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Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 36 pages with maps, articles include: Marine mammals: a cultural and economic resource for the future, The origin of the narwhal --- a myth, Hunting stories from Hall beach, Starvation at Koluktoo bay, Stalking netsiq on the sea ice, Sound under the ice, Arctic marine mammals
1847PHO-1480Paris, au Comptoir des imprimeurs-unis, 1847 in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., III pp., 296 pp., tableau replié, relié pleine percale époque, dos lisse avec auteur et titre, filets aux plats, tranches dorées, quelques rousseurs
99938Paris, Les Editions Pittoresques 1931, 245x160mm, 222pages, broché. Reste d’étiquette de cotation sur le bas du dos et couverture supérieure tachée, autrement bon état, intérieur non coupé.
Editions Seuil 1983, in-12 broché, 283 pages, ancien ouvrage de bibliothèque, étiquettes collées au dos du 1er plat et sur la 1ere page de garde, bon état général.
8p. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Very nice copy. Scarce. WWI 13
Editions Hachette 1991collection Pluriel intervention, in-8 broché, 320 pages, bon état.
19918885112Hachette Editions Hachette 1991collection Pluriel intervention, in-8 broché, 320 pages, bon état.
2006100126897Touring 2006 576 pages 11 8x3 2x16 4cm. 2006. Cartonné. 576 pages.
Gift inscription to titlepage from editor (Peter Garnsey). Light knock to base of spine. Corners have light creasing. Mild shelfwear. ; A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping, the extent of long-distance trade in wine, the relative demand for wheat and barley, the incidence and gravity of food crises, the efficiency of famine-relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system. ; Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Vol 8; 126 pages; Signed by Editor
Pages a bit tanned. Tiny faint stain to rear wrap. Else very light shelfwear. ; A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping, the extent of long-distance trade in wine, the relative demand for wheat and barley, the incidence and gravity of food crises, the efficiency of famine-relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system. ; Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Vol 8; 126 pages
184529909AB1845. First Edition. Dublin Alexander Thoma 1845. Octavo 13 cm x 18.5 cm. VIII 906 pages. Original Hardcover Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good and firm condition with some minor signs of wear only. This is one of the most important and rarest sources for Statistics in Ireland in 1845 and one year prior of The Great Famine Gorta Mór / Irish Potato Famine. Thorough Statistics in Thom's Almanac for the Famine-years 1844 and 1845 in this Volume show for example: Page 180: "The Poor Law Act came into operation in 1839 but none of the Workhouses were opened for the reception of paupers till 1840 in which year 4 were opened in 1841 34 were opened in 1842 54 and in 1843 14 and in 1844 7; remaining to be opened prior to 1845: 17." Folding Tables show "Name Situation Extent Number of Electoral Divisionsand of Guardians in every Union in Ireland; also the Number for whom House Accommodation has been provided the Data of opening of every Workhouse with the number in each on 1st of January 1844 the average Number relieved daily etc. etc." Statistics show List of Articles Imported and Exported Net Produce of Molasses Hemp Rice as well as Exports of Corn Grain Lard Horses etc. The Statistics are detailed and thorough and list results from Skibbereen to Belfast. The Almanac also lists in detail for example: Tables for finding the rising and setting of Sun and Moon / Lighthouses on the Coast of Ireland / Fairs now held in Ireland / Stamp Duties / Corn Duties / Table of Irish and British Money / Bill Card for 1845 / Courts of Law / Governors of Colonies / Scotland Officers of Crown and State / Peerage / Peerage of Ireland with alphabetical Index / Knights of St.Patrick and Officers / Baronets of Ireland / Knights Bachelors in Ireland / Ancient Irish Titles retained by desendents / Foreign Titles borne by residents in Ireland / Knights of British & Foreign Orders in Ireland / Statistics of Ireland: Railways / Poor Law Statistics / Populations of Towns Skibbereen in West Cork showing for example: 4715 / Dunmanway: 3086 / etc. etc. hardcover
Pages 418-520 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: The Madness of Don Patricio; My Experiences in the Great Russian Famine - graphic glimpses of the terrible Russian famine of 1907 - article with photos; An Ill-Starred Invention - a patent application goes wrong; Mussel-Farming - a curious Dutch industry (article with photos); Adrift in a Runaway Airship - daring young Chicago balloonist William Matteray and his airship are blown by a gale all the way to Michigan; Sights and Scenes in Java - photo-illustrated article by a former resident; The Queen's Temper - part 1 - a remarkable narrative shows how the actions of obscure individuals culminated in the arrival of British troops and the downfall of Burma as an independent state; The Broken Arrow - a marine detective story by A.A. Jeffries; The Autobiography of a Brigand - Part I - Giuseppe Salomone of Barrafranca, Sicily; In the Land of Perfume - the ancient flowery town of Grasse; The Quest of the "O'Baki" - a Japanese ghost story; Lifting a City - after being destroyed by a tidal wave in 1900 the city of Galveston, Texas is raised several feet to prevent future such disasters; and more. