L'Arabie contemporaine avec la description du pèlerinage de la Mecque et une nouvelled carte géographique de Kiepert.Author: Adolphe d'Avril, Agent and Consul General for France in Romania.Publication details: Paris, 1868.1 volume (313 pages)The volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.This is found at the back of the volume, beginning after page 313.Dimensions: 224mm x 142mm.
Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres Pays circonvoisins, volume one, authored by Carsten Niebuhr, with contributions from Peter Forsskål. Translated from German into French by Ferdinand Louis Mourier.Publication details: Printed in Amsterdam by S J Baalde, and in Utrecht by J van Schoonhoven and Company, 1776.Physical description: one of two volumes, Quarto, with numerous folded maps and plans.1 volume (409 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations and plans, giving titles and page references.Dimensions: 285mm x 240mm.
Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres Pays circonvoisins, volume two, authored by Carsten Niebuhr, with contributions from Peter Forsskål. Translated from German into French by Ferdinand Louis Mourier.Publication details: Printed in Amsterdam by S J Baalde, and in Utrecht by Barthelemy Wild, 1780.Physical description: the second of two volumes, Quarto, with numerous folded maps and plans.1 volume (389 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations and plans, giving titles and page references.Dimensions: 285mm x 240mm.
The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the First.Publication Details: London, Printed for C. Brome, at the Sign the Gun, at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1694.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (448 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.Dimensions: 185mm x 105mm
The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the Third.Publication Details: London, Printed for C. Brome, at the Sign the Gun, at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1694.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (440 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.Dimensions: 185mm x 105mm
The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the Second.Publication Details: London, Printed for C. Brome, at the Sign the Gun, at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1694.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (526 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.Dimensions: 185mm x 105mm
Central Asia. Part V. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the History, Ethnography, Topography, and resources of part of Asiatic Turkey and Caucasia.The book is written by Charles Metcalfe MacGregor.Publication Details: Calcutta: Foreign Department Press. 1872.1 volume (342 pages)The contents in the volume are arranged in chronological order.Dimensions: 250 mm x 155 mm.Pagination: 1-342.
The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of TimurPublication Details: Cambridge : University Press, 1905.Notes: Cambridge Geographical Series.Physical Description: xvii, 536 p., 10 maps (folded).1 volume (536 pages)Dimensions: 195mm x 135mm
The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the III.Publication details: London: printed for Christopher Bateman, 1691.Holding notes: Imperfect, only 16 plates present.1 volume (505 pages)The volume contains two sections, an account the travels and an account of the Coronation. There is an index to the account of the travels, which begins after page 417; and a table, similar to an index, for the account of the coronation which begins after page 154.Dimensions: 304mm x 197mm.Condition: [14], 417, [7[, [2], 154, [6]p, 25 leaves of plates, iii, map, portrait; 31cm. 2°.Pagination: p265 to p330 have been omitted; the pages between p398 and p403 have been numbered as follows: p402, p400, p401, p399.
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.Publication Details: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1816 Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street-Square.Notes: Printer's name from colophon.Physical Description: xxx, 423, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (col.), 1 map ; 28 cm. (4º)1 volume (423 pages)Dimensions: 280mm x 215mm
Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah, written by Denis de Rivoyre, illustrated by Saint-Elme Gauthier.Publication details: Published by E Plon & Company, printers and editors, 10 Rue Garancière, Paris, 1883.Physical description: 292 pp; [14] leaves of plates (2 folded); illustrations and fold-out map.1 volume (290 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. This is found at the back of the volume, beginning after page 290.Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm.
