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176 pages, illustrated, gazetteer. eng
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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 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.
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.
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 and maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.
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…
8vo., Fourth Edition, indexes and captions in English and Chinese, with very numerous details coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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.
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., 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.
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; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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.
71 pages, illustrated, index. eng
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.43; Graham & Cole J13.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 144 pages. 10"w x 9 5/8"h. Mark on back cover. Text in Chinese and English.
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back,, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Reminiscences by the former Far East correspondent of The Observer newspaper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
