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60241 ABERCOMBIE, Thomas J. OMAN: GUARDIAN OF THE GULF [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 160, No. 3, September 1981]
$5.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 1981. Volume 160, No. 3, September 1981. 279-420 PP (lacking pages 315 to 318). Contains article pages 344 to 377 with 2 maps and 26 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. 25.4 x 17.5.
47370 ACOCELLA, Joan (editor) MISSION TO SIAM: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell
$25.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 1st Ed. with a biographical essay by Joan Acocella and an introduction by Rosalind C. Morris. XLIV, 157, (3) PP with 1 map, 1 facsimile of note and 15 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Jessie Mackinnon Hartzell in 1946. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Fine. 22 x 14.5. 0824822536
Wife of a Presbyterian missionary in northern Thailand, 1912 to 1928.
41896 ADAMS, Edward B. KOREA 'S KYONGJU - Cultural Spirit of Silla in Korea
$5.00 AUD
Seoul International Publishing House. Seoul. 1986. 3rd printing of the 1979 original. 346, (29) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21 x 15.
59922 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 17, 1963
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1963. Volume 17, No. 1 (April 1963), No. 2 (August 1963) & No. 3 (December 1963). Edited by J.D.B. MILLER. 356 PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 1: Indonesia after West Irian, by J. D. Legge. ... No. 2: Canberra's Malaysia Policy, by Peter Boyce. ...No. 3: ... Dyason Memorial Lectures.
59923 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 19, 1965
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1965. Volume 19, No. 1 (April 1965), No. 2 (August 1965) & No. 3 (December 1965). Edited by J.D.B. MILLER. 344 PP, 4 pages Index loosely inserted. Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of front covers. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 1: Irian boundary slumber, 1905-1962 by Paul W. van der Veur ... No. 2: Elimination of Dutch Economic Dominance from Indonesia, by Kenneth D. Thomas and Bruce Glassburner. Canberra's Malaysia Policy, by Peter Boyce. ...No. 3: ... Dyason Memorial Lectures: China's policy and outlook & South East Asia, by Sir Robert Scott.
59926 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 25, 1971
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1971. Volume 25, No. 1 (April 1971), No. 2 (August 1971) & No. 3 (December 1971). Edited by J.L. RICHARDSON. 368 PP, plus a 4 pages index. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Name of previous owner at top of front covers. Near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 1: New role for the Australian Army, by Thomas Stapleton. No. 2: Into the Seventies, by B. A. Santamaria. No. 3: ... Dyason Memorial Lectures, by Lord Trevelyan. Asia and the Pacific in the 1980s: a special issue
59927 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 26, 1972
$20.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1972. Volume 26, No. 1 (April 1972), No. 2 (August 1972) & No. 3 (December 1972). Edited by J.L. RICHARDSON. 362 PP, plus a 4 pages index. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 1: the Eleventh South Pacific Conference, by W. D. Forsyth. No. 2: Dyason Memorial Lectures, by Ali A. Mazrui. Development themes for East Asia and the Pacific, by W. P. Hogan. No. 3: The Indian subcontinent, by S. P. Seth / Ian Clark.
59930 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - VIETNAM (Volume 23, No. 1)
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1969. Volume 23, No. 1 (April 1969). Special issue on Vietnam. Edited by Prof. J.D.B. MILLER. 100, (4) PP. Contains 7 articles from P.7 to 80. Soft covers with signagure at top. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise contents near fine. 24 x 17..
Vietnam and the future of Southeast Asia, by Geoffrey Fairbairn / Graeme Duncan. Australian Military Problems in Vietnam, by Robert O'Neill. The Vietnam war and the Australian Party system, by D. W. Rawson.
59949 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 13, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1959. Volume 13, No. 1, March 1959. Edited by B. D. Beddie. 79 PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 1: What we know and don't know about China, by Michael Lindsay. Indo-China and SEATO, by J. A. Modelski. ...
59950 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 13, No. 4
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1959. Volume 13, No. 4, March 1959. Edited by B. D. Beddie. (4), 253-332 PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
Pages 253 to 319, 6 papers on Indonesia - Communist Party strategy in Indonesia 1948-59, by Donal Hindley. ... Strategic geography and the Northern Approaches, by A. J. Rose.
59951 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 14, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1960. Volume 14, No. 1, Avril 1960. Edited by B. D. Beddie. 112 PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
India and the Northern Frontier, by Rosemary Brissenden... China's relations with Japan, by R. G. Boyd.
59953 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 15, No. 3
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1961. Volume 15, No. 3, December 1961. Edited by B. D. Beddie. (4), 221-334, (2) PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17.
Indonesian politics under "Guided Democracy", by J. A. C. Mackie.
59964 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 24, No. 3, 1970
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1970. Volume 24, No. 3 (December 1970). Edited by J. L. RICHARDSON. (4), 227-365, (1) PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 3: ... Dyason Memorial Lectures, by Leo Mates. ASIA:a special issue.
59965 AIIA AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 23, No. 3, 1969
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1969. Volume 23, No. 3, (December 1969). Edited by T.B. MILLAR. (4), 211-318, (6) PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
No. 3: ... Dyason Memorial Lectures, on Latin America by Claudio Véliz. The Kuala Lumpur riots and the Malaysian political system, by Anthony Reid.
52064 AIMA AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 20, No.1, 1996
$15.00 AUD
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Fremantle. 1996. Edited by Jeremy Green & Myra Stanbury. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Articles include: Tracing Artefact Trajectories, following Chinese export porcelain, by Mark Staniforth. Lord Ashley, by Adam Wolfe. The Solway (1837): Results of the 1994 text excavation, by Cosmos Coroneos...
72406 ALLEN, J., GOLSON, J. & JONES, R. (editors) SUNDA AND SAHUL - Prehistoric Studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia
$150.00 AUD
Academic Press. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (XII), 647 PP with tables, figures and b/w photos. Fp: Sketch map of Sunda and Sahul. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). A 7 pages article " The remarkable history of Indo-Pacific Man...", by Jack Golson, extracted from "Search", Vol 3, No. 1-2 Jan-Feb 1972, loosely inserted. Some pencil underlining in 6 of the articles. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 23.5 x 15.5. 0120512505
19 papers presented at the 13th Pan Pacific Science Congress in Vancouver, 1975.
72976 ALVES, Dora (editor) EVOLVING PACIFIC BASIN STRATEGIES - The 10th Pacific Symposium, 1989
$25.00 AUD
National Defence University Press. Washington. 1990. First printing in July 1990. XVI, 344, (4) PP with 1 map and 2 tables. Pictorial stiff covers. Faint remnants of a stamp on ffep, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 1579060625
21 papers presented. 3 papers on China, including: The Sino-Soviet détente and its implication for the West, by Dr Donald S. Zagoria ... 4 papers on Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
71199 ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric POULO CONDORE (CON DAO), l'archipel dont on ne revenait pas - Histoire de l'archipel carcéral de l'Indochine Francaise (1862-1954) et du Vietnam (1954-1993)
$40.00 AUD
Frédéric Angleviel. Nouméa. c. 2018. 1st Ed. 321, (3) PP. Soft covers. Fine. French text. 21 x 14.8.
Convict settlement in this Archipelago of the South China Sea, south of Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City.
72075 ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric POULO CONDORE - Un Bagne Français en Indochine
$40.00 AUD
Editions Vendémiaire. Paris. 2020. 1st edition in Collection "Chroniques". 195, (7) PP. Soft covers, pictorial front. French text. Fine. 20 x 14.5. 9782363583406
Convict settlement in this Archipelago of the South China Sea, south of Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City.
57805 ASIA/PACIFIC ON WHAT TERMS? - Australia's future in the Asia/Pacific Region
$40.00 AUD
Australian Council For Overseas Aid / ACFOA. Canberra. 1978. Special folder, containing 14 papers in their wrappers: a total of 113 PP. Staples of each papers removed. Near fine. 24/6 x 18..
Papers delivered at the ACFOA Tasmanian Summer School, held at the University of Hobart 20-25 January 1978. Opening address by Bruce Grant. ... Education for a Multi Cultural Australia, by the Honourable Al Grassby. ... Uranium mining: the impact on Aboriginal Lifestyles, by Marcia Langton. ...
67572 AusAID AIDAB FOCUS - 1992
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AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1992. Issues: June, September & December 1992. Edited by David Jones. 3 issues + 2 inserts for 108 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Country Brief / Development profiles: Indonesia, India, Vietnam & Tonga. Inserts: Africa, emergency update (September 1992) - Australia and Papua New Guinea, a changing partnership (December 1992).
67573 AusAID AIDAB FOCUS - December 1992
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AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1992. Issue: December 1992. Edited by Janine Constantine. Issue + insert: 34 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Pages 14 to 23: Australia and the Philippines: A long term relationship. Country Brief: Tonga. Insert: Australia and Papua New Guinea, a changing partnership.
67574 AusAID AIDAB FOCUS - 1993
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AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1993. Issues: March, June, September & December 1993. Edited by Janine Constantine. 4 issues for 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Country Brief: Kiribati, Cambodia, Vanuatu & Western Samoa. September 1993: Laos - transforming Battlefields to Marketplaces. December 1993: the Gramùeen Bank - a micro-enterprise development program.
67575 AusAID AIDAB FOCUS - December 1993
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AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1993. Issue: December 1993. Edited by Janine Constantine. 30 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Country Brief: Western Samoa. Development assistance in Asia: who benefits ?, by Peter McCawley. The Gramen Bank - a micro-enterprise development program, by Philippa Kelly.
67576 AusAID AIDAB FOCUS - 1994
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AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1994. Issues: March, June, September & December 1994. Edited by Philip Flood. 4 issues & insert for: 136 + 4 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Country Focus: Vietnam (June 1994). Médecins sans Frontières in Australia (September 1994). Focus on Mozambique, by Margie Cook & Focus on the Unitred Nations 50th Anniversary (December 1994).
67577 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 1995
$20.00 AUD
AusAID / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1995. Issues: March, June, September & December 1995. Edited by Colin Chandler. 4 issues for: 140 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
March 1995: ... ICRC (International Committeeof the Red Cross) in the Pacific Region. June 1995. ... Aquaculture for the developing world. ...
67578 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 1996
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AusAID / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1996. Issues: March, June, September & December 1996. Edited by Trevor Kanaley. 4 issues for: 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
March 1996. Improving Industrial Pollution Controol in India. Turtle Conservation in Vanuatu. June 1996. Country brief: Papua New Guin,ea. ...
67579 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 1997
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AusAID / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1997. Issues: March, June, September & December 1997. Edited by Colin Chandler. 4 issues for: 136 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
March 1997: ... The world's largest butterfly still flies in PNG; by John Hibberd. September 1997. ... Pacific feature: 50th Anniversary of the South Pacific Commission.. ...
67580 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 1998
$15.00 AUD
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1998. Issues: March, July, & October 1998. 3 issues for: 93 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
March 1998: ... The end od "Australian School of Pacific Administration, a unique institution, by Bill Goff. July 1998. The Peace Doctors: AusAID in Bougainville. October 1998: The burden of the waves, Tsunami of 17th July 1998 off Saundaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
67581 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 1999
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AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1999. Issues: February, July, & December 1999. 3 issues for: 148 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. iFne. 29.7 x 21.
February 1999 - Australia's role in the international campaign against landmines. Grameen Bank: lending to defeat poverty.
67582 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 2000
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AusAID / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2000. Issues: March, July, September & December 2000. 4 issues for: 156 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
March 2000: Special East Timor edition. September 2000 - Aftermatrh of Rabaul eruption
67583 AusAID AusAID FOCUS - 2001
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AusAID / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2001. Issues: March, June & September (+ Insert CHOGM) 2001, edited by Dr. Susan Nicholls. 3 issues for: 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
September Issue + "Focus on the Commonwealth" for the meeting in Brisbane of the CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting)
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2002. Volume 17, No. 1 (Winter 2002) and 3 (Summer 2002), edited by Louise Tigchelaar. 2 issues for: 60 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 24.
FOCUS, the Magazine od Australia's Overseas Aid Program.
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2003. Volume 18, No. 2 (Winter 2003), 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 24.
FOCUS, the Magazine od Australia's Overseas Aid Program. Special issue on "Globalisation" (pages 1 to 17).
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2004. Volume 19, No. 1 (May) & No. 2 (September 2004). 2 issues for 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 24.
FOCUS, the Magazine od Australia's Overseas Aid Program. No. 1: Establishing the peace to the Solomon Islands. No. 2: Democratic transition in Indnesia. A Long road to Peace in Bougainville Island.
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2007. Volume 22, No. 1 (Jan-April), No. 2 (May-Aug) & No. 3 (Sept-Dec 2007) . 3 issues for 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 24.
FOCUS, the Magazine od Australia's Overseas Aid Program. No. 1: Partnerships with developing country governments. No. 2: Disasters and Emergencies. No. 3: Climate and Environment.
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2008. Volume 23, No. 1 (June-Sept 2008) . 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 24.
FOCUS, the Magazine od Australia's Overseas Aid Program. No. 1: Pacific Progress.
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 2009. Volume 24, No. 3 (Oct-Dec 2009) . 32 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21.
FOCUS, the Magazine od Australia's Overseas Aid Program. No. 3: Focus on the Pacific.
59408 AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 27
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AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2003. Volume 27, 2003. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 139 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Loch Ard disaster, by K. Fielding. Gabo Island jetty shed, by P. Davies and S. Lawrence. ... Anchors from Goa waters, by S. Tripati. Dutch Maritime Heritage Management, by T.J. Maarsleveld.
59409 AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 28
$35.00 AUD
AIMA / Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2004. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 145 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Whaling and colonial trade, shipwreck of Cheviot, by R. Anderson. The Australian built schooner Alert, by M. Nash. ... Stone anchor from Saurashstra coast, India, by A.S. Gaur. ...
59406 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 24
$35.00 AUD
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 2000. Volume 24, 2000. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 136 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Ashmore Reef, by Paul Clark. Pearlers, planes and people, by Natasha Stacey. The Senabi: external stern-lashings on Austronesian water-craft, by Kim Akerman and Dan Dwyer. ...
72632 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY (AIMA) THE BULLETIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY - Volume 22, 1998
$30.00 AUD
AIMA / Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Jeremy GREEN & Myra STANBURY. 138 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner at top of title-page, o/wise near fine. 29.8 x 21.
Papers from the 17th International Conference "The Maritime Archaeology of Long Distance Voyaging". Includes: Maritime craft in the Maldives, by M. H. Maniku. The Janggolan, by N. Burningham. ... Wreck of the British frigate HMS Sirius (1797) in Mauritius, by Yann von Arnim. ...
37244 BACKER DIRKS, F.C. DE GOUVERNEMENTS MARINE, In Het Voormalige Nederlands-Indie 1861-1949 (in haar verschillende tijdsperioden geschets, I)
$30.00 AUD
De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1985. 1st Ed. Volume I: 336 PP with 6 maps and 198 b/w illust. Many facsimiles of documents in texts. Hard cover, dj (closed tears). Near fine. Dutch text. 30 x 23. 9022818829
The government Navy in the former Dutch East Indies between 1861 and the end of the 19th century. Various administrations and services such as hydrography and transport. Chapters on former Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
37245 BACKER DIRKS, F.C. DE GOUVERNEMENTS MARINE, In Het Voormalige Nederlands-Indie 1861-1949 (in haar verschillende tijdsperioden geschests, II)
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De Boer Maritiem. Amsterdam. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume II: 359 PP with 6 maps and 281 b/w illust. Many facsimiles of documents in texts. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Dutch text. 30 x 23. 9022818837
The government Navy in the former Dutch East Indies between 1894 and 1925. Various administrations and services such as hydrography and transport. Chapters on former Dutch New Guinea (Irian Jaya).
75403 BARNARD, Noel & FRASER, Douglas (editors) EARLY CHINESE ART AND ITS POSSIBLE INFLUENCE IN THE PACIFIC BASIN - Volume Three: Oceania and the Americas
$40.00 AUD
Intercultural Arts Press. New York. 1972 1st Ed. X, 533 - 896 PP with 3 tables, 9 maps, 123 figures. Red cloth cover with light wear, gilt illustration on front and gilt title on spine. A near fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5.
Symposium arranged by the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York: 21-25 August 1967. 10 papers: Both sides of the Wallace Line: New Guinea, Australia Island Melanesia and Asian Prehistory, by Jack Golson. ... Pottery in the South Pacific, by Bruce Palmer. New World perspectives on Pre-European Voyaging in the Pacific, by Clinton R. Edwards.
