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88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Amazing Adventure of Los Angeles policeman Sergeant Arthur W. Bethel - major photo-illustrated article; The Seer of Kantara; Unknown Peru - part 1 - photo-illustrated article on travel and adventure in the Andes; Our Election - election corruption in an American city; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 2 - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges travels the world to capture the world's largest fish - photo-illustrated article; The Panther's revenge - a child-eating panther terrorizes an Indian village; An Up-Country Holiday in China - nice photo-illustrated article; Outlaws at Bay - a regiment captures a gang of native desperadoes in North-West India - article with photos; The Charm That Came Back - a special coin returns to B.J. Munchweiler; The Ku-Ula - an ancient Hawaiian superstition; Mark Cambell's Last "Stunt" - after a big scare he stopped performing daredevil stunts in the air for film 'thrillers'; Taming the Silver Fox - visit to a fur farm in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada - great photo-illustrated article; The Talking Crow - a story from the Virginia Mountains; Unusual Revenge - a 1910 story involving a North-West Mounted Policeman; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Watts Trading Co. of New York City features seven handguns and two pairs of binoculars - all with prices and descriptions; Lovely one-page ad for Whiteland radios. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 177- 264 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Prime Minister's Story - a tiger adventure from India; Filming in a Land of Mystery - amazingly photo-illustrated article on a visit to Lhasa, Tibet; The Road to Timbuctoo - part 2 - funny adventures; Photo of pathetic beggars in India; My First Man-Hunt; The Missing Money Bag a story from Rajputana; Hate - an exciting tale from Malaya; Unknown Peru - part 3 of a photo-illustrated article about investigations in prehistoric Inca towns and treasure caves; Hunting Big Game in India - the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition - article with great photos; Rescuing the Doctor - a doctor and his wife are surrounded in the Peruvian jungle by cannibal Indians; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 4 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' world travels to catch the largest fish in the world - with great photos; The Gandipur Man-Killer - putting down a brute tiger; The Mysterious Mine - owned by Sir George Cooklin; Revenge! - a young Pole named Leo Leopold (Leo Rogers) vows to get the policeman, Fred Lefbyre, responsible for his incarceration in a Kingston, Ontario penitentiary; Nightmare - terrible experience of an Indian Army officer; photo of wonderfully decorated stern of a Chinese junk (boat); Nice back cover ad for the Security Pen Co. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
27x22. 110p. Fotogr. Enc. tela Ed. Sobrecubierta.
With eight illustrations and a map. ix, 340 pages plus unpaginated list of authors books following. Previous owner's name at top of title page. Foxing on title page. Front and rear pastedown gutters cracked. Spine bumped and worn top/base and cover extremities worn.
302 pages. Index. Bibliography. Colour plates. Hand-written signature of the amazing Maurice Cotterell upon title page. "Shows how Shi Huangdi - like the pharoah Tutankhamun, the Mayan lord Pacal, and Viracocha in Peru - was a keeper of the sacred solar science of the ancients, a science that included a sophisticated understanding of the effect of the sun on earthly affairs, fertility rates, and personality... Cotterell deciphers the emperor's farewell message concealed in the terracotta warriors - a message that reveals the true purpose of the life and the imperishable nature of the soul." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest hint of wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket preserved in Brodart. Beautiful copy. Book
pp. 195, (12) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Illustrated. Fore edges foxed. 8vo. 155mm. Original full cloth binding decorate and lettered in brown. Part of the Library of Useful Stories. Includes: the pre-Columbian discoveries of America; the extinct civilization of the Aztecs; American archeology; Mexico before and after the Spanish invasion; Cortes and Montezuma; Balboa and the Isthmus; the extinct civilization of Peru; Pizarro and the Incas; etc. LATIN AMER BX 2
xi + 161pp., 23cm., Doctoral Dissertation (A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the school of social science of the Catholic University of America in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, R113194
208 pages. Bibliography and glossary. Sumptuously and profusely illustrated with colour photos and reproductions of archival maps and illustrations. Text in English. "Documents the tremendous impact the arrival of New World gold and silver had upon Europe and the world economy. Describes the routes followed by the galleons on their return to Spain, loaded with precious metals, and the techniques used for their extraction. Discusses how mining towns were established, and famous fairs held in Portobelo and Jalapa. From this we learn how several mints were founded." - from Prologue. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A suberb copy of this beautifully-presented work. Gift quality. Book
G/G (price clipped dj rubbed at edges with few small chips, dust marks to edges of back flap, clean red cloth with silver titles on spine, gift inscription front free endpaper and few small marks, light speckles outside page edges, internally pages clean and unmarked) octavo 221pp. First British edition. 16pp b/w plates (publisher's note apologising for transposition of illustrations due to a binder's error). Biography of St. Rose of Lima, the first person to be canonized in the New World, and Marian of Quito, better known as "The Lily of Quito" and patron saint of Ecuador.
