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1332747388.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
24 pages. Features: Vintage illustrated ad for Peters shotgun shells on front cover; Publich Shooting Grounds; The American Jack Snipe Society; Advocating Game as a Replacement Crop; Canada Orders Buffalo Hunts; U.S. Sleuthing for Data to Aid "Duck Come-Back"; The Southwestern Club's Trials - article with photos of President Carl E. Duffield, Secretary Dr. Felix M. Adams and several dogs; Virginia Amateur Field Trials - article with photos of President Ernest C. Mead and Secretary J. Wiley King; Illustrated ad for Western Xpert shotgun shells; Field Dog Stud Book Registrations; Veterinary Q & A; Classy one-page ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) features hunters and dog at work; Nostalgic photo ad for Purina Dog Chow shows truckload of sacks of dog chow being manually loaded onto ship the Jacob Ruppert, Admiral Byrd's ship, before it set off for the Arctic in 1933 with 50 tons of food, enough for 153 huskies for two years; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Ab Jenkins and his 1933 V-12 Pierce-Arrow; Obituary of Arthur Kumpf inside front cover - Mr. Kumpf had a long association with the Pierce-Arrow, including service as a racer and endurance driver in the U.S. and Europe; list of Ab Jenkins' Driving achievements; Fredericksburg Meet Photos on pages 13 through 20; items on pages 4 through 9 are from the March 31, 1930 issue of 'The Pierce-Arrow News' (which was a large 'newspaper format' factory publication); Some Pierce-Arrows at Harrah's - with text and photos; New Parts Set-Up Gives Rush Service; Downton Window Display Proves Successful for Holden-Nelson; Here's the way your parts orders are handled; Speech of Col. Charles Clifton, 1917; Speech of Mr. Day about factory plans for the maintenance and up-building of Pierce-Arrow quality; Paint Shop Memories, by William L. Fischer; Many great photos from the 1974 PAS meet; Text of talk given at meet by Maurice A. Thorne. Back cover features reproduction of an ad for the Pierce-Arrow Travelodge, an early house/travel-trailer which could be pulled by car. Moderate wear. Umarked. A quality copy. Book
2002 reprint of 1987 edition. ; Oxford Medieval Texts; 1.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 500 pages; This is the first full edition of the canonization dossier of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, who died in 1189 and was canonized in 1202. It is a document of exceptional interest for the history of the canonization process in Rome, for the history of the one English religious Order of the Middle Ages, the Order of Sempringham, and for the biography of the founder himself, St. Gilbert. The order was founded to be primarily an Order of women, was confined to England, and so disappeared at the Reformation.
2004100144878Cistercian Publications 2004 476 pages 13 8x21 6x3cm. 2004. Broché. 476 pages. Il s'agit d'une traduction annotée et d'une édition critique du 'Liber Graduum' un texte syriaque chrétien ancien. L'ouvrage documente la vie et les défis d'une communauté chrétienne réelle en explorant des thèmes spirituels centrés sur les 'degrés' de Rectitude et de Perfection. Il offre un aperçu de la pensée chrétienne primitive et de l'histoire sociale et théologique dans le contexte byzantin
164 pages including index, references and colour photography. Presents the current state of soil taxonomy in Canada. The history and rationale of soil classification in Canada are outlined briefly to point out the changes in concepts and the current point of view on soil taxonomy. This is followed by chapters that define soil, soil horizons, and other basic terms, and explain how to key out the classification of a soil. A chapter is devoted to each of the nine soil orders and the great groups and subgroups within each order. Average wear. Unmarked. Excellent reference. Book
64339, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xvi + 300 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:23 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888448361.
