Kamus Inggris Indonesia. English - Indonesian Dictionary.
Jakarta. Gramedia. 2007. 660pp, thumb indexed, paperback, a very good copy. Standard English - Indonesian dictionary. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 152367). More
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Kamus Inggris Indonesia. English - Indonesian Dictionary.
Jakarta. Gramedia. 2002. [Reprint]. 660pp, thumb indexed, paperback. A little wear at edges, neat ownership details endpapers, but otherwise very good. Standard English - Indonesian dictionary. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163117). More
Kamus Inggris Indonesia. English - Indonesian Dictionary.
Jakarta. Gramedia. 2006. [Reprint]. 660pp, thumb indexed, paperback. Covered in clear contact. printer's mark, good copy. Standard English - Indonesian dictionary. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163119). More
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人民音樂. [Ren min yin yue]. [Chinese Journal - People's Music]. 一九七九年第三期. [Issue No. 3, 1979].
北京. [Beijing]. 人民音乐出版社.[Ren min yin yue chu ban she]. 1979. Black and white photographic illustrations, sheet music, 48pp. Light even browning, very good in wrappers. Text in Chinese. 26 x 18.7cm. Published in March 30th, 1979. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163315). More
Henry Derozio.
New Delhi. Rupa & Co., 2002. Reprint of the 1st edition. 218pp., index, paperback in very good condition. "Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831), one of the pioneers among the makers of modern Bengal, was born to a Portuguese man and his Indian wife in Calcutta on 18 April 1809. He... More
Siamese Tapestry.
London. The Travel Book Club. 1963. Second printing. Map, 195pp, edges foxed, upper corner front free endpaper clipped, dustjacket rubbed on edge and evenly browned, contents sound and clean. Author's experiences of life in Thailand, where he worked as a teacher before World War II. (When referring to this item... More
The Heart Of Nepal.
London. The Travel Book Club. 1962. [Reprint]. Map, 192pp, index, light foxing on edges, dustjacket worn, otherwise internally sound and clean. A good copy. "A book about the people and life of Nepal valley and its three ancient cities of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhadgaun. It is about their history and... More
Captured in Tibet. With Fifteen Plates in Half-Tone and Two Maps.
London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1957. [Reprint]. Black and white maps, black and white photographic plates, 253pp, index, hardback in dustjacket. Price clip dustjacket. Edges, endpapers and first and last pages some foxing. Good condition. "Robert Ford used to be described by the newspapers as the loneliest Briton... More
The Poetic Power of Place. Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality.
Canberra. Research School of Pacific Studies. Australian National University. 1997. Maps, vi + 204pp, references, index, as new, a very good copy. 25 x 17.5cm. Each paper in this book describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in which social knowledge is vested, maintained... More
Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts. Representing the Chambri in a world system.
New York. Cambridge University Press. 1991. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, x + xiii + 258pp., index, bibliography, notes, appendix, a very good copy in paperback. "Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua new Guinea for nearly two decades. In their second joint study... More
Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet. Religious Revival and Cultural Identity.
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1998. First edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, vii+ ix + 203pp, index, paperback in very good condition. Appendix: Spellings of Tibetan names and terms. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan... More
The Inventor of the Numeral Type for China By the Use of Which Illiterate Chinese Both Blind and Sighted Can Very Quickly Be Taught to Read and Write Fluently.
London. Downey & Co., 1899. New Edition. Black and white photographic and line illustrations, xii +189 + [2]pp, index. Two small booklets "The Chinese Problem" and "The Destruction of Schools for the Blind by Chinese in Peking in June 1900" tipped onto front free endpaper. Staples in the booklet "The... More
From the Rainbow's Varied Hue: Textiles of the Southern Philippines.
Los Angeles. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. 1998. Full-spread black and white map, profuse colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 183pp, notes, references, paperback, spine trifle faded, a very good copy. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, No. 1. 30 x 23cm. This beautifully illustrated book... More
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孟丽君. [Meng Lijun]. [Chinese Yue Opera Programme - Meng Lijun].
