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Features: A button industry from ocean pearl; Editorials - more speed in the air; voices across the world; Wild life in a fire; Flying instruction as it should be; How you are influenced by color - color requirements, particularly in foods, are so rigid that methods of color comparison are widely employed in industry; Interstellar space wholly empty?; A day with a locksmith; The perspective of modern physics - has modern science reached an impasse?; A tinted statue from Pompeii's ashes - portrait statue of Livia, a notable discovery of last year; It pays to be a pioneer - a salaried employee who developed a great corporation of his own for noise-eliminating work; Natural gasoline from oil wells - Kettleman Hills field produces gasoline and natural gas; Pose yourself for your portrait - new portrait cabinet removes mental hazards from photography; Into a hidden world - observation of microscopic life in stagnant ponds is a fascinating hobby; Asquith and Kitchener - conclusion of a biographical study of two great British war leaders; Form letters with a personal touch - an automatic typewriter; World affairs and the telephone - circuits now reach most countries; How ancient is modern man?; Cotton cloth fit for a king. Few small white blemishes to lower left corner of front cover. Back cover is a colour Lucky Strike advertisement graced with a painting of a lovely Emily Boyle of Bronxville, N.Y. beneath the caption "Consider your Adam's Apple!! Don't rasp your throat with harsh irritants." Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
Features: Chemistry may become the important post-depression factor; Editorials - extreme naval economy; farm by-products - one dollar for ducks - no dole for us - pilotless plane of the future; Cows fed irradiated yeast give ricket-preventive milk; Space as yet unfathomed - man's report is - "no bottom"; Better engines for navy planes; Speeding rail freight - new merchandise containers carry less than carload lots; Man-made oases in American deserts; Poland becomes a maritime nation - denied use of Danzig, Poland builds her own seaport; Has forest conservation created a false alarm?; Modern coal for modern markets - coal is now washed and thoroughly cleaned; Trademarks in disguise - the secret of a good trademark is its arbitrary nature; How stable is the earth's crust?; Masterpiece of Minoan Art; Babylonian brick reliefs; a link between Hellenistic and Roman painting; Butterfly faking - a new industry - rare and costly species "manufactured" from common varieties; Stone age man's world-wide culture. Back cover boasts colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring illustration of a sultry Jean Harlow. She is quoted as saying "It's a delight to find a celophane wrapper that opens without an ice pick." Average wear. Unmarked. Two very small tears to fore-edge of back cover. Book
Features: A motoris may be asleep even if his eyes are open; Editorials: save Old Ironsides, Humanizing science, Television's future, Submarine safety; Skilled workmanship on organs for church, theater and home; Architects as room designers; The strangest thing in physics; Firsts in aviation; Towers of Hudson River bridge are rising rapidly; The highest known velocity; Prospecting with artificial earthquakes; the month in medical science - punch drunk, u.v. rays, compressed air pranks, posture, yellow fever, rider's legs, tar poison, childhood teeth, food colors; The search for the first American; Education adopts the motion picture; Pointers from a pen maker; Death Valley; Egyptian vandalism 3400 years ago; Aerodynamic wind mills; Television advances; Protecting paintings for posterity; Roman engineering triumphs; Light airplaine design contest; Wasteful cotton baling methods; Early Indians in Florida.Major damage to front cover along spine. Half of spine missing. Back cover features colour Camel cigarette advertisement with the caption "Now it's unanimous. I'd walk a mile for a Camel... So would I" Two-colour "Dodge Brothers Trucks" advertisement inside front cover. Inside back cover is a very attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement with a few small spots of soiling. Ad shows a strapping young man fabricating auto parts. Well-worn. Magazine
Features: The new planetariums for Chicago and Philadelphia; Editorials - C.F. Brush, Sea safety code, Men's clothes, air country clubs; Licorice the versatile; Uncle Sam gives us new money - the process, in brief, of making paper currency; Why does an oil gusher gush?; Charting Canada's wilderness from the air - more accurate than with transit and chain; Our army's mechanized forces - development of the American fighting tank since war times (with interesting photos); What becomes of star light?; Is the diesel airplane practical?; Silvering the world's largest telescope; Foiling the burglar III - vault combinations and clocks; Sea Safety contest; the Zeppelin's American home - huge hangar being erected in Akron; Steam Come-back - outdistancing water for generation of electricity; Designing large telescopes; World's largest vineyard in California; Ancient history from aloft; Compressed air used in Novel hospital - diabetes, anemia, and other maladies treated in an unusual manner; the 'heat makes cold' regrigeration unit. Attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement inside back cover. Colour Lucky Strike advertisment upon back cover features a puckered damsel and the caption "To keep a slender figure no one can deny... Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." There are some rubbings/marks to this page. Page 198 is a full page advertisment for passenger aircraft manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan. Damage to bottom of spine. Unmarked. Magazine
