Asia

# 15385

INDIA. STATE RAILWAYS DEPARTMENT.

Budh Gaya

s.l. : Government of India, State Railways Department, [c.1930]. Narrow folio, folding to 245 x 115 mm, pictorial wrappers, 10 pp, illustrations, folding map; a very good copy. A scarce early tourist guide to Budh Gaya, “the most famous and most interesting of all sacred sites of the Buddhists.” (p.1)

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# 15721

DERRY, Laura Miller (1905 - 1993)

University assignments on education in Asia by Laura Miller Derry, circa 1933

Four university assignments completed by Laura Miller at Bowling Green College of Commerce, Kentucky, circa 1933, as part of a degree in commercial education. Political, social, educational and religious conditions in 20th century in Japan. Laura Miller, class 184b. Quarto, 30 leaves, typescript, manuscript map in pencil, tipped-in colour postcards. Java. Philippine Islands. Laura Miller, class 184b. …

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# 14772

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[POLYNESIA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens, Eastern Arms &c.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. November 1904. No. 20. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 2 (brief descriptions of 69 items), followed by 2 photographic plates (tissue guards intact) illustrating all items; a fine copy. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes artefacts from New Zealand …

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# 14777

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[SOUTH AMERICA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. October 1905. No. 31. Octavo, original printed wrappers (edges a little chipped), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 36 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 36 artefacts from India …

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# 14779

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[NEW HEBRIDES] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. July, 1905. No. 28. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 30 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating all items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 15 artefacts from the Naga hill tribes …

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# 15340

Earthquake pictorial edition. Part one

Osaka : Osaka Mainichi, 1923. Oblong folio, lettered wrappers (creased), silt ribbon ties, photographic illustrations of the devastation caused by the 1923 earthquake.

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# 14590

SWINBURNE, T. R.

A holiday in the happy valley with pen and pencil

London : Smith, Elder & Co, 1907. Octavo, gilt-illustrated cloth (one corner bumped), colour frontispiece, pp. xii; 342; [6 – adverts], colour illustrations, neat insription to title page by Emery Walker, map of Kashmir. publisher's slip to booksellers, ownership label of Emery Walker to rear pastedown. A classic account of travel in Kashmir. From the …

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# 8561

Japan Tourist Bureau.

How to see Miyanoshita and Hakone

Tokyo : Japan Tourist Bureau, June 1935. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 9 pp, illustrated, map, a fine copy.

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# 6464

NYBERG, Ragnar; ZACKE, Alvar

On the dragon seas : a sailor’s adventures in the Far East

/ by Ragnar Nyberg and Alvar Zacke ; translated from the Swedish by Edith M. Nielson. London : Hurst and Blackett, [1935]. First edition, third impression. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 287 pp, [16] leaves of photographic plates, a fine copy. Travel memoir of a Swedish seaman's experiences in China and the China Sea. …

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