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56 pages. Features: ; Cover photo of the men of Annapolis; First-Hand Report on How We Deal with the Germans, and what the consequences may be; President Truman's First Six Months in two pages of photos; What Employers can do to promote labor peace; Dilemma - Twenty Million Surplus Japanese - Jesse Steiner on how the shrunken and crowded empire can avert the evils of overpopulation; Annapolis Logs 100 Years - photo-illustrated article; The Story of the Secret Agents of the OSS and of their work behind enemy lines - article with photos including Major General Donovan; The Appeal of Football; Fannie Farmer and her "Boston Cooking School Cookbook"; Festive photos of V.E. and V.J. Day celebrations around New York; Hitler's rumor-shrouded end leads to this article, Living Myths About 'Dead' Men; Honorable League of Southpaws; Color half-page Super Suds ad features Mrs. Bess Resemini; Great one-page color fashion ad for Botany features dame with huge black hat and ghetto kids in background; Children paint as they feel; Five fashion photos of long elegant dresses; Old Dutch one-page ad features color photo of Mrs. Russell Howard of La Grange IL, Mrs. Victor Martin of Gary IN, and Mrs. C. Dachenbach of Milwaukee, WI; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII-era issue. Book
50 pages. Features: Super color cover photo of Rita Hayworth; Two large black and white photos of Miss Universe, Armi Kuusela of Finland; You Can Be Healthier, Be Happier - follow this expert's rules for living in nature's four great worlds - photo-illustrated article including half-page black and white photo of a dozen or so boys skinny dipping at the "Ole swimming hole"; Abducted Women - Emotional photo-illustrated article on the over 500,000 women forcibly detained during the partition of India in 1947, some of whom are now being repatriated; The Duel - brief photo-illustrated article on Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered", as presented by the Ballets de Paris; Heaven on Earth - photo-illustrated article on a new sculpture symbolizing beauty and joy of life, The Fountain of Faith, recently unveiled at Falls Church, VA; I Was a Spy for Stalin - Nora Korzhenko Murray, an agent of the Soviet secret police, reveals her cloak-and-dagger career as a tool of the N.K.V.D. and a lure for Allied diplomats living in Moscow; Best photos of 1952; Babies in Jail - photo-illustrated article on babies born in jail to mothers who are pregnant when incarcerated; Flying Saucers - The Last Word! - exclusive interview with the world's best informed military man - Major General John A. Samford - on the world's most exciting modern mystery; Earl Wilson, America's 'Saloon Editor' picks his "Super-Six" - photos and brief write-ups of American beauties Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Van Deweel, Julie Wilson, Eva Gabor, Ava Gardner, and Virginia Mayo (no photo of her); Faith is a Star - belief in a benign and divine power is a refuge in a time of trouble; So Hot Soho - article on U.S. Jazz in London's Bohemian west end - with super photos of dancers in action; Hoop Houdini - Photo-illustrated article on Boston Celtic Bob Cousy (written by Curt Gowdy who went on to a great career in TV sports broadcasting); Great 3/4-page sexy photo of Rita Hayworth; Letters from readers; plus many great vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. PLEASE NOTE: lacking pages 33-34 which, we believe, contained the last page of the Flying Saucer article and a photo of Virginia Mayo. Otherwise, a sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
134 pages. Cover photo of funnels of the SS "United States", queen of the transatlantic carriers; Nice color ad for a baby blue 1953 Cadillac; Fine color ad for a green 1953 Chrysler Imperal; Wedding photos of the Earl of Dalkeith to Jane McNeill, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stanley Briggin and James Wadsworth Syminton with the former Sylvia Caroline Schlapp; Color-photo ad for the 1953 Ford Lincoln features dark teale two-door on city street; Nice Packard car ad features red two-door; Photos of 'Blaze Tapering" (hair singeing) as performed by D.J. Brown who owns a salon on New York's East Side; Amazing one-page color photo of General Motors' 'dream car' Le Sabre two-door convertible (silver) accompanies a great photo-illustrated article on futuristic North American car designs; Illustrated article on highway design by Robert Moses; Great color photo of Mrs. Edward C. Bridgman , Jr. fashionably dressed in yellow with yellow