12091 BATEMAN, Sam & SHERWOOD, Dick (editors) AUSTRALIA'S MARITIME BRIDGE INTO ASIA
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin / Royal Australian Navy. Sydney. 1995. 1st Ed. XXIII, 247 PP with 46 tables and 13 figures. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 16. 1863738932
Strategic issues for Asia and Australia - Australian maritime capabilities of relevance to Asia: ships and shipping, education and vocational training, aquaculture and mariculture...
56206 BATEMAN, Sam and BATES, Stephen (editors) REGIONAL MARITIME MANAGEMENT & SECURITY
$20.00 AUD
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 124. XXIV, 209 PP with 3 maps and 4 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731527305
Papers presented at the 3rd meeting of the working group held in Bangkok, 30 May - 1 June 1997.
13230 BAYLY, C. A. INDIAN SOCIETY AND THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
$20.00 AUD
CUP. Cambridge. 1988. 1st Ed., Volume II, No. 1 in The New Cambridge History of India series XI, 239 PP with 5 maps. Fp: John Mowbray circa 1790. Cloth cover, gilt title on vignette on front cover and spine. Ex library copy with a few stamps on both endpapers, and lower margin of half title and title page. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine internally. 23.5 x 15.4. 0521250927
The formation of states and social groups in 18th century India. The British East India Company...
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, No. 11 - 1991. (8), 411 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on preliminary page, o/wise near fine. 25 x 17.
38 papers of the proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 August to 2 September 1991.
56193 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, ALLEN, Jane... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 4
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 20. (4), 170 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
16 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
56194 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, GLOVER, Ian... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 5
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 21. (4), 169 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
24 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
56195 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, GLOVER, Ian... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 6
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2002. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 22. (4), 180 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
19 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
56197 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, KEATES, Susan ... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Taipei Papers - Volume 2
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2004. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 24. (4), 168 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
19 papers of the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002.
56196 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, PEARSON, Richard ... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Taipei Papers - Volume 1
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Volume 23. (4), 200 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
20 papers of the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002.
42697 BENNETT, George WANDERINGS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, BATAVIA, PEDIR COAST, SINGAPORE AND CHINA; being the journal of a Naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834 (in two volumes)
$120.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1967. Facsimile reprint of the 1834 original, No. 115 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (2), XVI, 440, (1) PP with 4 drawings. Fp: Bugong Mountain. Volume II: (2), VIII, 428 PP. Fp: Dutch & English portion of the European Factory at Canton. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22.2 x 14.5.
38409 BIVAR, A. D. H. (editor) THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA, A.D. 1325-1354 - Volume V - Index to Volumes I-IV
$20.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. London. 2000. 1st Ed. Publication 190 of Hakluyt Society second series. X, 153 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Letter from Hakluyt Society loosely inserted. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed around edges, o/wise a fine copy. 22.3 x 14.2. 0904180670
60510 BONIN, M. P. MISSION HYDROGRAPHIQUE DU CAMEROUN, Juillet-Septembre 1938 (In Annales Hydrographiques)
$15.00 AUD
Service Hydrographique de la Marine. Paris. 1946. Extract from "Annales Hydrographiques 1938-1939". 8 PP (185 to 192), plus 2 folded plates. Soft cover. French text. Very good. 26 x 17.
63733 BOOZ, Elisabeth B. & Patrick R., CLARKE, Thurston, FISHER, Ron & RAMSAY, Cynthia Russ GREAT JOURNEYS OF THE WORLD
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1996. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, simile leather, device in blind on front board, gilt title on spine. Fine. 26 x 18. 0792229428
Crossing Europe on the Orient Express. On Safari in East Africa. A Royal Train through Rajasthan. Cruising the mighty Yangtze River. Traveling Canada's Transcontinental Railroad.
33544 BORTHWICK, Mark (editor) PACIFIC CENTURY - The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia
$10.00 AUD
Westview Press / Allen & Unwin. Boulder & Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed., published by the Pacific Basin Institute. XVIII, 590 PP with figures, graphs, tables and 36 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 25.5 x 17.8. 1863732802
An age of commerce in Southeast Asia, by Anthony Reid. Seaborne bartbarians: Incursions by the West. Meiji: Japan in the Age of Imperialism.... Siberian Salient: Russia in Pacific Asia...
59043 BOSEI / TOKAI Tokai University Research and Training Vessel BOSEI MARU
$40.00 AUD
Tokai University. Tokyo. 2009. Folder containing 3 items: T Wave Magazine, Vol. 9 : 8 PP. Tokai University Educational System, profile 2009-10: 44 PP. Bosei Maru: 32 PP (16 loose sheets). All items with colour photos. Folder with title (in silver) on front cover. Fine. 31 x 22
66946 BOWERMASTER, Jon DESCENDING THE DRAGON: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2008. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w photos, plus 32 pages with 29 colour photos. Photography by Rob Howard. Pictorial stiff covers. Top corner of last 50 page lightly bumped. Near fine. 25.4 x 21 9781426203046
... by kayak.
67793 BRASCHOS, Erdmann The Island at Europe's Frontier, KASTELLORIZON. Beating to "Castello Rosso" (in Australian Yachting, September 1992)
$5.00 AUD
Baird Publications. Melbourne. 1992. Volume 10, No. 1, September 1992. 64 PP, edited by Neil Baird. Contains article pages 28 to 31 with 1 map, 1 b/w and 5 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Macmillan. Hong Kong. 1980. 1st Ed. Foreword by Stanley Ho. (12), 132 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title-page: Chart of mouth of Canton river with Macau. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, chipped dj. Signature of previous owner on first page. Very good. 29 x 21.5. 9620301617
History of the first European city built on the Asian mainland, and initially used as a warehouse for trade with Japan.
65845 BRODIE, Fawn M. THE DEVIL DRIVES - A Life of Sir Richard Burton
$15.00 AUD
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1968. Reprint of the 1967 original. 390 PP, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illustrations. Eps: map "The search for the Nile 1858-1863. Cloth cover, title on a vignette on spine. Vignette with title badly rubbed. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Very good reading copy. 22.8 x 14.5.
50150 BUCHANAN, Professor Keith (editor) PACIFIC VIEWPOINT - Volume 5, Number 2
$10.00 AUD
Department of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington. Wellington. 1964. Volume 5, No. 2, September 1964. 95-230 PP with tables and b/w figures, plus 2 folded plates. Soft cover, illustrated front cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Very good. 24.8 x 15.7.
Profiles of the Third World, by Keith Buchanan. Gosheim, Baden-Würtenberg: A Mercedes Dorf, by S. H. Franklin. Research Notes: The European Military Population in Singapore, by R. J. W. Neville...
50151 BUCHANAN, Professor Keith (editor) PACIFIC VIEWPOINT - Volume 6, Number 1
$10.00 AUD
Department of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington. Wellington. 1965. Volume 6, No. 1, May 1965. (2), 122 PP with tables and b/w figures, plus 2 folded plates. Soft cover, illustrated front cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Very good. 24.8 x 15.7.
A Critique of Thai Population, by Larry Sternstein. Malaysia 's Future Population, by L. W. Jones... The Petroleum Industry of Monsoon Asia, by L. D. B. Heenan...
33506 BURNETT, Alan THE WESTERN PACIFIC - Challenge of sustainable growth
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1993. Paperback edition of the 1992 original. XII, 270 PP with 1 map, 2 figures and 9 tables. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 1863735178
The economic miracle of Australasia, South East Asia, Indo China and North East Asia, under threat: from population growth, energy demand and environmental degradation.
41147 CAIGER-SMITH, Martin, DOWSON, Anna, et al.. LE ROYAUME DE L' ARABIE SAOUDITE
$10.00 AUD
Stacey International. London. 1984. Revised edition of the 1979 original. 256 PP with 25 figures, 40 maps and around 400 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. French text. 31 x 26. 0905743393
Saudi Arabia.
67794 CALDER, Captain Mike FIJI, Revisited (in Australian Yachting, October 1993)
$5.00 AUD
Baird Publications. Melbourne. 1993. Volume 11 No. 1, September 1993. 64 PP, edited by Neil Baird. Contains article pages 24 to 26 with 2 b/w and 3 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
32786 CALLAHAN, Raymond THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND ARMY REFORM, 1783-1798
$20.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass., USA. 1972. 1st edition, No. 67 in the Harvard Historical Monographs series. XIV, (2), 242, (4 publications) PP. Cloth cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on half title page. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 20.2 x 14.2. 674224108
Attempt by the British Government to reorganise the East India Company's army.
45366 CANNON, Judy FOR THE LOVE OF TRAVEL - China and Japan through the eyes of a nineteenth-century Scot (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XIII, No. 10, July 2003)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2003. Volume XIII, No. 10, July 2003. Contains article between P.3 and 6 with 2 colour and 5 b/w illustrations. Pictorial (Nagasaki Musmee, 1866) soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Life in nineteenth-century Asia through the writings of George Robertson Nicoll.
41139 CAPON, Edmund & PANG, Mae Anna CHINESE PAINTINGS OF THE MING AND QING DYNASTIES - XIV-XXth centuries
$5.00 AUD
International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 1 map, 4 figures and 100 plates in colour. Laminated boards, illustrated front cover (seal of the exhibition). Name of previous owner on Contents page, o/wise near fine. 28.2 x 21.5. 0959412204
Travelling exhibition: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia & Victoria, between April 1981 and January 1982.
73161 CAWTHORNE, Nigel VIETNAM - A War Lost and Won
$10.00 AUD
Lifetime Distributor / Arcturus. Castle Hill, NSW. 2004. 1st Australian paperback edition of the 2003 original. 240 PP with b/w illustrations (2 map and 28 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.5 x 13. 9781841931555
51130 CHALKLEY & Associates (editor) MACAU. Investing in the Future
$25.00 AUD
Economic Services, Macau Government / Macau Export Promotion Department. Macau. 1990. 1st Ed. 70 PP with colour illustrations (graphs, plans, maps, photos). Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 29.3 x 21.
34222 CHANG, T. C., HUANG, Shirlena et al. (editors) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: PERSONS, POWERS AND POLITICS
$50.00 AUD
National University of Singapore. Singapore. c. 1998. 1st Ed. (4), 743 PP with tables, graphs and figures. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.4 x 21. 997188576X
Proceedings containing 59 papers presented between the 11th and 13th of August 1997.
43267 CHAUVELOT, Robert ILES DE PARADIS - CEYLAN JAVA TAHITI
$30.00 AUD
Berger-Levrault. Paris. 1925. 1st Ed. XIV, 329 PP with 24 head pieces, plus 34 b/w plates with 65 photos. Illustrated soft cover (rubbed and protected). LACKS the frontispiece (planispheric map). Ageing of paper around the edges, o/wise a very good copy. French text. 23.7 x 18.8.
Reminiscences of voyages from Marseilles to the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Indonesia, the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti.
45540 CHEEMA, Pervaiz Iqbal THE ARMED FORCES OF PAKISTAN
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. in The Armed Forces of Asia series. XX, 220 PP with 3 tables and 4 maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1865081191
Defense administration. Evolution of the Army, Navy, Air Force...
42793 CHENEVIERE, Alain TRAVELS IN THE ORIENT, IN MARCO POLO'S FOOTSTEPS
$30.00 AUD
Konecky & Konecky. New York. 1997. Reprint from the 1997 edition published by Vilo Diffusion. 288 PP with 1 colour map and hundreds of colour photos. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing on a few pages, o/wise fine. Large format: 32.5 x 27.7. 156852238X
Retraces the steps of Marco Polo who, in the 13th century, trekked eastward across the continent of Asia before finally arriving at the court of Kubla Khan. Accompanied by modern day photography.
53155 CHUA, Wilson (editor) 1998 SINGAPORE TIDE TABLES AND PORT INFORMATION
$30.00 AUD
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. Singapore. 1998. Yearly edition. 410 PP with tables, 15 maps and plans, as well as 13 pages with colour illustrations (4 pages Signals and 9 pages Maritime Buoyage System). Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.
Tide: pages 10 to 219. Port Information: pages 220 to 410.
52813 CLEMENTIN-OJHA, Catherine & MANGUIN, Pierre-Yves UN SIECLE POUR L'ASIE - L'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 1898-2000
$30.00 AUD
Les Editions du Pacifique / Ecole Française d' Extrême-Orient. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. Preface by Jean-Pierre Drège. 237, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 23 x 17.3. 2878680898
French Orientalists and Scientists in the Asian Far East: Archaeology, History, Religion and Society...
73545 COLLINS, Larry & LAPIERRE Dominique FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT
$15.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1975. 1st English edition. (10), 500 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Eps: 2 maps of India. Hard cover, title on spine, dust jacket with a few chips and/or closed tears. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Rubbed patch on last leaf of text on P. 491/492, with loss of a few words. Occasional foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0002160552
How Britain gave away an Empire: the Partition between India and Pakistan (East & West).
32779 COLLIS, Maurice RAFFLES
$15.00 AUD
The John Day Co. New York. 1968. 1st US Ed. 228 PP with 5 maps, plus 36 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Fine. 21.8 x 14.5.
Life of Sir Stamford Raffles.
65847 COUPLAND, Sir Reginald LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY
$5.00 AUD
Readers Union / Collins. London. 1947. Readers Union reprint of the 1945 original. 271 PP with 5 maps. Cloth cover, title on a badly damaged spine. Ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Name of previous owner on the front endpaper. Very good reading copy. 22 x 14.5;
71721 CUNYNGHAM-BROWN, Sjovald THE TRADERS - A Story of Britain's South-east Asian Commercial Adventure
$30.00 AUD
Newman Neame, for Guthrie & Co. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 352 PP with facsimile of a letter in text, plus 28 pages with 43 b/w illust. Fp: Alexander Guthrie. Eps: The Guthrie Coat of Arms. Hard cover, dj. Small rub at bottom of dust jacket on front, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.5 x 16. 080174132
Story of the firm founded by Alexander Guthrie, in Singapore, which expanded through Malaysia, Australia, Southern Africa and the United Kingdom.
60979 CURRENT AFFAIRS BULLETIN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA (in CAB, Vol. 37, No. 12)
$5.00 AUD
CAB/University of Sydney. Sydney. 1966. Vol. 37, No. 12, May 2, 1966. Edited by Desmond CROSLEY & John RORKE. (2), 179-190, (2) PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Good. 24.7 x 17.5.
30717 D'ANCONA, Jacob THE CITY OF LIGHT
$10.00 AUD
Little, Brown and Co. London. 1997. 1st Ed., translated and edited by David Selbourne. VIII, 392 PP with 69 b/w illust. Eps: Map showing the travels of Jacob d'Ancona 1270-73, between Ancona, Italy and Zaitun, China. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.4 x 19.2. 0316639680
Before Marco Polo, a Jewish-Italian merchant embarked on a perilous voyage to the East and the Chinese metropolis of Zaitun or the City of Light.
60514 D'ERCEVILLE, M. L. MISSION HYDROGRAPHIQUE DE L'INDOCHINE, Aout 1936 - Octobre 1937 (In Annales Hydrographiques)
$10.00 AUD
Service Hydrographique de la Marine. Paris. 1946. Extract from "Annales Hydrographiques 1938-1939". 39 PP (79 to 118) with tables and 20 figures. Soft cover. French text. Very good. 26 x 17.
72295 DAGGETT, Charles & SHAFFER, Christopher DIVING FOR THE GRIFFIN
$40.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicholson. London. 1990. 1st Ed. XII, 178 PP with 4 maps & 1 plate, plus 16 pages with 1 chart & 31 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Paper ageing a little around edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 24 x 16. 0297810634
History of the English East India Company Marine Service, the four voyages of the East Indiaman Griffin, her sinking in 1761 and the recovery of her cargo in the late 1980's.
72814 DALRYMPLE, William THE ANARCHY - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
$45.00 AUD
Bloomsbury Publishing. London. 2019. 1st paperback edition. XXXV, 522, (4) PP with 3 maps and 11 headpieces, plus 48 pages with 3 b/w and 69 colour illustrations on glossy paper. Pictorial stiff covers. New. 23.5 x 15.2. 9781408864388
Pages XIII to XXII: Dramatis Personae (British, French, Mughals , Nawabs Rohillas, Maharathas). Pages 399 to 405: Glossary.
52809 DE BALZAC, Honoré VOYAGE DE PARIS A JAVA
$20.00 AUD
Les Editions du Pacifique. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed., in Collection Carnets d'Asie. Preface by Pierre Janin and postface by Jacques Dumarçay. 55 PP, plus 8 pages with 1 colour and 12 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 15. 2878680170
Historical Novel / Fictitious voyage.
