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Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
A prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. First published in Story magazine in 1938. The magnum opus of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor [1903-1996], she was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's editor Whit Burnett who, per an online reference, felt the concept of murder by mail was too strong to appear under the name of a woman. [61] p. Dust jacket not included. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy of this stunning literary achievement. Book
76 pages. While grieving the loss of his beloved, author receives a message from the other world. "Willink was one of the earliest philosophers to postulate that the world exists in more than the three dimensions we are used to, thus setting the stage for the development of hyperspace theories." - Wikipedia [quoting Michio Kaku and Paul J. Nahin]. 7.5" x 5". Prior owner's details neatly written inside front board. Few pencil markings erased from contents. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Michel the Spy - a remarkable WWI character; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part II - "Shooting" big game with a camera - article with great photos; A Bid for a Bride - love finds a way in the lonely outpost of Mersa Matruh, Egypt; Four-Figure Milestones; Seeking Six Million Pounds - recovering gold and silver from the White Star liner 'Laurentic' which was sunk off the coast of Ireland in January 1917; Through the East By Air - Part IV - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; Diamond Cut Diamond - farmhand matches wits with farmer who cheats his men of their wages; Adrift in Mid-Air - French artilleryman M. Clinckmaille was carried high in the air by a runaway observation balloon - suspended by his leg!; Restoring the Dead to Life! - The Secrets of Katsu, known to the Japanese for two thousand years, but jealously guarded from the outside world - fascinating article with photos; A Race for Life in Death Valley - The ordeal of two motorcyclists who attempted to drive through Death Valley during the hottest month of the year - article with great photos; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part IV - A trap is set for George Keene; Magalloway's Grizzly - life and death encounter with a Wyoming rancher; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
19637027Genève, Pierre Cailler, 1963. 2 volumes in-8 de 379-[2], second volume non paginé, pleine toile orange frappée noir au premier plat et au dos, jaquette, illustrée en couleurs. Petites déchirures en bord des jaquettes mais bon état général.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, blind crease across top corner of front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The fourth Discworld novel, with striking dustwrapper artwork by Josh Kirby.
1633124971633 un volume, reliure plein vélin ivoire parcheminé (binding full white vellum) in-seize (sextodecimo), reliure refaite au 19ème, titre en noir de fumée sur le dos, tranches lisses (smooth edges) - jaspées (marbled edges) rouges (red edges), orné d'un frontispice gravé sur Bois en noir (engraving-wood) représentant les emblèmes de la Mort et du Temps sur la page de titre (engraved title page), + 3 gravures hors-texte (full page engraving) en noir représentant un squelette central [with plates of Death as a skeleton] entouré d'emblèmes notés par une lettre avec les explications en regard par Ph. Sadeler, pièces liminaires + 335 pages et la table , 1633 Coloniae Agrippinae : sumptibus C. ab Egdmond et Sociorum,
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Stamp deletions on ffep, back inner cover and title-page with black marker. Rubbing to extremities. Colour loss along spine from previous removed call numbers (there are other call numbers on spine). Text is clean. ; With 192 illustrations of the tomb plans and types. The two maps show the Royal Cemeteries of the Abydos and the Saqqara Cemetery. This book was the first volume in Reisner's planned series on the Giza Necropolis. ; 428 pages
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title, 7 coloured plates and pictorial endpapers; black flock cloth, upper board with mounted illustration (repeated from text), backstrip lettered in silver, printed endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case. The first illustrated edition of Pratchett's classic introduction to Discworld.
18629095Paris Baillieu 1862 -in-4 bradel demi-chagrin un volume, reliure bradel demi-chagrin rouge (binding half morocco) grand in-quarto, dos long (spine without raised band) décoré or (gilt decoration)- titre frappé or (gilt title) - papier peigné aux plats (cover with marbled paper) (papier peigné du 1er plat légèrement insolé), tête lisse (top edge smooth), gouttière et tranche de queue non rognées (no smooth fore-edge), long papier (fore-edge - great papier), couverture imprimée et illustrée en noir conservée (cover preserved - library edition) , tiré sur papier vergé, orné de 56 superbes gravures sur bois (engraving-wood) in-texte, les bois (reproduisant les xylographies du XVème siècle) sont ceux qui ont été gravés pour les éditions populaires publiées à Troyes par Oudot et Garnier au XVI ème et au XVIIème siècles, le texte est lui conforme à l'édition de 1486, cette impression du XIXème est bien supérieure en qualité que l'édition du XVème,3 feuillets + 67 pages (en réalité 66, saut de pagination de 64 à 66 - erreur d'imposition [voir GALLICA]), sans date (1862) Paris Baillieu (Lille Imprimerie Horemans) Editeur,
17758715Paris, Moutard, 1775 ; deux tomes, in-12 ; plein veau fauve marbré, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièce de titre grenat, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque) ; (4), XV, (1) (errata), 501 pp. ; (4), 515, (3) pp. ; imprimé par Louis Jorry, rue de la Huchette.
1780WOC-2072Oeuvre de Jean HOLBEIN ou Recueil de gravures d'après ses plus beaux ouvrages. Accompagnés d'Explications Historiques et Critiques et de la Vie de ce Fameux Peintre, par Chrétien De Mechel, Graveur de S. A. S. Monseigneur l'Électeur Palatin, et Membre de Diverses Académies. Première Partie: Le Triomphe de la Mort. 12 planches (contenant chacune 4 vues, sauf la dernière qui contient 3, et 1 planche à pleine page et 2 culs-de-lampes en eaux-fortes. A Basle, Chez l'Auteur, 1780. In-folio (38x28cl) relié demi veau d'époque, dos orné de petits nerfs, de fleurons dorés, titre et nom sur maroquin rouge et vert, coiffes et charnières faibles. 2 ff, (Dédicace à sa Majesté GEORGE III Roi de la Grande Bretagne, &c. &c. &c. + 14 pages (Explications des Sujets du Triomphe de la Mort de JEAN HOLBEIN + 1 planche hors-texte: Triumphus Paupertatis.
