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	ADELAAR, A & N.P. HIMMELMANN, (EDS.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. . This book provides a detailed, reliable account of these languages, It is reliable source of data, arranged according to the natural system of classification: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, sem antics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. 2004, xxi,841pp. New copy Hardback. GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 216.5 US$ 323.9 \| JP¥ 28615] Book number: F0777-3 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	ALLISON, G.H., Easy Thai. An Introduction to the Thai Language. . With exercises and answer key. a gradual and cumulative system with little time wasted. Charles E. Tuttle, 1969xiii,106pp. paper. GBP 5.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.88 \| JP¥ 873] Book number: 092302HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	BARCKHAUSEN, J., L'empire Jaune de Genghis-Khan. . Paris, Payot, 1942, 279pp. + advert, half of the text uncut, text yellowed, paperback [AL]. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 \| JP¥ 1174] Book number: F1101 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	BROOK, T., The Confusions of Pleasure. Commerce and Culture in Ming China . University of California, 1998, xxvii, 320 pp. illustrated, fine hardback in fine d/j [ SP China ]. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 \| JP¥ 1174] Book number: 092893HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CAPPELLER, CARL, Sanskrit-Wörterbuch Nach Den Petersburger Wörterbüchern Bearbeitet . 1966,VIII, 541pp. Reprint of the edition 1887 published in Straßburg , fine hardback. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 \| JP¥ 11006] Book number: 093011 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	TIEN-YI LI AND RICHARD F. CHANG Advanced Chinese Reader and 9 Other Titles/Volumes on the Chinese Language / China . Compiled and annotated by Tien-yi Li and Richard F. Chang .This advanced Chinese Reader is broadly representative of the baihua or colloquial writings that have appeared in print from the Literary Revolution of 1917 to the present time. There are altogether twenty-nine selections in the book. The Chinese University Press, 1992, 454pp. good paperback. AND: Red Cross handbook of health problems for childrten in chinese, Geneva n.d. 80pp. paperback; AND: Elementary Chinese readers volumes 2 and 3 (revised editions) Beijing, Sinolingua, 1999-2002, 377,244pp. paparbacks; K.L. Kiu: 100 judicial cases from Ancient china 1991, 269pp. ( bi-lingual texts Chinese-English on opposite pages; Fan-yu Wang: Introduction to Chinese Cursive Script.( Mirror Series A, No. 28 ) Yale University 1972, XXX,240pp. paperback, partly printed in black and red; Tien-Yi Li: Chinese Newspaper Manual. Revised edtion (Mirror series A, No. 15 ) Yales University 1967, 266pp. paperback; Huang Zhengcheng a.o. (of the Beijing Languages institute) Chinbese for today book 2 in 2 parts. Beijing 1989, 428 103pp. illustrated grammar and reader. paperbacks.AND Elementary Chinese readers VOLUMES 2 AND 3, Beijing, 1999-2002,243,377pp. Paperbacks. (ISBN: 962-201-533-6) . GBP 19.50 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 US$ 32.39 \| JP¥ 2861] Book number: 092321HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CHANG, NAMGUI AND YONG-CHOL KIM Functional Korean . (A Communicative Approach Textbook)Each of the 18 lessons contains grammar and usage, words and phrases, summary of verb forms, reading and writing, and more. Contents include; "Greetings," "Office Visits," "Dining Out," "Taking Short Trips," "Shopping," etc. Hollym International , 1989. - 4to. - 382pp. Roy8vo. hardback with d/j [ sp langs ]. (ISBN: 0930878655) . GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 14.12 \| JP¥ 1247] Book number: 092341HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL R., ETC. Masterworks of Asian Art . Cleveland museum of art / Thames & Hudson, 1998, 31cm. 254pp. 125 colour plates Bound in d/j lge4to. front of d/j faded [ SP]. GBP 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 19.5 US$ 29.07 \| JP¥ 2568] Book number: 012644 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	DAUB, EDWARD E. - R. BYRON BIRD - NOBUO INOUE. Comprehending Technical Japanese. . Contents:preface, explanatory notes, lessons 1 - 25. Appendixes: A. Kanji Frequencylists. B. The five hundred Kanji tabulated according to on readings. C. The five hundred Kanji tabulated according to stroke count. D. The five hundred Kanji tabulated according to Nelson's radicals. E. Readings of mathematical expressions. F. Index to construction examples. G. Index to explanatory notes. H. Dictionaries and reference works. