(circa1965). Travel brochure printed double sided on a single sheet, 20 panels. Tourist map of Nanjing, many colour photographic images. Information on the history, what to see, restaurants, shops, accommodation etc. Closed tear in one panel repaired with cellotape, a few handwritten notes in ink but otherwise good. (When referring... More
東都.[Edo]. 鈴亭主人森桑. 嘉永6 [1853]. Very attractive brightly coloured woodblock world map, folds into paper covered card covers with handwritten title on upper cover, housed in a modern box with toggles, legend and an illustration of the Earth lower section. Explantory notes in Japanese around the map, publication details on left... More
No place of publication. No details of publisher. [Edo period]. Japanese 19th century colour woodblock world map, 64 x 66cm, folds into card covers 13 x 21cm. Stamp lower right edge showing previous ownership. Little worming on covers and map, light wears along folds, generally very good. This map is... More
Shūseidō 衆星堂, Tenpō 14 (1843). [Reprint]. Large folding handcoloured map of the thirteen provinces from which Mt. Fuji can be viewed. 159 x 178cm. Folds into paper covered card covers measuring 40 x 24cm. Title label upper cover. A little browning along folds, occasional spotting and soiling. A little worming... More
United States: Periplus Editions, 2018. 81 recipes; over 70 full-color photos, 112pp, paperback. 27.5 x 21cm. Learn authentic and delicious recipes from the Philippines, along with culinary culture and history, with this beautifully illustrated Filipino cookbook. From the national dishes such as adobe, lechon and sinigang, to the fiery foods... More
Geodesic and Cartographic Headquarters, Council of Ministers, USSR, 1989. Maps and illustrations throughout, most in colour, a few in black and white, 118pp, 26 page booklet in Mongolian loosely inserted. 28 x 23cm. A detailed volume on Lake Khövsgöl and its surrounding area, including numerous coloured maps showing geology, seismic..... More
Australia: National Museum of Australia, 2018. Maps, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, 119pp, paperback. 28.5 x 23.5cm. `So That You Might Know Each Other': Faith and Culture in Islam brings together nearly 100 objects from collections held in the Vatican, the Emirate of Sharjah and Australia, to... More
Ceylon. Tisara Prakasakayo. 1966. Reprint. black and white wood engravings, xv + 221pp, paperback in original wrapper. Wrapper slightly worn along the edges with slight foxing until x, small damp spot in the middle part of the underside of wrapper, otherwise good copy. A reprint of Sir Samuel W. Baker's... More
London. Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition. Black and white map, black and white illustrations, 352pp., index, hardback, colourful dustjacket lightly rubbed, browning on endpapers. Good copy. "Jack Beeching's fascinating study is the first popular history of the Chinese Opium Wars which makes a serious effort to be fair... More
London. Reeve, Benham and Reeve. 1848. 2 volumes. Volume I: 5 charts (3 folding in front pocket), 7 colour lithographs, 18 etchings, xxxix + 358pp + 8 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Volume II: 3 plates, 2 etchings, 2 + 8 publisher's catalogues, 574pp, appendix, errata. Many leaves unopened Lower... More
London. Smith, Elder. 1862. 8 full page chromolithographs, xv + 480pp, appendix, neat ex-Parliamentary library gilt stamp at foot of spine but no other library markings. Half calf binding, marbled paper covered boards and endpapers. Errata slip present. Leather on spine darkened and somewhat crazed, endpapers, tissue guards and adjacent... More
Secker & Warburg. 1976. 182pp, spine faded, dustjacket little worn, edges foxed, still a good copy. Author's personal look at life and politics in Israel. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 162189). More
United Kingdom: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018. Black & white diagrams and illustrations, 192pp, paperback. In this Tang Classic text from the 9th Century, Daoist practitioner Shi Jianwu describes how through adapting our own breathing to the breath of the universe and daily meditation, one can develop an astral body and... More
London. Hutchinson. 1910. Second Edition. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Sir Robert Hart, 32 interesting black and white photographic plates, viii + 252pp, first and last leaves foxed and browned, some occasional foxing in text. Original blue cloth marked and worn, top edge gilt a little dull, spine darkened, worn with... More
Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2018. Cartoon style colour illustrations throughout, 128pp, paperback. 25.5 x 19cm. Age range 10 - 18 Part fantasy, part travelogue, Onibi: Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two foreign visitors as they tour Japan. When they buy an antique camera along the way... More
United States: Cornell University Press, 2018. xxi + 206pp, dustjacket. Why do hard-line terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction? This is the question for which Julie Chernov Hwang seeks answers in Why Terrorists Quit. Over the course of six years Chernov Hwang... More
The Hague. Mouton. 1973. 156pp, bibliography, index, front-free endpapers little browned, paperback covers worn extremities with some foxing lower cover, two small closed tears covers, still a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 162217). More
London. Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. No date. (circa1900). Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card covers, upper cover of protective card sleeve detached from the lower. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned, a few other... More
No publication details. No date. (Late Qing). Hand coloured folded map of old Henan Province of China, folds into attractive colour printed patterned card cover, manuscript title label laid down upper cover. Sub-title in ink on reverse. Lined Shiramine Japanese paper, light occasional foxing. Text in traditional Chinese. Map measures... More
United States: Tuttle Publishing, 2016. Black and white illustrations, 159pp, hardback in dustjacket. This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactics. Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare is Thomas Cleary's translation of the seminal writings attributed to... More
(circa1697]. Black and white map, ornate initial letter and double columns of text in Italian below and on the reverse. Sheet size 49.2 x 35cm, map size 24.5 x 27.4/30cm. The map was first published in 1688 as a gore sheet, a map with curved edges, which together with other... More
Delhi. Book Faith India. 1992. [Reprint]. xxxiv + 1353pp., alphabetical plans, abbreviations of names. Covers creased, tiny tear lower margin lower free endpaper, in black plastic covers as issued. Very good. A compact edition of Chandra Das's Tibetan-English Dictionary published in 1992 including a preface written by author, and a.... More
London. Printed by Harrison and Sons. 1877. 33pp, original blue light card wrappers, sewn, opening between gatherings in one place, a little foxing first and last leaves, generally very good. China. No. 2 (1877). Arthur Davenport and his party left from Hankow and travelled for 19 days on the Yangtze... More
[Tokyo]. 遞信省通信局.[Teishinshō Tsūshinkyoku]. (circa 大正十1921). 87pp, occasional foxing and soiling on covers, otherwise very good in wrappers. Text in Japanese. 22.4 x 15. Early 20th century Japanese postage rates for foreign parcels. Published as Notice number 2431 issued by the 遞信省 "Ministry of Communications" in December 大正十年 (1921) to replace... More
北京.[Beijing].上海.[Shanghai]. 工人出版社.[Beijing gong ren chu ban she].上海勞動出版社.[Shanghai lao dong chu ban she]. 1949. Large colour head and shoulders portrait of Chairman Mao, 78 x 54cm. Small closed tear left margin otherwise very good. Often regarded as the first official portrait poster of Chairman Mao. Stamped on the reverse "Free copy... More
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