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Features: Solar Eclipse of 1980 - scientists race totality; Devils, Quolis, Dunnarts and Thylacines - a survey of Tasmanian mammals; Journey into Northern China - impressions of a scientist; A Geologist in Alaska - John C. reed on 45 years in the boondocks; Nebraska Miocene Giant Turtle - complete skeleton reveals new species; Niger - Tenere Expedition - geographical and archeological observations; Transglobe Expedition Now in Antarctica - British explorers circling globe on polar axis; Exploring Canada's Ellice River - observing Arctic tundra flora and fauna; New support for Archeological Discovery; Malaysia-Singapore Waterway Border - United Nations Law of the Sea problems. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Black River area of the Mosquito Coast, Honduras - Rio Tinto Expedition; The Footsteps of Liu - variety of amphibians and reptiles; Yellowstone - Nature's Laboratory; The Panama Choco Expedition - Flag 172; The Transglobe Expedition completes objectives and receives the Explorers Medal; A visit to South China. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Aniakchak; The Explorers Club Flag; Lewis N. Cotlow, Medalist; First Contact with New Guinea Primitives; By Outrigger from Bali to Madagascar; The Yi in Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, China; An Unusual Find at Cyprus; The Kabiye of West Africa. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Friendship versus love; Manners Upon the Road - of porches; New York Fashions - plain-basque suit, spring suits, capes, corsages, the watteau postilion, upper skirts, polonaises with capes, lower skirts and kilting; Personal; Fans and Jet Jewelry; Ball and Evening Coiffures; Lady's knitted girdle; embroidered crepe de Chine scarf; gentleman's knitted chest protector; lady's knitted and crochet house shoe; knitted and crochet overshoe; flannel sole for house shoes; lilac velvet and satin cravat bow; black gros grain cravat bow with fringed ends; tapestry border for rugs, cairs, etc.; Cross Purposes - a Valentine Story; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The First Installment - half past eight on Valentine morning; Wonderful full-page series of illustrations depicting "Cupid's Adventures", by Frank Bellew; London's Heart - continued; Nice illustration "Going to the Matinee" shows happy family in carriage; Some Old Dresses; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk ball dress with tulle trimming; satin and gauze ball dress; Chasing a Moth; Some Social Customs; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring goods, fassementerie; China crape paletots, black grenadine suits; watch-case simulating a beetle; fan with satin stitch embroidery; crape, lace, and gros grain Bertha; Small Superstitions; On Domestic Scape-Goats; Hannah - continued; The fashionable season; sayings and doings; Aigrettes for hats, etc.; Desiree, by Justin McCarthy; The Fisherman's Darling; Lent - Ancient and Modern; Infinitely Little People; Family breakfasts and dinners; Alice Cary - write-up with illustration; Nice full-page illustration entitled "The Fisherman's Darling"; humor. Average wear. Book
Features: Turkish Military attache murdered in Ottawa by Armenians - Atilla Altikat; Harnessing the mighty Slave River; Takla Lake, B.C. shooting; Days of danger at Friendship Pass - China and Vietnam; Lebanon - moving into a a perilous vacuum; The Nugan Hand scandal; Soviet Union losing the long battle for bread; Looking into Amway's empire; The bull markets march on; Olympian Calgary task for David Leighton; Ricky Henderson keeps stealing bases; Cover Story - the new medicine's grave risks - PET machine, colour-enhanced X-ray, etc.; Learning the joys of the Logo language; Sackloth adversity - Winnipeg nuns go door-to-door for money; Zoot Capri; Canadian War Museum commemorates Dieppe tragedy; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Salisbury Hall - The Hertfordshire Home of Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Goldsmith; John Edwards - Georgian Silversmith; Frank Partridge's Exhibition; Treasures of Wilton House, Salisbury, Wiltshire; The Ceramic Art of China; An English neo-classic Commode and some interesting comparisons; Henry Holland Exhibition; Portrait and Landscape- Dutch Pictures at the Queen's Gallery; Fair news; and more. Few markings. Average wear. Book
168 pages. Features: Cover art entitled "Coffee Carriers" by Candido Portinari; Reports on Red China, Turkey, and Washington, D.C.; Can Men Live Without War, by Vannevar Bush; Rhythm in My Blood, by Agnes De Mille; Asia's Needs and Western Policy, by Barbary Ward; Poetry by E.G. Burrows, Harold Witt, James L. Rosenberg, and Daniel Sullivan; Medal in the Sky, by Leo Rosten; Mozart and Nancy Storace, by Boris Goldovsky; The Fly Farm, by Grant Cannon; The Day Aunt Chaya was Buried, by Wolf Mankowitz; The Stature of Harry Truman, by Herbert Elliston; Brazil - The Good Neighbor - Essays, Stories and Verse by Brazillian Writers. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Front cover partially detached. Back cover not included. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 7-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Interesting stories about Hungary border dispute, rescue of airmen from arctic ice, flyer Frank Hawks selling planes in China, and many more; nice photo of Princess Elizabeth on horseback; editorial page; social pages; Large Hudson's Bay Company ad; Story about how a Baptist girl was banned because of her Methodist husband; Entertainment page; Large ads for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Bit of writing atop first page. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: The Black Caiman of Zancudo Cocha; Solo in the Arctic; Explorations Among the Stars; In Search of Hypercharge - A Matter of Some Gravity; Huautla; Yamantaka - Tibet's Yak-headed Deity; Soko Islands, South China Sea. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
230 pages including index plus black and white photographic plates. Subject (1873-1960) had two great careers, first as a missionary in China, and then as a collector and curator of one of the world's greatest museum collections of Chinese archeology. Recounts the history of a rich life that bridged two diverse cultures. Book unmarked, clean and square with minimal wear. Small tear and moderate edgewear to dust jacket. Book
Exhibition catalog in excellent condition in every respect from the show of the same name at the Publisher's gallery from June to October 1994. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 110 pages with deep red end papers, heavily illustrated with large full color prints of the sculptural pieces that make the show, usually two pieces per page. Text in English and Chinese.
