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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
xv + 1217pp., 27cm., original 1960-edition, cloth, G, rare, [the dictionary contains the Mongolian vocabulary of all periods from 1940 on, and offers the English transliteration, the modern Cyrillic transcription, the old Mongolian script form and an English definition of the Mongolian words. Added: Combined index to the supplements to Lessing's Mongolian-English dictionary, Bloomington, The Mongolia Society, 1975, 23pp.], X68994
complete in 3 vols.: vol.1 and 2 together xliv + 1514pp. & vol.3 [8] + 600pp., brown cloth (leather spine, marbled edges), original dustwrappers (some small pieces detached at ends), VG, [bilingual: Mongolian-English (vols.1-2) and English-Mongolian (vol.3)], [Folke Boberg (1896-1987): missionary in Mongolia. He served as a missionary of the Swedish pentecostal churches to inner Mongolia (in present-day China). He engaged in evangelism and lexicographical work. The fruit of his labors appeared in this highly acclaimed dictionary; cf. ANDERSON G.H., Biographical dictionary of Christian missions, p.72], X69196
1) xlix + 48pp. + 3+66 plates (detailed photographic reproductions of "Monument I", "Monument II" and "Monument III" + photographs showing general views and archaeological objects found near the monuments] + 1 map, 38cm., original 1892-edition, fine modern half cloth binding (gilt lettering on spine, original wrappers preserved), good condition [contains contributions by A. Heikel, G. v.d. Gabelentz, G. Devéria & O. Donner on the expedition and on the Orkhon inscriptions which are the oldest known examples of Old Turkic writings and an important source of Turkic legendary history, inscribed in Orkhon script on monuments erected in the 8th century in the Orkhon valley in honour of 2 Göktürk princes] & 2) 224pp., 25cm., original 1896-edition, in the series "Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimitsukia / Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne" vol.5, bound in cart.cover (marbled plates, leather spine with gilt lettering, original wrappers preserved), good condition, [contains the edition with transcription and French translation of the inscriptions by Thomsen who was able to decipher them], X74890
8 vols., 4to, orig. green cloth, lettered in gilt, a very nice set.
Série complète des années 1 à 36 (1889-1928) reliées en 14 volumes, ensemble plus de 10.000 pages avec illustrations en n/bl dans et hors texte et plusieurs plans et cartes dépliantes hors-texte, reliures cart. (plats marbrés, dos en cuir rouge avec titre doré au dos), feuilles de garde marbrées, 29cm. (à partir de 1901: 25cm.), quelques rousseurs dans le texte, quelques vagues taches aux tranches (inférieures) de peu de volumes (pas dans le texte), bon ensemble de cette revue illustrée bien rare sur les missions de Scheut en Congo et en Chine (et aux Philippines, à partir de l'année 20, 1908), poids total de 21kg., R85962