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in-8, pp. 177, (3) di indici, 3 carte geografiche a colori, più volte ripiegate, in fine. Broch. in carta muta coeva rosa. Edizione originale, rara a trovarsi. Quest'opera, che si colloca a metà tra un saggio ed un racconto di viaggio, fu redatta da Belly, giornalista francese che visse alcuni mesi in America Centrale nella speranza di incoraggiare lo scavo di un canale in Nicaragua. Il progetto del canale non era nuovo; dieci anni prima, nel 1846, Napoleone III aveva già pubblicato a Londra un pamphlet intitolato "Canal de Nicaragua ou projet de jonction des océans Atlantique et Pacifique au moyen d'un canal". Secondo lo stesso Belly, Fernando Cortes aveva inviato nel 1528 un primo rapporto sulla possibilità di aprire una rotta tra i due oceani (non viene citata una fonte particolare ma si fa un piccolo riferimento a un testo). Belly sarebbe diventato famoso tra gli studiosi europei per i suoi scritti in difesa della "razza latinoamericana". Buon esemplare, assai fresco.. .
90 pages. Articles: The Red Plan for S-Day (Soviet Day) when American Communists will perform disrupting tactics in America - with photo of Communist leaders arrested for advocating violent overthrow of the government; I'm a Sucker for Screwballs; Chain Store in the Wilderness - The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) - article with great photos from northern Canada; I Catch Bank Embezzlers; Through Hell and High Brass (part 2 of 5) - The Story of Jimmy Doolittle; Magdealena - California's gift to Broadway - with great color dance photos; Steve Canyon and Me - Milton Caniff writes about his popular comic strip; Beatrice Pearson - color photo with write-up. Fiction: Security; Cry Deep, Cry Stilll; Riviera Renegade; Jack Pot; Passage to Panama (par 1 of 7); The Impudent Rifle (conclusion). Ad include: Bell Telephone; Elgin Watches (with Robert Montgomery); Monarch packaged foods; "Every Girl Should Be Married" movie with Cary Grant; Admiral entertainment units; Gruen Curvex watches; RCA Victor radios; 1949 Ford cars; Chesterfield cigarettes - two-page two-color ad featuring Perry Como, Jo Stafford, Arthur Godfrey and Peggy Lee; Plymouth; Nash Airflyte centerfold ad - very attractive; Bostonians shoe ad; Westinghouse electric sheet/blanket ad - color photo; GM - two-page color ad; Very colorful two-page ad for Calvert Reserve whiskey; Hedy Lamarr is featured in an Auto-Lite ad; Hamm's beer; Pepsodent ad features Jacqueline Crouse; Pennsylvania Railroad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features bridge walker Adam Tomey. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple. Unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers with slightly curled corners. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows light scuffing/shelf wear, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 120 pages with 34 full page, full color prints. Text is reprinted in Spanish in last section of book. Featured artists include: Lezlie Milson, Juan Carlos Marcos, Antonio Madrid, Arturo Lindsay, Roberto Lewis, Teresa Icaza, Silfrido Ibarra, Adriano Herrerabarria, Ignacio Espla, Alberto Dutary, Rossevelt Diaz, Rernando Toledo, Amalia Tapia, Haydee Victoria Suescum, David Solis, Olga Sinclair, Alcia Viteri, Julio Zachrisson, Rodney Zelenka, et al.
Madrid, Juan Vidal, Editor, 1880. Dos volúmenes en folio; I: 68 pp. + 160 pp. + 180 pp. + 176 pp., 2 hs. .II: 2 hs., 151 pp. + 172 pp. + 199 pp., 2 hs. Además 192 pp. que contiene los números 1 a 12 de la "Revista Geográfica". Impresión a doble columna. Con numerosas ilustraciones entre el texto, algunas a toda plana, 67 láminas fuera de texto y 7 mapas dobles, impresos en color, dibujados y grabados por Daniel (Urrabieta) Vierge. Encuadernación de época en media piel, con pequeñas faltas de la misma en lomera. Contiene el "Viaje a Nueva Guinea" de Achille Raffray, el "Viaje en el vapor Vega para realizar el Pao del Nordeste" de Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, el "Paseo alrededor del mundo" del Barón Alexander Joseph von Hübner, el "Viaje a la Australia" de Désiré Charnay, traducido " y aumentado con importantes datos de excursiones hechas en el interior del pais" por Adolfo Suarez de Figueroa, y "Exploraciones de los Istnos de Panamá y de Darien" de Armand Reclus.
