Asian History

H. Fournier, 1845. Book. Illus. by Auguste Borget. Good. Half-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In-8, relié demi-chagrin vert foncé, Bon Etat, 396 pages.

Ames-Rollinson company, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed. [Presentation copy] Inscribed, with flourish, to G. S. Morse "with compliments of the author". Octavo. Original tan cloth, black and red leather spine labels. 293 pages ; 26 cm. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> Daniel T. Ames was a major figure in American ornamental penmanship, engrossing and illustration, and a leading expert in forgery detection who testified at many prominent trials in the U.S., Canada and other countries. He was also a pioneer in American penmanship publishing, who founded and edited the 'Penman's Art Journal' in New York City. Mr. Ames authored a number of books on penmanship, engrossing, designing and forgery detection. He testified as a handwriting expert in many important cases. In London, he was called as as a witness in the case of the Crown vs W. H. Hulbert. He was also a witness in the Davis will case, tried in Butte, Montana, in which $13,000,000 depended upon the authenticity of… Read More

Second edition. Macmillan. London. 1921. 2 volumes. Crown 8vo. xxvii, 563pp. Frontis., 87 further plates, of which 3 are colour, 3 folding maps in text, a further large folding map in rear pocket; xix, (1), 594pp + adverts, frontis., 97 further plates, one of which is coloured folding, folding map in text, two further folding maps in rear pocket. Original publisher's decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed and worn to extremities. Toning to eps. Teg. Heffer & Sons booksellers plates to fep of each volume.

Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE, CB, CMG, RGS Patron's Gold Medal (1867-1945) soldier, diplomat, explorer, eminent orientalist and author.

"It describes in considerable detail the geography, legends and history of Persia from the earliest times of Elam and Babylon. A Persian bibliophile has described it as "probably the best history of the country we have today in any language other than Persian" (Ghani, p. 363)." Encyclopaedia Iranica.

From the Preface to this Second Edition: "During… Read More

Taipei, Taiwan: Ch'eng-wen Publishing Company, 1967. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 927pp; Two Volumes: brown cloth boards with tan spines, titling to spines, boards protected by clear plastic sleeves, endpapers slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. NOTE: THIS EDITION DOES NOT INCLUDE STAR MAPS. Two volumes. Reprint of original 1875 edition. Scarce work showing evidence that primitive astronomy originated in China and then borrowed by ancient westerners. Illustrated with diagrams and one foldout chart. TEXT IN FRENCH.

First English editions. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. London. 1855. Two volumes. Octavo. half title, title, xxxii, 421pp, folding coloured map frontispiece (with no tears); half title, title, viii, 440pp, 24pp publisher's catalogue. Original blind tooled blue cloth, "Bound by Edmonds and Remnants, London" plate to rep, a little bumped, rubbed to edges, corners and spine. Gilt lettering to spine. Endpaper publisher's adverts to both volumes. Free endpaper show slight offsetting from the adverts. Edges untrimmed. Occasional spotting.Neat signature of J. W. Gallant to feps.Neat signature of Oswald Penrhyn dated 1856 to versos of ffeps of both volumes.Oswald Henry Leycester Penrhyn (1828 - 1918) son of Edward Penrhyn. Cousin of Augustus Hare, and executor of his will, mentioned in Hare's The Story of My Life.The Abbé Évariste Régis Huc (1813 - 1860) Missionary and traveller. "We were about to become acquainted, in China, with a civilisation extremely unlike that of Europe, but not less… Read More

Bangkok: SDI Publications, 1995. 3 Vols. Beautifully published reprint edition limited to 999 copies. Originally published: Paris : Les Éditions G. Van Oest, 1929-1932. Folio. in slipcase. French text. prof. illus. vol. 1. L'architecture du monument / introduction de Louis Finot; vol. 2: La sculpture ornementale du temple / introduction de Victor Goloubew; vol. 3: La galerie des bas-reliefs / introduction de G. Coedès. Notes. cloth, d.j. lightly rubbed, slipcase, otherwise As New. Rare.This set is heavy and requires additional freight charge as well as insurance.

Nanking: Nanking Women's Club, 1933. 2nd, revised edition. wrappers. [6], 62 pp. With 10 illustrations from photographs on 6 plates; 3 maps, one folding at rear plus large folding laid in loose. 22.8x15.5 cm (9x6"), stapled red wrappers printed in black. The large folding map measures 34x46.5 cm (13½x18¼"), has a key on the verso to 82 locations; it was supposed to be in a separate folder, but is here laid in loose. Sticker on front cover, with chipping and wear to wrappers, rear wrapper and map detached; very good. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. Scarce little description of Nanking, with much of the information taken from Père Gaillard's "Nankin d'alors et d'aujourd'hui", revised and enlarged under the auspices of the Literary Section of the Nanking Woman's Club.

