Edinburgh. Birlinn General. 2021. Paperback. "In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner..... More

Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2006. Maps, black and white illustrations, xvii + 626pp, indices of names and topics, a little minor wear dustjacket otherwisea very good hardback copy. The letters of William Jardine and James Matheson, co-founders of the Hong Kong Trading Firm Jardine, Matheson & Co., shed new light..... More

India: Rupa & Co, 2007. 90pp, bookseller's stamp lower margin one page, inscribed by the author title page. Very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 22.3 x 15.7cm. Collection of poems dealing with the tragey of Tibet, its struggle for freedom and the experience of exile. When referring to this item..... More

New Delhi. D.K. Print World Ltd., 1998. Colour and black and white illustrations, 100pp, bibliography, glossary, index. Very good copy in dustjacket. Inscribed by the author half titlepage. 22.2 x 14.5cm. This is a brilliant cultural-anthropological study exploring those hedonistic aspects of the pan-Indian heritage which, represented by centuries of..... More

London. Faber and Faber. 1974. Map, colour and black and white photographic plates, xii + 139pp, bibliography, index, some foxing preliminary leaves and edges, dustjacket browned with a few tears, contents sound and clean. Good secondhand copy. In this work the author presents "the evolution of Chinese porcelain and stoneware..... More

Dharamsala. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. 1998. [Reprint]. 95pp, paperback. Neat signature of a prior owner titlepage. Originally published in T'oung-Poo, Series III, Vol. I, No. 4, and subsequently reprinted by Oriental Printing-Office in 1910. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176080. More

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2014. Black and white illustrations, 318pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket, hardback. Wild Man from Borneo offers the first comprehensive history of the human-orangutan encounter. Arguably the most humanlike of all the great apes, particularly in intelligence and behavior, the orangutan has been cherished, used, and abused..... More

Tokyo. Kodansha. 1978. Eleventh printing. Map of Japanese kilns and kiln sites, 2 tipped-in colour plates, colour and black and white photographic plates, 267pp, appendix of technical information including table of pyrometric cones; Japanese glaze materials and Japanese glaze compositions, glossary-index, pictorial endpapers, price clipped dustjacket. Boards and dustjacket a...... More

New York. Harper & Brothers. [circa 1877]. Chromolithographed map with outlne handcolour, 27.1 x 21 cm, major towns marked with a red cross, relief by hachures, ocean currents marked, two inset maps of the Suez canal and Mascarene Island, two very small marginal edge tears not affecting the map, slight..... More

[New York.]: [circa 1910.]. Chromolithograph printed on thin card, 23.7 x 30.6 cm, upper margin a trifle foxed, edges a little worn with few very small tears (no loss), in very good condition. Attractive image after the wonderful illustrations prepared by Sherman Foote Denton for the "First Annual Report of..... More

St. Louis. Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center. 1979-1989. Small collection of five sections from four Sheets of the Defense Mapping Agency's Tactical Pilotage Chart series, each of which has been cut in order to accommodate the confined space of an aircraft cockpit. Scale 1:500,000. Although each map is incomplete, this..... More

Washington, D.C. U.S. Army Map Service, Far East. 1963. First Printing. Scale 1:1,250,000 (16°45'N-23°30'N/100°00'E-108°30'E). Lambert conformal conic projection, with standard parallels at 18°05'N and 22°25'N. Occasional foxing, with small crease at upper left corner, 'North Laos & North Viet Nam' lightly pencilled on reverse, a very good copy. 87.0 x...... More

Late Edo. (Circa 1780- 1840s). Colour hand drawn illustrations, 89 double folded leaves, 23.5 x 17.5 cm, Japanese style four hole stabbed binding, some worming causing loss of paper on covers and some occasional mild loss in contents but this is not significant. Occasional light staining and soiling but still..... More