Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. From 1436 to 14...

First edition of the 1951 issue of the R.A.F. Aeronautical map of Bahrain and Qatar. The War office issued the R.A.F. series alongside a separate ...

Scarce in the jacket. First edition, first impression and scarce in the dust jacket. To Persia for Flowers is the chronicle of a 1935 trip made by ...

The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...