Search Results: Titles starting with L from Asia Bookroom

(Phnom Penh).: Ministere de l'Information.. (Circa1959).. Text in French. Preface and postface by Penn Nouth. 85pp, 23.5 x 15.5cm. Printer's error at lower edge, upper corner little creased, wrappers worn, a good copy. Reprints of a series of articles initially published in 'Realites Cambodgiennes' in 1958 and 1959. .

Paris.: Les Indes Savantes.. 2002.. Black and white photographic plates, 133pp, graphs, tables, bibliography,. Paperback. French text. .

Paris.: Les Indes Savantes.. 2014.. Maps, 241pp, glossary, a very good paperback. Text in French. .

Budapest.: Editions Cecle d'Art.. 1972.. Full page colour and black and white photographic plates, 145pp, dustjacket torn with some loss, top edge foxed, a good copy. Text in French. Small quarto. .

(Paris.). (1751.). Engraved map 48 x 52.2 cm; 51 x 67.6 cm (sheet) , provinces highlighted with outline hand-colour, elaborate title cartouche, central fold (small tear at the foot affecting the border), old paper repair on the verso affecting the margin only, pin-holes to the four marginal corners, margins a little browned and dusty, a handsome map in good condition. Fine large format map showing China, Korea, Taiwan and, parts of Central Asia, prepared for De Vaugondy's "Atlas Universel". The beautifully foliated cartouche features a duo of joyful Chinese musicians (one dancing) and a diminutive figure holding a parasol. From the Estate of the late collector and scholar, Arthur Hacker. .

Paris.: Editions Sociales.. 1946.. Volume 3 only. 429pp, some even browning throughout as usual, spine foxed, leaves largely unopened, a very good copy in original wrappers. French text. .

Paris.: Editions Sociales.. 1945.. Volume I only. 299pp, some even browning throughout as usual, minor wear head and tail of spine, wrappers, very good copy. Text in French. .

Paris.: Nouvelles Editions Latines.. 1953.. 549pp, index, bibliography, original wrappers worn and marked with some small closed tears and loss at head and tail of spine, edges and pages quite browned, from the library of Professor Anthony Reid, a sound secondhand copy. Text in French. .

Paris.: Librairie d'amerique et d'orient and Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient.. Reprint.. 1985& 2000.. 2 volumes. Mixed editions, not uniform in size, both in paperback. Volume I: Maps, 1 folding at rear, black and white illustration, 669pp. 22.5cm x 14cm. Volume II: Chart, xix + 749pp. 24 x 16cm. A little light occasional pencilling. Both volumes in very good condition. Text in French. .

Paris.: Albin Michel.. 1929.. 251pp. Rebound with original wrappers in tan and red boards, occasional closed tears throughout reinforced by a prior owner with cellotape, leaves evenly browned. Text in French. .

(Circa1975).. Typescript, complete in two volumes. Volume I: 403pp. Volume II: 404 - 846pp. Maps, line drawings. Bound in trifle worn cloth-covered boards, overall very good copies. 30 x 21.5cm. 3.15kg. Text in French. Recollections of the author's time in Indochina following his return in 1945 amidst the First Indochina War. Volume I covers March 1945 - November 1946, while Volume II covers November 1946 - March 1961. .

Vendome.: Presses Universitaires de France.. 1975.. Text in French. Maps, 124pp, bibliography, 17.5 x 11.5cm. Inscription by author front free endpaper. Neatly inked annotations page 18, little wear to paperback covers, otherwise a very good copy. .

Vendome.: Presses Universitaires de France.. 1975.. Maps, 124pp, bibliography, from the library of Dr Andrew Selth with his name and chop on half title page, covers little shelf worn, otherwise a good paperback copy. 17.5 x 11.5cm. Text in French. .

Paris.: Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient.. 1985.. Maps, vii + 459pp, bibliography, index, few pen inscriptions half-title and title page, original wrappers little browned down spine, otherwise a very good copy. Text in French. Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, v. 139. .

Leide. (Leiden).: Chez Pierre van der Aa. c1729.. A striking and detailed copper engraved view of Kanton, capital of the southern Chinese Province of Guangdong, with a view of the European and Chinese ships in the harbour from van der Aa's La Galerie Agreable du Monde. 28.6 x 18cm, with the plate mark - 29.5 x 18.8cm. Number B1 written neatly in ink within the margin. Light fold mark at the middle but a lovely clean image. Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was born in Leiden, Holland. He started his own book publishing business when he was only twenty-three. His prolific output of highly decorated maps and atlases culminated in his magnum opus “Galerie Agreable du Monde” which illustrated the world known to Europeans in the early eighteenth century. Comprising 66 volumes it was the of plates published at that time, it has been estimated that only 100 copies were published. .

Paris.: Librairie Armand Colin.. 1937.. Maps, 210pp, original wrappers bound in modern blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, some browning throughout as usual, occasional marginal pencilling, good copy. Text in French. Discusses Chinese civilisation and reconstruction. .

France.: Institut Des Hautes Etudes Chinoises.. 1978.. Map, iii + 283pp, appendices, bibliography, index, foxing upper edge, spine little faded, covers trifle shelf worn, a good paperback copy. 24.4 x 16.5cm. Text in French. French text. .

France.: Patani.. 1995.. Folding map, black and white photographic illustrations, some soiling edges and endpapers, bibliography, annexes, bumped lower right corner of upper cover, good paperback copy with trifle rubbed extremities. .

Peking.: Foreign Language Press.. 1967.. 16 + [2]pp, light signs of wear on covers, a prior owner's signature upper pastedown original wrappers. Text in French. 20.3 x 13.9cm. .

Paris.: Atelier Alpha Bleue.. 1980.. 134pp, text in French, foxing upper egde, a good paperback copy. .