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$65.00
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Enchanted by Lohans: Osvald Siren'sJourney into Chinese Art


Torma, MINNA

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; photos; xxviii + 224 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Hong Kong University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese art history life lives biography scholar

$55.00
3s10/3

Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China


CLUNAS, CRAIG

Super octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in gilt; plates; x + 219 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing, light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Polity Press 1991

KEYWORDS: China Chinese social history materialism philosophy culture

$85.00
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City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China


FENG, LINDA RUI

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, illus. card boards; x + 197 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing, light bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature history criticism intellectual life

$140.00
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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature


LI, WAI-YEE

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, patterned card boards; xii + 638 + [3 (advts)] pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; v sl adhesive cracking to fr gutter; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2014

KEYWORDS: China Chinese literature trauma history criticism

$95.00
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The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age


DI COSMO, NICOLA & FRANK, ALLEN J & GOLDEN, PETER B (Eds.)

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, light card covers; xxviii + 488 pp.; VG (light soiling to wrappers, light bruising to edges & extrems; moderate creasing to spine; moderate creasing to front cover at joint, spine cocked; moderate cracking to fr hinge; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Central Asia Asian history Mongols Mongolian

$375.00
3s10/11

Leica Chronicle: Evolution of Leica Cameras & Lenses and the Origin of the Leica Legend


PUTS, ERWIN

LIMITED EDITION. Super octavo, illus. card boards; photos; 298 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: imX 2012

KEYWORDS: Leica camera cameras history technical photography

$85.00
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Gardens of a Chinese Emperor: Imperial Creations of the Qianlong Era, 1736-1796


CHA-TSU SIU, VICTORIA M

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, illus. card boards; illus., photos, plates; xxxii + 267 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Lehigh University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history garden gardens Qianlong

$75.00
3s10/13

The Construction of Space in Early China


LEWIS, MARK EDWARD

Super octavo, light card covers; viii + 498 pp.; VG (light soiling to covers, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to page edges; light adhesive cracking to fr & rear gutters; light tanning throughout).

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history philosophy social gatherings groups

$100.00
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The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collaspse of the Heavenly Dynasty


HAIJIAN, MAO; LOVELL, JULIA (introd.); LAWSON, JOSEPH & SMITH, CRAIG & LAVELLE, PETER (transl.)

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, illus. light card covers; xx + 549 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2018

KEYWORDS: China Chinese England English Britain British 19th century history Opium War

$65.00
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Hanuman's Tale: The Message of a Divine Monkey


LUTGENDORF, PHILIP

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, illus. light card covers; xiv + 434 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: Hanuman Hindu literature Hindi history criticism

$100.00
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Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes durinng the Later Han Dynasty: 1st to 2nd Centuries CE


HILL, JOHN E

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, illus. light card covers; xxii + 691 pp.; VG (light soiling to covers, some fading to spine; light to moderate bruising & curling to edges & extrems, sl chipping to rear joint; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: John E. Hill 2009

KEYWORDS: Chronicle on the Western Regions Hou Hanshu translation history China Chinese

$40.00
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Memorials of the Military Life


METCALFE, THOMAS WASHINGTON

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, orange card boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., 295 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; fading to spine; spine sl cocked; moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals; prev ownership inscr to ffep; light cracking to central gutters; tearing to fore edge of pp. 250-60).

PUBLISHER: Ivor Nicholson and Watson 1936

KEYWORDS: life lives military history biography autobiography memoir first edition

$225.00
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The Essential Collection of the National Palace Museum: Painting and Calligraphy & books and Documents


PO-TING, LIN (ed.)

Ex-library. Quarto, brown cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; photos; [5] + 266 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; some creasing to eps); in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems; tape residue; creasing).

PUBLISHER: National Palace Museum 2009

KEYWORDS: National Palace Museum collection facsimile docuents calligraphy writing China Chinese history

$95.00
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Toatoa, Takaputahi and Whitikau: The Valleys in the Clouds


AIKMAN, LORNA (ed.)

Quarto, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, 273 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to covers, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping, some loss to cover at tail; light soiling to page edges).

PUBLISHER: Lorna Aikman 2023

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Opotiki Gisborne 19th 20th century social local

$50.00
3s10/28

Southern People: A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography


THOMSON, JANE (ed.)

Signed, limited edition. Quarto, maroon card boards, spine & front boardlettered in gilt; illus. tp, illus., photos; xii + 587 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); lacking d/w.

PUBLISHER: Longacre Press 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history life lives biography dictionary Otago Southland

$65.00
3s10/29

Horses and Saddlery: An account of the animals used by the British and Commonwealth Armies from the Seventeenth Century to the Prese Day with a description of their Equipment


TYLDEN, G

Super octavo, green card boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., illus., plates; xviii + 276 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership stamp to fr pastedown; light cracking to central & rear gutters; some soiling throughout); in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping).

PUBLISHER: J. A. Allen & Comapany 1980

KEYWORDS: Horse horses saddlery military equipment history

$200.00
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The History of the Second Division, 1914-1918


WYRALL, EVERARD

2 VOL SET. FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered & device to fr board in gilt; fore edge uncut, frontis., plates, foldout maps; 344, 345-739 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; fading to spine; light to moderate soiling to pg edges; some tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; stamp in purple ink to rfep verso).

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1921

KEYWORDS: ww1 First World War I One 1 military history war wartime

$80.00
3s10/33

The Irish Guards in the Great War


KIPLING, RUDYARD (ed.)

2 VOL SET. FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered & device to front board in gilt; frontis., maps; xvi + 344, vi + 310 + 2 (advts) pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling & foxing to pg edges; some tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; some light cracking to fr gutters, first gathering sl loose (vol. 2)).

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1923

KEYWORDS: Irish Guards ww1 First World War One I 1 military history wartime

$175.00
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The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918


PONSONBY, FREDERICK; THE EARL OF CAVAN (introd.); WALKER, EMERY (maps)

3 VOL SET. Super octavo, grey card boards, label to brown cl spine lettered in gilt; frontis., illus., plates, maps; xviii + 378 + 2 (advts), viii + 383, x + 352 pp.; VG- (moderate to heavy soiling & scuffing to boards, moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems, w moderate chipping; light to moderate soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to front (vols. 1, 2 & 3) & central (vol. 2) gutters; wormholes rear boards (vols 1 & 2) & sl to spine (vols 1, 2 & 3); wormholes to rear hinges (1, 2 & 3 ); ffep unopened (vol. 3); tape to boards).

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1920

KEYWORDS: ww1 First World War One I 1 military history

$90.00
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The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan


SANDES, E W C

FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered & device to front board in gilt; frontis., plates, maps; xxxii + 571 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, spine faded; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping; light soiling to pg edges; moderate soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscr to ffep; light to moderate cracking to front & central gutters).

PUBLISHER: The Institution of Royal Engineers 1937

KEYWORDS: military history 19th 20th century Royal Engineers Middle East Egpyt Sudan political

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