(Philadelphia). (John Conrad & Co.), ( 1804). Engraved map, 24.3 x 39.5 cms; 26.9 x 44.2 cms (sheet), relief indicated with hachures, original folds, numbered in ink "27" in top corner (faded), minor edge-toning otherwise in very good condition. An uncommon Arrowsmith map of Central Asia "From Du Halde, D'Anville..... More

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2002. Volume 3 of the four volume series. Colour and black and white photographic plates, xv + 397pp, glossary, select bibliography, index. 26 x 18.5cm. Top edge trifle foxed, a very good hardback in price-clipped dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 218942..... More

Two charts, xxviii + 495pp, index, paperback. Singapore had to build a military from scratch starting in 1965, with compulsory national service introduced in 1967. This is the story of the Singapore Armed Forces in the form of a collective portrait of its leaders. Tens of thousands of Singaporeans (overwhelmingly..... More

(London). (circa 1766). Engraving on laid paper 26 x 17 cm (platemark including caption); 35.8 x 22 cm (sheet), decorative border and title cartouche, lower corner a little creased, margins toned, but in very good condition. Fine mid-eighteenth depiction of the Festival commemorating Confucius. This engraving appeared in "A new..... More

Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. 1991. xiv + 633pp, bibliography. Upper edge foxed, dustjacket little browned at extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Facsimile of 1917 edition. First published in 1917, Samuel Couling's Encyclopaedia Sinica provides a wealth of information about Chinese society and history, culture and customs, much of..... More

Ithaca. Cornell UP Ithaca 1993-95, 1993. xiii + 305pp, index, very good in paperback. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of Chinese national identity in past and contemporary settings. When referring to this..... More

New York. Praeger. 1966. 142pp, dustjacket little marked, a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 6778. More

Pasadena. China Horizon. 1999. xviii + 254pp, covers trifle shelf worn, otherwise a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167629. More

(Philadelphia). (E. H. Butler). (circa 1869). Lithographed map with original hand-colour, 21.2 x 27.6 cm, two inset maps of Liberia and Sierra Leone; and Egypt (showing the Suez Canal), text and engravings for an unrelated entry on the verso; margins dusty, top edge worn with small edge tears (one affecting..... More

Sydney. Phillips-Stephan Photo-Litho & Typographic Process Co. Ld. (circa 1888). Photo-lithograph, 35.8 x 30 cm; 57 x 44 cm (sheet including caption), minor edge wear and chips to the ample margins, but in very good, condition. Rare atmospheric lithograph of costal cliffs near Clifton (now a suburb of Wollongong), NSW..... More

Sydney. Phillips-Stephan Photo-Litho & Typographic Process Co. Ld. (circa 1888). Photo-lithograph, 40 x 28.7 cm; 56.3 x 43 cm (sheet including caption), the outer edges a little dusty and one lower corner creased, but in very good, clean condition. Rare atmospheric lithograph of the Edmund Blacket designed St. Andrew's Cathedral..... More

Berkeley. Uni of California. (circa 1980). Reprint. Maps, xxi + 306pp, index, bibliography, neat signature front free endpaper, dustjacket spine faded, good paperback copy. "In this book, Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy..... More

London. Abelard-Schuman. 1960. 246pp, hardback copy with little worn price-clipped dustjacket, fore-edge foxed and pages browning, still a good copy with prior owner's signature on front free endpaper. "More than thirty years of work for and in Israel have afforded Edwin Samuel an abundance of material for his pungent observation..... More