Central Asia.

Russian Missions into the Interior of Asia... translated from the German. London: Richard Phillips, 1823, 8vo, aquatint frontispiece, later wrappers
Burnes, A. Travels into Bokhara. 1834, 3 vol., 8vo, half-titles, 8 plates, original boards, uncut, modern blue cloth box, spines worn and lacking in places
Wolff, Joseph. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara... fifth edition, 1848, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed on half-title, original cloth, binding slightly rubbed and marked, spine faded
Zaleski, B. La vie des steppes Kirghizes. Paris, 1865, oblong folio, engraved additional title and 21 plates, original red morocco-backed cloth, plates somewhat spotted, text browned, binding marked
Moser, H. A travers l'Asie Centrale. Paris, [1885], large 8vo, plates, illustrations, folding map, original morocco-backed cloth
Gerard, M.G. and others. Report of the Proceedings of the Pamir Boundary Commission...1896. Calcutta, 1897, folio, 39 plates, most photographic, 2 folding maps in pocket at end, original cloth, library stamps of Royal Scottish Geographical Society on versos of plates
Olufsen, O. The Emir of Bokhara and his country. Copenhagen and London, 1911, 8vo, illustrations, folding map in sleeve at end, original cloth
Stein, M.A. Ruins of Desert Cathay. 1912, 8vo, 2 vol., half-titles, plates, a few folding, 3 folding maps in pockets at end, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, slightly spotted
all but the third first editions or first editions in English
and 27 others by Stein, Burnes, Marvin, Vambery, MacGahan, Wolff, Newby and others (list available from the Book Department or online at www.sothebys.com)

The other books in this lot are:

Burnes, Sir Alexander, Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; also, narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the sea to Lahore, with presents from the King of Great Britain (London, 1834) 3 vols
Dobson, George, Russia’s Railway Advance into Central Asia. Notes of a Journey from St Petersburg to Samarkand (London, 1890)  
Huntington, Ellsworth, The Pulse of Asia, a journey in Central Asia illustrating the Geographical Basis of History (London, 1907)
James, Lionel, The Indian Frontier War, being an account of the Mohmund and Tirah expeditions 1897 (London, 1898)
Macgahan, J. A., Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva (NY, 1874)
Macgahan, J. A., Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva (London, 1876)
Marvin, Charles, Reconnoitring Central Asia... second edition (London, 1885)
Popowski, Josef, (transl Arthur Baring Brabant) The Rival Powers in Central Asia, or The Struggle between England and Russia in the East (London, 1893) - 2 copies
Stein, Sir Marc Aurel, On Alexander’s Track to the Indus; Personal narrative of explorations on the North-West frontier of India, carried out on the orders of H.M. India Government (London, 1929)
Vambery, Armenius, Travels in Central Asia; being the account of a journey from Teheran across the Turkoman desert on the eastern shore of the Caspial to Khiva, Bokhara and Samarcand (London, 1864)
Vambery, Armenius, History of Bokhara; from the earliest period down to the present (London, 1873)
Wolff, Joseph, Narrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly... third edition (London, 1846)
Goblet d'Alviella, comte. Inde et Himalaya, Paris, 1877
Lawrence, Sir G. Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India, 1874
Oliver, E.E. Across the Border, or Pathan and Biloch, 1890
The Story of the North West Frontier Province. Peshawar, 1930
Robertson, G.S. The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush, 1896
Newby, E. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, 1958
Edwardes, H.B. A Year on the Punjab Frontier in 1848-49... second edition, 2 vol., 1851
Wood, J. A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus... new edition, 1872
Khanikoff, N. de. Mémoire sur la partie méridionale de l'Asie centrale, published in: Recueil de voyages et de mémoires publie par La Société de Géographie, tome septième, deuxieme partie, Paris, 1864
Report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India to inquire into... Indian Cantonments... with regard to prostitution and to the treatment of venereal disease, 1893
[Paget, W.H. Records of Expeditions against the Tribes of the North-Western Frontier, ?1874], lacks title and rebound in modern cloth

These additional books are sold not subject to return