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Payot 1938, In-8 broché, 272 pages. Avec 38 dessins de l'auteur. Bon état.
8vo., printed wrappers; 222pp.spine frayed, ow. good, broché, dos de le couverture abimé, autrement bon. en français.
222pp., dans la série "Bibliothèque politique et économique", reliure cart. (dos en toile, avec titre doré), cachet, 22cm., bon état, X42311
3 vols.: lxxxviii,380 + 333 + 326pp. + portrait, maps (of which some folding) and facsimiles, 23cm., cloth, G, text in Russian, [Bichurin of Beijing, monastic name: Iankinf, 1777-1853, was the ninth leader of the Russian Orthodox Mission to Beijing and one of the founding fathers of sinology; this collection of information about the peoples inhabiting Central Asia in Ancient Times - i.e. Central Asia, South Siberia, Manchuria, Corea, Japan, Middle Asia and Eastern Turkestan - is the result of his travels through Asia as a missiologist and scholar], OCLC 417573879, X72530
8vo., First US Edition, with 19 plates (one double-page) on 16; pictorial cloth in red and white, backstrip lettered in black, pictorial endpapers, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the Japanese C-in-C hanged as a war criminal at the end of WWII. Enser, p.133.
Pages 649- 676. Features: Cover photo of huge black plume of smoke rising from a Jerusalem cinema, mistakenly thought to be Arab owned and burned by Jews in retaliation for Arab looting; Six dramatic photos of Arab riots in Jerusalem where Britain represents the sole stable factor; Photo of the huge Consolidated Vultee military transport, the XC-99, during its first test flight; Photo inside the belly of the XC-99; Two photos of the air raid shelter, or bunker, where Hitler and Eva Braun died; Two photos of the deep water salvage submarine designed by Italian Pietro Vessena for use in Lake Como; Five photos of Russia's mighty military on parade in Moscow; Five photos of hunger and destitution in postwar Berlin; Article discusses the great communist counter-offensive in France; Photos from Manchuria where China's Civil War continues; Two pages of scenes of sabotage and civil disorder in Paris, Arras and Lille, where the French assertion of the right to work has brought the Communists into the open; One-page reproduction of the famous photo of St. Paul's Cathedral during the 1940 blitz - contrasted with the opposing page which shows St. Paul's today, war-scarred but majestic amid devastation; Five photos show repairs being made to St. Paul's; Two pages of photos illustrate the ancient art of Benin; Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Eustace Pulbrook, King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parme, Samuel Courtauld, Mr. Molotov, Mr. Vishinsky, Chiang Kai-shek, Harold Wilson, and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek; Photo of a detachment of the York and Lancaster Regiment at Dolni Bousov, Czechoslovakia, receiving back the regimental drum, lost to the Germans in Crete in 1941; Photo of huge crowd in Tel Aviv celebrating news that the UN had voted in favour of the partition of Palestine. Somewhat above average wear. Unmarked. Few tape repairs. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 881-921 plus advertising covers. Features: Cover illustration of new American idea using mirror to protect bank tellers from gun-toting robbers; Six captioned photos of the Nonni Front / Tsitsihar and the relics of the original cause of trouble between the Japanese and Chinese in Manchuria; Review of "The Coinage of England" by Charles Oman; Photos of horse racing; Photo of burning passenger steamer the L.M.S. "Duke of Lancaster"; Photos of sinking of the "Nautilus", the first submarine to attempt reaching the North Pole; Photo of Bert Hinkler, the first airman to fly solo from South America to West Africa; Photo of J.A. Mollison's Gipsy moth upside-down in an Egyptian maize field; Photos of Jammu - occupied by British troops after riots; Bronze-age discover in Cyprus - prehistoric snake-worship; Two excellent photos show New York City's skyline (overlooking Central Park) twenty-five years ago and now (dramatic difference); Two pages of photos (and captions) of New York skyscrapers; Five photos of Captain C.W.R. Knight and white-headed sea-eagle "Miss America" - trained to falconry; Two photos of the first anniversary of the Coronation of Haile Salassie; Photo of Miss Peggy Salaman feeding one of her lion cubs; Photos of the Indian Conference ending and the Burman Conference beginning; Photos of personalities of the week include E.G. Pretyman, Maj.-General Sir P. Hambro, Mr. S.R.C. Bosanquet, Lady Bruce, Maj.-Gen. Sir David Bruce, Dr. Sze of China, Yotaro Sugimura, Mr. Yoshizawa, Yehudi Menuhin performing at the Albert Hall, Mr. C.J. Longmore - the first man to loop-the-loop in a glider in England; Preparing the New Gorilla Group for the Natural History Museum; Four photos of mural discovered in Little Missenden's 12th century church; Five photos of scenes in new film "Tsar Lenin"; Photos of Christmas gift suggestions; plus many nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
