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Large 8vo. Pp. vi,104,many drawings in 55 figs., 1 fold. pl. in pocket, tabs., refs. Orig. wrs. - Miocene.
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Piccadilly Circus, London; Durham Castle, England; Hall of Knights in the Royal Palace, Berlin; Bridge of Sighs, Venice; Interiors of the Pompeiian Museum; The Sea of Ice, Switzerland; The Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg; Natives of Australia Fishing; Native Street and Houses in Ceylon; Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; In the Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River; The Mission of San Antonio, California; The Cathedral of Lima, Peru; The Tomb of Canova; Niagara Falls, Winter of 1892-3; Jupiter Terrace, Yellowstone Park. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Oxford Street, London; Cheapside, London - wonderful busy street scene; Abbottsford, The Home of Sir Walter Scott; The Glyptothek in Munich; General View of Syracuse, Italy; Palace of the Luxembourg, Paris; Riddarholms Church, Stockholm; Mosque of Tulun, Cairo; The Tomb of Rachel; Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California; Singapore Water Carriers' Wagon; The United States Navy Yark, Brooklyn; Glacier Bay, Alaska; The City of Guanajuato, Mexico; Famous Places in London - London Bridge, The Old Curiosity Shop; The Execution Spot in the Tower of London; Newgate Prison; Albert Durer's House in Nuremberg. Some corners folded. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
Previous owner's name and notes on front endpaper; otherwise clean and unmarked. 122 pages. Color photos and b&w drawings.
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Queen Mary; On the Waterfront; Fal Report; Ships Pictorial; Naval Review; Poland's Pride - mv Batory - Part 1 - Fifty years after she entered service, Peter C. Kohler describes the career of the Gdynia-Amerika liner Batory; Motor Schooner 'De Wadden' - the career of the Dutch-built motor schooner now preserved at Liverpool by the Merseyside Maritime Museum; Under Sail; Hail and Farewell to a Great Lady, how the Queen Mary was sold to the city of Long Beach, California - part 1 of 2; 'North Carolina' Class Battleships - Alan Crisp describes the design and history of a notable class of US battleship of WWII- Part 2 - from WWII actions to preservation; European Ferry Commentary; Ship Sales; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Full-page photo of the Norasia Caria; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Octavo in color illus wraps; perfect bound pages : numerousphotos & illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm Reprint of the 1945 edition. Well-illus. in photos. Water Management, Civil Engineering. Dams. Construction. Hydrography, Northern California. Mount Shasta
Dark blue quarto front, white spine, iv, 90, [52] pages, b&w illustrations ; 28 cm. Surprisingly uncommon. Earthquake preparedness. Disaster relief -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
64 p. Chapter V: "The Phallus in California" Hardcover Very good condition
Octavo in dark brown-grey ornemental blind-stamped cloth; 394 pages, with seven full-page illus in b&w, frontispiece (portrait) with tissue attached & intact; 20 cm Well-written and entertaining, with interesting anecdotes and descriptions of gamblers, reprobate sailors and both sinful & righteous city life in Gold Rush-era San Francisco. Includes a chapter on preaching in Sacramento. || 19th Century History. California Gold Rush, San Francisco, California. Christianity. Evangelical. Evangelists. Preacher Biography. Evangelism. Methodism.
