Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
London 1895.
The Tarick-I-Rashidi; A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia.
3 genealogical tables (2 folding), folding map in pocket. pp. xxiv, 535. 8vo. (more…)
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“The Tarick-I-Rashidi; A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia”
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010‘The People of India; A Series of Photographic Illustrations of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan.’
Friday, June 18th, 2010Watson, J. Forbes and Kaye, Sir John William (editors). Text: Meadows Taylor, Colonel Philip.
This is the earliest attempt at a complete ethnographic documentation of India in photographs; in fact one of the very first such surveys attempted anywhere in the world.
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‘History of Bokhara from Earliest Period down to the Present. Composed for the First Time after Oriental Known and Unknown Manuscripts.’
Friday, June 18th, 2010Arminius Vambery
The first edition of a fascinating account of Bokhara. The Hungarian orientalist Vambery was one of the most eminent scholar-travellers in Central Asia during the Victorian period.
London 1873.
Light staining at upper lower edge of margins of last pages. Decorative cloth, gilt. 8vo. pp. xxxv, 419.
History of Bokhara from Earliest Period down to the Present. Composed for the First Time after Oriental Known and Unknown Manuscripts.
‘Russian Central Asia; including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.’
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Dr. Henry Lansdell
Volume I: Mounted Woodburytype photographic frontispiece, 35 engraved illustrations from the author’s photographs, folding map on linen.
Volume II: Engraved double-page frontispiece, 33 engraved illustrations (some double-page), folding ethnological map of Central Asia on linen. Half-calf, gilt. pp. xxix, (iii), 684; xv, 731. 8vo. (2 volumes).
This is the first edition, London 1885. There was a later Boston printing in the same year.
Russian Central Asia; including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.
‘From Peking to Sikkim; through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet.’
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Count de Lesdain
De Lesdain has undertaken a journey with his 19 year old bride in 1904-1905 and lasting seventeen months. The publisher John Murray was moved to write in his preface: ‘That a lady of nineteen should have faced and sustained the hardships of travel in a wild and unknown region …. can hardly fail to arouse a feeling of admiration and surprise’.
From Peking to Sikkim; through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet.
Frontispiece, 31 photographic plates, and a folding route map. Decorative cloth, top edges gilt. 8vo. xii, 297.
London 1908. (more…)
‘Masterpieces of Calligraphy in Islam.’
Monday, June 14th, 2010An attractive edition of some of the finest calligraphic artwork – 25 plates in colour, loose as issued in portfolio. It’s suitable for individual framing as well. Folio. (more…)
‘The Country of Balochistan; its Geography, Topography, Ethnology and History. With a Map, Photographic Illustrations, and Appendices containing a Short Vocabulary of the Principal Vocabulary in Use Among the Balochis, and a List of Authenticated Road Routes.’
Sunday, June 13th, 2010A. W. Hughes.
A 19th century rare book by A.W. Hughes, treating on the subjects of history, politics, travel and geography of regions including: Baluchistan and Pakistan, Persia and Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia.
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‘British India’s Northern Frontier 1865-95; A Study in Imperial Policy’.G.J. Alder.
Sunday, June 13th, 2010An indepth study of history and politics, the book covers regions of Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chittral, Gilgit, Hunza, India, Kashmir and Eastern Turkistan. Some of the important points Alder discusess are also the Upper Oxus Frontier of Afghanistan as well as the first, second and third Pamir crises.
London 1963.
3 maps. Cloth, dustwrapper. pp. xiv, 392. 8vo. (more…)
Portfolio of Illustrations of Sind Tiles. Henry Cousens.
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Portfolio of Illustrations of Sind Tiles. Henry Couse