Asia Asian Rare Books, Travel First Editions, Grammar Malayan Language, Korea, Indo-China, India, Keppel Dido, Java, Burton Vikram & The Vampire, Nepal

Allen, Clement Francis Romilly. The Book of Chinese Poetry being The Collection of Ballads, Sagas, Hyms, and other pieces known as The Shih Ching or Classic of Poetry.
Published: London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1891
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original decorated blue cloth
Price: U.S.$145

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8vo., First Edition, original blue cloth lettered & decorated in red, gilt & red lettered spine, very minor wear to corners and edges, pp. xl + 528, fold crease to pp. xxxi, dark blue endpapers, previous owners bookplate on front paste-down, a very good copy with the binding clean and bright.

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Adams, William Henry Davenport. The Eastern Archipelago. A description of the scenery, animal and vegetable life, people, and physical wonders of the islands in the eastern seas.
Published: London: T. Nelson and Sons 1880
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original green pictorial cloth
Price: U.S.$140

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8vo., First Edition, original green cloth ruled in black with gilt and black lettering, central gilt tooled figure, bevelled edges, spine gilt tooled and lettered, binding rubbed at corners and edges, pp. 576, dark brown endpapers, illustrated with 60 full page plates including a frontispiece plate, plus a map, very light random spotting, one gathering a trifle loose, a good + copy.

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Blanford, Henry F. Climates and Weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the Storms of Indian Seas.........
Published: London. MacMillan and Co. 1889
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Original green cloth.
Price: U.S.$150

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8vo., First Edition, original green cloth blind ruled, gilt lettered spine, binding a trifle rubbed and pitted with a few small marks, black endpapers, pp. xiii + 369 plus one page of publisher's adverts, illustrated through-out with charts and diagrams, name and date of 1904 on front free endpaper, embossed stamp on title page, contents clean a good-very good copy.

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Burton, Richard F. Vikram and The Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry.
Published: London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1870
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Black stamped red cloth.
Price: U.S.$695

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8vo., First Edition with second issue binding, original red cloth pictorially stamped in black & gilt lettered, slightly soiled, similar spine, bevelled edges, rubbed at corners and edges with wear to head and tail of spine, spine darkened, pp. xxiv + 319, illustrated by Ernest Griset with 15 full page plates including a frontispiece plate, plus many illustrations in text, previous owners name on half title , a good copy.

[Penzer, pp 80-82]

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Childers, James Saxon. From Siam to Suez.
Published: D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1932
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Original gilt tooled and lettered maroon cloth
Price: U.S.$75

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt tooled and lettered patterned maroon cloth, spine faded, pp. vii + 258, illustrated with 16 full page photographic plates including frontispiece, pictorial endpapers and vignette drawings by Willard Bonte, browning to front endpapers, frontis plate and title, otherwise a very good copy.

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Covarrubais, Miguel. Island of Bali with an Album of Photographs by Rose Covarrubais
Published: Cassell and Company Limited London. 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original black & yellow cloth pictorially decorated with gilt tooling and Lettering
Price: U.S.$275

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Large 8vo, (16 x 23.5 cm's), First edition, original black & yellow cloth pictorially decorated with gilt tooling and lettering, slightly soiled, spine faded, wear to folds of large folding map, pp. xxv + 417, plus 10 page index, profusely illustrated throughout with 114 magnificent photographs by Rose Covarrubais and over 90 drawings by Covarrubais himself, in addition to a few by Balinese artists. The photographs are reproduced in half-tone; 75 of the drawings are in line and 10 in wash; and 5 paintings are reproduced in full colours. in addition there is an original topographical map. A good tight & clean copy.

A comprehensive & well illustrated work on Bali.

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Hiss, Philip Hanson. Bali
Published: Robert Hale Limited London. 1941
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Pictorial Purple Cloth
Price: U.S.$125

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Folio, Second Printing, original purple cloth with centre gilt tooled figure, binding with bevelled edges, slightly rubbed with a few marks, pictorial endpapers, half title, pp. xiv + preface + 112, profusely illustrated with 80 full page plates, contents clean, a very good copy.