locomotive speeding behind her; Photo feature on the Wayzata, Minnesota home of Mr. and Mrs. George Halpin; Article on tourists taking their cars to Europe for driving trips; Many gorgeous pages of photo fashion ads in color and black and white; The Annual Tour of the Metropolitan Opera; Fashion photos upon a cruise ship; Two pages of photos from the Inauguration Ball for President Dwight Eisenhower; Beautiful fashion photos of Mrs. Bruce Thayer Benepe (the former Ruth Fillebrown of Boston and Newport), Mrs. John Livingston Beers (former Jane Gilbert of New York and Westport), Mrs. John H. Scott-Paine of Greenwich, Ann Reinicke, Bettina Thayer, Mrs. Hubert Faure, and Barbara Cavanagh; Beautiful fur fashion photos modelled by Catherine Manning Hannon, Mrs. Clayton Winship Johnson, and Mrs. Dino Yannopoulos; United States Lines ad includes photos of Sir Colin and Lady Anderson, Mrs. Casimir de Rham, Sir Shane Leslie, Mrs. Vincent Astor, and Mr. and Mrs. Staunton Williams; Six photos of the Las Madrinas Debutante Ball in Los Angeles include Charles Getchell and Alan Jordon with escorts, Adrienne Hepburn, Dorothy Lucile Donath, Judith Noyes Roach, Sally Ann Smith with Geroald Saltonstall Silsbee, Gretchen Helene Dockweiler, Richard Dockweiler Brady, David V. Homme, Barbara von Briesen, Dr. Hans van briesen, Marie Casey, Thomas Ingersoll, William Duffy Keller and Palmer Casey; Color Nash car ad (red) features photo of etiquette author Amy Vanderbilt; Mens fashion photo includes John Cameron Swayze and William Raiser; several page of high-end real estate ads; Color-photo Mary Grey hosiery ad inside back cover features sexy Seniorita in red dress with fan. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo portrait of Sir Archibald Wavell who led the capture of Benghazi; Photo of J.G. Winant, new U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Sixteen photos of the taking of Tobruk - with over 25,000 prisoners, fires caused by naval bombardment, and devastation at the El Adeem aerodrome; Photo of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran who died on February 5th; Photo of 'San Giorgio' ablaze and Italian naval prisoners; Article on the fall of Benghazi; Twelve more photos after the fall of Tobruk, including Air Commodore R. Collishaw, Commanding R.A.F. units in Libya, who was born in Nanaimo, B.C. and after whom the Nanaimo Airport Terminal is named; One-page map of the Balkan states - is Bulgaria the next German target after Rumania?; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Maitland Wilson, R.N. O'Connor, Iven MacKay, A.G. Creagh, Sir A.M. Longmore, Sir A.B. Cunningham, Lord Moyne, Malcolm Macdonald, Wendell Willkie, Ernest Brown, Tom Johnston, Euan Wallace, Sir Reginald Hoare, W.G.S. Dobbie, General berganzoli, Stanley J. Adams and Mrs. Marguerite Hyde; Two-page illustration of No. 3-A 'Defiant', a night fighter; Photo of Churchill visiting his old Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; Photo of Sir John Dill visiting Canadian troops; Photo of the funeral procession of Lord Baden-Powell at Nyeri, Kenya; Photo of stolen seven-seater aircraft stolen by French mechanic and flown from France to England; Photo of Haile Selassie returning to Abyssinia to take command of his troops; Photo of unexploded German torpedo on deck of British ship!; Photos of crash between the London-Norwich express train and a London express to Southend which killed six; Six photos from Ethiopia where they relentlessly press back at the Italians; Photos of airplanes from the U.S. for use by the R.A.F. - the 'Martlet I', 'Tomahawk', Brewster ' Buffalo I', and 'Boston II'; Two pages of fascinating illustrations show how fires caused by German incendiaries are fought in office buildings and residential districts; Eight photos of Benghazi landmarks; Two pages with twelve photos of the Polish fleet being inspected by General Sikorski; and more. Staples disintegrated. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this important wartime issue. Book
