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CHINA - JAPAN -- BROOK, T., ed. History of imperial China: The early Chinese empires. - China between empires. - China's cosmopolitian China. - The age of Confucian rule. - The troubled empire. - China's last empire. - 2007-10. 6 vols. Ohcl. w. dust-j. -- E.J. TENG. Taiwan's imagined geography. Chinese colonial travel writing and pictures, 1683-1895. 2004. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Added: J.C. BOYAJIAN. Portuguese trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640. (1993). -- And 2 o. (10).

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CHINA - JAPAN -- ELLSWORTH, R.H. Later Chinese painting and calligraphy, 1800-1950. N.Y., Random House, (1987). 3 vols. Prof. ill. Ocl. w. all edges gilt. In ocl. box. - As new.

CHINA - JAPAN -- JAPANESE souvenir photo album. c. 1910. With 9 cardboard leaves covered with green/yellow cloth and finished w. (hand-painted) silk. Containing 71 picture postcards from the 1910's-1920's: Japan (8), Dutch East Indies (23), Egypt (5), Italy (13) and others, partly w. circulation marks. Or. bind. (275 x 355 mm) w. black lacquered wooden sides w. bevelled edges and with decorated and inlaid front side depicting a couple on the shore of a lake with Mount Fuji in the background. (Horizontal crack in front side, extremities a bit chafed, but in all in good condition).

CHINA - JAPAN -- LIU, C.Y., (a.o.). Recarving China's past. Art, Archeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines". (2005). Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- E.C. BUNKER & J.M. WHITE. Adornment for the body and soul. Ancient Chinese ornaments from the Mengdiexuan Collection. (1999). 4°. Owrps. -- XIAONENG YANG, ed. The golden age of Chinese archaeology. (1999). Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- WU HUNG. The art of the Yellow Springs. Understanding Chinese tombs. (2010). 4°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- And 2 o. (6).

CHINA - JAPAN -- PRIP-MØLLER, J. Chinese Buddhist Monasteries. Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life. (2nd ed.). Hong Kong, Hong Kong UP, (1967). (16), 396 pp. W. 4 loose plates in sleeve at end and 365 illustr. in text. Fol. Ocl. w. mylar dust-j. In (a bit soiled/stained) or. slipcase. - Standard work.

CHINA - JAPAN -- TURNBULL, S. Strongholds of the Samurai. Japanese castles 250-1877. (2009). Obrds. w. dust-j. -- (YEUNG CHUN-TONG). The silk road in Ningxia. (2008). 4°. Obrds. -- (A. CHOW). The silk road in inner Mongolia. (2007). 4°. Obrds. -- HUNTING AND RITUALS: Treasures from the Ancient Dian Kingdom of Yunnan. (2004). 4°. Owrps. -- And 7 o. (11).

CHINA - JAPAN -- WECHSLER, H.J. Offerings of jade and silk. Ritual and symbol in the legitimation of the T'ang dynasty. (1985). -- C.J. BROKAW. Commerce in culture. The Sibao book trade in the Qing and republican periods. 2007. -- V. HANSEN. Negotiating daily life in traditional China. How ordinary people used contracts, 600-1400. (1995). -- R. BORGEN. Sugawara no Michizane and the early Heian Court. 1986. -- A. BURKUS-CHASSON. Through a forest of chancellors. Fugitive histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an illustr. book from 17th c. Suzhou. (2010). 4°. -- 5 vols. Or. binds. w. dust-j. -- And 4 o. (9).

CHINA - JAPAN -- YASUSHI, M. (&) K. TADASHI, eds. Rimpa Painting: Flowering Plants and Birds of the Four Seasons - Seasonal Flowering Plants - Landscapes, Birds and Animals - Scenes from Literature, People - Assorted Themes. (Kyoto), Shikosha (Art Books), 1989-92. 5 vols. W. num. cold. illustr., and of a stunning quality. Lge-4°. Or. yellow silk binds. In or. slipcases and boxed. - Texts in Japanese and extracts in English. As new.

GIÈS, J., dir. Les arts de l'Asie centrale. La collection Paul Pelliot du musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet. Par., (1995-96). 2 vols. 372; 445 pp. W. num. plain & cold. plates. Fol. Ocl. w. imitation vellum backs. In or. slipcases. -- Added: Id. The arts of Central Asia. The Pelliot Collection in the Musée Guimet. Transl. by H. Friesen. (1996). 4°. Ocl. (Textvol. only). -- (3).

INDIA -- SCHLINGLOFF, D. Erzählende Wandmalereien. Narrative wall-paintings. Wiesbaden, 2000. 3 vols. 4°. Owrps. In or. slipcase. - M. ZIN. Devotionale und ornamentale Malereien. Wiesbaden, 2003. 1 text- & 1 plate vol. 4° & 4°-obl. Obrds. & owrps. - 5 vols. (Ajanta, Handb. der Malereien, 1-2).

MONGOLIA -- FLEMING, Z. (&) J. LKHAGVADEMCHIG SHASTRI, ed. Mongolian Buddhist Art: Masterpieces from the Museums of Mongolia. Vol. I, part 1-2: Thangkas, appliqués and embroideries. Chicago, Serindia Publ., (2011). 2 vols. 663; -664-1015 pp. Prof. illustr., entirely in colour. Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j.

NEPAL -- GUTSHOW, N. Architecture of the Newars. A history of building typologies and details in Nepal. Chicago, (2011). 3 vols. Prof. ill. 4°. Ocl. In or. slipcase.

TIBET -- DORJE, G., (ed.). Tibetan elemental divination paintings. Illuminated manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho with the Moonbeams treatise of Lo-chen Dharmasrî. Lond., 2001. 432 pp. Prof. ill. Fol. Ocl. in ocl. box.

TIBET -- KALSANG, J. Tibetan astro science. (2000). W. deck of 'Astro Cards' & 'Astro Wheel'. - D. DAWA. A clear mirror of Tibetan medicinal plants. (1999). - NAMGYAL MONKS. Kalachakra. (1996). - 3 vols. publ. by 'Tibet Domani'.Prof. ill. 4°. Obrds.

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TIBET -- TUCCI, G. Tibetan painted scrolls. An artistic and symbolic illustration of 172 Tibetan paintings preceeded by a survey of the historical, artistic, literary and religious development of Tibetan culture with an article of P. Pelliot on a Mongol edict, the translation of historical documents and an appendix on prebuddhistic ideas of Tibet. (Repr. ed. 1949. Bangkok, SDI publ., 1999). 2 text-vols. & 1 plate-vol. Fol. (2) & lge-fol. Or. binds.

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