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191529359Paris: A. Ternois 56 rue d'Aboukir Paris 1915. Very good condition. 45 b&w postcards highlighted in white illustrating W.W.I from the point of view of children. The postcards are captioned in French & numbered on the verso. The interchanges between the children speak to shortages of candles the destroyed family clock marching with guns children lined up for military service babies grown big enough for going to the war. Split backs unused most in sleeves. The series starts with no. 3 and goes to no. 87 with gaps. A. Ternois, 56 rue d'Aboukir, Paris unknown
86859Good. 167 Postcards on a variety of subjects inserted 1-4 to a page in pre-cut slots. Oblong album. Some cover soil and wear. Small illustration of two Dutch girls on cover. Cards in nice shape. Some are postally used; other unused. Several from Pennsylvania. unknown
190558946album wth over 100 postcards including some duplicates majority are canals/waterways from around the UK France and Ireland including a few local Stroud area which are dated 1905-1911 approximtaely 30 are dated from pre 1920 others are from the 1950's to 1990s most are photographic and many are in colour the previous owner/collector was from Moreton-in-Marsh many of the cards have messages and addresses on the rear hardcover
2090202120400259Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
193029278Egypt: Varied 1930. Overall very good condition. A collection of 50 postcards areas around Egypt. Locations include: Luxor 14 Karnak 4 Thebes 8 Cairo 7 Abusir 4 Biskra 1 Port Said 1 Dobarosa 1 Sakkara 1 Gizeh 1 Egypt in general 8.<br /> <br /> 35 b&w 15 cards either color illustrated or colorized real photo postcards. Most are unused 6 have writing on the verso and 3 are franked about 1930. Post cards have mostly divided backs from various p/c companies all dating around 1930 and earlier.<br /> <br /> All in very good condition. Varied unknown
192025352E1920s. Original collection of 46 1920’s vintage color postcards of film actors’ homes and movie studios in Hollywood Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Included are the impressive homes of Harold Lloyd Buster Keaton Kin Vidor Colleen Moore Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks ‘Pickfair’ John Gilbert Jack Dempsey Sessue Hayakawa William S. Hart Tom Mix Rudolph Valentino Will Rogers Nazimova to name a few. With the film studios of Goldwyn Warner Bros. Metro Famous Players Lasky and more. Each postcard is in a clear plastic sleeve within a large photo album. A lovely way to connect to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the lives of those in the film industry at the time. unknown
1954222612Australia. Circa1954. An album of 128 black and white photographs and 12 colour postcards detailing a trip to Ceylon in 1954 cord tie. 25 x 33cm. Few postcards loose leaves trifle friable cloth-covered boards little shelf worn overall in good condition. Although the album begins with aerial shots of the P&O Stratheden in Sydney and includes a few non-contemporary studio photographs of Ceylon the majority of the album is comprised of private photographs with handwritten captions and dates. Loosely inserted at the rear is the original photographic film within a Kodak-branded sleeve a 14-page stapled booklet introducing guests to the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo and an itinerary of a motor tour of Ceylon presumably undertaken by the album's creator. . hardcover
1928222277Singapore. circa1928. Booklet of 9 only captioned sepia postcard views lacks 3 postcards 15.3 x 6.1cm each perforated at margin final card with tissue guard versos divided in two printed in green with the studio reference numbers at top right otherwise blank; original stiff attractive grey card covers title printed in black within a foliated triple-ruled border cover soiled and marked. A very interesting suite of views. An appealing suite of twelve historic views. We have been unable to source the printer or studio but they are likely to be after M.S. Nakajima the influential Japanese photographer who first advertised on the island in 1911. The image of the trolleybus on New Bridge Road would date the whole compilation to around 1927. <br>The views are: <br>Hindoo Temple Singapore <br>Government House Singapore <br>Battery Road Singapore <br>Singapore River <br>East Coast Road Singapore <br>High Street Singapore <br>Traveller Palm Trees Singapore <br>Connaught Drive Singapore <br>Cocoanut sic Plantation Singapore. . unknown
1922041133Lima Peru: Imprenta Torres Aguirre 1922 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cover has minor rubmarks; top of title page has minor wear on top right corner. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by AUTHOR Maldonado on the top of the title page. Very rare copy of this early twentieth century work on medical folklore in Peru illustrated with black-and-white text illustrations and color plates. "Sumario del Primer Volumen" includes "Los mitos medicos - Divinidades y fantasmas"; "Los mitos medicos - El susto"; "Los mitos medicos - El aire. El chocaque La irijua El Ojeo"; "Los mitos medicos - Las yaguas. La urijua. La ticradura"; "La brujeria"; "Las curas misticas"; "La medicina interna"; "Las enfermedades de la piel"; "La vida sexual"; "La Obstetricia"; "La pediatria"; "Las enfermedades mentales y nerviousas" "La cirujia" "La oftalmologia. La venereologia"; and "El hombre manatial terapeutico". Imprenta Torres Aguirre hardcover
