1. Abu Taleb Tabrizi / Abu Taleb Isfahani / Mirza Abu Taleb Khan.

The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803. Written by himself, in the Persian language. [With an Appendix: ‘Author’s Vindication of the Liberties of the Asiatic Women’]. Translated by Charles Stewart, Esq.

First and only Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. Octavo. Frontispice-Portrait with original tissue-guard, VIII, (8), 320, 418 pages. Hardcover / Beautifully restored bindings by english master binders in stunning modern half-morocco with the original spine-labels applied. Original endpapers and pastedowns with the original bookplates / Exlibris preserved. Excellent condition with some browing and ghosting to the pages, as usual with this set. Name of historical preowner Richard Meade in ink on titlepages. Rare in this very amazing restored condition.

2. Allchin, Bridget (editor).

South Asian Studies – Special Number in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

New Delhi / Calcutta, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd, 1997. 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 329 pages, with several illustrations and photographs. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Journal of the Society for South Asian Studies, Vol. 13].

3. Anonymous / [Synge, Mary / Carr, Dr.D.W. and others] .

Mercy and Truth – A record of C.M.S. Medical Missions – Volume IV. [for the year 1900 – with essays on: Women Patients Rich and Poor – by Mary Synge about a fishing Village called Sang Sua / A Week in the Kyber (Khyber Pass visit by three workers of the C.M.S. during their time at Peshawar / The Opening of the New Mengo Hospital – by Mrs. Albert Cook (with images) / Medical Staff at Hang-chow (Dr. Kember, Dr. Main, Dr. Tsang), Some Men and Women in Hakodate (North Japan) / A Day of Medical Work in a Persian Town (by Henry White) / In Touch with the sick in Oyo (Yoruba) – with support from the Royal irish Constabulary / Moslem Fatalism (by L. Cropper in April 1899) / Photograph of a Temporary Hospital in Onitsha, West Africa / An Acquaintance with sickness in Central Africa [with a diagram that shows how many and what kind of operations were done (Teeth Extractions, Gynaecological Cases etc.) and how the natives paid for the treatment with Shells !!] / Dr. L.G. Hill of Pakhol – Overcoming Obstacles in China / Photograph of “Serai at Lundi Kotal – C.M.S. Dispensary in the Corner / etc. etc.

London, Church Missionary Society, 1900. Slim Quarto. 300 pages with numerous photographs and Index. Hardcover, light blue publisher’s cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. Binding a little stained and rubbed. Otherwise in excellent condition ! Rare !! Name of Patience Conner on title.

4. Asia / Polynesia – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean with New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Nippon, New Hebrides, Society Islands, Sandwich Islands with beuatiful Vignettes and illustrations of Kalakakooa, Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Otaheite, Harbour of Dory, New Guinea, Resolution Bay, Marquesas and the Northwest tip of Australia and California shown in the outskirts of the map.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 35.7 cm x 25.8 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

5. Bangash, Salman.

The Frontier Tribal Belt. Genesis and Purpose Under the Raj.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016. 14 cm x 23 cm. XV, 365 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6. Bing-Wu, Li.

Eqsetwh. Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Eternal Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses. A Mighty and Valiant Underground Army over 2,200 Years Back.

Shaanxi, Shaanxi Sanqin Publishing House, 1994. 28,5 cm x 21 cm. 125 pages. Little text, mainlyfull-colour photographs. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed.

