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Incisione, antica ed originale, riproducente architetture all'Epoque de Louis XVI re di Francia dal 1774 al 1792. Autore: Pfnor M. Rodolphe delineò & diresse. Luogo: Parigi - Hotel Aguardo. Anno: 1845. Tecnica: incisione su lastra di rame. Dimensioni: 360x510 mm il foglio.
Incisione, antica ed originale, riproducente architetture all'Epoque de Louis XVI re di Francia dal 1774 al 1792. Autore: Pfnor M. Rodolphe delineò & diresse. Luogo: Parigi - Hotel Aguardo. Anno: 1845. Tecnica: incisione su lastra di rame. Dimensioni: 360x510 mm il foglio.
Incisione, antica ed originale, riproducente architetture all'Epoque de Louis XVI re di Francia dal 1774 al 1792. Autore: Pfnor M. Rodolphe delineò & diresse. Luogo: Parigi - Hotel Aguardo. Anno: 1845. Tecnica: incisione su lastra di rame. Dimensioni: 360x510 mm il foglio.
Paris, 1998, 8vo brossura, pp. 600
Syndicat d'Initiative - Office du Tourisme d'Annecy et de la Haute-Savoie - 1937 - In-8 - Broché - Couverture illustrée - Carte - Publicités locales - 118 pages - Propre
Casacanditella, senza data (anni 2000), 24to quadrato (cm. 14 x 14) brossura editoriale con copertina illustrata, pp. 32 riccamente illustrate da fotografie in nero e a colori. Testo in italiano e in inglese.
36 pages. Features: British Columbians All; Can We Learn From History?; Letters; Pioneer Pilots of the Skeena - article with great photos; Our We Slaves to Our Clocks?; 210 Miles on Horseback - in 55 degrees below - to attend the funeral of Charlie Fortier, Chief of the Chu Chua Indians; Nature Oddities; Wonder-Weed Ramie Grass Would Revolutionize Textile Industry; B.C. History - Finance and Early Vancouver Island Events; Some Observations of a Rambling Angler; The Monument - poem by an unknown author; Frontal Attack - From the Rear! - a skunk story; The Mighty Hunter; "Pacific Pete" in Big Program - Westcoast's ammended all-Canadian natural gas pipeline route to Vancouver and cities of the U.S. pacific coast; Stewart, B.C. - article with photos; Nice ads on covers include Finning, the Yukon Brewery Syndicate, Port Hope Garage Ltd., and The Charles Hotel; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, some with photos. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
216 pages. Features: Swaths of colour and pattern bathe a traditional family home; Jane Hess mixes period and place, modern with antique; Bringing a refined air to a Florida vacation home; Designer Michelle Crowley-Crawford and rustic living; Hotel Chick checks into the bath; Three professional stylist homes on display; Mary Janigan's shady city plot; Sheer fabric projects; 5 recipes go buffet-style; and more. Small clipping from lower corner of first few pages. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
116 pages. Features: Daring Dining Room by Grant K. Gibson; Jenna Lyons - J.Crew's creative director; The Year's Hottest Hues and how to use them; Faux-real wallpapers; Home transformed by Calgary Designer Nam Dang-Mitchell; Thomas Smythe revives historic family home; Study in Contrasts; Top Twenty furniture, fabrics and finishing touches; Food and Entertaining; Top 10 things we'll be baking, dipping, slicing and sipping this year; David Hawksworth brings modern Canadian cuisine to Vancouver's Hotel Georgia; The look of 2012 - top trends from runways to rooms. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
120 pages. Cover illustration of young lady with umbrella and chicks by Elsie Deane. Features: Stylish colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; La Chasse-Galerie - the flying canoe of voyageurs and shantymen, by J.E. Le Rossignol; Nomads of the Sea - story by Beryl Gray; Women in Fascist Italy - article with photos by Lilian Gibson, teacher of English to Il Duce, Benito Musolini; The Challenge of Youth - article by Judge H.S. Mott of the Juvenile Court, Toronto, with photo portrait of the judge; The Female of the Species - story by sapper; The Land of the Rose, by Jean Graham; Music, Art and Drama News of the Month; Camberley's Bride - story by Leslie Gordon Barnard; Miss Helen Sparling, self trained in the world of finance, answers the question "Can Women Be Successful in Business?"; Jean Whitlock writes about the evolution of furniture in the wake of architectural and