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A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 142 pages. Text in Chinese and English. Many b&w photos.
159p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. "Never before have we faced an enemy about whom our knowledge was so inaccurate." Coldwar/Economics 2
56 pages, in two complete issues. Plus numerous photographic plates, one of which is a panoramic view and two large fold-out color maps, measuring approximately 9 x 18.5 inches (23 x 47cm) and 8 x 9 inches (20 x 23cm). Published in two separate consecutive monthly issues of the Geographical Journal. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Two complete issues, seldom found in such good and original condition. Aurel Stein's first lecture at the Royal Geographica Society and covers his travels in Chinese Turkestan. Pre-dating Aurel Stein's book, "Innermost Asia", published in 1928. A highly invaluable expedition account, profusely illustrated with spectacular photographic plates and accompanied by 2 large fold-out colour maps, containing Stein's elucidation of ancient routes, remarkable excavations, and prehistoric civilizations. Features Loulan, Tunhwang, Mastuj, Lovaza, the former delta of Quruq Darya, the Mingshui Wells and dried up Lop Sea, etc. Stein's explorations extended from Central Asia, Kansu and Eastern Iran, carried out under the orders of H.M. Government. Stein's captivating personal reveal of archaeological and geographical explorations carried out, and most significant discoveries made in the remotest parts of Asia. "Innermost Asia" is the detailed scientific report of the author's Central Asian expedition to Chinese Turkestan, tracing the ancient route across the Lop desert undertaken during the years 1913-16. This took him to Kashgar, Khotan, the Pamirs, Samarkand, before finally turning south through eastern Persia to Baluchistan. In addition to visiting old sites, he made several new excavations in the region of Turfan. At the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas he extracted more manuscripts and on his return through Persia discovered Buddhist remains at Sistan in south-east Persia. At the end of this expedition Stein's reputation as the authority on the archaeology of the Silk Road was unchallenged. As with his other great expeditions it was to be several years before the publication of the official report but when it arrived it was a great success, most copies having been sold prior to publication. Yakushi S720. A primary archaeological resource - The first discovery of Tun-Huang and the Caves of the 1000 Buddhas. With Spectacular Maps and Photographic Illustrations
Cm. 21,5 - pp. 306 - Tela ed. + sopracop. ill. Con ill. in b.n. e a colori n.t. e f.t. Timbri editoriali alla fine. Volume della Collana Saggi. "Storia, cultura, religione della civilta' nata sul "tetto del mondo" ottimo
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 16 fine coloured plates (complete with captioned guards) on 15, 123 monochrome plates on 78, 8 large folding monochrome panoramas and a large folding coloured map, some very light occasional marginal spotting as often; original sienna cloth, gilt back, upper cover blocked in gilt, gilt top, uncut, one or two leaves unopened, joints a trifle rubbed else a very good, bright, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE
français Fort in-8 de 669 pp.; cartonné de l'éditeur. Préface d'Alain Decaux. Illustrations hors texte.
Madrid, Imprenta de la Revista de Legislación, 1884. 4to.; 614 pp. Primera edición publicada en España. Encuadernación de época en pergamino a la romana, con tejuelo en piel. El precoz Staunton, de doce años, hijo del secretario de la primera embajada británica en China, George Leonard Staunton, y su maestro de chino en el Collegio dei Cinesi de Nápoles, el jesuita Li Zibiao (Jacobus Ly), fueron los dos únicos intérpretes de chino en aquella importante legación. Su dominio del idioma propició que consiguiera el puesto de encargado de la East India Company en Guangzhou, y su traducción del código legal Quing es el primer libro vertido directamente del chino al inglés. La primera edición en español se imprimió en La Habana en 1862 en traducción de Francisco de la Escosura.
