AFGHANISTAN -- BOUILLANE DE LACOSTE, (H.) DE. Around Afghanistan. W. a preface by G. Leygues. Transl. by J.F. Anderson. Lond., 1909. Prof. ill. Cont. full green cf. w. gilt coat of arms of 'Harrow School' ("Stet Fortuna Domus") on front side. (Spine a bit faded, slightly foxed in a few places). First English edition. Copy from Charles Drummond Ellis, Summer 1913, Harrow. -- Added: M. DUBEUX & V. VALMONT. Tartarie, Beloutchistan, Boutan et Népal. (&) X. RAYMOND. Afghanistan. Par., 1848. W. 2 fold. maps & 24 plates. Obrds. (Extremities slightly dam., browned/foxed). -- (2).

BURMA -- KELLY, R.T. Burma, painted & described. Lond., 1905. W. cold. plates. Or. richly dec. cl. w. top edge gilt. (Spine a bit faded, spine ends slightly chipped, a bit foxing). -- V.C.S. O'CONNOR. Mandaly and other cities of the past in Burma. Lond., 1907. Prof. ill. Or. gilt dec. cl. w. top edge gilt. (Spine ends slightly worn). -- E.M. MENDELSON. Sangha and state in Burma. A study of monastic sectarianism and leadership. (1975). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- A.H. FISHER. Through India and Burmah with pen and brush. (c. 1910). W. ill. Or. pictorial cl. -- (4).

CHINA - JAPAN -- BING, S. Le Japon artistique. Documents d'art en d'industrie. Par., 1888-91. Tog. 36 parts in 2 vols. Sm-fol. W. 340 cold. & tinted full-p. plates, photographs & num. monochrome text-illustr. Cont. hcf., spines gilt. (Content a bit age-toned/slightly browned as usual, without the original issue's covers).

CHINA - JAPAN -- COULLERY, M.-Th. & M.S. NEWSTEAD. The Baur Collection Geneva: Netsuke. (1977). Thick 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- H. ARAKAWA. The Go Collection of Netsuke. Tokyo National Museum. (1983). 4°. Ocl. In or. slipcase. -- B. HURTIG. Masterpieces of Netsuke Art. One Thousand Favorites of Leading Collectors. (3rd pr. 1980). 4°. Or. simili silk cl. In or. slipcase. -- R. BUSHELL. Netsuke. Familiar & Unfamiliar. (1975). Lge-8°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 3 o. on Netsuke. (7).

CHINA - JAPAN -- DENSMORE, M. Les Estampes érotiques japonaises. Paris, Au Cercle du Livre Précieux, 1961. 44 pp. W. 60 magnificent reproductions of shunga prints, loose under passepartouts, of which 20 in colour. Loose as issued in traditional Japanese box w. 3 'ivory' fasteners. (Box shows some traces of use/has some unobtrusive defects, but a good copy). Limited to an ed. of 600 copies (this copy 'H.C.'), printed on fine laid paper. -- Added: Fr. PONCETTON. Les érotiques japonais. Recueil d'estampes du XVme au XIXme s. tirées des grandes collections parisiennes et précédées d'une étude sur l'art érotique japonais. Paris, Éd. du Siècle, 1925. (12) pp. W. 93 (of 100) reproductions of erotic prints, for a large part in colour. Loose as issued in or. portfol. In (damaged) slipcase. (Lacking unfortunately plates 56-62). Rare, one of the first anthologies of shunga prints. Printed in 225 numb. copies on Madagascar Lafuma. -- (2).

CHINA - JAPAN -- DINGLE, E.J. Across China on foot. Life in the interior and the reform movement. NY, 1911. W. fold. map & num. ill. Ocl. -- R.L. JACK. The back blocks of China. A narrative of experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi. Lond., 1904. W. 2 maps. & sev. plates. Ocl., uncut. (Spine ends worn, a bit foxed). -- W.E. GEIL. Eighteen capitals of China. Lond., 1911. W. plates. Ocl. (Ex libr. copy w. stamps). -- J. HEDLEY, Tramps in dark Mongolia. (1912). W. 1 fold. map & 33 ills. Or. pictorial cl. (Some minor foxing). -- And 2 o. (6).

