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

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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Compton, Herbert. A Particular Account of the European Military Adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784-1803.

London 1892.

6 plates, 2 text illustrations, folding map. Gilt-lettered cloth. 8vo. pp. 419.

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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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Crane, Howard. Risale-I-Mi'mariye. An Early Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture.

Leiden 1987.

87 half-tone facsimile plates. pp. 126 (English). 4to.

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Cunningham, Major-General A. Relics from Ancient Persia in Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Bound with Das, Baboo Sarat Chandra: Contributions on the Religion, History, etc. of Tibet.

Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1881.

9 photo-lithographed plates. Wrapper cover torn without text loss, pages somewhat browned, plates clean. 8vo. pp. (151) – 186 (complete). pp. (187) – 251. pp. 64. 8vo.

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Curzon, George N. Russia in Central Asia in 1889, and the Anglo-Russian Question.

First edition, London 1889.

16 plates, 37 text illustrations, 2 coloured lithographed folding maps. Original armorial cloth, gilt. pp. xxiii, 477. 8vo.

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Czaplicka, M.A. The Turks of Central Asia; In History and at the Present Day.

Oxford 1918, reprinted Amsterdam 1973.

Folding map. Wrappers. pp. 242. 8vo.

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Dani, A.H. (Editor-in-Chief) International Conference on Karakorum Culture, Gilgit 1983.

4 issues (the complete proceedings).

Journal of International Association for the Study of the Cultures of Central Asia, Islamabad 1984-1985.

Numerous plates and text figures. Original wrappers, bound together in presentation cloth. pp. 207, 184, 191, 254. 8vo.

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Davidson. Lieut.-Colonel C. J. C. Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India.

First Edition, London 1843.

Original patterned cloth, pp. xv, 344, x, 349. 8vo. (2 Volumes).

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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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De Boer, Dr. T.J. The History of Philosophy in Islam.

The Glubb Pasha copy with his bookplate. From the working library of Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986).

London 1933.

pp. xiv, 216. 8vo.

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De Gaury, Gerald. Three Kings in Baghdad.

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

London 1961.

11 half-tone photographic illustrations, folding map of the city of Baghdad. Dustwrapper. pp. 232. 8vo.

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