Khan, Ahmad Hasan: Census of India, 1931.

Vol. XVII: Punjab. Part I: Report. Part II: Tables. No fewer than 56 races, tribes and castes are listed and described, as are over 20 languages and dialects. Lahore, Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1933.

Folding and other maps and tables. Folio. pp.374, viii; 331. 2 volumes. A good copy.

BK000071£75

Khan, Dr. Ahmad Nabi: Uchchh; History and Architecture.

Dr. Ahmad Nabi Khan was Director-General of Archaeology in Pakistan. Uchchh, in Central-Southern Pakistan, is one of the most striking and, until recently, least documented early medieval settlements in the country. Islamabad, 1980.

12 colour and monochrome plates, 10 text figures, sketch-map. Small 4to. pp. xvi, 100. A good copy.

BK000072£21

Khanikoff: Bokhara: its Amir and its People.

Translated from the Russian by The Baron Clement A. De Bode. Presumably the same Nikolai Khanikov, Russian agent, who crossed the Caspian and reached Herat in 1858 to make overtures to the Afghan Amir Dost Mohammed Khan. He did not make it to Kabul, but he did survive, unlike many European adventurers in Central Asia. London 1845.

Lithographed frontispiece and folding map. Original cloth and printed paper label (dulled), inner hinges frayed. Errata page present. 8vo. pp.xxvii, 316. Scarce.

BK000073£575

Kramrisch, Stella: Dravida and Kerala in the Art of Travancore.

Ascona, Artibus Asiae, 1961.

44 half-tone illustrations on 36 plates. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.50. A good copy.

BK000074£21

Kub, Sree Lulloo Lal: Rajneeti; or Tales, exhibiting the Moral Doctrines, and the Civil and Military Policy of the Hindoos.

Translated from the Original Sunskrit of Narayun Pundit, into Brij Bhasha, Calcutta, The Hindostanee Press, 1809.

No copy is listed in Diehl's Early Indian Imprints, although a later Allahabad printing of 1854 is recorded in Dogra's Catalogue of the Early Printed Books on South Asia. in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Kub, described as 'Bhasha Moonshee in the College of Fort William', was also the author of Lutaif-i-Hindee or, the New Cyclopaedia Hindoostanica of Wit, also printed in Calcutta by the India Gazette Press in 1810.

Contemporary half-calf. 8vo. pp.(i - English title-page), 254, 2 (text printed in Devnagari). A good copy of a rare book.

BK000075£350

Laiou, Angelika E: Constantinople and the Latins.

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1972.

2 double-page maps. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xii, 390. A good copy.

BK000076Sold

Lambrick, H.T: The Terrorist.

Translated and edited from the Sindhi. The First Edition of this well-known account of what the British described as 'the Hur Rebellion in Sindh'. London 1972.

Frontispiece and 2 maps. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.246. A good copy.

BK000077Sold

Latimer, E. L.: Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century.

Chicago, 1895.

Frontispiece, 21 plates. Armorial cloth, gilt. 8vo. pp.413. An attractive copy.

BK000078£45

Le Coq, Albert von: Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan; An Account of the Activities and Adventures of the Second and Third German Turfan Expeditions.

One of the great figures in that group of scholar-bandits involved in the race for the ancient Buddhist treasures of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts in Chinese Central Asia. London 1928.

91 half-tone illustrations on 52 plates. 8vo. pp.180. A good copy.

BK000079£160

Leifer, Walter: Himalaya; Mountains of Destiny.

London 1962.

15 plates. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.x, 176. A good copy.