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Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Stories: Burned Boats; The Man in the Fur Coat; Plot and Counter-Plot; The Leopard-Men; My Mexican Mine; African Ball Game; Head for Head; Through the Panama Jungles; Secret Service-Indian Pattern; The Rivals; The Diviner; The White Devil of Badu. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: Alaska's Lone Eagles; A Really Dangerous Job; Long Odds; Trouble at Los Cruces; The Rivals; My Pet Panther; Land of Drums; The Great Thirst; Fighting 'Dope' Out East; El Diablo; Brazilian Beachcombers; The Girl Opal Miner. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
Stories: My Transcontinental Trip; The Devil Ship; Beginners Luck; The Egyptian Bone; Worth Their Weight in Gold; The Club-Footed Terror; The Bluenose Skipper; Giraffe; Coronation Day; Lions and Their Ways; The Man with the Harp Again; Sammy the Sea Lion; Marooned in the Lost World. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: Buried Treasure in Britain; The Last Voyage; Truscott Investigates; The Pennsylvania Witch Murder; The Unmasking of Gola Sing!; California Here I Come; Black Devil; What Happened to Jim Wood?; Shaitan Shadd; The Mutton Bird; Mechanically-Minded; Lost in a Swamp; The Kangaroo Hunters. Above-average wear. Book
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
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Secret Death - A weird story from Georgia in Russia, a wild land where might is right and feuds never end; Capturing Wild Animals Alive - how John Alfred Jordan captured a collection of African animals to be shipped to Zoos in Europe; A Tragedy in the Clouds - Frenchmen Sergeant Legendre and Adjutant Casale of the French Aviation Service bring down their eighth German plane piloted by a German named Haspel; Six Weeks Among the Buddhas - Part I - Juliet Bredon and her husband toured temples in China; The Man Who Found Himself - munitions worker William Francis claims to have entirely lost his memory for two years after an injury; Across Germany to Freedom - Part I - French soldiers Georges Prieur and Tristan du Tartre escape from Hammelburg camp in Bavaria; When the Dam Burst - a 'Santa Rosa' (South American monsoon) causes a night of terror at the harbour works of the 'Obras del Nuevo Puerto de la Capital' in Argentina; Almost a Tragedy - forgetful nearly results in multiple deaths; Between the Devil and the Deep - a French fishing-smack sinks a German submarine - article with photos; When the Fuses Spluttered - Roy Norton, F.R.G.S. escapes death in a mine by seconds; Buried Alive - injury while filming 'The Jarvis Case'; A Fight With An Ostrich - the awful plight of engineer Geo. Daws who tried to cross an ostrich 'camp' during their breeding season; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Sign at the Gallows, The Law & The Lackey; The Pirates of the 'Flowery Land' - mutiny and murder on the high seas between London and Singapore; The Hidden City - Tulum is located in the thick jungle of the Yucatan; Bethlehem's Distressing Christmas Scenes - festive occasion marred by petty quarrels of rival sects;The Last of the Bandits - The Poe-Hart Gang terrorizes Oklahoma by robbing banks and fighting sheriff's posses; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2], 92-176, 9-24 [ads]. Covers partially loose. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
199524708Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1995. XXXIV, 709 S. : Ill., Notenbeisp. Gr.-8°, OPb.
033238411X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
64 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Trappers We Were; Puijeup unipkausinga (A story about seals); Memories of L'anse au Diable; Labrador crafts - Birth Braiding; Joseph Michelin (1845-1940); Freeman Saunders; My Mother; Short Stuff; Labrador dogs; Nanualuk (The White Bear); The Bread; Labrador Gallery - great portrait of David Martin of Cartwright in his WWI garb. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1842R117219Leodii [Luik], Typ. Pettri Kersten 1842 82pp., 22cm., modern hardcover, text in Latin, few occasional foxing, good, R117219
187816920Paris, Garnier (imprimerie Motteroz), 1878 ; fort in-12, maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs décoré aux petits fers, double encadrement des plats, chacun de 3 filets dorés, fleurons d'angles, filet doré sur les coupes, large roulette intérieure, tranches dorées (fine reliure de l'époque, non signée) ; XLIV, 461 pp. , (1) f. de table.
186317193Paris, imprimerie de Dubuisson, s.d. (1863) ; grand in-8, demi chagrin marron, dos à faux nerfs décorés à froid, titre et roulettes dorés (reliure de l'époque) ; (4), II, 387 pp. , (1) f. de table ; chacune des 24 pièces a une pagination propre (dans le coin des pages) ; la pagination générale du volume se trouve dans le haut, au milieu ; 25 têtes de chapitres (une dans l'introduction) et 24 planches lithographiées et coloriées au pochoir et au pinceau.
