[上海].[Shanghai]. Shanghai Museum. (circa1997). Colour plates, 48pp, chronology, text in Chinese and English, very good in paperback. 28.5 x 18.9cm. Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue from Shanghai Museum showcasing examples of Chinese pottery from Neolithic period to Ming and Qing Dynasty. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169389). More
Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. 1902. Charming black and white line illustrations throughout, 216pp, index and 4 pages of publisher's adverts at rear. Pictorial cover a trifle rubbed at edges and sunned at the spine. Head and tail of spine frayed, very light occasional browning. A very firm and clean..... More
London. William Heinemann. 1901. 1st Edition. Large coloured folding sketch map of North and Central Sze Chuan, showing Little's journey 1892-1897. 15 black & white photos. Light blue cloth covered boards stamped in black with mountain illustration, spine and upper front board lettered in gilt. Covers a little marked, spine..... More
Melbourne. Penguin Books, (circa2010). Colour and black and white photographic plates throughout, 501pp, select bibliography, limp boards with dustjacket, very good copy. 34.5 x 26cm. The history of modern Shanghai through photographic images from private collections and institutions - a fascinating portrait of this compelling city. (When referring to this..... More
![張謇存稿. [Zhang Jian cun gao]. [Selected Zhang Jian's Correspondence]. LIQIANG YANG,...](/pictures/thumb/169379.jpg?v=1581931858)
上海.[Shanghai]. 上海人民出版社.[Shanghai ren min chu ban she]. 1987. Black and white photographic illustrations, 676pp, very light damp stains lower edges, boards and dustjacket, good in hardback. Text in Chinese. 張謇 [Zhang Jian], (1853 - 1926), Chinese politician and entrepreneur during late Qing and Minguo period. This book includes selected letters..... More
台北.[Taipei]. 月旦出版社股份有限公司.[Yue dan chu ban she gu fen you xian gong si]. 1998. Map, 488pp, bibliography, charts, some parts highlighted with marker pen and some underlining in red, little light staining lower margins of some leaves, otherwise sound and clean. Reading copy. Paperback. Text in traditional Chinese. (When referring to..... More
北京.[Beijing]. 中国社会科学出版社.[Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she]. 2006. Black and white illustrations, 406pp, tables, charts, notes, very good hardback in dustjacket, spine a little faded. Includes case reports on death penalty, and discussions of death penalty worldwide and domestic. Text largely in Chinese (2 reports in English). List..... More
![靈山. [Ling shan]. [Soul Mountain]. XINGJIAN GAO, 高行健](/pictures/thumb/169349.jpg?v=1581931858)
臺北.[Taipei]. 聯經出版事業公司.[Lian jing chu ban shi ye gong si]. 2001. [Reprint]. 554pp, appendix, very good paperback copy. Text in traditional Chinese. Famous Chinese novelist, 高行健 [Gao Xingjian] (1940-) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. The novel was first published in 1990. This copy is the 11th printing..... More
London. George Allen & Unwin London 1922-66, 1966. Second impression. 260pp, index, appendix, blue cloth covered boards, dustjacket spine little sunned, ex-library with the usual markings including mark on spine where label once was. A sound copy. Bertrand Russell spent a year as Professor of Philosophy at the University of..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong Museum of Art. 2005. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout with reproductions of George Chinnery's paintings and sketches, 223pp, bibliography, hardback with colour plate laid down on upper cover. A few fingerprints one preliminary leaf but otherwise an excellent copy. 31 x 23.5cm. Published to accompany an..... More
London. I B Tauris. 2012. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxiii + 263 pages, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket. With its fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a...... More
New York. Garland. 1980. Reprint. Black and white portrait frontispiece, 308pp + publisher's catalogue. Ex-library copy in original navy cloth boards lettered in white on spine, front free endpaper a little stained, some library stamps title and preliminary leaves, library marking on spine but otherwise very clean and sound. First..... More
![宋代婚姻家族史论. [Song dai hun ying jia zu shi lun]. [On Marriage and Family History of...](/pictures/thumb/169380.jpg?v=1581930992)
北京. [Beijing]. 人民出版社.[Ren min chu ban she]. 2003. 506pp, charts, notes, good paperback copy. Text in Chinese. Systematically examines the issues of marriage inequality, gender, marriage between Han and minorities, royal women, etc. during Song Dynasty. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169380). More
London. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date. (circa1912). New and cheaper edition. Revised by Mrs Archibald Little. Black and white photographic frontispiece and plates, 330pp + 7 pages of publisher's adverts. Endpapers browned, previous owner signature and label on the front paste-down and f.f.e.p. Some pencil annotations throughout. Head..... More
New York. The MacMillan Company. 1905. 1st American edition. vi + 408pp + 3 page publisher's catalogue at rear, index, original dark green cloth, gilt stamp of New South Wales Parliamentary Library upper cover, top edge gilt. Library stamp title page, some light foxing, half title foxed, good copy. 20..... More
Shanghai. The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1929. Black & white map of Tsinan Area, a photographic portrait frontispiece of the General and 3 photographic illustrations throughout the text. viii + 107pp. Black cloth covered boards, lettered on the spine and upper front board in gilt. An extremely good copy except for..... More
Manila. National Museum Manila. 1981. Maps, black and white photographic and line illustrations, 41pp, bibliography, appendices, paperback copy with light wear on extremities, little faded spine, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, light foxing endpapers, good paperback copy in staples. 25.5 x 17.5cm. Anthropological Papers No.13. (When referring to this..... More
Manila. National Museum Manila. 1979. Maps, black and white illustrations, 18pp, bibliography, stapled paperback in lightly soiled covers, slight foxing endpapers and edge, prior owner's neat signature front free endpaper, good copy. 25.4 x 18cm. Site was excavated to systematically retrieve cultural artefacts from sites in danger of being destroyed..... More
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
Wellington. New Zealand Archeological Association. 1964. Maps including folding map, black and white illustrations, 103pp, bibliography, appendix, covers and lower section lightly creased, covers a little faded and marked, trifle foxed endpapers, good copy, internally clean. 26.5 x 21.5cm. Monograph number three of the New Zealand Archeological Association. (When referring..... 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
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
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1931. Black and white photographic plates, x + 88pp, bibliography, spine worn, extremities of spine slightly torn, extremities slightly rubbed, still a good paperback copy. 21.5 x 14cm. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 169337). 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
Lewiston. Edwin Mellen. 2000. ii + 331pp, index, bibliographies, notes, slight rubbing on extremities, very good copy in bright cloth covers. Revised version of "The Role of Ch'i in Mao Tse-tung's Leadership Style". (When referring to this item please quote stockid 167525). More
