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8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 20 plates on 16; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, blue top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard history of the Chinese Customs Service and a biography of Sir Robert Hart who directed its activities for nearly half a century. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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., on laid paper, text in French, with engraved portrait of the author, an engraved plate, a large folding engraved map and engraved head- and tail-pieces in the text; contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked in twentieth century calf to style, sprinkled edges, a remarkably clean, crisp copy. Complete with half-title, advertisement and comprehensive index. The engraved portrait of Raynal is by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. The plate (by Eisen) is bound at the beginning rather than facing p.89. The map is transcribed by Bonne. An uncommon edition of Raynal's classic account. This first volume [of seven] contains Books I-III. Book I describes the activities (discoveries, wars and conquests) of the Portuguese in the Middle East, India, East Indies and Far East, including Indostan, Malabar, the Persian Gulf, the Moluccas and China. Book II follows the Dutch in the same regions, including Formosa, Timor, Japan, the Celebes, Borneo, Sumatra, Siam, Ceylon, Coromandel, Malabar, Cape of Good Hope and Java. Book III is devoted to the English in their relations with the Dutch and Portuguese in the Middle East, Malabar, Coromandel, Bengal, St. Helena and Comoros Islands. This volume is complete in itself. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. See Sabin 68080; this edition not recorded by Kress.
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.
Previous owner's name to reverse of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 380pp. A well illustrated Government review of Hong Kong in 1987.
8vo., Fourth Edition, indexes and captions in English and Chinese, with very numerous details coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
Iin-8°, 374 pages, 1 carte, index, broche, couverture illustree plast. Tres bel exemplaire. [HI-9] L’auteur, docteur ès-lettres et historien, dévoile la genèse de l’île mythique…
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and red, red endpapers, 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.
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, text in Japanese, Main Volume with many hundreds of coloured and monochrome photographs (a number folding) in the text, CD Portfolio with coloured illustrated booklet and CD in oyster case; Main Volume in brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, CD Portfolio in white boards, both volumes housed in publisher's card slip-case, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.231.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, purple cloth back blocked in red and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Enser, p.231.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, and 2 illustrations and 5 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Cronaca, romanzo e diario di un viaggio.
Cronaca, romanzo e diario di un viaggio. I mille volti di un continente immenso, fra culture secolari ed un futuro che è già cominciato.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
176 pages, illustrated, gazetteer. eng
8vo., First Edition, with a folding street plan; original wrappers printed in red and blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. The cover design is by Hasbie bin Sulaiman from a traditional Bornean tattoo pattern.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly sunned else a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and full-page map in the text; blue boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Valuable source on the Fall of Singapore and the capture of over 100,000 Allied servicemen. Masanobu Tsuji, Chief of Operations and Planning Staff, 25 Japanese Army, was largely responsible to Yamashita for the planning and execution of the seventy-day campaign, from Singora to the surrender on Singapore island. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus; salmon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The paperback edition was produced for members of the Japan Society and was not intended for resale.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
