Asia

# 24431

CROSS, Rev. E. B.

[KAREN LANGUAGE] The novice.

Rangoon : American Baptist Mission Press, 1883. Duodecimo, self-wrappers with woodcut of an owl, pp. [7], stitchbound. Text in English and S’gaw Karen. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Number 12 in the Toungoo Series of the American Baptist Mission. Rev. Cross is noted for his language publications including a translation of the New Testament …

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# 22644

WAR OFFICE

Asia Minor. Brusa

London : Geographical Section, War Office, April 1915 (corrected to August, 1915). Lithographed map, printed in colour, 565 x 625 mm (sheet), dissected and laid on linen, in a plain cloth case. War map of the coastline of the Sea of Marmara and northern Turkey to the east of Gallipoli following the Dardanelles Campaign.

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# 21871

NOBUKAZU, Yosai (1872 - 1944)

[SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]

Tokyo : Tsunashima Kamekichi, Meiji 23 (1890). Woodblock printed in colour, 712 x 698 mm, lined with Japanese tissue, old folds as issued, a clean and bright example. A board game of a voyage around the world, starting in Yokohama and with illustrated vignette scenes of the destinations visited, including Vanvouver, San Francisco, Niagara Falls, New …

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# 22702

HEINEMANN, H. E.

Varia Orientalia. An interesting choice of books on the Far East.

Shanghai : Western Arts Gallery (H. E. Heinemann), 1948. Catalogue No. 4. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 32, catalogue of 441 works. Prices in U.S. dollars. ‘For foreign circulation only’. Scarce German bookseller’s catalogue based in Shanghai of works on Asia.

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# 22359

Various.

[INDIA] Small group of printed ephemera relating to curio and arts and crafts traders in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1890s.

I. NUR BAKSH, KHUDA BAKSH KA, Dealer in Arms, old and new ; Koftgari in gold and silver ; Enamel ; Silver and Brass, old and new ; Pottery ; and miscellaneous other things, CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL OF ART, JEYPORE. Business card, 102 x 64 mm, letterpress on thick paper; fine. II. NOTICE. SCHOOL OF …

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# 22195

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS (USA)

A Christmas missionary exercise : illustrated with scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields.

Cover title: A Christmas missionary exercise and album. New York : The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1894. Oblong octavo, original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (lightly creased and marked), pp [24], illustrated with numerous half-tone photographic plates of various missions in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Laos, India, Chile, …

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# 22335

THAI INTERNATIONAL

What to do in Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur : Department of Tourism, circa 1970. Tourist brochure, narrow octavo, folding, illustrated in colour, map. Tourism in the South-East Asia

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# 21703

CARPENTER, C.H.

A revision of Dr. Wade’s rules for the transliteration of foreign terms into Karen. (Presentation copy)

Rangoon : American Mission Press, C. Bennett, 1875. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (lightly foxed), stitch bound, a presentation copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the upper wrapper ‘M.S. Rice Esq., from C.H. Carpenter’; pp 24; text in English and S’gaw Karen script; internally very clean; a near fine inscribed copy. A rare late nineteenth …

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# 22137

BURMA BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION.

The eighteenth annual report of the Burma Baptist Missionary Convention, held at Prome, November 3-5, 1883.

Rangoon : American Baptist Mission Press, F. D. Phinney, Supt., 1883. Octavo, self-wrappers, original stitching, pp 22, with large folding table at rear recording funds allocated to the various missions and ethnic groups; two light vertical fold lines, but a near fine copy.

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# 21618

OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.

1896 / 1897. Joint Schedule showing sailing of steamers of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. between San Francisco and Yokohoma and Hongkong.

(Including calls at Honolulu, Nagasaki, Hiogo (Kobe) and Shanghai). At head of sheet: United States, Japan and China. San Francisco : Occidental & Oriental S.S. Co., 421 Market Street, September 26, 1896. Lithographed broadsheet, 400 x 230 mm, printed recto only; original folds, in fine condition.

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# 21159

[WOODARD, David]

Extraordinary hardships and adventures of Captain David Woodard.

And five companions, who lost their vessel, the resistance, and afterwards their boat at sea, including their escape from the Malays, after captivity of near three years, and the horrid murder of Archibald Millar, one of the above party. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, [1808]. Octavo, later plain wrappers, LACKING the aquatint frontispiece, pp. 28, …

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# 20526

Burma

[Rangoon] : Ministry of Information, circa 1966. Oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers (slightly silverfished), pp. [24], illustrated. Propogandist tourist brochure for Burma (Myanmar) while under military rule.

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# 20004

QANTAS

Singapore. Fly Qantas

[Sydney] printed by John Sands for Qantas, circa 1970. DL size brochure, pp. [8], each folded in three to make the brochure, illustratyed in colour. Includes a map. Wonderfully kitsch.

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# 19085

Anon.

[NEW SOUTH WALES] Roll of deaths in the 50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment of Foot from April 1841 to May 1843

[Drop title] Nominal Roll of of Men who have become Non Effective Since the Regiment left New South Wales, up to the 1 May 1843, Cawnpore, 1843. Manuscript in ink on pale blue wove paper, folio (340 x 205 mm), 2 bifolia written on [6] sides in a neat clerical hand, manuscript column rules; a …

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# 19140

THOMAS F. LOGAN, INC.; SUGIHARA, S.

Manchuria : land of opportunities

New York : South Manchuria Railway Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo, original buckram-backed papered boards (lightly marked), spine with printed paper title label (sunned), pp. 113, illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates, diagrams, folding colour map at rear; some pale foxing to preliminaries, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy; loosely enclosed is a …

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# 18615

Hōshūdō (publisher)

五大州知恵板 (五大洲智惠板) [Godaishū Chie no Ita] (The Puzzle of the 5 Continents)

[Tokyo] : Published by宝集堂（寳集堂) [Hōshūdō], [1873] (Meiji 6). Colour woodblock print, 660 x 820 mm, 220 x 135 mm (folded); bound in the original yellow wrappers with title slip labeled 五大洲智恵能以多; in fine condition. This map shows the outline of the major landmasses of the world. At the time, there was a school of thought …

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