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Dickason, Deane H Wondrous Angkor
Published: Shanghai 1937 Kelly & Walsh Limited
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Stiff cover blue boards
Price: U.S.$125

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8vo., First Edition, original stiff cover gilt tooled blue boards, in a pictorial dust wrapper, chipped with small tears & one and half inch loss to head of spine, title in red and black, pp. xvi + 2 maps + 147, profusely illustrated through-out with photographic plates, a very good copy.

* An interesting travel guide, including train times and the best car road routes to take and how long it takes from various departure points, plus religion, architecture.....

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Eastwick, Edward B. {translated by}.
The Bagh O Bahar; or The Garden and the Spring:

Being the adventures of King Azad Bakht and The Four Darweshes: literally translated from the Urdu of Mir Amman, of Dihli: with copious explanatory notes, and an introductory preface, by.. London Wm H, Allen & Co 1877. 8vo., original blind stamped brown cloth, minor wear and soiling, brown endpapers, pp. xii + 255, a few spots to first and last few pages but hardly worth mentioning, signature and date ffep[1888], a good copy. U.S.$145

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*A book in which every officer in India, civil or military had to undergo an examination.

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Forman, Harrison. Through Forbidden Tibet an Adventure into the Unknown.
Jarrolds, London 1926. 8vo., First Edition, original gilt lettered red cloth, minor wear, pp. 288 + viii pp. publishers adverts at rear, illustrated with 43 full page photographic plates, edges spotted, some light foxing to last few pages, a good copy. U.S.$135

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Geil, William Edgar. A Yankee on the Yangtze being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the Central Kingdom of Burma
Published: New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son. 1904
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Original pictorial maroon cloth
Price: U.S.$275

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8vo, First Edition, original maroon cloth, pictorial decorated and lettered in white with slight rubbing to corners & edges, spine gilt, pp. xv + 312, with 100 full page illustrations, plus vignette initials and chapter headings in Chinese script with English translations, prize inscription dated christmas 1904 on front free endpaper, binding still bright & contents clean, a very good copy.

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Gomes,Edwin H. Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo, A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungle by ...... and an introduction by The Reverend John Perham.
Published: London Seeley & Co. Limited. 1911
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Original gilt tooled maroon cloth.
Price: U.S.$375

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt tooled maroon cloth, slightly soiled, wear to corners and edges with a half inch tear to spine head, gilt lettered spine, half title, pp. 343, illustrated with 40 photographic plates, some two per page, plus a folding map of North Borneo at rear, map carelessly folded with small tear to join, spotting to edges & random spotting throughout, otherwise clean and plates in excellent condition, a good firm copy.

Inscribed by the author on half title, dated Feb.. 1918.

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Graham, Andrew. Interval in Indo-China
Published: London. MacMillan & Co. Ltd 1956
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Red Cloth with Dust Wrapper
Price: U.S.$60

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8vo., First Edition, original rd cloth, pictorial dust wrapper slightly soiled & a few small chips, pp. xv + 164, illustrated with 16 full page photographic plates, plus folding map at rear, mild foxing to endpapers & title page, a very good copy.

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Keppel, Captain The Hon. Henry. The Expedition to Borneo of H. M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: with extracts from the journal of James Brooke...
Published: London: Chapman and Hall 1846
Edition: Second Edition.
Binding: Original blind stamped blue cloth
Price: U.S.$650

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8vo., 2 volumes, Second Edition, original blind stamped blue cloth, rubbed, worn and faded, showing a few bubble marks to skin of cloth, spine gilt and darkened, pp. xiv + 338 + xxviii appendix, folding map, Vol. 2, pp. viii + 237 + cx appendix & folding map, illustrated with lithographed portrait frontispiece, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 9 plates, 6 folding engraved charts, folding table, half titles, browning to (mostly) margins of some plates, but contents crisp and clean, a good firm copy in original cloth binding.