XXII [ads], 76 pages. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos. Features: La Ville de Montreal - article with many excellent photos; The Omnipotent Soya Bean - fascinating content and photos from Manchuria; The Royal Mint and its Branches; Fishing for Albacore [off the Nova Scotia coast]; Glorious vintage ads for national Canadian brands. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this marvelous issue. Book
932pp., 25cm., cloth, [multilingual: Tungusic entries with Russian, German and English translation], X69000
Publication de la conciliation intrernaitonale, 1933. In-8 broché, carte dépliante. Bon état
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustswrapper.
[8] + xiv + 79pp., 20cm., the Russian edition of St. Petersburg (1894) reprinted by the Research Group for Altaic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in the series "Debter, Deb-Ther, Debtelin: Materials for Central Asiatic and Altaic Studies" vol.2, softcover with some use, good condition, X71534
10 parts in 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in English, with very numerous chromolithographed and tinted plates (original tissue guards present where called for), many large folding maps on japon, and some hundreds of monochrome photographs (a number full-page), and maps in the text; original salmon cloth, backs lettered and tooled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a remarkably bright, clean set. This magnificent record of one of the earliest major international conflicts of the twentieth century is remarkable on several counts. In essence an early partwork, it was compiled and issued whilst the war was still in progress, enabling its readers to follow the course and consequences of the fighting in a manner previously unparalleled. Certainly it is unique is the comprehensiveness and detail of its coverage, and in the variety and extent of its illustrations, the two together constituting a truly massive documentary resource. COMPLETE SETS OF THIS NOTABLE WORK ARE RARE, THE MORE SO IN ORIGINAL CLOTH IN THIS CONDITION. Wenckstern II,140.
[Suite du titre: "… On y joint une pièce de vers sur le Thé, composé par le même empereur. Traduit en françois par le p. Amiot, missionnaire à Peking et publié par m. Deguignes], xxiv + xxxviii + 381 + [iii] pp., avec table de matières détaillée aux pages 339 à 381, première et seule édition, 20cm., reliure plein-cuir d'époque (titre et décorations dorées au dos, vague trace de trois étiquettes enlévées, coins peu fatigués), feuilles de garde marbrées, tranches rouges, cachet d'une bibliothèque de Scheut (congrégation missionnaire très active en Chine) sur la page de titre et au verso de la première feuille de garde, texte frais avec très peu de rousseurs, bon exemplaire de cet ouvrage bien rare et curieux, [AMIOT Joseph Marie, Toulon 1718 - Péking 1793, "partit pour la Chine en 1740, il eut bientôt gagné l'estime et la confiance de l'empereur Kien-Long et il apprit en perfection la langue chinoise et celles des Tatars que parlait l'empereur… " (voir De Backer-Sommervogel I-295-6) / KIEN-LONG ou bien CHING KAO-TSUNG, 1710-1786, empereur de Chine en succession de son père en 1736 jusqu'à sa mort], X83682
Berger-Levrault & Cie éditeur, 1910. Fort In-8 relié demi-toile mauve, pièce de titre rouge, 712 pages. Très nombreuses cartes dépliantes. Septième année. Tome XIV. Juillet à décembre 1913. Petites taches en reliure et manque sur le haut du premier plat sinon bon état
244p. Inked ownership. 8vo. Original full grey cloth binding. Coldwar/Economics 9
in-12, 216 pages, carte en frontispice, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-2]
in-16, 68 pages, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [BU-10]
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 261 pages.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip.