1528155076.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
32 pages. Features: A Preacher Tells The Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and His Preacher Book; A $20,000,000 Bond Issue That Will Cost the Taxpayers $49,500,000 (second in a series presenting some of the hidden features of modern finance underlying public bond issues); Gibson Girls, Gibson Men and the Chicago World's Fair; Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars - Freedom from Extra Taxation for Armaments What They Most Want - article with wonderful photos; Every Person Has At Least One Book in Him; Henry Ford's Page - Finance Must Get Into Step; Editorials - Professor E.W. Kemmerer and Polish debt, Conspiracy, Fraud, the Elk Hills Oil Reserve, and Messrs. Doheny and Fall, attempt to impeach Judge Frank Cooper for upholding the country's prohibition law; People of the British Isles - The English; A Doctor Looks at Doctors - and sees them as they cannot see themselves; The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb - article with illustration of Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (Mrs. Columbus Tyler) and teacher Miss Polly Kimball; One-page ad (with photo) for Edison - Columbia - Victor recordings of the Old American Dances, as played by the Henry Ford Dance Orchestra; What is a Dollar Worth? (short piece); Chats with Office Callers - Smedley Butler cleans liquor from the San Diego Marine Barracks; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Controversial play entitled "The Captive" and Otto H. Kahn of Famous Players, Ripon College student Lynn Wells operates a bookstore but carries no inventory, with nearly all his orders going to foreign countries; News Bits; photos of large sailboats inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear with nibbling along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2007292616MZI Global Marketing 2007. Stapled Pamphlet. Near Fine binding. A stapled pamphlet 11 x 8 1/2". In colored printed wrappers. 33 pp. illustrated with color photographs. Near Fine binding. MZI Global Marketing unknown books
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, expertly recased, a near fine copy. With the QRAI revision slip (printed in red) mounted facing p. 71. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
1988100133993Grove Pr 1988 21x2 4x14 8cm. 1988. Cartonné jaquette.
20 pages. Chapters include: The Vatican; The Dioceses and Parishes; The Religious Orders; Unrelated Business; Government Grants. Prior own's details inside front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1914951F7London: The Government of India by John Murray 1914 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of this richly illustrated account of George V's 1911 visit to entia to take part in the Imperial Durbar in Delhi. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece eight colour plates two photogravures forty-four collotypes and numerous monochrome plates alongside four plans one of which is folding.Collated complete.With the bookplate of Christopher J. E. Jarchow to the front pastedown.The Delhi Durbar or Imperial Durbar was a mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park Delhi India to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar it was held three times in 1877 1903 and 1911 at the height of the British Empire. The 1911 Durbar was the only one that a sovereign George V attended. It took pace in December 1911 to honour King George V and Queen Mary's coronation in Britain a few months prior and to proclaim their titles of Emperor and Empress of India. All Indian princely state kings and governors were called to pay respect.This work in great detail depicts this display of imperial power during the British Raj and includes detailed itineraries speeches and illustrations of this defining event of Colonial India. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light spotting to perimeters of front board with a touch of fading to centre of rear board. Light spotting to text block fore edge. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good The Government of India by John Murray hardcover
Features: Yuri Gregarin's Flight - Extensive Coverage; Eichmann Trial; Nylon net stops jet; The Maya Stelae of Aguateca; Jewels in the service of chivalry and royalty - Orders of Knighthood and an Empress crown (in colour); Courtship among animals (in colour); The AMI 6 Citroen; Large fold-out advertisement by AEI (Associated Electrical Industries Ltd); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Photo portrait and write-up re: The Late J.G.S. Anderson, the late Captain of "E" and "G" companies; Our Regimental Plate - No. IX - the "Lumsden" Cup - photo of the cup and article by 3304; Notes by the C.O.; Annual Inspection - with photo of Cols. Balfour, His Grace The Duke of Argyll, and Montgomerie, all in top hats at the saluting base; Shooting Results; Notes on Writing Orders, Tactical Problems, and the War Game (a); and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
Reprint of the 1916 first edition. 224 pages. The Lusitania Massacre is one of the great landmarks in history, not alone in American history but in human history, because it ensured German defeat in the World War. Chapters include: Should passenger vessels carry war material?; English orders to fight submarines; The German warning; The American warning; The Cunard Company's warning; American Ruling (not law) on foreign armed merchant vessels; Was the Lusitania armed?; The Manifest of the Lusitania; Who is responsible?; View of the English, Austrians and Germans; The official English investigation; and more. Black and white illustrations. Some markings. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Front hinge secured with librarian's tape. Spine leaning moderately. Remains a decent working copy. Book
1984100144030Franz Steiner Verlag 1984 150 pages in8. 1984. Broché. 150 pages. Cet ouvrage académique examine le rôle des saints hommes monastiques dans la christianisation de l'Éthiopie durant la période salomonienne précoce (1270-1468). Il analyse leur émergence dans le contexte social politique et religieux de l'époque ainsi que leurs fonctions au sein des sociétés chrétiennes et non-chrétiennes en s'appuyant sur la littérature hagiographique de l'Église éthiopienne
1977R56544Cardiff, University of Wales Press 1977 xiii + 317pp.+ frontispice + 4 plates, cloth, 23cm., ex-library copy (some stamps & label on spine) else G
