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187415918London, Leighton, 1874. Vol. 64: January to June 1874. 2 Bll., 620 S. mit zahlr. teils ganzseit., teils doppelblattgr. Textxylographien. Fol. Lwd. des 19. Jahrhunderts (starke Gebrssprn., Rücken mit Gelenkseinriss, fleckig).
187415919London, Leighton, 1874. Vol. 65: July to December 1874. 2 Bll., 620 S. mit zahlr. teils ganzseit., teils doppelblattgr. Textxylographien. Fol. Lwd. des 19. Jahrhunderts (starke Gebrssprn., Rücken mit kl. Gelenkseinrissen, fleckig).
Features/Photos: Excellent shot of Prince Charles (in kilt) with sister Princess Ann and Princess Margareet at the Braemar Highland Gathering; King of the Hellenes prepares for marriage; Alto Adige; Queen Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir El Bahari; Brazil - land of opportunity - multi page feature with colour photos; the Lawnrider; Farnborough Air Show 1964; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of the King and Duke of Kent welcomning U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant to England; Illustration of Don Alfonso De Bourbon of Hapsburg who died in Rome on February 28th; Seven photos of Mogadishi, capital of Italian Somaliland, captured by General Cunningham; Four pages of excellent photos show R.A.F. gunners undergoing intensive training; Page of photos of Turkey's dauntless leaders - Ismet Ineunu, Dr. Refik Saydam, and Bay Sukru Sarajoglu; Map-illustrated article entitled "The Germans in the Mediterranean"; Two pages of illustrations of the men and machines of the Turkish Air Force which confront the Axis menace; Two pages of photos illustrate the emancipation of Turkish women - shown are a judge, politician, professor, artists, and more; Centerfold illustration shows torpedoed ship with devastating damage in drydock for repairs (please note: significant coffee stains to this illustration); Full-page photo of British infantryman in Libya in full battle gear; Full-page photo of Fully-armed Greek infantryman on the Albanian front; Two-page illustration of R.A.S.C. men drawing rations in a typical skilfully concealed distribution centre; Photos of bomb damaged S. Mary's Church in Swansea; Photo of massive 1.75 ton unexploded Nazi bomb recovered from East Anglia; Photo of devastating R.A.F bomb damage to German rail marshalling yard; Photos of personalities of the week include G.W. Rendel, M. Filoff, M.N. Momtchiloff, M. De Vleeschauwer with General Cunningham, Mrs. Rex Benson with Air Marshal Portal, Joseph Kennedy giving evidence on the Lease-and-Lend bill in Washington, L. Von A. De La Periere, Dr. J. Rendel Harris, and the Rev. Eric S. Loveday; Two pages of photos of Lifeboatmen - always on duty defying the seas and Nazi bombers; Illustrated instructions how to personally deal with fire bombs; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photos of Churchill and Viscount Halifax approaching battleship 'King George V'; Excellent two-page illustration of sappers throwing a box-girder bridge with nose union across an enemy tank trap; Photo of Carl J. Hambro with M. Carton De Wiart; Photo of King Haakon with Polish President M. Raczkiewicz; One-page photo of General Wavell with Maj.-Gen. O'Connor outside doomed Bardia; Eight pages of fantastic photos of the fall of Bardia - first views; Magnificant centrefold photo of Britain's latest and greatest battleship, H.M.S. 'King George V'; Eight photos of patriot Abyssinians training for battle against Italian tyrants; Six photos of Greek heroism in arctic cold - latest pictures from Albania; Two pages of photos of Wendell Willkie, supporter of the aid for Britain policy, at work; Photos of personalities of the week include General De Gaulle, Count Ciano, Marshal Griziani, Count Csaky, Commander Roger Bureau, P.D. Willeringhaus, John Oxenham, Daniel Hopkin, L.F. Sinclair, and David Lloyd George at his wife's funeral; Five photos of the Chinese military which stands undaunted after four years' heroic resistance; Four photos of Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife, plus a photo of her Pekinese dog; Photo of amazing Italian 'Land Yacht' (captured from Commander Gatti) presented to Britain as a symbol of the resistance by the Belgian Congo; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book
38 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the Pope's Coronation; Photos of Representatives of Great Britain and other powers at the Papal Coronation; Full-page photo of the Pope's Open-Air Coronation on the Balcony of St. Peter's; Papal Coronation seen by a vaster crowd than ever before; The "Scapa Flow" of the Spanish Republican Fleet!; A Bronze Age Potter's Workshop - The First Found in Palestine - photos; Lachish - Traces of Nebuchadnezzar's Invasions - and Art Relics - photos; Two photos of the first white giraffe seen in Kenya - an adult "Albino" Bull; Among the "Red Men" of Ecuador - article with photos; How the Colorados Dye Themselves Scarlet and Trim their Hair - photos; Two dramatic photos of the sinking of the S.S. "Lillian" after a collission with the German freighter "Wiegand"; Royal Events and Activities of the Week - photos; Sultan of Perak Installed; The Japanese bomb Shumchun Market near Hong Kong - photo; Strange photo of gas mask for babies; Incredible colour photo of literally a "Red Indian" - a Colorado of Ecuador with skin and hair dyed scarlet from seeds of the blood tree and wearing a silver nose pin; Colour centerfold illustration of the only town established by the Romans in Wales - Venta Silurum; Photos of personalities of the week including Mahatma Gandhi, Field-Marshal Goering (in civilian clothes) and his wife, Colonel Rodriguez Lister, Dona Dolores Ibarruri; The Crisis in Slovakia - photos of leading personalities and turbulent scenes - Hlinka Guards; King of the late King George V. in St. George's Chapel; and more; Average wear. Centerfold and pages 411-416 loose but present. Pages 445-450 and any pages beyond page 452 missing. Magazine
