Mbras (62 results)

Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 132pp, paper wrappers little worn, a good copy. Articles: O.W. Wolters, An Orbituary and Appreciation, Virginia Hooker; Richard Wilkionson, A Man of Parts, J.M. Gullick; Savagism and Civilisation, the Iranun, Globalization and the Literature of Joseph Conrad, James Warren; The Turiang: A Fourteenth Century Chinese Shipwreck Upsetting Southeast Asian Ceramic History.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 127pp, paper wrappers little marked, a good copy. Articles: Chedi at Wat Keo, Chaiya, Suratthani - Professor M.C. Subhardradis Diskul; The Identity of Ngah Jabor and Mohamed Jabor bin Bardot (1858-1921) - Dato' Mohd. Hashim bin Sam Abdul Latiff; Sir Hugh Clifford in Malaya, 1927-29 'Pinang pulang ka-tampok' - Dr A.J. Stockwell; Road or Rail? Competition in Colonial Malaya 1909-1940 - Dr Amarjit Kaur; Symbolic Elements in Saribas Iban Rites of Padi Storage - Dr Clifford Sather; The Revival of the Title of Dato Naning in 1921 - Dato R.J.F. Curtis; Analysis of Gold Artifacts from Kota Cina Site, near Medan, Sumatra - E. Edwards McKinnon.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 176pp + 15 plates, slightly browned paper wrappers little creased and marked, a good copy overall. Articles: The Johor Archives and the Kangchu System 1844-1910 - Carl A. Trocki; Raffles and the Rajas - C.H. Wake; Evidence of the Contemporary Existence of Two Kedah Sites - F.E. Treloar and G.J Fabris; Postulated Late Cainozoic High Sea Levels - N.S. Haile; The Palang Concept Extended - Tom Harrisson; Traditional Islamic Schools in Kelantan - Robert L. Winzeler; Stones and the Maloh - Victor King; The Evolution of Land Administration in the Malay States - H.E. Wilson.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 75pp + 14 plates, paper wrappers slightly marked and creased, still a good copy. Articles: The Rural Chinese of the Kelantan Plain - Robert Winzeler; Two Malay Letters written by Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Muazzam Syah of Kedah to Captain Francis Light - Russell Jones; Aspects of Munshi Abdullah - H.F.O.'B. Traill; The 'Che-Wong' revisited - Signe Howell; The Council of the M.B.R.A.S meets in Brunei.

Maps, one colour and several black and white photographic illustrations, 155pp + 18 plates, minor extremities wear to paper wrappers, edges little foxed, tidy name reverse of upper cover, a good copy overall. Articles: A new reconstruction of the palace of Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca - M.D. Sherwin; Law and the Adat Perpateh A Problem from Jelebu - J.M. Gullick; Trade and Statecraft in the Western Archipelago at the dawn of the European age - Kenneth R. Hall; The Guillemard-Maxwell Power Struggle, 1921-1925 - Yeo Kim Wah; The Journey to the East 17th and 18th century German travel books as sources of Study - E.U. Kratz; The Harvey Malay Collection int he Wellcome Institute - R.F. Ellen, M.B. Hooker and A.C. Milner; The Changing Pakpak Batak - A. C. Viner and E.L. Kaplan.

Map, black and white line illustrations, 160pp, paper wrappers light extremities wear, a very good copy. Articles: In Memoriam Al-Marhum Sultan Sir Muda Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien; Tunku Kudin in Selangor 1868-1878 - J.M. Gullick; The Fishing Economy of Malaysia 1955-75 - G. Sivalingam; The Bearded Pig in East Kalimantan and Sarawak - Pierre Pfeffer and Julian Caldecott; A Formative Period in Malay Book Publishing - I. Proudfoot; The Pulau Brani Jong - Eric R. Alfred; Bes Hyang Kney. A Jah-Hut Myth of Peninsula Malaysia - Boon Seong Teoh.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 142pp, paper wrappers trifle creased, a good copy. Articles: Raden Saleh, Dipanagara and the painting of the capture of Dipanagara at Magelang - Dr P.B.R. Carey; Peranakan Chinese in Northeast Kelantan - Dr Tan Chee-Beng; Nora Chatri in Kedah a Preliminary Report - Dr Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof; English-Language Fiction relating to Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei - A Check List - Dr William R. Roff; The Excavation of the Megalithic Alighment at Kampong Ipoh, Tampin, Negeri Sembilan: A Note - Adi Haji Taha and Abdul Jalil Osman; Rawa and Rinchi: a further Note - Dr C.W. Watson.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 215pp + 27 plates, paperback, covers little worn and creased in places, overall still a good copy. Articles: Professional Malay Story-Telling: Part One: Some Questions of Style and Presentation - Dr Amin Sweeney; The Grand Jury in Early Singapore - Dr Y.K. Lee; The Impact of the Cooperative Movement in Colonial Malaya, 1922-40 - L.J. Fredericks; The Antiquity of Domesticated Pigs in Sarawak - Lord Medway; Stone sculptures from South-West Borneo (Kalimantan Barat) - Dato Tom Harrison; A Brief Account of the Mah Meri - Hj. Dr. Iskander Carey.

