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8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and maps in the text, front endpaper map and printed rear endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, red silk marker, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1984100147065Quartet Books 1984 172 pages in8. 1984. Cartonné jaquette. 172 pages.
Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: Hunting Wild Cattle - an Englishman's stirring adventures while catching bulls in Patagonia; My Mine-Sweeping Experiences - Joe W. White describes his WWI mine-sweeping and submarine-hunting adventures in home waters - a valuable record of the dangerous work and daring methods employed by our fishermen in destroying enemy mines and driving away submarines - with great photos; The Golden Nugget (short story); The One-Handed Hunter and the Rhinocerous; In the Wilds of Siberia - Part III - fascinating narrative with many photos of convicts/prisoners; My Adventures with the Wanderobo (a warlike African tribe); The Strange Order of the Dervishes - article with great photos; Filming the Sea Elephant; The Adventures of a Newspaperman - part 5 - some wartime experiences with German spies and other curious characters; My Week-End at Freetown - a picturesque account of the capital of Sierra Leone, with photos; Relief Worker's Adventures - part III - thrilling photo-illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia (The American Committee for the Relief of War Victims in the East); Kangaroo Hunting and Bark-Stripping; My South African Adventures - part 2; Canary Birds at School - French methods of breeding and training canaries; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with loss to bottom of back strip and openings between front cover and spine at each end. Bit of writing on back cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
18 [ads], 313-374 pages. Features: A Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; The Forgotten Islands - The Chathams; A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe - In 1904 the British barque Brier Holme went down and the only survivor lived three months on an uninhabited island; The Green Scarab; The Thief-Catcher - a holy man in India; Money to Burn - experiences while left in charge of a Transvaal farm; The Woman Who Walked to Siberia - Lillian Alling; Smugglers All; On the Edge of the World - final installment of Richard Brenton's adventures in Tierra del Fuego; Coin counterfeiters in Tanganyika; The Taking of Ventotene - a naval story in the Drake tradition; The Jinx - a man brings bad luck to others but escapes unscathed; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa (part I) - adventures from the flying log-book of an R.A.F. officer during ther campaign in German East Africa; My Adventures in Bolivia - Frank Rose was arrested as a dangerous revolutionary but managed to escape; Relief Worker's Adventures (part I) - thrilling adventures among the war victims of Armenia, Syria, and Persia, with photos; Hunting Big Game by Motor-Car - Captain F.A.M. Webster describes how he does it, with photos; The Adventures of a Newspaper-man (part III) - Frederic Martyn's adventures - with photos; Pukalofa's Tragic Revenge - Captain Samuel Randall recounts the brutal behavior of a whaling captain towards his crew in 1868, and what followed; In the Wilds of Siberia (Part I) - great photo-illustrated article by Harry Somerset-Lister describes his adventures; The Theft of the Zuni God - in New Mexico three U.S. Cavalry troopers stole the idols of the Indians, thus incurring their wrath; "The Surf Deer" - Reminiscences of the Dover Destroyer Patrol by Captain E.R.G.R. Evans, the Commander of the destroyer Viking; Shooting Elephants in the Middle of a Battle - what happened during the German East African Campaign; Hunting an Elephant During War - another thrilling incident of an elephant hunt during stern fighting in German East Africa, related by a Rhodesian soldier; Our Life at Holzminden - Lieut. J. Whale describes his life in this German POW camp in Brunswick, and provides his own illustrations; The Making of a Mandarin - photo-illustrated explanation of the curious and picturesque examinations which are held every three years in China and Indo-China for the coveted diploma of Chu-Jen, which entitles the holder to call himself a full-fledged Mandarin; Smugglers' Strategy Unveiled - photo-illustrated article explaining the many ingenious methods used by German and Swiss smugglers to get food and other things into enemy territory; The Tragedy of the Sling-Chain - Miner Bill Burton is killed in Australia; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Facsimile of the rare original account, first published in 1780, of the great explorations into Russia, Siberia, and North America. Tall 8vo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine condition.These facsimiles are the most affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NW29
12328London, Fisher Unwin 1895, 230x155mm, 608pages, editor's cloth binding. Book in good condition.