CHINA - JAPAN -- IZZARD, S. Hiroshige/Eisen. The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido. (2007). 8°-obl. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- HIROSHIGE. Birds and flowers. Comment. by I. Goldman. (1988). Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Comment. on the plates by H.D. Smith II. (1986). Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- M. FORRER. Hokusai. W. texts by E. de Goncourt. (1988). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. In or. slipcase. -- And 3 similar. (7).

CHINA - JAPAN -- JAPANESE LACQUERED PHOTO ALBUM. (Japan, c. 1890). W. 50 fine hand-cold. photographs of Japanese scenery, temples, professions, activities, etc. (c. 200 x 260 mm each), all captioned, under hinged tissue guards on 25 thick cardboard and gilt-edged mounts. Lge-4°-obl. Cont. hcf. bind. w. black lacquered wooden sides w. bevelled edges, front cover gilt dec. and w. mother of pearl inlay representing a bird in flight, back cover w. gilt decorations of foliage and insects, gilt speckled endpapers. In cont. padded, cloth upholstered box. (Box a bit dam., outer corners of album a bit dam., spine ends slightly dam., but over all fine - the photographs hardly faded).

CHINA - JAPAN -- KERLEN, H. Catalogue of Pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands. Amst., 1996. Lge-8°. Ocl. (Japonica Neerlandica VI).

CHINA - JAPAN -- KEYES, R. The Art of Surimono. Privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. (London, 1985). 2 vols. Prof. illustr. Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. In or. slipcase. -- Added: (Ch. v. RAPPARD-BOON & L. BRUSCHKE-JOHNSON). Surimono. Poetry & Image in Japanese Prints. Leiden, (etc.), (2000). 4°. Owrps. -- (3).

CHINA - JAPAN -- KOKUHÔ. National treasures of Japan. Manichi Newspapers. Tokyo, 1967. 6 text- & 6 plate-vols.: The Protohistoric, Asuka, and Nara periods - Heian Period (8th to 11th centuries) - 11th & 12th centuries - Kamakura Period (12th to 14th centuries) - Late Kamakura Period (13th & 14th centuries) - Namboku-cho, Muromachi, Momoyama and Edo Periods (14th to 19th centuries). Fol. Or. white hcf. w. cloth-covered sides (plate-vols.) & ocl. (text-vols.). In 6 or. Japanese style cloth-covered boxes.

CHINA - JAPAN -- KONO BAREI (1844-1895). 'Bairei hyakucho gafu'. 1886. (Vol. 1 (of 3)). Harmonica fold. album containing 23 cold. and plain woodcuts of birds and birdlife, each woodcut w. central vertical fold. 185 x 243 mm each (plate size). Or. stiff wrps. on each end. (1 split rep., splits on folds in places (running into image), but in all in very good condition).

CHINA - JAPAN -- KÜRSCHNER, J., Hrsg. China. Schilderungen aus Leben und Geschichte Krieg und Sieg. Ein Denkmal den Streitern und der Weltpolitik. Lpz., (1901). W. 30 cold. plates, 1 memorial plate, 2 cold. maps (1 fold.) & 716 text-ills. 4°. Or. pictorial cl. (Bind. soiled/slightly worn, a bit browned). -- J. HENNINGSEN. Det himmelske rige. Skitter fra kina. Copenh., 1887. W. ill. Cont. floral hcf. w. owrps bound up. -- Added: A. HAMILTON. Korea. (2nd ed.). Lond., 1904. W. lge-fold. map & num. ills. Or. gilt dec. cl. -- (3).