7. Bushby, John / [Maori Village Travels] –

Round the World from North to South with Rod & Camera / Collection of three Volumes of printed and manuscript travelogue (reads like a logbook) / Travel Diary. Volume I – Privately printed, luxury photoalbum from the year 1907 – 1908 with 142 pages of printed photographs of a trip through Canada, Alaska South Sea Islands (Suva, Fiji), Tonga, New Zealand with several photographs of a trip on S.S.Manuka (Union Steam Ship Company) with images of life on board and of the trip to Maori Villages, Rotoiti, Tu Moana, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Teneriffe, Hunting, Fishing, Camping etc. / Volume II: Manuscript Volume in an easy decipherable hand of a trip on the steamer “Pretorian” from Liverpool on July 30th, 1903 to New York, Maryland, then on to Vancouver and Japan with excellent travel descriptions and list of costs of lodging in Yokohama, Kyoto, Nagasaki etc. / Volume III: Continues the Travelogue to Singapore, Siam, Java, Japan, Hawaii (Honolulu and back to California) – With extensive listing of costs for Passage, Hotels etc. in New York, Honolulu, Hongkong, etc. This Volume with longer descriptions of Hong Kong etc.

Daere (Cumberland), Privately printed and original manuscript, 1903 – 1908. Octavo. Volume I – 142 pages / Volume II (Manuscript) – 89 pages / Volume III (Manuscript) – 185 pages. Original Hardcover and flexible red leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Magnificent account with exact and vivid descriptions of localities and the technique of the trip and its expenses. Ticket Prices, Hotel Costs, Voyage costs from Harbour to Harbour etc. etc. Unpublished account of a british merchant family’s private (Cotton Merchant) trip around the world.

8. Conway, Susan.

Silken Threads Lacquer Thrones : Lan Na Court Textiles.

Bangkok, River Books, 2002. 22.2 cm x 28.8 cm. 281 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discoloration to margins of pages. Otherwise bright, clean and in excellent condition. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

9. Day, Samuel Phillips.

Tea – Its Mystery and History – With a Preface in Chinese and English by Lo Fong Loh. Illustrated [by J.F.Weldon].

Vintage First Edition / Original 19th century Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Small Octavo. Pagination: Vintage Portrait-Frontispiece, Fac-simile of Mr. Lo Fong Loh’s Prefatory Notes in the chinese Hing Shoo, or running hand, [II], 92 pages with six full-page illustrations and several vignettes. Hardcover / Original publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and front board. Tiny stamp of preowner on endpaper and verso frontispiece: “Agnes Jeffery Cox”. Unusually excellent and firm, overall very good+ or even better condition of one of the rarest and most sought after books on tea. In this condition scarce !

10. Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried.

Geschichte des ostindischen Handels vor Mohámmed [Teil einer kleinen Sammlung mit zwei weiteren Schriften Eichhorn’s zur “Urgeschichte des erlauchten Hauses der Welfen” (Hannover, 1816 / Ehemaliges Exemplar der “Liverpool Free Public Library” in einem sagenhaften Bibliothekseinband des 18.Jahrhunderts (rotes Maroquin mit blingeprägtem Einbanddeckel “Liverpool free public library” und lackierten Vorsatzblaettern) sowie Halb-Band 1 und 2 der “Allgemeinen Geschichte der Cultur und Litteratur des neueren Europa” (Goettingen, 1796) – siehe Photos].

Gotha, Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1775. Klein-Oktav. V, 82 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Ganzleder des 18.Jahrhunderts mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. Unteres und oberes Kapital mit kleineren Fehlstellen. Die seltene Originalbindung bis auf kleinere Schaeden in sehr guter Erhaltung. Der originale Buchblock von den schoenen, originalen Vorsatzpapieren flankiert und tadellos erhalten. Sehr selten !

11. Fellowes, P.F.M. / Blacker, L.V. Stewart. / Etherton, P.T. / Douglas adn Clydesdale, Marques.

First Over Everest – The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 [including the original set of 3D Glasses]. And An Account of the Filming of the Flight by Geoffrey Barkas, With 57 Illustrations from Photographs, Diagrams and Maps.

