Calcutta. A. Rome at the Catholic Orphan Press, 1922. First Edition. ii + 304pp, Head & tail pieces to chapter headings, original wrappers with yap edges chipped & worn with loss, text block age-toned, still a good copy of the first edition. 20 x 13cm The foreword states: "In the..... More
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1999. Reprint. 2 volumes. Volume I: viii + 241pp. Volume II: Maps, x + 358pp. Both: Glossary, index, covers little shelf worn, otherwise very good paperback copies. Papers in this volume include: The Prose of Counter-Insurgency - Ranajit Guha; Two Frontier Uprisings in Mughal India -..... More
Rutland. Tuttle. 2020. Maps, colour photographic illustrations, 512pp. Paperback. "In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history - from a pop star's nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who fought for an equal political voice in..... More
Göttingen. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. 2013. First Edition. Colour photographic illustrations, 240pp, paperback copy in very good condition. "A number of UN conventions and declarations (on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the World Heritage Conventions) can be understood as instruments of..... More
![Stock ID #176826 Ancient Castle of Na-Ga-Gus-Ko, Lew Chew. [Caption Titles]. WILHELM HEINE,...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/176826.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695188827)
(Washington). (A.O.P. Nicholson). ( 1856). Pair of tinted lithographs, 15.3 x 22. 9 cm; 22 x 28.7 cm (sheet) and 15.1 x 22.6; 22.5 x 28.7 cm (sheet); lower edge of on ragged with paper adhesions, marginal age toning and a small corner stain affecting top corner of one view..... More
London. Macmillan. 1912. First Edition. Four folded maps at the rear of volume II and six folded tables. Two volumes, each volume with a coloured frontispiece, mainly black & white, a few further colour illustrations. Vol I: xv + 283pp. Vol II: x + 374pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards, each..... More
Bangkok. White Lotus Press. 2002. Reprint. Foldout map inserted back cover, black and white photographic plates, lii + 302pp, pho language excercises and vocabulary, index, bookseller's chop front free endpaper, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180636. More
[Japan]. Late Edo Period. Two black and white woodblock prints, central vertical fold on each, 37.5 x 51cm. Neat chops upper left margin of each sheet, some light even browning, very good. This two sheet tobi-sugoroku game was probably published in the late Edo period. Each panel shows a well..... More
![Stock ID #178294 京都大内裏古地図. 6冊. [Kyōto Daudairi kochizu. 6-satsu]. [Old...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/178294.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695280306)
東京. [Tokyo]. 弘文館. [Kobunkan]. Meiji 34 [ 1901]. This set of six colour folding plans comes with attractive card covers adorned with silver crane designs and a title label on the upper covers. The unfolded dimensions of the plans measure approximately 54 x 65cm, folding neatly into a compact size..... More
Paris. A. Bertrand. [ 1835.]. Aquatint 27.1 x 36 cms; 31.6 x 47.2 cms (sheet trimmed, including platemark), margins outside the platemark toned and discoloured, edgewear with small chips, mark at the foot of the caption, split without loss at the lower corner of the platemark, the image a fine..... More
Bangkok. White Lotus. 1997. Map, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, ix + 159pp, index, paperback copy in very good condition. This book "presents accounts of the nomads who live in the Mergui Archipelago of southern Burma and the adjacent Thai territories. This minority group of the northern branch..... More
![Stock ID #178303 木版画. 京都名所. [Mokuhanga. Kyōto meisho]. Ten Lovely Sights in...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/178303.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695188840)
[Kyoto]. Circa [ 1950]. Ten colour woodblock prints measuring 9.3 x 14cm each tipped onto card with caption in English printed beneath. The collection is presented in its original cardboard box with a pictorial upper cover, 10 x 16 x 1.5cm. Some even browning to cards and box, occasional light..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1997. Maps, black and white illustrations, xxix + 297pp, notes, bibliography, index, spine sunned, corners bumped, otherwise good hardback copy. "This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indonesian island of Sumba. Weaving..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 2011. xv + 256 pages, index, notes, hardback. "This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of..... More
London. The University of Chicago Press. 1994. Volume II only. Black and white illustrations, xxiii + 392pp, appendices, bibliography, index, sunned spine and light shelf wear, very good paperback copy. "Praised for its scope and depth, 'Asia in the Making of Europe' is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences..... More
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 2007. xii + 364pp, index, bibliography, notes, hardback, some shelf wear to dustjacket, dustjacket head of spine little creased, overall a very good copy. "An engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of 'love' in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide..... More
Massachusetts. Addison-Wesley. 1991. Coloured map, black and white as well as coloured illustrations throughout, 424pp., index, bibliography. Very good copy in like dustjacket. "China: Empire of Living Symbols is a book for everyone who has ever wondered about the mystery of Chinese characters, or about how it begin exploring this..... More
New York. Bard Graduate Center. 2017. Colour illustrations, xvi + 180pp, appendices, bibliography, index, light crease on spine, very good paperback copy with French flaps. 23 x 18.5cm. Design by the Book, which accompanies an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, discusses the history and cultural significance of the Sanli..... More
United States. Palgrave. 2005. Figures, xvii + 152 pp, glossary, notes, references, index, extremities a little rubbed, good paperback copy. "Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a...... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong China Tourism Press. 2006-2010. 17 issues in total, a run of 15 issues from 318 to 330, with additional issues 302, 303 and 310. Very good copies in original wrappers, all 28.6 x 21.6cm. Includes Tajik People on the Pamir Plateau, Trekking in Tibet, Crossing China-Vietnam..... More
Petaling Jaya. Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. 2014. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xxi + 285pp, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index, minor wear extremities, very good paperback copy. "The Peaceful People is the story of the Penan, the jungle nomads of Sarawak, who for decades have fought..... More
Middlesex. Viking/Rainbird. 1986. Maps, many colour illustrations, pictorial endpapers, 224pp, notes, index, ribbon bookmark, patches of fading on dustjacket, very good hardback copy. 28.2 x 19.5cm. "At daybreak on 24 December 1898, he first caught sight of Japan. Although by then a seasoned traveller, nothing had quite prepared him for..... More
![Stock ID #176599 茶の湯の栞. [Chanoyu no shiori]. SEINOSUKE MATOBA,...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/176599.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695188826)
大阪. [Osaka]. 岡本偉業館. [Okamoto Igyōkan]. Meiji 42 [ 1909]. Fold-out colour cut-out paper craft model of a house loosely inserted, two colour woodblock prints, one full page and the other fold out, two black and white full page plates, small line illustrations and diagrams in text throughout. 209pp. 22 x...... More
n.p.(Paris): (Hachette), c 1860. Full page black and white map of Turan Bay occupied by the Hispano-French expedition of 1859. A plan of the town of Saigon, three full page engravings and a smaller portrait engraving of Doctor Livingston. Half red morocco with marbled boards titled in gilt, spine lightly..... More
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1894. Black and white photographic plates, one plate missing, xiv + 354pp, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings. Last leaf repaired with light card with a little loss to the text of the glossary. Rebound in library cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Endpapers..... More