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Woodman, D: Himalayan Frontiers: A Political Review
of British, Chinese, Indian and Russian Rivalries.
Includes the large folding map of India's Northern Frontiers, not
issued with most copies. London 1969.
31 maps, 2 folding. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xiii, 423. A very good copy.
BK000131£35 |
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Workman, William Hunter and Fanny Bullock Workman:
The Call of the Snowy Hispar; A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering
on the Northern Frontier of India.
The Workmans, among mountaineering's legends, were notable explorers
of the Karakoram – now in Pakistan – and what the mountaineering
historian Kenneth Mason calls 'its great world of ice and mighty
peaks'. They visited the Karakorams no less than 7 times between
1898 and 1912. London 1910.
2 gravure and and 84 sepia and tinted plates from photographs by
the authors (including 4 folding panoramas), 19 text illustrations
and 2 folding panoramas in Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati
and Dr. Mathias Koncza, 2 folding maps. Spine sunned otherwise a
good copy. Pictorial cloth, gilt. Royal 8vo. pp.xvi, 298.
BK000132£575 |
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Yazdani, G: History of the Deccan.
Fine Arts: Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. London 1952.
61 half-tone plates. Royal 8vo. pp.(vi), 6. A good copy.
BK000133£38 |
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Zabriskie, E. H: American-Russian Rivalry
in the Far East; A Study in Diplomacy and Power Politics, 1895-1914.
Philadelphia 1946.
Map. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.vii, 226. A good copy.
BK000134£28 |
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