BIET (Antoine)Livre Rare Book
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1664PHO-2401Paris : François Clouzier, 1664. In-4 (23,5x17,5cm), (12 ff.), 432 pp., vélin souple, titre à la plume au dos (reliure de l’époque), cachet au titre. Vélin un peu sali, petit manque au second plat. Quelques rousseurs, brochage un peu faible, petites galeries de vers marginales. « Bibliothèque de Mr G. R. Pery ». Duchesse de Berry (ex-libris du Château de Rosny, avec la devise « la Solitude »).
1961231231961. Baum Allyn. Peru photo archive a substantial working group of large original photographs and related New York Times material centered on Baum's Peru assignments significant for preserving a photographer's own visual record of Andean and Amazonian travel Indigenous communities village life and editorial circulation within mid twentieth century American newspaper photojournalism. Allyn Baum was a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1957 to 1967. Included is a typed note from New York Bureau Chief Gedeon de Margitay congratulating Baum on the Peru photographs published in the Magazine together with the January 21 1962 New York Times article "Into the Unknown" directly linking the images to their original publication context and to contemporary American visual encounters with Peru's Indigenous regions and frontier geographies. From the estate of Allyn Baum. Peru and New York. 1961-1973.<br /> <br /> Archive of 48 items including 46 large silver gelatin photographs a New York Times article written by Baum and a single-page typed letter regarding publication. Most photographs measure 8" x 10" while 9 larger examples measure 10" x 13". Several are mounted on board and bear Baum's signature or detailed inscriptions such as "Jungle Priest" "Headhunter" and "High Andes Quechua Indians in Peru. Working in home . producing products for sport." Many retain original press captions or handwritten notes on the versos some in Baum's own hand. The photographs document river and jungle travel in the Amazon Basin village and market scenes domestic interiors American aircraft and extensive portrait studies of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Indigenous sitters appear weaving spinning wool knitting carrying children traveling by canoe gathered near riverside settlements or posed in both formal and informal portrait settings. Several photographs emphasize textile production and traditional labor practices among Quechua communities in the high Andes while others focus on Amazonian Indigenous groups photographed within thatched settlements and river communities preserving material evidence of architecture clothing subsistence practices and daily life during a period when American newspaper photography increasingly framed Indigenous South America through the lens of exploration modernization and remote access.<br /> <br /> The archive is a strong record of Peru in the early 1960s documenting not only transportation networks settlement patterns and regional travel but also Indigenous cultural continuity across both Andean and Amazonian environments. Baum's photographs repeatedly center Indigenous Peruvians not simply as background figures within landscape photography but as primary subjects whose labor dress craft production domestic life and physical presence structure the visual narrative of the archive. The accompanying New York Times material preserves the editorial framework through which these images entered American mass circulation while the de Margitay note confirms internal recognition of Baum's Peru work within the newspaper itself. The later date range appears to reflect continued press handling reuse and captioning rather than a single production moment giving the archive additional value as a working newspaper photography file shaped over time. Minor edgewear throughout; versos with original handwritten descriptions by Baum and press editors. A cohesive and well-preserved Peru field photography archive documenting Indigenous life regional travel and mid century American photojournalism connected to The New York Times. unknown
51407Hetzel.Voyages extraordinaires. 1880.In-4 vert, aux 2 éléphants et éventail.Catalogue AP.Tranches dorées.Très bel exemplaire.
1751PHO-1682Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751. In-4, veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné avec pièce de titre, filets aux plats, XXXvj +280 pages + XV pages - illustré de deux cartes dépliantes, quatre planches dont trois dépliantes et un tableau dépliant. Reliure avec usures, quelques épidermures, mors avec fentes et frottements, coins émoussés, quelques taches et piqures éparses, déchirure à la carte pliante de la Province de Quito au Pérou sinon bon état intérieur
14876Paris, Hachette, 1869 ; 2 vol. grand in-4. Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice-2 ff.-704 pp. - 2 ff.-519 pp. - 20 cartes hors-texte. Plein maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs, titre et date dorés, têtes dorées, dentelle intérieure. (Reliure CHAMBOLLE-DURU). Quelques rousseurs sans gravité sur les titres.
