asia pacific

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ASIA
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PACIFIC

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1. Abd al Karim, Bukhari, mir. Histoire de l'Asie Centrale (Afghanistan, Boukhara,
Khiva, Khoqand) depuis les Dernieres Annees du Regne de Nadir Chah (1153),
jusqu'en 1233 de L'Hegire (1740-1818). [Volume II]. Traduction Francaise. Paris:
Ernest Leroux, 1876. This volume only (of 2). folding map, 303p. Softcover in most
of original wrapper. 28cm. Backstrip replaced by plain brown paper on which brief
title and author information is written in pencil. Front and back cover ragged around
edges and heavily glued first couple adjacent leaves. Text leaves almost entirely
unopened. Fair. French text. Publications de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes:
[Vol.] I. Edited and translated by Charles Henri Auguste Schefer. The first volume,
not present here, contained the untranslated Persian text. [84969] $150
2. Abeyasinghe, Tikiri. Portuguese Rule in Ceylon, 1594-1612. Colombo: Lake House
Investments, (1966). 1st ed. map on endpapers, 2 plates, index, xi, 247p. Original blue
boards. dj. 22cm. Text moderately browned. [82704] $75
3. Academy of Sciences MPR. Information Mongolia: The Comprehensive Reference
Source of the People's Republic of Mongolia (MPR). Oxford: Pergamon Press, (c.
1990). photos, index, xxvii, 505p. plus 3 color folding maps. Original red cloth. dj.
30cm. Minor wear on jacket. Fine. [83294] $125
4. Adams, Henry, 1838-1918. Letters from Japan. Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Donald Richie and Yoshimori Harashima. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, n.d. [1960]. xxv,
85p. Softcover in original wrapper (with a dj). 18cm. [82707] $40
5. Aguinaldo, Emilio (with Vicente Albano Pacis). A Second Look at America. New York:
Robert Speller, (1957). 1st ed. frontis, photos, index, 258p. Original black cloth. 22cm.
Spine slightly sloped. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by "Vicente Pacis" on the endpaper to
J. Graham Parsons "as a token of appreciation for a brief but memorable association
during the 1960 SEATO Council meeting." Parsons served in various Government
posts including U.S. Ambassador to Laos and later to Sweden. [82875] $100
6. Ahmad, Bashiruddin Mahmud, 1889-1965. Ahmadiyyat or the True Islam. Qadian,
Punjab, India: Talif-o-Ishaat, n.d. [Publisher's Note dated 1924]. portrait, ii, 429p.
Original dark green cloth. 20cm. Extremities frayed and worn. A couple of minor
cover spots. Good. No Jacket. [81955] $100
7. Akademiiai fanhoi RSS Tojikiston. Borbad I Khudozhestvennye traditsii narodov
tsentral'noi i perednei Azii: istroriia i sovremennost'. Titles on separate title-
pages in romanized Tajik (Barbad va sanat'ha-yi hunari-I marduman-i Asiya-yi
Markazi: diruz va imruz) and English (Borodbad and culture traditions of
Central Asiatic People: the History and the Present). Dushanbe: Izd-vo "Donish",
1990. 486p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Text moderately browned. Russian
text; table of contents also in Tajik (Arabic Script) and English. "Proceedings of a
conference held April 23-29, 1990 in Dushanbe, Tajik S. S. R. and sponsored by the
Academy of Sciences of Tajik SSR, Union of Composers, Union of Writers, Ministry
of Culture of Tajikistan and A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and
Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan" [85500] $40
8. Akademija nauk Kazachskoj SSR. Trudy Instituta Istorii, Archeologii I Etnografii
[Complete set]. Alma-Ata: 1956-1963. 1st ed. 19 volumes. Original bindings (cloth
and cloth-backed boards). Cover colors vary. 26cm. Moderate cover scuffing and
wear. Library stamping on endpapers in only one volume. A sound set. Good. Russian
text. [83877] $1,000
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9. Alder, Garry. Beyond Bokhara: The Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and
Pioneer Veterinary Surgeon 1767-1825. London: Century Publishing, (c. 1985). 1st
ed. index, xiii, 417p. Original boards. dj. 24cm. Fine. [83868] $48
10. Alekseev, G. V. [and] Yu. V. Knorozov [and] B. Ya. Volchok. Soviet Studies on
Harappan Script. Coconut Grove: Field Research Projects, 1969. ii, 35p. Softcover
in original wrapper. 28cm. Staples rusty. Edited by Henry Field and Edith M. Laird.
