New York. Oxford University Press. 1998. Maps, colour and black and white illustrations, xiv + 295pp, notes, bibliography, photographic credits, index, very good copy in dustjacket, now protected. Quarto. "In this groundbreaking publication, Barbara Rossi, who has travelled and researched extensively in India, presents 101 works of extraordinary beauty representing... More about From the Ocean of Painting. India's Popular Paintings 1589 to the Present

Coloured photographic illustrations, 226pp, hardback with dustjacket. Upper right hand corner lightly bumped, otherwise very good condition. 27 x 22cm. A catalogue created for the Jingguantang collection auction on Sunday, 3rd of november 1996 in Hong Kong. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163401). More about The Jingguantang Collection. Magnificent Chinese Works of Art

Mumbai. Eeshwar. 1991. [Reprint]. Black and white illustrations, 195pp., hardback with dustjacket. Four leaves carelessly trimmed by printer, otherwise good copy. "This book dwells on the articles, cartoons, poems, letters, and other writings which were published in the Indian press as well as the British press, besides Curzon's own speeches... More about Curzon-Nama. Autocrat Curzon Unconquerable India

Djakarta. P.T. Gunung Agung. 1962. Folding map, black and white illustrations, 105pp, a little browning, original wrappers stained and worn with a little minor loss at corners and head of spine. This booklet has been compiled primarily to give the early 1960s visitor a concise survey of the characteristics and... More about Djakarta Guide. A Year-Round Vacation City

London. The Bodley Head. 1984. Reprint of second edition. Black and white illustrations, viii + 309pp., index, notes, paperback with a little light browning, spine faded including title. In good condition. "This collection of Indian folk tales was made by an Englishwoman who went to India with her husband in... More about Tales of the Punjab. Told by the People

Berkeley. University of California Press. 1990. Paperback edition. ix + xiii + 422pp. Indices, bibliography, notes, paperback. Upper right corner lightly bumped, a prior owner's details front pastedown, a good copy. "In the most ambitious synthesis yet undertake in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a.... More about The Gender of the Gift. Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Colour photographic illustrations throughout, 259pp, indices, paperback. The book studies the baroque and the postmodern art and architecture of Macao, as an ex-Portuguese colony founded in the sixteenth century. Examining how the 'Baroque' has been used in critical and cultural theory, it uses... More about Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque

香港.Hong Kong. 香港東方陶瓷學會.[Xianggang dong fang tao ci xue hui]. 1979. Bibliography, plates some coloured, most photographic black and white illustrations, vii + 264pp, gilt hardback cloth, dustjacket, large signature and details of a prior owner front free endpaper, very good. Text in traditional Chinese and English. 26 x 18.2cm. Catalogue... More about South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery: an exhibition catalogue....

朝日新聞社 Ashahi Shunbunsha, Taisho 12 [1923]. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 48pp, original pictorial wrappers. Evenly browned throughout. Issued as a supplement to the Tokyo Asahi Newspaper No. 13413. 25.7 x 19cm. This interesting supplement gives an overview of the Great Kanto Earthquake from a number of different perspectives... More about 関東大震災記. [Kantō daishinsaiki]. [The Great Kanto Earthquake diary

Peking. 1940. 150pp, original wrappers. Browned throughout, wrappers foxed. A selection of papers presented at the Tripartite Conference between China, Britain and Tibet held in Delhi and Simla in 1913 - 14. Includes "the claims of the Tibetan Plenipotentiary on the boundary line, the counter-claims of the Chinese Plenipotentiary, the... More about The Boundary Question Between China and Tibet. A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference...

London. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1957. Tenth impression. Black and white photographic plates, xvi + 151pp, appendix. Dustjacket marked, worn and adhering to lower cover, prior owner's notes on front and back endpaper. Text is sound and clean. "'The Secret of the Golden Flower', the treatise that provides the central... More about Secret of the Golden Flower. A Chinese Book of Life

London. Leo Cooper. 1994. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xv + 265pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good hardback copy in dustjacket with very lightly faded spine. "A number of those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese during the Second World War and have subsequently written of their... More about Prisoner of the Turnip Heads. Horror, Hunger and Humour in Hong Kong, 1941-1945