CHINA - JAPAN -- LAZARNICK, G. The Signature Book of Netsuke. Inro and Ojime Artists in Photographs. (Hong Kong, 1976). 4°. Obrds. Standard work. -- Added: N.K. DAVEY. Netsuke. A Comprehensive Study based on the M.T. Hindson Collection. Rev. ed. (Lond., 1982). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 3 o. on Netsuke. (5).

CHINA - JAPAN -- LE FÈVRE, G. La Croisière Jaune. Expédition Citroën Centre-Asie. Troisième mission Georges-Marie Haardt, Louis Audouin-Dubreuil. Paris, Libr. Plon, 1933. xli, 344, (2) pp. W. 123 photographic illustr., 6 maps (2 on 1 fold. sheet, 1 double-p.). 4°. Beautiful or. citron crushed full mor. w. raised bands, top edge gilt, inside dentelles, silk endpapers. In or. slipcase.

CHINA - JAPAN -- (PANTZER, P. (&) J. WIENINGER). Japonismus in Wien/Japonisme in Vienna, 1870-1930. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- G.A. AUDSLEY (&) Th.W. CUTLER. The Grammar of Japanese Ornament. (1989). Fol. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- J.A. MICHENER. Japanese Prints. (1959). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (C. v. RAPPARD-BOON). Cat. of the coll. of Japanese prints. Rijksmus. Amst. 1977-90. 5 vols. 4°. Owrps. -- And 5 o. (13).

CHINA - JAPAN -- PAUTHIER, G. China ó descripcion histórica, jeográfica [sic] y literaria de este vasto imperio, segun documentos chinos. Parte primera (=all). Barcelona, 1845. W. 72 plates & 1 double-p. map. Cont. hcf. w. dec. gilt back. -- (E.D. FORGUES). La Chine ouverte. Aventures d'un Fan-Kouei dans le pays de Tsin par Old Nick. Ouvrage ill. p. A. Borget. Par., 1845. Prof. ill. Or. gilt dec. cl. (Extremities a bit dam./worn, some foxing). From the libr. of Bob Luza. -- J. DESSIRIER. A travers les Marches revoltées. Ouest-Chinois: Yun Nan - Se-Tchouen - Marches Thibétaines. (1923). W. ill. Cont. hcf. (A bit browned). -- (3).

CHINA - JAPAN -- SHIMIZU, Chr. Urushi, les laques du Japon. (1988). Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- M. & B. JAHSS. Inro and other miniature forms of Japanese lacquer Art. (1971). 4°. Or. black silk bind. w. dust-j. -- R. BUSHELL. The inro handbook. (1979). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 5 o. works on painting. (8).

CHINA - JAPAN -- STEIN, A. Ruins of desert Cathay. Personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. Lond., 1912. 2 vols. xxxviii, 546; xxi, (1), 517, (3) pp. W. 3 fold. colod. maps, 8 cold.d plates (each with a printed tissue guard), 339 photographic ill. on 212 plates (6 fold. panoramas). Ocl. w. gilt medallions on front covers, t.e.g.

CHINA - JAPAN -- TREGEAR, M. La céramique Song. Trad. p. M. Paul-David. (1982). Lge-4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- B. GRAY. Sung porcelain and stoneware. (1984). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- I. TANAKA, (a.o). Beauty and the selfless mind. 1981. 4°. Obrds. 15th anniversary catalogue of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo. Text Japanese-English. -- E.S. MORSE. Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese pottery. (1979). Sm-4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 3 similar. (7).

CHINA - JAPAN -- WEBER, V.-F. Ko-Ji Hô-Ten. Dictionnaire a l'usage des amateurs et collectionneurs d'objets d'art japonais et chinois. (Photomech. reprint of the ed. 1923). 1975. 2 vols. Prof. illustr. Fol. Ocl. -- Added: N. SEIROKU. The arts of Japan. (1978-80). 2 vols. -- P. RAMBACH. Le Bouddha secret du tantrisme japonais. (1978). Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 8 o. on Far Eastern culture. (13).

