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HEDIN, SVEN; et al. Southern Tibet. Discoveries in Former Times compared with My Own Researches in 1906-1908. 9 volumes of text, plus prospectus, and 3 atlas volumes. Together, 13 volumes, profusely illustrated. Text volumes 4to, 295x225 mm, in original wrappers, largely unopened; atlas volumes folio, 395x308 mm, the first in original wrappers, the second and third with contents loose in paper folders as issued; occasional soiling and edgewear on bindings, contents generally clean apart from infrequent minor marginal foxing on plates. Bookplates of Vernon Howard. Stockholm: Lithographic Institute of the General Staff of the Swedish Army, 1916-22
first edition of the full scientific report of Hedin's third major expedition and his second to Tibet, during which he discovered the sources of the Brahmaputra and Indus Rivers. Yakushi (1994) H179.
Text Volumes
I. Lake Manasarovar and the Sources of the Great Indian Rivers.--From the Remotest Antiquity to the End of the 18th Century. Plate; 53 maps, most folding. xxxii, 293 pages. (1917.)
II. Lake Manasarovar and the Sources of the Great Indian Rivers.--From the End of the 18th Century to 1913. 56 plates with 99 subjects, mostly after photographs; 4 photographic panoramas on 2 folding leaves; 24 maps, most folding. xi, [1], 330 pages. (1917.)
III. Transhimalaya. 64 plates with 90 subjects, mostly after photographs; 8 color lithograph plates with 14 subjects after landscape paintings by Hedin; 31 maps, most folding. xi, [1], 369 pages. (1917.)
IV. Kara-korum and Chang-tang. 127 plates with 200 subjects after photographs; 9 photographic panoramas on 5 folding leaves; 13 color lithograph plates with 24 subjects after landscape paintings by Hedin. xi, [1], 428 pages. (1922.)
V. Petrographie und Geologie von Südwest-Tibet. 9 plates with 60 subjects after photographs; 2 double-page plates. [4], 220 pages. (1916.)
VI. Part I. Die meteorologischen Beobachtungen; Part II. Les Observations Astonomiques; Part III. Botany. [8], vii, [1], 133, [1]; [4], 86; 193, [2] pages, with 11 botanical plates after photographs at end. (1920-18-22.)
VII. History of Exploration in the Kara-korum Mountains. 17 plates with 19 subjects after photographs; 2 double-page views after drawings by Hedin; 103 maps, most folding. xi, [1], 605 pages. (1922.)
VIII. Part I: The Ts'ung-Ling Mountains; Part II: Die Westländer in der chinesischen Kartographie; Part III: Zwei osttürkische Manuskriptkarten; Part IV: Chinesische Umschreibungen von älteren geographischen Namen. 45 maps, most folding. xvi, 456 pages. 1922.
IX. Part I: Journey in Eastern Pamir; Part II: Osttürkische Namenliste; Part III: Zur Geologie von Ost-Pamir; Part IV: Eine chinesische Beschreibung von Tibet . . . Das Goldstromland im chinesisch-tibetanischen Grenzgebiet; Part V: General Index. 7 plates with 14 subjects after drawings by Hedin; 11 plates with 25 subjects after photographs; 4 folding maps. vii, [1]; 180; 130, [2]; 176 pages. (1922.)
Prospectus: Southern Tibet. 2 double-page color plates; 4 leaves of photographic illustrations; 2 folding maps. 32 pages. (1922.)