1745513Paris, Chez la veuve Tissot, 1745. Première édition complète de la gravure du lâcher de taureaux. Épais in-12 de 12 x 19,5 cm pour 108 pp. puis (5) (xvi) 216 pp. Plein veau d'époque. Dos à 5 nerfs, entrenerfs ornés de double caissons à fleurons et motifs aux branches et points dorés, petite pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Gardes colorées marbrées en polychromie. Discrets ornements dorés aux arêtes latérales. Toutes tranches rouges. L'ordre habituel de reliure a été interverti : la Lettre à Madame *** sur l'émeute... vient en premier, complète de la gravure dépliante "Vue d'une place préparée pour une course de taureaux", avec les Pièces justificatives en espagnol et français sur 2 colonnes, suivie de la Relation abrégée... avec privilège du roi et certificat du secrétaire perpétuel Grand-Jean de Fouchy. Carte dépliante du cours du Maragnon. Bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe à travers l'ouvrage. Édition originale du récit de l'expédition de La Condamine (1701-1774) au Pérou pour y mesurer le diamètre de la Terre. La carte gravée accompagnant le texte fut dessinée par La Condamine, et c'est la première où les latitudes sont observées. Il en rapporta le caoutchouc et la première description de l'arbre « quinquina ». Une expédition qui démontra la théorie de Newton, selon laquelle la Terre est légèrement écrasée aux pôles et d'un diamètre un peu plus large à l'Équateur, et fit date en termes de géographie et de connaissance de l'Amazone en France. Sabin 38484 ; Palau 129370 ; Borba de Moraes, p. 446.
1716003228A Paris, par la Compagnie des Libraires. 2 vol.in-12 (16,9 x 10 cm), 21 ff. préliminaires, 360 pp. - 4 ff. préliminaires, 479 pp. Reliure veau brun d'époque, dos à cinq nerfs orné, coupes guillochées, tranches rouges. Première édition imprimée en France, l'édition originale de cette traduction datant de 1700, à Amsterdam, chez Louis de Lorme. L'illustration comprend un frontispice, 13 jolies gravures hors texte dont deux repliées, une carte dépliante du Pérou, bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe.
18010402Paris, Levrault, Schoell & Cie, 1801. Nissen IVB 558. - Sehr schöne Darstellung einer Gelbschulteramazone.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Volcanic Eruption on Ambrim Island in the New Hebrides in 1913 - article with spectacular photos; The Mad Mule - a mine mule turns murderer at the Blue Mountain Mine in Butte, Montana; The Mystery of Crowhurst Aylmer - a remarkable romance from 1890 is narrated by a life insurance manager; Whale-Hunting With A Camera - A fascinating account of the work of scientific naturalist-photographer H.J. Shepstone - the first man to secure a complete set of striking photographs of the various species of whales 'at home' in the water, and being harpooned, at a time when they were already facing extinction; An Accessory After the Fact - An English mining engineer's queer experience in Mexico; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part I - J. Campbell Besley and his expedition discover the source of the mighty Amazon high in the mountains of Peru and follow it down to the Atlantic, time and again fighting for their lives against savages and forces of nature; The Buried Treasure - the extraordinary experience of travelling salesman R.D. Morrison in North Carolina; The Hermits of the Alps - The lonely life of herdsmen who take their herds and flocks to high mountain pastures each summer - article with great photos; In Search of Adventure - Part III - The Story of a Chequered Cruise; Fighting a Giant Saw-Fish - James Willoughby describes a monster catch and the battle he put up - article with great photo of the fish, 14.5 feet long; A Capture of Dacoits - an account of an exciting day's work in the Punjab; and more. pp. 6 [ads], 482-576, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
FIRST EDITION OF THIS MASSIVE STUDY OF THE HUAORANI by a capuchin friar who lived among them. 488 pp on coated paper. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. THE EDITION WAS DESTROYED SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION, AND THIS BOOK HAS BECOME ALL BUT UNOBTAINABLE. WorldCat lists only 12 copies. An interesting association copy from the library of Sarah Begum, a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society who, like the author, was one of very few outsiders who lived among the Huaorani. SIGNED by Begum on the front free endpaper, with a small sketch of a canoe and paddle. Folio. Publisher's laminated boards. Extremities lightly bumped, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Very rare and important.