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Pages 273 - 312. Features: Lovely colour ad for the De Havilland Comet used by British Overseas Airways Corporation shows plane in flight; Photos of avalanche terror in the Alps - engulfed villages; Great two-page photo of the start of the famous Tasman Ocean Yacht Race; Wow - two illustrated pages describe the Alberta tar sands "containing four times the rest of the world's known oil reserves"; Photos of personalities of the week, including Spain's first ambassador to Britain since 1946, Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, and his wife; Two pages of photos of the marriage of the Shah of Iran (Persia) to his new Empress, formerly Miss Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari; Photo-illustrated article on the Life of John Maynard Keynes; The Gold Coast's first steps in democracy - election photos; Two pages of photos of U.N. troops in winter war action in central Korea; Centerfold photo of incredible devastation caused by the Mount Lamington eruption; Mice demonstrate road safety in Glasgow!; Photo of huge B 36 Bomber; Restoration of St. George's Hall, King's Lynn - believed to be England's largest medieval guildhall; photos of new French and British weapons; Photos illustrated how bulky files of newspapers are transfered to tiny rolls of microfilm; Amazing photos of lying squirrels in flight; Swedish ballets; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather toilet powder inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Jacob & Co's Cream Crackers on back cover; and more. Cover holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
98 pages. Short Stories: The Huntress; The Nightingales in Central Park; The Man Who Couldn't Kill; Caterwauling Company. Articles: Theives I Have Known - department store plainclotheswoman tells of her violent encounters with amateur and professional shoplifters; Adventures of the Mind - The Elusive Neutron; Great two-page color photo of Albany's Delmar Men's Orchestra rehearsing; Our Year of Escape - Ira and Patricia Spring and their kids fulfill their goal of spending a year in the Alps; England's Confusion on the Left - is the British Labour Party devouring itself in a Communist-backed 'civil war'?; Battles Under the Basket - photo-illustrated article on the pro basketball players who fight for rebounds - with photos of Gene Conley, Jack Twyman, Hub Reed, Si Green, Darrall Imhoff, Elgin Baylor, Jim Krebs, Alex Ellis, Bob Pettit, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Kenny Sears; Frank Lloyd Wright - Definant Genius - The Years of Glory (conclusion) - photo-illustrated article; A Road Out of the Slums - New York City's bold attempt to provide culture for under-privileged children. Serials: Captives of the Storm (part 1 of 2); The Case of the Curious Spinster ( part 2 of 7). Ads: Fig Newton cookies (color photo ad inside front cover); Salem cigarettes - couple in wooded area; Puss'n Boots cat food; GTE answering machine; Two-page color ad for the Pontiac Safari Station Wagon (1961 Bonneville); Hammond Organs; Larson boats; Zenith stereos; Old Crow Bourbon; Lucky Strike cigarettes - photo of couple in meadow grass; Nice ad for the Oldsmobile Starfire features a red convertible; Dial soap; Nice color-photo one-page ad for Del E. Webb's Sun City development in Arizona; Centerfold ad for Philco home appliances includes photo of satellite; Florida tourism; Heinz Ketchup ad features sepia-toned photo of 1960 Masters and U.S. Open Champion Arnold Palmer; Two-page Caterpillar photo ad features a new nine-mile stretch of freeway at Pueblo Colorado and features photos of Jay Martin, George Fellows, Howard Butler, J. Marlowe Jensen, and Earl Beardsley; Color-photo Pitney-Bowes postage meter features shapely lady resembling Brigitte Bardot; Telephone Company ad features Parris Island recruits phoning home on Saturday night; De Beers ad features illustration of floral lady; Color ad for the renault Dauphone (red); Back cover ad for L&M cigarette's sweepstakes. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
144 pages. Features: June Callwood; George Woodcock; Paul Rush; Peter Kaellgren of the ROM; David Lasker on the pipe organ; David Wilkinson sends postcards from the Alps; Heritage Canada and 26,000 Canadians are bringing new life to small towns; The penthouse of John C. Parkin, Canada's foremost modernist architect; Toller Cranston's home is a flamboyant fantasy; Media mogul David Mintz's private screening room; The Collections of Murray Mackay, Canadian representative for Christies; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
