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109229A Paris, Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Imprimeur du Roy, ruë Saint Jacques, au Cigognes, 1687, 1 volume in-16 de 150x90x30 environ, 2ff. (titre avec vignette à la marque de l'imprimeur (deux cigognes), 651 pages, 1f.blanc, reliure pleine basane brune, dos à 5 nerfs, portant titres dorés, orné de caissons à fleurons et motifs dorés. Cuir frotté et usé avec manque de matière sur une coiffe sur les coupes et les coins, rares erreurs de pagination, quelques notes manuscrites anciennes sur les gardes et la page de titre, manque la page de faux-titre, des rousseurs et petites taches éparses, fines galeries dans les marges (sans atteinte au texte).
16888Tours, Mame, s.d. (1901), 1 cartonne rouge, dans un encadrement noir, orné de décors floraux dorés, tranches dorées, mors fendus sur quelques centimètres, coiffe supérieure usagée, dos passé. grand in-8 de 368 pages, illustrations ;
ORD-19119Paris. Didot. 1754. 1 volume in-4 (205 x 260 mm) pleine basane racinée, dos à 5 nerfs orné or, gardes peignées, tranches rougies, 3ff., 646, (1) pages. Tome IX seul consacré aux voyages de Carré et de L'Estra aux Indes orientales, illustré de seulement de 24 gravures hors texte sur 26. Petits accidents aux coiffes, pièce de titre absente, sans page de titre, malgré quelques feuilles légèrement jaunies et petits défauts, assez belle reliure, intérieur en bon état. Planches en excellent état. Étiquette de Raoul Pascalis au revers du 1er plat.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
1741ARC-114170Par la Compagnie, A Trevoux, 1741. 1 volume reliure pleine basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches teintées rouge, 512 pages, épidermures sur les plats. Aux armes de la ville de Vienne.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 35 plates on 34 plates, 11 full-page maps and plans, a large folding panorama and 2 large folding coloured maps on one folder; handsomely bound in dark red full crushed morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments, lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, pictorial gilt from original front board preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the series 'The Story of Exploration', edited by J. Scott Keltie. Sold from an institution with its stamp on three leaves. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
10867Bangkok, Bangkok Times Press Limited, 1926. 1 volume in-8, 414 pp., hard covers, full cloth binding, with many illustrations and maps, very good condition.
10471Bruxelles, Editeur Georges Balat, 1901. 1 volume in-8, 213 pp., reliure ancienne demi-chagrin à coins, plats cartonnés marbrés, sans la couverture illustrée, enrichi de nombreuses photogravures et dessins, très bon état. Ouvrage rare et recherché.
12908Bangkok, Imprimerie de l'Assomption, MCMXXX. 1 volume in-folio, 38 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir brun, très bon état.
12672Bruxelles, Hayez, Imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 1911. 1 volume in-8, reliure ancienne toile chagrinée, plat orné d'une couronne, 151 pp. sur papier couché, orné d'un frontispice du Roi Vajiravudh et de nombreuses illlustrations in et hors texte et d'une carte repliée, envoi de l'auteur. Petit cachet de bibliothèque sur la page de titre, très bel exemplaire.
10272Paris, Andriveau-Goujon, Imprimerie Lemercier, 1860. 1 grande carte en couleurs entoilée (entoilage sali), 105,5 * 61,5 cm, bon état.
109480A Paris, chez Maradan, Libraire, rue des Grands-Augustins, N° 9, / chez H. Nicolle, Libraire, rue de Seine, 1808-1809, 8 volumes in-8 de 200x125 mm environ, Tome 1 : faux-titre, titre, cviij-400 pages, - Tome 2 : faux-titre, titre, lxiv-451 pages, - Tome 3 : faux-titre, titre, 458 pages, Tome 4 : faux-titre, titre, lxxxiv-568 pages, - Tome 5 : faux-titre, titre, lxxij-427 pages, - Tome 6 : faux-titre, titre, 507 pages, - Tome 7 : faux-titre, titre, lxxxviij-490 pages, - Tome 8 : faux-titre, titre, iv-514 pages, pleine basane racinée fauve, titres et tomaisons dorés sur dos lisses ornés de caissons à fleurons et motifs dorés, coupes dorées, gardes marbrées, tranches finement mouchetées de rouge. Des rousseurs cernes et pages brunies, petits défauts de marge par endroits, des coins dénudés, des coupes frottés avec manque de cuir sur 5 volumes (1-2-4-5-8), 4 coiffes légèrement ébréchées, cuir frotté avec petites épidermures.
