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W.N. Fergusson. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. London: Constable and Co, 1911.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 343 p. Lacking the 2 maps in rear. Rebound in later green cloth. Gilt to spine. Library markings of the Hong Kong Club. Binding fair, with several gutter cracks occurring, p227-258 starting to loosen. Old purple damp stain to head margins near gutters, more pronounced on last pages affecting text.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

FERGUSSON, W. N.;. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. . London, Constable and Company, 1911, First edition., 1911.

Price: US$201.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo [24.5 x 17 cm]; xvi, 343 pp, frontis (portrait), numerous illustrations including many full-page from the author and J. W. Brooke, 2 folding colored maps, index. original green pictorial cloth with gilt spine title lettering, short tear at spine foot, edges a little worn, front internal hinge cracked but firm, signature, very good, interior clean. Yakushi F 29. Cordier 4396. Marshall 2059. The author based the work on the diaries and journal of John Weston Brooke, and provides a detailed narrative of Brooke's journeys through western China and Tibet in 1906-1908, including a meeting with the Dali Lama, the first since being displaced by his avoidance of Younghusband's incursion in Lhasa. On Brooke's second journey he was accompanied by C.H. Meares, who later joined Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Brooke was murdered by Lolo tribesmen in 1908. An important description of the area and its peoples with excellent illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request.

Seller: Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

FERGUSSON, W. N.. Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.. , 1911.

Price: US$201.57 + shipping

Description: London: Constable, 1911. Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (slightly rubbed; dent on back top edge). T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xvi, 344pp.). With portrait, num. illusts. from photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke, and 2 fold. maps at end. 1st ed. Hinges cracked. Slight toning on end-papers, otherwise fine.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Fergusson, W. N. Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes,. Constable and Co, 1911.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. A sound copy of this rare item - beautiful gilt on spine. Some browning to endpapers and a bookplate is present on the back of the front board. 'Presentation Copy' blindstamped on the legal page. All maps and illustrations are present. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.

Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Fergusson, W N.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.. London; Constable and Company Limited, 1911., 1911.

Price: US$259.91 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. xvi, 343 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the late Lieutenant J W Brooke with tissue-guard, plus numerous photographic illustrations throughout, some full page. Two folding maps in colour to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Original pictorial green cloth with gilt titles to spine and black to upper board. Top edge gilt. Newspaper obituary of J W Brooke loosely inserted. Edges rubbed with small nick at head of spine; spine sunned. A slightly shaken copy with inner front hinge cracked but holding. Blindstamped "Presentation Copy" roundel to title page. Scattered light foxing; free endpapers toned. Based on the travel diary and journals of John Weston Brooke, who explored river systems in China and Tibet in the early years of the twentieth century, before his murder by Lolo tribesmen in 1908. Subject matter includes lively descriptions of the land and its people, hunting parties and natural history. Fergusson also used material by C H Mears who accompanied Brooke on his second expedition, but was unable to write an account himself owing to his commitment to Scott's journey to the Antarctic; he passed the torch on to his relative and fellow traveller Fergusson.

Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom

W.N.Fergusson.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.. Constable and Company Limited,, 1911.

Price: US$262.12 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Small 4to. xvi, 343pp. Frontispiece. 76 illus. Original pictorial cloth, gilt top, slightly rubbed, inner joint repaired.

Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan

Fergusson, W. N.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable and Company Limited 1911, London, 1911.

Price: US$311.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 343 pp. 76 photographs. In the words of W. N. Fergusson, this book is mainly an account of two journeys taken through China and Tibet by the late Lieutenant Brooke. Mr. Brooke started on his first journey from Shanghai on August 1, 1906, and after crossing Tibet, returned to Shanghai in October 1907. He left Shanghai on his second journey in December, 1907, and travelled in Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet until December 24, 1908, when he was murdered in the Independent Lolo Land. On the second of these two expeditions, Lt Brooke was accompanied by Mr C. H. Meares; and when that journey came to its untimely end, Mr Meares returned to England and wrote some articles on the country they had been travelling through. These generated considerable interest and Mr Meares was urged to make a more permanent record of the journey, but as he was already enlisted by Captain Scott for the Antarctic Expedition, the task fell to Fergusson. He was entrusted with Brooke's diary and photographs taken by him on his journeys and Fergusson here unites his own knowledge of the remote Tibetan and western and southern Se-chuan [sic] (Lololand) region, never previously visited by white people, with that of Mr Meares and Lt Brooke. Recent green half morocco with smart gilt-stamped, banded spine and green cloth boards. First few endpapers are new. Original free endpaper before half title page bears a signed dedication from, perhaps, Mr Brooke's mother to 'Ada McLeod with love from Mrs. Brooke 1911'. Some waterstaining to front endpapers, frontis. and title and some damp marking to bottom corner of pages scattered through the book, but very little damage to the two fold-out maps of western and southern Sechuan Large 8vo.

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Fergusson, W.N.. Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes.. Constable, 1911.

