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Pages 821-864. Features: Gorgeous Arthur Guinness, Son & Co. colour ad inside front cover features Toucan birds illustrated by Lobban; The U.S. Supreme Court; The Coronation Commission's First Meeting, and other royal occasions; Photos of the Silverstone races; The Stricken U.S.S. Wasp limps home - with photos of the 75' gash to her bow where she struck a mine-sweeper-destroyer; Photo of members of the Cho Oyu Expedition, including Mr. Eric Shipton; Stirling Moss is congratulated for a victory; Photo of Stalin holding child; The R.M.S. Gothic in the Captain Cook graving dock in Sydney; The Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli enters Grand Harbour, Malta; Aerial photos of Lake Eyre in South Australia - an inland sea that is fast reverting to a salt desert; Two pages of illustrations depict the recently completed Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, to be opened on May 21; Two pages of illustrations of engineering features of the new waterway, including the world's largest inland lock; Article entitled "Churchill versus Terpitz"; One-page map illustrates the Central African Federation Plan; Centerfold illustration of the City of Bath in the pride of its Roman civilization - Britain's most ancient spa as it was 1800 years ago; Photos of the Duke of Edinburgh in South Wales; Photos of the Queen and other visitors at the British Industries Fair; Photos of the Royal Danish visit to England; Photos of Personalities of the week - including the recently departed Sir Oswald Birley; Photos of Australia's possible atomic test sites; The New Kirkuk-Banias oil pipeline; Photos of amphibious and cliff assaults demonstrated with realism by the Royal Marines; Very tasteful colour-illustrated ad for the Daimler "Regency" inside back cover; Colour Hawker Siddeley Group ad (#5 in a series) on back cover; and more. Centerfold holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 77- 116. Features: One-page ad for 'Ski Paradise' Austria; Photo of Egypt popular young Monarch King Farouk; Photos of a royal wedding in the Dutch Indies; Photo of the Bavarian Frey brothers being rescued from the Watzmann; Photo of first airmail plane leaving Ratmalana, Ceylon; Photo of Toscanini receiving Orange Grove from grateful Jews after he conducted pioneer concerts in Palestine; Photo of Hitler receiving traditional gift of salt from representatives of the Halle salt mines; One-page photo of Hitler greeting diplomats in Berlin, an occasion at which he assured the French ambassador that Germany had no designs on Spanish Morocco; Book review of "The Conquest Of Morocco", by vice Adm. C. V. Usborne, with photos; One-page pictorial map of the Straits of Gibraltar, looking east - showing Spanish Morocco, the object of alleged German penetration, and possibly to be protected by a Franco-German agreement; Nice one-page photo of Royal wedding at the Hague, showing Princess Juliana and the Prince of the Netherlands in their gold coach driving through the city; Two page photo of crowd in church to witness the royal wedding; Two pages of text and photos describe ingenious tests for German drivers aimed at preventing death on the roads; Two pages of photos of Hellenistic panels in the Al-Aqsa mosque; Centrefold illustration of Britain's two largest battleships, HMS "Nelson" and "Rodney" firing their 16 inch guns at towed targets with deadly precision; Two fascinating pages of text and photos of skull groves on the Burmese border - headhunting trophies for harvest luck; Peking man's food - the first diet records of Pleistocene date - text with photos; Photos of personalities of the week include Gilbert Holliday, Frank Hodges, Lt. Col. R. S. Stafford, Arthur G. Pite, Prof. Henry Tonks, Lord Wakehurst, Basil S. Long, Sir Edward Ellington, the Duke of Kent, the grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, the Earl of Athlone; One-page illustrated Egyptian travel ad; and more. Several interior pages loose but present. Name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 593-620. Features: Cover photo of Gen. Cunningham as he leaves Government