Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), ix, 220, [2] pages. Harvard Historical Studies, volume XCV. FIRST EDITION. A study of the Portuguese commercial empire in India during the Hapsburg years. It is "the first book to explain how and why the Portuguese were not able to modernize their trade system when faced with crisis conditions" (from the jacket copy). Fine, in publisher's black cloth, in.....

London: Samson Low, Marston & Company, Limited Edition, 1901. Octavo (22.8 x 15 cm.), 476, [2] pages. Profusely Illustrated with photographs by the author. All edges gilt. Stated "New Edition", issued just a year after the first edition of 1900. lovely survey of Ceylon and its tea industry, by a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and author of several other titles on the South Asian island nation, now identified.....

Chicago, Illinois: Field Museum of Natural History, 1913. Anthropological Series, Vol. XIII, No. 1. Octavo, 71 pages, plus eight photographic plates with captioned tissue guards; color frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. Laufer was the Field Museum's Curator of Asian Anthropology from 1908 to 1934. For much of that time, he was the only Sinologist working in the United States. He built magnificent collections of artifacts and books and documents for the Field.....

Nairobi: Kenway Publications/East African Educational Publishers Ltd., 1993. Octavo, 152 pages. Text illustrations by David Carnegie. Later printing. The recipes in African Cookery Book represent a cross section of communities in East Africa - Ugandan, Tanzanian and Kenyan and also Asian and European recipes from local ingredients. Tips are given on kitchen storage; nutrition and diets; marketing and storing food and cooking and hygiene. Special consideration is given for individual.....

Kobe, Japan: T. Takagi, Photographic Studio & Art Gallery, circa 1914. 18 x 25.5 cm, unpaginated [22 leaves, plates interleaved with tissue]. Illustrated title page, brief introduction, and twenty hand-colored collotype plates depicting the process of cultivating Japanese rice, or, “Nippon’s ‘Staff of Life’”. Each photograph accompanied by short descriptive text. Known for his glass slides and many collotype books on themes of Japanese life, Teijiro Takagi bought his Kobe.....