30197 DE BOOY, A. (editor) DE DERDE REIS VAN DE V.O.C. NAAR OOST-INDIË onder het beleid van Admiraal Paulus Van Caerden uitgezeild in 1606 (in 2 volumes)
$45.00 AUD
Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1968 & 1970. 1st Ed. Volumes LXX & LXXI in De Linschoten-Vereeniging series. Volume I: XIX, 213 PP with 1 map and 1 figure, plus 17 b/w plates and 1 folded map (voyage from Holland to Ternate) at back. Fp: The Island of Ternate. Volume II: XVI, 274, (1 errata) PP, plus 13 b/w plates and 2 folded map at back. Fp: Armed merchant ship, early 17th century. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dutch text. Fine. 25 x 16.5.
The 3rd voyage of V.O.C. ships to the East Indies.
50386 DE CRESPIGNY, Rafe PROGRESS IN THE FIELD OF ASIAN STUDIES (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.13, No.10)
$15.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1969. October 1969. Contains article between pages 23 and 27 with 9 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
On the Department of Asian Civilisation at the Australian National University.
60512 DE GEFFRIER, M.G. & MILLIAU, M.J. MISSION HYDROGRAPHIQUE DE LA GUINEE FRANCAISE, DE LA MAURITANIE ET DU SENEGAL (In Annales Hydrographiques)
$15.00 AUD
Service Hydrographique de la Marine. Paris. 1946. Extract from "Annales Hydrographiques 1938-1939". 64 PP (119 to 183) with figures, plus 3 folded plates. Soft cover. French text. Very good. 25.5 x 17.
32150 DE GRAAF, Dr. H. J. GESCHIEDENIS VAN INDONESIE
$20.00 AUD
N.V. Uitgeverij W. Van Hoeve. The Hague / Bandung. 1949. 1st Ed. 513, (3) PP with 4 family trees, plus 20 pages with 2 maps and 30 b/w illust. Fp: Statue of Sjiwa. FEP: Maps of Indonesia and Java during the Hindu period. REP: Maps of Indonesia and Java during the Dutch period. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Front cover and flaps of dust jacket loosely inserted. Near fine. Dutch text. 24.3 x 17.
History of Indonesia.
30196 DE GRAAF, H. J. (editor) DE EXPEDITIE VAN ANTHONIO HURDT RAAD VAN INDIË, als Admiraal en Superintendent naar de Binnenlanden van Java, Sept.-Dec. 1678 volgens het Journaal van Johan Jurgen Briel, secretaris
$25.00 AUD
Martinus Nijhoff. The Hague. 1971. 1st Ed., Volume LXXII in De Linschoten-Vereeniging series. XVII, 288 PP, plus 1 plan and 2 folded plates at back. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Dutch text. Fine. 25 x 16.5. 9024711177
The expedition of Anthonio Hurdt in 1678 in the interior of Java Island.
55579 DE HAAN, Dr. Tj. W. R., TERPSTRA, P. ... SMITS, Chr. C. NEDERLAND WAT BEN JE NOG MOOI
$20.00 AUD
Elsevier. Amsterdam. 1975. 2nd impression of the 1974 original. Preface by Prof. Dr. J. J. M. Timmers. 364 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (photos, 11 provincial flags, 15 maps and 22 coat of arms). Cloth cover, device on front board, dj. Dutch text. Fine. 28.7 x 22. 9010012751
71450 DEMARIAUX, Maurice LES SECRETS DES ILES POULO-CONDORE- Le grand Bagne Indochinois
$50.00 AUD
J. Peyronnet & Cie, Editeurs. Paris. 1956. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 1 maps and 5 drawings, plus 6 pages with 12 b/w photos. Soft covers, title on front cover and spine, all with light wear. Faint foxing. Contents near fine. Scarce. French text. 19 x 14.
Convict settlement before, and during French Colonization of Indochina.
36804 DENECE, Eric GEOSTRATEGIE DE LA MER DE CHINE MERIDIONALE et des bassins maritimes adjacents
$35.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed., in Collection Recherches Asiatiques. 408 PP with tables, 2 sketches and 18 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 2738485987
Geostrategy in the South China Sea. Law of the Sea, Straits, ownership of the Spratley & Paracels archipelagoes.
54233 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HEMISPHERE, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Volume 14, No. 12
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1970. Vol. 14, No. 12, December 1970. 40 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
Special issue: all-Australian. Kangaroo with Wings (QANTAS), by Frank Cranston. Australian Potters, by Wanda Garnsey. Asia's influence on Australia's music, by Robina Rathbone...
54927 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HEMISPHERE, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Volume 10, No. 10
$10.00 AUD
Commonwealth Office of Education. Canberra. 1966. October 1966. 40 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
Australia and the Asian Revolution, by Charles Meeking. A Ceylon-Australia Link in the Nineteenth century (Sir Hercules Robinson), by H. B. Anton Rambukpota. The social structure of the Philippines, by R. G. Bass. Life in the dry two-thirds of Australia, by W. V. Macfarlane. Planning and economic development in India, by M. V. Pylee.
57607 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HEMISPHERE, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Volume 27, No. 6
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Youth Affairs. Canberra. 1983. May/June 1983. 64 (321-384) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
The Bogor Botanic Garden. A Guide to Peking Opera. Queensland's Channel country. ... The bicycle and the Australian Military. ... A New Guinean and the Royal Society...
57608 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HEMISPHERE, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Volume 28, No. 4
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Youth Affairs. Canberra. 1984. January/February 1984. 64 (193-256) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
Goat Island, by Helen Kenny. Dance in Indonesia. ... Angkor, the glory remaining. ... Birds in Irian Jaya...
57609 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCTION HEMISPHERE, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Volume 29, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Youth Affairs. Canberra. 1984. July/August 1984. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
Reptiles and amphibians of Indonesia, by Mark Hanlon. Gauguin in the South Seas, by Michael Lloyd...
54222 DEVAHUTI, D. HARSHA, The Pan-Indian King (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly)
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1971. Volume 15, No. 6, issue for June 1971. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 13 to 18 with 6 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
74083 DICK, H. W. & KENTWELL, S. FAR EASTERN FLEETS
$40.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia. Geelong. 1973. 1st Ed. 136 PP (printed in typescript) plus 6 plates with 12 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Around 70 ships have been highlighted in text, o/wise very good. 20.8 x 14.8. 0959907904
Fleet lists of the Western shipping firms in Chinese waters, registered in London, Hong Kong or Shanghai. China Navigation Co., Indo-China S.N. Co., John Manners .. C.Y. Tung Group.
74661 DISCOVERY CHANNEL / Discovery Communications THE HISTORY OF SINGAPORE - Lion City, Asian Tiger
$25.00 AUD
John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd. Singapore. 2010. 1st Ed. (6), 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 25.8 x 205. 9780470823200
46710 DO, Kiem & KANE, Jane COUNTERPART, A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War
$20.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1998. 1st printing. (14), 233, (5) PP, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.8. 1557501815
Ecole Navale in Brest. Fights in South Vietnam against communists ... Exodus after the fall of Saigon in April 1975.
54922 DOUGLAS, R. M. AT THE CROSS ROAD OF ASIA (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly)
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1959. Volume 3, No. 10, October 1959. Contains article between P. 2 and 7 with 2 maps and 6 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
Hindu Kush and Karakoram ranges.
58867 DUPAIGNE, Bernard & HUTTER, Muriel (editors) ETUDIER SA PROPRE CULTURE - Expériences de terrain et méthodes
$25.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2009. 1st edition, with preface, foreword and individual authors' presentation by Jean Guiart. 181, (5) PP. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 9782296095564
13 papers.
73669 EAST INDIA COMPANY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE DANGER AND IMPOLICY OF LAYING OPEN THE TRADE WITH INDIA AND CHINA; Including an Examination of the Objections Commonly urged against the EAST INDIA COMPANY'S Commercial and Financial Management
$550.00 AUD
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. 1812. 1st Ed. (IV), 218 PP with 8 tables, a lengthy manuscript note at lower margin of pages 70 & 71 and inked correction on page 144. Leaf 91/92 dog-eared. Errata slip tipped in on page 1. Leather binding, front and back covers with "tooling in blind" and gilt border lines, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorations and gilt title "Considerations on India Trade". Title page with 2 manuscript notes: name of a previous owner at top, and name "by Mr. McCulloch". Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. A rare item. 21.6 x 13.5.
41891 EDWARDS, Mike THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO - (Three Parts, in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 199, No.5, No. 6 & Volume 200, No. 1, 2001)
$30.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2001. Part I: Volume 199, No. 5, May 2001. Pages 2 to 31 with 1 map and 19 colour photos. Part II: Volume 199, No. 6, June 2001. Pages 20 to 45 with 1 map and 14 colour photos. Part III: Volume 200, No. 1, July 2001 with 1 map and 12 colour photos. Photographs by Michael Yamashita. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
Part I: Venice to China. Part II: in China. Part III: Journey home.
73097 ENDACOTT, G. B. A HISTORY OF HONG KONG
$20.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Hong Kong. 1985. 8th impression of the 1958 original. XII, (2), 324, (14 Bibliography, Appendix & Index) PP with 1 map, plus 2 folded maps and 6 pages with 12 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.8.
74023 ERRINGTON, J. Joseph Structure and Style in JAVANESE - A Semiotic View of Linguistic Etiquette
$40.00 AUD
University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia. 1988 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 290, (2) PP with 13 tables and 6 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing of endpapers, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0812281039
41916 LE FAILLER, Philippe CONTREBANDE D' OPIUM EN INDOCHINE: L'Affaire des Cargos Allemands (in Ultramarines)
$15.00 AUD
AMAROM (Amis des Archives d'Outre-Mer) / IHPOM (Institut d' Histoire des Pays d' Outre-Mer). Aix-en-Provence. 1992. No., 5, Juin 1992. 32 PP. Contains article pages 10 to 13 with 3 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.8 x 21.
Opium smuggling by German cargo ships between 1891 and WWI.
73155 FAIRBANK, John K., REISCHAUER, Edwin O. & CRAIG, Albert M. EAST ASIA - The Modern Transformation
$45.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1965. 1st Ed. Volume Two in "A History of East Asian Civilization " series. XVI, 955, (5) PP with b/w illustrations (including 10 headpieces), 45 maps and charts (4 on double pages), plus 32 pages with 80 b/w plates. FEP: Map of East Asia. REP: Map of East and South East Asia. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, tinted top edge, dj (price clipped with a couple of small nicks). A near fine copy. 24 x 16.5.
66168 FARWELL, Byron PRISONERS OF THE MAHDI
$10.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1967. 1st US edition. Foreword by Les Courtils. XXII, 356 PP with 1 map with location map and 2 engravings, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Ex library copy with few stamps on endpapers, title page and outside edges, and library pocket on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 21.7 x 14.5.
The story of the Mahdist Revolt which frustrated Queen Victoria's designs on the Sudan, humbled Egypt, and led to the fall of Khartoum, the death of Gordon, and Kitchener's victory at Omdurman fourteen years later.
Les Editions du Pacifique. Paris. 2003. Second impression of the 1995 edition. Collection Carnets d'Asie. Preface by Frédéric Lefèvre. 240 PP with b/w illustrations (including 13 engravings by Charles Fauconnier), plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 15. 287868026X
73458 FAVRE, L'Abbé P. GRAMMAIRE JAVANAISE, accompagnée de Fac-Simile et d'Exercices de Lecture
$250.00 AUD
Imprimerie Impériale. Paris. 1860. 1st Ed. (4), IV, XXXVII, (3), 185, (3) PP with tables, plus 5 large folded tables and 12 pages with 5 facsimiles (4 on single page and 1 on double page). Modern half bound, marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and title "Grammaire Javannaise". Retains the original soft wrapper. A few foxing spots and paper ageing around edges. Image shows the title-page. A very nice copy. Scarce. 23.7 x 16.2.
73459 FAVRE, L'Abbé P. DICTIONNAIRE JAVANAIS - FRANCAIS, accompagnée de Fac-Simile et d'Exercices de Lecture
$400.00 AUD
Imprimerie Impériale et Royale. Vienne, Fance. 1870. 1st Ed. (4), VIII, 544, (2 corrections) PP with 5 tables. Modern half bound, marbled boards and endpapers, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and title. Retains the original soft wrappers (see image). Dedicatory note to the previous owner at top of half title page, signed by the author. Foxing. A very nice copy. Scarce. 24.3 x 17.
50857 FERRERO, Stéphane FORMOSE Vue par un marin français du XIXe siècle
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in Mémoires Asiatiques series. 158, (2) PP with 3 maps and 7 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner of front cover with a crease. French text. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747594157
On the Island of Taiwan by a French seaman of the Fleet under Amiral Courbet, fighting China in 1884 and 1885. Landing at Keelung, Naval base established at Makung in the Pescadores Archipelago..
60408 FERRIER, Carole (editor) HECATE, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation - Vol. 27, No. 2
$10.00 AUD
Hecate Press / University of Queensland. Brisbane. 2001. Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001. 196, (4) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14.
Focus on Asian-Australian writing (5 papers). Focus on the body (6 papers).
35007 FIRTH, Raymond MALAY FISHERMEN - Their Peasant Economy
$35.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1966. Revised and enlarged reprint of the 1946 original. XVIII, 398, (14 adv.) PP with 24 tables, 27 fig. (3 maps, 1 boat type in Kelantan & Trengganu, 1 prow & stern-pieces...), plus 16 plates with 31 b/w photos plus 2 large folded maps at rear. Fp: Line fishermen at work. Cloth cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.
Survey of the fishing industry, analysis of a community of the peasant fishermen on the coast of Kelantan, Malaysia.
44078 FISHER-BLANCHET, Inez & LARA, Oruno D. CAPITAINE DE VAISSEAU MORTENOL - Croisières et Campagnes de Guerre 1882-1915
$40.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. & Centre de Recherche Caraïbes-Amériques. Paris, 2001. 1st Ed. 442, (2) PP with tables, plus 52 pages with 5 maps and 47 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2747515540
French naval officer of West Indian origin, born in Guadeloupe, and his career in the French Navy. Actions in West Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean, Indochina... Between 1915 and 1919, in charge of the Anti Aircraft defence of Paris...
59496 FITZGERALD, Dr. Stephen ASIAN STUDIES COUNCIL - A National Strategy for the Study of Asia in Australia
$10.00 AUD
A G P S. Canberra. 1990. Reprint of the 1988 original. III, (3), 34 PP with tables and 3 graphs. Plus Addendum 1 loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0644085533
75261 FOX, James J. (editor) THE POETIC POWER OF PLACE: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality
$35.00 AUD
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1997. 1st edition. No. 4 in the Comparative Austronesian Project. VI, 204 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (8 maps and 7 figures). Pictorial soft covers with light wear, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 0731528417
50892 FRANCOIS, Auguste LE MANDARIN BLANC. Souvenirs d'un consul en Extrême-Orient 1886-1904
$45.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. Texts compiled and presented by Pierre Seydoux. 380 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 2296002919
French consul and explorer in Tonkin and southern China.
36397 FRANGSMYR, Tore OSTINDISKA KOMPANIET - Människorna, äventyret och den ekonomiska drömmen
$15.00 AUD
Bokförlaget Bra Böcker. Höganäs, Sweden. 1976. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 48 colour and 70 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Note at top of front endpaper. Near fine. Swedish text. 28 x 21.5.
The East India Company of Sweden. Trade between Gothenburg and Canton (nowadays Guangzou).
50893 FROMENT-MEURICE, Henri JOURNAL D'ASIE: Chine - Inde - Indochine - Japon 1969-1975
$45.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in l'Asie à l'Harmattan series. 490 PP, (6 publications). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2747582701
French diplomacy in action to reach a cease fire, a peace and an end to the Vietnam War.
54221 GARDINER, Kenneth THE TRAVELLERS FROM CATHAY (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly)
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1971. Volume 15, No. 6, issue for June 1971. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 34 to 38 with 2 colour and 4 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
32135 GERLACH, A. J. A. NEERLANDS HELDENFEITEN IN OOST-INDIË, Bewerkt Naar Les Fastes Militaires des Indes Orientales. (Three volumes bound in one)
$150.00 AUD
Joh Ijkema. The Hague. 1876. 1st Ed. Volume I: (4), 395, 34 PP, plus 2 plates. Volume II: (4), 322, 48 PP, plus 1 plate. Volume III: (4), 302, 48 PP, plus 2 plates. Four large folded maps at the end of book. Half bound, raised bands, gilt title on spine. Some foxing. Near fine. Dutch text. 24.6 x 16.2.