societal developments; What Easter means to women across Canada - with photos; Mary Louise Orr writes about the various forms of luggage available to travellers; Nice 1-page black and white ad for Plymouth cars; Essex automobile ad; Plans for a large English brick home; Nice colour illustrated ad for Johnson's Wax; Colour ad for Congoleum Rugs; Cute ad for Berry Brothers "Liquid Granite" floor varnish; The Canadian H.W. Gossard Co. ad for women's underclothing; Wonderful colour full-page ad for Hupmobile - the new Century Six and Eight; Gene Tunney golf photo in ad for Nujol; Nice colour full-page ad for Oriental Plush auto interiors - available in McLaughlin-Buick enclosed cars; Anna Pavlowa photos in Cutex ad; C.W. Stokes suggests the creation of a Bureau of Complaints; Dodge Brothers Six ad; Lovely 1-page black and white photo ad for Mercury women's hosiery and lingerie; 1-page Royal York Hotel ad; Willys Knight ad for the 70-B model automobile; Nice colour 1-page ad for Brookfield Butter; Wow! - Great colour centerfold ad for Red Seal Certified Cedar Chests!; 1-page colour photo ad for Puffed Wheat features infant photo of Richard Murphy on sled; Beautiful colour 1-page ad for Studebaker in yellow; Nice black and white one-page ad for Ford Motor Company; Lovely 1-page colour ad for Barrymore Rugs in desert motif; Woodwards "Gripe Water" ad; full-page 2-colour Knechtel furniture ad; Adorable Easter doll clothing cutouts by Grace G. Drayton; Nice colour ad for Crane plumbing fixtures insdie back cover; Colour ad for Parker Duofold pens on back cover. Few short openings to coverfold and cover edges. Address label and faint erasure atop front cover. Coffee stains to back cover and last page. Please Note: page 24-25 have been removed and are not present. They appear to have contained advertising content. Overall, a sound copy of this charming vintage issue. Book
Pages 267-316 plus fourteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Canada's Pulp and Paper Industry - article with dozens of excellent photos; Wild Rice in Canada - many wonderful photos; The Dukhobors; Indian Life in Mexico; Apple Marketing; and more. Some of the best ads include: Canadian Apples, The Empress Hotel, and an Imperial Oil ad on back cover which features photo of a very rustic northern scene with drums of fuel and mountains of firewood. Average wear and soiling. Small name stamp inside front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 249-293 plus seventeen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: An Introduction to Canadian Architecture - major article with dozens of photos; Britain's Trees and Forests; Lawren Harris; PICAO into ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization; and more. Some of the ads include: 1947 Mercury 114 car; The Monarch 8 car; Canadian Pacific - great one-page color ad for their train travel and Empress Hotel. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 103-188 plus 10 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: A Quebec Sketch book - article with colour plates of paintings by Esther Brann; Full-page colour plate of painting entitled "The Skeena River"; An Indian Paradise Lost - Abundantly photo-illustrated article on scenery and native peoples in the Skeena River, British Columbia, district; Writer James DeMille - photo and brief bio plus his poem The Maiden of Quoddy; Photo portrait and message from Prime Minister Mackenzie King; A Fragment of China - article with many wonderful photos from China by John Stone, with emphasis upon architectural features; A Look at London - photo-illustrated article; Dr. Henri Ami and the work of a Canadian school of prehistory in France; Black and white painting by F.G. Banting of a lonely outpost in the Arctic; Nice one-page Canada Steamship Lines ad features The Manoir Richilieu; Color Canadian National one-page ad for Jasper National Park features illustration of the lodge; Nice back cover ad by Canadian Pacific features A. Sherriff Scott colour painting of Mountie gazing down upon the Banff Springs Hotel. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage item. Book