The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew.Publication Details: London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.Notes: In : Keltie (Sir, J.S.) The Story of Exploration, etc. 1903, etc. 8º.Physical Description: xv, 359 p.1 volume (359 pages)Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm
This volume is a confidential report, printed at the War Office, by Harrison and Sons, printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, in 1899, and authored by Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh, Intelligence Division, War Office, concerning the resources, administration and general affairs in Baluchistan and Seistan [Sīstān] following his political mission in 1897. The report contains an introduction by the author, (folio 4), dated 5 December 1898, in which he mentions that details from the report are being incorporated into the Baluchistan Gazetteer and Route books. He also pays tribute to Colonel Bell and Captain Henry Dundas Napier who preceded him, as well as Captain Arthur Henry McMahon and George Passman Tate. The text of the report is accompanied by footnotes and section headings appear in the left and right hand margins.The report includes a table of contents on folio 5 with the following five chapters:'Chapter I. General Account of Journey across the Baluchistan Desert' (folios6-8), including details of incidents en route, future trade prospects, danger threatening commerical prospects, and a list of leading merchants in Seistan;Chapter II. Russian Designs and Political Consideration' (folios 8v-10), includsing details of future policy, approaches to Seistan, alternative routes, influential Sardars of Seistan, treatment of refugees by the British Government, and the feeling of the people;'Chapter III. Resources and Population of Seistan' (folios 11-24), including details of administration, fertile places, a list of villages, climate, seasons and winds, sanitation, population, transport (camels, donkeys and horses), windmills, agriculture, industries and trade, Camel Corps, sport and shooting, locusts, and fish;'Chapter IV. Exploration of the District in the West and South' (folio 25), including details of crossing the Dasht-i-Shelag, pollution of wells, character of country, routes, and pilgrimage;'Chapter V. Land System - Revenue and Productions &c' (folios 26-29), including details of ijaras [
ijārah], tenant rights and responsibilities, hardship of tenants, collection of revenue, culturable area, annual yield, surplus grain, irregularity and delayed water supply, and ancient ruins.There is a list of nine appendices (folio 5v) as follows:'A.- Geneaological tables of Sarbandi, Kayani, and Naroi tribes' (folios 30-31);'B.- List of Taoki tribes in Seistan' (folio 31v);'C.- Average temperature of each camp', April to November 1897 (folios 32-35);'D.- Aneroid readings', April to November 1897 (folios 36-39);'E.- List of wells and springs', with serial numbers corresponding to 'Map No. II' (folio 39v);'F.- List of villages', with serial numbers corresponding to 'Map No. II' (folios 40-41);'G.- Table of meteorological observations, Baluchistan' (folios 41v-43);'H.- Table of meteorological observations, Seistan' (folios 44-50);'I.- Table of meteorological observations, Neh and Birjand Districts' (folios 50v-51).The file also includes five maps and sketches, store in a pocket (folio 58). They are listed on folio 5v as follows:'No. 1. Baluchistan and Seistan' (folio 53);'No. 2. Seistan' (folio 54);'No. 3. Route plan of Robat Nala' (folio 55);'No. 4. Waterways of the Helmund [Helmand] Delta' (folio 56);’No. 5. Nasratabad [Naṣratābād] Fort' (folio 57).1 volume (58 folios)This volumes contains a page of contents (folio 5) referencing page numbers.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
The Empires and Cities of Asia.Publication Details: London : Virtue, [1873?].The book, written by Alexander Gruar Forbes, contains illustrations and a folded map of 'Asia'.Ownership: With stamp of the India Office Library.1 volume (349 pages)There is a preface and a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references, and a list of illustrations (pages v-xi).Dimensions: 190 mm x 120 mm.Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (v-xi); (1-349).Condition: there is a folded map.
England and Russia in the East. A Series of Papers on the Political and Geographical Condition of Central Asiaby Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson.Publication Details: London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1875.Physical Description: Octavo. Contains one map.1 volume (393 folios)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm
The Strategic importance of the Euphrates Valley Railway, by F M L [Feldmarschallleutnant] Baron Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, Austrian War Minister, translated by Captain Charles William Wilson. Published by Edward Stanford of 6 & 7 Charing Cross, London, 1873. Authorised translation; second edition. A note at the end of the volume states that the speech was written by von Kuhnenfeld in 1858, and the first edition published in 1869.1 volume (22 pages)The volume is bound into a larger volume entitled ‘Political Tracts’ (dimensions: 215mm x 135mm), with four other small volumes.
Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).Ownership: With stamps of the India Office Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.1 volume (673 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century, translated from the author’s own manuscript, and collated with one preserved at the Library of Eton College by Sir William Ouseley.Publication details: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co., Wild-Court, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, for T Cadell Junior and W Davies, Strand, London, 1800.Physical description: One volume, initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi), 327 pages, fold-out map.1 volume (327 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm.
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."...With map, portraits, and illustrations from the author's drawings, by Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Baroness Wentworth. With contributions from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.Publication details: Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.Physical description: Volume 2 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo.1 volume (283 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp vii-ix). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xi).Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm.
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."...With map, portraits, and illustrations from the author's drawings, by Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Baroness Wentworth. With contributions from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.Publication details: Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.Physical description: Volume 1 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo.1 volume (273 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp xxix-xxxi). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xxxiii).Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm.
The Persian Gulf and South Sea Isles, by Sir Edgar Collins Boehm (afterwards Boteler), Bart..Publication details: Published by Horace Cox, London, 1904.Physical description: Octavo.1 volume (180 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp xi-xii). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is a list of illustrations giving titles and facing page references (p xiii). There is also an alphabetical index with page references at the back of the volume (pp 175-180).Dimensions: 220mm x 140mm.
The Arabian Horse, his country and his people, with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations, also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names.Author: Major-General William Tweedie, Formerly HBM's Consul-General, Baghdad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia.Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1894.Physical description: xix, 411p,., 4 octavo.1 volume (411 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 322mm x 250mm