China And Chinese Culture from Focloir

Asia mptmp Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? The travels of Marco Polo. Revised and edited with an introduction by Manuel Komroff; illustrations by Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin. New York, Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1934, 2 volumes, colored illus, xl, 477 pages. Paged continuously. Handsome books in black cloth in slipcase box, which has 4 or 5 dings to… Read more about this item

China 1968 Diény, J.-P. Aux origines de la poésie classique en Chine. Étude sur la poésie lyrique à l'époque des Han. (Series: Monographies du T'ung Pao; volume vi). Leiden: Brill, 1968, vi,167 pages, bib. Some light pencil notes in margins but only occasionally. Fine copy of the paperback. $30.00 Box 23

Asia ramv Routes d'Asie: marchands et voyageurs XVe-XVIIIe siècle: actes du colloque organisé par la Bibliothèque interuniversitaire des langues orientales, Paris, 11-12 décembre 1986. (Series: Varia Turcica; 12). Publiés par Marion Debout, Denise Eeckaute-Bardery et Vincent Fourniau. Istanbul/Paris: Editions Isis, 1988, 200 pages: ill., facsims., maps; Essays have notes. Paperback volume. There are some minor wrinkles to top corner of… Read more about this item

Military pjhg Partington, J. R. A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder. With a foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan. Cambridge Great Britain: Heffer & Sons, 1960, xvi, 381pages, illus, bib, notes, indexes. Very good copy. In good to very good dust jacket. "It analyses the evidence for the earliest knowledge of gunpowder in Europe, dealing with Roger Bacon, Albertus… Read more about this item

China 1005 (Xuanzang, approximately 596-664). A biography of the Tripiṭaka master of the great Ci'en Monastery of the Great Tang Dynasty. Ttranslated from the Chinese of Śramaṇa Huili and Shi Yancong (Taishō, Volume 50, Number 2053) by Li Rongxi.Title (uniform): (Da Tang Da ci en si Sanzangfashi zhuan. English). (Series / collection: (BDK English Tripiṭaka; 77). Berkeley, Calif.: Numata Center for… Read more about this item

China 1004 Cordier, Henri. Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule's Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery. London: John Murray, 1920. x, 161 pages, black and white frontispiece, bib, index. This volume is Cordier's supplement to Yule's work on Marco Polo's actual itinerary. Also contains "Bibliography of Sir Henry Yule's writings," "List of mss.… Read more about this item

China 1002 Leslie, Donald Daniel. The Survival of the Chinese Jews. The Jewish Community of Kaifeng. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972, xiv, 270 pages, appendices, bib, indices. Calls for 37 plates and 2 folding maps. It appears that Plates XXI and XXII are not present. Paperback volume with name of owner (from Duke University) on front lining paper. There is… Read more about this item

Central Asia 002 Lamb, Alastair. Britain And Chinese Central Asia: The Road to Lhasa 1767-1905. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960, xi, 388 pages, 5 maps, bib, index. In red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, spine is sun faded. Overall, a good to very good copy, clean, tight, no marks. $40.00 Box A 92

Russia 001 Foust, Clifford M. Muscovite and Mandarin; Russia's trade with China and its setting, 1727-1805. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969, x, 424p, bib, index, illus., maps. Very good in very good dust jacket. $37.50

Malaysia 001 Leigh, Michael B. The Chinese Community of Sarawak: A Study of Communal Relations. Singapore: Malaysia Publishing House for the Department of History, University of Singapore, 1964, 68 pages, bib. Paperback, some cover wear but good overall. $ 8.50