Military events and feats by Netherland troops (V.O.C. or National) in their East Indies (Indonesia).
61204 GHOSHAL, Professor Baladas THE FIRST BIENNIAL CONFERENCE - INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN & PACIFIC STUDIES
$20.00 AUD
Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Calcutta. Kolkata, West Bengal, India. 2002. 1st Ed. (7), 50 PP, (11 members), (12 adverts.). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.3 x 18.5.
Conference held 1-3 March 2002. 15 papers by scholars: 7 from Indian University, 2 from Singapore, 1 from China, 1 from Japan, 1 from Australia (Queensland University of Technology) , 1 from France (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), 1 from UK (British Library) and 1 from the USA (Cornell University).
31748 GOLDRICK, James NO EASY ANSWERS - The Development of the Navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka 1945-1996
$20.00 AUD
Lancer Publishing. New Dehli. 1997. 1st Ed., No. 2 in the Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs series. XIII, 225 PP with 5 tables, 1 plan and 1 map, plus 26 pages with 26 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 1897829027
Evolution of their naval forces structures... Chapter 4: The Indo-Pakistan war at sea.
74617 GORIS, Dr. R. BALI - GODSDIENST EN CEREMONIËN
$100.00 AUD
KPM / Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij. Batavia, Java. c. 1930. 1st Ed. No pagination, 78 PP with decoration on text pages, and 50 b/w photos by Walter Spies. Stiff covers, colour illustration and title on front cover. Slight ageing of paper. Dutch text. Near fine condition. Oblong: 22.3 x 31.5.
57786 GOUGENHEIM, M. A. MODIFICATIONS DES PROFONDEURS DE LA RIVIERE DE SAÏGON, de 1913 à 1931 (In Annales Hydrographiques)
$10.00 AUD
Service Hydrographique de la Marine. Paris. 1946. Extract from "Annales Hydrographiques 1938-1939". 4 PP (1 to 4), plus 4 folded plates (1 table and 3 colour charts). Soft cover. Very good. French text. 25.4 x 18.7.
Depth of the Saïgon River.
72408 GRAHAM, Gerald S. GREAT BRITAIN IN THE INDIAN OCEAN - A Study of Maritime Enterprise 1810-1850
$70.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1967. XIV, 480 PP with 9 maps (No. 1 to No. 9), plus 1 folded map "The Indian Ocean" (No. 10). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
48539 GRANDJEAN, Philippe L' INDOCHINE FACE AU JAPON 1940-1945. Decoux - de Gaulle, un malentendu fatal
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed., in Recherches Asiatiques series. 298, (1) PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747568571
Indochina between Japanese and the French government's conflicting policies (Vichy of Marshall Pétain and Free French of General de Gaulle).
65864 GRINNELL-MILNE, Duncan BADEN-POWELL AT MAFEKING
$15.00 AUD
The Bodley Head. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by General Sir A. Godley. 224 PP with facsimile of a document, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustions (1 drawing and 14 photos) and a folded map "Mafeking and Surrounding" at rear of book. Fp: portrait of colonel Baden-Powell. Eps: map of southern Africa. Hard cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Book plate of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
60236 GWIN, Peter DANGEROUS STRAITS: PIRATES OF MALACCA STRAIT [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 212, No.4]
$5.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 2007. October 2007. 154 PP. Contains article pages 126 to 149 with 2 maps and 9 colour photos by John Stanmeyer. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
52298 HAKS, Leo & WACHLIN, Steven INDONESIA: 500 EARLY POSTCARDS
$100.00 AUD
Archipelago Press / Editions Didier Millet. Singapore. 2004. 1st Ed. Introduction by Diana Darling. 288 PP with 7 maps in colour (1 on double page with an inset) and over 500 b/w or colour illustrations (postcards for most of them). Pictorial stiff covers, corners a little bumped, o/wise fine. Oblong: 23 x 24.7. 9789814155250
32200 HAMAKER, H.C. & HARDON H.J. THE SNELLIUS - EXPEDITION IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE NETHERLANDS EAST-INDIES 1929-1930 - Volume II (Part I, Chapters I & II)
$30.00 AUD
E. J. Brill. Leiden, Netherlands. 1941. 1st Ed. VIII, 56 PP with 26 figures, and 30 tables, plus 1 plate with 5 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Ingleton bookplate. Near fine. 32 x 23.
Expedition on board the Willebrord Snellius. Volume II: Oceanographic results, Part I: Methods and instruments. Chapter I: The oceanographic instruments and the accuracy of the temperature observations. Chapter II: The determination of chlorine and oxygen content.
72861 HARTCHER, Peter RED FLAG - Waking Up to China's Challenge (in Quarterly Essay)
$30.00 AUD
Quarterly Essay / Schwartz Books. Melbourne. 2019. QE76, Issue 76, 2019. (2), 114 PP. contains article pages 1 to 89. Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. 23.4 x 16.8. 9781863959704
65473 HAVILLAND, Charlotte (editor) THE CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED - A Pictorial History 1872-1992
$100.00 AUD
John Swire & Sons Limited. Hong Kong. 1992. 1st Ed. (2), 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 2 maps in colour (1 of them folded). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, dj. 2 rubbed patches on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 26 x 33.5.
From the start as a Yangtze river steamer company to a shipping line covering Far Eastern & Pacific waters.
53735 HAWKINS, Clifford W. PRAUS OF INDONESIA
$90.00 AUD
Nautical Books. London. 1982. 1st Ed. Introduction by Basil Greenhill. 134 PP with b/w illust. (plans, sketches & photos) and 15 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy. Scarce. 30.5 x 26. 0333318102
Sailing craft plying the waters of the Indonesian Archipelago. Different types of prau: leti-leti, golekan, bugis, pinisi...The coasts, the ports, the type of trading.
71044 HILDER, Brett LANDSCAPE - LABUAN ISLAND, off Sabah, Malaysia
$200.00 AUD
Dated 27.7.45. Original unframed signed watercolour. 31 x 25cm.
44274 HMSO CHINA SEA PILOT - Volume I
$35.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1987. Revised 4th edition of 1978 (1937) original, N.P. 30. Edited by Lieut. Cmdr. P.J.D. HAYTER. XVIII, 306 PP with 22 tables, 18 maps, coastal views, panoramic views and b/w photos, plus 3 index charts. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5.
The West side of the China Sea from Tanjong Lompat on the Eastern side of Peninsular Malaysia to Zhelang Yan in China; Kepulauan Anambas, Hainan Dao, And the Islands and Banks bordering the main route from Singapore Strait to Hong Kong.
49531 HMSO INDONESIA PILOT - Volume I
$25.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1975. 1st edition, N.P. 36. Preface by Rear-Admiral G. P. D. Hall. XIV, 199 PP with 9 tables, 56 coastal views and 7 drawings, plus 1 index charts, and 15 diagrams (1 map in colour, 1 colour plate on buoyage). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Supplement No. 2-1978 (8 pages) loosely inserted. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5.
The Western end of Java, the southern and eastern coasts of Sumatera, Sunda Strait, Selat Bangka, Selat Gelasa, Karimata Strait....
49533 HMSO INDONESIA PILOT - Volume II
$30.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1976. 1st edition, N.P. 34. Preface by Rear-Admiral D. W. Haslam. XIV, 409 PP with 11 tables and 128 coastal views, plus 3 index charts, and 16 diagrams (1 colour plate on buoyage...). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5.
South coast of Jawa... Sulawesi and the West part of Kepulauan Sula.
53166 HMSO CHINA SEA PILOT - Volume I
$35.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1987. Revised 4th edition of 1978 (1937) original, N.P. 30. Preface by Rear Admiral R. O. Morris. Edited by Lieut. Cmdr. P.J.D. HAYTER. XVIII, 306 PP with 22 tables, 18 maps, coastal views, panoramic views and b/w photos, plus 3 index charts. REP: map China Sea Pilot Vol I, NP 30. Supplement No. 4 - 1996 (2, 26, 4 pages) loosely inserted. Laminated boards. Lower edge of rear cover scratched, o/wise near fine. 30.2 x 21.5.
The West side of the China Sea from Tanjong Lompat on the Eastern side of Peninsular Malaysia to Zhelang Yan in China; Kepulauan Anambas, Hainan Dao, And the Islands and Banks bordering the main route from Singapore Strait to Hong Kong. Supplement 4 corrected to 17th October 1996.
53179 HMSO INDONESIA PILOT - Volume III
$35.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1980. 1st edition, N.P. 35. Preface by Rear-Admiral D. W. Haslam. XIV, 199, (3) PP with 9 tables, 13 diagrams and 149 coastal views, plus 2 index charts, and 1 colour plate on buoyage. Supplement No. 5 - 1994 (2, 36, 6 pages) loosely inserted. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5.
Islands between Mindanao and the North-east end of Sulawesi. Islands off Irian Jaya...
60397 HMSO CHINA SEA PILOT - Vol. III
$25.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. London. 1968. 3rd edition of the 1937 original. Advertisement by Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie. Edited by Cmdr. W.B. MONK. (4), XIV, 716, (2) PP with drawings, tables and 74 coastal views, plus 1 Index Chart N.P.32, 4 tidal charts, 15 charts. Supplement No. 7-1977 with 43 pages loosely inserted. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Spine sunned and with tears on fore hinge. Very good working copy. 24.8 x 16
Comprising the coast of China from Fu-Chi Chiao to Yalu Chiang or Amnok Kang; the northern coast of Luzon; Tai-wan; and the western coast of Korea.
62701 HMSO INDONESIA PILOT - Volume I
$25.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1996. 2nd edition. N.P. 36. Preface by Rear Admiral J. P. Clarke. XXIV, 230, (2) PP with tables, coastal views and maps, plus 2 index charts [NP 36(a) & NP36(b)]. Soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.
The West Coast of Jawa, the south and east coasts of Sumatera, Selat Sunda, Selat Bangka, Selat Gelasa, Selat Karimata ....
75755 HODGES, Ian The Battle of Fire Support Bases: CORAL / BALMORAL - Vietnam, 1968
$15.00 AUD
Department of Veterans Affairs/ C. of A. Canberra. 2008. April 2008 edition. No pagination, 48 PP with 42 b/w photos and colour illustrations (1 map with location map and 17 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 30 x 22. 9781877007316
74024 HOLT, Claire XIIe EXPOSITION DES ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE LA DANSE: 1939 - THEATRE & DANSES AUX INDES NEERLANDAISES - Catalogue et Commentaires
$120.00 AUD
G.P. Maisonneuve / Achives Internationales de la Danse. Paris. 1939. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rolf de Maré. (4), 90 PP, plus 24 pages with 50 b/w illustrations and 1 folded map at end of book. Soft covers a little soiled with small repaired tear at top of spine, title and illustration "Golek / Marionnette de bois" on front cover. Stamp of: The Library of Congress on front cover and stamp of the Smithsonian Institute on title page. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. French text. Contents near fine. Scarce. 21.3 x 14.
Catalogue page 34 to 86: Java, Bali, Célèbes, Sumatra, Nias.
61509 HON, Joan TIDAL FORTUNES. A Story of Change: The Singapore River and Kallang Basin
$20.00 AUD
Ministry of Environment / Landmark Books Pte Ltd. Singapore. c. 1987. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr. Ahmad Mattar. 164, (2) PP with 67 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, plans, photos) and 53 colour photos. Hard cover, title on spine and a vignette on front board, dj. Dedicatory note and business card on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.7 x 19.2. 9813002328
44592 HON, Priscilla MACAU - New Beginnings (in Asian Geographic)
$15.00 AUD
Asian Geographic Publications. Singapore. 1999. Issue No. 2, December 1999 - February 2000. Contains article from P.20 to 37 with 19 colour photos by Michael Aw. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.6 x 19.6.
After years of Portuguese rule, Macau returns to China on 19 December 1999.
74283 HORNER, David STRATEGIC COMMAND: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars
$55.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 2005. 1st edition in The Australian Army History series. XX, 452 PP with 10 maps, plus 32 pges with 58 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Fine (as new condition). 23.5 x 16. 978195552829
League of Nations and the Burma - China frontier, 1935-36. / Syria / Papua New Guinea ... Korean War / South Vietmam.
44764 HUFF, W. G. THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF SINGAPORE - Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1997. 1st paperback edition of the 1994 original. XXII, 472 PP with 12 figures (graphs & maps) and 97 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0521629446
39812 HUGHES, David E. THE INDONESIAN SAILING CARGO and the Problem of Technology Choice for Sea Transport in a Developing Country: A Study of the Consequences of Perahu Motorisation Policy in the Context of the Economic Regulation of Inter-Island Shipping
$100.00 AUD
University of Wales, College of Cardiff. Cardiff. 1984. Photocopy of a Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Philosophiae Doctor in the University of Wales. (2), XXIV, 334 PP, plus 12 tables, 16 maps, 2 appendices with 25 plates with 1 b/w and 60 colour photos (laser prints), and 66 pages with 32 maps. Soft cover, stapled. Erratic pagination 2 or 3 times. Thesis complete (as received from the University). Fine. 29.2 x 20.7.
54900 HUNDLEY, Paul THE CHINA TRADE RETURNS TO SYDNEY (in Signals No. 43)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1998. No. 43, June-August 1998. 32 PP, contains article between P. 4 and 7 with 1 b/w and 5 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.8 x 21.
Exhibition from the Peabody Essex Museum and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
38267 HUTCHEON, Robin SHANGHAI CUSTOMS - A 20th century taipan in troubled times
$45.00 AUD
Galisea Publications. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. 246, (4 index) PP, plus 20 pages with 36 b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.8. 0646382608
Life and activities of George Ernest Marden in Shanghai, then in Hong Kong.
11571 HYDE, Francis E. FAR EASTERN TRADE 1860-1914
$15.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1973. 1st Ed. in the Merchant Adventurers Series. XII, 229 PP with 3 maps & 13 tables in text. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine 22 x 14. 064931110
The growth and expansion of Western trade with Japan, China, Indochina, Indonesia. Development with changing means of communications: telegraph, steamship..
60283 IRIYE, Akira ACROSS THE PACIFIC - An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations
$10.00 AUD
A Harbinger Book. New York. c. 1970. Reprint "D" of the 1967 edition. Introduction by John K. Fairbank. XVII, (5), 361 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.3 x 13.8.
American relations with Japan and China.
45523 JAIN, R. B. (editor) ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN SOUTH ASIA
$50.00 AUD
l'Harmattan. Paris. 2002. 1st Ed., in Environment and Security series. 190, (1) PP with 5 figures and 9 tables. Soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747534790
10837 JANNEL, Claude & LONTCHO, Frédéric LE DERNIER EMPIRE DE LA VOILE
$25.00 AUD
Presses de la Cité. Paris. 1977. 1st Ed. 112 PP profusely illustrated with 1 line drawing, 4 maps and 69 colour photos. Eps: Map of the Indonesian Archipelago. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. French text. 26.5 x 21. 226100379X
Travel through the Indonesian Archipelago on board of traditional schooners : bugis & makassars.
54587 JAPANESE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE ON THE MARINE GEOLOGY OF BEACH EROSION IN OMORI-HAMA VICINITY, HAKODATE CITY (in The Bulletin of the Japanese Hydrographic Office - Pub. No. 943, Volume XIII, Part I & II)
$20.00 AUD
Maritime Safety Board. Tokyo. 1956, 1959 . Part I (1956): 216 PP with 175 tables and 211 figures, plus folded plates and 20 pages with 74 b/w photos. Japanese text (caption of figures in Japanese and English). Part II (1959): Preface by Dr. Kanji Suda. Foreword by Dr. Ryoshichi Komukai. (8), IV, II, 217- 582 PP with 117 tables and 261 figure, plus folded plates and 10 pages with 34 b/w photos. Japanese text (caption of figures in Japanese and English). English text between P.434 and 582. A 3 page errata loosely inserted. Stiff covers. Very good set. 25.5 x 19.
59587 JAYAWARDENA, Chandra IDEOLOGY AND CONFLICT IN LOWER CLASS COMMUNITIES
$25.00 AUD
Department of History, University of Michigan / Mouton Publishers. Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1968. Reprinted from Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. X, No. 4, July 1968. 413-446 PP. Soft cover. Note at top corner of front cover signed Chandra. Fine. 25.3 x 16.5.
37587 JI, You THE ARMED FORCES OF CHINA
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. in The Armed Forces of Asia series. XXIII, 288 PP with 6 tables and 10 figures (1 map, organigrams, graphs). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1864487992
Organisation, roles and functions of each branch of the armed forces of China (People's Liberation Army). Historical background.
