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Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Jogi's Curse - An Indian government official is cursed by a wondering jogi (priest) and the prophecy is tragically fulfilled; An Underground Wonderland - Fantastic photo-illustrated article on the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; Adrift in the China Seas - Sent off to fetch help for their crippled steamer, H.W. Millard, G. Grant Simmons and their companions are blown off course and suffer an eight-day ordeal; "Watu Wa Miti" - R. St. Barbe Baker founded the "Men of the Trees" in Equatorial Africa to preserve trees which were continually being burned to secure land for cultivation - with photos; The Man Who Wanted a Change - A factory hand seeking escape travels to the South Seas, only to return sadder and wiser; Two Years in Borneo - Part I - Oscar Cook spent eight years there, the last two of which were quite strenuous - with photos; "The Man With the Buried Head" - photo of alms-seekers in India; The Promotion of Private Smith - The inside facts of an affair involving Private Smith, a young soldier in the American Army, stationed in the Philippines; The Last of the Bushrangers - Mrs. Mary J. Nichols reflects on the old pioneer days in Tasmania and the 'sticking-up' of an isolated station by the last gang of bushrangers that operated in the island - with photos; Forbidden Nepal - Hugh Walter had unusual opportunities to visit this closed state and provides interesting glimpses of the manners, customs, and principal religious festivals of the Nepalese - with photos; White Man's Magic - While exploring the interior of New Zealand the author and his companion fell afoul of a rascally Maori tohunga, or medicine man; Where Cannibals Roam - Part II - An eventful journey into the unknown interior of Papua, with photos; "Old Peter" - C.N.C. Hayter, formerly of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, describes instances of 'second sight' he witnessed among Eskimos, thus providing independent corroboration of a story about apparent Eskimo telepathy in this publication a few months ago; What Happened to Spott - A funny story about a miserly old South African storekeeper and a black mamba snake; The World's Largest Goldfish Farm - founded by Eugene Shireman of Martinsville, Indiana - with photo. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
86 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Nice one-page colour photos of Chan Siew Cheng, Hu Hui Chung, Lin Ching Hsia, Michelle Wu, and Katherine Lin; Great two-page colour photo ad for Shaolin Vs. Lama; Two-page colour photo ad for The Nine Demons; Colour photo ads for The Challenger and Warriors from Shaolin; Lovely colour photos of Sally Yeh on the beach in the Philippines; A Flower in the Rainy Night; The Sensational Pair; Shaolin and Wu Tang; and much more. Airline stamp upon front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Taking of Hamjah's Head - One of the most elusive outlaws ever to trouble the Philppine Constabulary finally meets his fate - with photos; Smuggling on the Spanish Main - J. Vance Marshall became acquainted with two leading Spanish-American contrabandistas and became entangled in some most exciting happenings; The Man Who Was Buried Alive! - Part II (conclusion) of the amazing adventures of the "Marquis de Champaubert", with photos; The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" - part I - Quaint experiences of a three month journey through France in a fifteen-foot boat, with photos; "Monty" the Man-Eater - Part II - One of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; M'tagati (the Zulu word for witchcraft); Money For Nothing - A veteran prospector buys a mine for almost nothing but it produces thousands of pounds of gold, with photo; The Little Red Karen - Hugh Nisbet, a veteran of the forests of Burma and Siam, describes his encounter with Nanchai, a Siamese dacoit who was believed to be proof against bullet and sword - with two photos; Over Shoshone Falls in a Canvas Boat - Al Faussett, a former lumberjack, went over Idaho's Shoshone Falls - a cataract considerably higher than Niagara - in a twelve-foot canvas boat! (with phot of Faussett in his boat); The Kamalu "Ju-Ju" - Frank Hives aims to shut down a mysterious Nigerian Ju-Ju, or fetish, responsible for the disappearance of hundreds of victims; Sheep-Farming in the Sahara - A photo-illustrated account of how R.V.C. Bodley has partnered with an Arab chief to breed sheep, incidentally showing how the rulers of tribes deal with thieves and murderers who occasionally disturb the peace of the desert; Desert Ghosts - weird little story from the Egyptian desert; Black Magic - A queer tale from India; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Madrid, Simón y Osler, 1882, 19,5 x 14 cm., holandesa piel de época, XL + 445 págs. + 1 hoja + 1 mapa plegado en colores.
Madrid, C. Moliner y Cía., 1875, 20,5 x 14 cm., cartoné editorial impreso gastado por las esquinas y reforzado por el lomo, dedicatoria manuscrita, 133 págs. + 1 hoja.
Madrid, Viuda de M. Minuesa de los Ríos, 1896, 18,5 x 11 cm., holandesa piel, retrato + XXIII + 437 págs. + 1 h.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
168 pages. Glossary, index and bibliography. Map endpapers. "From 1934 to 1956, self-taught Filipino photographer Eduardo Masferre dedicated his talent to recording images of the indigenous people in the heart of the Philippine Cordillera mountains - the Bontok, Kankana-ey, Kalinga, Gaddang and Ifugao people. Masferre created in photographs a sensitive portrait of a place and its people. The rice terraces sculpted into the steep mountain slopes and long valleys, the planting, cultivation and harvesting of rice, a family gathered at their hearth, scenes of the village, weavers and potters at work, men engaged in religious rituals and ceremonial dances, and strong faces that meet one's gaze with great integrity - Masferre preserved all of these in timeless images that transcend ethnography and imbue documentary fact with deeper meaning." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding open at page 3. Fading to top of dust jacket back panel. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. [ISBN 9719108253] Book
Malina, Tipo-Litografía de Chofré y Cía., 1892, 21,5 x 14,5 cm., rústica editorial con la cubierta posterior desprendida, VI + 201 págs. (Sello de anterior poseedor. Carecemos de la segunda parte de esta obra, español-tiruray).
Ambas obras en un volumen, 18 x 12,5 cm., holandesa piel de época con tejuelo y puntas, la primera obra impresa en Madrid, Aribau y Cía., 1876, 321 págs. + 1 hoja. Y la segunda impresan también en Madrid, por Anllo y Rodríguez, 1877, XX + 307 págs. + 4 hojas. (Según Retana La crítica de este libro de F. Cañamaque cayó muy mal en Filipinas hasta el punto que las autoridades prohibieron la entrada y circulación del libro).
Barcelona - Madrid, Instituto Padre Enrique Florez - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1957 - 1989. Cincuenta y tres volúmenes en 4to., con un promedio de 350 pp. por volúmen. Cubiertas originales.
Manila, La Oceanía Española, 1878, 20 x 14,5 cm., holandesa piel moderna, IX + 430 págs. (sello en portada de José Paredes Rodríguez, médico de sanidad militar. Rara obra de la que solo hemos localizado 3 ejemplares en en Catálogo Colectivo. "Advierte el editor en el Prólogo que quedándole 400 ejemplares de la edición de 1877, le añadió nuevos pliegos, con notas, para hacer un paralelo entre 1809 y 1878" Retana).
