Muroto, Japan: The Institute of Cetacean Research, 2005. First Edition. Decorated Boards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 110pp. A promotional package to support continued whaling harvests (in the face of world decline in whale stocks, and international pressure for conservation). Selected articles on traditional whaling in and around..... More
New York: Arbuckle Bros. 3" X 5" chromolithograph. The card opens "China has made less progress than any nation of the world...a people not given to independent thought." It goes on to note how primitive the Chinese are noting: "one of the peculiarities of this strange race is they are..... More
London, (1983): Sidgwick and Jackson Limited. First Edition. Folio. 261pp. Illustrated in color and in black and white with a foreword by Jessica Rawson, Deputy Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum.The bronzes represented are some of the treasures found in Yunnan, an area lying in..... More
Delhi, India: Publications Division, 1964. Original Wraps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 83p. with 15 folding maps, mostly colored. Nehru died after issuing the smaller edition in 1963. After his death, his expanded version was published detailing to the West the Chinese threat. A scarce item... More
(2006). Folio. The 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of Shenzhen Art Museum. 147p. Chinese text. Illustrated with black and white photographic images and art.Bound in black cloth, upper board with another board covered in red paper lettered in gilt, a couple of small bumps to upper edge. A very good..... More
New York; (2006): Hudson Hills Press. First Edition. Quarto. 224pp. Richly illustrated catalogue of an exhibition: 117 full color and 50 duotone illustrations. The Rockerfellers and the Asia Society bring together a wealth of information on Asian art, in eastern and western home settings. Sculpture, ceramic, textiles, and paintings, a...... More
New York: T. And J. Swords, 1795. First American Edition. Small Octavo. Containing Various Circumstances of the Embassy, with Accounts of Customs and Manners of the Chinese; and a description of the country, Towns, Cities, etc. The author has also added the journal of the Lion and Hindostan from Chusan..... More
Tokyo; (1967): Kodansha Internatiional, Ltd. First Printing. Square Quarto. 131pp. illustrated and in color and in black and white by photographs of Bin Takahashi A scholarly treatise of the Japanese bird-and-flower motif that has traveled around the globe, appearing on a thousand aspects in modern advertisement. Bound in black cloth..... More
University of Pittsburgh Pr Pittsburg 1974. First Edition. very good copy in a very good dust jacket. More
HSMO London 1952. First American. In orignal wrps with mylar protected cover. More
(London, 1990): Oriental Ceramic Society. First Edition. Quarto. An exhibition organized jointly with the British museum in the New Japanese Galleries 6th July to 4th November 1990, with contributions by Anthony du Boulay and Lawrence 328p. index. Over 350 pieces shown most in rich color. Essential not only for the..... More
Cambirdge: Harvard University Press. 367p. with index with additional 45 p. glossary with bibliography in English and Chinese. More
Leiden; 1956, 1958 and 1962. E.J. Brill. Small Octavo. Translated from the Russian by V. and T. Minorsky. Besides being the best study of the Ulugh-beg, this work is the best on the region in the 15th century. In three volumes: v. 1. A short history of Turkestan. History of..... More
Delhi, India: The Macmillan Co., 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 136pp. Spiritual poems, illustrated with drawings and hand-mounted b&w and color plates. Bound in light brown cloth boards, with brown title and illustration on front panel. Library of Congress stamp, and bar-code sticker. Good... More
Santiniketan Press, 1976. Disbound. Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 417 pp. Detailed scholarly study of the poets authentic and apocryphal works, his positoin in classical Sanskrit and his religious teachings. More
Westport, Connecticut, (1996): Praeger Pub. First Edition. Octavo. 285pp., A cogent analysis of the remarkable progress Korea has made since 1965 and the difficult decisions it faced. Informative, comprehensive, perceptive; a key contribution to understanding the basis of Korea's economic development. A fine copy bound in blue cloth, lettering silver..... More
New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 116pp. Scholarly treatise, illustrated with photographs, drawings, b&w and color plates. Bound in white cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket (lightly rubbed at extremeties, in jacket wrapper). More
New York (1929): Brentano's. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Foreward by Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the United States. 222 p. Frontispeice, illus. Blue top and very light foxing to fore-edge. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. 219p. index. The material presented is based on fieldwork carried out in Ayutthaya, Central Thailand, a provincial capital 50 miles north of Bangkok, and itself the capital of the old kingdom Siam. The author describes and analyses the socio-economic and ritual relations..... More
Boulder, Colorado, (20097): Lynne Rienner Pub. First Edition. Octavo. 173 p. The author analyzes the ebb and flow of money in Japanese politics, drawing on extensive fieldwork and detailed campaign finance data to investigate campaign practices, party strategies, and the effects of formal and informal rules.A fine bright copy bound..... More
London: T. Caddell & Davies, 1810. Octavo. xvi, 143 pages, 70 pages of Arabic text, Leigh Hunt regarded the fable 'Abou ben Adhem' as one of the best and a translation of it adorns his tomb though he himself did not read Arabic. It is this work of J.D. Carlyle..... More
Cambridge, (2009): Cambridge University Press. First Edition. Octavo. Review copy with slip laid in. First printing. 185p. index. How local legislatures in China have had rising influence that is far different from what existed in the previous generation. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering silver. A fine bright copy in..... More
np/np/nd [Berlin : Im selbstverlage des Herausgebers,1933]. Quarto. 34pp. each page contains a tissue guard, illustrated. The author was an Austrian altorientalist. He studied linguistics , orientalistics and geography at the University of Vienna. He received a reputation as an extraordinary professor of ancient Semitic philology and oriental archeology. This..... More
(New York, 2006): Oxford University Press. First Edition. Octavo. Review copy with slip laid in. 390p. bibliography, index The most comprehensive study of Korea's economic development before World War II. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering copper. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
Taipei: Ch'eng-wen Pub, 1966. Quarto. In 5 volumes. First published in Paris in 1904.Text in English, French, with some titles listings in Chinese, Japanese and others. Bound in blue cloth,spine lettering gilt. A very good set with a few corners bumped. More