Asia

# 18679

IMBERT, Henri

Le tapir à tache blanche sur le dos de la Chine et de l’Indochine

Hanoi-Haiphong : Imp. d’Extrême-Orient, 1921. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, pp 9, illustrated with 1 b/w photographic plate; text in French; a fine copy. A study of the Asiatic tapir.

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# 18906

[COMMISSION CENTRALE D'EXAMENS DE LANGUES ORIENTALES]

Sujets de compositions données aux examens de langue chinoise à Hanoi et Saigon de 1930 à 1940

[Hanoi? Saigon? : Commission centrale d’examens de langues orientales, c.1940]. Quarto, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt ‘Examens de langues orientales’ and initials ‘P. D.’, patterned endpapers, rear pastedown with binder’s ticket of P. Nguyen-Van-Chau (Saigon and Phnom-Penh), title leaf + 132 ff, rectos of odd-numbered leaves with …

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# 18833

LIARDET, Cavendish Evelyn

Soya beans

Liverpool : The Northern Publishing Co., 1910. Octavo, printed green wrappers, pp. 27, photographic plates. A study on the plant by Liardet ‘of China’.

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# 18687

ROSNY, L. Léon de (1837-1914)

[THAI LANGUAGE] Quelques observations sur la langue siamoise et sur son écriture.

[Paris] : Imprimerie Impériale, 1855. Octavo, original plain blue wrappers, stitched, pp 16, some very mild scattered foxing, else a fine uncut and unopened copy; text in French, with examples in Thai. Scarce linguistic study on various aspects of Thai by the renowned French Japanologist Léon de Rosny, originally published in the Journal asiatique, no. 17, …

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# 17948

HAMAGUCHI, Takashi (1931 - )

Document angle (signed copy)

Tokyo : Japan Camera, 1973. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (edges rubbed), pp. 154, photographically illustrated, signed by the photographer on the title page. Text in Japanese. Hamaguchi’s photobook ‘Document Angle’ records Japanese life at a time of rapid economic growth and social change. During a period of Westernisation, urbanisation and industrialisation, Document Angle illustrated …

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# 18053

WAHLEN, Auguste

Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …

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# 18047

OKAMOTO, K. S.

Ancient and modern various usages; of Tokio Japan

Tokio : Y. T. R. Morito, 1885. Octavo, Japanese wrappers (a little foxed), stitchbound, in the rare printed paper slipcase, pp. [124], folded leaves, printed in colour, a very fine copy. Text in Japanese and English. Housed in a custom Japanese box. An utterly charming guide to Japanese customs in the Meiji period, including Japanese …

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# 17868

TOMLINSON, H. M. (1873 - 1958)

An illustrated catalogue of rare books on the East Indies and a letter to a friend by H. M. Tomlinson (presentation copy)

London : The Java Head Bookshop, 1932. Octavo, papered boards, cloth spine, pp. 42, illustrated. Limited to 165 copies, this is copy number 2. The deluxe edition of the first catalogue of the Java Head Bookshop (a softcover on cheaper paper was also issued). Signed on the front free endpaper by H. M. Tomlinson and …

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# 14378

竹口瀧三郎 [Takeguchi Takisaburō]; 上村福三郎 [Uemura Fukusaburō]

官許新刊輿地全圖 [Kankyo shinkan yochi zenzu] [Officially Licenced New Map of the World]

Edo (Tokyo), Japan : 萬屋兵四郎 [Yorozuya Heishirō], [1862] (Bunkyū 2). Hand coloured woodblock print, original cloth covers and paper portfolio, both with title labels (portfolio with some silverfishing and lacking left-hand flap), map with some foxing and silverfishing, repaired with Japanese tissue. A detailed map of the world on Mercator’s projection bordered by vibrantly coloured …

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# 14199

新發田収藏 [Shibata Shūzō], 竹口貞齋 [Takeguchi Teisai]

新訂坤輿略全圖 [Shintei konyo ryaku zenzu] [Newly-edited General Map of the World]

Edo [Tokyo], Japan : 高木耕藏 [Takagi Kōzō], Kaei 5 [1852]. Hand coloured woodblock print, original covers with facsimile title label, map with some silverfishing, repaired with Japanese tissue. A pseudocylindrical projection map showing the world centred on Japan. Includes preface by written by 北海半嶋漁人 [Hokkai Hantō Ryōjin] and legend with date and publisher information. 新發田収藏 [Shibata Shūzō] …

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# 14118

ed. 箕作省吾 [Mitsukuri Shōgo]

新製輿地全圖 [Shinsei yochi zenzu] [Newly-produced Map of the World]

[Japan] : [s.n.], Kōka 1 [1844]. Scroll housed in modern box, 1365 x 347 mm, silverfishing repaired with Japanese tissure throughout. Shows eastern and western hemispheres with preface by 大槻盤溪 [Ōtsuki Bankei] (1801-78), a Confucian scholar and the instructor of the western gunnery at the Sendai Domain. Following the map is a legend written by 箕作省吾 …

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# 16356

JOUHANNEAUD, Paul

Album des voyages anciens et modernes.

Limoges: Martial Ardant frères, 1854. Octavo, polychromatic cloth, all edges gilt, 208 pp., 23 plates of races of the world, including the Americas,Asia, Europe, Africa and the Pacific. A French geographical book for children, recounting the stories of voyages made by great explorers to the four corners of the globe. Includes the expeditions of Columbus, Cook, …

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# 15328

FITCH & CO. LTD.

[INDIA] Mussoorie : sixteen coloured views

Mussoorie and Dehra Doon : Fitch & Co., Ltd., [c.1930]. Small oblong quarto, publisher’s printed thick paper wrappers, original wool ties, inside front wrapper with inscription dated at Mussoorie, September 30 1930, [16] leaves, each recto with a tipped-in hand coloured silver gelatin photograph in format 85 x 135 mm, versos blank; clean and fresh throughout, a fine …

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# 15651

Map of Singapore

With compliments of Thomas Cook & Chanrai’s, Singapore’s only exclusive air conditioned men’s shop. Singapore : Thomas Cook, c. 1950. Folding map, printed in colour, 450 x 295, guide to Singapore and advertisements verso. Fine condition.

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# 15498

[Administrative atlas of Vietnam]. Tập bản đồ Việt Nam. Hành chính và hình thể.

Hà Nội : Cục đo đạc và bản đồ nhà nước, 1986. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, printed in colour. Atlas of Vietnam including the South China Sea, with inset maps of Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi. Scarce. Four copies located on WorldCat (all in central European collections).

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# 15332

The fifty-first annual report of the Santal Mission of the Northern Churches (the Indian home mission to the Santals) for the year 1917 – 1918.

Dukma [India] : Santal Mission of the Northern Churches, 1919. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. iv; 72, pale foxing, a very good copy. Scarce printing from Eastern India recording a year’s activities of a Norwegian missionary society.

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