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248 pages. A bedside treasury of delightful and informative reading from the Philippines. Presented exclusively for guests of the Manila Hilton. Divided into the following sections: Portrait of the Filipino; Tales of the Filipinos; The Philippines Scene; Philippine Folklore; A Harvest of Philippine Love Lyrics; Filipinos at Home and Play; Wit or Without. Author is former Commissioner on Literature, National Commission on Culture. Illustrated in black and white. Light to moderate wear. Unmarked. Reading crease to spine. Nice copy in glossy covers. Book
94 pages. Features: Cover photo of river crossing demonstration by the 16th and 17th Engineer Combat Battalions at Fort Hood in April 1963; Shore power for the USS Enterprise; Hutment Construction in Thailand; Fallout Protection at military installations; The Stalwart - new British cross-country amphibious load carrier; Richard Gridley - First Chief Engineer of the Army; Tracing Sediment Movement with Radioisotopes; Design with Threaded Nails; Inventory of Freeways by Aerial Photography; The Solar Disc; Navy Crane Moment Indicator; Combat Engineers 21 - The Battle for Ipo Dam - water supply of Manila; Wellington's Peninsular Engineers; Geographical Survey of the West, 1871-1879; Nuclear Power Plant Field Tests - field testing for the PM-1, and Atoms for Antarctic Power; Navy Mobile Power Reserve; Salvaging Rigid Pavements in Georgia; Geology Study for Navy Pier Construction; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this very informative issue. Book
90 pages. Loaded with wonderful color and black and white photos. Features: Lin Fung Chew -gorgeous colour one-page photo; Two pages of Bang Bang colour-photo fashion ad; Alan Tang; Foldout colour photo of Sylvia Chang; Liu Chia Chong and Chen Chen - their romantic house; Movie Stars travel to Manila for benefit performance for Miss China City - photos and article; Siau Yau and Mr. Lua; Wong Yu; Hsia Ling Ling; Deborah - she refuses to undress and be 'Hong Kong Emmanuelle": Yau Feng Pun; Wong Yu; The Sunset of Peking; Summer Lover; Yesterday is Over Soon; Theft, Prostitute, Money; Wife, Lover, Girlfriend; Rogue and Gentleman; Warning for the Young; Iron Robe, starring Liu Chung Leang; The Duel; James [Jimmy) Stewart - article and photos; Fantastic one-page colour photo fashion ad for The Apple Jeans features white couple accented by green, blue and yellow graphic; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 337-376. Black and white photos. Features: Radar Proved Miracle Development of WWII; Radio in Freight Yard Service on the B.&O.; Survey of Union Members' Interest in Publications; Trades and Labor Congress Meeting; The Atomic Bomb is no Secret - Decisive discovery which led to the building of the atomic bomb was made by Germans in 1938 - with photos, by Dr. Edward U. Condon; Signal Changes on Milwaukee, Rock Island and Kansas City Southern near Kansas City, Mo.; The Fall and Rise of Manila - after more than three years of Japanese rule little was left of the once great "Fool's Paradise" - with photos, by E.H. Jacoby; Head-end collision on the Missouri Pacific; and more. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, covers mildly age-browned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges. SCARCE.
Pages 114-224. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part X; My Baby Leopard - R.H. Summers describes raising the cubs of a large leopardess he shot - with photos; The Peril of Seaman Diver Young - he spent five hours upside-down underwater while attempting to retrieve a torpedo for the H.M.S. Hood; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part 3 of 3 of this excellent photo-illustrated recollection by Robert L. Jefferson; Our Baboon Hunt - South African farmer Mr. Charles Wisbey describes how he battled a serious pest - with photos; A Night to Remember - Edith and Leila become lost in a remote tiger-infested Indian jungle; The Jumping Procession at Echternach, Luxemburg - photo-illustrated article; A Masai Massacre - Missionary Rev. James Houghton and his wife are murdered in Central Africa; Through Pygmy Land - part II of a photo-illustrated account of Albert B. Lloyd and his trip; Entombed in a "Drive" - Australian Louis Anson is trapped deep underground; Venomous Snakes and Their Ways - photo-illustrated article, including Lieut.-Colonel N. Montgomery, who was killed by a Mamba in Zululand; Where Women Never Speak - photo-illustrated article on the Abbe Cestac in southwesst France; A Fight with Wolves on the Altar - Galician Stanislaus Bruhs is attacked by three large wolves in a church!; Dramatic photo of Judge Lynch and black man about to be lynched at Texarkansas; Photo of Persian being treated for opium addiction with milk and a twist; Photo of the Rosary Fete in the city gaol, Manila, Philippines; Photo-illustrated announcement of upcoming article on Charles Neufeld, a prisoner for 12 years in Omdurman; and more. Above-average wear. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Stories: The Ice Jam; The Manila Fireflies; Squaw Mike; Crashing into Burma; The Wheat Stealers; What Happened to the Bullion Box; One Christmas Day; The Railroad Boomer; There She Blows!; Rounded-up Wild Elephants; Tracking Down Hot Oil; Witchcraft; A Ride for 1000 Pounds; On Patrol with the B.P.P. Average wear. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Man Who Was Buried Alive - Part I - The Amazing Adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert"; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part VI (conclusion) - John Gibbons wraps up his amusing walking tour of Southern Italy; A Himalayan Marriage Market - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a quaint annual fair where all eligible girls of the district assemble to be inspected by young men with a view to marriage; Filming in the Wilds - Part III of Major C. Lestock Reid's account of his major adventures attempting to film an adventure story in the Far East, this time in Indo-China - with two photos of Angkor Wat; A Deal in Diamonds - Dr. T. Hilding Svartengren was nearly swindled out of a fortune in Paris; The Town of Ghosts - Walter F. King discovers a deserted mining camp in the High Sierras which was abandoned in haste; Wreck-Hunting - For fifty years Herbert J. Gibson of Penzance, Cornwall, has built a photographic record of the ships driven onto the local rock-bound coasts - article with many dramatic photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part I - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Ship of Mystery - The strange last voyage of a vessel to Manila where a soldier of fortune hoped to profit by the ship's cargo; Premonition - Can a man prevent his death after he has had a premonition of it?; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Quattro pagine (un foglio in -4° ripiegato) contenenti tre lettere di Clemente VIII. Si dà il permesso a Francisco De Montilla, missionario francescano in Oriente di prendere delle reliquie dall’Italia per portarle nelle Filippine (dove Clemente, nel 1595, aveva elevato Manila a sede metropolitana). Ferrara era passata sotto il dominio dello Stato Pontificio a gennaio del 1598, cioè pochi mesi prima della redazione di queste lettere: per sottolineare l’importanza del recupero della città, Clemente prese possesso di persona della nuova provincia, dove avrebbe soggiornato fra il maggio e il novembre di quell’anno. La richiesta dell’altare, argomento della prima di queste tre lettere, proveniva da Antonio de Cordoba y Cardona, ambasciatore spagnolo a Manila: da notare che la Spagna decidette, nella questione della successione ferrarese, di mantenersi neutrale. Four pages (a folded leaf in -4°) including three Clemente VIII’s letters. Permission is given to Francisco de Montilla, a Franciscan missionary in Far East, to take holy relics from Italy, to be bringed in the Philippine (were Clemente, in 1595, raised Manila to metropolitan seat). Ferrara become under the Vatican dominion on january 1598, a few months before these letters were written. To underline the importance of having recovered this city, Clemente went himself to the city, where he stayed between may and november of that year. The request of an altair, subject of the first letter, had been done by Antonio de Cordoba y Cardona, performative Spanish ambassador in Manila: it has to be noticede that Spain remained neutral in the Ferrara question.
In-16 p. (mm. 168x95), 4 volumi, p. pelle bazana coeva, dorso a cordoni con ricca decorazione e tit. oro, tagli marmorizzati, pp. (2),XXXIV,(4),268; (2),194; (2),227; (2),300,28; con complessive 35 tavv. inc. in rame f.t., più volte ripieg., di cui: 1 grande carta geografica dell'America del Sud, 1 dell'Oceano Pacifico, 1 delle Filippine, piante di città, porti, bastimenti, vedute, animali marini, ecc. Seconda edizione della traduz. francese. Cfr. Brunet,I,304: "Cette relation à été plusieurs fois réimprimée et traduite" - Graesse,I,141 - Choix de Olschki,I,804 cita un'ediz. francese del 1750: “..Ouvrage richement illustré de cartes, plans, vues, qui se recommandent par leur exactitude". Alone al marg. infer. su 2 volumi, altrimenti esemplare ben conservato. "George Anson, Ammiraglio inglese (1697-1762), compi' varie spedizioni nelle Caroline del Sud, dal 1724 al 1735, per proteggere il commercio inglese dalle incursioni dei francesi. Dopo la rottura di Giorgio II con la Spagna (1739), incaricato d'una impresa contro le colonie spagnole del Sud-America, affrontò un viaggio di 4 anni, e dopo numerose battaglie e peripezie, tornò con un ricco bottino avendo circumnavigato il globo". Così Diz. Treccani,I, p. 483.