House, Jerusalem, for the last time as the British mandate in Palestine comes to an end; Samples of ingenious medieval printed works; Two pages of photos of Princess Elizabeth's "New Look" clothes for her first visit to the continent; 5 Dramatic Photos in Palestine and Jerusalem - scenes and factors of the coming struggle for supremacy between Jews and Arabs; Excellent two-page panoramic map of Jerusalem, which has been battered by Arab guns and Jewish mortars and whose future concerns every Christian community; Seven more photos of Palestine illustrate harsh results of the ongoing conflict; Large photo of the horrible wreck of the London-Bradford express train at Wath, which killed six; Article discusses Spain as a factor in European politics; Photo of the Dutch Royal Palace on fire; Photo of the 150th anniversary of the burial of Capt. Vancouver; Photo of Sissinghurst Place, the home of Mr. Lindsay Drummond, the main part of which was destroyed by fire on May 22; Wonderful centrefold illustrations explain how ASDIC locates enemy submarines while they are still submerged; Page of illustrations explain how "Hedgehog", deadliest of the Royal Navy's submarine killers, works; page of illustrations of personalities of the week includes Kathleen Lady Hartington, Lord Fitzwilliam, Alfred Edwards, Petronella Ferguson, Richard Wyndham, George Beurling, Col. J. L. Ralston, Sir Robert Clive, Herbert Morrison, Mr. Bevin, Count Bernadotte, David Ben-Gurion proclaiming the birth of a Jewish state of Israel, Moshe Shertok, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann; Photos of Princess Elizabeth's visit to Coventry; Two pages of photos present some aspects of the present day curriculum at Queen's College, Harley St., which celebrated its Centenary this month; Photo of the US cruiser Salt Lake City, still dangerously radioactive nearly 2 years after test; Photos of Britain's greatest combined naval and air exercise since1939; Two pages of photos of a great treasure of Nelson relics bought by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Unmarked with average wear. A few minor archival tape repairs. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
154 pages including copies of black & white photos. Personal Memoirs of W.T. Burkitt (Theo), born in England, who immigrated to Canada early 1900's. Patriarch to Burkitt Family of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Depicts history of early Vancouver Island, military service, politics and family life from a personal point of view. Hand typed. Handwritten greetings on title page read "To Marjorie and Gerry With Best Wishes", presumably written by the author. A nice clean copy with sound binding. Book
Edition Dioscor, Lyon, 1986. In/8 broché couverture illustrée, 25 planches en noir, 422 pages. Reprint de la seconde édition de cet ouvrage paru en 1828. Carême (1784 - 1833), fit son apprentissage chez Bailly, le célèbre pâtissier de la rue Vivienne, fournisseur de Talleyrand. Puis il ouvre sa propre pâtisserie. Pendant le premier Empire, chef de bouche de Talleyrand, il participera à tous les grands “extra” de la Cour, puis voyageant à travers l’Europe, il mettra ses talents au service de plusieurs cours royales ou impériales. Enfin, il terminera sa carrière chez James de Rothschild ; il fera de la table du baron la première de Paris.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 218 pages with maps, b&w photos.
Features: Title page photo of German prisoner being interrogated by French officer; Photo of Brazilian airmen newly arrived in England for training; Photo of crowd and smoke rising from distant stand at Hong Kong racecourse where over 600 lives were lost; Photo of Mr. Marcus M. Marks and others as they advance clocks one hour across the U.S.; The Heroism of the Stokehold (article); Will America Produce a Great General? (article); The Harvest of Hedgerow and Meadow(article); Photos of scenes near Es Salt (since evacuated); Article by G.K. Chesterton includes photos of The Right Hon. Lord Justice Sir Charles Swinfen Eady, Sir William Weir, and Edward Shortt, K.C. M.P.; One-page illustration of German POWs at work on