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8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and chipped at upper edge of front panel and head of backstrip. WITH A LONG (4pp) T.L.s FROM GENERAL WALKER LOOSELY INSERTED, AND SEVERAL ITEMS OF PRINTED EPHEMERA RELATING IN PART TO HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIVIL ASSISTANCE ORGANISATION. Walker commanded 4/8th Gurkhas in 7th Indian Division throughout the Burma campaign. Graham & Cole, L19; not recorded by Enser
Stories: Liquid Gold; What the Palmist Foretold; Through the Shan States; The King's Ju-Ju; Our Japanese Burglar; Gomez the Killer; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; A Side-Show in Borneo; Fire-Walking in Java; The Queensland Mounted; The Pickle Bottle. Above-average wear. Book
Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
1375904Bruxelles: Bernard de Grunne Tribal fine arts, 2015 in-4, 89 pages, 2 carte, 8 illustrations en n/b dans le texte, 51 illustrations en couleurs, 2 pages dépliantes avec 17 illustrations en couleurs. Broché, couv. illustrée, état neuf.
1372642Singapore: Bareo Gallery, 1990 in-4, 128 pages, nombreuses illustrations en couleurs. Reliure toile, jaquette, bon état. Ex-libris et envoi.
1901F0027Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel, 1901. mit 2 Figuren im Text und 15 Tafeln in Lithographie, 169 S., 1 Bl., 15 Tafeln mit 15 Bl. Beschreibung zu den Tafeln, Original-Broschur mit Deckeltitel, Verlagsanzeigen am hinteren Deckel in Pappmappe mit 2x3 Bindebändchen, Deckel- und Rückentitel. Guter Zustand, oberer Schnitt leicht angestaubt, Titel mit Eignerstempel (Fürstenkrone u. Initialen FA- Friedrich August III. von Sachsen?) Standplatznummer in alter Tinte, Mappe bestoßen, Leinen im Falz löchrig.,
1960PHOT0806London, Cape 1960. 4°. 30 S. [Text], [160] Bl. m. 80 s/w. Abb., OHLn. m. OU., Schutzumschlag m. minimalen Lagerspuren. [2 Warenabbildungen]
Carta geografica delle Indie orientali
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
1376690Bruxelles: Bernard de Grunne Tribal Fine Arts, 2015 in-4, 112 pages, illustrations en couleurs. Broché, couv. à rabats, bon état.
8° grande (23,4x14,4 cm); (4), 411, (2) pp. 104 tav. e (4), 416 pp. e 100 c. di tav. fuori testo e due cartine più volte ripiegate. Nel 1843 uscì un terzo volume. Esemplare ancora in barbe. Bellissime legature in mezza pelle rossa con titolo e ricchi fregi in oro al dorso e piatti foderati con carta coeva rossa a rilievo. L'opera uscì nella celebre collana di monografie a se stanti dedicata ognuna ad un paese del mondo pubblicata con il titolo "L'universo o storia e descrizione di tutti i popoli". Prima edizione italiana di quest'opera curata dal celebre viaggiatore, politico e geografo francese Domeny de Rienzi che raccoglie la storia, la geografia ma anche gli usi e costumi, le lingue e l'economia dei territori ed isole dell'Oceania, Borneo, Melanesia, Micronesia e Polinesia, Malesia. Bellissime le duecento tavole fuori testo con immagini di luoghi, costumi e personaggi celebri. Esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione, in barbe ed in bella legatura.
Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Pages 1-84, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Through the Shan States - part 2; The King's Ju-Ju; Phases of Life - Fire-Walking in Java, Gomez the Killer, The Queensland "Mounted"; A "Side-Show" in Borneo; The Queer Side of Things - What the Palmist Foretold; Our Japanese Burglar; The Pickle-Bottle; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
xxiv, 129-192 pages. Features: 500 miles to freedom -nine men escape Rabaul after it is overrun by the Japanese in 1942; The land sharks - a story from Canada in 1925 about get-rich-quick schemes in real estate; Man-Eater - the brief but eventful career of a man eating tiger as recounted by a former member of the Burma Frontier Service; The Vale of the Gods the northern Punjab - photo illustrated article; The Ju-Ju Doctor - the facts of an amazing occurrence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - big scare on East Indian Island; Photo of typical Cyprus Brickyard; The Sea-Dyaks of Borneo - photo illustrated account of this little-known race of former headhunters and pirates; Section Man - an interesting glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - 3 People Were Shot Dead in Crawford County, Arkansas; The Bluffton Wolf - famous Texas wolf; and more, plus many vintage ads. Small pencilled name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
In 8, pp. 2073 + (2) con 4 tavv. f.t., tavv. sinott. n.t. di cui alcune rip. Legatura in mz. pg. coeva con due tasselli al d. con caratteri oro. Tomo I, serie IV degli Atti dell'I. R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Fra i molti interessanti articoli si segnalano: Matscheg, Cesare. Rinnovamento dello stato; Valentinelli, Dei cataloghi a stampa di codici manoscritti; Torelli, Degli scavi da fare in Italia. Dissertazione e proposta; Valentinelli, Dei cataloghi a stampa di codici manoscritti delle biblioteche italiane; Cortese, Sui progressi che le ultime guerre hanno promosso nelle istituzioni civili ed umanitarie; Quercia, Considerazioni sommarie sulla quantita' di lavoro dinamico che effettivamente si utilizza da una caloria negli apparecchi meccanici a vapore attualmente usati per la propulsione delle navi; Trois, Aumenti delle collezioni naturali del R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; Zanardini, Intorno ad un viaggio a Borneo, recentemente intrapreso dal botanico fiorentino O. Beccari; Presentazione d'un manoscritto dello stesso Zanardini sopra alcune crittogame ivi raccolte; Bizio, La porpora degli antichi e la sostanza colorante trovata nell'urna di Sant'Ambrogio in Milano; M. Leicht, Studii e raffronti sull'eta' del bronzo nel Bellunese; G. Lorenzoni, Sulle osservazioni spettroscopiche del bordo solare fatte nel R. Osservatorio di Padova l'11 dicembre 1871; Relazione della Giunta deputata a istudiare il fenomeno che impediva la pesca presso Chioggia; etc...
