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Lot 465
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$390
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Lot Description
[Travel & Exploration]. Hedin, Sven. Southern Tibet. Discoveries in Former Times Compared with my Own Researches in 1906-1908
Stockholm: Lithographic Institute of the General Staff of the Swedish Army; and Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1916-1922. First edition, atlases only: 3 volumes, small folio. Numerous illustrations, maps, and panoramas, many folding. Original printed beige wrappers, light toning, a few tape repairs to the map folders; bookseller's ticket of Karl Schwarz on upper cover of panorama atlas, on title-pages of the map atlases. Yakushi (1994) H179.
First edition of the atlases that accompanied the full scientific report of Hedin's third major expedition and his second to Tibet, during which he discovered the sources of the Brahmaputra and Indus Rivers.
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