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Mongolia cquc Genghis Khan, 1162-1227. Mongol chronicle Činggis Qagan u čidig including Altan tobči: Meng wen Meng-ku shih chi. Mongol chronicle Činggis Qagan u čidig including Altan tobči : 蒙文蒙古史記. Peking : publisher not identified, 1940, 196 pages, bound in sturdy black library buckram, some pencilling on back free endpaper in English and Mongolian? Text in Mongolian script. Full title of Altan… Read more about this item

Tibet lmdte Lobzang Mingyur Dorje. A Tibetan-English primer by Lama Lobzang mingyur dorje ... Revised edition. [Calcutta]: [University of Calcutta], 1938, 2 preliminary leaves, 37 pages. Paperbound book with some small tears to edges. There is also some ink staining to very edge of side paper edge, else good copy of a fragile and uncommon work. $14.50 … Read more about this item

Persia rfpj Richards, Fred. A Persian Journey: Being An Etcher's Impressions of The Middle East. With Forty-Eight Drawings by Fred Richards, R.E. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith,1932, 240 pages, illus. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover, lettering on spine is worn and the spine is somewhat sun faded. What is left of the… Read more about this item

Egypt bpif Landes, David S. Bankers and pashas; international finance and economic imperialism in Egypt. (Series: Studies in entrepreneurial history). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958, xvi, 354 p. illus., ports., map, bib, index. Good to very good copy in red cloth. The dust jacket is OK, did its job, but has some tears and wear. This, the first… Read more about this item

AgricultureffalHenry, Donald O. From foraging to agriculture: the Levant at the end of the Ice Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, xx, 277 pages, ill, bib, index, tables. Good, clean, tight copy of the hardcover. $30.00 Box 45

Middle East cmehh Christian-Muslim encounters. Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Wadi Zaidan Haddad.Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995, xi, 508 pages, bib, index. Good, clean tight copy of the hardback. $15.00 Box 12. Summary The authors of these essays examine the ways in which Muslims and Christians worldwide have encountered one another over 1,400 years and the ways in which they… Read more about this item

Turkey trdc Talbot Rice, David. Constantinople: from Byzantium to Istanbul.Photographs by Wim Swaan. New York: Stein and Day,1965, 213 pages, map, 86 plates, 35 in color, bib, index, 8 1/2" by 11". $17.50 Box 27

Textiles wfhi Wolfe, ffrida. How to identify oriental rugs. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1927, xii, 54 pages, 44 plates (4 in color), 1 map, illus, index. Good copy of the original hardcover. There is a small dent to the side edge of the front cover with some loss of cloth. Also, there is a small offsetting from… Read more about this item

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

Mongolia hjas1949 Cleaves, Francis Woodman. "The Mongolian Names and Terms in The History of The Nation of The Archers by Grigor of Akanc". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, December 1949, Volume 12, pages 400 to 443. 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… Read more about this item

Mongolia hjas1952. Antoine Mostaert, Francis Woodman Cleaves. 'Trois documents mongols des Archives secretes vaticanes'.Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Volume 15, December 1952, pages 419 to 506, bib. Inscribed by Cleaves on the front cover panel to a friend, a professor of Chinese studies. Offprint of an article, paperbound. Good, clean copy. $12.50 Box 12

Philipinnes sulu1 Sulu studies, 1. Edited by Gerard Rixhon. Jolo, Sulu(Philipinnes): Notre Dame of Jolo College, 1972, 271 pages, notes, illus. Paperbound. Very good. At least 4 volumes in this series were eventually published. Scarce. $25.00 Box 5678 Contributors: Edited by Gerard Rixhon. Hassan, Irene. Coordinated investigation of Sulu Culture. Subject Tausug language -- English Sulu (Philippines)… Read more about this item

Mongolia masq Mostaert, Antoine, 1881-1971. Sur quelques passages de l'Histoire secrète des Mongols. Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1953, xx, 277 pages, index. From the library of a Chinese specialist with his signature on wrapper. Wrapper has small piece missing at top of front wrapper. Good, clean, tight copy. He also states that the book was a gift from a specialist in… Read more about this item

Arabic mapa Modern Arabic poetry: an anthology. Edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. New York:Columbia University Press, 1987, xxviii, 498 pages. Good to very good copy in like dust jacket. $14.50 Box 23 Summary:After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression… Read more about this item

England lmc Thesiger, Wilfred. The life of my choice. London: Collins, 1987, 459 p., [32] p. of plates: illus, index. Very good to fine in like good dust jacket. The front free endpaper top corner has a fold crease where it was probably folded over and then folded back. $20.00 Box 23 … Read more about this item

Central Asia bvvm Barthold, V. V. Four Studies on the History of Central Asia, Volume III, Mir 'Ali-Shir, A History of the Turkman People. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1962, 187 pages,illus, bib, index. Translated from the Russian by V. & T. Minorsky. The book is in the original green mint cloth with gilt on the spine and front cover panel.… Read more about this item

Cambodia blp Briggs, Lawrence P. The Ancient Khmer Empire. (Series: Transactions New Series, Volume 41 Part 1). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, (1951), 1962 later printing, 295 pages, illus (black and white), bib, index. Large format paperback in good to very good condition. $16.50 Box 27

Frye, Richard Nelson, 1920- The heritage of Persia. Cleveland, World Pub. Co. 1963 (Series >World histories of civilization). 301 p., notes, bib, index, maps, illus. Very good in dust jacket $10.00 Box 5678

Admiral Steven van der Haghen's voyage to the East Indies : 1603-1606 Authors:Levinus Hulsius, Isaacus Genius, Alison D. Anderson (Editor), James Ford Bell Library Associates Summary:Neundte Schiffart (or, The Ninth Sea Voyage) was the ninth in a series of pamphlets about overseas voyages and exploration published by Levinius Hulsius (Hulse), who skillfully selected, edited and translated eyewitness accounts. This particular… Read more about this item