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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
8vo., First Edition; oatmeal cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges and with one closed tear. An AP correspondent alone in the jungle. SCARCE.
Madrid, 1955. 4to.mayor; 46 pp., con 13 ilustraciones entre el texto y una lámina aparte. Cubiertas originales.
Barcelona, Librería Editorial Argos, 1949-1952 (Col. 'Esto es España. Vida, Arte y Costumbres'). Cuatro tomos en un volúmen en 4to. mayor; 56 pp. + 58 pp. + 56 pp. + 56 pp. Con numerosas ilustraciones en negro, entre el texto, muchas de las fotografías de Centelles, y 32 láminas en color, aparte. Encuadernación original en piel estampada, con lomera ornada.
Broch?. 160 pages.
Cm. 24; pp. 266, (4). Brossura editoriale illustrata colorata, 14 fotografie fuori testo. Ampia dedica autografa dell'autore alla prima bianca. Ottimo esemplare. 305
Carta geografica in litografia, antica ed originale del 1878, di mm 240x340 (il foglio) con coloritura confinale coeva. Stampata dalla calco-litografia di B. Marchisio & Figli ed inserita nell'opera a cura del Cavaliere Celestino Peroglio raffigurante il Golfo di Guinea. Leggero foxing
(Firenze, IGM, 1979) stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 465/488 con numerose illustrazioni nel testo. - !! 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.
Milano, 1957, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 1195/1210 con fotografie, tavole fotografiche ed una cartina. - !! 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.
25x17. 71p. Ejemplar mareado.
71pp., 24cm., softcover, text in Spanish, good condition, C91416
Querformat. (ca. 12,6 x 17,3 cm). 3 Photographien. Original-Photographien, mit weissem Bildrand, Rückseiten mit Beschriftung (Bleistift). Photographien gut erhalten, ganz minimal verblasst. Altersentsprechend guter Zustand. Die drei Photographien liegen in einem größeren Format und auf festem Photopapier vor. Die Aufnahmen zeigen Ansichten von der Insel Fernando Poo (Bioko) mit Palmen und Gewässern, zudem auch Anpflanzungen auf Feldern. Alle Photographien wurden auf der Rückseite in deutscher Sprache beschriftet: Fernando Poo. Pflanzungsweg m. Blick a. Missionskirche von Basilé / Fernando Poo. Bucht v. S. Carlos / Fernando Poo. Bei San Carlos. Die Insel stand spätestens ab Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts unter spanischer Herrschaft. Die historischen Aufnahmen entstanden wahrscheinlich in den Jahren vor Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs. Da die Insel direkt vor der Küste von Kamerun liegt, ist es überaus plausibel dass die Photographien mit ihren deutschsprachigen Beschriftungen durch Deutsche im Rahmen der Tätigkeit im damaligen 'Deutsch-Kamerun' entstanden sind. Zwischen 1916 und 1919 waren zudem tausende Soldaten und Angehörige der 'Deutschen Schutztruppe Kameruns' auf der Insel stationiert. Auch eine Entstehung in dieser Zeit wäre möglich. Zudem kehrten auch nach dem Verlust der kolonialen Plantagengebiete zahlreiche Firmen aus Deutschland zurück nach Afrika, indem sie die früheren Gebiete nun legal erwarben. Die Ansichten könnten also auch in den 1920er Jahren gemacht worden sein. Doch mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit ist eine Entstehung in den Jahren vor 1914 anzunehmen. Alle drei Aufnahmen gehören definitiv zusammen, die Handschrift (mit Bleistift) ist identisch. Historische Bilder mit Bezug zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in Kamerun!
80pp.+ 44 bl/w illustrations (photos), 24cm., text in Spanish, original softcover, good condition, C91426
ill., br. Nella pianura della Papua Nuova Guinea, presso il vulcano del Bosavi, vivono i kaluli. Con Edward e Bambi Schieffelin, una coppia di antropologi, Steven Feld si è immerso nel 1976 nella vita della foresta e ha condiviso con il popolo del Bosavi i riti e il lavoro, i miti e i loro canti. Soprattutto ha scoperto che la musica dei kaluli, quella che da vita al loro mondo immaginario, rielabora i flussi sonori della natura e le modulazioni del canto degli uccelli: questi non sono versi, ma voci nella foresta. "Suono e sentimento" è il frutto di una ricerca sul campo, approfondita nell'arco di venticinque anni; un trattato di etnomusicologia incentrato sul suono come sistema culturale e simbolico. Lo studio dei metodi di comunicazione sonora, del suono umano e della natura (dai canti dell'uomo ai versi degli uccelli) è il punto di partenza dal quale Feld elabora la comprensione dell'epos sociale ed emozionale del popolo kaluli, di tutto ciò che può essere definito il suo sentimento. Analizzando la forma e le esecuzioni del lamento e del canto in relazione al mito di origine, questo libro mostra come le espressioni sonore siano incarnazioni di sentimenti profondi.
Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
In-4 (cm. 34.50), tela editoriale con fregio al piatto e titolo al dorso sempre in oro, custodia in mezza tela illustrata, pp. (2), 223, (1), con numerose illustrazioni a colori nel testo. Fioriture alla prima ed ultima carta, minime abrasioni alla custodia, peraltro volume in buono stato (good copy).
pp. 93-118, 10 photogr. pls., refs. Orig. wrs. - Equatorial Guinea,Central Africa.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 128 pages with b&w photos, mechanical drawings.
Broch?. 212 pages.
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
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
Features include: A Collecting Trip to Mexico; Building Blocks of the Cattleya Genus: Blooming Characteristics of Cattleya Species; Papua and New Guinea - Paradise of Orchids; Adventures in Orchid Growing; A Distinctive Amateur Exhibit; Observations on New Cymbidium Hybrids; Orchid Vacation in Colombia, Panama and Honduras; A Cornered Beginner; A Check List of Orchids of El Salvador; Phalaenopsis sumatrana and Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana; and Collectors' Item: Bulbophyllum barbigerum. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