34 pages. Features: Standardization Committee Report; Adam and Eve; The Houston Star; Guest Caller - Frank Pecinovsky; Callers Clinic in Southern California; Sell newcomers on the fund of square dancing through the 'One Night Stand'; Doll Dance - the Neptunian Club of Manhattan Beach - includes photo of Treg Brown; "Pop" Singer; Photo and write-up on Irma Sturrock of this publication; Nice vintage ads. Subscription renewal form neatly clipped from page 25. Average wear. Few pen doodles to front cover and page 15. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: The Old Timers of Southern California; Guest Caller Harold "Butch" Nelson; Riptide; Square of the Month - Arnie Kronenberger; Crawdad Song; Northwest High Notes; Report on Summer Schools; New Association Officers; and more. Nice vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: Plan for Summer; Asilomar Square Dance Institute; Stampede in San Luis County - with photo of Chuck Hammond at the mike; The California Whirl; New Square Dance Records; Two-page article with photos of "Hat Hoedown" at Portland, Oregon - The Castle Eighters Club; Mocking Bird Waltz; Guest Caller - Mel Day; Round-up in Los Angeles - photos; Dave Clavner - Square of the Month; Red River Gal; Large beautiful photo ad for Kathy's Cottons inside back cover features Joan Vohs, M.G.M. starlet; Other nice vintage ads. Subscription coupon neatly removed from page 20. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: Let's Do Some Mixers; Obituary for "Uncle" Carl Myles; Asilomar Square Dance Institute; Eastern Trip; Box the Gnat; Sashay Out and Sides Cut In; Squares of the Month - Bea and Barry Binns; Fremont High School Party in Los Angeles; Kern County Callers' Roundup - many photos of callers; Western San Gabriel Jamboree; Riverside Breakfast Club in Glendale, California hold benefit dance; Photos of Ross White and Lee Bedford, Sr.; Third Man Theme; Music Box Waltz; Photo and brief write-up of Merle Coleman, a staffer for this magazine; Large beautiful photo ad for Kathy's Cottons inside back cover features Joan Vohs, M.G.M. starlet; Other nice vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: Why Dance?; The Shooting Star - as originated by Bob Hall (with photo of Hall); Giant El Paso Festival; Lynwood Weave; Spring Tour for Ed and Drusilla Gilmore of Yucaipa, California; Hick-Hawk Hoedown at the University of Iowa; Squares of the Month - Alma and Wayne Warga; Cow Counties Hoedown Association at San Bernardino; See-Saw Squares Go Indian; Photo of Captain Brashear's dance class at Club #15 in Yokohama; Stampede in Northern California; Gorgeous photo ad featuring M.G.M. starlet Joan Vohs for Kathy's Cottons of North Hollywood inside back cover; Other nice vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Original Wraps. 8vo. 101 pages. 26 cm. First edition. "An issue on the occasion of the twenty fifth anniversary of the Jewish National Fund". Important Jubilee number for twenty five years of the Jewish National Fund, celebrated by all members of the JNF and kindred Zionist organisations in Los Angeles. Includes advertisements throughout from supporters (in the LA area, and elsewhere) , with short commemorative essays on Zionism in Los Angeles, Haddasah of Los Angeles, Dates in Jewish History, poems devoted to the Daughter of Zion, Theodore Herzl, and the Glory of Jerusalem. Contains name register of all members on the board, and council members, of the JNF of Los Angeles; with list of all organizations coopering with the JNF: Zionist groups, Synagogues, and Lodges, Clubs and Institutions. Contains portraits throughout of writers and important members of the JNF. Subjects: Zionism. Jews - California - Los Angeles. Jews. Zionism. Jewish National Fund. California - Los Angeles. OCLC lists 7 copies. Spined rebacked. Light wear throughout. Good + condition. (ZION-4-24)
272 pages including index. A comprehensive handbook for all of Mexico's fascinating Sea of Cortez from San Felipe to Cabo San Lucas along Baja California, and from El Golfo to Mazatlan on the Mexican mainland. Includes 115 photos and 96 charts. Well worn and soiled. Unmarked. Book
Oversize. 255 p., illus., incl. charts & aerial photographs Hardcover Good condition; top edge scorched
In 8° (mm225x145); pagg. 260, (2) con 6 tavole in rame f.t. firmate da Gandon. Legatura in tela <BR><BR><BR>blu con impressioni a secco ai piatti e titolo in oro al dorso. "Adolphe Gandon fut l'élève de Diday puis s'établit en Suisse où il passa le reste de sa vie. Il occupe une place marquante dans l'art suisse'' (Bénézit). L'opera racconta le impressioni di viaggio dell'autore (1816-1872). Bell'esemplare
128 pages. Contents: Predicting the next great earthquake in California; How the Trypanosome changes its coat; Gamma-Ray Bursters; Brownian Motion; Reproductive Success in Red Deer; Phased-Array Radars; The Functional Replacement of the Ear; Damascus Steels; Nostalgic ads, and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting and informative issue. Magazine
