Complete 20 page article “Turkistan, Where Three Empires Meet”, by Sir George Macartney, late British Consul-General at Kashgar. B
Price: $90.00
Complete 20 page article “Turkistan, Where Three Empires Meet”, by Sir George Macartney, late British Consul-General at Kashgar. B
Price: $90.00
Collection of 12 19th century illustrations on the Kirghiz and Turkistan people. B
Price: $250.00
Complete 23 page chapter on Sin-Kiang, Mongols & Moslems of Chinese Turkistan, by George Macartney, British Consul-General at Kashgar, 1910-1918. Many photo images. B
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Complete article titled “A Dark Corner of Chinese Turkistan”, by Henry Lansdell, in Black and White, December 30, 1893. Shown re a Yarkand mother and her children; an unmarried girl; a mother and child and the Kubza, or cage for hanging by inches. B
Price: $35.00
Complete article titled “Round About the Roof of the World”, by Alexis Krausse, in Black and White, April 29, 1899. Mostly on the Pamir region. Shown are a map of the region, street scene in Kashgar, bazaar in Kashgar and the Taotai of Kashgar and his staff. B
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Three English illustrations from 1873 showing the Khan of Kiva, the Dewanis of Kiva and the surrender of Kiva. Complete text as well. Also complete chapter on Khiva and the Turkomans, by the Reverend Hanry Lansdell. B
Price: $120.00
A large foldout illustration of the valleys and mountains of Central Asia. Dated 1885. B
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Large collection of 20 illustrations from European periodicals on the British Mission to Yarkund and Kashgar in 1874. The Pamirs are a moutainous region of central Asia, lying on the north-west border of India. Since 1875 the Pamirs have probably been the best explored region of High Asia. Not only have many travelers of many nationalities directed their steps towards the Bam-i-dunya (“the Roof of the World”) in search of adventure or of scientific information, but the government surveys of Russia and India have met in these high altitudes, and there effected a connection which have helped to solve many of the geodetic problems which beset the superficial survey of Asia. Since Wood first discovered a source of the Oxus in Lake Victoria in 1837, and left us a somewhat erroneous conception of the physiography of the Pamirs, the gradual approach of Russia from the north stimulated the processes of exploration from the side of India. Native explorers from India first began to be be busy in the Pamirs about 1860, and continued their investigations for the following 15 years. In 1874 the mission of Sir D. Forsyth to Yarkund led to the systematic geographical exploration of the Pamir country.The illustrations in this collection are mainly from Forsyth's mission. B
Price: $440.00