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
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos include: The Colonel and Staff of the South Wales Borderers, The City Imperial Volunteers Farewell Supper, Scenes of the Departure of the City of London Imperial Volunteers, Queen Victoria shakes hands with Captain Seeley of the Imperial Yeomanry. Illustrations include: Dublins and Inniskillings across the Tugela, How Lord Roberts' Son Fell at Colenso, New South Wales Lancers, Incident at Modder River, Boer Prisoners from Belmont, Troops detrain at De Aar Junction, Inside the Johannesburg Fort, Trestle Bridge at Frere, Modder River Temporary Bridge Construction, Burial of General Wauchope (centerfold), Full-page Cadbury Cocoa Advertisement, Berkefield Filter Advertisement, The Highland Brigade Re-Forming after the Battle of Magersfontein. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
Scenes of fighting in Natal. The seige of Ladysmith. Scenes at the front. Scenes near Estcourt, Natal. New South Wales Contingent departs for action aboard the 'Aberdeen' (photo). The "Medic" departs Fort Melbourne Pier for the Cape with Victorian and Tasmanian Contingents (photo). Bringing Boer Prisoners into Ladysmith (illustration). 16 Photos of Casualties at the front. Photo of the Canadian contingent passing up Adderly St., Cape Town. Photo of the Bluejackets of H.M.S. "Terrible" with 4.7" gun. Centerfold illustration entitled "The Transvaal War: The Loss of Our Guns at the Tugela River". The Khalifa's last stand at Umdebereikat, in Kordofan. The Battle of Abu Aada. Full-page Monkey Brand Soap advertisement. Photo of four officers of the Dublin Fusiliers. A jubilee group of colonials - photo. Quaker Oats ad upon back cover. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Book
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Cover illustration of The Battle of Magersfontein. Photos of: Squad of the Essex Artillery Volunteers, Detachment of the London Scottish Volunteers, Machine-Gun Detachment of the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, the new Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert", Prominent officers on active service, Scenes on the Western Line of Communicationsl, The Camp of the Grahamstown 1st City Volunteers, at Cradock, Lord Curzon's visit to Lucknow, A Group of Irish Nurses bound for South Africa, Scenes at De Aar. Illustrations include: "With the Kimberley Relief Column, The Burial of General Wauchope and Lieutenant-Colonel Goff, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the field of Magersfontein, The City of London Volunteers for South Africa, How Long Tom's Shell Disturbed the Middies' Sucking-Pig, Bursting of the Shell that Passed through the Royal Hotel, Ladysmith, and killed Dr. Stark, Rimington's Tigers, on the Mooi River, Manning the breastwork at Naauwpoort Camp, Arundel Camp, Bluejackets Saving Their Gun (Centerfold), Lovely full-page Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
51 pages plus advertisement. Includes numerous black and white photographs. Subject was born in Rama, Ontario in 1820 and died in 1884. He began work among his own people in the North-West in 1840. Undated. Appears at least several decades old. Average wear. Closed one inch tear at base of cover fold. Unmarked. Circa 1960? Book
Madrid, Sucesora de M. Minuesa de los Ríos, 1900, 25,5 x 18 cm., tela original, 6 hojas + 189 págs. (Todas las páginas contienen, en los cuatro idiomas, cartelas publicitarias de una a cuatro empresas, principalmente dedicadas a la exportación de vinos, aceites, tejidos, conservas alimenticias, coñacs, cereales, frutas secas y frescas, etc.).
Belleville, Automobiles Delaunay, Draeger, sans date, vers 1920. In-4 cartonnage éditeur gris, plats estampé d'arabesques gris clair, rouge et or. 18 contributions de personnalités à pleines pages . Une belle photo de sa Majesté l'Empereur de Russie et la famile impériale en voiture DELAUNAY. Textes sous forme de lettres fac-similés de : Marcel Boulenger, Curnonsky, Max et Alex Fischer, Anatole France, Franc-Nohain, Félix Galipaux, Henry Kistermaechers, Ernest La Jeunesse, Charles Muller, Paul Reboux, Rejane, Jean Richepin, Rip, Edmond Rostand, Sem, Claude Terasse, Pierre Vebar, Willy. Tome 1, seul paru. Illustrations de Sem. Très bel état.
