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Featured items that Catron Grant Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2010.
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Catron Grant Books
Christie and Verne Lucero
2181 Zaragosa Road SE Rio Rancho NM 87124
505-896-2221 www.catrongrantbooks.com
cjl@catrongrantbooks.com
India, Tibet, Central Asia, China, 20th Century Show Biz
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Travels in Tartary, Tibet and China during the Years 1844-5-6
By Regis-Evariste Huc and Joseph Gabet
English translation published 1851. Second edition The French clerics, Huc
and Gabet, sent by the Catholic Church, were the only two European explorers
to reach the forbidden city of Lhasa during the nineteeth century. Their
interest in and sympathy with Buddhism caused their accounts of their
travels to be banned by the Church.
Two volumes bound in tan calf, expertly rebacked preserving original boards
and most of the original spines relaid including title and volume labels.
Prize bindings from the Bath Proprietary College (name gilt-embossed on
boards) A handwritten dedication on feps.(Christmas 1854) Profusely
illustrated with 50 wood engravings per volume. $235.00
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The Back Blocks of China A Narrative of Experiences among the Chinese,
Lolos, Tibetans and Kachins between Shanghai and the Irrawadi
Sixteen black and white plates and two fold-out maps.
By R.Logan Jack, F.G.S.
Edward Arnold London 1904 First Edition
An account of the escape on foot across Southern China by a group of English
travelers fleeing the Boxer rebellion and their stays among China's
non-Chinese minorities. In Very Good Plus condition and exceedingly
rare. $350.00
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Mongolia The Tangut Country and the Solitudes of northern Tibet Being a
Narrative of Three Years Travel in Eastern High Asia By Lieut.-Colonel
Nikolai Mikhailovich Prejevalsky Two volumes Reprinted by Asian Educational
Services 1991 from the 1876 original edition.
Prejevalsky was a Russian Army officer who made four expeditions to Central
Asia and Tibet between 1870 and 1885, sent by his government to further
Russian interests in the Great Game against Britain. His detailed writings
stimulated interest among European explorers and geographers that led to the
late-century Golden Age of Central Asian exploration. The two volumes
are tight, clean, overall Near Fine. $365.00
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