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 437pp. good hardback in torn d/j. text sl. browned [ SP langs]. (ISBN: 0299066800) . GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 \| JP¥ 1174] Book number: 092342HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	EIICHI KIYOOKA, (ED.) Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women: Selected Works . University of Tokyo Press, 1988, XV,254pp. very good hardback in d/j [SP]. (ISBN: Fukuzawa Yukich) . GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 20.76 \| JP¥ 1834] Book number: F0198HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	ELVERSKOG , J., The Jewel Translucent Sutra. Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century . (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 8) The first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, the Mongolian history of Altan Khan and his descendants, offering a full-range English-written historical and literary evaluation of this unique and fairly reliable, but long neglected discovery in Mongolian studies. With transcription, word index and English translation, as well as extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan´s reign, especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion. In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan´s reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan´s Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu state. Vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming. 2003, 400pp. hardback. GBP 115.00 [Appr.: EURO 127.75 US$ 191.02 \| JP¥ 16875] Book number: 008578b Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	FORBES, JONATHAN Eleven Years in Ceylon. . Comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony, and an account of its antiquities. By Major Forbes, 78th Highlanders..[4 lines] In two volumes. Vol. I. [-Vol. II] London: Richard Bentley. [1 line] 1840. [ Gregg International, 1972].(facsimile reprint of 1840 edition) 192cm. 2 vols. bound in one. xii, [2], 423; viii, 356p. illus. cloth. OCLC 335364 TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE, SET On page [214]-324 of vol. II, appears George Turnour's(1799-1843) "Epitome of Singalese [ST]. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 107.97 \| JP¥ 9538] Book number: 005925 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	HUTCHINGS, G., Modern China. A Guide to a Century of Change. . Harvard University Press, 2001, XXII, 529pp. illustrations in the text and on plates. fine hardback in fine dust jacket. GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 20.76 \| JP¥ 1834] Book number: F0989HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CHAU JU-KUA His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade . in the Twefth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by Friedrich Hirth and W. W. Rockhill. ST. PETERSBURG: Printing Office of the Imperial Office of the Academy of Sciences, 1911 [1912 on front cover]. 28cm. ix, 288p. fold. map, uncut pages, wrappers. REPRINT 1938. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 \| JP¥ 11006] Book number: 012246 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	LAPOLLA, RANDY J. A Grammar of Qiang . (Mouton Grammar Library 31) This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories), and an annotated glossary. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. The phonology of Qiang is quite complex, with 39 consonants at seven points of articulation, plus complex consonant clusters, both in initial and final position, as well as vowel harmony, vowel length distinctions, and a set of retroflexed vowels. The grammar also is complex, with a paradigm of eight direction marking verbal prefixes, and two paradigms for person marking, one for actor, one for non-actor, and a variety of other verbal prefixes and suffixes, as well as definite and number marking on nouns. Noun phrases take classifiers and relational pospositions as well. 2003, hardback. GBP 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 161 US$ 240.85 \| JP¥ 21278] Book number: 090974 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	LATHAM, A., Africa, Asia and South America Since 1800 . A bibliographical guide. This work consists of the bibliographical details of a selection of over 5000 books writen in English dealing with the history of Africa, Asia and South America since 1800. Most of the items are books published since 1945, and many are very recent, but important works writen earlier have also been included. Manchester University Press, 1995. xxxiii, 233pp. hardback, as new condition, no d.wr. