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

Welch, Stuart Cary. Persian Royal Painting; Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century.

New York 1976.

48 colour plates, 26 text illustrations. Wrappers. pp. 127. Small folio.

BK000145 £20.00 Add to shopping cart

Welch, Stuart Cary. Room for Wonder; Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760 - 1880.

New York 1978.

16 colour and 96 monochrome illustrations, map. Wrappers. pp. 191. Oblong 4to.

BK000203 £45.00 Add to shopping cart

Wellesz, E. A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography.

Oxford 1949.

Gravure frontispiece and 5 half-tone plates. Unobtrusive library marks but otherwise a good copy. pp. xiv, 358. Tall 8vo.

BK000125 £45.00 Add to shopping cart

Wheeler, Sir Mortimer. The Indus Civilization.

London 1972.

34 half-tone plates, 16 text figures, 3 folding plans. Dustwrapper. pp. xi, 144. 8vo.

BK000126 £25.00 Add to shopping cart

White, Joseph. Institutes Political and Military, written originally in the Mogul Language, by the Great Timour, improperly called Tamerlane.

Facsimile of the 1783 Oxford edition, interleaved with Persian translation.

Teheran 1963.

Frontispiece, 2 plans. Half morocco. pp. li, 408, lx, 6. Royal 8vo.

BK000166 £35.00 Add to shopping cart | Read more...

Williams, Leonard. The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain.

Vol. I: Gold, Silver, and Jewel Work. Vol. II: Furniture, Ivories, Pottery and Glass. Vol. III: Textile Fabrics.

London 1907.

Frontispieces, 170 plates. Pictorial cloth. pp. xiv, 289, x, 263, ix, 282. 8vo. (3 volumes).

BK000128 £165.00 Add to shopping cart | Read more...

Winstone, H.V.F. Captain Shakespear; A Portrait.

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

London 1976.

28 photographic illustrations, 3 text illustrations, endpaper maps. Dustwrapper. pp. 236. 8vo.

BK000160 £28.00 Add to shopping cart | Read more...

Wolff, Joseph. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly.

London 1845.

Contains 7 lithographed plates after drawings by G. T. Vigne and Mirsa Abdul Wahab. Frontispieces (one repaired at edges). Original patterned cloth, rebacked. pp. xx, 356, xvi, 347. Still a nice set. 8vo. (2 volumes).

BK000129 £225.00 Add to shopping cart | Read more...

Wood, Major Herbert. The Shores of Lake Aral.

London 1876

2 folding maps, one of West Turkestan and Adjoining Countries (in pocket), one of the Lower Arms of the Amu Derya. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. pp. xxvii, i (errata), 352. 8vo

BK000287 £475.00 Add to shopping cart

Wood, Major Herbert. Notes on the lower Amu-Darya, Syr-Darya and Lake Aral.

Royal Geographical Society, London 1875.

10 lithographed maps and charts, including large folding map of the Khanate of Khiva from Russian Sources. Quarter calf. pp. 47. 8vo.

BK000209 £56.00 Add to shopping cart

Woodman, D. Himalayan Frontiers: A Political Review of British, Chinese, Indian and Russian Rivalries.

Includes the large folding map of India's Northern Frontiers, not issued with most copies.

London 1969.

31 maps, 2 folding. Dustwrapper. pp. xiii, 423. 8vo.

BK000131 £35.00 Add to shopping cart | Read more...

Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun. A Record of Pioneering Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya.

First edition, London 1909. Royal 8vo.

Colour frontispiece, 91 sepia and other gravure plates including 4 double-page panoramas. Large coloured folding map made by Dr. W. Hunter Workman from actual observation. Original pictorial cloth, top edges gilt. pp. xv, 204, one page publisher’s advertisement.

BK000304 £950.00 Add to shopping cart | Read more...