191258909Detroit:: Detroit Publishing Company 1912. Fine. Detroit Publishing Company, unknown
192014477Sydney: The Rose Stereographs 1920. A collection of 48 real photo postcards Rose Series P - these particularly not found on Trove with 24 street scenes of Sydney 8 of Sydney gardens and 16 cards of the Blue Mountains. Sydney postcards include Pitt St. George St. Macquarie St. Central Railway Station Circular Quay Bridge St. Elizabeth St. Woolcott St. Martin Place Town Hall Corner Government House the Custom House and Railway Square. The nature scenes include the Jenolan Caves National Pass Katoomba and Loddon Falls Centennial Glen Blackheath and Fairy Dell Cascades Leura Blue Mountains. In very good condition overall some with sml marginal faults. The Rose Stereographs unknown
3728751<p>Stuttgart Germany: Druck von Carl Hauber 1856. 16 pages. 5½ x 4¼ inches. Self wrappers; stitched; with blue/green paper spine reinforcement. Brief foxing; creasing at one corner; very good.</p> <p>Unrecorded homeopathic medical tract—whose title roughly translates as “Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic Course of Treatment.â€</p> <p>It was written by Dr. Arthur Lutze 1813–1870 an important homeopathic physician and contemporary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann 1755–1843 the founder of this pseudo-scientific system of alternative medicine that used very particular animal vegetable and mineral preparations to cure various diseases.</p> <p>A year before this tract was published in 1855 Dr. Lutze opened a homeopathic clinic and spa in Köthen Saxony-Anhalt complete with large wards and private rooms spas and other amenities. Present here are 25 dietary and health rules to be followed during a homeopathic treatment.</p> <p>Strictly forbidden foods include coffee tea strong Bavarian beer wine schnaps rum etc. and “everything strong and spicy.†One could eat pork conditionally; beef and mutton were allowed. Many other dietary regulations and advisories follow.</p> <p>No copies in OCLC or KVK.</p> unknown
191788204Various 1917. Postcards. Very Good. A small curated collection of 22 real photo post cards RPPCs most of which depict range-riding branding round-up Texas Arizona etc. roping breaking a horse or just being asked to pose for a photograph. One is colorized. Five postcards are canceled with a 1¢ stamp; postmarks from North Dakota Wyoming 20 Iowa and Nevada. Most are dated before or around 1910 with the exception of one more commercial card dated 1937. Seven postcards have some sort of identifying writing on the back - either person-or-place names and nine postcards are blank. <br /> <br /> Some of this fabulous grouping of photos of real working cowhands are just begging to be framed and hung on a wall. unknown
1919227911919. Painting. Very good condition. A group of 12 hand-painted postcards depicting women's fashion in the 1920s. The 5 artist signatures include "Rucio" "Orcina' and "Susie" with 2 undecipherable. All are in the style of the pochoir fashion magazine "Le Gazette du Bon Ton". On the verso is the standard postcard information for France "Carte Postale. La Correspondance au recto n'est pas acceptee par tous les pays etrangers Se renseigner a la poste" with a split back the address on the right and room for correspondence on the left. Two cards by "Susie" are charming - one woman is dressed in a blue sailor's suit the duffle bag slung over her shoulder with the notation "U.S.A.". In the other the young woman is wearing a short pink and blue striped outfit holding a nest of eggs the suggestive caption saying "Nous aussi nous retrouverons bientot notre cher petit nid!" We will also soon find our own little nest! The outfits are charming. Pencil inscription on some identifying the buyer as 'Mich' an American serviceman perhaps who presented the cards to his lady friend who is as "pretty as" the pictures. The postcards are unused printed on heavy rag card with untrimmed edges. unknown
191529358Trier Germany: Schaar & Dathe 1915. 85 b&w postcards printed by Schaar & Dathe of Trier who were one of the biggest German postcard printers and used During W.W.I the company had 15 presses and employed 150 workers & used letterpress lithograph and collotype processes. Creating postcards during the war was an easy affordable way to spread the news visually about the areas most affected by combat through images of ruins life in the camps and the cleanup efforts of soldiers and civilians. See the collection held by the Library of Virginia. The postcards are numbered & captioned on the verso. Slightly dusty overall very good condition. Schaar & Dathe unknown
