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	ANON Rules of the Royal Central Asian Society...circulated to Members in January 1962 London, Royal Central Asian Society. 1962. 10pp. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Printed blue-green wrappers, light soil rear panel, internally fine. The Royal Central Asian Society was founded in 1909. Its name was changed to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in the 1970s. Its memberhsip included many high ranking members of the British government, military and elite society. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 004502 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	ANONYMOUS Masters of Literature and Art of Tashkent Tashkent, Goslitizdat of the USSR. 1958. 191pp, Writers, Masters of Theatrical Arts, Composers, Artists, portrait illustrations. 8vo/21cm. Decorated cloth, light soil and rubbing, previous owner name, internally clean, tight and very good. A collective biography of some sixty artists in the Uzbek SSR in 1958. Two to five page biographies--each with a photo portrait, of some sixty artists, including some Russians, resident there at that time. Would appear to be a useful reference work for specialists. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 001306 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CENTRAL ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH ST.ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD Map of Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan London, Central Asian Research Centre. 1959. First Edition. [i], iii, 25pp, Description of the Map, The Gazetteer, 4-sheet folding colored map in end pocket. 4to/25.5cm. Pictorial wrappers, light soil and edgewear, internally fine. Each map is approximately 14" x 18". The map is on a scale of 1:3,750,000 (approx. 60 miles to one inch) and is based on a map on the scale of 1:5,000,000 in the Soviet ATLAS MIRA of 1954. The 25-page gazetteer contains every name shown on the map including those in the non-Soviet territories of Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and China. It was issued in association with the Soviet Affairs Study Group of St. Antony's College, Oxford. Rather scarce. USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 002039 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BAGCHI, PRABODH CHANDRA India and Central Asia Calcutta, National Council of Education, Bengal. 1955. First Edition. [vii], 185, [i]pp, folding map, appendix of 3 author articles, bibliography, index, corrections. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Printed wrappers, title hand written on spine, internally fine. A series of five lectures on the ancient cultural relations between India and Central Asia given before the National Council of Education of Bengal by India's distinguished first Sinologist acting as the Hemchandra Basu Mallik Professor of Indian History. The appendix contains three of his earlier articles: The Role of Central Asian Nomads in Indian History; Culika Sulika and Culika Paisaci; and , Kuchean and Western Arsi. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898-1956) was a professor at Santiniketan when he wrote this book. Yakushi B09. USD 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 25.5 \| £UK 23 \| JP¥ 3354] Book number: 002400 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BAILEY, F.M. Mission to Tashkent London, Jonathan Cape. 1946. First Edition. 312pp, frontis and 21 b/w illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding), 2 appendices, index. 8vo/20.5cm. Red cloth gilt, light wear, dull stains front panel, front hinge paper cracked, 2 dealer labels rear fep, otherwise internally clean. Story of an adventurous trip to forestall anti-Allied efforts of the Central Powers at the end of World War I and subsequent Bolshevist intrigues in Central Asia. Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967) of the Indian Political Service was joined by two other intelligence adventurers, L.V.S. Blacker and Col. P.T.Etherton, in this nearly two-year mission into the turmoil of Russian Central Asia during the early part of the Russian Revolution. Bailey later held high political positions in Kashmir and Tibet and became well known as a collector of Himalayan artifacts many of which are now in the World Museum at Liverpool along with those of other former British officials with extensive experience in the Himalayan-Tibet region. A classic true adventure. Yakushi B16. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 002625 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BELENITSKY, ALEKSANDR Central Asia. Translated from the Russian by James Hogarth Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company. 1968. First Edition. Archaeologia Mundi series. 251pp, 2 endpaper maps, 54 illustrations in color (some folding), 89 illustrations in monochrome, synoptic chronological tables, notes, select bibliography, map, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Grey cloth gilt in protected dj. NF/VG+. A sweeping introduction to the accomplishments of Soviet archeology in their Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan illustrated entirely with photographs of relevant artifacts from the collections of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. Professor Aleksandr Markovich Belenitsky of the Soviet Academy of Science was an eminent orientalist and archeologist who supervised some of the Russian excavations in Central Asia. USD 26.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2295] Book number: 003890 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BLUNT, WILFRED The Golden Road to Samarkand Viking NY 1973. 1st American edition. 280pp, maps, 32 color plates, many b/w plates. Large 8vo. F/F. Lavishly illustrated, the text, by an eloquent and knowledgeable writer, tells of some of the famous as well as not so famous travelers, soldiers and explorers associated with Central Asia, from Alexander the Great down to Sir Mark Aurel Stein. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 001691 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	JAMIAT-E-ISLAMI AFGHANISTAN. ADVISORY BOARD Central Asia Map [Kabul?], Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan. 1998. 29.75 x 39.5 inches folded down to ca 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Large colored map on heavy glossy paper showing Afghanistan, the Sinkiang province of China, the former Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Usbakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmanistan [sic] and "Ghargesistan" [sic]; also regions like Farghanah, Khorasan, Sughd, Dihistan, Jurjan, Khwarism and Khivah. Ancient place names are shown in green ink in Arabo-Persian type as are all small place names. Kirghizia is not shown. Large water bodies like the Caspian and Aral Seas and sizable lakes are shown as are international boundary lines with China, Mongolia, Pakistan, "USSR", "Europe" and Iran. Around the border there are 27 small (ca.1 1/2 x 3 inch) portraits with Perso-Arabic captions [presumably national heroes of the countries shown?]