pp. 225-258, 10 photogr. pls., 1 map. 8vo. Ofprint, orig. wrs., uncut.
Octavo in light orange DJ; x, 274 p, b&w maps ; 22 cm. Chile; History; Politics. || Salvador Allende, President of Chile, died during the Chilean coup of 1973 by the Chilean Army Commander-in-Chief Augusto Pinochet. Although he reportedly committed suicide shortly after giving a radio speech to the Chilean people, there has been great controversy regarding the circumstances of his death. Allende supporters have always dismissed the military junta's version events because they believe he was assassinated. Several investigations have been undertaken into the circumstances surrounding Allende's death.
214 pages. Handwritten signature of the incomparable Maurice Cotterell upon title page. Bibliography. Index. Many colour plates and black and white illustrations. "Follows the trail of the Supergods to South America and discovers the treasure-filled tombs of two more sun-kings, buried allive over 1,500 years ago in the long-lost pyramids of Peru. These two great kings shared much in common with Lord Pacal and Tutankhamun." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. This lovely copy copy would make a wonderful gift. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper rear cover, faint indenting to rear and traces of storage. 214pp. A study of the treasure-filled tombs of two sun kings, buried over 1,500 years ago in the long-lost pyramids of Peru.
pp. viii, 353, (1) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis and Full Page Plates. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. RELIGION BOX 10
In Colour: Abu Simbel; and the doomed monuments of Nubia. Also includes: The Worst Air Disaster in the History of British Civil Aviation; Prince Philip's Tour of Peru and Chile; West Country hit by Giant Waves; The Uniqueness of Light (part 6 in a series on the theory of relativity); Tunisian Gas Station; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Institutional ex-library book with interior library marks, but unmarked cover. 240 pages. Many photos. Crease on spine.
London, J.M. Dent & Son, 1958. 4to.; XII pp., 404 pp., con viñetas de Sabino Springett. Cubiertas originales.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor dint to front and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with dint to front lower edge and label removal effect to front dust flap. 158pp. In this study, based on the BBC TV Natural History Unit production, the author describes in vivid detail the landscape and ecology, the flora and the fauna of the entire Andes mountain chain through South America. Very well illustrated.
The origins of the Old World and New World civilizations are analysed. With 79 illustrations and 16 figures in the text. 208 pages. Tan cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has 'bubbling' of plastic coating on front cover in a small area and is generally rubbed.
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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 249 pages. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Illustrated by Irv Koons.
Inc. su rame, mm. 180x490 parte incisa + ampi marg. bianchi con didascalie. Opera tratta dall'opera di George Anson "Un viaggio intorno al mondo"
London, Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1927. 4to.; VII-140 pp. Primera edición Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
100 color plates in two linen vols. Text in Japanese with some English Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition in worn portfolio
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slightly faded cover. Previous owner's name inside. 186 pages of text, plus 117 plates. 8 1/4"w x 10 7/8"h.
