NADIR SHAH. A Critical Study based mainly upon Contemporary Sources. With a foreword by Sir E. Denison Ross. Luzac & Co. 1938.
1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [xvi] + 344pp. Port. frontis., 10 ills., 8 maps including 1 folding at rear. Sm. inscription, ex.-libris Andrew Morrison, original gilt lettered cloth sl. bumped to corners and lightly faded to spine with sl. sticky mark to fore-edge of lower board.
£125.00 [ref: 198954]
RUSSIAN EMBASSIES TO THE GEORGIAN KINGS (1589-1605). Edited with Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by ... Texts translated by Anthony Mango. C.U.P. for The Hakluyt Society 1970.
2 vols. xxxii + 368pp. + [x] + (369-640)pp. Cold. frontiss., 6 folding maps with folding key maps at end of each vol., 16 ills. Ex.-lib. with occasional ink stamp, large ink inscription to vol. 1, d/ws.
Hakluyt Society, Second Series No. CXXXVIII and CXXXIX.
£12.00 [ref: 150098]
AND THEN GARHWAL. Bacsa Putney 1981.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. vii + 216pp. Numerous ills. Numbering to front f.e.p., original wrapps., sl. creased and browned.
£20.00 [ref: 198624]
A VISIT TO THE COURT OF SINDE. With an Introduction by Hamida Khuhro. Karachi OUP 1974.
Reprint of 1831 Ed. xxviii + 146pp. Port., folding pedigree, folding map. Some marginal light browning, chipped d/w., tear to lower corner of lower wrapp. without loss.
Oxford in Asia Reprints.
£15.00 [ref: 163859]
RUSSIA AND ASIA: THE EMERGING SECURITY AGENDA. Sipri / O.U.P. 1999.
1st Ed. xvi + 534pp. 8 maps. Very good in d/w.
£22.00 [ref: 198799]
TRAVELS IN THE EASTERN CAUCASUS, On the Caspian and Black Seas, Especially in Daghestan, and On the Frontiers of Persia and Turkey, During the Summer of 1871. John Murray 1872.
1st Ed. 367pp. + 24pp. publ. catalogue (dated July, 1878). 8 plates, 2 folding maps, many ills. Some very light browning, upper hinge cracked thus sl. shaken, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt device to upper board, spine sl. bumped and corners sl. frayed.
Arthur Thurlow Cunyngham (1812-1884).
D.N.B. ‘An extensive traveller and most intelligent observer.’
£650.00 [ref: 185881]
THE FIRE OX And Other Years. Collins 1947.
1st UK Ed. Royal 8vo. xviii + 393pp. Cold. frontis., 3 cold. maps, 2 cold. ills., numerous b/w. ills. Original cloth, corners sl. bumped.
£14.00 [ref: 178825]
THE JUMMOO AND KASHMIR TERRITORIES A Geographical Account. Edward Stanford 1875.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. xiii + [ii] + 568pp. Frontis., 4 woodbury-type mounted plates from photographs by Frith, 28 ills., 6 maps on 5 folding sheets, 7 isometric views and sections on 2 folding sheets (1 detached), large folding map in front pocket (with splits to folds), folding genealogy chart. Light marginal browning, sm. red ink stamp to t.p., original boards, corners frayed, marking to lower board, rebacked with much of original sl. faded gilt lettered spine laid down.
Inscribed to front free end paper ‘Henry Drew from his brother Fred’.
Yakushi, D163a.
Extensive work covering Regions and Inhabitants of the Outer Hills, Jummoo and the Court, Region of the Middle Mountains, March from Jummoo to Kashmir, Kashmir, Mountains round Kashmir, Later Geological History of Kashmir, March from Kashmir to Leh in Ladakh, Ladakh the Inhabitants, Central Ladakh, Nubra and Zanskar, Ladakh the Higher Valleys the Plateaus, Baltistan, Dardistan the Country and People, Gilgit History of Daristan, Languages, etc.
£950.00 [ref: 185542]
TARTERIE, Belouchistan, Boutan et Népal. Afghanistan par M. Xavier Valmont. Paris Firmin Didot Frères 1848.
[iv] + 79pp. 24 engraved plates, 2 folding maps. Some light browning, original boards, joints cracked, spine sl. chipped.
L’Univers. Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples.
£75.00 [ref: 194445]
THE PAMIRS; Being a Narrative of a Year’s Expedition on Horseback and on Foot Through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia. John Murray 1894.
2nd Ed. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. xx + 360pp. + xi + 352pp. Port. frontis., 21 plates, 3 folding maps, route plan, numerous ills. Some sporadic browning, dec. e.ps., ex.-libris Lisle Pattison, original silver lettered cloth with silver device to upper boards, spines faded and sl. chipped.
Published the same year as the first edition.
ODNB ‘Charles Adolphus Murray, seventh earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), traveller ... Dunmore travelled in many parts of the world, including Africa and the Arctic, but his principal journey was made in 1892 through Kashmir, western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian central Asia. He started from Rawalpindi in April 1892, reached Kashgar in Chinese Turkestan in December 1892, and continued west through Ferghana and Transcaspia, reaching Samarkand in January 1893. He had ridden and walked 2500 miles, traversing forty-one mountain passes and sixty-nine rivers.
£450.00 [ref: 188623]
