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The Kurozumi Sect of Shinto

Hepner, Charles William · 1935

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Tokyo, Meiji Japan Society, 1935. First edition. Cloth. xviii, 263 pp. Illus. with 9 b/w plates. 8vo. An important study of this sect of Shinto. Very good, near fine dust jacket with a sunned spine, in a very good slip case, offsetting on front endpapers, light browning to mar...

Turtle Island

Laufer, Berthold · 1933

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

[Chicago], [The Open Court Pub. Co], 1933. Offprint. Paper wrappers. Unpaged [5 pp]. 8vo. Reprinted from The Open Court, December 1933. Asian sea-tale, sometimes called Whale Island. Berthold Laufer (1874-1934) was an anthropologist "one of the most distinguished sinologists o...

The Lemon in China and Elsewhere. [from the] Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 54, Number 2

Laufer, Berthold · 1934

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[New Haven], American Oriental Society, 1934. Offprint. Self wrappers. [143-160] pp. 8vo. Extracted from the Journal. A very good clean copy, corner crease, edge browned.

The Swing in China

Laufer, Berthold · 1933

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Helsinki, Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, 1933. Offprint. Paper wrappers. [212]-223 pp. 8vo. From Suomalais-ugrilaisen seuran toimituksista LXVII (Extrait des Memoires de la societe Finno-Ougrienne LXVII). Faint browning at edges else a near fine copy.

Japanese Collections (Frank W. Gunsaulus Hall)

Gunsaulus, Helen C. · 1922

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Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1922. First edition. Paper wrappers. 19 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w photos and reproductions. 8vo. Field Musuem Leaflet Number 3. Field Musuem Leaflet Number 3. Gunsaulus was the assistant curator of Japanese ethnology at the Field Museum of...

China 's Inner Asian Frontier: Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923 from the Archives of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University and the National Geographic Society

[China] Peabody Museum · 1979

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Cambridge, Peabody Museum, 1979. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers. 107 pp. Sq. 8vo. M.E. Alonso. Historical text by Joseph Fletcher. A very good copy.

The Tibet Journal: Volume 1, No. 3 & 4 Autumn 1976

Tsarong, Yangzom (ed.) · 1976

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Dharamsala, India, Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1976. First edition. Paper wrappers. 88 pp. 8vo. An international publication forr the study of Tibet, published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. Special issue "Tibet: a Living Tradition" Proceedings of a Sym...

The Western Experience in Tibet 1327-1950" (the Museum New Series Spring-Summer 1972

Lipton, Barbara · 1972

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Newark, Newark Museum, 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. unpaged {58 pp.]. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Wrappers darkening else near fine.

Illusion and Delusion About the Middle Kingdom

Shaw, Bruno · 1974

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Taipei, China Publishing Co. 1974. First edition. Paper wrappers. 35 pp. 12mo. Shaw was a newspaper reporter in China for decades and an editor of Mao's selected works in English. Here he warns against China and Mao. A fine copy.

The Tibet Society Newsletter. New Series. No. 2, May 1973 [&} No. 4, August 1974

Tibet Society · 1973

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Bloomington, Indiana, Tibet Society, Indiana University, 1973. First edition. Mimeograph paper wrappers. 19 pp.; 27 pp. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. The original Tibet Society newsletter (1967-68) became the Tibet Society bulletin, which contained both scholarly articles and organizatio...

Map of Asia Showing Its Gt. Political Divisions, and Also the Various Routes of Travel between London & India, China & Japan &C. [Verso with] Map of Persia, Arabia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan

Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. · 1886

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[Philadelphia], [W.M. Bradley], 1886. Hand colored map. Plate 115: Map of Asia Showing its Gt. Political Divisions, and also the Various Routes of Travel Between London & India, China & Japan &c, constructed & engraved by W. Williams, Philadelphia. Copyright by S. Augustus Mit...

A Technique for Estimating the Numerical Strength of the Early Manchu Military Forces

Fang, Chaoying · 1950

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Cambridge, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1950. Offprint. Stapled paper wrappers. [192-215] pp. Sm. 4to. Reprinted from Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Volume 13. June, 1950. Numbers 1 and 2. A very good+ copy, clean, crisp, and unmarked.

J Dai No Hy Ga Nobeoka. [Antquities of Nobeoka Hiuga (Ky Sh )]

Torii, Ry z. · 1935

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Tokyo, Torii Jinruigaku Kenky jo: Hatsubaijo Maruzen Kabushiki Kaisha, 1935. First edition. Cloth. 4, 10, 198 pages, 140, [1] leaves of plates. 4to. Presentation copy from the author to fellow archeologist Eugene A. Golomshtok. Spine worn with some tears and loss of cloth, oth...

Archive of Russian émigré Anthropologist, Photographer, Teacher. Over 600 Images & 1000 Card Entries & 45 Artifacts

Golomshtok, Eugene A. [Eugenii Alexandrovich] · 1897

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Eugene Golomshtok (born Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok, Russia, 1897-1950) was a Russian émigré anthropologist, photographer, and authority on permafrost. He studied archaeology with Bruno Adler in Russia before he received his MA from University of California at Berkeley in...

Studies in Chinese Literature

Bishop, John L., ed; A. Fang, John Hightower, Y. Kojiro, G.W. Baxter · 1965

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Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1965. First edition. Paper wrappers. 245 pp. Sm. 4to. Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XXI. Articles reprinted from the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren dedicata, and the Far Eastern Quarterly. Original pagin...

George Vernadsky 1887-1973. Publications on Siberia, Mongolia, China (1914-54). Central Asian Collectanea. No. 13. 1984

Loewenthal, Rudolf · 1984

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Rockville, [Central Asian Collectanea], 1984. First edition. Bound mimeographed leaves. 4 pp. Sm. 4to. George Vernadsky was a Russian-American historian. A fine copy.

Ascent to the Tribes. Pioneering in North Thailand

Kuhn, Isobel · 1956

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Chicago, Moody Press, 1956. First edition. Red cloth. 315 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w photos. 8vo. Very good, minor wear to extremities, small tears to tail of spine, gift inscription on free front end paper, contents clean, but for one sentence, underlined with red pencil.

Chokan Chingisovich Valikhanov C. 1835 to C. 1865. A Bibliography. Central Asian Collectanea. No. 11. 1984

Loewenthal, Rudolf · 1984

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Rockville, [Central Asian Collectanea], 1984. First edition. Stapled mimeographed leaves. 3 pp. Sm. 4to. Chokan Valikhanov (1835-1865) was a Kazakh ethnographer, historian, geographer, economist, traveller, diplomat, and Russian army officer. OCLC shows only 3 copies. Minor sh...

[Brochure for] Traces of India. Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation

Pelizzari, Maria Antonella, ed · 2003

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Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2003. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Unpaged. [16 pp.]. Illus. with color and duotone photos, reproductions, map. Obl. 8vo. Brochure for the exhibition organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Minor edge wear, else ...

Japan

Japan. Tetsudosho · 1933

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Tokyo, Japanese Government Railways, 1933. Illustrated paper wrappers. Unpaged [52 pp]. Illus. with 1 color map and b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Very good, minor wear and tear along edges, most prevalent on spine, inked inscription on first leaf, faint marginal soiling and creasing.