Khiva rare books

Second edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, inscribed presentation copy, xx, 380; viii, 367 pp., contemporary full green morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt, light rubbing to spines, a fine set.

Broadsheet (76 x 55 cm); IX pp. including title, dedication, text and plate list, 18 plates after nature by Shchusev, Pokryshkin and Minenko including 12 fully or partly in colour, 3 folding or double-page, 3 illustrations in text, text in Russian and French, some minor wear to margins and a couple of repairs to marginal tears; loose as issued with part of the lower wrapper remaining, a good copy.

First edition. 8vo, xvi, 198 pp., folding map, 11 plates, illustrations in text, original yellow cloth gilt, lightly soiled as usual, a very good copy.

First English edition. 8vo, x, 438 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, title-page vignette, colour folding map, 30 wood-engraved illustrations, original red pebble-grained cloth gilt, large gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, a fine copy.