Search Results: Authors starting with U from Asia Bookroom

[circa1970s].. Watercolour, ink and chalk on paper, 34.5 x 22 cm (margins 37.7 x 25.4 cm), signed lower right. In very good condition. Appealing watercolour in the traditional style. .

[circa1970s].. Watercolour, ink and chalk on paper, 32.7 x 21.5 cm (margins 36.3 x 24.6 cm), signed lower right, two small edge tears but in very good condition. Appealing watercolour in the traditional style. .

Penestanan, Ubud, Bali. [circa1970s].. Ink and watercolour line drawing on artists'card, 16.4 x 11.3 cm signed and captioned on verso, toning to the recto; in attractive plum coloured window mount 20 x 15 cm, in very good condition. Appealing sketch with humorous elongated stick figures in profile, delicately coloured. .

(Circa1872).. Five hand-coloured albumen prints from an original souvenir album: the portraits each approx 13.2 x 9 cm and the landscape 20 x 25.9 cm, three of the images with studio numbers in the negative, tipped to an album leaf, 30.2 x 37.5 cm, edged in embossed gilt silk tape (fraying) board with occasional spotting affecting the background of one portrait and the landscape image, the images fading, most markedly in two of the portraits, the sumo portrait with some ink staining, but in good condition. From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled catalogue marks and notation (in English and Japanese). .

London.: Seagull Books London Ltd. 2008.. 212pp, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. .

Illustrated with colour illustrations throughout, 145pp, dustjacket a trifle foxed on reverse. Very good copy. 304 x 22cm. Chapter headings are: Heritage: The Challenges of our Times - Dato' Seri Datin Paduka Dr Siti Hamah bte Hj. Mohd. Ali; Looking into the Past for the Future - Dato' Zakiah Hanum; The Significance of History in the Preservatin of Heritage- Dato' Dr Khoo Kay Kim; Arts and Patronage: Issue of the 21st Century - Tan Sri Zain Azraai; Conservation of our Natural Heritage; Problems and Prospects - Dato' Dr Salleh Mohd. Nor Dr. Tho Yow Pong; National Policies: Their Implications on the Preservation of Heritage - Rustam A. Sani. .

Delhi.: Motilal Banarsidass.. 1969.. xvi + 239pp, good hardback copy in slightly worn dustjacket. .

London.: George Allen & Unwin.. 1974.. Translated and edited by Leon M. Zolbrod. Black and white map and illustrations, 280pp, notes, appendices, bibliography, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, endpapers little browned, spine sunned, a very good hardback copy. "A collection of nine beautifully wrought tales of the supernatural, Ugetsu Monogatari is one of the greatest masterpieces of Edo fiction. Written by Ueda Akinari and first published in 1776, it is universally admired for the classical elegance of its style and for the supreme skill with which the tales are constructed and recounted." (Publisher's description). .

Tokyo.: Kodansha International.. 1994.. Black and white illustrations, 260pp, glossary, edges faintly and evenly browned, minor wear, dustjacket spine a little sunned, a good hardback copy. "In this stunning collection of essays the roots of Japanese mores and popular culture are explored with disarming candour and verve, covering everything from economics and politics to fashion, entertainment, and sex." Publisher's description. .

東京. [Tokyo].: 愛国生命保険株式会社. [Aikoku Seimei Hoken Kabushiki Kaisha].. 昭和 2 [1927].. Brightly coloured folding sugoroku, 54 x 77cm, stamp and some browning on reverse. Few small holes at folds but generally very good. Published for the New Year in 1927 this sugoroku game promotes the life insurance company, Aikoku (Patriotic) Life Insurance Company. The company was established during the Meiji period by alliance of over 300,000 sweets traders in Japan. They attracted groups of doctors, nurses and policemen all of whom were exposed to infectious diseases, who were seeking some type of life insurance cover. As the company name indicates, the game features some patriotic personalities, such as General Nogi and 47 Ronins of Ako. However, the main theme of the game was family members' welfare as the company offered various policies which were similar to family saving plans. Thus the main aim of the game is to… Read More

Kyoto.: Hongwanji Int, Ctr.. 1980. 104pp, glossary, index, very slgiht wear to covers, a good paperback copy. "Buddhist paths to enlightenment are all founded on "practice" - the study and discipline that lead to religious transformation. How can a person incapable of severe monastic training attain enlightenment? In confronting this question, Honen revealed a new dimension of Buddhist thought, for he taught that through Amida's Primal Vow to save all beings, one can receive the Buddha's virtues by saying his Name in sincere trust." (Publisher's description). .

USA: M.E. Sharpe. New ed. 2001. 499pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Studies of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History On the basis of a broad review of the past and the present relationship of China and Christianity, the focus of this volume shifts to the future and its potential for both great promise and pitfalls. .

Bandoeng.: A.C. Nix & Co.. 1949.. Folding tables, 240pp, original printed buff coloured wrappers evenly browned, spine has tape residue and head & tail have been re-enforced, still a sound copy. Text in Dutch. .

Martinus Nijhoff.: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal.. 1960.. Appendix inserted without being attached, viii + 63pp paperback. Coversbrowning at spine and edges, othewise good copy. Text in Dutch. .

Zurich.: Museum Rietberg Zurich.. 1995.. Map, black, white, and coloured photographic plates, 225pp, bibliography, head of spine bumped, very good hardback copy. 30 x 23.5 cm. .

London.: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus.. 2009.. Translated by Nathanial McBride. Endpaper map, 196pp. A very good hardback copy in like dustjacket. 16.8 x 13cm. "Martin Uitz, a renowned expert on Bhutan, describes how the Bhutanese, in pursuit of the principle of 'Gross National Happiness', are carefully moving towards a more modern future, including a constitution and democracy, whilst preserving their traditional society and conserving the environment." (Publisher's description). .

Oxford University Press. 1st Edition. 1982.. xiii + 252pp. Maroon cloth covered boards, lettered in gilt, a fine copy in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Text in Hebrew and English. The legends of Prester John were a sort of science fiction of the Middle Ages, and his letters to Popes and other potentates exist in a variety of languages. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. .

Poona.: The Yeravda Prison Press.. 1927.. Black and white photographic illustrations, 6pp + 2 plates, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and annotations, vertical creased throughout from folding in half, stapled wrappers little marked and worn. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No. 134 of 1927. .

Auckland.: Longman Publishing Group.. First Edition.. 1976. Edited by Mike Greicus. xii + 140pp, dustjacket inside and text upper edge foxed, otherwise a good copy. 20.4 x 13.6cm. .

Cambridge.: Cambridge University Press.. 1949.. Maps, 1 folding, black and white photographic plates, xi + 62pp, references, index, two closed tears on one leaf, a prior owner's name and address front free endpaper, minor wear extremities, good copy in chipped but protected dustjacket. This volume contains the text of a series of lectures delivered to an audience of students of geography, geology and geophysics in Cambridge, in May 1946. They focus on the following topics: the shallow seas; deep-sea basins and troughs; volcanoes; structural zones; geophysics and synthesis. .