Features/Photos: First photographs in colour - treasures of the Russian Kremlin; Prince Andrew baptised; a drive-in bank; the shots at Johannesburg; An underground township protected against nuclear attack - a Cornell University model; The great temples of Abu Simbel; What the high dam will do to the antiquities of Nubia; St. John's College, Johannesburg, South Africa; Brasilia - Brazil's new capitol; one-page colour advertisement for Daimler Majestic; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Algerian Rebellion; The Abortive Invasion of Cuba; The Empress of Canada; The Education of Commonwealth Youth - Hilton College, South Africa; Lovely colour advertisement for the Humber Super Snipe; Colour Advertisement for State Express 555 Cigarettes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Lovely full-page colour Jaguar advertisement; Many gorgeous colour illustrations; Nice Rootes Humber Super Snipe full-page colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Eton College, Five Facsimile Water-Colours by Dennis Flanders; Princess Saloon Advertisement; Nyasaland Disturbances; Serious Fire in Ilford; The Origin of the Solar System - Part V of a science series; Priceless Exhibition of Cambridge Silver; Hazor - the last season of excavation - part I, the lower city; Dramatic Sea and Air Accidents; The Eoka leader and his weapons; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: In colour - Canadian flowers, Istanbul, 'The Sleeping Beauty'; BMC truck advertisement in colour; Prince Andrew arrives; Dozens killed by police at Sharpeville, South Africa; Moby Dick - a projected nuclear-powered submarine for Britain (2-page cutaway drawing); A great new British liner - Canberra; Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features/Photos: The Kariba Hydro-electric project opened by the Queen Mother; Brazillian Indians in the heart of the forest - the dying tribes; The man who threw the spanner - multiple photos of Khrushchev; a Bristol Siddeley flying lorry/truck which would travel from London to Birmingham in about 25 minutes; Nonsuch revealed in recent excavations; The Leys School; Colour Decca Stereo advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Saint-Etienne, Manufacture française d'armes, 1892. In-8 relié toile éditeur rouge brique, titre doré au dos et sur le plat supérieur, décor à froid sur les plats, 384 pages- paginé de 63 à 98 (attestations)-2 ff (bon de commande)-280 pages de catalogue comprenant 3 planches dépliantes et 4 pages en couleurs. Très bon état.
Paris, E. Dentu, 1885; in-8, 458 pp., broché. Illustré d'un frontispice de Louis-Édouard Fournier et de 84 dessins gravés sur bois et d'un plan de la cité au 15ème siècle. Très bon état.
Paris, M. Vermot, 1914. In-8, 319 pp. Demi-chagrin à coins, belle couverture illustrée en couleurs conservée. Très nombreux dessins dans le texte, pages de publicité avec reproductions (Ménage-ustensiles cuisine- cristaux- services de table - Orfévrerie - vannerie - brosses - Outils - Faïence-Porcelaine -Articles de voyage - Parapluie - Poupées-Jouets - jeux-Jouets - Maroquinerie - Jumelles - Horlogerie- etc etc. Très belle exemplaire dans une reliure parfaitement exécutée. Rare.
Une affiche de dimensions 75x60 représentant les magasins de La Samaritaine et en Médaillons M. et Mme. Ernest et Louise Cognacq. Impression lithographique en bleu et brun, sur papier fort ,par l'imprimerie Draeger Très bel état. Voir photo.
Features: Cover illustration of the Beachhead Flying Boat; Deep Sea Mystery Story; The Hospital Comes to the Patient; Korean radiant floor heating; Panorama on a giant screen - Vitarama; Dust bowl laboratory; First of the 1950 cars; High Voltage Magic; Hospital for sick cars - John P. 'Jack' Snyder and Snyder-Lynch Motors in Burbank, California; The Contour Saw; Full-page Harley Davidson Hydra-Glide advertisement; Intersting Camel cigarette ad on back cover urges readers to take a 30-day test 'in your T-zone' - includes endorsements from Cole Porter and others. Average wear. Unmarked. Chips from spine. Binding intact. Please note: First leaf appears to be missing. This was part of an ad regarding television static caused by spark plugs. Magazine