Fourth Edition. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, no year (c.1933). 16 cm x 23.5 cm. Photographic portrait frontispiece, XIX, 279 pages. 52 plates. One fold-out maps showing ‘the flight from Cairo to Purnea. Numerous diagrams and photographic plates with captioned tissued guards. A pair of 3D Glasses in rear pastedown pocket for viewing the Anaglyph on p.222. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind embossment on front board. Stained top edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded and slight rubbing and abrasion to heel. Small section cut out of front endpaper. Interior tanned but clean and unmarked.

12. Freitag, Sandria B.

Culture and Power in Banaras – Community Performance, and Environment, 1800 – 1980. Edited by Sandria B. Freitag.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, University of California Press, 1992. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 290 pages. 17 Illustrations. Cover illustration ‘Drawing of Ramlila’ by James Prinsep 1833. Softcover. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. Hedin, Sven V.

Abenteuer in Tibet.

Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1908. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 414 pages. Generously illustrated with colour plates, black-and-white images and with fold-out map on back pastedown. Original Hardcover (yellow ochre cloth with colour illustration, embossed gilt decoration and title on front and embossed gilt lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Half-title, frontispiece and title page detached from book block.

14. Hulot, Le Baron / Rabot, Charles.

La Géographie – Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Tome I – Tome XXIX (29 Tomes / 29 Volumes). Collection of 29 Volumes comprising of the complete set from the year 1900 until the year 1913. Each year has two half-year volumes (Semestre) with many large fold-out maps in colour. [With very interesting original articles in first edition: Fanny Bullock-Workman – Exploration du Nun-Kun / Roald Amundsen – Vers le Pole magnetique boreal par le passage du Nord-Ouest / Charles Rabot – Le desastre de l’expedition Robert Falcon Scott etc.]

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1900. Quarto. Tome I – 1er Semestre 1900 (506, 2 pages with 31 maps) / Tome II – 2e Semestre 1900 (528 pages with 26 maps) / Tome III – 1er Semestre 1901 (574, 6 pages with 30 maps) / Tome IV – 2e Semestre (487 pages with 13 maps) / Tome V – 1er Semestre 1902 (503, 2 pages) / Tome VI – 2e Semestre 1902 (436 pages) both Volumes with many maps and gravures and photographs) / Tome VII – 1er Semestre 1903 (487, 1 pages) / Tome VIII – 2eme Semestre1903 (420 pages plus an appendix “Liste des Membres Decembre 1903” (47 pages that list hundreds of members like Henry Morgan Stanley, Fridtjof Nansen, Brito Capello, Ferdinand von Richthofen etc.) Both Volumes with many maps and illustrations/ Tome IX – 1er Semestre 1904 (496 pages) / Tome X – 2eme Semestre 1904 (418 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XI – 1er Semestre 1905 (504 pages) / Tome XII – 2eme Semestre 1905 (483 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XIII – 1er Semestre 1906 (511 pages) / Tome XIV – 2eme Semestre 1906 (426 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XV – 1er Semestre 1907 (495 pages) / Tome XVI – 2eme Semestre 1907 (458 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XVII – 1er Semestre 1908 (520 pages) / Tome XVIII – 2eme Semestre 1908 (444 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XIX – 1er Semestre 1909 (502 pages) / Tome XX – 2eme Smestre 1909 (428 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XXI – 1er Semestre 1910 (480, 2 pages plus an appendix “Liste des Membres Decembre 1910” that list hundreds of members and also some new members like Sven Hedin and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Robert E. Peary etc.) / Tome XXII – 2eme Semestre 1910 (470 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XXIII – 1er Semestre 1911 (519 pages) / Tome XXIV – 2eme Semestre 1911 (436 pages) Both Volumes with many maps, illustrations and photographs / Tome XXV – 1er Semestre 1912 (472 pages) Tome XXVI – 2eme Semestre 1912 (456 pages) Both Volumes with many maps and gravures and photographs / Tome XXVII – 1er Semestre 1913 (515 pages) / Tome XXVIII – 2eme Semestre 1913 (432 pages) both Volumes with many maps and gravures and photographs / Tome XXIX – 1er Semestre 1914 (480 pages with maps, photographs and illustrations) / Hardcover – All 29 Volumes in beautiful buckram bindings from the Alpine Club London with the Library Signet of the Alpine Club to the lower spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. All bindings firm and unbroken. The original publishers interims brochure has been bound in and shows wonderful examples of advertisings for expeditions, camping. Advertisements from famous companies like Ponthus et Therrode – Constructeurs d’Instruments de precision successeurs de A. Hurlimann et de A. Berthelemy (Theodolites – Sextants – Cercles – Niveaux etc.) The magnificent folded maps all included. Volume 20 with minor damage to a few pages that were unopened ! A most important periodical of the early 20th century that was subscribed by nearly all of the important explorers at the time (From Shackleton and Stanley to Peary). The early discoveries colonial expeditions are all described in this periodical. This is a unique opportunity to acquire a corresponding set with the excellent provenance of the worlds oldest and still most important mountaineering club (The Alpine Club, London).