Pages 365-392. Features: Nice colour B.S.A. one-page ad shows 'dicycle' being driven down boardroom table(!); Cover photo of 6-inch gun captured intact after Rommel's retreat; One page with six photos closely displaying the captured 6-inch gun; Photos of new German gun's muzzle break; Photos of signs in the North African desert; Three photos of General De Gaulle with fighting French forces in the Middle East; The Desert's Dusty Face (article with three dust storm photos); One-page aerial photo of Gialo Oasis - Italian Desert base raided by British Mobile Force; Russia Fighting On (article); Three interesting pages of graphics present household energy-consuming devices and their rates of fuel consumption, how households typically consume energy, and how to keep weekly track of fuel consumption - including instructions to read electricity and gas meters; Two pages with twelve dramatic photos of action in Stalingrad and on the Caucasus Front; Amazing centrefold aerial photo of Stalingrad under siege, showing fires raging in famous factories used as fortresses; Three photos from the New Guinea Front; Three photos of U-boat - going, going, gone; Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser at launching of one of his "Liberty" ships - build in 10 days; Photo of crowd of Japanese waiting on the Quayside at Lourenco Marques to board a repatriation ship; Air photo of bombs exploding on deck of whale-oil ship in dock at Cherbourg during "Boston" bomber attack; Two photos of attacks on German positions in Norway; Fascinating page of drawings of shoe styles illustrate "A new phase in modern warfare - both in England and France wood is now being used instead of leather for the soles of shoes; Six nice photos of women's fashions, 1942-1943; Thirteen photos of personalities of the week include Sq. Ldr. D.A.G. Parry, Wendell Willkie in Moscow with Stalin, Lieut.-Colonel Beckles Wilson, and Prebendary Carlile; Nice back cover colour ad for Dewar's White Label Scotch Whisky shows chess game in progress. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 449-476. Features: Cover photo-portrait of General Smuts of South Africa; Seven photos of devastation in Stalingrad; Large illustration and two dramatic photos illustrate "Battered Stalingrad - A Broken City Held Together By the Spirit of Its Defenders"; Two-page Admiralty Chart of Guadalcanal Island, pivot of violent fighting and scene of heavy Japanese losses, in enemy attempts to recover the Solomon Islands and gain command of the Australian Seas; Russia and the Middle East (article); One-page photo of the launching of a Kaiser 10,500-ton cargo-ship in 10 days, observed by FDR and Mr. Kaiser; Aftermath of bombing in Nuremburg, Benghazi Harbour, and the Focke-Wulf Works at Neuenland, near Bremen; Photos of "Boston" bombers taking off in the dusty desert; Photo of funeral service for Leiut.-General "Strafer" Gott and others, killded when their plane crashed in the Western Desert; Photos of eleven personalities in the news include Dame Marie Tempest, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Mr. Cecil Whiteley, Mr. Edwin Barclay, Hitler meeting Rommel in Berlin, and Mr. Cosmo Hamilton; Two large photos of H.M.S. "Howe"; Wonderful action photo centrefold of H.M. Battleship "Anson" steaming full out; Five photos of Sir John Tovey, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet, in his quarters aboard the flagship; Three photos of the Schneider Works, the "Krupps of France" in Le Creusot, which was attacked by Lancasters; Twelve photos from Madagascar illustrate key points seized and cleaning up; Page of photos of Alaska Highway construction with map; One-page illustration of ancient London bastion uncovered by enemy action; One-page article with three illustrations entitled "How the Germans Treat Their Political Prisoners - Nazi Atrocities" - the prison camp at Jernvann, where 600 Serbs were interned. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 141-240. Printed upon glossy stock. Nice reproductions of black and white photos. Features: William M. Butterfield - A New Hampshire architect and his work; Commercial Manchester - with one-page photo of Mayor Eugene E. Reed; The Poor Farm; Capt. Jared Somes; Poems; Attractive one-page photo-illustrated Boston and Maine Railroad ad; Handsome one-page ad for the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company Unmarked. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Silent Cities - Photo-illustrated article on Canadian military cemeteries abroad; Our Air Heroes - excerpt from play "Target for Peace" which was broadcast on the CBC; Photo of the 48th Highlanders of Canada pipe band playing in Italy; Top Priority on Homes for Heroes is Legion Demand; How the Town of Renfrew Solved its Housing Problem - article with photo; Education for Citizenship - Lieut. - Col. the Hon. Wilfred Bovey flays those who would throw away Canadian democracy for the way of the Russians; Photo and brief write-up of 93-year-old Sgt. Daniel Byrd Hoskins Power of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, who explains the secret to his long life; Canada's Veterans in the U.S.A.; The Second V.C. of the