. Printed on heavy glossy paper, the lower right corner is a bit chewed with a four inch closed tear extending into one of the portraits (possibly of the Afghan ruler, Bacha Saqao?), fold lines and a few creases, otherwise very good. No scale is given. The Jamiat-i-Islami Afghanistan is said to be the oldest political party in Afghanistan. It has a communitarian ideology based on Islamic law and is considered moderately progressive. It was heavily involved in the anti-Soviet and civil wars and was one of the most powerful of the miujahideen groups. Copies scarce. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 004126 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BORODINA, IRAIDA Central Asia: Gems of 9th-19th Century Architecture Moscow, Planeta Publishers. 1987. (ISBN: 5 85250 012 7) . Ill.: Vadim Gippenreiter, Photographer. First Edition in English. Translated from the 1985 Russian edition by Arthur Shkarovsky-Raffe. 212pp, ca 175 color images (many full page, some double-page), index. Folio/33cm. Yellow cloth in pictorial dj. Fine/Fine. Stunning photgraphs of the classic Muslim architecture of Central Asia plus illustrations of relevant works of art by Verestchagin and from classic illuminated manuscripts. An invitation card to the opening of an exhibit on Central Asia Ikats and Suzanis at the Renate Halpern Galleries in NYC on Sept 12, 1991and addressed to Edward Allworth, former Professor of Turco-Soviet Studes at Columbia [to whom the book belonged], is laid in. More than a coffee-table book for anyone interested in Central Asia. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 002034 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BROXUP, MARIE BENNIGSEN. EDITOR Central Asian Survey, Volume 17, No 2 (June 1998) Abingdon, UK, Carfax Publishing Company. 1998. [iv], 171pp (pp. 197-363), articles on Pakistan Army (L. Beaumont), China's relations with Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan Y. Melet), Uzbekistan economics (H.Salehi-Esfahani & J. Thornton), Islam in Central Asia & the Afghan mujahidin (P. Akcali), Crimean Tatars in CA (B.G. Williams), Shora Nogmov's History of the Adygei People (B.J. Boeck), and Conflict in the Caucasus (R.B. Ware). Tall 8vo/25cm. NF. USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1500] Book number: 003201 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WILSON, HELEN CALISTA AND ELSIE REED MITCHELL Vagabonding at Fifty: From Siberia to Turkestan New York, Coward McCann. 1929. First Edition. 335pp,endpaper map, Foreword, Pronunciation Note, route map as frontispiece, 20 photo illustrations. 8vo/23.5cm. Red pictorial cloth gilt, very light wear, front hinge weak with half inch closed split at tail, blind stamped seal of Mercantile Library Association of New York plus number on title-page, otherwise internally fine. The account of two intelligent professional women who joined the throng of sympathetic Americans who went to Russia after the Revolution to assist in the achievement of the first major Communist state. After some disillusionment and the failure of the international collective they joined in Siberia, they took a leisurely walk back from Vladivostok across the Altai to Bokhara, Samarkand and Tashkent and in Moscow completed writing the observations of their four years before leaving Russia. Helen Calista Wilson had earlier been a member of an anti-imperialist group in Boston and had written extensively on American imperialism in the Phillipines. Elsie Reed Mitchell was a medical doctor who had been in charge of the American Women's Hospital in Armenia during the relief operations of 1919-1920. Although written simply and with humor, the authors saw their trip as basically a "pilgrimage of understanding" to gain some comprehension of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution which they considered "addmittedly the most significant event of our epoch.." Yakushi W90. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 004322 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CANFIELD, ROBERT. EDITOR Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1991. School of American Research Series Book. First Edition. xiv, 256pp, 4 maps, chronology, bibliography, index. 8vo/23.5cm. Blue cloth. NF/NF. The book is the result of an advanced seminar on Central Asia held at the School of Merican Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 1985. The 8 chapters were contributed by some of the leading scholars of Central Asia including Richard Frye, Yuri Bregel, Milan Hauner, Michel Mazzaoui, Francis Robinson and M. Nazif Shahrani, and the Editor. An attempt is made to re-define the area formerly known as Central Asia or Greater Central Asia as Turco-Persia. USD 36.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.25 \| £UK 21.75 \| JP¥ 3177] Book number: 002256 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	LE COQ, ALBERT VON Von Land Und Leuten in Ostturkistan. Berichte Und Abenteur Der 4. Deutschen Turfanexpedition Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung. 1928. First Edition. viii, 183pp, 48 plates, 156 text illustrations including 5 maps and reproductions of music. Tan cloth, slightly soiled, in mylar protector, one corner bumped, endpapers slightly browned--edges a bit, otherwise internally fine. Account of the Fourth German Expedition to Turfan in 1913-14. Dr. Phil./Professor Albert von Le Coq (1860-1930) was Director of the Staatlichen Museum fur Volkerkunde in Berlin and one of a noted group of international explorers of Chinese Turkestan, including T. Grunwedel and Mark Aurel Stein.Yakushi L68. Scarce. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 001700 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	DAVIDSON, BASIL "China's Farthest West." In, Geographical Magazine. Vol XXX/No3 (July 1957), pp 119-130 London, The Geographical Magazine Ltd. 1957. Entire magazine of 72 pages. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Article includes 2 maps and 15 photo illustrations of which 10 are in color. Rubbed externally but internally fine. A popular article preliminary to the publication later in 1957 of the author's book, Turkestan Alive, on his 1956 trip to western China. Basil Davidson (1914- ) former reporter, British secret agent and prolific author, though known primarily as an expert on Africa was also generally interested in conditions in developing countries. The issue also includes a well illustrated and very interesting article on India by Francis Watson, OBE, author of a 1957 book on Gandhi and writer of several connected BBC programs, discusses the 300-year romance between India and the British.. