Search Results: Titles starting with B from John Randall (Books of Asia)

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1907. First edition, 8vo (21 x 16 cm), pp.xiii, [1, blank], 275, [1], 95 plates, folding map. A very good copy in slightly rubbed original pictorial cloth, spine lightly bumped. Geraldine Edith Mitton (1868-1955), an English writer, visited Burma around 1905 and married Sir James George Scott (Shway Yoe) in 1920, collaborating with him on several novels set in Burma. She later wrote the account of his life Scott of the Shan Hills (1936). She provides an amusing impressionistic account of her first two months in Burma, where, starting from Moulmein, she travelled to Mandalay and Bhamo. She readily admits this is not a book "on Burma" but a recounting of her experiences and observation, refraining "from generalising on the basis of one example". She observes that as a 'holiday-land Burma is only just beginning to be known' but that this would soon change as the journey is 'extraordinarily cheap'. The illustrations are mostly from… Read More

Hanoi: F.-H. Schneider, Imprimeur-Éditeur; Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, 1901-1976. Sixty-two volumes bound in sixty-four (Volume 11 lacking; volumes 44 & 52 each in two parts), in total 42,979 pages with 2,323 plates and 37 maps. Text largely in French. This set is handsomely bound in half calf, marbled boards, and is in very good condition. Volumes 32 and 46 have small tears to top of spine. A remarkable run of the foremost journal of studies on French Indochina and the surrounding regions. L'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient was founded by Paul Doumer, Governor-General of Indochina from 1897 to 1902, encouraged by the distinguished Indologist Sylvain Lévi. The foundation decree stated its objectives: to carry out research on the archaeological and philological exploration of the Indochinese peninsula, and to contribute, by every means possible, to the understanding of its history, its monuments and its languages; to contribute toward the study of neighbouring regions… Read More