![中国共产党章程. [Zhong guo gong chan dang zhang cheng]. [Constitution of the Communist...](/pictures/thumb/173192.jpg?v=1618301737)
山西省. [Shanxi]. 人民出版社. [Ren min chu ban she]. 1982. Text in Simplified Chinese. 78pp, 10.2 x 7cm. Brown vinyl softcover little worn and marked, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173192. More
Boston. Henry Hoyt. [ 1871]. 2 black & white engravings with tissue guards, lacks the frontispiece. Title page lettered and ruled in red & black with small vignette in red, decorated half-title. Original green cloth stamped and decorated in black, lettered and stamped in gilt. All edges gilt, inner hinge..... More
East Melbourne. Australian Institute of International Affairs. 1959-1973. Broken run of 70 issues in all dated May/June 1961 through to July/August 1973. Lacks 2 issues only 'February/March 1962, 3rd series, no. 125', and 'July/August 1963, 4th series, nos. 6 & 7'. October 1959, December 1959 and February 1960 issues inserted..... More
New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1905. 1st Edition. Adapted from the French by H. Twitchell. Black & white frontispiece and 16 photographic ' Old Astronomical Instruments at Peking illustrations throughout. One of the plates has been trimmed and inserted in between the front preliminary leaves instead of the intended..... More
New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1882. Fifth edition. One folding map, wood-engraved frontispiece, 10 wood-engraved illustrations (2 full page) and letterpress tables in the text, [i-xvi] + 318pp, Prefatory note (to the Second Edition), contents and list of illustrations, original brown cloth with gilt embossed vignette of a palm..... More
Tokyo. Miraisha. 1970. Black and white photographic plates + 674pp, chronology, notes, ribbon bookmark, portrait blind stamp upper cover, water stain first few leaves and edges, pen marks front endpapers, damp damage to spine of dustjacket and binding, pen mark upper cover dustjacket, internal leaves sound and clean, still a...... More
Published for an exhibition in the Art Galleries of Australia. 1976/77. Map, few colour plates, black and white plates, 119pp, appendix, bibliography, paperback, quarto, a prior owner's details front free endpaper. Catalogue to accompany a touring exhibition of Australia in 1976 - 77. Each example is clearly illustrated, mainly in..... More
USA. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod. 1937. 1st edition. Black & white map frontispiece and one smaller map in the text, numerous black & white photographic illustrations & line drawings. Blind stamped pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt. Author name neatly handwritten on the spine, endpapers..... More
London. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1962. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xi + 256pp, index, 22 x 14.3cm. Black and white portrait of Lord Casey laid down front free endpaper. Lord Casey's compliments slip inscribed in ink "With best wishes/Dick" the name and address of M.P. Hugh Roberton dated..... More
Royal Geographical Society. [ 1912]. Foldout map 42 x 23.7cm showing the 'Route from Kashgar to Kowlun' followed by Cecil Clementi, 1907-8, table, advertisements (first two unrelated leaves pasted together), further titles list pasted to final leaf, 4pp, new stiff wrappers, 24.7 x 16cm. Before his tenure as Governor of..... More
Shanghai. (circa 1935). 38 x 26.8cm image, on thin card mount 38.5 x 27.2cm Signed Arthur de Carvalho on the lower left hand corner. Arthur de Carvalho was born in 1890 son of a civil servant of Macanese background. He was a dentist who lived in Hong Kong, Shanghai and..... More
New York. Crown. 1st ed. 1964. Map, 46 tipped-in colour plates after photos by Dominique Darbois, 240pp, appendix, index, endpapers a little browned, a very good hardback copy in very lightly worn dustjacket. From the "Art of the World" series. When referring to this item please quote stockid 4499... More
United States. Spiegel & Grau. 2009. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 314 pages, notes, dustjacket.Remainder mark lower edge, very good copy. A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's "Nothing to Envy" is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives..... More
Kuala Lumpur. Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka. 1964. Colour illustrations, 135pp, paperback. Cover a little rubbed. Clean and sound copy. Malay school reader from the library of Professor C. Skinner. Sixth school reader in Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka series. When referring to this item please quote stockid 150388. More
Washington D.C. U.S. Army. 1944. Detailed double sided fabric map. Pei-Ping (Peking) Sheet shows Gulf of Chihli, Huang Ho (the Yellow River). Ryojun (Port Arthur) shows Shantung, China and the Yellow Sea (Huang Hai)and part of North Korea. Currents and winds shown. Some topographic detail. Legend includes roads, railways, geographic..... More
New York. Abingdon Press. [ 1922]. Black & white photographic frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 plates throughout the text. Yellow decorative cloth, a little discoloured and marked on the spine, some water discolouration to the edge of the half-title and the title pages, endpapers browned. A firm and tight..... More
![小魔术. [Xiao mo shu]. [Small Magic Tricks]. TIANQI FU, 傅天奇](/pictures/thumb/171018.jpg?v=1618300930)
上海.[Shanghai]. 上海文化出版社.[Shanghai wen hua chu ban she]. 1983. Black and white illustrations throughout, 179pp, a prior owner's signature title page, small tears and wears on covers, overall good in paperback. Text in Chinese. 18.3 x 13cm. Originally published in 1965, the first edition comprised of150 tricks with detailed instructions, however..... More
New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 2008. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxviii + 863pp, bibliography, indices, 22.3 x 15cm. Little warping to pages, light soiling fore edge, otherwise a very good copy. "The Oxford India Gandhi looks beyond the plaster-cast image of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma. Gandhi's autobiography ends..... More
United States. Penguin Books. 2019. xxiv + 326pp, notes, bibliography, paperback. Edited with an introduction by Tridip Suhrud. The year 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi's birth, and Penguin Classics presents a short but comprehensive selection of text by Gandhi that speaks to non-violent civil disobedience..... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd., 2019. Black and white plates, 1129pp, notes, index, paperback. Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which..... More
London. Religious Tract Society. 1880. 1st edition. 24 photogravure plates with tissue guards, half-title, title printed in red & black, original gilt-pictorial cloth, the cloth on the spine has a slight depression and spine ends and corners are a little bumped and worn, light surface soiling, front endpaper has a...... 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
Tōkyō: Dai Nihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha, 1935. Large folded colour map showing signs of use, small tears at folds and at margins, tape repairs on reverse, browning mainly along folds. A very interesting Japanese map which shows Japan, China, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, Manchuria Russia, South East Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands..... More
Hong Kong. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., No date. (circa 1930). 21 sepia toned photographic views of Hong Kong on 14 leaves, buff soft card wrappers, upper cover with framed oval cut-out of Hong Kong by Night from the Harbour. First image has some faint pencil scribble. Wrappers a little soiled..... More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1977. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations, 116pp, pictorial wrappers, very nice paperback copy. Text translated from Chinese into English. 18.4 x 12.9cm. During a visit to Tibet in 1975 two Chinese writers examine how Tibet has "progressed" from feudal serfdom to the "benefits" of a...... More