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Captain Anthony Parsons needed meat to trade to the Angonis for flour for his "boys"; Through Spain in Disguise - Part VI - Count and Countess Malmignati sing and dance their way across Spain disguised as Arab beggars; Photo of river gardens in Siam; The Adventures of a "Sand-Hog" - Photos of brutal subterranean conditions accompany this story of the men who dig tunnels and tubes beneath the Hudson River, between New York and Jersey City; The Thief Who Lost His "Luck" - A Chinese burglar lucks out; "Crawling Cavern" - Close call for Mark Howard in the spring of 1907 while on outpost duty on the coast of Mindanao; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part I - Major Frederick G. Jackson describes his 6,000 mile trans-African trek - with nice photos; The "Phantom Bandits" - In 1923 Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall escaped from San Quentin Prison and terrorized the countryside before they were finally subdued - includes facsimile of their wanted poster; The Mystery Man of Arnhem's Land - a man goes wrong so flees to the wilds, intent on earning enough to make restitution, but ends up in a lonely grave on the Australian coast; The Hakim - A doctor in Kenya includes fortune-telling in his treatment of disease. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Bits of peripheral nibbling, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
108 pages. Bibliography. Intended to "Disseminate and synthesize some critical, but very scattered existing knowledge concerning the human costs of J.V. Stalin's once-acclaimed achievements." - from page one. Contents clean and bright. Light external wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Pigskin Preview '61 - an expert's pick of the Nation's Top Teams and Players; Berlin on a Tightrope - a Post editor reports from the city on which the eyes of the world are focused; The Tragedy of Tibet - in 2 and a half years of brutal domination, the Red Chinese have reduced this once-proud nation to slavery and famine - a shocking report based on eyewitness accounts; Brunette Today, Blonde Tomorrow - tints promise to become as widely used as lipstick; These Children Love to Read - Mae Carden teaches reading using the maligned phonetic system; Adventures of the Mind - The Joy of Life, by Alexander Eliot; Atomic War on Insects - by using radiation to sterilize males, scientists are tricking the deadly screwworm fly into breeding itself out of existence - Drs. Edward Knipling and Raymond Bushland. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
Pages 209-308. Features: Frontispiece photo of George F. McCorquodale; Natural and artificial methods of salmon production - a short review of Canadian results; Salmon Fisheries of Norway; Defective Bones in Hand-reared Trout; The Grayling - part IV - bait fishing; Rod Joints and Whippings - how to recondition them for difficult climates; The Value of Hatchery Trout for Stocking Rivers; De Profundis - a tale of a fisherman's Dilemma; Experiments on the Starvation of Trout Fry; Artificial Propagation of Brown Trout - Hatchery Mortality; Reviews of new books; The Jolly Angler (continued); and more. Average wear. Few institutional library markings. A sound vintage copy. Book
1995100148110Oxford 1995 in8. 1995. Broché. Cet ouvrage collectif dirigé par Jean Drèze et Amartya Sen analyse le paradoxe de la persistance de la faim dans un monde d'abondance alimentaire. Il couvre la nature et la diversité de la faim et des privations ainsi que les stratégies de prévention des famines avec une attention particulière portée à l'Afrique subsaharienne et à l'Asie
20098'"Standard" Office Wigan May 27th. 1862.'. For the background to this letter see William Otto Henderson 'The Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-65' 1934 and Angela V. John 'By the Sweat of their Brow' 2013. Between 14 April and 16 October 1862 Whittaker published a dozen letters on the 'Lancashire Distress' in the London Times under the pseudonym of 'A Lancashire Lad'. Edwin Waugh in his 'Home Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine' 1867 describes Whittaker as 'one of the first writers whose appeals through the press drew serious attention to the great distress in Lancashire during the Cotton Famine. There is no doubt that his letters in The Times and to the Lord Mayor of London led to the Mansion House Fund. In The Times of April 14 1862 appeared the first of a series of letters pleading the cause of the distressed operatives.' The letter is 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. In fair condition aged and worn. Whittaker begins by apologising to Langley for sending only part of the note intended for him but as Langley has 'gathered the sense of what the whole note contained' he will not trouble him 'with the same thing again'. Regarding his seventh 'Lancashire Lad' letter he writes: 'In today's Times I try to correct the statement made by the chairman of your Board of Guardians last week. It is a great pity that he should have made that statement especially as about the very time that he was making it I was consulting with others as to the 400£ distributed to Preston and other towns. He ought to have seen that it is injurious to make any statement which may lead to cavilling and the more so in a case like this where the thousands of out-of-work-operatives are becoming more and more dependent upon what is being contributed for their relief. He concludes by suggesting that 'all ought to combine in helping and that each ought to be specially careful not to say or do anything which might lead to lessening the help afforded to our poor'. Whittaker's later activities are clouded in obscurity. In 1869 the 'Bookseller' reported that 'Mr. John Whittaker whose letters in " The Times" under the signature of " A Lancashire Lad" led to the formation of the Mansion-House Relief Fund has we are informed left the staff of The Daily Telegraph upon which paper he has been engaged during the last few years and joined that of The Echo the new half-penny daily paper.' '"Standard" Office | Wigan | May 27th. 1862.' unknown
