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186297509London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts 1862 In-8 20 x 12,5 cm. Cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline verte, fer doré sur le premier plat, plats encadrés de grecques noires, XXIII-423 pp., une carte repliée de l’archipel des Hawaii, 5 gravures hors-texte, table des matières. Exemplaire de travail d’un ouvrage peu courant. En l’état.
197662645Seattle WA: Office of Public Archaeology Institute for Environmental Studies University of Washington 1976. 4to. viii 306 3 pp. With maps photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams plates 1 large folding Kanaka Village stratigraphy map in rear pocket. Stiff colour-illustrated softcovers cover art from plate scrap and rivets Hudson’s Bay Co. minor bumping to couple corners edgewear still a VG bright copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon and detailed archaeological study examining the Indigenous Hawaiian’s who worked and lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vancouver along the Columbia River when the area was still the Oregon Country controlled by Great Britain. The majority of the Hudson’s Bay Hawaiian employees lied in their own village several hundred feet southeast of the Fort along the Columbia possibly established before 1829 and consisted at their height of at least 122 male Hawaiians. They and their families served as labor force worked the farm and also labored in the Fort itself. Office of Public Archaeology, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Washington, paperback
192720483Honolulu: Institute of Pacific Relations 1927. First Edition thus. Octavos; 14 booklets from 6pp to 36pp generally in Very Good to Near Fine condition in staplebound wrappers. The Institute of Pacific Relations IPR was established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Rim. Included here are 'Micronesia and Micronesians" by Professor Naomasa Yamasaki; 'Legislative Aspects of Asiatic Migration' prepared by International Labor Office League of Nations; 'The Second Generation Oriental in America' by William C. Smith; 'Facing the Future of the Missionary Movement' by Edward H. Hume M.D.; 'Memorandum on Missions' by Henry T. Hodgkin; 'The Problem of Population and Food Supply in Japan' by Dr. Shiroshi Nasu; 'The Education and the Economic Outlook for the Boys of Hawaii' by Romanzo Adams; 'The Japanese Race from Anthropological Point of View' by Akira Matsumura; 'Concessions and Settlements - and Their Transference to Chinese Rule by Mingchien Joshua Bau; 'Asiatic Immigration in New Zealand: Its History and Legislation.' by Dr. G.H. Scholefield and T.B.H. Hall; 'The Outstanding Cultural Assets of the Chinese People'/The Chinese Point of View of the So-Called Material Civilization of the West' by Sophia Chen Zen; 'The Social Status of the Japanese in Hawaii: Some of the Problems Confronting the Second Generation' by Tasuku Harada; 'The Labor Movement in China' by Ta Chen; and 'Child Workers in China' by Miss L.M. Friedlander. Institute of Pacific Relations unknown
197363592Seattle WA: Executive Committee for Publication of Issei c/o Japanese Community Service Japan Publications Inc. 1973. Thick 8vo. xxviii 1016 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations. Gray publisher’s cloth Japanese lettering embossed in blind on front cover gilt & red lettering on spine w/ original open-backed slipcase NF/NF copy. First edition 1st printing stated in English of this very scarce and extraordinary history of Japanese-American immigration into the Pacific Northwest and American West originally published as Hokubei hyakunenzakura 北米百年桜 1969. This outstanding reference opens with reconstructed maps of the Japanese Districts in Seattle Tacoma Spokane Portland and Vancouver BC followed by extended detailed sections on sailing to the US from Japan secret passages ship-jumping Japanese Exclusion Acts Japanese Women workers for railroads salmon canneries sawmills farming hotels restaurants and more. Of particular interest is the detailed chapter on Japanese-American women falsely recruited and forced into the sex trade in Seattle Portland and other Western cities including the fact that they were even smuggled in through luggage. Executive Committee for Publication of Issei, c/o Japanese Community Service, Japan Publications, Inc., hardcover
