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Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Very good and clean. Atlas folio. (73 x 59 cm). In Ottoman script. Map of Oceania. It shows Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia etc. Scale: 1/20.000.000. Hegira: 1341 = Gregorian: 1925. Mehmed Neset Bey was born in Scutari, Istanbul. He served as colonel in World War 1 and Turkish National Struggle. He was a military origin map-maker. (Source: Savaslarda haritacilar, Harita Genel Komutanligi, Ank., 2017). Extremely rare.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 660 p., color and b/w plates. 1000 copies were printed. ISBN: 9786053637995. A comprehensive study on Turkish and Islamic architecture in Diyarbakir city. Medeniyetler mirasi Diyarbakir mimarisi.= Civilisations heritage Diyarbakir architecture.
Mm 410x320 Volume in formato oblungo, rilegatura rigida ad imitazione di un foglio di legno (faux-wood), cartone editoriale protettivo (original shipping carton), titolo in arancio al piatto ed al dorso, 464 pagine con centinaia di illustrazioni in nero e a colori. Libro a cura di Peter Goessel, Dion Neutra e Julius Shulman. Testo in Inglese, Francese e Tedesco - english-french-german texts. Peso ( Weighs ) 6,1 Kg. Splendida e monumentale pubblicazione sul grande architetto di origine austriaca che molto ha influenzato l'architettura degli Stati Uniti e non solo. Volume in perfette condizioni di nuovo - new in original shrinkwrap. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
On the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. xiv, 354 pages. With Index. Some rubbing to cover surfaces.
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Discovery - Gold Town in the Atlin District of B.C.; The Collector's Page; Edward Dossetter's Queen Charlottes - he was a photographer who travelled the northwest coast in the late 1870s; The 1913 Liberty Nickel; Billy Ballou - The Forgotten Expressman; Canadiana - spitoons/cuspidors; The Cliff Dweller; Letters from the North-West - Part II - A.R. Dyre was a young North West Mounted Police Constable from 1882 to 1885; Our Vanishing Heritage - false front buildings; Gagnon and His Flying Machine - was he the first to make a vertical free (helicopter) flight in 1907?. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 Pages plus ten pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Mining in Nova Scotia; The British on San Juan Island; Pictures of the Provinces - XIX; Industry Comes Back to New Brunswick; England's Old Timbered Buildings; RCAF recruiting ad; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.75". Steam and horse roads indicated. Includes many street names plus lists of prominent buildings and hotels. Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
34 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Cover photo of Booth & Nagle's prototype gas station; Chicago's 1972 Award Buildings; Oak Park's Historic District; The I.C. Air Rights Project; A Decatur Architectural Firm - Spangler, Beall, Salogga & Bradley (SBS&B); and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
91 pages. Glossary. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Explains wood structure, notching tools, notches for wall logs, log end treatment, tenons, rafters, special notches, and more. Gift greetings upon backside of front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this exceptionally informative and practical work. Book
26 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Roosevelt University and its Adler & Sullivan Auditorium; Weese's Circle Campus Building; A St. Louis Prize-Winner - Parkway North Senior High School; Chicago's Disney Magnet School; Mies' Office Tries its hand at Two Inner-City High Schools - Dirk Lohan's Clemente High School and Orr High School; Harry M. Weese, FAIA, named president of Inland Architect Corporation; Passing of architect of Botho Schneider; News-brief on the compact new Rock Valley junior college facililties in Rockford, IL; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