Russian articles translated by Hem Chandra Pande. [82864] $40
11. Allied Geographical Section. Southwest Pacific Area. Terrain Handbook 37. Romblon-
Marinduque (Philippine Series). n.p.: November, 1944. several folding maps,
photos, 82p. Softcover in original cloth-backed wrapper. 19cm. Red cloth backing
worn at top. "Restricted" printed above title on front cover. "No. 27" stamped on front
cover. [74516] $100
12. Allied Geographical Section. Southwest Pacific Area. Terrain Handbook 41. Manila
(Philippine Series). n.p.: November, 1944. several folding maps, photos, 97p.
Softcover in original cloth-backed wrapper. 19cm. Red cloth backing missing several
small chips. "Restricted" printed above title on front cover. "32" stamped on front
cover. [74513] $85
13. Allied Geographical Section. Southwest Pacific Area. Terrain Handbook 51. Panay
Island (Philippine Series). n.p.: 10 December, 1944. several folding maps, photos,
136p. Softcover in original cloth-backed wrapper. 19cm. Red cloth backing frayed at
ends. Cover scuffing and soil. "Restricted" printed above title on front cover. "No.
2309" stamped on front cover. [74512] $125
14. Allison, W. L. The Sadhs. Calcutta: Y.M.C.A. Publishing House, 1935. 127p. plus short
bibliography and index. Original green cloth. dj. 19cm. Jacket has light edge-wear and
some foxing. The Religious Life of India Series. The Sadhs are a small, monotheistic
religious sect in Central India. [82869] $50
15. Alzona, Encarnacion, editor and translator. Julio Nakpil and the Philippine
Revolution; with the Autobiography of Gregoria de Jesus. Manila: 1964. 1st ed.
photos, facsimiles, music, v, 181p. Original red cloth. dj. 25cm. Jacket lightly worn.
INSCRIBED on endpaper by Juan Nakpil, a leading Philippine architect and a son of
Julio Nakpil. The text includes Nakpil's "Apuntes sobre la Revolucion Filipina" as
written in Spanish in 1925 followed by an English translation. Gregoria de Jesus was
the wife of Julio Nakpil; her brief autobiography written in 1928 appears in the
original Tagalog followed by an English translation. [82744] $100
16. American Embassy (Vientiane, Laos). Personnel Section. United States Government
Agencies, Telephone Directory, Vientiane, Laos, August 1, 1960. [cover title].
Vientiane: Imprimerie Viengsavan, n.d. [1960]. [4], 43p. Softcover in original
wrapper. 23cm. Former owner's name and some light fading on cover. Kong Le’s
short-lived coup started 10 days after the date on this directory. [85185] $75
17. American Federation of Labor. Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion. Meat vs. Rice.
American Manhood against Asiatic Coolieism. Which Shall Survive? Washington:
GPO, 1902. frontis, 30p. Softcover. No separate wrapper. Disbound. 23cm. 57th
Congress, 1st Session. Senate Document No. 137. [84675] $100
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18. Anderson, John, 1833-1900. Mandalay to Momien: A Narrative of Two Expeditions
to Western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel
Horace Browne. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 1st ed. frontis, ills, 3 folding
maps, index, xvi, 479p. Original green cloth, rebacked with most of original backstrip
mounted. 22cm. Hinges visibly repaired and a bit stiff. Some bubbling of cover cloth.
Contents sound. Good. [84516] $300
19. Annales du Musee Guimet. Tome Septieme. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1880. This volume
ONLY. 8 plates (some folding, including a map), 186 [1.e. 386]p. Softcover in original
light green wrapper. 30cm. Cover soiling, chipping and other wear although still intact.
Contents sound and clean. Good. Mostly unopened, French text. Numerous articles,
including "Voyage au Yun-nan et ouverture du fleuve Rouge au Commerce," by M.
