Atlas and maps to Hedin´s Southern Tibet
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TIBET. (5). HEDIN, SVEN. Atlas and maps to "Southern Tibet. Discoveries in former times compared with my own researches in 1906-1908". Atlas and Maps I-II. Lacks all text and the prospectus. Stockholm (Lithographic Institute of the General Staff of the Swedish Army) 1917-22.
Maps and atlas in folio. Maps and plates. Collation see below.
Atlas and first part of Maps I in original decorated cloth binding, partly soiled, others loose in worn and damaged wrappers. 5 volumes.
Hess, I, pp. 49-51.
Comprises: Atlas of the Tibetan Panoramas. pp iv, 10 and 105 panoramas.
Maps I. (divided in two volumes): pp. 2 + one index map, one map on the Great Karakoram Glaciers on 2 sheets, map of East Turkestan & Tibet on 15 sheets, "Special map" on 26 sheets and one map of Eastern Pamir on 2 sheets, Maps II.: pp. 2 + one index map and H. Byström´s hypsometrical map on 52 sheets.
Maps to the first edition of Hedin´s monumental work on Tibet. During the 28 months´ expedition in Tibet Hedin accomplished to map and survey the great mountain system Transhimalaya and he established the exact sources of the Indus, Brahmaputra, and Sutlej.
Among the other author´s to the work are Anders Henning, Nils Ekholm, K. G. Olsson, C. H. Ostenfeld, Albert Herrmann, A. von Le Coq, Bror Asklund, and others.
Together with Map volume to: Hedin: Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien. Karten (Stockholm, 1918, folio). Lacking the two text volumes.
Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revoloution.
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6156
Datum:
2016-06-21