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$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

$70.00
3n2/7

Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China


ALLEN, SARAH M

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 311pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, minor vertical creasing to front flap, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2014

KEYWORDS: China ancient Chinese history Tang dynasty anthropology criticism

$40.00
3n2/8

In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600


WANG, JINPING

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, black heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, xix + [3] + 336pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep, sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Asia Center 2018

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Mongols

$55.00
3n2/9

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence


VON FALKENHAUSEN, LOTHAR

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, super octavo, black illus light card wrappers, yellow lettering to spine, xxiii + 555pp, illus, VG+ (minor fading & creasing to spine, sl rubbing/curling to wrapper edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl creasing to inside front cover, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 2006

KEYWORDS: China ancient Chinese history antiquity Confucius Zhou dynasty

$46.50
3n2/10

The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man


DALE, STEPHEN FREDERIC

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHNEY, octavo, green heavy boards, red gilt lettering to cream buckram spine, frontispiece, xv + 383pp, VG+ (spine cocked, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughney] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing/rubbing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: history Ibn Khaldun historians historiography methodology Muslim

$95.00
3n2/13

A History of Kawhia & Its District


CUMMINS, PEG (Compiled by) & WARD, CORBAN et al (Material collected by)

Quarto, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 289pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to wrappers, light fading to spine & wrappers)

PUBLISHER: Kawhia Museum 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Kawhia early settlers pioneers

$45.00
3n2/14

The Wisconsin Logging Book 1839-1939


ROSHOLT, MALCOLM

Quarto, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 304pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate fading to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm adhesive label to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals, signature in ink [author's] to full title page)

PUBLISHER: Rosholt House 1980

KEYWORDS: forestry logging book Wisconsin history

$50.00
3n2/15

Herodotus: The Histories


HERODOTUS & HOLLAND, TOM (Trans) & CARTLEDGE, PAUL (Intro & Notes)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red heavy boards, white lettering to black spine, xxxix + 834pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to board & spine edges/extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping/peeling to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2014

KEYWORDS: first editions classic literature antiquity Herodotus history histories

$60.00
3n2/16

The Broadwood Story 1888-1980


CARMAN, ERIC

SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card wrappers, frontispiece, 116pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing, soiling & foxing to wrappers, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & inside wrappers, prev. owners' details in ink to full title page)

PUBLISHER: The News Limited N/D (c.1980)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed history Eric Carman

$60.00
3n2/19

Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume One: From Earliest Times to 1600 (Second Edition)


DE BARY, Wm THEODORE et al (Compiled)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & white lettering to spine, xxvi + 524pp, VG (moderate bruising & fading to spine, light curling to wrappers, prev. bookseller's label to rear, light soiling to page edges, minor cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanes tradition culture history Asia Asian

$42.50
3n2/20

Tauranga Fire Brigade: A Century of Service to Tauranga 1882-1982


BELLAMY, A C

Octavo, illus light card stapled wrappers, printed inside wrappers, 48pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning/soiling & chafing to wrappers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Tauranga Fire Brigade 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Tauranga Fire Brigade history emergency services centennial centenary

$650.00
3n2/21

The Cambridge History of Japan (6 Vol Set)


BROWN, DELMER M et al (Eds)

6 VOL SET, OWNERSHIP OF ROY STARRS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering with black backdrop to spines, mixed pagination, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink stamp [Roy Starrs] to ffep of vol 2) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate fading to spines [except vol 4])

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996-99

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history Asia Asian studies

$40.00
3n2/22

Swords and Hilt Weapons


COE, MICHAEL D et al

Oblong quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 239pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minor discolouration to boards, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl cracking at front & rear gutters) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to front, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1989

KEYWORDS: weapons weaponry swords hilt history historical daggers knives

$45.00
3n2/23

Comrades Brave: A History of the Hauraki Regiment


TAYLOR, RICHARD

Quarto, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, red lettering to spine, 216pp, illus/photos, VG (minor water damage to head of wrappers & page block- minor wrinkling & staining, light chafing & soiling to wrappers, light tanning to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter, presentation plate tipped in to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Cosmos Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ military history Hauraki regiment

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