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pp. 406, (2) [Index, (1)-46 [Appendix] + 13 full page wood engravings. Plates browned. Text foxed. XLib bookplate of Mt. St. Mary's Library on front paste down. Inked accession numbers on title page. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full worn leather binding. Front board detached. Binding cracked, needs to be resewn. Rev. J. Goldsmith pseud. for Sir Richard Phillips. He was a printer and bookseller, and later a sheriff of London - after which he was knighted by King George III. This American edition was improved by American polymath, Dr. Percival, who was also a poet, philologist, and geologist. S&S/AI 34778. Hardbound. Good. Ron bought before consign. AI BX 8
Traduction, par Françoise PAUPARDIN-HAYWARD, de "Military Miniatures" publié par Simon GOODENOUGH: guide pratique de création artisanale de petits soldats, illustré de croquis et photos; bibliographie. Français
184p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
504p. + Plus engraved frontis and full page plates showing scenes and costumes of different races and nations. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Text age stained. Large 12mo. Original full leather binding, embossed and decorated in blind. Spine gold lettered with raised bands. Binding worn and stained. Front cover weak and almost detached. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/1
418 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Paris, F. Roy, 1888 - 1889. 5 volumes In-4 reliés demi-basane marron, dos à nerfs et fleurons dorés. Légers frottements aux reliures sans gravité, des rousseurs claires parfois importantes et des petites restaurations à quelques pages. Les gravures sont en bel état, les coloris frais. Tome I : 480 pages, 63 gravures hors texte + 16 gravures couleurs. Tome II : 60 gravures hors texte + 16 gravures couleurs. Tome III : 60 gravures hors texte + 16 gravures couleurs. Tome IV : 63 gravures hors texte + 16 gravures couleurs. Tome V : 60 gravures hors texte + 64 gravures couleurs . Grand plan dépliant de Paris en couleurs. Ouvrage rédigé sur un plan nouveau avec une lettre préface de M. Henri MARTIN. Bon exemplaire.
The author records folk life and village society in his hometown during the period 1940-1980. He describes the material life (organization of production, survival mechanisms of residents, the village market, technical, traditional occupations) and the forms of cooperation and mutual assistance between the villagers. His local knowledge and personal experience of village life helped him to assemble much primary folklore material and record it with the help of informants and villager, providing typical examples of collective memory, showing links to the place of origin and preservation of the rich functional and ritual life of the community.188p. illus, bibligraphy. {3 copies found in WorldCat] Book
182 pages including index. A celebration of a landscape - not a wilderness landscape as might be expected, nor a rural one, but one that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Author returned to Pittsburgh in 1990 after two decades of cataclysmic industrial decline and was distressed that, as a nation, we let our industrial places go with such equanimity. An eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America. Book with faintest wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears tiny tear at base of front panel. Excellent copy. Book
326 pages including bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. "A miracle of a book." - Saturday Night. Explores and captures with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early Canada. Light wear. Moderate quantity of light pencil marginalia and underlining. Nice copy. Book
ALBIN MICHEL. 1905. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 199 pages augmentées de pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte - 1 petite vignette conte-collée sur le 1er plat. 98 IMAGES
xlviii + 198pp.avec 243 gravures de modes dont 32 hors-texte en couleurs, 8e éd., 23cm., br.orig. (petite restauration), non coupé, bon état, G78436
Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Paris, Editions du Pégase, 1929. 5 aquarelles imprimées en phototypie, sous serpentes et marie-louise, rehaussées au pochoir et retouchées à la main. Dimension de 24,5 x 38cm. Les originaux ont été offerts par un mécène américain aux Métropolitan Muséum of Art de New York et constituent un ensemble de 200 planches. Bon état.