15. Keene, Donald.

Living in Two Countries. Edited with Notes by Masanori Toyota.

Tokyo, Asahi Press, 1987. 12.5 cm x 18 cm. 113 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

16. Krist, Gustav.

Alone Through the Forbidden Land – Journeys in Disguise through Soviet Central Asia. translated by E.O. Lorimer.

No place (London), Readers’ Union (by arrangement with Faber & Faber Limted), no year (c.1939). 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 271 pages. 46 illustrations on 32 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original light-brown cloth] with printed lettering on spine. Printed lettering and vignette on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing along spine. Interior very bright and clean.

17. Lao She [Shu Qingchun].

The Drum Singers. [The rare english Translation]. Translated by Helena Kuo / Illustrated by Shi Guoliang.

Hong Kong, Joint Publishing Company (JPC), 1987. Octavo. XII, 254 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. Lawford, Stephen.

Youth Uncharted.

Second Edition. London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1935. Octavo. XV, 367 pages with beautiful maps printed on the pastdowns, illustrating the many travels of the author. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Foxing to edges and first and last pages. Otherwise in very good condition with some minor signs of wear only.

19. Malaya / Japanese Occupation / Johore.

Stamp Collection: Vintage Booklet with 64 carefuly mounted, tipped-in stamps from the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Johore.

Malaya, 1941 – 1942. Small Octavo. 7 pages of a special booklet (with 19 pages) filled with the rare occupation stamps during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. All stamps mint ! The booklet with a manuscript note: “Collected by C. Hoskyns at Singapore in Oct. ‘45 (25th Inf. Div.)”.

20. Mathers, E. Powys.

The Eastern Anthology – Anthology of Eastern Love. Eastern Love: Volumes I & II & III: The Lessons of a Bawd and Harlot’s Breviary. English Versions of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta and Samayamatrika of Kshemendra. Volume I: The Lessons of a Bawd of Damodaragupta. Volume II: The Harlot’s Breviary of Kshemendra. Volume III: The Book of Women and The Education of Wives.

3 Volumes in one (complete set). London, John Rodker For Subscribers, 1927. 15.2 cm x 23.5 cm. Pagination: Vol I: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 92 pages / Vol II: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 100 pages / Vol III: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 152 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, actually stunning, private full morocco in Art Deco – Style (see images), Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt. Gilt on spine and red leather hardcover. Minor discolouration and staining to front and rear pastedown enpapers and endpapers. This edition of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta, the Samayamatrika of Kshemendra, the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey, and Ta’Dib Ul-Nisvan, being Volume I, II and III of the “Eastern Art of Love”, are here translated into English for the first time, by E. Powys Mathers. This edition of 1,000 copies on all rag paper was printed by Messrs. Molyneux, 3 & 4, New Street Hill, London. The copper plate engravings are by Hester Sainsbury and have been printed and hand coloured by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd. This copy is No. 695.

