James Wyld (Geographer to the Queen): Map of Afghaunistan, Cabul, the Punjab, Rajpootana, and the River Indus.

London, 1878. Engraved map, handcoloured in outline, dissected on linen and folding into original boards with printed paper label.

910 x 660mm. (35 x 26 ins)

BKM000011 £180

North-West Frontier Province

Calcutta, 1933. Folding map, heliozincographed, dissected on linen and folding into original wrappers with printed paper label; roads, rivers and boundaries coloured, areas of perpetual snow shown.

699 x 520mm. (27 x 20 ins)

BKM000012£110

Abumalham, Nayib: Remembranzas del Libane.

Tetuan, 1945

17 plates, map. Spanish text. Wrappers. 8vo. pp.168. A good copy.

BK000011£18

Adye, Colonel John: Sitana; A Mountain Campaign on the Borders of Afghanistan in 1863.

London 1867. Governor-General's Minute reversing the order of withdrawal of the Sitana expedition.

Inscribed by Sir William Denison who, on the death of Lord Elgin, was called upon to assume temporarily the office of Governor-General.

Tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 lithographed folding maps. Contemporary half-morocco, withdrawn from University Library, Newcastle. 8vo. pp.viii, 401. Scarce.

BK000012£450

Alcoran of Mahomet

Translated out of the Arabique into French by the Sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and Resident for the King of France at Alexandria; and newly Englished. London 1649.

The first appearance of the Qur'an in English. On January 27, 1977 The Times of London reported: 'Despite the regrets of the scholarly and bibliographic world, the Evelyn Library, one of Britain's most historically important private collections, is to be broken up. It is a collection over fifty years of one of the first great book collectors, an intelligent and significant historical figure in his own right'. This is the John Evelyn copy.

Contemporary calf, with the John Evelyn bookplate devised by Christie's. Small 4to. pp.xxi, 407, xiv.

BK000013£1600

Alioshin, Dimitri: Asian Odyssey

London 1941.

Frontispiece map. Cloth marked. 8vo. pp.(vi), 311.

BK000014£35

Allworth, E. (Editor): Central Asia; A Century of Russian Rule.

New York, 1967.

The Peter Hopkirk copy with his bookplate. A number of the books offered here are from Peter Hopkirk's library, one of the major collections on Central Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans. This library was sold in a single-owner sale by Sotheby's in 1998. Peter Hopkirk is the author of six of the best-known books on the 'Great Game' – the struggle for influence between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Persia and on India's Northern frontiers.

69 illustrations, plans and maps. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xiv, 552. A good copy.

B000015£48

Atkin, M: Russia and Iran, 1780-1828

Minneapolis, 1980.

2 maps. 8vo. pp.xv, 216. A good copy.

BK000016£28

Bacon, Elizabeth E: Central Asians under Russian Rule; A Study in Culture Change.

Ithaca; Cornell University Press, 1966.The Peter Hopkirk copy with his bookplate.

A number of the books offered here are from Peter Hopkirk's library, one of the major collections on Central Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans. This library was sold in a single-owner sale by Sotheby's in 1998. Peter Hopkirk is the author of six of the best-known books on the 'Great Game' – the struggle for influence between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Persia and on India's Northern frontiers.

12 plates, 2 folding maps. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xvi, 273. A good copy.

BK000017£42

Baloch, N.A: (Edited, with Introductions, Notes and Commentary by): Fathnamah –I-Sind; being the Original Record of the Arab Conquest of Sind.

Islamabad, 1983.

Folding map, facsimile plate. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xii, 158 (English), xxvi, 284 (Persian). A good copy.

BK000018£25

Bamber, Colonel C.J: Plants of the Punjab; A Descriptive Key to the Flora of the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir.

Lahore, 1916.

Frontispiece. Slightly frayed at upper hinges otherwise in good condition.
Royal 8vo. pp.(vi), 652, xxviii.

BK000019Sold

Baron, S.W: A Social and Religious History of the Jews. Late Middle Ages and Era of European Expansion, 1200-1650: Byzantines, Mamelukes, and Maghribians.

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York, 1980.

8vo. pp.434. A good copy.