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*** Central
Asia ***
SERINDIA: DETAILED REPORT
OF THE EXPLOATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST ASIA
Volumes I, II, III: Text
Volume IV: Plates
Volume V: Maps
Sir Aurel Stein
Publication Date: 1921 (FIRST EDITION)
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*** Himalayas
& Mountaineering***
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*** Nepal***
LAND OF
THE EYE:
A NARRATIVE OF THE LABORS, ADVENTURES, ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS
OF THE DENIS-ROSSEVELT ASIATIC EXPEDITION TO BURMA, CHINA, INDIA
AND THE LOST KINGDOM OF NEPAL
by Hassoldt Davis
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1940.
Hardback. 415 pages. Illustrated end-papers, B&W photographs,
Index.
Signed
by the author.
Weight: 830 g (29.1
oz).
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MEDIEVAL NEPAL - PARTS 1 AND 2
by D R Regmi
This two-volume
work covers the history of Nepal in the medieval period. It starts
from the end of the Lichhavi period (about the middle of the
8th century AD) and ends with the rise of the Prithvinarayan
Shah who laid the foundation of modern Nepal (1770-68 AD).
Calcutta: K L Mukhopadhyay,
1965
Hardback with cloth binding. Vol I: 1076 pages; Vol II: 761 pages.
B&W illustrations and line drawings. Maps.
Weight: 2150 g (75.3 oz).
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*** Tibet ***
TIBETAN PAINTED SCROLLS
VOLUMES I & II: Text
VOLUME III: Plates
Giuseppi Tucci
An artistic and symbolic illustration of 172 Tibetan paintings
preceded by a survey of the historic, aritistic, literary and
religious development of Tibetan culture, with an article of
P. Pelliot on a Mongol edit, the translation of historical documents
and an appendix of pre-Buddhistic ideas of Tibet.
Rome, La Libreria Dello Stato, 1949 (FIRST EDITION)
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TIBETAN SKY LINES
By Robert B. Ekvall
A missionary's
experiences in Tibet where he lived for several years before
the Chinese invasion.
This is a picture of Tibet and Ekvall's nomad friends, such as
one might expect only from a Tibetan himself. The author, who
was living in North East Tibet at the lamasery center of Taktsang
Lhamo, takes the reader on a ride with yak caravans to the winter
encampment of Duggur. Duggur is fat, sixty, rich with many cattle
and two wives. This is a story of high adventure and a study
of a strange and admirable people. There is a freshness and authenticity
about the book which sets it apart from contemporary reading.
New York: Farrar, Straus and
Young, Inc., 1952.
Hardback. 240 pages. Jacket.
Weight: 420 g (14.7 oz).
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WIND BETWEEN THE WORLDS:
THE EXTRAORDINARY FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT OF A WESTERNER'S LIFE
IN TIBET AS AN OFFICIAL OF THE DALAI LAMA'S GOVERNMENT
By Robert Ford
Robert
Ford went to Tibet during the war as a radio officer. After the
war the Tibetan government invited him to return to Tibet and
set up a radio network between Lhasa andthe remote rural communities.
He loved Tibet, learned the language and adopted the customs
of the countrty. Upon the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Ford refused
to leave his post and was captured and spent five years imprisoned
by the Chinese.
New York: David McKay Company,
Inc., 1957.
Hardback. 338 pages. Jacket.
Weight: 600 g (21 oz).
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*** Miscellaneous ***
AMERICAN PRIMITIVE WATERCOLORS
Edited by Mary C Black. Introductory material with a foreword
by Bruce Catton.
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more
of the colour plates
New York, Art in America, no date.
4 pages and 16 folios. A collection of 16 loose colour plates
inside 18"x 24" cloth portfolios, as issued. Weight:
1400 g (49 oz).
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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TOUR IN
AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF STRANGE AND PRIMITIVE LANDS, THEIR PEOPLES
AND CUSTOMS MANY OF WHICH WERE PERSONALLY INVESTIGATED BY DR.
JACOBUS
New York: Falstaff Press, Inc.,
1937.
Paperback. 44 pages. 120 B&W photographs.
Weight: 100 g (3.5 oz).
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THE DEVIL'S PICTURE-BOOKS:
A HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS
By Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer
"The
'Devil's Books' was the name bestowed upon Playing-cards by the
Puritans and other pious souls who were probably in hopes that
this name would alarm timid persons and so prevent their use.That
many nations have cards peculiar to their own country and almost
unknown beyond its boundaries may be a matter of surprise to
some; that such ordinary and familiar objects as Playing-cards
should have a history, will astonish others." - From the
author's preface.
Topics covered in this fascinating book include: the history
of the earliest cards; parallels between cards and chess; the
classification of cards into suits; the hisory and design of
cards from various lands; and the history of the cards known
as the King, Queen, Knave and Ace.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company,
1895.
Hardback. 207 pages. Illustrated.
Weight: 1400 g (49 oz).
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EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
By W. Max Muller
Boston: Marshall Jones Company,
1923.
Hardback. 447 pages. Profusely Illustrated with Notes and Bibliography.
Weight: 1100 g (38.5 oz).
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THE FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND THEIR ALLIES
THE CLUB-MOSSES, PEPPERWORTS, AND HORSETAILS
by Anne Pratt
Descriptions
and full-page colour lithograph plates of the British ferns,
club-mosses, pepperworts and horsetails. Anne Pratt was the author
of "Our Native Songsters," "Wild Flowers,"
etc.
