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Tokio: Tokio Municipal Office, 1915. A promotional piece produced for the Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California in 1915.Background Information:The Panama–Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair United States, from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Its stated purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama.....
London: Printed by A. Strahan Printers’ Street, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Second Edition. Half-leather hardcover. "Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney's mission to the court of China in 1792 as his private secretary, and the present account of the country, accompanied by a number of fine plates, is one.....
North Carolina: Duke University Press Books, 2001. A New Soft cover. For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today's urban and urbanizing China, this book's.....
USA: Villard, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Child has everything he needs for an Ian Fleming-type mountaineering drama: a great setting in the Pamir Alai region of Kyrgyzstan; a cast of quick-witted American mountaineers (three men and one woman); a backdrop.....
India: Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co. (P.) Ltd., 1963. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The book is based on accounts from travelers who visited northern India during the 17th century includes Customs, Rites and Ceremonies (Pre-Nuptial, Marriage, Funeral); Social Etiquettes and Manners; Charity and Feasts; Houses and.....
New York: Viking, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Corn begins his adventures in Jakarta, a teeming city of eight million, and concludes them in Padang, a port city where he stays overnight at an isolated, near-empty hotel run by a coquettish middle-aged Englishwoman. In between are.....
Berkley Press: University of California Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. James Delgado is one of the world's preeminent marine archaeolgists; he's also a terrific writer, and Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet is a fascinating adventure tale packed with insights into a maritime empire.....
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A travelogue that originally appeared in the Sunday Supplement of the San Francisco Chronicle. The author relates his travels to Japan, the Philippines, Hon Kong, Canton, Singapore, and Rangoon, India, Egypt. One of his final.....
London: The Cresset Press, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. An outstanding primary source on this ethnic minority of Y nnan, China. The author lived among them during 1937-8 in Yunnan's Dali. His research was on the Min Chia or Bai minority culture. His.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in addition to a general travel-account, special.....
![Item #16844 Japanese Proverbs [Tourist Library: 33]. Otoo Huzii](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16844.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683493784)
Japan: Board of Tourist Industry / Japanese Government Railways, 1940. Illustrated by Senpan Maekawa. Japanese wisdom, and traditional knowledge presented in English and Japanese for an English speaking tourist, dated 1940 only a year prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.More than lists of sayings, this is a useful introduction.....
![Item #17159 The Ottoman Empire [The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire]. Lord Kinross](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17159.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691081304)
London: The Folio Society, 2003. First Edition, Thus. Cloth hardcover in a slipcase. The Ottoman Empire began in 1300 under the almost legendary Osman I, reached its apogee in the sixteenth century under Suleiman the Magnificent, whose forces threatened the gates of Vienna, and gradually diminished thereafter until Mehmed VI.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Out of a journey through the East comes this revealing and warmly personal book about the problems and hopes of peoples now coming of age. [from the dust jacket] Background Information:Anna.....