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Anon. TRAVELS IN SOUTH-WESTERN ASIA. |
£58.00 |
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165pp. Small 8vo. 4 full-page engraved plates. The travels and observations of a Captain Blisset through Palestine, Persia and by camel train to Mecca. Inscribed 'Ann Steptoe, a reward given for diligence in sewing'. Very good. A clean copy in the original cloth. 1831 First edition, C.J.G.& F.Rivington, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christiam Knowledge. |
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Curzon, George Nathaniel. CURZON'S PERSIA. |
£14.00 |
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192pp. Edited with an introduction by Peter King. Selections from `Persia and the Persian Question' originally published in 1892. 30 year old Curzon travelled nearly 2,000 miles on horseback. Profusely illustrated with Curzon's photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1986 First thus, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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Eaton, Richard M. INDIA IN THE PERSIANATE AGE 1000-1765. |
£15.00 |
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489pp. Index. 21 colour illustrations and 8 maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2019 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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English, Barbara. JOHN COMPANY'S LAST WAR. |
£12.00 |
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192pp. 20 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. Outram's 1856 campaign in Persia. Very good in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1971 First edition, Collins. |
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Gray, Basil. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£14.00 |
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92pp. 15 b/w plates. Very good. 1930 First edition, Ernest Benn. |
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Gray, Basil. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£14.00 |
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190pp. 4to. Card covers. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine 1961 Bookking International. |
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Heude, Lt. William. A VOYAGE UP THE PERSIAN GULF AND A JOURNEY OVERLAND FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND IN 1817. |
£21.00 |
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252 + xi pp. Facsimile reprint of 1819 original. Fine in fine dw. 1993 Garnet Publishing. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE. |
£35.00 |
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The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 431pp. 31 illustrations and 3 maps. German moves towards India. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy 1994 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE. |
£25.00 |
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The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 431pp. 31 illustrations and 3 maps. German moves towards India. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy.. 1994 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hutt, Anthony and Harrow, Leonard. IRANI. |
£15.00 |
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Islamic Architecture. 192pp. 136 illustrations, 24 in colour. Card covers. 17th century architecture in Iran. Very good indeed. 1977 Scorpion Publications. |
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Lampton, Ann K.S. PERSIAN VOCABULARY. |
£12.00 |
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394pp. Ex-British Library Lending Division. A dictionary for students. Very good. Bookplate. 1954 at the University Press, Cambridge. |
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Lewis, G.Griffin. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF ORIENTAL RUGS. |
£31.00 |
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375pp. Index. 32 illustrations in colour and 160 in b/w. Folding map. In original decorated boards. Top edge gilt. Spine rubbed and darkening but otherwise very good. 1920 Revised edition, Lippincott, Philadelphia. |
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Malcolm, Sir John. SKETCHES OF PERSIA. |
£72.00 |
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287pp + 16pp Murray catalogue. Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library'. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed. 1845, John Murray. |
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McCarthy, Justin Huntly.(edits). THE THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS. |
£28.00 |
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Persian Tales. 2 vols 281 and 288pp. In the original bindings with white vellum spines and corners, With the armorial book plates of John Gretton. Very good indeed. A lovely set. 1892 First edition, Chatto & Windus. |
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Morier, James. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. |
£7.00 |
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xxxvii + 407pp. 6 b/w plates by H.R.Millar. Introduction by Charles Beckett. In the original decorated blue cloth. Very good. No date (c1900) Gresham Publishing Company. |
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Morier, James. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. |
£18.00 |
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405pp. English printing of US lavish illustrated reprint of 1834 original. Large 8vo. With drawings and plates in full colour by C. Leroy Baldridge. In the original green cloth. Very good. Spine cloth a little faded. 1937 Hamish Hamilton. |
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Robinson, B.W. PERSIAN PAINTINGS IN THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY. |
£43.00 |
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A Descriptive Catalogue. 271pp. Index. Over 1,300 entries, extensively illustrated in colour and b/w. The collection was acquired by the East India Company from the library of Tipu and the collections of Warrern Hastings and Richard Johnson. Fine in very good dw. 1976 First edition, Sotheby Parke Burnet. |
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Sargent, Rev.John. A MEMOIR OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN. |
£26.00 |
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484pp. With leather spine and corners. Account of his missions in India and Persia. Corners a little scuffed but binding sound. 1831 11th edition corrected and enlarged, Seeley and Burnside |
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Sinclair, Ronald. ADVENTURES IN PERSIA. |
£14.00 |
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To India by the Back Door. 216pp. Ex-intelligence officer travels from Beirut to India by car in 1926. On his death the author was revealed to be Reginald Teague-Jones who had been condemned by the Bolsheviks as the British agent in Baku. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Witherby. |
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Sinclair, Ronald. ADVENTURES IN PERSIA. |
£10.00 |
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To India by the Back Door. 216pp. Ex-intelligence officer travels from Beirut to India by car in 1926. On his death the author was revealed to be Reginald Teague-Jones who had been condemned by the Bolsheviks as the British agent in Baku. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1988 First edition, Witherby. |
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Standish, John F. PERSIA AND THE GULF. |
£5.00 |
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Retrospect and Prospect. 214pp. Index. Card covers. Chapters on British influence and the Persian War of 1856-57. Fine. 1998 Curzon Press. |
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Sykes, Christopher Simon. THE MAN WHO CREATED THE MIDDLE EAST. |
£10.00 |
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A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement. 368pp. Index. B/w illustrations in the text. Study of Sir Mark Sykes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2016 First edition, Collins. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. WONDERS OF THE AGE. |
£14.00 |
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Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576. Exhibition catalogue. With many full-page illustrations in colour and black and white. 224pp. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1979 First Fogg Art Museum, Harvard. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. |
£14.00 |
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127pp. 48 illustrations in colour. Card covers. Fine. Owner's name. 1978 Thames & Hudson. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. A KING'S BOOK OF KINGS. |
£35.00 |
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The Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp. 199pp. 4to. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. Pages fom the Houghton manuscript. Fine in fine dw. A lovely book. 1972 Reprint, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. |
£12.00 |
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127pp. 48 illustrations in colour. Card covers. Fine. 1978 Thames & Hudson. |
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Willey, Peter. THE CASTLES OF THE ASSASSINS. |
£22.00 |
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328pp. 32 b/w photographs, 12 maps and plans (including a large folding map). A record of the Alamut Valley Expedition to Northern Persia. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1963 First edition, Harrap. |
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Wright, Denis. THE ENGLISH AMONGST THE PERSIANS |
£12.00 |
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during the Quajar Period 1787-1921. 218pp. Index. 17 illustrations with colour frontispiece. Diplomacy, trade in competition with the Russians. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Owner's name.. 1977 Reprint year of publication, Heinemann. |
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Wynn, Anthony. PERSIA IN THE GREAT GAME. |
£14.00 |
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Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy. 346pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2003 First edition, John Murray. |
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