R.C.A.F. - The Late Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski; Photo of Bailey Bridge inventor Sir Donald Bailey in Ottawa; Update Colonel Percy J. Philpott, Adviser to the Deputy Minister concerning Veterans of both wars; Review of book "Detour" which describes the life of Prisoners-of-war in Germany; Article on Legion Policies and Activities; Monthly notes on the great humanitarian work of the Dominion Service Bureau of the Canadian Legion; The World in Review - Part 12 - September 11 to October 10, 1946; The Small Holdings Plan; Photo of Victoria Legion's undefeated lacrosse team; Photo of the Jewish legionaires' basketball team of the Fredric Kisch Branch in Montreal; The Canadian Army at War - The Canadians in Britain, 1939-1944, 3rd part; Nice one-page cartoon-illustrated ad for Dawes Black Horse Brewery features hunter being chased by bear; Nostalgic colour ad inside back cover for Blue Top Brewing of Kitchener, Ontario features illustration and floor-plan diagram of an economical home. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Front cover partially faded with mild undulations. Contents moderately toned with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
20 pages. Features: Where the Beauties Are - They Migrate to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. - with photos of Barbara Ahl; Battle Rankin, Barbara Jean Gup, Fran Eddy, Wing Eng Lee, Jayne Lahey and George Ann Miller; Impressions of Former First Lady Abigail Adams; Men Are Out and Women Are In - hiring in favor of ladies in Washington - with small photos of Rose McKee, Mary I. Bunting, Jane Fiquet Hanna, Liz Carpenter, India Edwards and Lee Walsh; Protocol Rules for Wives New to Washington, D.C.; White House Fare - LBJ's Presidential table has ranged from home style to elegant (with photo of LBJ and his wife at home in Texas. Nice color ads for: Dole Pineapple, Pillsbury Mocha Fudge cake mixes, Dole frozen fruit drink mix, Helene Curtis Tender Touch Bath Oil. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
46 pages. Includes music, guitar chords and lyrics for the following songs: Aja; Bad Sneakers; Bodhisattva; The Boston Rag; Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More; Haitian Divorce; Josie; Peg; Reelin' In the Years; Rikki Don't Lose That Number; Turn That Heartbeat Over Again; Your Gold Teeth. Undated. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound working copy. Steely Dan were "the most influential recording artists to emerge from the U.S.A in the seventies. Included are songs that trace their career from the earliest album 'Can't Buy a Thrill' through 'Countdown to Ecstasy', 'Pretzel Logic' and up to 'Aja'. All songs arranged for piano/vocal with guitar and full lyrics." - from back cover. Book
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 80, [4] p., 4 unnumbered b/w plates. First and only edition of this very rare anti-alcohol medical tractate, penned by Milâsli Ismail Hakki, who was one of the founders of Hilâl-i Ahdar Cemiyeti [i.e. the Green Crescent]. In this work written in Ottoman Turkish, Milasli describes various alcoholic drinks, states that any and all intoxicants are haram [i.e. forbidden by religion], and discusses and examines types of alcohol by telling of the contents of the drink. He then goes on to explain the physiological effects of drinking, talks about the ways to get rid of alcoholism and the importance of abstaining from alcohol, and finally ends his book by presenting images of drunken people. Özege 8455.; Not located in OCLC.
Very Good English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. [2], 21 p. First and only edition of this extremely rare pamphlet documenting the first constitutional and judicial movements in the Islamization of Sudan started in the 1950s Sudanese society and government. "The judicial system of Sudan survived the transfer of power to the independent state with few changes. Independence did, however, bring to the fore conflicts which had been kept under the carpet during the Condominium. The nature of the constitution became one of the most contested issues. The Transition Constitution, adopted 1st January 1956 (Independence Day), formalized a Westminster style of government, but it was never meant to be more than temporary. The debate on the new permanent constitution took many forms. In a long memorandum, Sheikh Hasan Muddathir, the Grand qadi of Sudan (i.e. the head of the sharia division of the judiciary) presented the Islamist position". (Source: Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Africa by Holger Weis).
