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Cover Painting by William Winter shows a joyous last day of school. Features: Colour photo Studebaker Commander V-8 ad inside front cover; Nice colour ad for George Weston Limited shows bride-to-be with family; Spyglass on Sweden - the Welfare State; If the Russians Attack Canada - article with photos and interesting map of likeliest Canadian targets; Wide Open, Excellency, by Lesley Holmes; How the Stock Crooks Operate, by Fred Bodsworth - how the 'blower boys' peddle worthless stocks via long-distance phone; The Long Ordeal of Mrs. Tak Sook Kyun - the Korean War has taken her home near the Manchrian border, her husband, her baby, and tossed her up like driftwood on the crowded Pusan hills - article by Pierre Berton with sad photos; Banff - a paradise for Sultans and Stenos - article with great colour photos; The Ups and Downs of Alan Young - originally from West Vancouver, he fought his way to the top in radio and movies; What it's Like to Live in the Dark - Larry Bartlett was blinded by a German shell; Boswell of the Brooks - Writer Roderick Haig-Brown milks a cow every day and gets called "Your Worship" - article with photos; The Secret Behind The Fiery Phantom that Sails Bay Chaleur; Nice colour illustrated ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd showing a grader levelling a country road; Attractive colour ad for the Hillman Minx Convertible; Colour illustrated Coke centerfold shows store display and picnic lunch packed and ready to eat; Colour Chevrolet ad featuring a 2-door Bel Air; Nice colour photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture; Colour illustrated ad for the Ford Custom Deluxe Convertible; Nice 2-colour ad for the Austin A-40 Devon auto; Nice colour Parker Pen ad inside back cover features endorsement by Mazo De La Roche; Colour Margene ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Magazine
Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Kidnapped by the "Gavilleros"- the British administrator of a large sugar estate on the West Indian island of Santo Domingo is kidnapped; An Island Paradise - photo-illustrated article on the 'progress, civilized, and thoroughly lovable people' of Fiji; Looking Backwards - 25th Birthday of this publication; An Adventure With a Mad Buffalo; Jimmy's Reformation - Jimmy Boncelek used to be the terror of Stigler, Oklahoma; Seeking the Copper Mountain - photo-illustrated account of an eventful journey through the little-known province of Veraguas, part of the Republic of Panama; A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part II - Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains, a picturesque country where the tribal blood-feud still flourishes - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part V - a tramp with a donkey cart, avoiding all modern luxuries; The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgian Border - photo-illustrated report; A Soldier of Fortune - Part II - remarkable personal narrative smuggled from a man presently incarcerated in a French prison; Splitting the Herd - A cowboy adventure from the Texas plains; Photos of Chinese cave temple at Gunong Rapat in the federated Malay States; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
19475237Paris, André Vial, 1947. 5 volumes in-8 en feuilles (308 p., 100 p., 148p., 196 p.,164 p.) sous couvertures rempliées, 3 chemises et étuis (le dernier avec deux discrets morceaux de scotch).
176620601Florence Italy: Giuseppe Vanni 1766. Print. Very good condition. A somewhat bizarre example of tail feathers with an attenuated beak head and body attached of birds of paradise. Period hand-colored copper engraving from the Natural History of the Birds Treated Systematically and Adorned with Copperplate Engraving Illustrations in Miniature and Life-Size 1766-1777. <br /> <br /> The work carries some interesting historical importance according to Peter Dance: "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and based on birds taken from the collection of Giovanni Gerini it was completed ten years later. It was larger better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous work on birds but these are not its only claim to fame. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting parading posturing and occasionally flying.are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them and not without reason for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. His book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books if only for its magnificent comicality" S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London 1978.<br /> <br /> Approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2" platemark on watermarked paper measuring 14 1/2 x 18". The original images were drawn by Lorenzo Lorenzi Violante Vanni or Manetti himself. Giuseppe Vanni unknown
176620598Florence Italy: Giuseppe Vanni 1766. Print. Very good condition. A somewhat bizarre example of tail feathers with an attenuated beak head and body attached of birds of paradise. Period hand-colored copper engraving from the Natural History of the Birds Treated Systematically and Adorned with Copperplate Engraving Illustrations in Miniature and Life-Size 1766-1777. <br /> <br /> The work carries some interesting historical importance according to Peter Dance: "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and based on birds taken from the collection of Giovanni Gerini it was completed ten years later. It was larger better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous work on birds but these are not its only claim to fame. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting parading posturing and occasionally flying.are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them and not without reason for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. His book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books if only for its magnificent comicality" S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London 1978.<br /> <br /> Approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2" platemark on watermarked paper measuring 14 1/2 x 18". The original images were drawn by Lorenzo Lorenzi Violante Vanni or Manetti himself. Giuseppe Vanni unknown
8998BROUTTA 1 In-4 oblong, ff. dans boîtier bleu velours.
