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London, John Boydell, 1779, grande incisione in rame, mm. 471x590 (margini bianchi e titolo sotto all'immagine compresi). Veduta entro un ovale, sottoscritta: "George Robertson Pinxit / John Boydell excudit 1779 / Daniel Lerpiniere Sculpsit / From the Original Picture in the Possession of Mr., Smart. / Published May 1st. 1779 by John Boydell Cheapside London". Tre piccoli forellini nel campo di stampa. In cornice lignea con passepartout e vetro di protezione; misure con la cornice: mm. 663x782.
583 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Contents divided into the following sections: Tales and Tale-Bearers; The Classical and Biblical Past; The Present Terror of the World; The Great Turk; The Sophy and the Shi'a; A Great Plotter and Projector in Matters of State; The Greatest Traveller in his time; The Throne of Piracy; The Prophet and his Book; Festivities alla Turchesca and alla Moresca; Moslems on the London Stage. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Spine taped. Worthy reading copy. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: New Year's Greetings telephoned to Mother in England; Echoes of Turkish Telephony; What people talk about during long distanc calls; Industry advances in 1932 despite business losses; First Bermuda call was boon to navigation company; Statement of Development, January 1, 1933 - provides statistics on the number of telephones working in each community of B.C.; West Vancouver celebrates 21st birthday; Entertainment programme telephoned from Vancouver to Victoria; John Lawson - phone pioneer of West Vancouver; John Henry Ward retires; Royal City students visit phone office; New employee sales campaign has been organized; An ounce of prevention; Fred Meloche has retired; We can talk to the Holy Land; Bowen Island annual picnic; C.A. McMaster; Telephone echoes from India; Who can solve the mystery of B.C.'s first telephone?; Telephone people on job despite earthquake; Hungry people make most work for telephone operators; B.C. Telephone Basketball Team; Statement of Development, May 1, 1933 - a table showing the number of telephones in each community of the province; W.H. Cooke; Victoria to London via All-Red Telephone Route; Vancouver-London conversation heard across Canada; Bowen Island Picnic; Gold Rush turns spotlight on Bridge River Valley; R.G. Roach Retires; An address by Miss Nell Rowbottom, agent, Nanaimo; Beware of Holiday Hazards; Port of New Westminster sets new shipping record; Speedy repairs after Cumberland fire - text and photos; George McCartney (Mr. Mac) retires; A Haircut for the Trans-Canadian Line; George Williamson of the Slocan retires; Toll Lines Restored for Christmas after two weeks of havoc - 6 pages of amazing photos and text; We can talk to the Flathead Valley; The Plant Library is at your service; Two Mining Areas Brought Within Telephone Reach - Anyox and Campbell River (opens up Stewart, Alice Arm and Premier Arm) - great photo of the Anyox plant of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company, Limited; Col. Victor Spencer's voice travels record distance by phone; Telephone to the rescue; Operators' Problems Explained in Radio Interview; Telephone plays prominent part in fight against forest fires - 2 pages with photos; Telephone queries add spice to newspaper life; Electrical Men Meet at Nanaimo; Ernest Moore passes away; New construction project to improve Bridge River service - 2 pages with photos; B.C. Nickel project given service; A telephone pole becomes a Bug's Breakfast - 3 pages with interesting photos and text; Barnston Island receives service; Sculling champ, Edward Snead, retires; Telephone Exchange Established in Bridge River Area - 3 pages of text and photos; Construction programme under way in the Albernis; Ralph S. MacPherson; Photo of the 'Morro Castle' afire; Roy (Dutch) Harris of East Kootenay dies; 'Mystery Mountain' claims life of Alec H. Dalgleish; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Cover photo of the Victoria Exchange; Company launches employee sales plan; feature on Leo Griggs with photos; Ladner forges to the front as a farming district - with photos; Important changes in Prince George; Mission and Revelstoke; Remodelling Victoria Exchange; Our Trans-Canada Link is growing; - 3 pages with photos; Record holiday load