Map, black and white illustrations, 140pp, very good copy in wrappers. Articles include:Negeri Below and Above the Wind: Malacca and Cathay - P.J. Rivers; From Saints to Superheroes: The Wali Songo Myth in Contemporary Indonesia's Popular Genres - Ermita Soenarto; The Last Will and Testament of Munshi Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir (1797- 1854) - Raimy Ché-Ross.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 152pp + 15 plates, paper wrappers slightly marked and worn, a good copy otherwise. Articles: Arab and Chinese Navigators in Malaysian Waters in about A.D. 1500 - Dr. J.V. Mills; Nur al-Din al-raniri's Hujjat al-siddiq li-daf al-zindiq, re-examined - Professor G.W.J. Drewes; Malayan Peasant Small holders and the Stevenson Restriction Scheme, 1922-28 - Dr. Lim Teck Ghee; Some Ethnographic Notes on Semelai in Northern Pahang - Dr. Rodney Needham; Some remarks on the Dialects of North Kerintji - Drs. E.O. Van Reijn; Double spouted vessels II: in West Malaysia and Singapore - Dato Tom Harrisson.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 141pp, wrappers little foxed and browned in places, foxed upper edge, otherwise a good copy. Articles: Joseph Ducroux, a French Agent of the Comintern in Singapore (1931?1932) by Laurent Metzger Looking Back on ?The Sulu Zone? at State Foundation, Slave Raiding and Ethnic Diversity in Southeast Asia by James Francis Warren Planting in Nineteenth Century Sabah and Sarawak by D.J.M. Tate The Printing Press and the Changing Concepts of Literature, Authorship and Notions of Self in Malay Literature by Hadijah bte Rahmat Mediaeval Tamil Involvement in Northern Sumatra, C11-C14 (The Gold and Resin Trade) by E. Edwards McKinnon ?A Fine Sphere for Female Usefulness?: Missionary Women in the Straits Settlements, 1815?45 by Christine Doran A Short Biographical Record of Chan Wing, an early pioneer of Malaya by Chan King Nui.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 147pp, paper wrappers lightly worn, a good copy. Articles: The Perak Sultanate: Ancient and Modern - Khoo Kay Kim; A Valley of Megaliths in West Sumatra Mahat (Schnitzger's Aoer Doeri) Revisited - John N. Miksic; The 1839-41 Settlement of Kedah: the Siamese Compromise - Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian; Raja Brooke's Coal Mining Concessions in Brunei - A.V.M. Horton; Notes on Events in Palembang 1389-1511 the Everlasting Colony - R.W. McRoberts; Some Early Islamic Tombstones in Patani - Wayne A. Bougas; The Elephants of Syed Zin - J.M. Gullick.

Plans, black and white photographic illustrations, 123pp, browned and rubbed wrappers, title page browned, a sound copy. Articles: An Historical Enigma, A Notes on the Anti-Gambling Petition of 1905 - Dr. John G. Butcher; The Missing Second Edition of C.H. Thomsen and Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir's English and Malay Vocabulary - Dr. John Bastin; United States Consuls in Singapore 1859-1880 - Dr. Pamela Sodhy; The "Literary" Study of Malay-Indonesian Literature: some Observations - Dr. Amin Sweeney; Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Peninsular Malaysia - Adi Haji Tahar; One Hundred and Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of the F.A.S.; Obituary: Professor J.M. Echols.

Maps, black and white illustrations, 131pp, edges, preliminaries, and wrappers little foxed; otherwise a good copy. Selection of articles includes: Taman Penghiburan- Entertainment and the Riau Elite, Late 19th Century, Women and Islam in 1920s Malay Fiction.