73622 JIANMING, Jen L'ARMEE EN TERRE CUITE DES "QIN" - Un Monde de Rêve
$30.00 AUD
Editions de Xian. Xian. 2006. 1st edition, translated into French by Lei Xiuqin & Meng Kuanrang. (8), 130 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. French text. Fine. 28.4 x 21. 9787807122517
71701 JOG, N. G. SAGA OF SCINDIA. Struggle for the Revival of Indian Shipping and Shipbuilding
$125.00 AUD
The Scindia Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. Bombay. 1969. 1st edition, Golden Jubilee Volume with a foreword by Sumati Morarjee. XIII, (3), 218 P, plus 36 pages with 59 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Narottam Morarjee. Eps: Map with routes sailed by Scindia Steam Navigation Company. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed/chipped and dulled. Slight ageing of paper and faint foxing, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 24 x 16.5.
41315 JOHNSON, Irving & Electa NEW GUINEA TO BALI IN YANKEE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1959. Volume CXVI, No.6, December 1959. Contains article from P.767 to 815 with 2 maps, 6 b/w and 33 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
60759 KARTHIGESU, Ms Thangamma (editor) BEMUSE (Magazine of the National Heritage Board, Singapore, Volume 3, Issue 3)
$15.00 AUD
Education and Outreach Division of the National Heritage Board. Singapore. 2010. Vol. 3, No. 3, July - September 2010. 120 PP with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 20.7.
Street Hawkers of Singapore's Past, by Vidya Murthy. Pictures from the past: the originals of G. R. Lambert, by Lucille Yap. Discopvering Singapore through National Heritage Board community trails, by Marcus Ng. The Natural History Collection of the former Raffles Library and Museum, by Clement Onn. Rainforests by the sea: Singapore's Mangrove Forests, by Jean Yong, Joanne Khew & Ng Yan Fei.
62187 KEATING, Paul ENGAGEMENT: Australia faces the Asia-Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Pan Macmillan Australia. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. X, 310 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint discoloured spots on fore outside edge. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.7.2 0732910196
Australia's place in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum ...
41128 KIM, H. Edward KOREA - BEYOND THE HILLS
$10.00 AUD
Eulyoo Publishing. Seoul. 1986. 2nd printing of the 1985 original. 184 PP with 2 maps and 141 colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 27 x 22.5.
40058 KING, Margaret EDEN TO PARADISE
$15.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 188 PP with 2 maps, plus 24 pages with 36 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Mask supposedly representing distant ancestors. Eps: Map of Northern Australia, New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing on outside edges and some pages. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Visit to Portuguese Timor.
56107 KIRWAN, Leora XANADU: Encounters with China
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2004. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jan Fullerton. 28 PP with 10 b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 21. 0642271296
Booklet accompanying the 2004 exhibition.
50391 KNIGHT, Thomas EARLY CHINESE MAPS (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.16, No.3)
$15.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1972. March 1972. Contains article between P.30 and 35 with 3 colour and 6 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
41129 KOREA WONDERFUL KOREA
$5.00 AUD
Wonderful Korea. Seoul. 1986. 1st Ed. ? (8), 224 PP with 3 plans, 9 maps and hundreds of colour photos. FEP: Plan of Seoul city. REP: Tourist map of Korea. Pictorial soft cover with small crease at bottom and a small marginal stain on last few pages, o/wise very good. Text in English, Korean and Japanese. 20.6 x 18.8.
73599 LANKOV, Andrei THE REAL NORTH KOREA - Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
$20.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. New York. 2013. 1st Ed. XVIII, 283 PP, plus 16 pages with 6 b/w and 12 colour photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Review by Richard Lloyd Parry, The Times, Saturday May 18 2013, loosly inserted. Faint foxing on top outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 16.3. 9780199964291
74702 LAURENT, Arthur LA BANQUE DE L' INDOCHINE ET LA PIASTRE
$40.00 AUD
Editions des Deux Rives. Paris. 1954. 1st Ed. 252 PP, plus 16 pages with 11 facsimiles copies of documents (including a large folded one). Soft covers. French text. Ageing of paper. Very good. 19.5 x 14.5..
Corruption at all levels during the War in Indochina (1945-1954), ended by the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
49922 LAWTON, Lindl PHOTOS AND A FRYING PAN - Vietnamese refugee vessel TU DO (in Signals No. 72)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2005. No. 72, September-November 2005. Contains article between pages 10 and 13 with 3 b/w and 3 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
21 November 1977, arrival in Darwin of the refugee boat Tu Do.
54684 LAYLAND, Penelope & LOUIE, Kam INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES: A Centre for Excellence (in RSPAS Quarterly Bulletin Volume 5, No. 4)
$5.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies / ANU. Canberra. 2004. December 2004. 16 PP. Contains article from P.3 to 6 with 1 colour photo. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Australian expertise in Asia-Pacific Studies.
75367 LIU JIN PING SENSE OF VISION QINGDAO
$35.00 AUD
China Tourism Press. Qingdao. 2007. 2007 edition. 192 PP woth b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Chinese text. Fine (as new condition). 23 x 17.3. 9787503230509
Tsing Tao, Chinese City and Port occupied by Germany in 1898. Administered by Japan in 1914. Returned to China in 1922. ... Tsingtao Beer.
52237 LIU, Gretchen (editor) SINGAPORE HISTORICAL POSTCARDS, From the National Archives Collection
$25.00 AUD
Times Editions. Singapore. 2005. Reprint of the 1986 original. 96 PP with b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 24.5. 9812045902
Places of interest, street scenes, transportation and the port...
73708 LOMBARD-JOURDAN, Anne FRANCOIS PERON ET CHARLES LESUEUR A TIMOR: Une Chasse au crocodile en 1803 (in ARCHIPEL 54)
$30.00 AUD
Association Archipel. Paris. 1997. Issue Archipel 54 - 1997: "Destins Croisés entre l'Insulinde et la France". 312 PP. Contains article between P. 81 and P.121 with 11 illustrations (4 in colour and 7 in b/w)). Stiff covers, pictorial front. French text. Near fine. 24 x 16.
17 papers on Indonesia and France. Paper No. 6: François Péron et Charles Lesueur à Timor. Une chasse au crocodile en 1803....
73658 LONG, George W. INDOCHINA FACES THE DRAGON [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume CII, No.3, 1952]
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1952. September 1952. 287-430 PP with b/w and Colour illustrations. Contains article P. 287 to 328 with 13 b/w and 27 colour photos by J. Baylor Roberts. Soft covers with some wear, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
France and her former Protectorates (Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Cambodia & Laos) fight side by side to stem the Menace of Communist Forces in Southeast Asia.
39163 LOOFS-WISSOWA, H. H. E. (editor) THE DIFFUSION OF MATERIAL CULTURE
$25.00 AUD
University of Hawaii / Social Science Research Institute. Honolulu. 1980. 1st Ed., No. 9 in the Asian and Pacific Archaeology series. XVIII, 394 PP with figures, maps and b/w photos. Soft cover. Note at top of half title page. Very good. 27.5 x 21.4. 0824807448
Proceedings of Seminar E. 19 papers presented at 28th International Congress of Orientalists, Canberra, January 1971.
49797 LOUYS, Guillaume (compiler) ACEH
$15.00 AUD
New Holland Publishers. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Commodore Peter Leschen. 232 PP with 209 Colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.6 x 26. 1741104009
Aceh : The Australian Defence Force's Tsunami Relief Mission. A Photographic Record by the Royal Australian Navy.
62142 LUMLEY, Joanna IN THE KINGDOM OF THE THUNDER DRAGON
$15.00 AUD
BBC. London. 1997. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 1 location map, 1 map of Bhutan, 2 sketch maps, 3 drawings, 16 b/w and 52 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 19. 0563383291
75424 LUNDQVIST, Eric I JUNGELENS VOLD
$10.00 AUD
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. Oslo. 1954. 1st edition in the "Gyldendals Reisebibliothek" series. 192 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. Hard covers, decorated front and back, gilt title on cloth spine. Covers rubbed on edges. Note at top corner of front endpaper. Norwegian text. Faint old watermark along top margin, not affecting any text and overall a very good clean copy. 20.5 x 12.
Experiences in North Borneo between 1934 and 1939.
41146 LUPPI, Andrea & PIZZINELLI, Corrado THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, as exemplified by its people and life in Taiwan
$10.00 AUD
Magnus Edizioni. Udine, Italy. 1984. 2nd edition of the 1982 original. No pagination, 32 PP with 1 b/w illustration, plus 168 pages with 179 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, dj, pictorial slipcase. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 32 x 25.5. 8870570207
Taiwan.
73683 LÂN, Pham Ngoc DE PERE INCONNU - Récits sur le Viêt Nam de la deuxième moitié du Vingtième Siècle
$35.00 AUD
l'Harmattan. Paris. 2015. 1st edtion in "Récits, Mémoires, Témoignages" series. Preface by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor. 512, (4 content), (6 publications) PP with c. 40 b/w photos by the author. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Crease on spine. Near fine. French text. 24 x 13.5. 9782343054858
16719 M'LEOD, John THE VOYAGE OF THE ALCESTE TO THE RYUKYUS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
$15.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle. Rutland, Vermont. 1963. Reprint of 1817 orig. Ed. XXVII, (6), 288 PP plus 3 folded maps & 5 full-page b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Capt. Maxwell. Eps: Track of the voyage of the Alceste then the Caesar. Cloth cover, decoration on front cover, dj ((price-clipped and a few small chips). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 13.5.
John M'Leod was the surgeon on the Alceste, a 46 guns frigate. The voyage to the Yellow Sea, the coast of Korea, the islands of Lewchew (Okinawa), her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar near Java. Encounter with Napoleon at St. Helena.
39465 MACFARLING, Wing Commander NEW ZEALAND AND THE VIETNAM CONFLICT [in Defence Force Journal]
$20.00 AUD
Defence Force Journal. Canberra. 1989. Volume No 79, November/December 1989. Contains article P. 8 to 19 with 1 map, 1 table and 1 portrait. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.2.
35823 MACINTYRE, Captain Donald SEA POWER IN THE PACIFIC - A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
$20.00 AUD
Arthur Barker Ltd. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 281 PP with 12 maps & plans. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14. 213994569
From Portuguese ascendancy, and the Dutch East Indies Empire, to the opening of Japan by Commodore Perry and the Korean War of the 1950's and its aftermath.
67584 MAGGS THE WINTERTON COLLECTION - Catalogue 1343: From the Abyssinian Expedition to the Mau Mau Insurrection
$25.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2003. 1st Ed. Introduction by Humphrey Winterton. VIII, 156 PP with 28 b/w illustrations, plus XII plates with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers: 3 colour photos illustrating 24 items. Pictorial soft cover (General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, by Fritz Grothemeyer). Near fine. 27 x 21.
100 years of Military and Naval Operations in Eastern and North-Eastern Africa (1860s - 1960s). A Collection of 842 items.
47615 MAGUIRE, R. J. (editor) HEMISPHERE: Asian-Australian Viewpoints and Ideas
$10.00 AUD
F. W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1964. 1st Ed. (10), 305 PP. Hard cover, device on front cover. Corners a little bumped, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 15.5.
Asia and our cultural needs, by R. M. Berndt... Early European knowledge of Australia, by Colin Jack-Hinton... The search for an Australian Identity, by Margaret Middleton.
12875 MALM, William P. MUSIC CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC, THE NEAR EAST, AND ASIA
$10.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall History of Music Series. New Jersey. 1967. 12th printing. (8), 169 PP with 1 map on double page map,50 figures and 32 musical scores. Pictorial card cover (slight crease on front cover). Near fine. 22.6 x 15.
A comprehensive work.
61007 MANN, William M. & Lucile Q., WILLIAMS, Maynard Owen AROUND THE WORLD FOR ANIMALS / NETHERLANDS INDIES: PATCHWORK OF PEOPLES [in National Geographic Magazine]
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1938. Volume LXXIII, No. 6, June 1938. Contains article from P. 665 to 714 with 1 map of Netherlands Indies, 33 b/w and XVI colour plates with 23 photos "Netherlands Indies: Patchwork of People". Soft cover (rubbed). Lower part of spine worn, o/wise very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Expedition of the National Geographic Society - Smithsonian Institution.
51227 MARCHANT, L. R. AUSTRALIA AND EAST ASIA: CHINA AND KOREA (in Independence and Alliance. Australia in World Affairs 1976-80)
$15.00 AUD
Reprint of chapter 13, editors: P. J. Boyce and J. R. Angel. Pages 207 to 222 with 2 tables. Soft cover, clear plastic. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
61769 MARCOS, Ferdinand E. Marcos & TUVERA, J.C. Revised Charter of the PHILIPPINE PORTS AUTHORITY - Presidential Decree No. 857
$10.00 AUD
Public Affairs Staff / Philippine Ports Authority. Manila. c. 1983. 1st Ed. 24 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 22.5 x 15.
46481 MARINE NATIONALE MER ET OUTRE-MER COMMENT LA COCHINCHINE EST DEVENUE FRANCAISE (in Mer et Outre-mer No.5)
$35.00 AUD
Mer et Outre-Mer. Paris. 1935. August 1935. 56 PP. Contains article by Commandant A. Thomazi from P.23 to 29 with 3 maps and 7 b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Near fine. French text. 31 x 24.5.
How Cochinchina became a French colony.
55499 McGREAL, Ian P. (editor) GREAT THINKERS OF THE EASTERN WORLD
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. New York. 1996. Reprint of the 1995 original. XVIII, 505 PP. Soft cover. Fine. 23.3 x 18.8. 062700855
The major thinkers and philosophical and religious classics of China, India, Japan, Korea and the world of Islam.
37328 MCKAY, Elaine (general editor) STUDIES IN INDONESIAN HISTORY
$20.00 AUD
Pitman. Melbourne. 1976. 1st Ed. (6), 281 PP with 60 b/w illustrations (figures, maps, engravings & paintings, photos). Pictorial card cover (spine a little faded). Very light foxing, o/wise near fine. 21.3 x 13.8. 0858964619
Basic cultural influences, by R.P. Hardjowardojo. Patterns of trade and maritime society before the coming of the Europeans, by Rosemary Brissenden...
34867 MEINSMA, J. J. GESCHIEDENIS VAN DE NEDERLANDSCHE OOST-INDISCHE BEZITTINGEN (three volumes bound in one)
$25.00 AUD
Joh. Ijkema. Delft, Netherlands. 1872, 1873 & 1875. 1st Ed. Volume 1: (2), 254, (2) PP. Volume 2, part 1: (2), 258, XIV PP. Volume 2, Part 2: (2), 170, (2 errata) PP. Rebacked copy, cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Part of margin of page 17/18 of volume 1 and of volume 3 damaged with small loss of text, page XIII/XIV of volume 2, part 1 misbound. Light insect damage on first and last pages, o/wise contents near fine. Dutch text. 22 x 14.2.
History of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies.
62744 MERCIER, R. P. CAMPAGNE DU "CASSINI" DANS LES MERS DE CHINE 1851-1854, d'après les Rapports, Lettres et Notes du Commandant DE PLAS
$200.00 AUD
Retaux-Bray, Libraire-Editeur Paris. 1889. 1st Ed. XII, 433 PP, plus 4 folded maps in colour. Soft cover. Renewed spine and back cover. Occasional foxing, essentially on first and last leaves, o/wise near fine. French text. 23 x 14.5.
Polak: No. 6635.
21666 MERSON, John ROADS TO XANADU - East and West in the Making of the Modern World
$20.00 AUD
Child & Associates / ABC. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w or colour illust. Title-page: Marco Polo leaving Venice. Fp: From Tsinan to Tai-an with performance of ceremony at Mount Tai. Eps: Chang Tse-Tuan. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 30.5 x 22. 0867770953
A journey through world history, social & technological changes. Pages 73 to 79: Zheng He and the last of the Treasure Ships.
42952 MEYER, Karl & BRYSAC, Shareen TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS - The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia
$10.00 AUD
Abacus. London. 2001. Paperback edition of the 2001 UK edition (1999 US original). XXVI, 646 PP with 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 37 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 19.8 x 12.6. 0349113661
Struggle for control of Central Asia.
47489 MEZIN, Louis (editor) CAHIERS DE LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES - No. 1 - 1996
$35.00 AUD
Port Louis, 1996. Musée de la Compagnie des Indes. Yearly magazine, Issue No. 1 - 1996. 97, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 27 x 21. 2950492029
Magazine published by the Museum of the French East India Company. Company paintings or Farenghi Paintings by Jean-Marie Lafont. Pondichery in the 18th century, by Pierre Bourdat... Coins, medals etc of the East India Companies, by Daniel Cariou...
