Guthrie, Tyrone; Gordon, H. Scott; MacLennan, Hugh; Carrighar, Sally; Bisset, Sir James; et alMareMagnum
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96 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cover illustration of plane loading with folks travelling to avoid winter climes; Communist Party of Canada changes its name back from Labor Progressive Party; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Corvair; Why Are Canadians So Slow to Anger? - asks Hugh Garner; Ross Maclean - the CBC TV star you never see; Jeann Beattie's robbery led to her becoming 'big sister' to youth group "The Saints"; Visit with Anthony Eden; Women fight to save elm tree in Winnipeg's Wolseley Ave; Canada finds her own Pepys - Sir Joseph Pope; When Ballet Came to the Bush - Les Grans Ballets Canadiens visits Sept Isles; My Life on the Ocean Wave - McKenzie travels on the Empress of Britain on her last call of the year at Montreal; Investors Syndicate ad includes photo of T.O. Peterson, President; Above-average soiling/wear to back cover Coke ad which features young lovely in formal attire; and more. Small patch of soiling to lower corner of several interior pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
70 pages. Features: Fourteen young, successful, but not necessarily complacent people - Father Louis Laurendeau, Elaine Bedard, David Owen, Gordon Whitmore, Adrian Vilandre, Martin Lavut, Zubin Mehta, Lynn Seymour, David Ferguson, David Gauthier, Michel Gelinas; What six young politicians think and do about politics - Brian Mulroney, David Greenspan, John Brewin, Ted Rogers (later of Rogers media fame), Jean David, Jean-Pierre Fournier; Short Story by Adrienne Poy (Clarkson) - Ring Around October; A look at the Middle-Aged Young by a reporter their age who finds they are bored by easy success; Tony Gregson's getaway with two gold bricks - he vanished from Yellowknife in 1954 with $54,000; The Sea Diary of a Gay Dog - Colin Acton was entertainment officer of the Queen Elizabeth, the world's biggest ocean liner; Bouncing on a trampoline can teach a child to read - findings of Montreal psychologist Dr. M.S. Rabinovitch; The most powerful village in the world - Georgetown, D.C.; The hotheaded master of Moresby Island - Captain Horatio Robertson built a 1,600-acre Chinese empire in B.C. and ruled as stormily as an Eastern despot; Peter Martin; Dimitri Dimakopoulos; Stewart Fisher. How ironic that the story featuring prominent up-and-coming politicians includes a photo with Brian Mulroney seated at a table with Peter C. Newman, the man who would later write a book entitled "The Mulroney Secret Tapes", which feature the author's controversial taped conversations with Mr. Mulroney. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding sound. Please note: missing pages 65-66 which contained end of the Young Canadians article. Book
Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Front cover photos of the Gerard LeBlond and Jack Wallace families; A Tale of Two Families - the Wallace and LeBlond families move with Canada to study the other official language; Toronto's Linda Thorson - The Canadian Avenger - article with photo (which includes Patrick MacNee; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; AMICUS - Friends to the Friendless - the Toronto Bail Project; Nice colour centerfold ad for Honda motorcycles has a clipping from it upper right side which affects the Canadian Olympic Hockey story on the next page; Several nice photos of Canada's Olympic hockey team playing the Soviet Union; Wall-to-Wall Walruses on a small oogli in the Arctic Ocean - article and great colour photos; Nice Helena Rubinstein ad inside back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Founding Fort Edmonton; Policing the Far North - photo-illustrated article; One-page photo portrait of Sir George Simpson - the only known photo of him; "Nigger Dan" (Daniel Williams) - troublemaker at Fort St. John; Chevrons in the Sky - waterfowl article with photos; Arctic Airfield Survey - Craig Harbour, where the most northerly airport in the British Empire was surveyed in 1922; Summer at Temagami - photos with text; English River Hermit - An Indian named Mandayoh (stranger) lived 30 miles from the Trans-Canada Air Lines' field at Pagwa River; Through the Fjiords of British Columbia - photo-illustrated article with photo of the Union Steamship liner 'Cardena'; Northern Salvage - Claud K. Jones located sunken Canol machinery at the bottom of Great Slave Lake - fascinating photo-illustrated article describes how huge tracked vehicles were hauled up through the ice; Running the Alaska Boundary - great article with photo of Thomas Riggs and Jack Craig proudly displaying the flags of their countries and universities after setting the final point of the Alaska-Yukon boundary on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Photos of Eskimo tobacco substitute Atamaoya being harvested and smoked. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Anchorages on the North Coast of Tubuai Island From the latest F rench Government Chart. Tubuai Island From the latest French Government Charts. London Published at the Admiralty, 25th Feb. 1898, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Sir. W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer.Small corrections: 1923. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Tubuai Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: 1898 [1923]. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 627x460 mm
