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Click here to subscribeFifteen boxed collections of early audio book recordings by His Master's Voice to include Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Heinrich Harrer's Seven Years in Tibet, H V Morton's A Stranger in Spain etc. Together with works by Brahms. These unusual early sound recordings were specifically developed for the visually impaired.
18th Cent. Tibetan dagger, worn as a status symbol by the official members of the Tibetan government, in silver and brass (with iron dagger)TIBET - 18° EEUW vrij exceptioneel mes/dolk, dat werd gedragen als statussymbool door de officiële regeringsleden in Tibet - met ijzeren lemmet en greep in massief zilver, versierd met gelukbrengende symbolen en met originele schede met front in koper en massief zilver met dezelfde ornamentiek - lengte : 34 cm
old Tibetan lidded (tea)pot in silver with repoussé decor with typical motifs such as mythical animalsTIBET - ca 1900/40 gedekselde kan met greep in massief zilver met typische decors in repoussé-techniek met typische motieven zoals mythische dieren - hoogte : 16 cm - gewicht : 375 gram prov : uit een oude Belgische collectie
Tibetan flint bag set in leather and silver with coral and turquoise, to be dated around 1900TIBET - ca. 1900 zeer goede originele set van vuursteenzakje met het typische bijhorende kledingsbevestigingstuk (met karakteristieke vorm) - in leder en massief zilver met ornamentiek in repoussé - techniek en bezet met koraal en turkoois - totale hoogte : 39 cm
The most important India General Service medal awarded to Ensign Henry Haversham Austen (later Lieutenant-Colonel Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.), who was gazetted to the 24th Foot in 1851 and served as A.D.C. to General Godwin in the 2nd Burmese War, and later on special duty with the Bhootan Field Force; as a young British army surveyor he ‘undertook one of the most remarkable expeditions in British mountaineering history; not only did he open the way to the mountain now called K2 but, beyond the village of Skardu, gateway to the Karakoram, he became the first Westerner to explore the world’s most extensive and awesome glacier system; explorations in Ladakh, Tibet, Bhutan and Burma soon followed’ India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Pegu, Bhootan (Ensign H. H. Austen. 24th Foot. A.D.C.) second clasp loose on ribbon as issued, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, toned good very fine £4,000-£5,000 --- Henry Haversham Austen was born at Teignmouth, Devon, on 6 July 1834, son of Robert A. C. Austen, F.R.S., a distinguished geologist, and Maria, daughter of General Godwin, a marriage that produced no fewer than 17 siblings to Haversham between 1834 and 1856, one of whom, Frederick, was killed at Isandhlwana. Haversham, by which name he was always known, was educated at R.M.C. Sandhurst which establishment he entered at the age of 13. Gentleman Cadet H. H. Austen was appointed as Ensign in the 24th Foot on 26 December 1851, and in June 1852 set out for Burma, as aide-de-camp to his grandfather General Godwin, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in the second Anglo-Burmese war. Following the death of General Godwin in 1854 his name was changed to Godwin-Austen by personal decree of Queen Victoria. He was appointed a Topographical Assistant to the Trigonometrical Survey of India and joined the Kashmir Survey party in 1857, with whom he surveyed a very large extent of country in Kashmir and Baltistan. In the latter country the enormous glaciers at the head of the Shigar river and Hunza Nagar frontier, which included the Baltoro glacier, which he was the first to discover, coming down in part from the second highest mountain in the Himalayas and named after him [since renamed as ‘K2’]. In 1862 he surveyed the lofty country of Rupshu and Zaskar in Ladakh, and in July and August of that year he made 13 different ascents of a mean height of 17,900 feet, the highest peak, Mata, being 20,607 feet. The following year he took up the Changchenmo and carried the topography to the eastern end of the Pang Kong lake, close up to Rudok in Chinese territory, where he was met and stopped by the Lhassan Governor. During the winter of 1863-64 he was on special duty with the last mission to Bhutan, and mapped the country between Darjeeling and Punakha, the capital. In 1864-65, having accompanied the political mission of Sir Ashley Eden to the Rajas of Bhutan, he served on special duty with the left column of the Bhutan field force as Surveyor, and was present at the storm and capture of of the fort of Dalimkot and the stockade of Chamoorchi in December 1864. In 1866, and for the following ten years, he was in charge of Survey Operations in the Garo, Khasi, Jaintia, North Cachar and Naga Hills, and Manipur, including in 1874 the expedition against the Dafia tribe at the base of the Eastern Himalayas, when a large area of new country was mapped and many distant peaks fixed. He was President of Section E (Geography) of the British Association, 1883; President of the Maalacological Society, 1897-99; President of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1908-09; awarded the Founders’ medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1910 for his exploration work. He was author of On the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of India, 1882-1920; (jointly with Dr W. T. Blandford) of The Fauna of British India, vol. Mollusca, 1908; together with some 130 papers in the Journals of various Scientific Societies on Geology and Physical Features, Ethnology and Natural History. Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen died at his house near Godalming in the Surrey hills on 2 December 1923. Sold with a copy of Catherine Moorehead’s outstanding 2013 biography of this important but long-forgotten explorer, The K2 Man (and his molluscs) The extraordinary life of Haversham Godwin-Austen, the dust jacket of which carries an excellent précis of the story to be discovered therein: ‘Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), from an ancient and interesting Surrey aristocratic family with royal connections, not only found the first way to the savage mountain, K2, but went on to be the first serious explorer of the Karakoram, Ladakh, Western Tibet, Bhutan, Northern Burma and Assam. He broke the Asiatic high-altitude summiting record three times, using a ‘garden hatchet’ as an ice-axe, saw his assistant killed by headhunters and socialised with everyone from his ‘coolies' to the Maharajah of Kashmir. Back in England, he became one of the UK's greatest Natural Historians, a Darwinist collector among collectors of geological and ornithological specimens. His collection of freshwater molluscs forms the basis of all modern science in the subject. And he became one of the UK's greatest surveyors, covering over 22,000 square miles of new territory, including 23 new glaciers and at least two dozen first ascents of peaks over 5000m. Remarkably, he also found time to paint a vast portfolio of watercolours, including the first close sighting of K2, described by the British Library as a 'national treasure’. (Several of these watercolours are illustrated in this book.) His personal life was equally interesting: three marriages - to an Afghan landowner's daughter, an English socialite, then a civil servant's daughter 23 years younger than himself - were complicated by religious conversions from Anglicanism to Islam then to Buddhism. His strong character as a scholar at great London institutions such as the Natural History Museum is still the stuff of legend, while his bankruptcy in later life required the selling of the 'family pile’, the magnificent, royally-furnished Shalford Park. And thanks to a youthful indiscretion in Kashmir, he harboured a dark secret which came back to haunt him near the end of his long and colourful life. This is the first and authorised biography of an outstanding man. Godwin-Austen's private papers are being made public for the first time. They prove that he was one of the UK's greatest explorers, on a par with Sir Richard Burton, while surpassing the explorations of David Livingstone, Captain Cook or Captain Scott. For mountaineers, scientists, students of biography and historians of the Raj and the Great Game, this biography offers new and original material - a 'must' for the explorer's bookshelf.’
Chinese porcelain Famille Verte green dragon bowl, Qing period, the green enamelled dragons chasing a flaming pearl amongst clouds, on a crackle glaze ground, W12.2cm. Provenance - from the collection of Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000), an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy. He was among the last Europeans to have known Tibet and its society before the Chinese invasions which began in 1950. Condition - Good condition with some minor glaze imperfections.
Chinese white dragon bowl, late Qing period, the white dragon with green mane chasing a red flaming pearl amongst clouds, all on blue ground, W12cm. Provenance - from the collection of Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000[2]) was an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy. He was among the last Europeans to have known Tibet and its society before the Chinese invasions which began in 1950. Condition - Good condition with some very minor glaze imperfections and some very minor scratching with the bowl base.
Chinese agate snuff bottle. late Qing period, the spinach jade domed cover over a polished agate bottle, H5.3cm. Provenance - From the collection of Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000), an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy. He was among the last Europeans to have known Tibet and its society before the Chinese invasions which began in 1950.
Chinese porcelain dragon bowl, late Qing Guangxu period, the body decorated in underglaze blue with a five claw dragon chasing a flaming pearl, W11cm. Provenance - from the collection of Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000[2]) was an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy. He was among the last Europeans to have known Tibet and its society before the Chinese invasions which began in 1950. Condition - Appears in very good condition, on the inside base of the bowl there appears to be two very small fine lines, it is difficult to ascertain whether these are scratches or the beginnings of a very fine hairline within the glaze.