Maps including 2 folding, black and white photographic illustrations, 217pp, spine sunned, paper wrappers lightly foxed, endpapers browned, edges foxed, otherwise a good copy. Articles: Ahmat Majanu's Tombstone at Pengkalan Kempas and its Kawi Inscription - Professor J.G. de Casparis; On a Recent Edition of the Undang-Undang Melaka - Professor G.W.J. Drewes; Pulai: Memories of a Gold Mining Settlement in Ulu Kelantan - Sharon C. Carstens; The Vegetation and Plant Communities of Pulau Balambangan, Sabah - Benjamin C. Stone; A Brief Description of the Malay Manuscripts of the 'Overbeck Collection' at the Museum Pusat, Jakarta - E.U. Kratz; The Hakkas - Tan Sri Lee Siow Mong; A Missionary Source for a Biography of Munshi Abdullah - A.C. Milner; Sandakan, 1979-1979 - Supriya Bhar; Baba Malay - Dr Tan Chee Beng; The Texts of the Hikayat Raja Pasai - Dr Russell Jones.

Map, black and white line illustrations, 160pp, paper wrappers light extremities wear, foxed upper edge, good copy. Articles: In Memoriam Al-Marhum Sultan Sir Muda Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien; Tunku Kudin in Selangor 1868-1878 - J.M. Gullick; The Fishing Economy of Malaysia 1955-75 - G. Sivalingam; The Bearded Pig in East Kalimantan and Sarawak - Pierre Pfeffer and Julian Caldecott; A Formative Period in Malay Book Publishing - I. Proudfoot; The Pulau Brani Jong - Eric R. Alfred; Bes Hyang Kney. A Jah-Hut Myth of Peninsula Malaysia - Boon Seong Teoh.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations and line drawings, 165pp + 38 plates, paper wrappers little worn, title page edges browned, edges foxed, otherwise a good copy. Articles: Selangor 1876-1882 The Bloomfield Douglas Diary - J.M. Gullick; The Early Cham Language and its Relationship to Malay - G.E. Morrison; A Metal Mould for the Manufacture of Clay Buddhist Votive Stupas - Stanley J. O'Connor; The "Sejarah Melayu", Tradition of Power and Political Structure: an Assessment of Relevant Sections of the 'Tuhfat Al-Nafis' - Timothy J. Moy; Singapore's Pauper and Tan Tock Seng Hospitals (1819 - 1873) Part One - Y.K. Lee; A Balinese Contribution to Malay Literature - C. Hooykaas; Peat and the Coastal Plain Ecosystem as Controls in Prehistoric and Present Human Demography (Southeast Asia) - Tom Harrisson; Message Sticks used by Murut and Dusun People in Sabah - P.A. Burrough; Majapahit Revisited: External Evidence on the Geography and Ethnology of East Java in the Majapahit Period - Brian E. Colless.

Maps, black and white illustrations, 131pp, lightly foxed edges, wrappers little worn and browned in places, a good copy. Some articles include: Malaya In British History; History Of The Translation Of The Bible Into Malay; Buddhist Temples And Associations In Penang; Manufacture And Terminology Of Temiar Bamboo Rafts.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 133pp, wrappers marked, a good copy otherwise. Articles include: Changing Labour Relations in Malaysia1970s?1990s by Amarjit Kaur The British North Borneo Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1893?1897) and its Museum by Danny Wong Tze-Ken Sekolah Menengah Melayu Di Singapura 1959?1987 by Kamsiah Abdullah Sultan Abu Bakar of Johore?s Visit to the Italian King and the Pope in 1885 by A. Candilio and L. Bressan The Coming of Islam to Champa by Rie Nakamura The Making of a Malayan Propagandist: the Communists, the British and C.C. Too by Kumar Ramakrishna A Mathematical Explanation of the Magic Measurements Found in the Taj-ul-Mulk and the Pawang?s Book by Syed Iskandar Ariffin.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 148pp, paper wrappers little marked and browned, edges foxed, otherwise a good copy. Articles: Tomb of 'The King of Brunei' in Nanking - Tun Mohamed Suffian; Succession to the Perak Sultanate - Prof Khoo Kay Kim; Kedah 1821-1855 Years of Exile and Return - J.M. Gullick; Murray Ross Henderson, and some Notes on the Administration of Botanical Research in Malaysia - H.M. Burkill; Dutch Records from Malacca in the India Office Records - Ian Baxter; A Malay Mission to Bangkok during the reign of Rama II - Prof. Cyril Skinner.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 111pp wrappers little marked, a good copy. Articles include: Malay Women?s Involvement in Land Ownership, the Accumulation of Wealth, and Indebtedness in Kedah (1881?1940) by Mahani Musa Early Land Transactions in Singapore: the Real Estates of William Farquhar (1774?1839), John Crawfurd (1783?1868), and their Families by Leong Foke Meng Brunei Darussalam and the Modern Novel by C.H. Gallop Christianization in Sabah and the Development of Indigenous Communities: A Historical Study by Mat Zin bin Mat Kib The Origin of ?Sabah? and a Reappraisal of Overbeck as Maharajah by P.J. Rivers.