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 003793 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	DONNANTUONO, MICHAEL J. The Soviet Military as a Vehicle for Central Asian Assimilation New York, The Asia Society. 1981. 13pp. 4to. Occasional Paper No. 24, Afghanistan Council. Red wrappers, stapled. VG. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 971] Book number: 000446 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	DUPREE, LOUIS, CYRIL E. BLACK, EDEN NABY, ET AL The Modernization of Inner Asia Armonk, NY & London, M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 1991. Princeton Univiversity Center of International Studies--series on Studies on Modernization. First Edition. xviii, 405pp, 10 maps, comparative chronology of inner Asia, glossary, bibliography, index. 8vo/23cm. Light wear, internally fine. VG. A valuable study by an interdisciplinary group of well-known specialists with a useful comparative chronology for each area to identify various events that shaped its modernization. Historian Cyril Edwin Black (1915-1989) was Director of the Center of International Studies at Princeton shaped this volume; anthropologist and archeologist Louis Dupree (1925-1989) was a noted authority on Afghanistan, Elizabeth Endicott West is a specialist on Mongolia and China at Harvard; Edeb Naby, also at Harvard, is a specialist on the modern cultural history of the Muslim societies of Inner Asia; Arthur Waldron is a historian of China and teaches at Princeton; and Dr. Daniel Matuszewski is the author of studies on nationality and modernization trends in Central Asia. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 003250 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	ODOM, WILLIAM E. AND ROBERT DUJARRIC Commonwealth or Empire? Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus Indianapolis, The Hudson Institute. 1995. First Edition. xviii, 290, [iii]pp, 8 maps, bibliography, index. 8vo/23cm. Paper, light rubbing, internally fine. "..Odom and Dujarric paint a compelling picture of a confused and uncertain post-Soviet world." (Geoffrey Kemp). Lieutenant General William E. Odom, Retired, was Director of the National Security Agency and at the time of writing was an Adjunct Professor at Yale. Robert Dujarric was a research fellow at the Hudson Institute. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 002969 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	PAHLEN, K.K., EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY RICHARD A. PIERCE Mission to Turkistan Being the Memoirs of Count K.K. Pahlen 1908-1909. Translated from the Gernman manuscript by London, Oxford University Press in Association with the Central Asian Research Centre. 1964. First Edition. xvii, 241pp, end-paper map, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Publisher's Note, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Fergana, Transcaspia, Khiva, Sermirche'ye, index. 8vo/22.5cm. Black cloth gilt with patterened paper, very light edgewear, in protected price-clipped and very lightly worn dj, Australian book-dealer tab on front paste-down, otherwise internally fine. VG+/VG. The personal memoirs of Count Konstantin Konstantinovich Pahlen (1861-1923) a member of the Russian ruling class with a Germanic family background who had written a twenty-volume report on corruption in Turkestan wrote these memoirs a dozen years later without benefit of notes. The scholar of Russian colonialism, Richard Austen Pierce (1918-2004) writes a very insightful and warm introduction on the man and his times. He says it not only "throws much new light on the economy and administration of the Russian-administered territories and vassal states of Khiva and Bukhara".. but "also provides a revealing glimpse of a worthy representative of the pre-revolutionary Russian ruling class." A favorable review by another Russian specialist, Wright Watts Miller, from an unidentified scholarly journal, is laid in. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 003550 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	SCHUYLER, EUGENE. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY WHEELER Turkistan: Notes of A Journey in Russian Turkistan, Kokand, Bukhara and Kuldja. Abridged by K.E. West New York, Frederick A. Praeger. 1966. First American Edition of this version. Travellers and Explorers series. xxxvi, 303pp, Editor's Preface and Introduction, Author's Preface, 4 maps (1 folding), The Steppe, Syr Darya, Tashkent, Mussulman Life in Tashkent, Bazaars and Trad, Samarkand, Zarafshan Valley, Hodjent and Kuram, Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul and Remiresch, Kuldja, Appendix, Bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Red cloth gilt, Fine, in protected price-clipped dj lightly rubbed at extremities, internally fine. An abridged version of the original 2 volume work of the American diplomat, Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890) who in 1873 took an 18 month trip through Turkistan to observe how the Muslim population was reacting to the Russian incursion. Colonel Geoffrey Wheeler is a well known British author and authority on Central Asian affairs and brings the geography and political situation of the Soviet Central Asian republics up to 1966. USD 42.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 \| £UK 25.25 \| JP¥ 3707] Book number: 002216 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WARIKOO, K., EDITOR WITH SHIRIN AKINER, D. BANERJEE, Z. DZHUNUSOVA, ET AL Central Asia: Emerging New Order New Delhi, Har-Anand Publications. 1995. First Edition. 352pp, Problems of Transition; Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism; Economic Potentials and Prospects; Regional Setting, bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Red cloth gilt, minor production marks, VG+/NF. A group of scholars from India, London, France, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan provide an inter-disciplinary view of post-Soviet developments in and around Central Asia. Issued under the auspices of the Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 001762 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN; GOSTA MONTELL, EDITOR AND OTHERS Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China Under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin: History of the Expedition in Asia in 4 Parts plus 14 supplementary Reports Stockholm, Trycheri Aktiebolaget Thule & Statens Etnografiska Museum. 1938-1957. Publications nos 6, 9, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23-27, 29, 31-32, 34, 38 and 40. Includes the vital, History of the Expedition (Parts 23-26) authored by Hedin, plus the following separate reports by other members of the expedition: (6) Ambolt, Nils. Latitude & Longitude Determinations in Eastern Turkistan & Northern Tibet. 