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Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous fine photographs (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Features: Canadian Castles; Where Prairie and Mountain Meet - Waterton Lakes National Park; Anne's Gables are still Green on Prince Edward Island (PEI); The Healing Springs of British Columbia - Radium Hot Springs, Harrison Hot Springs; A Canadian Trail in Minnesota - a nine mile portage used by early explorers including la Verendrye, the Alexander Henrys, Alex. Mackenzie, David Thompson, and John Tanner, the first white boy to live on the Manitoba prairie - the portage connects Fort Charlotte with Grand Portage/Lake Superior; Catching and Curing Salmon... the Indian way. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
6 pages. Pages separated. Somewhat above-average wear. Bit of writing and sticker remnant on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Sheet music
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and some bumping to upper edges. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 180pp. A very lavish publication of the French region around Burgundy, comprising sumptuous captioned colour photographs taken from the sky of cities, towns, villages, rural areas and also of detailed architectural feature . Some photos are fold-out pages, up to thirty-seven inches wide. All text in French.
283 pages. Author relives a golden decade in that most sensual of countries, Italy. Awarded the Literature Prize in a Canada-wide contest sponsored by the Italian government, the city of Ottawa and the Italian community of Ottawa to mark Italian week, 1980, Ricordi recreates vividly for the armchair traveller the sights, sounds and smells of Rome, where the author was working at FAO, and of the hills of Tuscany, where she sold farmhouses and castles to the wealthy. The intimate story of her friendships and liaisons, reveals a North American psyche transformed by the Italian people and their exuberance for life. Average wear to maroon covers and unmarked contents. Book
Features: Ryusei-ha School; Soami School; Ohara School; Koryu Shohtoh-kai School; Riei's Flowers - Herbaceous peony, Persimmon, Maple; Sakura; Morimono of the Chiko School; Ikenobo School; Saga School; Sogetsu School; Ichiyo School; Seifu Enshu School; Japanese Castles. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
484pp. avec qqs. illustrations dans le texte + quelques planches hors-texte (sur papier plus ou moins fort bruni), 24cm., brochure originale (qqs. traces d'usage mais intacte, bien protégée par une couv. supplémentaire de papier cristal), qqs. rousseurs (texte toujours bien lisible), peu commun, G100278
Vincent Fréal, 1936. In-8 broché. 53 pages + 96 planches photos. Notices historiques et descriptives par J. de MONTARNAL. Quelques rousseurs en bord de couverture, corps de l'ouvrage en bon état. Rare
Rodez, Subervie, 1978. In-8 broché de 146 pages de texte et nombreuses planches à diverses photos en suivant. Bon état. Peu courant
Pages 211-256 plus xviii pages of nostalgic ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Down North" To Great Bear Lake - Voyaging by Air to Canada's New Northern Mining Centre; London's New Architecture; Castles of the New World - profusely illustrated article on Canada's grain elevators, from small to huge. Nice colour Quebec tourism ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book
pp. xiii, 359 + Plus Frontis, Color Map and Aquatint engravings sketched by the author. Lacks one plate. Offsetting from plates. Inked ownership of Helen Tagart and S. Jones, Green Noll May, 1803. Inked manuscript "on the tour of South Wales May 7th returned, July 4th 1803, 660 miles. Mr. & Mrs Loyd and Son & Mr. Jones to Baytey, 1803." Marbled endpapers. 8vo. Disbound. SWAF. SDCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 1
4 volumes, 256 + 256 + 254 + 252pp., 24cm., br.orig., très bon état, [Contient la description de 400 chateaux, avec illustrations en couleurs], B111323
Vincent Fréal 1936, In-8 relié demi-basane brune, titre et fleuron dorés en dos. 53 pages + 96 planches photos. Notices historiques et descriptives par J. de MONTARNAL. Dos un peu passé sans gravité. Bel exemplaire. Rare