205 pages including bibliography and index. Abundant black and white illustrations. "Eight elite Victoria founding families and their monumental efforts to achieve refinement in a rugged corner of Vancouver Island. Their ample homes, their public displays, their private hopes and disappointments - the food they ate, the clothes they wore, the games they played: these are the ingredients from which Ms. Green concocts a social history of solid research, amusing detail and elegant style." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excllent copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 230 pages, Contents include sections on: Victoria, Canada, British Columbia, Douglas Family, Skinner family, Crease family, O'reilly, Trutch, Rithet, Barnard, Balls, Banquets, Costumes, Conveyances, Automobiles, Residences, & Rituals & Rites,
"Some thoughts exploring boundaries between person and person, people and people, and cultural differences between England and Crete." 100p. illus Book
"People of the Lassithi plateau of Crete, mountain farmers or shepherds, are adapting to their roles as Grekas and Europeans. Open to new constraints and opportunities, offering hospitality to tourists from all over the world, they remain "Lassithiots". Anthropologist Sonia Greger has spent ten years finding out how they handle change while retaining their traditional identity. 52p. plates.maps. Book
ISBN : 2702892191. LE CHERCHE MIDI- LE CLUB. 2004. In-12 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 60 pages-- 2 petites annotations à l'encre sur la page de garde
140 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Marseille chez l'auteur 1989, In-8 broché de 252 pages. Parfait état.
Facsimile of the Greek portion of the German work 'Das Leben der Griechen und Römer ' [which had been originally published in English by Chatto & Windus 1878]. In its day it was described as "Superbly illustrated with woodcuts from various authoritative sources, the authors have uncovered myriad aspects of Greek life - whether it be the architectural ground plan for one of the oldest Greek temples, or Greek music and education - and have produced a thoroughly researched instructive and entertaining book which will appeal to scholar and layman alike." 293+9p. illus.(B & W) Book
No jacket as issued: minor shelfwear only. Contents clean, sound, bright throughout. Used
plein veau brun moucheté, tit. doré sur pc. de maroquin bordeaux, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de fleurons, dentelles et roulettes dorées, élégants et fins bandeaux, culs de lampe et lettrines, nombreux arbres généalogique hors et dans le texte, grandes marges ext. et inf., (mq. la coiffe sup., lég. épidermures sur les plats, 1 trou de vers traversant tout le livre sans atteinte au texte, rare piqûres, rousseurs marg., 1 note à l’encre en marge), bel exemplaire malgré les défauts cités Cet tome est tout entier consacré au droit de représentation, c’est-à-dire au droit de la descendance masculine et à ces conséquences sur l’héritage du trône. Il constitue, à l’époque, un cas particulier de la Bretagne ; ainsi, une femme pouvait “représenter” le duché, mais c’est son époux qui gouvernait réellement. L’auteur y apporte des pensées intéressantes à l’opposé de la ligne “classique” que l’on retrouve chez Denisart ou chez Guyot (Répertoire universel et raisonné de jurisprudence, Paris, Panckoucke, 1778, T. XXI, P. 130 et s.) ; n’est-ce pas d’ailleurs pour cette raison qu’il n’est pas référencé chez Dupin ? Qui plus est, l’ouvrage présente une excellente méthodologie et un très grand nombre de références au principaux auteurs sur la matière. Un livre rare.
150p., illus. 20 col. plates Hardcover Good condition
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) In modern aesthetic full leather bdg. in Ottoman style. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 184 p., numerous b/w plates. First and only edition of this scarce travelogue which was planned for fifteen days on January 19, 1909, but took about forty days, containing a first-hand travel account of Egypt in 1909, an Islamic country that began to modernize at the beginning of the 20th century, written by an Ottoman intellectual, one year after the Second Constitutional Regime. This rare book contains early descriptions of the Egyptian municipality, the Red Crescent, gardens and parks, urbanism, zoo, and botanic gardens, tramps, bridges, social life, folkloric customs, Mahmil Alays, cemeteries, music and history of art, hotels, Nile and many historical heritages, architecture, etc. Agop [or Agob] Matyosyan was one of the first Armenian printers to apply during the inspections of printing houses that were done in accordance with the Nizam-name-i Cedid (Jareeda-i Mahakim, No. 429 (13 Jamazia al-awwal 1305) in the late Imperial Ottoman period. Hegira: 1327 = Gregorian: 1910. Özege: 14459. OCLC: 476243661 / 16347814.
