Plummer, Russell; et alMareMagnum
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48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the British India cruise ship Uganda; Nice photo of RFA Grey Rover; Full-page photo of passenger-cargo liner Rangitata in 1937; On the Waterfront; New Ship News; European Commentary; 'Tribal' Class Frigates; 'Result' goes home - the career of the last of the merchant schooners; British India's Educational Cruise Ships; The Battle of Cape Matapan - Brenda Ralph Lewis relates the action in the decisive naval engagement with the Italian Fleet in March, 1941; Coasters Past and Present; Irish Greeks - four sister ships owned by the Irish Shipping Company of Dublin; Ships of the Seven Seas - Havjo, Liebenwalde, Matadi Palm, and La Cordillera; Letters; Ship Sales; Nice photo of the HMS Manxman in 1953. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Milano, 1969, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 641/644 con una cartina e 7 fotografie. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
DILLEN 1 Cie - PARIS - 1929 -191 pages; Nombreuses photographies noirs et blanches - Cazrte hors-texte de l'Ouganda.Broché Bel exemplaire
148pp.richement illustré (68 photos prises par l'auteur & 4 planches & culs-de-lampe gravés par Paul de Masy & 1 carte), exemplaire numéroté: no.301/500 sur simili-Japon teinte ivoire, 29cm., dans étui cart., bel état
100 pages. Features: The Rhynchostylis; Orchid Collecting in Uganda; African Epiphytic Orchids - An Annotated Guide to the Literature; Cool Orchids in a "Dungeon" - Fluorescent Light Orchid Culture; Angraecum, Neofinetia and Jumellea - Collector's Item; spathoglottis plicata; Indian Orchids - Note on Conservation; Exquisit Orchids from western Ghats (India) II- Rhynchostylis retusa; Honors Given to Noted Orchidist - Emma D. Menninger; Orchids Somehow Survive!; Rapid Vegetative Muliplication of Epidendrum O'brienianum in vitro and in the greehnouse. Light signs of handling. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blind stamped red cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty rubbed dust jacket not price clipped with small tear to upper rear corner and small pieces missing from spine ends. 351pp. The author tells of his encounters with man-eating lions in Uganda when the country was part of the British Empire. Includes pictures of slaves chained at the neck and of the eight lions shot by the author. Scarce with dust jacket.
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the British India turbine steamer Uganda; Photo inside front cover of Uganda in her original form as a British India passenger/cargo liner; Great full-page photo of Uganda berthed at the Tilbury passenger landing in 1952; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Naval Review; European Ferry Commentary; Seamarks - The Automatic Tide Marker Station at Irvine - the history of a unique apparatus for the assistance of mariners; Where to See the Cruise Ships; The ss "Uganda Story" - part 1 - British India Line Passenger/Cargo Service 1952-1967; Cable Ship "John W. Mackay" - Captain W.D. Harper, recent master, reviews the career of a veteran vessel, now a familiar sight in the Thames; Underneath the Arches - photos of commercial craft still navigating upstream on the tide through the arches of London's bridges; Under Sail; Ship Sales; Letters. Nice photo of the bulk carrier British Steel inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Firenze, 1998, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 70/80 con illustrazioni, tavole fotografiche ed una cartina a colori. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
In-8° pp. LXXXVII-396 con varie foto a col. n.t. Bross. edit. ill. Ottimo stato.
44pp.met 164 illustraties [door Bernard Baray], heruitgave van de oorspronkelijke 1960-editie, in-4, mooie staat
80pp.geïll., 3e uitgaaf, achterkant omslag vervangen, wat gebruiksslijtage
Milano, 1959, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 593/604 con numerose illustrazioni ed una tavola fotografica. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
MAISON-CARREE, Imp. des Missionnaires d'Afrique - 1922 - In-8 - 1/2 reliure frottée - Dos à 4 nerfs avec titre, fleuron et filets dorés - Plats et gardes marbrées - Portrait en frontispice, photographies NB hors texte - Complet de la carte dépliante in fine - 546 pages - Très propre Cachet de bibliothèque
viii + 545pp.+ carte dépliante & qqs.planches hors-texte, br.orig., 23cm., 3e édition revue par un missionnaire
Broch?. 544 pages. Rousseurs. D?fra?chi.
ix + 326pp., 23cm., softcover, text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (at the Tilburg University), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright (looks unread), good condition, C109986
Features: Masdevallia caloptera - Collector's item; Greenhouse and artificial light culture of orchids compared; pH measurements in the greenhouse; a revision of the genus Phalaenopsis Blume - III; the "Now" trend in Paphiopedilum; Eulophias in Uganda - the orchids of Uganda. Well-worn. Unmarked. No tears. Book
Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Features: Smoke Jumpers of Silver City - forest firefighters of the United States Forest Service; Buffalo Bull - a gripping story set in the wild Acholiland province of Uganda; Contraband Cruise - sten gun pirates terrorize Tangier's 'free-traders' on the Mediterranean; Search for the Sahara Stallion - a quest for a fabulous strain of horses; The Gold-Rush Murders - the most shocking crime the Yukon had ever seen; The Fang Men of Malaya - The Hairy Giants/Ape Men of the Malayan Jungles; I Had a Man Friday - I Know an Island, Part IX - Antigua; Struggle for Survival - a continuation of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' - adventure in the jungle of French Guiana; and more. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
385p. + Plus photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Inked ownership of Emilie Latimer. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight tear without loss. AFRICA/3 + AFRICA/2 Lacks DJ
Un volume broché de format petit in 8° de 128 pp.; couverture illustrée. Bel état. Voir photo.