Features/Photos: Wilson becomes Prime Minister; full-page colour ads for the Hillman Imp and Dry Fly Sherry; Russia's new First Secretary Brezhnev; Setbacks in Vietnam; First Gold for Britain in Tokyo - Mary Rand wins the long jump with a world record; Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Prize; Regent's new refinery at Milford Haven; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Pages 829-876. Features: Nice one-page ad for the new Austin Seven car; Photos of the Royals upon their return from Canada; Photos of the King and Queen with their grandchildren, Prince Charles and Princess Anne; Middle East Command (article on the importance of the Middle East to the Free World; Scenes of terrible flooding in Venice, Milan and Switzerland; Photos of defence against communists in Malaya, and damage wrought by terrorists there; Photos of the last days of the royal tour in Canada; Many photos of the Royals upon their return home; 'The Shetland Bus' - book digest; Photos of canal zone tension in Egypt; Tollund Man discovered in Denmark - remarkably preserved by peat; Amazing two-page montage of photos of kittens playing airborne kittens; interesting photos o personalities of the week; One-page color ad for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company fieatures chick emerging from egg; Nice colour back cover ad for Whitebread's beer; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: The Lord Mayor's Show; White mercenaries in action in the Congo; Battle over the future of Bristol Schools; The changing face of Mongolia; The New Victoria Line; Professor Yamamoto and Ultra-sonic waves for short-sighted Japanese; R.A.C. Rally; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Australia's first air V.C. - Wing Commander H.I. Edwards; Photos of Italian and German POWs in Africa; Presentation of the Polish air force flag in England - six photos; Russia bombs Rumanian oil-fields; Diagram of German gliders used at the battle of Crete - landing air troops; Four fantastic low-level daylight photos of the R.A.F. attack on Rotterdam - 100,000 tons of enemy shipping crippled; Russia's resistance - article by Cyril Falls; Photos from Russia - where Soviet troops are at death-grips with the German enemy; Centerfold illustration of 'Winnie", a huge camouflaged English gun which hurls vast shells across the channel into German-occupied territories; Two full-page illustrations of giant English guns mounted on rail cars; Photos of England's 'Front-Line" Town - Dover; Photos of leading personalities of the week; Two-page map of the western Pacific illustrates America's strategic air and naval position in relations to Japan and Singapore; Photos of the "Robin Moor" being blown up by the Germans - the first U.S. ship torpedoed by Germany; Three photos of the Robin Moor's survivors at sea; Full page family photo of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their two children, aged five and four; Article on the Plover; Full-page Dunlot ad shows how they serve agriculture; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows air crews with their planes in background. Average wear. Faint ink stamps to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
Pages 549-592. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Hawker Siddeley Group shows young boy above caption "How Much is a Little Boy Worth?"; Title page photo of Governor-General Sir Robert Howe addressing Khartoum crowds at great holiday parade; North Sudan welcomes the Anglo-Egyptian agreement; Photos of life in southern Sudan; Designs for the decoration of the Coronation route; Two-page illustration of multiple aircraft forms; People in the public eye; The Queen visits Wiltshire, goes racing and attends church; inventions of the day; Dramatic centrefold photo of fire aboard the carrier H.M.S. Indomitable; Trespass in Antarctica; Photos of Ruth Draper - the woman who single-handedly fills an empty stage with scenery and a vivid host of characters; Discovery of the oldest known Greek house; Official residences Sir William Slim will occupy in Australia; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: Rescue in Congo's week of tragedy - hostages saved as paratroopers drop in Stanleyville - horrific pictures; Ivories and Linear-B from Thebes; Building the Asian Highway; The Cruachan dam under construction in Argyll; Mariner 4 on trip to Mars; Sterling on the brink; Rare stamps make high prices; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: 1-page colour advert for the Singer Shamois by Rootes Motors; Pope Paul in India (colour photos); National Stud sold at Newmarket; Oil drilling in Surrey; Gibraltar's sixteenth siege; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Photos of British troops and supplies at Arnhem, plus battle photos; Photos of damage to Channel ports; photos of sea forts protecting London; and more. Average wear. Prior owner's name and stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Page 397 loose but present (because page 415 has been removed and is not included). Centerfold (loose but present) provides a large and fascinating cut-away diagram of 'the secrets of the flying bomb' - how the robot's flight and dive are automatically controlled. Book
44 pages. This issue devoted entirely to photographic coverage of the passing of Winston Churchill. Fantastic eight full-page colour photos, including centerfold. Many additional pages of black and white photos, including attending dignitaries. Fantastic colour photo full-page ad for the Riley Elf, Mk II, plus a nice colour ad for the Hillman Minx De Luxe. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
225 pages. An extra large issue profusely illustrated with incredible images of events after King's . Large full-page colour portraits of both the King and his Queen. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Large format volume with leather spine and corners. Edge wear and tears to edges of cover. 11 1/2"w x 16 1/4"h. From Saturday, Sept. 23, 1916 to December 30, 1916. Library label inside, but no other library markings.