88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: The End of the Master Bandit - The Death of Emiliano Zapata; The Women Snake-Charmers of Mount Popa, Burma (Myanmar); The Revenge of the Kuki Khels - a grim story from the North-West frontier of India; Photo of storehouse of human skulls and bones beneath church at Hythe, Kent; In Quest of Cannibals - part 1 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea - with great photos; Desert Flying - part 1 - over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia; Morrison's Moose - adventure at a logging camp near the borders of Maine and New Brunswick; Relief Worker's Adventures - part IV - thrilling illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; My Day with Royalty - at a Royal Review in Siam; The Sheep Thief; My South African Adventures - part 3; The Bear Man; The Adventures of Newspaper-Man - part VI - odd experiences as an emigrant; Trapped in a Sunken Submarine; Black Man's Magic - amazing photo-illustrated article in the fetish and witchcraft practiced in the Belgian Congo; 'Twixt The Snake and the Rock - thrilling adventure while mountain climbing near Delolali, India; Dragged by an Airship; The Apostle of the Coco-nut (Coconut) - a man in the German New Guinea Islands professes coco-nuts are the proper and only food for man - article with many photos. Openings to and loss from backstrip. Minor moisture-induced undulating. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
100374Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1948. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1948. First edition. Hardback. No DW. Original green cloth sunned to spine head and tail of spine and corners slightly crumpled. Pages browned otherwise clean and sound. PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHULA "For Robin with love from Chula November 1948." Robin's ownership signature to reverse of front free endpaper. Robin Dalton lived to 101 and had an extraordinary life and career. As a literary agent she represented Edna O'Brien John Osborne Iris Murdoch Ben Travers George Orwell Margaret Drabble B. S. Johnson Bernice Rubens and many more. She also produced films spied for Thai Government and for over five years dated the cousin and best man of Prince Philip David Milford Haven. It was he that introduced her to the Chulas and after being snowed in for five days at their Cornish house in 1947 they became her lifelong friends. On her honeymoon to her second husband in Cornwall Robin was approached by Chula who asked her to become an intelligence officer for the kingdom of Thailand. Officially she was a press attaché. "What went on taught me that every single crazy thing you see in a spy film or book is true." Within a day of husband's early death Lisba Princess Chula had offered to pay for her daughter's Lisa's education hardcover
20898Bangkok 3 May.c.1887. Postal Card UPU 4 atts surcharge 3 x 5 inches fine. A recent discovery. Jennie Nielsen was a Danish nurse who came to Bangkok in 1884 and initially started a boys school in Phetchaburi province. After falling severely ill she received treatment in Bangkok by the American doctor Heyward Hays who was in charge of the Siamese Navy Hospital. Dr. Hays successfully cured Nielsen and the two were married in 1887. In 1892 Nielsen and her husband along with Scottish doctor Peter Gowan founded one of Thailands first modern pharmacies the British Dispensary. Jennie was also active within culture and arts and she was one of the pioneers of the Bangkok Ladies Library Association where she served as president three times.Jennie unexpectedly passed away in 1920. To honour his late wife Dr. Hays built The Neilson-Hays Library in her memory. The library located on Surawongse Road is still in operation today and has one of the largest collections of English language titles in Bangkok open to the general public. unknown
6669A Amsterdam, Chez François Girardi, Imprimeur et Libraire, M.DCC.XLVIII (1748). 2 volumes in-16, 383 pp. (Tome I), 344 pp. (Tome II), reliure ancienne plein veau, dos à nerfs ornés de fleurons, ors un peu passé, bons exemplaires. Exemplaire Illustré d'un frontispice du Comte de Forbin, en Grand Amiral des Armées Navales du Roi de Siam, Narai. Sur les 2 pages de titre, la partie supérieure a été découpée maladroitement pour ôter le nom du propriétaire.