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Pictures of volume 2

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Klein, Augusta. Among The Gods.
Scenes of India: with Legends by the Way. Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. 8vo., First Edition, original gilt tooled green cloth, rubbed at extremities & a few marks, black endpapers, pp. x + 355, 22 full page illustrations, contents clean, a good plus copy. U.S. $120

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Knox, Thomas. The Boy Travellers Ceylon and India with descriptions of Borneo, The Philippine Islands and Burmah.
Published: New York Harper & Brothers. 1882
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Pictorial Green Cloth
Price: U.S.$125

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Small 4to., original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, silver, white, red, & black, similar spine, rubbed at corners and edges, one or two small marks, pp. 483 plus three pages of publisher's adverts, decorated endpapers, profusely illustrated through-out with colour frontispiece, full page plates and text illustrations, front endpapers frayed and chipped at inner hinge and fore-edge, colour frontispiece plate glued to front free endpapers for reinforcement, damage to title page (see images), one inch tear to head of page 241-242 not affecting text, otherwise contents very good, and binding still clean and bright, a good copy.

*Thomas W. Knox ( 1835 - 1896 )
A self-proclaimed wandering American was a prodigious travel writer of the late nineteenth century. He received his training as a writer prior to and during the Civil War. As a war correspondent for the New York Herald, Knox ran afoul of General Grant when he published information concerning troop locations, which Grant believed aided the enemy. Subsequently Knox was court-martialed for giving intelligence to the enemy, and of being a spy. Through a personal appeal to President Lincoln, his conviction was revoked, but he never regained the good graces of Grant.

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MacGregor, Surgeon-Major John. Through the Buffer State. A Record of Recent Travels through Borneo, Siam and Cambodia.
Published: London. F. V. White & Co., 1896
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial Decorated Blue Cloth
Price: U.S.$375

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8vo., First Edition, original decorated blue cloth, similar spine, very minor wear to binding, pp. xv + 290, illustrated with portrait frontispiece of H. R. H. Prince Krommun Damrong of Siam (younger brother of King Chulalongkorn), plus 11 other plates including a map, previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, stamped name & address on front paste-down and last page, browning to endpapers and some random light spotting, crease to top edge of first 6 leaves, a firm very good copy in a bright and attractive binding.

Recollections of the travels made by Surgeon-Major John MacGregor in Sarawak, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaya and Burma in 1895. A medical doctor's description from current political issues to the customs and the traditions of native peoples and encounters.

Cordier 907

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Marsden, William. A Grammar of the Malayan Language, with an Introduction and a Praxis.
Published: London: Printed for the Author by Cox and Baylis. 1812
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original boards, rebacked in calf.
Price: U.S.$950

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4to., First Edition, Original boards, rebacked in calf. in original style, Spine double gilt ruled lines, contrasting gilt lettered black morocco title label, remnants of original back in same style incorporated, pp. (iv), (50), (2), + 226, water mark to first few pages not affecting text, 3 inch tear to top of title page, ink stamp to title and verso, occasional light browning, a good to very good copy, Rare.

William Marsden (1754-1836) British historian, linguist, numismatist and pioneer of the scientific study of Indonesia. For 10 years he resided in Bencoolen (Bangkhulu) in Sumatra where he studied the language and people. In England he was encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks and others of the Royal Society to prepare his material for publication. His comprehensive work "History of Sumatra" appeared in 1783 and in 1812 he published this grammar and a dictionary, which form the basis of all subsequent Sumatran linguistics.

Cordier BI 1405. Vater p. 244.

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Liebig's Cards. India: Indische Volkstypen.
Complete set of 6 chromolithographed cards 40 x 27 mm, each with a description on verso of card, text in German, 1905
Price: U.S.$100

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6 Colour cards depicting: Schiangenbeschworer: Waffenhandier: Fromme Bettler: Schule: Furst mit seiner Liebgarde: Fakir.

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Liebig's Cards. India : Bilder aus Indien
Complete set of 6 chromolithographed cards 40 x 27 mm, each with a description on verso of card, text in German, 1906
Price: U.S.$100

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6 Colour cards depicting: Strassenleben in Bombay: Die Grosse Pagode in Tanjore: Die Residenz eines indischen Rajah: Strassenscene in Haiderabad: Spazierfahrt aud dem Ganges: Moschee Ibrahim Rosa (Bischapur).

