BOOKS, Asia, Sven Hedin, Sven Hedin
Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and adventures in Tibet. 1-3.
London, Macmillan & Co., 1909-1913. Large 8vo. XXIV, 436 pp. + 4 pp. adverts.; XVIII, 442 pp. + 2 pp. adverts.; XVI, 426 pp. + 2 pp. adverts. + 14 maps and 544 illustrations on plates, from photographs, sketches, drawings etc.
Tre volymer. Förlagets dek. klotband. / Three volumes. Publisher’s pictorial cloth.
Första engelska upplagan. De två första delarna tryckte utan planer på den tredje, som utkom tio år senare. / First edition in English. The first two volumes were printed with no anticipation of the third. The third volume was published ten years later.
Yakushi H103c. Hess A7.
Wear.
Provenance
Karl Becht was a teacher at the Lundsberg School in Värmland, with geography as his main subject. He started collecting books in the early 1930s and specialised in illustrated books of voyages and travel, exploration and discoverey. ”The Karl Bech collection” was given a separate catalogue for its sale at Bukowskis in 1991.