Very Good Turkish Original illustrated wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 109 p., 40 numerous b/w ills., and many unnumbered b/w photographic plates. Small label on front cover, occasional light fading in pages. Otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition of this first complete book on oarsmanship ever printed in Turkey, written by the Turkish oarsman champion hold the championship for a long time in the early period of the Turkish Republic. The book includes the details of the oarsmanship sport, boat building, rules, and western and Turkish history of this sport. Nevin Hassan started rowing in Galatasaray Bebek Boathouse [i.e. Kayikhâne] in 1929, and in the same year, he captured Eftal Nogan's championship in Tek Çifte boat from Altinordu. Nevin Hassan left active sports at a young age after 1935, went to Germany to study at the Berlin Technical High School, and followed the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a correspondent for "Kirmizi Beyaz dergisi" [i.e. the Red-White magazine]. During his education in Germany, he worked with F. K. Gwinner and Tom Sullivan, two of the most famous rowing coaches in the world at the time, at the Berliner Ruder-Club, and also read the books of the famous sports authority Steve Fairbairn and compared them with the Orthodox rowing style. Nevin Hassan coached the Galatasaray Rowing team following his return from Germany. Not located in OCLC.; The National Library of Turkey 000039123.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 116 p. Hegira: 1317 = Gregorian: 1900. Second edition of this first catalogue of the sarcophagi in the Imperial Ottoman Archaeological Museums, including many legendary sarcophagi, like of Alexander the Great, Sidon?, Tabnit, Byzantine Emperors, etc., mostly excavated and found by Osman Hamdi Bey,(1842-1910), the pioneer archaeologist of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey and the founder of the Ottoman Archaeological Museum. OCLC 165321119 (Only one copy in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).; Özege 15041.
Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
Pages 75-144 plus 56 pages of ads. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photography throughout. Features: A Suburban Commercial Center; Branch Banks - a field for remodeling; Group Offices for Physicians - an alteration in Los Angeles; The Pennsylvania Drug Company Store, New York City; Modernization as a Community Program; Jeffries Point Branch - an alteration for the Boston Public Library; A Country House at Water Mill, Long Island - The Home of Mrs. Norma T. Johnson; Portfolio of Schools; Dozens of sensational full-page illustrated ads; and much more. Minimal library markings. Average wear. External soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
Quattro volumi in 4° legati in mezza pelle con unghie, titolo ai tasselli ai dorsi (restauri), tagli e sguardie pavonate, bianche, occhielli, al primo tomo antiporta con carta topografica a doppia pagina a colori della Città, frontespizio, XXXII, 596 pp.; antiporta, frontespizio, XIII, LVIII, 577 pp. per il secondo volume, antiporta, frontespizio, XIII, XII, 691 pp. per il terzo, antiporta, frontespizio, X, 713 pp. per il quarto, molte tavole ft. anche protette da veline, illustrazioni nel testo. La più completa, ricca, impressiva storia della Città di Boston, capitale culturale e "swap" nonché polo economico politico di grande peso nella storia degli U.S.A.. Affascinante, con una ricca e ridondante iconografia. In più che bello stato, completa e collazionata, importante ed assai scarsamente reperibile
First edition, folio (355 x 220 mm), xxii, 824, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and title browned and spotted, 7 engraved plates, 96 wood engravings in the text, folding pedigree, front inner hinge shaken, orig. brown cloth gilt, head and foot on spine a litter worn. Corns, Bibliotheca Lincolniensis, p.111-2.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original cloth bdg. 4to. (26 x 19 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [4], 1422, [2] p. Text block separated in two columns. Fading title gilt lettering on spine, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce bible in Ottoman Turkish, printed by one of the most famous Armenian printers and published by the English & American Bible Societies in Turkey during the second half of the 19th century. Arshag Hagop Boyajian, (1837-1914), was an Ottoman Armenian printer and a leader of the Armenian Protestant community in the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Diyarbakir and educated at Robert College in Istanbul. During the Crimean War (1853-1856), he served as a translator at the headquarters of the British army in Üsküdar (Scutari), on Istanbul's Asian shore. After a short stay in the United States to perfect his knowledge of modern printing techniques, he established a... (Source: Brill).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original brown half-leather bdg. with a clip. "Poesie" title on black cloth front cover. