[Samarkand]. No details of publisher. [1980s]. Single sheet folded thrice, colour map on one side with tourist spots, other side has useful travel information, addresses, and routes, some small neat pen marks, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161869). More
London. Allen. 1884. Volume I (of 2) only. Portrait frontispiece, xxxii + 392pp + 47 page publisher's advertisments at rear, lacks errata leaf, signature of a prior owner upper margin title page and on one blank. a little light occasional browning preliminary leaves. Original cloth little worn and rubbed in..... More
Double page map with outline printed colour, central fold, sheet measures 36 x 43cm. From Letts's Popular Atlas. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 88958). More
Bokhara. Aurora Art Publishers. [1971]. Complete set of 16 pictorial cards. Good copies in pictorial wrapper which is little browned at extremities. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161870). More
Leningrad. Aurora Art Publishers. 1973. Complete set of 16 pictorial cards, information sheet loosely inserted. Good copies in pictorial wrapper which is little browned at extremities. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161872). More
Uzbekistan. Aurora Art Publishers. 1972. Complete set of 16 pictorial cards. Good copies in pictorial wrapper which is little browned at extremities. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161871). More
Geneva. Nagel. 1969. Translated from the Russian by James Hogarth. Colour and black and white photographic plates, 250pp, index, notes, bibliography, hardback. Ancient Civilizations series. Noticeable foxing to upper edge and foxing to upper portions of both endpapers, otherwise in very good condition. A survey of the archaelogical treasures and..... More
Pakistan. Emjay Books International. 1986. Maps, xx + 164 + clxviii pp, browned endpapers, some foxing upper edge, dustjacket spine sunned and overall little worn, stamp front free endpaper, a good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161178). More
India: Motilal Banarsidass. 2001. 24 black and white photographic plates, xxix + 319 + xxivpp, notes, bibliography, indices, spine of dustjacket a little faded, a good hardback copy. The manuscript, written in the first or second century A.D., is generally considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of an Indian..... More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1937. Endpaper maps, illustrations, viii + 212pp, bright copy in worn dustjacket with a few closed tears. Very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 2648). More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1947. Reprint. 2 maps (1 folding), 3 colour plates, many black and white photographic illustrations, 303pp, upper cover of dustjacket and section of text from dustjacket laid down preliminary leaves, a prior owner's bookplate front pastedown, good copy in dark blue cloth. 4 handwritten pages commenting..... More
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1946. Reprint. 2 maps (1 folding), 3 colour plates, many photographic illustrations, 301pp, some foxing on endpapers, a series of small indentations in the margins of first leaves and a few leaves. Good copy in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. (When referring..... More
Rainer Ottens. 1723. A most attractive map with early outline hand colour, vertical fold, barely visible diagonal crease upper half of map, few very pale small brown spots, otherwise a clean and bright image. Numbering in red pencil, few annotations in pencil and light number stamp on reverse however not..... More
London. Printed for Sir Richard Phillips. 1823. First English edition. Translated from German. Black and white lithograph plate 'Sepulchral Monument of a Kirgese Chief', iv + 112pp, Modern papercovered boards, leather title label on spine, edges uncut. Some foxing mainly at edges and on first and last leaves, but generally..... More
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. 1999. 4 coloured foldout maps, 36 black and white Illustrations, xii + 465p, index, hardback with gilt cover, lightly bumped extremities, very good copy. First published in London 1900. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 166845). More
Australia. Transit Lounge Publishing. 2015. 448pp, paperback cover extremities little worn, a very good copy. Prepare to be swept away by a story that is intimate, true, and utterly compelling. Margi Gibb's much-loved father dies and, with her immediate family largely gone, her life is changed irrevocably. Immersing herself more..... More
September 22,1888. 2 individual leaves from the 19th century newspaper, The Graphic, showing a total of small black and white wood engravings illustrating various aspects of construction of the railway. Sheets measure 40.5 x 30.5cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159024). More
London. Little Brown. 1998. First edition. Endpaper maps, black and white map, photographic coloured plates, xiii + 240pp, index, bibliography, miniscule tear lower bottom dustjacket, slightly faded spine, covers little water marked, good hardback copy in price clipped dustjacket. This narrative reveals the author's experiences on three expeditions to the..... More
London. I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd., 1989. Maps, 230pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket little rubbed, a very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 159205). More
New York. Weatherhill/Heibonsha. 1975. Foldout map and chart, 181pp + 1 advert, many black and white and colour illustrations, few neat ownership stamps of a prior owner, light wear dustjacket. Volume 6 of the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art series. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 50118)... More
New York. New Amsterdam. 1990. Translated. Maps, 323pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. In this book the author provides a picture of Genghis Khan as not just a barbarian but also a visionary statesman and strategist. The book also provides a fascinating insight into Mongol society and..... More
United Kingdom. Eland Publishing Ltd., 2014. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 319pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Between these covers, the millennia of mercantile and cultural exchange along the Silk Route are celebrated by travellers and writers from Marco Polo to Sven Hedin, from William of Rubrick to Ella Maillart. Kathleen..... More
New York. Kodansha. 1992. Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 562pp, index, upper edge a trifle soiled, spine a little faded, very good hardback copy in a dustjacket. A fascinating, and now classic account, of the European powers' fight for supremacy in Central Asia. (When referring to this..... More
New York. Kodansha. 1994. 431pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. First published in Britain in the same year under the title "On Secret Service East of Constantinople". (When referring to this item please quote stockid 171076). More
New York. Norton. 1985. First American edition. Maps, illustrations, 252pp, bibliography, index, edges trifle foxed, dustjacket browned in places, good copy. This book, the last in Peter Hopkirk's trilogy set in Central Asia, tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt between the wars to set the..... More