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.95 \| JP¥ 1321] Book number: M30 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	LUKOFF, F., (ED.) A Ffirst Reader in Korean Writing in Mixed Script. . Seoul, Yonsei University Press, 1982, XIX, 300pp. very good paperback [sp]. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.78 \| JP¥ 1394] Book number: F0614HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	MATSUMOTO, NOBUHIRO, Le Japonais Et Les Langues Austroasiatiques. . Étude de vocabulaire comparé/ (Austro-Asiatica, documents et travaux, volume 1 ) Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928x, [2] 112 [7] pp. paperback, margins untrimmed, unopened. text sl. browned. [ LL ]. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 092401HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	MILLS, HARRIET WITH P.S. NI Intermediate Reader in Modern Chinese. 3 Volumes, . Cornell University Press, Third printing 1978 for 1 and 2 and 2nd printing 1971 for volume 3, lge4to sized volumes, volume 1 pages not numbered (about 300 ) volume 2:366pp. Volume 3 xi + pp. 369 - 741. [ SP ]. GBP 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 US$ 27.41 \| JP¥ 2421] Book number: 092353HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	NORIO TAMAKI, Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901 . Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan Yukichi Fukuzawa was one of the most effective business entrepreneurs in early modern Japan. He was the inspiration of the Yokohama Specie Bank, without which the Japanese could not have set up a sound banking system. He instigated the bookstore chain Maruzen. He was adviser to the newly founded shipbuilding and mining Mitsubishi and helped drag the old established House of Mitsui into the modern age. It is no surprise that Fukuzawa is featured on the Japanese ¥10000 bank note. Contents: Abbreviations, List of Tables, List of Maps, List of Photos, Fukuzawa Family Tree, Fukuzawa Chronology, Preface. PART I: THE FATHERLESS BOY IN REBELLIOUS JAPAN, 1835-1859. Nakatsu and Nagasaki, Feudal Lords and Dutch Interlopers. The Quest for Western Studies in Nagasaki and Osaka. A Schoolmaster Learning English in Edo: 'His kimono pockets always full of books'. PART II: EXPLORING THE WEST, 1860=1867. Kanrinmaru, the First Japanese Journey Across the Pacific, February to June 1980. London a Treasure Trove: 'Enrich the country and strengthen the army' a year in Europe, January 1862 to January 1863. On A Wild Goose Chase: a Mission to USA, February to July 1867. PART III: EDUCATING THE JAPANESE POPLE, 1866-1875. The Making of Conditions in the West. 'I cannot work as a subordinate': Independence at Keio Gijuku, 1868, Tokyo (Edo). A Scholarly Entrepreneur: A Change of direction in the mid 1870s. PART IV: LEARN AND EARN, EARN AND LEARN: The Entrepreneurial Businessman, 1869-1893. Maruzen, a Joint Stock Experiment. The Yokohama Specie Bank, the Guardian of Japan's Gold and Silver. Mitsubishi the Three Diamonds and Yataro Iwasaki. 'The Mitsui matter is very delicate indeed' . PART V: 'THE LEADER OF THE PEOPLE' 1897-1901. Scholars Division of Labour: I am going to meet visitors in Kojunsha. Jiji Shinpo out of the Political Turbulence of 1881: Leave Asia. The Rise and Rise of Keio Businessmen: 'the genuine business method in the civilization' . 'The Saga of Mita' . Appendix: Directory of fifty men associated with Fukuzawa. Notes Bibliography. Index. Reviews: Published in the centenary year of his death, this book supplies what has long been needed: a critical biography in English of a major Japanese figure. It contains fine illustrations and generous quotations from original sources which are of outstanding interest.' - Ian Nish, The Japan Society Palgrave (MacMillan) 2001, xxvi,252pp. fine hardback in fine d/j. 8vo. 280 pp. (ISBN: 0333801210) . GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 092267HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	NOSS, RICHARD B. AND IM PROUM WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF D.I. PURTLE AND SOMETH SUOS, Cambodian Basic Ccourse. 2 Volumes. . Washington, Foreign service institute, 1966 - 1970, 449, 364pp. lge4to paperbacks. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 092748HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	O'NEILL, P. G. A Reader of Handwritten Japanese. . Kodansha International, 1984, 267pp. V.g. copy in v.g. d/j. A collection of handwritten Japanese letters sent to Prof. O'Neill and his careful, detailed translations of them. This is a useful collection of one hundred handwritten documents accompanied by transcriptions, translations, and notes. An introduction presents a most valuable summary of the form and expressions typical of written letters, while several appendices provide information on such things as variant printed and handwritten forms of kanji and kana. The volume ends with an index and glossary. (ISBN: 0870116983) . GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 092317HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	PARK, B. NAM, Korean Basic Course Volume 1 . (Wasshington, Foreign service institute, 1968, viii,553pp. quarto. in worn wrappers, 3 marginal holes punched front to back next to spine [sp]. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 092759HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	ROBERTSON, WILLIAM The Works. Volume 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,11,(of 12 Volumes) . London, Edinburg, and Glasgow, W. Sharpe & Son, W. Stewart & Co. W. Turnbull et al. 1820, We offer: Volumes 1- 3: : The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his accession to the crown of England with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period; and an appendix containing original papers.Vol. I: CXXXVI,223pp. portrait on frontisp. Vol. II:430pp. Vol. III: 503pp. Volumes IV: and VII: The history of the reign of the emperor Charles V with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Vol. IV (vol. 1).XI,500pp. Vol. VII,(vol. 4) 400pp.Volume VIII, IX and XI: The history of America, vols 1,2 and 4. Volume VIII: XLVIII,374pp.the frontispiece is a folding map of South America; Volume IX :427pp. volume IV ,404pp. frontispiece is folding map of South America; Full calf, title labels. some labels are missing, the bindings are worn, bottoms and tops of spines frayed and bumped, texts sl. foxed, offered w.a.f. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 \| JP¥ 5136] Book number: DG001 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	SANKARANARAYANAN, G., A Programmed Course in Tamil. . Central institute of Indian languages, 1994, (CIIL silkver jubilee publications series, 18 ) xx,405pp. 3 plates. good hardback in fair d/j. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.46 \| JP¥ 1101] Book number: 092450HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.

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	ADELAAR, A & N.P. HIMMELMANN, (EDS.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. . This book provides a detailed, reliable account of these languages, It is reliable source of data, arranged according to the natural system of classification: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, sem antics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. 2004, xxi,841pp. New copy Hardback. GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 216.5 US$ 323.9 \| JP¥ 28615] Book number: F0777-3 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	ALLISON, G.H., Easy Thai. An Introduction to the Thai Language. . With exercises and answer key. a gradual and cumulative system with little time wasted. Charles E. Tuttle, 1969xiii,106pp. paper. GBP 5.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.88 \| JP¥ 873] Book number: 092302HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	BARCKHAUSEN, J., L'empire Jaune de Genghis-Khan. . Paris, Payot, 1942, 279pp. + advert, half of the text uncut, text yellowed, paperback [AL]. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 \| JP¥ 1174] Book number: F1101 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	BROOK, T., The Confusions of Pleasure. Commerce and Culture in Ming China . University of California, 1998, xxvii, 320 pp. illustrated, fine hardback in fine d/j [ SP China ]. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 \| JP¥ 1174] Book number: 092893HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CAPPELLER, CARL, Sanskrit-Wörterbuch Nach Den Petersburger Wörterbüchern Bearbeitet . 1966,VIII, 541pp. Reprint of the edition 1887 published in Straßburg , fine hardback. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 \| JP¥ 11006] Book number: 093011 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	TIEN-YI LI AND RICHARD F. CHANG Advanced Chinese Reader and 9 Other Titles/Volumes on the Chinese Language / China . Compiled and annotated by Tien-yi Li and Richard F. Chang .This advanced Chinese Reader is broadly representative of the baihua or colloquial writings that have appeared in print from the Literary Revolution of 1917 to the present time. There are altogether twenty-nine selections in the book. The Chinese University Press, 1992, 454pp. good paperback. AND: Red Cross handbook of health problems for childrten in chinese, Geneva n.d. 80pp. paperback; AND: Elementary Chinese readers volumes 2 and 3 (revised editions) Beijing, Sinolingua, 1999-2002, 377,244pp. paparbacks; K.L. Kiu: 100 judicial cases from Ancient china 1991, 269pp. ( bi-lingual texts Chinese-English on opposite pages; Fan-yu Wang: Introduction to Chinese Cursive Script.