160 pages. Features: Our Silent Partner Against Communism - Reinhard Gehlen; Who'll Pay for Your College Education?; A Footnote to the Air Force Manual; The Enemy Whacks Away at The Family Bible; Pat Brown - California's Controversial Governor; The Swastika vs the Hammer and Sickle; The Money Changers - conclusion of a 10 March 1935 address by Father Charles Coughlin; Threat to Internationalize the Panama Canal; Magnetism! - man taps nature's invisible web of force; Kelp - Abundant Sea Harvest; Betrayal of South Korea; Cyrus Eaton "Honored" with Lenin Peace Prize; Your Amazing Blood; America's Youngest teachers - The Science Clubs of America; Congress Views UNESCO; Stop Pampering Sneak Intruders - counter-intelligence; Hot Dog!; A Salute to Helen Keller; Sharing America's Abundance; It's Never Too Late; Muscle in on Health; Freak Squeaks; Why Kentucky Colonels?; Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Part III - their interests penetrate all aspects of American life; The St. Lawrence Seaway; Does Russia Have the Earth's Stablest Currency?; Communist Swastikas - Pat Walsh of the RCMP says Communists used to paint swastikas on Montreal synagogues to scare local Jews into voting for and supporting them; executive Health; America Keeps a 165-Year Old Promise - payments to the Indians of the Six Nations; A Clue in the Missile Lag History - Five Years Ago Congress Could Not Stomach Joseph McCarthy's Censurable Truths - But Today...; Cigarette Smoking - major cause of lung cancer; Survival in Learning; Death of a Church - Holy Trinity Episcopal Protestant Church in Brooklyn; Parental Function; Adolph Eichmann and the Bitter Harvest of Hate - Voice of All Faiths Protest His Kidnapping by Israel in Argentina; Cowboy Talk; Who Are Our Rulers? - Fascinating article on the Rothschilds / International Bankers and their techniques for control; Lesson of Experience - Foreign Aid; Your Health - Two Factors for Longer Life; Maine Becomes a State of Mind. To Tranquilize or Not?. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Carta geografica, antica ed originale, inserita nel VI Tomo ”Atlas Historique ou nouvelle introduction a l’Histoire, à la Chronologie & à la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne…”, pubblicato ad Amsterdam nel 1719. Atlante che, con la sua pubblicazione, coniuga le mappe geografiche con incisioni e informazioni di carattere geografico, araldico, etnografico e storico così rendendo l’opera in sette volumi molto innovativa. Incisione in rame 370x430 mm.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743), pastore ugonotto originario di Parigi visse alternativamente a Parigi, Londra, L'Aia ed Amsterdam. Conosciuto come cartografo olandese per il sua opera cartografica monumentale in sette volumi “Atlas Historique” pubblicata ad Amsterdam con i suoi fratelli. Mappa con 2 inserti e 7 vignette: "Carte De L'Isthme De Darien Et Du Golfe De Panama", "Cote septentr. del'Isthme del'Amerique a l'Ouest de Panama; Cote merid. de l'Isthme del'Amerique a l'Ouest de Panama". "Carte de l'Isthme di Darien et du Golfe dei Panama. Le vignette rappresentano la flora e la fauna della regione, tra cui pesci, uccelli e flora
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text and pictorial endpapers, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue boards, grey cloth back lettered in gilt, grey silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
Un volume in 4to (28 cm) di (2)-154 pagine, una grande carta geografica ripiegata in fine. Legatura in tela verde con alone d'umido (che si limita alla legatura) attorno al dorso. Brossura originale conservata all'interno. Esemplare ex library, con bollo (annullato) alla pagina bianca e al titolo, ed ex libris. Accompagné du plan et du profil du projet a 6 ecluses groupées en deux echelles avec plafond du bief supérieur unique a la cote 20. Fallita la società (e il progetto) francese, gli studi e i progetti di Wyse furono poi decisivi nella costruzione del Canale da parte degli americani. Raro; nessuna copia censita nelle biblioteche italiane.