handled by Vancouver toll office; Vancouver-Victoria Cable line severed by Dredge; Engineeers walking all over the province - 4 pages with photos and text; Proper posture; Statement of Development - a table listing the number of operating phones in towns across the province; Campbell River - Cape Lazo Cable is big job for this month - 2 pages; Keeping pace with Schedule on Trans-Canada Line; Philip Creagh - Nanaimo wire chief; Centralized billing system now in effect; Breaking of insulators may have serious consequences; Ocean Falls joins our system and receives first toll service - great photo; Powell River - Cape Lazo Cable successfully laid - 3 pages with photos; Harvey Sauder; A P.A.B.X. is now serving the B.C. Electric Railway Co.; Cover photo of the Victoria exchange; Victoria traffic and commercial staffs now under same roof - text and great art deco photos; One-Fourth of Work on Trans-Canada line completed; C. Whitmore Halford; new phone system in Powell river - 2 pages with photos; All Canadian route from Vancouver to Winnipeg; Trans-Canada construction photos; Vancouver talks with Berlin; Coal Harbour Regatta broadcast from radiotelephone ship; A telephone man in Turkey; Thrilling events preceded opening of Ocean Falls service - with photos; The Huntingdon System is Acquired; The Municipality of Maple Ridge; N.J. Dunlop; A telephone man in South America; Telephone Co-operators; Cover photo of Vancouver fire alarm switchboard; Telephone to the rescue when fire threatens; Great photos of laying cables across Victoria Harbour; Selling Telephone Service; A telephone man in India; Three Nanaimo phone men attempt to save three children in Nanaimo River; Gerald C. Clarke; Two-Thirds of Trans-Canada line complete; Prince George visits plant where our dial equipment was made, in Lancashire; Successful picnic; Princeton to be important link in Trans-Canada line; Wiring plans; The Modern Mouse must have a Telephone House (mouse moves into pay phone); Bigger phone directory - 2 pages with interesting photos; Phone poles go over mountains - several photos; Ervin J. Davis; Trans-Atlantic service growing; Herman A. Nicholson; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
741 pages. "Contains reports relating to all merchant and naval vessels of 500 tons gross and over reported to have been either totally lost or to have been declared constructive total losses due to all causes, including war losses, during the complete 34-year period from 1963 to 1996. Also included are those vessels between 100 grt and 499 grt where loss of life was reported to have exceeded 15 persons." - from Preface. Appendixes provide details of: Loss of life by year; War Total Losses; Largest vessels lost by year; Oil Tanker total losses; Bulk/Ore Carrier Total Losses; Largest Container Carrier Losses; Cruise Ship Total Losses; The Worst Passenger Ferry Disasters; Largest Tanker oil spills; Submarine Losses. Minimal library markings. Moderate wear. A sound reference copy. Book
First edition, part I all published, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), [12], 116pp., with the half-title and half-title, 5pp. list of subscribers, original boards, uncut, spine a little chipped, but still a very nice copy. This private botanical garden was originally opened by William Curtis in 1779 at Lambeth, but due to smoke pollution, he moved the plants to the larger gardens in Brompton. According to the Survey of London, "in 1789 William Curtis, the author of Flora Londinensis and the founder of The Botanical Magazine, took over from Rubergall as tenant and moved the botanical garden which he had opened in Lambeth in 1779 to this spot. The Brompton Botanic Garden, as it was known, covered about three and a half acres, almost exactly conforming to the area which is now occupied by the streets and houses on the hospital's estate, while the remaining four and a half acres to the north were used for experiments in agriculture. After Curtis's death in 1799 his partner William Salisbury kept the garden here until 1808 when he moved it to Sloane Street, Chelsea. He continued to use the ground at Brompton for a nursery, however, until 1829 when he was succeeded there by David Ramsay, whose establishment was known as the Queen's Elm or Swan Lane nursery." Rare; JISC locating just 3 copies (Oxford, Kew and Royal Horticultural Society Libraries).