Nagasaki, 1828. folded sheet printed on both sides. 32 x 91 cm (12½ x 35¾"). very good. One folded sheet printed on both sides. 32 x 91 cm (12½ x 35¾"). OCLC World/Cat cites only one copy, held at Indiana University. A chronological table of events in Nagasaki from 1570 to the year of publication. Light wear with minor creasing, small pinhole at lower left corner; near fine. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade wordwide.

Small quarto (11 1/2 X 8 inches) Japan: Getumeikai, 1959. First Edition. (5) 59 + (6) pages printed in Japanese and English on hand made Japanese vellum, with 26 individual fabric samples (25 are tipped in, the 26th sample is the cover material for the hardcover binding), plus a wood block print illustrating a woman in Japanese wardrobe working at a hand loom. Number 180 of a limited edition of 200. Housed in an ink blue stiff folder with bone ties. At the bottom of each page is a description of the sample, its pattern, its weave, and its dye; in addition to a small woodblock illustration of the plant from which the fabric is derived. Very good condition.

"In selecting the sample fabrics for this little collection, I renewed afresh my pledge, which I hope is not merely a nostalgia for lost things, but a positive creation of the 'new' through a dedicated study of the old."

London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1931. 2nd Impression with variant wrapper . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo format - 7" tall. An abused copy of this uncommon book. The 2nd impression of the first edition with the even scarcer orange printed wraps. The rear wrap has been assailed with a spill of indeterminate origin which has penetrated through the wrap and caused edge stains to the rear half of the text from page 59 onwards with no loss of text. PP135-144 also have orange stains to text. Nevertheless the text is legible and complete with occasional light pencil underlining and marginalia. See photos to examine the affect of the stain through the book. If you require additional photos let me know. (Langworth pp151/2).

Manila, Philippines: National Historical Commission, 1969. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+. 7" x 10" Hardcover; 549pp; Maroon boards, gilt titling to spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Biography of Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896), Filipino nationalist, writer & polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, considered the national hero of the Philippines. Introduction by Carlos Quirino. Awarded First Prize in the Rizal Biography Contest held under the auspices of the Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission in 1961.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949, first printing. 8vo., x+336pp., illustrated with maps. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Minor, light dust foxing on edges, offset toning to fly leaves, else very good plus, clean, bright, attractive. Front flap of dust jacket laid in. "The fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, was a great and unexpected blow both to Britain and to her Allies, a blow all the more unlooked-for because the defences of the island fortress had been generally believed to be impregnable. As a result, accusations against the military and civil leadership were immediately made, the greater part of them based on an almost total lack of detailed information. In this book, Lieutenant-General A. E. Percival, who was General Officer Commanding in Malaya from 1941 to 1942, has at last been able to present an authoritative account of the fighting in Malaya and of the events immediately leading… Read More

PHILADELPHIA, PA: GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO., 1894 NICE LOOKING TAN, RED AND GOLD COVER. SPINE OUTSIDE MISSING, FRONT AND BACK COVERS LOOSE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH HEAVY PAGES. FRONTISPIECE MAP OF CHINA, CONTAINS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS, ENORMOUS RESOURCES, WEALTH, EMPERORS AND COURTS, GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT NATIONS LIVE AND DIE AND MAINTAIN IN ORIENTAL SPLENDOR THE CHINA AND JAPAN OF TODAY. A SKETCH OF COREA AND THE COREANS, AND THE CAUSES LEADING TO THE CONFLICT OF 1894. 20 CHAPTERS, LARGE NUMBER ILLUSTRATIONS. WONDERFUL BOOK HELPING UNDERSTAND THE GREAT NATIONS AND THE CONFLICT. China (Chinese), officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's second-most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, tied with Russia as having the most of any country in the world. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Big Jump Press,, 2023.. Edition of 66 (26 lettered, 40 numbered). 5.5 x 9"; 20 pages. Colophon: "Text for this project was gathered, edited, and recombined by Sarah Bryant from a series of recorded interviews conducted in 2022. Imagery in this book comes from photographs of Burmese letterforms taken by Ben Mitchell as part of his design process. Examples of the Burmese letter Na were traced and carved in linoleum by Sarah Bryant. Papers for this book include Zerkall Book, Clearprint Design Vellum, and Colorplan. The text has been digitally set in Arno, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach, and Sanomat Burmese, designed by Ben Mitchell, and printed letterpress from polymer plates." Handsewn pamphlet style binding. Stiff paper wrapper with printed illustration on front cover. Laid in letter fold wrapper. Produced in an edition of 44, of which 26 lettered copies bound individually and 40 bound alongside other collaborative components of the 'Acts of… Read More

A really good clean copy. A little rubbing on the corners and spine but very minimal. It does however bear an ink stamp on the title page (see photograph)