J. Dupuis (pp. 139-201 plus a folding map). [83251] $75
20. Anthonisz, R. G. The Dutch in Ceylon: An Account of Their Early Visits to the
Island, Their Conquests, and Their Rule over the Maritime Regions during a
Century and a Half. Volume I. Early Visits and Settlement in the Island.
Colombo: Printed at the C.A.C. Press, 1929. 1st ed. maps (1 folding), ills (1 folding),
index, 2, iv, ii, [2], 198p. Original grayish-blue cloth. 21cm. Light soil and minor
fraying. Pencilled gift inscription on endpaper. No Jacket. No further volumes were
published. [82722] $275
21. Arasaratnam, Sinnappah. Dutch Power in Ceylon, 1658-1687. New Delhi: Mrs. Nirmal
Singal for Navrang, 1988. ills, index, map, xxii, 256p. Original purple cloth. dj. 22cm.
Fading along bottom edge of cover. First published in 1958. [82716] $65
22. Arbuthnot, F. F. and Richard Francis Burton, editors. Ananga-Ranga; (Stage of the
Bodiless One) or, the Hindu Art of Love. (Ars Amoris Indica.) Translated from
the Sanskrit, and Annotated by A.F.F. & B.F.R. Cosmopoli: for the Kama Shastra
Society of London and Benares, and for Private Circulation only, 1885. index, xvi,
144p. Original vellum. 19cm. Endpapers browned. Cover rather soiled. Good. Both
sets of initial for the translated are just reversed versions of each of the editor's real
initials - a rather ineffectual feint toward anonymity. Penzer identifies this edition as
the "third" reprint [See Penzer at pages 172-173]. [84803] $85
23. Archer, John Clark. The Sikhs in Relation to Hindus, Moslems, Christians, and
Ahmadiyyas. A Study in Comparative Religion. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1946. 1st ed. photos, index, xi, 353p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj (price-
clipped). 22cm. Jacket browned. Bottom edge worn. Good. [82937] $45
24. Archer, Mildred. British Drawings in the India Office Library. London: HMSO, 1969.
1st ed. 2 vols. colored frontises, 120 plates (b & w), index, xxvii, 364, xiii, [367]-712p.
Hardcover in original black cloth. djs (price-clipped). 25cm. Light rubbing and wear
only. [83407] $50
25. Archer, Mildred. Company Drawings in the India Office Library. London: HMSO,
1972. 1st ed. frontis, xiv, index, 298p. plus (56) plates. Original brown cloth. dj. 25cm.
Fine. [83410] $40
26. Archer, Mildred. India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825. London & NY: Sotheby
Parke Bernet, 1979. maps, photos, index, 536p. Original black cloth. dj. 27cm. Fine.
[83265] $120
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27. Arends, A. K. [and] A. B. Khalidov [and] O. D. Chekhovich, editors or translators.
Bukharskii Vakf XIII v.: Faksimile. Moskva: Nauka, 1979. 133p. Original black
cloth. 26cm. Minor wear. Facsimile reproduction of the unique scroll of a draft copy
of the Arabic text of a waqf document dated 1299 from Bokhara (and supplemented
by an old Persian translation made before 1661). Brief (3 ½ page) English summary
at end. Documents from the Central State Archive in Tashkent. [83006] $100
28. Arevalo, Renato C. V. and Jose Wright, Jr., editors. Flag of the Filipino People:
Prepared for Reading in Philippine Schools on the Occasion of Flag Day June 12,
1950. By the Manila Lions Club. Manila: Lions Club of Manila, 1950. 18p.
Softcover pamphlet. 18cm. Light foxing and wear. [82518] $40
29. Ariz., Michael. Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom. Warminster:
Ariz. & Phillips, (c. 1979). 1st ed. photos, maps, folding chart, index, xxxiv, 344p.