52 pages. Cover painting by Thomas W. Mitchell features man with ax and oxen. Content: Fantastic International Trucks ad features photos of their largest and smallest models plus diagrams of their other 11 models; Investors Syndicate ad features Mrs. Martha E. Dodele; Nice Canada Dry ad features tennis-playing couple; She Who Walks the Waters, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Beatty - President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Aces' Race - proposed professional world's championship sculling race at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), by Frank Adams - with illustrations of Major Goodsell, Teddy Phelps, Bert Barry and Bobby Pearce; Fair by not Frail, Gladys B. Taber; Eye, Eye, Sir, by Hugh Grant Rowell, M.D. - an article on vision; Who's Next? - an article to help other Canadians understand how political trouble of Ontario's Conservatives may affect the rest of the country - with photos of George S. Henry, Mines McCrea, Col. W.H. Price, and Mr. Macaulay; Warden of the Flock, by Paul Annixter; Central Banking, by Harold E. Crowle - a monetary commission will in the near future investigate the desirability of a central bank for Canada; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; A Fall Out of History, by H.M. Blake; Feathered Speed - Pigeon Races, by W.T. Webb; Grain Fair, by Roderick Stuart Kennedy - The World's Grain Exhibition at Regina; Nice colour ad for Campbell's vegetable soup; President Roosevelt's Brain Trust; British M.P. W. Kirkpatrick supports Japan's conquest of Manchuria; Lux Toilet Soap ad features Loretta Young, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blake; Letters to the Editor; A Swedish Forest has supplied logs for 700 years and has greater supply than ever; The Great Auk may still live; The Summer Cottage - article by F.L. DeN. Scott; The Investor and His Stockbroker, by C.W. Stollery; Nice ad for Dominions Tires inside back cover; Nice ad for Chevrolet Standars Six and Master Six on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Color ad for GM's Electro-Motive Division; Color ad for the new Pontiac (car); Color Kuppenheimer clothing ad; Moscow-London duel attests problems of Truman and Attlee in shaping policy on atomic bomb; Nice color military-themed Coke ad (in Leyte, Philippines); Nice color Camel cigarette ad; Stalin rumors kindled by failure to show up for Red celebrations; photo of tubby Col. Esao Tokunaga who abused Allied prisoners in Hong Kong; Evidence of Japanese war crimes in the Philippines; Blood over Manchuria; The idle GI and liberated France are mighty tired of each other; Dee Balla - Sweetheart of the Marines; Color ad for Pullman-Standard; Great color centerfold ad for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Two photos of a German weapon, the "Viper", a rocket-powered, piloted midget plane which was to be aimed at enemy bombers at 620 mph - the pilot would bail out pre-impact; Canada's arctic exercise Musk Ox; Lewis-Murray feud blurs start of labor-management meeting; Clarence Birdseye now holds 300 patents - his latest invention is a quick-dehydration method; nice color White truck ad; Edgar Bergen marries Frances Westerman; Prokofieff's voice is cosmopolitan - his theme is the spirit of Russia; Photo of German POWs at Fort Custer, Michigan; color ad for Philip Morris & Co. - Bond Street and Revelation; William Keighley; It's Pepsi's Money - Portrait of America Exhibition at Rockefeller Center; Color ad for Scheaffer's pens inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
Ecole Supérieur de Guerre, 1907. Cours ronéotypé de In-4 relié demi-toile chocolat à coins, titre doré en dos. 6 pages (erratum) + 1 ere partie : Couverture et exploration, 2ème partie : la cavalerie dans la bataille, 3ème partie Les opérations contre les lignes de communication de 327 pages et appendice : Destruction d'un pont de chemin de fer japonais au sud d'Haitcheng le 21 février 1905, 13 pages. Bien complet des 35 planches libres, certaines déplaintes. Bon état
178pp. de bibliographie + 6 planches hors-texte, 25cm., br., bon état, X71611