Guadalcanal and Florida I.s with a portion of Malaita I. The South coast of Florida I. and North coast of Guadalcanal including Savo I are from Surveys by Commander R.W. Glennie and the Officers of H.M. Surveying Ship "Sealark", 1910-12, the remainder of the work is from various rough and imperfect sketch surveys of earlier date. West coast of Malaita I and Alite Reef, adjusted to positions determined by Lieut. Com. R.L. Hancock & the Officers of H.M.S. "Sealark", 1914. London Published at the Admiralty, 6th Nov. 1893, under the Superintendence of Captain W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer. Large corrections 10 th Jan. 1930. Interesting map of Guadacanal in which the capital Honiara is missing because it will be constructed only afet the second world war. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Guadalcanal - Solomon Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 658x983 mm
Passes and Anchorages in Tuamotu or Low Archipelago. In the left side of the chart insert of Rarola Pass and Anchorage From the French Government Survey, 1904, Makemo I.N.E. Pass and Anchorages From the French Government Survey, 1874. With additions from the United States Government Survey, 1899. In the upper middle part of the chart insert of Tahanea I. Passes From the French Government Survey, 1902. London Published at the Admiralty 9th July 1907, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral A. Mostyn Field, Hydrographer.Small corrections: 1920. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Tuamotu Islands - Polynesia - Pacific Ocean. Anno: 1907 [1920]. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 619x977 mm
Pekoa or Segond Channel and Wawa or Bruat Channel Surveyed by Lieut. & Commander H.E. Purey Cust, Assisted by Lieutenants W. Pudsey-Dawson, F.C. Pasco & A.E.H. Marescaux H.M. Surveying Ship "Dart", 1892. London Published at the Admiralty, 15th Jan. 1894, under the Superintendence of Captain W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer. It is interested to note that on the Island of Espiritu Santo the city of Luganville is missing it will be constructed after the Second World War. Small corrections: 1922. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Espiritu Santo Island - Aore - New Hebrides Islands -Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 965x651 mm
Santa Cruz I.s - Santa Cruz I. by Admiral Bruny D'Entrecasteaux 1793 Duff Group by Capt. J. Wilson of the Ship Duff 1797 Vanikoro I.s by Capt. Dumont D'Urville 1828 Swallow Group by Nav. Lieut. T.C. Tilly R.N. of the Mission Schooner Southern Cross. In the right side of the chart insert of Carlisle Bay Sketch by Lieut. H.R.M. Williams, H.M.S. Torch, 1897 and Graciosa Bay From a French Gov. Survey 1888. In the lower part of the chart insert of Mohawk Bay By Lieut. A.C. Scott, Assisted by Lieut. P. Robarts. H.M.S. Mohawk, 1898. London Published at the Admiralty 21st Febr. 1870, under the Superintendence of Capt. G.H. Richards, Hydrographer.Small corrections: 1929. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Santa Cruz Island - South west Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 634x474 mm
Solomon Islands From All available information in the Hydrographic Department to 1931. In the left side of the chart insert of Gazelle Harbour From the German Government Charts to 1919, Gizo Anchorage by Lieut F.J. Rendell & Nav. Sub. Lieut J.W. Brown 1875. London Published at the Admiralty 7th July 1874, under the Superintendence of Captain F.J. Evans, Hydrographer. Small corrections. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Salomon Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 660x990 mm
Carta geografica raffigurante le isole dell'Oceano Pacifico. Piccoli fori di tarlo che non compromettono l'ottimo stato di conservazione generale. Attraente coloritura coeva all'acquerello.
1 53x75,5, su carta robusta, a colori, con ricco frontespizio floreale e bandiere a colori, carta ben realizzata e ben conservata, in francese.
8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; iv, 112 pp, folding engraved map frontis showing Indian Ocean, Africa, the routes; plan of that coast of Isle of France; plan of landing of British army in Mapou Bay, Isle of France; engraved view of Cape of Good Hope. later brown cloth with title lettering on paper spine label, interior is quite clean and near fine, very minor foxing. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. National Maritime Museum 453. Royal Geographical Society Catalogue 572. The ship was commanded by Captain Philip Beaver. Much of the work describes the British attack on the Isle of France. 'Prior was born at Lisburn, Ireland in 1790. He entered the navy as a surgeon, served abroad and at home, became Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals in 1843, and was knighted in 1858. He was the author of several popular works: Voyage to the Indian Seas in 1810-11; Memoirs of Edmund Burke (1824); Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1836); Life of Edmond Malone (1860). His Burke and Goldsmith have gone through many editions, and are still looked upon as standard works. He died 14th November 1869'. [A Compendium of Irish Biography]
Carta geografica, racchiusa in decoartiva cornice, raffigurante l'oceano Pacifico utilizzando la proiezione cilindrica di Mercatore. In alto al centro, il titolo si trova inscritto in semplice riquadro con indicazione dei segni convenzionali utilizzati per indicare le tratte aeree, le linee ferroviarie, i principali prodotti esportati dai differenti paesi, le rotte oceaniche, i confini di stato e le capitali degli stati o delle colonie. Al centro una semplice e decorativa rosa dei venti, mentre lungo il margine inferiore si trovano sei spot circolari in sono raffigurati in particolare: Singapore, Hong-Kong, Manila, Vladivostok, Tokyo e le Isole Hawai.Particolarmente interessante è la raffigurazione della sezione nord-orientale della Cina ed in particolare delle attuali province di Jilin, Liaoning e Heilongjiang.Pieghe editoriali ed alcuni vecchi restauri alle pieghe che non compromettono il buono stato di conservazione generale e l'ottima fruibilità della carta stessa.
