[Saigon]: Vien Quoc-Gia Thong-Kê, 1966. Small folio, pp. 222; map, tables, text from typescript; original blue printed wrappers (a bit soiled), edges and spine toned, general light shelf wear, spine starting to detach. At head of title: "Viet-Nam Cong Hòa. Phu Thu-Tu'ó'ng. Nha Tong Giám-Doc Ke-Hoach." 1965 census of Vietnam..... More
Paris: Librairie des arts décoratifs, n.d., [1927]. Portfolio, approx. 13½" tall, pp. [12] plus 42 plates, 6 colored; loose, as issued, in string-tied portfolio of printed brown paper-covered boards backed in red cloth; very good. Includes masks, screens, jewelry, sculptures, bookbindings, embroideries, paintings, etc. More
Cuttack: Pritned at the Orissa Mission Press, for the American and Foreign Bible Society, 1850. 8vo, pp. [230]; contemporary full gilt-tooled burgundy morocco, gilt spine in 6 compartments, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; edges and joints rubbed; Baptist Mission House Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary printed ownership label of Stubbins to... More
Saigon: United States Mission in Vietnam, December, 1966. Small folio, pp. 30; text printed in typescript; original white wrappers (slightly dampstained) printed in green, ink signature on front wrapper, occasional marginalia in the text; a good copy. "Extracts from several hundred captured diaries were screened to produce this composite. Most... More
Jedo [i.e. Tokyo]: Daigaku Nanko, 1870. First edition, large 8vo, approx. 11½" x 8½" (29 x 21.5 cm), pp. [4], 8, [2], 24; title page printed in blue, original drab wrppers, stab-bound; a very nice copy of the first textbook printed in German in Japan. Two other books in German... More
Saigon: Published by the Review Horizons, 1956. Special edition, 8vo, pp. 16; photographic illustrations; original orange printed wrappers (a bit soiled), general shelf wear, small tear to front fore edge not affecting text, interior mostly fine. At head of title: "Mahayana or Big Vehicle of the Buddhist System" More
[Kuala Lumpur: Ministry of Rural Development, n.d. ca. 1963.]. Folio, pp. [74], including 12 leaves of tracing paper for maps and plans not yet drawn; tipped-in octavo color map of the Malay Peninsula (dated 1963); very good in original red wrappers printed in black. Workbook for canvassers working for the... More
[Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., 1947.]. Edition limited to 2500 copies, small 4to, pp. [6], 50, [80]; The first section is a short introduction to Philippine bibliography and an argument for the Doctrina as the first book printed there. The second section is a facsimile of the copy in the... More
Bangkok: September, 1972. 4to, pp. 96; original orange printed wrappers (soiled), general light shelf wear, interior fine. "Under the auspices of the Ministerial Conference for Economic Development of Southeast Asia" - front cover. More
Saigon: United States Agency for International Development, 1968. 4to, pp. 52; offered with "Education projects in the Republic of Vietnam", 1969, pp. 47; photographic illustrations, text in typescript; original pictorial wrappers (soiled), edges toned, corners a bit bumped from shelf wear; interior mostly fine. OCLC locates only 2 copies of... More
[Tokyo: Aoyama-do, 1872.]. First edition, slim 12mo (180 x 120 mm.), [34] pp. bound in the Oriental style; with 4 Roman alphabets (upper and lower case and 2 styles of script), and a vocabulary in English with Japanese equivalents and pronunciations, all designed for the elementary Japanese student of the... More
Tokyo, Osaka, & Kyoto: Shisho-do, 1871. Small 8vo (approx. 7"x 5"), 16 leaves plus printed endpaper folded and sewn in the Japanese manner, xylographically printed throughout, orig. blue paper wrappers, printed paper label (chipped and with some loss) on cover; wrappers spotted, but generally good and sound throughout, with one... More
Tokyo, Osaka, & Kyoto: Shisho-do, 1871. Small 8vo (approx. 7"x 5"), 16 leaves plus printed endpapers folded and sewn in the Japanese manner, xylographically printed throughout, orig. gray paper wrappers, printed paper label on cover; wrappers worn, but generally good and sound throughout, with one small illustration in the text... More
Bandung, 's-Gravenhage: N.V. Penerbitan W. Van Hoeve, n.d., [ca. late 1950's]. 3 volumes, lg. 8vo, pp. 1446 (continuous pagination); illustrated throughout; text in double column; dust jackets on vols. 2 and 3; vol. 1 rubbed along lower edge; generally a very good, sound set. More
Tokyo: THe Japan Advertiser, 1928. First edition, folio, pp. xvi, 179, [1]; original mounted woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida, text illustrations throughout; original purple pictorial ribbon-bound cloth lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers; ex-Hill Library with usual markings, some shelf wear, interior about fine. More
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Tavoy: Karen Mission Press, n.d., [n.d. c. 1870]. 8vo, pp. 311, [1]; original blue paper wrappers, green cloth shelf-back; generally fine, bright and clean. English title in ink on half-title page; text otherwise in Karen throughout. More
Ankara: Matbuat Umum Mudurlugu, n.d., [ca. 1930]. First edition, oblong folio, pp. [20], plus 154 photogravure plates after photographs by Othmar Pferschy; peg-bound; original orange cloth stamped in silver; very good. With sections on Ankara, Istanbul, towns and landscape, archaeology and art, economy and constructive work, and man and civilization... More
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1845. Seventh edition limited to 3000 copies, 12mo, pp. 282; original grey cloth (some soiling), printed paper spine label; very good and sound. OCLC locates one copy in North America as of October, 2013, at Chicago. More
Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, for the Bible Translation Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society, 1847. 8vo, pp. 334; original plum cloth, printed paper spine label; spine quite toned, preliminaries foxed; Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library bookplate to front pastedown; textblock fine. More
[probably printed on Saipan: dropped and/or distributed at Leyte Bay, Philippines, 1944.]. On October 20, 1944 the U.S. Sixth Army invaded Leyte and on October 23-26 the famous Battle of Leyte Gulf resulted in a decisive U. S. Navy victory. These leaflets were likely air-dropped and/or distributed to the resident... More
Bombay: printed at The Times Press, 1913. Only edition, slim 4to, pp.[6], 73; large folding map with routes in color; 58 photographic illustrations in the text (several full-p.), and 1 plan; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover; front free flyleaf excised, covers a little bowed, else very... More
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[Welshpool, Wales: B.T. & L.A., ca. 1925]. 12mo, pp. 27, [1]; original pale green printed wrappers (soiling), contemporary pencil notes, some in red, to upper cover; interior fine. Epistles in the Chakma language, Roman letter. The Chakma, also known as the Daingnet people, is an ethnic group concentrated in the... More
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1972. Slim 12mo, pp. 58, [6] leaves of photographic plates; original green and white printed wrappers, French flaps; general light shelf wear, else a fine copy. More
Tokyo: Nihon Toshi Keikaku Gakkai, 1986. 8vo, pp. iii, [1], 509, [3]; black cloth; owner's signature on upper free endpaper, fine in lightly chipped green dust jacket; A Japanese - English - Japanese dictionary for city planning terms. More
N.p. ca. 1950. Small 12mo, pp. 14; black and white photographic illustrations; original white wrappers (a bit soiled) printed in black and gilt, front fore-edge toned, else very good. A guide to the buildings of the Buddhist sect Hongan-ji. Not in OCLC. More