( Mirror Series A, No. 28 ) Yale University 1972, XXX,240pp. paperback, partly printed in black and red; Tien-Yi Li: Chinese Newspaper Manual. Revised edtion (Mirror series A, No. 15 ) Yales University 1967, 266pp. paperback; Huang Zhengcheng a.o. (of the Beijing Languages institute) Chinbese for today book 2 in 2 parts. Beijing 1989, 428 103pp. illustrated grammar and reader. paperbacks.AND Elementary Chinese readers VOLUMES 2 AND 3, Beijing, 1999-2002,243,377pp. Paperbacks. (ISBN: 962-201-533-6) . GBP 19.50 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 US$ 32.39 \| JP¥ 2861] Book number: 092321HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CHANG, NAMGUI AND YONG-CHOL KIM Functional Korean . (A Communicative Approach Textbook)Each of the 18 lessons contains grammar and usage, words and phrases, summary of verb forms, reading and writing, and more. Contents include; "Greetings," "Office Visits," "Dining Out," "Taking Short Trips," "Shopping," etc. Hollym International , 1989. - 4to. - 382pp. Roy8vo. hardback with d/j [ sp langs ]. (ISBN: 0930878655) . GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 14.12 \| JP¥ 1247] Book number: 092341HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL R., ETC. Masterworks of Asian Art . Cleveland museum of art / Thames & Hudson, 1998, 31cm. 254pp. 125 colour plates Bound in d/j lge4to. front of d/j faded [ SP]. GBP 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 19.5 US$ 29.07 \| JP¥ 2568] Book number: 012644 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	DAUB, EDWARD E. - R. BYRON BIRD - NOBUO INOUE. Comprehending Technical Japanese. . Contents:preface, explanatory notes, lessons 1 - 25. Appendixes: A. Kanji Frequencylists. B. The five hundred Kanji tabulated according to on readings. C. The five hundred Kanji tabulated according to stroke count. D. The five hundred Kanji tabulated according to Nelson's radicals. E. Readings of mathematical expressions. F. Index to construction examples. G. Index to explanatory notes. H. Dictionaries and reference works. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 437pp. good hardback in torn d/j. text sl. browned [ SP langs]. (ISBN: 0299066800) . GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 \| JP¥ 1174] Book number: 092342HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	EIICHI KIYOOKA, (ED.) Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women: Selected Works . University of Tokyo Press, 1988, XV,254pp. very good hardback in d/j [SP]. (ISBN: Fukuzawa Yukich) . GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 20.76 \| JP¥ 1834] Book number: F0198HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	ELVERSKOG , J., The Jewel Translucent Sutra. Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century . (Brill's Inner Asian Library, 8) The first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the Erdeni Tunumal Sudur, the Mongolian history of Altan Khan and his descendants, offering a full-range English-written historical and literary evaluation of this unique and fairly reliable, but long neglected discovery in Mongolian studies. With transcription, word index and English translation, as well as extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan´s reign, especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion. In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan´s reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan´s Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu state. Vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming. 2003, 400pp. hardback. GBP 115.00 [Appr.: EURO 127.75 US$ 191.02 \| JP¥ 16875] Book number: 008578b Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	FORBES, JONATHAN Eleven Years in Ceylon. . Comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony, and an account of its antiquities. By Major Forbes, 78th Highlanders..[4 lines] In two volumes. Vol. I. [-Vol. II] London: Richard Bentley. [1 line] 1840. [ Gregg International, 1972].(facsimile reprint of 1840 edition) 192cm. 2 vols. bound in one. xii, [2], 423; viii, 356p. illus. cloth. OCLC 335364 TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE, SET On page [214]-324 of vol. II, appears George Turnour's(1799-1843) "Epitome of Singalese [ST]. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 107.97 \| JP¥ 9538] Book number: 005925 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	HUTCHINGS, G., Modern China. A Guide to a Century of Change. . Harvard University Press, 2001, XXII, 529pp. illustrations in the text and on plates. fine hardback in fine dust jacket. GBP 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 14 US$ 20.76 \| JP¥ 1834] Book number: F0989HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CHAU JU-KUA His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade . in the Twefth and thirteenth Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi, Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by Friedrich Hirth and W. W. Rockhill. ST. PETERSBURG: Printing Office of the Imperial Office of the Academy of Sciences, 1911 [1912 on front cover]. 