Inscribed by author to title page: "To Marion + Sig, Best wishes, Mike Yamashita, Silver Wind 1/24/99." Dark blue textured paper boards with silver particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Articles included are: Water of Stone by Dza Chu, Turbulent River by Lancang Jiang, Mother of Waters by Mae Nam Khong, Great Water by Tonle Thom, The Four Faces by Chattomukh, and lastly, River of Nine Dragons by Cuu Long. Copiously illustrated with full color photographs throughout. Pages bright and clean; aside from author inscription, no previous owners' names or other markings. 131 pp. 11 /14 x 11 1/... View More...
Blue cloth with decoration blind stamped to front cover and gilt title and decoration to cover. Significant fading to covers. Decorative endpapers. Bookplate of noted proverb collector de Guinzbourg to front pastedown. Japanese stamps to rear fly. Otherwise, a clean copy without further markings.; Thick Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 1851, 134 pages. View More...
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. Very Good. 1883, 1884. Hardcover. Four folio works on Tonkin in one volume: 1. Expose de la Situation, 2. Convention de Tien-Tsin du 11 Mai 1884. Incident de Lang-Son, 3.& 4. Documents Diplomatiques. Affaires du Tonkin parts 1 & 2. The last two being a collection of the correspondance between the protagonists and diplomats. Sturdily bound in cream cloth with red morocco label. Book plate removed from front pastedown; Folio ; 31,76,vii,327,vii, 268 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
Brown cloth with blindstamped decorations to covers and gilt particulars to spine, which has been professionally rebacked. Light foxing throughout. Inscribed to "[Judge Elphinstone] Jackson with the author's best compliments-" at rear of book. Jackson was born in Calcutta, India, the son of a leading judge. Following his studies in England, he returned to India, and together with others founded the Indian Football Association in 1893. Photographic plates (each affixed to blank leaves contemporary with publication) of the Duke of Argyll, Alfred Ernest Alfred Duke of Edinburgh (signed... View More...
Very nice copy in blue cloth and gilt title to front and spine; top edge gilt; previous owner's name and initial to front and rear pastedown. Includes 50 black and white photographs throughout. 254 pgs, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. View More...
Half verdant Morocco; ruled hubs; marbled boards. Deaccessioned from Summit County non-circulating library, with minimal markings; none external & none of which affect the vibrantly colored plates or their margins. Hand colored title plus 60 hand-colored plates. Plate 21 "An Albanian" excised but present without loss. Light offset from plates to text. First issue with text watermarked "W Elgar 1796"; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . First Edition. View More...
Tome Premier--Etudes; Tome Second--Catalogue; Comprenant egalement des armes de Perse, de Turquie et de quelques autres pays. Large quarto in wraps. Pages uncut. Black and white illustrations throughout. Vol. 1: xxiii, 317 pp., 36 plates; Vol. 2: 290, 84 plates. All shipments through USPS Priority Mail. View More...
Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Ivory silk with gilts title to spine. 120 plates on coated stock. Light foxing to page ends and title page. ; 4to 11 - 13 tall; [ii], 223, 120pl pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Paris: Benjamin Duprat. Very Good. 1865. Hardcover. Recently bound in full brown morocco with blind tooling to front cover and gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. Gilt embellished foliated endpapers. Foxing throughout. Without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Small 4to 9 - 11 tall; iv,448 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
Philadelphia: Self-published. Very Good. 1956. Black faux morocco cloth with original wraps bound in. With penciled decorations by Marjorie Weiler. Some occasional foxing. Corrections, editions and notations in red ink and pencil throughout. "Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." ; 4to ; xc, 356, 6, 2, 4 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
Inset silk front & back pictorial panels with gilt filets. All edges gilt. 100 hand colored collotype plates. Not to be confused "circa" editions with less plates, nor the smaller format edition. Fine & crisp without fading or wear, in publisher's disarticulated chitsu case.; Callotype; Folio 10.3x14.5 in; Please note this book will require additional postage.; All domestic shipments through boxed USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition. View More...
Only the index, being a part of Williams' "A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language," and as such pagination starts at 1151 to 1250. This includes List of the Radicals and Characters in this Dictionary arranged by their Radicals. Half dark blue morocco with gilt rule over marbled boards; 2 raised bands, gilt particulars, and previous owner's name to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Bound by Bennett, New York. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. View More...
Two volumes in one; the first reading left to right, the second right to left. Full blue linen cloth. Title in gilt to spine. The personal copy of Columbia and U. Penn Sanskrit professor Royal W. Weiler whose signature is neatly penned to front fly. ; xiv, 52, [1] 47 pages; A handsome copy; All shipments through boxed USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
Original blind stamped calf, gilt fore edge furniture. Lacking straps. Paper label to spine, chip to head of spine.; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
London: W.H. Allen & Co.. Very Good. 1887. Green cloth boards with black decoration to front covers. Gilt particulars to spines. Losses to gutters of both volumes. Bookplate of Daniel Baugh to front pastedowns. Yellow endpapers. Uncut pages. Vol. I with foldout maps of "The Dominions of the Nizam of Haidarabad including Berar", "The Territories of the Maharaja of Jumanoo and Kashmir" and "City and Environs of Srinigar in Kashmir". Vol. 2 with foldout "Map to Illustrate Route Followed in 1859 & 1871 and Panorama from the Takht-I-Sulaiman" (detached) and two foldout sketches of the panora... View More...
Fold out map of Shanghai in paper wraps with text and images. Previous owner has marked boundaries of various sections of Shanghai at the time in purple and red colored pencil; these areas are: British (Japanese), French, Italian, U.S.M.C., and SVC. Small hole at some middle fold points. Wear to wraps with some creasing and light soiling (see image). No previous owners' names. Metal pin stuck through front wrap (see image). Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. Folded: 3 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. View More...
Black pictorial glossy paper covered boards. Housed in a paper covered case, along with a softcover 1985 Queen's Collection catalogue on gold and silver. Previous owner's stamp to front fly, along with a previous owner's addresses written to the last page and to rear of the back board. Remains a clean tight copy. The book measures 8.75 x 11.5, while the case is 9 x 12 in. View More...
Warm-tone dark brown silk covered clamshell case with label to front and publication label to interior board. 2 volumes both raw burgundy silk with gilt particulars. Both volumes entirely in Japanese Kanji throughout. Only English text is to front board of volume two. Copiously illustrated with full color photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. An unread copy. Tear to fabric and disconnect at clamshell case bottom exterior corner; rest of case intact and in fine condition (see image). Thin abrasion to front board of volume one (see image). 13 x 18 inches. Please ex... View More...