1975X71513Bloomington, Indiana University 1975 ix + 176pp., 23cm., original edition, in the series "Indian University Publications: Uralic and Altaic Series" vol.111, softcover, few foxing, else G, X71513
ix + 176pp., 23cm., original edition, in the series "Indian University Publications: Uralic and Altaic Series" vol.111, softcover, few foxing, else G, X71513
pp. 173-229. Illustrated with numerous photographs, a few plates in color. Major loss of top margin corner. Title page soiled. 250mm. Original printed wraps, very soiled and worn with loss. The articles include: Human Heads as Trophies; New Ireland Masks; Egypt, Syria and Palestine; Remarkable Indian Art; Spiritualism in Primitive Siberia; Ancient Italian Potters. SCIENCE BX 3
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
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
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.
8284New York, Columbia University Press, 1957. 1 volume in-8, 395 pp., grey hardback a Chinese stamp on the ttile page, library documents on end pages and stamps on edges, enriched with a map hors texte, good condition.
pp. ix, 368. Decorative pastedowns and endpapers printed in black and red of Soviet workers. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. Original pictorial dust jacket showing a red sun and 1933 tractors. Slight wear and small loss to DJ. ". the Russians have waged their Offensive for a new world along two vast all-embracing fronts - that of economics with the aim of creating a new economic order, and that of sociology with the aim of creating a new human personality. It is on the economic front that they have encountered their chief setbacks." Coldwar/Economics 4 x2
Broché. 158 pages. Format de poche.
297 pages including bibliography and index. "...into the heart of the vast Pacific the tale shall lead us, where men and ships are dwarfed to veriest specks which crawl laboriously a little space and then are lost to view." - from Introduction. Subjects include: the Straits of Anian; How the Russians crossed Siberia; Vitus Bering; James Cook; John Meares; George Vancouver; Quadra; and more. With 12 illustrations and 7 maps. Binding intact. Soiled but not overly so. Moderate lean to spine. Decorated biege boards. Gift greetings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Remains a decent copy. Book
8586London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1923. 1 volume in-8, 311 pp., dark green fabric hardback, dusty cover, one Chinese stamp on the title page, decorated with a frontispiece of Alexander Michaelovitch Krasnoschekoff, enriched with 4 plates and a foldable map in fine, good condition.
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
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
1993606995Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1993. 1993 In-8, rel. éd. pleine-toile caramel sous jaquette ill. en coul.; XXII-291 pp., 21 planches de fig. et carte en n/b., texte en anglais, bibliographie, index.
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
Moscou, 1893, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 323/330 con 5 illustrazioni litografiche ed una tavola in fototipia. - !! 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 p., 3 volumi, brossura, pp. VII,411; 502,(2); 481,(3). La Russia dal IX alla fine del XVIII secolo; in appendice navigazioni e scoperte dei Russi nel Mar Glaciale e nell'Oceano Orientale. L'opera e' preceduta da un capitolo dedicato all'origine, la lingua e la religione degli Slavi. Prima edizione italiana. Cfr. CLIO,IV, p. 2619. Mende alle brossure, etichette di carta ai dorsi, altrimenti esemplare con barbe ben conservato.
Mm 140x210 Collana "Biblioteca Storica di tutte le Nazioni" - Opera completa nei suoi tre volumi pubblicati tra il 1825 ed il 1826. Rilegatura in mezza pelle coeva con nervature e titolo in oro al dorso che presenta leggere abrasioni, bella carta ai piatti con disegno a rilievo con tracce d'uso leggere al primo volume, tagli marezzati, vii-411 + 503 + 482 pagine con tenui fioriture concentrate in apertura e chiusura dei tomi. Copia in buone-ottime condizioni complessive nelle sue legature ben salde, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
