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64 pages. Features: Cover illustration of old Montreal stairways by Ghitta Caiserman; (Scared) Scientist N.J. Berrill makes fearless forecast of the 21st century; A Fond Last Look at Montreal - text with photos of historic architectural features; It Was Fun To Be Poor in Paris - Mordecai Richler remembers; Canada - a nation of dental cripples due to major shortage of dentists; Peter Stollery Hitch-Hikes to the Gulf of Guinea - article with photos; Two Million Illiterates - Canada's Obsolete Tenth; How Robert Morse III Wages Corporate War; Maverick Politician Douglas Fisher; Colour-photo Ford of Canada centrefold; Why One English Family is Coming Back to Canada - Dennis, Billie and Craig Davill; Seagram's ad inside back cover illustrated with nice colour painting by Franklin Arbuckle of bush aircraft the "Norseman" about to land on a lake; Marjorie Pigott teaches Japanese art to the Japanese! (short article); Coke ad on back cover features colour photo of university grads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
95 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Oxford University Expedition to Sarawak, 1932; The Japanese South Polar Expedition of 1911-1912; The Administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; A Roman Bridge in the Fens; Geodesy and Geophysics at Lisbon; The Empty Quarter of Arabia; Air Survey by Multiple Lens Cameras. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements, otherwise unmarked with average wear. One-inch chip hanging from backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
lxxii + 436pp. + 4 engraved plates out of text (of which one folding), 24cm., contemporary cart. cover (some use at ends), most pages still uncut, some occasional foxing, text in Danish, good condition, [Contains a.o.: Beskrivelse af guineiske Planter som ere fundae af danske Botanikere isaer af Etatsraad Thonning ved Prof. F.C. Schumacher, 1ste stykke (pp.21-248) // Om Luftens Virkning paa de astronomiske Penduluhres og Loengdeuhrenes Regulator, af Urban Jürgensen (pp.391-412, with 1 plate out of text)], W101106
Stories: Soloyi the Witch Doctor - a tale from the South African Bushveld; Midge - a story of an Australian Mare - will appeal to every lover of horses; Across North America in a Motor-Boat - The Story of a Record Voyage - many photos; A Day to Remember - A shooting trip to Ireland; The Colonel's Diamond; The Taming of 'Bear' Farrell - Part II - a quest for gold in New Guinea; Buried Treasure in the ruins of Carthage; My Wanderings in Africa - a cinematographer travels - many photos; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - the Contess Malmignati is the first European woman to penetrate to the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia; Two-Legged Contraband - The Men-Smugglers of the Mexican Border (from the days when the U.S. actually defended its southern border); a new chum in New Zealand - a story from a new farmer in New Zealand; An Evening Ashore - what happened one evening in Marseilles. Above-average wear. Prior owner's name pencilled atop front cover else unmarked. Covers not quite loose. Worthy copy. Book
xiv, 308 pages. "Blackbirding was full of horrors, of brutalities, of tragedies as was the African slave-trade - and fuller of romance, of heroism, and of self-sacrifice. It was not on such a great scale as the negro slave-trade, nor did it last so long, yet the Queensland slave-trade, which almost depopulated whole islands in the New Hebrides and in the Solomons, was only part of the Pacific slave-trade which may be included under the general term of blackbirding." - from Preface. Author's surname pencilled atop front free endpaper, presumably not by him. Moderate foxing to edges and prelims. Spine slant. Binding intact. Average wear. A worthy reference copy of this important reference. Book
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 266-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Poll Chunk's Son - a story from the hills of Kentucky; The Ivory Raiders - part 1 of a tale fromm the Turkanaland district of Central Africa on the western shores of Lake Rudolf where Major H. Rayne deals with Swahili elephant poachers and Turkana warriors; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - a mysterious Fijian monster; In the Wilds with a Camera - Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson take photos in the interior of British East Africa; The Land Sharks - criminal buying and selling of land in Canada; In Quest of the Unknown - part 3 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' adventures amoung the Chucunaque Indians; James Watson - Human Tiger - a remarkable American crime; An Eviction in Patagonia - a rich man attempts to drive away the cattle of a squatter; My Jungle Jaunts - part 1 of an Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos; The Blue Powder - bewitching a District Commissioner in Nigeria; The Sea-Villages of Humboldt's Bay - photo-illustrated article on this Dutch New Guinea area; The Mad Jackal - how a homesick Pathan soldier in Mesopotamia got himself sent back to India; Imprisoned in a hollow tree - Harry Comstock spent horrible days and nights inside a tree in Bexar County, Texas; The Tiger I didn't Get - Movie star Tom Mix recounts an adventure that befell him while tiger-shooting in Bengal; Nice one-page General Electric ad with illustration of new street lighting in Nagoya, Japan; One-page photo-illustrated ad for Hobart Bradstreet of Chicago. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1907. Grand In-8 relié demi-basane blonde marbrée, dos lisse. XI + 659 pages + gravures et cartes dont une dépliante (Petite déchirure sans manque sur le haut de la carte). Observations linguistiques, petit vocabulaire Baga, Langues étrangères au groupe Mandé et Foula, comparaison entre divers dialectes du groupe Mandé en fin. Préface de Paul Cousturier, Gouverneur des Colonies. L'auteur était Ancien Administrateur des Colonies et Chef de Cabinet du Gouverneur de la Guinée. Petits frottements à la reliure sans gravité.