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic script). [2], 153, [3] p. Completely handwritten with numerous pages. All edges gilt. This unique manuscript is probably an early sketch written in Ottoman script to be used later for its first edition published by Maarif Vekâleti [i.e. Turkish Ministry of Education] in 1947 in modern Turkish with Latin letters. The Mysterious Universe is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan. The book is an expanded version of the Red Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1930. It begins with a full-page citation of the famous passage in Plato's Republic, Book VII, laying out the allegory of the cave. The book made frequent reference to the quantum theory of radiation, initiated by Max Planck in 1900, to Albert Einstein's general relativity, and to the new theories of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg and Schrödinger, of whose philosophical perplexities the author seemed well aware. The book was denounced by the Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, because "Jeans has written a book called The Mysterious Universe and I loathe it and call it misleading. Take the title... I might say that the title The Mysterious Universe includes a kind of idol worship, the idol being Science and the Scientist." A second edition appeared in 1931. The book was reprinted 15 times between 1930 and 1938 and again in September 2007. Salih Murat Uzdilek (1891-1967) was the first to translate this book into Turkish, printed in 1947 under the title "Esrarli kâinât". Although there's no sign in this manuscript, probably the author is Uzdilek. He was a Professor of Physics at Istanbul Technical University, graduated as a naval officer in 1908. It was his father Mehmed Sefik Bey, who as a mathematics teacher introduced him to the study of the subject. Salih Murat developed an interest in the history of mathematics through readings of books by F. Cajori and D. E. Smith. Uzdilek studied engineering in London prior to the First World War, where he was invited to present a communication on the "Introduction of logarithms into Turkey" at the Napier Tercentenary organized by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25-27 July 1914. The paper published in the Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume (1915) was based on the research by Salih Zeki Bey, historian of science and Rector of Istanbul University between 1913 and 1917, published in his Kamus-i Riyaziyat (Encyclopaedia of Mathematics 1898). His findings indicate that Yirmisekiz Mehmet Çelebi, the Sultan's envoy to France, had been presented an astronomical text which included logarithms by the astronomer Jacques Cassini during his visit to the Paris Observatory in 1714. It was this collection that led to the introduction of logarithms into Turkey. Kalfazade Ismail Efendi, a timekeeper, and mathematician compiled an introduction to logarithms for his translation of the astronomical tables of J. Cassini in 1772, which is considered the first work on logarithms, into Turkish. Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi, renowned for his works in mathematics and logic, completed his Logaritma Serhi (Commentary on Logarithms) in 1787. After his return to Istanbul, Salih Murat Uzdilek was invited by the Austrian Dean of the School of Engineering, Prof. Philipp Forchheimer, to give physics lessons at the school. Prof. Uzdilek pursued his interest in the history of mathematics and physics throughout his long career. He was also an active researcher in the physics of sound and music and contributed to the contemporary tonal system of Turkish music. In his later years, Prof. Uzdilek was invited to lecture at the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original pictorial wrappers. Chromo-lithographed photo-montage collage cover with seven b/w photos of African buildings and natives, and a red map of Africa. Complete in wrappers and folded huge Africa map (size: 57 x 82 cm). Cover size: 28.5 x 20.5 cm. In Turkish. Scale: 1/20,000,000. A very rare chromo-lithographed Africa map, prepared for the geography lessons about foreign countries in Turkey in 1930. The map shows the territories of the African continent, which was still politically under European colonialism as of the 1930s. It includes Rio de Oro (Spanish territory), Fas [i.e. Morocco], Algeria, Sahara, Cameroon (French territories), Trabulus [i.e. Libya] as Italian territory; and Liberia, Egypt, East Sudan, Eritre [i.e. Eritrea], Habesistan [i.e. Ethiopia], Somali, Kenya, Belgian Kongo, Angola, Mozambique and South African land including Rhodesia (equivalent in the territory to modern Zimbabwe), Transvaal, The Orange Free State [Oranje-Vrystaat], Natal and Kap [Cape] with Madagascar. An extra panel for the same scale map showing the Suez Canal, Nile Delta, and North Egypt in the lower-left corner. Duran studied in Istanbul and Paris. He worked as a geography teacher in various high schools and afterward he undertook the positions of lecturer and administrator in Ankara Gazi Education Institute for a time. He was known for his writings on various topics and particularly for his works on geography. Born in the imperial period, Duran conducted the first cartographic studies of the Republic of Turkey after the transition to the Republican administration. Sealed. Slight foxing. Otherwise a fine copy. Not in OCLC.
