Search Results: China and Chinese culture from Focloir

Central Asia 002 Lamb, Alastair. Britain And Chinese Central Asia: The Road to Lhasa 1767-1905. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960, xi, 388 pages, 5 maps, bib, index. In red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, spine is sun faded. Overall, a good to very good copy, clean, tight, no marks. $40.00 Box A 92

Malaysia 001 Leigh, Michael B. The Chinese Community of Sarawak: A Study of Communal Relations. Singapore: Malaysia Publishing House for the Department of History, University of Singapore, 1964, 68 pages, bib. Paperback, some cover wear but good overall. $ 8.50

Military pjhg Partington, J. R. A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. With a foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan. Cambridge Great Britain: Heffer & Sons, 1960, xvi, 381pages, illus, bib, notes, indexes. Very good copy. In good to very good dust jacket. "It analyses the evidence for the earliest knowledge of gunpowder in Europe, dealing with Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, and numerous books of recipes and military arts of the Middle Ages." $25.00 Box A 124

Russia 001 Foust, Clifford M. Muscovite and Mandarin; Russia's trade with China and its setting, 1727-1805. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969, x, 424p, bib, index, illus., maps. Very good in very good dust jacket. $37.50

Asia ramv Routes d'Asie: marchands et voyageurs XVe-XVIIIe siècle: actes du colloque organisé par la Bibliothèque interuniversitaire des langues orientales, Paris, 11-12 décembre 1986. (Series: Varia Turcica; 12). Publiés par Marion Debout, Denise Eeckaute-Bardery et Vincent Fourniau. Istanbul/Paris: Editions Isis, 1988, 200 pages: ill., facsims., maps; Essays have notes. Paperback volume. There are some minor wrinkles to top corner of text pages. Errata page is inserted. All essays in French. Very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. $21.50 Box B6
Notes: mostly on China and Central Asia.

China 1004 Cordier, Henri. Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule's Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery. London: John Murray, 1920. x, 161 pages, black and white frontispiece, bib, index. This volume is Cordier's supplement to Yule's work on Marco Polo's actual itinerary. Also contains "Bibliography of Sir Henry Yule's writings," "List of mss. of Marco Polo's book so far as they are known," and "Bibliography of Marco Polo's book.". In original green cloth, spines decorated in blue, morocco labels, very bright. The binding is but very slightly rolled and the dust jacket is tattered and has some stains but it did its job in protecting the book. This, considered to be the third volume of the Yule set, is very uncommon and very desirable in completing the Yule masterpiece. $75.00 Box 70 III, 3

China 1002 Leslie, Donald Daniel. The Survival of the Chinese Jews. The Jewish Community of Kaifeng. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972, xiv, 270 pages, appendices, bib, indices. Calls for 37 plates and 2 folding maps. It appears that Plates XXI and XXII are not present. Paperback volume with name of owner (from Duke University) on front lining paper. There is heavy underlining and marginalia on just about every page except for most index pages. Shelf wear to cover with some fraying at bottom of spine. (Suppose it's preferable to students who mark up the first chapter and then nothing). An uncommon book. Due to missing plates, ink notations, would call it acceptable. $20.00 Box A 77

China 1005
(Xuanzang, approximately 596-664). A biography of the Tripiṭaka master of the great Ci'en Monastery of the Great Tang Dynasty. Ttranslated from the Chinese of Śramaṇa Huili and Shi Yancong (Taishō, Volume 50, Number 2053) by Li Rongxi.Title (uniform): (Da Tang Da ci en si Sanzangfashi zhuan. English). (Series / collection: (BDK English Tripiṭaka; 77). Berkeley, Calif.: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1995, xii, 385 pages, glossary, bib, index. Fine copy. $19.50 Box 500