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Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, appears new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, except for very light wear to lower front corner only. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 124 pages, chapters include: Seattles first chinese settlement, The anti-chinese movement in Washington, Nihonmachi (Japantown), From sojourners to settlers, Filipinos arrive in the district, Heyday of the 20s throught the depression, Japanese American removal and incarceration, Post WWII, District battles hard times, etc.
Official souvenir program to the 1962 Century 21 Exposition held in Seattle, Washington. Small pieces missing at the top and bottom of spine; wear to cover. 8 1/2'w x 11"h. 96 pages. Color photos and illustrations from the exhibition, many focusing on space and science, and advertisements from local businesses.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 10"w x 9 1/2"h. 132 pages. Black and white photographs of Seattle's history.
659 pages with index and glossary. Prior owner's name on front flyleaf. Soiling to fore-edge. Average wear. Provides the amateur observer and collector with an accurate guide to the invertebrate seashore animals of the West Coast. Describes in detail well over 500 species and subspecies of eleven phyla. 12 colour plates. 700 figures. Circa 1980? Book
4to, 27.8cm. Pp. vi,iv,[281], numerous photos, diagrs., figs., and tabs. in text, refs. Orig. wrs. Faint bump to right-hand upper corner, very good otherwise. - Consists of 8 separately paginated papers, with introduction to the volume.
143 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. A true rogue's gallery of pirates, rum-runners and savages. Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice solid copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with maps in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Features: Salad from the sea - cultivating kombu in Hokkaido; The influence of the sea upon our language; Caught in conflict - managers trapped in fisheries dilemma; The Pacific Walrus; RRS Discovery and the Discover investigations; beautiful broccoli of the sea; a portfolio of winners - 1988 international marine photo contest; Save the beaches. Nice copy. Book
Features: Carmel Bay - Marine oasis in the cold Pacific; Leatherjackets - savory stingers; nations unite to fight pollution; Protecting the Caribbean; Oama summer; Cocos Island - Verdant treasure; Miniature marine foulers; Man-made Island - solution to economic and environmental woes. Sound copy. Book
Features: Fresnel - genius of Illumination; African, Asian and Australasian Lighthouses on Stamps; the Coast Guard's Search-and-rescue Pigeons; Saltwater Fuel; Crustacean Symbiosis; The North Pacific Salmon Shark; Time Capsules in the Sea. Sound copy. Book
Features: New Hope for Sponge Fishery?; Dark-water Octopus; Coastal Retreat; the Penalty of the Hunt; Three Passages to the Pacific; The Continent that wasn't there; Oceans Miami '82; Coral Reefs - A postal tribute. Sound copy. Book
Features: Deepwater Archaeology; Northern Europe's Lighthouses on Stamps; Ranching in Salmon in Southern Seas - I - Australia and New Zealand; Ranching Salmon in Southern Seas - II - Chile; Sailors Learn Early; How big is a Whale; Red Water at Lysekil; Young Farmers go to sea; Folk Remedies for Tropical Fish Poisoning in the Pacific. Sound copy. Book
Sound book with clean pages. Some slight wear inside of the dust cover.
Features: Last of the Moss Liners; P.S.N.C. Liner "Reina del Pacifico" of 1931; Flags and Funnels - a motley crew; Ferry Scene - Harwich Circuit; Tractor Tugs for Cory; The Mersey Sound; Capt. Enrique Pedro Montemayor and the "Libertad"; Model Steamer Club of Glasgow; Greek Passenger Shipping in 1978-79 - Part II; Voyage to Alaska. Book
188 pages. Features: The fuel economy of light vehicles; split genes; the sources of celestial x-ray bursts; the crest of the east pacific rise; countercurrent systems in animals; highly excited atoms; the sunflower crop; Chinese building standards in the 12th century; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Aluminum and its hard-boiled alloys; Super magnetic fields; Influence of the coconut on Philippine industrial life; Birds of a bleak arctic island; Fragmentary molecules of the sun; Beautiful bridges on new rail line - exceptional engineering problems on European railway; Sinanthropus - the Peking man; Coney Island's museum - the first institution designed to show play-reaction; Six great institutions now have naval R.O.T.C.; Linemen of the sea - with the men who splice broken transatlantic cables; Features of speed queen The Europa - faster than the Bremen; Is there an ether?; Better days for aviation; Tangled commerce abides where children smoke and swim - Manus are the pack peddlers of the pacific; Moving a substation underground; Power from the earth's hot interior?; Athens Broadway; an ancient bakery; Light furnishes Ballroom decorations. Camel cigarette ad on back cover features several suave temptors and a temptress. Top inch of spine missing. Cracks to spine. One inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Significant overall wear. Book
4to [26.5 x 18 cm]; xxii, [ii], 491, [i] pp, frontis, 134 illustrations including many full-page from old sources, some double-page, tables, maps including folding, map endpapers. original pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering, endpaper signature, very good+, interior is clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A collection of articles and extracts from older sources on the natural sciences of the former Dutch colonies, a very useful reference with contributions by many eminent scientists including David Fairchild, Alfred Russell Wallace, Ernst Mayer, H. O. Forbes, and many others. All the articles are in English, some produced in English for the first time, covering all aspects of natural history, geology, rubber cultivation, botany, plant hunting, tobacco, climate, agriculture, forestry, cinchona cultivation, archaeology, etc.
4to [26.5 x 18 cm]; xxii, [ii], 491, [i] pp, frontis, 134 illustrations including many full-page from old sources, some double-page, tables, maps including folding, map endpapers. original pictorial cloth, gilt spine title lettering, very good+, interior is clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A collection of articles and extracts from older sources on the natural sciences of the former Dutch colonies, a very useful reference with contributions by many eminent scientists including David Fairchild, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernst Mayer, H. O. Forbes, and many others. All the articles are in English, some produced in English for the first time, covering all aspects of natural history, geology, rubber cultivation, botany, plant hunting, tobacco, climate, agriculture, forestry, cinchona cultivation, archaeology, etc.
Avventure nella Storia. L'ultimo periodo della Storia del West che fu anche il più selvaggio ed il più violento.
Torino, 1942, 29 marzo-4 aprile, copertina illustrata da una tavola a colori, a pagina doppia, in fascicolo originale completo di pp. 16 de “Illustrazione del popolo”.
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges and with small loss at top of front panel. First published in the USA in 1961. Enser, p.195 (recording the first edition).
297p., illus. Diary of Catholic nun working in the Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands, ca. 1934-36 Hardcover Very good condition. blue cloth edges wearing
Stamped to endpapers and front free endpaper. DJ with light edgewear; Account of the author's twenty-one years among the Papuans; B&W Photographs; 12mo; 256 pages
Price clipped DJ shows light wear; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
DJ with light wear. Light foxing to edges; Twenty-one years as a missionary in New Guinea amongst natives who live in much the same way as they did in the stone age, some of whom practice cannibalism; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
