Agra and Fatehpur Sikri
New Delhi: Deptartment of Tourism, Government of India, 1958. 20 black and white. Tourist booklet of these historic Mughal cities in India. More
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Travels in the Mogul Empire AD 1656-1668
New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, 1934 (1983). Second edition revised by Vincent A. Smith. More
Travel and Exploration May 9, 2001
London: Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 2001. Color and black and white illustrations. Sale #396. Important auction catalog of books, maps and manuscripts mostly of Central Asia travel. Some prices are marked in pen. More
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On Horseback Through Asia Minor [2 Volumes]
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Frontispiece portrait of Capt. Burnaby and 1 folding map / 2 folding maps. This renown British Army officer's tale of adventure from Scutari (Üsküdar) to Erzerum, with the object of observing the Russian frontier. More
Travels in Asia Minor 1764-1765
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1971. More
Around the Black Sea: Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia, Daghestan, The Crimea, Roumania
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, George H. Doran Company, 1911. 40 illustrations, folding map to rear. More
Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, The Caucasus, &c.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1847. More
The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient - Volume One
London: Routledge, 1929. English translation of Voyage en Orient [1851]. Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) was a major figure of French romanticism who traveled to the Near East in 1842. Chapters include: Coptic Marriages, The Slaves, The Harem, The Pyramids, and The Cange, The "Santa Barbara", and The Mountain. More
Persian Miniatures
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1918. 21 black and white (none of rugs). A book of travels through Persia with a 40 page chapter, "About Rug Books", a critical review of early books on Oriental carpets. With the former bookplate of Oriental rug scholar George W. O'Bannon. More
Im Märchenland der Orientteppiche (In the Fairy Tale Land of Oriental Rugs)
Wien: Mechitaristendruckerei, (1946). 9 color plates 7 black and white. GWO 2744. A travel report about buying trips. Illustrations are paintings of rugs and scenes from the rug weaving areas. German text. More
Im Märchenland der Orientteppiche (In the Fairy Tale Land of Oriental Rugs)
Wien: Selbstverlag, (1946). 16 color plates 7 black and white. GWO 2746. Expanded edition. A travel report about buying trips. Illustrations are paintings of rugs and scenes from the rug weaving areas. German text. More
Was muss man von Orient-Teppichen wissen? Ein Leitfaden für jedermann, der echte Teppiche kaufen oder verkaufen will. (What should we know of oriental rugs? A guide for anyone who wants to buy or sell carpets.)
Berlin: Koch, (1920?). 57 black and white. GWO 419. Second expanded edition of the author's journey to the Caucasus and Middle East with unusual photography of weavers and and markets. German text. More
From Persian Uplands
New York: Dutton, [1920]. "Mr. Hale was stationed from. 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in Eastern Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the Western frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home, describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching lightly on..... More
Istanbul: The Hali Rug Guide
London: Hali, 1996. 200 color plates. Handy tourist guide to this historical capital of the Orient rug world. Includes dealers, museums and other attractions. More
From Batum to Baghdad via Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. Folding map to rear. More
Burton Holmes Travelogues with illustrations from Photographs by the author. Volume Eight: St. Petersburg, Moscow, The Trans-Siberian Railway
Chicago: The Travelogue Bureau, 1920. More
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an English Woman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East with Narratives of Experiences in Both Countries by A. Hume-Griffith, M.D., D.P.H.
London: Seeley and Co., 1909. 37 monochrome illustrations, Stated second edition. More
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The Alhambra [2 volumes]
New York: Putnam's Sons, 1893. 32 black and white. Two volume set. 1829 visit to Grenada by the author. Author's revised edition. Darro edition. More
A Handbook for Visitors to Agra and Its Neighbourhood
London: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888. Folding map in front, maps, plans. Englishman, Henry George Keene (1781–1864) was employeed by the East India Company as a civil servant and soldier. He was also a noted Persian scholar and academic. More
Campaigning on the Oxus and the Fall of Khiva
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874. 31 black and white plates 1 map. First edition. "Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1844-1878) was an American journalist and war correspondent working for the NEW YORK HERALD and the LONDON DAILY NEWS. His articles describing the massacre of Bulgarian civilians by Turkish soldiers in 1876..... More
Journey to Khiva through the Turkoman Country
London: Oguz Press, 1977. 13 black and white, map. Oguz Press English translation from original 1822 Russian edition. More
Merv: A Story of Adventures and Captivity Epitomized from "The Merv Oasis"
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1893. American edition of the abridged version of the earlier two volume The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years 1879-80-81 including Five Months Residence Among the Tekkes of Merv. "Edmund O'Donovan (1844–83) was a British war correspondent who covered..... More
Forty Years in Constantinople: The Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873-191h
New York: Appleton, 1916. 16 monochrome illustrations. Memoir of Sir Edwin Pears (1835-1919), a British barrister, publicist, and historian known primarily for his 1911 book 'Turkey and its People'. As correspondent of The Daily News he chronicled Ottoman atrocities and the April Uprising in Bulgaria. More
Russian Hosts and English Guests in Central Asia
London: The Scientific Press, 1898. 60 black and white illustrations and a folding map to rear. First edition. Uncommon. Description of a journey over the Transcaspian Military Railway in Russian Central Asia built after the Russian victory over Khokand in 1879 and completed in 1886. "Lieutenant-Colonel John Thomas Woolrych Perowne..... More
Russian Expeditions to Central Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century / Rossiiskie ekspeditsii v Tsentral’nyiu Aziiu v kontse XIX – nachale XX veka
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2008. 44 color plates 54 historical back and white illustrations. Well illustrated compendium of articles covering the history of exploration of Central Asia, including East Turkestan, Tibet and Mongolia by Russian travelers, diplomats, spies and scholars. Includes the article, "S.M. Dudin's Kashgar Collection in the Russian Museum..... More