Afganistan, Hunza, Central Asia from Catron Grant Books
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Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography March 1886 Vol. VIII No. 3
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- 1886
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Edward Stanford, 1886 216 pp with large folding map of the Afgan and Persian border bound in after text.Lead article is "The Herat valley and the persian border, from Hari-rud to Sistan," by Colonal C.E. Stewart. text is cleean, tight and unmarked. Blue paper covers are complete withseveral closed tears.. Magazine. Good. Item Price
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The Alluring Target: In Search of the Secrets of Central Asia
by Wimmel, Kenneth
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- 1997
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- 9781879434486
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Trackless Sands Pr Inc, 1997 256 pp with one map and B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are clean and intact with a crease to front cover.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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Animals of Central Asia
by Osmond, Edward
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- Used - Good
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- 1st American Ed.
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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$22.00
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London: Abelard-Schuman, 1968 150 pp with B&W illustrations in text and a short but useful bibliography. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Library card pocket on rear endpapers. DJ is bright and intact, taped to boards.. 1st American Ed.. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Item Price
$22.00
Travel & Sport in Turkestan
by Wood, Captain John Nicholas Price
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- 1st Edition
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- 1910
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$165.00
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NYC: D. Appleton & Co., 1910 xix, 201 pp with tipped-in silver-tone print protected by intact glasine frontis and 50 B&W plates + a folding colored map. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's name stamp on flyleaf. Page edges deckled. Red cloth boards with a gold-stamped riding scene and title on upper board are clean and bright with… Read more about this item Item Price
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india-NATO Dialogue: Addressing International Security and Regional Challenges
by Banerjee, Dipankar, D. Suba Chandran (eds)
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- 2010
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- 9780230328440
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India: macMillan and Co., 2010 127 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.Covers are bright and undamaged. Essays from a seminar held in 2009 by the The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
$45.00
The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2
by Ridgeway, Rick
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1980
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- Hardcover
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- 9780898860078
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$29.00
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Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1980 301 (4) pp with 32 color plates. Erratum slip included. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookplate of Steve Gossett, financier and adventurer, on front endpapers. DJ is bright and intact with slight rubbing to spine ends.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
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Ascent of K2 Second Highest Peak in the World
by Desio, , Prof. Ardito
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- Very Good
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- First English Language Edition
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- 1955
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$55.00
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London: Elek Books, 1955 239 pp with 14 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookplate of Steve Gossett, financier and adventurer, on front endpapers. Page edges speckled. Turquoise cloth boards are clean and bright. DJ is intact with slight edgewear to spine ends. An Italian ascent of K2 in 1953 which resulted in two team members reaching the… Read more about this item Item Price
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On Alexander's Track to the Indus Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-west Frontier of India
by Stein, Sir Auel
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- 1st Edition
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- 1929
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$650.00
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London: macMillan and Co., 1929 xvi, 182 pp with 97 B&W photographic illustrations and 2 maps. Text is clean, tight,toned, unmarked exce3pt for pencil tics next to illustration numbers. Top of page edges gilt. Stamp of 'B' on lower page edges and front pastedown. Rust cloth boards with gold cartouche on upper board VG, clean and only… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
Where Four Worlds Meet Hindu Kush 1959
by Maraini, Fosco
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- Fair
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- First American Edition.