(circa 1980s). Chinese Yue Opera programme, single sheet printed both side, folded, pictorial cover shows a stage set with Chinese traditional architecture and dragon statue. Spine little faded, very good. Text in Chinese. 25.9 x 18.7cm. Yue Opera, also known as Shaoxing, is a very popular opera genre in Zhejiang... More
Tibetan Buddhism in Western Perspective. Collected Articles of Herbert V. Guenther.
Berkeley. Dharma Publishing. 1989. Coloured illustrated frontispiece, vii + 251pp., index, paperback. Binding trifle rubbed, one small crease, a good copy. "Here, gathered for the benefit of everyone interested in Tibetan Buddhism, are ten articles by Dr. Herbert V. Guenther, outstanding pioneer in Tibetan Buddhist studies, written at the height... More
Art in Indonesia. Continuities and Change.
Ithaca. Cornell Uni. 1967. First edition. Maps, profuse black and white illustrations, occasional colour illustrations, bibliography, index, glossary, xvii + 355pp, name of a prior owner obscured by black marker in one small area of front free endpaper, edges a little marked, good copy in worn and occasonally chipped dustjacket... More
Chinnery. The man and the legend.
Hong Kong. South China Morning Post. 1975. Map, coloured illustrated plates, xii + 180pp, index, bibliography, notes, hardback in lightly worn dustjacket on edges. Map is minimally foxed, otherwise good condition. "The new study of the life of the British artist, George Chinnery (1774-1852) has been prepared by Robin Hutcheon... More
Faces of Buddhism.
London. Kegan Paul International. 1993. Second Edition. vii + 166pp, index, spine slightly faded, otherwise a very good hardback copy. "Faces of Buddhism is a collection of essays written by one of the most pre-eminent Japanese scholars in the fields of Buddhis, and comparative religion. The ten essays are loosely... More
Les Ors de L'archipel Indonésien.
Paris. Réunions des Musées Nationaux. 1995. Maps, colour photographic plates, 172pp, bibliography. Inscription half title, handsome paperback, 26.5 x 21.2cm. Very good copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1995. Text in French. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163093). More
Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power
Singapore. NUS Press, 2019. Black and white illustrations, 400pp, 229mm x 152mm. Paperback. What is the modern in Southeast Asia’s architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia’s modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying..... More
Diaspora Macaense to California.
Associacao Promotora da Instruccao dos Macaenses. 2009. Maps, colour and black and white illustrations, xvi + 227pp, indices, oblong hardback in dustjacket. 21 x 30cm. Inscribed to his collaborated Stuart Braga by the author. Very good copy in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163302). More
The Portuguese Community in Shanghai. A Pictorial History.
Macau. Conselho das Commnidades Macaeneses. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 314pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. Upper corners bumped, very good copy.. Inscribed by the author to Stuart Braga on titlepage. Oblong hardback. 26.7 x 37.5cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163292). More
The Portuguese Community in Hong Kong. A Pictorial History.
2 volumes. Volume I: 292pp. Volume II: Map, 278pp, bibliography, indices. Both volumes profusely illustrated with black and white photographic images, volume II also includes a few images in colour. Inscribed to Stuart and Patricia Braga from the author. Excellent copies in dustjackets. Oblong 26.3 x 37.3cm. Excellent condition. (When... More
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薩摩島津古写真集. [Satsuma Shimazu koshashinshū]. [Old Pictures in Kagoshima Collected by Shimazu Hisataka].
株式会社新人物往来社. Showa 61 [1986]. Illustrated with black and white photographic images throughout, 221pp, 27.5cm x 19.5cm, very good copy in original glassine dustjacket in slipcase. This remarkable volume is made up of images of photographs from the collection of Shimazu Hisataka's collection and the Shuseikan. The Shimazu family an important... More
Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits. Women in Korean Ritual Life.
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1987. Reprint. xiii + 234pp, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Lower corner bumped, otherwise very good paperback copy. "This exceptionally well-written book is good reading, not only for specialists but also for beginning students interested in women, Korean culture, and shamanism." --Journal of Asian Studies... More