Books - "history"
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Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe
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
The Writing of Official History Under the T'ang
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
Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince: Huang Tsung-hsi's Ming-i-tai-fang lu
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
Saluting the Yellow Emperor: A Case of Swedish Sinography
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
The Letter to Ren An & Sima Qian's Legacy
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
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China
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
A Cultural History of Classical Chinese Gardens
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
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance: Book Three: Southeast Asia
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
Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
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
Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
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
The Life and Thought of Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (1738-1801)
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
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
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
Embassy to Tamerlane 1403-1406
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
India, China and the World: A Connected History
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
Barbarism and Religion (2 Vol Boxed Set)
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
The Economic History of China: From Anitquity to the Nineteenth Century
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
China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its Neighbours, 10th - 14th Centuries
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
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
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
China as a Sea Power 1127-1368
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
Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth Century China
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