Books - "history"
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Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 363pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2014
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity Han dynasty imperialism literature economics commerce
Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 218pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature history literary religion religoin religious divination prophecy
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 303pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperialism politics political government Ming dynasty military
The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals
Quarto, illus light card covers, red & white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 293pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Airiti Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history historical text bamboo annals
The Franklin D Murphy Lectures IX: Three Alternative Histories of Chinese Painting
Imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 112pp, illus, Near FINE (sl rubbing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: University of Kansas / Spencer Museum of Art 19888
KEYWORDS: Franklin D Murphy lectures China Chinese art painting history landscapes
Rugby: A New Zealand History
Quarto, illus heavy boards, white & black lettering to spine, viii + 451pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history rugby union ABs All Blacks Ron Palenski grass roots international
China Before China
Imperial octavo, illus stiffened boards, white lettering to red suede-effect spine, printed/illus eps, 159pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 2004
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history artefacts collections antiquities
Asia Inside Out: Changing Times
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 325pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture
Asia Inside Out: Connected Places
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 418pp, illus, VG+ (spine warped & lightly bruised, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture geopolitics
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, grey gilt lettering to black buckram spine, unpaginated prelims + 356pp, illus, VG+ (spine lightly warped & bruised) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history tang dynasty antiquity
A History of Chinese Philosphy (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, grey light card covers, blue & black lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxiv + 455pp, vol 2- xxv + 783pp, VG+ (light creasing to spines & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, single moderate crack to central gutter of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: Princeton Universtiy Press 1983
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history philosophy classical studies oriental historical antiquity
Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, xv + 630pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine, light curling & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm label to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University 1984
KEYWORDS: China Chinese han dynasty empire antiquity ancient history
Historians of China and Japan
Super octavo, red buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, viii + 351pp, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Japanese historians history historiography Asia
Under the Brilliant Emperor
Super octavo, white light card covers, black & orange lettering to spine & front cover, vi + 156pp, VG (light fading & creasing to spine, light curling to cover edges, light soiling/discolouration to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: T'ang tang dynasty China Chinese ancient history Chang Chiu-ling literature imperial authority imperialism
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Volume I: The Visigothic Invasion
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (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 Folio Society 2000
KEYWORDS: folio society ancient Rome Roman history empire visigoths invasions antiquity barbarians
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Volume II: The Huns and the Vandals
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (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 Folio Society 2000
KEYWORDS: folio society ancient Rome Roman history empire invasions antiquity huns vandals barbarians
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, Volume VIII: The Frankish Empire 774-814
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (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 Folio Society 2005
KEYWORDS: folio society ancient Rome Roman history empire invasions antiquity barbarians Franks Frankish
Check to Your King
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: A H & A W Reed 1960
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Charles Baron de Thierry biography biographies sovereignty
Fragments From a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History
Paperback (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: Bridget Williams Books 2022
KEYWORDS: BWB texts series New Zealand authors writers literature Joanna Kidman history
Women Writers of New Zealand 1932-1982
Quarto 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: Colonial Associates 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors women history portraits biographies