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Liebig's Cards. India : De Geschiedenis Van Indie.
Complete set of 12 numbered chromolithographed cards hightened in gold, 40 x 27 mm, each with a description on verso of card, text in German, 1939
Price: U.S.$150

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Miln, Louise Jordan. Quaint Korea
Published: London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 1895
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Decorated Green Cloth
Price: U.S.$250

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8vo., First Edition, original green cloth lettered and decorated with Ying/Yang motif in black & red, binding rubbed at corners & edges with slight soiling, gilt lettered spine with same motif, pp. viii + 306, half title, front free endpaper missing, spotting to endpapers otherwise contents very good.

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Rees, J D. India
Published: J B Millet Company Boston and Tokyo
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Elaborate white paper backed brown boards
Price: U.S.$110

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Tall 8vo., First Edition, original white paper backed dark brown boards, spine elaborately decorated in colours, Indian flag on upper cover, , top edge gilt, pp. xi + 326, illustrated with decorated title page, tissue guarded colour frontispiece plate, & 5 other tissue guarded plates, page 91 carelessly opened resulting in some loss to fore-edge not affecting text, otherwise a near fine copy.

Oriental Series Vol. XIX

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Knight, E. F. Turkey
Published: J. B. Millet Company Boston and Tokyo 1910
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Elaborate white paper backed brown boards
Price: U.S.$110

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Tall 8vo., First Edition, original white paper backed dark brown boards, spine elaborately decorated in colours, Turkish flag on upper cover, , top edge gilt, pp. x + 324, illustrated with decorated title page, tissue guarded colour frontispiece plate, & 5 other tissue guarded plates, a near fine copy.

Oriental Series Vol. XXI.

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Powell, Alexander. The Last Home of Mystery Adventures in Nepal......
Published: The Century Co. New York 1920
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original gilt tooled black cloth
Price: U.S.$175

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt tooled black cloth, gilt lettered spine, fading marks to rear cover, pp. xv + 332 including index, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with a map and many photographic plates by the author, browning to frontispiece plate and title page, and sporadic light browning to other pages, otherwise a very good copy profusely illustrated.

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8vo, Original red cloth pictorially decorated in white & gilt lettered, spine gilt, pp.360, illustrated with 15 full page photographic plates including tissue guarded frontispiece, bookplate on front paste-down, a fine copy.

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Tuttle, Sarah. Prospective Missions in the Indian Archipelago. Prospective Missions Vol. iv. Java.
Published: Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. 1833
Binding: Original blue roan over marbled boards
Price: U.S.$160

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12mo., First Edition, Original quarter blue roan over marbled boards, gilt lettered spine, rubbed and worn at corners and edges, pp. iv + 121, j s s Library No 120 in contemporary ink on half title, woodcut frontispiece plate titled "A Javan of the lower class", light browning throughout, a good copy in original binding.

Tuttle, who wrote extensively for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Union on the history of numerous missions throughout the United States and abroad, geared her profiles of missions such as this one for children. Nearly all of her profiles take the form displayed here, which is that of a conversation between parent and child operating much like the call and response of the catechism.

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt and white decorated blue/green cloth, similar spine, 3 extra white lines added by hand to spine, pp. xv + 310 & 4 pages publisher's adverts, illustrated with 32 photographic plates including frontispiece, bookplate on paste-down, and 2 names on front free endpaper, some pages showing browning at joints, a very good copy.

Includes: Siam, Burma, Java, Malaya

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Sykes, Major P. M. & Khan Bahadur Ahmad Din Khan. The Glory of The Shia World. ( Translated & edited from a Persian manuscript by)
Published: MacMillan and Co., Limited. London. 1910
Edition: First Edition

Binding: Gilt tooled blue cloth
Price: U.S.$275

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt tooled blue cloth patterned in red, spine gilt, pp. xiv + 279, illustrated with 4 full page colour plates, including tissue guarded frontispiece, many text illustrations, some in Arabic, plus chapter headings and tail pieces, 2 small holes to bottom of pp. iii, bookplate of Fransica Club on front paste-down, label sometime removed from rear paste-down leaving small remnants, a very good copy.

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