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Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a foreign 'tramp' to get home to Australia ends up in big problems because of the author's double; A Baptism of Fire - A young forest ranger of the British Columbia Forest Service fights a fire which puts over a hundred people in a logging camp at risk; The Trek - a minor pioneer adventure in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - happy days in Central America; The Golden Ingot - A West African Confidence Man; Down Mexico Way - Two Jacks ashore get in trouble as they explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - the celebrated Hindu shrine at Kataragama, Ceylon; Pioneer Pilot - Peter Strong; One Thing After Another - good luck finally falls on a hard luck fellow in depression-era Australia; The Burma Road - Nice photos; Strange South Sea Burial-Customs; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American Coal Fields; The Octopus - a young man's nightmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus; and more. Above-average wear. Coupon neatly clipped from atop page 121, articles unaffected. Binding intact. Book
1750LBW-47861750. 258 x 246 mm.
1930PHO-989Éditions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, Paris, 1930, in-8° carré (210x165) ,xliv-296 pp. , illustré de 16 gravures H.T. , relié demi chagrin vert , dos à 5 nerfs avec auteur et titre , couverture conservée , bel exemplaire.P2-5A
1715PHO-2251Rouen, Jean Baptiste Machuel, 1715, frontispice- 6ff.-408pp., veau époque, dos à nerfs orné avec titre et tomaison, cachet au titre, frottements, coins usés, coiffe arasé, début de fente, manque de matière au plat. Illustré d’un frontispice et 6 planches dans 2 avec manque et 2 détachées
113022Les Editions Monceau, Paris, 1947, 1 volume grand in-8 de 190 x 250 mm environ, 203 pages, (2) ff. (table), (2) ff. Tirage à 1000 exemplaires numérotés, complet des illustrations de Charles Fouqueray. Demi-chagrin caramel aux plats imitation bois, tranche de tête dorée, gardes couleurs. Quelques marques sur le cuir, 2 coins frottés sinon intérieur frais, bel exemplaire.
184427132London Ackermann & Co 1844 1 planche lithographiée en couleur d'après Deschamps, imprimée sur papier épais crème, format : 47 x 31 cm, TIREE DE : Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon (Paysages et souvenirs de Ceylan) par John Deschamps, 1844 London by Ackermann & Co., 96 The Strand
Cm. 23,5, br. edit., pag. 248. Interessantissima relazione sugli aspetti commerciali e logistici riguardanti uno sviluppo dell'esportazione verso le Indie Orientali: Ceylan, Giava, Singapore con note storiche sul Canale di Suez e descrizione dei vari porti incontrati durante il viaggio fino a Giava sul Piroscafo Batavia. Ottimo essemplare a fogli chiusi.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
1896LBW-2872London, Edward Stanford, [1896]. 640 x 503 mm.
194769659Les éditions Monceau, impr. Imprimerie Union 1947 In-4, plein maroquin grenat, dos à nerfs orne de filets et d’un fer dorés, tête dorée, 203 pp., 62 illustrations dont 10 hors texte. Reliure légèrement cintrée.
38647016-nnew. unknown
2016B1610115Dirimart Yayinlari 2016. New. n/a n/a HC. Emine Ceylan was born in Istanbul in 1955. She started focusing on photographs in 1984 and became a photographer. Ceylan published her story book Kis Yolculugu Norgunk 1988 and photograph books Fotograflar 1997 and Iklimler 1998. Since 1986 she has had many solo exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. Currently Ceylan continues to live and work in Istanbul. Dirimart Yayinlari unknown
47323Paris Jean Boudot, Libraire 1701 in 12 (15,5x9,5) 1 volume reliure pleine basane fauve, dos muet, 15 feuillets préliminaires non chiffrés sur 16 (un feuillet de table des chapitres manque), 352 pages [1]. Texte seul, sans les planches (la carte dépliante, 5 plans et de 2 planches). Tel quel ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
4528Paris, Plon-Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1909. 1 fort volume in-8, 235 pp., orné d'un frontispice (photographie du Prince Sturdza à pleine page), de 62 gravures, d'après les photographies et documents rapportés par l'auteur et d'une grande carte dépliante de la Birmanie, in fine. Reliure demi-basane, dos insolé, plats cartonnés marbrés, bon état général.
xv, [1], 325, [1] p. illus. (incl. map) 17 pl. (incl. col. front.) 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition , t.p. & frontis. foxed
SONG1498415032Xulon Press 2015-01-19. paperback. Used: Good. 5.06x0.23x7.81. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Xulon Press paperback
a48227Ceylon 1955-56 Government Press. 4 volumes. Sm.4to. 1770pp. bound into two folders cardboard boards covers with cloth spine with mounted typed spine labels. We do not know if additional volumes were published. Bank address stamped on covers. Good some wear. Four volumes: . hardcover
190458313London: Cassell & Company Limited 1904. Third edition. Illustrated with photos by the Author and full-page partially colored map. xii 476 ii pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilt stamped cream cloth with elaborate gilt design of tea leaves on covers a.e.g. Fine. Third edition. Illustrated with photos by the Author and full-page partially colored map. xii 476 ii pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cassell & Company, Limited unknown books
71310. Albumen print; good tonal range with slight discolouration around the edges. Manuscript title on card. Dimensions 19.5 x 23.5 cm. <br /> <br /> unknown
631441924. Oblong folio. 19.5 x 29 cm. Contemporary grey cloth grey endpapers spine with manuscript title "Ceylon II". Each page with date February-April 1924. 95 black & white photographs including one panoramic view of Galle on 12 leaves of card each photograph with manuscript captions and measuring c.6 x 10 cm. The final 30 photographs being of Egypt and Europe. Some minimal fading to photographs generally a very handsome album. The photographs depict show a variety of subjects including ancient ruins natural scenery schools the native population and colonial past times like tennis and the races. 1924. hardcover
8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; xi, 351 pp, frontis, plus 15 plates from photos, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine, gilt clear & unworn, name on endpaper, fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Farrer, an important plant hunter and explorer who had introduced a number of new plants to Europe, had travelled extensively in Asia. Although always looking for new plants, the author describes the natural history, the people, religion, architecture, customs, etc, as he travelled from Colombo, Gadaladeniy, Peradeniya, Sigiri Rock, Polonnarua, Kandy, to the Sacred City and various other towns and cities, providing his keen observations and well-written text. Ware 17.
ria9781848854253_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A hardcover
xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
4120Paris, Editions Boulanger, ca. 1900. 1 volume in-4, format oblong, 104 photographies colorisées sous reliure moderne plein cuir bordeaux, très bon état.
188015356Kandy, 1880er Jahre. Albuminabzug (Vintage). 222:282 mm. Aufgezogen auf Karton.
