4 079 résultats
193359072New York: The Macaulay Co. 1933. 8vo. 310 pp. Illustrated title numerous photo plates. Beige publisher’s cloth brown lettering & palm tree front cover edgewear & rubbing to lower fore-edge occasional light toning w/ d.j. salacious cover art by Guischard of the good doctor injecting comely nude African maiden on front cover photo of “author†on spine minor dustsoiling creasing and minor chipping to lower right corner front cover still VG/VG- copy. First American edition of this very popular work in the United States published simultaneously in the UK as Junglemania: Exploring the Jungles for Science.“ The memoir was allegedly based on the author’s medical expeditions in Central Africa and Borneo at the behest of the Royal Society of Tropical medicine. However the rousing tale of adventure and lure of the jungle was quickly pulled in the UK due to many plagiarized passages from Owen Rutter’s 1924 novel set in Borneo “Passion Fruit.†The photographs also generated controversy as they mostly appeared to reproduce the popular RPPC’s sold to tourists in Borneo and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine denied ever dispatching him even though he had been accepted as a member. Dr. Torrance was not to keep himself out of trouble as he was later arrested for murdering his third wife in Mexico while on honeymoon -- with a thermos flask. See: Emilie Taylor-Pirie Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination 1885-1935 2022 pp. 85-90. The Macaulay Co., hardcover
1880198271880. Very good condition. An albumen photograph of a mother and daughter in a natural setting arms loosely draped around each other's waists with the mother leaning on straw dwelling at the left. The mother wears a cloth around her waist and leg bands the daughter with striped beaded waist band and beaded loin cloth the breasts of both women are bare. 3 1/2 x 4 3/4". Printed on lightweight paper very small amount of loss upper right corner. Bright and clear image. hardcover
177521527Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map of the east coast of Africa from the Saudi Arabia coast and the Red Sea down to Zanzibar. Many coastal cities and rivers named; the countries and regions named include: Costes d'Hasbach Zeila Ajan Muji Munni and Zanjibar sic. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br /> <br /> Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King.<br /> <br /> With compass rose. Folding 8 x 10 1/8" with ample margins. Strong impression very clean. unknown
194262235Washington D.C.: n.p. ca. 1942. 4to. 2 147 1 leaves typescript mimeograph on onion-skin paper. With 34 copy photos and silver print run-off paper diagrams folding charts from the original all either mounted or bound within the report. Contemporary black Accopress split-pin slide binder rounded corners creasing to first few leaves of onion skin paper minor rusting to the slide Acco fastener still VG- copy. First edition thus of this English translation of Pontecorvo’s 1937 original “Il Problema dell’acqua†on the scarcity of Water the ongoing efforts to increase supplies of the vital resource in North Africa especially to advance economic and military development. Prepared after the Italian invasion of North Africa prior to World War II when in the aftermath of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War Mussolini’s government controlled Libya and Italian Somaliland Eritrea and the occupied Ethiopian Empire were merged into Italian East Africa. The study focuses on ancient aquifers precipitation methods of discovering untapped water geophysical characteristics of North Africa and inally developing wells cisterns aqueducts and tapping atmospheric water with wind traps. This translation prepared during World War II possibly for reference use by US Army Corps of Engineers and construction battalion units during the Allied North Africa Campaigns from 1940-May 1943. No similar copies in Worldcat. n.p., unknown
190529174Syracuse NY: Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Co. 1905. 16 b&w split back post cards of the Methodist mission in Sierra Leone. Featured are: Brother John Ayres Pa Bokari Masumbo Mision House DEnnis Kinney Helen Richey Mr. Clarke Sisters Marie Stephens and Hattie Crosby. Stephens served as a missionary from Nov. 1901 to Feb. 1904.<br /> <br /> Wesleyan Methodist Missions to Sierra Leone Africa began in 1811. 16 post cards unused vgc. Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Co. unknown
192118006Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours. 1921. Softcover. Very Good. Small corner missing on front board. ; A detailed and profusely illustrated description of the country. Wraps with blindstamped title and shield. Rare; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 306 pages . South African Railways and Harbours paperback
187920079London: MacMillan and Co. . 1879. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding not tight. Fold-out map and both hinges repaired. Wear to extremities and gutters. Boards faded with discoloration. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Author Baker credits Bruce Speke Grant and rather immodestly himself for discovering the sources of the Nile. 42-page catalog of other Macmillan books follows main text ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xxv pages . MacMillan and Co. hardcover
189930783New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. First edition. first printing First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Adams; Six-Guns 257. 272 pages with nine illustrated plates. Bound in original yellow cloth with lettering border and design in dark blue. Edges of text block toned. Spine cloth sunned. Owner's penciled notes on the rear endpaper. Light wear to the cloth at the spine ends. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> Doubleday & McClure Co. hardcover
189818365London: Sampson Low Marston & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue decorated cloth black titles and decoration edges lightly rubbed maps intact a lovely clean tight copy. 62pp annex at rear with advertisments.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages . Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover
194623748Los Angeles CA: N.A. Kovach Publisher 1946. First edition thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The extended title reads "Description of the route via council Bluffs Iowa; keeping the north side of the Platte River for the whole of the distance Lying near that stream thence over the south Pass; via the Sublette and Bear River cut-offs and the Truckie River road over the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento Valley." Number 13 of 25 numbered copies offered for sale of a total limitation of 35 signed by Lyle H. Wright who wrote the introduction and John B. Goodman illustrator of the dust jacket and title page. Facsimile reprint of this journey originally published in 1852. California Centennial Series Volume IV. Pages unopened. Folded map in the rear. Mintz: The Trail 88. Streeter: Vol. V 3168. "One of the earliest dependable 'plains guides' based on its author's experience." Howes; C-378. Bound in original black half leather over gray cloth boards with lettering on spine in gilt. Fine in very good dust jacket affected by insects. <br/> <br/> N.A. Kovach, Publisher hardcover
193027812Cleveland OH: Arthur H. Clark Company 1930. First edition. first printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Tavern and coach filled an important function in the history of the growing communities that peopled the Old Northwest Midwest in the decades before the coming of the Civil War." 376 pages with map photographs and illustrations. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering in gilt. Fine in about very good toned dust jacket with tears and chipping. <br/> <br/> Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover
1991053007Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications 1991. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 435 inscribed by Dorman; "Leo Vrzal Thaks! I hope you like this as well as the others! Richard L. Dorman. 12-16-1992." Collector's edition. Eight full-page and one partial page color illustrations by J. Finnell and Dick Sneary. 223 pages with photographs diagrams and maps. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications hardcover
1988053006Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications 1988. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 435 signed and inscribed by Dorman; "Leo Vrzal. Richard L. Dorman 4-16-91."The third of five volumes on southwestern Colorado narrow gauge. 206 pages with photographs diagrams maps and roster. Some photographs and illustrations are in color. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications hardcover
1987053005Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications 1987. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 435 signed and inscribed by Dorman on the half-title page; "To: Leo Vrzal Thanks hope you enjoy this book! Richard L. Dorman 3-14-91." The second of five volumes on southwestern Colorado narrow gauge. 184 pages with photographs some in color diagrams maps and roster. Four beautivul full-page color paintings by J. Finnell J. Coker Jan Rons and Mke Pearsall. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications hardcover
1994053002Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications 1994. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 472 inscribed and signed by Dorman; "Leo Vrzal 08.01.94 Thanks again for your order enjoy! Richard L. Dorman." Collector's edition. The second volume of a two set study utilizing old and older photographs of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad circa 1891 through 1952. 344 pages with photographs maps and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications hardcover
1990053001Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications 1990. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 472 signed and inscribed on the half-title page; "To: Leo Vrzl Happiness is a RGS book! Richard L. Dorman 4-16-91." A special edition supplementing volume one of "The Southern A Narrow Gauge Odyssey." The first of a two volume study. Features six full page color illustrations by Jan Rons David Etchells John Coker and Dick Sneary. 279 pages with historic photographs schedules maps bridge diagrams a roster of bridges and locomotive roster. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications hardcover
1996053003Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications RD 1996. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Very good plus. Copy number 435 signed and inscribed by Dorman on the special Collector's page; "Leo Vrzal Thanks Leo Hope you enjoy this one. Richard L. Dorman 03-17-97The 100 mile narrow gauge branch from Antonito to Santa Fe New Mexico. Depicts the tracks through northern New Mexico recording by photograph the quaint villages and atmosphere encountered along the route. 215 pages with photographs diagrams and maps. Illustrations are in color. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications [RD] hardcover
1986053004Santa Fe NM: R.D. Publications 1986. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 435 signed and inscribed by Dorman; "To: Leo Vrzal Thanks! Richard L. Dorman 4-16-91." The charm of this funky narrow gauge line was the little steamers struggling up mountain passes two and three locomotives to a train. 153 pages with historic photographs maps and three full page color paintings by J. Finnell. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. <br/> <br/> R.D. Publications hardcover
2003030310The Jewish Community Federation of Louisville's Foundation 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed with signature only by the author. Hugely illustrated with historic photographs. Printed on heavy glossy paper and well-bound in leatherette covers with shiney gilt lettering. Glossy jacket with a trace of shelfwear at upper edges. <br/> <br/> The Jewish Community Federation of Louisville's Foundation hardcover
018718Sabinski Press. Soft cover. Fine. Undated but after 1995. 47 beautifully photographed oversized plates displaying the artist's work. Very crisp and clean. Text in Hebrew and English. <br/> <br/> Sabinski Press paperback
1997015257Modena Italy: Franco Cosimo Pannini 1997. This is a very good hardcover vopy with a very good dust jacket. One short closed tear to bottom corner of dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. Illustrated in color throughout. Bibliography. 12" high X 10" wide 351 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Franco Cosimo Pannini Hardcover
18560006152New York: Derby & Jackson 1856. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece illustrated title-page 6 plates. Duodecimo 432 pages blind embossed brown cloth featuring the head of a male lion spine darkened scuffed some wear foxing <br/><br/>"The book is written in simple words telling of great successes and hand to hand battles with the lion and portraying a hunter's feelings his anxieties and pleasures with literal fidelity - Introduction by the translator." Gerard was credited with killing 25 lions in 11 years around Algeria. He also nurtured a lion cub and raised it. He also describes panthers jackals hyenas stags antelope hawking wild boar etc. Whitehead was a New York lawyer and avid hunter too who authored CAMP-FIRES OF THE EVERGLADES. Frontispiece illustrated title-page 6 plates Derby & Jackson hardcover
195264London: Charles Sawyer 1952. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 172 pp. Profuse ill. Notes on over 400 artists. 59 plates. Charles Sawyer hardcover
13125Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated c. 1843. From the tenth London edition revised and corrected. xii 392 pp 10 pp publisher's ads. Text printed in double columns. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Leather scuffed rubbed through at corners. Owner's signature dated 1850 on front free endpaper. Binding solid minor foxing else clean. Account of the British diplomatic mission led by Harris to establish relations with the ancient Christian kingdom of Shoa in the highlands of Ethiopia. They succeeded in negotiating a commercial treaty and also collected considerable scientific data during the journey. Harris was knighted for his services in 1844. T.B. Peterson hardcover
19311828NY: Macmillan 1931. First. Hardcover. VG. travels in Transcaucasia and northern Persia for Historic and Literary research. 317 pp over 200 ill large folding map in rear. VG in original gilt cloth. Original colored scene pasted on front cover. An attractive book. Printed on heavy paper with nice coated stock for illustrations. A well produced and interesting looking volume. Macmillan hardcover
