Lockwood, Stephen C.

Augustine Heard and Company, 1858-1862: American Merchants in China

Cambridge, Massachusetts, East Asian Research Center / Harvard University Press, 1971. Softcover. navy wraps w/ yellow printing. 157 pgs w/ 4 bw plates. A clean and tight copy. VG+. ligth edge-wear to covers. previous owners name to inside cover.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 180371

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Augustine Heard and Company, Chinese Trading Business, International Trade ; Augustine Heard and Company, Chinese Trading Business, International Trade ; ;

Ly Hoi Sang and Richard Alexander

Illustrious Prime Ministers of China: Their Ancient Manners, Customs and Philosophies; a Symphony of the Spheres

New York, Privately printed, 1928. Hardcover. Tan and color marbled boards with green lettering and illustration. Bw illustrated frontispiece with guard sheet with descriptive letterpress, 108 (6) pp. Illustrated throughout in bw. Bookplate inside front cover states, "Privately Printed Edition" and is numbered 333 of unknown number of copies. Printed on double leaves in Japanese style. VG (light shelfwear to boards with corners bumped. Pages are very clean and clear.) .

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Buchzahl: 179435

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Chinese Philosophy ; ;

Montgomery, Michael

Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1988. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt spine lettering; red dust jacket with white red and black lettering, bw illustration; xxii, 567 pp; 16 unnumbered pages of plates; bw illustrations and maps. "In this important new study to Japanese imperialism, Michael Montgomery focuses on the psychological factors which lay behind it; the sense of inferiority engendered by the wholesale adoption of Chinese culture, the feeling of uniqueness encouraged by the long period of isolation and acceptance of authority conditioned by the rigidly hierarchical nature of Japanese society. These factors still apply today, he believes, and the recent attempt to sanitise school history textbooks revives uncomfortable echoes of the pre-war Bureau of Thought Control."- dust jacket. Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-550) and index. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on dj spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Several pages have pencil markings and underlining but are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

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Buchzahl: 184254

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Japanese History ; ;

Naquin, Susan and Evelyn S. Rawski

Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 1987. Hardcover. grey & white cloth w/ black spine printing. book xiii, 270 pgs w/ illustrated maps & bw illustrations. black & white illustrated dustjacket. A sharp, nice copy. VG+/VG. ex-libris sticker to cover flyleaf. dustjacket has light toning to edges & flaps; some chipping; edge-wear.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 179593

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: 18th Century China; Eighteenth Century China; Chinese History; Chinese Society ; 18th Century China, Eighteenth Century China, Chinese Society, Chinese History ; ;

Pal, Pratapaditya

Goddess Durga: The Power and the Glory

Mumbai, India, Marg Publications, 2009. Hardcover. black & red pictorial boards w/ red & white printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 200 pgs w/ color illustrations. back & red pictoral dustjacket. A nice, bright copy. A wonderfully illustrated examination of the Goddess Durga from nine authors of Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Christian perspectives. VG. scuffs to covers. upper corner creased & rubbed. abrasion to section of bottom textbock; some pgs have minor creasing/chip to lower edges. bump to spine end. previous owners name to cover endpaper. dustjacket scuffed & scratched.

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Buchzahl: 181608

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: ; Goddess Durga, Culture of India, Religion of India. ; ;

Pal, Pratapaditya

Something Old, Something New: Rabindranath Tagore, 150th Birth Anniversary Volume

Mumbai, India, Marg Foundation, 2011. Hardcover. black pictorial boards w/ printing. black pictorial dustjacket. 204 pgs w/ bw & color illustratons. VG creasing to corners. small indentations to bottom cover edges. light edge wear to back cover. pgs clean & unmarked. dustjacket corner creased; light shelf & edge wear.

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Buchzahl: 175908

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: ; Rabindranath Tagore ; ;

Pian, Rulan Chao

Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation

Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xi, 252 pp; music and bw illustrations. Contents: The sources -- The modal system of the Sonq Dynasty -- Forms of notation in Sonq musical sources -- Transcriptions. From the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Monograph series. Includes a list of the tables and illustrations, bibliography and index. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear but binding is tight and pages are otherwise clear.) .

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Buchzahl: 184328

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History; Music History ; Chinese Music History ; ; Asian History; Music History

Rai, Raghu and Louis-Frederic

Khajuraho

[London], Laurence King, 1992. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with black stamped lettering, glossy black dust jacket, color illustrated with white spine lettering, 159 pp, chiefly color illustrations and maps. "This book is a portrait of Khajuraho by leading photographer Raghu Rai. Rai sees the temples as the living core of the village of which they form a part. His pictures capture the spirit not only of many remarkable works of art but also of those who live in Khajuraho and its surrounding countryside. With its unusual and intensely personal approach, this book offers a powerful and unforgettable vision of one of the masterpieces of India culture."- dust jacket Photographs by Raghu Rai. Text by Louis Frédéric. VG/VG- (light shelfwear to boards mainly to edges, pages are clean and clear. Dust jacket has overall light shelfwear) .

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Buchzahl: 179217

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Indian Temples ; ;

Seidlitz, Woldemar von

A History of Japanese Colour-Prints

London, W. Heinemann, 1920. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Cloth green cloth covers; gilt artwork and lettering. (xvi), 207 pages, 76 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color, some folded). Translated by Anne Heard Dyer and Grace Tripler. Originally published: 1910. Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index. Nice reference copy. G/Fair, covers show wear, spine has tear and is frayed top and bottom. Both hinges coming detached. Pages have soiling on edges and foxing throughout. Plates are in good condition. Good reference copy.