30 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Chicago's Best Buildings, 1973; Jacques Brownson's new work in Denver; Carl Condit's Journey into the Two Chicagos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photo of the interior of the Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee. Ad for a Conn Theatre Organ. Edwin A. Link and the Roberson Center Organ - great 2.5 page article with photos. Letters. Theatre Organ Etiquette - don't overburden people who have moved organs to their private homes or buildings. Real Pipes for the Price of a Plug-In? - It Can be Done - comparing electronic with real organs. Did you bring your music with you? - comparing performers who did or did not play from music. Building a Back Beat Relay - technical article. Sooner Sonic Sights and Sounds - the artists and instruments (plus their nostalgic ad). The Real Crawford Special - wonderful 3.5 page article with photos. Record reviews. Hollywood Cavalcade. Eddie Weaver returns to New Haven Paramount. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Wonder Morton to be restored for New York Convention! - the four manual, 23 rank organ in the former Loew's 175th Street Theatre in Nyew York. Billy Nalle entertains at Canton Palace. Lee Erwin plays ten shows at Alexandria. The Tower (Theatre) Lights are Bright in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania - great 3-page article with photos. Tony Fenelon blows in from down under. Loew's Columbus, Ohio Theatre is Saved! Classified ads. Chapter news. Wonderfully nostalgic Larry Ferrari record ad inside back cover, as well as a copy of a Snuffy Smith cartoon from 1961 which features a large organ! Impressive Rodgers Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
Features: How shall we live in the future - houses will be heated in winter, cooled in summer, lighted by man-made healthful sun-lamps; editorials - all honor to marconi - metallic thrift - future leaders - science and art; Commemorating a century of progress - buildings for the 1933 World Exposition are rapidly being completed on a site close to other Chicago attractions; Weighing the satellites - mass, on the astronomical scale, can be measured only by the power of gravitation; Science and the permanent wave - what makes human hair wave when stretched and steamed?; Pigeons go to war college - interesting German method of training carrier pigeon messengers and photographers; "Jobs from Junk - Wages from Waste" - Buffalo, New York , has a good plan to help the unfortunate; Engineering a ski-jump tower - unusual problems are encountered in the construction of the world's highest ski-jump tower; A new style theater, front and back - a trick stage, unusual scenic effects, scientific lighting - a new high point in technique is reached in new theater; Our railroads must be saved - the integrity of the railroad's finances mean much not only to the nation but also to the individual; Science trails the criminal - Laboratory utilizes all the resources of modern science for the benefit of peace officers; A snow avalance "Caught in the Act" - striking photographs of stages of a snowslide; amateur astronomy in the wild west - in tacoma, members of a large club of amateurs have built telescopes; Radio and forest fires - rangers on the lookout for fires, and fire fighters keep in touch with headquarters by means of portable radio sets; Greedy "white ants" cust us millions - termites eat their way into wooden framework of structures and cause great damage. Moderate to average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
772 pages. Contains 37 papers based on the latest research and findings in the subject by authors from fifteen countries. Covers such topics as climatic factors, boundary layer characteristics, wind tunnel modelling, full-scale measurements on buildings, the performance and response of particular structures including towers and bridges, and code criteria for design against wind. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Average wear to dust jacket which bears several short tears. Excellent copy overall. Book
Pages 125-168. Features: Cover photo of Vauxhalls and trucks in Coronation processions during the past month; Tale of Two Rallies - The V.C.C. Coronation Rally and the 1953 Vauxhall Motorist Norway Ralley - writeup with photos; Kimpling's Sussex; Vauxhall's Home Delivery Service - article with photos; Motels come to Britain - article with photos; The Seven Languages of Britain; England's Water-Mills - great photos; Details of a new steering gear and bonnet top; London has Wandered - many of her famous buildings have been moved from the city; Vauxhall introduces special oil-control rings for all models put into production since 1938 - article with diagrams; Wonderful travel photos from Mr. E. Richardson's 2500 mile trip with his Wyvern; Many pages of great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
