Indoislamica: art and rare books relating to India, Central Asia and the Islamic world

Schomberg, R.C.F. Unknown Karakoram.

Norman G. Dyhrenfurth’s copy, with his bookplate.

London 1936.

Frontispiece and 22 half-tone plates, including 2 panoramas, large folding map in pocket. Cloth, dustwrappers. pp. 244.

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Vincent, William. The Voyage of Nearchus, from the Indus to the Euphrates. Collected from the Original Journal preserved by Arrian, and illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern containing an Account of the First N

Now scarce. For scholars of ancient South-West Asia (Persian Gulf, Pakistan, Bauchistan) and Arabian (Arabian Gulf and Iraq) history, this is a seminal work.

London 1797.

Engraved frontispiece, folding map (from the Indus to the Persian Gulf), one large folding map (‘chart of the Gulph of Persia’), folding map (sketch of the River Indus, some worming, not affecting map surface), map (‘Arabia – Great Desert between Basra and Aleppa’), errata and ‘Directions to the Bookbinder’ bound-in, often missing. Light browning, quarter-calf, spine ruled in gilt. pp. xv, 530, ii (errata – directions to binder). 4to.

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Cobbold, Ralph P Innermost Asia. Travel and Sport in the Pamirs.

London 1900

Frontispiece, 28 plates, 85 photographic illustrations, 5 maps including large folding map. Spine sunned, else clean and tight. Pictorial cloth, gilt. pp. xviii, 354. 8vo.

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Millière, Maurice. (1871-1946). Study of Sikh and Pathan heads.

The inspiration for this uncharacteristic work by Millière could have been the presence of Indian troops in France during the First World War or alternatively one of the colonial exhibitions held in Paris in the inter-war period. No more than one or two hundred copies were likely to have been made.

Circa 1920.

Drypoint and coloured etching on ‘papier velin’, numbered 20 and signed in pencil. 380 x 510mm. (15 ins x 20 ins).

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Sykes, Sir Percy. Sir Mortimer Durand: A biography.

London 1926.

Frontispiece, 9 gravure illustrations, 3 folding maps in pocket. pp. xi, 356. Dustwrapper. Royal 8vo.

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Reitlinger, Gerald. A Tower of Skulls; A Journey through Persia and Turkish Armenia.

London 1932.

Frontispiece and 23 plates from photographs by the author, folding map. Dustwrapper. pp. 336. 8vo.

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Vambery, Arminius. History of Bokhara from Earliest Period down to the Present. Composed for the First Time after Oriental Known and Unknown Manuscripts.

London 1873.

Light staining at upper lower edge of margins of last pages. Decorative cloth, gilt. 8vo. pp. xxxv, 419.

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Kuropatkin, Colonel, A.N. Kashgaria (Eastern or Chinese Turkestan). Historical and Geographical Sketch of the Country; its Military Strength, Industries and Trade. Translated from the Russian by Major Walter E. Gowan.

Calcutta 1882.

Pictorial cloth gilt. One page repaired. A very good bright copy. Tall 8vo. pp. viii, 255.

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Cousens, Henry. Portfolio of Illustrations of Sind Tiles.

[London] 1906.

pp. [4], 50 fine chromo-lithographed plates, all but one in colour, 2 laid down, plate 40 supplied in facsimile, housed in original portfolio decorated and lettered in gilt with later cloth ties. Large folio. (Issued by the Government of India; Photo-Chromo-Lithographed by W. Griggs and Sons, Chromo-Lithographers to the King, 1906).

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Lahore from the Old Race-Course. On This Plain Runjeet Singh Used to Review his Troops.

From Original Sketches in the Punjaub, by a Lady.

Published by Dickinson Brothers, London 1854.

Tinted lithograph with original hand colour and descriptive text of principal buildings shown ' Shish Mahab or Palace of Glass', 'Runjeet Singh's Tomb', and 'Shah's Masjid'. Lithographed by Dickinson Brothers. Approx. 355 x 270mm. (14 x 11ins).

Abbey Travel II 483 no.1. J.R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey: a bibliographical catalogue. London 1957.

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De Bode, Baron Clement A. Bokhara: its Amir and its People. (Translated from the Russian of Khanikoff.)

London 1845.

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

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Hughes, A. W. The Country of Balochistan; its Geography, Topography, Ethnology and History. With a Map, Photographic Illustrations, and Appendices containing a Short Vocabulary of the Principal Vocabulary in Use...

Hughes, of the Bombay Civil Service, was also the author of the first comprehensive Gazetteer of Sind.

London 1877.

Mounted Woodburytype frontispiece and 6 Woodburytype photographic plates, large folding map in pocket. Original decorative cloth, recased, unobtrusive library blind stamps at edge of plates, shelf number on spine. pp. vi, (ii), 294. 8vo. SCARCE.

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