Pages 341-384. Features: nice ad for the Sporting and Dramatic News inside front cover; Cover photo of Canada's loftiest peak, the unconquered summit of Mount Waddington, plu two pages of text and photos showing a climbing party on the treacherous mountain; Photo of bizarre sea creature washed up at Querqueville, near Cherbourg - probably the remains of a basking shark; Two pages of detailed illustrations explaining drought and its dangers in rural England, plus schemes for alleviating water famine; Photo-illustrated book review of "Secrets of the Red Sea", by Henry de Manfreid; Photos and text describe jewelry of a Byzantine-Nubian Queen - more treasures from a mysterious Egyptian cemetery; Photo-illustrated article on an expedition to Cocos Island in search of long-buried pirate treasure with gold and silver indicating instruments; 12 photos illustrate life in the Saar, a district to choose by plebiscite government by Germany, France or the League; Two full-page photos of vast flocks of ducks at the unique Open Lake Sanctuary in Arkansas, plus photos of Mr. George S. Wilcox who protects the ducks; Photos of personalities of the week include the commission of government inaugurated in Newfoundland, Sir James Jeans, Sir H. G. Lyons, Madame Stavisky, the archduke Otto and ex-Empress Zita; the Queen of Siam and H. W. Austin in the Monte Carlo lawn tennis handicap; Acquitted Reichstag fire trial prisoners released and welcomed in Moscow include Mr. Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff, Norman O'Neill, John Dillinger, Prof. S. F. Oldenburg, and Princess Irina Youssoupoff, who was awarded damages in the "Rasputin" film libel action; Centrefold photos of Prince George's 4000 mile tour in South Africa; Photo of the outdoor construction of Imperial Airways liner "Scylla" (too large for a hangar); Photo of stowaways John Pitzer and Arthur Martin afloat in the Gulf of Mexico; Photo of huge crowd in Trafalgar Square gathered to hear speeches about the unemployment bill; Photos of low British reservoirs; Photo of zeppelin "LZ 129" under construction; Photos of destroyed buildings in Kalgoorlie, Australia after anti-foreigner riots; Article and three photos describe sinking of the "Cheliuskin" near Wrangell Island; Photos of archaic Chinese jade in perfection - finds in the Lo-Yang tombs; Two pages of text and photos describe discoveries which "surpass anything yet known of archaic Chinese jade"; One-page ad for the new Ford Fourteen car; Half-page ad for the Crossley two-litre car; Half-page ad for the Armstrong Siddeley Twenty car; Half-page Rover car ad; Nice half-page Bentley car ad; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Signed by Robert Conquest [1917-2015] upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by Bob [Robert Conquest] to Joe [Joseph D. Dwyer, 1942-2017] upon front free endpaper in the year of publication. Dwyer was an invaluable resource to Conquest at the Hoover Institution and succeeded him as curator of its Russian collection in 2002. 412 pages with black and white plates, extensive footnotes, select bibliography and index. "A meticulous and moving account of a momentous, tragic yet neglected chapter of modern history [now known as the Holodomor]. Presents for the first time the full story of Stalin's collectivization program and its consequences. Reconstructs the background of the events and carefully details the fate of villages and individuals, the desperate condition of children left homeless, and the various cruelties and agonies of the man-made famine that followed. Seeks a true accounting of the death toll and shows how the West has long been deceived about what really happened." - dust jacket. "Conquest's excellently and professionally written book investigates the most serious crime of Leninist-Stalinist communism: its war against the peasantry of the U.S.S.R., which, before its destruction, constituted 82 percent of the entire population." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Unmarked with light overall wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. This stark testament of one of the greatest crimes in human history is a must for the shelf of any serious sovietologist. Book
570 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. "The classic work on Stalinism - now available in a major revision using new evidence from glasnost." - dust jacket. "A masterpiece of historical detection, likely to remain the definitive work." - The Economist. A considerably updated version of the 1968 first edition. "Includes hitherto secret information on the three great 'Moscow Trials,' on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
510p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Signed and inscribed "For Robert Conquest, with admiration" atop title page, apparently by Luciuk, at Kingston, Ontario in 2008. Conquest [1917-1915] was a renowned author and sovietologist once described by a close adviser to Margaret Thatcher as Britain's greatest living historian. His landmark 1986 treatise 'The Harvest of Sorrow' documented the Ukraine's great terror-famine of 1932-1933. 493 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Fold-out colour map. "The documents reveal that even at the height of the famine the Soviet authorities denied that there was starvation, rejected foreign aid, and exported food, and that senior British officials refused to alert the public and discouraged private relief. This collection thus furnishes evidence about the causes, course and consequences of one of the great politically engineered famines of the twentieth century." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and special association copy of this important historical record. Book
