1 562 résultats
Features: Seattle's Public Utilities Department and the Railroads - major article; Southern Pacific announces fast excess-fare train between New Orleans and San Francisco; Promotion for T.B. Degnan of the Great Northern Railway Co.; No Time To Lose - Editorial discusses how representatives of eight Puget Sound cities oppose tolls being charged through the Panama Canal to vessels flying the U.S. flag and engaged in U.S. coastwise traffic; Handsome New Union Passenger Station for Aberdeen, WA - article with artist's rendering of the future station; Foreign Capital in Railways of the United States - major article by Harvard Professor of Economics William Z. Ripley; Business biography of J.E. Dalrymple, recently elected vice-president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co.; Railway News in Brief; Battery Truck Crane the Latest Invention in Freight Handling - major article with wonderful illustration of a mobile electric crane invented by General Electric of Schenectady, NY to be used for loading rail cars (who knew Elon Musk was so old!); How Should Tacoma Prepare for the Opening of the Panama Canal? - major article with excellent photo of the busy Tacoma waterfront; Statement Concerning Panama Canal by George S. Dearborn, president of the American-Hawaiian S.S. Co.; British View of Panama Canal; High Honor for W.D. Wells of the Alaska-Pacific Steamship Co.; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Repair bill for the White Star liner Olympic; Submarine Motor Salvage Boat invented by Mr. E.H. Crossley; New Steamer Solduck will be an All-steel Modern Vessel - major article including diagram of its outboard profile; Article on Steam Cannery Tender for the Northwestern Fisheries Company - article with diagram of the outboard profile of this vessel; Pacific Coast Casualties; Steamboat Fairhaven Sinks in Harbor; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: New Transcontinental Railroad is Planned; Railroad Construction Work in Western Canada; A Study of Railroad Accidents; Grand Trunk Pacific Completes Fine Dock at Vancouver - article with photo of the new structure; Proposed Improvements for the Port of Seattle - Smith's Cove, Salmon Bay, East Waterway, Central Waterfront District, Harbor Island; San Francisco Preparing for Panama Canal Trade - major article with graph, table and photo of one of San Francisco's new concrete piers; Control of Freight Rates Through Panama Canal; Professional Biography of Marcus Talbot, Manager of the Port of Portland (with photo of Mr. Talbot); Provisions of New Visual Rule; Death of Noted Admiralty Lawyer Charles Page - major article; That Olympic-Hawke Collision; Legal Decisions; High-Class Salvage job of the fishing steamer Independent - article with photo of the vessel being held up by two barges; Captain William Kidston - obituary; Veteran Shipmaster Albert H. Laffin - Obituary; Veteran Tug Boat Captain William Gove - Obituary; Hong Kong Harbor Needs Deepening - after visit by the big American Steamer Minnesota; New Invention for Calming Big Seas; and much more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
viii, 280 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Covering three generations of hockey heroes, this is a fascinating history of the sport, and of its royal family." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this important hockey history. Book
174 pages. Author's signature upon title page. An adventure mystery - and a tale of horror, a dark 'Kidnapped.' Set in the rich wilderness of the Oregon coastline of the early 1800s, James White's novel has skillfully interwoven fact and conjecture centered on one of the most enigmatic figures in northwestern lore - Jack Ramsay, or "Lamazee." Prior owner's details atop half-title page else unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
76 pages with fascinating archival black and white photographic reproductions. Covers Horseshoe Valley, Lund, Lost Villages of Vancouver Island, Minstrel Island, 84 years in Bella Coola, Whaling stations of the Queen Charlottes, and more. Average wear and a few spots of soiling to front cover which features impressive photo of five men standing in a massive native canoe. Book
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 8.
146 pages. Black and white illustrations. Signed by Johnny Moses upon title page. "Master story teller Johnny Moses, Whis Stem Men Knee, relates this ancient story of the Samish people. In four nights of journeying with the storyteller, we move with the beautiful old medicine woman through many adventures in healing. In her white canoe our heroine travels from Lopez to Orcas Island, to what is now Blaine, Tswassen, and back to Orcas." - from Introduction. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
108 p. + Frontis and Full page map. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. 235 mm. Softcover. Original color pictorial wraps. Covers worn with loss. Title continues: "A Land of Rolling Plains, Boundless Grain Fields, Sculptured Lands, Alpine Lakes, Mining Camps, Indian Life, Dancing Rivers, Thriving Villages, Trackless Forests, Growing Cities, Lofty Mountains Penetrated by the Northern Pacific Railroad". Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W12 Bag1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket. By the editors of Time-Life books with text by Keith Wheeler, this book describes the Wild West workers on the pioneer railroads in a wealth of detail and with superb contemporary black & white photos from the time. Also some in colour including detailed illustrations of the locomotives. Small piece missing from lower corner of final page. 240pp.
