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Al-falak Scorpion, 1982. Book. Illus. by Vivek Anand. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with colour & b/w photos. The book has a previous owner's private bookplate on the endpaper but is otherwise both book & jacket are in excellet condition. Firmly bound and carefully read..
Indonesia di Bawah Orde Baru; Pembangunan dan Kesejahteraan Sosial by Hüsken, Frans; Rutten, Mario; Dirkse, Jan-Paul (eds.) - 1997
by Hüsken, Frans; Rutten, Mario; Dirkse, Jan-Paul (eds.)
Indonesia di Bawah Orde Baru; Pembangunan dan Kesejahteraan Sosial
by Hüsken, Frans; Rutten, Mario; Dirkse, Jan-Paul (eds.)
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Jakarta: Penerbit PT Gramedia. Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Soft Cover. Book is in the Indonesian language. Tight binding, clean and bright pages. Wraps have general handling wear with curling at corners and light creasing.; Scholarly essays on development and social welfare under the new order in Indonesia. Contents: Husken, Rueen, Dirkse, "Kemiskinan di Indonesia: Kebijakan dan Penelitian"; Russell J. Cheetham, R. Kyle Peters Jr., "Pengurangan Kemiskinan Selama Pemerintahan Orde Baru"; Sjahrir, "'Business as Usual" yang Menantang"; Sajogyo, "Pertanian dan Industrialisasi dama Pembangunan Rural"; Erik Thorbecke, "Menganalisis Kemiskinan Rural"; Budhy Tjahjati S. Soegijoko, "Pertumbuhan Urban, Pembangunan Perindustrian, dan Migrasi"; Chris Manning, "Persoalan-Persoalan Rural dan Peluang-Peluang Urban"; Soetjipto Wirosardjono, "Penduduk dan Kesejahteraan Sosial"; Benjamin White, "Persoalan dan Kebijakan Kependudukan di Indonesia: Sebuah Sudut Pandang Non-Malthusian"; Ines Smyth, "Pandangan Kritis tentang Kebijakan-Kebijakan Pemerintah Indonesia bagi Perempuan"; Els Poster Coster, "Instrumentalitas Kebijakan yang Mengarah pada Perempuan di Indonesia"; Diane L. Wolf, "Perempuan dan Industrialisasi di Indonesia"; Sediono M. P. Tjondronegoro, "Persoalan-Persoalan Institusional dan Administratif"; Leontine E. Visser, "Mensiasati Kemiskinan"; Peter van Tuijl, Ben Witjes, "Partisipasi Rakyat dalam Proses Pembangunan di Indonesia"; Wardah Hafidz, "Kemiskinan-Kemiskinan di Luar Ekonomi"; Robert Cribb, "Kebijakan Pembangunan pada Awal Abad ke-20"; Peter Boomgaard, "Peningtakan yang Sia-Sia? Dampak Langkah-Langkah Kesejahteraan pada Masa Kolonial Lanjut di Indonesia"; Jan Pronk, "Melihat ke Belakang, Melihat ke Depan." Bibliography, biographical notes on authors.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 349 pages .
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- Keywords INDONESIAN, LANGUAGE, INDONESIA, ASIA, HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC, ECONOMY, SOCIAL
Mansions of the Sun : The Indian Desert Thaar
by Anand, Uma
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Architectural Details 1938
by Raymond, Antonin
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Bath, Maine, United States
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New York & Tokyo: The Architectural Forum / Antonin Raymond, 1938 Tan burlap/cloth covers w/paste on title, steel spiral binding. Excellent illustrations, black/white photographs. Rice paper, Foreword, 116 pgs. In orginial cardboard slipcase. Scarce copy of important Japanese style. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition Third Printing.. Spiral Hardcover. Very Good.
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The Twenty Cases of Filial Piety
by In Cantonese unable to read
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Winfield, Illinois, United States
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An accordian style book with wood covers. Front side appears to have some water damage. Twenty cases each has a hand colored illustration, two per page. Appears to be water color and colored pencil on silk with a silk background.Outside dimensions 8 1/4" X 6. Upon opening there is a tear at the top and a knotch size hole at the inseam. The previous owner told me it is in Cantonese and it is also in English. It looks like the author's name is along the inside of the board but I can't read Cantonese. Ships with delivery confirmation where available.