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Complete set of first editions of Kynaston's masterly biography of 'the City', widely acclaimed as an outstanding historical and financial study. Vol. I: A World of its Own 1815-1890 (1994); Vol. II: Golden Years 1890-1914 (1995); Vol. III: Illusions of Gold 1914-1945 (1999); Vol. IV: A Club No More 1945-2000 (2001). Individual volumes are already scarce as first editions; a complete set is extremely difficult to find, especially in this condition.
First edition, 4to, [2], 12pp., without the final blank leaf, in this edition, line 3 of title has "arbytrary"; in another edition, line 3 has "arbitrary", disbound. Wing, L2915; Kress, 716; Goldsmith, 940.
2 Vols., 'Source of the Thames' plate volume folio (375 x 270 mm), large paper copy, engraved pictorial title and 76 engraved plates on India paper, occasional spotting, contemporary red morocco by C. Smith, covers with wide gilt tooled border, spine gilt, upper joint cracked, all edges gilt; 'Descriptions of the Plates' text volume 8vo (230 x 150 mm), [300pp.,], cont. half green morocco, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, spine gilt extra, all edges gilt.
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, illustrations and maps throughout; original decorative blue cloth, upper boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, covers mildly age-marked and scuffed at extremities, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous fine coloured double-page maps and smaller coloured maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LTS Publication No. 164. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Long Distance enters Canada's North Country; Telephone reunites B.C. Mother, Whilma Hincks, with son in Switzerland; Bayview and West win traffic service contest; Telephone calls that keep the doctor away; Article on diet/eating by K.F. Robins, Health Supervisor; The dial telephone's magic wheel and how it works - 4 page illustrated article; 2 photos and caption of the only Chinese telephone office outside of China - Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, San Francisco; Statistics re: number of telephone sets per community province-wide; Numerous changes in Vancouver's new telephone directory; Many merry mix-ups followed the directory changes; Calls to Australia now routed across the Pacific; Fred Buckle; A visit to London, England via its telephone directory; The Rolling Pin to the Rescue - the tabulators in the information office; B.C. Ship-to-Shore service expands rapidly in year; Harley D. Miller; Paving the way for Vancouver's dial system; White Rock to have dial system; Carrier now used on Gulf cables linking Vancouver and Nanaimo; New submarine cable laid from Copper Cove to Bowen Island; Greater Vancouver and Royal City have big cable programme; Half a million calls daily in Vancouver; William Tyre; Robert Browning Smith; Vacation from work but not from health; Cover photo of King George and Queen Elizabeth bidding farewell at Chilliwack; Gordon Farrell's yacht on Burrard Inlet; Telephones at the fingertips of Royal Couple throught the tour - 5 page article with great photos; Australia wins telephone 'ashes' in Port Day 'word match'; Wire Photos Transmitted from Vancouver for First Time - 3 pages with photos; "Our PNE exhibit was a crowd magnet - voice mirror"; Cecil Austin McMaster; Robert Smyth; Telephoning popular pastime of singers; Telephone equipment in new Hotel Vancouver - many photos plus article entitled "The House with 700 Phones"; White Rock now has dial system; Percy H. Wilson; Miss Dorothy Howard; Ernest E. Harris; Article on operators by Damon Runyon; Our Al Hunter now a one-man phone company in Liberia, Africa; Vancouver's First Dial Office now in service - 8 page article with photos; Thirtieth Year of Telephone Talk; Flood waters fail to keep Courtenay operators from work; Photos of heavy gang work near Kamloops; Fraser Office will go dial in fall of 1941; The Marine Office Power Plant; A.L. Creech; Some highlights of Vancouver's first dial office - 3 page article with