Search Results: Authors starting with E from Asia Bookroom

London.. [c1825].. Printed on rag paper in decorated and copperplate script. [1] 5pp. 33.5 x 23.7cm. Some light offsetting to the title page, spine damaged but not affecting the sheets. Very good. Published by J. Willis & Co., Royal Musical Repository 114. 55 St. James's Street London and 7 Westmorland Street, Dublin (n. d.) Entered at Stationer's Hall. Price 2/-. Madame Lucia Elizabeth Vestris' was born in London in1797. Her first success came at the Drury Lane Theater in the 1820 revival of Montcrief's Giovanni in London, a satire on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni first staged in 1817. Such satires, known as burlettas or burlesques, were common in the London theater of the day and Mme Vestris not only appeared in many such productions in her career but eventually became noted for having advanced this particular theatrical form. When she appeared in the burlesque Paul Pry in 1825, her rendition of the ballad "Cherry Ripe" is said to have created a considerable stir and ever afterwards the song was… Read More

London.: Allen.. First edition.. 1837.. Includes four engraved Arrowsmith maps: The Indian Archipelago 1837 (folding); Sketch of part of the West Coast of Borneo 1837; Borneo or Tanna K'lemantan; Harbour of Cali Pujang on the South Coast of Java. xii + 461pp + 2 pages of publisher's advertisements "New Works Relating to the East". Appendix. Some browning folding map and title, otherwise text and maps are clean. Neatly repaired at hinges, a little minor wear at corners. A very good copy in original blind stamped cloth. An account of travel from Western Australia to Batavia and Sourabaya followed by a tour of Java, thence to Singapore, Bankok (sic) and the east coast of Malaya. The chapters are treated in considerable detail. Chapter headings include: Sourabaya; Tour of Java; Voyage from Java to Singapore; Voyage to Siam - Bankok (sic); Voyage down the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula - Tringanu; Voyage to Borneo; Borneo - Dutch Colonies - Recent Discoveries - the Aborigines; Visit to the Gold Mines,… Read More

Hong Kong.: Earnshaw Books.. 2017.. Black and white illustrations, x + 251pp, bibliography. Paperback. New. "More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there. He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his book, A Description of Formosa, a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar's story and invited him to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University. The Formosa fantasy world he created, including elephants and camels, gold mines and outlandish religious sacrificial ceremonies, almost rivals Tolkein's Middle Earth, with the crucial difference that many people believed it to be real. This is the story of one of the great frauds in literary history." (Publisher's description). .

London.: Methuen.. 4th Edition, Revised.. 1966.. In text and folding maps, xviii + 436pp, index, dustjacket worn and spine sunned, foxed and browned edges and endpapers, a sound secondhand copy. .

(New York).: Johnson & Browning.. [circa1860].. Engraved map, 30.2 x 40.5 cm, 34.5 x 45.5 cm (sheet), original hand-colour, elaborate strapwork border, three fine vignettes of Muscat, Trebisond, small marginal edge tears, top corner chipped, the map in very good condition. Most attractive decorative map of Arabia, the Ottoman Empire, Persia , Afghanistan, Beloochistan and surrounds, by one of the most popular (and successful) 19th Century American atlas publishers. .

London.: Islamic Arts Foundation.. Vol 2, No 3, Autumn,1984.. Colour and black and white photographic and line illustrations, 76pp, some minor wear to extremities, quarto, wrappers. Articles in this issue of Arts & the Islamic World include 'Bihzad and Herat Renaissance' - Dr Mulk Raj Anand; 'A Niche for Lights. Symbol and Function in Islamic Sacred Architecture' - Rolph Blakstad; 'Indigenous Building Styles of Saudi Arabia' - Shirley Kay. .

Antebuka Tarawa.: KPC Levett Print.. Reprint.. 1996.. 224pp, bound in plain unlettered black cloth. First published at The London Mission Press, Rongorongo, Beru, in the Gilbert Islands in 1948. .

Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard University Press.. 1967.. xiii + 254pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Dustjacket spine somewhat sunned, otherwise a very good copy. .

New York.: O.U.P.. 1988.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 267pp, notes, index, paperback, touch of foxing endpapers, good copy in slightly faded dustjackets. Drawing on a vast array of sources pertaining to the period from the Ming Dynasty to the Communist Revolution, the author, clarifies the complexities of Chinese society while paying tribute to its extraordinary regional, social and historical diversity. He covers a wide range of topics, from population trends, family life and popular religion, to agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, and class structure. .

