Published by White Lotus Press, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
ISBN 10: 9747534096 ISBN 13: 9789747534092
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy with some light fading along the extremities.
Seller Inventory # 68312
Published by Shorewood Publishers, Inc, New York, 1969
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Signed by Cox on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Some minor fading and wear along the extremities; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 69898
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004
ISBN 10: 0520237862 ISBN 13: 9780520237865
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "Covering more than 5,000 years, this book, lavishly illustrated with photographs, manuscripts, and paintings from the collections of the British Library and other museums worldwide, presents an overall picture of the history and cultures of the Silk Road. It also contains many previously unpublished photographs by the great explorers Stein, Hedin, and Mannerheim." Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.
Seller Inventory # 70268
Published by Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1995
ISBN 10: 9747047454 ISBN 13: 9789747047455
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Octavo: 268 with a frontispiece maps, 8 figures, 15 tables, and textual photographs. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp and clean, very good copy.
Seller Inventory # 73094
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0710002203 ISBN 13: 9780710002204
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. The first edition in English, translated from the German edition by Geoffrey Samuel. "In this study Walther Heissig focuses on the existence in Mongolia of religious forms which have more ancient roots even than Buddhism. The forms of Northern Buddhism in Mongolia correspond in the main to those Tibetan forms form which they originated, and which Professor Guiseppe Tucci describes and explains in The Religions of Tibet, a companion volume to this work. Professor Heissig is mainly concerned in the present book with those beliefs and concepts which belong to the non-Buddhist folk religion of the Mongols." Octavo: 146 p. with 17 textual figures and a map. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 73330
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969
ISBN 10: 0521070538 ISBN 13: 9780521070539
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This book consists of a revised version of Dr Chadwick's section on the oral literature of the Turkic peoples in The Growth of Literature with supplementary material on the results of recent research in the Soviet Union by Professor Victor Zhirmunsky." Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 67351
Published by The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1995
ISBN 10: 0299144909 ISBN 13: 9780299144906
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "Built on impeccably careful fieldwork, and beautiful at times in its transparency, the book gets back to the words themselves in crafting an understanding of the deadly important play between shamanic prayers and social reality in the Nepal Himalayas. The author's novel focus on the pragmatics of everyday speech is sure to provoke argument (and a much needed one, at that), but, like the Nepali shaman's mythic songs, the book is also sure to intrigue, captivate, and transform." Octavo. Original purple cloth binding, with yellow titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine, unread copy.
Seller Inventory # 70004
Published by Thames & Hudson, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0500237387 ISBN 13: 9780500237380
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This richly illustrated volume, published to coincide with an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Reunion des Musees Nationnaux, examines the powerful and original Khmer culture that flourished on the mainland of Southeast Asia between 600 and 1600 A.D." Quarto: 381 p. with 256 illustrations, 153 in color. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 75305
Published by Luzac and Company Ltd, London, 1958
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second Edition. This masterful history begins in the late 7th century with the Muslim invasions of what became Russian Central Asia and carries the history of the region through the period of Abbasid centralization, that of the rise of local Muslim dynasties and successive phases of Turkish dominance down to the arrival of Chingiz Khan in the early 13th. Barthold's mastery of the historical and geographical sources and his sound critical judgement were remarkable and his "Turkestan" remains a basic work of reference for the area it covers. Translated from the original Russian and revised by the author with the assistance of H.A.R. Gibb, M.A. Octavo: xxii, 513 p. with a folding map. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild bumping to the corners and tips; else very good.
Seller Inventory # 76377
Published by Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1970
ISBN 10: 0231030843 ISBN 13: 9780231030847
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. "This book brings together a group of essays on the basic culture of the exotically beautiful and oustandingly creative people of Bali, before the changes brought by contact with the outside world since World War II." Includes a foreword and four essays by Margaret Mead. 36 plates. Small quarto. Original cream cloth binding, with blue stamping. Light bump to the bottom corners; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 67805
Published by Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1986
ISBN 10: 0195838432 ISBN 13: 9780195838435
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Reprint of the 1926 first edition, with an introduction by Alastair Lamb. Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine (1888=1974) was British Consul-General at Kashgar during the early 1920s. With his wife, he made a journey into the largely unknown valleys of the Kungar Alps in Chinese Turkestan, during which he mapped, photographed, and surveyed the country. Color frontispiece, with numerous plates (some folding) and a color folding map. 306 p. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some mild edgewear; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 72694
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0300008988 ISBN 13: 9780300008982
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Second printing. The first history of Tibet by a Tibetan to be published in English. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Edited by Turrell V. Wylie. Octavo: 369 p. with a frontispiece illustration. Original gold cloth binding, with red titles. A fine, unread copy in a crisp and clean, price-clipped dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 73150
Published by American Ceylon Mission Press, Tellippalai, Ceylon, 1918
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. A clear and concise description of the capture of the coastal areas in Sri Lanka and the subsequent British takeover. Includes information about the economic, social, and political developments during this period, as well as the trade in cinnamon, coffee, pepper, and other products. Octavo: xvi, 181 p. with the frontispiece and folding map. Extremely sparse marginalia. The map is detatched and laid in at the rear. Some mild darkening along the spine, with a bit of negligible wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 74003
Published by Printed as the C.A.C. Press, Colombo, Ceylon, 1929
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. ".a connected and complete, yet concise, account of the Dutch occupation of Ceylon, which extended from A.D. 1640 to 1796 - a period of 156 years." It begins with an account of the formation of the Dutch East India Company, and then proceeds with the history of the Dutch in Ceylon from their first appearance in 1602 until the fall of the last Portuguese stronghold in 1658. The last two chapters deal with the Dutch colonization in the island and their civil establishments. Octavo: 198 p. with a folding frontispiece map, 12 plates (1 folding), and 21 textual illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The spine is lightly faded, with a bit of wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 73986
Published by Constable and Company Limited, London, 1911
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Account of two hunting expeditions through China and Tibet undertaken by Lt. John Weston Brooke, who was killed by Lolo robbers on December 24, 1908; Brooke started in Shanghai in August, 1906, and travelled through Western Szechuan and Eastern Tibet. The work is based on Brooke's diary, with other observations and photographs by W.N. Fergusson and C.H. Meares. Tall octavo: xvi, 343 p. with a frontispiece portrait, numerous textual photographs, and 2 folding maps. Original green cloth binding, with pictorial stamping and gilt titles. The rear board is a little bowed, with some mild toning along the spine; else very good.
Seller Inventory # 76139
Published by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge, 1927
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Four folding maps, with textual decorations. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1927. First edition. This curious book, steeped in the music and lore of the Himalayas, relates the experiences of the intrepid Robert LeMoyne Barrett (1871-1969) and his wife, the writer Katherine Ruth Barrett (nee Ellis, 1879-1961) in Baltistan and Ladakh during 1923-24 in a series of letters. Includes an appendix on the "Caravan Vocabulary" of Urdu words the couple employed on their journey. Tipped in on the verso of the front flyleaf and half-title are slips of paper inscribed by Robert and Katherine Barrett, respectively. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with pictorial black stamping and white titles. Light dust staining to the top edge. The dust jacket is ever so slightly browned along the spine and folds, with some chipping and wear along the extremities, and a single tape repair to the verso; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 64562