142pp. [Vol II:1]; (9) Furst, Carl M. Skeletal Material collected during Excavations of Dr. T.J.Arne in Shah Tepe..&, Amschler, J.W. Tierreste der Augrabungen von dem "Grossen Konigshugel" Shah Tepe in Nord Iran. 129pp. [VII:4]; (13) Magnusen, A.H. Lichens from Central Asia, Pt. I.168pp. [XI:1]; (15) Sylwan, Vivi. Woolen Textiles of the Lou-Lan People. 127pp.[VII:2]; (18) Lessing, F.D. Yung-Ho-Kung. Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking.. 179pp. [VIII:1]; (19) Hjortsjo, Carl-Herman & Anders Walander. Das Schadel-un Skelettgut der archaologischen Untersuchungen in Ost-Turkistan. 89pp. [VII:3]; (21) H.Haslund-Christensen, et al. The Music of the Mongols. Part I. Eastern Mongolia. 100 text pp, 97 pp musical notations. [VIII:4]; (27) Arne, T.J. Excavations at Shah Tepe, Iran. 366pp. [VII:5]; (29) Norin, Erik. Geological Explorations in Western Tibet. 214pp. [III:7]; (31) Norlindh, Tycho. Flora of the Mongolian Steppe and Desert Areas. Part I. 139pp. [XI:4]; (32) Sylwan, Vivi. Investigation of Silk from Edsen-gol and Lop-nor. 180pp. [VII:6]; (34) Maringer, John. Contribution to the Prehistory of Mongolia. 228pp. [VII:7]; (38) Unkrig, W.A. Folke Bergman, Ferdinand Lessing, et al. Contributions to Ethnography, Linguistics and History of Religion. 128pp. [VIII:6]; (40) Horner, Nils G. Some Notes and Data concerning Dunes and Sand Drift in the Gobi Desert. 40pp. [III:5]. Publications 23 through 26, History of the Expedition in Asia, Parts I through IV do not have volume numbers. The pagination of each, consecutively is 258, 215, 346 and 449 pages with numberous plates, figures and maps in each. All of the publications are large 4to/30cm (except Publ. 6 which is 28.5cm). All of the volumes are in original printed wrappers except Part IV of the History of the Expediition and Publ. 31 by Tycho Melindh which are in publishers cream cloth with brown gilt title patches. Twelve of the eighteen publications are unopened. Publication 31 additionally is the only unit of all the volumes which is ex-library (Univ. of Chicago) and has only a UC bookplate discretely overstamped with a Withdrawn stamp. The remainder of the publications are uniformly excellent internally with some minor rubbing and an occasional spot externally. Images of each volume as well as further details available on request. Shipping at cost, insurance provided by seller. Yakushi H122 (History of the Expedition) and H121 for the remainder. Schwarz 2319 for the History volumes only. See also the biography by George Kish, To the Heart of Asia: the Life of Sven Hedin, pp 111-124. This expedition led by Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) was generally known as The Sino-Swedish Expedition for its collaboration with the Chinese Government. USD 3650.00 [Appr.: EURO 2434.75 \| £UK 2193.75 \| JP¥ 322140] Book number: 002548 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	EHRENSVARD, ULLA. EDITOR Turcica et Orientalia: Studies in honour of Gunnar Jarring on his eightieth birthday 12 October 1987 Istanbul/Stockholm, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul/Norstedts Tryckeri. 1988. First Edition. SRII Transaction No. 1. [xi], 204pp, frontis portrait (colored), many illustrations, 15 essays by specialist scholars, list of Jarring's writings 1977-1988. 4to/28cm. Illustrated wrappers. As new. Articles in English, German and Russian on scholarly subjects connected with Asia. Among the scholars represented are N. A. Baskakov, W.H. Haussig, Karl Menges and Denis Sinor. Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002) was one of the outstanding scholars of Central Asia in the twentieth century. The collection of 560 Uighur manuscripts he gave to the Lund University Library is said to be the third largest of its kind in the world. Jarring also had a distinguished career as a diplomat serving as Sweden's Ambassador to the UN, the United States and Russia. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 002706 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WHEELER, GEOFFREY AND DAVID FOOTMAN, GENERAL EDITORS Central Asian Review: A Quarterly Review of Current Developments in Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan Vol III,2 (1955) London, Central Asian Research Centre & St. Antony's College. 1955. [ii], 89-183, 6 folding maps, 4 illustrations from drawings. 4to/25.5cm. Paper, light soil, spine paper chipped, internally clean, tight and very good. This journal aims at presenting a coherent picture of current developments in the five Soviet Socialist republics of Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan as reflected in current Soviet publications. Kazakhstan is not generally included in the Soviet classification "Central Asia" (Srednyaya Aziya) but is regarded as a separate area. The Review is a joint publication f the Central Asian Research Centre and the Soviet Affairs Study Group of St. Antony's College, Oxford. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 003720 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WHEELER, GEOFFREY AND DAVID FOOTMAN, GENERAL EDITORS Central Asian Review: A Quarterly Review of Current Developments in Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan Vol III,3 (1955) London, Central Asian Research Centre & St. Antony's College. 1955. [ii], 184-268, 9 maps (7 folding), 3 illustrations from drawings. 4to/25.5cm. Paper, light soil, top third of front panel (cover) missing (facsimile of full page laid in), spine paper chipped, otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. This journal aims at presenting a coherent picture of current developments in the five Soviet Socialist republics of Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan as reflected in current Soviet publications. Kazakhstan is not generally included in the Soviet classification "Central Asia" (Srednyaya Aziya) but is regarded as a separate area. The Review is a joint publication f the Central Asian Research Centre and the Soviet Affairs Study Group of St. Antony's College, Oxford. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 003721 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	GLAZEBROOK, PHILIP Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia New York, Kodansha International. 1994. First American Edition (1992-London). [vii], 289, [i]pp, end-paper map, frontis map, appendix, bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Cloth backed boards gilt in protected dj. NF/NF. A skilled literary traveller's tale of his four-thousand mile journey into the heart of the old 'Great Game' territory, well laced with stories of some of the characters of those days. Englishman Philip Glazebrook (1937- ), has based two successful novels on one of his previous trips to Serbia and Greece. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 002648 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.

