[TIBET] BELL, Sir Charles Alfred

The People of Tibet; Tibet Past and Present; The Religion of Tibet

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1968-1970. First Thus. Three volumes. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's navy blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spines and front boards. Dustjackets. [xix]; 319pp.; [xiv]; [1]; 326pp.; [xv]; [1]; 235pp. All vols clean and tight, very light wear to the cloth, with some minor scuffing to corners and spine ends; internally clean, a little thumbing to the page edges in places. top-edges a little dusty; in clean, bright pictorial dustjackets with soiling to the paler regions and some shallow fraying to the spine ends, the front panel of "The People of Tibet" has a patch of abrasion to the front panel possiblyy from a poorly removed label. A very good, clean set.

First published in 1928. Bell was for a large portion of his life the British Political Officer for the Bhutan, Sikkim, and Tibet regions of "British India", and was in effect considered the unofficial British Ambassador to Tibet. Although he resigned from these appointments in 1919, Bell was despatched on a diplomatic mission to Lhasa in the early 1920's (for which he was subsequently knighted), and became close acquaintances with the Dalai Lama, being chosen to represent Tibetan interests in the Simla Convention, where Great Britain and China met ostensibly to decide the fate of Tibet.

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