28cm. ix, 288p. fold. map, uncut pages, wrappers. REPRINT 1938. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 \| JP¥ 11006] Book number: 012246 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	LAPOLLA, RANDY J. A Grammar of Qiang . (Mouton Grammar Library 31) This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the two major branches of Sino-Tibetan). The dialect presented in the book is the Northern Qiang variety spoken in Ronghong Village, Yadu Township, Chibusu District, Mao County. This book, the first book-length description of the Qiang language in English, is the result of many years of work on the language, and is as typologically comprehensive as possible. It includes not only the reference grammar, but also an ethnological overview, several fully analyzed texts (mostly traditional stories), and an annotated glossary. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent marking morphology. The phonology of Qiang is quite complex, with 39 consonants at seven points of articulation, plus complex consonant clusters, both in initial and final position, as well as vowel harmony, vowel length distinctions, and a set of retroflexed vowels. The grammar also is complex, with a paradigm of eight direction marking verbal prefixes, and two paradigms for person marking, one for actor, one for non-actor, and a variety of other verbal prefixes and suffixes, as well as definite and number marking on nouns. Noun phrases take classifiers and relational pospositions as well. 2003, hardback. GBP 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 161 US$ 240.85 \| JP¥ 21278] Book number: 090974 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	LATHAM, A., Africa, Asia and South America Since 1800 . A bibliographical guide. This work consists of the bibliographical details of a selection of over 5000 books writen in English dealing with the history of Africa, Asia and South America since 1800. Most of the items are books published since 1945, and many are very recent, but important works writen earlier have also been included. Manchester University Press, 1995. xxxiii, 233pp. hardback, as new condition, no d.wr. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.95 \| JP¥ 1321] Book number: M30 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	LUKOFF, F., (ED.) A Ffirst Reader in Korean Writing in Mixed Script. . Seoul, Yonsei University Press, 1982, XIX, 300pp. very good paperback [sp]. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.78 \| JP¥ 1394] Book number: F0614HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	MATSUMOTO, NOBUHIRO, Le Japonais Et Les Langues Austroasiatiques. . Étude de vocabulaire comparé/ (Austro-Asiatica, documents et travaux, volume 1 ) Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928x, [2] 112 [7] pp. paperback, margins untrimmed, unopened. text sl. browned. [ LL ]. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 092401HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	MILLS, HARRIET WITH P.S. NI Intermediate Reader in Modern Chinese. 3 Volumes, . Cornell University Press, Third printing 1978 for 1 and 2 and 2nd printing 1971 for volume 3, lge4to sized volumes, volume 1 pages not numbered (about 300 ) volume 2:366pp. Volume 3 xi + pp. 369 - 741. [ SP ]. GBP 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 US$ 27.41 \| JP¥ 2421] Book number: 092353HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	NORIO TAMAKI, Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901 . Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan Yukichi Fukuzawa was one of the most effective business entrepreneurs in early modern Japan. He was the inspiration of the Yokohama Specie Bank, without which the Japanese could not have set up a sound banking system. He instigated the bookstore chain Maruzen. He was adviser to the newly founded shipbuilding and mining Mitsubishi and helped drag the old established House of Mitsui into the modern age. It is no surprise that Fukuzawa is featured on the Japanese ¥10000 bank note. Contents: Abbreviations, List of Tables, List of Maps, List of Photos, Fukuzawa Family Tree, Fukuzawa Chronology, Preface. PART I: THE FATHERLESS BOY IN REBELLIOUS JAPAN, 1835-1859. Nakatsu and Nagasaki, Feudal Lords and Dutch Interlopers. The Quest for Western Studies in Nagasaki and Osaka. A Schoolmaster Learning English in Edo: 'His kimono pockets always full of books'. PART II: EXPLORING THE WEST, 1860=1867. Kanrinmaru, the First Japanese Journey Across the Pacific, February to June 1980. London a Treasure Trove: 'Enrich the country and strengthen the army' a year in Europe, January 1862 to January 1863. On A Wild Goose Chase: a Mission to USA, February to July 1867. PART III: EDUCATING THE JAPANESE POPLE, 1866-1875. The Making of Conditions in the West. 