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Pages 81-102 plus 18 outer pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Cover photo of scene at Cairo's Kasr-en-Nil Bridge; B.S.A. Motor Bicycles ad shows mechanic and sidecar model; First page illustration of great flying display by Australian airmen over London; Photo of Italians protesting outside the Italian Embassy in London; Three photos of stray and abandoned dogs at the Battersea Dogs' Home; Excellent photo and map-illustrated article "With Our Forces in Northern Russia - The Difficulties of Life in a Frozen Zone; Shakespeare at the Peace Conference of 1604 (article); Photos of men in the news include: R.A. Gregory, J.E. H. Williams, Sir John D. Rees, Reginald Blomfield, Sir R.T. Hermon-Hodge, Dr. Adolf Muller, Dr. Eduard David, M. Warburg, Prof. W. Schucking, Count Rantzau, Frank Brangwyn, Ernest Newton, George Harcourt, Adrian Stokes, and W.R. Colton; One-page illustration of Italian peasants praying at wayside shrine; After Caporetto - fascinating photo-illustrated article about who fought and who won on the Piave; Two-page illustration "The Dread Days of the Lenin Experiment in Russia" depicts a most depressing scene in front of Petrograd's winter palace, under the Bolshevik regime; Interesting article about smoking by A.A. Milne; The Unrest in Egypt - two photos including one of celebration over General Allenby's Proclamation in Cairo, and another of a large crowd in Opera Square, Cairo; One-page illustration of Aerial aviator; Centerfold reproduction of Montague Dawson painting "Alone", an impression of Transatlantic Flight (free of staples but present); Page of illustrated text about lady's fashion; Nice back cover color-illustrated ad for Army Club cigarettes shows fashionable young couple fishing. Bit of writing on advertorial front cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
512 pages. Index. Color photography throughout. Printed on glossy stock. Prior owner's details covered by white labels upon front endpaper, otherwise book tight, clean and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archval-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle of many boaters upon Lake St. Louis, Quebec; Colour ad for the 1952 Meteor car inside front cover; How Dr. James Gareth Endicott Fronts for the Reds - one of international Communism's greatest assets in the world today; When Chautauqua Came to Town; Outspoken Toronto Mayor Allan Lamport; The Chateau Frontenac Hotel - article with colour photos; They Want the Unwanted - Quebec couple Dirk and Truus Vandervalk help children from broken homes; Listen the the Mockingbird (fiction); Revolution in Lotusland - Vancouver Island is booming; Entertainer Francis Grove Peddie (aka Thomas Craig, the CBC's noontime farmer); Classy colour one-page ad for the Ford Monarch mentions the Canadian Open golf tournament at the St. Charles Country Club, Winnipeg; Ten Percent of What? - article on tipping in restaurants; Champion Spark Plug ad features 1952 Indy winner Troy Ruttman; Pontiac centrefold (Catalina shown); Half-page ad for Dominion Bridge shows steel plant ladle crane; Chevrolet truck ad; Coke ad on back cover features formally-dressed lady and tray of food; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
91 pages plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: The Artificial Volcano - an incident of the Italian campaign in the Dolomites; Soko the Stanleyville Chimp - raised by the author J.A. Jordan - with many photos; Seven to One - a vendetta and Arkansas farmer Walter Ridgeley of the Texarkana area; A Lofty Ambition - Tom Needham of Cleveland, Ohio recounts how he tried to perform a high dive from a lofty bridge to become a famous actor - with photos; A Canadian Lumber Camp at Riviere aux Ecorces, Quebec - Part II - with photos; In the Casting Pit - a tale of one of the finest deeds of courage and self-sacrifice on record; On the Road in the country of Georgia, by R.Courtier-Forser - illustrated; The White "Maori" - Kimble Bent spent 50 years in the bush - with photos; The Old Firm - a remarkable mystery is recounted from the documents and personal narratives of W.H. Holloway; The Strength of Dan Dempster - this Canadian frontier railway track foreman saved the men of a work-train from destruction with a superhuman act of strength; Round Labrador and Hudson's Bay - Part 1 of E.W. Hawkes' 3,000 mile journey, with great photos; Finding a Wife - S.A. Beattie went hunting for Jaguars in the British Honduras... but ended up with a wife; Throssell's "V.C." - How Hugo Throssell won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli; Photo of two Jewish street merchants in New York's east side. Lovely color ad for the Vose Player Piano on back cover. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