32 pages. Photos of Princess Elizabeth as the years have passed; Colour Aunt Jemima pancake ad; Driving sheep through the snow-capped Alps - great photos; Linda Smith - 4-year-old rodeo expert; New Zealand's Harald Isaachsen and his back-to-nature family; Photos of Japanese Yabusame - when archers shoot on horseback; Photos of Rabies vaccine manufacture; Many other interesting photos from around the world. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Book
Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
Features: New knowledge on the rise of man - the Oriental Institute is a great research laboratory for the investigation of the early career of civilized man; Editorials - air transport - "seed" - a weapon for peace; Ultr-violet light and forgery - by making use of fluorescence, professional investigators detect forgeries in documents; Avalances and avalanche protection - in the Alps, great structures are necessary to divert avalanches; Things that happen in sunspots - An astronomer's photograph of the spectrum of a sunspot may give him material for many months of study and analysis; America emerges from partial maritime eclipse - completion of the first of two great liners for the north Atlantic route gives a promise of a revived great merchant marine; Flying in the beginning - from man-carrying kites, the army experimenters turned to gliders; In a rifle factory - over 2500 operations are required to produce accurate rifles that stand the test of use; Factory punishment for tires; Physical laboratories of the stars - the atoms in the stars have been braodcasting a description of their surroundings for millions of years; Profiting by enforced leisure - children, unemployed persons, hospital patients, and even jail inmates are increasing their demand for helpful books; Hoover Dam - conclusion - materials, supplies, manpower, and future program; The liner that cannot roll - new italian line ship has world's largest gyro-stabilizer plant; A post office for freight - New Union freight terminal in New York is first step in solution of freight handling and distribution problem; Houses of the future - they may be made in factories to individual design; Salmon fishing - great industry brings millions of dollars yearly to the pacific coast - how the salmon are caught and canned. Prior owner's pencilled name mostly erased from top of front cover. Book
1 vol. in-8 br., s.n., Paris, 1843 à 1844, pp. 601-855 Bon exemplaire en très bon état. Français
1 vol. in-8 br., s.n., Paris, 1872, pp. 598-747 avec 4 planches hors texte (dont une carte dépliante en couleurs) Bon exemplaire en très bon état. Français
Features: Hunting Trouble - Wilmon B. Menard describes how a shooting-trip in the Austrian Alps nearly landed him in a Communist jail; Last Voyage - an old tramp steamer's trip across the Atlantic during World War II, by Patrick O'Connor; The Haunted Engine Room - a curious tale be the chief refrigeration engineer of a big liner; The Long Arm - a remarkable chain of parallel experiences and a startling sequel, by T.W. Dresser; Women's Tears - an ancient custom of Baluchistan; Frontier Valley - fond memories of a Pathan village in India, with photos; The Man from the Coffin - reprint of the 1920 story of Albert Juge, a French convict who escaped the penal settlements of Guiana and then for 12 long years roamed South America; Forgotten Island - The primitive monastic settlement on the "Great Skellig" off the coast of Ireland; The Fish Tamer, by R.S. Richards of Picton, New Zealand; Pylons in the Bush - erecting high-tension transmission lines in the wilderness; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy., Book
Avec la carte de Suisse de Keller, les Panoramas du Mont-Blanc, de l'Oberland Bernois, et quatre plans de villes, onzième édition, revue par Adolphe Joanne, et Augmentée d'un Appendice, 1 vol. in-12 cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline bleue, Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1857, 544 pp. avec la grande carte jointe dans la pochette in-fine Très intéressant exemplaire, publié en une période de transition : il s'agit d'une édition de Hachette, mais elle reprend la mention de "Onzième édition" propre à l'édition de L. Maison de 1853. La grande carte jointe par Keller est bien présente (usures aux pliures de la carte, petits frott. au cartonnage, bon exemplaire par ailleurs) Français
In-8, broché, couverture de papier marbré moderne, 16 p. Première et unique édition de ce tiré-à-part d'un article paru dans "La Feuille du Jour". Né et mort à Lyon, Antoine-François Delandine fut député à la Constituante puis bibliothécaire de l'Académie de Lyon. Arrêté en 1793 et emprisonné jusqu'après le 9 thermidor, il devint professeur de législation à l'Ecole centrale. Envoi autographe de l'auteur à "Monsieur de Ferrières", sans doute le marquis Charles-Elie de Ferrières, député de la noblesse aux Etats-Généraux, également membre de la Constituante. Très bon exemplaire.
