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| BOLTON, KINGSLEY & HUTTON, CHRISTOPHER, EDS. Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies. 6 Volumes (complete). London & New York,, Routledge. 2000. (ISBN: 0415153530) . 6 volumes. 8vo, red cloth. A very good, clean set. This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries and colonial officials, and reprints the following works: Thian Ti Hwui: The Hung League [1866] Gustave Schlegel Freemasonry in China [1880] Herbert Allen Giles The Triad Society [1900] Inspector William Stanton The Hung Society, or The Society of Heaven and Earth [1956] originally published in 3 volumes, John S. M. Ward and William Stirling Triad and Tabut: A Survey of the Origin and Diffusion of Chinese and Mohamedan Secret Societies in the Malay Peninsula 1800-1935 [1941] Mervyn Llewelyn Wynne Triad Societies in Hong Kong [1960] W.P. Morgan, among others. Volume I, entitled SELECTED WRITINGS includes 27 works from the 19th century. USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 500.5 | £UK 450.75 | JP¥ 66193] Book number: 5061a Click here to order or inquire at John Gunnison-Wiseman Books. | ||
| COHEN-STRATYNER, BARBARA, ED. Scenes and Machines from the 18th Century: The Stagecraft of Jacopo Fabris and Cityoen Boullet. Translated by C. Thomas Ault. Edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. (Performing Arts Resources Volume Eleven) New York,, Theatre Library Association. 1986. (ISBN: 0932610080) . 146 pp. 25 plates. 8vo, maroon cloth. A fine copy. No dustwrapper, as issued. Translations of Fabris' /Instructions in Theatre Architecture and Mechanics / (1760) and Boullet's Essay on the Art of Constructing Theatres, Their Machines and Their Operations /(1801). USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 5288a Click here to order or inquire at John Gunnison-Wiseman Books. | ||
| GRAVEN, JEAN. L'argot et le tatouage des criminels. Etude de criminologie sociale. Neuchâtel,, Editions de la Baconnière. 1962. 152 pp. 92 illustrations. Tall 8vo, cloth. A very good, clean copy in a lightly rubbed dust wrapper. The title translates: THE SLANG AND TATTOOS OF CRIMINALS. This book, with a text in French, has 2 parts. The first part describes the slang used by criminals and includes a brief dictionary as well as some aphorisms and some songs. The first past has 48 illustrations.The second part describes and documents tattoos. The second part has 44 illustrations. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 5453a Click here to order or inquire at John Gunnison-Wiseman Books. | ||
| MANUEL, FRANK E. The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. 1959. 336 pp. 8 plates. 8vo, cloth. A good, clean copy in a used dust wrapper protected in plastic. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 5405a Click here to order or inquire at John Gunnison-Wiseman Books. | ||
| PAULSON, DON WITH ROGER SIMPSON. An Evening at the Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret in Seattle New York,, Columbia University Press. 1996. (ISBN: 0231096984) . xiii/167 pp. Illustrated. Tall 8vo, 1/4 cloth & boards. A fine copy in a scratched dust wrapper protected in plastic. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 5515a Click here to order or inquire at John Gunnison-Wiseman Books. |
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