Original cloth. Light wear. No jacket. Aris, who died in 1999, was married to Burmese
heroine Aung San Suu Kyi for the last 28 years of his life. [83582] $250
30. Arts, P. L. W. Tetsubin: A Japanese Waterkettle. Groningen: Geldermalsen
Publications, (1988). 1st ed. ills (b & w), xiii, 438p. (index and ills at end not included
in pagination). Original blue cloth. dj. 24cm. Fine. [82739] $160
31. Atwell, Pamela. British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers: The British
Administration of Weihaiwei (1898-1930) and the Territory's Return to Chinese
Rule. Hong Kong: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985. photos, index, xxiii, 302p. Hardcover.
dj. 22cm. Fine. INSCRIBED on half-title by Atwell (as "Pam"). [83809] $60
32. Audemard, Louis. Les Jonques Chinoises [Parts I-VI and IX only of 9 parts
numbered I-VI, VII/VIII, IX and X]. Rotterdam: Museum voor Land- en
Volkenkunde [and] Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik", 1957-1970. Each part
softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. Backstrips faded and some covers are also faded
around edges. Foxing and a crease on title-page in Part VI (which has some small
stains on cover). Library stamp on title-page in Part IX. Subtitles on these various
parts: (I) Histoire de la Jonque [ills, folding map, 97p.]; (II) Construction de la
Jonque [ills, folding map, 72p.]; (III) Ornamentation et Types [ills (a few color),
folding map, 61p.]; (IV) Description des Jonques [2 folding maps, 92p.]; (V) Haut
Yang Tse Kiang [ills, 72p.]; (VI) Bas Yang Tse Kiang [ills, 116p.]; and IX Contes Est
[ills, 99p.]. [85487] $600
33. Aufschnaiter, Peter. Peter Aufschnaiter: Sein Leben in Tibet. Innsbruck: Steiger, (c.
1983). 1st ed. photos, maps, colored folding map (laid in), index, 207p. Original
maroon cloth. dj. 23cm. Covers show just a hint of warping. Edited by Martin Brauen.
Peter. German text. Aufschnaiter, an Austrian mountaineer and a member of the Nazi
Party, escaped from his British captors in India, and made his way to Tibet with fellow
escapee Heinrich Harrer during World War II. Both remained in Tibet until the
Chinese invasion in 1950. [83850] $350
34. Baiao, Antonio. A Inquisicao de Goa. Lisboa: Academia das Ciencias [Vol. I]; Coimbra:
Imprensa da Universidade [Vol. II], 1945 [date on wrapper is 1949]-1930. 2 vols. 447,
18p. Later ½ leather (pebbled blue boards and black leather). Original wrapper bound
in on Vol. I. 24cm. Extremities rubbed. Joints splitting on Vol. I. Text moderately
browned on Vol. II. Good. No jackets. Portuguese text. Vol. I subtitled: Tentativa de
Historia da sua Origem, Estabelecimento, Evolucao e Extincao (Introducao a
Correspondencia dos Inquisidores da India 1569-1630); Vol. II subtitled:
Correspondencia dos Inquisidores de India (1569-1630). [79801] $100
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35. Azarpay, Guitty. Sogdian Painting: The Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art. Berkeley:
University of California, (c. 1981). ills, 30 color plates (2 double-page), index, xxii,
212p. Hardcover. dj. 28cm. Fine. Pre-Islamic state in portions of what is now
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. [83785] $275
36. Bailey, F. M. China--Tibet--Assam: A Journey 1911. London: Jonathan Cape, (c.
1945). frontis, photos, index, 175p. Original red cloth. 20cm. Spine sloped. Former
owner's name and a gift notation. No Jacket. [83858] $75
37. Baker, Ian A. The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet.
London: Thames and Company, (c. 2000). frontis, photos (by Thomas Laird; many in
color), ills, 216p. Original red cloth. dj. 32cm. Fine. [83161] $60
38. Baker, Samuel White, 1821-1893. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon. London:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. 1st ed. 6 color lithographs (including
frontis), xii, 409p. Old, probably later, ½ leather (marbled boards with green leather
backing and corners). 22cm. Minor scuffing. Mostly light foxing and browning.
Offsetting from plates (no tissue guards present). Adventure and hunting -- elephants,
water buffalo, and the sambar deer. [82793] $400
39. Baldanzhapov, P. B. Kelen-u Cimeg; Mongol'skoe Grammaticheskoe XIX veka:
Mongol'skii Tekst, Svodnyi Tekst i Perevod, Vvedenie i Primechaniia. Ulan-Ude:
Buriatskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1962. 134p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Light
cover wear. Mongolian text (with an appendix: Grammatika Tibetskogo Iazyka).