8vo, br. ed. pp.258 . Mentre non accennano a sbiadire, nella memoria di chi lo ha amato, le immagini di Tiziano Terzani vestito di bianco che parla della pace, della vita e della morte, più lontana si fa nel tempo la sua figura di reporter, di grande protagonista di una stagione irripetibile del giornalismo. Questo libro ce la riporta davanti agli occhi con magnifica evidenza, quella figura, con la sua vitalità dirompente, il suo rigore professionale, la sua curiosità fenomenale, la sua travolgente risata. Ognuno degli amici e dei colleghi che da tutto il mondo hanno risposto generosamente allinvito di Angela Terzani contribuisce qui con un flash, con un ricordo più meditato, con qualche prezioso documento, anche inedito a comporre il ritratto irresistibile di un instancabile cacciatore di storie e di verità. E sono sufficienti soltanto alcuni dei titoli delle testimonianze raccolte in questo volume per capire latmosfera che vi si respira: Monsieur Moustache, Viaggiare per il mondo alla ricerca della verità, Da dove arriva, questo?, Partito senza lasciare indirizzo, Il gigante, Con i piedi più che mai piantati nella vita, Lapprovato dal cielo Completa il volume una ricca sezione di «documenti», con alcune lettere, uno scritto di Saskia Terzani e il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani, dedicato alla mitica figura che Terzani raccontò in Un altro giro di giostra. Testimonianze e ricordi di: Abbas, Mara Amorevoli Elizabeth Becker, Giovanna Botteri Salomon Bouman, Philip Bowring Paolo Breccia, Nayan Chanda Umberto Chapperon, Furio Colombo Charles-Antoine de Nerciat Siegmund Ginzberg, Pham Lan Huong Henry Kamm, Peter R. Kann Nicholas Leung, Leo Manfrini Fernando Mezzetti, Michael Nesselhauf Valerio Pellizzari, Jane Perkins Jean-Claude Pomonti, Philippe Pons James Pringle, Ilaria Maria Sala Orville Schell, William Shawcross Ith Sintahn, Bernardo Valli Willem van Kemenade, Vasu Dev Das Jue Wang, Martin Woollacott Yoichi Yokobori, Giuliano Zincone E con: le lettere ad Alessandro Berti le lettere a Terence Ward e Idanna Pucci una nota di Mukti Datta uno scritto di Saskia Terzani il Dialogo con il Vecchio di Folco Terzani
New edition of a standard work on ancient history. as well as Greece and Rome it covers Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and the Indus Civilization. "Reflecting five decades of teaching and research, and drawing on the most recent scholarship, the fourth edition of this widely-read history provides the same broad coverage, chronological framework, and absorbing literary style that distinguished previous editions. For the new edition, the chapters on early humankind, the section on the revolt of Bar Kochba, and the chapter describing the end of the Roman Empire in the west have been rewritten to incorporate the most recent scholarship, and bibliographies have been brought up to date throughout. A classic survey of history from the beginnings of humankind to the fall of the Roman Empire, Starr"s A History of the Ancient World makes the latest scholarship available to the general reader in a lively and accessible way. / Chester G. Starr, Bentley Professor of History, University of Michigan." 742p. illus bibliography.index Book
259pp.+ ills.hors-texte
290 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. First printed in the US by Harper & Brothers in 1956. "Author was born in 1901 and in 1921 was appointed to the American Legation in Peiping - although his actual diplomatic career began in 1923 when he was named Vice-Consul at Mukden. For the next eighteen years he held various posts in many parts of China, until December 1941 - while he was American Counsul at Shanghai - when the Japanese captured the city and he was interned for several months. Named Consul General at Vancouver in 1945, he left the next year to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, later American Ambassador to Thailand, a post he held until his retirement in 1953.... He saw China and Manchuria in chaos under the warlords. He witnessed the growth of Chinese nationalism, and China's suffering as first the Japanese and then the Communists struggled for ascendency." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Tanning to endpapers. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. An important account of these pivotal years in China, as witnessed by an American diplomat. Book
152 pages including bibliography, references, further reading and glossary of artist's names plus fold-out map of Japan. Black and white illustrations throughout. "The Art Gallery of Victoria is best known perhaps for its Asian Collection which is, to an overwhelming extent, the Fred and Isobel Pollard Collection of Japanese art. This group boasts one of the earliest collections of nanga paintings outside Japan. Nanga means Southern Painting, or Painting of the Southern School, a name later affixed to the idealist painting of scholar officials in China." - from Introduction. Contents include: Early Japanese Masters; Flowering of a National Style - Ikeno Taiga and His Followers; An Individualist in Kyoto; A Follower of Buson and Founder of the Shijo School; Eclectics in Edo and the Kanto Region; Progressives in the Kansai Region; Conservatives in Kyoto; Conservatives from Kyushu; Nineteenth-Century Progressives in Kyoto; The Last Great Flourish. Tight and square. Clean and unmarked. Attractive light-blue cloth-covered boards. Mild sunning at and near spine. Slight warp to front board. Negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
8vo 356+[4]pp original. Printed black cloth.
(21 x 14,8 cm). 293 p. (English Language). Original boards (softcover) with title to spine and illustrated title to front cover. Minimal signs of use, very good condition.
192 pages, illustrated, Channel 4 TV tie-in. eng
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