13197 MICHEL, Marc & PAILLARD, Yvan G. (editors) AUSTRALES, Etudes Historiques Aixoises sur l'Afrique Australe et l'Ocean Indien Occidental
$70.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. 388 PP with tables, graphs, maps and bw illust. in text. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Light foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 2738444733
15 papers on political and institutional evolution of South Africa, theories of the origins of the Malagasy: the 19th century British school (only text in English), the Petits Blancs des Hauts (half-casts) on the island of La Réunion...
22044 MILGATE, Brian & Alison THE COCHIN CONNECTION - Two against the Drug Trade: A True Story
$15.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1987. 1st Ed. 250 PP with 1 map (Southern India) & 1 plan (Cochin district) in text plus 8 pages with 14 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0701130113
In 1983, two young Australians were caught with their yacht in a drug ring based in Cochin, Kerala state, India.
37611 MILLER, Russell & TIME-LIFE THE EAST INDIAMEN (The Seafarers)
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Amsterdam. 1982. 2nd European English language printing of the 1980 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title page: The Dutch Indiaman "Vryburg", on a plate of 1756. Eps: Map of the world plyed by the East Indiamen. Simile leather covers, colour vignette on front cover. Fine. 28.7 x 24. 0705406350
53718 MILLER, Russell & TIME-LIFE THE EAST INDIAMEN (The Seafarers)
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1980. 1st edition in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. A 2 pages Memo from the Editor, loosely inserted. Title page: The Dutch Indiaman Vryburg, on a plate of 1756. Eps: Map of the world plyed by the East Indiamen. Simile leather covers short tear at head of spine), colour illustration pasted down on front cover. A 2 page "Memo from the Editor" on the English language, loosely inserted. Small tear at top of spine (shelf wear). Faint foxing. Near fine internally. 28.7 x 24. 0809426919
65930 MILLIN, Sarah Gertrude RHODES
$10.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1933. 1st Ed. VI, 390 PP. Fp: Death Mask of Rhodes. FEP: Map of South Africa, 1881. REP: Map of South Africa, 1902. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Covers rubbed and soiled. Head of spine with repaired tears. Rear endpaper split at gutter. Name of previous owner on half title page. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 22.8 x 14.5.
44407 MILTON, Giles SAMURAI WILLIAM - The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
$30.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 2002. 1st Ed. XVI, 400 PP with 3 maps and 45 b/w illustrations. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Remainder mark on lower outside edge, o/wise near fine. 20.5 x 13.5. 0340794674
William Adams, marooned English mariner on the shores of Japan.
43885 MISC MISC (Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Berhad): A Corporate Insight
$15.00 AUD
MISC Berhad. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1985. Revised 3rd edition. No pagination, 28 PP with 1 organigram, 4 maps, 23 colour photos and 44 silhouettes of ships. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 25.3 x 33.
Fleet list with their 44 ships registered at Penang, Malaysia.
40889 MOORE, W. Robert. ALONG THE OLD MANDARIN ROAD OF INDO-CHINA - UNDER THE FRENCH TRICOLOR IN INDO-CHINA [in National Geographic Magazine]
$10.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 1931. Vol. 60, No.2, August 1931. Contains article P.157 to 199 with 1 map and 32 b/w photos, plus 16 plates with 28 colour photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
From Angkor Vat in Cambodia, to Cochin-china, Annam and Tonkin.
73705 MOREMON, Dr. John (editor) VIETNAM: Our War - Our Peace
$30.00 AUD
Department of Veterans' Affairs. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. Foreword by Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia. X, (II), 140 PP with b/w and colour photos. Laminated boards, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). Oblong: 23.8 x 25.5. 1920720707
54211 MULVANEY, John INDONESIAN PREHISTORY AS SEEN FROM AUSTRALIA (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.13, No.12)
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1969. December 1969. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 14 to 20 with 11 b/w illustrations (1 drawing of implements and 10 photos). Soft cover. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
39365 N/A JAPANESE POCKET INTERPRETER
$30.00 AUD
Japan Travel Bureau. Tokyo. 1971. 1st Ed. 288 PP with duotone illustrations. FEP: World map with foreign language zones. Plastic soft cover. Very good. Japanese script with English, French, German, Italian and Spanish equivalent. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.
For travellers, seamen...
41243 N/A PENINSULE - No. 31 - LA CERAMIQUE ANGKORIENNE - CADASTRES DE HA DONG - LES ANCIENS CADASTRES DE HANOI...
$25.00 AUD
Association Péninsule. Paris. 1996. New series No. 31, 1995, XXVI Year. 209 PP. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16.5.
Cambodia, Laos and Viet-nam.
52814 N/A ARCHIPEL 54 : DESTINS CROISES ENTRE L'INSULINDE ET LA FRANCE
$30.00 AUD
Association Archipel. Paris. 1997. 1997. 312 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Very good. 24 x 16.
17 papers on Indonesia and France. Paper No. 6: François Péron et Charles Lesueur à Timor. Une chasse au crocodile en 1803....
55093 N/A CHRONOLOGY OF SOME NAVAL OPERATIONS VIETNAM: August 1954 - December 1968
$10.00 AUD
Naval History Division. Washington. 1969. 1st Ed. (2), 14 PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 26 x 20.
16 August 1954: Operation Passage to Freedom. ...
67737 N/A INDOCHINE - Une Réalisation Française: ce que vous devez savoir
$10.00 AUD
Editions de l'Agence Extérieure. Paris. 1946. 1st Ed., in Collection de l' Empire. 124, (4) PP with 1 sketch map. Soft cover. French text. Very good. 18.7. x 12.
60845 NAVY NAVAL SHORE ESTABLISHMENT - PHILIPPINE NAVY (3 issues)
$15.00 AUD
Naval Shore Establishment, Cavite/Public Relations Office. Cavite City. 1970, 1971 & 1972. Issues: 23rd Anniversary, 24 October 1970 with 24 PP. - 24th Anniversary, 24 October 1971 with 8 PP. - Issue April 1972 with 12 PP. A total of 44 pages with b/w illustrations (plans, photos, portraits). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5.
71865 OLIVIER, Tarquin EYE OF THE DAY
$35.00 AUD
William Morrow & Coy. New York. 1964. 1st Ed. XII179 PP, plus 12 plates with b/w photos. Eps: Illustrated map of South-East Asia. Hard cover, dj. Covers have wear on the edges with a little fraying. Occasional foxing. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly soiled and plastic protected. Very good. 22 x 14.3.
First experiences in early 1960's, living with Asians of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Shan States of Burma. The author was the son of Sir Lawrence Olivier.
54214 ONGKILI, James P. TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF SABAH (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.14, No.5)
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1970. May 1970. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 10 to 15 with 15 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
44585 OSBORNE, Milton SIHANOUK - Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness
$20.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1994. 1st paperback edition. XII, 283 PP, plus 16 pages with 2 cartoons and 26 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Cambodia. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.5. 0824816390
64426 PACHECO, Diego A FUNDACÃO DO PORTO DE NAGASAQUI e a sua cedência a Sociedade de Jesus/ THE FOUNDING OF THE PORT OF NAGASAKI and its cession to the Society of Jesus
$30.00 AUD
Centro de Estudos Maritimos de Macau. Macau. 1989. Trilingual edition of July 1989. 67, (3) PP. Text in Portuguese (pages 7 to 25), in English (pages 27 to 45) and Japanese (pages 47 to 67). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.
Pacific Logistics, S.A. / Seabridge. Hong Kong. c. 1972. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 1 map, 16 crests or funnels and 34 colour photos, plus 7 large folded plates in rear pocket (Area of Operations and Route Map in colour, Plan of a cargo freighter, Plan of a Pacific Logistics tugboat, Deadweight scale for Lusteveco Barges, Deadweight scale for Lusteveco flat barges, Lusteveco Tugboat data, Lusteveco Tanker data). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine condition. Oblong: 21.5 x 27.8.
Sea Transport in South East Asia during the Vietnam Conflict.
39304 PARK, Polly TO SAVE THEIR HEATHEN SOULS - Voyage to and Life in Fouchow, China, Based on the Wentworth Diaries and Letters, 1854-1858
$15.00 AUD
Pickwick Publications. Allison Park, Pennsylvania. 1984. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Francis West. New series, No. 9 in the Pittsburgh theological monographs. XXXII, 173 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.6 x 13.6. 0915138662
71001 PATTEN, Chris EAST and WEST - The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Sydney. 1998. 2nd printing. X, 340, (2) PP, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Eps: Royal Yacht Britannia, leaving Hong Kong. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16 9780333747872
75625 PERRYMAN, John KIT MUSTER - Uniforms, Badges & Categories of the Australian Navy 1865-1953
$35.00 AUD
Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2012. 2nd edition of the 2011 original. Introduction by Rear Admiral Allan du Toit. VIII, 305, (7 blank) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial hard covers. Bookmark of the Sea Power Centre - Australia, loosely inserted. Fine (as new condition). 25.2 x 17.5.. 9780980777468
69218 PERRYMAN, John & MITCHELL, Brett AUSTRALIA'S NAVY IN VIETNAM. Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965-72
$35.00 AUD
Topmill / Sea Power Centre - Australia. Canberra. 2012. 2nd edition. (8), 96, (8) PP with 5 maps, 32 b/w photos, and colour illustrations (maps, crests, badges, documents and hundreds of photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Société des Imprimeries et Librairies Indochinoises. Saigon. 1949. Reprint of the 1943 original edition. (8), 130, (1) PP, plus 144 pages with 1 map Côtes de l'Indochine, 1 colour plate (with 6 figures), and 70 duo tone plates (7 plates with 53 silhouettes, 23 plates with 77 figures, and 40 plates with drawings of sailing ships and details). All illustrations by the author. Card cover, dust jacket with repaired tears. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. French text. Near fine copy of a rare book. Large format: 36.6 x 27.4.
First comprehensive study of the sailing vessels of the coasts of the Indochina Peninsula: Cambodia, Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin, and Koupang de Fort-Bayard or Kouang-Tchéou-Wan (French enclave on Hainan peninsula). Beautiful illustrations.
73411 POLAK, Christian SABRE ET PINCEAU, par d'autres Français au Japon
$250.00 AUD
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française au Japon. Tokyo. 2005. 1st bilingual edition. Foreword by Hiroshi Ueki. Preface by Philippe Pons. Note on the author by Florence Ogawa. 248 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Peinture sur soie. Hard cover, title in French and Japanese (calligraphy by Kiyoe Fujimori) on front board and spine, dj. Text in French and Japanese. Fine (as new condition). A scarce item. 31 x 23.5.
Sabre and Paint Brush. Sabre / Sword - When France was helping Japan to modernize: the Imperial Army (pages 10 to 61) / Imperial Navy (pages 62 to 75) / Japan and French Air Force (pages 77 to 151). Pinceau / Paint Brush - French arists in Japan: Félix Régamey, painter and traveler) / Paul Jacoulet, the other Utamaro / Noël Nouët, the other Hiroshige.
13248 POOKONG, Kee (editor) ASIA-PACIFIC MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA [in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal]
$10.00 AUD
Scalabrini Migration Center. Quezon City, Philippines. 1994. Special issue Volume 3, No. 2-3, 1994. Pages 199 to 529 with numerous tables in text. Soft cover. Near fine. 23 x 15.3.
Includes papers on: Asian immigrant settlement and adjustment in Australia - Roaming Yuppies: Hong Kong migration to Australia - Australia and Pacific Islander migration...
20856 PORTER, Jonathan MACAU, The Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present
$25.00 AUD
Westview Press. Boulder, Co., USA. 1996. 1st Ed., in the New Perspectives on Asian Studies series. X, (2), 240, (1 adv.) PP with 44 bw illust. Fp: Wall shrine. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0813328365
Macau, founded by the Portuguese in 1557: an enduring and changing threshold between East and West.
55233 PORTS GUIDE & DIRECTORY OF THE PORT OF YOKOHAMA - 1984
$10.00 AUD
Port & Harbor Bureau, the City of Yokohama. Yokohama. 1984. 1st Ed. Message by Michikazu Saigo, Mayor of Yokohama. (2), 95 PP with tables, 2 graphs, 4 maps, 4 plans and 34 b/w photos. Yokohama Port News, No. 5, February 1984 with 8 pages, loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
72983 PREGER, W. DUTCH ADMINISTRATION IN THE NETHERLANDS INDIES
$20.00 AUD
F.W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Imprint in July 1944, of 5000 copies. 116 PP with 6 tables, plus 21 b/w plates: 6 portraits and 20 photos on full page. Fp: Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Eps: Map of the Netherlands Indies. Cloth covers, title on front board and spine. War economy paper. Near fine. 18.8 x 12.8.
60238 QUAMMEN, David THE MAN WHO WASN'T DARWIN - ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2008. Volume 214, No. 6, December 2008. 162 PP. Contains articles between pages 106 and 133 with 1 folded map, 2 b/w illustrations (1 portrait & 1 facsimile), and colour photographs by Robert Clark. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
60239 QUAMMEN, David, & RIDLEY, Matt THE DARWIN BICENTENNIAL: Darwin's First Clues / Modern Darwins (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2009. Volume 215, No. 2, February 2009. 154 PP. Contains 2 articles between pages 34 and 73 with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
55193 RADFORD, Admiral Arthur W. OUR NAVY IN THE FAR EAST (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume CIV, No.4, 1953)
$10.00 AUD
NGS. Washington. 1953. Volume CIV, No.4, October 1953. Contains article from P.537 to 577 with 10 b/w and 39 colour photos by J. Baylor Roberts. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
67792 REGAN, John INDONESIA - NEGLECTED PARADISE (in Australian Yachting, October 1991)
$5.00 AUD
Baird Publications. Melbourne. 1991. Volume 9, No. 2, October 1991. 64 PP, edited by Neil Baird. Contains article pages 28 to 31 with 1 map, 2 b/w and 5 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
42140 REID, Anthony (editor) SOJOURNERS AND SETTLERS - Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese
$35.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 1st US edition of the 1996 Australian original. XXX, 216 PP with 1 graph, 2 tables, 3 maps and 6 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.6 x 14. 0824824466
74120 REYNOLDS, Betty CLUELESS IN TOKYO - An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
$20.00 AUD
Weatherill / Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boston. 2005. 6th printing of the 1997 original. No pagination, 48 PP with wonderful and surprising cartoons in colour. Illustrated stiff covers. Fine. 20.3 x 20.3. 9780834803862
38247 ROBERTS, Frank INDIA 1526-1800
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1992. 1st Ed., in the Past Historic series. 64 PP with colour illustrations (maps, paintings, photographs). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 27.7 x 21.2. 0340554371
52991 ROBINSON, Kathryn, GUINNESS, Patrick & PENNELL, Emma (editors) THE ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY - Vol. 6, No. 1
$15.00 AUD
ANU / Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Canberra. 2005. Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2005. (2), 98, (4) PP with 2 maps, 2 b/w photos and 3 tables. Soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5.
Frontiers, Sovereignty, and martial tactics: Borneo, Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle, by Matthew Amster and Johan Lindquist. Autonomy, Identity and illegal logging West Kalimatan, by Reed L. Wadley and Michael Eilenberg... Literal meanings: the case of Mekeo Sorcery (Papua New Guinea), by Mark Mosoko.
60243 ROSS RANGE, Peter OMAN [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 187, No.5, May 1995]
$5.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 1995. May 1995. 142 PP. Contains article pages 112 to 138 with 1 national flag, 2 maps and 18 colour photos by James L. Stanfield. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
71956 ROSSER, W.H. SHORT NOTES on the WINDS, WEATHER, & CURRENTS, together with General SAILING DIRECTIONS and REMARKS ON MAKING PASSAGES ; To Accompany Charts of the CHINA SEA, Indian Archipelago & Western Pacific
$750.00 AUD
James Imray and Son. London. Circa 1867. Folded map of China Sea and Australia (tracks during the S.W. Monsoon) facing title-page, (3) ii (Contents), 126 PP, plus a page showing the Winds in the China Sea (Oct to March), another showing from April to September, plus a folded map of the China Sea and Australia with the tracks during the N.E. Monsoon, followed by 48 PP containing advertisements. Cloth covers with gilt title and emblem on cover, title on faded spine. Covers with light wear and a few marks, rubs. Overall a very good copy of a scarce title. 22 x 14.
Contents include: Winds and Currents, On Making Passages, China Sea - Rocks, Shoals, &c, Formosa Island - S & W Coasts, On the Passage through Torres Straits, by Raine Island entrance ... by the N.E. or Bligh entrance....
