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Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S. "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
19281928LMinneapolis: The Triskele Press 1928. Edition limited to only 377. Hardcover. Fine/no dj as issued. Dorothy Kurtzman. Minneapolis The Triskele Press1928 no 37 of 377 numbered copies. Illustrated with 4 original full page Woodcuts by Dorothy Kurtzman. <br /> <br /> Unpaginated approx. 30 pages. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Quarter black leather over black cloth. <br /> <br /> Printed on Paper Ancien from the mills of Canson et Montgolfier. The type face used was Barnhart's version of Morris Chaucer set by hand & then distributed. Errata slip bound in in rear. The spine shows some slight shelf wear. Gold foil title stamping to spine. <br /> the black cloth binding is very good <br /> Pages and illustrations are fine<br /> <br /> The first and only imprint of this craftsman's press <br /> <br /> ---------------. The Triskele Press hardcover
200504732Paris, Librairie Delagrave, 15, rue Souflot , 1926 ; in-4, 300 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Illustrations de Job--cartonn. polychrome rouge légèrement passé (dos), encoche de coiffe un peu abimé sur le bas sinon bon état général.
1895607421 vol. grand in-4 cartonnage éditeur polychrome, H.E. Martin, Librairie d'Education de la Jeunesse, Charavay et Mantoux éditeurs, s.d. [circa 1895 ]
2016x-9814725137World Scientific Pub Co Inc 2016. Hardcover. New. 2nd edition. 753 pages. 9.25x6.50x2.00 inches. World Scientific Pub Co Inc hardcover
64431Tours, mame, sans date (1920), in 4° broché, 145 pages ; couverture rempliée illustrée en couleurs ; sous portefeuille de percaline crème avec un coq polychrome frappé au centre du plat supérieur ; infimes défauts ; portefeuille un peu fané.
1915033518Garden City: Doubleday Page. 1915. Inscribed by Job to T. Gilbert Pearson in the year of publication "In recognition of long and delightful friendship and of valuable cooperation in the preparation of this volume." Pearson provides a 3-page preface to the volume in which he recounts hiring Job as the first Economic Ornithologist in charge of the Audubon Society's new department of Applied Ornithology. Pearson was also a founder of the National Association of Audubon Societies which became the National Audubon Society and served as its president for 14 years starting in 1920. In 1939 he won the John Burroughs Medal in for his book Adventures in Bird Protection. With an original photo of Job by Pearson tipped to the front pastedown. Illustrations in the text by the author. Rubbing to the boards; very good without dust jacket. An excellent association copy. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Doubleday, Page hardcover books
1910003361Paris: Boivin et Cie 1910. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Folio-sized Grand 4to. 37 by 29 cm. iv 84 pp. Flamboyant and lively Job illustrations set to colortype. Every other page is a full page illustration and there are a number of double paged illustrations. Probably the most sought after title in the series of young adult illustrated biographies issued in this young adult series. The interior leaves are clean with age toning pronounced around the edges. The pictorial cloth binding has light soiling and a minor closed tear along the joint. Boivin et Cie unknown
1910003361Paris: Boivin et Cie. 1910. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Folio-sized Grand 4to. 37 by 29 cm. iv 84 pp. Flamboyant and lively Job illustrations set to colortype. Every other page is a full page illustration and there are a number of double paged illustrations. Probably the most sought after title in the series of young adult illustrated biographies issued in this young adult series. The interior leaves are clean with age toning pronounced around the edges. The pictorial cloth binding has light soiling and a minor closed tear along the joint. <br/><br/> Boivin et Cie. hardcover books
1804WRCAM7141Philadelphia 1804. v2-224pp. Contemporary calf leather label. Boards bowed wear to extremities. Tanned and foxed old rubberstamp on endsheet. A good sound copy. A survey of agriculture and agricultural practices of the day with information partially borrowed from Spurrier and Bordley as well as that gleaned from the author's own polls. Scarce here in the first edition. SABIN 71898. RINK 1148. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7203. hardcover books
43087TYSON Job R. Letters on the Resources and Commerce of Philadelphia: From Job R. Tyson to William Peter.with Mr. Peter's Answer Prefixed. Phila. 1852. 1st ed. 83pp. Contemporary full morocco. Very good. Inscribed by the author. Tyson 1803-1858 was a Philadelphia lawyer congressman and historian. Peters was the British consul for Pennsylvania. At the time he wrote these letters Tyson was vice-provost of the Philadelphia Law Academy and a solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Tyson emphasizes the resources and advantages of Philadephia for trade and her growing competitiveness with New York. unknown
202204523Paris, Ancienne librairie furne boivin et cie editeurs, s.d. ; in folio, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Tres bel état.
202204522Paris, Ancienne librairie furne boivin et cie editeurs , s.d. ; in folio, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Tres bel état.
2680Plein cartonnage d'éditeur en percaline bleue ciel illustré en couleurs. Dos lisse avec titre en long. Premier plat orné des emblèmes des états européens. Tête dorée. Intérieur très propre. Illustré de partitions de musique et très beaux dessins de JOB à pleine page. Exemplaire restauré.
