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$70.00
1t18c/12

Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe


PORTER, DAVID

Super octavo, dark green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 296pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Chinese influence Europe China European history

$70.00
1t18c/13

The Writing of Official History Under the T'ang


TWITCHETT, DENIS

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 290pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: history historiography China ancient Chinese T'ang tang dysnasty records

$40.00
1t18c/16

Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince: Huang Tsung-hsi's Ming-i-tai-fang lu


DE BARY, Wm THEODORE

Super octavo, blue light card covers, blue & cream lettering to spine, xiv + 340pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: China Chinese government politics political Huang Tsung-hsi history

$80.00
1t18c/17

Saluting the Yellow Emperor: A Case of Swedish Sinography


JOHANSSON, PERRY

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, viii + 243pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing to rear board, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Koninklijke Brill NV 2012

KEYWORDS: Sweden sinography history historiography China Chinese archeology archaeology excavations

$50.00
1t18c/19

The Letter to Ren An & Sima Qian's Legacy


DURRANT, STEPHEN & LI, WAI-YEE & NYLAN, MICHAEL & VAN ESS, HANS

Super octavo, beige heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, xi + 178pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature historical history

$50.00
1t18c/20

The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China


NAPPI, CARLA

Super octavo, dark green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + (4) + 234pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to rear board, prev owner's name in ink to ffep, minor underlining in ink)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: natural history China Chinese naturalists scholars

$40.00
1t18c/22

A Cultural History of Classical Chinese Gardens


WANG, YI & RIOUX, YU LUO (Trans)

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, (11) + 151pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: SCPG Publishing 2015

KEYWORDS: China culture Chinese gardens history design landscaping

$45.00
1t18c/24

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance: Book Three: Southeast Asia


LACH, DONALD F & VAN KLEY, EDWIN J

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule & illus to front board, illus eps, liii + pgs1111-1561, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Asia history exploration culture influence Europe European southeast

$40.00
1t21a/6

Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition


BAKHLE, JANAKI

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 338pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, light cracking to gutter of title page, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: music culture history India Indian

$40.00
1t21a/7

Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World


BALLANTYNE, TONY

Octavo, illus heavy boards, red & blue lettering to spine, xvii + 229pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems/edges, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2007

KEYWORDS: India Indian history colonialism diaspora Sikh sikhism

$50.00
1t21a/9

The Life and Thought of Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (1738-1801)


NIVISON, DAVID S

Octavo, beige buckram boards, black lettering to spine, ix + (5) + 336pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling, lightly price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history 18th eighteenth century Chang Hsueh-ch'eng

$40.00
1t21a/10

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road


ELVERSKOG, JOHAN

Super octavo, illus light card covers, grey lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 340pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 2010

KEYWORDS: silk road trade routes Asia Asian history religion religious buddhist buddhism Islam

$40.00
1t21a/11

Embassy to Tamerlane 1403-1406


DE CLAVIJO, RUY GONZALES & LE STRANGE, GUY (Trans) & STONE, CAROLINE (New Intro)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, l + 363pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Hardinge Simpole Ltd 2009

KEYWORDS: Timur Tamerlane history early 15th fifteenth century politics Asia

$40.00
1t21a/12

India, China and the World: A Connected History


SEN, TANSEN

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xviii + 541pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to spine, sm chip to top of spine, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield 2017

KEYWORDS: history India China Indian Chinese foreign relations geopolitics

$60.00
1h51a/1

Barbarism and Religion (2 Vol Boxed Set)


POCOCK, J G A

2 VOL SET IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, black heavy borads, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, vol 1- xv + 339pp, vol 2- xiv + 422pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of both vols) in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges) in VG+ slipcase

PUBLISHER: Cambridge Universty Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Edward Gibbon civil government history historical barbarism religion historiography Rome roman empire Great Britain

$47.50
1h51a/2

The Economic History of China: From Anitquity to the Nineteenth Century


VON GLAHN, RICHARD

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xiv + 461pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine, sl chafing & curling to covers, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge Univesity Press 2016

KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity economics politics trade commerce

$40.00
1h51a/3

China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its Neighbours, 10th - 14th Centuries


ROSSABI, MORRIS (Ed)

Super octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 419pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed of desired, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1983

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history foreign relations

$95.00
1h51a/5

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire


ALAVI, SEEMA

Super octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xi + 490pp, VG+ (spine sl warped/bruised, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: India Indian history Muslim islam islamic countries

$47.50
1h51a/7

China as a Sea Power 1127-1368


JUNG-PANG, LO & ELLEMAN, BRUCE A (Ed & Commentary)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xx + 378pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: NUS Press / Hong Kong University Press 2020

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history navy naval maritime expansion southern song yuan dynasties periods

$47.50
1h51a/8

Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth Century China


COHEN, PAUL A & GILLIS, JOHN R (Fore)

Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 354pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese kings rulers ancient history King Goujian

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