teichman eric sir (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Complete with all plates. No edition or date stated, C1937. Publication of 221 pages. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the block of the book and little within the body of the book. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hardback book, no dustjacket. The Travel Book Club, undated, boards have wear and some staining, edges are foxed/sunned. Previous owner's name dated 1938.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Very Light wear to extremities. Some water damage to the spine. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Wie neu. 308 Seiten; Zustand geprÃft, Versand werktags innerhalb von 24 Stunden. neuwertig und ungelesen ZA 9330689 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 608.

8vo. 312 pp. + maps, index. Original cloth, unevenly darkened, a very good copy. . First edition.

Soft Cover. Zustand: F. Reprint. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed); pp. xii, iii-xiv, 15-221, [3 (pubs. cat., last blank)], with 39 illustrations & colour folding map at rear. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. no jacket.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Wonderful account of a 1935 journey from Peking to India. pp.xiv.221. Illus. Endpaper map.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 752. . 2016. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo.pp. 221 plus excellent fold-out map at rear:'The Motor Route from Peking to Kashgar, 1935, from a compass traverse by the author.' Original publisher's cloth binding in black, lettered gilt at spine. End paper 'Sketch map illustrating journey to Turkistan.' Black and white photographs illustrate the text. Very good indeed. Firelight tanning to spine.

Hardback. 221pp, 20 plates, endpaper map, Travel Book Club (1937). Very good.

Zustand: Near Fine. London 1937. first edition. Royal Geographical Society. vol LXXXIX no. 4. Original blue printed octavo wraps. Teichman article on pp. 297-308 with large foldout map on heavy stock and 6 pages photo illustrations. Other articles in issue as well: "From the Brahmaputra to the Chhindwin" by E T D Lambert; and "The Economic Development of the Soviet Arctic" by H P Smolka. Near Fine. no ownership marks. Very hard-to-find this original printing in such nice condition.

Legatura editoriale in tela bleu con titolo impresso in oro al ds. Carte di guardia anteriori con carta geografica Sketch Map illustrating journey to Turkistan . Eccellente esemplare. Prima edizione. 8vo (cm. 22), XIV pp., da p. 15 a p. 221 con num.se illustrazioni fotografiche su tavv. f.t. ed una una grande carta geografica a colori più volte rip. in fine ( The motor route from Peking to Kashgar 1935 ).

First Edition. 8vo, pp.xxiii, [1], 248, with 32 double-sided photographic plates, 7 maps, and one large folding map in rear pocket; small closed tears to upper margins of pp.vviii; a very good, clean copy in the original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; crest of Nottingham High School stamped in gilt to front board.First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist Sir Eric Teichman (18841944), 'one of British diplomacy's dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent' (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p.73).'Narrative of the author's journey on the borders of the Chinese provinces of Szechuen and Yunnan and of the Koko-Nor country in 1918. He traversed Kham from north to south' (Yakushi).Yakushi T25. Language: English.

First Edition. 8vo, pp.xiii, [1], 219, [1], with 59 plates and 4 maps (2 folding); sporadic light foxing, but overall a very good copy, in the original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine and top of front board a little sunned, front lower corner slightly bumped; pencil ownership inscription of P.A.Ledward dated 1941 to front pastedown.First edition. 'The following chapters give some account of a series of journeys through the North-Western Provinces of China, undertaken in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty and other matters requiring investigation on the spot in conjunction with Chinese officials Shensi and Kansu are not very well known to foreigners generally owing to their isolation and to the absence of any towns open to foreign trade therein; but they contain many regions well worth visiting, and Kansu especially, with its profusion of game, European climate, and interesting mixed population of Chinese, Mahomedans, Tibetans, and Mongols, is in many respects one of the most attractive of the eighteen provinces' (preface).Sir Eric Teichman (18841944), diplomat and traveller, 'one of British diplomacy's dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent' (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p.73), was awarded the Murchison grant by the Royal Geographical Society in 1925. His publications were considered of great value to contemporary students of East Asia.Cordier, Sinica, col.3340; Yakushi T24. Language: English.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 15-221, [1]; map endpapers, folding color map and 101 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 24 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and a slightly edge-worn dust jacket (illustrating a map of the journey) with a few chips at the spine ends. Uncommon in the dust jacket. "The author was dispatched to Chinese Turkestan by order of Great Britain for the discussion of trade with Governor of Sinkiang. This is an account of his journey to Kashgar by motor-truck through the Gobi Desert, and of return journey from Kashgar to India via Tashkurgan, Mintaka Pass, Hunza, and Gilgit. He took four months for this journey in 1935" (Yakushi). Yakushi T58a.