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Travels in Siberia
HILL, S[amuel]. S.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Scarce account by a professional travel writer, who later produced works on the Sandwich Islands, the Levant, and Central & South America.Firs...
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At the Court of the Amir
GRAY, John Alfred.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £0.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00A British doctor, Gray served as surgeon to Abdur Rahman Khan, ruler of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He was one of a number of men recruited in...
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Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya,
GERARD, AlexanderOriginal price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £2,250.00Current price £1,575.00£1,575.00 - £1,575.00Current price £1,575.00Scarce. The brothers Alexander and G. J. Gerard explored the Himalayan district from 1817 to 1828. Arriving in Simla in 1817, they travelled throu...
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Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient,
CHARDIN, Sir John.Original price £6,750.00Original price £6,750.00 - Original price £6,750.00Original price £6,750.00Current price £4,050.00£4,050.00 - £4,050.00Current price £4,050.00Attractive, fresh example of the atlas, uncut, from the most desirable edition enhanced with new and larger plates. Printed on thick paper and ext...
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Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient,
CHARDIN, Sir John.Original price £5,750.00 - Original price £5,750.00Original price £0.00£5,750.00£5,750.00 - £5,750.00Current price £5,750.00A very good copy of the atlas from the most desirable edition enhanced with new and larger plates.'Chardin was a Huguenot who was forced to emigra...
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Turkestan, die Wiege
SCHWARZ, Franz von.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00Account of a fifteen-year stay in Turkestan, where the author, a German doctor, worked as an astronomer at an observatory in Tashkent.First editio...
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Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus.
PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00The author, the British vice-consul at Ketch on the Black Sea, enjoyed considerable sport on the Crimean peninsula and in the Caucasus Mountains -...
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Chinese Turkestan with caravan and rifle.
CHURCH, Percy W.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00The author and his hunting companion J.V. Phelps journeyed from Srinagar to Leh, through Yarkand and into the Tekkes Valley collecting Altai Wapit...
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Asiatic neighbours.
THORBURN, S. S.Original price £240.00 - Original price £240.00Original price £0.00£240.00£240.00 - £240.00Current price £240.00A detailed analysis of the 'Eastern Question' by a strong advocate of the 'Forward Policy.' Thorburn had been a British officer resident in Bannu ...
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Grande Tartarie.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £500.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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Persie.
MORTIER, Pieter.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00A wonderful cartographic playing card in fine original colour.By the early 18th century the cartographic range of playing cards was almost complet...
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The compleat history of Thamas Kouli Kan,
[PERSIA].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00All early English editions of this work are scarce. ESTC records only 5 copies of the present edition, 3 of which are defective.Sometimes erroneou...
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From Pekin to Sikkim
DE LESDAIN, Count [Jacques].Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00An account of a seventeen-month journey undertaken in 1904-5 by the Comte and Comtesse de Lesdain as a wedding tour. The Lesdains crossed Tibet f...
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