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8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 16; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded (but all gilt just legible), a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled, frayed at edges and wanting top half of backstrip. With the trade stamp of Oxford Book & Stationery Co., Calcutta, on front free endpaper. With a private corporate circulation list on front free endpaper. One of the most detailed of the relatively few personal accounts of irregular forces in this theatre. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Enser, p.89; Graham & Cole, H10.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Concentrates on the Kachin Levies. Enser, p. 89; Graham & Cole H11.
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps; ivory cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Vividly-written account of Fergusson's global travels following WWII, and his service as Governor-General of New Zealand.
Very Good French Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 71, [1] p., 1 b/w portrait of Maspero. Hommage à Henri Maspero, 1883-1945. Henri Paul Gaston Maspero was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East Asia. Maspero is best known for his pioneering studies of Daoism. He was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Contents: Hommages.; La vie et l'oeuvre, par Jacques Gernet.; Henr Maspero et les etudes indochinoises, par Pierre-Bernard Lafont.; Note archeologie a la memoire d'Henri Maspero, par Madeleine David.; L'apport d'Henri Maspero a la pensee philosophique de la Chine, par Nicole Vandier-Nicolas.; Maspero et les etudes taoistes, par Max Kaltenmark.; L'apport de Maspero a l'histoire du bouddhisme chinois, par Paul Magnin.; Maspero: L'histoire de la religion populaire chinoise, par Danielle Eliasberg.; Les documents d'Asie centrale dans l'oeuvre de Maspero, par Michel Soymie.; Complements a la bibliographie des oeuvres d'Henri Maspero. OCLC no.: 805693054.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, contemporary signature on title; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and numerous photographs and maps in the text; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO VICE ADMIRAL SIR ROY NEWMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. A splendid association copy of the very scarce clothbound issue (the paperback edition is difficult enough!). Mulholland & Jordan, F22.
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Splendid, expanded reissue of the original edition of 1936, with new Foreword by the author's daughter; the binding matches that of the original Cape edition.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 33 plates on 20, 5 maps in the text and 2 coloured maps; cloth, a good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter a little browned at backstrip. Standard account of the Legations in Peking under attack from both the Boxers and the Imperial Chinese Army in 1900.
8vo., First Edition, with folding plate, full-page maps in the text and facsimile endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. THE FIRST EDITION IS SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.236.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece toned in sepia, and numerous photographs toned in sepia in the text; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ochre endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to commemorate the hotel's centenary. With the Manager's presentation letter and two guest certificates completed by the hotel.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.167.
IV + 543 p., 145 gravures, 37 cartes et 819 dessins schématiques in-texte. Bel exemplaire récemment relié: demi percaline rouge cerise, à coins, filets, palettes et titre dorés. (2 kilos) Inv. 17004.
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best close-quarters accounts of the war in Burma, by the author of the Flashman novels. Fraser served with 9 Bn The Border Regiment in 17th Indian Division. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole M28.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps in the text, and endpaper maps; white fleck boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., with plates and illustrations in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
DJ darkened and with light chipping ; Travel descriptions with nice b&w photographs of China, Cambodia, Bangkok and Siam, Singapore, Java, Sourabaya, Bali, Ceylon, Bombay ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; black boards, upper board lettered in white, red cloth back lettered in white, black endpapers, a near fine copy.
P°ARIS, A. Quillet - 1948 - 4 Volumes in-4, couverture rempliée -Très importante iconographie en et H.T.en couleurs - T. I : Introduction Générale, Primitifs, ancien Orient, Indo-Européens - Introduction VII à XX, 548 pages - T. II : La Crète & Mycènes, la Grèce, les Etrusques, Rome, 426 pages - T. III : Christianisme médiéval, la réforme Protestante, Catholicisme Moderne, Islam, Extrème-Orient, 555 pages - T. IV : Indo-Iraniens, Judaïsme, Origines Chrétiennes, christianismes Orientaux, 484 pages - A l'état neuf.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps, edges lightly browned, small inscription on front paste-down; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip sunned else a good, sound copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.140.
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, 8 coloured maps, and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' (co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later). In this outstanding analysis, using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources, Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures, OOB, statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author was United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932 to 1941.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
113 p., 350 lots la plupart illustrés en coul. Inv. H. 102