174340308Chez Bertrand Brunet | à Paris 1743 | 9.50 x 16.50 cm | relié
17380037061738 Amsterdam, Changuion, 1738. In-16 (82 X 132 mm) veau blond, plats ornés d'un encadrement de triple filet doré avec armes dorées au centre, dos lisse orné et cloisonné de filets dorés, guirlandes dorées, pièce de titre grenat, roulette dorée intérieure, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque) ; frontispice, (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre imprimé en rouge et noir, (10) pages, (1) f. blanc, 362 pages, (1) f. d'approbation. Dos habilement refait.
Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
635 pages. Index. Archives. Printed upon glossy stock. Covers the following school districts: Flowerdale, Blackfoot, Westminster Park, Lloydminster (rural), Spencer, Devonia Lake, Kinella, Thomasville, West Centre, Cheviot Hills, Madresfield, Golden Valley, Sunnydale, Sefton Park, Uneeda, Paradise Valley (E. Rural), Highbury, Allister, Ridgeclough, Crosslynde, Winona, Oxville, Park Valley, Woodford. Hamlets included: Rivercourse and McLaughlin. Gift greetings inside front board else contents clean and bright. Binding tight. Average external wear. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Krotki 1106. Book
1791610552 vol. in-8 reliure demi-basane marron, Chez Maradan, Paris, 1791, VIII-408 pp. avec frontispice et 4 planches hors texte ; 484 pp. avec frontispice (avant la lettre, par De Sève) Titre complet : Oeuvres de Moncrif, Membre de l'Académie Françoise & de celles des Sciences & Belles-Lettres de Nancy & de Berlin. Nouvelle édition augmentée de l'Histoire des Chats
19662082702114602572Japan National Railway Chugoku Branch 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Japan National Railway Chugoku Branch paperback
Four volumes in-12. pp. (16), 184 pp; 176 pp.; (2), 182, (1) pp.; (6), 198, (2); half title in first volume, none issued in volume 2 as Gaskell notes, contemporary calf, gilt fillet and fine labels, marbled endpapers. This is the rare variant without the dagger signature marks (Gaskell Foulis, 597).
23905M. A. Donohue Chicago. HBDJ NO DATE Early Edition VG/GOOD AS-IS Blue Black White Illustrated DJ small ChipS TearS edGES & liGhT Soil WearInteriOR Nice Tight Clean light FOX Wear 263 pgs AD Boys Copyrighted Books thrU ROcky Mounts Boys Green bluE & Orange IllustrateD COth DupliCates DJ Illustration light Rub Wear. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. M. A. Donohue Chicago hardcover
6705860ABC-Clio Incorporated pp. 1840 Index. Hardback. Used. ABC-Clio, Incorporated hardcover
1996Adhya-9780306452420SPRINGER 1996. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
1996Adhya-9780306452420SPRINGER 1996. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
17253Londres [i.e. Paris], s.n., 1738. In-12, , 75 pp., demi-maroquin bleu, double filet à froid, dos à nerfs, tête dorée (taches et épidermures de la reliure, , rousseurs).
141849396Paris Toulouse Nantes Dijon: several 1814-1829. 8vo 21x13 cm. Contemporary black halfmorocco gilt title on spine; spine with ribbons; marbled covers; marbled enpapers covers sl. rubbed. I: F. Roullion-Petit Ancien professeur. Oraison Paris Cérioux jeune and Chaignieau jeune 1814. 34 pp. and the same work incomplete 32 pp. - II: P.C. Amilhau Avocat. Éloge Première et Seconde Partie. Toulouse De Caunes 1817. 52 pp. halftitle repaired. - III: L'abbé Arnauld. Éloge prononcé le jour de l'anniversaire de sa mort 21 janvier 1815. Paris J.-J. Blaise 1815. 32 pp. and frontispiece: engraved portrait of Louis XVI. - IV: É.-A. de Boulogne Évêque de Troyes. Oraison prononcé dans l''Eglise Royale de Saint-Denis 21 janvier 1814 jour du transport solennel de ses cendres ainsi que de celles de la Reine. Paris Adrien Le Clere 1817. viii84 pp. misbound but complete. - V: l'abbé de Villefort Éd. Oraison funèbre de Madame Élisabeth de France soeur de Louis XVI imprimée pour le 10 mai 1817. Paris Le Clere 1817. viii Note de l'éditeur 76 pp. - VI: M. Roullieu Prêtre. Oraison prononcé le 30 juin 1814 à la communauté de la Providence. Nantes chez Busseuil ainé 1816. iv110 pp. lower margin title dam. VII: G. Peignot. Testament de Lous XVI précédé de quelques réflexions et accompagné de notes historiques. Hommage par Peignot. Nouvelle édition augmentée Dijon chez Noëllat 1816. 44pp. - VIII: L. Paradis Vicaire de Saint-Roch. Oraison funèbre de très-haut très-puissant et très-excellent prince roi très-chrétien Paris Adrien Le Clere 1819. iv42 pp. - IX: le p. Majeune cordelier. Oraison Seconde édition. Nantes De l'Imprimerie de Busseuil jeune no year. 32 pp. - X: M. Worbe Docteur en médecine. Éloge Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une partie de la correspondance de l'auteur à l'occasion de ce discours. Paris Imprimerie de Marchand Du Breuil 1829. ii 56 pp. - Occasional brown spots some leaves browned a few traces of use. - Interesting lot of 10 publications on the same subject in acceptable condition. several unknown