193214522Paris, Imprimeries Charles Lavauzelle (1,2), Librairie Orientaliste Paul Greuthner (3), 1926/1930/1932. 3 Bände (alles). Traduction de Charles Lavauzelle. Mit einigen Abbildungen auf Tafeln. 4°. Zus. ca 600 S. Ill. OBroschuren. Unbeschnitten. Papier minimal vergilbt, minimal gebraucht.
1687PHO-1945A Paris, chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1687 ,1 volume in-12 (15 x 9 cm) de 2ff.-617pp., relié plein veau époque, dos à nerfs orné avec titre, frottements, coins usés avec manque, coiffes usées, accroc au bas du dos, 1er feuillet blanc et titre déchirés sans manque, trou de ver traversant sans atteinte.
186024070Le Longeron 1860 1 photographie Originale sur papier Albuminé format : 38 x 27,8 cm collées sur carton gris, 34 x 44 cm avec le support en carton, sans date (1898) [Le Formidable aurait été lancé en 1885, armé en 1889, En 1898, il a été transféré à l'escadre de Atlantique, basée à Brest)
Cover Painting by Stuart. Features: Eveready Flashlight ad inside front cover; Editorial regarding the crisis of Canada's large quantity of unsold wheat; Waterman's Ink-Vue Pen ad; Roadhouse Blues, by Benge Atlee; Gold in Saskatchewan, by Leslie Roberts - Lake Athabaska's gold fields - article with photos; Place, by Tayler Sutton; Whale Coming Up! - Whaling in the North Pacific isn't what it used to be, but it still provides both peril and profit for the hardy - article with photos; Three cents an hour - women are working at that wage in Canada, under conditions that would be a disgrace to any civilized society; Hobby House, by Eleanor De Lamater; They Call Him Summertime Santa - J.D. O'Connell is Canada's most unique philanthropist; Arctic Doctor - Dr. James A. "Fred" Urquhart, of Aklavik, is Canada's most northerly doctor - his territory, an area of 900,000 square miles!; Canadians in England (Lord Beaverbrook, Gladstone Murray, Sir Campbell Stuart, Bonar Law, Lord Greenwood, Peter Donovan), by Beverley Baxter; Marriage Isn't a Place, by Margaret Lee Runbeck; Sahara Lighthouses - short article on the beacons which lead desert travellers; Siam falling under the domination of Japan - short article; Fire Bombs - an accurate prediction that in the next war they will be used by the thousand to destroy cities; Canadian Pacific ad featuring the Empress of Britain; Nice ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Those First Meals, by M. Frances Hucks at the Chatelaine Institute; Wonderfully artistic two-colour ad for Heinz Tomato Soup inside back cover; Red Indian/Marathon "Blue" colour ad on back cover for the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. Address label atop front cover which bears a six inch opening to its lower corner. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
85 pages. Author spent over three years as a WWII prisoner of the Japanese in Singapore, Malaya and Siam. "The vivid scenes of forced building of the Railroad of Death through 250 miles of virgin jungle, of bombings, rapes, and sordid POW living conditions, come to life with astonishing clarity in this true story." - dust jacket. Bookplate upon front free endpaper, otherwise clean and and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Enser p.43. 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
46441Paris Chez Jacques Clousier, sans date 1735 in 12 (17x10) 1 volume reliure pleine basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches teintées rouge, IX et 345 pages, petit cachet ex-libris. Jean Du Castre d'Aubigny, 1712-1743. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
18691254571869/1872 Paris, Henri-Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur - 1869 pour le tome I et II, 1872 pour le tome III - 3 volumes in-12 (12x18cm environ); reliure demi-chagrin; dos à 4 nerfs avec titres et caissons ornés de fleurons en doré, frontispice collé - 363 + 451 + 359 pages - Ouvrage richement illustré de gravures-photographies en N&B hors texte et en page dépliante avec également des cartes en couleur sur deux pages et dépliantes
8546Bangkok, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1903. 1 fort volume in-4, 28-1012 pp., reliure toile bleue, bel exemplaire.
