LIAS, Godfrey

Kazak Exodus. [A Nation's Flight to Freedom]

London, Evans Brothers Limited, [1956]. 22 x 14.5 cm. 230 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w - 'In 1948, some twenty thousand Kazak families, with their herds of camels, sheep and horses and all their possessions, set out from Sinkiang Province [Xinjiang] on a tragic but unwavering exodus from their communist-dominated country. [...]' - Two years later they found temporary shelter in East Kashmir and finally found sanctuary and the chance to build a new life in Turkey. - The author tells , for the first time, the sory of this mass migration. - Dustjacket price-clipped, one tear [ca. 1.5 cm.]; edges a bit foxed, otherwise a good copy

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Book number: 25932

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

LOHUIZEN-DE LEEUW, Johanna Engelberta. van

The 'Scythian' period - an approach to the history, art, epigraphy and paleography of North India from the 1st century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. Proefschrift

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1949. 27.5 x 20 cm. xii,[2],435 pp. Original wrappers. With figures in text and b/w plates. - Thesis. - Good/fine copy

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Book number: 33135

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: azie / asia; archeologie; archaeology

MacMUNN, George

The Martial Races of India.

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1933]. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. xii,[2],368,[2] pp. Original cloth. With 2 maps [1 folding], 8 colour plates, and b/w illustrations on 10 plates. - 'George Fletcher MacMunn (1869-1952) his book is not only informative as to the British military psychology, but also interesting for contemporary security issues. In his bid to describe the martial races, he defines the meaning of the martial race including the early warriors of this region like the Kshattriyas during the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Rajpoot warriors, the warriors and the people of Islam, the Sacca of Chittoor, the Maharatta story, and the Sikh warriors.' [Bipin Adhikari - New Spotlight Newsmagazine]. - Two plates a bit loosening, else a good copy

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Book number: 13885

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

MANCHURIA - MANCHOUKUO

Official View of The Sino-Japanese Conflict - Booklet I.

Tokyo, Japan Foreign Trade Federation, [1937]. 21 x 14 cm. [2],25,[1] pp. Original wrappers. - Good copy

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Book number: 17575

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: japan

MANGUIN, Pierre-Yves

Les Nguyen, Macau et le Portugal - Aspects politiques et commerciaux d'une relation privilégiée en Mer de Chine 1773-1802.

Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1984. 28 x 19.5 cm. xxxiv,278 pp. Original wrappers. With 24 b/w plates. - Series: Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient - Volume CXXXIV / 134 - Fine unopened copy

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Book number: 33127

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: china

MAY, Reginald le

The Culture of South-East Asia. The heritage of India. [Second Impression].

London, George Allan & Unwin Ltd, 1956. 222 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. With 2 folding maps, and 215 b/w illustrations on plates. - Dustjacket a bit damaged and stained; name/date on first blank, otherwise a good copy

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Book number: 26907

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: zuid-oost azie

NAKAMURA, Hajime

Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples - India, China, Tibet, Japan.

London / New York, Kegan Paul International, 1997. 21.5 x 14 cm. xx,712 pp. Softcover. - Fine copy

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Book number: 19512

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: 9780710305718

PHUNTSHO, Karma

The History of Bhutan. [Second impression].

Gurgaon, Random House India, 2014. 24 x 16 cm. 661 pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. With a few illustrations in b/w and colourr. - Good copy

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Book number: 32206

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: 9788184003116

[POCKET GUIDE JAPAN]

Livret-Guide du Japan 1923.

Chemins de Fer de l'État Japonais / Printed by Tokio Tsukiji, 1923. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. 106 pp. Original cordbound [cord partly present] - crêpe-paper wrapper [lacking the reinforcing strips on spine]. Illustrated in b/w and colour. - With i.a. 2 woodcuts in colour after Hiroshigé: Lac de Chuzenji & Mount Fuji, folding prize table, folding map in colour, - Cord & reinforcing stirps on spine [partly] missing, ex libris 'marcel requien' & 2 red Japanese stamps on title, otherwise a good copy.

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Book number: 33036

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: japan

PROBERT, H.A.

History of Changi. Compiled by Squadron Leader H.A. Probert.

Score, 1988. 18.5 x 13.5 cm. 77 pp. Hardcover. lllustrated in b/w. - First printed by Prison Industries, 1965 - Reproduced by Score, 1988 - Changi Prison - History of Changi Royal Air Force - RAF - Station from a swamp, through Japanese occupation to the present day. - Good copy

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Book number: 27312

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: singapore

PTAK, Roderich

China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang - Oceans and Routes, Regions and Trade (c. 1000-1600).

Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2004. 23 x 15.5 cm. [xii,304] pp. - Series: Variorum Collected Studies Series CS777 - Collection of articles of which 3 in German and 8 in English. - Fine copy

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Book number: 33018

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: china 0860789233

RAHULA, Walpola

History of Buddhism in Ceylon - The Anuradhapura Period 3rd Century BC - 10th Century AC.

Colombo, M.D. Gunasena & Co., 1956. 22 x 15 cm. xliii,[1],351 pp. With 2 maps [1 folding], and b/w plates. - Dustjacket some light edgewear [no tears], and a bit yellowed, otherwise a good copy

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Book number: 33026

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: ceylon;

REYES, Raquel A.G. & William G. CLARENCE-SMITH [Ed.]

Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

London / New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Softcover. 173 pp. - Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series 37 - Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600-1950 is the first book to foreground same- sex acts and pleasure seeking in the histories of India, China, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. Drawing on a range of indigenous and foreign sources, the contributors, all renowned experts in their fields, shed light on indigenous notions of gender and the body, social hierarchies, fundamental ideas concerning morality and immorality, and episodes of seduction. The book illuminates - in striking case studies - attitudes toward non-procreative sex acts, and representations and experiences of same-sex pleasure seeking in the histories of Asia. - Small stamp on title, otherwise a good/fine copy

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Book number: 31401

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: 9781138110229

SANSOM, George

A History of Japan - 1 - To 1334 - 2 - 1334-1615 - 3 - 1615-1867. - Boxed three-volume set.

Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974. 18.5 x 11 cm. x,[2],500; xix,[3],442; pp. Pocket in slipcase. lllustrated in b/w. - Three-volume set. - Covers plasticized, otherwise a good set

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Book number: 32856

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: japan 02210003754615

SATOH, Henry [= Yoshimaro Sato]

Agitated Japan. The Life of Baron II Kamon-no-Kami Naosuké. (Based on the Kaikoku Shimatsu of Shimada Saburo). Revised by Wm. Elliot Griffis.

London / New York / Tokio, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. / D. Appleton & Co. / Dai Nippon Tosho Kabushiki Kaisha; Z.P. Maruya & Co., 1896. [2],iii,[1],ii,xxvi,144 pp. Original raw silk on boards. With b/w frontispiece, fine portrait in colours of Baron Ii Kamon-no-Kami Naosuké, and 3 double-page b/w plates; all plates tissue-guarded. - First edition of the biography of Baron Ii Kamon-no-Kami Naosuké (1815-1860) by Yoshimaro Sato (1857 -1934). Li Naosuke, eminent Japanese spirit and leader, statesman responsible for opening the doors to the world, and signing a treaty of commerce the 'Harris Treaty' with the United States. Li Naosuke was assassinated in 1860. - Silk on spine and hinges worn, boards firm, else a very well-preserved copy.

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Book number: 7870

Catalogue: geschiedenis; azie

Keywords: japan