1995LFA-126746689N° 14 (Septembre 1995) : revue de 66 pages, format 215 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
1977LFA008ddN° 74 - Janvier 1977 Une revue d'environ 140 pages, format 295 x 220 mm, brochée, illustrée
191363071Seattle WA: Seattle Union Record 1913. Folio. 9 x 12 in. 132 pp. With photo illustrations text illustrations illustrated ads throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of miner holding pick-axe w/ Seattle waterfront in the background in tan & blue Rainier Beer advertisement on back cover minor chipping head & foot of spine dustsoiling & soiling front cover minor bumping to corners still a G copy. First edition of this scarce and important supplement issued in conjunction with the 33rd Annual Convention for the AFL composed of craft unions for cigar makers garment workers carpenters electricians and others. They also served as the umbrella union for the United Mine Workers of America and at the time were supporting the Coal strike in Colorado as well as the Michigan Copper strike organized by the Western Federation of miners. Union locals such as the Brewery Workers Women Waitresses Women Garment Workers the women’s Union Card & Label League and others include sections on their histories labor organizing and philanthropic efforts. Worldcat locates 5 copies NYPL Bancroft Seattle Public U of W U of MI Seattle Union Record, paperback
Two fold-out maps in color. Text in French; Les Guides Bleus Illustrés; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 214 pages
192751699San Francisco: Southern Pacific Lines Printed by Sunset Press ca. 1927. 4to. 80 pp unpaginated. 74 photo plates. Colour-illustrated softcovers yapp edges wraparound cover art by Maurice Logan 1886-1966 one of the California Society of Six Painters who produced boldly coloured impressionistic paintings and watercolours in constrast to the muted tonalims and landscapes of earlier San Francisco painters such as Keith and Hill. The front cover painting of New Orleans Broulatour Mansion in the French Quarter was commissioned by the Southern Pacific for their 1927 souvenir book travel poster and postcard slight shelfwear very slight creasing slight tidemark upper left corner still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautiful brochure chronicling the points of interest along the Sunset Route including New Orleans African-Americans picking peppers Houston Waco San Antonio Charles Nackee famous Apache Scout in southern Arizona Yaqui Indian Village orange groves near Los Angeles filming movies in Hollywood and more. Southern Pacific Lines, Printed by Sunset Press, paperback
193863046Portland OR & Kelso WA: Kilham Stationery & Printing Co. Marsh Underwood 1938. 12mo. 62 pp. Photo illustrations throughout. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover slight shelfwear very slight rubbing & faint spotting still NF copy. First edition of this self-published memoir detailing this Cowlitz County logger’s beginnings in New England Wisconsin and finally working lumber camps along the Lewis River in Southwest Washington and in Snohomish Washington. He has included a sketch of a Wisconsin logging camp as well as many historic photographs describing logging methods early logging companies in the West and more. Underwood 1876-1939 originally worked as a Vermont logger and by 1910 was a River Driver directing log rafts from Woodland WA down to Portland OR on the Columbia River and later as logging camp superintendent in Snohomish WA. Kilham Stationery & Printing Co., [Marsh Underwood, hardcover
1981197204Los Angeles California n.p. 1981. 1981. Folding 6 panel brochure 8" x 22". 11 tinted color photographs; map by D.W. Pontius; blue background on front panel. Very good. Scarce. Includes advertisements for Mt. Lowe Orange Empire Trolley trip to Redlands Balloon trip Old Mission Trip. No Binding. Very Good. Los Angeles, California [n.p.] 1981. unknown
16212Manuscrit du XVIIIe siècle ; in-folio, br. ; 100 pp., (8) pp. complément d'une autre main et sur un autre papier du XIXe siècle. Les ratures indiquent un texte en cours de finition.