CHINA - JAPAN -- WRIGHT, G.N. China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire. Lond., Fisher, Son, & Co., (1843). 4 in 2 vols. W. 4 engr. ti-vign. & 124 steel-engr. views by Th. Allom. 4°. Cont. h. mor. extra. (Ti-p. of first vol. and a few plates a bit waterstained, some minor foxing, else a good set).

HEDIN, S. Through Asia. Lond., 1898. 2 vols. W. 2 fold. maps & num. ills. Or. gilt dec. cl. w. top edges gilt, uncut. (Extremities worn, weak hinges, libr. labels on front sides). -- Id. The silk road. (1938). W. fold. map & 31 plates. Cont. h. mor. (Spine discold., w. libr. stamp on ti.). -- Id. Big horse's flight. The trail of war in Central Asia. 1936. W. fold. map & plates. Ocl. (Bottom of spine slightly worn). -- F. BURNABY. A ride to Khiva: Travels and adventures in Central Asia. 8th ed. 1877. W. maps & plates. Cont. h. mor. -- Added: W.B. PERCEVAL, (a.o.). Pictorial New Zealand. 1895. Prof. ill. Or. gilt dec. cl. w. gilt edges. -- And 3 o. (9).

HIMALAYA -- WHITE, G.F. Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya mountains. Ed. by E. Roberts. 1838. W. engr. ti. & 36 plates. 4°. Fine cont. blind tooled & gilt dec. burgundy mor. w. gilt edges. (Front. lacks, underl. in places, loosening, some foxing). -- (R.L. BARRETT & K.R.E.). The Himalayan letters of Gypsy Davy and Lady Ba. 1927. W. maps. Or. green dec. cl. -- S. HEDIN. Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and adventures in Tibet. 1909-13. 3 vols. Prof. ill. Ocl. (Binds. a bit soiled/slightly worn). -- And 1 o. (6).

INDIA -- LANDOR, A.H.S. Across coveted lands or a journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland. Lond., 1902. 2 vols. W. 2 fronts., 2 fold. maps (1 loose) & num. ill. Or. dec. cl., uncut. (Binds. a bit soiled). -- And 2 in 3 o. on the subject. (5).

INDIA -- MACMILLAN, A., ed. Seaports of India & Ceylon. Historical and descriptive commercial and industrial facts, figures, & resources. Lond., 1928. 497, (1) pp. W. fold. cold. map & num. ills. 4°. Or. gilt dec. cl. w. gilt edges. (Spine browned, bind. a bit stained, all extremities worn/a bit dam., weak/strengthened hinges). - Rare.

INDIA -- MENPES, M. The Durbar. Text by D. Menpes. Lond., (1903). xii, 210 pp. W. 100 cold. plates. 4°. Or. ill. cl. w. top edge gilt, uncut. De luxe copy, signed by the author, 362/1000. -- Added: G.F. ATKINSON. "Curry & rice," on forty plates; or, the ingredients of social life at "our station" in India. Lond., (n.d. 1860). W. 40 tinted lithogr. plates (incl. title). 4°. Or. blind tooled & gilt dec. cl. w. gilt edges. (Extremities worn, lower joint partly split, hinges broken, quires loose in binding, a bit foxed in places). From the library of Bob Luza. -- (2).

INDIA -- PLAYNE, S. Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa. Their history, people, commerce, and industrial resources. Lond., 1917. 768 pp. Prof. ill. 4°. Or. full mor. w. raised bands, richly dec. gilt back, gilt dec. front side w. a gilt tiger's head on it, all edges gilt.

INDIA -- RIG-VEDA. Übers. & m. einem laufenden Komm. versehen v. K.F. Geldner. Cambr., MA, (etc.), 1951. 4 vols. 490; 435; 422; 271 pp. Lge-8°. Ocl. (Harvard Oriental Series 33-36). -- Added: M. MONIER-WILLIAMS. A Sanskrit-English dictionary. New ed., greatly enlarged & improved w. the collabor. of E. Leumann, C. Cappeller, a.o. scholars. (1974). Lge-4°. Ocl. -- K. MYLIUS. Wörterbuch Deutsch-Sanskrit. (2. durchges. Aufl. 1992). Obrds. -- And 4 o. in 5 vols. on Sanskrit. (11).