73153 ROY, Claude INTO CHINA
$30.00 AUD
Sidgwick & Jackson / Macgibbon & Kee. London. 1955. 1st English edition, translated from the 1953 French "Clefs pour la Chine" by Mervin Savill. 420 PP with 1 map of China on double page, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few nicks, o/wise near fine. 21.2 x 14.
The Republic of China through the eyes and pen of a French journalist "well on the left".
36623 ROY-CHAUDHURY, Rahul SEA POWER AND INDIAN SECURITY
$30.00 AUD
London. 1995. Brasseys. 1st Ed. 222 PP with 2 maps, 4 graphs and 9 tables Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 23.5 x 15. 1857530500
54267 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: XCV - 1940
$40.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1940. Vol. XCV, issues No 1 (January 1940) to No. 6 (June 1940). Edited by Arthur R. HINKS L (Advertisements), 492 PP, (2 index to maps, illustrations and diagrams), VIII (contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps in colour (some folded). Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. XCV - No. 3: Two unexplored islands of Dutch New Guinea: Waigeu and Japen, by L. E. Cheesman. No. 5: The Irrawaddy River, by L. Dudley Stamp.
54269 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: XCIX - 1942
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1942. Vol. XCIX, issues No 1 (January 1942) to No. 5 & 6 (May-June 1942). Edited by Arthur R. HINKS XXIV (Advertisements), 294 PP, (2 index to maps, illustrations and diagrams), plus plates with b/w photos and maps in colour (some folded). Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. XCIX. No. 2: Recent development in the Netherlands-Indies, by Dr. G. H. C. Hart...
54274 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - VOLUME CIV - 1944
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1944. Vol. CIV, issues No 1 & 2 (July-August 1944) to No. 5 & 6 (November-December 1944). Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. XIV (advertisements), 223 PP, (1 index to maps, illustrations and diagrams), II (contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps in colour. Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. CIV. Nos. 1 & 2, 3 & 4: A geographical introduction to the history of Central Asia, by K. de B. Codrington.
54277 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - VOLUME CVII - 1946
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1946. Vol. CVII, issues No 1 & 2 (January-February 1946) to No. 5 &6 (May-June 1946). Edited by L.P. KIRWAN. XXII (advertisements), 281 PP, (1 index to maps, illustrations and diagrams), II (contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps (some folded). Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. CVII. No. 1 & 2: Ancient Arabia, explorations in Hasa, 1940-1941, by P. B. Cornwall. No. 3 & 4: The Arctic Flights of Aries, by Wing Commander D. C. McKinley, Wing Commander K. C. Maclure and Wing Commander R. Winfield.
54326 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 134 - 1968 (in 4 parts)
$40.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1968. Annual edition. Vol. 134, issues Part 1 (March 1968) to Part 4 (December 1968). Edited by L.P. KIRWAN. LI (advertisements), 650 PP, (6 contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps (some in colour). Original soft cover. Foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. 134. Part 3: Clements Robert Markham and the Geographical Department of the India Office 1867-77, by Donovan Williams. Part 4: The conservation of Aldabra, by D. R. Stoddart.
54327 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 135 - 1969 (in 4 parts)
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1969. Annual edition. Vol. 135, issues Part 1 (March 1969) to Part 4 (December 1969). Edited by KIRWAN, L. P. LI, (advertisements), 674 PP, (6 contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps. Original soft cover. Foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. 135. Part 1: Early Maps as historical evidence for coastal change, by G. de Boer and A. P. Carr. Part 2: The Persian Gulf submarine telegraph of 1864, by Christina Phelps Harris. Part 3: The evolution of the major ports of West Africa, by David Hilling.
54336 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 139 - 1973 (in 3 parts)
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1973. Annual edition. Vol. 139, issues Part 1 (February 1973) to Part 3 (October 1973). Edited by Sir Laurence KIRWAN. XXXIV (advertisements), 610 PP, (6 contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps. Original soft cover. Foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. 139. Parts 1 & 3: The Musandan (Northern Oman) expedition 1971-72, by N. L. Falcon, P. F. S. Cornelius, D. South & C. Vita-Finzi.
54339 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 145 - 1979 (in 3 parts)
$40.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1979. Annual edition. Edited by Prof. R.F. PEEL. Vol. 145, issues Part 1 (March 1979) to Part 3 (November 1979). XXVIII (advertisements), 548 PP, (8 contents), plus plates with b/w photos and maps. Original soft cover. Foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. 145. Part 1: The Bahrein surface materials resources survey, by D. Brunsden, J. C. Doornkamp and D. K. C. Jones. Part 2: The Thames Barrier project, by R. W. Horner.
54347 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: XCVI, No. 1 - 1940
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1940. Vol. XCVI, issues No 1 (July 1940). Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. VI (Advertisements), 80 PP with 1 map, plus 10 pages with 2 maps and 19 b/w photos. Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol. XCVI - No. 1: Botanical and Geographical Exploration in the Assam Himalaya, by F. Kingdon Ward. Primitive Tribes in Madagascar, by Olive Murray Chapman. Notes on the Northern Sea Routes, by Professor Kenneth Mason...
61480 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: LXXXIV, No. 4
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1934. Vol. LXXXIV, No. 4, October 1934. Edited by Arthur R. HINKS. XII (advertisements), 281-368 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 18 plates with 25 b/w photos and 1 folded map in colour "Karakoram and Turkistan" at rear of Journal. Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Vol.LXXXIV - No. 4: The Karakoram and Turkistan Expedition of 1929-1930, by Dr. Ph. C. Visser.
61483 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 138, Part 2
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Royal Geographical Society. London. 1972. Vol. 138, Part 2, June 1972. Edited by L. P. Kirwan. XIV (advertisements), 131-280 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 4 plates with 7 b/w illustrations and 1 folded map in colour "Canada". Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15..
Vol. 138, Part 2: ... Indonesia - a giant astir, by C. A. Fisher. The "Christian Topography" and the Kingdom of Axum. The search for the Nile sources, by Dorohy Middleton.
61484 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 138, Part 3
$10.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1972. Vol. 138, Part 3, September 1972. Edited by L. P. Kirwan. XIV (advertisements), 281-409 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 4 plates with 8 b/w photos and 1 folded map in colour "Elephant Island". Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15..
Vol. 138, Part 3: ... The Future of Oil, by H.R. Warman. Expedition to Elephant Island, by Malcolm Burley. The voyage of the "Terra Nova", by A. G. E. Jones. Land Navigation for travellers and small expeditions, by D. N. Hall.
61486 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL - Volume: 140, Part 1
$5.00 AUD
Royal Geographical Society. London. 1974. Vol. 140, Part 1, February 1974. Edited by L. P. Kirwan. X (advertisements), 181 PP with figures (drawings, maps, sketches), plus 6 plates with 2 maps and 7 b/w photos and 1 folded plate (figures 6 & 9). Original soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.5 x 15..
Vol. 140, Part 1: A visit to the Red River and the Saskatchewan, 1861, by Dr. John Rae. Sea Level changes in North-West England, by M. J. Tooley. ...
60298 RUIZ, Flag Officer In Command Hilario M. PHILIPPINE NAVY DAY - 34th Anniversary: February 9, 1973
$10.00 AUD
Naval Public Relations Office Manila. 1973. 1st Ed. 20 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.5.
A Seafaring Nation: historical synopsis. Philippine Coast Guard. Naval Shore Establishments. Marine Brigade. ... Naval Construction Battalion.
60846 RUIZ, Flag Officer In Command Hilario M. PHILIPPINE NAVY ANNIVERSARY ISSUE - 33rd Anniversary: February 9, 1972 (in Philippine Navy Log)
$5.00 AUD
Naval Public Relations Office. Manila. 1972. Vol. IV, No. 1, January 1972. 10 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 26.5 x 20.
66041 SAUNDERS, David DUBAI - The Arabian Dream
$25.00 AUD
TransGlobe Publishing. London. 2003. 1st Ed. Foreword by Abdullah Mohamed Saleh, National Bank of Dubai. Welcome address by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, The Crown Prince of Dubai. 208 PP with 14 b/w photos and colour illustrations ( 1 map and photos). Hard cover, gilt decoration and title on front board and spine, dj. Note on front endpaper. Fine. 27.8 x 27.8. 0954508300
40986 SCOTT, Nuala SEKAR AMAN - An Indonesian Prahu in Australia
$25.00 AUD
Scott and Scott Publishing. Perth. 1988. 2nd edition of the 1988 original. (2), (VII), 34 PP with 17 figures (photos and sketches) including 4 ships line of drawings on folded double page. Soft cover with illustrated front. Near fine. 22.5 x 17.5. 0731626165
Typical Madurese Letti Letti Prahu held in the Australia National Maritime Museum, Sydney.
52297 SENG, Cheah Jin SINGAPORE: 500 EARLY POSTCARDS
$100.00 AUD
Editions Didier Millet. Singapore. 2006. 1st Ed. 296 PP with 1 map, 26 colour illustrations and 500 b/w or colour postcards. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. Oblong: 23 x 24.7. 9799814155662
56950 SERENE, R. & CHEVEY, P. RAPPORT SUR LE FONCTIONNEMENT DE L'INSTITUT OCEANOGRAPHIQUE DE L'INDOCHINE pendant l'année 1936-1937
$55.00 AUD
Station Maritime de Cauda. Nhatrang, Côte d'Annam. 1938. 1st Ed. Publication de l' Institut Océanographique de l'Indochine No. 34 , 31 Août 1938. (6 errata), 28, (42) PP with 4 tables on double page and 11 plates (2 of them folded). Soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 18.5.
Ingleton: 13535
46465 SHER, Jakov A., LOBLIGEOIS, Mireille, ANDRE, Nadine, et al.. ARTS ASIATIQUES. Annales du Musée National des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet et du Musée Cernuschi - Tome XLVII - 1992.
$30.00 AUD
Musée Guimet / Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient. Paris. 1992. Volume XLVII - 1992. 155, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (map, drawings, photos) and 9 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner of back cover with creases. Fine. 6 French texts with English and Japanese abstracts, and 1 English text with French and Japanese abstract. 27.2 x 22..
... An example of the entrepot ports civilization in the South Seas: South Kedah (Malaysia), 5th-14th centuries A.D., by Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h....
60758 SHERSTYUK, Julia (editor) 103rd MERIDIAN EAST (Asia's Premier Russian-English Magazine - Vol. 7)
$10.00 AUD
103rd Meridian East Pte Ltd. Singapore. 2010. Volume 7 (Vol. 6 on spine). 96 PP with colour photos. Text in Russian (cyrillic script) and English. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26 x 20.4.
William Farquhar the first Resident of Singapore. Two Raffles - Part II: a Merchant and Humanitarian all rolled into one, by Mikhail Tsyganov. The keeper of an elusive dimension: Mark Gordon, collector of Soviet watches and South-east Asian tribal art.
56209 SHERWOOD, Dick (editor) OPERATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MARITIME WARFARE: Implications for the Western Pacific
$20.00 AUD
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1994. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 105. (18), 159 PP with 38 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731520114
Papers presented at a seminar hosted by the Royal Australian Navy's Maritime Studies Program and the Australian Naval Institute.
75738 SIMPSON, Howard R. DIEN BIEN PHU: The Epic Battle America Forgot
$20.00 AUD
Potomac Books, Inc. Washington, D.C. 2005. 1st edition in "Potomac's, The History of War" series. Foreword by Stanley Karnow. XXV, 193, (3) PP with 1 map of "French Indochina", and sketch map of Dien Bien Phu, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 19.6 x 12.7. 9781574888409
48944 SIN CHAN, Ernest IDENTITE HAKKA A TAHITI. Rupture, Désordres et Fabrication (tome 2)
$50.00 AUD
Editions Te Ite. Papeete. 2005. 1st Ed. 496 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 2951879474
Hakka, Chinese settlers in Tahiti.
69017 SINGHJ, Daljit & ARASU, V.T. (editors) SINGAPORE - An Illustrated History 1941-1984
$20.00 AUD
Information Division, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Singapore. Singapore. 1984. 1st Ed. 397 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Large folded map of 1986 (English and Chinese script) loosely inserted. Near fine. 30 x 24. 9971750305
50390 SMYTH, D. M. ONE OF MANY THOUSANDS - TAAM ISLAND (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.16, No.3)
$15.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1972. March 1972. Contains article between P.10 and 15 with 1 map, 4 colour and 7 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
On the Australian National University expedition to Taam Island, Kai Group, Arafura Sea. Island on the Wallace Line.
59637 SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES NATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR AUSTRALASIA IN THE AGE OF ASIAN/PACIFIC ECONOMY
$10.00 AUD
Department of Government, University of Queensland. Brisbane. 1993. Volume 11, No. 4, January 1993. Guest Editor: Robert LEACH. 77 PP. 10 articles (P. 3 to 57) with b/w illustrations (maps, graphs, tail pieces, cartoons and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.
The World recession and Australia, by Robert Leach. ...
60599 SOKOLSKY, Richard D. (editor) THE UNITED STATES AND THE PERSIAN GULF: Reshaping Security Strategy for the Post-Containment Era
$15.00 AUD
National Defence University Press. Washington. 2003. 1st printing in February 2003. Preface by Stephen J. Flanagan. XII, 160 PP with 2 maps in colour and 5 tables. Inside front cover: Map of Southwest Asia and Northwest Africa. Inside back cover: Map of Saudi Arabia. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1579060625
41132 STEWART, Desmond THE ARAB WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Time-Life International. Amstersdam. 1967. 1st European edition, in the Life World Library series. 160 PP with 1 graph, 3 maps, 38 colour and 70 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Arab World (Morocco to Arabian Peninsula). Hard cover, pictorial front. Near fine. 28 x 21.5.
64991 STEWART, Desmond L' AUBE DE L' ISLAM
$10.00 AUD
Collections Time-Life. Amsterdam. 1969. 1st French edition in "Les Grandes Epoques de l'Homme" series, of the 1967 US original. Preface by Jacques Berque. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated front board. French text. Near fine. 27.3 x 22.
61581 SWIFT, Dr. Michael MALAYAN POLITICS : RACE & CLASS (in Civilisations)
$15.00 AUD
Civilisations. London. 1962. Article pulled out of "Civilisations, Vol. XII, No. 2, 1962. Pages 237 to 246. Staples. Note at top of first page: to Ian (Hogbin) signed by Michael (Swift). Ageing of paper. Page 246: Résumé Francais "Races et Classes dans la Politique Malaise". 23.2 x 15.5.
53806 TATE, D. J. M. (compiler) RAJAH BROOKE'S BORNEO
$35.00 AUD
John Nicholson Ltd. Hong Kong. 1989. 2nd impression of the 1988 original. (6), 114 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 7 colour plates. Title spread: The Natives of Borneo. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket with short closed tears, o/wise fine. Oblong: 22.3 x 27.5. 09623280017
The Nineteenth century world of Pirates and Head-hunters, Orang Utan and Hornbills, and other such rarities as seen through the Illustrated London News and other contemporary sources.
56147 TAYLOR, Boswell (editor) PICTURE REFERENCE BOOK OF CHINA
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1978. 2nd impression of the 1976 original. 32 PP with b/w illustrations by Roy M. Schofield. Eps: Palace at Pekin. Laminated pictorial boards. Near fine. 24.5 x 16.5. 0340204958
61400 TAYLOR, Eliot THE FALL OF SAIGON - 20th Anniversary Special Edition (in The Weekend Australian)
$5.00 AUD
The Weekend Australian. Sydney. 1995. Special edition, 29-30 April 1995. 8 pages with 9 colour illustrations (2 maps, 4 portraits and 3 photos) and b/w illustrations (1 map, portraits and photos). Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 57 x 40.
Articles by Greg Sheridan, Carlyle A. Thayer... The Australians in Vietnam, by Greg Pemberton and Frank forst
54134 TEMPLEMAN, Ian, BEARD, Duncan & BRISSENDEN, Emily (editors) RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES - RSPAS Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 3 - 2002
$10.00 AUD
RSPAS / Australian National University. Canberra. 2002. Volume 3 - No. 1 (March 2002) to No. 4 (December 2002). 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
54135 TEMPLEMAN, Ian, BEARD, Duncan & BRISSENDEN, Emily (editors) RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES - RSPAS Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 4 - 2003
$10.00 AUD
RSPAS / Australian National University. Canberra. 2003. Volume 4 - No. 1 (March 2003) to No. 4 (December 2003). 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
54136 TEMPLEMAN, Ian, BEARD, Duncan & BRISSENDEN, Emily (editors) RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES - RSPAS Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 5 - 2004
$10.00 AUD
RSPAS / Australian National University. Canberra. 2004. Volume 4 - No. 1 (March 2004) to No. 4 (December 2004). 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
35352 TEYSSIER, Paul (editor) VASCO DE GAMA - La relation du premier voyage aux Indes (1497-1499)
$10.00 AUD
Editions Chandeigne. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed., in Collection Magellane Poche, introduced, annotated and translated in French by Paul Teyssier. 123, (3) PP with 1 map, 2 charts and 3 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing. Fine. Small format: 17.5 x 11.3. 290646242X
Anonymous account (credited to Alvaro Velho), of the first voyage to India by Vasco da Gama.