Price: US$357.38 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, tall 8vo, a fine bright and sound copy in publisher's green cloth, lettered & illustrated in gilt, black, brown,blue and white with a yak caravan; pp. xvi+344, top edges gilt, others uncut; indexed; with a photogravure portait, 75 half-tones from photographs and a colour-printed folding map; very minimal spotting to preliminary leaves. With the original Prospectus inserted: 1 leaf folded, 4 pp., 1 half-tone. Comprised largely of the diaries of Lieut. Jack W. Brooke on his 1906-07 and 1907-08 expeditions to determine the source and course of the Tsangpo River. After being refused permission by the British to enter Tibet from Assam he took the known route from Koko Nor over the Tang La to Tibet in 1906, and was turned back. On his second attempt he travelled from Shanghai towards Tibet, much of the time in company with Fergusson, but was killed by Lolo tribesmen of southern Szechwan near the Burmese border. Yakushi F29. Marshall 2059.

Seller: Cavendish Rare Books, ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

FERGUSSON, W.N.. Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable and Company Limited, London, 1911.

Price: US$369.54 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, Constable and Company Limited, 1911. Large octavo, xvi, 344 pages with 75 illustrations ('from photographs by the Author and the late Lieut. Brooke') plus a frontispiece portrait with a tissue-guard and 2 folding colour maps. Colour-pictorial cloth slightly marked, bumped and rubbed; leading and bottom edges uncut; edges, endpapers and adjacent leaves slightly foxed; small light tidemark to the top corner of the margin of the frontispiece; short tears to the maps expertly sealed; minimal signs of age and use; overall, an excellent copy of a most attractive publication. The book is 'mainly an account of two journeys taken through China and Tibet by the late Lieutenant Brooke, F.R.G.S. [John Weston Brooke, 1880-1908]. Mr. Brooke started on his first journey from Shanghai on August 1, 1906, and after crossing Tibet, returned to Shanghai in October, 1907. He left Shanghai on his second journey in December, 1907, and travelled in Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet until December 24, 1908, when he was cruelly murdered in the Independent Lolo Land' (preface). The account is based on Brooke's diary.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Fergusson, W.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable, London, 1911.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Fergusson, W. ADVENTURE SPORT AND TRAVEL ON THE TIBETAN STEPPES 1911 London 342 pp. Large foldout map, 80 Ill. Travel and hunting. Internally very nice and tight. Orig. pict. Orig. printed cloth. Corners bumped, hinges loose (but binding folding firm). While the copy is vg only, the book does have laid inside both prospectuses, the one before publication that can be used to order the book and the one issued afterwards with reviews of the book. Better than a reading copy.

Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.

Fergusson, W. N.. Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable and Company, London, 1911.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: frontis (portrait), photos, 2 folding maps, index, xvi, 343p. Original pictorial green cloth. 24cm. Endpapers slightly foxed. Previous owners' names on end paper. Some cover soil. Backstrip darkened. Private library numbers partially removed from backstrip. No Jacket. Top edge gilt. Based in part on the journals and reports of John Weston Brooke, who, on his second journey (with the author) through western Szechuan and eastern Tibet (1907-1908), was killed by Lolo tribesmen.

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

Fergusson, W. N.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable and Company, E-39, 1911.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Constable and Company. 1911. Xvi, 343 pp. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of John Weston Brooke, 2 folding maps at rear, plus many photograph plates. First edition/first printing. Bound in original green cloth, with wraparound illustration in blue, black and brown, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the front board, bookplate present, bookstore stamp present to rear endpaper along with another name present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Account of the two journeys into Tibet by Lieutenant John Weston Brooke, F. R. G. S. , 1906-7 and 1907-8, the second ending when he was cruelly murdered in the Independent Lolo Land. Based on Brooke's diary and photographs, and the relation of C. H. Meares, who accompanied Brooke on his second trip. E-39; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 343 pages

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

Fergusson, W. N.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable and Company Limited, London, 1911.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. xvi, 343, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Lively account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke, who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24, 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August, 1906, and travelled through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary, with other observations and photographs by W. N. Fergusson and C. H. Meares. Yakushi F29 Original green pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Inner hinges cracked, minor shelfwear. Very good xvi, 343, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

FERGUSSON, W.N.. ADVENTURE, SPORT AND TRAVEL ON THE TIBETAN STEPPES. Constable, 1911.

Price: US$500.33 + shipping

Description: First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and black to the upper cover. An uncommonly fine copy, bright and clean. Inscription to front free endpaper. Photogravure frontispiece, two colour folding maps, and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Fergusson's account of two expeditions across the Tibetan steppes and western China between 1906 and 1908. Fergusson was joined on the expedition by John Weston Brooke and Cecil Henry Meares: "The trio hunted wild boar and goral in Wassu province, then proceeded down the Min River in search of penyang (blue sheep) but were unable to procure one. In the Taokwan valley, serows were bagged. Meares journeyed into Changmin territory where he collected a takin. It was during a trip to Lololand that Brooke was murdered, his body eventually recovered by Fergusson" (Czech). Before this fate, Brooke was granted an audeience with Thubten Gyatso, the thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, "his first audience, I believe, with an Englishman" (p.6). Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting, 77.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

(Tibet) Fergusson, W. N.. Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. Constable and Company Limited, London, 1911.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. xvi, 343, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo. Lively account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke, who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24, 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August, 1906, and travelled through Western Sechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary, with other observations and photographs by W. N. Fergusson and C. H. Meares. Yakushi F29 Original green pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Minor wear at extremities, front hinge tender, else near fine xvi, 343, [1] pp. Portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous reproductions of photographs by the author and the late Lieut. Brooke. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.