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Sea Road to the Indies. An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira.
London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1952. First British edition. Hardback. In original unclipped dust jacket. Now in protective wrap. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. The map end papers have some age toning in line with the dust jacket. Inside is clean. The dust jacket has a little age-toning and some light rubbing / chips to the corners. Overall a good example. 296 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2889More details Price: £20.00 -
Strolling About On The Roof Of The World:
The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs (Formerly Royal Central Asian Society)
London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. First edition in original red boards, with gilt titles to spine, and in original dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. An excellent copy. Signed to the title page by both the author, and Susan Maria Farrington. 229 pp. 250 x 185 mm (9¾ x 7¼ inches). Fine, in a fine dust jacket. Hugh Leach, OBE, was an Arabist who spent most of his thirty-six-year career as a soldier and diplomat in the Middle East. He was later a Historian of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs. Upon his death in 2015, the Royal Society's obituary said they considered this book - its centennial history - to be "an outstanding achievement for the Society".
Book ID: 2493More details Price: £50.00 -
The Adventures of the Gooroo Paramartan : a tale in the Tamul language : accompanied by a translation and vocabulary, together with an analysis of the first story.
Book ID: 4388More details Price: £600.00 -
the British Catholic Colonial Quarterly Intelligencer. No. 1.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1319More details Price: £48.00 -
The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas.
Maps by Catherine Petit. Translated from the French by A.M. Berrett
London: Viking Penguin, 1995. A lovely copy of this fascinating atlas. Text, maps and a few photographs of the most important migrations of the modern period. These include the Jewish, Armenian, Gypsy, Black, Chinese, Indian, Irish, Greek, Lebanese, Palestinian and the Vietnames and Korean diasporas. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over clean black boards. Oblong octavo. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 190 by 250mm (7½ by 9¾ inches). 184 pages.
Book ID: 3280More details Price: £30.00 -
The truths of others.
An essay on nativistic intellectuals in Mexico.
Cambridge, Mass: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1977. First edition. Softback. Very good, clean condition inside and out. No significant flaws. A work about two social movements organised by Mexican intellectuals during the 1940's. 23cm x 15.5cm Worldcat / OCLC: 2401881. [iv], 124 pages. Alicja Iwańska was a Polish sociologist, academic and writer.
. Première édition. Livre souple. Très bon état, propre à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur. Aucun défaut notable. Ouvrage sur deux mouvements sociaux organisés par des intellectuels mexicains dans les années 1940. 23cm x 15.5cm Worldcat / OCLC : 2401881. [iv], 124 pages. Alicja Iwańska était une sociologue, universitaire et écrivain polonaise.
Book ID: 5086More details Price: £25.00 -
Tokyo Self Diary 1981-1989. 東京日記
Book ID: 5590More details Price: £250.00 -
Trois derviches à la mosquée de Damas.
Three Derviches at the mosque in Damascus.
Book ID: 5352More details Price: £175.00 -
Worlds Within Worlds.
With illustrations by the author.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Burgundy cloth covered hardback boards, lettered in gilt on spine and within a decorative border in gilt on the front board. Top edge red as issued. fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Preface by the author. Illustrated with 10 b/w drawings by the author. A very good clean copy. A collection of articles, and b/w illustrations - mainly on travel within China, Japan, Korea and America. viii, 310 pp + 2 pp. publisher's adverts. Spine and section of dust jacket loosely inserted. Boards only lightly handled. Internally clean and unmarked. 230 x 130 mm (9 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4440More details Price: £120.00






























