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West, Harry (Editor)/ Raman, Parvathi (Editor)
Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
8vo, hardcover, Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.
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Dutton, Michael R
Policing and Punishment in China
8vo, pp.xii-391 b/w illusts. This book traces the history of regulation and punishment in late Imperial China and the 20th century. It shows how China was the first country to use statistics to plot and police people and how it uses traditional notions of 'community mutuality' to regulate them. Scarce
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Van Gulik Robert H.
Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur.: Notes on the Means and Methods of Traditional Chinese Connoisseurship of Pictorial Art,based Upon a Study of the Art of Mounting Scrolls in China and Japan.
reprint of Serie Orientale Roma,1958 ed. 4to, pp.xxxvii, 537, 160 illustrations, decorated hard cover slihtly worn, contents very good. a detailed study of the history and techniques of mounting paintings in China with chapters on the judging of antique scrolls, the connoisseurship of seals and the collecting of scrolls. Van Gulik considered this to be his most important work. scaece also in reprint.
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Van Gulik Robert H.
The Gibbon in China. An essay in chinese animal Lore
4to, 123 pp. Ills. original gilt blue Boards.including a small record on the animal's sounds, almost mint copy of this very scarce.work .incudes a delightful pasted ex-libris of former owner, engraved in the early 1980s by reputed chiese artist. Hua Jungwu Table of contents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; First part: From the earliest Times to the Han dynasty, ca. 1500 to 202 B.C.; Second part: From the Han dynasty to the end of the T'ang period, 202 B.C. to 907 A.D.; Third part: Sung, Yuan and Ming dynasties, 960 to 1644 A.D.; Appendix: The Gibbon in Japan; Key to the Gibbons mentioned in the text and appearing in the plates; Map of China; Folio: Chinese texts; Index; Addenda and corrigenda. Approximately 95 B&W photos and illustrations of Gibbons, paintings, scrolls, designs, drawings, woodblock prints. . Pocket on inside of back cover containing a 45 rpm record of the "Morning calls of a Hylobates Agilis, female 3 1/2 years old". 123 pages. 12 by 8 3/4 inches.
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Hsia Po-chia
Un gesuita nella città proibita. Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610
8vo ril in sovrac, pp. 420, ill., cm 16,5x21. (Biblioteca Storica). Il gesuita Matteo Ricci è a tutt'oggi uno degli occidentali più noti in Cina. Arrivato nel 1582, vi rimase per quasi trent'anni giocando un ruolo decisivo nella diffusione non solo del cristianesimo ma anche della cultura e della scienza occidentale in Cina, e nella conoscenza della cultura cinese in Europa. Il volume di PoChia Hsia, racconta l'intera vita di questo leggendario gesuita, seguendolo dai primi anni nella nativa Macerata e a Roma, al Portogallo, alla missione a Goa, infine all'approdo in Cina dove grazie alle sue conoscenze e al prestigio acquistato divenne consigliere della corte imperiale e fu il primo occidentale a poter entrare nella città proibita. Ricci va considerato il maggiore mediatore fra la Cina e l'Occidente.
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Goldman Merle
China's Intellectuals. Advise and Dissent
8vo, ex library stamps and labels ow very good. Ex-Library
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Ter Haar Barend J.
Telling Stories: Witchcraft And Scapegoating in Chinese History (Sinica Leidensia)
8vo, hardcover. This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open wounds, suffocation, the loss of hair and the like; the presence of a Drought Demon in the corpses of recently deceased women; and finally the emperor forcibly recruiting unmarried women for his harem. Of interest to historians and anthropologists working on oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts (also from a comparative perspective), but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China. About the Author: Barend J. ter Haar, Doctorate (1990) in the Humanities, Leiden University, is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden. He published on Chinese temple cults, lay religious movements, violence, minorities, including The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity (Brill, 1998).
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Qiu Xiaolong
La ragazza che danzava per Mao
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Le Fèvre George
An Eastern Odyssey The third expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil Preface by André Citroën introduction by L. Audouin-Dubreuil translated and adapted by Major-General Sir E.D. Swinton [Ole Luk-Oie]
Large 8vo. 368pp. original green cloth. Portrait, and other plates from photographs. Endpaper maps, and fldg map in perfect condition. Slight sunning to spine, Account of the third Citroën expedition, 1931-32 .from Damascus to Peking, baghdad, persia, afghanistan, khyber, nankow, the gobi, suchow, sinkiang, himalayas, urumqi, bamian, christian oases.
