History: Asia from The Owl at the Bridge

VOLUME TWO ONLY. Of the tombs of Thebes which the writer was able to examine, he writes (p. 177), "I observed every thing I met with, and put into my pockets all the portable fragments I found: among the latter was a charming little patera, of baked earth, a morsel worthy of the best age of the arts... figures of… Ler mais sobre este item

"Joseph Keppler (1838-94), popular artist, satirist, and commentator, entertained a generation of American s with his colorful and witty political cartoons. A major event in publishing, this first biography of Keppler includes more than 170 color and black-and-white cartoons, most of which have not been seen in print since they first appeared." With a foreword by Jim Borgman.… Ler mais sobre este item

Two bookseller catalogues listing books on Eastern lands. Salloch, Orientalia, 72 pages, 235 items, xvi plates with 25 illustrations plus 2; Brill, Again the East, 1660 items, 26 illus. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0263.

Bookseller catalog offering 931 items concerning China, including 18 by Maurice Collis, the 1925 Who's Who in China, 16 by Lin Yutang. Typescript with a few small illustrations; stapled in blue printed wraps; Good+. Stock#ofc0255.

Two volumes. Book One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages; The Renaissance Before the Great Discoveries; The Spice Trade; The Printed Word; The Christian Mission; India. xxviii, 492 pages, illus., endpaper maps; dj worn, one-inch tear from bottom of spine; good. Book Two: Southeast Asia. xii, 493-965 pages, illus.; dj shelfworn, chipped; Good+. Stock#ofc0126.

Includes Personal accounts, General nonfiction, Drama (plays & screenplays), Poetry, Fiction, Visual material (photography, artwork, posters), Manuscripts, Show brochures, Literature from foreign presses. "Catalogue prepared by Ken Lopez - Bookseller with Waiting For Godot Books and Between The Covers." Softcover, 2342 items; notes on cover; good+. Stock#ofc0101.

Hardcover. xvii, 752 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as chief city of the Near East and was a cradle of gentile Christianity. Downey covers its history from origins to the Arab Conquests. Downey's work is a monument… Ler mais sobre este item

Princeton University Press, 1981. Anderson "shows that by 1950 a de facto coalition of government agencies and oil companies coalesced around the rapid developmnet of Saudi oil." ISBN (10): 0691046794. Hard Cover. xiii, 259 pages; 23 cm. Red-ink marginal marks in the first few pages, otherwise clean. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU249/h.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1901. Hard Cover. and the Prose Version of Justin Huntly McCarthy, with an appendix showing the variations in the first three editions of Fitzgerald's rendering. Edited with an Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. xl, 244 p., portrait front. Vg, decorated boards, no dj. Stock#101408x (dr).

Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1942. Hard Cover. xi, 374 p., illus.; 24 cm. In the 17th century in order to convert Chinese the Jesuits worshipped in Chinese buildings in the Chinese language and with Chinese customs such as family veneration. This attempt to bridge ultras was opposed by rival orders, in particular the Dominicans, which generated… Ler mais sobre este item

Mansfield Centre, CT : Martino Pub., 2007. Hard Cover. xvi, 552 p., [5] leaves of plates : illus., map ; Title continues: "their political relations with Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokan : also descriptions of Chinese Turkestan and Dzungaria / by Capt. Valikhanof, M. Veniukof and other Russian travellers; translated from the Russian by John and Robert Michell." "These are… Ler mais sobre este item

"Jon and Rumer Godden have spent much of their lives in India; Stella Snead also lived there for many years. The two famous novelists have not tried to explain the pictures but have woven these together with the thoughts and memories they suggested, linking them together but often wandering, as a pandit's stories do, and sometimes borrowing from the… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Touchstone/ Simon & Schuster [1985]. . Soft Cover. 489 p.; 23.5 cm. "Chronicles the way the world responded to caalamitous famine in cambodia after the fall of the Pol Pot regime in 1979." Stock# 31,740. Vg/ paper.

London, Hamish Hamilton [1975]. . Hard Cover. viii, 342 p. 22.5 cm. "Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it." Stock# 31,747 Good copy of the English edition/no dj. Travel.

Garden City, NY [1938; c1902, 1936, Dodd, Mead]. Hard Cover. [6], 3-182, [4] p., index, 8 color plates; cream linen decorated in green, red & gold foliate design; spine a bit faded, some light internal foxing, bookplate; VG. Another copy, spine & gutter darkened, covers a bit soiled, $20. 101384x Indian literature, poetry, verse

La Haye, Chez les Frères Vaillant & N. Prevost. MDCCXXIV. [1724]. Deals with the establishment of Portuguese missions and the Roman Rite conflict in India. J.F. Bell Catalog L.29; Sabin 38810. Hard Cover. [16], 570, [54] pages, frontispiece, 2 plates, folding map, 16 cm. Bound in full contemporary leather. Vg, leather worn. Stock#NS0162.

Berlin, Reuther, 1890; reprint Martino / Wayfarer's Books / Pierway, Inc. 2000. Hard Cover. 8vo; [ii], xx, 744 p. 23 cm. Among the most comprehensive of bibliographies on this subject, with 5000 works described in chronological order from 833 to 1878. Includes a cartography and all travels to the region including religious pilgrimages. Besterman 4408. Stock# 42,566, Fine, new… Ler mais sobre este item

Mansfield Centre, CT, Martino Pub., 2005. Documents in English, French, or Italian. Originally published London, Clayton & Co. [1872?]. Government report on Richard Burton's troubled tenure and recall as Consul in Damascus. Published for Foreign Office use, not to be distributed. Burton's appointment to Damascus as Consul had been immediately controversial. Many of the behind-the-scenes negotiations among his enemies were… Ler mais sobre este item

NY & London, Putnam's Sons, 1927. Hard Cover. xiii, 248 p., front., plates, ports.; 23 cm. Adventures in Ceylon, Sikhim, Garhwai, Burma, Tibet, Yunnam, Pahang and Borneo while gathering material for a monograph on pheasants (cf. Preface). Beebe was Director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. Stock#43975. Vg / no dj.

The Mughal empire, a Turkic imperial power, ruled most of the Asian subcontinent from the early 16th through the mid-19th centuries. At the height of its power, around 1700, it controlled most of the subcontinent and parts of what is now Afghanistan. Originally published: Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1905-1911. Hardcover. Two volumes in one: [v], 319, iv, 225 pages;… Ler mais sobre este item