21. Mead, Margaret / Cooke MacGregor, Frances.

Growth and Culture. A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood. Based Upon Photographs by Gregory Bateson and analyzed in Gesell Categories.

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951. 21 cm x 28 cm. 223 pags. 58 black-and-white photographic plates. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to dustjacket.

22. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.

Japan’s Northern Territories.

Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1981. 14 cm x 21 cm. 21 pages. Illustrations, includ Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

23. Nai’an, Shi / Guanzhong, Luo.

Outlaws of The Marsh. Translated by Sidney Shapiro.

Three Volumes (complete set). Bejing, Foreign Languages Press, 1980. 13.6 cm x 20.2 cm / 13.6 cm x 21.2 cm Volume I (Modern softcover): pages 1 – 597 / Volume II (Original 1980 Hardcover-Edition): pages 561 – 1133 of the overall set. Black and white illustrations / Vol III (Original 980 Hardcover-Edition): pages 1135 – 1605 of the overall set. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar and one Softcover – Volume. All three volumes in very good+ condition. A substituted set with Volume I being a later edition in paperback ! Only very minor foxing to dustjackets and edging of Volume II and III. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

24. Nakane, Chie.

Japanese Society.

First Paperback Edition. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1973. 21 cm. 157 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A very slight stain on the back cover. Publications of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies.

25. Ohashi, Ryosuke.

Kire – Das ‘Schöne’ in Japan. Philosophisch-ästhetische Reflexionen zu Geschichte und Moderne. [Widmungs-Exemplar].

Köln, Dumont Buchverlag, 1994. 25 cm x 19 cm. 171 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

26. Payne, John / Hardie, James / Provenance I: Signature of J.J. Westervelt [Jacobus James Westervelt (1755 – 1826) – Schraalenberg and Provenance II: Charles Sydney Clark (1925) presented this set to Johnson Free Public Library at Hackensack, New Jersey].

A New and Complete System of Universal Geography [Complete with all 20 maps / illustrations] ; Describing Asia, Africa, Europe and America; with their Subdivisions of Republics, States, Empires and Kingdoms : The Extent, Boundaries and Remarkable Appearances of each Country; Cities, Towns and Curiosities of Nature and Art. Also giving a general account of The Fossil and Vegetable Productions [with hand-coloured plates] of the Earth. The History of Man, In all Climates, Regions and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments and Religions: The State of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures and Knowledge. Sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People to the present time. To which is added, A View of Astronomy, As connected with Geography; Of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; And of the Universe in General. With a copious Index annexed to each Volume. Being a Large and Comprehensive Abridgement of Universal Geography. By John Payne. With additions, corrections and Improvements from the latest and best authors by James Hardie – Author of “The Principles of Latin Grammar”, “The American Remembrancer” and “Universal Tablet of Memory” &c. In Four Volumes.

First Abridged Edition. Volumes I [Asia] and II [Africa] (of IV). New York, Printed for and Sold by John Low, Book-Seller at The Shakespeare – Head, No.332 Water-Street, 1798 – 1799. Octavo – Edition. Pagination: Volume I [Asia]: Folded Frontispiece (Map of the World), XLVIII, 518 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of an Index and one additional page with Directions for the Bookbinder for placing the maps and illustrations as well as Errata. Volume I includes all 10 Maps / Engravings as called for / Volume II [Africa]: Folded Frontispiece (Map of Africa), 578 pages plus 12 unnumbered pages of an Index plus one additional page with Directions for the Bookbinder for placing the maps and illustrations as well as Errata. Volume II includes all 10 Maps / Engravings as called for. Hardcover / Modern Library – Binding with the original 18th century – work bound in. Former library copy of Bergen County Historical Society (cancelled) and Johnson Free Public Library in Hackensack, New Jersey, with a very boring, modern library binding and library cards applied to the endpapers only, leaving the bookblock with text and maps and illustrations entirely untouched from any library-signs. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

27. Richardson, D.

The Damathat, or The Laws of Menoo. Translated from the Burmese.