Slight wear to extremites. Light foxing; A collection of folk tales and songs collected in 1909-10 in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, with examples of the native language ; 8vo; 394 pages
286pp.avec 212 photographies (dont 58 en couleurs) et 14 cartes, toile, jaq., in-4, bon état
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.
Inscribed by the author on title page and traces of label removal to front cover. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. 75pp. The Oahu Civilian Disaster Preparedness Programs in Honolulu described by a U.S. Navy medical officer involved.
282 pages. Index. References. Dozens of black and white reproductions of archival photos in text. "During WWII the RCAF developed five flying boat stations between Victoria and Prince Rupert for the defense of the Pacific Coast. It would be well into 1943 before airfields were built on the west coast in both Alaska and British Columbia suitable for serving the needs of military aircraft. It would be these airfields, developed in a time of intense need, that would evolve into the future airfields that exist along the entire Pacific Coast today. This, then, is the story of both these airfields and the air harbours that preceded them." - from Preface. This copy was presented by a daughter to her father and contains her lengthy and heartfelt gift greetings to him inside the front cover. Few other markings to contents. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
pp. vi, 178. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Map endpapers. "Weaves together the story of Japanese attempts to retaliate [after the Doolittle raids on the Japanese islands] with an account of wartime situations and the effects of the attacks along the west coast of the United States and Canada. Describes coastal defenses, the evacuation of Japanese-Americans, and beach patrols. Written with the assistance of Japanese scientists who developed and launched the fire bomb balloons, surviving members of the crews of the Japanese submarines that attacked the U.S. mainland, and the only airplane pilot to bomb the United States." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear to publisher's mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Binding tight. Light wear to dust jacket which is partially sunned at spine and now preserved in Brodart. A quality copy of this intriguing and little-known WWII history. Enser p.134, Smith 5828-34. Book
310p. + Plus maps. Uncut and unopened. Title page ruled in red. Penciled ownership of John C. Schmidt (York, Pennsylvania). 8vo. Original full red cloth binding. First edition. Nice copy. Putnam Weale is the pen name of Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930). This book is an "Insider's view of the growing turmoil in East Asia following the World War I, the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty, imperialism in China, roles of Japan, Britain, United States and Canada, etc." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WWI 5
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first single-volume work with anything like a claim to authority. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Lambe (1900-1960) began his career as a midshipman in 1917 and rose to become Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord. His WWII service included command of Dunedin, several staff appointments (lastly as Director of Planning) and finally a year is command of Illustrious, principally in the Pacific. Law, 0709; see Heathcote, pp.149-150.
Barcelona, Gustavo Gili Editor, s.a. (1920). 4to.; 304 pp. Encuadernación en media tela. La autora, nacida Mary Augusta Arnold, era hija de un hermano de Matthew Arnold y de Julia Sorell, nacida en una familia protestante española. Tenía grandes conocimientos de literatura española y escribió varias biografías de clérigos protestantes españoles y fue una de las fundadoras de la Liga Nacional contra el Sufragio Femenino. En 1919 fue una de las siete primeras mujeres nombradas Magistrados en Gran Bretaña.
8vo [25.5 x 18 cm]; x, 468 pp, mounted colored frontis plate, numerous illustrations from early sources including many title-pages reprinted, endpaper maps, index, special index of artists and engravers. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine, clean, unmarked, as new condition. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The standard reference book, includes an extensive bibliographic checklist detailing the 260 major printed sources discussed in the text together with a glossary of terms used in book collecting. Excellent chapters from the Founding Fathers to later explorations with an impressive chapter on the Wild Scenery of Australia: Fine Early Plate Books. The checklist includes a collation of each book with plate and map counts, plus good descriptive material.
234 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. "The tale of how this farm boy ferry pilot has battled bad weather, mechanical failures, red tape, and exhaustion to survive where others have failed. Fly with Charlie as he delivers a Cessna Skyymaster to Botswana, a Twin Otter across the Pacific, and a Hawker Siddeley 748 through Russia. If you love adventure, you won't be disappointed." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 6 large folding charts (one coloured in outline; several marginal tears neatly repaired); original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. Very scarce.
(Codice VI/0190) In 8° 31 pages with 10 plates and 2 figures. Excerpt with paper covers. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
8vo., with numerous plates and maps, wanting front free endpaper; cloth, a very good, clean copy. Scarce
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 304 pages with many full-page photos, biographies, overhead photos, etc.