88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: The End of the Master Bandit - The Death of Emiliano Zapata; The Women Snake-Charmers of Mount Popa, Burma (Myanmar); The Revenge of the Kuki Khels - a grim story from the North-West frontier of India; Photo of storehouse of human skulls and bones beneath church at Hythe, Kent; In Quest of Cannibals - part 1 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea - with great photos; Desert Flying - part 1 - over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia; Morrison's Moose - adventure at a logging camp near the borders of Maine and New Brunswick; Relief Worker's Adventures - part IV - thrilling illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; My Day with Royalty - at a Royal Review in Siam; The Sheep Thief; My South African Adventures - part 3; The Bear Man; The Adventures of Newspaper-Man - part VI - odd experiences as an emigrant; Trapped in a Sunken Submarine; Black Man's Magic - amazing photo-illustrated article in the fetish and witchcraft practiced in the Belgian Congo; 'Twixt The Snake and the Rock - thrilling adventure while mountain climbing near Delolali, India; Dragged by an Airship; The Apostle of the Coco-nut (Coconut) - a man in the German New Guinea Islands professes coco-nuts are the proper and only food for man - article with many photos. Openings to and loss from backstrip. Minor moisture-induced undulating. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
In 8, pp. XVI + 128; 120 + (4) con 2 grande carta geog. piu' volte rip. Br. ed. con manc. al d. e al p. ant. Ed. orig. rara del primo vol. di quest'opera in 5 vol. sulla statistica dell'Arcipelago di Capo Verde e sulla Guinea Portoghese (Guinea Bissau). L'opera illustra i possedimenti da un punto di vista statistico, da un quadro storico delle colonie, illustra le forze militari dislocate sul territorio, elenca le produzioni agricole e le quantita' nelle varie isole ecc.
8vo., Fifth Impression; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published four months after the first edition. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
3 voll. in 8, pp. 416 + 411 + 624, mz. pelle co, angoli con tasselli e fregi al dorso, 313 tavv. f. t. + 4 carte. Traduzione di F. Falconetti.Nella collana: L'Universo o storia e descrizione di tutti i popoli ec. Opera con due legature differenti. Qualche difetto alle cerniere dei dorsi e segni a matita. Qualche macchia di inchiostro (5862/ TAHITI - TONGA - NUOVA ZELANDA - MELANESIA - POLINESIA - PAPUA - NUOVA GUINEA - FIJI - AUSTRALIA - MADAGASCAR - MALACCA - FORMOSA)
68 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration of grass-cutting man mowing flowers while girl-watching. Contents: Great colour ad for Veedol motor oil inside front cover; Nice ad for International Trucks 2-ton trucks; Investors Syndicate ad features William H. Lotts, President of Overland Construction Company; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; Roosevelt Acts - M. Grattan O'Leary reports on the "Prophet of Recovery" - including photo of President Roosevelt with Premier Bennett; A Sporting Gesture, by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Article on Sir Arthur Currie; Forgotten Money in Bank Accounts, by Grant Dexter; Ins and Outs of Sport - how different sports go in and out of favour; Arctic Air Trail - Flight Lieut. J.D.M. Gray and his plan to fly the "Sourdough", a Fairchild monoplane, across the Atlantic; False Colors, by Captain Dingle; Sleepy, by Beverley Owen; My Hat!, by Dora Sanders; The (Great) Depression, by Honorable E.C. Drury - Part 2 - Causes; Match Point, by John Holden; We Shouldn't Own Ships - O.F. MacKenzie argues that now that WWI is over the Canadian government need not own ships; A very lovely full-page colour ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup featuring a waving girl in a tomato-coloured dress and blue hat and jacket; Salesman of Music - Milton Blackstone and the Hart House Quartet which also includes Adaskin, de Kresz and Hambourg; Full-page Canada Dry ad shows boy and girl running; Europe Fears Treaty Revision; Nice Dominions Tire ad; New Guinea is Rich Gold Field; There are now 230 weekly comic strips; Great Wall is Useless Now; Modern Alarms Catch Burglars - electrical devices installed in banks make robbery practically impossible; Baseball has been changed by the Curve Ball and other Developments; Jerusalem now has Y.M.C.A.; Super-Markets Cause Concern - Large-scale grocery selling in cheap warehouses worries regular trade; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Standard Six and Master Six; The Future of Medicine; Vintage Dentyne chewing gum ad includes photo of Eskimo lady with healthy teeth; Lovely colour Shredded Wheat ad; Nice Champion Spark Plug ad features Eddie Miller in an Auburn 12 Speedster; Trans-Canada Long-Distance ad with contemporary prices per minute; Outdoor Weddings, by Helen G. Campbell; Lending Companies have Good Depression Record, by W.A. Higgins; Nice 2-colour ad for Northern Electric Electric range inside back cover; Nice ad for Kodak Verichrome Film on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Translated from the German, first published in 1914. 1180 pages. Index. Two fold-out maps at back. Illustrated with black and white diagrams. "This monumental work will increase in stature as time goes on and habitats fall to bulldozers and man's incursions that lead to irreversible destruction and change... A Priceless gift from earlier days never to return. The more the book ages, the more important and valuable it will become." - from Foreword. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unused. A superb copy. Book