large 8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; xxiv, 328 pp, photogravure frontis of the ship, 98 illustrations on 58 plates, folding map, bibliog, tables, index. later green morocco-backed boards, gilt spine title lettering, gilt decorations on raised bands, very lightly foxed on few leaves, mostly marginal, near fine sound copy in handsome binding. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Wood p. 184. Most of the book is a quality narrative of the voyage in the Indian Ocean, including Laccadive Sea, Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. Also included is a history of the ship "Investigator" and its use in gathering information on natural history over more than a decade, with the final section being on the marine biology of the Indian seas. The illustrations are of fish and other marine creatures, An important study and interesting narrative.
In-16 p. (mm. 163x95), 2 volumi in 1 tomo, mz. pelle coeva, fregi e titolo oro su tassello al dorso, pp. XXII,231; 246,(2); corredato fuori testo, come da Indice, di un ritratto dell'A., 1 carta geografica, più volte ripiegata, delle isole Pelew e 8 belle tavole a colori fuori testo, inc. in rame. “Composta sui giornali, e sulle notizie comunicate dal capitano Enrico Wilson e da alcuni de' suoi uffiziali che in Agosto del 1783 vi fecero naufragio sull'Antelope, nave mercantile della compagnia inglese delle Indie Orientali”. L’opera fa parte della “Raccolta di viaggi dopo quelli di Cook” eseguiti tanto per mare quanto per terra, e non pubblicati finora in lingua italiana (Tomi V-VI). Esempl. ben conservato.
Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
429 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. Author was born in England in 1908 and came with his parents to Vancouver, B.C. in 1910. Through the balance of his life he lived in Ocean Falls, B.C., Birmingham, England, and Masset, B.C. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. An excellent copy of this informative and engaging B.C. biography. Book
Ancient and original map of Malekula (Mallicolo) Island Southern part - The East Coast surveyed by Lieut. & Comm. G.C. Frederick, assisted by Lieut.ts H.J. Gedge, E.A. Day & H.B.T. Somerville, H.M. Surveying Ship "Dart" 1891. The South and Ambrym I surveyed by Lieut. & Comm. H.E. Purey-Cust, assisted by Lieut. s W. Pudsey-Dawson, F.C.C. Pasco & A.E.H. Marescaux H.M.Surveying Ship "Dart" 1893. The West Coast North of South West Bay from a Sketch Survey by Lieut. K. Dixon, assisted by M.r G.J. Pacey, Gunner, H.M.S. "Arker", 1903. Additions to Ambrym I. from a Survey by Lieut. Comm. R.L. Hancock and the Officers of H.M. Surveying Ship "Sealark" 1914. In the left side insert of Pangkumu Bay From a French Government Plan 1906. London Published at the Admiralty, 26th June 1893, under the Superintendence of Captain W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer. Small corrections: 1931. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Pacific Ocean South - Malekula Island. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 650x985 mm
Sketches of Anchorages in the Tuamotu or Low Archipelago chiefly taken from the French Government charts to 1907. In the left side of the chart insert of Lagoon Entrance, Manihi Entrance, Avatoru Entrance, Tiputa Entrance, North passage to Rotoava , Passes into Amanu Atoll From the United States Goverment Chart, 1902, Pakaka Pass From the United States Government Chart, 1902. In the right side of the chart Lagoon Entrance, Amyot Bay, Mururoa Island, Fangahina I. From the United States Government Chart, 1902, Pakaka to Seignelay P.t.London Published at the Admiralty 9th July 1907, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral A. Mostyn Field, Hydrographer. Small corrections: 1931. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Tuamotu Islands - Polynesia - Pacific Ocean. Anno: 1907 [1931]. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 595x480 mm
Tonga Islands From British surveys between 1888 and 1898. Washington D.C., published Jan. 1903, at the Hydrographic Office, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Small corrections: Printed Oct. 1930. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Tonga Islands - Pacific ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 988x657 mm
106 pages. Oblong 7" x 10". Undated but appears to be circa 1945. Profusely illustrated with wonderful vintage black and white photos. "This is the story of Pacific Mills Limited and the most northerly located paper mill on the North American continent at Ocean Falls, B.C." - page 3. Name stamped atop title page otherwise unmarked with moderate external wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy of this important history. HALE 1230, EDWARDS & LORT 2700. Book