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Wang Meng
Figure Intercambiabili
8vo, legat edit. con sovracoperta, pp.422, come nuovo.
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Farquhar Mary Ann
Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong (Studies on Modern China)
8vo, hardcover. 335pp. Ex-Library
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Che Muqi
The Silk RoadThe Silk Road Past and Present
8vo, 1st Ed. Stated. 319 pgs. Inscribed by author.Illustrated with ten b&w maps, including one fold-out map of the Silk Road taken by the author. Further illust. with 31 color photographs of the landscapes, the peoples and their labors and crafts, ancient arts and architecture which one encounters along the old Silk Road which ran across Eurasia for thousands of Kilometres/miles. For a thousand years and more after the second century B . C. a great amount of silk and silk fabrics/products was transported from China to the West over the Road.
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Mao Zedong (a Cura Di Maria Arena Regis e Filippo coccia)
Rivoluzione e Costruzione Scritti e Discorsi 1949-1957
16mo. pp. XCIV-738 leg edit, sovracoperta, ottimo
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Cammann Schuyler V. R.
The Land of the Camel: Tents and Temples of Inner Mongolia
8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; x, 200 pp, 42 illus from photos on plates, index. orig black cloth, One of the few accounts of life and customs during this being the first to observe conditions there since the Japanese sealed the area and being the last there before the Chinese again closed the area to outsiders. He provides descriptions of religious rites, the lamaseries role in Mongolian life and interviewed the Living Buddha of Shandagu. Bibliog. Mongolica 2326.
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Fitzgerald C. P.
The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People
1st.Edition 8vo. XXII, 230 pages, bibliography, index, three maps, six illustrations, original dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is very slightly faded on the spine section. An historical examination of the southern expansion of Chinese influence, culture and power, as well as the migration of Chinese to many South-East Asian countries. Yunnan which ended as a province of China and Vietnam, which were within the Empire, but has not so since the end of the T'ang Dynasty. Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma, which all to varying degrees came under the influence of China.
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Granet, Marcel
La civiltà Cinese Antica
8vo, leg edit. tela dorso sbiadito, altrimenti molto buono
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Lobsang Rampa
THE THIRD EYE (The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama)
22.5x15cm, brown cloth gilt, 256pp, b&w line drawings. 1st ed. Famous and controversial autobiography. A very good to fine copy in teared at top of spine but attractive dustwrapper.
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Goldsmith Oliver
The Citizen of the World: or, Letters From a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to His Friends in the East
First edition thus. Decorations by Cecil Keeling. Introduction by Rosalind Vallance. 350pp. 8vo. A perfect copy in cloth spine and marbled boards, in its intact case. The first edition of this book was published in 1762, though previously it had appeared as a series of twice-weekly articles, under the title of Chinese Letters, in John Newbery's daily paper, Public Ledger ( 1760 ).
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Sotheby's Taipei
Fine Modern Chinese Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Sculpture. March 22, 1992 YOGONG
4to Soft Cover. Fine as new. 86 items.
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Alexander, William and George Henry Mason
Views of 18th Century China. Costumes: History: Customs.
4to Many full page colour plates, 222pp, as new cloth in fine dustjacket. An attractive book with full page color reproductions compiled from the "The Costume of China" by George Henry Mason and William Alexander published in 1804 and 1805 respectively.
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Andrews, Stephen Pearl
Discoveries in Chinese, or the symbolism of the primitive characters of the Chinese system of writing as a contribution to philology and ethnology and a practical aid in the acquisition of the Chinese Language
8vo, br. ed. softcover pp. 137.
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Wieger Leon S. J.