TiTOLO: “Guinea” tratto dal Nieuwen Atlas Amstelodami, Sumptibus Joannis Janssonii 1650 circa Dimensioni del foglio: 488 x 595 mm. Dimensioni dell'incisione: 386 x 506 mm. Tecnica: incisione su rame Condizioni generali: Eccellenti rare fioriture. Meravigliosa mappa della Guinea di grandi dimensioni acquarellata a mano tratta dall'Atlante "Nieuwen Atlas" [translation: The New Atlas], di Jan Jansson, pubblicata ad Amsterdam nel 1650 circa. La mappa mostra l'odierna Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Costa D'Avorio, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria e Camerun. Orientata a 90 gradi a sinistra cosi che la Guinea è in orizzontale. Titolo decorato con elaborato cartiglio e illustrazioni di flora e fauna secondo l'interpretazione europea. Descrizione completa della Guinea in lingua latina al verso. Jan Jansson, celebre cartografo, appartenente ad una lunga stirpe di stampatori attivi a partire dal XVII secolo. Si stabilirono prima ad Arnhem poi ad Amsterdam. Furono stampatori di mappe, di libri e librai. Title: “Guinea” from Nieuwen Atlas Amstelodami, Sumptibus Joannis Janssonii 1650 circa Sheet size: 19.21 x 23.42 in; 488 x 595 mm. Plate area: 15.2 x 19.9 in; 386 x 506 mm. Technique: Copper engraving Overall condition: Excellent condition, with light foxing. A wonderful larg scale hand-colored map of Guinea, from one of the great early 17th-century Atlas "Nieuwen Atlas" [translation: The New Atlas], by Jan Jansson, published in Amsterdam in 1650 circa.<BR><BR>The map shows what is now Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cotre d’Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon. Oriented 90 degrees to the left so that the Guinea is horizontal. Elaborately decorated title and decoration cartouches and illustrations of European interpretations of african flora and fauna. Complete description of Guinea in latin language in the verso. Jan Jansson was part of an influential family of map publishers from the Netherland throughout the 17th century and beyond. They were based in Arnhem than in Amsterdam. They were printers, publishers and booksellers. Overall Condition: Excellent
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
334 pages including index. "The thrust of this challenging book is that America is the first society to move beyond the industrial age into the new "technetronic" era, and that this transition affects directly both our international and our domestic problems. Part 1 describes the impact of the scientific revolution on world affairs in general and on the Third World in particular, and exposes the ambiguous position of its principal disseminators, the US. Part 2 examines how this has effected the content, style, and format of man's political outlook on his global reality. Part 3 assesses the contemporary relevance of communism to the problems of modernity. Part 4 focuses upon the US, a society that is both a social pioneer and a guinea pig for mankind, and examines the crisis of American institutions and values during the current transition - as well as the challenge posed by the New Left. Part 5 outlines in broad terms the general direction the US might take in order to make an effective response to its foreign and domestic dilemmas." - from dust jacket (not included). "This is one of the most original books on political and social thought to appear in recent years. The author projects the impact of technology and electronics on the political and social values of the United States, the Soviet Union and other 'post-industrial' states. As a study of global society in transition, this seminal work is bound to elicit major controversy and will be difficult to ignore." - Foreign Affairs. Bit of soiling to fore-edge else clean and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
Incisione in rame (mm. 525x630), abilmente dipinta da mano coeva, verso velato da finissimo foglio di carta Giappone. Bella e rara carta nautica, tratta dal celebre atlante di De Witt ''Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas": la mappa si estende dal Senegal a nord fino all'Angola a sud, centrata sulla Baia di Guinea. Le indicazioni toponimiche e le caratteristiche geografiche sono strettamente limitate alle coste. Rosa dei venti, linee lossodromiche e splendido cartiglio, in alto, dove commercianti olandesi contrattano per gli schiavi ammanettati con i capi indigeni. Sullo sfondo si può vedere una fornace che fonde quello che presumibilmente è oro. L'abile rinforzo con carta Giappone evita il deperimento da acidità ai verdi e marroni; quindi l'esemplare si presenta in ottimo stato, anche grazie alla splendida coloritura del cartiglio. "Frederick de Wit deve essere considerato uno dei più importanti editori di mappe della seconda metà del XVII secolo. La maggior parte delle sue mappe sono di ottima qualità, sono caratterizzate da un'incisione chiara e bella, dall'attualità e ricchezza dell'immagine cartografica nonché dall'equilibrio delle decorazioni cartografiche". (Lexikon der Kartographie II, p. 899), Koeman M. Wit 1, 27. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, IV, pp.191 e 518-519. Shirley 444. Putnam, Early sea charts, 75.. .
