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Features: Destination Unknown - one of the most remarkable narratives of one-man pilgrimage ever - the adventures of Peter Pinney; Ocean Feud - the dramatic story of a bitter feud between two Norsemen, and of a "Yank" - great photos; The Terror at 16 Fathoms - Divers rate the groper, 800lb, as the deadliest fish in the seas; Horned Heroine of the Himilayas - the black goat; Nitchie's Grizzly - a Canadian Parks Officer describes an experience with a Grizzly Bear; The Ju-Ju Tree - an African story; A Ship with a Secret - an unsolved sea mystery - the Carrol A. Deering; The Kidnapped Crook - Part II - the concluding instalment of the amazing adventure of Clement Passal - alias the Marquis de Champaubert; The Wettest Place on Earth - Cherrapunji, a village in Assam; and more. Chips from back strip. Back cover loose but present. Average wear. Book
Stories: Our pilgrimage to Badrinath; The sheriff learns a lesson; the headless man; Bill of the desert; Between ourselves; McKellar's medallion; the Black Knight; Happy Jack; Bushman's Holiday; Copper Palaver; The Passing of a Ju-Ju; Through the Congo to Natal; The Taming of Gamu. Front cover detached. Above-average wear. Book
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
RARE English translation of a fascinating medieval travel account of the pilgrimage to Mecca by Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217), a geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus, in which he described Saladin's domains in Egypt and the Levant which he passed through on his way to Mecca. The journey took place in the years preceding the Third Crusade - from 1183 to 1185, and on a return journey Ibn Jubayr passed through Christian Sicily, which had only been recaptured from the Muslims a century before, making several observations on the hybrid polyglot culture which flourished there. This chronicle served as a foundation of the genre of "Rihla", a creative travelogue based upon the experiences of Islamic travelers which brings together personal narrative, description of the areas traveled and personal anecdotes. The translator also supplied notes. Also included are glossary and index of persons. 240x165mm. 430 pages. Yellow cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Cover and spine dirty/slightly stained. Spine edges bumped. Sticker residues on spine bottom edge and hinges. Small inscription on spine. Text block yellowing and slightly stained. Library pocket mounted on front endpaper. Stamp on front and rear whitepages, title page, pages 51, 430. Pencil underlining on page 317/318. Pages yellowing, slightly wavy and rough-cut as published. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare English translation of an influential 12th-century travel chronicle which served as a model for many later Islamic authors is in good condition.
IN HEBREW. SIGNED BY EDITOR. TWO VOLUME SET. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 23.5X16 cm. [213]+[232] pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: Else both volumes in good condition.
Octavo. Pp. 320. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original buckram, illustrated endpapers. Bookplate, pencil underlining, spotting to edges. Lacks all photo plates. Very good reading copy. ~ First edition.
Small 8vo. Pp. x, (ii), 483, (41) commercial ads. Halftone relief map as frontispiece (recto commercial ad), and six other maps and plans, some folding, tipped-in; numerous halftone plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Printed paste-downs. Hardcover, original dark orange cloth, embossed, lettered in gilt. Very good condition. (Tipped-in maps browned as usual due to paper quality, consecutive leaves browned as a result.) Handsome copy. ~ Fifth edition. A great wealth of information. With a particularly large section of commercial advertisements, many of which illustrated, of themselves of historical value.
Features: Howard Baker - Contender for the 1980 Presidential nomination; Nazi-Hunting is Their Life - Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have dedicated themselves to preparing dossiers on and confronting unpunished Nazi war criminals, including three now on trial in Cologne; Pilgrimage to the Country of Light - Elie Wiesel revisits Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps; Beyond the Avant-Garde - The MOMA considers Modern's function in a postmodern era - wonderfully illustrated; The New MOMA - Mixing art with real estate; Dressing Up With Ease - color photos of women's fashions; Shopping Around for Shampoos - deciding between skim milk and nucleic acid, and everything in between; The Pioneers of Streamlining - Fifty years ago Raymond Loewy launched the industrial design movement that changed the look of American life - illustrated article; Shank recipes; Article on Air Pollution and its impact hundreds of miles from source; Magnificent two-page color ad for the 1980 Cadillac; and more. 136 pages. Excellent color and black and white photo reproductions including fabulous fashion ads, and more. Above-average wear to covers which are nearly loose. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan with Chief Justice Earl Warren; Where does the liberal go now? - A challenge to focus on spiritual and cultural, rather than economic issues; Legal pilgrimage to London for American Bar Association's 80th annual meeting; A defence of bigness in business - an argument that it promotes research and competition; What the aged need in homes - they require special safety features and should be where their occupants can join fully into community life; Europe, too, runs into a traffic jam; The passing parade at Lindy's - for 36 years it mirrored Broadway; Haircuts in review; Festival of the Parks; Curriculum for tomorrow's world; Jersey fashion photos; The Pajama Game. Ads include: Lord & Taylor, Cranston, Ban-Lon; Cone; nice colour photo centrefold ad for Judy Bond; Springmaid Fabrics; B. Altman & Co.; Leotard Scandale; Wamsutta Mills; and Fruit of the Loom. Pages somewhat brittle with age and moderately yellowed at periphery. Covers loose but present. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Octavo. Pp. xii, 340. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Plus folding colour lithograph map tipped-in at rear, and a number of halftone illustrations printed on different paper, bound in. Hardcover, original red cloth, spine gilt; cloth faded, spine bit chipped at ends. Bit shabby but in good condition. ~ First edition.