Chinese Characters: Their origin, etymology, history, classification, and signification. A thorough study from Chinese Documents
photolitographic reissue of of the 2nd (1927) edition; enlarged and revised according to the 4th french edition translated by L. Davrout. Appendix on archaic bronze writing. 820pp. original paper boards, . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., very good, 820p., Chinese characters classified, with English descriptions. Issued in either a one complete volume, or a 2 volulme set. Volume I is etymological lessons and phonetic series, volume II is Chinese-English lexicons. An historical sketch, list of the radicals, list of numeritives & index of characters. Table of sounds, Chen, Cheng, Chien, Ch'ien, Ch'u, Chua, Chuai, Ch'uai, Chuan, Hui, Huang, Ko, Kou, Li, Liao, Lieh, Lu, Luan, Lueh, Shou, Shu, T'eng, Ti, T'ing Tiu, To, Ts'ung & Tu, Yang, Yao, Yung are some characters covered. Also family names, dynasties, administrative divisions and horary characters. Classical reference resouce compiled by the celebrated Jesuit, sinologist and scholar, extremely scarce in this fine chinese Sienhsien mission authorized reissue. very good in uncut pages.
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Badger George Percy
THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS; WITH THE NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO MESOPOTAMIA AND COORDISTAN IN 1842-1844, AND OF A LATE VISIT TO THOSE COUNTRIES IN 1850; ALSO, RESEARCHES INTO THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SYRIAN JACOBITES, PAPAL SYRIANS, AND CHALDEANS
2 volumes, 8vo, softcover, full title: THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS; WITH THE NARRATIVE OF A MISSION TO MESOPOTAMIA AND COORDISTAN IN 1842-1844, AND OF A LATE VISIT TO THOSE COUNTRIES IN 1850; ALSO, RESEARCHES INTO THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SYRIAN JACOBITES, PAPAL SYRIANS, AND CHALDEANS, AND AN INQUIRY INTO THE RELIGIOUS TENETS OF THE YEZEEDEES, contains also accounts of visits to Kurdistan , Antioch and the Black Sea. xxiv, errata, 448pp.; xiii,errata, 426pp, 17 illustrations, 2 fldng maps in pocket,
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van Gulik R. H.
HSI K'ANG AND HIS POETICAL ESSAY ON THE LUTE (WITH HIS ANNOTATED ENGLISH TRANSLATION ACCOMPANIED BY THE FULL ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE CH'IN-FU)
large 8vo, blue cloth hardcover with red and gold title block on spine in dj. 271 pp. perfect condition.
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Van Gulik Robert hans.
Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period With an Essay on Chinese Sex Life From the Han to the Ch'Ing Dynasty, Bc 206-Ad 1644
8vo, Taipei. SMC Publishing. n.d. anastatic Reprint of Tokyo 1951 Privately Published English and Chinese text. Six colour photographic plates, black and white photographic and line illustrations, appendix, indices, paperback. In 1949 the sinologist Robert van Gulik (also known now for his Judge Dee mysteries) purchased in a Tokyo curio shop a set of printing blocks of a Ming Erotic Album. Two years later the album, with an extensive treatise, was published by Van Gulik himself in a 50 copies print run, sent to a small group of Sinological libraries, as "the erotic prints and other data ought not to fall into the hands of unqualified readers".
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Hart Virgil C.
Western China: a Journey To the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei . Illustrated
16mo, red cloth, 306p., 14 b.w. drawings, folding map, index.
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Barzini Luigi
WU-WANG ED ALTRE GENTI .
in 16mo br, ed con sovracoperta illustr. - Prima edizione. Bross. ed. ; pp. 460, prima edizione.Ottimo stato di conservazione
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VAMBÉRY Arminius
History of Bokhara, From the Earliest Period down to the Present
8vo, pp xxxv, 419, original red decorat. cloth, upper and lower of spine chippped, internally very good, partially uncut.
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Chin-Sung Chang (Contributor), Wen C. Fong (Contributor), Maxwell K. Hearn (Contributor, Editor)
Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (Hardcover)
4to, pp. 248 Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late-17th-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. An artist of protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest artistic innovations of late imperial China. This comprehensive study of the painters careerthe first published in Englishfeatures essays examining his life and achievement as well as his masterwork, the monumental scroll depicting the Kangxi emperors Southern Inspection Tour. Twenty-seven of Wang Huis paintings, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum and from museums in Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai, and Tokyo, are supplemented by a wealth of images ranging from ancient Chinese paintings to works by Wangs contemporaries.
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Widengren Geo
IL MANICHEISMO. TRADUZIONE DI QUIRINO MAFFI ED ENRICHETTA LUPPIS
8vo grande , pp. 319 (1) + 16 tavv. n.t. a col. e 38 tavv. n.t. in b.n. Tutta tela edit. con sovrac. ill.