Landon,P.: The Opening of Tibet. An account of Lhasa and the country and people of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the mission sent there by the Englisch Government in the year 1903-4. Introduction by Colonel Younghusband. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co. 1905. Mit 49 Tafeln (1 farb. u. mont.). XV, 484 S. Olwd. mit Kopfgoldschn. (Etw. best. u. berieb.). Unbeschn., Innengel. angeplatzt, tls. schwach gebräunt u. fleckig. - ╔Dabei: Ders.╗ Lhasa. An account fo the country and people of Central tibet... 2 Bde. London, Hurst and Blackett 1905. Mit 6 Karten u. zahlr. Abb. im Text u. auf Tafeln. XIX, 414 S.; XI, 426 S. Mod. Hldrbde. - Cordier IV, 2896. - Landon war Korrespondent der Times. Er berichtet ausführlich über die kriegerischen und diplomatischen Verwicklungen der Briten. Mit vielen interessanten Abb. zur Landes- und Volkskunde, Architektur, Handwerk etc. - Stellenweise schwach fleckig. St.a.T. - Zus. 3 Bde.
Possibly depicting the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in a standing position, with the right hand in kataka mudra and the left lowered in varada mudra. He wears a draped garment cinched at the waist with a belt, leaving the chest uncovered. His long curly hair is tied up and falls gracefully over his shoulders.Provenance: from the Ullman collection, Italy.Catalog notes:The figure is not easily identifiable (the absence of jewelry suggests a resemblance to a Buddha) however, it is clearly influenced by Tibetan art, evident in the facial expression, hair, and posture. This can be compared to a 10th/11th-century Nepalese figure of Vajrapani from the Qing court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and illustrated in Palace Museum 2007, The Complete Collection of Treasure of the Palace Museum: Buddhist Statue of Tibet, Shanghai, p. 77, no. 74.铜鎏金观音像，汉/藏，十七/十八世纪
In his eleven-faced form, standing on a lotus base. He is shown with eight arms, the two main ones in atmanjalimudra, and the others in various mudras. In his lower left hand, he holds a kundika. He is dressed in intricately draped robes and adorned with prominent jewelry and a crown.Provenance: from the Ullman collection, Italy.Note di catalogo:For a similar, larger figure, see the one from the Qing court collection now at the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in Palace Museum 2007, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Buddhist Statues of Tibet, Shanghai, p. 216, no. 206.鎏金如意寶輪王陀羅尼像，汉/藏，十八世纪
A group of four medals, awarded to 5655 L Cpl E Hicks R Fus, comprising a Tibet medal, with a Gyantse clasp, a British War Medal (Spr), a Victory medal and a LS & GC medal, with copy documentation Provenance: On Instructions of the Family: Medals and Militaria from the Estate of a West Country Collector
Mount Everest Expedition Letter - A hand written letter from Dr G.N. Humphreys who was the senior medical officer on the 1936 Everest expedition writing from Everest to his friend Cyril H. Barraud, contained within its original envelope, together with a "Greetings from Mount Everest Expedition 1936" card and a " Christmas Card " from G. Noel Humphreys. Provenance : By family descent. Transcription of letter from Everest, 1936Mount Everest Expedition 1936.c/o The Postmaster,Gangtok,Sikkim.29.5.36Dear BarraudJust a line from Everest to hope that all is going well with you all. At the moment we have been driven back to camp I from camp III & camp IV. There have been heavy falls of snow on the mountain which makes it quite unclimable until the snow as been blown away and at III, 21,000ft, one is deteriorating all the time. Today is beautifully fine and we will return to the attack tomorrow or the next day.We had a very interesting 250 mile march across Tibet; a country like the Sahara at that time of year but beautiful with its honey-coloured plains, its blue lakes and the distant indigo Himalayas. Some of the buildings – the forts and monasteries – are very fine tho most of the people live in mud homes. People very friendly. At each monastery we passed we were blessed with much ceremony by the Lama.Here, at 18,000 ft., the Spring has come, there are butterflies and a few tufted plants in flower – saxifrage, vetch, primulas.Marion and I had a good voyage out and saw something of Bombay, Agra (The Taj Etc.), Calcutta, Darjieling & Kalimpang, before ‘I left her’ at Gongtok. She has been staying with friends in different places and is now with cousins in the Murree Hills near Raul Pindi. I expect to be back at Gongtok towards the end of June and to get a boat early in July and be back home about the end of July. Our daughter Bead is at the vicarage at Harlow Common, in Essex, where Marion’s brother is vicar.The odds are against the expedition as the monsoon normally arrives June 5 or 6 so, unless it is late this year, we’ve only till then to get in a shot at the summit.However.Hope we find you all very fit on our return.Yours very sincerelyG.N. Humphreys. Transcription of Christmas cardVery sorry indeed we haven’t yet got down to see you. Marrion is at Claygate. I go to Mount Everest at end of January. We hope to see you before then. Meet Bead Humphreys (we think she is rather nice).All the very best wishes to you all for Christmas and 1935.GNH
