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Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose


HALL, ANNE DRURY

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: literature prose renaissance English literary criticism rhetoric civilization civilisation history

$20.00
xxstf172199

A Long Time Away


McCONNOCHIE, W. G. & GRUBB, CHERYL E. (Compiled & Annotated)

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cheryl E. Grubb 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir W G McConnochie ww2 world war two 2 second fighter pilots air force rnzaf

$25.00
xxstf172202

March or Die


SWIGGETT, HOWARD

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG/VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Museum Press Ltd 1955

KEYWORDS: first edition war military history legion legionnaires Indo-China

$50.00
2i42a/1

Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China


LIU, KWANG-CHING (Ed)

LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 364pp, Near FINE (v sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperial civilization civilisation congresses philosophy studies humanities class stratification

$45.00
2i42a/7

The Care-Taker Emperor: Aspects of the Imperial Institution in Fifteenth-Century China as Reflected in the Political History of the Reign of Chu Ch'i-yu


DE HEER, PH.

Super octavo, brown light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, x + 226pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light staining to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep)

PUBLISHER: E. J. Brill Leiden 1986

KEYWORDS: China Chinese emperors history politics imperial 15th fifteenth century Chu Ch'i-yu

$40.00
2i42a/11

Chang Ping-Lin (1869-1936): A Political Radical and Cultural Conservative


LEE, JER-SHIARN

Octavo, cream light covers, pink lettering to covers & spine, 217pp, VG (light soiling to frnt cover, light fading to spine, moderate creasing & folding to rear cover & pgs)

PUBLISHER: The Liberal Arts Press 1993

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history politics cultural conservative Chang Ping-lin

$40.00
2i42a/12

1952 Indianapolis Official 500 Mile Race Yearbook


CLYMER, FLOYD

Quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, 112pp, illus/photos, VG-/scruffy (heavy scuffing with loss to spine, moderate to heavy creasing & scuffing to edges, moderate foxing to covers & page edges, sm. annotations in ink to front cover & to pgs sporadically throughoutheavy rusting to staples)40

PUBLISHER: Floyd Clymer 1952

KEYWORDS: cars racing motorsport 1952 500 mile raceIndianapolis history yearbook automotive transport

$65.00
2i42a/14

The City in Late Imperial China


SKINNER, G. WILLIAM (Ed)

Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvii + 820pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light creasing to lower corners of pgs 515-538, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading & tanning to spine, light tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: Rainbow-Bridge Book Co. 1977

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history social science sociology

$100.00
2i42a/16

The Ming Maritime Trade Policy in Transition, 1368 to 1567


KANGYING, LI & SCHOTTENHAMMER, ANGELA (Ed)

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, viii + 211pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems & board edges, inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Harrassowitz 2010

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history trade maritime nautical Asian east economics business trading

$60.00
2i42a/25

Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China


ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, xxxiii + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's sm name label to prelims, adhesive errata slip to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history classicism politics philosophy imperial confucianism confucius literature

$45.00
2i42a/27

Chinese Ceramics in Colonial Mexico


KUWAYAMA, GEORGE

Lg quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 87pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1997

KEYWORDS: antiques artefacts China Chinese ancient history antiquity shipwrecks archaeology archeology Mexico South America

$65.00
2i42a/34

Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung


WECHSLER, HOWARD J.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to board edges, boards sl warped, ex-libris plate to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history T'ang dynasty politics antiquity

$42.50
2i42a/35

Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867


HALL, CATHERINE

Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xviii + 556pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2002

KEYWORDS: history Europe European English British empire colonising colonies colonisation

$78.50
2i42a/36

A World Connecting 1870-1945


ROSENBERG, EMILY S. (Ed)

Super octavo, grey heavy boards with black cloth spine, gilt lettering to spine, 1161pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, gift inscription in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press & C. H. Beck Verlag 2012

KEYWORDS: essays collection prose literature global connection communication trade business social culture cultural history commerce travel exploration

$40.00
2i42a/38

Early Modern Japan


TOTMAN, CONRAD

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, xxix + 593pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Japan Tokugawa early modern period history Japanese Asia politics economics

$35.00
xxstg172208

Workshop Receipts (Second Series)


HALDANE, ROBERT

Octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: E. & F. N. SPON 1883

KEYWORDS: workshop receipts series applied science reference mechanics mechanical history chemistry electrical electricity

$45.00
xxstg172215

Ornamentation of Books: The Artist's Problem


WALKER, EMERY

Octavo staplebound (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Underoak Press 1981

KEYWORDS: fine printing history print lecture william morris

$20.00
xxstg172220

F. G. Gibbs: His Influence on the Social History of Nelson, 1890-1950


MANN, SHONADH

Writing in front. Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Nelson Historical Society 1977

KEYWORDS: thesis f. g. gibbs social cultural history of nelson new zealand nz aotearoa frederick giles

$18.50
xxstg172222

A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673


JONES, KATHLEEN

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1988

KEYWORDS: margaret cavendish duchess of newcastle england english history of biography

$25.00
xxstg172223

Early Tide to Wakapuna: The District and its Pioneers


WASTNEY, P. V. & WASTNEY, N. L.

2008 reprint. Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cadsonbury Publications 2008

KEYWORDS: wakapuna district nz new zealand aotearoa pioneer colonial history settler

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