384 pages. The authentic and complete story of the building and operation of the great waterway - the eighth wonder of the world. With a graphic description of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the official celebration of the completion of America's triumph at Panama, the gigantic undertaking successfully carried out under the supervision of Col. George W. Goethals. Profusely illustrated with photographs in half-tone and color. Color frontis photograph of Mr. Goethals. Both hinges open. Above-average, but not excessive wear. Colour illustrated front board. Worn but legible gilt lettering upon front board and spine. A sensational reference. Book
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Montie Montana - Artist with a Rope; Riding by Reasoning, Part IV; Barn of Tomorrow; Training a Reining Horse; The Comanches - Lords of the South Plains; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; Down the Straightaway; Yesterday's Horse Roundup; Cow Cuttin'; Vet's Corner; Bunkhouse Bookshelf; and more. Nice color-photo ad for Plasti-Aire washable Panama hats inside front cover. Great full-page ad inside back cover for the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. Back cover ad for C.H. Hyer & Sons boots. Lee jeans ad on page 35 features L.E. Matheres, Jr. of Mathers Bros., Mason City, Il. Levi's jeans ad atop page 36. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Riding by Reasoning, Part III; Tops in Tailoring - well-dressed Cy Taillon, Casey Tibbs, and others, with photos; That Old Cotton Rope; Western Wear For Women; Popular Fallacies about Palominos; Just Like Dad's - a guide to pint-size western wear; Down the Straightaway; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Horses with Appaloosa spots; Vet's Corner; Tips on Care of Suede & Leather wear; Training the Roping Horse; Young Boys Operate Riding Stables; How to Take Better Horse Pictures; Wild Horse Man - Frank Robbins of Glenrock, Wyoming; Will Rodgers' Saddles - on dispaly in his memorial in Oklahoma; and more. Fantastic color "Friskie Babe" western shirt ad, by Tem-Tex, inside front cover. Nice Wrangler jeans ad on page 3. Fantastic full-page color ad for Fred Meuller, Inc. boots inside back cover. Ryon Panama hat ad on back cover. Lee jeans ad featuring Casey Tibbs on page 72. Levi's ad on page 43. Leddy Bros. boot ad. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: In Search of the Hairy Frog - An expedition into the little-known interior of the British Cameroons, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - An audacious hold-up in Malta G.C. of a navy van containing a considerable payroll, with photos; Luck of the Game - story from a Gold Coast Prospector; Ozark Excursion - interesting people including a cross-bow hunter; The Lost Mine - Tisingal, in the interior of Panama; The Cowrie Shell - white men usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bill - a fellow in Australia; House-to-House; Japanese glass net-balls (floats); Brown's Donkey - an incident from the North African Desert; The Rest House - a striking example of premonition from India; and more. Above-average wear. Brown tape secures covers. Book
Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Features: Outlaw Stronghold - the hectic history of a rugged wilderness area in Oklahoma and Arkansas often used as a sanctuary by fugitives; Climbing the Sutherland Falls in New Zealand; Frensham's Bungalow - a strange story related by a former officer of the Indian Army; A Bid for Fortune - a young newcomer to Darwin, Australia joins a veteran skipper in a trip to a secret pearl-oyster bed; A Pygmy Net-Hunt - a graphic description of a most ingenious method of capturing wild animals, with photos; The Lost Mine (Part I) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reputed to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spanish; The New Cook; Diggers - Australian gold-hunters, with photos; Velnagel's Gold - while salvaging old machinery from an abandoned Australian gold mine the narrator (Robert Stevens) stumbled into an extrordinary experience; The Arrow Mystery - a curious affair from the early days of the Nigerian Tin-Field; and more. Covers taped in place. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: Burned Boats; The Man in the Fur Coat; Plot and Counter-Plot; The Leopard-Men; My Mexican Mine; African Ball Game; Head for Head; Through the Panama Jungles; Secret Service-Indian Pattern; The Rivals; The Diviner; The White Devil of Badu. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Features: Lovely photo of Arnold Palmer and his wife with story about his victory in Panama; Photo of Cary Middlecoff, winner of the Bing Crosby tournament; Photo of crowd on the 16th hole at Pebble Beach; Photo of the Boros family in the Pro Shop at the Mid Pines Club where son Julius is the Pro; One-page ad for the Lectracar Duo golf cart by Sears, Roebuck & Co; Photo of Edgar A. Sweet; Nice photo of Marlene Bauer Hagge driving in tournament play; Photo of Mangrum in Golfcraft, Inc. ad; Photos of Dr. and Mrs. Seth W. Shields, and Lady Meek and Dr. Shields; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 313; 320. Fore-edges dampstained. Large 8vo. 225mm. Original full cloth binding. Head and tail of spine worn. First American Edition. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (1805-1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially sailing distances and times between the West and the East. He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a sea-level Panama Canal during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, and the projected de Lesseps canal was left uncompleted and eventually partially superseded by a non-sea-level canal with locks, built by the United States and completed in 1914. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BIO BX 2
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations, maps and endpaper maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Series III, vols. 8, 11, 13. The set comprises: Vol. I: Cadiz to Panama; Vol. II: Panama to The Philippines; Vol. III: Manila to Cadiz.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Unpaginated, about 150 pages in oversize format, first couple pages contain the intro and preface in English and Spanish, the remainder of the book full page, full color photo prints of the author's work. Includes shots of the neighborhoods Barraza and El Chorrillo in Panama, cock fighting sheds, cock fights, children, local teen age gangsters, children at play , gang members, police on motorcycles with shotguns, local architecture, slums, etc.
22 pages. Features: To ABM or Not to ABM; A Socialist on the Kibbutz; Rumpus on the Campus - student rebellions; Mideast Turmoil; Behind the Building of the Panama Canal; Production for Use; The Shrike - and the 'Social Shrike'; John Braine - "Muddle Conservatire"; and more. Average wear. Bit of soiling to page 3. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Un volume in 4to (28 cm) di 69 pagine + 2 carte geografiche a colori ripiegate in fine (numerate peraltro II e III, mentre la I è probabilmente considerata lo schema dei diversi progetti a p. 65). Brossura editoriale con titolo alla copertina. INVIO autografo dell'autore alla pagina bianca e UNA LETTERA autografa di Voisin-Bey al direttore dei Chemons de fer de l'Est M. Jacqmin. Extrait des Comptes rendus du Congres internationale d'etudes du Canal inteoceanique publié par la Société Géographique de Paris). Comparazione tecnica dei diversi progetti di canale (con i tracciati del Nicaragua, del Dairen, di Panama, ecc) con preferenza per quello che sarà, sostanzialmente, quello poi prescelto dagli americani. Raro.
In-8° (23,5 x 16 cm). (6), II, 774 pp. Tav. fotografiche e 2 cartine ripiegate nel testo. Buon esemplare rilegato in piena tela, con titoli oro al dorso. Bunau-Varilla (1859-1940), ingegnere francese e soldato, si adoperò presso il governo degli Stati Uniti per la costruzione del Canale di Panama.
Paris, Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1844. In-8 broché de 182 pages + errata + grande carte dépliante et catalogue de la librairie Goselin sur 4 pages en tête d'ouvrage. La couverture est défraichie et salie, le dos partiellement abimé, le cors de l'ouvrage ne présente que de très rares rousseurs. Cet ouvrage rare mériterait restauration et reliure.