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The Raven Crown The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan

By: Aris, Michael

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Singapore, Times Editions - Marshall Cavendish: 2005

Seller ID: ID308700

ISBN: 9812611894

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Black & white map. 160 pages The story of Bhutan's Wangchuk dynsty illustrated with rare historical photographs.
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China Korea and Japan: The Rose of Civilization in East Asia

By: Barnes, Gina L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1993

Seller ID: ID310164

ISBN: 0500050716

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. 288 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Lady Raffles By Effort & Virtue

By: Bastin, John

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Singapore, National Museum Singapore: 1999

Seller ID: ID290487

Binding: Hardback

12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket as issued. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. 122 pages
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Swords for Hire. European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India

By: Bidwell, Shelford

Price: $28.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1971

Seller ID: ID313120

ISBN: 0719524326

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear and mild age-toning to dustjacket edges and corners. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Fold-out map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 258 pages.
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Zhu Rongji and the Transformation of Modern China

By: Brahm, Laurence J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Singapore, John Wiley & Sons: 2002

Seller ID: ID276259

ISBN: 0470820632

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 302 pages Zhu Rongji is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.
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The Nationalist Movement Indian Political Thought from Ranade to Bhave

By: Brown,D. MacKenzie

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, University of California Pre: 1961

Seller ID: ID5925

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good Condition. Covers lightly rubbed and interior starting to tan with age. Previous owner's initials to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 244 pages Illuminates the events in 19th century India flowing from the first strongly defined nationalistic movement, which aimed first for reformand later at independence from Britain.
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Out of Asia Asian Themes 1958-66

By: Buchanan, Keith

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sydney, Sydney University Press: 1968

Seller ID: ID308068

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Mild edgewear tand rubbing o dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Includes Indices. 320 pages
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Mission with Mountbatten

By: Campbell-Johnson, Alan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1985

Seller ID: ID211915

ISBN: 0241115361

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with 16 Black and White Photographs. 383 pages With a Forword by the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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Inside Afghanistan After The Taliban. The Punishment of Virtue.

By: Chaynes, Sarah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: St Lucia, University of Queensland Press: 2006

Seller ID: ID291262

ISBN: 0702235881

Binding: Trade Paperback

Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 386 pages 'The Punishment of Virtue' charts the course of a story whose tragic climax was not inevitable, but rather was the result of misguided and shortsighed policies.
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China Live Two Decades in the Heart of the Dragon

By: CHINOY, Mike

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Turner Publishing: 1997

Seller ID: ID11477

ISBN: 1570363609

Binding: Hardcover

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 397pages.
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The Heart of the Dragon

By: Clayre, Alasdair

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Collins Harvill: 1984

Seller ID: ID306734

ISBN: 0002721155

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Faint blue remainder mark to lower edge. Maps to endpapers. 281 pages .
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Foreign Mud Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed

By: Collis, Maurice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1946

Seller ID: ID312870

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good condition. No dustjacket. Yellow boards are moderately soiled and age-toned at edges with a bookplate to the front pastedown and age-toning to page edges. INterior very good. Black and White plates and a black & white map at rear. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 318pages + Map.
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The Family in Asia

By: Das, Man Singh & Bardis, Panos D. [Editors]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: 1979

Seller ID: ID311682

ISBN: 0043010970

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Uncommon title. 431 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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The Fishing Fleet. Husband-Hunting in the Raj

By: De Courcy, Anne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2012

Seller ID: ID284355

ISBN: 0297868470

Binding: Trade Paperback

Very Good condition. Missing free endpaper and upper edge of title page clipped. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 335 pages.
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Indonesia Yesterday and Today

By: de Iongh, R.C. [Editor]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Ian Novak Publishing Co.: 1973

Seller ID: ID307731

ISBN: 0855730048

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Black cloth boards with red title and ilustration to covers. Maps to endpapers. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs, Maps and Drawings. 189 pages
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Curzon in India. Volume One Achievement, Volume Two Frustration [2 Volumes]

By: Dilks, David

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1969

Seller ID: ID288264

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Bookplate to Front Free End paper. Bookseller stamp/label to front paste-down Illustrated with Black and White Photographs . 296 pages Volume 1 - Achievement, Volume 2 - Frustration. The authoritative study of Curzon's Viceroyalty of India.
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Mapping an Empire: Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843

By: Edney, Matthew

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1997

Seller ID: ID255676

ISBN: 0226184889

Binding: Trade Paperback

A Near Fine copy. As new condition. B/w maps. 458 pages
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The Necessary Hell. John and Henry Lawrence and the Indian Empire

By: Edwardes, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1958

Seller ID: ID273315

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Red cloth boards. Black & white illustrations. 213 pages This is not a biography of the Lawrences but rather uses the experiences of these two people to illuminate the structure of nineteenth century India.
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High Noon of Empire India under Curzon

By: Edwardes, Michael

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1965

Seller ID: ID251638

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ is price clipped and now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 266 pages This book is a view of British India when it reached its Zenith at the turn of the 19th century. The author looks at the vice-royalty of Lord Curzon and his attempt to revive and re-state the crusading purpose that the British had abandoned after the Mutiny of 1857.
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Pacific Destiny. Inside Asia Today

By: Elegant, Robert

Price: $13.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1990

Seller ID: ID5000

ISBN: 0241127564

Binding: Hardcover

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has only some light edgewear & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. B/w map to front. 532pages.
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Category: History-Asia