Lot 75
W. Filchner, Das Kloster Kumbum in Tibet. Berlin 1906.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
75
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Wilhelm Filchner
Filchner, Wilhelm: Das Kloster Kumbum in Tibet. Ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte. Berlin: Mittler 1906. 26,5 x 18,2 cm. With 39 plates, 3 maps, and numerous illustrations. XIV pp., 1 folio, 164 pp. Illustrated original paperback.
(Minor staining; cover has slight discoloration around the edges; spine is browned; back cover has a crease at the corner and a small tear at the top edge; front cover is marked as a deluxe edition by a mounted paper label. Title page bears a handwritten ownership and acquisition note in red. One plate at the end is loose. Slightly browned.)
Yakushi (1994) F52. - First edition. - A seminal work by the geophysicist, geodesist, and explorer Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957), based on his 1904 stay at the historic Buddhist monastery of Kumbum in the western part of the Chinese province of Gansu. - “The first special monograph on the results of the author’s expedition in China and Tibet” (Yakushi).
(Minor staining; cover has slight discoloration around the edges; spine is browned; back cover has a crease at the corner and a small tear at the top edge; front cover is marked as a deluxe edition by a mounted paper label. Title page bears a handwritten ownership and acquisition note in red. One plate at the end is loose. Slightly browned.)
Yakushi (1994) F52. - First edition. - A seminal work by the geophysicist, geodesist, and explorer Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957), based on his 1904 stay at the historic Buddhist monastery of Kumbum in the western part of the Chinese province of Gansu. - “The first special monograph on the results of the author’s expedition in China and Tibet” (Yakushi).