[81858] $75
40. Barfield Thomas J. Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan: Pastoral Nomadism in
Transition. Austin: University of Texas Press, (c. 1981). 1st ed. index, xxii, 182p.
Hardcover. dj 23cm. SIGNED on title-page by Barfield. Fine. [83303] $45
41. Baring-Gould, Sabine, 1834-1924, and Charles Agar Bampfylde, 1856-1918. A History
of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908. London: Sotheran, 1909. 1st
ed. photos in text, folding map, index, xxiii, 464p. Original wine-colored cloth. 23cm.
Extremities lightly rubbed. No Jacket. Three-page Preface by C. Brooke, the second
rajah. [83518] $250
42. Barnhart, Richard M. [and many others]. The Jade Studio Masterpieces of Ming and
Qing Painting and Calligraphy from the Wong Nan-p'ing Collection. New Haven:
Yale, (c. 1994). 1st ed. ills (many in color), photo, maps, index, 307p. Original cloth.
dj. 31cm. SIGNED on half-title by James Cahill who wrote one of the introductory
essays. Introduction by Richard M. Barnhart. Exhibited at the Yale University Art
Gallery April 9, 1993 - July 31, 1994 and later at two other American museums and
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Fine. [82690] $750
43. Barrett, T. H. Li Ao: Buddhist, Taoist, or Neo-Confucian? Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1992. 1st ed. index, x, 178p. Original boards. dj. 22cm. Fine. [83806] $175
44. Barthold, V. V. Four Studies on the History of Central Asia. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958-
1962. 2nd printing of Vol. I; 1st printing of Vols. II and III. 3 vols. frontises, photos,
indexes, xvi, 183, xii, 200, vii, 187p. Cloth. 19cm. Some cover fading and minor wear.
Later bookplate in each volume identifying Joseph Francis Fletcher, Jr. as a former
owner. Translated from the Russian by V. and T. Minorsky. [83034] $275
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45. Bax, B. W. Eastern Seas: being a Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. "Dwarf" in
China, Japan, and Formosa. With a Description of the Coast of Russian Tartary
and Eastern Siberia, from the Corea to the River Amur. London: John Murray,
1875. frontis, folding map, ills, x, 287p. Rebound in contemporary ½ leather. 20cm.
Cover somewhat worn with substantial scuffing and spotting. Former owner's name
stamp (Captain B. Long, R. N.") on half-title. Contents sound with some light
browning and scattered foxing. Good. [83825] $750
46. Beechey, F. W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-
operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom,
under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey ... in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 1st octavo ed. 2 vols. 3 folding
maps (two rather large), 24 plates (4 double-page), xxvi, 472, iv. 452p. Modern ½
mottled leather. Trimmed when rebound (20.2cm.). Maps and plates all present but
darkened with significant foxing and soiling; contents otherwise sound with only
minimal foxing. Good. An important multi-year voyage that included visits to Pitcairn
Island, Tahiti, Russian America (Alaska), Hawaii, the Loo Choo Islands (Okinawa and
other Ryukyu Islands), etc. A quarto edition in one volume was also published in 1831.
[85510] $1,000
47. Belcher, Diana Joliffe, Lady. The Mutineers of the Bounty and their Descendants in
Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands. London: John Murray, 1870. 1st ed. frontis, ills, 420p.
Rebound in later blue 19th century 1/2 leather. 19cm. Cover heavily scuffed. Contents
sound and clean. Good. [83780] $85
48. Beliaev, Viktor M. Central Asia Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the
Peoples of the U. S. S. R. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (c. 1975). 1st ed.
in English. xvi, 340p. Original blue cloth. 26cm. Fine. This abridged English-language
version was edited and translated by Mark Slobin. [83608] $55
49. Bell, Charles. The Religion of Tibet. London: Oxford University Press, 1931. color
frontis, photos, folding map, pages unopened, index, xv, 235p. Blue cloth. dj (price-
clipped). 23cm. Jacket only Good (edges chipped and worn with some marks from old
cellophane tape repairs). [84350] $350
50. Bell, Charles Alfred. The People of Tibet. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. 1st ed.
frontis, photos, 2 folding maps, xix, 319p. Original dark blue cloth. 22cm. Edges
bumped. Light wear. No Jacket. [83828] $125
51. Bell, Charles Alfred. Tibet: Past & Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1924.
1st ed. frontis, photos, 2 folding maps, index, xiv, 326p. Original blue cloth. dj. 23cm.
