Tibet / Mongolia / Nepal

KT 092

The first picture published of the Forbidden City of Tibet, from Black and White, September 8, 1900. B

Price: $50.00

KT 090

Rare cards produced by Smith’s Cigarettes in 1911 titled Famous Explorers. Featured here are Sir Sven Hedin and A. Henry Savage Landor. Text on reverse. Rare. B

Price: $120.00

CPC 099

A limited run of the cover story Tragedia en Oriente, from the fascist Spanish comic book CHICOS. It is a fantasy story set in a futuristic China. There is also a limited run in the same comic of a strip entitled Los Dragones del Tibet, which is a futuristic adventure story. I can get the entire limited runs of these comics over the course of a couple years, which ran in 1945-1946. B

Price: $80.00 an issue

CPC 099

KT 088

Collection of 8 European confectionary cards featuring Tibet. B

Price: $160.00

KT 085

1964 Mexican comic book Un Americano en Mongolia. It is the story of Owen Lattimore during his time in Mongolia. m

Price: $90.00

Note: Owen Lattimore (1900 – 1989) was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and then taught at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1938 to 1963. During World War II, he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the American government and contributed extensively to the public debate on American policy in Asia.

KT 084