Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; xv, 477pp. Charts and illustrations throughout. Essays in English, German, and French. Ocean leatherette boards with white lettering. Boards are sturdy and square with a bit of nudging to spine ends. Previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown and top edge..... More

Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1880-1881. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick quartos; publisher's half brown morocco over textured gilt-lettered cloth, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],556; ix,[1],269pp.; original engraved frontispieces, Vol. I contains sixty plates, including original engravings (collated and complete); Vol..... More

Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More

Orangeburg, SC: Sun Printing, 1985. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 834. Quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; viii,267pp.; illus. throughout, including folding plates. Shelf wear along spine edges and spine creased, else Very Good or better. More

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards, no jacket as issued; xiv,361pp.; illus. throughout, including facsimiles and satellite views. Just About Fine. Historical reconstruction of the Civil War gunboat the USS Saginaw and its shipwreck in 1870, not discovered until a research dive..... More

Gainesville, FL: University of Florida / Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, 1993. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vii,[1],52pp.; illus. throughout. Some toning to wrapper extremities, ownership rubberstamp and signature to front cover, manuscript title and author added along spine edge; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5x20x6.5cm); xlix + 918pp, including three bibliographies; index; romanization table; and chronology. Illustrated with 172 photographs (largely in color), maps, and reproductions of scroll- and line-drawings; 158 scientific charts and tables. Very Good. Dust jacket reproduces Taoist genii from a painted temple..... More

Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1995. First Edition. Octavo in slipcase (volume 29x22x2.5cm; slipcase 30.5x22.5x3cm); 287pp. Full-color full-page plates for each of 130 catalogued items; images repeated as B&W thumbnails for final index of specifications. About 90 additional color and B&W photographs and documentary images in introduction. Principally in Chinese; augmented..... More