Travel
LANDON, Perceval
The Opening of Tibet An account of Lhasa and the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903-4.
Doubleday, New York 1905. First U.S. edition. Large 8vo., [16], 484, [1] pp, colour frontispiece, 51 photographic plates (plate at page 326 with 2 tears), modern dark morocco gilt, a very good copy.
Originally published in the U.K. in 2 volumes under the title of "Lhasa." The author was the Times' correspondent with the mission. He gives detailed reports of the march, the sieges of both the British force and the Tibetans at Gyantse, and the protracted negotiations at Lhasa. Yakushi (1994) L57b (incorrect plate collation).
Price: £ 350
US Dollar Price: $ 700
Stock Number: 38381