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$245.00
3m1/32

My Reminiscences of East Africa


GENERAL VON LETTOW-VORBECK

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., illus., plates; xiv + 336 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & scuffing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light chipping; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; some foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: Hurst and Blackett 1920

KEYWORDS: military history South East Africa war wartime memoir life lives first edition

$135.00
3m1/33

Reputations


LIDDELL HART, B H

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in black; illus., maps; 327 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light to moderate chipping; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, esp & prelims/terminals; prev ownership inscr to ffep; some foxing & pencil annotation throughout).

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1928

KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 life lives biography autobiography memoir history 20th century milirary

$425.00
3n4/3

Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War


LACROIX, ERIC; WELLS II, LINTON

US FIRST EDITION. Imp. octavo, black cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; illus., photos; xvi + 882 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate creasing to spine; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate fading to spinel; light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Second World War II 2 Two Japan Japanese navy naval history

$75.00
3n4/5

Silk Amidst the Coal


FAYDEN, BEATRICE JUNE

Signed by author. Octavo, illus. light card covers; photos; 147 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Buller Print 1994

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history local family

$50.00
3n4/6

The Male Figure in the Art of John Z. Robinson


COUTTS, BRENT

Signed by artist. Octavo, illus. light card covers; photos; 176 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Brent Coutts 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artist artists criticism history

$40.00
3n4/7

Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture


CLEVELAND, LES

Ex-library. Octavo, grey cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; photos; xvi + 178 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Praeger 1994

KEYWORDS: war folk songs history criticism music

$80.00
3n4/12

Norfolk Island and its Third Settlement: The First Hundred Years


NOBBS, RAYMOND

Super octavo, illus. light card covers; frontis., plates; xiv + 242 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; sl bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Library of Australian History 2006

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Norfolk Island settlement colonial

$50.00
3n4/13

Thomas Potts of Canterbury: Colonist and Conservationist


STAR, PAUL

Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, plates; 328 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to page edges; bookseller's sticker to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2020

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Canterbury Thomas Potts colonial colonisation colonization life lives biography

$45.00
3n4/14

The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front


CROFTON, EILEEN

Super octavo, illus. light card covers; photos; xx + 347 pp.; VG (light tp moderate soiling to covers; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to page edges; sl cracking to front gutters).

PUBLISHER: Tuckwell Press 1999

KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 woman women history women's hosopital

$55.00
3n4/16

Festivals and Songs of Ancient China


GRANET, MARCEL; EDWARDS, E D (transl.)

Super octavo, red card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; 281 pp.; VG+ (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Gordon Press 1975

KEYWORDS: Shih ching China Chinese poetry poems history criticism festivals

$75.00
3n4/17

Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China


MOLOUGHNRY, BRIAN & ZARROW, PETER (eds.)

Signed by Brian Molougney. Super octavo, grey card boards, spine lettered in white; xii + 429 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; sl bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history academia academic study research 20th century

$45.00
3n4/18

China and the Vocation of History in the Twentieth Century: A Personal Memoir


MOTE, FREDERICK W

Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, character to front board in blind; plates; xxxviii + 270 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: China Chinese 20th century intellectual history life lives memoir biography autobiography sinologists historiography

$120.00
3n4/19

More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India


SHULMAN, DAVID

Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; xiv + 333 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: imagination intellectual history culture cultural diffusion India

$60.00
3n4/20

Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China


POWERS, MARTIN J

Super octavo, black cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus., photos; xviii + 374 + [11 (advts)] pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; spine sl cocked; light bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate curling to edges, esp to flaps).

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: China Chinese classical decoration ornament history

$120.00
3n4/21

Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology


HONEY, DAVID B

Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, red cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, gilt panel to front board; xxvi + 359 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping, esp to spine at head; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: American Oriental Society 2001

KEYWORDS: China Chinese philology classical history scholarship

$65.00
3n4/22

Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art


LEDDEROSE, LOTHAR

Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Imp. octavo, brown cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, characters to front board in blind; frontis., illus., photos; vi + 265 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges, eps & prelims); in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping, esp to spine at head w sm tear).

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: China Chinese art history lecture lectures

$70.00
3n4/26

Writing & Literacy in Early China


FENG, LI & BRANNER, DAVID PRAEGER

Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, cream cl boards, spine lettered in black; illus., photos, plates; x + 494 pp.; VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2011

KEYWORDS: China Chinese language literacy books reading history

$50.00
3n4/27

Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17


BUTTAR, PRIT

FIRST EDITION. Ex-library. Super octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; illus. tp, illus., plates; 472 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; adhesion from tape to boards; light soiling to pg edges & eps); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; some peeling from tape; some tanning).

PUBLISHER: Osprey 2016

KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 Russia Russian military history first edition

$100.00
3n4/28

The Flood Myths of Early China


LEWIS, MARK EDWARDS

Octavo, illus. card boards; illus., photos; x + 100 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006

KEYWORDS: flood myths myth China Chinese history religious religion folklore

$120.00
3n4/30

Wombs with a View: Illustrations of the Gravid Uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century


LONGO, LAWRENCE D & REYNOLDS, LAWRENCE P; THORNBURG, KENT L (forew.); SPONG, CATHERINE Y (afterw.)

Imp. octavo, illus. card boards; frontis., photos; xvi + 380 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Springer 2016

KEYWORDS: art history womb uterus women woman

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