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Barton's Grizzly - Well-known Western hunter and guide J. Barton sets out to single-handedly capture a live California grizzly bear (includes cover illustration); In Search of Adventure - Part IV - the story of a chequered cruise; Kidnapped - A Tale of the Burmese Border in which Sir Robert Carson retrieves his kidnapped daughter; An Interrupted Holiday - John Hawkins was tramping through Idaho in 1886; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part II - J. Campbell Besley and his party continue their journey from the source of the Amazon to the Atlantic, fighting for their lives along the way; Three Years off the Beaten Track - H.E. Weller spent three years in Northern Canada running a small steamer for the Hudson's Bay Company among fur traders and Indians - article with many interesting photos; A Prize-Fight in Mexico - amusing story of what happened when a Spaniard fought an American; Life Among the Eskimos - Clint Wiseman describes a visit he paid to these hardy little hunters of north, complete with photos; The Story of the Missing Fingers - the awful experience of Melvin Parker who fell overboard and clung to a bell-buoy for many hours in the depth of winter; Fallen Among the Theives - exciting adventures of two novice rubber-collectors in Central America, by Rowland W. Cater; Hotel-Keeping in the Wilds - two ex-members of the Cape Mounted Rifles and their hotel-keeping adventures out on the veldt; and more. pp. 9 [ads], 94, 10-32 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
11966Paris, H. SIMONIS EMPIS, Editeur, 21, rue des Petits-Champs, 21, 1896 in 12 reliure à la bradel, plein papier peigné avec pièce de titre, 238 pages plus table, couvertures conservées
11966Paris, H. SIMONIS EMPIS, Editeur, 21, rue des Petits-Champs, 21, 1896 in 12 reliure à la bradel, plein papier peigné avec pièce de titre, 238 pages plus table, couvertures conservées
1778PHO-1745Maestricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1778. In-8°, pleine marge : [4]-xvi-379 pp.; 2 h.-t. , brochage d’attente, illustré d’une gravure et d’une carte les deux dépliantes, mouillures, Papier bruni.
Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part I - Events attending the siege and fall of Urfa where 500 French troops held out against the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks - article with photos; The World's Largest Ice Cavern - in the mountains of Tyrol in Austria - article with photos; The Three "Little People" of St. Gwendron - an odd story from the wilds of Cornwall involving the occult - article with photos; The World's Most Thrilling Sport - photo-illustrated article on the rock climbers of Tyrol; A Man's Luck - Part VII - a man tries to build an Alaska home for the girl of his dreams but keeps being jailed; The Loneliest Briton - Ernest Davies spent eight years in the Paumotus, three thousand miles from the nearest Australian or American ports; Photo of a thirty foot python; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part II - description of an exciting trip into the practically unknown region to the north of Cape Colony, sometimes called the "Mysterious Richtersveld"; Bill's First Lion - things didn't go as planned; The Man Who Fooled a Continent - "Lord Gordon Gordon" nearly brought about an international incident between Great Britain and the USA; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part IV - documenting what was probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies; "Moonshine Valley" - account of a raid on a stronghold of moonshiners in Strawn, Texas; The Death-Trap - A Texas cowpuncher's night of horror; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 444-528, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Doctor's Story - Thrilling narrative from Hudson's Bay country from the ship's doctor, Dr. Craig, of the Canadian survey steamer "Minto"; The Princess Haamoura - a stirring tale of love and adventure on the South Seas island of Aitutaki; Two Girls on a Ranch - Part I - City girl Miss Laura Colston describes how she and her sister Mildred adventured to run a ranch in the wilds of Arizona - article with photos; Under False Colours - A very strange story of life in the United States Army in which the author enlists with another man's papers and is rapidly promoted; A City in the Rocks - a photo-illustrated visit to the remarkable ancient city of Petra; Mr. X.'s Ghost - a decidedly creepy story; Raiding the "Moonshiners" - David A. Gates, a high official of the U.S. Revenue Service, describes an eventful raid on "moonshine" stills in the wilds of Kentucky, and the thrilling battle which followed; Down