HEDST1 Hedin, Sven: SOUTHERN TIBET. Discoveries in Former Times Compared with My Own Researches in 1906-1908. New Delhi, 1991. 9 vols. Text in 4to and 3 folio volumes - 2 volumes of maps and 1 volume panoramas. 12 vols. 29x23 cm. Cloth. GBP 300.00 Reprint of Hedin's monumental work on his explorations and researches in South Tibet during the years 1906-08. Apart from the accounts of Hedin's travels and explorations, the volumes comprehensively cover other discoveries, research and explorations over the ages in the area by Chinese and Europeans. A mammoth undertaking. Altogether 462 plates and 333 maps (many folding or double-page). Whilst the reprint obviously lacks the quality of the original work, the plates, maps and text are adequate and represent an opportunity to own this huge and important work at a fraction of the price of the original. Altogether 462 plates and 333 maps (many folding or double-page). See Yakushi Catalogue of the Himalayan Literature H105 for details of contents. Marshall 2096. Subjects: Travel Item 273 in List 207. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?h/HEDST1.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |