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Title: 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
Author: London, Perceval Description: xv, 484 + [1] ad pp. Introduction by Colonel Younghusband. Illustrated with plates from photographs, etc.; mounted color frontispiece on special paper, with tissue-guard. 10x7, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition.Includes coverage of the sieges of both the British and the Tibetans at Gyantse, as well as the protracted negotiations at Lhasa. Heading: zzcPlace Published: New York Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co. Date Published: 1905 Condition reportA bit of fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed, bookplate, very good or better.
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