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Views of British North Borneo with a Brief History of the Colony, compiled from official records...
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Views of British North Borneo with a Brief History of the Colony, compiled from official records and other sources of information of an authentic nature, with trade returns, &c., showing the progress and development of the Chartered Company's Territory.

by [Sabah]

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London: William Brown & Co., 1899. First edition, oblong 4to (22 x 28 cm approx), pp.60, many illustrations to text, 2 maps. A very good copy bound in somewhat soiled original cloth, rebacked with later cloth spine. An attractive illustrated account of what is now Sabah, compiled by the British North Borneo Company to promote investment in the state. The text details the Company's progress in North Borneo since 1882, with a brief history, geographical notes, and an outline of the region's resources and population. There is a detailed note on a proposed railway, with comparison to the railway recently constructed in Selangor. The final section lists all of the Company's officers, from the Court of Directors to the Protector of Chinese, N.B. Dennys and two postmasters, one at Sandakan and the other at Labuan. Letters took one month to reach Britain; telegrams could be sent more expeditiously. This directory of Company officers includes two pages of photographic portraits of the… Read More
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Leiden: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1732. First edition, folio, pp.[xxx], 278; [ii], 64; 26; [88, index]. Parallel Arabic and Latin text. A very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, professionally re-backed to style with original gilt decorated spine laid down, all edges speckled blue. Boards and spine lightly rubbed, corners bumped, slight age-toning to end-papers. Clean internally. The first western translation of this important biography of Salah al-Din ("Saladin") with the original Arabic text. This work was written during Salah al-Din's lifetime by one of his inner circle and is considered the standard biography of one of the greatest leaders of the second millennium. Baha al-Din Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf ibn Rafi ibn Tamim (1145-1234), known as Ibn Shaddad, was a professor in Baghdad and Mosul before becoming a key advisor and close friend of Salah al-Din. He witnessed the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Arsuf as well as much of Salah al-Din's day to day life. His work provides a… Read More
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Een Boschbrand. A fine chromolithograph by C.W. Mieling, after the original painting by Raden Saleh.

Een Boschbrand. A fine chromolithograph by C.W. Mieling, after the original painting by Raden Saleh.

by Saleh, Raden Sjarief Bustaman

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The Hague,: Koninklijke Steendruckerij., 1867. Original chromolithograph, 31 x 44 cm approx. A very good example. Framed and glazed. Raden Saleh was born near Semarang in 1811. His uncle, the Regent, encouraged his early interest in drawing which was later stimulated by the Belgian artist A.A.J. Payen. He was taken to the Netherlands at the age of eighteen where he took drawing and painting lessons from Cornelius Kruseman, and later worked under one of the best landscape artists of the day, Andreas Schelfhout. He spent more than twenty years in Europe meeting many artists and notables before returning to Batavia in 1851. In 1847 he travelled to Algeria with Horace Vernet, the celebrated orientalist painter. The engraver, Carl Wilhelm Mieling, was born in Germany in 1815, and first worked as a lithographer and publisher in Rotterdam before moving to The Hague. His printing works became known for the quality of their products and he was granted the right to use the term 'Koninklijk'(Royal).… Read More
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Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c. including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna...
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Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c. including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea in 1836.

by Spencer, Edmund

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London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [1, list of illustrations], 355, [1, printer's device], [8, publisher's adverts]; xiii, [1, list of illustrations], 425, [1, blank], [2, publisher's adverts]; with 4 lithographed plates, 2 of which are hand-coloured frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 5 pages of engraved music, and 17 engraved illustrations in the text. A very good copy in original cloth, blind frame and panelling to boards, gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Corners and spine bumped, cloth slightly faded, upper inner hinge of volume one fragile, lower joint of volume two has a small split but firm. Light foxing, 4cm tear (neatly repaired) to hinge of larger folding map not affecting map surface. This work is an interesting account of Ottoman Turkey and Russia at a time of increasing military tension by prolific nineteenth-century travel author Edmund Spencer. This is the first of four accounts Spencer eventually published about his numerous… Read More
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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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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 her single servant to Leh, capital of Ladakh, reveals an immensely rich culture brought to life by Starr's frank and vivid descriptions. The second expedition, in 1923, was a far more dramatic affair which earned Starr no small amount of fame in England and elsewhere. In 1923 the British cantonment Kohat, near the Afghanistan border, was raided by Afridi tribesmen and British citizen Mollie Ellis was captured. It was Lilian Starr who was chosen to find Mollie Ellis and negotiate her return, and upon her successful return was lauded world-wide. The writing, directly from Starr's personal journal and diaries, is frank and lends a… Read More
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The Thousand Buddhas. Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-Huang on the...
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London: Bernard Quaritch; plates by Henry Stone & Son of Banbury., 1921. First edition, two volumes, text in folio, 40 x 31 cm., pp.xii, 65; title-page and 48 plates, thirty-three in large folio, 64 x 51 cm., twelve in three colour, twenty-one in halftone, and fifteen smaller plates, 40 x 31 cm, of which ten in three colour, 5 in halftone. Plates have discretely stamped on reverse, "Printed in England". Overall a very good copy, but showing minor use and wear. Title page lightly spotted. Large plates slightly dog-eared at corners, a few with a small area of lower margin lightly water stained, but images unaffected. The text volume is in original wrappers, with small tears to cover, otherwise pristine. The smaller plates are in fine condition, preserved in their original envelope. The whole is contained in the original half-cloth portfolio. Rear cover of portfolio somewhat spotted, and minor tears to cloth spine. A beautifully printed complement to Serindia, published as… Read More
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Innermost Asia.  Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and eastern Iran....
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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 Asian Expedition in which he covered nearly 11,000 miles in thirty-two months between 1913 and 1916, and pursued geographical as well as archaeological research. From Kashmir Stein followed the pilgrim route to Kashgar, crossed the Taklamakan desert to Khotan, and explored the Lop desert discovering the ancient site of Lou-lan. He revisited the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas", pushed down the Etsin-gol and investigated Khara-khoto, the site first discovered by Colonel Kozlov. From there to Turfan, where the expedition secured "a considerable collection of interesting mural paintings from ruined Buddhist shrines".… Read More
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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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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.
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