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Great Game--An important collection OF OVER 270 RARE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MAPS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO CENTRAL ASIA, THE CAUCASUS, PERSIA, TURKEY, INDIA, CHINA, RUSSIA AND IRAQ, INCLUDING: [Hopkins, D.] The dangers of British India. 1808--[Mikhailov, B.] Adventures of Michailow ... among the Kalmucs, Kirghiz and Kiwenses. 1822--Glen, W. Journal of a tour from Astrachan to Karass. 1823--De Lacy Evans, Lt.-Col. On the practibility of an invasion of British India. 1829, presentation copy--[Urquhart, D.] England, France, Russia and Turkey. 1835, presentation copy--[Anon.] Correspondence relating to Persia and Afghanistan. 1839--Zimmermann, C. Memoir on the counties about the Caspian and Aral Seas, illustrative of the late Russian expedition against Khivah. 1840--Morrell, J.R. Russia and England. New York, 1854--Haxthausen, A. von. The tribes of the Caucasus. 1855--[Anon.] The Russian agents in India. 1864--[Anon.] A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under General Perofski in 1839. Calcutta, 1867--B., M.V. From London to Lahore. 1868, presentation copy--Trevelyan, C. From Pesth to Brindisi. [c.1870], presentation copy--Kostenko, Capt. Description of the journey of a Russian mission to Bokhara in 1870. [c.1871]--Goldsmid, F.J. Central Asia, and its question. 1873--Cherkasski, A.B. A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva in 1717. 1873--Bell, E. The Oxus and the Indus. 1874, presentation copy--Blanford, W.T. Scientific results of the second Yarkand mission. Calcutta, 1878, 6 parts in one, folio--David, Major. Is a Russian invasion of India Feasible? 1877--[Anon.] The true story of our Afghan policy. 1880--[Warburton, -] The Russian warning. [c.1887], presentation copy, folio--Aitchison, J.E.T. Notes on the products of Western Afghanistan and of North-Eastern Persia. Edinburgh, 1890--Little, A. Notes on Western China. [1890], presentation copy--[Anon.] The Chitral expedition 1895. Allahabad, 1895--O'Brien, D.J.T. Grammar and vocabulary of the Khowar dialect. Lahore, 1895--Brunnhofer, H. Russlands Hand über Asien. St. Petersburg, 1897--Vatslik, I.Y. The trans-Caspian railway [trans. by Lt-Col. W.E. Gowan]. [c.1898], translator's proof copy--Wartenburg, M.G.N. von. Das Vordringren der Russischen macht in Asien. Berlin, 1900--Kidston, G.J. Despatch ... on a journey in Mongolia. 1904, folio--[War Office] Confidential. Military report on Russian Turkistan or Central Asia. 1905--Prisse d'Avennes, E. Egyptian and Arabian horses. Washington, 1905--Younghusband, F. Geographical results of the Tibet mission [Mission to Lhasa]. 1905, presentation binding--[War Office] Confidential. Military report on Trans-Caucasia. 1907--[Naval Intelligence] A manual on the Turanians and Pan-Turanianism. [1918]--[Military handbook] Interrogation of Prisoners of War. Calcutta, [c.1916], English, Turkish and Arabic--Noel, E. Diary... on special duty in Kurdistan, June 14th-September 21st, 1919. Basra, [c.1919], 4to--[Délégation de la République Arménienne] L'Arménie Transcaucasienne. Paris, 1919, 4to--Gregory, J.W. and C.J. The Geology and physical geography of Chinese Tibet. [1925], presentation copy, 4to--Mitarevsky, N. World Wide Soviet plots. [Peking, 1927]--Gillett, M.C. "Hill Trips" or excursions in China. Lahore, 1937, presentation copy--Hedin, S. Tibet und die Geschichte seiner Erforschung. [n.p.], 1939, presentation copy, 4to; all printed in London and 8vo (unless otherwise stated), various bindings, some overall slight wear; sold as a collection, not subject to return (a full list of titles is available on request)