BUDDHISM -- DÖHRING, K. Buddhistische Tempelanlagen in Siam. Bangkok, (etc.), 1920. 3 vols. Lge-8º. W. many plts. Obrds. (Some wear to extremities, slight pencil annot. in 1st vol.).

BUDDHISM -- HUNTINGTON, S.L. The "Pala-Sena" Schools of Sculpture. 1984. -- A.F. HOWARD. The imagery of the cosmological Buddha. 1986. -- 2 vols. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Studies in South Asian Culture, X & XIII).

BUDDHISM -- PAL, P. The Arts of Nepal. Leiden, (etc.), 1974-78. 2 vols. xvi, 186, (2); xiv, 174, (2) pp. W. 520 plain plates. Sm-4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Hdb. d. Orientalistik, VII-3, iii-2).

BUDDHISM -- PLEYTE, C.M. Die Buddha-Legende in den Skulpturen des Tempels von Bôrô-Budur. 1901. W. 127 ill. Book dec. by G. v.d. Wall Perné. 4°. Ocl w. gilt dec. & lettering. -- H.I. JESSUP, (a.o., eds.). Sculpture of Angkor and ancient Cambodia. Millenium of glory. (1997). Prof. illustr. 4º. Obrds. w. dust-j. (Fine). -- E.D. SAUNDERS. Mudrâ. A study of symbolic gestures in Japanese Buddhist sculpture. (1960). W. 16 plates. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Some shelfwear). -- A. GETTY. The gods of Northern Buddhism. Their history, iconography and progressive evolution through the Northern Buddhist countries. (1977). Prof. ill. Lge-8°. Ocl. w. dust-j. & slipcase. -- And 4 o. (8).

BUDDHISM -- PREMATILLEKE, L. (a.o., eds.). Senarat Paranavitana commemoration volume. 1978. W. a front. & plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- S. BANDARANAYAKE. Sinhalese monastic architecture. The Vihâras of Anurâdhapura. 1974. W. illustr. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- D. CHIHARA. Hindu-Buddhist architecture in Southeast Asia. 1996. W. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (3).

BURMA -- COOLER, R.M. The Karen bronze drums of Burma. Types, iconography, manufacture and use. Leiden, 1995. 4º. Ocl. w. dustj. (Very good condition).

CHINA -- MULLIE, J. Het Chineesch taaleigen. Inleiding tot de gesproken taal (Noord-Pekineesch dialekt). Pei-P'ing, Drukkerij der Lazaristen, 1930-33. 3 vols. xxxiii, 509; (4), 607; (4) 440 pp. W. fold. table. Cl. bindings. - Rare.

CHINA - JAPAN -- CALZA, G.C. Poem of the pillow and other stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other artists of the Floating World. (2010). 4°. Obrds. -- K.K. ITO. Visions of desire. Tanizaki's fictional worlds. (1991). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- J. EYFERTH. Eating rice from bamboo roots. The history of a papermaking community in West China, 1839-1998. (2000). Owrps. -- T. HSUEH-CHIN & K. NGO. A dream of red mansions. (1978). 3 vols. Ohcl. w. dust-j. -- And 18 o. (mainly literary works in English translation). (24).

GOLE, S. Indian maps and plans from earliest times to the advent of European surveys. (1989). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. Signed by the author. -- Id. Maps of Mughal India. 1988. Fol.-obl. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- K. NEBENZAHL. Mapping the Silk Road and beyond. (2004). 4°-obl. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- L. WALTER, hrsg. Japan mit den Augen des Westens gesehen. 1993. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Added: H. WILLIAMS. Turquerie. An 18th-c. European fantasy. (2014). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- And 9 o. (14).

INDIA -- ARASARATNAM, S. Dutch power in Ceylon, 1658-87. (1958). Ocl. w. (slightly dam.) dust-j. -- T. RAYCHAUDHURI. Jan Company in Coromandel, 1605-90. 1962. W. 1 fold. map. Owrps. -- H.K. 'sJACOB. De Nederlanders in Kerala 1663-1701, de memories & instructies betreffende het Commissariaat Malabar v.d. VOC. 1976. W. 1 map, loosely inserted. Ocl. -- J.Ph. VOGEL, (ed.). Journaal van J.J. Ketelaar's hofreis naar den Groot Mogol te Lahore 1711-13. 1937. W. maps & plts. Ocl. (Partly unopened). -- A.W.P. VERKERK PISTORIUS & P.A. v.d. LITH. De grondslagen van het Britsch-Indisch beheer. 1876. Ocl. -- And 24 o. (29).

INDIA -- BROWN, R.L. The Dvâravatî Wheels of the Law and the indianization of South East Asia. Leiden, 1995. W. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, Vol. 18).