Original First Edition (Bilingual Burmese – English). XIV Volumes in one Volume (complete). Rangoon, Printed at ‘The Mission Press’, 1874. Slim Quarto (17 cm x 25 cm). 776 pages [being 388 pages of the original burmese text juxtaposed to 388 pages of the english translation]. Bound to the rear of the Volume are an additional c. 90 blank pages for notes. Original rebacked full leather with gilt ornament and original spinelabel. New endpapers with original bookplate of Charles Forbes, Esq. [Cha Forbes – Motto: ‘Grace Me Guide’ ]. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor tear to titlepage. Few pages with professional repairs to paper. Absolutely scarce original publication.

28. Ruttledge, Hugh.

Everest 1933.

Second Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1934. 18 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 390 pages. 59 plates. 4 Maps, including 2 fold-out geological maps at rear showing ‘Drainage Areas of the Arun, Tista, and Ammu Chu’ and `Mount Everest and the group of Chomo Lungma’. Hardcover [publisher’s original navy cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Professionally rebound and strengthened binding. New endpapers. Interior is bright and clean. Occasional faint foxing.

29. Schmalkalden, Caspar / Joost, Wolfgang [Bearb.].

Die wundersamen Reisen des Caspar Schmalkalden nach West- und Ostindien 1642 – 1652.

2.Auflage. Leipzig, Brockhaus, [1987]. 8°. 192 Seiten. Illustriert. Original Hardcover. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand.

30. Smythe, F.S.

Camp Six – An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition.

First edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 307 pages. 36 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding very firm. Interior very bright and clean.

31. Staunton, Sir George / Lord Macartney.

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [First Dublin Edition with 34 full-page-plates]; Including Cursory Observations Made, and Information Obtained, in Travelling Through That Ancient Empire, and a Small Part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a Relation of the Voyage undertaken on the Occasion by his Majesty’s Ship ‘The Lion’, and the Ship ‘Hindestan’ in the East India Company’s Service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin [sic]; as well as of their return to Europe. With Notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home: being the Islands of Madeira, Teneriffe and St.Jago, the Port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the Islands of St.Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Amsterdam, the Coast of Java and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the Papers of his Excellency, the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty’s Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of the Expedition and other Gentlemen in the several Departments of the Embassy.

Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, R.Cross, P.Byrne and others, 1798. Octavo. Volume I: XV, 449 pages with 8 full-page plates / Volume II: XVIII, 430 pages, with 26 full-page-plates and including an Appendix. Hardcover / Original, early 19th century half leather with original spinelabels. Bindings firm and strong but rather worn. Bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, to the pastedown of Volume I. Overall in very good condition with some stronger signs of wear but with all the illustrations / engravings, called for in the Dublin Edition.

32. Stone, Charles R.

The Fountainhead of Chinese Erotica – The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction (Ruyijun Zhuan). With a Translation and Critical Edition.

Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. Octavo. VIII, 271 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition, especially with the wonderfully protected dustjacket. Very Rare but even rarer in this condition !

33. Tazawa, Yutaka et. al.

Japan’s Cultural History: A Perspective.

Tokyo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1973. 22 cm. 120 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

34. Tilman, H.W.

Two Mountains and a River.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1949. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 232 pages. 83 illustrations on 37 plates. 6 maps, including sketch map of the mountainous region of Central Asia dominated by the Hindu Kush, Himalaya and Karakoram ranges Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bump to lower corner of front board. Signs of damp staining to foot of some pages throughout book. Interior otherwise bright and clean and sharp cornered. Summary of book on loose ephemera within book.

35. Vakil, C.N. / Cirvante, V.R. / Brahmananda, P.R. / Desai, T.M.

Economic Consequences of Divided India. A study of the Economy of India and Pakistan.