xiii + 317pp.+ frontispice + 4 plates, cloth, 23cm., ex-library copy (some stamps & label on spine) else G
1684AQ27793London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke 1684. 14pp. ESTC R16301 Wing K495. Bound with: An exact relation of the Grand Ceremony of the marriage of charles the II.As it was performed at Fontainbleau by Cardinal Bouillon the Prince of Conti being Proxey in behalf of the most Catholick King. By an Eye-witness as it was Printed at Paris and faithfully Translated. London. Printed for Dorman Newman 1679. 2 10pp. ESTC R31470 Wing E3690. And: The Princess Anne of Denmark's letter To the Queen. London. s.n. 1688. 1pp. Single sheet printed on one side only. In this edition line 11 of text ends 'o-'; line 19 ends 'per-'. ESTC R210012 Wing A3224. And: The humble petition and advice Presented unto His Highness the lord protector by The Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled At the Parliament begun and held at Westminster the 17th day of September 1656. London. Printed by Henry Hills and John Field 1657. 2 20pp. Defective without final five leaves of text. Later ownership inscription to title small worm-track to lower margin. ESTC R213592 Wing E1566A. And: Drop-head title: An Act for the Attainder of the Pretended Prince of Wales of High Treason. London. Printed by Charles Bill 1701 i.e. 1702. 2 35-36pp. Imprint from general title page. ESTC N53555. ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles BL and Oxford and one further location in North America Texas. And: Drop-head title: An Act to Declare the Alterations in the Oath appointed to be Taken by the Act intituled An Act for the further Security of His Majesties Person and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line and for Extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales and all other Pretenders and their Open and Secret Abettors and for Declaring the Association to be Determined. London. Printed by Charles Bill 1702. 2 403-411pp 1. Imprint from general title page. ESTC N53578. ESTC records copies at locations in the British Isles Longleat and Oxford and a further three in North America McGill Texas and Yale. And: Drop-head title: An Act for Explaining a Clause in an Act made at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the Two and twentieth of November in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King William the Third Intituled An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government. London. Printed by Charles Bill 1702. 2 119-124pp. Imprint from general title page. ESTC N53560. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles Cambridge Longleat and Oxford and a further three in North America Columbia Cornell and Kansas. And: Drop-head title: An Act for naturalizing her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. London. Printed by John Baskett 1736. 2 427-428pp. Imprint from general title page. ESTC N51428. ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles House of Lords and National Museums Scotland and two further in North America California and Texas. And: The Humble address Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament assembled presented to his majesty On Wednesday the Fifteenth Day of January 1745. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett 1745. 4pp. ESTC N17336. ESTC record copies at two locations in the British Isles BL and Oxford and two further in North America Brown and Duke. And: The humble address Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament assembled presented to his majesty On Tuesday the Twenty ninth Day of April 1746. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett 1746. 4pp. ESTC T63816. ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles BL and Sion College and three further in North America Brown Duke and Huntington. And: His Majesty's most gracious speech To both houses of parliament On Tuesday the Eighteenth Day of November 1746. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett 1746. 4pp. ESTC N17589. ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles BL and three further copies worldwide Brown Göttingen and Yale. And: The humble address Of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal In Parliament assembled presented to his majesty On Wednesday the Nineteenth Day of November 1746. With hHis Majesty's most gracious answer. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett 1746. 4pp. ESTC N17325. ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles BL and four further copies worldwide Boston Brown Göttingen and Yale. And: His Majesty's most gracious speech To both houses of parliament On Tuesday the Eighteenth Day of November 1760. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett 1760. 4pp. Not in ESTC. An apparently unrecorded variant - in this edition press figures on pp. 3 and 4 are 1 and 3 respectively. And: Drop-head title: An Act for settling and securing a certain Annuity on Horatio Nelson Lord Nelson and the Two next Persons to whom the Title of Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk shall descend in Consideration of the eminent Service performed by the said Horatio Nelson Lord Nelson to HIs Majesty and the Public. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1798 i.e. 1799. 1 4-6pp. ESTC N60209. ESTC records a single copy Lincoln's Inn. And: Drop-head title: An Act for settling and securing a certain Annuity on William Lord Amherst.in Consideration of the eminent Services performed by him during his Command in America. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1803. 1 1594-1596pp. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at six locations Amherst Brown IHS Library and Archives Canada Society of the Cincinnati and Toronto. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable His Majesty to grant a certain Annuity to Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan Baronet in Consideration of the eminent Services which he has rendered to His Majesty and the publick. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1806. 53-54pp. OCLC and COPAC together locate copies at two locations Illinois and NMM. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable His Majesty to grant a certain Annuity to Vice Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1806. 301-302pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act for extending the Annuity granted to Earl of St. Vincent to the Two next Persons to whom the Title of Viscount St. Vincent is limited. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1806. 357-358pp. OCLC and COPAC together records copies at two locations NMM and Queen's University Belfast. And: Drop-head title: An Act for settling and securing a certain Annuity on Earl Wellington.in consideration of his eminent services. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1812. 1 306-308pp. OCLC records a single copy Illinois. And: The speech of his royal highness the prince of wales regent in the name and on behalf of his majesty to both houses of parliament On Wednesday July 12 1815. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1815. 4pp. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at two locations Birmingham and KB. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable His Majesty to grant an annual Sum to Her Royal Highness Victoria Maria Louisa Duchess of Kent. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1831. 105-106pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act to repeal Part of an Act intituled An Act to provide for the Administration of the Government in case the Crown should descend to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandria Victoria. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1838. 133-134pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act for exhibiting a Bill in this present Parliament for naturalizing His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. London. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1840. 3-4pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act for the Naturalization of His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. London. Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1840. 5-6pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant an Annuity to His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. London. Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1840. 9-10pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act for providing for the further Security and Protection of Her Majesty's Person. London. Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1842. 673-675pp 1. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity on Her Royal Highness the Princess Augustus Caroline eldest Daughter of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. London. Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1843. 305-306pp 1. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable the Council of His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales to sell and exchange Lands and enfranchise Copyholds Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall to purchase other Lands; and for other Purposes. London. Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1844. 509-532pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable Her Majesty to settle an Annuity on Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. London. Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1857. 5-6pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act to enable Her Majesty to provide for the Establishment of HIs Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark and to settle certain Annuities on Her Royal Highness. London. Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1863. 3-4pp. Apparently unrecorded. And: Drop-head title: An Act to make Provision concerning Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes payable in the Metropolis on the Day appointed for the Passage through the Metropolis of Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. London. Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1863. 5-6pp. Apparently unrecorded. Folio. Modern gilt-tooled half-calf marbled boards. A trifle rubbed. Very occasional spotting. An impressively extensive coherent sammelband of thirty-one Royal acts orders and addresses the majority remarkably scarce or entirely unrecorded ranging from the penultimate year of the reign of Charles II to the mid nineteenth-century including speeches delivered by George II before Parliament concerning the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745; acts granting annuities to William Amherst Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington for services to the Crown during the Seven Years' War French Revolutionary Wars and Peninsular War respectively; and articles relating to the naturalisation and financial provision of Prince Albert. . Printed for Benjamin Tooke hardcover
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 62 coloured plates, 130 plates and illustrations in monochrome, 88 diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of coarse-grain terracotta leatherette, upper board framed in black and blocked and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip blocked in black and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, radial corners, a near fine copy. Includes descriptions of every family of British spiders, every species of harvestman and false scorpion, and the more familiar of the British mites and sea-spiders. Colour plates by Florence M Brummitt. Enlarged and extended version of the original edition of 1935; the section on harvestmen is enlarged and the sea-spiders appear here for the first time. A lovely copy. See Marren, pp.166-167.
2014100144880Gorgias Press 2014 300 pages in8. 2014. Broché. 300 pages. Édition bilingue syriaque-anglais du 'Livre des Degrés' une collection de 30 sermons (memre) écrits par un auteur anonyme en Perse à la fin du IVe siècle. L'ouvrage décrit la vie spirituelle d'une communauté chrétienne avant l'avènement du monachisme en mettant en lumière les devoirs et problèmes de deux catégories de chrétiens engagés : les Justes et les Parfaits
1972R30779Louvain, Bibliothèque de l'Université/ Publications Universitaires de Louvain 1972 xxiii + 410pp., text in English, published in the series "Université de Louvain, Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie" 6e série facs.1, pages still uncut, very good condition, R30779
1972R116136Louvain, Bibliothèque de l'Université/ Publications Universitaires de Louvain 1972 xxiii + 410pp., text in English, published in the series "Université de Louvain, Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie" 6e série facs.1, 25cm., nice hardcover binding in brown cloth, gilt title at spine, few stamps at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, R116136