152 pages. Large oblong book measuring 10" x 14.5". "Because war censorship forbade publicity there is a widespread lack of knowledge of the outstanding production job for the war effort done by British Columbia industry... Few British Columbians - certainly very few Eastern Canadians, United States business men or British Empire industrialists - realize the extent of the accomplishments and the facilities that are now available here for manufacturing of all kinds. This survey has been prepared to place on record the information that is felt should be known. It is in two parts: First, an illustrated news section graphically telling the story of leading manufacturing developments; second, a concise factual compilation of statistics giving complete authoritative basic data." - from title page. The section on leading manufacturers is profusely illustrated with glorious black and white photos. Companies presented include: West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd.; Western Bridge and Steel Fabricators Ltd.; Vivian Engine Works Ltd.; Vivian Diesels and Munitions Ltd.; Arrow Transfer Co. Ltd.; Canada Western Cordage Co. Ltd.; Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd.; Boyles Bros. Drilling Company Ltd.; Canadian Mixermobile Company; United Distillers Ltd.; The H.R. Macmillan Export Company Limited; Industrial Engineering Ltd. (power/chain saw manufacturer); British Columbia (B.C.) Packers; W.R. Carpenter (Canada) Ltd. - crushers of copra and oil seeds; Edward Lipsett Ltd - commercial fishing supplies; Vancouver Iron Works Limited; British Columbia Telephone Company The Canadian Fishing Company Ltd; British Columbia Distillery Company Limited; Hammond Furniture Company Ltd; American Can Company Limited; Empire Sheet Metal Works Ltd; Canada Chain and Forge Company; Vancouver Engineering Works Ltd; Dominion Bridge Company Limited - including a grand photo of their new Pattulo Bridge looking toward the barrens of Surrey, plus a photo of the Hotel Vancouver's underlying steel structure during construction; Smith Bros. & Wilson Ltd - General Contractors; Heaps Engineering (1940) Limited; Marwell Construction Company; Canadian Sumner Iron Works; McDonnell Metal Manufacturing; Jones Tent and Awning Limited; Leek & Company Limited; McCarter & Nairne - Architects and Structural Engineers; Stewart-Lovick Ltd - Advertising; Terminal City Iron Works; Westland Foundries; British American Paint Co. Ltd; Bloedel Stewart & Welch Ltd.; Straits Towing and Salvage Co. Ltd.; Island Tug and Barge Ltd.; Standard Oil Company of British Columbia Limited; The Vancouver Sun; The Vancouver Daily Province; A-1 Steel and Iron Foundry Ltd.; A-1 Pattern Shop & Brass Foundry Ltd; Pacific Coast Terminals Co. Ltd.; Canadian Forest Products Limited; Alaska Pine Co. Ltd; Newcastle Ship Building Co. Ltd; Bennett & White Construction Co. Ltd; Evans Coleman & Evans Ltd; Falconer Marine Industries Limited; Yarrows Ltd.; Victoria Daily Times; The Daily Colonist; The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited. Also included in this section are photo illustrated features on power generation, brewing, the pulp industry, technical education, tourism, mining, highways, mining, printing, the British Columbia Police Force, New Westminster, Victoria, and Prince Rupert. A very uncommon and informative publication which proudly and abundantly presents the bold industrial might of Canada's pacific province in the immediate aftermath of the second world war. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important record of British Columbia's industrial history. Book
86, 16 [ads] pages. Features: My Fall into Germany from an Aeroplane (Airplane) - how I dropped 8,000 feet getting in - and crawled 400 miles getting out, by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, R.F.C.; The "Debil, Debil' of George's Gap - a snake story; Through Ireland with a "Fit-Up", by Nan Gray; Photo and short article on the Indian-built Hagwilget suspension bridge across the Bulkley River, British Columbia; Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part III - Robert Wilton reports on the war in Russia - article includes several good photos; The Greater Duty - A Corporal in the Royal North-West Mounted Police finds himself in a predicament; In Unknown British Guiana - part 3, with wonderful photos; Tales of the Service - VII - The Saccharine Smugglers (off the Irish coast); Trench Journals - documenting the irrepressible gaeity of French and English soldiers engaged in trench warfare; A Slow Revenge - a snake story from Zululand; The Romance of Fossil-Hunting - with great photos including horse-powered bone hauling out of Red Deer Canyon, Alberta; St. Patrick's Purgatory - with great photos; Photo and brief article on Robert W. Patten of Seattle; Leaping from trees in the New Hebrides - with photo. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this most interesting issue. Book
2008SONG1600953700Rainbow Bridge Publishing 2008-01-15. Act Stk. paperback. Used: Good. 8.50x0.56x10.88. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rainbow Bridge Publishing paperback
184342429(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1843 - Part II. Pp. 303-327 and 2 lithographed plates.
184342429London Richard and John E. Taylor 1843. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1843 - Part II. Pp. 303-327 and 2 lithographed plates. <br/><br/><em>Frst appearance of an importent paper in the history of electricity. "In 1843 Wheatstone published an experimental verification of Ohm's law helping to make the law already well known in Germany more familiar in England. In connection with the verification he developed new ways of measuring resistances and currents. In particular he invented the rheostat and popularized the Wheatstone bridge in the paper offered originally invented by Samuel Christie."DSB. </em> unknown
2020Adhya-9781789244984CABI 2020. Hardcover. New. CABI hardcover
2020Adhya-9781789244984CABI 2020. Hardcover. New. CABI hardcover
18693723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown
186933020Galveston 1869. Single sheet folded to 7-5/8" x 12-1/4" with the transfer agreement and signatures of twenty-six transferors on page 1 transferring their stock to John Sealy. Page 2 is the manuscript document signed by Sealy transferring those shares to Thomas W. Peirce. Pages 3-4 are blank. On lined paper. Each Receipt is oblong 3-3/4" x 7-1/2" printed and completed in manuscript each including a 2 cent Revenue Stamp with picture of George Washington. Very Good.<br/><br/> The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the Railway Company. Sealy's biography appears in the Handbook of Texas. unknown books
1886107035New York: Henry Holt and Company 1886. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-177 178-180: blank note: last leaf is a blank flyleaves at front and rear original decorated gray cloth front panel stamped in brown and black spine panel stamped in black and gold floral pattered endpapers. First edition. "Light satirical romance of the adventures of one Captain Grizzle. Able to propel his spirit about at will he visits the planet Jupiter one hundred years in the future which he finds to be an enlarged version of Earth; an exact counterpart in fact with Britain America etc. featured but with somewhat advanced technology including airships." - Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 42. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 289. Locke Voyages in Space 44. Bleiler 1978 p. 33 citing the first British edition of the same year from Sampson Low. Reginald 02085 also citing the Sampson Low edition. Wright III 667. Touch of rubbing to spine ends some light scattered foxing to preliminaries and fore-edge of text block a near fine copy. A very uncommon American eccentric interplanetary novel. #107035 Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1893234551893. Boston and Albany Railroad disaster photo archive documenting the catastrophic 1893 bridge collapse at Chester Massachusetts when the westbound Chicago Limited Express crashed through an iron bridge spanning the Westfield River. The wreck occurred on August 31 1893 after the bridge failed beneath the weight of the train sending locomotives and passenger cars into the river gorge below. Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured in a disaster that drew national newspaper attention during a period when American railroads were rapidly expanding passenger service while struggling with aging infrastructure and increasing locomotive weight.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 4 albumen photographs mounted on original boards each 8" x 10" Chester Massachusetts August 31 1893. The images show passenger coaches twisted into the collapsed bridge structure tracks hanging above shattered timbers and the locomotive overturned amid splintered debris along the riverbank. One view centers on a heavily damaged passenger car resting beside broken rails while groups of men stand surveying the destruction. Another records the locomotive and tender surrounded by wreckage and recovery workers gathered along the track bed. Smoke rises above the debris field in one scene while telegraph poles hillsides and the river valley remain visible in the background situating the wreck within the narrow western Massachusetts rail corridor. Pencil inscriptions along the mounts identify "Chester" with date "Aug. 31st 1893."<br /> The Chester wreck became one of several highly publicized railroad disasters of the late nineteenth century that intensified scrutiny of bridge engineering inspection standards and railroad safety during the peak era of American passenger rail expansion. By the 1890s express trains such as the Chicago Limited linked eastern industrial centers to the Midwest with unprecedented speed but the increased weight of modern locomotives placed enormous strain on bridges originally designed for lighter rolling stock. These photographs preserve not only the violence of the collapse itself but also the physical reality of nineteenth-century rail disaster recovery when wreckage removal body recovery and public investigation unfolded directly at the crash site. Light toning scattered surface wear and minor mount wear consistent with age; images remain clear and detailed. Overall in very good condition. unknown
0179-Co.J. Kaltnadel mit Plattenton, 1937, auf gelblichem Kupferdruckpapier, signiert und datiert. 34,5:51,5 cm. Vorzüglicher und vollrandiger Abdruck. Vermutlich handelt es sich bei der gezeigten Brücke um die Alte Donaubrücke bei Neustadt.
mon0004148945Oxford University Press 2/16/2024 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 2.4803 9.8425 7.0866. Cover and edges may have some wear. Oxford University Press hardcover
2015Adhya-9781138794337T&F/Routledge 2015. Paperback. New. T&F/Routledge paperback
2015Adhya-9781138794337T&F/Routledge 2015. Paperback. New. T&F/Routledge paperback
0831IO3QYP7Very Good. New York: Horace Liveright 1930. First American Edition First Printing no month stated In dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on front panel and spine; in no dustwrapper. 82 pages plus gorgeous frontis photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans. Brief edgewear only. hardcover
188610570New York: Henry Holt. New York Henry Holt 1886. First edition first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to the half-title. "Light satirical romance of the adventures of one Captain Grizzle. Able to propel his spirit about at will he visits the planet Jupiter one hundred years in the future which he finds to be an enlarged version of Earth; an exact counterpart in fact with Britain America etc. featured but with somewhat advanced technology including airships." Some tanning to the spine and a little bumping and rubbing to the boards. A little foxing. Various sellers' pencil notes to prelims. 10570 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1886. Henry Holt hardcover
2005x-0415329507Routledge 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 300 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
Z1-M-013-01071Routledge. Used - Good. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day.Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre.' Ex-library but has been well cared for. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Routledge unknown
2017x-1315892510Taylor & Francis 2017. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 10.00x7.01x0.37 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
2001DADAX0198299214OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2001-05-24. 1. hardcover. New. 6.00x1.20x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
