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$26.50
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The Papacy 1073 - 1198: Continuity and Innovation


ROBINSON, IAN STUART

Octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: history religion christianity catholocism academia pope papacy Italy medieval

$22.50
xx36pol226186

The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals


DALE, STEPHEN F

Owndership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: Ottoman Muslim Islam Safavid Mughal history umma empire civilization politics religion academia Middle East Africa

$30.00
xx36pol226191

Sir John French's Despatches (Second Series): Official Story of the Battle Around Ypres, Armentieres, and the Defence of Antwerp; Including the Roll of Honour and Illustrated by Specially drawn War Maps


FRENCH, SIR JOHN

Oblong super octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Graphic N/D (c.1914?)

KEYWORDS: Sir John French military history war maps British army wwi ww1 world war one

$35.00
xx36pol226192

Official naval despatches : the Admiralty's reports of the Battle of the Bight, destruction of German East Asiastic Squadron, sinking of the Emden, and other work of the Navy in the War.


N/A

FIRST EDITION. Oblong super octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: The Graphic N/D (c.1914?)

KEYWORDS: military history war maps British army wwi ww1 world war one navy navel Germany

$22.50
xx36pol226194

Until The Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata


NAIR, KARTHIKA

Ownership Signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2015

KEYWORDS: history poetry mythology fiction India literature Mahabharata

$15.00
xx42pol226197

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World


VALLEJO, IRENE & WHITTLE, CHARLOTTE (Trans)

Super octavo softcover (VG) tidy ex-library; 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 2022

KEYWORDS: history culture classical papyrus paper books

$20.00
xx42pol226199

What Are You Doing Out Here: Heroism and Distress at a Cricket Test


HARRIS, NORMAN & BLAIR, BOB (foreword)

Small octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Last Side 2010

KEYWORDS: cricket sport Tangiwai disaster history New Zealand

$30.00
xx42pol226200

Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition


RICHMAN, PAULA (edited) Et Al

Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo softcover (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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Rama Ramkatha culture history south Asia academia anthropology literature religion

$80.00
3s9/22

Imperial China 900-1800


MOTE, F W

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super ocatvo, orange heavy boards, gilt lettering to blue buckram spine, patterned eps, illus title page, xix + 1107pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, light wrinkling to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine, sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: imperial China Chinese history

$45.00
3s9/23

Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959


LI, JIANGLIN & WILF, SUSAN (Trans)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to grey buckram spine, xvi + [8] + 410pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to page edges, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (minor fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: Tibet China history relations autonomous region politics government

$40.00
3s9/24

Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang 1780-1830


HUSSIN, NORDIN

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black & white lettering to spine, xxvii + 388pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & creasing to spine & wrapper edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing to wrapper, light soiling to page edges & back page, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: NIAS Press / NUS Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Dutch Melaka English Penang history commerce Malacca Malaysia maritime

$70.00
3s9/25

Artisans in Early Imperial China


BARBIERI-LOW, ANTHONY J

Tidy ex-library, imperial octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 394pp, illus/photos, VG (usual libray markings- minimal, minor bruising to spine & board edges, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling & tanning to page edges, sl adhesive damage to pastedowns) in d/w, VG (minimal library labels, in plastic protective wrapper, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2007

KEYWORDS: imperial China Chinese history artisans

$55.00
3s9/27

A New Literary History of Modern China


WANG, DAVID DER-WEI (Ed)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, imperial octavo, white heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to black spine, printed eps, xxiv + [4] + 1001pp, VG+ (spine warped- binding still sound, sl soiling to board & page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page, minor creasing to top corners of terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: literature literary history China Chinese modern

$80.00
3s9/28

Art & Political Expression in Early China


POWERS, MARTIN J

Imperial octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xiv + 438pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing & fading to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: early China Chinese history art politics expression political sculpture sepulchral ch'in han dynasties

$58.50
3s9/29

Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia 1864-1877


KIM, HODONG

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xviii + 295pp, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to spine & wrappers/edges, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history rebellion Muslim Islam uyger

$48.50
3s9/30

The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History


THUM, RIAN

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, black buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 323pp, VG+ (sl bruising to head of spine, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: uighur turkic history anthropology uyghur China Chinese Islam

$100.00
3s9/32

Chan-kuo Ts'e (Revised Edition)


CRUMP, J I (Trans, Annotated, Intro & Index) & FIDLER, SHARON J (Index)

Super octavo, erd buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt Chinese lettering to front board, frontispiece, 581pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, minor cracking to gutters at prelims)

PUBLISHER: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan 1996

KEYWORDS: China history warring states conflict Chinese anecdotes

$130.00
3s9/33

New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts


SHAUGHNESSY, EDWARD L (Ed)

Super octavo, red faux leather, gilt lettering to spine & front board, ix + 316pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl fading to spine, light soiling to upper edge of page block)

PUBLISHER: Society for the Study of Early China / Insititute of East Asian Studies, University of California 1997

KEYWORDS: early Chinese history China paleography Ch'in Han dysnasty

$75.00
3s9/34

Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier


BROPHY, DAVID

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 347pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine warped, sl rubbing to extrems, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, minor creasing to upper edges of pgs62-65) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: Uighur Uyghur turkic anthropology China Russia ethnicity history

$75.00
3s9/35

China's Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands


WANG, XIUYU

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xv + 291pp, VG+ (sl creasing to spine, sl soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Lexington Books 2011

KEYWORDS: Tibet China late qing imperialism autonomous regions history

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