1933217569Japan. Circa Showa 8 1933 . Nine postcards eight in colour and one real photograph black and white postcard which is not part of the set 14 x 9cm envelope size 15.2 x 9.5cm Japanese captions. All cards in very good condition presented in a slightly worn and soiled pictorial colour envelope. This collection of post cards features eight young women in Manchuria and a separate real photograph postcard showing a beautiful Korean woman in traditional dress. Most of the Manchurian women wear qipao the accompanying captions introduce them as "attractive companions". Some of the women are portrayed as seductive while others look shy and innocent. . unknown
41053101A group of 4 items: Hotel Bela Vista Macao luggage label in the shape of a green leaf with harbour view; 1 postcard with 3 Chinese junks and Macao to the left; 2 Cenenario de India 1498-1898 celebratory cardsunused all clean bright items. unknown
2091502135500600Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2000DADAX1580623778Brand: Adams Media Corporation 2000-08-01. paperback. New. 7.00x0.50x4.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Adams Media Corporation paperback
173035811Paris: apud Fr. Horth-hemels 1730. Frontispiece. 8 246 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Plain drab blue wrappers uncut Fine copy. Frontispiece. 8 246 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Stahl German chemist and physician.received his medical degree at Jena.he was the personal physician to Frederick I of Prussia.he was among those who bridged the gap between alchemy and medecine.The present work is Stahl's commentary on Gideon Harvey's "the art of curing diseases by expectation".Stahl's work is biting and satirical commentary on Harvey." Heirs to Hippocrates. Heirs to Hippocrates 701; Cushing S383; Osler 2907; Waller 4082; Blake 430; Wellcome III p. 219 apud Fr. Horth-hemels unknown
187331209Boston 1873. Original printed wrappers stitched. 60 1 3 blanks pp. Front wrapper spotted and detached but present; some light spotting to lower blank margins of first several leaves. Good.<br /> <br /> The Massachusetts Medical Society preferred charges against Bushnell Fuller and six other physician members of the Society for "Conduct unbecoming and unworthy an honorable physician and member of this Society" i.e. practicing homeopathy. The Society's Board of Trial conducted the proceedings "at the Society's Rooms." The alleged miscreants purportedly sought to "disorganize and destroy" the Massachusetts Medical Society and to become members of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society. A By-Law of the Massachusetts Medical Society prohibited any Member from professing "to cure diseases by Spiritualism Homoeopathy or Thompsonianism."<br /> With defendants protesting what they regarded as a kangaroo-court the trial proceeded. The detailed closing arguments for "the Accused" are printed here as well as summaries of the testimony. In what was a foregone conclusion they were all found guilty and expelled from the Massachusetts Medical Society. <br /> II Harv. Law Cat. 1031. unknown
2080502106908912Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
191451977Honolulu H.T.: n.p. ca. 1914. Seven Real Photo Postcards all printed on split-back CYKO photo postcard stock and stamp box w/ outline CYKO imprint indicating 1906-1915 dating slight edgewear very slight dustsoiling still NF set of images. This scarce group of Real Photo Postcards chronicle some of the floats and events from the 1914 Floral Parade held on the 8th day of Carnival Feb. 21 1914 with the parade forming at Aala Park in the afternoon. The first shows bustling crowds a cleared street men women and families lined up along the street as the parade passes down the corner from McInerny’s Shoe Store with store front and window displays clearly shown in downtown Honolulu. The next series of cards depict the pyramid of children sitting on the Lincoln-Lee Legion float touting their lifelong temperance pledges to abstain from alcohol a large model wooden ship on the Inter-Island Transportation float another showing Lady Liberty on a Spanish War veterans float; along with a RPPC of the Honolulu Fire Department Engine Co. No. 1’s first motorized fire engine what appears to be a 1910 Knox High Pressure Hose Wagon fitted with ladders on the side cab-over configuration and large Brass lamps in front fitted with ladders and firemen riding in the parade. The RPPC of the Iolani Palace lit up at night with floodlights bringing out the architectural details and revealing all of the windows draped in American flags. n.p., unknown
1950ABC_487261950. Kept in a clear plastic sleeve. Various sizes. Four postcards and one press photograph. Collection of four postcards and one press photograph all relating to hajj. Every image shows a different aspect of the pilgrimage. The photograph shows a group of Moroccan men awaiting their turn to board the plane to Mecca and the postcards show the covered Kaaba both from further away and from up close and the arrival of the holy carpet in Alexandria. The final postcard depicts the public execution of two men.The postcard of the holy carpet has been used and has a black stamp on the front and a message and an address on the back the left margin has been cut slightly affecting the image and the handwritten text the corners of the photographs are somewhat creased. Otherwise in good condition. unknown