London. Oxford. 1940. Maps, 1 folding, black and white photographic illustrations including one folding, 156pp. Lacks upper wrapper, first two advertisments detached, paper cloth spine torn with loss. Binding sound. Reading or binding copy only. The last of the journals before its temporary stop during WWII. This was also the... More

London. British Library. 1991. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, 152pp, bibliography, index, covers lightly worn, a few neat annotations, signature of highly regarded scholar M.C. Ricklefs inside upper cover, very good in paperback. Catalogue of a travelling photographic exhibition of royal Indonesian letters and manuscripts from British collections... More

Amsterdam. C.P.J. Van Der Peet, 1959. Black and white plans, vi + 124pp + 353 black and white photographic plates mainly full page, bibliography, notes, glossary and index, edges trifle browned, signatures of highly regarded scholars D.G.E. Hall and M.C. Ricklefs front free endpaper. Cloth torn along upper joint, a...... More

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

Singapore. ISEAS, 2016. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, vii + ix + xi + xiii + xv +322pp., index, glossary, paperback in very good condition. Indonesia was founded on the ideal of "Sovereignty of the People", which suggests the pre-eminence of people's rights to access, use and control land... More

London. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1961. Translated. Folding table, vii + 107pp, index, wrappers with dustjacket. Free endpapers lightly browned, inscription front free endpaper, small nicks at head and tail of dustjacket spine, some cellotape stains on reverse of dustjacket, otherwise good copy. "One of the five classics of Confucianism... More

Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press, 1979. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 288pp., appendix, bibliography, index, hardback in dustjacket. A very good copy. In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served... More

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1997. [Reprint]. ix + xi + xv + 298pp., indices, a very good paperback copy. This book is a collection of papers by Professor Gregory Schopen selected from a number of his publications. Professor Schopen's work, published over the last fifteen years in a wide... More

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2018. Colour photographic illustrations, 291pp, paperback. 'A timely, powerfully-told tale, written with forthrightness and compassion.' The Age '. . . opens our eyes to the beauty that can be found in the worst of places. It is a brave and incredibly inspiring story.' OUTInPerth Eddie Ayres... More

Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1989. Reprint. With a new preface. Maps, frontispiece, black and white photographic plates, xx + 294pp, index, bibliography, tables, paperback. Very good copy. Signe Howell's most surprising discovery resulting from twenty months of fieldwork among the indigenous Chewong people of Malaysia is that this small... 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

(circa 嘉永七年1854). Black and white woodblock kawaraban, 23 x 31cm. Very good copy. Japanese woodblock kawaraban showing supposed American equivalents of Japanese words. The panel on the left desribes the travels of Nagahama Manjiro (also known as John Manjiro), who was rescued by an American ship after being castaway on... More

安政六年 ( March1859). Black and white woodblock kawaraban, worn along horizontal and vertical fold, two tiny chips in lower margin, some small barely visible holes, a few small ink stains otherwise good. Black and white kawaraban showing the newly-established foreign trading post at Yokohama (Kanagawa) in 1859. The shoreline extending... More