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A survey of the fauna of Iraq: mammals, birds, reptiles, etc. made by members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force D 1915-1919.

...First and only edition of a collection of papers on Iraqi zoology by members of the British Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia and Persia, based on specimens collected during the First World War and first published in the Journal...

Mission scientifique au Caucase études archéologiques & historiques/ par J. de Morgan.

Morgan, J. de (Jacques)

...Publication based on the findings of the author's journey to the Caucasus undertaken under the auspices of the "Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux arts" of France with the purpose of archaeological exploration. Comprises 2...

Mission scientifique dans la Haute Asie 1890-1895.$nDeuxième partie: Le Turkestan et le Tibet, étude ethnographique et sociologique/ par F. Grenard.

Fernand Grenard

...Written in French, with numerous words and brief passages in Arabic, this book is the report of a detailed ethnographic and sociological study, resulting from an expedition which departed in 1891. The expedition leader, Jules-Léon Dutreuil...

Lepers / Thirty-one years' work among them / Being the history of the mission to Lepers in India and the East, 1874-1905

John Jackson

...A summary description of the Leper Mission to the East and the multiple stations established there, some of which the author had visited, to help locals with leprosy. Intended to bring to readers' attention the plight of these people, what...

Knud Paludan on the birds of Afghanistan

Knud Paludan

...The history of Afghan ornithology including account of bird migration, physiography and characteristics using data collected during Danish expeditions to Central Asia...

Le système cosmologique Sino-Iranien

Léopold de Saussure

...Offprint of Léopold de Saussure's 'Le système cosmologique Sino-Iranien', Journal asiatique (April–June 1923): 235–97, concluding that the similar Chinese and Iranian cosmological systems originated either in ancient Babylonia or in China...

Aromatvm, et simplicivm aliqvot medicamentorvm apvd indos nascentivm historia : primùm quiedem lusitancea lingua per dialogs consecrpta, à D. Garçia ab horto, proregis indiæ medio; deinde latione sermone in epitomen contracta, & iconibus adviuum experbis, locupletioribusg annotatiunculus illustrata à carolo clvsio atrebate.

Garcia de Orta

...Garcia de Orta (1501? – 1568) was a Portuguese Jewish physician, herbalist and naturalist. De Orta practised and taught medicine in Portugal, before sailing to India in 1534 as a physician with the Portuguese navy and settling in Goa. He...

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Dr. Trinkler'schen Zentralasien Expedition/ Dr. Emil Trinkler [band 1] ; Dr. Hellmut de Terra [band 2].

Emil Trinkler

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Helmut De Terra

...Geographical findings of an expedition in 1927–8 in central Asia. Volume 1, by Emil Trinkler, describes the research in western Central Asia and the Karakoram and Himalayas; Trinkler died in April 1931, the year before the book...

[The Stopford papers: 1834].

Robert Stopford

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Rowley, James, Admiral

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Bouverie, Henry Frederick, Sir

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Patrick Campbell

...Contains only three documents: Letter from Admiral James Rowley to Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie, dated 23 March 1834; Details of the men, guns, etc. in the Egyptian Squadron, signed Patrick Campbell, dated 28 August 1834; and List of ships...