Maps, black and white illustrations, 155pp, foxing upper edge, wrappers little worn, a good copy. Some articles include: Jawi Literature in Patani: The Maintenance of an Islamic Tradition by Dr. Virginia Matheson and Dr. M.B. Hooker Patani During the Turn of the 20th Century: A Malayan Perception Compiled with an Introduction by Professor Khoo Kay Kim W.W. Skeat and Malayan Ethnography: An Appreciation by J.M. Gullick.

Maps, one colour and several black and white photographic illustrations, 155pp + 18 plates, minor extremities wear to paper wrappers, edges little foxed, a good copy. Articles: A new reconstruction of the palace of Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca - M.D. Sherwin; Law and the Adat Perpateh A Problem from Jelebu - J.M. Gullick; Trade and Statecraft in the Western Archipelago at the dawn of the European age - Kenneth R. Hall; The Guillemard-Maxwell Power Struggle, 1921-1925 - Yeo Kim Wah; The Journey to the East 17th and 18th century German travel books as sources of Study - E.U. Kratz; The Harvey Malay Collection int he Wellcome Institute - R.F. Ellen, M.B. Hooker and A.C. Milner; The Changing Pakpak Batak - A. C. Viner and E.L. Kaplan.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 121pp, wrappers little rubbed, title page browned, foxed edges, a good copy otherwise. Articles include: "The Bukit Seguntang Buddha" by Nik Hassan Shuhaimi; "A Priest's Bell and a Temple Lamp" by F.E. Treloar; "A Reputed Acehnese Sarakata of the Jamal al-Lail Dynasty" by Daniel Crecelius and A.E. Beardow; and "Isabella Bird's Visit to Malaya: a Centenary Tribute" by J.M. Gullick.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 75pp + 14 plates, paper wrappers slightly worn and creased, still a good copy. Articles: The Rural Chinese of the Kelantan Plain - Robert Winzeler; Two Malay Letters written by Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Muazzam Syah of Kedah to Captain Francis Light - Russell Jones; Aspects of Munshi Abdullah - H.F.O.'B. Traill; The 'Che-Wong' revisited - Signe Howell; The Council of the M.B.R.A.S meets in Brunei.

Black and white photographic illustrations, 124pp, paper wrappers little worn with some browning along lower edge, a good copy. Articles: The Politics of Malay Philology; Mandailing Cultural Identity and Leadership; The Ecologies of Kuala and Muara; Ceramic Trade Across the South China Sea; Book Reviews; notes.

Map, plan, black and white photographic illustrations, 117pp, paper wrappers little worn, endpapers browned, edges foxed, a good copy otherwise. Articles include: The Installation of the first Sultan of Selangor in 1766 - Barbara Watson Andaya; Ringgit - Sim Ewe Eong; Langkasuka and Tambralinga - Dr. H.G. Quaritch Wales.

Maps, black and white illustrations, 112pp, edges, preliminaries, and wrappers little foxed; otherwise a good copy. Selection of articles includes: Construction of the Hosburgh Lighthouse on Pedra Branca; The Sambas Hoard; Chinese Furniture; Malay Woodcarving.

Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 176pp + 15 plates, slightly browned paper wrappers little creased and marked, a good copy overall. Articles: The Johor Archives and the Kangchu System 1844-1910 - Carl A. Trocki; Raffles and the Rajas - C.H. Wake; Evidence of the Contemporary Existence of Two Kedah Sites - F.E. Treloar and G.J Fabris; Postulated Late Cainozoic High Sea Levels - N.S. Haile; The Palang Concept Extended - Tom Harrisson; Traditional Islamic Schools in Kelantan - Robert L. Winzeler; Stones and the Maloh - Victor King; The Evolution of Land Administration in the Malay States - H.E. Wilson.

Maps, black and white illustrations, 162pp, lgihtly foxed upper edge, covers little soiled, a good paperback copy. Articles include: Two letters by Raffles, Che-Ross; Keramats in Malaysia, Tong; Marriage and Divorce in Johore 42-45, Ahmad; History of Malayan History, Gullick; Moral Judgement in Sejarah Melayu, Kheng; Shophouses in Colonial Penang, Tjoa-bonatz.