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$95.00
3n3/3

War in the Air: Aerial Wonders of Our Time: A Pictured Story of Flying, Past, Present and Future


HAMMERTON, Sir JOHN (Ed)

Quarto, silver gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering & grey aeroplane illus to front board, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 804pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, minor surface loss to spine, minor rubbing/chafing & surface loss to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, bookbinder's sm label to front pastedown, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: The Amalgamated Press N/D

KEYWORDS: aviation history military aircraft aeroplanes flight

$345.00
3n3/5

John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1896 (Thirty-Thrid Edition)


PARDON, SYDNEY H (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ads to front & rear, lxxvi + 418pp, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps- minor foxing also, moderate cracking to gutters- some prelims & terminal pages partially detached but still present, minor tanning & foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co 1896

KEYWORDS: first editions sport history cricket cricketers' almanacks past years Wisden

$400.00
3n3/9

Saint Augustine: City of God: Part I - The Refutation ; Part II - The Cities (2 Vol Boxed Set)


SAINT AUGUSTINE & DODS, Reverend MARCUS (Trans) & NICHOLS, Archbishop VINCENT (Intro) & CHARTRES, Right Reverend RICHARD (Intro)

2 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering and black lettering to gilt backdrop to spines, ornate gilt & coloured portrait of St Augustine to front boards, frontispieces, illus, Near FINE, in VG+ illus slipcase (minor bruising & chafing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2012

KEYWORDS: folio society history historical literature Saint St Augustine theology religion classical studies

$40.00
3n3/10

Memoirs of General William T Sherman, by Himself (2 Vol Set)


SHERMAN, General WILLIAM T

2 VOL SET, FACSIMILE REPRINT OF 1875 EDITION, super octavo, blue faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind stamp US flag illus to front boards, aeg, marbled eps, vol 1- unpaginated prelims + 405pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 409pp, Near FINE (very sl soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: The Archive Society 1997 (Facsimile reprint of 1875 edition)

KEYWORDS: US American history autobiography memoir General William T Sherman

$245.00
3n3/11

The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (2 Vol Boxed Set)


WAKEMAN Jr, FREDERIC

2 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spines, vol 1- xiv + pgs1-680, vol 2- vii + pgs681-1337, VG+ (sl warping & chafing to spines, sl bruising to board corners, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm labels to base of ffeps) in illus VG- slipcase, moderate cracking to head & base of spine area, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate fading to edges, moderate scuffing to extrems))

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1985

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history 17th seventeenth century manchu reconstruciton imperial order

$40.00
3n3/12

Tarikh-i-Akbari


QANDHARI, MUHAMMAD ARIF & AHMAD, TASNEEM (Annotated, Trans & Intro) & HABIB, IRFAN (Fore)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, decorated title page, xvii + 315pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, sl staining to contents pages) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, minor creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, sm adhesive labels to rear)

PUBLISHER: Pramod Kapoor / Pragati Publications 1993

KEYWORDS: history Emperor Akbar India 16th sixteenth century

$40.00
3n3/13

Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall: Autobiographical and Biographical Reminiscences


CLARK-HALL, R H & J L

SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, red & blue lettering to spine, xii + 172pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & wrapper edges, sl chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Raven Press (Printer) 1995

KEYWORDS: signed Air Marshal Sir Robert Clark-Hall military history autobiography biography memoir RFC Royal Flying Corps aviation

$40.00
3n3/15

History and Beyond: Interpreting Early India ; Time as a Metaphor of History ; Cultural Transaction and Early India ; From Lineage to State


THAPAR, ROMILA

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 189pp, VG (light creasing & fading to spine, sl creasing to wrapper edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, sl chafing & soiling to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: India history Indian Asia

$40.00
3n3/16

In the Footsteps of Du Fu


WOOD, MICHAEL

Octavo, illus heavy boards, white & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 191pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising/creasing to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, pgs13-20 partailly detached but present)

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2023

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir Du Fu poetry poets China Chinese history historical

$40.00
3n3/17

The New Cambridge History of India I.5 The Mughal Empire


RICHARDS, JOHN F

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 320pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & wrappers, sl chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: India history Mughal empire

$160.00
3n3/19

A History of Modern Tibet: 1913-1959 (4 Vol Set)


GOLDSTEIN, MELVYN C & RIMPOCHE, GELEK (Assist)

4 VOL SET, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers [vol 3 with french flaps, vol 4 has green heavy boards- is NOT a softcover], white lettering to spine, mixed pagination, VG+ (minor creasing to spines, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) d/w of vol 4, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1991-2019

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history Tibet 20th twentieth century anthropology

$90.00
3n3/20

A History of the Vietnamese


TAYLOR, K W

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white & coloured lettering to spine, xv + 696pp, illus/maps- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light creasing to spine & wrappers/edges, light chafing to wrappers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history Vietnam Vietnamese

$55.00
3n3/21

The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China


HON, TZE-KI (Ed) & CULP, ROBERT J (Ed)

Super octavo, red heavy boards, black & white lettering to spine, xv + 322pp, VG+ (minor bruising to spine/extrems, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Koninklijke Brill 2007

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history China Chinese historiography politics late qing republic

$100.00
3n3/22

Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia


POLLOCK, SHELDON (Ed)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, patterned orange heavy boards, white & orange lettering to spine, xxix + [6] + 1066pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Mologhney] in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2003

KEYWORDS: literature literary cultures history South Asia Asian politics Pali Indic India

$45.00
3n3/27

The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China


TSE-TSUNG, CHOW

Super octavo, black light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xv + 486pp, VG+ (light chafing & curling to wrappers, light tanning & soiling to rear, light soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter- ffep potentially missing)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press N/D (modern copy)

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Asia Asian modern history may 4th fourth movement

$60.00
3n3/30

Imperial Japan at its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary


RUOFF, KENNETH J

LACKS FFEP, super octavo, cream heavy boards, red lettering to spine, blind stamp pattern to front board, xv + 236pp, illus/photos, VG+ (ffep missing, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history empire imperial

$145.00
3n2/2gc

Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific


HOWE, K R (Ed)

Lg quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 360pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to board edges/extrems, sl soiling to page edges, eps & prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2006

KEYWORDS: Pacific history exploration discoveries voyages maritime nautical migration anthropology

$85.00
3n2/4

Chinese History: A New Manual


WILKINSON, ENDYMION

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, quarto, burgundy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xxiii + 1126pp, VG+ (light curling to wrapper edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to wrappers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep/half & full title pages)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history culture anthropology

$70.00
3n2/5

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia


PERDUE, PETER C

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, beige cloth boards, red lettering to spine, blind stamp dragon illus to front board, xx + 725pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China ancient Chinese history Eurasia Mongol Qing dynasty

$120.00
3n2/6

Destiny: The Life of Prince Diponegoro of Yogyakarta, 1785-1855


CAREY, PETER

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus glossy boards, deep green lettering to spine, xlix + 381pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising/rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, minor coffee staining to pgs xlii-xlv)

PUBLISHER: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers 2014

KEYWORDS: Indonesia history Prince Diponegoro Yogyakarta biography geopolitics

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