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WADDELL, L. Au[gu]stine.
Lhasa and its Mysteries.
With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904.
First Edition. "The author, Army Medical Service, describes the march of the British force to Lhasa of 1903-04, and the religion of Tibet." (Yakushi) Waddell had served extensively on the North-West Frontier, in Burma and China. Whist in Burma he had developed an interest in Buddhism, subsequent "Visits to Darjeeling from 1884 and Waddell's subsequent official connection with the district... drew him to the study of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, concerning which he contributed numerous papers to orientalist journals and published a highly substantial and valuable treatise, entitled The Buddhism of Tibet, or, Lamaism... [on the Younghusband Expedition] he superintended the official collections of literature and art, which were later distributed, together with one private collection of his own, to libraries in Calcutta, London, Oxford, and Cambridge." (ODNB) From 1906 to 1908 he was Professor of Tibetan at University College, London.
Octavo. Contemporary diced half calf on marbled boards, gilt, neat black buckram replacement label. Colour frontispiece and 2 other colour plates, 111 half-tone plates, numerous illustrations to the text, 7 maps, plans and diagrams, two of them folding, folding coloured map at the rear. Light browning, occasional small library stamps to the corners, folding map with some splits neatly repaired verso, very good.