Features: What Pearson won by losing; Why Diefenbaker lost Canada; Real Caouette's Road to Power - 26 Socreds upset Quebed and split Canada; The Long Watch; Birth of a Labor Party? - Tommy Douglas lost farmers and won union men; The Back-room Conspiracy - who does the thinking for the top party strategists; The Rosy World of Nutri-Bio - part cult, part showmanship, the 'food supplement' business is mostly profit; Spectacular last mile - the last, highest and costliest stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway - bridge-building in BC - great photos; The Glass Robin in our Coal Bin - how to haunt wrecked castles and build a dream house that scares architects. Nice colour Molson Canadian ad inside back cover. Coke ad on back cover. Closed four inch tear to top edge of front cover else average wear. A quality copy. Book
Pages 73-108. Features. Aerial cover photo of idle London shipping due to dockworker's strike; Photos of troops serving as stevedores unloading frozen beef from Argentina; Two-page illustration of Fettes College; Article entitled "Dollars, Sterling and European Trade"; Photos of striking dockworkers attending speeches; Two-pages of photos from the agricultural show at Shrewsbury, including Princess Elizabeth and many champion animals; Photos of personalities of the week include the winners of the Ashburton Shield, Tshekedi Khama, Cambridge Cricketeers, Mr. Alexander Diomedes, Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage; A.D. Locke, Harry Bradshaw, Seretse Khama, the former Miss Ruth Williams, Sir francis Mudie, Flight-Lt. K.H.F. Letford, and The Emir Idris El Senussi. Photo of the Enola Gay being presented to the Smithsonian Institution; Photo of Emir Abdul Illah with King Feisal of Iraq; Photo of robotic hand developed by German firm; Photos of U.N. Success in Indonesia - 3-stage evacuation of Java; Photo of restoration of Cleopatra's Needle, near Charing Cross; Two-page colour photo of the earliest realistic human portrait in the history of man, discovered in central France; Aerial photos of British castles with medieval fortifications; Attractive one-page colour ad for General Electric fridges; Colour Johnnie Walker cricket-themed ad on back cover; and more. Complete, intact and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
153 pages. Black and white illustrations. Map endpapers. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Gilt lettering and decoration upon forest green textured faux leather boards. A quality copy. Book
96, [106] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Holy Rosary Church, Dayton, Ohio; Shadows of the Chateaux; Architectural Treatment of Rapid Transit Stations in New York City; The United States Housing Corporation Project No. 59, at Bath, Maine; Modern Industrial Plants - Part III; Union Park Gardens - a Model Garden Suburb at Wilmington, Delaware; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Furniture of the Italian Renaissance; The Architect's Library - Recent French Books; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Rodez, Subervie, 1971. 3 volumes grands et forts In-8 brochés de 665 + 681 + 146 pages et nombreuses planches photos hors texte. Très bon état. Rare Broché
An extremely rare monograph on the Ch‚teau de Chambord, with THREE LARGE, STUNNING HORS-TEXTE LITHOGRAPHS OF THE CHATEAU BY C. PENSEE. 32 pp + 3 lithographs. This is the third edition of the text, but the FIRST AND ONLY EDITION in folio format with the three lithographs. Folio. Original printed wraps. Wraps lightly worn and soiled. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. A pristine copy of a rare and beautiful publication. The BNF has a copy, apparently missing the three lithographs.
"... it is a description of sixteen of the larger medieval fortresses of the Peloponnese, occupied by the Venetians during the period 1685-1715, and drawn by their engineers around the year 1700." Based on the discovery of a portfolio of the plans disceoverd in Venice in 1938. "This book is an attempt to gather together the historical resources relative to the castles figuring in the collection, and to present the results of my archaeological investigation , illustrated by early traveller's descriptions, by photographs of my own .... I have arranged the fortresses in the order as they fell to the armies of the Holy League in the campaigns of 1685-1792, ... In each chapter the fortress' history is recapitulated from its earliest known beginnings to its last military engagement, followed by an analysis of its architecture." Masterly, mammoth and not yet superseded this is a rare and classic work covering aspects of Greek history little studied or appreciated. 274p + XXXX plates. Illus, maps, chronology, bibliography.index Condition : Very good. Hinges starting, cover showing some wear and fading. Book