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Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilisation from 2,300 B.C. to 200 A.D. or, chapters on the elements derived from the old civilisations of west Asia in the formation of the ancient Chinese culture.
by Terrien de Lacouperie
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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Moisture marks to front cover. Particulars in gilt to spine, which is severely lacking the fabric. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Odd pagination with corrections in pen to pages 161-163. Text block separated at page 258/259. ; xiii, 418 pages.
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Les Jardins Anglo-Chinois. (Cahiers I - IV) with extra plate
by Le Rouge, Georges Louis
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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Paris: Chez le Rouge, 1776. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Four volumes. No date ( c. 1770's ). 1st ed. Oblong elephant folio ( 17.5 inches ). Modern burgundy cloth and end papers with simple gilt title on spines. Cahier One - 23 plates and 3pp of text ( lacks the four plates after the text ); Cahier Two - 23 plates plus the extra folding plate; Cahier Three - 28 plates; Cahier Four - 29 plates numbered 1 - 30 with #16 not present, probably as issued, as the on-line digital version is also so numbered. A total of 103 plates plus two extra. Front cover of Cahier One has a wear spot. The plates in the first three volumes are generally near Fine, Cahier Three has a few that have some minor to moderate spotting on the blank fore edge, the extra plate is Very Good + with some slight tanning along the fold line. The paper of Cahier Four seems to be of a lesser quality which has caused the margins to tan on most of the plates and 17 of them have lightly tanned over…
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A JOURNAL FROM JAPAN (1910) A Daily Record of Life Seen by a Scientist
by Stopes, Marie C.
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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London: Blackie & Sons Limited. Very Good+. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean white cloth with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. B/W photo illustrations. A few pages very lightly foxed. Prior owners signature. Asia, Japan; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages .
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Mansions of the Sun : The Indian Desert Thaar
by Anand, Uma
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Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Al-falak Scorpion, 1982. Book. Illus. by Vivek Anand. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with colour & b/w photos. The book has a previous owner's private bookplate on the endpaper but is otherwise both book & jacket are in excellet condition. Firmly bound and carefully read..
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A Chinese Street. To be cut, coloured and set up.
by [CHILDREN'S GAME].
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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London.: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society.. No date. (circa1900).. Nine printed sheets each printed with people or items and showing the cut lines. Original chromolithograph card box repaired with acid free archival tape along folds. Some occasional light foxing on sheets, card covers browned and worn in places, a few other minor signs of wear but generally very good. 43 x 24cm. The first two sheets show Chinese people in clothes appropriate to their age, occupation etc. Those illustrated include The Opium Smoker, School-master, The General Shopkeeper, Native Biblewoman etc. Other sheets show furniture and fittings, a coloured illustration of the street, a black and white image of the city gate and a much larger sheet (50 x 87.5cm) which is an illustration of the street and onto which the other cut-outs when coloured and cut out are placed. .
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Annals & memoirs of the court of Peking (from the 16th to 20th century).
by BLAND, John Otway Percy; BACKHOUSE, Sir Edmund Trelawney
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1914 Peking Beijing CHINA Memoirs Court Buddha Ming Forbidden City IllustratedJohn Bland and Edmund Backhouse were already famous for their book 'China Under the Empress Dowager' when they wrote their history of the rulers of China - 'Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking.' This chronicle begins at the fall of the Mongol Empire, covering the Ming & Manchu dynasties, Li Tzu-Ch'eng's rebellion, the fall of Peking, the Mings at Nanking, Tao Kukang and the impact of the West, memoirs of the Boxer Year in 1900, and information on Buddha, laws and the forbidden city.
This 1914 edition includes 25 full-page black and white photogravure engravings.
Item number: #9833
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BLAND, John Otway Percy; BACKHOUSE, Sir Edmund Trelawney
Annals & memoirs of the court of Peking (from the 16th to 20th century).
