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Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet. With Forewords by Lord Rawlinson & Sir John Maffey. Edited, with an Appreciation, by Basil Mathews.
by Starr, Lilian A.
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- 1924
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Fourth impression, pp.253, portrait, 6 illustrations, 2 maps. A very good copy in original cloth. Spine and corners lightly bumped. A fascinating account of the two expeditions made by Lilian Agnes Starr (1885-1977), a nurse of the Peshawar Mission Hospital, into Tibet and Afghanistan. The first, in 1922, was a vacation with… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus. With an essay on the geography of the valley of the Oxus. By Colonel Henry Yule.
by Wood, John, Captain
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- 1872
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London: John Murray, 1872. New (i.e. second) edition, edited by his son. pp.cvii, [2, half-title], 280, 32 (adverts), frontispiece, 2 folding maps. A very good copy in the original blind decorated cloth. Spine sun-faded, slight spotting to a few leaves. John Wood (1812-1871) was a naval officer who took great interest in exploration and geography, and achieved… Read more about this item Item Price
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In Memoriam Theodore Duka (1825-1908). (A Lecture read before the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, October 27, 1913)
by Stein, Marc Aurel
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- 1914
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Oxford: Privately printed., 1914. First edition, pp.35, frontis portrait. A very good copy in original boards. Paper spine professionally repaired. Theodore Duka (1825-1908), a Hungarian army officer, studied medicine in Britain, worked as a doctor in India and became fluent in several Indian languages. Erdelyi 1.079. Item Price
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Die Buddhistische Spatantike in Mittelasien. I-III, IV-V. I. Die Plastik; II. Die Manichaischen Miniaturen; III. Die Wandmalereien; V. Neue Bildwerke; VI. Neue Bildwerke II. Mit einem Beitrag uber die Darstellungen und den Stil der Wandgemalde aus Qyzil bei Kutscha. Volume VI was written in conjunction with E. Waldschmidt.
by Coq, Albert von Le
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- 1922-28
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Berlin , 1922-28. Five volumes folio, in total 293 pages, 167 plates, 51 in colour, 259 illustrations, 61 maps and plans. Ergebnisse der Kgl. Preussischen Turfan Expeditionen. A very good set in original boards, neatly rebacked in calf to original style. Volume I with minor library marks. This set lacks Volume IV, Atlas zu den Wandmalereien, published in 1924… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. I: Dunhuang Textiles, by Lubo Lesnichenko. II: Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. III-IV: Photos of the Mogao Grottoes. V: The Survey Drawings and the copies of Murals of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. VI: Archaeological Materials of Mogao Grottoes.
by Menshikov L.N., Fu Xianzhan, & others
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- 1997-2005
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Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 1997-2005. First edition Six volumes folio, pp.83, 111 colour plates; 229, 137 colour plates, many illustrations; 6, 359 pages of illustration; 6, 384 pages of illustration; 327, 295 pages of illustration; 544, many illustrations. A very good set, original cloth, slip-cases. Item Price
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Zur Geschichte der Griechischen und Indoskythischen Konige in Baktrien, Kabul und Indien durch Entzifferung der Altkabulischen Legenden auf ihren Muenzen.
by Lassen, Christian
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- 1838
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Bonn: H.B. Konig, 1838. First edition, pp.284. German text. A very good copy in paper covered boards, gilt leather spine label. Light rubbing and bumping to boards and spine, slight foxing scattered throughout. One of the earliest attempts to decipher Bactrian script using Bactrian, Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian coins with Kharoshthi legend inscriptions. The author disagrees with the theories… Read more about this item Item Price
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Innermost Asia. Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and eastern Iran. Carried out and described under the orders of H.M. Indian Government. Volumes I and II, Text. Vol.III, Plates and Plans. Vol.IV, Maps. With descriptive lists of antiques by F.H. Andrews and F.M.G. Lorimer; and appendices by J. Allan, E. Benveniste, A.H. Francke, L. Giles, R.L. Hobson, T.A. Joyce, S. Konow, A. von Le Coq, W. Lentz, S. Lévi, H. Maspero, F.E. Pargiter, R. Smith, W.J. Sollas, R.C. Spieler, F.W. Thomas, V. Thomsen.
by Stein, Marc Aurel
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- 1928
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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1928. First edition, four volumes, folio, pp.xxxix, 547; xii, (549)-1159, 505 photographic illustrations; 138 plates (numbered to 137, with one A plate), 13 in colour, 59 plans; 52 folding maps. A very good set in original cloth. Rather torn and soiled dust wrappers. The detailed scientific report on Aurel Stein's third great Central… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Puteshestvie cherez Mongoliiu v Tibet, k stolitse Tale-lamy [A Journey across Mongolia to Tibet, and the Capital of the Dalai-Lama. Translated from the French]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/942/921/1163921942.0.m.jpg)
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Puteshestvie cherez Mongoliiu v Tibet, k stolitse Tale-lamy [A Journey across Mongolia to Tibet, and the Capital of the Dalai-Lama. Translated from the French]
by Huc, R.E., and Gabet, J
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- 1866
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Moscow: K.S. Henry, 1866. First edition in Russian, 8vo, pp.[ii], vi, 322, [ii]. A very good copy in later half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt. Slightly foxed throughout, a few ink stains. Red Chinese chop on title. Russian newspaper clipping (1880's) about Mongolia and Baikal bound in at end. The Russian translation of Huc and Gabet's account of… Read more about this item Item Price
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