1936013734Paris Denoël et Steele 1936 In-8 Agrafé
347091 page in4 - bon état - En tête: "Louis Jou - Labora - Lege - Relege - Ora - Les Baux de Provence" -
1796ZNC-576Paris, 1796, 2 volumes in8°, LXXXVIII-496 et 516 pages, demi-veau de l'époque.
91183aafDouai, Imprimerie de Vinois, 19 décembre 1853, 70 x 52 cm, grand imprimé sur papier usé avec intéressantes illustrations ,memento mori’.
88185aaf1937, 22.5 x 29 cm (38x45 cm, mounted), 2 of them framed.
52154aafS.l., (Fribourg, Béat Louis Piller ?), 1780, pt. in-8vo, XII, (Faux-titre + Titre + Approbation, signé François Frederic, évêque de Sion, et Théodule Bay + préface + 1 planche) + 260 p. (verso blanche), (recte: 267 p.; qqs fautes de pagination à la fin) + 13 planches de figures/emblêmes gravées (dont 4 comprises dans la pagination) avec légendes, çà et la qqs taches, lég. traces d'humidité dans les feuilles de papier, étiquette avec petit texte impr. collée en bas de de la planche en regard de p. 227, p., et en bas page 261. Page 129-130 avec pet. déchirure, exlibris ms. - Bibl. S. Bernardi - + cachet Bibl. Gd. St Bernard Martigny -, reliure en cuir, frotté, une éraflure dans le plat infér.
54855aafSolodori (Solothurn), typis Petri Josephi Bernhard, 1694, in-16to, 166 S. (recte 168: viele Nummerierungsfehler) + 2 Bl. (Epistola ...), Bl. 165-88 Wurmspur am Rand, späterer Halbleineband mit Bünden.
125198aaf[Bern], [R. Haag & Co], 1830, in-folio, (35 x 45 cm), 4 Bl. (Titelbl.- Vorbericht - XVI Tafel beschr. - lithogr. Verse) + 1 lithogr. Künstlerportrait + 24 Tafeln mit Umrisslithographien, Vollst., rez. Mappe mit lithogr. Orig.-Deckel / cartable avec titre lithogr. monté,
55555aafColoniae Agrippinae (Köln), apud Wilhelmum & Franciscum Metternich, 1693, in-8vo, zweisp. Text, Titelblatt mit ganzseit. (unten knapp beschnit.) Porträtkupfer vom Baron de Dalberg (gest. von Sartorius) auf Rückseite + 8 Bl. + 177 S. + 9 S.; 234 S. (recte 228: übersprungen Nr. 101-104 und 155-156) + 8 S.; 218 S. (letzte seite fälschlich num. 130) + 6 s., ob. Rand des 2. Bl. ausgebessert, am Anfang leichter und kleiner Wasserfl. in der ob. Ecke, gebräunt und leicht stockfl., 25 Bl. mit Wurmspur im unt. Rand, unt. Ecke der 50 letzten Bl. mit brauner Fleck, hs. Exlibris ‘Francisci Knapo ...’ auf Titelblatt, Lederband auf Bünden, blindgepr. Rücken und Titel-Schildchen, Rücken äusserst oben und unten abgebrochen, etwas berieben, drei Ecken beschabt, Wurmspuren und kl. Nagstelle unten am Hinterdeckel, Rotschnitt.
167517297Paris Michel Le Petit 1675 in-12 basane marbrée, dos à nerfs, (6ff.), 257pp., (9ff. de table)
190676852Tonopah: N.p. 1906-06. Two legal Agreements and other ephemera detailing the proposed sale of the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley owned by John Keane and Domingo Etcherran to E. H. Wedekind for $150000 in 1905. The 1905 Agreement is 6 pp. printed on rectoss only and details a payment plan fofr Wedekind It is signed by John Keane and Domingo Etcherran and their attorney Thomas Keane attorney signed for all parties as it is likely that John Keane and Domingo Etcherann were Illiterate. The seond official Agreement is only two pages long and it is attorney-signed for the J. Keaned and D. Etcheran and this one was signed by E. H. Wedekind. It just seems to add a proviso that the two men couldd continue theri mining until January 20th of 1906. The original Agreement was never signed by Wedekind and obviously fell through. Homer Wilson and John Campbell were the final purchasers again in 1906 of the twenty claims that comprised theKeane Wonder Mine. Keane Wonder Mine. Agreement 1905. E. H. Wedekind to purchase the Keane Wonder Mine from John Keane and Domingo Etcherran for $150000 with $10000 down. The 1905 contract was drawn up in Tonopah NV and it is not signed by by E. H. Wedekin Five yellow legal pages unsigned with pencil notes concerning deferred payments stock payments payment timing an option memo to John Keane and bond information. Similar terms had been offered to Captain J. R. Delamar in 1904; he was given one year to pay but failed to do so whereupon the mine reverted to Keane and Etcharran and Wedekind was sought as a new purchaser. Wedekind was a prominent California mining engineer incorporator of the Falls City Belt Line Railroad fiscal agent for the Elgin Quicksilver Mines until finally striking it rich in Ryholite. The yellow legal pages bear a “Sunset†watermark listed in the 1910 directory as belonging to H. S. Crocker of San Francisco. 2011-114 N.p. unknown
