[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
New York. Norton. (c.1999). Maps, including colour map lower dustjacket cover, black and white illustrations, frontispiece, 16 colour photographic plates, 240pp, notes, bibliography, index, sticker remnant front free endpaper, very good hardback copy. 24 x 18cm. "In the museums of Urumchi, the wind-swept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region..... 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. 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
London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1947. Reprint. 2 maps (1 folding), 3 colour plates, many black and white photographic illustrations, 303pp, endpapers a little marked with sticker damage, good hardback copy in dark blue cloth with worn dustjacket (now protected). An account of Mildred Cable's travels with Eva and Francesca French..... 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
Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013. Map, colour photographic illustrations, black and white line drawings, 91pp, timeline, glossary, notes, bibliography, paperback, square octavo. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the collection of the Shanxi Museum. The Shanxi Museum holds a...... 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. 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
London. Routledge. 1928. 2 volumes. Volume I: Double page map, xliv + 387pp. Volume II: viii + 406pp, publisher's catalogue at rear, index. Spines lightly faded, occasional light foxing, book plate front paste down of volume I, very good. The Broadway Traveller's Series. (When referring to this item please quote..... More
USSR. Intourist. Circa [1980s]. 6pp, colour illustrations, extremities somewhat worn, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161875). More
(circa1657). Hand coloured map of Central Asia. Latin text on reverse. Image measures 38.2 x 39.9cm. Matted. Little creased at fold, some inoffensive time toning upper edge. A very handsome map. This attractive map shows part of Central Asia. From the Caspian Sea on the left of the map through..... More
London. Chattto & Windus. 1910. Folding colour map, 24 full page plates from paintings and drawings by the author, many in colour, xv + 248pp, uncut. One leaf carelessly opened, some light browning somewhat heavier on endpapers, front pastedown a little abraded where label has been removed, embossed stamp of..... More
