Search Results: Asia from Focloir

Mongolia hjas1951 Cleaves, Francis Woodman. "A Chancellery Practice of The Mongols in The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Volume 14, December 1951, pages 493 to 526, black and white plates. Harvard-Yenching Institute. Offprint of an article, paperbound. Good, clean copy. $8.50 Box 12

China slmk Schram, Louis, 1883- The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan border. Their origin, history, and social organization. With an introduction by Owen Lattimore. (Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; New series., volume 44, pt. 1). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1954-61, 138 pages, illus, maps. Large format paperback, (measures 9" x 12") minor shelf wear. Good copy.$25.00 Box 27
Summary: The Monguor live in the Qilian Mountains and on the banks of the Huang and Datong rivers in Qinghai and Gansu provinces in northwestern China. Father Louis Schram, a Belgian missionary priest, was in the area from 1911-1922. This work is the first volume of 3, which stretched from 1954 to 1961.

Asia mptmp Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? The travels of Marco Polo. Revised and edited with an introduction by Manuel Komroff; illustrations by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin. New York, Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1934, 2 volumes, colored illus, xl, 477 pages. Paged continuously. Handsome books in black cloth in slipcase box, which has 4 or 5 dings to edges. Lovely set, limited to 1500 copies. This being Number 1492, signed by Lapshin. If you had to ask for a number out of the 1500, 1492 would be a good one to choose. Different continent, of course. Small, light blemish (maybe 3/8 inch) on side paper edge of Volume 1, $55.00 Front room
Half-title: Travels of Marco Polo, 1271-1295

Japan kdw3 Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976, ix, 606 pages, bib, index. First edition, so stated. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has a series of small holes right at the edge of the front cover, also a very small piece missing on bottom of back panel. $15.00 Box 12.