Singapore. Institute for Southeast Asian Studies. 2003. Maps, x + 489pp, index. Top edge lightly foxed, a very good paperback copy. This book brings together researchers committed to comparative analysis of the tribal groups living on either side of the Malacca Straits - in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. (From..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2014. Colour and black and white illustrations, 450pp, index, paperback. The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practised Mahayana Buddhism and later Islam, but when Geoffrey Benjamin began his fieldwork in 1964, the Temiar practised..... More
New York. Oxford University Press. 2008. Black and white photographic illustrations, musical diagrams and sheet music, CD in envelope lower pastedown, xix + 172pp, very good hardback copy. "Music in Central Java is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in..... More
London. George Nicol. 1796. Double-sheet engraved copperplate map, 63.2 x 44.8 cm; 75 x 57 cms (sheet including platemark), central fold, the sheet toned at the edges and central fold, a couple of minor spots and edge wear, but in very good condition. An exquisitely engraved map with fine detail..... More
London. George Nicol. 1796. Engraved copperplate map on Whatman paper, 43.8 x 33.6 cm; 57 x 42 cm (sheet including plate mark),scale in nautical and English miles; light undulation to sheet, marginal toning and edgewear, but in very good condition. Finely engraved and detailed map of two routes to Pekin..... More
London. George Nicol. 1796. Engraved copperplate map on Whatman paper, 43.8 x 33.6 cm; 57 x 38.5 cm (sheet), scale in nautical and English miles; light undulation to sheet, marginal toning and edgewear, a couple of rust spots to the blank of the map's lower corner, trimmed to the border..... More
(San Francisco?). Atlas Printing Co., 416 S. Dearborn St. (Circa 1915). Printed handbill, 4pp (bifolium) 20 x 14cms, four black and white photographic illustrations and text within borders, original folds, small edge tears, early pencilled annotation "Milwaukee -- 1915" at the foot of the front page and a couple of..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2012. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 296pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyoso) of Jiu and Tensho Kotai..... More
Tokyo. Japan Advertiser. 1928. Special edition of the Japanese Advertiser 1928. With the striking original woodblock colour print of Himeji Castle, by Hiroshi Yoshida tipped in. Numerous black and white full page and text images. xvi + 179pp. Japanese traditional style binding with multi-coloured ribbon ties, vibrant purple pictorial silk..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1989. Maps, xv + 341pp, index, notes, spine little sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179872. More
London. S.W. Partridge & Co., 1886. 1st Edition. 3 double-page black & white maps prepared from the author's notes, showing Central Canton, Northern Canton and Hainan. Black and white frontispiece and 18 text illustrations + two plates, 511pp. 19 x 13.2cm. A little light foxing, text generally clean and sound..... More
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桃樹園藏梓. 安政戌午[ 1858]. Three volumes (Part II of Volume II no present) of this woodblock printed medical treatise by Benjamin Hobson, 上編全 Volume 1 (67 pages), 中編 上 Part 1 of Volume 2 (40 pages), and 下編全 Volume 3 (18 pages, plus 4 pages of index). From different Japanese editions..... More
Artarmon. Giramondo. 2021. 247pp, acknowledgements, author and translator biographies, 23.5 x 15.3cm. A very good paperback copy. "Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters..... More
Canberra. Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. 2007. Black and white photographic illustrations, 170pp. 24 x 20cm. A very good copy in original wrappers. This issue reprints the Morrison lectures that were delivered between 1932 and 1941, with the exception of S.H. Robert's 8th lecture delivered in 1939 which..... More
Canberra. Australian National University. 2007. Black and white photographic illustrations, 170pp, paperback, a very good copy. This issue reprints the Morrison lectures that were delivered between 1932 and 1941, with the exception of S.H. Robert's 8th lecture delivered in 1939 which could not be located. These lectures illuminate the nature..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1985. 490pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, covers shelf worn and little faded, contents sound and clean, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167363. More
Guam. College of Guam. 1968-1976. Three issues. Volume 4 No. 1: 135pp. Leaves margins and edges browned, damp damage some leaves, lower cover creased. Volume 7 No. 1 and 2: Maps, 247pp. Two leaves creased, spine foxed. Volume 12 No. 2: Maps, 338pp. Spine sunned. All volumes: Black and white..... More
Auckland. Longman. 1976. Edited by Mike Greicus. xii + 140pp. Dustjacket inside and text upper edge foxed, otherwise a good copy. 20.4 x 13.6cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177353. More
Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong. 2011. Illustrated throughout in with colour images of Hong Kong travel ephemera, 22 facsimile items of ephemera tipped in, 267pp, notes, bibliography, appendices include a list of food for consumption by passengers aboard Empress of France listing not just..... More