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74 ages. Features: Ceylon strike; Doolittle Raider; Willys Jeep; Allied Oil Plot; Bridge Busters; U-boat Turkey Shoot. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
"Ontaatje's sensitive descriptions, illustrated with Book
In 4°, dorso ricostruito, pp.428-(6nn). Rara seconda ediz. parzialmente intonsa corredata da ill. fotogr. intercalate n.t. e a piena p. (luoghi, popolazioni, edifici...). Vladislao Zaleski (1852-1925) fu delegato apostolico in India orientale e scrittore di memorie, partecipò a missioni diplomatiche della sede apostolica in Spagna (1884), India (1886) e Inghilterra (1887). Interessante resoconto di viaggio soprattutto da un punto di vista etnografico. Fiorit. sparse dovute alla qualità della carta peraltro es. molto buono.
In 8, pp. 428 + (4). Centinaia di ill. fot. anche a piena p. Intonso. Br. ed. Seconda edizione, la prima era stata pubblicata nell'anno precedente. Mons. Zaleski fu delegato apostolico in India, Spagna e Inghilterra. In quet'opera espone con dovizia di particolari le caratteristiche etnografiche alle quali pone a corredo un ricco apparato fotografico. Zalenski segui' Monsignor Agliardi come suo segretario
Volume in 8° grande, tela editoriale impressa e dorata (dorature fané), titolo al dorso decorato, sguardie, occhiello, antiporta incisa, frontespizio, 238 pp., tavole f.t e illustrazioni n.t., indici. Interessante ed avvincente relazione di viaggio nel profondo oriente e segnatamente a Ceylon, con ampia narrazione di usi, costumi degli autoctoni, splendide descrizioni dei luoghi, il tutto in forma di romanzo. Ottimamente narrato, arricchito da tavole ft. e da illustrazioni nel testo, in ottimo stato, qualche arrossatura della carta, non facilmente reperibile.
In 8. Dim. 28,5x24 cm. Edizione del 1936 di questo volume fotografico sull'Asia di Camillo Canali. All'interno: India, Ceylon, Siam, Malesia, Indie Olandesi, Filippine, Hongkong Macau, Cina, Giappone ecc... In buone condizioni. Copertina editoriale in discrete condizioni con usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. Edition of 1936 of this photographic volume about Asia by Camillo Canali. Inside: India, Ceylon, Siam, Malesia, Indie Olandesi, Filippine, Hongkong Macau, Cina, Giappone ecc... In good conditions. Editorial cover in fair conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Pages in very good conditions with occasional foxings.
Grenoble, B. Arthaud, 1935, in-8, br., pp. 187, (3). Con 87 fotoincisioni da foto dell'autore. Asportato l'occhietto.
Arthaud 1935, petit In-4 broché sous couverture à rabats. 187 pages + 87 héliogravures. Envoi autographe de l'auteur, ex libris. Trés bon état.
Paris, Julliard, Collection " La Croix du Sud ", 1955. In-8, broché, bien complet de sa jaquette en couleurs, 180 pp. Planches hors-texte et cartes.
LIULLE, sté de St-augustin, Desclée, de Brouwer & cie - SD, fin XIX (?) - 2 Volumes In-8 - 1/2 Reliure, dos à 4 nerfs, filets & titres dorés -Pages de titre ornées - Carte dépliante HT des Voyages en Indes & en Chine - Bandeaux, culs-de-lampe, lettrines - Texte entouré d'un filet rouge - XI, 383 & 408 pages - Bon Ex.
In 8. cm 23x15. Pp. 325+(3). Edizione del 1933 di questo resoconto di viaggio dello storico giornalista e noto aviatore Vittorio Beonio Brocchieri (1902-1979). Brocchieri viaggiò a lungo in solitaria e visitò numerosi paesi. All'interno sono presenti 41 fotografie su planches fuori testo e sette mappe (Canada, Labrador, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawai, Tokio, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Tokio, Nikko, Nanchino, Malesia, Ceylon, Bombay, Mesopotamia, Egitto). Tra i paesi descritti: Nord America, Honolulu, Giappone, Cina, Equatore, Ceylon, India ecc... In buone condizioni e completo. Copertina editoriale in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni con fioriture. Edition of 1933 of this resuming of travel by the historian journalist and famous aviator Vittorio Beonio Brocchieri (1902-1979).<BR> Brocchieri travelled alone for a long time and visited many countries. Inside there are 41 photoes on out of text planches and seven maps (Canada, Labrador, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawai, Tokio, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Tokio, Nikko, Nanchino, Malesia, Ceylon, Bombay, Mesopotamia, Egitto). Between the places described: Nord America, Honolulu, Giappone, Cina, Equatore, Ceylon, India ecc... In good conditions and complete. Editorial cover in good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with foxings.
