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Folio, 8pp (one blank) with a large folding plan; wire-stitched as issued, one or two small rust marks as often else a near fine copy. 'Supplements to the London Gazette' are of great value to the naval and military historian. In many cases they represent the first publicly published accounts of the engagements concerned, and normally contain excellent maps and plans together with direct transcripts from official despatches not easily available elsewhere.This supplement includes the following transcripts: Cunningham (CinC Mediterranean): despatch to Admiralty 16 January 1941; Boyd (Captain of HMS Illustrious): despatch to Admiralty 13 November 1940; Lyster ( Rear-Admiral Commanding Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers): covering note 26 November 1940; fine folding plan of the harbour and environs with attack details noted.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 21pp. Tucked-in are seven newspaper cuttings about the church and its history.
Pages 989-1014 plus many additional pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Honours for the R.F.C.; The Roll of Honour; Wing Bracing and Head Resistance; The Burges Speed Scout Biplane (with scale drawings and three photos); The Royal Aero Club - Official News; Turin to London Non-Stop - with map and photo of Captain Laureati and Michael Angelo Tonzo; ; Airisms from the Four Winds; "X" Aircraft Raids; The British Air Services - appointments and promotions; Aircraft Work at the Front - Official Information; Magneto Ignition - simple explanation of the fundamentals with illustrations; The Society of British Aircraft Constructors - official notices; Side-Winds; Imports and Exports 1916-1917; Full-page illustration with text honouring Second Lieutenant J.C. Currie "for conspicuous gallantry" while acting as observer to another officer; Fantastic full-page Avro ad; Nice full-page ad with photo for Palmer Cord Tyres and Wheels; The Huns Air Service; Flight-Lieut. Curt Wolff (who replaced Baron von Richthofen as leader of Squadron 12) killed in action; Air photo of massive damage to the village of Bermericourt; Photo of the Kaiser decorating officers on the western front; Photo of Italian F.B.A. flying boat; Two photos of the first of the U.S. Navy's 'blimps'; Great full-page illustrated ad for "Triplex"safety glass for use in goggles and windshields; Personals; Great illustrated ad for the "Newhaven Coat"; and more. Bit of faint underlining to magneto article otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
Multi-paginated Profusely illustrated with black and white photography, diagrams and advertisements. No. 2410 Vol. 67 contains: Maritime Britannia - first particulars of Canadair's CL-28; Re-Rising Sun - the Japanese aircraft industry 10 years after VJ-Day; Southern Air Traffic Control at London Airport; H.M. Carriers 1955 - survey's the role of the aircraft carrier in a thermo-nuclear age and previews the carrier strength of British and Commonwealth navies; Carrier Developments - recent inventions to increase efficiency on the flight deck; Scotland's Air Ambulances - two B.E.A. Herons go into operation. No. 2411 Vol. 67 8 April 1955 contains: The Speed of the Fox - a fairey occasion with historic associations; Jodel D.112 and Druine Turbi - Two French Ultra-light Two-seaters Compared; London Airport Central - photos of the new passenger handling block; Ferry 604 - The diary of a Viscount delivery flight to Montreal; Radically New Cockpit Design - U.S. Navy's television instrumentation; No. 47 Squadron - history of a famous transport command unit; Air Gunnery at Sylt; The Edo Amphibious Float; Two photos of the Handley Page Victor; The Deuce - English Electric's Digital Computer; T.C.A. and the Viscount - Background to the North American debut of a British turboprop airliner. No. 2413 Vol. 67 22 April 1955: Photo of the Hiller "Flying Platform"; Mixed Power - Engines of Different Species in Combination, Mr. M.J. Brennan's R.Ae.S. Lecture; Actuallites Francaises - the mighty Armagnac *page 519-520 missing from this article*; At the controls of the B-45 - Second-pilot time on a four-jet bomber; Britannia's Johannesburg Trials - Phase one of the tropical tests; Idlewild's New Terminal Area. No.2414 Vol.67 29 April 1955: Guide to First 1955 National Air Races; The Supercharged Turboprop - Dr. Hooker's S.A.E. Lecture on the Bristol B.E. 25, successor to the Proteus; Automatic Interception - all-weather single-seaters defending the U.K.; Meeting of the Airways; Actualites Francaises - the Morane-Saulnier M.S.760 Paris; Silencing Jet Helicopters - a notable paper by Professor E.J. Richards; Sopwith Camel - Historic Military Aircraft No. 10; Tower of London - radar, radio and lighting controls in the new central building. No. 2415 Vol. 67 6 May 1955: A Coming-of-age with Gannets; Actualites Francaises - part 3 - non-stop variety in light aircraft; Jet Provost - Hunting Percival's New Av Initio Trainer (includes 2-page detailed drawing); The First Round - Swansea sees the start of the 1955 national air races; Off the Ice - an R.C.A.F. helicopter rescues a Cessna which was partially submerged beneath ice; Igor Sikorsky in Great Britain - Pioneer Helicopter Designer's Lecture to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Fabrications to Float and Fly - rubber dinghies, balloons, and much else - the work of the R.F. D company; "Hot" Parts by the Hundred - Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd. No. 2416 Vol. 67 13 May 1955: More Thoughts on Jet Lift; Routine Atlantic Crossing - Passenger's impressions of a typical Transatlantic flight by B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser; The World's Air Forces - Their compostion, duties and aircraft *2 pages of this article are loose but present*; 1955 Military Aircraft Data; National Aircraft Insignia; The World's Air Forces Cont'd. No. 2417 Vol. 67 May 20, 1955: A Truimphant British Motion Picture - The Dam Busters; Luftwaffe Redivivus - Germany's New Air Force for A.A.F.C.E. - Its strenghts and constitution; The Party Line on Airlines - Tories, Labour and Liberals express their view for "flight"; Supersonic Fighter - a critical examination of the F-100A Super Sabre (with detailed drawing); Introduction to Air Freight - Part 1 American Domestic Scene; The S.N.C.A.S.E. S.E. 210 Caravalle - France's First Jet Airliner (with detailed drawing); Regularity in the making - the technical organization behind B.O.A.C.; Flight Control - an historical review - Abstracts from Dr. Draper's Wilbur Wright Lecture; Deutsche Lufthansa in Book
