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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...

First english translation. The first English translation of this poem by Jami and first translation from Persian by Edward Fitzgerald. Salámán and ...