2006-2015 A.D. N. & D. Rhodes - S.W. Laden La (1876-1936) : A Man of the Frontier, His Life and Times in Darjeeling and Tibet - Kolkata, 2006, hardback with dustwrapper, 89 pp, 38 plates, foldout photograph; Denise Leidy - The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to its History and Meaning - London, 2008, card covers, 342 pp, colour and monochrome illustrations; Christopher randall - A Personal Selection of the Jade Carvings from The Yushantang Collection of Nick Troubetskoy Vol.1 - Hong Kong, 2015, hardback with dustwrapper, 130 pp, colour plates. 2.77 kg total, 24.2 x 19 - 31.2 x 24 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 - 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.). [3, No Reserve]Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
A collection of seven late 19th century Tibetan swords with part and full-fullered steel blades, length of longest blade 84cm, shaped steel guards and part leather covered wood grips, one with inset hardstone decorated pommel and fishskin covered steel mounted scabbard, the others without scabbards (most with active rust, scabbard seized and generally distressed condition). Note: purportedly brought back from the Britain-Tibet wars circa late 1880s/1890s by General Peterson.
Tibet.- Selections from the Perfection of Wisdom in a Hundred Thousand Lines, manuscript in Tibetan on mulberry paper, c.216 leaves, chapters 38, 40, 45 & 47, Tibetan script in silver ink, text area black and polished by rice powder for preservation purposes (polish often spilling over onto frame portion of leaves), lacking title page, some worming, some soiling or staining, leaves loose, housed in a modern cloth drop-back box, each leaf c.120 x 450mm., [Ladakh], [16th century]. *** A collection of passages from the Perfection of Wisdom, each section on average from 10 to 20 leaves. There is reason to believe that this manuscript has not been opened for a long time, since several of its pages are firmly joined together. The writing is in silver ink, the calligraphy with the ‘rough and ready’ appearance found in manuscripts from Ladakh. The state of conservation and medley of pages suggest that the manuscript never belonged to a well-organised monastic library, but was kept in private hands for occasional consultation or purposes of worship on the family altar.
Asia.- Tassin (Jean-Baptiste Athanase) Map of Eastern Asia, comprising China, parts of Tibet and Mongolia, Bootan, Assam, Burma and Eastern Bengal with Anam, Cambodia, Siam, Laos, the Malay Peninsula and the Indian archipelago, lithograph with fine hand-colouring, sheet 1050 x 735 mm (41 1/4 x 28 7/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt and browning, folding with green coloured endpapers, in green slipcase with publisher's printed label to upper cover, worn, 4to, Calcutta, 1840. *** Scarce map, published in Calcutta. We cannot trace another example at auction. Tassin joined a voyage to East Asia as a naturalist, but his ship was wrecked in the Malay Archipelago, leaving Tassin impoverished in Singapore. He is recorded being in Calcutta by 1828, where he set up his own printing press, the Oriental Lithographic Press, which he ran until 1842 to great success.
A TIBET AND FIRST WORLD WAR GROUP OF FOUR TO THE MULE CORPS. A Group of four comprising Tibet Medal 1903-04, silver issue, with Gyantse clasp named to 41 Naik Jamal Din 9th Mule Corps, Indian General Service Medal 1908-35 with Mansud 1919-20 clasp named to Jem Jamal Din 1, 68, Pony Cps, Great War pair named to Jemdr Jamal Din 2 Porter Cps. Mounted for display with copied research. *CR First polished and suspension slightly loose, clasp slightly dented from wear, others better.
Kupferkannewohl Tibet, Ende 19. Jh., mit altem Lacksiegel, Kupfer getrieben, bauchiger Korpus mit ornamentaler Messingmontierung, s-förmig geschwungene Schnaupe, in Form eines Drachen gearbeitete Handhabe, aufgelegter Kuppeldeckel mit zapfenförmigem Knauf, Alters- und Korrosionsspuren, H 31 cm.
