한국 금속 활자본 = Han'guk kŭmsok hwalchabon
Sŏul: Pŏmusa, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. 187, [9]; tables and facsimiles throughout; fine copy in original pictorial yellow wrappers. Text in Korean. History of printing with metal type in Korea. More
Sŏul: Pŏmusa, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. 187, [9]; tables and facsimiles throughout; fine copy in original pictorial yellow wrappers. Text in Korean. History of printing with metal type in Korea. More
Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], v, [3], 222, [1]; 4 full page maps on plates; very good copy in a slightly chipped jacket. Tribes on the northeastern frontier of India, including the Nagas, Mishmis, and Abors, among others. More
Calcutta: printed at Bishop's College Press, by H. Townsend, 1827. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxi, [1], 414; xiv, 565; 2 folding frontispieces, one a map of Armenia, and the other the Armenian College at Moscow, plus one other folding plate; list of 211 subscribers taking a total..... More
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, [1982]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 180; full black cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. "The first full-length work to deal with the most fundamental problem facing all warlords -- the acquisition of arms and the tools of war necessary to maintain political and..... More
Aldershot, etc. Ashgate Variorum, [1999]. 8vo, pp. x, 340; full blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; textblock just starting to tone, else fine. The Variorum Collected Studies Series reprints papers published elsewhere to create topic-based references. More
New York, New Haven, London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, [2008]. First edition, folio, pp. xii, 236; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 319, [1]; frontispiece portrait and 3 maps; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Contains an eyewitness account of the 1839 confinement at Whampoa and much on the rise and flourishing tradce in opium. More
[New Haven: Yale University and New World Press, 2005]. First edition, large 4to, pp. xiv, [4], 363, [1]; double-page map, illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "It contains much material which has not been accesssible before, except, in some cases, in specialist journal articles..... More
Lanham, Oxford, New York: University Press of America, 1998. 8vo, pp.xxxi, [1], 549, [1]; original blue cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; labelremoved from base of spine and old library rubberstamp on p. [iii]; all else near fine. More
[Seoul]: Minjok Munhwasa, [1985]. First edition, large 8vos, 3 vols.; entries mostly in Korean with some items in Japanese and English; full blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; slightly musty, but clean, in original slipcases. These three volumes cover research on the history of Korea from prehistory to..... More
[Taipei]: National Taiwan University Institute of Linguistics, [2007]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [2], iv, 326, [2]; text largely in English with 6 chapters in Chinese; orange printed paper wrappers, addenda sheet laid in; fine. A collection of papers on Taiwanese linguistics, with chapters such as "Graphic localism and its..... More
New York & London: Routledge, [2006]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 380, [2]; tables throughout, a dozen or so illustrations in the text; fine copy in original laminate boards. Presentation sticker from the Korea Foundation on front free endpaper. More
New York: Random House, [1986]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 215, [3]; fine copy in a fine yellow and red pictorial dust jacket. "The other side of Vietnam, told through interviews with North Vietnamese, former Vietcong, and southern opposition leaders." More
[New York]: Warner Books, [1985]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 372; original cloth-backed boards in red pictorial dust jacket; fine. Signed author inscription on half title. Chao's first novel, on the Chinese-American immigrant experience. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 415, [1]; 2 maps (1 double-page), tables in the text; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. "This book presents twenty-six essays by one of the great Chinese linguists of our time. They cover over a half-century of..... More
Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press, [1966 and 1972]. Sixth printing of the primer and fifth printing of the character text, 8vo, pp. viii, 336; [2], 142, [8]; full blue cloth gilt; character text with about four pages of the character text with pronunciation added in..... More
[England?]: [c. 1810]. Broadside, approx. 12¼" x 7¾", text beginning with: "This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the CHINESE SENSITIVE LEAF, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China..." Old folds with some minor loss at creases..... More
[Taipei]: Taiwan Provincial Documentation Committee, 1951. First edition; stab stitched set, 2 vols. in 24 juan, 9.5" x 5.5"; text in Traditional Chinese; 18 maps in text, most full-page; original printed paper wrappers; light soiling to wrappers, text clean and sound, near fine. Number 2 in the Taiwan series published..... More
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, [1989]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 218; full red cloth; fine in fine dust jacket. More
Tainan: Dazheng Shuju, 2005. First edition, 8vo, pp. 13, [1], 52, 1740, 7, [1], 201, [1]; entries in Taiwanese, with pronunciation in Bopomo and Latin transliteration, definitions in Mandarin, example sentences in Taiwanese; green pictorial boards; scattered foxing to edges, text clean and bright, near fine in fine original slipcase..... More
Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 1994. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 192; full gray cloth; light soiling to jacket and boards, owner's stamp on endpaper, very good. More
[n.p. published by the author, 2015]. 8vo, pp. vi, 45, pictorial paper wrappers, fine. More
Keelung: The SueiChan Press, 2005. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, 284; parallel text in Traditional Chinese and English; color photoreproductive illustrations throughout; stiff illustrated paper wrappers; fine in fine slipcase. More
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, [1997]. 4to, 2 issues in one, pp. 215; text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout; pictorial paper covered boards; fine in original shrink wrap. Hansheng Magazine is an award winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded..... More
Munchen: K. G. Saur, 2006. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 343, [1]; fine copy in original laminate boards. More