XIV-632-[2] p., 1 frontispice et 24 pl demi-basane fauve, dos lisse fileté 1856, 1856, in-8, XIV-632-[2] p, 1 frontispice et 24 pl, demi-basane fauve, dos lisse fileté, , 3° édition de cet ouvrage en allemand orné d'un titre illustré et de 24 gravures sur bois par E. Rittmeyer und W. Georgy imprimées sur fond teinté gris avec légendes. Le naturaliste suisse Friedrich von Tschudi (1820-86), décrit ici la faune et la flore des Alpes, qu'il divise en trois régions en fonction de l'altitude (2 500/4 000m; 4 000/7 000m; 7 000/14 000m). Wood, p. 602 ; Nissen, 4178. Reliure passée, quelques rousseurs éparses, belles illustrations
Cover portrait of The Duke of Aosta - he commanded the Third Italian Army, which captured Gorizia, August 9th, 1916. Feature: Austria's colossal failure in the Trentino - Austrian advance and Italian counter-offensive. Photos of troops in the Alps. Campaign in Mesopotamia to the fall of Kut (conclusion). Photos from the Tigris. Many other photos. Covers fragile but intact. Book
Cover portrait of The Duke of Abruzzi, First cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, Chief Commander of the Royal Italian Navy. Feature: Italy's war in vivid picture and story. Concluding portion of "The Mountain Battles for 'Italia Irredenta'. German Inhumanity to British Prisoners. Photos/Illustrations: full-page photo of Italian troops entrenching at the foot of a glacier on the Austrian Alps; Centerfold illustrations of heavy Italian artillery and before/after views of the Austrian armoured fort at Malborghetto, in the Carnic Alps; and more. Two pieces of tape inside front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous fine photographs, some very light and occasional marginal browning, light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original green buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp copy in unclipped, mildly age-browned dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate *302.
8vo, 22.8cm. Pp. xiv,514,[2], 16 photogr. heliogravure pls.. with explanatory sketch on transparent overlay or on opposite page, 8 sections (some fold.), 86 figs. and views (partly on plates), 2 fold. tectonic sketch maps, index of subjects, index of geographic names. Contemp. half cloth, marbled boards. Ms. name "Stille" on front endpaper and stamp "Amt für Bodenforschung Hannover" (of which Hans Stille was the director) on title-page. Few text pages browned due to paper quality, minor rubbing to lower edges of covers and to ends of backstrip, very good otherwise.
Illustrés d'après les dessins de l'auteur, d'un grand nombre de vignettes dans le texte et de 48 et 54 grandes gravures hors texte, par MM. Calame, Girardet, Français, d'Aubigny, etc., Septième et Quatrième éditions, 2 vol. in-4 reliures uniformes de l'époque demi-chagrin vert, dos à 5 nerfs orné (caissons), toutes tranches dorées, rel. signée Ch. Magnier, Garnier frères, 1878 et 1877, 474 et 454 pp. Agréable exemplaire de bonne fraîcheur (rares rouss. et lég. frott. en dos) réunissant les "Premiers voyages" et les "Nouveaux Voyages"... Complet des planches. On ne présente plus le récit pittoresque de Töpffer, si vivant, plein d'entrain et d'esprit. les premiers voyages illustrés de merveilleuse manière nous font souvent dépasser les frontières de la Suisse pour nous conduire de Chamounix (Chamonix) ou Milan, jusqu'à Vérone et Venise. Le second volume nous offre quatre merveilleux itinéraires sous la conduite du plus charmant et du plus spirituel des guides. Le quatrième voyage, à Gênes, nous conduit par Annecy, Saint-Jean de Maurienne, Modane, Suse, Rivoli et Turin, pour s'en revenir par La Corniche, Monaco, Nice, Nice, Antibes, Grasse, Sisteron, Gap et Grenoble. Français
Features/Photos: JFK and his wife; The British Frigate Urchin - accused by Russia of spying; The Queen prepares for her tour of India and Pakistan; a pipelaying helicopter in Kent; The Finsteraarhorn - the highest and most elegant peak in the Bernese Alps - centrefold; Royal tour map; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 33 plates and 12 maps (7 double-page); original green cloth, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF VICTOR WILKINSON DIX ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN . A keen alpinist, Dix was Professor of Surgery at London University Hospital. he finest guide of the period to the high level circuits and routes of the Alps, and still a most useful compendium today. Neate 864.
