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New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 2nd Edition. 8 Vo. This is volume one of a projected two volumes, complete in itself, and subtitled, "The Ethnical Frontier of Lower Bengal with the Ancient Principalities of Beerbhoom and Bishenpore. Pages xvi, 475 with appendices. Original brick red cloth, neatly rebacked with the old spine cloth laid on top. Worn at the corners, but protected in a clear, mylar dustjacket. Ex-library, with library perforations on title page but no other indications. Inside, clean and tight with no foxing and new endpapers. William Wilson Hunter (1840-1900) wrote a good deal about India where he lived most of his adult life..
Corpus of the Inscriptions of Java ( Up to 928 A.D. ) 2 Volumes by Sarkar, Himansu Bkusan - 1971
by Sarkar, Himansu Bkusan
Corpus of the Inscriptions of Java ( Up to 928 A.D. ) 2 Volumes
by Sarkar, Himansu Bkusan
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Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1971. Fine but for publisher's stamps on front endpaper, and insignificant traces of use. Vol 1 published 1971, and vol. 2 in 1972.. Cloth bindings not the same, but both are first printings.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.
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- Date Published 1971
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Annals of Rural Bengal
by Hunter, W. W. (of the Bengal Civil Service)
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A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
by Cramer, J. A.
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Amsterdam, Adold M. Hakkert, 1971. Hardcover. .. Two volumes bound in one. Royal octavo. Pp. v, 474; iv, 424. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy, crisp interior. ~ Reprint of the edition Oxford, 1832. G-4 IN
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Géographie de la soie. Étude géographique et statistique sur la production et le commerce de la soie en cocon. Mémoire couronné par la Société de Géographie de Lyon.
by Clugnet, Léon.
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Lyon, Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, 1877. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. x, 201. Bound in the original printed wrappers, slightly soiled, vague dampmark at blank bottom of first few leaves. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, still entirely unopened. ~ FIRST EDITION. Mémoire couronné par la Société de Géographie de Lyon. Rare. Z-5 OUT
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Ennin's Travels in T'ang China
by Reischauer, Edwin O.
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NYH: The Ronald Press Co., 1955. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: The Ronald Press Co., 1955, first printing. 8vo., xii+341pp. Brown cloth with white titles and designs, map endpapers. From the preface: "Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk, crossed the sea to China in the year 838 and during the next nine and a half years kept a detailed diary of his travels through the vast T'ang Empire until he finally returned to Japan in 847
It is the first account of life in China by any foreign visitor." Slight rub to publisher's name on spine, else near fine, bright, crisp. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Dated Buddha Images of Northern Siam: With fifty-seven plates and twelve figures in the text
by A. B. Griswold
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Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1959. Second Printing. VG in G DJ. Interior is tight, bright, and clean with no ownership marks. Binding shows all four corners bumped, all edges rubbed, and damage to lower spine. Unclipped DJ is intact but heavily challenged with heavy tearing, creasing, chipping, and rubbing. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Annals of Rural Bengal
by Hunter, W. W. (of the Bengal Civil Service)
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New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 2nd Edition. 8 Vo. This is volume one of a projected two volumes, complete in itself, and subtitled, "The Ethnical Frontier of Lower Bengal with the Ancient Principalities of Beerbhoom and Bishenpore. Pages xvi, 475 with appendices. Original brick red cloth, neatly rebacked with the old spine cloth laid on top. Worn at the corners, but protected in a clear, mylar dustjacket. Ex-library, with library perforations on title page but no other indications. Inside, clean and tight with no foxing and new endpapers. William Wilson Hunter (1840-1900) wrote a good deal about India where he lived most of his adult life..
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A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
by Cramer, J. A.
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Amsterdam, Adold M. Hakkert, 1971. Hardcover. .. Two volumes bound in one. Royal octavo. Pp. v, 474; iv, 424. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy, crisp interior. ~ Reprint of the edition Oxford, 1832. G-4 IN
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Géographie de la soie. Étude géographique et statistique sur la production et le commerce de la soie en cocon. Mémoire couronné par la Société de Géographie de Lyon.
by Clugnet, Léon.
