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Climbing and Exploration in The Karakoram-Himalayas.
CONWAY, William Martin.Original price £7,750.00 - Original price £7,750.00Original price £0.00£7,750.00£7,750.00 - £7,750.00Current price £7,750.00Rare limited edition. A fine set of the deluxe edition of a Himalayan classic, complete with all four volumes.Conway (1856–1937) developed a taste ...
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Railway Map of India.
THUILLIER, Colonel Henry Ravenshaw.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00A comprehensive railway map of British India, including the subcontinent and Burma, also displaying the main road networks, navigable canals, stea...
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Prémiere Partie De La Carte D'Asia
D'ANVILLEOriginal price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Arabia and India . Showing Turkey through the Black and Caspian Seas to Tibet and south to the Arabian peninsula and all of India. Jean-Baptiste Bo...
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Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva;
ABBOTT, Capt. James.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Inscribed presentation copy. Abbott was an officer in the Bengal Artillery and was sent on a political mission by the British envoy in Harat to the...
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The Arab of Mesopotamia.
[BELL, Gertrude].Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00A tribal geography. Described in Bell's own words as a 'tribal geography', and published anonymously, Bell was annoyed by the general assumption th...
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Britain and Tibet, 1765-1947.
MARSHALL, Julie G.Original price £25.00 - Original price £25.00Original price £0.00£25.00£25.00 - £25.00Current price £25.00The background to the India-China border dispute. A select annotated bibliography of printed material in European languages.First edition. 8vo, xx...
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Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab;
MOORCROFT, William; TREBECK, George.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...
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Kashgariia. Istoriko-geograficheskiy ocherk strany, eia voennayia sila, promyshlennost' i torgovlia.
KUROPATKIN, Aleksei Nikolaevich.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00First edition of this important monograph on Kashgar, in the original wrappers. Kuropatkin (1848 - 1925), a Russian military commander, compiled t...
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Captivity of two Russian Princesses in the Caucasus:
[VERDEREVSKY, Evgeny Aleksandrovich]; EDWARDS, H. Sutherland (translator).Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Rare. The princesses were Varvara Orbebiani and Anna Chavchavadzey and their families and followers. Members of the Georgian royal family, they ha...
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The Oil Fields of Russia.
BEEBY-THOMPSON, Arthur.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00A richly illustrated work on the oil fields of present day Azerbaijan written by Arthur Beeby-Thompson, a pioneer in the early development of the ...
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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier,
TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Attractive copy of Tavernier's account of his travels to the East. One of the most popular works of its time and translated into several European ...
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An Unexplored Pass.
FEATHERSTONE, B[alford] K[inchant].Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00This scarce volume narrates an attempt to cross the Muztagh Pass in 1922. Capt. Featherstone was the only European member of the expedition which...
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The Glory of the Shia World.
SYKES, Major Percy Molesworth.Original price £385.00 - Original price £385.00Original price £0.00£385.00£385.00 - £385.00Current price £385.00A fictional tale which the author intended to be 'a second Hajji Baba, which would serve as a true picture of Persia some ten years ago, before co...
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The Heart of a Continent.
YOUNGHUSBAND, Capt. Frank E.Original price £900.00 - Original price £900.00Original price £0.00£900.00£900.00 - £900.00Current price £900.00The title that established Younghusband as a serious Central Asian explorer. Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir an...
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