Dughlat, Mirza Muhammad Haidar: The Tarick-I-Rashidi; A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia.

An English Version, Edited with Commentary, Notes and Map by Ney Elias. The Translation by E. Denison Ross. London 1895.

3 genealogical tables (2 folding), folding map in pocket. 8vo. pp.xxiv, 535. A good copy.

BK000041£350

Eastwick, W.J: Speeches of Captain Eastwick on the Sinde Question, the India Bill of 1858, etc. Revised and Corrected.

The bulk of the book deals with the Ameers of Sinde and what came to be known as 'the Sinde Question'. Eastwick was assistant to Sir Henry Pottinger in Sind, neogotiated a treaty with the Amirs of Hyderabad in 1839, and secured the freedom of the Indus to British commercial enterprise. He later became Deputy Chairman of the East India Company. He characterises Napier's annexation of Sind as 'an act of gross oppression'. London 1862.

8vo. pp.(iv), 150. A good copy.

BK000042£245

Elgood, Cyril (Translated and Introduced by): Tibb-ul-Nabbi or Medicine of the Prophet.Being a Translation of the Two Works of the Same Name.

The Hague, 1962. I: The Tibb-ul-Nabbi of Al-Suyuti.  II: The Tibb-ul-Nabbi of Mahmud bin Mohammed al-Chaghhayni.

8vo. pp.(33-) 192 (complete). Original printed wrappers. A good copy.

BK000043£48

Field, H: An Anthropological Reconnaissance in West Pakistan, 1955; With Appendixes on the Archaeology and Natural History of Baluchistan and Bahawalpur.

The Appendices include notes on reptiles and amphibians, plants and plankton collected from the adjacent regions of the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia. Cambridge, Mass., Peabody Museum, 1959.

100 gravure plates; 44 line-cut figures, 8 maps in pocket. Wrappers. 4to. pp.xii, 332. A good copy.

BK000044£95

Filchner, Wilhelm: A Scientist in Tartary; from the Hoangho to the Indus.

Translated by E. O. Lorimer. London 1939.

83 half-tone illustrations, folding map. Library marks, cloth somewhat worn. 8vo. pp.391.

BK000045£28

Fisher, Alan W: The Russian Annexation of the Crimea, 1772–1783.

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. Cambridge, 1970.

4 maps. 8vo. pp.xvi, 180. A good copy.

BK000046£25

Fitzgerald, Edward: Letters and Literary Remains.

This edition, limited to 775 sets, includes the text of the First [1859], Second [1868], Third [1872] and Fourth [1872] editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as well as his translations of Jami's Salaman and Absal and Farid-Uddin Attar's Bird-Parliament. The Preface quotes from a letter written by Fitzgerald a month before he died in 1883: 'I do not suppose that any of my works should be reprinted after my Death'. London 1902-1903.

Frontispieces to each volume. Decorative cloth, spines gilt. 8vo. pp.xii, 321; 326; 323; 340; 429; 461; 434. 7 volumes. An attractive set.

BK000047£225

Forbes, Andrew D.W: Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia; A Political History of Chinese Central Asia; A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949.

Cambridge, 1986.

33 illustrations, 9 sketch-maps. 8vo. pp.xvi, 376. A good copy.

BK000048Sold

Forster, C. T. and F. H. Blackburne Daniell: The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq. Seigneur of Bousbecque, Knight, Imperial Ambassador.

Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562. Writing in Isis, George Sarton observed: 'Few men of his age, and no diplomat of any age, have done as much to earn our gratitude'. Busbecq discovered the Dioscorides Codex, wrote the first European account of yogurt, and introduced the tulip and lilac into Europe. London 1881.

8vo. pp.(x), 418, (iv), 341. 2 volumes. A good set.

BK000049Sold

Gafurov, B.G. (et al): Asia in Soviet Studies.

Moscow; Central Department of Oriental Literature, 1969.

Corner clipped from front free end-paper otherwise a good copy. 8vo. pp.377.

BK000050£15