Minor wear only. Information about another Central Asian book inked on front free
endpaper. [84351] $700
52. Bengal Provincial Railway Company, Limited. Certificate for One Special Share
costing 100 rupees for the Dasghara-Jamalpurgunj Extension. Dated 9th
December 1916. n.p.: Dated 1916.. 25 x 30cm. Splitting along later folds. Good.
Signed by Secretary and two Directors. Payment information on back as if noting a
transfer in 1929. [85287] $125
53. Bennett, Terry. Korea Caught in Time. Reading (UK): Garnet Publishing, (1997). 1st
ed. photos (a few color), index, xiv, 144p. Original blue cloth. dj. 26cm. Fine. Early
Korean photographs and the non-Korean photographers who took them. Introduction
by Martin Uden. [82999] $75
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54. Benveniste, Emile, editor. Textes Sogdiens. Paris: Geuthner, 1940. 1st ed. ix, 284p.
Original cloth-backed boards. 32cm. Corner chipped. Contents lightly age-toned. No
Jacket(probably never had one). Sogdian text above with French translation below;
Commentray, Glossary, etc in French. Mission Pelliot en Asie Centrale. Serie in-
Quarto, III. [85451] $250
55. Benveniste, Emile, editor. Vessantara Jataka: Texte Sogdien. Paris: Geuthner, 1946.
x, 136p. Softcover in original wrapper. 33cm. Backstrip chipped at ends. Sogdian text
above with French translation below; other material in French. Mission Pelliot en Asie
Centrale, Serie in-Quarto, IV.[85450] $150
56. Bernard, Theos. Penthouse of the Gods: A Pilgrimage into the Heart of Tibet and the
Sacred City of Lhasa. New York: Scribner's, 1939. frontis, photos, index, xii, 344p.
Original black cloth. Printed photo mounted on front cover. 24cm. A handsome copy
of an unspecified early printing. [82515] $75
57. Bertel's, E. E. Navoi I Dzhami. Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka" Glavnaia red. vostochnoi lit-ry,
1965. 498p. Original cloth. 26cm. No jacket. Russian text (part in Jagataic). Bertel's
Izbrannye Trudy, t. 4. [84992] $60
58. Besant, Annie. Shall India Live or Die? [Madras?]: The National Home Rule League,
New India Bookshop, 1925. index, 159, 25p. Original olive green cloth. 22cm.
Moderate cover wear. Corners rubbed. Former owner's name and name stamp. Good.
No Jacket. [83808] $50
59. Bhanja, Kamalesh C. Mystic Tibet and the Himalaya. Darjeeling: Gilbert & Company,
(c. 1948). 1st ed. ills, photos, 306p. Original blue cloth. dj. 22cm. Chipped at ends of
backstrip (which is also browned by an old tape mark).Tape marks on endpapers.
Good. [83842] $40
60. Bickford, Maggie. Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1996). 1st ed. Illustrated (b & w), index,
xix, 295p. Original cloth. dj. 28cm. Fine. SIGNED by Bickford on title-page. This
scarce study was awarded a Joseph Levenson Book Prize as the best book of the year
on pre-20th century China. [82817] $500
61. Bicol River Basin Development Program. [Manila?]: n.p., 1973. folded maps, xi, 138,
[30]p. Photocopied text in original spiral bound wrapper. 33cm. [85191] $45
62. Billeter, Jean Francois. The Chinese Art of Writing. Geneva: Skira; NY: Rizzoli,
(1990). Illustrated (some color), index, 319p. Original cloth. dj. 27cm. Fine. Card
slipcase (Skira) present. [82852] $100
63. Bishop, Isabella Lucy (Bird), 1831-1904. Korea and Her Neighbors: A Narrative of
Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Position of the Country.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, (c. 1897). 3rd ed. frontises, photos, folding map, index,
488p. plus (4)p. publisher's adverts. Original red cloth. 21cm. Backstrip somewhat
faded. Ends of backstrip & cover edges rubbed. No Jacket. [84561] $175
64. Bishop, Isabella Lucy (Bird), 1831-1904. The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: an
Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among
the Man-Tze of Somo Territory. New York: Putnam's, 1900. 1st Amer. ed. 2 vols.
frontis, photos, folding map, index, xii, 410, vii, 365p. Original dark blue cloth. 23cm.