Pages 189-276 plus 10 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: Nice one-page photo ad for the Royal Bank looks down the busy street of a large Canadian city; Nice illustrated half-page ad for The Film & Slode Co.'s "Filmo" movie Camera; One-page colour reproduction of Margaret Lougheed's painting of Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park; Adventuring on Baffin Island - article by J. Dewey Soper features photos of sled dogs and full-page photo portraits of Inuit men "Putaguk" and "Powlusik"; Memories of the Mountains - a profusely photo-illustrated article by Mrs. J. A. Wilson about her travels in the Canadian Rockies; Grand Manan - Island Gem of the Maritimes - article with photos and one-page map; Motor-Vagabonding on Vancouver Island - article with dozens of vintage photos from many parts of the island; The Great West Festival at Calgary - photo-illustrated article, including one-page photo of Mrs. William Blyth and her tapestry which took twenty years to make!; Vintage one-page ad for the 1930 Canadian National Exhibition (CNE); Nice back cover Canadian Pacific ad for its Banff service features reproduction of colour painting by A. Sherriff Scott showing a crimson-clad Mountie gazing down upon the Banff Springs Hotel. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage item. Magazine
Pages 1-50 plus ten pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Newfoundland - the watchdog of the Atlantic - with many great military photos; In the Heart of British Columbia's Coast Range; The Watermills of Old England; Occupational Therapy Across Canada; Some Canadian Cities (meaning and origin of names); Canada's Postcard Commandos - using photos to identify and target assets of our military opponents; The Balkans; and more. Some of the best ads include: The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (with artillery illustration inside front cover); Quebec Liquor Commission ("Please Use Less"); Empress Hotel/Chateau Frontenac Hotel (combined photo ad on back cover). Moderate wear. Small name stamped inside front cover. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of a DeHavilland Dragon Rapide on Lake of Bays, Ontario; Nice full-page photo ad for the Junkers JUMO 210 aero engine; Nice full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes showing the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, Egypt; The Boeing Stratoliner - fantastic illustrated article on the Boeing 307-type transport; Commendable Winter Operation by City of Toronto Squadron; Full-page ad for the 1938 Stinson Reliant; A Day at Fort Nelson - great travel article with photos by O. Nordling; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft; The Martin Ocean Transport - article with nice photo; Flying North of Edmonton; One Thousand Hours Between Overhauls - The Gipsy Major 130 H,P. engine; Photo of new hangar under construction at Edmonton; Photo of the world's largest aeroplane tire made by Dunlop; Nice full-page ad for McLaughlin-Buick; The Continental Powered Aeronca KC; Lear ARC-5 Radio Compass; Nice one-page photo ad for Taylorcraft planes; Dr. Klemin Predicts Era of Revolutionary Light Planes; McKee Trophy to Romeo Vachon - article with photo; Great photo of wings being added to a Douglas DC-4; Photo of a Fokker T.5; Photo ad for the Gray Rocks Inn of St. Jovite Station, Quebec; Old Country Gossip; News from the West Coast; More About Instruments; Candid Camera Corner - photo and article on Sooren Topalian - Iraq's #1 Transport Pilot; Nice full-page ad for the new 1938 Cub Sport by Cub Aircraft; Blenheim Bomber featured in Bristol engine ad inside back cover; Intava products two-colour ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Prohibition and the Runners of Rum (Alberta); Phantom (Growler) of the Unuk River Country; Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel - miner Fred Beach goes on a rampage with his Winchester; The Silk Connection - the silk train roared from Vancouver to New York with her valuable cargo of silk from the Orient; West Kootenay Memories - the village of Procter; Wild Old Days; Billy Newcombe - son of Dr. C.F. Newcombe; Victoria's First Mayor Was a Character - Thomas Harris; The Great Fire at Miramichi, October 7, 1825; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin, March 25, 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls, June 6, 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp., Ontario; Leechtown's $40,000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines, a railway, and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman, and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 (several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story). Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Prohibition and the Runners of Rum; Phantom of the Unuk; Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel; The Silk Connection; West Kootenay Memories; Wild Old Days; Victoria's First Mayor was a Character; The Great Fire at Miramichi; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
