Basset, Dr. René (Introduction): Moorish Literature.

Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabyles, Folk-Lore and National Traditions Translated into English for the First Time. (Bound with) Malayan Literature. Comprising Romantic tales, Epic Poetry and Royal Chronicles. New York, 1901.

3 plates. Top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed. 8vo. pp.xl, 281, vi, 191. An attractive copy.

BK000021£35

Betts, Raymond F: The False Dawn; European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century.

Minneapolis, 1975.

26 illustrations and sketch-maps. Wrappers. 8vo. pp.xxi, 270. A good copy.

BK000022£12

Blakiston, J.F: The Jami Masjid at Badaun and Other Buildings in the United Provinces

Calcutta, 1926.

20 heliogravure plates from drawings by Edmund Smith, 5 photographic plates. Wrappers. Folio. pp.iv, 9, ii. A good copy.

BK000023£25

Blumhardt, J.F. and D.N.MacKenzie: Catalogue of Pashto Manuscripts in the Libraries of the British Isles

Covers the Bodleian Library, the British Museum, Cambridge University Library, India Office Library, John Rylands Library, School of Oriental and African Studies, and Trinity College Dublin. London 1965.

4to. pp.xii, 147. A good copy.

BK000024£25

Blunt, Lady Anne: Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and their Horses, by W.S.B.

Lady Anne Blunt, the granddaughter of the poet Byron, travelled with her husband, the Arabic scholar and poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Her sketches include sites now much in the news, sadly for the wrong reasons. Her account remains one of the major works of Arabian travel in the Victorian period. First edition. London 1879.

Frontispieces and 10 plates from sketches by the author, folding table illustrating the Pedigree of the Arabian thoroughbred stock, coloured folding map. 8vo. pp.xix, 346, ix, 283. Contemporary half-calf, spines gilt. 2 volumes. An attractive set.

BK000025£1200

Borodin, George: Cradle of Splendour; The Song of Samarkand

London 1945.

12 plates. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.200. A good copy.

BK000026£20

Boulting, W: Four Travellers.

I: Hiuen-Tsang. II: Saewulf, An English Pilgrim to Palestine. III: Mohammed Ibu Abd Allah, better known as Iba Batuta. IV: Ludovico Varthema of Bologna, Renegade Pilgrim to Mecca. London circa.1920.

8vo. pp.viii, 256. A good copy.

BK000027£40

Bourne, K . and D.C. Watt (Editor): Studies in International History.

Includes J.B. Kelly on Salisbury, Curzon, and the Kuwait Agreement of 1889. J. Nevakivi on Kitchener and the Partition of the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916. London, 1967.

Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xiii, 446. A good copy.

BK000028£25

Bradford, E: The Great Betrayal; Constantinople 1204.

The author quotes the contemporary Greek historian Nicetas on the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade: 'They have spared neither the living nor the dead. They have insulted God; they have outraged his servants; they have exhausted every variety of sin'. London 1975.

15 plates, plan, endpaper maps. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.223. A good copy.

BK000029£20

British Foreign Office: Russia; Correspondence to the Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Public Record Office Collection; 1906-1913, 1919-1940.

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. Wilmington, 1977.

4to. pp.xxv, 478. A good copy.

BK000030£25