Turkestan rare books

First English edition. 8vo, x, 438 pp., 2 pages ads at end, frontispiece, title-page vignette, colour folding map, 30 wood-engraved illustrations, original red pebble-grained cloth gilt, large gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, a fine copy.

First edition, 8vo., xvi, 277pp., 2 pages of advertisments at end, 5 engraved plates and a folding map, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked preserving spine, occasional light browning, an excellent copy.

First edition, 4to, xv, 564pp., frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 201 photographic illustrations, original green cloth gilt, spine faded to tan,

First edition; landscape folio (33 x 45 cm); [4], 68pp., with a frontispiece and 21 etching plates engraved by Beilet and Forestier after Zaleski's drawings, with tissue guards, light spotting throughout, shelf number and private library stamps to title-page; contemporary red calf, title in gilt to upper cover with blind stamped decorative border, small numbered label to upper cover, wear to spine, a good copy.

Limited edition: number 33 of 500 copies; folio (39 x 29 cm). Suite of 50 colour plates with 'Croquis de route et notes de voyages' in a separate volume. Original card folder; some light soiling and spotting.

First edition, 8vo, inscribed presentation copy from the author, xxiv, 342pp., 2 pages ads at end, 147 illustrations including some in colour, folding map, top edge gilt others uncut, original tan cloth gilt, gilt medallion to upper cover, original white pictorial dust-wrapper lettered in black, a fine copy.

2 vols; 8vo (20.8 x 12.5 cm). xvi, 442; vi, 554 pp., 2 large folding engraved maps ('Petersburg to Ispahan and from Petersburg to Constantinople' and 'Moscow to Pekin'. Contemporary full tree calf, spine gilt, red and green leather labels; light wear to extremities.

First edition; 8vo. xx, 338pp., 1 page ads at end, folding colour map (lightly spotted). Original red pictorial cloth gilt; neatly recased, spine darkened.