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

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

London 1945.

12 plates. Dustwrapper. pp. 200. 8vo.

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Boulting, W. Four Travellers.

London circa 1920.

pp. viii, 256. 8vo.

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

London 1967.

Dustwrapper. pp. xiii, 446. 8vo.

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Bousted, Colonel Sir Hugh. The Wind of Morning; The Autobiography.

From the working library of Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986).

London 1971.

16 photographic plates, 4 maps. Dustwrapper. pp. 240. 8vo.

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Bradford, E. The Great Betrayal; Constantinople 1204.

London 1975.

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

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British Foreign Office. Russia correspondence 1906-1913, 1919-1940. Guide to the Scholarly Resources' microfilm edition of the Public Record Office Collection.

The Peter Hopkirk copy with his bookplate.

Wilmington 1977.

pp. xxv, 478. 4to.

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Broadhurst, R.J.C. (translator from the original Arabic). The Travels of Ibn Jubayr ; being the Chronicle of a medieval Spanish Moor concerning his journey to the Egypt of Saladin, the holy cities of Arabia, Baghdad the City of the Caliphs, the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily.

London 1952.

2 folding maps. Original buckram slight marked. pp. 430. 8vo.

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Bruce, Lieut.-Colonel. The Hon C.G. Kulu and Lahoul.

First edition, London 1914.

Gravure frontispiece, 24 half-tone plates, sketch-map, coloured folding map. Half-calf, spine gilt. pp. xii, 307. 8vo.

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Burton, Major R.G. Wellington’s Campaigns in India.

Published ‘For Official Use Only’ by the Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of Staff, Calcutta 1908.

6 lithographed maps and battle-plans on large folding sheet in rear pocket. Half-calf, gilt. pp. viii, (i), 177. 4to.

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Butler, Captain John and Peal, S.E. Rough Notes on the Angami Nagas and Their Language. With an Appendix By John Butler and S.E. Peal, containing vocabularies of Naga Hill Tribes.

Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1873.

7 plates (1 folding), photozincographed at the Survey-General's Office. Half-calf, spine gilt. pp. 88. 8vo.

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Carruthers, Douglas; Neve, Arthur; Hedin, Sven; Workman, William Hunter; White, J. Claude; Huntington, Ellsworth. (i) Journey to the Arpa and Ak-Sai Plateaus in Russian Turkestan. ii) The Ranges of the Karakoram. iii) The Kumdan Glacier in 1902. iv) The Tongue of the Hasanabad Glacier in 1906. v) Journeys in Bhutan. vi) Exploring Central Asia.

Royal Geographical Society, London 1910.

14 plates, coloured folding map. Quarter-calf. pp. 76. 8vo.

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Cheesman, Major R.E. In Unknown Arabia. With a foreword by Major-General Sir Percy Z. Cox.

London 1926.

Frontispiece, 64 half-tone photographic illustrations, 2 text illustrations, 2 sketch-maps, large folding map. Quarter-morocco, gilt vignette on upper cover, top edges gilt. pp. x, 447. Royal 8vo.

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