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	ANON Rules of the Royal Central Asian Society...circulated to Members in January 1962 London, Royal Central Asian Society. 1962. 10pp. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Printed blue-green wrappers, light soil rear panel, internally fine. The Royal Central Asian Society was founded in 1909. Its name was changed to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in the 1970s. Its memberhsip included many high ranking members of the British government, military and elite society. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 004502 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	ANONYMOUS Masters of Literature and Art of Tashkent Tashkent, Goslitizdat of the USSR. 1958. 191pp, Writers, Masters of Theatrical Arts, Composers, Artists, portrait illustrations. 8vo/21cm. Decorated cloth, light soil and rubbing, previous owner name, internally clean, tight and very good. A collective biography of some sixty artists in the Uzbek SSR in 1958. Two to five page biographies--each with a photo portrait, of some sixty artists, including some Russians, resident there at that time. Would appear to be a useful reference work for specialists. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.25 \| JP¥ 1942] Book number: 001306 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CENTRAL ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH ST.ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD Map of Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan London, Central Asian Research Centre. 1959. First Edition. [i], iii, 25pp, Description of the Map, The Gazetteer, 4-sheet folding colored map in end pocket. 4to/25.5cm. Pictorial wrappers, light soil and edgewear, internally fine. Each map is approximately 14" x 18". The map is on a scale of 1:3,750,000 (approx. 60 miles to one inch) and is based on a map on the scale of 1:5,000,000 in the Soviet ATLAS MIRA of 1954. The 25-page gazetteer contains every name shown on the map including those in the non-Soviet territories of Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and China. It was issued in association with the Soviet Affairs Study Group of St. Antony's College, Oxford. Rather scarce. USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 002039 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BAGCHI, PRABODH CHANDRA India and Central Asia Calcutta, National Council of Education, Bengal. 1955. First Edition. [vii], 185, [i]pp, folding map, appendix of 3 author articles, bibliography, index, corrections. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Printed wrappers, title hand written on spine, internally fine. A series of five lectures on the ancient cultural relations between India and Central Asia given before the National Council of Education of Bengal by India's distinguished first Sinologist acting as the Hemchandra Basu Mallik Professor of Indian History. The appendix contains three of his earlier articles: The Role of Central Asian Nomads in Indian History; Culika Sulika and Culika Paisaci; and , Kuchean and Western Arsi. Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898-1956) was a professor at Santiniketan when he wrote this book. Yakushi B09. USD 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 25.5 \| £UK 23 \| JP¥ 3354] Book number: 002400 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BAILEY, F.M. Mission to Tashkent London, Jonathan Cape. 1946. First Edition. 312pp, frontis and 21 b/w illustrations, 2 maps (1 folding), 2 appendices, index. 8vo/20.5cm. Red cloth gilt, light wear, dull stains front panel, front hinge paper cracked, 2 dealer labels rear fep, otherwise internally clean. Story of an adventurous trip to forestall anti-Allied efforts of the Central Powers at the end of World War I and subsequent Bolshevist intrigues in Central Asia. Colonel Frederick Marshman Bailey (1882-1967) of the Indian Political Service was joined by two other intelligence adventurers, L.V.S. Blacker and Col. P.T.Etherton, in this nearly two-year mission into the turmoil of Russian Central Asia during the early part of the Russian Revolution. Bailey later held high political positions in Kashmir and Tibet and became well known as a collector of Himalayan artifacts many of which are now in the World Museum at Liverpool along with those of other former British officials with extensive experience in the Himalayan-Tibet region. A classic true adventure. Yakushi B16. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 002625 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BELENITSKY, ALEKSANDR Central Asia. Translated from the Russian by James Hogarth Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company. 1968. First Edition. Archaeologia Mundi series. 251pp, 2 endpaper maps, 54 illustrations in color (some folding), 89 illustrations in monochrome, synoptic chronological tables, notes, select bibliography, map, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Grey cloth gilt in protected dj. NF/VG+. A sweeping introduction to the accomplishments of Soviet archeology in their Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan illustrated entirely with photographs of relevant artifacts from the collections of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. Professor Aleksandr Markovich Belenitsky of the Soviet Academy of Science was an eminent orientalist and archeologist who supervised some of the Russian excavations in Central Asia. USD 26.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2295] Book number: 003890 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BLUNT, WILFRED The Golden Road to Samarkand Viking NY 1973. 1st American edition. 280pp, maps, 32 color plates, many b/w plates. Large 8vo. F/F. Lavishly illustrated, the text, by an eloquent and knowledgeable writer, tells of some of the famous as well as not so famous travelers, soldiers and explorers associated with Central Asia, from Alexander the Great down to Sir Mark Aurel Stein. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 001691 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	JAMIAT-E-ISLAMI AFGHANISTAN. ADVISORY BOARD Central Asia Map [Kabul?], Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan. 1998. 29.75 x 39.5 inches folded down to ca 8 x 10 1/2 inches. Large colored map on heavy glossy paper showing Afghanistan, the Sinkiang province of China, the former Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Usbakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmanistan [sic] and "Ghargesistan" [sic]; also regions like Farghanah, Khorasan, Sughd, Dihistan, Jurjan, Khwarism and Khivah. Ancient place names are shown in green ink in Arabo-Persian type as are all small place names. Kirghizia is not shown. Large water bodies like the Caspian and Aral Seas and sizable lakes are shown as are international boundary lines with China, Mongolia, Pakistan, "USSR", "Europe" and Iran. Around the border there are 27 small (ca.1 1/2 x 3 inch) portraits with Perso-Arabic captions [presumably national heroes of the countries shown?]