1971]. £15 First edition. 8vo. pp. 277; illusts., 2 sketch maps; ex-lib. with usual marks, original cloth in d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi W220. Accounts of the travels of George Bogle, Samuel Turner, and Thomas Manning.

115. Woodman, Dorothy. Himalayan Frontiers. A Political Review of British, Chinese, Indian and Russian Rivalries. London: Barrie and Rockliff The Cresset Press, [1969]. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 423; numerous sketch maps, two folding maps inc. one at rear; very good in the original cloth, d.-w. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi W221. A history of the Great Power rivalries in the region.

116 116. Young, Peter. Himalayan Holiday. A Trans-Himalayan Diary 1939. London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d. [1945]. £25 First edition. 8vo.pp. 108; photo. illusts., 2 sketch maps, one folding map; minor foxing to endpapers, spotting to edges of text block, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original dust-jacket, which is faded to spine and chipped.

Neate Y25; Yakushi Y25. “Diary of the author’s wandering and [bear] shooting in Northern Kashmir, Ladakh and Baltistan in 1939”. Young visited Srinagar, Leh, and Skardu, largely in pursuit of game, but also reached the Siachen glacier.

117. Younghusband, Frank E. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. London: John Murray, 1896. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 409; 18 plates, 4 folding maps; slight agetoning to text, sellotape repair to fold of one map, ex-lib. with inkstamps to prelims., good in contemporary cloth, gilt. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

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Neate Y29; Yakushi Y27a; Perret 4636. Younghusband (1863-1942) was a key figure in Central Asian exploration, both for his own travels in the region and latterly as President of the Royal Geographical Society and chairman of the Mount Everest Committee. The present work narrates his almost unbroken journey from Vladivostock, through Manchuria, Mukden, the Gobi Desert and the Himalaya, finally to the Hindu Kush. It contains observations on customs, climate, politics and geography, and is perhaps the definitive work of its time on these regions. The RGS awarded Younghusband its Gold Medal in recognition of his travels.

118. Zhou, Jin, ed. Tibet. No Longer Mediaeval. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981. £25 First edition. Large 8vo. pp. 176; numerous coloured illusts., maps at front and rear; very good in the original pictorial wrappers, slightly rubbed.

Ownership inscription (dated August 1985, Beijing) and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Not in Yakushi. A propagandist viewbook of Tibet, with text by Zhu Li. The book was acquired by Michael Ward in Beijing shortly after he had taken part in the 1985 Tibet Geotraverse.

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES Czech – Kenneth P. Czech. An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books, 1780 to 1980 (St. Cloud, Minn.: Land’s End Press, 2003) Inman - Colin Inman The A & C Black Colour Books: a collector’s guide and bibliography 1900-1930 (London: Werner Shaw, 1990) Neate – Jill Neate Mountaineering Literature. A Bibliography of Material Published in English (Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press; Seattle: Mountainbooks, 1986) Perret - Jacques Perret. Guides des Livres sur la Montagne et l’Alpinisme (Grenoble: Editions de Belledome, 1997) S & B - Audrey Salkeld & John Boyle. Climbing Mount Everest. The Bibliography. The literature and history of climbing the world’s highest mountain (Clevedon, Avon: Sixways Publishing, 1993) Waller – Derek Waller The Pundits. British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia (The University Press of Kentucky, 1990)

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