INDIA -- ROCHE, E. la. Indische Baukunst. Hrsg. unter Mitwirkung v. A. Sarasin. Mit e. Geleitwort v. H. Wölfflin u. e. Literaturverzeichnis v. E. Gratzl. München, F. Bruckmann, 1921-22. Tog. 6 vols.: 3 vols. of text & 3 vols. of plates. xx, 65 pp; x, -66-138; x, -139-218 pp. W. 555 illustr. in text and 165 plates (for the greater part tipped in and partly in colour), of which 40 "Doppeltafel" (double-p.) numbered I-XL, incl. map. Fol. (3) and lge-fol. Or. h. vellum w. marbled sides. (Binds. look a bit neglected: 5 spine ends in need of repair, lge-fol. binds. a bit warped, traces of staining in vol. 4 (but miraculously not affecting text nor plates), but complete and in very good interior condition).

INDIA -- (SOLTYKOFF, A.). Lettres sur l'Inde. Par., Amyot, 1848. (6), 375 pp. W. 1 map & 32 tinted lithogr. plates. Cont. h. mor. (Tear in top of spine, upper joint partly split, corners bumped, lower margin of plates stained, a bit boxed in places).

MONTPENSIER, (F.) Duc de. La ville au bois dormant. De Saïgon a Ang-Kor. Par., 1910. W. 2 maps & 89 ills. Cl. Copy with author's autograph dedication to Mr. Senart (Émile?). -- H. NORDEN. A wanderer in Indo-China. The chronicle of a journey through Annam, Tong-King, Laos, and Cambodgia, with some account of their people. (1931). W. fold. map & num. plates. Ocl. -- E.W. HUTCHINSON. Adventurers in Siam in the 17th century. 1940. W. 27 plates/maps. Ocl. (Bind. a bit faded/stained). -- M. COLANI. Recherches sur le préhistorique indochinois. (Extrait). (1930). W. plates & maps. Lge-8°. Hcl. extra. Copy with author's autograph dedication to Camille Jullian. -- (4).

TIBET -- GORÉ, F. Trente ans aux portes du Thibet interdit, 1908-38. 1939. W. 4 maps & num. ill. Lge-8°. Owrps., uncut (Spine ends rep. w. tape, wrps. a bit browned). Rare. -- W. FILCHNER. Quer durch Ost-Tibet. 1925. W. 2 fold. maps in rear pocket & num. ill. Lge-8°. Ohcl. -- M. PALLIS. Peaks and lamas. (1939). Prof. ill Ocl. -- And 3 o. (6).

TIBET -- LANDON, P. Lhasa. An account of the country and people of Central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English government in the year 1903-4. Lond., 1905. 2 vols. W. 7 maps (1 lge fold.) & num. plates. Ocl. (Rebacked w. or. spines mounted). -- L.A. WADDELL. Lhasa and its mysteries. With a record of the expedition of 1903-1904. (2nd ed.). 1905. W. 8 maps (3 fold.) & 114 plates. Cl. With author's autograph dedication to Dr. J. Dundas Grant. -- (3).

TIBET -- LANDOR, H.S. In the forbidden land. An account of a journey into Tibet capture by the Tibetan Lamas and soldiers, imprisonment, torure and ultimate release brought about by Dr. Wilson and the political Peshkar Karak Sing-Pal. NY/Lond., 1899. 2 vols. W. fold. map & num. plates. Or. pictorial cl., uncut. -- S. HEDIN. Adventures in Tibet. Lond., 1904. Prof. ill. Ocl. -- Id. Transhimalaja. Ontdekkingen en avonturen in Tibet. (Vert.) door H. Blink. Amst., 1910. 2 vols. Prof. ill. Ocl. (Foxing). -- (5).