London. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. 1874. Black & white frontispiece and 44 black & white illustrations (mainly heliotypes), Plans, including a plan of Peking, x + 413pp, some foxing to rear of plates but the plates themselves are clean. Original decorated cloth elaborately stamped in red & gilt. The..... More
北京. [Beijing]. 地图出版社. [Ditu Chubanshe]. 1977. Reprint. Text in Chinese. Colour maps throughout, 169pp, index, 26.7 x 20cm. Endpapers patchily browned, upper edge foxed, lower corner bumped, dustjacket patchily sunned, worn with edges chipped and torn, rear portion adhered to board, otherwise a good copy. When referring to this item..... More
United States. Pomegranate Communications Inc., 2009. Book of 30 tear-out postcards. Rugs have been integral to Tibetan culture for over a thousand years. Wool fromthe highland sheep of Tibet is particularly lustrous and ideal for carpet production. Tibetan rugs are remarkable for their strong use of colour and bold imagery..... More
Hong Kong. Pacific Magazines Ltd., Volume 11, Number 10, October 1980. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout, 70pp, Quarto, wrappers. Special Pacific issue - articles include: 'Ponape and Yap - Micronesia's Maxi-States', photographs by Robert Kiener; 'Tangata, the Maori Vision of Man' - Trevor Bayliss, photographs by Brian..... More
Hong Kong. Orientations Magazine Ltd., Volume 21, Number 3, March 1990. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations throughout, 78pp, Quarto, wrappers. Articles in this issue include: 'Wu Guanzhong and the Task of Painting a New China' - Peter C. Sturman; 'Kang Youwei and the Westernization of Modern Chinese Art'..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2001. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 206pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, appendix, paperback. This book "focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt a family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on..... More
No place of publication. No details of publisher. Folding booklet, quarto size. Summary of the types of Korean court music. When referring to this item please quote stockid 68995. More
London. Murray. 1841. First edition. Folding black and white frontispiece map showing the Gulf of Pechelee (supplied in facsimile), folding black and white lithographed plate of Chusan Harbour, xiii + 155pp + 4pp [advertisements], original gilt decorated cloth, gilt title and blind-stamped triple rule, charming gilt vignette of a courting..... More
London. Edward Stanford, 26 & 27 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, S.W., Mar 31. 1898. Hand coloured folding map dissected into 36 panels mounted on linen, 99.3 x 63.4cm on sheet 102 x 67cm folding into blue cloth backed boards 17.2 x 12.1cm, yellow title label and the publisher's list of..... More
Hong Kong. Ye Olde Printerie. 1931. 2nd Edition, revised and enlarged. Folding frontispiece map of "Hong Kong and the New Territory ", hand-coloured in outline, main roads, Kowloon Canton Railway and the British border picked out in red, 196pp + [vi] Index, Appendix, original half green papered boards, paper spine..... More
London. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. 1920. Photographic frontispiece and 13 full-page photographic plates, [i]-xv + 309pp, Pitman's Catalogue of General Literature (18pp) bound at end + [i] advertisement leaf, index, free endpapers browned, previous owner's inked signature to the title page, original green cloth, blind-stamped title to upper board..... More
Auckland. Auckland Institute and Museum. 1996. Maps, plans, black and white illustrations, ix + 222pp, bibliography, appendices, index, 27.5 x 20.7cm. A prior owner's name neatly inked half title, paperback covers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 17. When referring to this..... More
Washington, D.C. Army Map Service, U.S. Army. 1955. Large colour map. 1:250,000 scale. Transverse mercator projection. 23°00'N, 91°30'E-22°00'N, 93°00'E. Series U502, Sheet NF 46-6, Edition 1-AMS. Map measures 57.3 x 75.8cm. Slight wear, creasing, even light browning, small closed tears on edges, upper-right corner little foxed. Shows signs of use..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1989. x + 263pp, notes, bibliography, index, very good copy in slightly worn dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 91202. More
Colombo. Vajirarama Publication Society. 1956. 44pp, 18 x 12.2cm. Original buff-coloured wrappers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173391. More
Kandy. Buddhist Publication Society. 1958. 30pp, 18.5 x 12.5cm. Original light blue wrappers little worn and bumped at head of spine, otherwise a very good copy. The Wheel Publication No. 3. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173390. More
Hong Kong. Walter K. Hoffman, 1967. Maps, black and white and colour illustrations and advertisements throughout, 200pp, original red cloth boards lettered in gilt, trifle rubbed, a very good copy. Interesting snapshot of Hong Kong in the late 1960s as seen through a visitor's eyes. When referring to this item..... More
Kandy. Buddhist Publication Society. 1958. 40pp, 18.7 x 12.4cm. Original yellow wrappers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173388. More
Rangoon. Mohnyin Patipatti Propagating Society. 1955. Translated into English by U Hla Maung. Single black and white photographic plate with portrait of the author, viii + 52pp, 18 x 12.2cm. Original yellow wrappers little worn, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173387... More
London. Collins. 1946. Endpaper maps, 320pp, original cloth a little stained, dustjacket a little chipped and worn. Good copy. Novel set on the Chinese coast prior to W.W.II among the junk traders who were struggling to survive against the more powerful vested interests using who by using petrol-driven road traffic..... More
New York. Grosset & Dunlap. 1926. [Reprint]. Black and white photographic illustrations, 329pp, evenly browned throughout a little heavier on endpapers, few leaves creased, edges spotted. A good copy in dustjacket. Autobiographical account of her experiences on "America's trade frontier in China" by the author of the popular novel "Oil..... More
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1954. vi + 296pp, indices, ink underlining and some notes in pencil throughout text, endpapers a little browned, cloth binding, spine and edges little browned, a clean and sound copy. From the library of Professor David K. Wyatt, renowned scholar of Thai history, with his signature..... More
London. S.W. Partridge & Co., [ 1923]. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations, several full page, decorated blind stamped green cloth, age-worn and scuffed, 19.5 x 13cm, text browned and endpapers spotted, with an inked prize inscription from Oak Road Mission Sunday School, 1923 on the front free endpapers. First published in 1888..... More
New Jersey. Prentice Hall. 2001. Maps, black and white illustrations, xvii + 183pp, index, small damp stain extremities of upper section until vii, paperback covers a little warped and rubbed along extremities, good paperback copy. 23.5 x 17.8cm. For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A...... More
