Beijing. Foreign Languages Press. 1981. First edition. Black and white illustrations, vi + 520pp, ribbon bookmark, worn and little chipped dustjacket, upper hinge split. Good copy. Collection of Chinese short stories from the 10 to 17th centuries. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161966). More
London. Cape. 1954. 384pp, endpapers lightly browned, slightly worn dustjacket with a faded spine. Autobiographical fiction which tells the story of the love affair of author Han Suyin and British journalist Ian Morrison set in Hong Kong. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161965). More
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. 1955. 322pp + music score and libretto, dustjacket trifle worn with a small tears This opera is a love story set in the Tang dynasty and based on historical events. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161964). More
Leicestershire. Monsoon Books. 2018. 336pp, paperback. Seventeenth-century Java is in turmoil between its Hindu-Buddhist past and its Muslim future, while pepper draws Europe’s quarrelling spice-hungry traders to its shores. Thomas Hodges of the East India Company seizes a chance at glory by being the first to venture ashore at the... More
London. Allen & Unwin. 1946. A new edition with some other essays and a preface by E.M. Forster, 216pp, index, dustjacket, fading on cloth and dust jacket's spine, two small holes on edges of dust jacket, good copy. Five of the author's well-known works collected here together for the first... More
Chicago. Open Court Publishing. 1898. Reprint. 2 volumes. Translated from the French by W. Hazlitt. Volume I: Folding black and white map, black and white engravings in the text, xv + 326pp, Volume II: Black and white engravings, x +342pp, index. A little light browning endpapers, very light wear head... More
New York. Macmillan. 1910. vii + 230pp, index, notes, some pencilling in margins, light rubbing foot and head of spine, faint stamp of James B. Webster's library in Chinkuing, China on front endpaper, small tear on page, light browning on front free endpaper, still an attractive copy. Taken and inspired... More
New York. Prometheus Books. 2000. 251pp, index, bibliography, appendix, glossary, dustjacket. Excellent condition. 'Enchanted by the metaphysics of Sufism, author Ibn al-Rawandi, a former convert, studied and worshipped in Cyprus, convinced he had found the answers to life's questions. But when doubts emerged about the faith for which the traditionalist... More
New York. Alfred. A. Knopf. 2010. vii + ix +267, index. Dustjacket, slight wear on one extremity, overall excellent condition. 'William Dalrymple chronicles the lives of those he met in twenty-five years of travel in India. He gives expansive insight and evocation of circumstance. While the stories reveal the resilience... More
Malaysia. Borneo Literature Bureau. 1963. 378pp, wrappers, minor wear extremities, quarto. Dustjacket showing some very light wear at extremities but generally a very good copy. Most of the articles are by William Howell including The Sea Dyaks Religion; The Creation; Dyak Customs in Force when Building a House; Dyak Customs... More
Canberra. Honolulu Academy of Arts. [2006]. Volume I: Artefacts from the Life in the Pacific of the 1700s. The Cook Forster Collection of the Georg August University of Gottingen: Coloured maps following the half title page, photographic illustrations, xxxii + 383. Volume II: European Research, Traditions, and Perspectives: Black and... More
London. Hakluyt Society. 1988. Assistant editors for the views Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith. Black and white maps, tipped in colour plate frontispiece profusely illustrated in black and white throughout, lxiv + 328pp, index, select bibliography. A little very minor soiling dustjacket but otherwise very good. 43.2 x 27.6cm. 'Cook... More
Melbourne. Oxford University Press. 1985- 1987. 3 volumes in 4. Volumes I & II Reprints. Volume III First editions. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768 -1771 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all the known original drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with... More
Maps, colour and black and white illustrations, 351pp, bibliography, very good copy in dustjacket. 30 x 24cm. Bilingual English/German, this well illustrated volume, catalogues and discusses the vast collection gathered by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son who were scientists on Cook's voyages. (When referring to this item please quote... More
Jan Jansson. 1651. A delightful small handcoloured map of Burma/Myanmar. 19.8 x 14.5cm. Some foxing in margins and in three small places on the map itself. Text in German on reverse. Map of the region today known as Myanmar. The map shows Pegu (Bago), a compass and decorative title. This... More
Bangkok. The Siam Society. 1976. First edition. 6 foldout graphs and tables, black and white photographic plates, 197pp, appendices, bibliography. Some wear paperback covers particularly on somewhat creased spine, a little light foxing edges but otherwise a good copy. The Hmong Njua of Myanmar and their religious practices and beliefs... More
Amsterdam. Pepin Press. 1997. Reprint. 136 colour illustrations, 280 x 210mm. A very good paperback copy. "Six of the most prominent European artists who worked on the island are represented. The narratives of their lives provide a unique, in-depth account of the artistic climate on Bali from the beginning of... More
Singapore. Oxford University Press, 1984. Black and white plates, 339pp, index, paperback. Head and tail of spine, upper corners little bumped. Oxford in Asia Paperback. Very good. Reprint of a classic late 19th century travel book, written by an American female traveller. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161946). More
Singapore. Oxford University Press, 1989. Second impression. 160 black and white photographic illustrations, 321pp, paperback. Slight foxing on the inner covers and endpaper. Good copy. "Augusta de Wit arrived in Java in a crucial phase of the islands development, when the Dutch colonial regime had just embarked on its 'Ethical... More
Singapore. Oxford University Press. 1988. Third impression. Preface by Frank Swettenham. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic plates, xxvii + 320pp, index, paperback. Closed tear upper edge lower cover repaired with tape, otherwise a good copy. Margaret Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak, arrived in Sarawak in the early 1870s as a.... More
United Kingdom: Little, Brown Book Group, 2015. 313pp, paperback. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, in a locked room, within his locked house, by... More
United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2018. 374pp, paperback. The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant `Surrender-not' Banerjee, they discover a.... More
Allen & Unwin.. 1948. Second impression. 213pp, notes, indices, dustjacket printed reflecting paper shortages of the time on the reverse of a map. Signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. Dustjacket a little browned and chipped at edges, very good. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 17761). More
Singapore: NUS Press, 2018. Colour and black and white illustrations, 408pp, index, paperback. Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony after 1819. What, then, accounts for the many centuries when it seemed... More
Singapore: NUS Press, 2018. Maps, colour plates, 586pp, index, dustjacket. The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. It blends historical and anthropological methods, using oral tradition, ethnographic observations, and archival collections. While Savu is a relatively small island... More