1755ABC_474521755. Manuscript of 24 pages 6 printed maps on cardboard. This wonderful logbook details the journey of a French captain from Manila to the Maluku Islands in todays Indonesia. The journey took place during the months of March to May of 1755. The captain of the ship recounted with great detail the events of every day of the journey with detailed daily accounts of the weather winds manoeuvres of the ship its departures anchorages and precise coordinates at every point of the journey. The captain furthermore had a keen eye for the geographical and nautical details along the journey. He recounted the exact locations of for example sandbanks and bays where ships and their crews can take provisions and fresh water. The accounts are detailed and captivating: "After our boats were back on board we set sail . in the afternoon to moor under the old Portuguese fort on the Solor island Indonesia the winds for the tide were fresh at 1:34 a.m. . sand and gravel and then I went back to mooring. The pavilion of the fort . the village is under the said fort at 3 cables from us .". The captain goes on to describe the geographical features of the islands as well as other places en route with great detail. Curiously we find inscriptions in Spanish and the names of one don Phelipe Qui who describes himself as el piloto and one Padre Don Estevan de Melo. The latter might be identical with Don Estevan Roxas y Melo a native of Lima Peru and secretary to the Archbishop of Manila Rodriguez since 1736. Roxas y Melo was part of the 1751 reconstruction of the Cathedral of Manila working under the auspice of the Italian architect Juan de Uguccioni.The logbook comes with six printed maps partly illustrating the journey of the captain pasted on contemporary cardboard. They depict the Bay of Sulavesi with the city of Bantang Pitcairn the coast of New Guinea the coast of Queensland the Santa Cruz Islands in the present-day Solomon Islands and Alejandro Selkirk Island. The plates stem from the French translation of James Hawkesworths An Account of the Voyages Hawkesworth Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement regnante; pour faire des découvertes dans l'hemisphère meridional Paris 1774.Some holes on the first sheet not affecting the text. Small water damage some slighlty affecting the text. Remnants of seals on last page. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
193160944Syracuse NY: Empire New England Company Inc. 1931. One large 6-panel dissected colour linen-backed map featuring one hemisphere map of Pacific Ocean 34 inches in diameter within larger 40 x 52 in. colour-printed wall map with scale at Equator of 1:23300000 folding down to 19.5 x 17.25 brass grommets mounted for hanging at upper fore-edge minor edgewear rubbing at crease folds minor age toning light fraying to the linen still VG copy. Second printing of this scarce linen-backed dissected wall map reflecting the extent of Imperialist Colonial spheres of influence in the Pacific just 10 years before the outbreak of World War II. These educational maps served as key instructional tools for detailing Japanese British Dutch French Portuguese and U.S. colonies dependencies and mandated territories demarcated here in respective colours spanning from Asia to the Americas and include British holdings in Antarctica. Worldcat locates 1 copy Boston Public. Empire New England Company, Inc., unknown
1719219230東京. Tokyo.: 日本放送協会. Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai. Showa 17 1942. Colour folding map scale 1: 10000000 54.7cm x 79.5cm chronology of building the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere on reverse. Some light browning a little darker at folds and reverse washi repairs to folds on reverse. This colour map of Asia and the Pacific published on 30 January 1942—just one month after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor—offers a striking glimpse into wartime strategy and propaganda. Remarkably despite being produced at the war's outset it accurately anticipated key battlegrounds that would define the conflict. The main map is supplemented by two inset maps: one in the upper right highlighting Japan the Hawaiian Islands and Honolulu and another in the lower left focusing on Singapore with Darwin marked along the lower edge. <br> <br>The reverse side features a revealing chronological chart titled "Building Great East Asia" documenting Japan's military expansion from the 1931 Manchurian Incident through January 1942 as troops advanced across Southeast Asia. Notably two blank rows were intentionally left at the chart's end anticipating future victories to be recorded as the war progressed—a telling detail that underscores the map's dual role as both strategic document and propaganda tool. An interesting map which combines geographical precision with ideological messaging. . 日本放送協会. [Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai]. unknown