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- 1964
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NYC: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964 ix, 289 pp with 76 B&W plates and two large fold-out maps bound in to text. Maps on endpapers Text is clean, tight and unmarked., browncloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean and undamaged. DJ has some edgewear and a closed tear. Bookplate of Steve Fossitt on front endpapers. James Stephen "Steve"… Read more about this item Item Price
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The New Conquest of Central Asia Natural History of Central Asia Volume I
by Andrews, Roy Chapman
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- 1932
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$850.00
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NYC: The American Museum of Natural History, 1932 l, 678 pp with one color illustration frontis 127 B&W plates and a large folding map bound in after text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked save for a few pencilled margin notes.A page listing the staff of the trip is loose and chipped but present. The first of the American Central… Read more about this item Item Price
$850.00
Zur Kenntniss der rothen Murmelthiere Central-Asiens ( Description of the Red Marmot of Central Asia)
by Buchner, Eugene
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- 1892
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St Petersbourg, Russia: Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 1892 St Petersbourg, Russia: Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 1892 Melanges Biologiques Tome XIII livre 2. pp 310-324. A preliminary description of the marmots collected in Central Asia.during the expeditions of N.M. Przewalski, P.K. Kozlov, G.N. Potanin and N.A. Zarudny to Central and Middle Asia, Mongolia, China, Iran. Eugene Buchner… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dumaki Language Outlines of the Speech,of the Doma, or Bericho, of Hunza
by Lorimer, Lt. Col. David Lockhart Robertson,"
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- 1939
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Nijmegen: Dekker & Mvan Der Vegt N.V., 1939 Nijmegen: Dekker & Mvan Der Vegt N.V., 1939 244 pp.with four fold-out charts of Dumaki verb structures. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Original paper boards of the Publications de la Commission d'Enquete Linguistique have been handsomely rebound in oxblood quarter-bound leather with raised bands and gold-stamped titles on spine. Hardcover. Fine/No… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Person From England and Other Travelers to Turkestan (association copy Douglas Fairbanks)
by Maclean, Fitzroy
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- Good
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- First American Edition.
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- 1958
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$48.00
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NYC: Harper & Bros., 1958 NYC: Harper & Bros., 1958 314 pp with 8 B&W pl;ates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Elaborate bookplate of actor Douglas Fairbanks on first free page. Red cloth boards are clean, bright, with slight bumping to spine ends. DJ has some edgewear, now in protective mylar. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo -… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Burushaski Languages Volumes I - III
by Lorimer, Lt. Col.l David Lockhart Robertson,”
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- 1935
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$425.00
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Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1935 Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Original paper boards of the Publications de la Commission d'Enquete Linguistique have been handsomely rebound in oxblood quarter-bound leather with raised bands and gold-stamped titles on spine.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
$425.00
The Cruel Way (Virago/Beacon Travelers)
by Ella K. Maillart
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- 1987
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- Paperback
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- 9780807070215
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Beacon Pr, 1987 Beacon Pr, 1987 217 pp with 2 maps after text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, yellowed. Covers are bright and undamaged. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Very Good.. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
$11.00
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Torwali an Account of the Dardic Language of the Swat Kohistan
by Grierson, Sir George Abraham
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- Presumed First.
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- 1929
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London: 125, 1929 London: 125, 1929 216 pp with a map frontis. "Based on materials collected in Torwal by Sir Aurel Stein with a note by Sir Aurel Stein on Torwal and its people." Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards are clean and undamaged. The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca) are a sub-group of the Indo-Aryan… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History of the Reign of Tipu Sultan, Being a Continuation of the Neshani Hyduri; Written By Mir Hussein Ali Kahn Kirmani
by Miles, Col. W. (translator)
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- 1844
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London: The Oriental Translation Fund, 1844 London: The Oriental Translation Fund, 1844 x, 291 pp Text is clean and unmarked, front hinge cracked but holding. Considerable glue-staining and foxing to endpapers and first three pages. Library sticker (The University of Bridgeport) and pocket on endpapers. Publisher's green cloth binding is bumped at extremities with a short split to hinge at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia
by Glazebrook, Philip
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition.
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9781568360119
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U.S.A.: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1994 289 pp with one map in text and additional maps on endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and undamaged, now in protective mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Item Price
$11.00
Central Asian Art (Temporis Series)
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9781859951583
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U.S.A.: Parkstone Pr, 1996 U.S.A.: Parkstone Pr, 1996 175 pp with color illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, printed on heavy coated stock. Decorative paper boards are bright and undamaged.DJ is cllean, brightwith a small scratch on the rear. An exceptionally handsome book. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Slender Octavo.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Item Price
$75.00
Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands: Buddhist Art from the Silk Road (2 volumes)
by Whitfield, Roderick
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- As New
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- As New
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- 1st Edition.
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 9781898406051
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$480.00
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London: Textile & Art Publications, 1995 London: Textile & Art Publications, 1995 Vol. 1 - 259 pp , 399 colored plates. Vol 2 - explanatory text with 59 illustrations,plate captions, glossary, bibliography, index to caves, An exhaustive record of all the cave art at the Dunhuang caves in Gansu, China. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, immaculate. Dark green boards… Read more about this item Item Price
$480.00
