Western India in the Nineteenth Century
London: Routledge, 1968. First. Hardcover. Studies in social history. 347 pp. A study of how the various religions of India, and reactions of various practitioners helped shape history. VG+ in vg dj. More
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Kashgaria
Calcutta: Thacker Spink, 1882. First in English. Hardcover. (Eastern or Chinese Turkestan). Historial and geographical sketch of the country, its military strength, industries and trade. 255 pp, ill. One of the earliest and rarest works on this still little known mystical region. A surprisingly VG+ copy in original brown cloth..... More
A Norwegian Traveller in Tibet
New Delhi: Manjusri, 1973. First English #239 of 1,000. Hardcover. 102 pp, ill, bibliography in rear. Part of the Biblioteca Himalaya series. #239 of 1,000 copies. Biographical sketch of Theo Sorenson and his first journeys to Tibet in 1909, his second on 1918 and his third in 1921 and his..... More
Narrative of the Defence of Kars
London: Richard Bentley, 1857. Simpson, William. First. Hardcover. Historical and military ... from authentic documents and from notes taken by several officers serving on the staff of her Majesty's commissioner with the Ottoman Army in Asia Minor. 344 pp. Pull out folding map in rear pocket. TOGETHER WITH The Fortress..... More
Travels in the Punjab, Afghanistan and Turkistan to Balk Bokhara
Lahore Pakistan: Al-Biruni, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 528 pp. Lal was a great traveller, a brilliant diplomat and reputed author: the first Kashmiri to learn English and the first Indian to educate his daughter in England. He started travelling early in life, through Khorasan, Iran, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind and Northern India..... More
Alexander of Macedon
London: Robert Hale, 1946. First. Hardcover. The Journey to the World's End. 402 pp. End paper maps. An interesting biographical and historical narrative. Near fine. More
Travels in China
Woodridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 1989. First. Hardcover. A Plantsman's Paradise, 516 pp, profuse color & b/w ill, end paper maps. Author has a long and distinguished career as a plantsman. He has travelled worldwide to study the world's flora. As a result of his travels in China, he is..... More
A Handy Guide to Kashmir
Ca: Star Press, 1918. August 1916 Edition. Orig Printed Stiff Wraps. by Pandit Man Mohan Lal Langar, Motamid Darbar - Kashmir State. 208 pp, folding map at fron and at rear, + 1 folding plan in text. Hints for visitors, routes, descriptions of valleys and cities, arts and industries, sport..... More
Narrative of a Residence in the Court of Meer Ali Moorad
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860. First. Hardcover. with wild sports in the valley of the Indus. 2 vol: 300 & 306 pp, ill. Author had just returned from India when we was requested by the Meer to return. His long residence and knowledge of the area is imparted in the..... More
High Tartary
Boston: Little Brown, 1930. First. Hardcover. 370 pp, end paper maps. The whole empire of Ghengis Khan was Tartary. Manchuria, Mongolia, the Pamirs and Tien Shan have also been considered part of Tartary. The barbaric hordes that broke through Central Asian barriers to the east and west were considered Tartars..... More
Silks, Spices and Empire
NY: Delacorte Press, 1968. First. Hardcover. Asia as seen through the eyes of its discoverers. 340 pp, bibliography, text map. Deco end papers. VG+-near fine in vg+ dj. Dramatic first hand accounts of history with lucid introductions. More
TE Lawrence to E T Leeds
England: Whittington Press, 1988. Richard Kennedy. First Ltd 80 Copies. Full Leather. With a compantary by ET Leeds, edited and with an introduction by JM Wilson, with a memoir of ET Leeds by DB Harden and illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. Book is 140 pp. There is a...... More
An Eastern Odyssey
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. First American. Hardcover. the third expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil in Central Asia. 354 pp, ill, fold out map, end paper maps of exploring route through China, Mongolia, Tibet, Afghanistan, Turkestan Iraq and Syria. VG+ in orig. cloth. More
Witness of the Wilderness
London: Longmans, Green, 1909. First. Orig Pictorial Cloth. The Bedawin (sic) of the desert, their origin, history, home life, strife, religion an superstitions in their relation to the bible. 222 pp. 28 ill. More
An Eastern Odyssey
Boston: Little Brown, 1935. First American. Hardcover. the third expedition of Haardt and Dubreuil (Citroen Expedition). Syria, Iraq, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Pamirs, Gobi Desert and Mongolia. Through also to Gilgit, Srinagar, Kashgar, Kabul, Ghazbi and more. A long expedition. 368 pp, ill, end paper maps. VG in VG dj. More
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1886. First. Hardcover. being an account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (AD 399-414) in search of the Buddhist Books of discipline. 123 pp, ill + lengthy appendix of original manuscript in Chinese. VG copy in original printed boards, over cloth..... More
West Africa the Elusive
Oxford: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1921. First. Hardcover. 321 pp., ill. colored folding map in rear. Author was sent by his newspaper to Nigeria to describe that country and West Africa Scarce but VG condition,, bottom corners cloth worn through to boards. Library label inside rear cover (no other..... More
Memoirs of Zehir-ed-Din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustam
London England: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. First in English. Hardcover. written by himself in the Jaghatai Turki (and translated by Leyden and Erskine). Notes plus geographical and historical introductions together with a map of the countries between the Oxus and Jaxartes and a memoir regarding its construction..... More
Tibet The Sacred Realm
Aperture Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Photographs 1880-1950. 159 pp, profuse ill. Large format. 140 Photographs from the archives of many museums and collections taken by intrepid travelers, adventurers, naturalists and explorers. Many of the things photographed have long since been destroyed. Fine in fine jacket. More
Three Tickets to Timbuktu
New York: G P Putnam's, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Linker, H. THREE TICKETS TO TIMBUKTU The Global Adventures of America's most famous travelling family. 1966 NY 307 pp. Ill. For 10 seasons on US tv, their episodes were records. The visited 115 countries including Mozambie, Ehtiopia and the Amazon. They..... More
Documents Relating to the Search and Relief Expedition
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1872. First. Hardcover. and Dr Livingstone's Explorations of the Upper Congo. Two ussues of the Processings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol XVL Dec 28 1872 and Vol XVII Feb 24 1873. The 1872 issue also contains some other news on DOctor Livingstone and the 1973..... More
A popular account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
London: John Murray, 1861. Popular. Hardcover. 436 pp, ill, fold out map in rear, fold out frontis. 31 other ill. Travels in the Kalahari Desert, discovery of Lake NGami, along the Zambesi and eventually discovering the Victoria Falls. With notices of the elephant and lion and natural history of the..... More
Narrative of an Edpedition to the Zambesi
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1866. American. Hardcover. and its tributaries and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1865. 638 pp, ill, large folding map and pub ads in rear. One double page plate in front. Classic of African travel & exploration. Fair condition only in orig. blindstamped..... More