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184454872Amsterdam, Hulst van Keulen, 1844. 4to. Contemp. clothbacked boards. Stamp on title-page. VIII,(8),110 pp. + Errata-slip. Internally clean and fine.
1884230796Leiden: n.p. 1884. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original green printed wrappers. Fine copy of a scarce item. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. An interesting combination of exotic letterpress and color lithography. The text printed in Javanese deals with a big game hunt and illustrated by four plates printed in delicate green brown red and blue tints. They depict a campsite; the hunter and guide in dense cover aiming at a tiger; the hunter holding his rifle as dogs flush out a wild boar; and two groups of hunters and guides with one group carrying a recently killed deer. [n.p.] unknown
188434446Leiden: n.p. 1884. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers faint traces of wear at spine spotting to top of front wrapper else a fine copy of a scarce item. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. An interesting combination of exotic letterpress and color lithography. The text printed in Javanese deals with a big game hunt and illustrated by four plates printed in delicate green brown red and blue tints. They depict a campsite; the hunter and guide in dense cover aiming at a tiger; the hunter holding his rifle as dogs flush out a wild boar; and two groups of hunters and guides with one group carrying a recently killed deer. [n.p.] unknown
188434446Leiden: n.p. 1884. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original yellow printed wrappers faint traces of wear at spine spotting to top of front wrapper else a fine copy of a scarce item. With four double-page color lithographs signed in the stone P. J. Mulder. 4 92 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. An interesting combination of exotic letterpress and color lithography. The text printed in Javanese deals with a big game hunt and illustrated by four plates printed in delicate green brown red and blue tints. They depict a campsite; the hunter and guide in dense cover aiming at a tiger; the hunter holding his rifle as dogs flush out a wild boar; and two groups of hunters and guides with one group carrying a recently killed deer. [n.p.] unknown books
1984642361Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1984. 494 S. 25cm. Zustand: Gut bis Sehr Gut, eher ungelesen (Innen); Innenbandbereiche und Vorsatzblätter vorne, gering fleckig;, Einband (Außen) hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren; Schnitt oben fleckig, restlicher min. (wenn Pünktchen); Schutzumschlag fehlt, oder es gibt keinen; Gewebeeinband (Hellbrauner Leinen)
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 7 plates; handsomely bound in green full morocco, sides with gilt frame, back gilt with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
8018Paris, Ca. 1650. 1 carte en couleurs des Isles de la Sonde, de format 26*21 cm ($0*31 cm sous marie-louise, parfait état.
Pages 289-382, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: When the Water Came Down - the author and his Gurkha orderly are fishing in the Himalayas when a sudden 'spate' rages down through the mountains; "Washing-Day" All Over the World - article with many fantastic photos of (mainly) woman washing their clothes in outdoor waters in many countries around the world; In Search of Adventure - Part 1 - the story of a chequered cruise to the South Sea Islands by "The Firm", "Freckles", and "The Spinster"; A Woman Alone in China - Part 3 - photo-illustrated travels of Mary Gaunt and her Peking cart travels in China - with photos; Adrift on a Raft - the crew of the sinking Liverpool barque "Cordillera" built a raft to survive; The Native Festivals of Java - article with many great photos; The Story of My Chinese God - how a collector finally got his God curio in China; The Forest Hermit - a Moose- Hunting Story - they camped on the shore of Lady Evelyn Lake in Canada - article with interesting photos; The Man Who Understood Natives - a story of the rinderpest epidemic in Pondoland in 1897; The "Wide World" (this publication) being read in unusual places; Amazing photo of men handling the minute hand of "Big Ben", the largest clock in the world; Emblem Motorcycle ad; Nice Red Cross Line ad inside back cover; Back cover features interesting B.V.D. men's underwear ad with illustration of scene in what appears to be the New York Yankee's dressing room. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
12349Paris, Henri Laurens Editeur, sans date (vers 1920). 1 grand volume in-4, feuilles illustrées en couleurs, reliure moderne plein cuir bordeaux, très bon état général.
18612788Leipzig, Costenoble, 1861. 3 Bde. 8°. HLwd. der Zeit (berieben und bestoßen).
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to be the lineal descendants of Raleigh's ill-fated "Lost Colonists," with whom, in 1587, the friendly Red men abandoned the settlement of Roanoke and went out into the wilds to start life afresh; Left in Charge - A 19-year-old, just six weeks from home, finds himself in charge of a lonely South African sheep farm, only to have alarming things begin to happen, including a skirmish with sheep stealers; The Money-Finder - An amusing story involving a peppery West African Commissioner, a wily native chief who tried to avoid paying his taxes, and a young officer who was a bit of a conjurer; The Boy Who Sought Adventures - Part III - B. Wicksteed continues his amazing young adventures; The Opium-Smugglers - In the ancient walled city of Manila the author met a friend who told him this strange story; My Mystery Job - A queer story told by a builder's foreman concerning a remarkable job he had been called upon to undertake; Whose Hippo? - A nasty legal battle ensues after a Hippo is shot; The Land of Mystery - Part III of III - Col. E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Colonel Gallowhur continue their travels through unexplored Nepal - with many lovely photos; The Djimat - The figurehead of an old sailing ship goes missing during alterations and the superstitious natives of Java are sure trouble is sure to follow; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
19282312220269xbvkMünchen, Albert Langen, 1928. 230 Seiten, mit Portraitfrontispiz. - Kräftiger Pergamenteinband über 4 durchstochene Bünde mit spanischer Kante, Linienvergoldung, glänzendem Vollgoldschnitt und marmorpapierartig handaquarellierten Vorsatzblättern (goldgeprägte Buchbinder-Signatur ''R.HÖNN,MÜNCHEN'' an der Unterkante des hinteren Innendeckels), goldgeprägtem Rückentitel 'MAX / DAUTHENDEY / LIEDER' und goldgepr. römischer Jahreszahl 'MCMXXVIII' am unteren Ende des Buchrückens, im Original-Pappschuber mit Pergamentkante; 8vo.(ca. 18,5 x 12 x 2 cm).
Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
191426808ABLeipzig, Karl Baedeker Verlag, 1914. Kl.-8°. LXXIV, 358 S. Mit einigen Textabb., 22 Karten, 33 Plänen, 8 Grundrissen und 1 Panorama. OLeinen. [2 Warenabbildungen]
186444426Haag, 28. III. 1864. 2 S., Kl.-8°.
1799PHO-2288Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8, demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné, avec pièces de titre rouge et tomaison verte. Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp., Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1) f., quelques brunissures, frottements, coiffes absentes ou usées, début de fente (tome 1), accrocs aux dos, petit manque de matière (tome 2).
1796PHO-2059Paris, Dandré ; Garnerey ; Obré, an IV (1796). 1 volumes in-4 (2) (265x200mm); XLIV-510pp., , relié basane raciné de l'époque, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre rouge et de tomaison verte, frottements, accroc au plat, début de fente, coins usés, mouillure claire, déchirure en marge sur les 4 derniers feuillets et les planches sans atteinte, petit trou de ver.
17880049161788 Londres et Paris, Buisson, 1788. Deux volumes in-8 (133 X 204 mm) basane fauve, encadrement de double filet doré sur les plats, dos lisse cloisonné d'un double filet doré, pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin havane, tranches mouchetées en rouge (reliure de l'époque). Tome I : (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre, XXVIII-311 pages, (1) page et (2) ff. de table des matières - Tome II : (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre, une carte dépliante, 330 pages, (1) f. Habile restauration en pied du mors supérieur du tome I, petites épidermures.
1936100019Brill, Leiden 1906-1936. 568 S. - 540 S. - 764 S. - 874 S. - 835 S. - 611 S. - 239 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 8°, Original-Leinen, Gelbkopfschnitt, gute und innen saubere Exemplare,
18489299Paris, A. Frank, 1848. In-4 de [10]-326-[4] pages, demi-veau brun, dos lisse orné de filets et fleurons dorés et à froid, étiquette de titre verte. Mors fendus et frottés, dos légèrement frotté, quelques rousseurs.
1914031426Karl Baedeker, Leipzig 1914. Hardcover Sehr gut
1950211088New York.: Manz Corporation. circa1950. Colour poster 91.5 x 59.4 cms sheet folding to a full colour advertising brochure 32 x 23.5 cms text in panels and three further illustrations light wear at folds; small fold split at the base no loss overall in very good clean condition. Vivid poster art featuring a Javanese dancer the exotic centrepiece of a 1950s advertising brochure for letterpress and offset printing. The artist Simon Vanderlaan 1904- 1986 began his career in Chicago creating theatre posters before moving to Los Angeles in the 1930s. He memorably illustrated the cover of the 1939 Official Guidebook to the Golden Gate international Exposition and a propaganda poster now sought-after for Douglas aircraft in the 1940s. The verso of the brochure "It's a Colorful Old World" includes costumed images for China Holland and Bavaria also by Vanderlaan: alluring images for the traveller in prosperous post-war America. <br> <br>The Manz Corporation was founded in Chicago in the 1860s as a wood-engraving business. They oversaw the rapid change in commercial printing finally closing their doors in the 1960s. . Manz Corporation. unknown
110563A very large advertisement on thick card recently mounted and matted visible image size 508 × 778 mm; laid down on the card are six original gelatin silver photographs all sepia-toned each one approximately 165 × 230 mm. The photographs are in two rows of three with captions underneath. The top three show workers on plantations supplying goods primarily for the export market: 'Gathering Coffee Berries'; 'Cutting Rice'; and 'Cutting Sugar Cane'. The bottom three are aimed at the tourist market and depict the 'Ancient Hindu Temple Baroe-Boedoer at Djocja'; 'Ever Active Volcano Bromo Tengger Mts'; and 'Scene in the Moluccas'. A few trifling blemishes including a short scratch to one photograph but overall it is a rare example of a superb period-piece in excellent condition now protected in a custom-made Mylar pocket. unknown
Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
19165711916 Batavia - Weltevreden, G. Kolff & Co, 1916. 29 x 23 cm (R), in-4°, 35 [1] pp. + 1 planche en couleurs dépliante hors texte + 6 graphiques réhaussés de rouge hors texte dont un dépliant + 4 grands tableaux dépliants imprimés en noir et rouge, avec 18 PHOTOGRAPHIES ORIGINALES (tirages argentiques, format : env. 15 x 11 cm) contrecollées dans le texte, coupons de contrôle originaux contrecollés dans le texte, reliure en demi percaline verte muette.