Menshikov L.N., Fu Xianzhan, & others Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. I: Dunhuang Textiles, by Lubo Lesnichenko. II: Dunhuang Art Relics collected in the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. Shanghai Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House 1997-98
First edition, two volumes folio, pp.83, 111 colour plates; 229, 137 colour plates, many illustrations. A very good set in original cloth, slipcases.

Meyers, Eric M. (Editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Prepared under the auspices of the American Schools of Oriental Research. New York Oxford University Press 1997
First edition Five volumes, pp.xviii, 492; vi, 488; vi, 489; vi, 536; vi, 553, illustrations. A very good set in original cloth.

Minns, Ellis H. Scythians and Greeks. A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus. Cambridge at the University Press 1913
First edition 4to, pp.xl, 720, 9 plates, 352 illustrations, 9 maps, 7 folding. A near fine copy in original cloth.

[Nara] The Grand Exhibition of Silk Road Civilizations. Nara 1988
First edition Three volumes in slip-case, pp.240, 271, 227, profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome. Fine set in original slip-case.

Oliphant, Laurence The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852. Edindurgh and London William Blackwood and Sons 1854
Fourth edition, pp.xiv, [2], 366, tinted lithographic frontispiece, illustrations, 2 maps, 1 folding. A very good copy in original cloth. Inner hinges strained.

Oliphant, Laurence The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852. With a voyage down the Volga and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks. Edindurgh and London William Blackwood and Sons 1853
First edition. 8vo (22 x 15 cm), pp.xii, [1], [1, blank], 366, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 2 maps, 1 folding, and 33 illustrations to text. A very good copy in contemporary diced plum calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Contemporary bookplate with G and coronet.

[Pallas, Peter Simon] Voyages chez les Peuples Kalmouks et les Tartares. Berne Societe Typographique 1792
First edition 8vo, pp.[iv], 474, with 23 engraved plates, one folding, most numbered by hand, and two folding engraved maps. A very good copy in original paper boards, minor wear to extremities.

Pallas, P.S. Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. Translated from the German. London printed for John Stockdale 1812
Second edition Two volumes folio, pp.xxiii, 550, 25 plates, of which 21 coloured by hand, 7 folding, 14 vignettes, 13 coloured; xxxii, 523, 27 plates, 18 folding, 24 coloured, 14 vignettes, 10 coloured, 3 folding maps. A very good unsophisticated largely uncut set in original boards, neatly recased, rebacked in paper with new label. Occasional minor spotting.
Abbey 222

Pantusov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Translator) Taranchinskiie Pesni [Songs of Taranchi]. [collected and translated by N.N. Pantusov]. Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences 1890
First edition Octavo, pp.[ii], xvii, [i], 154, 3 lithographic plates and 3 leaves of music, 2 folding. Volume 17, part one of the Transactions of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Ethnographic section. Original light blue printed wrappers, very mildly foxed. A very good, uncut and unopened copy.

[Peeters, Paul Histoires monastiques géorgiennes. (Vie de SS. Jean et Euthyme. Vie de S. Georges l'Hagiorite. Vie de S. Sérapion de Zarzma. Vie de S. Grégoire de Khandztha). Bruxelles Societe des Bollandistes 1922
First edition pp.317, [3, errate, contents, blank] Analecta Bollandiana, Tomus XXXVI-XXXVII A very good un-opened copy bound in modern boards. Light age-toning of text.

Penna de Billi, Francesco Orazio della Representacion Hecha por El. R. Procurador General de Religiosos Menores Capuchinos, a La Sagrada Congregacion de Propaganda Fide, Sobre el Estado Actual de la Mission del Thibet.la Mission del Tibet Traducida del Toscano por El Doctor D. Antonio Maria Herrero. Madrid En la Imprenta del Reyno. 1744
pp.[iv], 119. A very good copy bound in later half morocco, some upper margins repaired, chop on title. Professor Charles Boxer's copy, with his signature, and notes on fly-leaves.
Cordier BS 2906; Palau VI, p.253

Petis de la Croix, Translator Histoire de Timur-Bec, connu sous le nom du Grand Tamerlan, Empereur des Mogols & Tartares. En forme de Journal Historique de ses Victoires & Conquetes dans l'Asie & dans l'Europe. Ecrite en Persan par Cherefeddin Ali, natif d'Yezd, auteur contemporain. Avec des notes historiques, & cartes geographiques. Paris Andre Cailleau 1722
Four volumes, pp.xlix, [xxiii], 449; [viii], 431; 421; (iv), 303, (iv), 5 folding maps. A very good set bound in contemporary calf, neatly re-backed. With ex-libris bookplate of A.I. Ward, American diplomat.

Phillipps-Wolley, Clive Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus. London Richard Bentley & Son 1881
First edition pp.x, 370. Original cloth, gilt. Head of spine a little frayed. Foxing to end-papers but text clean. A very good copy.

Piassetsky, P. Voyage a Travers la Mongolie et la Chine. Traduit du Russe avec l'Authorisation de l'Auteur par Aug. Kuscinski. Paris Librairie Hatchette et Cie 1883
First French edition 4to, pp.563, 62 plates, 28 figures, map. French text. A very good copy bound in later cloth. Minor spotting to prelims.

Precious Deposits. Historical relics of Tibet, China. Volume 1: Prehistoric age and Tubo period; Volume 2: The period of seperatist regimes; Volume 3: Yuan dynasty and Ming dynasty; Volume 4; Volume 5: Beijing Morning Glory Publishers 2000
First English language edition, five volumes, 4to, pp.225; 327; 317; colour illustrations throughout. A very good set in original cloth, dust jackets.

Raverty, Major H.G., editor The Gulshan -i -Roh: being selections, prose and poetical, in the Pushto, or Afghan language. London Williams and Norgate 1867
First edition, 4to, pp.vi, [2], 212. Text in Pushto in Arabic script. Preface in English. A very good copy in original cloth, neatly re-backed preserving original spine. Title page and dedication leaf rather spotted.

Rawling, Captain C.G. The Great Plateau. Being an Account of Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905. London Edward Arnold 1905
First edition pp.xii, 324, 32 plates, 2 folding colour maps. A very good copy in original cloth. Bookplate of Royal United Service Institution (with disposed stamp) on front end-paper, small stamp on free end-paper & remains of paper label on spine. Without internal or other markings.
Yakushi R98; Marshall 903

Rickmers, W. Rickmer The Duab of Turkestan. A Physiographic Sketch and Account of some Travels. Cambridge at the University Press 1913
pp.xv, 563, 201 illustrations, some folding, 2 folding maps. A very good copy in original cloth.
Yakushi R210

Rockhill, William Woodville The Land of the Lamas. Notes of a Journey through China, Mongolia and Tibet. London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1891
First English edition pp.viii, 399, 61 illustrations, 2 maps. A very good copy in original cloth of the scarce London edition. Leather title label on spine. Minor shelf wear to foot of spine and corners. Inner hinges strained.

Rostovtzeff, M. Iranians & Greeks in South Russia. Oxford Oxford University Press 1922
First edition 4to, pp.xv, 260, 32 plates, text figures, map. Fine copy in original cloth.