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Yiyun Li
The Vagrants
first edition. The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer acclaimed by Michel Faber as having 'the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries to be a truly fine writer.' In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison. The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope, and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. We follow the pain of Gu Shan's parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families. Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy -- an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, and old couple making a living by scavenging the town's garbage cans -- are caught up in remorseless turn of events. Yiyun Li's novel is based on the true story which took place in China in 1979.
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Lin Yutang
UNA VEDOVA, UNA MONACA, UNA CORTIGIANA, E ALTRE FAMOSE NOVELLE CINESI. TRAD. DI PIERO JAHIER E MAY LIS RISSLER STONEMAN.
8vo, PP. 627. LEG. EDIT. IN TELA,
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A cura di Marco Müller e Alessandro Nicosia
Cento anni di cinema cinese 1905-2005. Ombre Elettriche
4to, cartonato, br., pp. 306, 250 tavv. col., cm 21x29,5.
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BENEDETTI EUGENIO
Storie Di Un Siciliano Mezzo Russso e Un po' Cinese
8vo, leg. tela edit in sovracoperta, pp. 206.
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CRESPIGNY, Rafe De
Northern Frontier: The Policies and Strategy of the Later Han Empire
8vo, card wrappers 630pp, folding map at back History of the Later Han Dynasty, 202BC -- 220AD
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Buck Pearl
CIELO CINESE
IN 16-MO LEGATURA EDITORIALE TITOLI ORO AL DORSO E AL PIATTO ANTERIORE, SOVRACOPERTA, PRIMA EDIZIONE strappetti alla sovracoperta, altrimenti ottimo.
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Turchin Peter and Sergey A. Nefedov
Secular Cycles (ISBN:978-0691136967)
8vo, cloth in dj 346 pages.20x6.40x1.20 inches.65 line illus. 62 tables. Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and, states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov explore the dynamics and causal connections between such demographic, economic, and political variables in agrarian societies and offer detailed explanations for these long-term oscillations - what the authors call secular cycles. "Secular Cycles" elaborates and expands upon the demographic-structural theory first advanced by Jack Goldstone, which provides an explanation of long-term oscillations. This book tests that theory's specific and quantitative predictions by tracing the dynamics of population numbers, prices and real wages, elite numbers and incomes, state finances, and sociopolitical instability. Turchin and Nefedov study societies in England, France, and Russia during the medieval and early modern periods, and look back at the Roman Republic and Empire. Incorporating theoretical and quantitative history, the authors examine a specific model of historical change and, more generally, investigate the utility of the dynamical systems approach in historical applications. An indispensable and groundbreaking resource for a wide variety of social scientists, "Secular Cycles" will interest practitioners of economic history, historical sociology, complexity studies, and demography.
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August Oliver
Il Fuggiasco Di Xiamen
8vo, br. ed. pag. 357. Xiamen e' una citta' sull'omonima isola rocciosa, collegata alla Cina sud-orientale da un'autostrada e due ponti: a una baia "disseminata di imbarcazioni e sfavillii erratici" fa da controcanto un agglomerato industriale fitto di immigrati "irregolari e affamati". Qui per lungo tempo ha spadroneggiato Lai Changxing, il tycoon che prima di diventare "il latitante piu' ricercato della Cina" e' stato il piu' famoso tra i nuovi ricchi del post-maoismo, di volta in volta definito come un semplice tofei ("bandito", anche se in senso non dispregiativo) o come un Robin Hood dispensatore di lavoro. E qui si insedia, alla fine degli anni Novanta, il giovane corrispondente del "Times" Oliver August, per il quale Lai e' l'emblema di una Cina con il piede in due staffe, che incoraggia i cittadini "ad agire sempre piu' liberamente, ma senza garantire che il loro operato rientri nella legalita". L'indagine-inseguimento nei luoghi dell'infanzia e dell'ascesa di Lai diventa allora un impressionante succedersi di "visioni" rivelatrici: 1'"obitorio umano" di Beihai e' la quintessenza di tutte le aree depresse; e la stessa Xiamen sembra il concentrato di un'interminabile transizione
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Feng Xiaogang with Original Music of Tan Dun
Legend of the Black Scorpion ( the banquet)
dvd. chinese epic film inspired by shakespeare's hamlet. with composer director tan dun's original music. ziyi zhang, star of crouching tiger and hero.