British farm under guard; Two-page illustration of French and British Artillery co-operating before Amiens; America and the Air Problem (article); Five photos of the sinking of a German mine-laying trawler and her survivors; Article discusses how aliens, naturalised or otherwise, are taking jobs from British people; Great photo of British destroyer arriving in port with its deck full of survivors of a U-boat attack; Eight before and after photos show the devastation caused by an earthquake in Guatemala, particularly to the Guatemala City Central Railway Station and the cities fine cathedral; Centrefold reproductions (black and white) of notable pictures in this year's Royal Academy Exhibition (plus two additional pages of images from the Exhibition); Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers including Brig.-Gen. Robert Gore, C.B., C.M.G., KIA; Wonderful illustrated quarter-page ad for very long Aviation boots, "The "Charfor" designed and sold by Harrods Ltd.; Fantastic two-colour back cover ad for "Erasmic" Shaving Stick shows fashionable young man and woman in bathrobes meeting on balcony as they water their plants; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
Introduzione - I. Mussolini ed il fascismo -II. La responsabilit? della guerra ed il "tradimento militare" - III. La preparazione del colpo di Stato ed il 25 luglio - IV. L'antifascismo del Governo Badoglio - V. La liberazione di Mussolini, la proclamazione della Repubblica Sociale ed il Manifesto di Verona - VI. In lotta per la difesa dell'onore e del patromonio nazionale - VII. La politica di conciliazione...- VIII. La politica sociale...- IX. Il Regno d'Italia, i Comitati di liberazione e la guerra partigiana - X. Il Raggruppamento Nazionale Repubblicano Socialista - XI. La catastrofe militare e l'insurrezione dei "sanguinari" - Note - Indice dei nomi 1 21,5x15 cm., in brossura, pp. 537 (3), non refilate, marginose, 4 illustrazioni ( Lettera autografa di Mussolini- Foto del Ministro dell'Educazione Naz. Biggini e l'A.- Lettere autografe del ministro Biggini), fuori testo, prima edizione, in italiano, sottolineature in matita e leggeri segni d'uso e tempo, buon esemplare.. Allegato foglietto propagandistico "Il Duce ? con noi!" rivolto ai soldati.
Paris, s.d (1953). Plaquette in/4 couverture souple avec vignette gaufrée, illustrations in-texte, 1 planche couleurs in-fine, 36 pages, édité par le comité national de propagande pour la consommation du poisson Ecrit par les professeurs : Delore, Fontaine, Lesné, Polonovski, Randoin, Richet, Binet. Le poisson sous son aspect nutritionnel , ses qualités, l’alimentation des enfants...
Ecole professionnelle, Le Locle, Suisse, 1938. In/8 reliure demi-toile rouge, plats cartonnés, 155 p., 6è édition. Ensemble de 429 recettes pour préparer des repas simples et économiques.
Edité par “La France à Table” pour le comte de Butagaz, s.d. (vers 1935). In/8 oblong broché, couverture illustrée, illustrations : 5 bois de BENIGNI, photographies, in et hors-texte, 91 p. 250 recettes “sélectionnées pour Butagaz” : potages et sauces, poissons, entrées, viandes, légumes et farinages, desserts, recettes de régime, conseils pratiques : savoir faire le marché, ordonnance du repas, les vins... Préface de Curnonsky. Ex-libris du grand cuisinier Lyonnais J.Paul Lacombe (Léon de Lyon).
Comité National de Propagande pour la Consommation du Poisson, Paris, 1924. In/8 broché, couverture illustrée, figures en noir dans le texte. 118 pages. Méthodes de cuisson, les sauces pour accompagner le poisson, soupes, utilisation des restes de poissons, recettes spéciales pour chaque poisson, poissons salés, fumés, conserves en boîte, oeufs et laitances de poissons, coquillages, crustacés, etc.
Publié par le Comité Boulonnais de Propagande pour la Consommation du Produits de la Mer, Paris, 1936. In/8 broché, couverture illustrée, figures en noir dans le texte. 114 pages. Méthodes de cuisson, les sauces pour accompagner le poisson, soupes, utilisation des restes de poissons, recettes spéciales pour chaque poisson, poissons salés, fumés, conserves en boîte, oeufs et laitances de poissons, coquillages, crustacés, etc.
