AbeBooks: Most Expensive Sales in May 2013

AbeBooks: Most Expensive Sales in May 2013: The top sale in May was a precious 1908 edition of Tibet and Lhasa by John Claude White. A remarkable piece of colonial history, the book contains 53 plates taken from glass negatives that White captured during the 1904 British expedition to Tibet. The mission itself was military in nature and designed to prevent Tibet from encroaching on the Sikkim region in the Himalayan mountains. As political officer for Sikkim, White co-led the mission.