LANDOR, A. Henry Savage "In the Forbidden Land" [Harper & Brothers, 1899]

"In the Forbidden Land: an Account of a Journey into Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release Brought about by Dr. Wilson and the Political Peshkar, Karak Sing-Pal" by A. Henry Savage Landor [Harper & Brothers, 1899]. Complete in Two Volumes. With 1 photogravure, 8 color plates, 50 full-page and about 150 text illustrations, and a map from surveys by the author. Both volumes bear bookplates from "H.M. Blackmer", potentially the Colorado millionaire Henry M. Blackmer that was found in contempt by the Supreme Court for refusing to appear as a witness in the Teapot Dome Scandal in 1932. Very clean exteriors with internal issues - all hinges cracked and several detached but present pages in Vol 1. Good-.