New York.: O.U.P.. Reprint.. 1988.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 267pp, notes, index. Cover worn and pencil underlining on a few pages, but a sound paperback copy, 23.5 x 15.3cm. Drawing on a vast array of sources pertaining to the period from the Ming Dynasty to the Communist Revolution, the author, clarifies the complexities of Chinese society while paying tribute to its extraordinary regional, social and historical diversity. He covers a wide range of topics, from population trends, family life and popular religion, to agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, and class structure. .

Ann Arbor.: University of Michigan Centre for Chinese Studies.. First Edition.. 1980. xxiv + 162pp, index, notes, appendices, glossary, spine and adjacent covers slightly browned, a very good paperback copy. .

Berkeley.: University of California Press.. 1967.. Black and white plates, viii + 141pp, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket shelf worn and marked with little loss on tail of spine, light occasional foxing, a good hardback copy. .

Berkeley.: University of California Press.. Reprint.. 1966.. Maps, black and white illustrations, xv + 359pp, notes and references, index, edges a touch foxed, dustjacket a little worn, good hardback copy. A social history of China. .

Leiden.: Brill.. Revised edition.. 1970.. 191pp, bibliography, index, cancelled ex University of Canberra library copy with the usual library stamps and labels, a few small marks on cloth boards, otherwise a very sound and clean copy. Chapters include: Problems of Historical Sociology; Feudalism and Gentry Society; Discussion of Earlier Theories; Formation of a new Dynasty; Patterns of Nomadic Rule; The Sha-t'o and their Culture; and Changes in the Leading Group during the "Five Dynasties". .

Leiden.: E. J. Brill.. 1975.. Black and white plates, iv + 59pp, select bibliography, prior owner's signature half-title, spine a little sunned, covers a little browned along extremities. 25 x 16.3cm. The Leeds Arabic Manuscript 347. Supplement III to the annual of Leeds University Oriental society. .

New York.: Free Press.. 1981.. Map, xxxiii + 429pp, glossary, bibliography, index, deacquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, upper edge foxed, a sound secondhand hardback copy. 24.1 x 19.1cm. .

Berkeley.: University of California Press.. 1986.. Maps, xvi + 319pp, glossary, index, references, 23.6 x 16cm. From ancient times the ties based on patrilineal descent were matters of ethical concern and practical politics in China. During the late imperial period, descent groups with as many as hundreds of members became a common feature of the social landscape. This volume, which will be of interest to both historians and anthropologists, concludes that these groups were far more varied and complex than anthropologists, concludes that these groups were far more varied and complex than anthropologists have assumed. Using case studies from north and central China and covering all periods from the Sung through Ch'ing dynasties, the authors explore the diversity of kinship organization and provide new insights into its relation to ancestral rituals, marriage strategies, adoption practices, settlement patterns, and the political, economic and philosophical concerns of the elite. .

Berkeley.: University of California Press.. 1986.. Maps, xvi + 319pp, glossary, index, references, few ink notes front free endpaper, a little fading dustjacket. Good copy. 23.6 x 16cm. "From ancient times the ties based on patrilineal descent were matters of ethical concern and practical politics in China. During the late imperial period, descent groups with as many as hundreds of members became a common feature of the social landscape. This volume, which will be of interest to both historians and anthropologists, concludes that these groups were far more varied and complex than anthropologists have assumed." (Publisher's description). .

Melbourne.: The Miegunyah Press.. Illustrated Gift Edition.. 1990.. Maps and over 150 black and white illustrations, xv + 431pp, appendices, glossary, index, near fine copy in like dustwrapper. 24 x 18cm. "In a wartime nightmare of starvation, disease, brutality and death, Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's courage and compassion made him an Australian legend. This new illustrated biography includes never-before-published material about his betrayal to his captors." (Publisher's description). .

Belfort.: Société Générale d'Imprimerie.. 1938.. 19pp. Wrappers detached, leaves browned and friable. Text in French. An anticommunist essay penned by former PRD Senator for Bas-Rhin, Frédéric Eccard. Published amidst a general surge in support for the French communist movement, the booklet provides an interesting insight into the liberal-conservative reaction to the turmoil of the time. .