Le Messurier, Major: Kandahar in 1879.

Then Brigade Major with the Quetta Column, Le Messurier of the Royal Engineers later published, in 1889, 'From London to Bokhara'. London 1880.

Contemporary half-morocco. 8vo. pp.iv, 282. An attractive copy.

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Le Strange, G: The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur.

Cambridge, 1930.

10 folding maps. 8vo. pp.xx, 536. A good copy.

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Luke, Sir Harry: Cities and Men; An Autobiography.

Volume One: 1884-1914. Volume Two: 1914-1924. Volume Three: 1924-1954. Sir Harry Luke served in Ottoman and Kemalist Turkey, in the Palestine of the Mandate, as well as in Tiflis as the Head of the British Diplomatic Mission to the three Trans-Caucasian Republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. London 1953-1956.

27 plates, 8 maps, 3 text figures. Dustwrappers. 8vo. pp.252, 262, 254. 3 volumes. A good set.

BK000083£68

Macmichael, H. A: A History of the Arabs of the Sudan: and Some Account of the People who preceded them, and of the Tribes Inhabiting Darfur.

Sir Harold Macmichael's definitive account of a region and peoples again in the news, for tragic reasons. Macmichael, of the Sudan Political Service, includes in this work translations of several important Arabic historical manuscripts and nisba genealogies. Cambridge, 1922.

19 folding genealogical tables, large folding map in pocket. Quarter-morocco, top edges gilt. Royal 8vo. pp. xxii, 347, viii, 488. 2 volumes. An attractive set of a scarce work.

BK000084£750

Majeska, G.P: Russian Travellers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.

Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 1984.

3 sketch-maps, 1 folding. Dustwrapper. 8vo. pp.xvii, 463 (iv). A good copy.

BK000085£48

Maraini, Fosco: Karakorum; The Ascent of Gasherbrum IV.

London 1961.

108 colour and monochrome illustrations, text figures and maps, endpaper maps. Library marks (not on plates).Royal 8vo. pp.320.

BK000086£18

Mehra, P: The North-Eastern Frontier; A Documentary Study of the Internecine Rivalry between India, Tibet and China.

Vol. I: 1906-1914. Vol. II: 1914-1954. Delhi 1979-1980.

Dustwrappers. 8vo. pp.xliii, 226, xlvii, 192. 2 volumes. A good set.

BK000087£45

Menon, K.P.S: Delhi-Chungking: A Travel Diary With a Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Menon was British India's diplomatic representative in China and later free India's first Ambassador to the Chinese Republic. This journey in 1944 took him, via Gilgit and Hunza, through Chinese Turkestan and the Kansu corridor. Bombay 1947.

Frontispiece, 12 plates, 2 folding maps in pocket. Dustwrapper slightly frayed. 8vo. pp.xi, 257.

BK000088£56

[Michailow]: Adventures of Michailow, A Russian Captive; Among the Kalmucs, Kirghiz, and Kiwenses.

Written by Himself. London 1822.

Modern cloth otherwise a good copy. 8vo. pp.46.

BK000089£35

Miller, H.H: Bridge to Asia; The Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean.

New York, 1967.

6 colour plates, monochrome illustrations, 8 maps. Dustwrapper. Small 4to. pp.256. A good copy.