1719176771東京. Tokyo.: 日本放送出版会社. Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kaisha. Showa 17 1942. Colour folding map scale 1:14500000 55cm x 80cm naval warship photographic illustrations on reverse. The wartime paper is browned and friable but small closed tears along fold lines and edges have been neatly repaired with archival washi on the verso. 79 x 53cm This colour map of Asia and the Pacific was published as a supplement to a magazine Hoso 放送 on January 1942 less than one month after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese Forces. The war had just started but amazingly the map accurately predicted where the fighting would take place throughout the war. An inset map on upper right shows Singapore Borneo Sumatra and Java where battles took place in the area in early 1942. An inset chart on lower left shows various resources and their location including coal tin and iron ore clearly showing that the war was fought over securing resources. On reverse eleven photographic illustrations of war ships from Germany Britain the US and Japan are shown including the Prince of Wales and Enterprise. . 日本放送出版会社. [Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kaisha]. unknown
19205872Canadian Pacific Railway 1920. First Thus. Loose Sheet. Very Good-. Poole Brothers. Map measuring 31.75 inches x 17.75 inches printed four-color. Map shows the breadth of lower Canada from just north of Vancouver Island across to Newfoundland as well as all of the United States excluding southernmost Texas and Florida. CPR lines are represented in red ink whereas connecting American railroads are in black. Black stars along the CPR indicate locations of Canadian Pacific Hotels. Two slight chips to left margin and with a couple short closed tears along folds. Please see photo. A handsome map from the tail-end of the golden age of rail travel. Now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve. Canadian Pacific Railway unknown
192363359Victoria B.C.: Archives of British Columbia Printed by William H. Cullin 1923. 8vo. xx 171 1 pp. With portrait numerous plates and two maps. Beige-coloured publisher’s cloth over beveled boards black lettering front cover & spine rough-cut fore-edge textblock as issued minor shelfwear rubbing slightly shaken very faint ex-lib markings on spine dustsoiling still G copy from the libraries of Dr. John C. Brougher 1901-1983 founder of Vancouver Clinic and famed obstetrician & gynecologist believed to have delivered over 10000 children in SW Washington during his years of practice and Clark County Historical Society Collections recently deaccessioned bookplates on front pastedown. First Archives of British Columbia edition drawing from the original journal kept by Archibald Menzies who served as naturalist on the Discovery in Vancouver’s famed voyage around the World from 1790-1794 and this specifically deals with his notes observations and naturalist explorations in the Puget Sound and Vancouver Island in 1792. This journal expands substantially on Prof. Meany’s “Vancouver’s Discovery of Puget Sound†includes specific tables and index of the thousands of specimens collected as well as including the expedition’s frequent encounters with the Northwest Coast Native American Indigenous Peoples. Archives of British Columbia, Printed by William H. Cullin, hardcover
151959504London; New York: Grant Richards Ltd.; Dodd Mead & Co. 1915-1916. Two vols. Tall 8vo. 1st - 304 pp. Photo frontisp. 23 photo plates. Red publisher’s buckram black lettering front cover & spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear minor soot soiling head of spine lower fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art photo & lettering in red printed price label of 12/6 front cover & spine minor soiling spotting to spine chipping & minor tear head of spine upper corner front cover affecting a few letters; 2nd - 327 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates. Dark burgundy publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine w/ illustrated d.j. cover art photo & lettering in red remnants of printed price labels front cover & spine of 12/6 soot soiling to fore-edges darkening & spotting to spine minor chipping head & foot of spine still a VG/VG- set. First British edition of vol. 1 & first American edition of vol. 2 of this uncommon set of travel memoirs through Australia the South Pacific New Zealand and West Africa. He recounts his adventures running away to Sea living in the Bush adventuring with Robert Louis Stevenson both books surviving cannibals tramping through Fiji Samoa Tahiti the Marquesas and the Australian gold fields. The sequel memoir focuses again on adventures with Robert Louis Stevenson songs he composed voyages to Honolulu and the Territory of Hawaii Japan and recounts time with an exceptional Sierra Leone African violinist. Safroni-Middleton 1873-1950 was a British composer violnist harpist writer and astronomer and composed the “Imperial Echoes†theme music which for years was played on the “Radio Newsreel†of the BBC. He would also later pen the science fiction novel “Under Many Names†1937 describing the adventures of his hero traveling through the stars via thought waves to meet an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Grant Richards, Ltd.; Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