164 pages. Features: Are we selling the livestock business short?; Bob Lazear and his herefords - Wyoming Hereford Ranch of Cheyenne - article with photos; Weatherproof haymaking; Better livestock in the making; Dairy farmers cut time and costs; Deans of the Delta - nice color-photo-illustrated article on the Homer and Ethel Dean family farm in the Mississippi delta; Seven barns in one; photo of mobile telephone being used by V.P. Shufflebarger of the John Jacobs Farms in the Salt River Valley of Arizona; and more. Ads: Oldsmobile; Hood boot ad with photo of Myron J. Laker of Wayland, MI; Texaco ad with photos of the Waller-Franklin Seed Company in Guadalupe, CA, with manager E.D. Martin; G.E. Radio with photo of vocalist Jane Wilson; B.F. Goodrich ad includes large photo of Mr. Casey Abbott of Salt River Valley of Arizona; Ford trucks (color); Kaiser-Frazer cars (2 pages); One-page color ad for Disney film Melody Time; N.A.M. ad features photo of Andy Anderson of West Millington, NJ; Westinghouse radio; Arvin radio; Disston one-man chain saw; Jeep; Admiral radio; Ford tractors (2 pages); Blue Bell denim with photo of George Bechtold; New Dodge trucks; Lux ad features Ava Gardner and Robert Walker in film One Touch of Venus; Color Studebaker car ad inside back cover features George H. Nesemeier Jr. of North Dakota; and more. Small clipping from ads on pages 39 and 54. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. This innovative cook book has not yet been issued in the UK.
Flammarion, 1975. Fort volume in/4 de 973 pages, cartonnage éditeur et jaquette en couleurs, photographies en couleurs. Éminente gastronome mais aussi spécialiste de l’hygiène alimentaire comme de diététique, M. L. Cordillot a essayé et réussi elle-même les 1222 recettes de ce livre exceptionnel, fruit de 17 années de travail.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 41 plates on 22, numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white, blue top, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a maritime minor classic: the well-written account of Bill and Phyllis Crowe's circumnavigation in the schooner LANG SYNE. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED; original photographic wrappers, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. First appearance of this work, conceived initially as the first volume of what would have been a fascinating series. In the event, the sole volume published. Cover photograph by Anthony Denney. The original edition is strangely elusive.
pp. [ii],27-54, 13 figs. and photos, refs. Offprint, orig. wrappers. - Dendrochronology, 10th century B.C. English text. - With author's presentation inscription to Emmanuel de Margerie.
Neuchâtel-Attinger Frères éditeurs, s.d. (début 20ème). Petit in/8 reliure cartonnée, table : IV ff. ; 8 parties de 16 pages chacune et 32 p. de supplément. Introduction sur la propreté et l’organisation d’une cuisinière à la fin du 19ème siècle ; diverses recettes familiales et de subsistance de ragoût, soupes et potages, omelette aux nouilles, pudding, ... manière de réchauffer les restes ! Egalement des recettes de conserves, limonades, vins, enfin un rare chapitre sur “la cuisine des malades”. Le supplément quant à lui est consacré aux graisses, conservations diverses (morue, oeufs...) et à la cuisson en autocuiseur.
Editions de la Revue “ Vivre en harmonie”, Paris, 1956. In-8 broché, couverture illustrée, 158 pages. Menus et recettes végétariens.
88 pages. Features: Strathcona former warehouse gets new lease on life in Vancouver; Gerti and Karl Fuss and their renovated Old Farmhouse on Salt Spring Island; Six Ways to Cover Up; Fashion Houses; Backyard Bouquets; Recipes; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Sticker removal mark at top of front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1 23,2x16,2, in brossura, pagg. n.n. (circa 50), edizione a tiratura limitata a 1000 copie, in italiano, discrete condizioni. , solo piccole lacerazioni senza danno al dorso, ex libris Bellocchio.
78 pages. Articles: What Every New Draftee Should Know; Ryder of the Comic Age - Fred Harman created Red Ryder and Little beaver; Road to the 19th Hole - an afternoon on the golf course with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 12) - Italy down for the count; Designs for Touring (part 11) - travel to Jasper Park. Fiction: Gentleman George; Stars in his Hair; A Lady for Ballarol; The Half-Naked Truth; An Affair of State; Where There's Smoke. Ads include: Studebaker trucks; Bell Telephone; Chevrolet trucks - Dubl-Duti Chassis; Zenith radios; Diamond T Trucks - super color-photo one-page ad; Monarch canned food; RCA Victor; Sal Hepatica; Pabst beer - featuring color photo of Miss Joan Fontaine; Good Year; Pontiac; Plymouth; "Key Largo" movie with Humphrey Bogard; Sheppard Diesels; 2-4 Dow weed killer; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features ace Steeple-Jack George Joyce. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
