Lhasa and its Mysteries. With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904 London: Methuen & Co., [1906].
Third edition.
Thick octavo. xx, 530 pp., including index and appendices. With 86 pages of photographs, including a color frontispiece; six maps, including three fold-out maps; one chart, and one floor plan. Original full tan cloth, spine and front cover decorated in red, gilt-lettered red cloth spine label. Some rubbing and light soiling to extremities, small tear from spine label, discoloration to endpapers, gutter opposite title over-opened. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. From the library of Dale Riepe, with his ownership inscription to front flyleaf. Overall a very good copy of this vast work on Tibet.
This profusely illustrated work features a detailed account of the British invasion of Tibet, as well as a thorough account of the people and religion of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.
Professor Dale Maurice Riepe (1918-2006), was a major American philosopher and scholar, and was the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo from 1963-1986, and taught at many other schools. His main area of expertise was Eastern Philosophy, and he traveled and wrote extensively, publishing several books and over seventy articles.
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