156 pages. Features: Is your soil building human health; Co-operative feeder sales; Home-grown buildings; The Enloe Family builds a home - Archie and Dal Enloe farm in Arizona's Gila River Valley - article with great color photos; A Woman's touch on tenant land - Mrs. Clarence Denison on the H.E. Brewington Farm, Farmer City, IL; Bluestem Beef; Kennebec - a potato that fights its own battles; Rearranging the rain - California's bold schemes to channel water hundreds of miles nears completion; Shipping research pays off; You walk right in - Ohio's Brueggemeier's cold storage unit; Photo of Acie Miller with his mule which foaled a horse colt; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Earl and Lloyd Becker who farm near Koncoln, Logan County, IL; Plymouth cars; and more. Ads: Texaco ad with photos of John Peterschick of Plaza, WA and his inventions; For trucks (color); Chesterfield cigarettes ad with Alan Ladd illustration plus farmer Leavitt Roberts of Paris, KY; Ferguson tractors; Dodge cars (beautiful one-page in color); International Harvester cominges (color photos); Wheaties ad with photo of Carol Tarrant, of Atchison, KS, Queen of Royal Live Stock and Horse Show; Color Studebaker car ad features Chelsea C. Taylor of Cass County who was named Corn King of Illinois in 1946; Jeep; New Holland baler; Blue Bell denim with photo of Garfield Gaskell; Cone Denim; Swan soap with color photos of young blonde; Lipton Tea ad with color photo of Alexis Smith; Nice color GMC truck ad inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features roller skater Raven Malone; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Missing pages 77-80. Two pages loose but present. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: General Lyman Lemnitzer; The Auxiliary Oiler Green Ranger runs aground; Explosion at Takeley, Essex; Unsettled Arabia; Karsh photo of Robert F. Kennedy; Buildings of Fort Shalmaneser; The St. Louis Climatron; 4500 year old funerary boat of Cheops; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Very Good French Scarce color lithographed tourist map of Syria and Lebanon, showing international boundaries, transportation, archaeological, historical, and military ruins, water features, distances between places and populated places. Relief is shown by hachures, bathymetric tints, and spot heights. Includes 28 attractive drawings in red of tourist sites in Syria and Lebanon: Damas, Palmyre, Afqa, Hama, Homs, Meyrouba, Saida, Beit ed-Dins, Djebail, Led Cedres, Krak des Chevaliers, Massiaf, Antioche, Deir Smane, El Goilla, Aleppo, etc. "Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. Includes 28 drawings of tourist sites in Syria and Lebanon, listing the city. "7 -49". On lower right margin.'". Free French Forces was the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War, and its military forces, that continued to fight against the Axis powers as an Allied nation, following the Fall of France. Set up in London in June 1940, it organized and supported the Resistance in Occupied France, and established a foothold within several French colonies in Africa. Original color lithograph map of Syria and Lebanon. 57x72 cm., on sheet 63x84 cm. In French. Scale: 1:1.000.000. Edition of May 1942.
4 vols., sm. 8vo., First Editions, on laid paper, with very numerous plates, tops lightly dust-soiled, third volume with neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in black, second volume in unclipped dustwrapper, a very good, bright, clean set. Published by Architectural Press for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Contains illustrations of more than 300 bridges. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.
Very Good English Revised Third Edition of this rare map of Cyprus, made by Salmon, who was the director of Cypriot land registration and surveys. "Shows grid, district boundaries, heights in feet, railways, roads (2 categories), antiquities, ancient sites.". / "Shows district boundaries, towns and cities, roads (2 categories), railroads, ancient sites and antiquities, and dry streams. Relief is shown by contours, gradient tints, and spot heights. Earlier Edition: 1952.". (OCLC). "In December 1926, in a memorandum to the Colonial Office on vacant surveying positions in the colonies, Palestine and Cyprus were mentioned at the end of a group of Mediterranean colonies; that is there was a group