[Japan]. Circa 1938. Black and white photographic illustrations 2 or 3 to a page, some colour full page, 26pp (unpaginated), 13.3 x 19cm. Attractive pictorial upper cover, cloth binding with cord tie. Some light soiling reverse of images. A very good bright copy. This collection of photographs of Harbin, with..... More

Berkeley. University of California Press. 1995. Map, black and white illustrations, xiv + 256pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy. "This book studies one dramatic occurrence - the anti-police 'riot' of 4 February 1922 in a small market town in north India. On this violent act hangs my..... More

Cambridge. The White Horse Press. 1999. Maps, black and white photographic and pictorial illustrations, xiii + 448pp, notes, bibliography, index, foxing on edges, otherwise a ver good hardback copy. 18.4 x 25.6 cm. "Baabar's History of Mongolia is a unique history book. It is the first history of Mongolia available..... More

New York. Oxford University Press. 1994. Maps, xx + 244pp, notes, glossary, index, paperback copy in very good condition. "A lively account of the Ban Yatra, a circular pilgrimage that takes place in the northern Indian land of Braj, this anthropological chronicle offers an appealing mixture of personal anecdote, religious..... More

Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press, 2021. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 238pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback copy in very good condition. "In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment..... More

Berkeley. University of California Press. 1999. First Paperback Edition. Black and white illustrations, 591pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, annotations and underlining infrequently throughout, faint marks dustjacket, foxing top edge, still a good hardback copy. This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn..... More

Petaling Jaya. Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. 2014. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 335pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. This book throws new light onto the 1963-66 period of confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia. The Brunei revolt in December 1962 started Confrontation but who..... More

New York. Fordham University Press. 2009. Xiv + 380pp, notes, bibliography, index, top edges trifle bumped, hardback copy in very good condition. "Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep..... More

India. Munshiram Manoharlal. 2004. Foldout map, cviii + 369pp, index, pastedowns, endpapers, and half title trifle cockled, spine sunned, dustjacket edges bumped, still a good hardback copy. "Among the various travelogues, Hiuen Tsiang's Si-yu-ki or Records of the Western World, is considered to be the most valuable sources book for..... More

circa 1937-1939. A set of four propaganda posters, complete, prepared by the short- lived (1937-1939) Japanese puppet state - South Chahar Autonomous Government. Tiny closed tear upper margin of first poster now neatly repaired with washi. An impressive set in excellent condition. 79 x 17.5cm. Motto no. 1 white text..... More

London. Illustrated London News, March 28, 1857. Two half-page engravings (14.5 x 23 cms), on a single newspaper leaf, complete descriptive text for each engraving, scant spotting and edge-wear, but in very good condition. Two engravings published during the months prior to the attack on (and four year occupation of)..... More

London. Illustrated London News. February 7, 1863. Full page engraving 23.5 x 34.5 cm on a single newspaper leaf, slight edge wear, in very good condition. The civil war in China (1850-64), also known as the Taiping Rebellion, erupted northward from Guangxi to the Yangtze. This image shows the bombardment..... More

北京.[Beijing]. 世界知識社.[Shi jie zhi shi she]. 1954. 1950s Chinese colour map of the first Indochina War, folded, scale 1:10,000,000, showing Vietnam, and in outline parts of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, and Southern China including Hainan Island. Inset map on the left is titled "Red River Delta" (scale 1:3,000,000). A legend..... More