Vogt-Göknil, Ulya: Les Mosquées Turques.

Zurich 1953.

78 plates and text figures. Wrappers. 8vo. pp.135. A good copy.

BK000121£18

Von Haxthausen, Baron August: The Tribes of the Caucasus; with An Account of Schamyl and the Murids.

London 1855.

Later cloth but otherwise a good copy. 8vo.pp.viii, 130.

BK000122£125

Vucinich, Wayne S. (Editor): Russia and Asia; Essays on the Influence of Russia on the Asian Peoples.

Includes The Muslims of European Russia and the Caucasus by Richard N.Frye; Russian Conquest in Central Asia by Manuel Sarkisyanz; Russia and China: The Structure of Contact by Mark Mancall.

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. Stanford, Hoover Institution Press 1972.

Frontispiece map. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xiv, 521. A very good copy.

BK000123£56

Wavell, A.J.B: A Modern Pilgrim in Mecca, and a Siege in Sanaa.

A cousin of the future Field-Marshall and Viceroy of India, Arthur Wavell made the pilgrimage in disguise, even hiring a house in Mecca for £7 a month. London 1912.

Frontispiece, 6 plates, folding map, 8vo. pp.ix, 349. A nice copy.

BK000124£175

Wellesz, E: A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography.

Oxford, 1949.

Gravure frontispiece and 5 half-tone plates. Unobtrusive library marks but otherwise a good copy. Tall 8vo. pp.xiv, 358.

BK000125£45

Wheeler, Sir Mortimer: The Indus Civilization.

Third Edition, extensively rewritten and enlarged, 1968, reprinted London 1972.

34 half-tone plates, 16 text figures, 3 folding plans. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xi, 144. A good copy.

BK000126£25

White, Joseph: Institutes Political and Military, written originally in the Mogul Language, by the Great Timour, improperly called Tamerlane.

Teheran, 1963.

Facsimile of the 1783 Oxford edition, interleaved with Persian translation.
Frontispiece, 2 plans. Half morocco. Royal 8vo. pp.li, 408, lx, 6. A good copy.

BK000127Sold

Williams, Leonard: The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain.

Vol.I: Gold, Silver, and Jewel Work. Vol.II: Furniture, Ivories, Pottery and Glass. Vol.III: Textile Fabrics. London 1907.

Frontispieces, 170 plates. Pictorial cloth. 8vo. pp. xiv, 289, x, 263, ix, 282. 3 volumes. An attractive set.

BK000128£165

Wolff, Joseph: Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly.

Second Edition, Revised. London 1845.

A colourful episode in the 'Great Game'. Captain Arthur Conolly – who first coined the phrase – and Colonel Charles Stoddart were executed by the Emir of Bokhara in 1842. Spurred by rumours that they might be alive, the Reverend Joseph Wolff, a clergyman from Richmond in Surrey, set out to search for them. His own life was only spared because, it is said, his appearance made the Emir 'shake with uncontrollable laughter'.

Frontispieces (I repaired at edges) and 7 lithographed plates after drawings by G. T. Vigne and Mirsa Abdul Wahab. Original patterned cloth, rebacked but a nice set. 8vo. pp.xx, 356, xvi, 347. 2 volumes.

BK000129£225

Wood, Lieutenant John: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus by the Route of the Indus, Kabul and Badakhshan.

Writing in her book on the Indus, The Lion River, in 1975, Jean Fairley pays tribute to the accuracy of Wood's observations: 'most of what Wood wrote about the river in 1836 and 1837 is true today'. London 1841.

Engraved folding map. Later buckram, otherwise a good copy. 8vo. pp.xv, 424, 12pp. publisher's advertisements.