Features: The Mexican Waterpipe flower; Flowers from the Florist; Chelsea 1980; Oxalis; Ornamental vegetables; flower sellers of London town; natural containers; simple shrub arrangements; flowermaking; flowers with antiques; supporting colour; flower arranging in Israel; facile Floral Foam; Beginners please; Battle of the flowers; pressed flower and plant designs with a difference; The forgotten art of flower cookery; a flower arranger visits Crete; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Florapuzzle; Eggs-quisite eggs; Happy Easter; Bird Making; In Your Garden; Craft Potter; Leaving No Stone Unturned; Collecting Books on Flower Arranging; Embroidery with Plant Material; How to make bulb flowers last longer; flowering shrubs; first steps to Ikebana; Flowers through the ages; Phormiums; the abc of flowers; far-away flower holidays; R.H.S. shows in London; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners except for one bump, exterior shows fading to edges of baby blue covers with gilt print but no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows edge wear, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Color map endpapers, about 30 plates in color and b&w. Contents include: the Law in London, Fleet Street, Mayfair, South Kensington, Bloomsbury, Soho, Chelsea, East End, Galleries, the B.B.C., English Ballet, etc.
24 page booklet. 9" x 7". Reproductions of various dramatic V-1-related black and white wartime photos on almost every page. Most pages half text and half photo. "This monstrous machine that rides the skies beyond all human control seems to the people (of London) to have a power of evil greater than anything that has gone before." - fro page 3. Published in December, 1944 by the British Information Services which were located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. Back cover cutaway illustration of the V-1 explains how it works, with accompanying text on pages 20-22. Unmarked. Average wear. No notable defects. A sound vintage copy of this sombre WWII memento. Book
Cover photo of a Windovers limousine. Features: London to Peking by Silver Ghost - 1990 Motor Challenge in 1920 Car - 4 pages with photos; Phantom II Continental 98PY - Barker Allweather - 3 pages with photos; Andre Hartford - Where are you? We need you! - repairing a Hartford Telecontrol auxiliary shock damping system; Carburetter Air Valves - how to test them & How to Fix Them; Carburetter adjustment, by Eric Platford, Rolls-Royce Ltd., 17 September 1913 - 2 pages; The Odyssey of 3CM92 - Phantom III Barker Saloon - 3 pages with nice photos; Board Meeting, Houston, TX, January 25-26, 1991. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/Fine. ISBN 1856191526. 41475. eng
4to., First Edition, with mounted plates toned in sepia; red cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, covers unevenly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, signs of handling mainly to rear cover and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A fishing book that really will help you to catch more fish. Each technique is explained in detail and demonstrated under the actual waterside situation it would be used. The strips were first published in the London Evening News.
251 pages. Text in Danish. Unmarked. Average wear. Partial lean to spine. Sound working copy. Book
254p. illus. Hardcover fine condition in fine d.j. fair
8vo., First English Edition; green cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. THIS COPY WAS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE DEDICATEE AND CARRIES HIS INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON DEDICATION. Rewritten English version of the Danish edition published in 1949.
53 pages. The London Street Railway received its charter in 1873 and commenced service in 1875. This work commemorates a century of planning and service. Author retired as General Manager of the service in 1971 and completed two years of research in preparation for this work. Prepared from the files of the London Street Railway Company and its successor, the London Transportation Commission, from newspaper stories, memories of veteran employees, and many other sources. "Includes a brief outline of London from its beginning as a pioneer settlement in 1826 to 1875 when public transportation commenced, because the story of horse-drawn trams, electric street cars and buses is really part of the story of our community and the people who built it over the years." - from Foreward. Includes numerous black and white illustrations and maps. Tiny prior owner's address label inside front board else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Book
Oblong 8vo., with numeous illustrations and maps; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1988.
157 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
399 pages. Index. Bibliography. "Written as part of the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the diocese in 2006. It is a comprehensive, encyclopedia-style presentation of the diocese's rich and varied past, covering its pre-diocesan history and the episcopacies of its first ten bishops - from Bishop Pinsoneault... to Bishop Fabbro. Also included are histories of religious communities, the cathedral, other parishes and missions and different institutions and organizations collectively called diocesan life." - from Introduction. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A beautiful copy. Book
Carta topografica della città di Londra e dei dintorni
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs anf facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Book show very light wear only in light blue cloth with gilt embossed print at spine and cover, sunned spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 315 pages with glossy page section of b&w photos, maps, architectural drawings, floor plans, elevations and includes sections on: Whig and Tory landowners, Public buildings under George II, Architects of the Golden Age: 1763 - 1793 Building during the French wars, Great estates, John Nash, Theatres, Greater Georgian London, etc.
New edition of a book on Georgian architecture in London, first pub 1945. ".this learned and lively book.It treats not only of Georgian architecture but of the whole problem of the growth of a city" HC.349p. illus.list of buildings. index. Condition V.Good/Good (dj spine slightly faded) Book
