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Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTimothy Perper; Martha Cornog
Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2011. -
A Blighted Fame: George S. Evans, 1802-1868: A Life
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHelen Riddiford
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2014. -
The Visitation: The Earthquakes of 1848 and the Destruction of Wellington
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRodney H. Grapes
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011. -
New Zealand’s China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less Than Complete Success
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Elder
Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2012. -
Tasmania’s Bygone Years of Road Transport (3 Volumes)
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartL. J. Morley
Hobart: Wellington Bridge Press, No date.Volume 1: 1900-1929; Volume 2: 1930-1939 (Second Edition); Volume 3: 1940-1950.
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The Anwar-i-Suhaili or Lights of Canopus Commonly Known As Kalilah and Damnah
AU$1,800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArthur N. Wollaston
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1877.Being an adaptation by Mulla Husain Bin Ali Al Wai’z-Al-Kashifi of The Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston. The 1877 English translation by Arthur Naylor Wollaston (1842-1922) of the Persian version of the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of animal fables. Wollaston began work as a civil servant in the India Office at age 16 going onto become registrar. He was also an ardent Persian scholar, translating this work, as well as compiling an English-Persian Dictionary in 1882.
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Shan Tung Pictorial
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTakayoshi Yamashita
Qingdao: Aoshima Souvenir Museum, 1940.Japanese souvenir photobook of Shandong Province, China, produced during the second Japanese occupation of Tsingtao (Qingdao). Photographs are captioned in English and Japanese and depict the people, the city, and surrounding landscapes and temples, as well as battle relics of the first occupation during WWI, and important Japanese buildings. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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Where the Master Touched
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCongo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission
London: Unevangelized Fields Mission, 1950.Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce, 4 copies recorded in OCLC.
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The Bridge: From the Story Broadcast by Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. J. C. Bradfield
Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., No date.John Job Crew Bradfield (1867-1943) was the Australian engineer who helped to conceive of, and then supervise, the design and construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was involved in constructing other major Australian infrastructure projects including Sydney’s Underground Railway and Brisbane’s Story Bridge. This 1930s booklet, illustrated with numerous sepia-tone photographic illustrations and one full page colour illustration, The Great Bridge by Moonlight, by John Charles Allcot (1888-1973, tells Bradfield’s story of the creating the Bridge from figment to reality.
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Movie Stills from Toshiaki Toyoda Films, 1998-2018
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartToshiaki Toyoda
Tokyo: Gambit Publishing, 2018. -
A Visitor’s Travel Index to Sydney and New South Wales
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBank of New South Wales
Sydney: Travel Department, Bank of New South Wales, 1938.1930s travel guide to New South Wales with the folding colour map tipped in front.
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Swiss Spas and Their Mineral Springs
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAssociation of Swiss Spas
Zurich and Lausanne: Association of Swiss Spas with the co-operation of The Swiss National Tourist Office, No date. -
Ninja: Men of Iga
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKano Shinichi
Thousand Oaks: Dragon Books, 1989. -
Joe’s Book: Facts and Theories on the Bunya Mountains
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoe Walker
[Dalby]: Joe Walker, 1978. -
Australian Bushcraft: A Guide to Survival and Camping
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Graves
Sydney: Child & Associates, 1989. -
The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.
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Waiting at Table: A Practical Guide Including Parlourmaid’s Work in General
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. S. Peel
London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date.1930s British guide to table service and hospitality including how to lay the table, service of dessert, beverages, cigars, how to carve, pantry work, and other duties. Single typescript leaf of service instructions laid in.
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Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Freely; Augusto Romano Burelli; Ara Guler
London: Thames & Hudson, 1992. -
Life’s a Beer
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRennie Ellis
Melbourne: Ross Books, 1984.A continuation of Rennie Ellis’ ‘Life’s a…’ series. Australians enjoying beer, casually at the beach or in private settings, or wildly, at raucous parties in all of their 1980s glory.
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Through a Glass Darkly: Beer and Modernization in Papua New Guinea
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMac Marshall
Port Moresby: The Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1982.Monograph 18. Prior to this publication there was very limited academic research dedicated to the consumption of alcohol in Oceania. This book covers the cultural and ceremonial use of alcohol and kava in PNG, as well as the sociological impact of cultural associations and attitudes toward alcoholism.