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
Sri Lanka. Tisara Prakasakayo. 1974. [Reprint]. xiii + 195pp, appendix, paperback with dustjacket. Minor wear dustjacket, first leaves a little foxed, good condition. Initially published 1891, Fifty Years in Ceylon is an autobiography by Major Thomas Skinner. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163252). More
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
New York. Oxford University Press, 1994. Second paperback printing. Maps, black and white as well as coloured illustrations, 151pp., index, good paperback copy. Sticker residue on front cover. 27.9 x 21.5cm. "As women in America and Europe struggled for emanicipation, these nine women explorers and travelers challenged the traditional ideas... More
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
![繪入鳥瞰東亞現勢地圖. [Eiri chōkan tōa gensei chizu]. [Illustrated Contemporary...](/pictures/thumb/164293.jpg?v=1571228524)
Sangyō Kumiai Chūōkai 産業組合中央會, Showa 14 [1939]. Coloured folding pictorial map of China, the south-western section of Japan, Korea and Taiwan. 77.5 x 52.5cm. Numerous closed closed tears on folds repaired with archival tape, occasional small holes, small section along upper margin chipped with loss, still an attractive image. Issued... More
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
95 full page colour plates showing rice straw rugs. Each image has a printed number below it which appears to be the stock number of the rug, several printed numbers have a second label with a new number laid down on to it. A few leaves are stamped H. Yamamoto... More
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
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
London. Methuen. 1962. Reprint. Tipped-in colour plates, 262pp, bibliography, index, signatures of highly regarded scholars D.G.E. Hall and M.C. Ricklefs front endpapers, lower corner bumped, very good copy in slipcase. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 163094). More
![China Fights On. 抗戰建國. [Kang zhan jian guo]. WORLD WAR II POSTER](/pictures/thumb/157180.jpg?v=1571228186)
U.S.A. National War Fund. Colour lithograph poster by Gaydos, 56 x 36cm. Very good copy. The primary aim of the New York based, United China Relief was to raise money to support the Chinese people during the war with Japan. The United China Relief was founded in 1941. (When referring... More
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
Tokyo. Tuttle. 2019. Coloured illustrations. 111pp, quarto, hardback in dustjacket. Here, beautifully illustrated and presented in both English and Japanese, are 12 of the best Japanese folktales - shared with generation after generation of Japanese children. These charming tales engage your imagination as you're carried on turtle-back rides, brought to... More
Chatto & Windus. 1953. Black and white map, 304pp, index, appendices, glossary, hardback in original cloth. Spine faded, light foxing on fore-edge and endpapers, lightly marked on front and back cover, good condition. Discussion of how to introduce industrialization into the countries of Asia "before anarchy intervenes". Includes a number... More
