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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The Incorporated Society of Planters, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 28-7-15. This textbook serve as a reference and guide book for students facing surveying examinations. Topics covered are linear measurement, compass surveying, plan drawing, levelling, roadmaking, trigonometry, logarithms and major surveys. 189 pages with line drawings, tables of square and linear measurement and a glossary Weight: 0.9kg. Post free within Malaysia The whole book including cover is tanned, spots on text block and front and rear endpapers, cover has suffered some minor shelfwear

Kuala Lumpur: Forest Department, 1953. Paperback. Very Good. The contents are listed on the cover. Please see the photo. 61 pages plus advertisements. With black and white plates, tables and figures. Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia The volume has been rebound with a plastic cover. There is a bump on the top right corner and the first four or five pages. The binding is tight and the text clear with mild tanning throughout.

Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1955 & 1957. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 7-8-15. The two surveys arose out a response to worries about declining padi (rice) cultivation at a time when other cash crops, such as rubber and oil palm, were becoming more attracive to cultivators. The purpose of the studies was to determine who worked the fields and how. Because it was felt the first report was a bit rushed, a second more intensive survey,covering more varied rice growing areas, was undertaken.Vol 6 94 pages of text followed by 57 pages of an atlas of the fields covered. Vol 10 143 pages with numerous tables. Weight:1.1.kg. * Post free within Malaysia. Both volumes have a bit of curling at the corners of the covers, which have slightly dsicoloured with age. Otherwise the text has mild tanning and the binding is tight. The plates of the atlas in volume 6 have a blue crayon mark on the top right corner of each plate.These marks do not touch the plates themselves.

George Town, Penang: Consumers' Association of Penang, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Good. 31-8-15. A booklet highlighting industrial pollution of rice fields in Kedah. 44 pages. For further details, please see the scanned contents page. Weight 0.3kg. Post free within Malaysia The cover has browned with age and there is a crease on one corner. The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is mild tanning throughout.

Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 11-8-15. The book was written to fill a gap in literature of the time on the rice industry, the most important food processing industry in Malaysia. It aimed to deal with the 'salient technical and economic aspects' of rice production and deals with milling, storage, drying, techniques used and Government policy. 200 pages with tables, a bibliography and an index. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia

London: John Murray, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Although this book was written based on experiences of rubber growing in West Africa, it was used as one of the main works of reference in Malaya at the time of publication. The book was designed so as to inform the merchant as well as the producer. 245 pages whose contents include chapters on The Principal Rubber Yielding Plants, Latex, The Tapping of Rubber Plants, The Preparation of Rubber, The Chemistry of Rubber, Statistics of Consumption and Prices, The Para Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis) and The Ceara Rubber Tree. There are also numerous black and white plates, line drawings, tables and an index. Weight: 0.7kg. Post free within Malaysia A previous owner's name is written in ink on one of the front end papers. The end papers have medium tanning with mild tanning and an occasional damp mark throughout the rest of the book. The gilt lettering on the spine is worn. The binding is tight and text clear.