[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 about Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Suggested Site Seeing
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 about Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, During the Late Russian...
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 about Russia in Asia, Eastern Siberia
London. Letts, Son & Co., (circa1888). Double page map with outline printed colour, central fold, sheet measures approximately 43 x 36cm. Four scales are given on this map - Russian Versts; Hours of a Caravan of Camels - 2 and one eighth miles; French leagues and English miles. The size... More about Russia in Asia, Turkestan, &c
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 about Bokhara. Architectural Monuments
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 about Maverannahr Book Painting
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 about Shah-i Zindah
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 about Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
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 about Gandhari Dharmapada
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 about The Story of Topsy. Little Lonely of Central Asia
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 about Nouissima, et accurata Maris Caspij. Fere nobis incogniti Regionumque adiacentium Delineatio...
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 about Russian Missions into the Interior of Asia; Nazaroff's Expedition to Kokand. Eversmann and...
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1993. Maps, black and white photographic and line illustrations, 284pp, good copy in dustjacket with sunned spine. At the age of 23, in the mid 1930s, John DeFrancis together with a companion, made a thousand mile trip across the Gobi Desert following in the footsteps... More about In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan
London. Murray. 1893. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding coloured map, xx + 360pp, glossary. Volume II: 2 folding colour maps, full page black and white map frontispiece, black and white plates and text illustrations, x + 340 + [4pp]. Glossary, appendix. Lacks lower free endpaper volume I, a little occasional... More about The Pamirs; Being A Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot through Kashmir,...
United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018. Notes, index, 313pp, paperback copy. From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads `Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard The New Silk Roads - a brand new book by Peter Frankopan - takes a fresh... More about New Silk Roads The Present and Future of the World
United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016. Black and white and colour photographs, 636pp, notes, index, paperback. For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure... More about Silk Roads A New History of the World
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 about Kissed by A Deer
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 about The Russians in Central Asia II & III. Views on the New Transcaspian Railway from the Caspian...
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 about Genghis Khan. Conqueror of the World
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 about The Silk Road and the Shoso-in
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 about Genghis Khan
London. John Murray. 2006. Maps, Black and white plates, xxiv + 562pp, bibliography, index, paperback. For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this... More about The Great Game. On Secret Service in High Asia
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 stockid 157632). More about Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China 1844-1846
USSR. Intourist. Circa [1980s]. 6pp, colour illustrations, extremities somewhat worn, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161875). More about Bukhara: A Museum-City
(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 about Tartaria Sive Magni chami Imperium