Kurzschwert, Tibet, 19. Jhdt. Kräftige, spitz zulaufende Rückenklinge. Geschweiftes eisernes Stichblatt mit geringen Resten von Silbertauschierung. Hilze mit Wicklung aus Neusilberdraht. Eiserner Knauf mit Resten von Vergoldung, fein gravierter und durchbrochen gearbeiteter Dekor. Schauseitig ein silbergefasster Korallencabochon. Hölzerne Scheide, der textile Bezug nur in geringen Resten erhalten. Montierung aus vergoldetem Eisen. Getriebener Zierbeschlag aus Neusilber mit Korallen- und Türkisbesatz. Länge 56 cm. A Tibetan short sword, 19th century A Tibetan short sword, 19th century Kräftige, spitz zulaufende Rückenklinge. Geschweiftes eisernes Stichblatt mit geringen Resten von Silbertauschierung. Hilze mit Wicklung aus Neusilberdraht. Eiserner Knauf mit Resten von Vergoldung, fein gravierter und durchbrochen gearbeiteter Dekor. Schauseitig ein silbergefasster Korallencabochon. Hölzerne Scheide, der textile Bezug nur in geringen Resten erhalten. Montierung aus vergoldetem Eisen. Getriebener Zierbeschlag aus Neusilber mit Korallen- und Türkisbesatz. Länge 56 cm. Condition: II -
Lothi aus Tibet, Puuko aus Finnland und arabisches Messer, um 1900 Lothi mit einfacher Rückenklinge und vernieteten Beingriffschalen, Scheide mit gravierter Weißbronze und Rochenhaut belegt sowie mit floralen Reliefs dekoriert. Länge 20 cm. Außerdem ein Puuko mit gekehlter Klinge und Griff aus Lederscheiben und Birkenholz in typischer Lederscheide. Länge 23 cm. Dazu ein Messer mit sichelartig gekrümmter Klinge (beschliffen und mit Korrosionsspuren) und silbernem Griff (Einlagen im Knauf fehlen). Länge 29 cm. A Tibetan lothi, a Finnish puuko and an Arabic knife, circa 1900 A Tibetan lothi, a Finnish puuko and an Arabic knife, circa 1900 Lothi mit einfacher Rückenklinge und vernieteten Beingriffschalen, Scheide mit gravierter Weißbronze und Rochenhaut belegt sowie mit floralen Reliefs dekoriert. Länge 20 cm. Außerdem ein Puuko mit gekehlter Klinge und Griff aus Lederscheiben und Birkenholz in typischer Lederscheide. Länge 23 cm. Dazu ein Messer mit sichelartig gekrümmter Klinge (beschliffen und mit Korrosionsspuren) und silbernem Griff (Einlagen im Knauf fehlen). Länge 29 cm. Condition: II -
Geschnittene silber- und goldtauschierte Trense, Tibet, 18. Jhdt. Kopfgestell aus vernähtem doppelten Leder mit größtenteils geometrisch durchbrochen gearbeiteten, vergoldeten Beschlägen und Schnallen. Die zweiteilige Biss-Stange mit floral gold- und silbertauschierten Seitenbügeln. Leder etwas trocken und teilweise verbogen, Beschläge durch Reinigung gut zu verbessern. Länge ca. 48 cm. A chiselled Tibetan snaffle with silver and gold inlays, 18th century A chiselled Tibetan snaffle with silver and gold inlays, 18th century The head harness made of double layers of stitched leather with gilt fittings and buckles, most of which are embellished with geometric openwork. The two-piece bit with gold and silver floral inlays on the side bars. The leather somewhat dry and warped in places, the fittings can easily be improved by cleaning. Length circa 48 cm. Condition: II - III
Großes Messer, Tibet, 19. Jhdt. Kräftige Rückenklinge mit beidseitiger schmaler Kehlung. Griff aus Eisenblech mit fein graviertem und getriebenem Dekor. Hölzerne Scheide mit Rochenhautbezug und gravierten eisernen Beschlägen. Anhängend lederner Trageriemen. Länge 39,5 cm. A large Tibetan knife, 19th century A large Tibetan knife, 19th century Kräftige Rückenklinge mit beidseitiger schmaler Kehlung. Griff aus Eisenblech mit fein graviertem und getriebenem Dekor. Hölzerne Scheide mit Rochenhautbezug und gravierten eisernen Beschlägen. Anhängend lederner Trageriemen. Länge 39,5 cm. Condition: II
World Coins (3): Burma, Kyat, CS1214 (1852), with lettering around peacock (KM.10); British Trade Dollar, 1898B (KM.T5); Tibet, cupro-nickel Rupee (1911-33), vertical rosette & collar (L&M.359). All certified and graded as follows: AU Details, Cleaned, UNC Details, Obverse Cleaned, and AU Details, Cleaned. (3)
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