Very Good Turkish Chapograph print. Extremely rare first and the earliest printing material in book form (both in scarce institutional holdings and market rarity), which has brought the concept of optical art to Turkey. This compilation and work were prepared by the contemporary Turkish architects Güven and Alemdar, who were experts on urbanization. The book includes nine chapters excluding the plates: History of op-art.; Optical effects: Black and white.; Optical effects: Color.; Reliefs, moving objects, and light.; Special joint characteristics in 'Op'.; 'Op' and other art genres.; Leading names in the European school of 'Op'.; British and American 'Op'.; Critics.; and Plates. Plates were taken from various American art magazines published in the period and German advertisements from German magazines which reflected 'Optic art'. Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art using optical illusions. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or swelling or warping. The antecedents of op art, in terms of graphic and color effects, can be traced back to Neo-impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Dada. László Moholy-Nagy produced photographic op art and taught the subject in the Bauhaus. Time magazine coined the term op art in 1964, in response to Julian Stanczak's show Optical Paintings at the Martha Jackson Gallery, to mean a form of abstract art (specifically non-objective art) that uses optical illusions. Works then labeled as "op art" had actually been produced for several years before Time's 1964 article. For instance, Victor Vasarely's painting Zebras (1938) is made up entirely of curvilinear black and white stripes not contained by contour lines. Consequently, the stripes appear to both meld into and burst forth from the surrounding background. Also, the early black and white "dazzle" panels that John McHale installed at the 'This Is Tomorrow' exhibit in 1956 and his 'Pandora' series at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1962 demonstrated proto-op art tendencies. Martin Gardner featured Op Art and its relation to mathematics in his July 1965 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. In Italy, Franco Grignani, who originally trained as an architect, became a leading force of graphic design where op art or kinetic art was the focus. His Woolmark logo (launched in Britain in 1964) is probably the most famous of all his designs. Op art perhaps more closely derives from the constructivist practices of the Bauhaus. This German school, founded by Walter Gropius, stressed the relationship of form and function within a framework of analysis and rationality. Students learned to focus on the overall design or entire composition to present unified works. Op art also stems from trompe-l'oil and anamorphosis. Links with psychological research have also been made, particularly with Gestalt theory and psychophysiology. When the Bauhaus was forced to close in 1933, many of its instructors fled to the United States. There, the movement took root in Chicago and eventually at the Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, where Anni and Josef Albers eventually gave lectures [.] (Source: Wikipedia). Not located in OCLC and the Turkish National Library.
Very Good Turkish Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish with Latin letters. 64 p., 1 portrait, 2 unnumbered b/w plates. First and only edition of this rare and early first and only separate travel account to Australia by a Turkish traveler in Turkish literature. Mehmet Osman Bey, (1878-1940?), was a son of Miralay Ahmed Bey, and the grandson of Emin Pasha who was the head doctor of Sultan Murat V. Mehmet Osman Bey, who circumnavigated the world in 1910, continued his journey across India, Sumatra, Java, Malaga, the Archipelago, Japan and China until the fourth month of the World War I. After arriving in Australia, he wrote his travel notes and later on was taken as a civilian prisoner by the British Army in Australia and was sent first to India and from there to Egypt. According to Demiray's preface, he was blind after returning to Turkey. This book includes two plates showing farmhouses in Australia. He described in his book Australia's educational, farming and medical systems as well as the topography of the land, the customs and rituals of the natives, their traditions of hunting, and the largely indigenous population in Queensland and the native camps outside Sydney. One of the purposes of publishing this book in the early Republican Turkey period was to examine the welfare level and systems in other countries in accordance with the conjuncture of the period. Only two copies in OCLC: 949418134 (Bogaziçi University Library & National Library of Australia).