the Amazon From Source To Mouth - Part IV - J. Campbell Besley and his party continue their dangerous trip down the Amazon, losing one man who was shot with a poison arrow; A Persistent Stowaway - time and again an Irishman bobs up in most unexpected fashion; Housekeeping in Far Japan - A bright little photo-illustrated article describing the experiences of the first white woman to be seen or set up house in a village in remote Satsumaland, in the extreme southern corner of Japan; Five Men in a Boat - the terrible tale of mutiny and murder on the last voyage of the barque "Veronica"; Sensational six-page two-color ad for the Burlington Watch Company; and more. pp. 6 [ads], [3], 196-284, 7-40 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Caught in a Death-Trap - two motorcyclists plunge into an inescapable chasm in the terrible Mojave Desert of Californa; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part II - a joyous journey in search of adventure; The Tale of "Old Bill" - a huge elephant, the pride of all Ceylon, goes rogue; My Escape From Dartmoor - an inmate almost escaped from this impregnable prison in 1908; Round Cape Horn With a Deckload - James Whealen tells a disastrous tale; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part II - the amazing story of a man once condemned to the terrible French convict settlements of Guiana - with photos; The Soul of Burma - Part I - R. Whiting reports on his trip to this country, with photos; Among the Amazon Cannibals - Veteran prospector John Fairfax was captured by the cannibal Chunchos but managed to escape; Round the World in a Motor Boat - a picturesque account of the voyage of the Speejacks, with great photos; A Fight With a Bull Walrus - article with great photos; "Tapkabazi" - an Indian confidence trick; The "Devil's Post-Pile" - an extraordinary basalt rock formation in Southern California; and more 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Retribution - how a worthless son was punished on a ship circa 1902; My Experiences in Uganda - Mrs. Hubert G. Knight describes housekeeping in the heart of Africa where she also accompanied her husband on hunting trips to wild parts of Uganda; The Lost "Luck" - an important family talisman is lost and finally recovered in White Russia; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth - Part III - J. Campbell Besley continue their dangerous journey, with interesting photos; Pat Ryan's Eldorado - L.W.A. MacArthur, F.G.S., recounts how a gang of rogues imposed upon a credulous Irish farmer; The Wonder-Lake of Trinidad - Pitch Lake - a seemingly bottomless lake of asphalt - article with photos; A Tough Ten Minutes - un uncommonly nasty predicament in River Falls, Wisconsin in 1902 involving Harry Owen; A Pressed Man - an amusing story of the early days of the Australian Light Horse; In Search of Adventure - Part V - the story of a chequered cruise, including photo of ocean graveyard Middleton Reef and 2,000 tons of coal burned by the French to prevent their capture by the Germans; The Fishermen's Republic - a photo-illustrated visit to the tiny Republic of Noli, founded before Rome; "Ways That Are Dark" - Former Straits Settlements public official J.R. Innes describes the cunning and audacity of the Chinese criminal; Photo of a large "Kelek", a raft of inflated goatskins, on the Euphrates; Photo of members of the I.W.W. being water-cannoned in San Diego; and more. pp. 8 [ads], 99-190, 10-32 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1888236573London: Wyman & Sons 74-76 Great Queen Street 1888. First edition. Mounted Photo as frontispiece and 31 plates with another photo included 4 folding maps etc. 309 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green cloth tan leather title label. Fine. First edition. Mounted Photo as frontispiece and 31 plates with another photo included 4 folding maps etc. 309 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ads for the Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888 at the end. Palau VI 110831 Wyman & Sons, 74-76 Great Queen Street unknown
1888236573London: Wyman & Sons 74-76 Great Queen Street 1888. First edition. Mounted Photo as frontispiece and 31 plates with another photo included 4 folding maps etc. 309 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green cloth tan leather title label. Fine. First edition. Mounted Photo as frontispiece and 31 plates with another photo included 4 folding maps etc. 309 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ads for the Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888 at the end. Palau VI 110831 Wyman & Sons, 74-76 Great Queen Street unknown books