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here to see the title page and some illustrations from this book
London, Committee of General Literature and Education appointed
by The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Second
edition. No date [circa 1862].
Hardback (rebound). 164 pages. 41 full colour plates and 6 line
drawings.
Weight: 750 g (26.3 oz).
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THE HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION:
ITS EXTENT, CAUSES AND EFFECTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
By William W. Sanger, M.D.
A comprehensive
country-by-country examination of prostitution from the earliest
times up to the mid-19th century. The author, a medical doctor,
wanted to dispel what he called the "remarkable ignorance"
in the public on this controversial subject.
New York: The Medical Publishing
Co., 1897.
Hardback. 709 pages. Appendix, Index.
Weight: 1100 g (38.5 oz).
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THE INDUS RIVERS:
A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PARTITION
Michel, Aloys A
New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1967.
Hardback. Dustjacket. Pages: xxvii + 595.
24 tables; 8 maps. Appendix, bibliography, index.
Slightly torn dustjacket which is protected by plastic wrapper,
edges of the cover are slightly rubbed, stains on front endpaper.
Otherwise book is very clean
Size: 160 x 240 mm. Weight: 1100 g.
Good.
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MARQUIS DE SADE'S ANTHROPOLOGIA
SEXUALIS OF 600 PERVERSIONS: 120 DAYS OF SODOM, OR THE SCHOOL
FOR LIBERTINAGE AND THE SEX LIFE OF THE FRENCH AGE OF DEBAUCHERY
FROM PRIVATE ARCHIVES OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
by Dr. Iwan Bloch.
Translated and Edited by Raymond
Sabatier.
"Privately
issued by the anthropological branch of the Falstaff Press for
exclusive subscription of adult students of anthropology and
members of the cultured professions."
New York: Falstaff Press Inc., 1934.
Hardback. 334 pages. Illustrated with Half-Tones, Bibliography.
Weight: 850 g (29.8 oz).
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PHALLISM IN ANCIENT WORSHIPS:
ANCIENT SYMBOL WORSHIP, INFLUENCE OF THE PHALLIC IDEA IN THE
RELIGIONS OF ANTIQUITY
By Hodder M. Westrop and C.
Staniland Wake
New York: J.W. Bouton, 1875.
Second Edition.
Hardback. 98 pages. Illustrated, Appendix.
Weight: 400 g (14 oz).
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POPULAR STORIES
OF ANCIENT EGYPT
By Sir G. Maspero.
Translated by Mrs. C.H.W. Johns
from the Fourth French Edition
Hardback. Revised by Sir G.
Maspero
First authoritative
collection of Egyptian folklore, originally published in French
in 1882.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
1915. First English Edition
Hardback. 316 pages. Indexed.
Weight: 1050 g (36.8 oz).
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THE SACRED FIRE: THE STORY
OF SEX IN RELIGION
By B.Z. Goldberg
The first
comprehensive study of the hidden but undeniable element of sexual
symbolism that is present in both primitive and monotheistic
religions.
Contents: Far Away & Long Ago, The Erotic Motive in Primitive
Religion; Primitive Man in Love and Faith; In the Foundry of
the Gods, The Story of the Generative Divinities; Spirit of Love
in God & Man, The Erotic Worship of the Generative Divinities;
Love's Hidden Ways; In the Temple of the Gods; The Worship of
the Generative Divinities; A Day with Baal; A Night with Aphrodite;
At a Dionysian Mystery; Twilight with Moloch; The Dance of the
Saktas; In the House of the Lord; The Erotic Motive in the Monotheistic
Religions of Today; Love in the Synagogue; Romance in the Church;
Marriage in the Mosque; Longing in the Dark; The Spirit of Revolt
in Religion; The Sexual Motive in Sectarianism; Rebels in the
Faith; Love the Force of Rebellion; Revolt Against Religion;
Revolt Against God; Revolt Against Man; God's Way in Love.
This book was considered a daring title when it was first published
in 1930, to be sold only "under the counter".
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930.
Hardback. 386 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography.
Weight: 1200 g (42 oz).
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SEXUAL SYMBOLISM: A HISTORY
OF PHALLIC WORSHIP. THE PRACTICE OF SEXUAL SUPERSTITION IN ANCIENT
TIMES AND DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
By Richard Payne Knight and
Thomas Wright. Introduction
by Ashley Montagu.
Includes: Two Complete Volumes: A Discourse on the Worship of
Priapus [1786] and The Worship of the Generative Powers [1866].
New York: The Julian Press, Inc., 1957.
Hardback. 196 pages. Original Plates (B&W), Jacket.
Weight: 900 g (31.5 oz).
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UNTRODDEN FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY:
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL AND SOCIAL LIFE OF STRANGE PEOPLES
OF FOUR CONTINENTS
By Dr. Jacobus
"Based
on the Diaries of His Thirty Years' Practice as a French Government
Army-Surgeon and Physician in Asia, Oceania, American, Africa
recording his experiences, experiments and discoveries in the
Sex Relations and the Racial Practices of the Arts of Love in
the Sex Life of the Strange Peoples of Four Continents. Two Volumes
now bound in One." (from the title page)
New York: Falstaff Press, Inc.,
1937.
Hardback. 401 pages. Bibliography.
Weight: 1250 g (43.8 oz).
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