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Il racconto della leggendaria principessa BELGIOSO occupa 74 pp. nei due fasc. BELGIOIOSO, donna bella e libera, sostenne i carbonari repubblicani, visse anni a Parigi dove per anni scrisse su prestigiose riviste, conobbe scrittori artisti e proocò molte chiacchiere. I due bei fascicoli in-8° (cm. 23,7x15,1), lussuosa mezza tela granulosa marron, tit, oro e multipli filetti a secco al dorso, piatti in carta decorata, tagli picchiettati, sono completi delle loro complessive 416 pagine e contengono inoltre: 1) Armand Mondot, "Les TRIBUS INDIENNES des Etats Unis", 38 pp. a commento di un'importante inchiesta americana su origine, costumkmi e condizione attuale dgli Indiani. 2) Ernest RENAN, De l'influence spiritualiste de Victor Cousin. 14 pp. 3) 14 fitte pp. di Auguste Laugel a commento di COSMOS di HUMBOLDT.4) 38 pp. sulla Contessa Elise D'AHLENFELDT e il poeta Karl IMMERMANN. 5) 44 pagine di Pereira Da Silva sul BRASILE. 6) 43 pp, sulla SIBERIA. 7) 23 pp. di Charles Levêquê, "Du SOMMEIL et du SONNAMBULISME au point du vue psychologique". 7) 25 pp. sui VIAGGIATORI nel MEDIO ORIENTE. 8) 39 pp. sul medico e filosofo Sir Thoas Browne di Norwich (1605-1682), solo la 1.a puntata. Due fascicoli ricchi di ampi studi di insolito rilievo.
8vo., Second Impression, with 2 full-page maps in the text, page-edges browning; blue cloth, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in the same month as the first edition. The harrowing account of a young Polish officer's captivity under the Russians, and his eventual break for freedom from Siberia across the Gobi to Tibet.
16 pages of wonderful black and white photos depicting the life of these most hardy people prior to the coming of the Europeans. Subjects include: winter homes, summer homes, winter migrations, summer migrations, food gathering, the people. Illustrated covers. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this fascinating compilation. Book
(Firenze, 1887) stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 71/222 con quindici ill. xilografiche, due litografie, una carta etnografica a colori e tre tavole fotografiche. Nonostante un (Continua) all'ultima pagina questo è TUTTO quanto S. scrisse e pubblicò sull'argomento. - !! 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.
Features: Project Kenya; Three Thousand Kilometers of Chilean Penguins; Kashmir Boat Life on the Lakes; The Frozen Horses of Siberia; White Palms of Spain; Where is Coatepec? (part II); E. Thomas Gilliard - Ornithologist Extraordinary; Irian Jaya Expedition. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Across the U.S.S.R. - U.S./Soviet Transcycle; Northern Siberia by Canoe and Catamaran; The Dolgan and Nganasan Peoples - Aborigines of Northern Siberia; In the Central Arctic - The Baillie River Expedition; The Efe - Fathers of the Forest; Heinrich Harrer - Medalist '92 Explorer/Photographer. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Approximately 100 pages. Features: A Reconnaissance in Turkestan and Southern Siberia; Native Tin Smelting in Nigeria; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Many pages of fascinating illustrated contemporary advertisements. Book
Features: Black Jack Ketchum tried to give me a break - before and after photos of his decapitation during hanging; Mysterious Lillian Human Homing Pigeon - Lillian Alling and her travels through northern British Columbia toward Siberia; Laying tracks on the High Plains; No mine except Tayopa has fascinated the Mexican Rainbow-runners as much as El Naranjal; Family Papers - what's going to happen to them?; The Lucky Town the World Forgot - Sisterdale, Texas; A Night of Suspense in Indian Country - the killers of Major Powell's men were still roaming the canyons; Pelton's Wondrous Wheel - photos; Gray Wolves and Buffaloes - were they really guardians of the herd?; Buckaroo and Bobwire - Every boy should have an 'Uncle Dan'; Tex Ritter - Voice of 'High Noon'; Wild Old Days!. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Carta geografica dell'Impero Russo d'Asia e d'America. Confini in coloritura coeva
xii + 516pp., 24cm., in the series "Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica" vol.72, softcover, VG, X71557
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
322pp.with ills. + plates out-of-text (of which 1 folding and 1 in colour), 30cm., cloth, G, [study in Russian on the cave drawings in the Siberian Angara river valley], X72504
Paris, P Ducrocq libraire éditeur, 1883. In-12 relié plein cartonnage rouge illustré de l'éditeur. Dos et plat très décoré d'un motif noir et doré. Tranches dorées. 266 pages + 32 pages. Frontispice et nombreuses gravures dans et hors texte. Quelques rousseurs éparses sur les premiers feuillet. Bel exemplaire.