57372 THALASSA LE MAGAZINE DE LA MER - No. 49
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Thalassa. Paris. 1991. Issue No. 49, May 1991. Edited by Georges PERNOUD. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Hong Kong, Un Port entre Deux Eaux par Eric Bénard. Islande: L'Ile Inachevée par Olivier Grunewald. Albert Brenet, Peintre de l'Instant par Frank Jubelin. Jean Ango, L'Armateur Magnifique, par Bertrand Tardé...
57373 THALASSA LE MAGAZINE DE LA MER - No. 59
$10.00 AUD
Thalassa. Paris. 1992. Issue No. 59, May 1992. Edited by Georges PERNOUD. 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Colomb 92: Le Retour des Grands Voiliers par Martine Perrin. Inuit, Le Peuple des Glaces par Philippe Rohan...
54887 THOMPSON, Edward K. HUNT, George P... (editors) ASIAN SPECTACULAR (Asia's Vacationland) - Special Double Issue (in Life International)
$30.00 AUD
Time-Life International. Amsterdam. 1964. Volume 37, No. 3, August 24, 1964. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 34.5 x 26.5.
Pre Olympic Issue for the Games at Tokyo (October 1964). Traveler Beware, by C. Northcote Parkinson. Pages 18 to 87: Japan, by Lee Griggs, Robert Fisher, Carleton Mitchell... Pages 90 to 104 South Seas... Hong Kong, by Dong Kingman. Singapore, by Richard M. Powers... Australia by Ernest Shirley...
62646 TOLLEY, Rear Admiral Kemp YANGTZE PATROL - The U.S. Navy in China
$25.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1971. 1st Ed. Foreword by Victor H. Krulak. (8), XIV, (2), 330 PP with 32 b/w photos, plus 3 maps on full page. FEP: Map of China. REP: Graphic charts of the rapids on the upper Yangtze River. Cloth cover, device on front cover. Dust jacket has chips and some insect damage, but is complete. A little light foxing. Very good copy. 24 x 16.5. 0870217976
Story of the offshoot of the old U.S. Asiatic Fleet, between, 1784 and 1949.
Borneo Travel News. Kota Kinabalu. 1998. Vol. 4, No 5 & 6, Sept-Dec. 1998. 2-84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 20.5.
A train journey in Borneo, by Chey Vun Khen. Walkers of Borneo, by Tham Yau Kong. The mangrove forests of Brunei Darussalam, by Jon Davies. Rafflesia - the fragile beauty, by Jamili Nais.
68620 TREGONNING, K. G. HOME PORT SINGAPORE - A History of Straits Steamship Company Limited 1890-1965
$120.00 AUD
O.U.P. / Straits Steamship Company Limited. Singapore. 1967. 1st Ed. XII, 321 PP with 3 maps, plus 1 map of Singapore Approaches, 1 folded map of Service Routes maintained in 1935, and 48 pages with 53 b/w plates (at rear of book). Fp: Ocean Building, Singapore. Eps: Certificate of Registry for Will o'the Wisp, 12th February, 1886. Cloth cover, dj. Both jacket and book are near fine and scarce in this condition. 25.5 x 16.5.
History of the shipping line and its home port: Singapore.
60511 TROMEUR, M. J.-Y.-M.-M. MISSION HYDROGRAPHIQUE DU SALOUM - 1930-1931 (In Annales Hydrographiques)
$10.00 AUD
Service Hydrographique de la Marine. Paris. 1946. Extract from "Annales Hydrographiques 1938-1939". 28 PP (5 to 33) with figures, plus 4 folded plates. Soft cover. French text. Very good. 25.5 x 17.
51749 URETA, BOSWELL, R. W., MARASHI, FIFTH UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC CONFERENCE FOR ASIA AND THE FAR EAST. Vol. 2: Proceedings of the Conference and Technical Papers
$25.00 AUD
United Nations. New York. 1968. 1st Ed. United Nations Publication No. E.68. I. 14. 507 PP with tables and b/w figures (drawings, graphs, maps, organigrams, photos), plus 1 colour map in pocket pasted down inside back cover. Soft cover (slightly rubbed). Front cover with top corner missing close to spine. Very good. 28 x 21.5.
Conference (E/CONF.52/5) held in Canberra, Australia, 8-22 March 1967.
30253 VAN DER LITH, P. A. NEDERLANDSCH OOST-INDIË, beschreven en afgebeeld voor het Nederlandsche Volk (in two volumes)
$150.00 AUD
E. J. Brill. Leiden. 1893 & 1894. 1st Ed. Volume I: VIII, 548 PP, plus 15 b/w plates and 1 folded map of Groot-Atjeh (repaired). Fp: Ronggengs (in colour). Volume II: VIII, 544 PP, plus 9 b/w plates and 6 colour plates. Fp: Wajang-Poppen en maskers (in colour). Marbled endpapers. Half bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. Both rear endpapers starting at gutters, small piece missing to vignette with title on spine of Volume I, top of back hinge of Volume II cracked on 2 cm. Dutch text. Occasional light foxing. A very good clean set of a scarce item. 25 x 18.
Story of the Netherlands East Indies told for the Dutch people. Volume I: The Land. Volume II: Brief history of Dutch Indonesia.
59046 VIDAL, Didier (editor) LA LETTRE DIPLOMATIQUE / THE DIPLOMATIC LETTER - No. 58
$15.00 AUD
SARL VEC. Paris. 2002. Quarterly Magazine, No. 58, 2nd quarter 2002. 120 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French and English (translated by Alison Rowe) text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Russian Federation: pages 10 to 35. Kingdom of Morocco: pages 36 to 53. Bulgaria: pages 54 to 71. ... Uzbekistan. Israel
61401 VISONTAY, Michael VE-DAY - 50th Anniversary Special Edition (in The Weekend Australian)
$5.00 AUD
The Weekend Australian. Sydney. 1995. Special edition, 6 May 1995. 8 pages with 2 maps in colour and 21 b/w illustrations (1 map, and photos). Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 57 x 40.
50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. Articles by Helen Trinca, Richard Bosworth, David Horner ...
61405 VISONTAY, Michael INDONESIA - 50 Years of Independence (in The Weekend Australian)
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The Weekend Australian. Sydney. 1995. Special lift out & survey, 17 August 1995. 14 pages with 2 maps, b/w and colour photos. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 57 x 40.
A Tale of two heads (Sukarno, then Suharto), by Patrick Walters. ... East Timor.
71720 VOLLMER, John E., KEALL, E. J., & NAGAI-BERTHRONG, E. SILK ROADS - CHINA SHIPS
$25.00 AUD
The Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto. 1983. 1st edition with a foreword by Joseph Needham. XVI, 240 PP with 1 table, 1 graph, 12 maps, 10 charts , 6 artist's rendition of sailing vessels, and b/w or colour illustrations. Title page: Vase porcelain, China, early 19th century. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, 2 small old tape marks on half- title page, o/wise near fine. 25.8 x 24. 0888543018
An exhibition on the East-West trade, held in Toronto, 10 September 1983 to 8 January 1984.
60837 von FÜRER-HAIMENDORF, Christoph THROUGH THE UNEXPLORED MOUNTAINS OF THE ASSAM-BURMA BORDER (in The Geographical Journal)
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The Royal Geographical Society. London. 1938. Article pulled out from Volume XCI, No. 3, issue for March 1938. 202 to 219 PP, plus 10 pages with 2 maps and 16 b/w photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 16.
55291 WATSON, Philip (editor) GRAND CANAL, GREAT RIVER: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-Century Chinese Poet
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Frances Lincoln Ltd. London. 2007. 1st Ed. Introduction and Commentaries by the translator Philip Watson. 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: map of the route of Lu You 's journey on the Grand Canal and the Yangzi River. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16.5.
Travel between July and December,1170, of Chinese poet Lu You.
59929 WATT, Alan THE ANZUS TREATY: Past, Present and Future (in Australian Outlook - Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs - Volume 24, No. 1)
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The Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1970. Volume 24, No. 1 (April 1970). Edited by T. B. Millar. 101, (3) PP. Contains article pages 17 to 36. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 17..
Includes too (pages 81 to 86): Anzus and the American Alliance , by Norman Harper.
37588 WEEKS, Stanley B. & MECONIS, Charles A. THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USA IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. in The Armed Forces of Asia series. XX, 300 PP with 5 maps, 8 tables and 8 organigrams. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1864489219
Organisation, roles and functions of each branch of the armed forces of the United States of America in the Asia and Pacific region. Historical background...
76364 WEINER, Annette B. & SCHNEIDER, Jane CLOTH AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE
$25.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC. 1991 1st paperback edition in the "Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry". XVI, 432 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers illustrated front. Light foxing around page edges, otherwise fine. 23 x 15. 0874749956
Chapter 2: Why Cloth? Wealth, Gender, and Power in Oceania. Chapter 3: Cloth and the Creation of Ancestors in Madagascar. ...Chapter 12: The Changing Fortunes of Three Archaic Japanese Textiles.
30883 WESTERLY INDIAN SEAFARERS IN MODERN TIMES
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University of Western Australia. Perth. 1984. Volume 29, No.4, December 1984. 96 PP. Contains article by Frank BROEZE from Page 17 to 24 with 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover with a crease, o/wise fine. 24 x 18.5.
Issue with "Focus on Indian Ocean Studies".
73659 WHITE, Peter T. SOUTH VIET NAM FIGHTS THE RED TIDE [in National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 120, No.4, 1961]
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1961. October 1961. 445-592 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article P. 445 to 489 with 40 colour photos by W. E. Garrett. Soft covers, pictorial front.. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
72382 WILD, Antony THE EAST INDIA COMPANY - Trade and Conquest from 1600
$25.00 AUD
HarperCollins Illustrated. London. 1999. 1st Paperback edition. 192 PP with 4 maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: Tipu's Tiger. Fp: Title page of the 1712 Journal of Isaac Pike, Captain of the Stringer. Eps: Map of The East. Stiff illustrated covers. Near fine. 28 x 22. 0004140540
63886 WILL, Captain John Baxter TRADING UNDER SAIL OFF JAPAN: The recollections of Captain John Baxter Will, Sailing Master & Pilot
$10.00 AUD
Sophia University & The Diplomatic Press. Tokyo. & Tallahassee, Fl. 1968. Edited with a Historical Introduction by George Alexander Lensen. XVI, 190 PP, plus a woodcut frontispiece, 2 plates and 4 folded plates (1 in colour). Fp: John Baxter Will's bookplate. Decorated endpapers. Cloth cover, vignette on spine with gilt title. Misbound copy with 8 pages blank. Pages 130, 131, 134, 135, 138, 139, 142 & 143 with photocopy of pages tipped in. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 27 x 18.5.
51002 WILLIAMS, Maslyn FACES OF MY NEIGHBOUR. Three Journeys into East Asia
$10.00 AUD
Collins. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. 312 PP. Hard cover, dj. Print smudge in margin of verso of half title page. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 21.6 x 14. 02164353
Philippines. Japan. Korea.
50053 WINCHESTER, Simon KRAKATOA. The Day the World Exploded: 27 August 1883
$15.00 AUD
Viking / Penguin. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XVI, 432 PP with 12 headpieces and 57 b/w illustrations (charts, maps, drawings, engravings & photos). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed. Ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5. 9780670 914302
73690 WINCHESTER, Simon KRAKATOA. The Day the World Exploded: 27 August 1883
$20.00 AUD
Viking / Penguin. Melbourne. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XVI, 432 PP with 12 headpieces and 57 b/w illustrations (charts, maps, drawings, engravings & photos). Hard cover, dj. Slight foxing on top outside edge. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 9780670 914302
65702 WITTON, Lieut. George SCAPEGOATS OF THE EMPIRE - The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers
$70.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1982. Reprint of the 1907 original. (10), 247 PP with 1 b/w photo, plus 6 pages with 6 b/w photos. Hard covers, title on front board and spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 14.5. 0207146667
70978 WOOD, Frances THE SILK ROAD
$35.00 AUD
The Folio Society. London. 2004. 3rd printing of the 2002 original. 270 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread (in colour): Lady Wen-Chi's departure from China - see image. FEP: Map of the Silk Road in Central Asia. REP: Map of the Silk Road (Eastern Mediterranean Sea to China). Covers bound in silk, gilt decorations on covers by Neil Packer, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 26 x 19.
54223 WORSLEY, Peter JOGJAKARTA 'S LIVING TRADITIONS (in Hemisphere, An Asian-Australian Monthly - Vol.15, No.2)
$10.00 AUD
Department of Education and Science. Canberra. 1971. February 1971. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 20 to 27 with 3 colour and 4 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 20.3.
74134 WRIGHT, O.D. & WHITE, E.L.D. LONDON TO CALCUTTA 1938
$25.00 AUD
Little Hills Press Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illustrations: 4 maps, 10 entries of diaries & documents and 110 photos. Eps: map "London to Calcutta". Hard covers, dj. Fine. Oblong: 26.2 x 26.5. 9780949773807
A 3 month voyage in an old Morris motor car.
73571 YANG, Liu & CAPON, Edmund THE FIRST EMPEROR - China Entombed Warriors
$25.00 AUD
Art Gallery New South Wales. Sydney. 2011. 1st Ed. Foreword by The Hon. Kristina Keneally. Afterwords by Edmund Capon and Dr. Zhao Rong. 200, (4) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 28 x 22. 9781741740622
73621 YINGPIN, Zhang ... HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATIONS DE CHINE
$40.00 AUD
Central Literature Publishing House. Beijing. 2006. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 35 maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. French text. Fine (as new condition). 28.4 x 21.3. 9787507320497
The 7 Voyages (1405 to 1431) of Zheng He in the Indian Ocean (Chapter 8, 3).
54925 YOUNG, Gavin MARSH ARABS, WATER DWELLERS IN A DESERT WORLD (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1976. Volume 149, No 4, April 1976. Article from P. 502 to 523 with 2 maps and 19 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
South east part of Iraq.
56169 YUEN, Y. C. A GUIDE TO CANTONESE (self-taught)
$10.00 AUD
Author. Hong Kong. 1978. 13th edition. (4), 58, (4) PP. Hard cover. Near fine. 16.5 x 10.5.
74116 ZABO, Daniel KAMIKAZE - A French Cartoonist takes a Satirical Look at Japan Today
$20.00 AUD
John Weatherill, Inc. Tokyo. 1978. 15th printing (March 1978) of the 1966 original. 80 PP with 74 pages of wonderful and surprising cartoons. Illustrated stiff covers. Near fine. 22.6 x 15.2.
40008 ZELLNER, Peter PACIFIC EDGE - Contemporary Architecture on the Pacific Rim
$20.00 AUD
Thames and Hudson. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 496 illustrations (b/w photos, plans, sketches and 216 colour photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.8 x 25.8. 050034163X
A survey of the region's contemporary architecture, presented thematically rather than geographically to demonstrate the cross culture architecture.
73623 ZERENBUQIU, Yang / (XUECHENG, Yang) SCENERY OF JIUZHAIGOU VALLEY
$10.00 AUD
China Travel & Tourism Press. Beijing. 2002. 1st Ed. 96 PP with location map and map pf the valley in colour, and 126 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Text and captions of photographs in Chinese and English. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 9787503219948
Valley of Jiuzhaigou (World Natural Heritage - World Bio-Sphere Reserve), Sichuan Province.
50801 ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (editor) THE WORLD AND SOUTH EAST ASIA
$20.00 AUD
Oswald Ziegler Enterprises. Sydney. 1973. 2nd edition of the 1972 original. Foreword by E. G. Whitlam. 616 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, flags, maps, photos, seals...), plus the 16 pages Alphabetical Index loosely inserted. FEP: Map of South East Asia and map o the Pacific Basin. REP: drawings. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29 x 20.7.
Bhutan, Brunei... Australia... New Zealand... Thailand, Vietnam.