Imprimée par ordre de la Convention Nationale, et envoyé à tous les Corps Administratifs, 1 vol. in-8 br., De l'Imprimerie Nationale, s.d. [1793], 91 pp. Edition originale. Bon état (première page lég. frottée, cordelette réunissant les 6 cahiers). La quasi totalité du document est constituée de la liste de tous les sectionnaires, et pétitionnaires, de la ville de Lyon. Peu courant. Français
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 16 plates (all original tissue guards present); original maroon pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Front and rear advertisement paste-downs preserved. With the nineteenth century armorial bookplate of Lt.-Colonel Hon. Henry C. Legge on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1 vol. grand in-8 reliure de l'époque bradel demi-toile à coins bordeaux, Féret, Bordeaux, 1909, 425 pp. La première séance est consacrée à l'amélioration pastorale (dont une longue étude statistique de la propriété communale dans la zone montagneuse du département des Hautes-Pyrénées), la seconde est consacrée au reboisement (dont une longue étude sur le culte des arbres et les idées des anciens sur le rôle des forêts), la troisième à l'étude économique. Bon état (petites mouill. en couv., très bon état par ailleurs). Français
Cinquième édition, contenant 18 cartes, 6 plans de villes, 165 vues et 7 panoramas, 1 vol. petit in-8 cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline bleue, collection des Guides-Joanne, Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1874, 20-CXIX-921-112 pp. Bon état pour cet exemplaire contenant in-fine l'appendice publicitaire pour 1876-1877 Français
Illustrés d'après les dessins de l'auteur, d'un grand nombre de vignettes dans le texte et de 48 et 54 grandes gravures hors texte, par MM. Calame, Girardet, Français, d'Aubigny, etc., Cinquième et Deuxième éditions, 2 vol. in-4 reliures uniformes de l'époque demi-chagrin vert, dos à 4 nerfs orné (caissons), toutes tranches dorées, rel. signée Ch. Magnier, Garnier frères, 1859 et 1858, 474 et 454 pp. Agréable exemplaire de bonne fraîcheur (qq. rouss. ou rares mouill. claires et frott. en coins) réunissant les "Premiers voyages" et les "Nouveaux Voyages"... Complet des planches. On ne présente plus le récit pittoresque de Töpffer, si vivant, plein d'entrain et d'esprit. les premiers voyages illustrés de merveilleuse manière nous font souvent dépasser les frontières de la Suisse pour nous conduire de Chamounix (Chamonix) ou Milan, jusqu'à Vérone et Venise. Le second volume nous offre quatre merveilleux itinéraires sous la conduite du plus charmant et du plus spirituel des guides. Le quatrième voyage, à Gênes, nous conduit par Annecy, Saint-Jean de Maurienne, Modane, Suse, Rivoli et Turin, pour s'en revenir par La Corniche, Monaco, Nice, Nice, Antibes, Grasse, Sisteron, Gap et Grenoble. Français
Pages 121-160. Features: Unconquered Everest - the story of the Gallant Swiss attempt; Karsh one-page photo portrait of celebrated composer Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M.; Heligoland stirs again - numerous photos, including bombing practice devastation; Three Atomic Spies and Their Betrayals - Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May; various photos of royals; maritime photos; the U.S. Navy's new rubber life raft; Photos of racing horse Tulyar; Dramatic photo of the U.S. Navy's jet aircraft the D 558 Skyrocket in flight; sports photos, including Bisley winner Major A.B. Kinnier-Wilson; Sandhurst Royal Military Academy; Great photos of opening ceremonies at the Helsinki Olympics, including wonderful centerfold photo of the American team entering the stadium; Secrets of the Whale; Photo of Gliding champion Mr. Philip Wills; Photos of F. Trueman, the young Yorkshire fast bowler; Rebuilding the Vienna opera house; Photos of ongoing repairs to the famous Bredon-Tithe-Barn near Tewkesbury; Five excellent photos of the nearly extinct Alpine Ibex in the Bavarian Alps; Legacy of Alexander the Great's invasion of India; Charles Keene art exhibition; Nice colour ad for Number Seven cigarettes on back cover shows sailing scene; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