Crown octavo. Pp. 248, 32 publisher's catalogue. With 4 single-page maps; footnotes. Hardcover, original turquoise cloth, decorated in black, spine gilt lettered, bit rubbed. In a very good condition (bookplate, stamp, sporadic pencil underlining). Handsome copy. ~ First edition. "When I visited Palestine, I had no thought of writing a book about it," Opens Miller, Principle of the Madras Christian College and Fellow of the University of Madras, his foreword to the book. "I found, somewhat to my surprise, that (.) an ordinary visitor who tries to observe for himself can still do something to promote a better understanding of its topography and history." In his excellent study he concentrates on the Biblical places Michmash, Elah, Gilboa, and Shiloh, and the rich history that is connected with them.
Small octavo. Pp. viii, 9-288. Tinted lithograph frontispiece. Plus 14 other tinted lithographs on 9 plates, some full-page. Ornamental head- and tail pieces. Hardcover, bound in the original decorated blue pebble-grain cloth, gilt ornament and lettering stamped within triple-rule gilt border, spine illustrated in gilt, all edges gilt, crack to inner hinge, some wear to spine ends, front flyleaf incised. In a very good condition. Nice copy of a charming book with a lovely set of plates. ~ First edition. The chief interest of many of the events recorded in the Bible gathers round its rivers and lakes, and this book attempts to link the explanation of the Scripture with the description of the scenes which are visited. It draws on many sources, namely Robinson's "Researches in Palestine," Lynch's "Narrative of the American Exploring Expedition to the Jordan and the Dead Sea," Stanley's "Sinai and Palestine," and several others. Of particular value are the charming plates, a set of delicate pen-and-ink lithographs known as "Nelson Prints". The image of each plate is first printed from a lithograph stone in a purplish ink. The plate is then coloured in pale blue and fawn from separate relief wood blocks. Not in Tobler, who refers (225) only to Tweedie's earlier work, "Jerusalem and its Environs" (1860).
contains b&w plates. 23x15cm. XIV+288 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good reading condition.
Very Good English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In English. 51 p. The historical message of Imam Khomeini addressed to the pilgrims of Ka'ba.
31x23 cm. 131 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
Crown octavo. Pp. vii, (1) errata, 424. Plus folding engraved map of the Sinaitic Peninsula as frontispiece (neat paper repair on verso), and 3 engraved plates bound in. With an appendix describing the route through the desert with a list of place names; an extended index, in practice a glossary, incorporating numerous words in Hebrew; a list of mountains' heights; and an index of scripture sources quoted in the text. Some illustrations to the text, footnotes. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's decorated brown cloth, large illustration embossed in gilt on upper cover, joints slightly split. A very desirable copy in a very good condition. ~ Second edition. "This volume is really what it professes to be - 'Notes of a journey.' The notes were all taken on the spot, generally on the back of the camel, and extended afterwards." The author, Kelso, 1856. Not in Tobler.
Crown octavo. Pp. 167. With line-drawn illustration to each chapter. Hardcover, original light blue cloth, with illustrated dust-jacket. Trimmed rough. In a very good condition, with many leaves still unopened (bit dust-soiled). ~ First edition. Rare. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas' copy, with her charming bookplate inside cover, discreet under flap of dust-jacket. Thomas Ratcliffe Barnett (1868-1946).
Terre Entière. 1981. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Plaquette de 22 pages illustrée de photos en noir et blanc. L'expérience au désert. Galilée, Judée, Samarie. Spécial Noël...
225x150 mm. 245 pages. Softcover. Cover yellowing and slightly stained. Cover corners and edges tattered. Spine taped. Spine yellowing, worn and slightly torn. Inner cover and few pages slightly stained - no damage to text. Pages rough cut. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
ISBN : 2903060029. Desclée de Brouwer. 1985. In-12 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos satisfaisant. Quelques rousseurs. 471 pages, 1er plat illustré, nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte. Service International de Pélérinages; 2ème édition entièrement revue et complétée par Louis Huralt; Maquette, cartes et photos de Louis Hurault.
ISBN : 2903060037. SIP. 1988. In-12 Carré. Broché. Très bon état. Couv. fraîche. Dos impeccable. Intérieur frais. 487 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins, cartes et photos en couleur et en noir et blanc. 3e édition. Liturgie et chants revus par J.P. Queyroy et M. Teheux, et Ch. Flocard, G. Sevin.
ISBN : 2903060010. SIP - AELF. 1975. In-12 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. défraîchie. Dos plié. Intérieur frais. 456 pages. Illustré de nombreux plans et cartes monochromes et en couleur, et de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc. revêtement plastifié de la couverture en partie manquant. Service International de Pèlerinages.
68pp., 21cm., softcover (some traces of use), text in German, Doctoral dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde genehmigt von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, R109583
ISBN : 2213008892. FAYARD. 26 MAI 1980. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. fraîche. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 221 pages. Nombreuses cartes en noir et blanc dans et hors texte dessinées par MICHEL PLUVINAGE.
ISBN : 2213008892. Fayard. 1980. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 221 pages. Illustré de nombreuses cartes en noir et blanc hors texte. 40 itinéraires sur les pas des pèlerins du Moyen Age.
