Her Majesty Queen Sirikit and the Conservation of Natural Resources : A Publication to Commemorate the Auspicious Occasion of Her Majesty's Sixth Cycle Birth Anniversary 12 August 2004

Thailand, 2006. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj with gilt text on cover and spine, color illustrated boards with gilt text. (11) 12-199 pp. Features many color illustrations. "Her Majesty Queen Sirikit has accompanied His Majesty the King on visits to their subjects throughout the Kingdom's provinces since 1954. She became aware through first-hand observation that several forests were destroyed through the actions of human beings. Forest clearing stems from ignorance, selfishness, and also from the poverty of local people. When forests disappear, dry spells result. Without rain, forests cannot support the growth of food and other crops, and animals, once abundant in the forests, are reduced in number, and some even become extinct." - from foreword. VG .

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Book number: 206008

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Gallimaufry ; Nature Conservation / Thai Royal Family ; ;

Ayscough, Florence

Chinese Women Yesterday and Today

Boston, Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1937. Hardcover. red boards w/ black title plate & gilt lettering to cover & spine. 324 pgs w/ bw illustrations. There is a library stamp to page 101, otherwise pages appear clean. A nice reading copy. VG-. edge-wear to covers & spine; rubbing to corners. spine ends rubbed. ex-libris plate to cover flyleaf; library stamp to title pg w/ tiny stamp to upper textblock. front hinge cracking at pastedown; still held by publishing mull; textblock firm.

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Book number: 179601

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Chinese Women; Chinese Culture; Chinese History ; Chinese Women, Chinese Culture, Chinese History ; ;

Ayyar Kirshna, K.V.

A Short History of Kerala

Ernakulam, India, PAI & Company, 1966. Softcover. plain tan wrappers. 218 pgs w/ illustrated maps. tan & white illustrated dustjacket w/ black printing. Considered a comprehensive examination of Kerala, India. A nice, sturdy copy. VG-. covers have smudges, marks & foxing; edge-wear. spine creased. lower back corner & pgs crimped/crease. light speckled foxing to pgs, otherwise clean. previous owners name to interior cover. dustjacket has edge-wear; spine top chipped; corners rubbed; foxing & scuffing.

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Book number: 181420

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Kerala India, Kerala, History of India, Culture of India ; Kerala India, Kerala, History of India, Culture of India ; ;

Barnard, Noel and Douglas Fraser

Early Chinese Art and Its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin (3 Volumes)

New York, Intercultural Arts Press, 1972. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ gilt illustrations & gilt spine printing. three volumes totalling 1658 pgs w/ b&w illustrations. A very nice, clean set comprising all three volumes (Ch'U & The Silk Manuscript, Asia and Oceania And The Americas) of this important work. VG--spines sunned. editions have light edge-wear. corners slightly rubbed. vol 2 has black scratches to bk cover. pgs free of notations/marginalia.

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Book number: 175321

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: ; Asian History, Early Chinese Art ; ;

Bertin, Louis Emile

Les Grandes Guerres Civiles Du Japon: Les Minamoto & Les Taira - Les Mikados & Les Siogouns (1156- 1392)

Paris, E. Leroux, 1894. Hardcover. Three quarter brown leather and decorative marble boards; five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and extensive gilt tooling;top edge gilt, marble decorative end papers; bw frontisipiece, 2 preliminary leaves, vi, 422 pp, bw illustrations throughout including 2 folded plates and a color illustrated map. Text is in French. Preceded by an introduction on ancient history and legends. The Great Civil Wars of Japan. Includes table of contents. VG (overall wear to boards especially along edges, pages are very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 182567

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; Japan History ; ;

Bingyao Yu; I V Gillis

Title Index to the Ssu K'u Ch'üan Shu

Peiping, Printed by the Standard Press, 1934. full leather with gilt embossed title on front cover and spine. Marbled endpapers. [422] pages ; 28 x 22 cm. "A catalogue of this collection of Chinese literature, assembled by imperial orders, 1772-74, was completed in 1782. The present index is based upon the edition of this catalogue issued in 1868 by the Kuang-tung shu-chü."--Foreword. Quite scarce, no copies found for sale or at auction in the past 80 years. Foreword written by John C. Ferguson. P{reface by I.V. Gillis. A collection of the titles of books found in China in appx. 1774-1776. VG-, some discoloration to front cover, tear to leather at the top of spine .

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Book number: 176365

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; Asian Bibliography ; ;

Brohier, Richard Leslie

Ancient Irrigation Works in Ceylon. Part I.

Colombo, Sri Lanka, The Ministry of Mahaweli Development / Ceylon Government Press, 1979. Hardcover. Folio. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in grey cloth with green yellow paper boards with white titles. Three parts bound in one. 3 volumes illustrations, plates, maps (some folded), charts 33 cm. pt. 1. [without any special title] -- pt. 2. Northern and North-Western sections of the island -- pt. 3. Western, Southern and the Eastern areas of the island. VG-. Some wear around edges and rubbing to boards .

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Book number: 206698

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; Ancient Irrigation ; ;

Chakrabarti, Dilip K.

Indus Civilization Sites in India: New Discoveries

Mumbai, Marg Publications, 2004. Hardcover. Gray cloth plates with black lettering. Illustrated dusjacket,108 pages : color illustrations, color maps. Pages clear and white. "More than 500 years ago, India's first civilization flourished with well-planned cities, civic amanities, and a developed economy. Since the first discovery of this civilization in 1920-21 at Harappa in the Indus valley, hundreds of sites spread over more than a million square kilometers in the Indian subcontinent have been excavated, many of these in northern and western India. Sites are still being discovered, constantly adding to our knowledge of this completely urban civilization which continues up to circa 1400 BCE."-Dustjacket. VG/VG previous owners bookplate on ffep .

