China's Borderlands from Catron Grant Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937 347 pp with 12 B&W plates and 2 maps. A narrative of a journey by the famous plant hunter and geographer to Burma along the Tibetan border with Assam and China, an area that at the time was almost completely unknown to westerners. The appendix lists plants collected by the author and list of birds seen… Read more about this item

Taipei: The Orient Cultural Service, 1970 226 pp with 10 pp of photo illustrations after text. An overview of the seperate ethnic groups along China's southwest border.followed by six monographs on the Miao and Lao tribes. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red glazed cloth boards with gold-stamped titlles are bright and undamaged... Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Harper & Bros., 1935 xiii, 292 pp with 64 b&& W photo illustrations and 8 maps and charts. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, Splash marks to title page. Maps on endpapers. Grey cloth boards are clean, intact, spine slightly yellowed. A small expedition to climb Minya Konka (Gonga Shan) in western Sechwan. With bookplate of Steve Fossett. James… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1901 xiv,272 pp with 14 B&W photo illustrations and a folding map bound in after text.Text is clean, tight and unmarked.with light foxing. Bookplate of Steve Fossitt, financier and adventurer, on front pastedown.Map is bright and intact. Blue cloth boards with a crag drawn in brown are bumped at extremities, faded along spine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1955 London: John Murray, 1955 2 volumes in one. xvi, 348; xii, 345 + [2] ad pp. Described as 'A New Edition, carefully revised and condensed.' Wood-engraved plates & illustrations. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Front hinge tender. Page edges gilded. Dark red cloth boards are gold-stamped with an illustration of a mountain and an elaborate… Read more about this item

Gebauer-Schwetschke, 1905 Gebauer-Schwetschke, 1905 vi, 382 pp plus 5 pp of advertising. Several color plates and line drawings in margins. Large folding map after text.Text in German. A journey from Tachienlu to Bhamo (the Omi in the title referrs to Omei Shan) through southwestern Sechuan in 1904. Text is clean,and unmarked. Map is undamaged. Paper covers are yellowed, edgeworn. 1st… Read more about this item

Chicago: Moody Press, 1945 Chicago: Moody Press, 1945 140 pp with B&W photo illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Some foxing to first and last few pages. Red cloth boards are clean and intact with some dimming to gold-stamped titles. An account of early tentieth-century missionary work among the Katu with an interesting list of tribes and… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1882 London: John Murray, 1882 viii, 201 pp plus three large folding maps bound in. 4 pp of ads for additional publications before text. Text is clean, yellowed, two final pages detached but holding. Maps intact but chipped along edges. Library bookplate on front endpaper.Subtitled 'a Journey of Exploration in Western Ssu-chuan," from Present Chungking west to… Read more about this item

Seeley, Service & Co., 1923 Seeley, Service & Co., 1923 321 pp with 16 B&W plates and 6 maps in test plus one fold-out map in rear pocket. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Pevious owner's handsome bookplate on front pastedown. Endpapers may possibly be a relining, they're suspiciously clean for this age book. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 1999 U.S.A.: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 1999 158 pp with 8 color plates. Ethnological research on the border nationalities of Yunnan, China carried out by the Polish scientific expedition, "Naxiland 96." including the Naxi, Moso, Nu and Drung minorities. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner & Welford, 1883 New York: Scribner & Welford, 1883 Across Chrysê, being the narrative of exploration through the South China border lands from Canton to Mandalay. With 3 specially prepared maps, 30 facsimiles of native drawings, and 300 illustrations. Chiefly from Original Photographs and Sketches Vol 1 - xxx+ 420 pp, Volume 2 - xvi + 408… Read more about this item

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005 276 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Initiated by the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, Ashild Kolas and Monica Thowsen have gathered an astounding array of data to quantify Tibetan cultural activities - involving Tibetan language, literature, visual arts, performing arts festivals and religion. Their study is based on fieldwork and interviews… Read more about this item