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Buchzahl: 181438

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian Art, Japanese Color Prints ; Japanese Color Prints ; ; Asian Art

Shulman Dean, David

Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1980. Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ dark green & gilt emblem & dark green & gilt spine. book xvi, 471 pages w/ bw illustrations. yellow & green dustjacket. A very nice, sharp copy. "..David Shulman brings together the stories associated with these sacred sites and places them in the context of the greater Hindu religious tradition."--Jacket. VG+/G+. light sunning to cloth edges. ex-libris plate to cover pastedown; red dot to title pg. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket has edge-wear & rubbing; tear to upper & lower edges; corners rubbed, lower corner torn.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 181602

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Shaivism, Hinduism ; Shaivism, Hinduism ; ;

Siu, C.P. Paul

The Chinese Laundryman: A Study in Social Isolation

New York, New York University Press, 1987. Hardcover. black boards w/ gilt spine printing. book ix, 331 pgs w/ charts. black dustjacket w/ yellow printing; protective plastic. From a college library. Pages clean. "Chinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. Yet little is publicly known about the workings of this familiar institution which originated shortly after Chinese immigrants had started to arrive in some numbers in California in the 1850s. At that time the Chinese worked in a wide range of occupations, hand laundries being one of them. But with the faltering of the Western economy and as European immigration to the United States mounted, the tide of anti-Chinese sentiment swelled, which culminated in violent evictions of the Chinese from West Coast cities and in the imposition of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The laundry became one of the few occupations in which Chinese were able to continue to work. This book is the definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and of those who worked in them in the United States. VG- (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, usual stamps & markings, etc. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID to lower spine; edge-wear to covers; plastic scuffed) .

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Buchzahl: 184622

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Chinese Laundryman, Chinese American Immigrants ; Chinese Laundryman ; ;

Snellgrove, David L and Tadeusz Skoruptski

The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh, Volume 1: Central Ladakh

New Delhi, India, Vikas Publishing House PVT LTD, 1977. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ white spine printing. 144 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations, tipped-in frontis. glossy, white illustrated dustjacket. Pages clean; illustrations bright and nicely detailed. Textblock appears firm; pages attached. Light stain to textblock edge. Good. scuffs & light spotting to covers; fraying to back cover. upper corners bumped & creased. spine rattled. hinge beginning to split at cover pastedown. ex-libris plate to cover pastedown. dustjacket toned & scuffed; chipping to spine top.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 179535

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Ladakh; Asian History; History of Ladakh ; Ladakh, Asian History, History of Ladakh ; ;

Solntsev, Nikolay

China: Walls and People

Moscow, Russia, Planeta, 1981. Hardcover. long, black boards w/ white illustration & white spine printing. 359 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Text in Russian. Copiously illustrated; illustrations also in a brown-red tint. A collaboration between journalists Gao Lin Vey and Nikolay Solntsev detailing the harsh realities of Maoism and those "behind the wall of fear." A rare copy. VG (cloth boards scuffed, scratched & smudged. spine ends bumped. corners rubbed. interior clean) .

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Buchzahl: 188256

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History, Maoist China ; Maoist China ; ;

Soulie de Morant, Georges

La Passion de Yang Kwe-Fei: Favorite Imperiale

Paris, L'Edition D'Art, 1924. Leather bound. Black full leather boards with elaborate gilt design and tooling, five raised bands on spine with gilt design and lettering, inside boards are blue with gilt ruling, top edge gilt, silk end papers, ix, [1], 201, [1] pages, 1 leaf plates. Text in French. The decoration of this work was specially designed by Paul Zenker. Five hundred numbered copies were taken from this work. "The main works from which I drew all the features of this story are: Trong-tsiènn Kang-mou 'Universal mirror with summaries and developments' .. Trang chou' Book of the Trang dynasty '.. Trang che' Les poetry of Trang ', and Trang che ro-tsié' Poetry of Trang with comments' .. Tchrang-cheng tiènn 'The palace of endless life' .. A .. poem by Po Tsiu-y.. 'The anthem of endless regrets'. "- Page vii-ix. VG (light age toning to pages but otherwise very clean) .

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Buchzahl: 177261

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Asian History ; Tang Xuanzong, Emperor of China ; ;

Spiro, Melford E.

Burmese Supernaturalism

Philadelphia, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. Softcover. illustrated & blue wrappers w/ blue&white printing. book xxxvi, 300 pgs. content as follows: Preface to the expanded edition -- Introduction. The study of supernaturalism -- The types of supernaturalism. Witches ; Ghosts and demons ; Nats ; Supernaturalism: some explanations -- The thirty-seven nats. The thirty-seven nats: a typology ; The thirty-seven nats: the public cultus ; The thirty-seven nats: some explanations -- Illness and supernaturalism. Supernaturally caused illness and its treatment ; Possession ; The exorcistic seance -- Supernatural practitioners. The shaman ; The exorcist -- Conclusion. Supernaturalism and buddhism. VG. edge-wear to covers & spine edges. interior cover has previous owners name; title pg has red dot. interior clean. tight binding.

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Buchzahl: 181703

Katalog: Asian History

Sonstige Stichworte: Culture of Burma, Supernatural ; Culture of Burma, Supernatural ; ;