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  • Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920.

    [CONFIDENTIAL] - General Staff Army Headquarters, India.
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    The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...

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  • Travels to Tana and Persia. [WITH] A narrative of Italian travels in Persia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

    BARBARO, Josafa; Ambrogio Contarini
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    Hakluyt Society, first series, 49a & 49b.Important collection of early travels to Persia. The second part contains accounts by Caterino Zeno. ...

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  • A history of Persian navigation.

    HASAN, Hadi.
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    Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...

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  • The costumes of the various tribes,

    RATTRAY, James.
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    The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. Rattray's is the finest illustrated book on Afghanistan, of great value for showing us the ways of life...

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  • The Autobiography: Traveller's Prelude; Beyond Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw.

    STARK, Freya.
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    Complete set of Stark's autobiography. Freya Stark is one of the most well known female travellers associated with the Middle East. She was one of ...

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  • Character & costumes of Afghaunistan.

    HART, Capt. Lockyer Willis.
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    Scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan. The scarcest of the great illustrated books on Afghanistan, Character & Costumes of Afg...

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  • Gennem wahhabiternes land paa kamelryg

    RAUNKIAER, Barclay.
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    Adventures in arabia. Raunkier travelled to Rihadh in 1912 at the behest of the Royal Danish Geographical Society. His object was to examine the po...

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  • Tibet Past & Present.

    BELL, Sir Charles.
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    Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...

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  • Reconnoitring Central Asia.

    MARVIN, Charles.
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    Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...

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  • Maps of Iraq

    [IRAQ].
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    Maps include Baghdad and Environs, The Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.Revised and enlarged edition. Folio ...

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  • Euphrates Valley route to India,

    ANDREW, Sir William.
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    Andrews, an East Indian Railway official, had propoped a railway along Euphrates, linking Europe with the Arabian Gulf at Basra, as a direct route...

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  • Cabool:

    BURNES, Sir Alexander.
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    Account of Burnes' British commercial mission to the Court of the Emir of Kabul in 1837-38. The Mission was a failure and in 1839 Burnes re-entere...

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  • An account of the kingdom of Caubul,

    ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart.
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    the first detailed account of Afghanistan by a western observer. Elphinstone collected important information on the geography, government, languag...

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  • Two years in Kurdistan.

    HAY, W.R.
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    An important work written while Hay was serving in the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia 'always in more or less remote parts of the country'.Fi...

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  • On a raft, and through the desert:

    ELLIS, Tristram.
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    In 1879 Tristram Ellis (1844-1922), a successful watercolour artist, boarded a steamship for Alexandria with the aim of visiting Syria, Asia Minor...

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  • Explorations in Turkestan

    PUMPELLY, Raphael, editor.
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    The American geologist Raphael Pumpelly led this important scientific expedition to Anau in Russian Turkestan in 1903-1904. He was accompanied by ...

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  • Three years in Persia

    FOWLER, George.
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    Scarce and interesting account of Persia. Fowler was a British diplomat in Tehran during the last years of the reign of Fath Ali Shah. 'A book ful...

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  • Sand-buried ruins of Khotan.

    STEIN, Sir Marc Aurel.
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    The general narrative of Stein's first exploration of Central Asia, 1900-01. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan an...

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  • The history of Nadir Shah,

    FRASER, James
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    Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...

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  • Flights over the ancient cities of Iran.

    SCHMIDT, Erich F.
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    Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...

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