INDIA -- CHATTERJEE, K. Merchants, politics & society in early modern India. Bihar: 1733-1820. 1996. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- G. DUNBAR. A history of India from the earliest times to the present day. 1949. 2 vols. W. 1 fold. map & ill. Ocl. -- R. DUTT. The economic history of India in the Victorian Age (&) under early British rule. 7th ed. 1950. 2 vols. Ocl w. (shelfworn) dust-j. -- P.E. ROBERTS. History of British India under the Company and the Crown. 1970. W. fold. map. Ocl. (Modest annot. in pencil throughout). -- And 7 o. (13).

INDIA -- HUNTER, W.W. Annals of rural Bengal. Vol. 1 (all published). 1868. Ocl. (Some shelfwear). -- Id. The Indian Empire: Its people, history, & products. (1st ed.). 1882. W. 1 fold. map. Or. blindtooled & gilt dec. cl. (Spine dam., hinges weak, small tear in lower right corner of map, binding delicate in places). -- H.G. KEENE. History of India. 1893. 2 vols. W. maps & plates. Ocl. (Some shelfwear, some dam. to front of vol. 2, fold. map in vol. 2 reinforced with small adhesive tape in right hand corners). -- (4).

INDIA -- HUNTER, W.W. Bombay, 1885-90. A study in Indian administration. Lond. & Bombay, (1892). Ocl. w. gilt lettering. (Some shelfwear but a fine copy, modest tickets & stamps on title-p.). First ed. Presentation slip to the library of the Tweede Kamer on paste-down. -- Id. The Indian Empire: Its people, history, & products. 2nd ed. 1886. W. 1 fold. map. Ocl., blindtooled dec. & gilt publisher's emblem. (Spine sunned, hinges weak, small tickets & stamps). -- (2).

INDIA -- HUNTER, W.W. Life of the Earl of Mayo, 4th viceroy of India. 2nd ed. 1876. 2 vols. Ocl. w. gilt dec. (Spines sunned, library tickets on front of vol. 1, modest tickets & stamps on title-p.).

INDIA -- HUNTER, W.W. Orissa. Lond., 1872. 2 vols. W. 1 zincograph front., 1 fold. map in sleeve at front of vol. 1, many engr. plts & ills. Ocl. w. gilt title. (Spines sunned, some shelfwear, front. to vol. 1 discold., front. to vol. 2 bit loose, spotting mostly lim. to edges, modest tickets & stamps on title-pp.).

INDIA -- HUNTER, W.W., (ed.). The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Lond., 1881. 9 vols., incl. extensive index. W. 9 fold. cold. maps. Dark green h. mor., gilt lettering. (Spines discold., modest tickets & stamps on title-p.). -- Added: C.R. MARKHAM. A memoir on the Indian Surveys. (Reprint of the 2nd ed. 1878. 1968). W. 5 fold. maps. -- (10).

INDIA -- KAYE, J.W. A history of the Sepoy war in India 1857-58. 2nd-8th ed. Lond., 1876-78. 3 vols. W. several fold. maps, some cold. Ocl., partly unopened. (Spines sunned, some shelfwear, some spotting, vol. 3: hinges weak, modest tickets & stamps on title-p.).

INDIA -- LETHBRIDGE, R. The Golden Book of India. A geneological and biographical dictionary of the (…) Indian Empire. 1983. Or. gilt tooled cl. w. gilt edges. (Cloth of the spine dam. & torn, hinges weak, binding solid and surprisingly little spotting or yellowing, stamp & blindstamp of The Minerva Library, Simla on the French title). -- A. NEWCOMBE. Village, town and jungle life in India. 1905. W. 1 map & many photo ill. Ocl. (Wear to extremities, some yellowing). -- F.E. PENNY. Southern India. 1914. W. cold. plates w. tissue guards by Lady Lawley. Or. richly dec. cl. -- L. THOMAS. India: Land of the black pagoda. (1931). W. many photo ill. Ocl. -- R. CAMERON. Time of the mango flowers. (1958). W. many photo illustr. Ocl. -- (5).

INDIA -- MINIATURES -- FALK, T. & M. ARCHER. Indian miniatures in the India Office Library. 1981. W. cold. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- A. OKADA. Indian miniatures of the Mughal Court. (1992). W. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- M.C. BEACH & E. KOCH. King of the World. The Padshahnama. An imperial Mughal manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. (1997). Prof. illustr. w. many cold. & b&w plts. 4º. -- H.J. STOOKE (a.o.). The Laud Ragamala miniatures. A study in Indian painting and music. (1953). W. mounted cold. & b&w plts. Lge 8º. Ocl. -- And 4 o. (8).

INDIA -- PERCIVAL, P. The land of the Veda. India briefly described (…). 1854. W. fold. map & several plts. Ocl. (Spine dam., cl. discold., some spotting in parts). -- A.Y. ALI. The making of India. 1925. W 5 fold. maps. Ocl. -- F. YOUNGHUSBAND. Kashmir. 1924. W. several plts. by E. Molyneux. Ocl. (Some chafing at extremities). -- J.A. SPENDER. The Indian Scene. (1912). Ocl. -- A. CHEVRILLON. Romantic India. Transl. from the French by W. Marchant. 1897. Ocl. (Some chafing, stamps & tickets, ex libris on first free endpaper). -- And 20 o. (25).

INDIA -- PRIOR, K. & J. ADAMSON. Maharajas' jewels. Par., Assouline, (2000). W. many plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- O. UNTRACHT. Traditional jewelry of India. N.Y., (1997). Prof. ill. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- S. STRONGE, (a.o.). A golden treasury. Jewellery from the Indian subcontinent. Lond., (1988). W. many photo ill. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- R.J. MEHTA. The handicrafts & industrial arts of India. Bombay, (1960). Ocl. (Very well preserved). -- And 2 o. (6).

INDIA -- SMITH, V.A. Akbar, the great Mogul, 1542-1605. 2nd rev. ed. (1927). Ocl. w. dust-j. (Some shelfwear). -- E.B. HAVELL. The history of Aryan rule in India from the earliest times to the death of Akbar. (1918). W. 1 fold. map & plts. Ocl. -- A. BUTENSCHÖN. The life of a Mogul princess. Jahânarâ Begam, daughter of Shâhjahân. 1931. Ocl. -- B.K. GUPTA. Sirajuddaullah and the East India Company, 1756-57. Background to the foundation of British power in India. Leiden, (Photomech. repr. ed. (1962) 1966). Ocl. -- And 6 o. (10).

INDIA -- SRINIVASAN, D.M. Many heads, arms and eyes. Origin, meaning and form of multiplicity in Indian art. Leiden, 1997. W. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- C. PACKERT ATHERTON. The sculpture of early medieval Rajasthan. Leiden, 1997. W. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- K. BRUHN. The Jina-images of Deogarh. Leiden, 1969. W. plts., line drawings & 4 fold. maps (loosely inserted). 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (3).

INDIA -- ZEBROWSKI, M. Deccani painting. (1983). Prof. illustr. w. b&w & cold. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- P. PAL. Court paintings of India. 16th-19th centuries. (1983). W. many cold. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. A collecting Odyssey. Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art from the (…) Alsdorf Collection. (1997). 4º Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. Indian Painting. A catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Vol. 1, 1000-1700. (1993). W. many b&w & cold. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. Desire and devotion. Art from India Nepal & Tibet (…) Ford Collection. 2001. W. cold. plts. 4º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 10 o. (15).

JAPAN -- COLLECTION of 402 fine photographs of Japanese country side scenery, shrines and temples, festivities, beauties, vendors, professions and handicrafts, activities, etc. c. 1900's. All (but 5) coloured by hand. 235 photographs sized c. 200 x 260 mm and 168 photographs sized c. 93 x 137 mm. For the greater tipped in/laid down on greyish limp paper mounts from the period. The larger photographs partly captioned in the image. (Apart from some obvious slight fading/age-toning in very good condition, NB all photographs can be easily removed from mounts).

JAPAN -- HOFFMANN, J.J. Japansche spraakleer. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, 1868. (14), 348, (4) pp. Lge-8°. Or. printed wrps., unopened. (Front side loose, spine a bit worn/dam.). - Scarce.

JAPAN -- MATSUKI KOAN -- SEVERIN, R. (Portrait of the Japanese medic Matsuki Koan). (1862). Oval albumen print, laid down on cardboard. 206 x 158 mm. W. circular ticket on v°: "R[obert] Severin photographe du roi, 109 Noordeinde, La Haye" and w. blind letter stamp at the foot of the photo. -- Added: (William SAUNDERS?). (Portrait of a Chinese medic). Dated 1861 on v°. Oval albumen print, laid down on cardboard. 206 x 158 mm. -- (2).

NEPAL -- LÉVI, S. Le Népal, étude historique d'un royaume hindou. Paris, 1905-08. 3 vols. W. 1 fold. plate, loose as issued, 1 double-p. map, 22 full-p. plates and illustr. in text. Lge-8°. Very fine black h. mor. binds., uncut, t.e.g. First edition. Rare. -- Added: S. LÉVI. Mémorial. Paris, 1937. xlix, 437, (3) pp. 4°. Owrps., uncut. -- And: H. OLDENBERG. Le Bouddha, sa vie, sa doctrine, sa communauté. Avec une préf. de S. Lévi. Paris, F. Alcan, 1894. Blue hcf., t.e.g. Rare. -- (5).

TIBET -- PAL, P. Art of Tibet. Expanded ed. (1990). Prof. ill. Lge-8º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. Tibetan paintings. (1984). Prof. ill. Lge-8º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- I.A. BAKER. The Dalai Lama's secret temple. Tantric wall paintings from Tibet. 2000. W. photographs by Th. Laird. Lge 8º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- S.M. KOSSAK, (a.o.). Sacred Visions. Early paintings from Central Tibet. 1998. Prof. ill. Lge-8º. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- And 2 o. (6).