In 16°, br. edit. ill. (tracce d'uso e strappetti, dorso riparato con nastro adesivo), pp. 160,(4); coll. "Collana di viaggi", alcune sottolineature e tratti a matita ai margini del t., discreto es.. (x052) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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
Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
Features "The Hatfield-McCoy Feud", an 11-page illustrated article [part 1]. 84, [40 ads] pages. Additional Features: Canadian Indian Witchcraft; Smugglers of the Baltic; The Death-Shell; A Chinese Mutiny; Cycling to Eldorado; On a Ceylon Tea Estate; Twenty-Three Days Adrift; A Thousand Miles Through African Bush; Three Men on a Raft; Slippery Wiley's Clients. Heavily worn. Tape repairs to spine. A worthy reference copy of this special issue. Book
Stories: The Timber Pirates; Among the Lapps; Dockland Vendetta; The Turning Point; Bred in the Bone; The Farm Theives; Drug-Smuggling in Ceylon; Plenty Gold; Good Seamanship; That Mine in Mexico; The Monkey-Man Case; Stratagem. Above-average wear. Name and ink stamp upon front cover. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Hidden Bay - A member of the Cape Police investigates a series of missing boats and their crews; The Parson - A Tale of old frontier days in Marshall, Texas; A Gambling Raid in Malaya - A white police officer single-handedly attempts to raid a gambling-den in the Malay States; Through Arctic Seas - Part III - The continues adventures of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo in the Western Arctic as it studies the Eskimos and wild life - with map and many nice photos; Among the Kazak Nomads - Matthew Edwards describes his time with these hardy riders of the plains, who enjoy hunting with trained eagles - including many very nice photos; On Tour With a Puppet Show - Part I - Walter Wilkinson travels through the West of England with his glorified Punch-and-Judy outfit; George's Crocodile - an amusing tale from the coast of China; "Bimbo" - Russell Afzal's dog killed a sacred monkey, was cursed, and died a mysterious death; Pat the Teacher - He drifted to a remote Australian sheep station and proved his manhood to the full; The Isle of Rip Van Winkle - A visit to the quaint and beautiful island of Banda, the "Pearl of the Moluccas" - with photos; The Romance of Pearls - An excellently photo-illustrated account of the fisheries of Ceylon, with some interesting stories concerning pearls; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part II - The continued tale of Major Jackson's year-long, 6,000 mile trip from Beira to Banana - with interesting photos. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
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
Pages 294-388 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Captain's Baby - a respected officer of the Australian Steam Navigation Company takes a little urchin under his protection, leading to humorous difficulties; A Journey into Arabistan - photo-illustrated account of a journey through a little-known part of Persia; The Quest of the Peso-La-Ki - the romantic story of a hidden Western Navajo silver mine, sought for vainly by daring prospectors for over a century; Tight Corners (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures from West and Central Africa; The Girl-Man - a young woman aged 23 tires of an unhappy marriage and sinks her identity and sex to reappear as a man named Frank Duffy and wander the United States for three years - until she is discovered by a policeman and a court orders her to 'go back to the skirts'; Icebergs - interesting photo-illustrated article by Lacey Amy; Dodging Death - in Australia, Sydney Wright falls from a building under construction, only to be saved by landing on telegraph wires (per cover illustration); A wife on an Indian coffee plantation cures her husband of constantly 'talking shop'; Milly's Hobby; Europe's "Wild West" - photo-illustrated article on the great Hungarian Hortobagy; "The Doctor" - in Ceylon Gunner Duncan is tragically burned to death; Our Travels in Safari-Land (part III) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) describes her ambitious journey through British East Africa; The Missing Ship - in 1897 the American clipper T.F. Oakes and her crew were considered lost, but miraculously saved by the crew of the "Kasbek"; Interesting photo of the grave of a British Columbia Indian chief in a hit above stumps; Photo of a Burmese boy 'undergoing the operation of tattooing', with brief write-up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
iv + 101pp., 27cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), blind wrappers, text in typoscript, stamp at verso of title page, X112190
224 pages including index. One hundred and fifty years ago the British planter arriving in India or Ceylon could hardly expect a bungalow, a deep freeze, a television - let alone an orderly estate of tea bushes. The scene would rather be the dense tropical jungle, disease-carrying insects, and prowling beasts of prey. He would work and live alone, and bivouac for months on end under tropical rains with but the scantiest of provisions. That is why this book is entitled The Pioneers. Author, who was a planter in Ceylon, has done much research covering the pre 1900 period, putting together a description in words and pictures of how these pioneers lived. Amazingly, although a few books of personal reminiscences by planters have been published in the distant past, Weatherstone's achievement has never before been attempted.... To anyone who has lived in India, Ceylon, Imperial China - or indeed any tea producing country - this work will have a strong nostalgic appeal. To those in the tea and coffee trades - even to the keener drinkers - it is an education, an exciting view into a near-forgotten world. But to the thinning ranks of retired planters, it is simply a must." - from dust jacket. Nearly 350 illustrations in colour and black and white. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear and minor lean to spine. Glossy green illustrated dust jacket remains attractive with very light wear and no tears. Excellent copy. Book
758p. Uncut. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Slightly soiled. Spine faded. OCC 7
