Central Asia
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Amurath to Amurath.
BELL, Gertrude LowthianOriginal price £800.00 - Original price £800.00Original price £0.00£800.00£800.00 - £800.00Current price £800.00Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...
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Salman and Absal:
JAMI.; FITZGERALD, Edward (translator).Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...
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A Journey from London to Persepolis;
USSHER, John.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...
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The Military Operations at Cabul
EYRE, Lt. Vincent.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Eyre's record of part of the debacle of the First Afghan War of 1839-42. Following the murder of Alexander Burnes in 1841 the British force was be...
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Nepal.
LANDON, Perceval.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Landon's work is the leading reference book on Nepal. Includes an account of the work of B. H. Hodgson in Nepal, and also the part played by Mahar...
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Russia and England from 1876 to 1880
[NOVIKOFF, Olga].Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00At a time when England and Russia were vying for supremacy in Central Asia, the author of this book attempts to show that Russia's aims were peace...
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Tarikh-e vaqaye' va savaneh-e Afghanistan, History of Events and Incidents in Afghanistan,
PRINCE IHTIZAD AL-SULTANEH [ALI QULI KHAN].Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00An intriguing historical treatise on Afghanistan compiled during the reign of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar which includes a dedication to the Prime min...
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The Sikandar Nama, e Bara,
NIZAMI; CLARKE, Captain H. Wilberforce (translator).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00A fine copy of Clarke's translation of the first part of Nizami's history of Alexander the Great containing Alexander's life and accomplishments. ...
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Climbing and Exploration in The Karakoram-Himalayas.
CONWAY, William Martin.Original price £7,750.00 - Original price £7,750.00Original price £0.00£7,750.00£7,750.00 - £7,750.00Current price £7,750.00Rare limited edition. A fine set of the deluxe edition of a Himalayan classic, complete with all four volumes.Conway (1856–1937) developed a taste ...
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Railway Map of India.
THUILLIER, Colonel Henry Ravenshaw.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A comprehensive railway map of British India, including the subcontinent and Burma, also displaying the main road networks, navigable canals, stea...
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Prémiere Partie De La Carte D'Asia
D'ANVILLEOriginal price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Arabia and India . Showing Turkey through the Black and Caspian Seas to Tibet and south to the Arabian peninsula and all of India. Jean-Baptiste Bo...
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Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva;
ABBOTT, Capt. James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Inscribed presentation copy. Abbott was an officer in the Bengal Artillery and was sent on a political mission by the British envoy in Harat to the...
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The Arab of Mesopotamia.
[BELL, Gertrude].Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00A tribal geography. Described in Bell's own words as a 'tribal geography', and published anonymously, Bell was annoyed by the general assumption th...
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Britain and Tibet, 1765-1947.
MARSHALL, Julie G.Original price £25.00 - Original price £25.00Original price £0.00£25.00£25.00 - £25.00Current price £25.00The background to the India-China border dispute. A select annotated bibliography of printed material in European languages.First edition. 8vo, xx...
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