of Mediterranean colonies, and also Cyprus and Palestine [.] Only in 1929 was an Imperial project involving Palestine and Transjordan, brought up at the committee (Colonial Survey Committee). This was the experimental aerial survey for determining the route of the Haifa - Damascus railway, which was presented as a model for mapping from aerial photographs [.] Among the important things reported to the Colonial Survey Committee was the reconnaissance conducted by Colonial Winterbotham, the Chief of the GSGS, in the survey departments of the colonies in 1929, a trip that had been encouraged in the first Conference of Empire Survey Officers in 1928 [.] ... how much Salmon [F. J.] expected from Winterbotham's visit to Ceylon a short time before he was to take over the directorship of the small survey department of Cyprus.". (Source: The Survey of Palestine Under the British Mandate, 1920-1948). Original color map. Folded in original wrappers. Fine. Elephant folio. (58 x 89 cm). In English. Survey of Cyprus administration map. Scale of 4 miles to one inch = 1/253440. Compiled and drawn under the direction of F. J. SALMON, (Director of Land Registration and Surveys, Cyprus, 1932). Revised Third Edition. Second in 1950.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map on cloth. Folded. A good copy. Oblong atlas folio. (50 x 60 cm). In Ottoman script. [MAP of WEST ANATOLIA] Edremid Bay, The Dardanelles, Limni, Bozcaada (Tenedos), Balikesir, Ayvalik, Kal'a-yi Sultaniye. Shows Northeast Anatolia; southwest entrance of the Dardanelles, Çanakkale, Balikesir cities, Ayvalik, Tenedos Island, shores of North Aegean, Bay of Edremit. Mapmaker is not described. Scale: 1/200.000. Mubde-i tul: Greenwich and Dersaadet. This is one the serie of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. This is one the serie of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to produce these maps covering Turkish territory, Reconnaissance Branch was incorporated into The Mapping Commission. The maps were produced in the datum based on the latitude and longitude of Ayasofya Mosque in equal area Bonn Projection. The field works for the 123 sheets covering the country were conducted by 76 staff. The production was completed in 18 years starting from east west. Field works continued without stopping except in years 1914 and 1920. This map series called also reconnaissance maps contributed a lot to producing 1:25.000 scale maps. Hegira: 1327 = Gregorian: 1910. Slightly stained and yellowing on paper. Loose extremities. A good copy. Very scarce. One copy in TBMM Library Map Collection: 201102274.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map on cloth. Folded. A good copy. Oblong atlas folio. (65 x 75 cm). In Ottoman Turkish. Showing Adriatic shores of Western Albania and Albanian land. [MAP of BALKANS] Bati Arnavutluk, Venedik Körfezi kiyilari. [Venice Bay, Albania]. Extremely rare.
Very Good French Original b/w map. Oblong folio. (30 x 34 cm). In French. [MAP of BATTLE of MOHACZ] Bataille de Mohacz entre Louis Roi de Hongrie et Souleman I. le 28 Aôut 1526 (20 Silkide 932). Grave par U. Muschani. Atlas des batailles et sieges pour servir a l'histoire de l'Empire Ottoman, Pl. VIII. From "Nouvel atlas physique, politique et historique de l'Empire ottoman et des États limitrophes. / dressé. par J.-J. Hellert ; revu, corrigé et accompagné d'un commentaire historique, géographique et statistique. par Ge Heck, et L[é]on Plée..." printed in 1843. Engraved. Rare.
Very Good French Original b/w map. Oblong folio. (30 x 34 cm). In French. [MAP of OTTOMAN CRIMEA] Crimee. Gravee par U. Muschani. Shows Crimean peninsula, shores of Black Sea, Azov Sea, Kerkinit Golf, with its old places names. From "Nouvel atlas physique, politique et historique de l'Empire ottoman et des États limitrophes. / dressé. par J.-J. Hellert ; revu, corrigé et accompagné d'un commentaire historique, géographique et statistique. par Ge Heck, et L[é]on Plée..." printed in 1843. Engraved. Rare.
Very Good German Original color map on cloth. Folded. A good copy. Oblong folio. (45 x 51 cm). In German. [MAP] O.14. Brussa. [Southern Brussa - Gönen - Manias Göl -Lake-, Anatolien, Abulonia Göl -Lake-]. Shows Abhuitis See, Artynia See, Kirmisli Kasaba, etc. A sheet of the collection of 'The general map of Central Europe'. appeared in the years between 1873-1876 with the work of Joseph Ritter von Scheda, (1815-1888) who was a general, geographer and cartographer.