photos; Take Care of your Skin; West Vancouver Office is doubled in size to keep pace with growth; Miss Grace D. Smith; Telephone displays are features of 'Bay' anniversary windows; Walter Hughes, Royal City Plant Man; Sunspots 'sabotage' service - one page article with diagram; Community gift of phone to Colebrook couple Mr. and Mrs. George Frith; Phone Company joins Vancouver's dial system; Allan W. Hunter in Liberia - 4 pages with photos; UBC Silver Jubilee section with many nice photos; Frederick J. Tremblay; Back cover devoted to Dunkerque (Dunkirk); Lumber for the Empire - 9 super pages of great photos (all with captions) of sawmills, logging scenes, buildings constructed of B.C wood; 3 page PNE report with photos; Marine Office now serves over 11,000 telephones; sensational 11-page photographic tribute to B.C's fishing industry; New Book
52 pages. Features: Fantastic cover illustration of a TCA aircraft above the Rockies by Eric Aldwinckle; Gorgeous colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover shows a Cleveland, Ohio emergency mobile patrol vehicle (van); Nice full-page ad for Red Star Line and their cruises to Europe; A damning editorial of Hitler and his "Mein Kampf", quoting liberally from the book; The Woman's Place (fiction); Canada Flies - article with various Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) photos of the company's startup; All Bets As Usual (fiction); Exit Doctor's Bills - Ontario's first voluntary health insurance association provides medical care at a cost of 5 and one third cents per day - Associated Medical Services (A.M.S.); Beverley Baxter in London writes a column on the Chamberlain-Hiterl Duel; A Drug on the Market (fiction); Gordon Dunstan's Seventh Quiz; African Holiday to Kenya's Serengeti Park; Deep Waters (fiction); Secret Pool - fishing at Yuculta Rapids; Incredible Lifebuoy soap ad features photo and cartoons of a romantic couple separated by B.O. (Body Odour!); Nice full-page two-colour ad for Moffat Electric Ranges; Colour photo ad for McLaughlin-Buick on back cover shows a little girl buying flowers; and more. Page 47/48 missing. Page 47 contained recipes. Small clipping from top of page 49 appears not to have removed any meaningful content. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice vintage issue. Book
56 pages. Features: We are running out of places to bury our garbage; Mental hospitals obsolete in Saskatchewan?; A farewell twitch by BC's Tories; My sixteen months as a Nazi - John Garrity got a 16 month look inside the Canadian Nazi Party - he bugged their meetings, photographed their files, and screened their membership - article with fascinating samples of handbills/tracts - curiously, this work was conducted just before related legislation was passed in Ottawa; The Synthetic Woman - or, how I put on fake hair, eyelashes, nails and a fake figure and found femininity, by Marjorie Harris; And Now... The Synthetic Male, or how I powdered my nose, donned my angora hairpiece and learned to smell more like a man, by Robert Thomas Allen; Is the world ready for Leonard Cohen? - article and great photo; what I learned in a Borneo Classroom, by Manson Toynbee - with many great colour photos; Canada's Kinsey - Dr. Ted Mann, an Anglican priest, began a study of premarital sex on the campus of the University of Western Ontario - when he finished, he was not longer a professor there, by request; Nice colour photo centerfold for Ford's 1967 auto lineup; Rockcliffe Park - the richest, toniest, newsiest village in Canada?, by Susan Dexter; Canadiana by Gerald Stevens; Full-page Crown Zellerbach black and white photo ad shows 50-ton log trailers at Nanaimo Lakes on Vancouver Island; Gerald (Gerry) Caplan says we shouldn't hesitate to threaten Rhodesia with force; and more. Average external wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 333-372 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Fences, Walls and Hedges; Homes of Minneapolis - featuring the homes of J.F. Atwood, Esq., L.K. Thompson, Esq., T.E. Cootey, Esq., and Dr. E.C. Pickler; The Handicraftsman - Cabinet