In 8 (cm 17 x 24), pp. 97 con 1 tavola finale fuori testo. Brossura editoriale. Rarissimo catalogo completo dei pesci raccolti a Borneo. Catalogo dei pesci raccolti dal marchese Giacomo Doria e da Odoardo Beccari durante il loro soggiorno nel territorio di Sarawak sulla costa occidentale dell'isola del Borneo durante gli anni 1865-67. Estratto editoriale dagli Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Genova.
19111-0-121Bremen, Selbstverlag, 1911. 8°, mit einigen (3 ausfaltbaren) Karten und zahlreichen Abbildungen im Text, 138 S., ill. OPpbd
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Jogi's Curse - An Indian government official is cursed by a wondering jogi (priest) and the prophecy is tragically fulfilled; An Underground Wonderland - Fantastic photo-illustrated article on the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; Adrift in the China Seas - Sent off to fetch help for their crippled steamer, H.W. Millard, G. Grant Simmons and their companions are blown off course and suffer an eight-day ordeal; "Watu Wa Miti" - R. St. Barbe Baker founded the "Men of the Trees" in Equatorial Africa to preserve trees which were continually being burned to secure land for cultivation - with photos; The Man Who Wanted a Change - A factory hand seeking escape travels to the South Seas, only to return sadder and wiser; Two Years in Borneo - Part I - Oscar Cook spent eight years there, the last two of which were quite strenuous - with photos; "The Man With the Buried Head" - photo of alms-seekers in India; The Promotion of Private Smith - The inside facts of an affair involving Private Smith, a young soldier in the American Army, stationed in the Philippines; The Last of the Bushrangers - Mrs. Mary J. Nichols reflects on the old pioneer days in Tasmania and the 'sticking-up' of an isolated station by the last gang of bushrangers that operated in the island - with photos; Forbidden Nepal - Hugh Walter had unusual opportunities to visit this closed state and provides interesting glimpses of the manners, customs, and principal religious festivals of the Nepalese - with photos; White Man's Magic - While exploring the interior of New Zealand the author and his companion fell afoul of a rascally Maori tohunga, or medicine man; Where Cannibals Roam - Part II - An eventful journey into the unknown interior of Papua, with photos; "Old Peter" - C.N.C. Hayter, formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, describes instances of 'second sight' he witnessed among Eskimos, thus providing independent corroboration of a story about apparent Eskimo telepathy in this publication a few months ago; What Happened to Spott - A funny story about a miserly old South African storekeeper and a black mamba snake; The World's Largest Goldfish Farm - founded by Eugene Shireman of Martinsville, Indiana - with photo. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
101933The original gelatin silver prints are approximately 75 × 100 mm each some a little smaller some a little larger. One of the photographs is of a blackboard inscribed '6 RSU Number 6 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF Balikpapan Borneo. Coppersmiths & Welders. Honour Roll 1945' with a list of twelve names. About a dozen photographs feature aircraft; a dozen feature servicemen some named; and there is a very good series of six images of the destruction wrought on Balikpapan. 37 items. unknown
Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
19813cb6in4 toilé sous jaquette illustrée sous rhodoïd. Abondante iconographie dont 8 planches couleurs. Texte bilingue français/anglais
1373794Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur: Elf Aquitaine Indonésie, Elf Aquitaine Malaysia, 1989 in-4, 272 pages, 471 planches en couleurs, 210 illustrations dans le texte, 3 cartes. Reliure éditeur avec jaquette, très bon état.
