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Hedin, Sven Transhimalaja - Entdeckungen und Abenteuer in Tibet
Leipzig F. A. Brockhaus 1909 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good
8vo ; xviii & 405; x & 406 pages; Publisher's bindings: tan canvas-like cloth, spines and front covers boldly lettered in black, with color pictorial paper decorative onlays mounted to the front covers, medium brown endpapers with a Tibetan text. Each rear paste-down endpaper has a folding map tipped to the gutter edge. This attractive two volume set represents the first German edition of this classic of modern exploration. Volumes I and II are each first printings. A third volume which was eventually added to the work several years later (1912), but that is not offerred here. Sven Hedin's importance can barely be overstated. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered the Transhimalaya (once named the Hedin Range in his honor). The present two volume work is the account of Hedin's third Central Asian expedition. Between 1905 and 1908 he investigated the Central Persian desert basins, and the western highlands of Tibet and the Transhimalaya. He visited the 9th Panchen Lama in the cloister city of Tashilhunpo in Shigatse. Sven Hedin was the first European to reach the Kailash region, the sacred Lake Manasarovar and the sacred Mount Kailash - the midpoint of the earth according to Buddhist and Hindu mythology. The most important goal of the expedition was the search for the sources of the Indus and Brahmaputra Rivers, both of which Hedin found. The German editions of Hedin's books were published nearly simulaneously with Hedin's Swedish texts. The F. A. Brockhaus editions were produced to very high standards, and were certainly the main driver's of Hedin's international fame. The explorer also was a close personal friend of publisher Albert Brockhaus. Their correspondence is preserved in the Riksarkivet in Stockholm, and a selection of these letters was published in 1942 [Sven Hedin, Albert Brockhaus: "Sven Hedin und Albert Brockhaus. Eine Freundschaft in Briefen zwischen Autor und Verleger". F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1942]. A well preserved set, lacking the dust jackets, with light rubbing at the spine ends, slight sun-fading to the spines (which also exhibit a few small spots of foxing). The rear inner hinge of the second volume is just starting to crack; the other hinges are quite sound. A few leaves show light, scattered foxing (especially where the text and the plates are adjacent). The plates, including the folding plates, and the two folding maps tipped to the rear endpapers are in excellent condition.
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