Panskaya, Ludmilla: Introduction to Palladii's Chinese Literature of the Muslims.

Canberra, 1977.

Portrait, wrappers. 8vo. pp.v, 106. A good copy.

BK000101£20

Payne, C.H. (Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by): Akbar and the Jesuits.

An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar by Father Pierre du Jarric, S.J. The Archimandrite Palladii Kaforov (1817-1878) was one of Russia's greatest Sinologists. London 1926.

Frontispiece and 7 half-tone plates. 8vo. pp. xlviii, 288. A good copy.

BK000102£45

Prestage, Edgar: Alfonso de Albuquerque, Governor of India; his Life, Conquests and Administration.

Watford, 1929.

Edition limited to 250 copies, gravure frontispiece, title printed in green and black, map. 8vo. pp.85. A nice copy.

BK000103£25

Quatert, D: Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881-1908; Reactions to European Economic Penetration.

New York, 1983.

Sketch-map. 8vo. pp.xxii, 205. A good copy.

BK000104£22

Quennell, Peter (Editor): The Memoirs of William Hickey.

London 1960.

15 half-tone plates. 8vo. pp.452. A good copy.

BK000105£21

Raleigh, Walter: The English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century.

Glasgow, 1910.

10 gravure plates. 8vo. pp.(iv), 207. A good copy.

BK000106£29

Rehatsek, Edward (Translated, with a Preface, by): The Emperor Akbar's Repudiation of Esslam, and Profession of his own Religion, called the Touohhyd Elahy Akbar Shahy.

Bombay, Union Press 1866.

Small 8vo. pp.vi, 103, (ii). A good copy.

BK000107£65

Rezvan, Efim: Russian Ships in the Gulf, 1899-1903.

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. London 1993.

16 photographic illustrations, sketch-map. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.ix, 165. A good copy.

BK000108£55

Richardson, H.E: Ancient Historical Edicts at Lhasa; (and) The Mu Tsung/Khri Gtsug Lde Brtsan Treaty of A.D. 821-822 from the Inscription at Lhasa.

London 1952.

Half-tone plate. 8vo. pp.86. A good copy.

BK000109£28

Sanyal, C.C: The Totos; A Sub-Himalayan Tribe.

Calcutta, Asiatic Society 1956.

6 plates, folding map. Wrappers. 8vo. pp. (59- ) 126. Complete. A good copy.