'I cannot work as a subordinate': Independence at Keio Gijuku, 1868, Tokyo (Edo). A Scholarly Entrepreneur: A Change of direction in the mid 1870s. PART IV: LEARN AND EARN, EARN AND LEARN: The Entrepreneurial Businessman, 1869-1893. Maruzen, a Joint Stock Experiment. The Yokohama Specie Bank, the Guardian of Japan's Gold and Silver. Mitsubishi the Three Diamonds and Yataro Iwasaki. 'The Mitsui matter is very delicate indeed' . PART V: 'THE LEADER OF THE PEOPLE' 1897-1901. Scholars Division of Labour: I am going to meet visitors in Kojunsha. Jiji Shinpo out of the Political Turbulence of 1881: Leave Asia. The Rise and Rise of Keio Businessmen: 'the genuine business method in the civilization' . 'The Saga of Mita' . Appendix: Directory of fifty men associated with Fukuzawa. Notes Bibliography. Index. Reviews: Published in the centenary year of his death, this book supplies what has long been needed: a critical biography in English of a major Japanese figure. It contains fine illustrations and generous quotations from original sources which are of outstanding interest.' - Ian Nish, The Japan Society Palgrave (MacMillan) 2001, xxvi,252pp. fine hardback in fine d/j. 8vo. 280 pp. (ISBN: 0333801210) . GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 092267HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	NOSS, RICHARD B. AND IM PROUM WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF D.I. PURTLE AND SOMETH SUOS, Cambodian Basic Ccourse. 2 Volumes. . Washington, Foreign service institute, 1966 - 1970, 449, 364pp. lge4to paperbacks. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 092748HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	O'NEILL, P. G. A Reader of Handwritten Japanese. . Kodansha International, 1984, 267pp. V.g. copy in v.g. d/j. A collection of handwritten Japanese letters sent to Prof. O'Neill and his careful, detailed translations of them. This is a useful collection of one hundred handwritten documents accompanied by transcriptions, translations, and notes. An introduction presents a most valuable summary of the form and expressions typical of written letters, while several appendices provide information on such things as variant printed and handwritten forms of kanji and kana. The volume ends with an index and glossary. (ISBN: 0870116983) . GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 092317HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	PARK, B. NAM, Korean Basic Course Volume 1 . (Wasshington, Foreign service institute, 1968, viii,553pp. quarto. in worn wrappers, 3 marginal holes punched front to back next to spine [sp]. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 \| JP¥ 880] Book number: 092759HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	ROBERTSON, WILLIAM The Works. Volume 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,11,(of 12 Volumes) . London, Edinburg, and Glasgow, W. Sharpe & Son, W. Stewart & Co. W. Turnbull et al. 1820, We offer: Volumes 1- 3: : The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his accession to the crown of England with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period; and an appendix containing original papers.Vol. I: CXXXVI,223pp. portrait on frontisp. Vol. II:430pp. Vol. III: 503pp. Volumes IV: and VII: The history of the reign of the emperor Charles V with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Vol. IV (vol. 1).XI,500pp. Vol. VII,(vol. 4) 400pp.Volume VIII, IX and XI: The history of America, vols 1,2 and 4. Volume VIII: XLVIII,374pp.the frontispiece is a folding map of South America; Volume IX :427pp. volume IV ,404pp. frontispiece is folding map of South America; Full calf, title labels. some labels are missing, the bindings are worn, bottoms and tops of spines frayed and bumped, texts sl. foxed, offered w.a.f. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 \| JP¥ 5136] Book number: DG001 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	SANKARANARAYANAN, G., A Programmed Course in Tamil. . Central institute of Indian languages, 1994, (CIIL silkver jubilee publications series, 18 ) xx,405pp. 3 plates. good hardback in fair d/j. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.46 \| JP¥ 1101] Book number: 092450HK Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.