176 pages. Features: Advances in antisubmarine warfare; California rice culture; the nucleosome; the activity cycles of stars; pterosaurs; a deep-sea neutrino telescope; the Nok sculptures of Nigeria; and more. Nostalgic car ads plus some from the early days of the PC industry. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The new planetariums for Chicago and Philadelphia; Editorials - C.F. Brush, Sea safety code, Men's clothes, air country clubs; Licorice the versatile; Uncle Sam gives us new money - the process, in brief, of making paper currency; Why does an oil gusher gush?; Charting Canada's wilderness from the air - more accurate than with transit and chain; Our army's mechanized forces - development of the American fighting tank since war times (with interesting photos); What becomes of star light?; Is the diesel airplane practical?; Silvering the world's largest telescope; Foiling the burglar III - vault combinations and clocks; Sea Safety contest; the Zeppelin's American home - huge hangar being erected in Akron; Steam Come-back - outdistancing water for generation of electricity; Designing large telescopes; World's largest vineyard in California; Ancient history from aloft; Compressed air used in Novel hospital - diabetes, anemia, and other maladies treated in an unusual manner; the 'heat makes cold' regrigeration unit. Attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement inside back cover. Colour Lucky Strike advertisment upon back cover features a puckered damsel and the caption "To keep a slender figure no one can deny... Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." There are some rubbings/marks to this page. Page 198 is a full page advertisment for passenger aircraft manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan. Damage to bottom of spine. Unmarked. Magazine
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
Colour Lucky Strike advertisement upon back cover features large picture of June Collyer. Inside of back cover features full-page advertisement from the National Publishers Association which quotes John H. Patterson, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Fortune Ryan's words from past depressions and concludes "American has beaten 19 Major Depressions - she will beat this one... as the most nearly self-contained nation, we have within our own boundaries the elemental factors for recovery." Features: Mrs. Sinclair's "Mental Radio" - a record of amazing experiments in mental telepathy made by the wife of a well-known author; Editorials - Rear Admiral Winslow - Out of Adversity - Interstate truck regulation - the country's health; George Washington, Inventor - the versatility of our first President included invention and scientific farming; A miniature solar system and its problems - Jupiter's four major satellites and other small ones make up a system that baffles the astrophysicist; Gem-stone cutting for the amateur - a fascinating hobby with a mechanical and an esthetic appeal; To salvage a sunken liner's treasure - new methods used in recovering the gold from the Egypt; A New Turbine rocket plane for the upper atmosphere - combination drive for a proposed stratosphere plane; Why power companies plant trees - public utility companies now reforesting their water power watersheds; a Horizontal well supplies fresh water to Bermuda - a modern system supplants old rainwater from roofs system; George Washington, the father of the American Navy; From Angora Goat to Mohair Fabric; The telephone spans the Pacific - the first commercial service from California to Hawaii is inaugurated; From the Archeologist's Note book - Sumerian Diorite Head - stand from grave Athenian jug - Persian strong-box; Preservation of Leather Book Bindings - treatment and formulas to protect old or rare library volumes. Average wear. Small openings at top and bottom of spine. Unmarked. Book
56 Pages. Features: John Gamble Kirkwood - a personality in science; Breeding machine brains; The Road to Empire - II - an archeological discovery of unusual interest was made during the excavation of a sacred well in Minturnae; Science at the scene of the crime - J. Edgar Hoover with the inside story of how his special agents operate; New high-efficiency fluorescent mercury lamps; Are We Inside a Dark Nebula?; High-Speed Paving for California Aqueduct - fantastic photos; The operation of the human brain; Tracking down your trade mark title; Polar Molecules; Cutting metal underwater using pressurized oxygen; The senses of sight and taste vary greatly between individuals; The amateur telescope maker; World-wide radio; and more. Three-inch opening along top of front cover at spine. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Iconic cover photo of Albert Einstein at blackboard proving the principle of Equivalence. 56 pages. Features: Exploring Prehistoric Georgia; Radio Facsimile (early fax machine development) - article with great photos; Building the World's Deepest-Water Bridge - connecting San Francisco and Oakland; Preserving rose bushes with paraffin for shipping; Nova Herculis recently discovered; Amazing growth in the packaging industry; Sundials and their construction - part IX - the principle and construction of the armillary sphere; The Oddest Thing About the Jews - Why Jews have some diseases more and others less than Gentiles - they often are first-class insurance risks; Stout "Scarab" auto photos and write-up; Photo of Einstein with Leo J. Scanlon; Tiny race cars - a developing sport; Astounding facts about American homes and sanitary conditions; Creative photo enlargement; Rapidly growing hybrid poplars; Frederick H. Ecker on progress in this age of science; Photo of harvesting American-grown rubber in California - Guayule; and more. Above-average external wear and soiling. Openings at each end of coverfold. Chip from lower corner of back cover. An uncommon Einstein collectible. Please note that large faint text appearing on image is not on magazine. Magazine