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2022x-9354783287Zinc Read 2022. Hardcover. New. 466 pages. 6.00x1.00x9.00 inches. Zinc Read hardcover
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ria9789354783289_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A hardcover
Sm. 4to., Seventh Impression, with illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at edges else a good, clean copy. Imrie/Risley Uniform Color Guides. Series No. 1. Booklet No. 1.
26639No date or address. Part of an Autograph Letter Signed 10 x 5cm clipped to emphasise his signature as follows: "your obedient humble servant Wellington". See Image. Text on "verso": "communications unless in every case of fault rigid enquiry be substituted". No date or address unknown
In-8 (cm. 25.30), tela editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. 237, (1), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo. Text in English. Prima edizione. In ottimo stato (nice copy).
Pages 977-1032.. Features: Nice colour-illustrated Rolex ad inside front cover features illustration of divers; Royal Airforce recruiting ad; Nice half-page Hooper car ad for the 7-seater Limo., design No. 8400; Royal photos of the Queen Mother's return from the U.S. at Waterloo; Great two-page series of illustrations of "Tridac" - the biggeset calculating machine in England - used to assist in the design of guided missiles and high-speed aircraft; Photo of the two vessels of the Onassis whaling fleet seized by Peru; 80th birthday ceremony for Winston Churchill in Westminster Hall; Photos of Royal occasions; Passing of Mr. A. Vyshinsky; Unearthing the world's oldest funerary boat - the start of the Gize excavations; Lightshipi South Goodwin wrecked on the Goodwin sands by a mighty gale; Centerfold photo of this vessel on her side on the Goodwin Sands; Liberian tanker "World Concord" breaks in half; Photos of 17 personalities in the news, including Sir Edward Keeling, Professor Enrico Fermi, Alger Hiss, Sir George Robey, and Mr. Ronald Murton, the only survivor of the wrecked South Goodwin lightship; Magnificent Greco-Etruscan remains of 2400 years ago recovered from the mud of Lake Comacchio; the making of fine Britihs glass; Burbery's fashion ad; Colour-photo ad for Gilbey's Royal Whisky inside back cover with horse racing theme; back cover colour ad for Meltis New Berry Fruits; and more. Advertorial cover loose but present, otherwise moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 677-728. Features: Twelve photos (over 4 pages) of Nazi Parachutists in training - falling and rolling, landing and fighting; Three illustrations of the British local defence volunteer force and how it confronts invading parachutists; Dramatic two-page aerial photo of R.A.F. operating against a Nazi motorized column between St. Menges and Floing, north of Sedan (a huge crater at a fork in the road forces Nazis to detour); Air photo of R.A.F. bombing on Dinant; Air photo of demolished bridges at Sedan; Sketch of destroyed Church of St. Pierre at Lessines, west of Brussels; Four sketches from Belgium show downed Heinkel near Waterloo, British troops shooting at German planes, bomb damage in Tournai, and Refugees fleeing Brussels; The War with Nazi Germany - The Great German Offensive (article); Flanders again devastated - six pictures from war-ravaged Belgium; Six photos of refugees from Belgium and the Netherlands receiving sanctuary in England; Centerfold illustration of the second martyrdom of Belgium - a swarm of German planes bombing Tournai, while a British roadside post with Bren gun waits for low-flying attacks; Nine excellent photos of Nazi mechanized units - heavy, medium and light tanks, armoured cars, motor-cyclists, and motorised guns; Photos of personalities of the week include Turkish delegation in London, Nazi prisoner in London, Class 'B' enemy aliens being marched through Liverpool, and Dutch Premier Jonkheer de Geer with four colleagues in London; One-page illustration of Nazi 'Blitzkrieg' offensive combining air and tank attacks; Photo-illustrated article on the vanishing American Bison; Photo of Hitler with his Army leaders; Illustrations of General Von Brauchitsch and Halder; Two-page world map illustrates 66 items which are still available to Great Britain via world trade; Weather Predition (article); Many nice vintage ads including a fantastic one-page photo ad for "Staybrite" steel by Firth-Vickers of Sheffield which shows large-scale production in their mill; Two photos of troops on the Faroe Islands (The Faroes) at Thorshavn; Photos of Bedford, Ford, and Fordson tractors being exported from Britain; Photo of General H. G. Winkelman, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands Army. Please note: Brown discolouration of unknown origin to bottom 0.75" of all pages. All text legible. Average wear and a minor nibble from foot of spine. A sound copy of this dramatic wartime issue. Book
Topics/Photos: America's Gemini 3 blasts into space; Man's first steps into space as Leonov swims from Voskhod 2; American steps to reduce Russian lead; Selma Civil Rights March; The future of the public school; Battle of Waterloo refought upon the Chelsea table-top; Rowing Battles; Hancock's Heroic Dash saves day for England; Oldest Sardis begins to emerge in American diggings; Rocking-Horse School; 3 Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Pages 197-224 plus advertorial covers. Features: Cover photo of North African sand storm; Two photos of H.M. aircraft-carrier "Formidable" at sea; Two pages of photos of American bomber crews training in Britain; Two pages of photos of Caucasus landmarks; Five photos from the El Alamein front; Page of photos of the "Do.217e" Bomber and its tail-brake controls - diving speed to 500 mph; Photos of Churchill in Cairo, Moscow (with Stalin and Molotov), and the Alamein area with Aussie troops; Five photos of the Solomon Islands - now mainly taken from Japan by U.S. Forces; Centrefold artist's rendering of the new Waterloo Bridge as it will appear when completed; Photos of personalities of the week include E.N. Syfret, Sir W. Welsh, Air Marshal P. Babington, Dr. A.P. Newton, Capt. C. Bain-Marais, Canadian air chiefs Breadner, Power and Edwards in London; Princess Margaret, A.C.G. Mars, Harold Drew, Admiral Vian, Sir George Philip Langton, Vincent Harris, Lord Loch, and G. Kingsley Sheils; Page of photos of the Shah of Iran with Queen Fawzieh and baby princess Chahnaz; Photos of Polish submarine "Sokol" returning home after daring Mediterranean exploits; Illustration of blitzed Guildhall in York with charred timbers still standing; Photos of H.M.S. "Manchester" and "Eaglle", both of which are now sunk; Photos of the U.S. Mustang aircraft and the Lancaster bomber under construction; Photo of Aussie female 'picketers' greeting U.S. soldiers with signs warning them not to reveal troop movements with innocent talk; Seven excllent illustrations depict duties of a Merlin bomber crew of seven; Twelve excellent photos show the life of coal miners at a large Midland group of collieries; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