In 8, 2 voll. pp. 255, 254. Br. ed. polverose. Danni rip.al d. del secondo vol. Rara edizione di quest'opera il cui autore, Vincenzo Vannutelli (Roma, 1836 - ivi, 1930), fu inviato pontificio in Olanda, Belgio, Brasile e Costantinopoli, e nunzio apostolico a Lisbona. Pubblico' numerosi scritti relativi alle sue missioni, tra cui 'Il monte Libano', 'I monti Carpazii', 'Le colonie italo greche', 'L'Albania', 'Le missioni dei Latini in Oriente' e 'La Russia e la Chiesa cattolica'. In quest'opera ricostruisce il viaggio a Mosca, soffermandosi sulle 'meraviglie del Kremlino', in Siberia, a San Pietroburgo. Riflessioni sui cattolici in Russia.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait and 10 plates on 7, fore-edge browning slightly; original regimental grey cloth, upper board blocked with crest in black, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, covers mildly age-stained else a very good, clean copy. The astonishing, if gruelling, account of the 25th (Navvies) Battalion of The Middlesex Regiment in WWI, and THE ONLY BRITISH UNIT HISTORY IN THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION. 'Ward's story really belongs in the main to the 'after-the-war' period in Russia. He gives an interesting account of Admiral Koltchak, whom he admired, and shows how insuperable were the difficulties which that unfortunate patriot had to face. It is now beginning to be recognised that Koltchak was, with the possible exception of Wrangel, far and away the ablest of the White [Russian] commanders. For the rest, his [Ward's] story is one of gallantry and endurance in frightful conditions displayed by troops for the most part of a low physical category' (Falls). 'In 1915 [Ward] raised the 25th Navvies Battalion, which was then ordered to the Far East and ultimately to Siberia to support Admiral Koltchak.' (Sutcliffe). Very scarce. Enser, p.68; Falls, p.236; Sutcliffe, p.328; not recorded by White.
Cover photo of Alex Colville. Contents: Crisis of mounting AIDS hysteria in San Francisco; Anti-cruise missile protests; Grant Devine's Farmland Safari in Saskatchewan; Brian Mulroney campaigning in the Maritimes; Washed-out bridge at Rogers Pass; Manitoba fights mosquito war; The Return of Henry Kissinger - special report; Gathering clouds of war in Central America - Nicaragua; Photo of Lebanon's Gemayel in Washington with Reagan; Craxi takes the helm in Italy; Martial law lifted in Poland; Kohl confronts the doves in Germany; Photo of Shannon Tweed and news about her leaving Playboy Enterprises Inc.; Centerfold ad for the new Audi 5000S; Controversy for John Turner over film-investment company; Potholes in the path of the Tour de France; Investigation of shipping lines at Port of Monteal; Jose Maria Ruiz-Mateos of Spain's Rumasa financial; William Lyon Mulroney Lives, by Peter C. Newman; Greenpeace in Siberia; Using Mountain Bikes in the city; The World of Alex Colville - 6 page illustrated article; The Prime of golfer Jim Nelford; Brian Mulroney's honeymoon, by Douglas Fisher. Nostalgic Commodore Vic 20 computer ad inside front cover. Book
66 pages. Features: Taped Smut - recordings of unsuspecting newlyweds in hotel rooms and dirty stories read by sultry-voiced actresses are latest gimmic of Filth Peddlers; When the Nazis Tried Human Vivisection, as told by a former Corporal in the SS; Tijuana - city that mass-produces vice (with photos); It's the Day of the Gray Flannel Fag - "Not all Homos are Easy to Spot"; Ripley's Torture Museum; When a Gal Says "Your're the Dad!"; Phallic Worship in Japan; The Dawn I Knifed an Arab - when you live on the Borders of Israel you work, eat, sleep and make love with a gun at your side (with photos); Blood on the Diamonds - a tale from British Guiana; Air Gunner Gone Native - he wanted to stay with his 11 native wives and 47 kids on Kopu, Largest of the Ongtong Java Islands; I Escaped Siberia in a Coffin; and more. Above-average wear. Evidence of moisture exposure. No odour. A decent copy. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: New Northern Wire Proposed - Suggests cable and telegraphic communication with Russian Siberia; Russo-Japanese War; Particulars of New Enterprise Mentioned for Point on Clayoquot Sound; List of Vessels Bound to British Columbia and Puget Sound from Ports of the World; Whaling Catch 1904 - presents a list of the arrivals of oil and bone for the season of 1904 from Oct.11 to Nov. 12; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Wanted - a thoroughly reliable man, of good address, to canvass for a well-known firm in this city." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Stress crack to central portion of all pages. Front page detached but present. Book
229 pages. Author's signature upon first blank leaf. "A novelized history of one man's family and the travails of building a society in a barren land... Captures the hardships and fortunes of Czarist Russia, continuing through the throes of the Bolshevik Revolution, and on to a new life in Canada... A gathering of high adventure, folktales, history, emotion and tradition too valuable to be lost." - from back cover. Average wear. Tight and square. Unmarked. Black and white illustrations. A sound copy. Book
176 pages. Index. "Early in his career, Harold Pfeiffer, an accomplished Canadian portrait sculptor, made it his mission to complete bronze portraits of native people from Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Siberia before they were irrevocably changed by contact with modern civilization... This book celebrates his art and life." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Complete (2 parts bound in 1 volume): xxxv + 1199pp., cloth, 27cm., VG
Carta geografica raffigurante i territori dell'Impero russo. Piccoli fori di tarlo che non compromettono l'ottimo stato di conservazione generale. Attraente coloritura coeva all'acquerello.
xii, 328 p. illus. 23 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
The frozen conditions of the Altai region of Siberia preserved the contents of the barrow tombs which were first excavated at Pazyryk in 1929, and later by the author from 1947-1949. In addition to metal and ceramic materials they discovered mummified bodies and finely decorated leather and textiles and carved wooden artifacts reflecting the life of the people and their horses. Translated with a preface by M.W.Thompson.340p.+ 147 B & W plates and 33 color plates, illus, bibliography, index. [NOTE A very heavy, oversized volume weighing almost 2 kg/ 4 lbs.] Book
347 pages. "Surely one of the most dramatic human adventures of our time is this amazing escape story of a German prisoner of war, sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor in a Siberian mine. Rebelling against the brutal life of a Soviet prison camp, Clemens Forell undertook three years of lonely, fear-haunted flight across the endless wastes of Siberia - in pursuit of freedom." - from dust jacket. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy mylar cover. A sound copy. Book