From the Mediterranean to the Himalayas
Joinly curated by our specialists Julian MacKenzie and Roxana Kashani, the catalogue covers rare travel books from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas, including : (1) Alexander the Great Illuminated Manuscript, (2) New Arrivals, (3) Greece and the Ottoman World, (4) The Holy Land, Syria and Arabia, (5) Central Asia, and (6) The Himalayas, Tibet and India.
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Skobeleff and the Slavonic cause by O.K.
[KIRREV, Olga].Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00Mikhail Skobelev (1843-1882), became famous for his conquest of Central Asia and for his heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Dresse...
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Narrative of a mission to Bokhara,
WOLFF, Joseph.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Finely bound. A finely bound copy of a Great Game classic. Unfortunately, Wolff arrived too late to save Stoddart and Conolly; they died in the pri...
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Turkestan. Avtolitografii.
KUZNETSOV, Pavel.Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00A fresh example of Kuznetsov's first series of drawings of Turkestan, accompanied by his affectionate essay about the region. Originally a member ...
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Travels and discoveries in the Levant.
NEWTON, Charles Thomas.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Newton was vice-consul at Mitylene and resided in the Levant from 1852-1859. The expeditions to Asia Minor took place between 1856-1859 and were m...
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From Kulja across the Thian-Shan to Lob-nor.
PREJEVALSKY, N[ikolai] M.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Prejevalsky's second expedition. Account of Prejevalsky's second expedition, originally published in Russian in 1877.Travelling through East Turkes...
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The works of ...
MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Lady Mary's husband was appointed ambassador to the Porte in 1716, and she accompanied him to Constantinople. During her sojourn in Turkey the aut...
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Journal of a residence in England,
NAJAF KOOLEE MEERZA, H.R.H.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Rare. Translated from the original Persian by Assad Yacoub Kayat. An account of the residence in England, and journey there from Syria and the sub...
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Proceedings of the Levant Company, respecting the Surrender of their Charters, 1825.
[? GRENVILLE, William Wyndham, 1st Baron Grenville].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Company of Merchants Trading to the Levant. The second work concerning trade with the Levant shows the increase in commercial activity between Grea...
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Karamania,
BEAUFORT, Sir Francis.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00An important archaeological survey. In 1810 Beaufort was appointed senior officer at Smyrna in command of the Frederickssteen; in August he began t...
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Russian projects against India
EDWARDS, H. Sutherland.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00An excellent history of Russian attempts to gain access to India via Central Asia.First edition. 8vo, iv, 295 pp., folding colour map, 20 pages' a...
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The Duab of Turkestan.
RICKMERS, W. Rickmer.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00The 'Duab' is a stretch of land between the Rivers Oxus and Jakartes. The author spent twenty years on and off in Turkestan and this detailed vol...
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Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan:
HAMILTON, James.Original price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00A rare and important record of Hamilton's voyage across Egypt to Sudan and the Hedjaz, with a dedicated chapter on Islam and the life of the Proph...
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Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9.
ALCOCK, Thomas.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Scarce privately printed account of the author's travels through the region at the time of the Russo-Turkish War. The section on Greece includes i...
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Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia,
KINNEIR, Sir John Macdonald.Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00Scarce. Kinneir had served in the Madras infantry and was later attached to Sir John Malcolm's mission in Persia in 1808-1809. In 1813 he set out ...
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The exploration of the Caucasus.
FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Large paper copy - one of 100. One of the finest books on the Caucasus. Freshfield was a former President of the Alpine Club and an honorary secret...
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The Annual Statistical Report of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce for 1912 [and] 1921 [and] 1922.
[TOKYO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE].Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00A fascinating survival from the Taishō Democracy, a period of liberal reform and political renewal in Japan lasting from 1912 until 1926, which ul...
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Selections from the letters, despatches, and other state papers
FORREST, George W. (editor).Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Contains letters and documents on the expedition to Cooch Behar against Bhutan, and on the Bogle and Turner Missions.First edition. 3 volumes, 8vo...
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