. Printed on heavy glossy paper, the lower right corner is a bit chewed with a four inch closed tear extending into one of the portraits (possibly of the Afghan ruler, Bacha Saqao?), fold lines and a few creases, otherwise very good. No scale is given. The Jamiat-i-Islami Afghanistan is said to be the oldest political party in Afghanistan. It has a communitarian ideology based on Islamic law and is considered moderately progressive. It was heavily involved in the anti-Soviet and civil wars and was one of the most powerful of the miujahideen groups. Copies scarce. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 004126 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BORODINA, IRAIDA Central Asia: Gems of 9th-19th Century Architecture Moscow, Planeta Publishers. 1987. (ISBN: 5 85250 012 7) . Ill.: Vadim Gippenreiter, Photographer. First Edition in English. Translated from the 1985 Russian edition by Arthur Shkarovsky-Raffe. 212pp, ca 175 color images (many full page, some double-page), index. Folio/33cm. Yellow cloth in pictorial dj. Fine/Fine. Stunning photgraphs of the classic Muslim architecture of Central Asia plus illustrations of relevant works of art by Verestchagin and from classic illuminated manuscripts. An invitation card to the opening of an exhibit on Central Asia Ikats and Suzanis at the Renate Halpern Galleries in NYC on Sept 12, 1991and addressed to Edward Allworth, former Professor of Turco-Soviet Studes at Columbia [to whom the book belonged], is laid in. More than a coffee-table book for anyone interested in Central Asia. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 002034 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	BROXUP, MARIE BENNIGSEN. EDITOR Central Asian Survey, Volume 17, No 2 (June 1998) Abingdon, UK, Carfax Publishing Company. 1998. [iv], 171pp (pp. 197-363), articles on Pakistan Army (L. Beaumont), China's relations with Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan Y. Melet), Uzbekistan economics (H.Salehi-Esfahani & J. Thornton), Islam in Central Asia & the Afghan mujahidin (P. Akcali), Crimean Tatars in CA (B.G. Williams), Shora Nogmov's History of the Adygei People (B.J. Boeck), and Conflict in the Caucasus (R.B. Ware). Tall 8vo/25cm. NF. USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1500] Book number: 003201 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WILSON, HELEN CALISTA AND ELSIE REED MITCHELL Vagabonding at Fifty: From Siberia to Turkestan New York, Coward McCann. 1929. First Edition. 335pp,endpaper map, Foreword, Pronunciation Note, route map as frontispiece, 20 photo illustrations. 8vo/23.5cm. Red pictorial cloth gilt, very light wear, front hinge weak with half inch closed split at tail, blind stamped seal of Mercantile Library Association of New York plus number on title-page, otherwise internally fine. The account of two intelligent professional women who joined the throng of sympathetic Americans who went to Russia after the Revolution to assist in the achievement of the first major Communist state. After some disillusionment and the failure of the international collective they joined in Siberia, they took a leisurely walk back from Vladivostok across the Altai to Bokhara, Samarkand and Tashkent and in Moscow completed writing the observations of their four years before leaving Russia. Helen Calista Wilson had earlier been a member of an anti-imperialist group in Boston and had written extensively on American imperialism in the Phillipines. Elsie Reed Mitchell was a medical doctor who had been in charge of the American Women's Hospital in Armenia during the relief operations of 1919-1920. Although written simply and with humor, the authors saw their trip as basically a "pilgrimage of understanding" to gain some comprehension of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution which they considered "addmittedly the most significant event of our epoch.." Yakushi W90. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 004322 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CANFIELD, ROBERT. EDITOR Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1991. School of American Research Series Book. First Edition. xiv, 256pp, 4 maps, chronology, bibliography, index. 8vo/23.5cm. Blue cloth. NF/NF. The book is the result of an advanced seminar on Central Asia held at the School of Merican Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 1985. The 8 chapters were contributed by some of the leading scholars of Central Asia including Richard Frye, Yuri Bregel, Milan Hauner, Michel Mazzaoui, Francis Robinson and M. Nazif Shahrani, and the Editor. An attempt is made to re-define the area formerly known as Central Asia or Greater Central Asia as Turco-Persia. USD 36.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.25 \| £UK 21.75 \| JP¥ 3177] Book number: 002256 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	LE COQ, ALBERT VON Von Land Und Leuten in Ostturkistan. Berichte Und Abenteur Der 4. Deutschen Turfanexpedition Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung. 1928. First Edition. viii, 183pp, 48 plates, 156 text illustrations including 5 maps and reproductions of music. Tan cloth, slightly soiled, in mylar protector, one corner bumped, endpapers slightly browned--edges a bit, otherwise internally fine. Account of the Fourth German Expedition to Turfan in 1913-14. Dr. Phil./Professor Albert von Le Coq (1860-1930) was Director of the Staatlichen Museum fur Volkerkunde in Berlin and one of a noted group of international explorers of Chinese Turkestan, including T. Grunwedel and Mark Aurel Stein.Yakushi L68. Scarce. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 001700 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	DAVIDSON, BASIL "China's Farthest West." In, Geographical Magazine. Vol XXX/No3 (July 1957), pp 119-130 London, The Geographical Magazine Ltd. 1957. Entire magazine of 72 pages. Tall 8vo/24.5cm. Article includes 2 maps and 15 photo illustrations of which 10 are in color. Rubbed externally but internally fine. A popular article preliminary to the publication later in 1957 of the author's book, Turkestan Alive, on his 1956 trip to western China. Basil Davidson (1914- ) former reporter, British secret agent and prolific author, though known primarily as an expert on Africa was also generally interested in conditions in developing countries. The issue also includes a well illustrated and very interesting article on India by Francis Watson, OBE, author of a 1957 book on Gandhi and writer of several connected BBC programs, discusses the 300-year romance between India and the British.. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 003793 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	DONNANTUONO, MICHAEL J. The Soviet Military as a Vehicle for Central Asian Assimilation New York, The Asia Society. 1981. 13pp. 4to. Occasional Paper No. 24, Afghanistan Council. Red wrappers, stapled. VG. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 971] Book number: 000446 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	DUPREE, LOUIS, CYRIL E. BLACK, EDEN NABY, ET AL The Modernization of Inner Asia Armonk, NY & London, M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 1991. Princeton Univiversity Center of International Studies--series on Studies on Modernization. First Edition. xviii, 405pp, 10 maps, comparative chronology of inner Asia, glossary, bibliography, index. 8vo/23cm. Light wear, internally fine. VG. A valuable study by an interdisciplinary group of well-known specialists with a useful comparative chronology for each area to identify various events that shaped its modernization. Historian Cyril Edwin Black (1915-1989) was Director of the Center of International Studies at Princeton shaped this volume; anthropologist and archeologist Louis Dupree (1925-1989) was a noted authority on Afghanistan, Elizabeth Endicott West is a specialist on Mongolia and China at Harvard; Edeb Naby, also at Harvard, is a specialist on the modern cultural history of the Muslim societies of Inner Asia; Arthur Waldron is a historian of China and teaches at Princeton; and Dr. Daniel Matuszewski is the author of studies on nationality and modernization trends in Central Asia. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 003250 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	ODOM, WILLIAM E. AND ROBERT DUJARRIC Commonwealth or Empire? Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus Indianapolis, The Hudson Institute. 1995. First Edition. xviii, 290, [iii]pp, 8 maps, bibliography, index. 8vo/23cm. Paper, light rubbing, internally fine. "..Odom and Dujarric paint a compelling picture of a confused and uncertain post-Soviet world." (Geoffrey Kemp). Lieutenant General William E. Odom, Retired, was Director of the National Security Agency and at the time of writing was an Adjunct Professor at Yale. Robert Dujarric was a research fellow at the Hudson Institute. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 002969 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	PAHLEN, K.K., EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY RICHARD A. PIERCE Mission to Turkistan Being the Memoirs of Count K.K. Pahlen 1908-1909. Translated from the Gernman manuscript by London, Oxford University Press in Association with the Central Asian Research Centre. 1964. First Edition. xvii, 241pp, end-paper map, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Publisher's Note, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Fergana, Transcaspia, Khiva, Sermirche'ye, index. 8vo/22.5cm. Black cloth gilt with patterened paper, very light edgewear, in protected price-clipped and very lightly worn dj, Australian book-dealer tab on front paste-down, otherwise internally fine. VG+/VG. The personal memoirs of Count Konstantin Konstantinovich Pahlen (1861-1923) a member of the Russian ruling class with a Germanic family background who had written a twenty-volume report on corruption in Turkestan wrote these memoirs a dozen years later without benefit of notes. The scholar of Russian colonialism, Richard Austen Pierce (1918-2004) writes a very insightful and warm introduction on the man and his times. He says it not only "throws much new light on the economy and administration of the Russian-administered territories and vassal states of Khiva and Bukhara".. but "also provides a revealing glimpse of a worthy representative of the pre-revolutionary Russian ruling class." A favorable review by another Russian specialist, Wright Watts Miller, from an unidentified scholarly journal, is laid in. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 003550 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	SCHUYLER, EUGENE. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY WHEELER Turkistan: Notes of A Journey in Russian Turkistan, Kokand, Bukhara and Kuldja. Abridged by K.E. West New York, Frederick A. Praeger. 1966. First American Edition of this version. Travellers and Explorers series. xxxvi, 303pp, Editor's Preface and Introduction, Author's Preface, 4 maps (1 folding), The Steppe, Syr Darya, Tashkent, Mussulman Life in Tashkent, Bazaars and Trad, Samarkand, Zarafshan Valley, Hodjent and Kuram, Khokand, Bukhara, Issyk Kul and Remiresch, Kuldja, Appendix, Bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Red cloth gilt, Fine, in protected price-clipped dj lightly rubbed at extremities, internally fine. An abridged version of the original 2 volume work of the American diplomat, Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890) who in 1873 took an 18 month trip through Turkistan to observe how the Muslim population was reacting to the Russian incursion. Colonel Geoffrey Wheeler is a well known British author and authority on Central Asian affairs and brings the geography and political situation of the Soviet Central Asian republics up to 1966. USD 42.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 \| £UK 25.25 \| JP¥ 3707] Book number: 002216 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WARIKOO, K., EDITOR WITH SHIRIN AKINER, D. BANERJEE, Z. DZHUNUSOVA, ET AL Central Asia: Emerging New Order New Delhi, Har-Anand Publications. 1995. First Edition. 352pp, Problems of Transition; Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism; Economic Potentials and Prospects; Regional Setting, bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Red cloth gilt, minor production marks, VG+/NF. A group of scholars from India, London, France, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan provide an inter-disciplinary view of post-Soviet developments in and around Central Asia. Issued under the auspices of the Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 001762 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	HEDIN, SVEN; GOSTA MONTELL, EDITOR AND OTHERS Reports from the Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China Under the Leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin: History of the Expedition in Asia in 4 Parts plus 14 supplementary Reports Stockholm, Trycheri Aktiebolaget Thule & Statens Etnografiska Museum. 1938-1957. Publications nos 6, 9, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23-27, 29, 31-32, 34, 38 and 40. Includes the vital, History of the Expedition (Parts 23-26) authored by Hedin, plus the following separate reports by other members of the expedition: (6) Ambolt, Nils. Latitude & Longitude Determinations in Eastern Turkistan & Northern Tibet. 