192124527Tours A. Mame et fils 1921 in-folio plein chagrin un volume, reliure demi-chagrin havane in-folio à coins Editeur (34 x 27 cm), dos 5 nerfs (spine with raised bands), décorations "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), titre, auteur et illustrateur frappés "or", Pièce d'auteur chocolat en tête avec un filet "or" en encadrement, Pièce de titre havane au centre du dos avec un filet "or" en encadrement, Pièce grenat en queue avec le nom de l'illustrateur avec un filet "or" en encadrement (plaques spéciales Editeur), entre-nerfs à Caissons ornés d'une couronne Royale "or" sur un semis d'étoiles "or" avec une roulette feuillage "or" de part et d'autre et deux filets "or" de chaque côtés, double filets "or" entourant une roulette feuillage "or" en tête et en pied, filet "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, plats décorés "or", d'un filet "or" aux mors et aux coins, papier peigné marron, vert et ocre aux plats (cover with painted paper), tête lisse dorée (gilt top edge smooth), gouttière et tranche de queue non-rognées, non rognée (edges no smoothes), couverture couleur illustrée par JOB conservée (cover preserved - library edition), Abondamment illustré en noir et en couleurs par JOB, XII + 96 pages, sans date (1921) Tours : A. Mame et fils Editeurs,
189674976Librairie L. Conquet | Paris 1896 | 25 x 32 cm | broché
5958P., Combet et Cie, (1903). In 4° cartonnage illustré en couleurs par J. Fau (Engel, relieur). Exemplaire un peu déboîté, coins usés.
ORD-18663Paris. Hachette. (1903). In-4 à l'italienne (323 x 250 mm) cartonnage illustré couleurs de l'éditeur, gardes vertes à décor végétal, non paginé, nombreuses illustrations couleurs à pleines pages par Job. Petits défauts mais plutôt bon exemplaire.
1901638391 vol. grand in-4 cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline bleu, plat sup. polychrome richement orné, H. E. Martin, Paris, s.d. [ 1901]
18048941804. ROBERTS Job. The Pennsylvania Farmer; Being a Selection from the Most Approved Treatises on Husbandry Interspersed With Observations and Experiments. Phila.: A. Bartram 1804. 1st ed. A very good copy in orig. full calf. Roberts a pioneer agriculturalist was born in Montgomery County Pa. ".full of interesting material and still valuable."--D.A.B. unknown
1815284Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. 8vo. 213 x 125 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. 216 4 pp. including a leaf of instructions to the binder and errata leaf. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf leather label on spine; upper and lower margins with tide marks some natural toning to the paper otherwise quite a good copy. Presentation copy to Richard Fletcher whose inscription appears on the front fee endpaper detached and the title-page. First edition. Attractive copy of Job Wilson's study of the influence of climate on the epidemic of spotted fever meningitis that spread throughout New England in the first years of the 19th century. Organized in three parts Wilson begins with a short description of the climate in New England from 1630 until 1806. Wilson expands the details of his study to show climate variations from 1801 to 1814 and their correlation with the rise and fall of the disease. This is one of the earliest studies in America to offer data on climate and disease with specific reference to the outbreak of spotted fever in 1807 1809 1811-1815. Part two of the Wilson's study describes the cause for the fever with reference to its impact on the lungs liver and brain. Part three discusses the ways of preventing the disease and its spread from person to person. The unsigned engravings illustrate the impact of the spotted fever on the nervous system lungs and heart. Austin 2074. 284. Bradford & Read unknown books
1815284Boston: Bradford & Read 1815. 8vo. 213 x 125 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. 216 4 pp. including a leaf of instructions to the binder and errata leaf. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf leather label on spine; upper and lower margins with tide marks some natural toning to the paper otherwise quite a good copy. Presentation copy to Richard Fletcher whose inscription appears on the front fee endpaper detached and the title-page. First edition. Attractive copy of Job Wilson's study of the influence of climate on the epidemic of spotted fever meningitis that spread throughout New England in the first years of the 19th century. Organized in three parts Wilson begins with a short description of the climate in New England from 1630 until 1806. Wilson expands the details of his study to show climate variations from 1801 to 1814 and their correlation with the rise and fall of the disease. This is one of the earliest studies in America to offer data on climate and disease with specific reference to the outbreak of spotted fever in 1807 1809 1811-1815. Part two of the Wilson's study describes the cause for the fever with reference to its impact on the lungs liver and brain. Part three discusses the ways of preventing the disease and its spread from person to person. The unsigned engravings illustrate the impact of the spotted fever on the nervous system lungs and heart. Austin 2074. 284. Bradford & Read unknown
19226754Paris, Boivin & Cie, sans date [vers 1922]. In-4 de [4]-III- 56 p., pleine percaline bleue, 1er plat orné d'une composition couleurs et or, dos muet, plats biseautés. Première garde pliée, quelques taches minimes au second plat, rousseur au faux-titre, autrement en bon état.
135429aafParis, 1891 - 92, in-folio, n° 1 Mai 1891 à 27 Déc. + (deuxième année 1892:) n° 1 janv. à 52 Déc. Couvertures illustrées à pleine page en couleur de Steinlen et autres, Reliure toile de l’époque.