First edition, 32pp., title and following three leaves partly foxed, with the library stamps of the Garrison Library, Malta, disbound. Cust, orientalist and founder of the Royal Asiatic Society, was a member of the Indian Civil Service.
4 Vols., 4to, 317; 274; 256; 230pp., orig. cloth-backed boards. Volume I: The Netherlands and British East Indies and the Philippine Islands. Volume II: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. Volume III: Malaya, Thailand, Indo China, the China Coast and the Japanese Empire. Volume IV: Supplement to volumes 1, 2 & 3.
Librairie Armand Colin. 1900. In-12 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Tâchée. Dos fané. Quelques rousseurs. 360 pages. Illustré de photo-gravures en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons et annotation de bibliothèque en page de titre. Dos muet et taché. 2e édition. Avec 12 planches hors texte. La politesse chinoise. Le dédain de la sincérité et de la précision. Le mépris du temps. La femme chinoise. Le culte des ancêtres. Le journalisme. La monnaie. Les pauvres...
Original Wraps. 4to. iv, 378 pp; folding end map/ 109 pp; soft cover, would need rebinding , lower end of front cover soiled, frail, end cover and last pages detached. but present, large fldng map present and in excellent state. broché. fragile, rare china 1940 anastatic reprint of 1900 orignal.
ISBN : 274330376X. IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE. 2000. In-Folio Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 267 pages augmentées de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et couleur dans et hors texte. jaquette satisfaisante ( legerement abimée en coiffe )
ISBN : 2213005095. FAYARD. 1977. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 593 + 678 pages
Albin Michel. 1966. In-Folio Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Bon état. Coins frottés. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 167 pages. Illustré de très nombreuses photos héliogravées en couleur et en noir et blanc hors texte, grand format. Etiquette de code sur le dos (jaquette). Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque en page de titre. Jaquette déchirée et annotée, avec manques. Textes de Emil Egli, Edgar Snow, Harry Hamm, Emil Schulthess. Préface de Jules Roy.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Includes 40 ink drawings. Slight wear to cover.
8vo, br. ed. 652pp. La Balance des discours(Lunheng) est un recueil d'essais du penseur des Han orientaux, Wang Chong (27-100 ?). Le but de l'auteur était de mettre sur la balance les opinions et les moeurs de son temps pour inciter les hommes à plus de sagesse et de bon sens. Avec Wang Chong, on pénètre au coeur de la mentalité des lettrés des Han, de leurs habitudes et des mouvements d'idées qui les agitaient. Ses connaissances encyclopédiques, son sens de l'observation et son goût de l'exemple concret font aussi de l'ouvrage un réservoir inépuisable d'informations sur la culture et la société chinoises anciennes. Les vingt-cinq traités traduits dans la présente anthologie sont organisés autour de trois thèmes, destin, providence et divination, qui forment un ensemble cohérent. Il est difficile en effet d'aborder la question du destin chez Wang Chong sans empiéter sur le terrain de la providence, ni de parler des présages indépendamment de sa conception de l'action du Ciel dans le monde, de même que ses vues sur la divination et la magie ne peuvent se comprendre sans faire appel à sa théorie du destin. La mise à l'index de la Balance des discours au XIIe siècle par les lettrés des Song sous la double accusation d'un manque de révérence à l'égard de Confucius et d'une complaisance affichée pour le taoïsme en a fait un écrit souvent qualifié de marginal. Redécouvert au XXe siècle, Wang Chong passe dès lors pour le champion d'un rationalisme critique à la chinoise. Par-delà les excès de l'ère maoïste où il est érigé en parangon du matérialiste anti-confucéen, sa défiance à l'égard des idéologies, son pessimisme teinté d'ironie, sa philosophie vitaliste enfin et son rejet de toute intelligence divine : tout cela confère à ses écrits un pouvoir décapant qui les rend attractifs et finalement proches de nous. texte a front en chinois.
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 279 pp, color frontis, 24 illus, index. original cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dj (not price clipped, spine faded, short tear, chip), near fine in good dj, book interior is clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes the history of plant hunting in the area, the source for much of today's nursery stock. He describes the exploits of major plant hunters including Fortune, Wilson, Forrest and Kingdon Ward, as well as many of the less known botanists, from Britain, America and Europe who travelled there. A readable yet detailed account by this important garden writer, who personally knew many of the important 20th century gardeners and plant hunters. Later editions did not have the frontis in color of the Primula Sinensis.
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [viii], 58 pp, frontis portrait, plates from photos, drawing, folding genealogical table, bibliog. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped, residue of price sticker removal, light wear at top edge), else fine and clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A biography of scientist, explorer, writer, artist, author of Through Shen-kan; Fur and Feather in North China; A Naturalist's Holiday by the Sea; A Naturalist's Notebook in China, and many others. The work includes much on the Sowerby family, the Clark Expedition, the Shensi Relief Expedition, early collecting, the bandit situation in China, life in Shanghai, much on China including the Japanese occupation, etc.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps (a number folding), free endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 106.
