Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peki...

Wilbraham was a Captain in the British Army on military secondment in the service of Mohammad Shah. He gives a good description of Qilhak village,...

A work in which the author has recorded his impressions during the course of a journey in Siberia, which took place in the summer of 1896. A very ...

Having served with the East India Company, Alexander (1803-1885) was aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, and was present wit...

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxvii, 432; viii, 463pp., bound as an Eton College leaving present, contemporary polished calf gilt, covers with g...

An exceptionally fresh copy of Le Brun's account of his trans-Asia expedition, noteworthy in particular for its superb engraved plates, many doubl...

This was the fourth title in a series of costume books first issued by William Miller in 1803. In this copy the watermarks on the paper are dated ...

Fine complete copy of the first edition of the first significant Russian work with plates coloured by hand. All captions for the engravings were p...

Scarce account by a professional travel writer, who later produced works on the Sandwich Islands, the Levant, and Central & South America.Firs...

An attractive copy of this lovely work describing all appearences and manners of the peoples living in Russia.Four volumes bound in two, 12mo (14....

Very good copy of the first edition of these interesting, illustrated letters, written from the camp in Turkey. Hamley (1824-1893) was Lieutenant-...

A collection of 90 finely hand-coloured plates published for the Georgi's famous ethnographical workAll captions for the engravings were printed i...