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Curtis Lionel
The Capital Question of China
8vo, xix, 322 p. : fold. maps. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth. inscription to an italian navy officer in shanghai on fep. china japan war
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The Saatchi Gallery and Jiehong, Jiang
The Revolution Continues: New Art From China (ISBN:0847832066)
oblong 4to, cloth in In his text Jiang Jiehong argues that the widespread destruction of traditional Chinese treasures by the Red Guards, especially in the early period of 1966, overshadows the entire period. Today's rebellious artistic spirit is, in fact, an extension of Mao's legacy. The extensive Saatchi collection of new Chinese art is presented in conjunction with Joshua Jiang's examination of the use of the colour red, the iconography of Mao, the sense of the collective and the use of textual language that derives from the calligraphy of the propaganda poster. This dramatic material will be published to coincide with the exhibitions at the new Saatchi Gallery. 264 pages.
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Samarani Guido
Cina Ventunesimo Secolo
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Laufer Berthold
Sino-Iranica, Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in Ancient Iran, with Special Reference to the History of Cultivated Plants and Products
8vo, cloth, pp.185-630. . Reprint of the 1919 volume originally published by the Field Museum of Natural History. Includes 5 appendices, a general and botanical index as well as an index of words. INTRRODUCTION l8j 220 The Pistachio 246 The Pomegranate 276 Sesame and Flax 288 The Coriander 397 Gaeden Pea and Broad Bean 35 307 Sat flower 324 Henna 334 The Olive 415 cassia Pods and Carob 420 Narcissus 427 Note on the Language of Fulin Fenugreek 446 aromatics 455 The Malayan Pose and Its Products 468 Persian Textiles 488 Manna 343 satoetida 366 Rice 372 Mysobalan 378 The DatePalm 385 The Spinach 392 Scgah Beet and Lettuce 399 The Almond 405 Iranian Minerals Metals and Precious Stones 503 Titles of the Sasanian Government 531 Iranian Elements in Mongol 572 The Indian Elements in the Persian Pharma 580 The Basil 586 General Index 599 Botanical
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Lin Yutang
Importanza Di Vivere
8vo, br. edit. Traduz.di P.Jahier. cm.12x20,5, pp.505.
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Soulié De Morant, Georges
L'épopée Des Jesuites Français En Chine 1534-1928
in-8. Broché, 295 p. Couverture originale assez bon etat.
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Riboud Marc, Jean Daniel
Quarante Ans De Photographie En Chine
4to, cart. éditeur toilé noir, sous jaquette imprimée. 31 x 25 Cms. 186 pages - in French - around 150 duotne plates, incl. various 2-page panoramas - photos taken in China between the 1950s and the 1990s by French photographer Marc Riboud (b.1923) who spent 50 years going to China and photographing its evolution - preface by French journalist Jean Daniel (b.1920) - annotated list of illustrations. quarant'anni di fotografie in cina.
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Faligot Roger
Les Services Secrets Chinois . De Mao À nos Jours
broch.pp.705- L'auteur a eu accès aux archives américaines, françaises, russes, chinoises. En Chine, à Hong Kong, au Japon, en Australie, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, il a interviewé des dizaines de spécialistes, hommes et femmes du renseignement, diplomates, responsables de la défense, dissidents, transfuges. servizi segreti secret services intelligence china chine cina.
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Bortone Fernando S. J.
I GESUITI ALLA CORTE DI PECHINO 1601-1813 - DUE SECOLI E MEZZO DI EROISMI PER LA DIFFUSIONE DELLA FEDE CATTOLICA IN CINA
8vo grande, LEGATURA IN BROSSURA EDITORIALE ILLUSTRATA, INTERNO CON MOLTI DISEGNI numero pagine: 298 formato: 25X17.5
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Adravanti Franco
Gengiz-Khan. (Primo imperatore del "Mirabile Dominium").
ril tela, sovrac. Prima edizione (First Edition). 8vo. Primo imperatore del "Mirabile Dominium". 11 tavole in nero e a colori e cartine disegnate dall'A. La storia pp. 378.
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GRIEKOV B. D. - IAKUBOVSKI A. IU.
L'orda D'oro
In 8° (23,5 cm) XVIII-366 pp L'invasione dei mongoli in Russia tra il XII e il XV sec. Con 2 carte a doppia pagina ripiegate fuori testo, indice dei nomi. Brossura originale,
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