New Zealand. Anthropology Department, University of Otago. 1969. Maps, 114pp, bibliography, appendices, paperback in reinforced binding, covers and endpapers lightly foxed, extremities slightly worn. 21 x 25.5cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169373). More

Kuching. Sarawak. Sarawak Museum. 1968. Folding black and white maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 452pp, little rubbed extremities, wrappers spine little wrinkled, a good copy. Contents include Archaeology, Art and Crafts, burial, bronze adze casts; Living Cultures, Dayaks, women's tattoos; Natural History, Natural and Human Science, orangutans..... More

[Jiji Shashin]. 時事寫眞, Showa 10 [1935]. Broadsheet printed in black and white, single-sided, a little light creasing, browned along right edge. 38.5 x 26.2 cm A special issue produced by the new agency Jiji Shashin to celebrate the arrival of a group of Australian girl students who came to Japan..... More

Tōkyō Nichinichi Shinbun]*. 東京日日新聞. Taisho 4 [1st January,1915]. Black and white sugoroku on newsprint, folded as issued. Evenly browned, chipped at edges with minor loss, 55.4 cm x 79.5 cm. Published as for New Year's Day, 1915. Unique Australian customs are featured in this sheet including indigenous Australian battles, the..... More

London. International Conference on Oriental Carpets. 1983. Maps, colour and black and white illustrations, 31pp + unpaginated advertisements, paperback covers little marked and faded. Good copy. 31 x 22.5cm. Programme events of the Fourth International Conference on Oriental Carpets in 1983. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169361)..... More

Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2010. Black and white illustrations, 378pp, notes, words cited, character list, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. Liu accompanied each figure, presented under the..... More

Cambridge. Cambridge University. 2009. Maps, xxx+ 1095pp, index, bibliography, glossary, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "The first of two volumes on the Sung dynasty (970-1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to..... More

London. Orme. 1813. Colour aquatint antique print. Measures to plate mark 23.5 x 18.5 cm and 31.5 x 22.6 cm to margin of page itself. Very good copy. From the supplement to "Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c"..... More

London. Orme. 1813. Colour aquatint antique print. Measures to plate mark 23.6 x 18.4 cm and 33.0 x 22.0 cm to margin of page itself. A little light soiling margins. Very good copy. From the supplement to "Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. : from drawings by Messrs..... More

London. Hamlyn. 1970. Reprint. Profuse colour illustrations, 75pp, slightest foxing reverse of dustjacket, a little rubbed extremities, a good hardback copy in dustjacket. 29.5 x 23.5cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169359). More

London. Spring. n.d. [c.1960]. Translated. 10 black and white illustrations, 58pp + 63 colour plates, Japanese style binding, good in attractive cloth-covered case, paper on upper cover a little abraded in places, spine of case little faded, fastened with length of bamboo. Very good copy. Overview of the woodcuts of..... More

Canberra. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 2004. Frontispiece, colour map at rear, xxxvi + 733pp, very good copy. In January 1950, Commonwealth foreign ministers meeting in Colombo, Ceylon, recommended the creation of a scheme under which bilateral aid could flow to developing countries in South and Southeast Asia. By..... More

上海.[Shanghai]. 中華書局.[Zhonghua shu ju]. 民國37 [1948]. Black and white illustrations, 1577 + 53 + 4pp, index, appendices, gilt lettering on spine, a prior owner's annotation front free endpaper, 2 small cellotape stains on both pastedowns, otherwise very good hardback cloth cover. Text in Chinese. (When referring to this item please..... More