2005015212Paris Gallimard - La Pléiade 2005 In-12 Cartonnage éditeur
1842000225Paris Charpentier 1842
59688Collection: Album Enigmes de l'Univers - Robert Laffont 1975 In-4 33 cm 320pp. illustr. petites marques d'usage sur la couverture Nb-0317 unknown
1729111702Humbert 1729 A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Humbert, 1729, 1 volume petit in-8 de 95 x 155 mm environ, (1) f. blanc, (22) ff. (page de faux-titre, page de titre, épître, préface, table des matières), 371 p., (1) f. blanc. Pleine basane d'époque, dos à 5 nerfs portant titre doré sur pièce de cuir rouge, caissons ornés, tranches mouchetées de rouge. Cuir épidermé et marqué par endroits, mors supérieur fendillé (mors interne légèrement apparent), une mouillure dans le coin supérieur de quelques pages, reliure solide et volume en bon état malgré les défauts signalés.
CZC-13130La première partie, bien développée, constitue une sérieuse histoire du magnétisme depuis Mesmer (vie et expérience de Mesmer, Puységur, Foissac, Berna, Dubois d'Amiens, Husson, Burdin, Pigeaire, etc.). Viennent ensuite les 12 leçons de magnétisme, somnambulisme : formes différentes, dangers, somnambules spiritualistes, Adèle Lefrey, Marie Lainé, extase magnétique, facultés exceptionnelles, phénomènes supérieurs, pratiques de Mesmer, Puységur, abbé Farina, Deleuze, Delauzanne, Dr Ruston, de Brivazac ; traitement des maladies, précautions réfléchies à prendre, dangers des négligences, sensations magnétiques, facultés exploratrices, qualités du fluide magnétique. Expériences personnelles de l'auteur avec observations et considérations : Calixte Renaux, lettres de M. Demay, lecture malgré l'occlusion des yeux ; traitement des sourds-muets ; jeune Daubas ; Mlle Dufourt ; Mme Bussière ; Marguerite de Niort ; catalepsie ; magnétisme en diligence ; extase magnético-poétique ; Victor de Paris ; Théodula, l'extatique en 1833 ; etc. vol relié demi cuir, frottements, bel état intérieur, 553pp. rare Paris, Germer Baillière, 1841. EO ref/BP
CZC-13130La première partie, bien développée, constitue une sérieuse histoire du magnétisme depuis Mesmer (vie et expérience de Mesmer, Puységur, Foissac, Berna, Dubois d'Amiens, Husson, Burdin, Pigeaire, etc.). Viennent ensuite les 12 leçons de magnétisme, somnambulisme : formes différentes, dangers, somnambules spiritualistes, Adèle Lefrey, Marie Lainé, extase magnétique, facultés exceptionnelles, phénomènes supérieurs, pratiques de Mesmer, Puységur, abbé Farina, Deleuze, Delauzanne, Dr Ruston, de Brivazac ; traitement des maladies, précautions réfléchies à prendre, dangers des négligences, sensations magnétiques, facultés exploratrices, qualités du fluide magnétique. Expériences personnelles de l'auteur avec observations et considérations : Calixte Renaux, lettres de M. Demay, lecture malgré l'occlusion des yeux ; traitement des sourds-muets ; jeune Daubas ; Mlle Dufourt ; Mme Bussière ; Marguerite de Niort ; catalepsie ; magnétisme en diligence ; extase magnético-poétique ; Victor de Paris ; Théodula, l'extatique en 1833 ; etc. vol relié demi cuir, frottements, bel état intérieur, 553pp. rare Paris, Germer Baillière, 1841. EO ref/BP
1966RO40058336"SEG Collection "" Espionnage-Service "" N°97. 1966. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 191 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 830-Littératures des langues germaniques"
1966RO20269724SOCIETE D'EDITIONS GENERALES - N°66. 1966. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 191 Pages- page de faux titre tâchée - coiffes et coins frottés. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle
2000818202000 Editions Gallimard Collection La Noire 2000 - In-8 broché - 412 pages
Features: The saga of blue-eyed Herman Wol - Old Wolf Post; Indian Saddle Makers; Artist Paul Dyck collects Rare Indian Saddles; Somebody lost $3 million - The Islander goes down in Alaska's Inside Passage with gold on board; Loops and Swift Horses are Surer than Lead - Roping a Bear in Montana!; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - J.Lee Humfreville; The Bane of Thieves - Dave Cook of Colorado; Jack Healy - the horse tamer; Meat's Meat - a starving man will eat anything; Powder River Expedition - General Patrick Connor and an ill-fated Sioux campaign in Wyoming; Saint or Devil - Padre Antonio Martinez of New Mexico; The Atoka Track - old Choctaw country; The Wanderers, by Rosie M. Norrish; In Defense of the 'old-time' coyote; The Backtracker - John Clarke of Comanche Texas tracks down his son's murderer; Wild Old Days!. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