58, [8 ads] pages. Features: Cover photo of memorial service for Ramsay MacDonald; Seven photos illustrated Ramsay MacDonald's last homecoming - Bermuda to Lossiemouth; Nice photo of M. Chautemps and M. Delbos of France outside French embassy in London; Two-pages of photos entitle "An Australian Problem - The Primitive 'Black Fellow' [Aborigine] of the Bush, Threatened with Extinction - 'Living Human Fossils' of Australia; One-page illustration of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret inspecting the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum; One-page illustration of construction of the New Waterloo Bridge; Fifteen photos of the Quetzal - the Aztec symbol bird - first speciments ever kept alive in captivity or photographed; Article on ships includes cross section illustration of boat with flash steam propulstion; Wonderful three-page article 'English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century' includes five beautiful colour photos of clothing samples; Five-photos illustrate airplane de-icing techniques; Photo of the 'Ayro' wheel being demonstrated to air apprentices; Photo of wreckage after German plane crashed into Croydon hangar; Photo of Prince Bernhard's car after it crashed with a truck; Article and colour photos of jewels found at Tsarskoye Selo; Colour centrefold illustration of the Cango Caves in South Africa; Nice one-page colour Dunlop tire ad with red background; Photos of personalities of the week include: J.D. Low, J.A. Brett, Nahas Pasha with Sir Miles Lampson, E.O.W. Hunt, D.E. A. Pettit, the Maharaja of Kapur-Thala; General Iwane Matsui and his wife, Miss Lilian Baylis, Dr. C. Tate regan, Clive Forster Cooper, H.L. Murphy, Maurice Hely-Hutchinson, Herr Walther Funk, Laurence D. Holt, Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, M. Janson of Belgium; Ten photos of Japanese military recruits being honoured with ceremonies, scrolls, money and 'senin-baris'; Three interior photos of Hitler's mountain home near Berchtesgaden where he recently spoke with Lord Halifax for five hours; Three photos from Goering's estate where he too met Lord Halifax; Nice colour Peek Frean's ad; Colour ad for Craven 'A' cigarettes; Nice Martell ad shows butler bowing mid-table between two imbibing gentlemen; Harrod's Christmas gift ideas; Classy Bentley car photo ad; and more. Unmarked with above-average external wear. A worthy vintage reference copy. Book
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#[63266]View on a wood landscape with a stream in the foreground. On the left a large stump and towards the right other trees and bushes. Signed on the bottom right: AW F where AW are monogrammed. l Etching on laid paper trimmed to plate; total: 129 x 141 mm; state III/3; mounted on large passepartout. In outstanding condition; Hollstein 58; Bartsch 58 Dutuit 58 Wess. 58. unknown
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and facsimile endpapers; original red cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Wheeler served with the 51st in the Walcheren Expedition, the Peninsula and Waterloo. Sandler 3456.
1816WATERLOO010935Printed by J. Russell Birmingham 1816. Second edition enlarged from the 1814 edition with the account of the Battle of Waterloo. Octavo. 476 pages. Five woodcut plates. Original boards with later leather spine retaining the endpapers.Covers rubbed. Discreet repairs to minor insect damage at bottom edges of first few leaves. Very good. Very scarce; no copies of this edition on Library Hub. Printed by J. Russell, Birmingham, hardcover
ONLY Volume One of Two. pp. xii, 401, (12)[Publisher's catalogue] + half title, frontis and folding maps and views. Numerous text engravings. XLib. Stamp on half title and elsewhere. Library bookplate. Text clean. Folding maps and views brown but not brittle. Tall 8vo. Original full gold decorated brown cloth binding, slightly worn. FRENG 1
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 12 fine chromolithographed pates showing uniforms (all original tissue guards present), 2 portraits in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and several monochrome illustrations in the text; original black diced cloth, upper board with elaborate gilt frame border enclosing crest and motto blocked in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, corners bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. With an armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Decent copy of one of the best illustrated and most lavishly bound cavalry histories of the period; Norie's plates are particularly fine. Includes detailed account of the regiment's service in the Peninsular and at Waterloo. A remainder issue was published without plates. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p 68; White, p.20.
55420Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Artic. Created in the 17th century n.d. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
55417Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Artic. Created in the 17th century n.d. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A3. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
55419Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Artic. Created in the 17th century n.d. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag Bright White premium quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
