Initiations and initiates in Tibet (Yvonne Audette’s copy)

A$75 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

London : Rider and Company, 1958. Second edition. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (price-clipped, light edge wear), pp. 224, light foxing to edges, black and white plates, a fine copy. An eyewitness account by Alexandra David-Néel, a practicing Buddhist, of the esoteric Lamaic rites and doctrines she encountered during her 14 years in Tibet. With revisions and material added to the 1931 first edition. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), her wetstamp on the endpaper. Acquired from the artist in 2025.

• Binding: Hardcover

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