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Yokohama.: Thomas Cook and Son; Box of Curios Press. [circa1914].. Folding coloured map of Japan showing steamship and railway routes picked out in red, 28.5 x 336.2cms, large inset map shows Japan's connections with Korea, Manchuria and North China; tipped into the original blue card title-wrappers, small professionally sealed tear to a lower margin (no loss), early owner's neat inked… Read more about this item

Singapore.: Southeast Asian Ceramic Society.. First Edition.. 1991.. Map, colour and black and white illustration, 191pp, glossary, condition. 31.5 x 24cm. "Spirit of Han, a vivid study of the life and times of 2000 years ago. A high culture is revealed through an examination of Han Dynasty ceramics." - Publisher's description. .

The Monet Design.. First Edition.. 1996.. Lavishly illustrated in colour. Card wrappers with illustrated dustwrapper. 136pp. The small amount of text is predominantly in Chinese but objects are generally described in English and Chinese. 30 x 22cm. A very good reference. .

Singapore.: Singapore University Press... First Edition.. 1990.. 2 black & white maps, numerous colour and black and white photographic plates, line drawings, blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt. xvi+440pp, introduction, chronology, index. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. .

New York.: The Century Co.. 1920.. Map and 14 black and white photographic illustrations, xi+240 pages, appendices, 19.3 x 13.2 cms; original pictorial tangerine cloth covered boards (a little dusty), couple of small previous owners' signatures on front free endpaper, a very good copy. Extraordinary account of the horrors of opium addiction by Ellen Newbold La Motte… Read more about this item

[China].. circa1850.. Four columns (per side) of closely transcribed “fly-head script” (蝇头小字), Chinese manuscript characters in brush and black ink on a double-sided silk handkerchief or sheet, 41. x 37.5 cms, narrow border, a little edgewear with minor loss to the foot and very occasional professional restoration in the body of the text by Grimwade University Services, University of Melbourne,… Read more about this item

[Paris].: Compagnie des Antilles. circa1890s.. Tea crate label 21 x 24 cms, textured cream stock, with coloured illustration and adjacent text panel in red, in very good condition. Attractive advertising ephemera for Compagnie des Antilles a French wholesaler founded in 1884 by René Honoré Collas. The company was very successful winning two gold medals at the Nice Exhibition of… Read more about this item

Macao.. 1, November1846.. Closely-written manuscript letter in French, boldy signed by Huc, 4 pages (bifolium), 26.7 x 20.7 cms. folding to 8.5 x 13.3 cms, postmarked Paris and Toulouse, remains of the red wax seal (small hole in the address panel marking its removal, but no loss to the text), small edge tears (without loss), overall in very good condition.… Read more about this item

London and Edinburgh.: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and Cadell. First Edition in English.. Large folding copperplate map (as a frontispiece), vii, errata, lxvi (Preface and Introduction),+ 432 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm; period-style full brown morocco blind-ruled boards, spine in compartments with red leather title label lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed, tiny prior owner and date 1827… Read more about this item

Oxon.: Routledge.. 2020.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, chapter endnotes, references, archives, index, 207pp. Hardback in as new condition. 24.2 x 16cm. "Based on comprehensive fieldwork research and the examination of colonial archives, this book makes accessible, for an English-speaking audience, untapped French archives on Laos and early publications on territorial cults written by French ethnologists." (Publisher's description). .… Read more about this item

New York.: Army Information Branch.. 1944.. Very large folding colour map, main map 85 x 95.5 cm plus 6 sidebar maps, together 85 x 14.1 cms; sheet 88 x 118 cms, several fold splits (archivally sealed), in good condition. Large colour wartime map issued by the U.S. Army Information Branch in 1944, the main map showing Shanghai to French… Read more about this item

New York.: Army Information Branch.. Volume IV, No. 17 B/F.. 13 August,1945.. Large folding aerial-style map 116.5 x 64 cms; 119.56 x 86 cms (sheet), black and white inset of East Asia noting the strategic position of Formosa with a lengthy explanatory note in red, on the verso a central panel with text relating to the Potsdam Conference, black and… Read more about this item

New York.: Army Information Branch.. Volume III, No. 51F.. 9 April1945.. Folding colour map and six inset maps in a vertical panel, 88 x 119 cms (sheet) and (on the recto) circular map of Europe, smaller inset map of Asia and of the Ryukyu Islands, descriptive text, original folds, in very good, bright condition. Scarce Newsmap of "China Southeast Coast"… Read more about this item

France.: Esa Editions.. 2016.. Maps, black and white illustrations, genealogical chart, bibliography, index, text in French throughout, 470pp. Covers a little faded, and one corner slightly creased, but otherwise a very crisp clean paperback copy, 24 x16cm. .

[Calcutta]: Compiled and drawn by the Survey of India.. Second Edition.. 1945.. Large folding colour map, 77.5 x 80 cms; 95.5 x 86.2 cms (sheet, including legend and small inset showing adjoining maps), light toning and wear to upper margins and at corners and folds; but in very good condition. Very large clear map of China printed in 1945. The… Read more about this item

London].: [No pubisher,. 1618.. [6], xxii, [12], 491, [+5] pages, title page printed in red and black, dedication, preface, contents, references, errata, 18.4 x 14.8 cms, endpapers renewed with the original front endpapers laid down (aged-toned and chipped), title-page toned and a little faded, upper corner chipped, with the inked owners' inscription of Thos. Bryan Richards (1798) and Wm.… Read more about this item

Paris.: Erhard Frères. 1898.. Lithographed folding colour map 44.5 x 49.5 cms; 54.6 x 76.3 cms (sheet), towns and cities, items of production and trade routes highlighted in red, original folds, in very good, clean condition. Detailed map prepared for the Lyon Chamber of Commerce Mission to China under the direction of a young Henri Brenier (1867-1962), with the purpose… Read more about this item

(Amsterdam).: (H. Hondius). (circa1640).. Engraved hand coloured map of Central Asia and part of China, 33.8 X 49.2 cms (trimmed to the margin), title cartouche and descriptive text in Latin, degree markings “Milliaria Germanica communia…”, text in German on the verso “Von der Tartaren oder dem Reich des grossen Chams”, central fold, sheet toned, small hole and split in… Read more about this item

Paris.: Canson, Libraire-Editeur.. (1883).. Chromolithograph highlighted with hand colour, 26 x 29.5 cms; 63.7 x 45 cms (sheet), the generous margins a trifle toned and spotted, but the image in very good condition. Delicately coloured plate with detailed line work, from the French portfolio "Ornements de la Chine Recueil de Dessins Pour l'Art et l'Industrie" [A Collection of Designs… Read more about this item

Florida.: DatASIA Press. First Edition.. 2014.. Map, plans, black and white photographic illustrations of engravings and temples, line drawings, advertisements, appendices, foreword by Milton Osborne, xi + 171pp, spine slightly sunned, but a very clean paperback copy in very good condition. .