The Eastern Press, LTD, Showa 5 [1930]. 12th edition. 158 pages. Original wrappers, some occasional light foxing, light even browning, very good copy in original wrappers. 15.5cm x 12cm. Japanese directory for Britain and Europe. Includes many advertisements for Japanese companies that have a branch office in Europe, and for...
關口三左エ門商店, No date of publication. (circa1930). Sixteen beautiful coloured designs for furosiki with an accompanying pages showing eight different font styles. 25.8 cm x 13 cm folds out to . Original green card boards worn with a little loss and creasing, one illustration torn with a little loss, light vertical...
さ・え・ら書房. Showa 38 [1963]. Very attractive double page colour pictorial map, most of the book is made up of cartoons printed in a variety of different colours of ink, some text follows, 165pp. Pictorial paper covered boards in slightly damaged and browned dustjacket. Edges very lightly foxed. 21.5 cm x....
United States: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2018. Colour photographs Divine Bodies is a thought-provoking Asian art history book that explores intriguing questions like these raised by the sacred art traditions of Asia. Approximately 45 artworks from the Asian Art Museum's renowned collection show how artists have envisioned the...
Geboren Te Padang. Indonesia. (c. 1970). xii + 200pp, bibliography, erratum slip loosely inserted, card covers a little worn and marked but generally very good. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163366).
New Haven. Yale University Press. 1988. ix + xiii + xv + 295pp, index, bibliography, notes, paperback. A fine copy. A comprehensive, entertaining historical and ethnographic account of Chinese food, from the Bronze Age to the 20th century. After showing how food has been central to Chinese governmental policies, religious...
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun. 1924- 1928. First four issues of this important Japanese photographic annual each in their original pictorial wrappers. Images captioned in Japanese and English. 1924 - 1925: 5 tipped-in black and white plates. 34 + 80 pages of photographic images + 22 pages of Japanese text + ii...
Colburn, 1844. 2 volumes. Volume I: 2 folding maps, 3 full page engravings, 2 full page woodcuts, some illustrations in text. xvi + 449 + [1]pp. Long largely closed tear with a little loss in one small place in rear map, damp damage lower right corner engravings. Original blind stamped...
London. Raithby, Lawrence & Company Ltd., 1980. Latter two volumes of a three part series. Part Two: Early Chinese Ceramics and Ancient Bronzes. Coloured and black and white photographic illustrations, 142pp, includes two special notices to buyers, hardback with dustjacket, slightly bumped in good condition. Part Three: Ming and Qing...
Edinburgh. Chambers. 1991. English language edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, 231pp., index, glossary, small tear upper cover and little light marking, otherwise good condition. " The life, works, teachings and character of the greatest leaders, from antiquity to the present day" - Publisher's Description. (When referring to this item...
Clayton. Monash Asia Institute. 1999. Reprint. xiv + 503pp, bibliography, notes, paperback in very good condition. Papers in this volume are: From Conference to a Book - Arief Budiman; The Political Economy of the New Order State - Pierre James; Rent Capitalism, State, and Democracy - Olle Tornquist; Oil, Iggi...
New York. New York Review Books. 2000. 274pp, notes on the included unique music CD. Good hardback copy in dustjacket. "How can we understand India on the verge of the millennium, half a century after independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? In these nine essays...
Maryland. Stemmer House. 1983. Black and white line designs, 47pp, paperback, very light wear covers, very good. Includes designs from Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163384).
中日新聞社. 1985. Black and white photographic illustrations with 9 images in colour, 100pp. 22cm x 24cm. Original wrappers little worn and creased, with one small mark still good . Catalogue of the 13th Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts 24-29 May 1985 at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Nagoya. At this exhibition...
No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa 1900s). Early 20th century stereoview card, coloured, featuring Chinese junks and small fishing boats at Chefoo harbour in Shandong Province. English inscription on reverse in blue ink. Small chip lower left corner, otherwise good. 8.7 x 17.7cm. SB: Early 20th century...
London. Phaidon. 1948. 224 black and white illustrations, 46 text illustrations, 111pp + illustrations, bibliography, index, quarto, endpapers little browned, bookplate front pastedown, good copy in slightly chipped and browned dustjacket. 30.2 x 23cm. Chapters include: First Developments (The Six Dynasties 220 - 589); Religious and Court Painting (The Sui...
London. Theosophical Publishing House. 1917. 168pp, cloth bound with some wear on edges. Ink note offset into lower cover. Good condition. 11 x 17.5 cm "Containing the Mystic Ritual from the "Story of the Year,: and the Teaching concerning the Resurrection from "Green Leaves" - Publisher's Description. (When referring to...
London. MA Nattali, 1849. [Reprint]. 2 volumes in 1. Volume I: 18 full page black and white full page wood engravings, 9 in text. iv + 395pp, school prize inscription dated 22nd December, 1857 one blank. Volume II: 10 full page wood engravings and many in text, iii + 459pp...
London. Hakluyt Society. 1971. Trans & edited by J.S. Cummins. 2 folding maps, black and white illustrations, xi + 347pp, bibliography, index, glossary, neat library stationery endpapers. small stamp copyright leaf, neat numbers on spine, hardback copy with faded spine, good condition. "A first-hand account of the early Spanish colonial...
Department of Communications, Tokio, 1906. xi + 18pp, original wrappers. Staples rusted and broken and now replaced with modern string ties. Some staining and small holes where staples once where. Booklet containing the regulations for parcel mail between Japan and Australia. The text discusses weights, sizes, charges, additional charges, prohibited...
Amsterdam. Pepin. 1998. Map, many colour and black and white plates, 448pp, bibliography, glossary, paperback, quarto. Ex-library with neat library stamps and neat label on endpapers. Text in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163381).
United Kingdom: Monsoon Books, 2017. 336pp, paperback. Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodds memoir offers a fascinating, and amusing, glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and...
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1887. Second Edition, Revised. Colour folding map, 7 full page black and white plates, decorations and illustrations in text, viii + 433pp, 7 leaves a little creased in one place. Very good in striking pictorial cloth covers, lettered in gilt on the spine. This...
Jakarta. Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama. 2002. Third revised edition. 618pp, thumb-indexed, minor wear covers, paperback. Updated third edition. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163120).
Jakarta. Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama. 2000. Third revised edition. 618pp, thumb-indexed, minor wear covers, paperback. Prior owner's sticker front pastedown otherwise very good. A classic Indonesian to English Dictionary. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163121).
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