1852101421Folio 16" x 11 1/2" laminated mint green colored boards illustrated. Binding with some chips and wear at extremities small bookplate on front pastedown endpaper torn a couple of other pages with minor tears not collated but a couple of issues with a page missing generally the contents seem complete slight aging; otherwise very good. This is a collection of the Illustrated London News that was probably used to promote subscriptions. The date on the tile page indicates 1852 but the actual issues seem to run from December 7 1844 to July 5 1845. This volume contains about twenty issues during that period but does not include every issue. In some of these promotional collections some issues are reprinted but the reprints are from 1852. A couple of pages are missing but the issues seem mostly complete. This volume was put out about ten years after the Illustrated London News began publication in May 1842. It contains some very interesting news and illustrations including an illustration of an 'electric telegraph' in the April12 1845 issue a very young Queen Victoria and Prince Albert engraving at a costume ball in the June 7 1845 issue and a tennis match in the February 1 1845 issue. books
1852101422Folio 16" x 11 1/2" laminated mint green colored boards illustrated. Top hinge cracked spine somewhat split and torn chips and wear at extremities small bookplate on front pastedown a bit of foxing some browning and aging not collated but issues appear complete. This is a collection of the Illustrated London News that was probably used to promote subscriptions. The date on the tile page indicates 1852 but the actual issues seem to run from June 11 1842 to May 6 1843. This volume contains about twenty five issues. While many issues say reprint these reprints were done around 1852 for what appears some promotional effort. This volume contains some of the earlier issues of this publication which began in May 1842. It contains some interesting news and illustrations including a small engraving of a cricket match p.164 an article on prison reform October 22 1842 and catching a whale p. 388. books
1852101423Folio 16" x 11 1/2" laminated mint green colored boards illustrated. Top cover detached spine somewhat bent and cracked chips and wear at extremities one or two signatures a little loose small bookplate on front pastedown a bit of foxing some browning and aging not collated but issues appear complete. This is a collection of the Illustrated London News that was probably used to promote subscriptions. The date on the tile page indicates 1852 but the actual issues seem to run from March 30 1844 to November 30 1844. This volume contains over 20 issues. While some issues may say reprint these reprints were done around 1852 for what appears some promotional effort. This volume contains some of the earlier issues of this publication which began in May 1842. It contains some interesting news and illustrations including a short story and illustration of a copper balloon for flying in Paris March 30 1844 the London Stock Exchange April 13 1844 an article and illustrations on Emigration to Sydney April 13 1844 a visit from the King of France June 1 1844 and an article on currency and income taxes June 1 1844. books
Features: equal pay for women by 1975; I was a Labour voter; Exit the neo-nazis?; temptation to violence - what comes first, the tv cameras or the violence?; the most desired residence in London; agony in Europe - Norway and Denmark decide on EEC or Nordic Union; with the marines; Charles Biederman - American artist; Following the Forsyte Saga; The House of Augustus - 2; What's all this about stereo?; Club Med - a holiday success story; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Gorgeous cover photo; the cry of the sixties - freedom; swing to permissiveness; why are the scientists worried? - US ban on germ warfare ignores defoliant sprays; what will Britain broadcast; sport in the seventies; New York - The Crystal Ball City; Inside the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet; Mycenae's first temple; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Caribbean time-bomb - Trinidad; Apartheid... or a growth economy? - South Africa; The Human City - Problems of Urban Survival; Mayflower seeks a boom in the 'seventies' - Plymouth finds other pilots for its future; The Car as Status Sympol; Nostalgia for la belle epoque; Religion - the only cloud in civilization's sky; In the footsteps of Alexander; SET - the tax that was born, not made; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Newspaper crisis; A summer of tension for Pakistan?; Taxation - the penalty for living, the punishment for death; The Ghurkas - bravest of the brave; After the moon - what next?; Apollo's heatshield helps the housewife; Original sin - and that man on the moon; May God preserve us from good taste!; What price pageantry?; Divine antics in Arcadia; Will man become a mole?; Aiglon - the school in the Alps; Healey and the great defence 'delusion'; Gainsborough at the Queen's Gallery; Tabarka; The Rolls Royce story; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Ulster eruption; Watching and waiting in Laos; Background to a millionaire - David Rowland; London's hotel crisis; The Passions of Easter; Irish vote; Putting poetry into pop; who writes Britain's shopping list?; Women on the march; Richard Hamilton - artist; Salamis - Capital of the Kings; Iceland; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine