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162 pages. Special Features: Homemaker Service - In Hartford, Connecticut; Do We Need Adult Education?; Claude Monet 1840 -1926 (inc. half page colour print of "Venice, Palazzo da Mula"); This Is the Way the World Farms; Alexandria; How America Lives: The Curtins Knew What They Wanted - Gerald and Virginia Curtin; and Your Child and His Food. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Chevrolet, Plymouth, General Motors Frigidaire, Coca Cola, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, and Ivory Snow. Full page black/white ad with Esther Williams promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Quarter page colour ad with Little Lulu promoting Kleenex Tissue. Full page colour movie poster for "The Emperor Waltz" starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. Full page black/white movie poster for Leo McCarey's "Good Sam" starring Gary Cooper. Average wear. Two small openings 1cm to 2cm front panel. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents: Two photo views of Metz, the capital of Lorraine; Photo in a French trench; Donington Hall and Nelson's Last Prayer; Photo of the last victim of the intrepid Garros - photo shows a downed Taube; Photo of General Galopin reviewing the Garrison of Paris; Photo of men of the Royal Naval Division training in the Crystal Palace; The Great Landing Battles of the Dardanelles; Our Allies at Alexandria set out to meet the Turk - five photos; Turkey's Death Struggle with Forces of Progress - five photos; Planting the Union Jack in German Africa - 4 photos; Charge of the Uhlans - Martyrdom of Rheims - two photos; Britain's Pioneer Regiment in the Line of Fire - four photos; Work for Blinded Soldiers - War's Saddest Victims - five photos; Four photos of war prisoners at work for their captors; Photo of dozens of British bluejackets hauling a heavy gun ashore; Photos of women filling in the gaps while men fill the trenches; The war in the Air - article by C.G. Grey; Britain's Roll of Honoured dead - twenty-one photos; Chronology of events May 1st to May 7th; Photo portrait of Lt.-Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, C.B. inside back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Missing page 297 and 298. Center page loose but present. An informative issue. Book
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photo of the interior of the Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee. Ad for a Conn Theatre Organ. Edwin A. Link and the Roberson Center Organ - great 2.5 page article with photos. Letters. Theatre Organ Etiquette - don't overburden people who have moved organs to their private homes or buildings. Real Pipes for the Price of a Plug-In? - It Can be Done - comparing electronic with real organs. Did you bring your music with you? - comparing performers who did or did not play from music. Building a Back Beat Relay - technical article. Sooner Sonic Sights and Sounds - the artists and instruments (plus their nostalgic ad). The Real Crawford Special - wonderful 3.5 page article with photos. Record reviews. Hollywood Cavalcade. Eddie Weaver returns to New Haven Paramount. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Wonder Morton to be restored for New York Convention! - the four manual, 23 rank organ in the former Loew's 175th Street Theatre in Nyew York. Billy Nalle entertains at Canton Palace. Lee Erwin plays ten shows at Alexandria. The Tower (Theatre) Lights are Bright in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania - great 3-page article with photos. Tony Fenelon blows in from down under. Loew's Columbus, Ohio Theatre is Saved! Classified ads. Chapter news. Wonderfully nostalgic Larry Ferrari record ad inside back cover, as well as a copy of a Snuffy Smith cartoon from 1961 which features a large organ! Impressive Rodgers Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book
2 tomes (complet): L,308 + 371pp., reliures cart. (dos en cuir, titre et faux-nerfs dorés, plats marbrés), tranches marbrées, 21cm., ["traduit de l'allemand avec une notice historique sur l'arianisme depuis la mort de saint Athanase jusqu'à nos jours par Zickwolff et Jean Cohen, précédé d'un panégyrique de saint Athanase par saint Grégoire de Nazianze"]
Former owner's name on ffep. Very light bump to one corner. 2 tiny chips to DJ. DJ has light shelfwear. ; Monographs of the Hebrew Union College; 128 pages
202pp., + 3pp. theses, Doctoral dissertation at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 25cm., softcover, text clean and bright, good condition, F1052322
x + 312pp., 23cm., publisher's hardcover in grey cloth, copy from the collection of the belgian byzantinist prof. Justin Mossay (with stamp and ex-libris), text clean and bright, good, F103484
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map from an early 20th century Turkish atlas. Oblong folio. (25 x 35 cm). In Ottoman script. No scale. Shows South Iran with Lake Urmia at north and Iraq border at west. Toponyms are mostly in old Turkish. [OTTOMAN MAP of SOUTH IRAN and IRAQ] Simâlî Irak ve Iran haritasi.
24 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Honours and documents Our Lady's Missionaries of Alexandria, Ontario. Unmarked with average wear. Tanning to portions of cream-coloured covers. A sound vintage copy. Book
Editions du Seuil 1956, In-8 broché, couverture illustrée, 476 pages + carte. Exemplaire de service de presse avec envoi autographe des auteurs. Bon état.
Cradle of Hellenism 2 - A series of books illustrating significant places in the Hellenic world. 128p. illus bibliography Book
C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy"s literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 224p. bibliography.index Book
C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index Book
(ca. 20,4 x 15,8 cm). 1 leaf. (French / Arabic Language). Original product packaging with coloured illustration and advertising text to front cover. Packaging with signs of use. Appropriate to its age and function still in good condition. Historical product packaging for the french-arabic soap "Standard". The company KAFRZAYAT presumably was based in Alexandria (Egypt). The packaging is illustrated (a young woman) and the advertising text on it written in french and arabic language. Probably the soap was traded in the years from 1930 on. In the text it says: "Cinquante longues annees de recherches, d'etudes, d'essais par des chimistes experts, ayant a leur disposition des laboratoires les plus modernes, ont donné le "Standard". [...] C'est un product "KAFRZAYAT". Very interesting piece of french-arabic beauty economy and marketing history!
Very Good French In modern cloth. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In French. [10], 310, [1] p. Un lutteur infatigable: Le patriarche Maximos III Mazloum. Maximos III Michael Mazloum, (1779-1853) was patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1833 until 1855. As patriarch he reformed church administration and bolstered clerical education.
A summary account of Egyptian history from the building of the Great Pyramid to the overthrow of the dynasty of Mohammed Ali by General Neguib and his military junta. 299 paginated pages. Index. Dust jacket has wear around edges with small tears and loss. Green cloth covers. Slight stains to base of front cover.
86p. Illustrated with a map. Sm. 4to. Original full light blue cloth binding, lettered in gold. Hardbound. First Printing. Alphabetical columns list names of heads of households, the county of residence, page number on microfilm and the township, cities, wards, districts, etc. of residence. AMERICANA BOX 5
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Folded. Oblong atlas folio. (50 x 60 cm). In Ottoman script. Shows Eastern parts of Anatolia; Siverek, Urfa city and border of Diyarbakir and Adiyaman cities; Siverek; Harput (Kharpout); et alli. Scale: 1/200.000. Hegira: 1333 = Gregorian: 1917. Not description on map-maker. This is one the serie of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. This is one the serie of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to produce these maps covering Turkish territory, Reconnaissance Branch was incorporated into The Mapping Commission. The maps were produced in the datum based on the latitude and longitude of Ayasofya Mosque in equal area Bonn Projection. The field works for the 123 sheets covering the country were conducted by 76 staff. The production was completed in 18 years starting from east west. Field works continued without stopping except in years 1914 and 1920. This map series called also reconnaissance maps contributed a lot to producing 1:25.000 scale maps. Subasi is cartographer of this map according to Türkezer - Cobanoglu: History of Mapping in Turkey-1:200.000 Scale Maps.
grand in-8°, 260 pp., illustrations, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire [NV-19]
178pp., 26cm., text in latin, published in the series "Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor wetenschappen, letteren en schone kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren" nr.42, very good condition, F54895
Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. In small communities throughout the western world, from the 1880s until the development of the hand-held camera in the twentieth century, the town portrait photographer was the chronicler of his time. Duncan Donovan (1857-1933) of Alexandria, Glengarry County, Ontario, was typical. He portrayed the ceremonial events of life from birth to death, and the stages in between. Author has chosen the most appealing of Donovan's photographs from the plates that have survived. Presents life in a small Ontario town and its environs in the early 20th century. Unmarked. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original chromolithograph folded map. Oblong atlas folio. (49 x 65 cm). In Ottoman script. Repaired with a band in the contemporary period from its backside. Set including 4 sheets. Other sheets are Basrah, Bagdad, and Qut al-Amare. This is the first sheet including 'Samawah'. Rare. Scale is 1/500.000. Samawah city was settled by the Arab tribe of Banu Quda'a around the 3rd century AD. It is built on both sides of the Euphrates river; there are four bridges in the center of town for crossing between the two sides. The west bank of the city contains the commercial heart of the city and includes the old town and the Jewish quarter, Agd al Yahood. The west bank is the site of the covered market Suq Al Masgoof, which dates to the Ottoman period. The area surrounding the market is the old city with its Byzantine maze of crowded markets and streets. The eastern side of the city including 'Qushla' has a more modern feel and contains a number of estates of apartment blocks built during the 1970s and 1980s, As Samawah Stadium, which is home to the local Muthanna football team Samawa FC, as well as technical colleges and the polytechnic. There too is Al Qushla, the historic "Ottoman Barracks". The most famous attraction of Samawah in the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk which dates to 4000 BC. This was the largest city in Sumer, extending over 2 km2. Uruk was not only the largest conurbation of the first urban civilization on earth, but it is also the place where the first written script was discovered, the oldest dating back to 3300 BC. The palm groves of Samawah: Samawah is built on both sides of the Euphrates and is surrounded by hundreds of palm groves that give it a tropical feel, especially in the southern and northern suburbs. These groves provide cool respite from the scorching heat of Mesopotamia and were the inspiration for the famous Iraqi folk song "The Palm of Samawah".
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map of Erzurum city center and it environment. Folded. 69x42,5 cm. In Ottoman script. One sheet. Shows center of Erzurum city and topography environment. No scale info. Hegira: 1336 = Gregorian: 1920. Not description on map-maker. This is one the serie of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to produce these maps covering Turkish territory, Reconnaissance Branch was incorporated into The Mapping Commission. The maps were produced in the datum based on the latitude and longitude of Ayasofya Mosque in equal area Bonn Projection. The field works for the 123 sheets covering the country were conducted by 76 staff. The production was completed in 18 years starting from east west. Field works continued without stopping except in years 1914 and 1920. This map series called also reconnaissance maps contributed a lot to producing 1:25.000 scale maps. Extremely rare.