London: W. Heinemann, 1914.
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The Chater Collection. Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong, Macao, 1655-1860; with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress.
by ORANGE, JAMES.
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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London.: Butterworth.. Number 77 of a limited edition of 750 copies.. 1924.. Maps including colour folding plan of City of Victoria, 18 colour plates, many in black and white, 528pp, bibliography, index, bright top edge gilt. Fore edge lightly browned, front endpapers browned, cloth very clean and bright, lettered in bright gilt, an exceptional copy in original slightly chipped dustjacket. 30.7 x 25.5cm. This remarkable book records the extraordinary collection that Hong Kong businessman Sir Paul Chater built. This volume includes descriptions and representations of the prints and maps within his collection. Paul Chater was an energetic and innovative man who though coming from disadvantage built an enviable business empire as well as involving himself with the government of Hong Kong. He served as Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council for 30 years ending only with his death. When Sir Paul Chater died in 1926 his collection of porcelain, prints and paintings together with Marble Hall,…
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Mansions of the Sun : The Indian Desert Thaar
by Anand, Uma
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- 9780905906294 / 0905906292
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Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Al-falak Scorpion, 1982. Book. Illus. by Vivek Anand. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with colour & b/w photos. The book has a previous owner's private bookplate on the endpaper but is otherwise both book & jacket are in excellet condition. Firmly bound and carefully read..
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THE MILITARY COLLAPSE OF CHINA'S MING DYNASTY, 1618-44
by Swope, Kenneth M
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- 9781138652330 / 1138652334
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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New York: Routledge, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 291pp, numerous b/w illustrations. A very nice copy..
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Korea Through Her Arts
by Kim Ki-Mun
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Oak Point, Texas, United States
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Yesul Chunchu Sa, Seoul, Korea, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very interesting book which includes lots of illustration, many of which are tipped-in (color and b/w). There are also 6 records with representative Korean music. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 445 pp. Text is in Korean. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Spine working loose but still intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Art & Design; Non-English Language::Korean; Korea; Korean Language; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001394. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen
by Mukhopadhyay, Amal Kumar (editor)
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Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph
by Lawrence, T.E
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T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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Formless in Form: Kenko, 'Tsurezuregusa,' and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose
by Chance, Linda H
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- 9780804730013 / 0804730016
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Study of this medieval Japanese classic of brief 'essays' on various subjects; the author argues that Kenko's text is not an early example of 'zuihitsu' or informal essay, but rather "a deliberate, controlled effort by Kenko to force the reader to confront the impermanent and contingent nature of existence through experiencing the text." Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing). Light wear to book; hint of fading to jacket spine; near fine, unmarked. Text clean; xxii, [2], 343 pages + 'colophon'; index, character list, lengthy bibliography, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Vol. III
by Parker, H. ( Collected and Translated by )
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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London: Luzac & Co., 1914. SCARCE in 1914 First Edition. In original red cloth, top edge gilt, Very Good, 1 1/2" tear to cloth top edge at spine, cloth rubbed at tips, stamp and blindstamp of the highly-regarded Folklore Institute, Indiana University front end pages. Stories of cultivating caste, lower castes, Western Provinces & Southern India, & Sinhalese texts. With index, 479 pp. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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MAOIST INSURGENCY SINCE VIETNAM
by Marks, Thomas A
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- 9780714646060 / 0714646067
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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Great Britain: Frank Cass & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0714646067 . Book is Very Good + (plus). Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Very light bump back cover corners. Rear cover surface faint 1/4 inch surface only stain. Single very faint and small page end -ends only - smudges front and bottom page ends. DJ is very good. Very light bumping to DJ cover corners and edges. 1/8 inch closed tear DJ top spine end corner. Sticker on rear DJ cover. 1/8 inch mark on DJ spine. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 303 pages .
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North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts
by Douglas, William O
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City: Doubleday, 1953, first printing. 8vo. 352pp., illustrated with b/w plates, map endpapers. Pale blue cloth with blue and white titles. Offset toning to two pages from laid in book reviews, minor dust foxing on top edge, else fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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