Bombay, Vora & Co. Publishers, 1950. Gr.-8°. XV, 555 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent collector’s condition with the rare dustjacket ! Some minor signs of foxing. Dustjacket in excellent condition. Early review slip from publishers attached to the titlepage. A magnificent copy of this rare book !

36. Walsh, Langton Prendergast.

Under the Flag, and Somali Coast Stories.

London, Andrew Melrose, Ltd., no year (c.1910). 16 cm x 23.5 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 384 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original salmon cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and fading. Interior is bright and clean.

37. [Wheeler, R.E.M. / Piggott, Stuart / Childe, V. Gordon / Kramrisch, Stella / Cookson, M.B. / Ghosh, A. / Krishna Deva / Krishnaswamy, V.D. / Naqvi, S.A.A. / Agravala, V.S. / Chakravarti, N.P.].

ANCIENT INDIA – Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India – Number 2-5 (1946-1949).

5 volumes in 4. (Includes the double-number 1947-1948). Calcutta, The Baptist Mission Press, 1946-1949. Quarto (21,5 cm x 27,5 cm). Volume 2 (July 1946): 137 pages with numerous photographic plates and large fold-out maps / Volume 3 (January 1947): 150 pages with numerous photographic plates and large fold-out maps / Volume 4 (Double Number): 321 pages with numerous photographic plates and large fold-out maps / Volume 5: 113 pages with numerous photographic plates and large fold-out maps. Original Softcover. Good condition with signs of wear only to the wrappers – Inside very good.

38. [Wilson, Peter / Martin, Benjamin].

The Universal Gazetteer [Very Rare Dublin Edition] : or a Description of the several Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Countries, Cities, Towns, Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Volcanos &c. in the Known World. Together with an Account of The Extent, produce, Revenue, Forces, Trade, Manufacturer, Religions &c. of the several Countries and of the Battles, Sieges and other Transactions that have sendered them remarkable. To which is prefixed a copious Introduction to Geography. The whole calculated to explain the Occurences in Modern History. Illustrated with four large and accurate Maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America (only the Map of Asia is present: “New & Correct Map of Asia – Drawn from the latest and best Authorities by J. Gibson”). The Second Edition, in which several necessary Corrections and Material Additions have been made; the Geography of Ireland has been revised and enlarged; about four hundred entire new Articles have been added, chiefly relative to North America and Ireland, none of which are contained in the London Impression, and comprising in the whole, many thousand Places more than any other Gazzetteer; Whereby it is rendered the largest, cheapest, and most compleat Work of the Kind extant.

Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson in Dame-Street, 1759. Small Octavo. XXXVIII, (1), 512 unnumbered pages (collation complete) with only the folded Map on Asia present and the other three maps missing. Including 6 pages of “Books, printed for and sold by Peter Wilson, in Dame-Street”. Original Hardcover (full calf on five raised bands with original spinelabel intact). Half a page in chapter “M” torn out. Faint dampstain throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped on the corners but absolutely firm and tight. Minor traces of foxing and staining only. Name of preowner in 17th or 18th century ink on endpaper: “Daniel Eugene MacNamara”. Very rare Dublin Edition of this publication with a full-page recommendation of the famous Lexicographer Benjamin Martin.

39. [Wu Cheng’en] / [Yu, Anthony C. (Editor)].

The Journey to the West. [Plus Supplement Volume: “The Tower of Myriad Mirrors” – A Supplement to “Journey to the West” by Tung Yueh (1620-1686)]. Translated and Edited by Anthony C.Yu.

Revised Edition. Four Volumes (complete set plus Supplement-Volume). Chicago / London, The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Large Octavo (15.5 cm x 23 cm). Pagination: Volume I: XX, 552 pages / Volume II: XVI, 410 pages / Volume III: XVI, 422 pages / Volume IV: XVI, 428 pages. [Volume V: Supplement : 200 pages]. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With the often missing Supplement.