142pp. [Vol II:1]; (9) Furst, Carl M. Skeletal Material collected during Excavations of Dr. T.J.Arne in Shah Tepe..&, Amschler, J.W. Tierreste der Augrabungen von dem "Grossen Konigshugel" Shah Tepe in Nord Iran. 129pp. [VII:4]; (13) Magnusen, A.H. Lichens from Central Asia, Pt. I.168pp. [XI:1]; (15) Sylwan, Vivi. Woolen Textiles of the Lou-Lan People. 127pp.[VII:2]; (18) Lessing, F.D. Yung-Ho-Kung. Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking.. 179pp. [VIII:1]; (19) Hjortsjo, Carl-Herman & Anders Walander. Das Schadel-un Skelettgut der archaologischen Untersuchungen in Ost-Turkistan. 89pp. [VII:3]; (21) H.Haslund-Christensen, et al. The Music of the Mongols. Part I. Eastern Mongolia. 100 text pp, 97 pp musical notations. [VIII:4]; (27) Arne, T.J. Excavations at Shah Tepe, Iran. 366pp. [VII:5]; (29) Norin, Erik. Geological Explorations in Western Tibet. 214pp. [III:7]; (31) Norlindh, Tycho. Flora of the Mongolian Steppe and Desert Areas. Part I. 139pp. [XI:4]; (32) Sylwan, Vivi. Investigation of Silk from Edsen-gol and Lop-nor. 180pp. [VII:6]; (34) Maringer, John. Contribution to the Prehistory of Mongolia. 228pp. [VII:7]; (38) Unkrig, W.A. Folke Bergman, Ferdinand Lessing, et al. Contributions to Ethnography, Linguistics and History of Religion. 128pp. [VIII:6]; (40) Horner, Nils G. Some Notes and Data concerning Dunes and Sand Drift in the Gobi Desert. 40pp. [III:5]. Publications 23 through 26, History of the Expedition in Asia, Parts I through IV do not have volume numbers. The pagination of each, consecutively is 258, 215, 346 and 449 pages with numberous plates, figures and maps in each. All of the publications are large 4to/30cm (except Publ. 6 which is 28.5cm). All of the volumes are in original printed wrappers except Part IV of the History of the Expediition and Publ. 31 by Tycho Melindh which are in publishers cream cloth with brown gilt title patches. Twelve of the eighteen publications are unopened. Publication 31 additionally is the only unit of all the volumes which is ex-library (Univ. of Chicago) and has only a UC bookplate discretely overstamped with a Withdrawn stamp. The remainder of the publications are uniformly excellent internally with some minor rubbing and an occasional spot externally. Images of each volume as well as further details available on request. Shipping at cost, insurance provided by seller. Yakushi H122 (History of the Expedition) and H121 for the remainder. Schwarz 2319 for the History volumes only. See also the biography by George Kish, To the Heart of Asia: the Life of Sven Hedin, pp 111-124. This expedition led by Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) was generally known as The Sino-Swedish Expedition for its collaboration with the Chinese Government. USD 3650.00 [Appr.: EURO 2434.75 \| £UK 2193.75 \| JP¥ 322140] Book number: 002548 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	EHRENSVARD, ULLA. EDITOR Turcica et Orientalia: Studies in honour of Gunnar Jarring on his eightieth birthday 12 October 1987 Istanbul/Stockholm, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul/Norstedts Tryckeri. 1988. First Edition. SRII Transaction No. 1. [xi], 204pp, frontis portrait (colored), many illustrations, 15 essays by specialist scholars, list of Jarring's writings 1977-1988. 4to/28cm. Illustrated wrappers. As new. Articles in English, German and Russian on scholarly subjects connected with Asia. Among the scholars represented are N. A. Baskakov, W.H. Haussig, Karl Menges and Denis Sinor. Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002) was one of the outstanding scholars of Central Asia in the twentieth century. The collection of 560 Uighur manuscripts he gave to the Lund University Library is said to be the third largest of its kind in the world. Jarring also had a distinguished career as a diplomat serving as Sweden's Ambassador to the UN, the United States and Russia. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 002706 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WHEELER, GEOFFREY AND DAVID FOOTMAN, GENERAL EDITORS Central Asian Review: A Quarterly Review of Current Developments in Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan Vol III,2 (1955) London, Central Asian Research Centre & St. Antony's College. 1955. [ii], 89-183, 6 folding maps, 4 illustrations from drawings. 4to/25.5cm. Paper, light soil, spine paper chipped, internally clean, tight and very good. This journal aims at presenting a coherent picture of current developments in the five Soviet Socialist republics of Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan as reflected in current Soviet publications. Kazakhstan is not generally included in the Soviet classification "Central Asia" (Srednyaya Aziya) but is regarded as a separate area. The Review is a joint publication f the Central Asian Research Centre and the Soviet Affairs Study Group of St. Antony's College, Oxford. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 003720 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	WHEELER, GEOFFREY AND DAVID FOOTMAN, GENERAL EDITORS Central Asian Review: A Quarterly Review of Current Developments in Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan Vol III,3 (1955) London, Central Asian Research Centre & St. Antony's College. 1955. [ii], 184-268, 9 maps (7 folding), 3 illustrations from drawings. 4to/25.5cm. Paper, light soil, top third of front panel (cover) missing (facsimile of full page laid in), spine paper chipped, otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. This journal aims at presenting a coherent picture of current developments in the five Soviet Socialist republics of Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan as reflected in current Soviet publications. Kazakhstan is not generally included in the Soviet classification "Central Asia" (Srednyaya Aziya) but is regarded as a separate area. The Review is a joint publication f the Central Asian Research Centre and the Soviet Affairs Study Group of St. Antony's College, Oxford. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 003721 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	GLAZEBROOK, PHILIP Journey to Khiva: A Writer's Search for Central Asia New York, Kodansha International. 1994. First American Edition (1992-London). [vii], 289, [i]pp, end-paper map, frontis map, appendix, bibliography, index. 8vo/22cm. Cloth backed boards gilt in protected dj. NF/NF. A skilled literary traveller's tale of his four-thousand mile journey into the heart of the old 'Great Game' territory, well laced with stories of some of the characters of those days. Englishman Philip Glazebrook (1937- ), has based two successful novels on one of his previous trips to Serbia and Greece. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 002648 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.