Search Results: History -- China from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus valley and China. No damage, to the book or its binding, and the pasted on photograph on the front panel shows no rubbing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- Egypt; ISBN: 0705409708. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409704. Inventory No: 0277719. . 9780705409704

Readers Union/Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. 685 g.; V, 6 - 264 pages, with a section of 48 pages of black-and-white photographs at the rear of the book, list of illustrations/figures and maps, preface by author, notes on the plates and index. The text is illustrated with the aforementioned photographs, along with 65 black-and-white figures within the text and 3 maps. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed logo of Thames and Hudson on the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Green coloured tint to the top text block edge. Rubbing to the lower book edges and fading to the backstrip edges. Foxing to the top text block edge, panels, and light foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. Illustrated dustwrappers with light blue coloured background and dark blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. Chipping to the top dustwrapper edge and there is quite significant… Read More

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 830 g.; XVIII, 334 pages, last page blank, preface by author, list of plates, list of maps and text-figures, index of maps list of abbreviations, and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing Wushan Gorge on the upper Yangtze. At the beginning of the text are 4 maps showing the Chinese provinces. The text is illustrated with 16 black-and-white photographs and 30 black-and-white text figures or maps within the text. Dark blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the text. A little bumping to the text block edges and rubbing to the book corners. Browning to the text block edges and light age toning of the internal text. Some handling marks to the endpapers and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Some handling marks to the front fore paper edge. A look at China before the Communist… Read More

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Greece Rome India and China from 400 BC through to A.D. 200. No damage to the padded imitation leather cover, or the picture on the front cover, no annotations. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- India; ISBN: 0705409732. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409735. Inventory No: 0280605. . 9780705409735

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Greece Rome India and China from 400 BC through to A.D. 200. Previous owner's name on the front paste down and the back of the front free end page. No other damage, to the book or its binding, and the pasted on photograph on the front panel shows no rubbing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- India; ISBN: 0705409732. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409735. Inventory No: 0233851. . 9780705409735

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Greece Rome India and China from 400 BC through to A.D. 200. a clean copy showing no damage. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- India; ISBN: 0705409732. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409735. Inventory No: 0238903. . 9780705409735

Harvill Press and William Collins and Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. XXII, 282 pages, last blank, acknowledgements, chronological table, maps of China's boundaries, note on Chinese names and terms, preface by author, notes, illustration credits and index. Map illustrated frontispiece, showing China and her various borders. Illustrated title page by Patrick Trocktor. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photography, reproductions of contemporary illustrations, paintings and sculpture, maps and paintings. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a Chinese dragon as drawn by Ean Taylor, photographic back dustwrapper panel. A very clean and tidy copy with no damage. A book about China, its history, social life and Customs and most of all its people. The book is based upon a Channel Four documentary series of the same name. Size: Square Quarto. Please refer to… Read More

Harvill Press and William Collins and Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. XXII, 282 pages, last blank, acknowledgements, chronological table, maps of China's boundaries, note on Chinese names and terms, preface by author, notes, illustration credits and index. Map illustrated frontispiece, showing China and her various borders. Illustrated title page by Patrick Trocktor. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white and coloured photography, reproductions of contemporary illustrations, paintings and sculpture, maps and paintings. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Bumping into the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners. The spine is very slightly cocked. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a Chinese dragon as drawn by Ean Taylor, photographic back dustwrapper panel. Green and white writing on the front panel and spine. Rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and there is crinkling… Read More

Harvill Press and William Collins and Sons & Co. Ltd, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1.245 kg; XXII, 282 pages, last blank, acknowledgements, chronological table, maps of China's boundaries, note on Chinese names and terms, preface by author, notes, illustration credits and index. Map illustrated frontispiece, showing China and her various borders. Illustrated title page by Patrick Trocktor. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photography, reproductions of contemporary illustrations, paintings and sculpture, maps and paintings. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a Chinese dragon as drawn by Ean Taylor, photographic back dustwrapper panel. A very clean and tidy copy with no apparent damage. A book about China, its history, social life and Customs and most of all its people. The book is based upon a Channel Four documentary series of the same name. Size: Square Quarto.… Read More

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Persia, Greece, Europe and Asia from 600 BC through to 400 BC Previous owner's name on the front paste down and the back of the front free end page. No other damage, to the book or its binding, and the pasted on photograph on the front panel shows no rubbing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Greek; History -- Ancient; History -- China; Persia. ISBN: 0705409724. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409728. Inventory No: 0233852. . 9780705409728

Australian National University press, Canberra, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. XXII, 230 pages, bibliography, index, three maps, six illustrations, original dust wrapper. Slight fading of the spine section of the dust jacket which have a small tear at the bottom. Please see the image associated with this book to confirm the size. Written when there was thought that the Chinese populations of Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia might represent a potential 5th column for the Chinese government. Chinese influence, Chinese culture and Chinese power have always moved southward since the 1st date of which we have reliable historical evidence. – Dust jacket blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; History -- China; China; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0708102204. ISBN/EAN: 9780708102206.… Read More