189132829St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. n.d. 1891. 1891. First edition. Third edition. 12mo. Original orange wrappers printed in black ink 82 2 pp. illustrated map. advertising. Issued by the general passenger department of the Missouri Pacific Railway. A general description of the state and its place in history is provided. Plus soil rainfall churches schools higher educational opportunities newspapers population and wealth corn wheat oats stock farming wild flowers orchards and vineyards salt lead and zinc stone brick and lime coal gas hunting and fishing cities irrigation etc. Views are offered of farms and ranches parade grounds city parks etc. of various cities. Herd 1204 says "Issued by the Missouri Pacific Railway Company this book appeared in many editions though all are now rare." Prior to this copy the earliest edition of a similar booklet was a 13th edition and that was 15 years ago. Fine clean copy with a fine folding map. An exceptional copy of a rare item. Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., n.d. (1891)]. unknown
190753081St. Louis: Sam'l F. Myerson Prtg. Co. n.d. ca 1907. ca 1907. 8 3/4" x 5" in colorful pictorial wrappers. 52pp. Map. Black and white illustrations throughout. Information on preparing for a trip to Mexico followed by information and photographs of what might expect to see and experience along the way from St. Louis to Mexico City. Photographs and information on Topo Chico Monterrey Saltillo Cedral Bocas San Luis Potosi Tampico Queretaro Patzcuaro Chapultepec the Viga Canal Mexico City bullfights ancient pyramids etc. A wonderful collection of photographs taken by S.W. Matteson C.W. Archer and C.B. Waite. Fold-out map 14 1/2" x 8 3/4" showing system route from St. Louis to Mexico City inside rear wrapper. Covers and title page lightly soiled. Crease at top corner of front wrapper and with 1/2" closed tear along with scuffing and rubbing to both wrappers and to spine. Very good. A very nicely produced booklet. Sam'l F. Myerson Prtg., Co., n.d. [ca 1907]. unknown
193044298St. Louis: A.D. Bell Passenger Traffic Manager Missouri Pacific Railroad n.d. ca 1930. ca 1930. 8 3/4" x 5" in bright colorful pictorial wrappers showing a market scene on the front wrapper. 50pp. Illustrations. Map. Written with the potential tourist in mind the brochure discusses a trip from St. Louis to Mexico City describing what one will see and experience on the trip. Black and white photographs include Chapultepec Castle scenery caverns various falls Saddle Mountain street scenes monuments important buildings churches locals etc. Fold-out colored system map at end of brochure showing the Missouri Pacific Railway lines and its connections from St. Louis southward thru Texarkana Austin San Antonio and down to Mexico City. Chart showing how to pronounce Spanish and Indian names. Light soiling to wrappers and with minor wear to the extremities. A nicely produced and informative brochure. A.D. Bell, Passenger Traffic Manager, Missouri Pacific Railroad, n.d. [ca 1930]. unknown
189246034St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Print. Co. 1892. Stapled paper wrappers. A good copy wrappers chipped soiled starting to detach seller stamp to front wrapper occasional soiling to contents. Lacking folding map. 64 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. 12mo. Promotional booklet published by the Missouri Pacific Railway encouraging settlement in Nebraska. Lacks folding map. Woodward & Tiernan Print. Co. unknown
189287869St. Louis MO: Printed by Woodward and Tiernan Printing Co 1892. Second Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Good Plus. Stapled pamphlet. 7.5 in. x 5.25 in. pp. 64. Illustrated with in-text drawings and a fold-out map of Nebraska 21 in. x 26 in. Pink cardpaper wraps with black title to front. Light soiling to covers with chips to top/bottom of spine; older tape repairs to length of spine reattaching front cover and to left edge of rear cover. Fragile edges with chips to corners and several short closed tears to cover edges. Clean interior with very good plus map. This brochure was presented "With the Compliments of the General Passenger Department of the Missouri Pacific Railway." The text provides description and chart of information related to population geography geology weather land prices distances horticulture churches and more. Printed by Woodward and Tiernan Printing Co unknown
1970151354N.p.: N.p. 1970. Archive of 32 vintage photographs documenting the October 20 1970 collision of two trains along the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad line in Raytown Missouri. Also included in the archive is a single broadside reward poster offering $5000 for information pertaining to the accident. <br /> <br /> According to a contemporary newspaper article which appeared in nearby Jackson County's Independence Examiner the accident was believed to have been caused by juvenile vandalism to a nearby track switch. The collision and subsequent derailment resulted in the death of one engineer whose partial body is visible in several photographs. <br /> <br /> The photographs in the archive range from close-up shots of the mangled train cars and tracks to distance views of the surrounding woods. Frequently displayed in the images is a small handwritten police chalkboard noting the date location and case numbers. A vivid and interesting look at investigative photography and railway disasters in the late twentieth century. <br /> <br /> Photographs 10 x 8 inches housed in a manila envelope with the logo of Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co. on the top left corner. Reward poster 9 x 12 inches. Poster and photographs Near Fine overall envelope Very Good plus. N.p. unknown