Asia
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# 44813
[Various].
[VIETNAM WAR] Collection of business cards for bars and nightclubs catering to US servicemen on R&R in the Wanchai red-light district of Hong Kong.
[Hong Kong : various establishments, 1965-70]. Collection of 18 (eighteen) business cards, largest 63 x 106 mm, most printed on both sides; a few with toning or light marks, but a very well preserved group. During the Vietnam War, Hong Kong – along with Sydney, Taipei, Bangkok and Manila – was one of the main …
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# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …
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# 44804
Malaya 1948
Survey Dept. Malayan Union No. 15, 1948 Large scale separately issued map printed in colour, 910 x 635 mm, old folds, inset map of Langkawi Islands, lightly handled, very good condition. Detailed map of the Malayan Peninsula during the short lived period of the Malayan Union (1946 – 1948), which saw the Federated Malay States, …
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# 44765
HIBI, Sadao
Japanese detail : traditional table and kitchen ware (from the library of Criss Canning)
London : Thames & Hudson, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. From the library of noted Australian artist Criss Canning, signed in ink on the half-title. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 43801
CLAVELL, James (1921 - 1994)
Shōgun : a novel of Japan
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. Octavo, gilt-lettered black cloth (a little bumped at head and foot of spine), illustrated dust jacket (by Paul Bacon), not price-clipped, lightly handled, chipped and with short tears at head and foot of spine; very small stain to lower corner of front free endpaper, pp. [viii]; 802; (1); internally …
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# 44490
LATHAM, J. G.
The Australian Eastern Mission, 1934. Report of the Right Honorable J. G. Latham, Leader of the Mission.
At head of title: 1932-33-34. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : L. F. Johnston, Government Printer, August 1934. Foolscap folio, pp. 27; a very good copy of this Parliamentary paper. The Mission visited the Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, French Indo-China, Hong Kong, China (this included an Anzac Ball in Shanghai), Japan, …
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# 44254
SHARF, Frederick Alan
Takejiro Hasegawa : Meiji Japan’s preeminent publisher of wood-block-illustrated crepe-paper books
Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 77, illustrated, checklist of books. Scarce.
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# 44366
NEWTON, Douglas (ed.)
Arts of the South Seas : island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia : the collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller
Munich : Prestel, 1999. Large quarto (315 x 250 mm), publisher’s cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed), pp. 368, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; a fine copy of one of the best surveys of Oceanic Art available.
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# 44453
ROW, T. Subba
Discourses on the Bhagavat Gita.
To help students in studying its philosophy. By Mr. T. Subba Row, B.A., B.L., F.T.S. Printed for the Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund by Tookram Tayta. Bombay : printed at the Joint-Stock Printing Press, 1888. Octavo, plum cloth (spine sunned, lightly marked), offsetting to endpaper, pp. viii; 94, a few pencil annotations.
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# 44502
STEVENS, Bertram (1889 - 1973)
New horizons. A study of Australian-Indian relations (presentation copy)
Sydney : Peter Huston, 1946. Published under the auspices of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, New South Wales Branch. Octavo, lettered cloth, in the scarce dustjacket (edges chipped, with loss), presentation inscription in the year of publication from Stevens to the endpaper, pp. xx; 21-201, a very good copy. An important study on Australian-Indian …
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# 13321
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1533-1603
Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. : Selectarum item ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.
Coloniæ Agippinæ : in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, MDXCIII. [Cologne : Arnold Mylius, 1593]. Second Cologne edition. Small folio, contemporary calf with embossed armorial device to boards, ruled in blind, rebacked, spine with raised bands; edges stained blue, later endpapers, title with woodcut printer’s device, manuscript inscription lower margin; woodcut initials and tail-pieces; pp 541, …
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# 42374
SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.
Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden] : Nicolaus van Geelkercken, 1619. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript title and collection number to spine; title with large engraved vignette (early ownership signature to upper margin); pp. [4] (blank), 175, [5] (blank); with folding engraved world map and a further 24 engraved …
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# 38432
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)
Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.
Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled …
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# 38367
CALLANDER, John (1722–1789)
Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.
Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …
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# 44369
MARSHALL, John (1748-1819) (attributed)
[FIRST FLEET] Manuscript map showing the track of the ship “Scarborough” on its return voyage from Port Jackson in 1788.
Manuscript chart showing the track of a ship [the Scarborough] on a voyage from Port Jackson to Canton [in 1788], on verso of printed map A New Chart of the Southern Coast of Africa, From The Cape of Good Hope To Dalagoa Bay; with the Bank of Cape Agulhas … (1781); 627 x 848 mm …
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# 29226
HUNTER, John (1737-1821)
An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,
with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip’s Voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of …