Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore & Okakura Tenshin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xxiv, 236 pp. Illustrated with a suite of black & white reproductions of photographs. More
WORLD HISTORY
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The Wind That Swept Mexico; The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1943). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 19 x 25 cm. 302 pp. More than half of the book contains "The Photographic History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942," and is illustrated with black & white reproductions of 184 historical photographs by George R. Leighton..... More
Letters Historical and Critical, from a Gentleman in Constantinople to his Friend in London; Giving an Account of the Largeness and Extent of that City; its Palaces, Mosques, and the Musselmen; their Priests, how they go up to the Balconies, of the Steeples of their Mosques, and cry and invite the People to come to Prayers, and what they say; the Seraglio, Hippodrome, Bussara, Serpentine Column, Obelisques, and other curious Monuments of Antiquity
London: Printed for George Spavan, 1735. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 4.625 x 7.125 inches. [2 blanks], 86, [2 blanks] pp. A British account of 18th-century Constantinople by an anonymous author, "a gentleman" from the retinue of George Hay, the 8th Earl of Kinnoul, British ambassador to Constantinople, 1729-1737. Very scarce..... More
A Visit to Le Puy-en-Velay: An Illustrated Diary
Cleveland, OH: The Rowfant Club, 1986. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 6.25 x 9.5 in. xx, 40 pp. Occasionally illustrated in color and black & white with reproductions of artworks and photographs. Limited edition, this edition un-numbered of 600 copies. More
The White Fields of Japan; Being Some Account of the History and Conditions in Japan and of the Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States there from 1885 to the Present Day.
Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1923. First Edition. Paperback. Duodecimo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 207 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs (few in color due to color-tinting). More
Garden Islands of the Great East
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.75 x 9.5 in. xiv, 239 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Affectionately inscribed by the author in year of publication on the half-title page: "To Sara Cole / one of the best / gardeners in..... More
Gunpowder & Galleys: Changing Technology & Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century
London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 352 pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white and with a suite of reproductions of photographs. More
Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt's Past
(New York): Harry N. Abrams, (2003). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. 269 + [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of color photographs. Inscribed by author Zahi Hawass on title page in year of publication. More
The Manyoshu: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems with the texts in Romaji
New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. First English Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. lxxxii, 502 pp. Translated from the Romaji into English. Illustrated occasionally in black & white with one fold-out map. Originally published by the Iwanami Shoten for the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai (1940). More
The Shorter Pepys
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. l, 1096 pp. Illustrated with multiple suites of black & white reproductions of artworks. The selection in this volume is taken from "The Diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription" edited by..... More
Marx and Engels on the United States
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979. First Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 391 pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white with four fold-out facsimile newspaper articles and two portrait frontispieces. More
The Good People: New Fairylore Essays
New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xiv, 519, [3 blank] pp. Illustrated with several black & white reproductions, including photographic frontispiece. Containing essays on Regional Fairylore, Fairy Belief and Religion, Physical Disorders, The Social Functions of Fairylore, Fairylore and Popular Culture, and Semantics..... More
Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting
Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.5 x 11.75 in. xii, 330 pp. Illustrated with 175 black & white reproductions of artworks and photographs, finely detailed. Neich archives in theory and practise the figurative paintings of more than eighty meeting houses across New Zealand (especially..... More
Days of the Russian Revolution: Memoirs from the Right 1905-1917
(Gulf Breeze, FL): Academic International Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. xx, 251 pp. Translated from the Russian by Bruce F. Adams. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. The Russian Series, Volume 38. More
Burma Road
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 333 pp. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs by the author. More
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Visible Spirits: No es Nada Como Parece. [Nothing is Ever as It Seems]; Photographs of Mexico
Frankfort, KY: Gnomon Press, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large square quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Limited issue, numbered 15 of 50 numbered copies. Signed by David Spear on colophon. Includes a signed numbered print "Juana Paloma, 1998." Scarce. More
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