014220François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (1687-1770), poète, écrivain, membre de l'Académie française. L.A.S., Versailles, 16 janvier 1765, 1p in-4. Lettre de remerciements : « J'ai bien des grâces, Monsieur, à vous rendre, et à bien des égards : flatté comme je le suis de la marque de souvenir dont vous m'honorez et du souvenir que vous me faites ; je vois comme un très bon exemple, pour les personnes de mon âge, le genre de l'occupation que vous avez choisie dans votre retraite. Elle entretient la douceur dans l'esprit en l'étendant pour le plaisir de la société ainsi que pour le vôtre. Je me promets bien dans les premiers beaux jours d'aller vous renouveler mes remerciements ainsi que les assurances de l'estime et de l'attachement avec lequel j'ai l'honneur d'être, monsieur, votre très humble et très obéissant serviteur. DeMoncrif ». [231-2]
1738169A Paris, chez Prault fils, 1738. In-8 de XVI-191-104-(8) pp., veau blond, dos orné à nerfs, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Cover art by Oscar Cahen shows different movie theatre lineups; One-page Birks Jewellers ad; Fantastic one-page colour-photo ad for International Trucks shows six trucks; Editorial - An Epitaph for Stalin; Why Derek Bentley Had to Hang; Backstage at Ottawa - Social Credit Feels Its Oats; Nice one-page colour-photo ad for GE's Roto-Cold fridge; The British West Indies Want to Join Canada - bonus-length feature article; How Elizabeth Was Taught to Rule - part 3 of 7 of a series on the family in Buckingham Palace - article with great royalty photos; Our Illegal Federal Elections - most of our lawmakers publish innacurate statements of their campaign expenses - who comes across with the money, and what do they get for it?; The Scramble for New Brunswick's New Millions - prospecting in the forests around Bathurst, N.B. - photo-illustrated article, including Jimmy Boylen, Pat Meahan and E.G. Eddy; The Long Night (short story); The Movies Stake Their Life on the 3-D (3D) Revolution; Louis B. Mayer Bounces back at age 67 as the Big Boss of Cinerama; How to Live With a Woman; Our Flabby Muscles Are a National Disgrace - great article by Lloyd Percival, Director of Sports College; Subject Centaur (short story); Leonard Walter Brockington - photo-illustrated article; Whitehorse is Heaven for a Single Girl - photo-illustrated article; Article on Diamonds, and how they remain popular; One-page colour Good Year ad features illustrations of fourteen vintage autos; Nostalgic one-page colour ad for Leonard Fridges; Sweet Caps (Caporals) cigarette ad features puffing majorette; Nice one-page colour Pontiac features a red 1953 Laurentian Sport Coupe and a blue Laurentian 4-door sedan; One-page colour ad for the 1953 Ford Customline; Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) ad features photo of young William Keeler of West Hill, Ontario; Very nostalgic one-page General Motors ad features photos of car-making at Oshawa, auto-parts making at St. Catherines, appliance-making at Scarborough and locomotive-making at London; Nice Nexzema one-page photo ad features lovely Betty Hickman of Toronto and Helen Schmick of Winnipeg; Nice one-page colour ad for Gibson fridges; One-page illustrated ad for 1953 Mercury Trucks; Vintage one-page Air France ad asks "Going to Calcutta?"; Gar Wood ad features photo of the home of Mr. McCallum of Chatham, Ontario; One-page Chevrolet Truck ad features "Comfort in the Cab"; Elegant colour Coke ad on back cover features ballet dancers; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Small chip from bottom corner of front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: Uncle Ben and the Panther - a story involving Joseph and Daniel Smith of the parish of Blissville, Sunbury Country, New Brunswick; A White Woman in the Congo - Marguerite Roby; The Spanish Heiress - Mr. E. Player defends a pretty girl from some scoundrels aboard the Vigo, of which he is the Ship's Engineer; Among the Bedouins of Eastern Palestine - the life and habits of the strange nomadic Bedouins; Hung Up in a Cave - The Rev. R. Marle relates his perilous experience while cave-exploring in the Mendip Hills; Sacred Elephant - a hunter kills an elephant which is considered sacred... and finds himself in trouble; The 'Swinging Festival' of Siam - a strange harvest ceremony; The Ordeal of Mrs. Page - kidnapped by Apache raiders on the Arizona border; Celebrating the Dashara - a remarkable Indian festival; My Sambur - a funny story from India; Across Persia and Europe on Pony-back - a remarkable ride of over 2,000 miles; A Shaker Romance - the author (then aged 9) helps a romantic young couple from this sect which did not believe in marriage and died out; The Sportsman in Rhodesia - the paradise of big game hunting; Diamond cut Diamond - a case of a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; and more. Nice Vose Player Piano ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