Corners lightly bumped. No Jacket. [83822] $250
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65. Bock, Carl Alfred, 1849-1932. Temples and Elephants; The Narrative of a Journey
of Exploration through Upper Siam and Lao. London: Sampson Low, Marston,
Searle & Rivington, 1884. 1st ed. frontis, plates (2 colored) folding map, index, xvi,
438p. Recent quarterbinding (brown marbled-paper over boards backed in brown
leather). 22cm. Lacks portrait of author which should face page 1. Library call number
inked at bottom of title-page (some offsetting on frontis). No other library markings
present. Text lightly browned. [85469] $750
66. Boerschmann, Ernst, 1873-1949. Die Baukunst und Religiose Kultur der Chinesen:
Einzeldarstellungen auf Grund Eigener Aufnahmen Wahrend Dreijahriger
Reisen in China. Berlin und Leipzig: George Reimer (Vols. I and II); Walter de
Gruyter & Co. (Vol. III), 1911, 1914 and 1931. 1st ed. 3 volumes. ills, plates (some
color and/or folding), maps, folding plans, xvii, 203, xii, 288, xv, 428p. Volume 1
neatly rebound in tan buckram. Volumes 2 & 3 in original yellow-orange cloth. 31cm.
Printed later biographical sketch of Boerschmann mounted on a blank leaf in Vol. I.
Unbound folding plates 31-36 in Vol. II still in original band inside back cover. No
Jackets. German text. Titles of individual volumes: Band I: P'u T'o Shan: die Heilige
Insel der Kuan Yin der Gottin der Barmherzigkeit ; Band II: Gedachtnistempel Tze
Tang; and Band III: Pagoden Pao Ta. [84687] $3,500
67. Boerschmnn, Ernst. Picturesque China: Architecture and Landscape: A Journey
through Twelve Provinces. New York: Brentano's Inc., (c. 1925). 1st Amer. ed. ills,
xxii, 288p. Original red cloth. 31cm. Ends of backstrip faded and heavily chipped at
ends (missing 3cm. at bottom) . Joint cloth splitting. Contents, consisting photos
captioned in English, French, German and Chinese and preceded by a brief
introduction and a List of Illustrations (the photos), are sound and clean. Fair. No
Jacket. [84662] $250
68. Bonvalot, Gabriel, 1853-1933. Across Thibet being a Translation of "De Paris au
Tonking a Travers le Tibet Inconnu" New York: Cassell, (c. 1892). 1st Amer. ed.
frontis, ills, xiii, folding map (in cover pocket), 417p. Orig. cloth. 24cm. Minor cover
soil. Ends of backstrip rubbed (some discoloration). Gift note glued on free endpaper.
Translated by C. B. Pitman (who also wrote a brief Preface.). [84595] $200
69. Bonvalot, Gabriel, 1853-1933. Through the Heart of Asia; over the Pamir to India.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1889. 1st ed. in English. 2 vols. ills, folding map, 281, x,
249p. Original bluish-green cloth. Pictorial scene on front covers. 25cm. Ex lib. (Mark
Skinner Library in Manchester, Vermont). Minor remnants where spine labels were
removed. Translated from the French by C. B. Pitman. [84610] $350
70. Bosshard, Walter. Durch Tibet und Turkistan: Reisen im Unberuhrten Asien.
Stuttgart: Strecker & Schroder, (c. 1930). 1st ed. frontis, ills (including a folding
panorama), maps, index, xiv, 245p. Original cloth. 22cm. German text. No Jacket.
[84590] $75
71. Bower, Ursula Graham. Drums Behind the Hill. New York: Wm. Morrow, 1950. 1st ed.
photos, index, vi, 270p. Original yellow cloth. dj. 21cm. Scuffing and edge-wear on
jacket. Cover edges rubbed. Nine years among the Naga. [83810] $65
72. Brand, Michael and Glenn D. Lowry, editors. Fatehpur-Sikri: A Sourcebook.
Cambridge: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. frontis, photo, xi, 333p.
Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Fine. [83264] $125