<p>30 cm, ril. edit. ill, tit, al piatto e dorso, fascetta, p. 144, numerose foto anche a piena pagina a colori. Testo in italiano e inglese</p>
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Nice photo montage of six female lower mainland agents; Commendation for Excellent service; Industrial Review - statistics for the province; Bar graph of phones in service between 1903 and 1921; When the telephone was a curiosity in the Capital City - nice seven page feature on the history of telephony in Victoria, beginning in 1877; Page of the 1880 Victoria and Esquimalt phone book; Facsimile of letter dated 1878 from the Bell Telephone office in Brantford, Ontario which says Mr. R.B. McMicking has accepted the agency of the company in British Columbia; City of Vancouver gets new phone number; Telephone development keeps pace with progress; Cover photo of the operating room of the Nanaimo exchange; Five-page illustrated article on Nanaimo, including 35 year-old photo of downtown with Bastion visible and an 1890 photo of a portion of the downtown and bowl area; Trouble shooting in Kootenay; The manufacture of porcelain; photo of operators at work in New Westminster; 6-page illustrated feature on New Westminster with mid-90s photo of the Colonial Hotel and area plus a photo of Columbia street before the fire of 1898; Composite cables will be important betterment; Fairmont operating room photo; Great photo montage of the old wooden bridge connecting Nanaimo's Fitzwilliam St. with downtown (the caption mentions E.P. LaBelle, whose name is stamped on the top edge of this book); 11 page feature on the history of telephony in Vancouver, with several photos from before 1900; pulling coils of duplex wire through the mountains by snow shoe(!); Nice photos of the following exchanges - Seymour, Fairmont, Highland, Bayview, Victoria, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Cumberland, Belmont, Duncan, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Colquitz, Ladysmith, Keating, Aldergrove, Abbottsford, Collingwood, Fraser, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, West Vancouver, Ladner, Kerrisdale, Eburne, Milner, Cloverdale, Steveston, Sidney, Hammond, Mission City, Kamloops, Agassiz, Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Nelson, Grand Forks, Greenwood, New Denver, plus plant headquarters for the Mainland and Victoria; statement of development showing number of operating phones per community; Cover photo of the Foul Bay area of Victoria; More Switchboards for Seymour; Bayview Extension; Centralization of observation equipment; Demo. switchboard for school; Much outside construction; Seven duct miles of conduit laid in Seymour underground; Table showing exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Alexander Graham Bell dies; Oaks Point snap shots; new motor control switchboard; Wireless telophony in early nineties (article); Laying underground conduit in Shaughnessy; New aerial cable across Capilano River; Passing of William Farrell, Company President; Rejuvinating used Plant material in machine shop; a peculiar case of hydrolysis; photo of Georgia street conduit trench; Second Annual Telephone Convention; 1885 B.C. Provincial Directory - article with 1885 photo of Vancouver Harbour; Autobiography of a switchboard plug; photo of burying conduit on Seymour in 1905; Appreciation shown by Port Alberni business men; Long Distance operators usually get their man; 7,000 mile motor trip of B.C. Telephone man; The telephone directory - my favourite book; Map showing routing of two cable between Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo inside the Nelson exchange; Satisfactory growth in past year; Four-page article with photos