Making as a Handicraft; Post-And -Board Fence of Concrete; Decorations and Furnishings for the Home - VII - Built-in Furniture; The Summer Residence of Mr. Charles H. Bond; Eight Low Cost Houses in the Suburbs of Chicago - nice two-page photo spread presenting the homes of Mr. Walter Herrick, Mrs. Charlotte Wyman, Mr. Charles M. Mock, Mr. Whiting T. Lovell, Mr. Bert Wallace, Mr. C.E. Simmons, Mr. A.M. Briggs, and Mr. Edward Middleton; The Danger of the Use of Milk from Tuberculosis Cows; The Country Seat of G.St. L. Abbott, Concord, MA; An American Potter, Her Home and Studio - Mrs. Samuel Robineau; Garden Notes - Bedding with Evergreens; Autumn Work in the Garden; The Hydrangea; L. Wolff Mfg. Co. ad features photo of the Marshall Apartments in Chicago; Nostalgic color back cover ad for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen features photos of company shops, offices and factories in London and North America; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
50 pages. Great cover photo of Dusty Anderson; Features: My Toughest Fight - Boxer Joe Louis tells what it means to have a black skin and be champion of the world - major article with many great photos; No Wonder They Dropped Dead - modern marksmen say the old bad men of the saloon wars could only hit opponents at point-blank range; He Keeps Broadway On Its Feet - Dr. Horace Worrell takes care of the feet of dancers; We Almost Lost the Air War - photo-illustrated revelations of the handicaps our airmen had to overcome to make daylight bombing a success; New Yorkers are Nuts; Insurgent Senator - Republican Wayne Morse confounds his Oregon constituents by voting like a New Deal Democrat; How to Live with a Pregnant Woman; Colorado's "Atom-Proof" Canyon - great photo-illustrated article on Dr. M. Doreal and the Brotherhood of the White Temple, 35 miles southwest of Denver; If You Have To Get a Job - tips to help you get a job; Basketball's Babe Ruth - Super photo-illustrated article on Joe Fulks of Philadelphia; The Readjustment of Winnie - Vic Herman's cartoon cutie is now a civilian; Gertie (Gertrude Niesen) - Broadway's most fascinating fixture; London's Crime Wave - Eugene Messina is finally caught/London Police still refuse to carry gund; Sightless Swordsmen - photo-illustrated article on blind fencers; There's No Business Like Band Business - to become a singer with a name band you need a voice and a low-cut evening gown; Mr. Lewis' Miners; Movie of the Month - "Green Dolphin Street"; The Great Gibberisher - Tobacco Auctioneer Edgar A. Boone of Lexington, Kentucky; Frauleins as Cops - Germany trains female law-enforcement corps; Meet the Winner of Salute's Beauty Contest - 19-year-old Pat Geraghty of Houston, Texas; Coal miner cartoons by Tom Flannery; Speaking of Parties - photos from events organized by Atwater Kent and Earl Carroll; Gorgeous photo of Margaret Stohn, with zanies Vic Herman and Leisentritt in background; Handsome color back cover ad for Hammonton Park men's clothing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
256 pages including 123 pages of marvelous nostalgic ads, many illustrated and quite uncommon, representing long-forgotten firms and products. Some stories include black and white photos/illustrations. 9.75" x 6.85". Articles of "Special Canadian Interest" include: The National Political Situation - armaments and taxes as involved in the problem of Canada's attitutde on naval defense; Warders of the Silence - life among Canadian Forest Rangers; The Frog in Canadian Diet - the frog now holds an honored place on popular menu cards; The Community Court Idea - groups of bungalows erected in open courts present attractive features (photo-illustrated); Canada as a Land of Opportunities - investors may make safe and profitable use of capital in many lines in this country during its period of expansion; Before Dollars Came - how Directors of Bank of Upper Canada frustrated a plot to wreck it by rebels who made run on it in 1837; Breaking Irrigation Records - large system under construction in Southern Alberta; Dr. Marden's Inspirational Talks - What the World Owes Dreamers; Louis Riel's Religion of Rebellion - did the North-west agitator believe in the justice of his cause and have faith in the purpose of his mission? [not listed in Arora]. Fiction: Beautiful Sebastiana; The Movable Feast; The Gold That Glittered; Wooing Dorothea; The Mistake of Creation, by Jack London (first published in the Feb. 1912 issue of Cosmopolitan), An Odd Case. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and complete copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
