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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 227

The Land of the Lamas, and Other Volumes.

Estimate: $250 - $500

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[Tibet] Rockhill, William Woodville. The Land of the Lamas, and Other Volumes. New York: Century Co., 1891. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, leather title label, t.e.g. 8vo. 399pp. Illustrated with plates, two double-page maps. Overall very good ex-library copy, mild rubbing to spine and covers, bookplate and card pocket to endpapers, some pencil notations to prelims. Also with: Across Thibet (Cassell, 1892) by Bonvalot, pict. cloth, illus., worn copy; The River of Golden Sand (John Murray, 1883), cloth, frontis., folding map; Huc?s Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China (ca. 1850), cloth, two vols., folding map, illus.; and Life of the Buddha (London, 1884), cloth, trans. Rockhill.