on prospects for the Kaslo area; 6-page article with photos on 'Modern treatment of the Insane' - the establishment of Colony Farm by the Provincial Government; Photo of enormous fallen tree near Westholme; Table ranking exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls; Statement of Development - la table listing number of phones operating per exchange as at 1 December 1913; Photo montage of three Vancouver Island telephone officials; Company has caught up with its construction work; 7-page feature on Victoria, 'The Pride of the Last West' with great photos; Photo of 'Vancouver's Newest Skyscraper' - a 15-story building under construction at the corner of Hastings and Richards; Telephone Service Excellent; 7-page article with excellent photos of the Britannia Mine; Telephone Cables Underground (in Vancouver); photo of company vehicle; Photo of Port Alberni Exchange; Large photo of the Seymour Exchange under construction (Steel frame erected); 5-page illustrated feature of Port Alberni - the magnetic city on the west coast; The giving of good telephone service; Some transmission problems of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Photo inside Port Alberni Exchange; First teleautograph west of Chicago - at the new Hotel Vancouver; 5-page feature of towns that silver put on map - New Denver, Silverton, Sandon, surrounding which is the Slocan District, in which is located the Standard Mine - photos; Recent developments in telephone transmission; April trouble record in Seymour office; Wonderful photo-montage of Vancouver's business district; First Telephone Switchboard in use in Vancouver, 1885; Before and after photos of Point Grey Road and Powell St.; View of Granville St. from the C.P.R. Depot; Photo of the almost completed Hudson's Bay store; Two great panoramic photos of the Vancouver Harbour, from the water and from the land; Photo of Hastings St. West, looking east; photo of the new Hotel Vancouver; Photo montage of some of Vancouver's fine homes; Photo of English Bay Bathing Beach; large photo of Second Beach, Stanley Park; Photo of the Interurban Depot B.C.E.R.Co.; View of Grand Forks looking west; Photo of the Granby smelter, largest in the British Empire; 5-page feature on Grand Forks; What are the duties of a Wire Chief?; Photos of the B.C. Tel. float as appeared in the Vancouver Pageant; Interior Telephone Extensions - exchanges of Kootenay, Boundary and Slocan to be connected; 1899 Vernon and Nelson Telephone Co. Ltd. phone directory; Operator School photo; Nice photo of the 6 chief operators of the Kootenay District; Where operators are trained - illustrated multi-page article; Personnel of Plant Organization; Marketing Telephone Poles - 2 page article with 2 photos; Operator's School Equipment; Cover photo of public telephone booths at the C.P.R. Depot, Vancouver; Nice photo of the Seymour general public office, Vancouver; Work of the Commercial Department - 6 pages with many photos of personnel; Printing a Telephone Directory; Getting out the Monthly Accounts - 2 photos; Telephony on the battlefield - use in the Russian-Japanese War; Photo in head office in Vancouver; Making the Telephone Valuable; photo portraits of executives William Farrell, George Halse, and o Book
Cartolina in bianco e nero di misure 14x9 cm. Non viaggiata.
60 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Akro Agate Co. made Marbles - article with photos; The Grand Old Hotel Del Monte - informative article with photos; Jar Talk - great vintage canning ads and more; British Bottle Bits - internal screw threads, the crown cap, the "Beehive" top, the "Chisel Stopper"; Ninety Years Ago - story continued from last month; Auction Directory; Extra Special Deliveries; 1990 Southeastern Show and Sale -article with nice photos; Up-Dates; Messages; "The Pontil" February, 1965. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
32 S. Original Karton mit Deckeltitel. Einband leicht berieben und fleckig, innen stellenweise etwas stockfleckig, sonst gut erhalten. Enthält eine Auswahl an Fachbuch-Vorschlägen des Killinger-Verlages für den Koch und Konditor, mit Inhaltsbeschreibungen und Preisangaben sowie 4 farbigen Abbildungstafeln. Im Anhang Fachbuch-Vorschläge für das Hotel- und Gasthaus-Gewerbe und praktische Geschenkbücher für Garten und Haus.