64 pages. Features: This issue features, for the first time, cover art by James Hill of Hamilton, featuring an actual scene of a snow sleigh being painted in Dundas, Ontario during a light snow; Great colour ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd. inside front cover features their equipment mining uranium ore ungerground; Household Finance ad features photo of Mr. S.B. Kelly, Manager of the Richmond St., London, Ontario office; One-page two-colour ad for Thor household appliances; Nothing Sacred About the Two-Party System (Editorial); Column on B.C.'s Socred government; Nice colour ad for Canadian General Electric features six of their clocks; Canada's best-loved Governor-General, Lord Alexander, becomes Defense Minister of Great Britain - article with many photos; Benny's Happy Family - nearly four hundred veterans and their wives, and fourteen hundred children live at Benny Farm, a huge apartment development in Montreal's suburb of Notre Dame de Grace - article with five photos; Keep Away from Laura - fiction by Morley Callaghan; The Mysterious Kingdom of the Saguenay - photo-illustrated article (including photo of Madame Gunder Olsen sitting outside her home; How Mackenzie King Won His Greatest Gamble - the fantastic events of 1926 showed him as a true political genius; They're Looting Our History - American collectors and tourists armed with shovels are carting away the story of Canada's dim past from Manitoulin Island - article with photos; When Sears Joins Up with Simpson's - great photo-illustrated article on this important Canadian department store merger; Why the Braden's Don't Come Home - Photo-illustrated article on Bernie and Barbara Braden, once of Vancouver, who now have jobs in British TV, radio, stage and movies; Colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad features puffing majorette; Colour centrefold ad for Westinghouse home appliances; Prest-O-Lite ad features photo of Boston Bruin Milt Schmidt in action; Interesting illustrated ad for film "Androcles and the Lion" with heading "Barbaric revelry to fire the senses of the world... in the story of history's most sin-swept era!"; Nice colour ad for Aylmer Golden Corn; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs features boy throwing snowball; Uncommon Stelco ad features photos of their new 673-foot ore unloading bridge at Hamilton, their new blast furnace at Hamilton Works, and their new Open Hearth Furnace at Hamilton; Nice two-page Buick ad; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. A high-quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
2 vols. (468+, 589p.) engr. t.p. Hardcover Very good condition, recased in original leather binding, in slipcase
350pp, 333pp VG/none First (only) edition, complete in two volumes. Full title Musical Memoirs comprising An Account on the General State of Music in England, from the First Commemoration of Handel in 1784, to the Year 1830, Interspersed with Numerous Anecdotes, Musical, Histrionic, &c. Rebound in modern green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and new endpapers, just a faint damp stain on lower corner of the first sheets in vol.I and sporadic foxing, generally light (see photos), overall in VG conditions. Musical recollections (and much more) of William Thomas Parke, forty years principal oboist to the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, brother of the other notable oboist John Parke. A lot of trivia, gossip and jokes included nevertheless interesting in the information presented on music, opera and opera houses in London in that period.
