Lot 199
  • 199

CENTRAL ASIA. A COLLECTION OF THREE WORKS

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A collection of three volumes, comprising:
Khanikoff, Nikolai. Mémoire sur la partie méridionale de l’Asie centrale. Paris, L. Martinet, 1861, FIRST EDITION, 4to, presentation slip tipped onto front endpaper, inscribed by the author, folding engraved map and two engraved plans, contemporary black morocco, bookplates of Robert Michael Burrell and Mikhail Baskhanov, slight spotting, binding slightly rubbed, upper joint partly cracked Grünwedel, Albert. Altbuddhistische Kultstätten in Chinesisch-Turkistan. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1912, FIRST EDITION, folio, illustrations, colour plate at end, contemporary reversed calf, silk endpapers, [Yakushi (1994) G314] Operations in Waziristan, 1919-1920… Complied by the General Staff Army Headquarters India. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1921, FIRST EDITION, 8vo., plates, folding maps and diagrams, 3 maps in pocket at rear, contemporary half roan, bookplate of Mikhail Baskhanov

Condition

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