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Book number: 180567

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; Indus Civilization ; ;

Currin, Mumtaz and George Michell (editors)

Dargahs: Abodes of the Saints

Mumbai, India, Marg Publications, 2004. Hardcover. illustrated boards w/ printing. illustrated dustjacket with french flaps. 152 pgs w/ color illustrations. A nice, clean copy albeit with a production defect: the covers & dustjacket (to its french flaps) have dried, translucent tendrils that appear to be residue from the protective coating applied to the covers. VG ex-libris; sticker to cover flyleaf. creasing to front cover corner. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket has creasing to a corner & spine top/bottom; light scratches & scuffs to back.

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Book number: 176086

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: ; Darghas Shrines ; ;

Doshi, Saryu; Mostafa El-Abbadi

India and Egypt: Influences and Interactions

Bombay, India, Marg Publications, 1993. Hardcover. Tan cloth plate with purple lettering. Color illustrated dustjacket. xii, 135 pages : illustrations (some color). "India and Egypt represent ancient civilizations that have enriched world culture with their invaluable contributions to the sciences and the arts, as well as to philosophical thought from the thrid millenium B.C. VG/VG previous owners bookplate on ffep. all pages clean and white .

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Book number: 180587

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; India and Egypt ; ;

Dresch, Paul

Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

Oxford, England, Claredon Press, 1990. Hardcover. navy boards. book xixx, 440 pgs w/ bw illustrations, figures & maps. blue illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing & protective plastic. From a college library. Due date card has two removal stamps. A nice, tight copy. "Dr. Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the least thousand years, and examines the values tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Drawing heavily on local histories and unpublished documents, as well as on three years filed work.."--Publisher. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, usual markings, etc. pgs clean. tight binding. dustjacket taped to cover edges; ID to lower spine; scuffs & scratches to plastic) .

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Book number: 184363

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: History of Yemen, Politics of Yemen ; History of Yemen, Politics of Yemen ; ;

Embree, Ainslie Thomas

Encyclopedia of Asian History, Volumes 1-4

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Hardcover. Four volume set bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on black title blocks; burgundy dj with gilt lettering on black title blocks, mylar covers; map illustrated end papers. Volume 1 is XIII, 528 pp. Volume 2 is 538 pp. Volume 3 is 516 pp. Volume 4 is 478 pp. Bw illustrations throughout all four volumes. A four volume set. Volume 1 is ABAH-GREE. Volume 2 is GUAN-MIMA. Volume 3 is MIN-SPRI. Volume 4 is the Index. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear with light foxing to upper block but pages are otherwise clean and binding is tight.) .

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Book number: 186468

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; Asian History ; ;

Graves, Louis

Willard Straight in the Orient; with Illustrations from His Sketch-Books

New York, Asia Publishing Company, 1922. Hardcover. Blue and tan cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on front cover; color illustrated end papers; bw portrait frontispiece of Major Willard Straight; 74 pp; profuse illustrations, plates and portraits in bw with four color plates. Contents include: First days in Peking -- A diary of Peking -- War correspondent -- At the legation in Korea -- Consul-General at Mukden -- Far Eastern finance -- The Chinese currency loan -- The revolution -- Home from China. VG- (light shelfwear to boards, inside hinge is broken but holding at title page, text and illustrations are clear.) .

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Book number: 182129

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian History ; Asian History ; ;

Gupte, R.S.

Iconography of the Hindus Buddhists and Jains

Bombay, India, D.B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd, 1972. Hardcover. purple cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xviii, 201 page w/ 201bw illustrations. A thorough reference to the iconography of the important Indian religious, with illustrations and tables. VG-. rippling to cloth covers; faded areas; spot of soiling to lower cover edge. edge-wear to covers & corners; back corner rubbed. ex-libris plate to endaper. pen marks to preface, otherwise, pgs appear clean & bright.

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Book number: 181606

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Hindu Iconography, Buddhist Iconography, Jain Iconography, Iconography of India ; Hindu Iconography, Buddhist Iconography, Jain Iconography, Iconography of India ; ;

Ha, Guangtian; Slavs and Tatars

The Contest of the Fruits

Haverford / Cambridge, Haverford College / M.I.T. Press, 2021. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Cartoon cover. 157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. The Contest of the Fruits takes a nineteenth-century Uyghur satirical poem as a departure point for investigations of language, politics, religion, humor, resilience, and resistance in a pluralistic world. Composed at the crossroads of multiple civilizations and empires and born of the Uyghurs' liminal position at the edges of Islam and the frontiers of China, "The Contest of the Fruits" captures a world in which borders are gateways rather than dividing lines. The poem, highly performative, embellished with verbal flourishes, and featuring the ribald rivalry of such fruits as mulberry, pomegranate, quince, and pear, may be the first Turkic rap battle. The book, which accompanies a project by the art collective Slavs and Tatars, brings together artists, academics, poets, and performers to create a visually compelling volume that deploys different registers (high and low) to examine subjects often considered mutually exclusive (for example, religion and hip-hop). It offers essays by leading scholars and journalists that cover topics ranging from language politics to the prominence of Uyghur rappers in China. Shorter "pop-out" texts take a more tentacular approach to Uyghur culture, sampling poetry by diaspora Uyghur poets and discussing such subjects as calligraphy, Uyghur pop music, mäshräp, and the Sufi practice of Sam c. New. In shrinkwrap.

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Book number: 204763

Catalogue: Asian History

Keywords: Asian Art ; Uyghur Culture ; ; Asian Art