Mongolia, Siberia from Catron Grant Books

Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1964 135 pp. 194 illustrations in B&W of maps, many of which fold out. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Upper and lower page corners are slightly rumpled. Taupe cloth boards with brown and white titles and an orb are clean, rubbed and bumped at extremities. A history through cartography of the exploration of the eastern… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1920 xix, [1], 237, [1] pp. Introduction and commentary on the current political scene in Mongolia by David Fraser. With map of Mongolia, photographic frontispiece, and 48 plates from photographs. Scarce volume profusely illustrated from striking photographs detailing Bulstrode's adventures in Mongolia. This book has spent its life in India with some of the usual faults… Read more about this item

U.K.: Camebridge University Press, 2000 U.K.: Camebridge University Press, 2000 696 pp with B&W illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Glazed paper boards are lightly bumped at corners. Book weright 3 lbs 12 oz. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908 Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908 xx,481pp with a portrait of the auth or frontis and a large folding map bound in before text. A history of the Mongols from the ninth century on beginning with their invasion of Russia. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Map appears to have never been unfolded. Red… Read more about this item

Fleming H. Revell, 1900 Fleming H. Revell, 1900 336 pp with three portraits,two maps and four illustrations.Date is not stated but Woldcat lists 1900. A clean, tight copy with no internal markings. Dark green cloth boards with gold-stamped outline of a camel pulling a cart are rubbed at extremities. Now in protective mylar. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

William Morrow & Co., 1975 William Morrow & Co., 1975 279 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean and intact with a little rubbing. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Philadelphia: J.b. Lippincott, 1858 Philadelphia: J.b. Lippincott, 1858 507 pp + 4 pp of advertisements post-text, plates in text. Text is tight and unmarked, with foxing to first few pages. Dark brown embossed cloth boards are mottled, with some loss of material at extremities.The book was a gift dated 1857 from Mrs.Dorothea Elizabeth Cooke to her son Jay Cooke Jr.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1882 London: John Murray, 1882 304 pp with folding map bound in after text, and B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked with considerable foxing to the first and last few pages. Page edges are marbled. Contemporary quarter-bound green leatherette library binding, the library in question being The Library of Parliament, New South Wales,… Read more about this item

New Yoprk: W.W. Norton, 1955 285 pp with one map. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's name on first free page. Orange cloth boards are rubbed at extremities. DJ is missing a chip at head of spine. Now in protective mylar.The autobiography of a young Mongol woman who moved away fromt he tradition-bound life of her family to… Read more about this item

NYC: AMNH, 1934 Text is clean, tight and unmarked., 32 B&W plates after text Covers are clean and undamaged. L. Erskine Spock traveled with Roy Chapman Andrews to the Gobi on the American Museum of Natural History's Central Asiatic Expeditions of the 1920's. Size: 6.25" x 8.5". Stapled Softcover. Very Good.

NYC: AMNH, 1943 Text is clean, tight and unmarked., numerous B&W illustrations in text. Covers are clean and undamaged. "Charles Whitney Gilmore , 1874 - 1945) was an American paleontologist who gained renown in the early 20th century for his work on vertebrate fossils during his career at the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History).… Read more about this item

London: Hatchworth Press, 1960 144 pp with color and B&W plates on every page. Escellent p[hotography from a time before there was any Western influence on Mongolian culture. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. A foldout illustratikon is frayed at edges. Library markings and pocket on endpapers. Blue cloth boards are clean, lightly rubbed at extremities Size: 4to - over… Read more about this item

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1939 34 pp with B&W illustrations and diagrams throughout. Studies from material collected on the American Museum of Natural History's Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1928-29. The Tung Gor formation is a horizon of early Miocene age. Text is clean , tight and unmarked. Stiff paper covers are clean and undamaged, with previous owner's… Read more about this item

Camebridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969 177 pp with one mapa nd B&W photos throughout. Written by the woman leader of the expeditions, details the three Polish paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in the 1960's. Text is clean, tight and unmarked.. Soft Cover. Good.

USA: Rutgers, 1949 USA: Rutgers, 1949 238 pp, maps on endpapers. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey cloth boards are lightly bumped at extremities with no loss of material. DJ is intact with some edgewear. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

NYC: American Museum of Natural History, 1931 665 pp with 72 illustrations in text, a color fold-out reconnaisance map of the Gobi area, and 35 B&W plates after the text. The fossils described in this volume were obtained during several season's field work by the Central Asian Expeditions, led by Roy Chapman Andrews, of 1922, 1923 and 1925.… Read more about this item

London, U.S.A.: Pickering & Inglis Ltd., 1947 London, U.S.A.: Pickering & Inglis Ltd., 1947 71 (1) pp with 12 B&W plates. Text is clean tight and unmarked. binding is cracked after title page, but holding. Map of eastern Mongolia on front endpaper. Yellow cloth boards are bumped and lightly soiled. An evangelical missionary's account of his imprisonment by the Japanese… Read more about this item

Naples, Italy: International Volcanological Association, 1958 99 pp with charts and B&W drawings, plus a few photos, of the volcanos of the Kurile islnd chain of the northern Pacific coast of Russia. This book has been releasd by the University of Hawaii Hilo and has had an additional set of stiff cardboard boards added to the rather flimsy original paper… Read more about this item

New York: Thames and Hudson in Association with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1999 339 pp with color illustrations on every page. Published on the occasion of "Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan," an exhibition organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in association with the Ministry of Culture, National Museums, and National Library of Mongolia.… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1991 New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1991 Two volumes subtitled "Being a Narrative of Three years travel in Eastern High Asia." Handsomely reprinted from the 1876 original edition. Illustrated with B&W wood engravings. Prejevalsky was a Russian officer sent by his government to further Russian interest during the Great Game woth Britain. he made four… Read more about this item