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Lyon, Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, 1877. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. x, 201. Bound in the original printed wrappers, slightly soiled, vague dampmark at blank bottom of first few leaves. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused, still entirely unopened. ~ FIRST EDITION. Mémoire couronné par la Société de Géographie de Lyon. Rare. Z-5 OUT
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Ennin's Travels in T'ang China
by Reischauer, Edwin O.
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NYH: The Ronald Press Co., 1955. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: The Ronald Press Co., 1955, first printing. 8vo., xii+341pp. Brown cloth with white titles and designs, map endpapers. From the preface: "Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk, crossed the sea to China in the year 838 and during the next nine and a half years kept a detailed diary of his travels through the vast T'ang Empire until he finally returned to Japan in 847
It is the first account of life in China by any foreign visitor." Slight rub to publisher's name on spine, else near fine, bright, crisp. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Dated Buddha Images of Northern Siam: With fifty-seven plates and twelve figures in the text
by A. B. Griswold
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Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1959. Second Printing. VG in G DJ. Interior is tight, bright, and clean with no ownership marks. Binding shows all four corners bumped, all edges rubbed, and damage to lower spine. Unclipped DJ is intact but heavily challenged with heavy tearing, creasing, chipping, and rubbing. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Mansions of the Sun : The Indian Desert Thaar
by Anand, Uma
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- 9780905906294 / 0905906292
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Al-falak Scorpion, 1982. Book. Illus. by Vivek Anand. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with colour & b/w photos. The book has a previous owner's private bookplate on the endpaper but is otherwise both book & jacket are in excellet condition. Firmly bound and carefully read..
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THE MILITARY COLLAPSE OF CHINA'S MING DYNASTY, 1618-44
by Swope, Kenneth M
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- 9781138652330 / 1138652334
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New York: Routledge, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 291pp, numerous b/w illustrations. A very nice copy..
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Korea Through Her Arts
by Kim Ki-Mun
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Yesul Chunchu Sa, Seoul, Korea, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very interesting book which includes lots of illustration, many of which are tipped-in (color and b/w). There are also 6 records with representative Korean music. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 445 pp. Text is in Korean. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Spine working loose but still intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Art & Design; Non-English Language::Korean; Korea; Korean Language; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001394. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen
by Mukhopadhyay, Amal Kumar (editor)
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Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph
by Lawrence, T.E
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T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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Formless in Form: Kenko, 'Tsurezuregusa,' and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose
by Chance, Linda H
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780804730013 / 0804730016
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Study of this medieval Japanese classic of brief 'essays' on various subjects; the author argues that Kenko's text is not an early example of 'zuihitsu' or informal essay, but rather "a deliberate, controlled effort by Kenko to force the reader to confront the impermanent and contingent nature of existence through experiencing the text." Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing). Light wear to book; hint of fading to jacket spine; near fine, unmarked. Text clean; xxii, [2], 343 pages + 'colophon'; index, character list, lengthy bibliography, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Vol. III
by Parker, H. ( Collected and Translated by )
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London: Luzac & Co., 1914. SCARCE in 1914 First Edition. In original red cloth, top edge gilt, Very Good, 1 1/2" tear to cloth top edge at spine, cloth rubbed at tips, stamp and blindstamp of the highly-regarded Folklore Institute, Indiana University front end pages. Stories of cultivating caste, lower castes, Western Provinces & Southern India, & Sinhalese texts. With index, 479 pp. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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MAOIST INSURGENCY SINCE VIETNAM
by Marks, Thomas A
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- 9780714646060 / 0714646067
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Great Britain: Frank Cass & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0714646067 . Book is Very Good + (plus). Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Very light bump back cover corners. Rear cover surface faint 1/4 inch surface only stain. Single very faint and small page end -ends only - smudges front and bottom page ends. DJ is very good. Very light bumping to DJ cover corners and edges. 1/8 inch closed tear DJ top spine end corner. Sticker on rear DJ cover. 1/8 inch mark on DJ spine. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 303 pages .
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North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts
by Douglas, William O
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Granville, New York, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City: Doubleday, 1953, first printing. 8vo. 352pp., illustrated with b/w plates, map endpapers. Pale blue cloth with blue and white titles. Offset toning to two pages from laid in book reviews, minor dust foxing on top edge, else fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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