Sven Hedin´s Southern Tibet.
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Beschreibung
TIBET. (12). HEDIN, SVEN. Southern Tibet. Discoveries in former times compared with my own researches in 1906-1908. I-IX + Maps I-II + Atlas (lacks only the quarto prospectus). Stockholm (Lithographic Institute of the General Staff of the Swedish Army and partly by F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig) 1916-22.
Text 4:o, maps and atlas folio. Maps and plates. Collation see below.
Uncut in original wrappers, maps I-II loose in worn wrappers. The text volumes with bookplate of Ulla Ehrensvärd. 12 volumes.
Hess, I, pp. 49-51.
Comprises: Vol. I: pp. xxxii, 293 and 53 maps in facsimile and one photograph, Vol. II: pp. xii, 330 + 24 maps in facsimile, 45 photos in collotype, 50 photos or sketches in half tone, one photo panorma and one watercolour panorama, Vol.III: pp. xii, 369 + 31 maps in facsimile, 55 photos in collotype, 35 photos in half tone, 4 water coloured panoramas and 10 water coloured sketches, Vol. IV: pp. xii, 428 + 126 photographs in collotype, 70 photos in half tone, 9 photo panoramas, 24 coloured panoramas (on 14 sheets) and 4 photogravures, Vol. V: pp. iv, 220 + 11 plates with explanations and 2 coloured maps, Vol. VI: pp. vi, viii, 133, iv, 86, 193, (2) + 11 plates, Vol. VII: pp. xii, 605 + 103 numbered maps, 8 photogravures, 11 photos in half tone and 2 panoramas, Vol. VIII: pp. xvi, 456 + 29 numbered maps, Vol. IX: pp. viii, 180 + one map, 14 drawings on 7 sheets and 10 plates, 130, (1) + 1 plate and 3 maps, 176. Atlas: pp. iv, 10 + 105 panoramas. Maps I.: pp. 2 + one index map, one map on the Great Karakoram Glaciers on 2 sheets, map of East Turkestan & Tibet on 15 sheets, "Special map" on 26 sheets and one map of Eastern Pamir on 2 sheets, Maps II.: pp. 2 + one index map and H. Byström´s hypsometrical map on 52 sheets.
Complete set (minus prospectus), somewhat different collation to Hess.
First edition of Hedin´s monumental work on Tibet, richly illustrated throughout with photographic plates, maps and drawings, many by Hedin himself. Includes a comprehensive historical account of the exploration of the area richly illustrated with facsimiles of earlier maps of the region. During the 28 months´ expedition in Tibet Hedin accomplished to map and survey the great mountain system Transhimalaya and he established the exact sources of the Indus, Brahmaputra, and Sutlej.
Among the other author´s to the work are Anders Henning, Nils Ekholm, K. G. Olsson, C. H. Ostenfeld, Albert Herrmann, A. von Le Coq, Bror Asklund, and others.
Provenance: Professor Ulla Ehrensvärd (1927-2015).
Auktionsnummer:
6157
Datum:
2016-06-21