Very Good English Original green cloth. Title gilt in black "Egyptian Touring Association" and "ETA logo" to the front board. Foolscap 8vo. (17,5 x 13 cm). In English. 110 p. with rich separate advertisements, and a fine folded b/w map titled "Desert motor-routes" on a scale of 1:4,000,000. Slightly fading on cloth, otherwise a fine copy. First and only edition of this rare complete and very detailed desert motor-routes' guide for the Anglo-Egyptian motorists, printed by the Egyptian Touring Association in Cairo, including details about hospitals, "what to do in cases of accidents on the roads", free legal defence, hotels, garages as well as itineraries, pedestrian crossings, speed limits in the country, parking regulations of Sharia Kasr el Nil, Adly Pasha, no-lights area, railway bridges, postal rates, exchange rates, rates of freight on motor cars by sea and rail, kilometers into miles, transcontinental road London - Istanbul with other useful information. This guide was explained in the introduction as "This handbook has been compiled for the benefit of members and is issued to them free. Extra copies may be obtained from the Head Office, 3 Sh. Cattawi Bey, Kasr el Nil, Cairo, at the price of P.T. 10. It contains a good deal of useful information regarding touring of all kinds in Egypt and abroad including a list of recommended hotels and garages throughout the country. "The president of the Association which was founded in 1932, was H.E. Sir Miles Lampson (1880-1964). He was a British diplomat who was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan in 1934. As a result of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in December 1936, to which Lampson was a signatory, Britain loosened its grip on Egypt and the post title was changed to Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for Sudan in 1936. Lampson continued in this office until 1946. Vice presidents were Sir Stenson Cooke and J. A. Crawford. According to the ETA's service page of the guide, the purpose of the association can be determined as "Association was formed to provide a long-felt want in Egypt, that is, a touring club in the true sense of the word, devoted to the interests of all kinds of travelers. It's a non-profit making co-operative organization with the aim of making the path of the motorist, the airman, the camper, and every other kind of traveler pleasanter and smoother. The E.T.A. is officially recognized by the Egyptian Government and already in its short existence has grown enormously, being able to offer the following very real services to its members: Expert and detailed advice on all touring matters. Expert advice on motoring matters and vetting of cars. Free itineraries to all parts of Egypt and abroad. Reminders are sent to all members when a car and driving license is due for renewal. Renewal of car and driving licenses. Free legal defense for motoring offenses. Triptyques, carnets, and all documents for foreign touring, including passport arrangements. Agents at Alexandria, PortSaid, Suez, and the principal ports to look after the incoming and outgoing motorist and relieve him of all worry. A full stock of maps and guide books of Egypt and other countries. Up-to-date information on the state of roads and desert tracks. Welcome and help from the 100 odd touring clubs of the A.I.T. [i.e. the Alliance Internationale de Tourisme], of which the E.T.A. is a member. Recommended hotels and garages throughout Egypt and the Near East. Insurance for members can be effected at the most advantageous rates, and advice is given. Cars can be driven to any part of Egypt, by experienced drivers. Guides are provided. Other benefits, it is hoped, will be given in due of course.". Not located in OCLC. "1938-39 Edition" of the series (not published more than two years) is located in OCLC in no. 862336537.
8vo., Eleventh Edition, with copper-engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved full-page illustrations in the text, fore-edge very lightly spotted; attractively bound in twentieth century tan calf, back with gilt rules, second compartment with nineteenth-century red leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, boards unevenly sunned else a very good, remarkably bright, crisp copy. First published in 1783, Farley's work was a popular and continuing success, reaching its twelfth edition in 1811. Principal Cook at the London Tavern, Farley claims that his work 'unlike so many which are without method or order, is marked by perspicuity and regularity'. However Cagle reveals that Fiona Lucraft provides a detailed account of the author's plagiarism from Raffald and Glasse. Farley's name appears below the portrait from the ninth edition (?) onwards. Bitting 152; Cagle, 675; Maclean, pp.50-52; Oxford, p.114; Wheaton & Kelly 2066 (all recording the first edition). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled and in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, original wrappers (soiled) preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SCARCE
8vo., Index of 68pp facing large folding coloured map mounted on linen, measuring 30 x 44 ins (approx. 76 x 112 cms) folding in 36 panels to 7.5 x 5.5 ins (19 x 14 cms); the whole housed in publisher's red cloth wallet, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt with black retaining band (stretched through use and somewhat loose), a very good, bright, clean copty The map (scale: 4 inches to 1 mile) extends to Hampstead and Hackney in the north, Bromley and Greenwich in the east, Kennington and Walham Green in the south, and Brondesbury and Kensal Green in the west. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
11 vols., 8vo., with numerous frontispieces, plates and maps; green cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, green tops, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive edition, comprising nine volumes of the diary, the Companion volume and the Index volume.
