J.P. ContyLivre Rare Book
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500328179Fleuve Noir Sans date. Jonathan Kern est parachuté au milieu des conflits qui opposent Américains Panaméens révolutionnaires et terroristes autour du Canal de Panama. Sa mission est d'éviter tout scandale mais son succès se paie au prix fort
1930224461930. Caribbean and Panama travel photograph album. circa early 1930s. This album documents interwar travel through the Panama Canal Zone and Jamaica recording maritime transit canal infrastructure and rural Caribbean life as observed by Western travelers. The photographs provide primary visual evidence of the Panama Canal as a site of industrial activity and international movement alongside scenes of Jamaican village life and landscape establishing a contrast between engineered environments and colonial rural settings. The material is particularly strong in its depiction of canal operations and the presence of local populations within these spaces.<br /> <br /> Album containing 29 silver gelatin photographs mounted on black leaves with individual prints measuring approximately 3.5 x 4.5 to 5 x 7 inches housed in a string-bound album measuring approximately 7 x 9.5 inches. The opening sequence shows passengers aboard a steamship with men and women posed along deck rails and views of ships navigating canal locks and docking areas. Additional images depict cranes drawbridges canal cuts and small boats in the water along with dock workers and uniformed personnel visible among travelers. Architectural and infrastructural views include colonial-style buildings and mechanical equipment associated with canal operation concluding with a monument identified as that of Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Panama City. The Jamaica sequence includes landscape views of hillsides and gardens along with images of Black Jamaican residents posed in village settings. One photograph bears the caption "Kingston Jamaica 10 -- S.S. 'Reliance' West Indies Cruise" showing children and adults gathered along a dirt road lined with wooden and metal-roofed structures. Other images show groups assembled beneath trees and within rural surroundings.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period when the Panama Canal served as a major conduit for global shipping under U.S. administration and Caribbean travel formed part of organized cruise itineraries the album reflects established routes of interwar tourism. The juxtaposition of canal engineering and Jamaican village scenes situates the photographs within broader patterns of travel that linked industrial infrastructure with colonial landscapes. Minor water rippling to pages and photographs; images remain clear; overall very good. A coherent travel album documenting canal operations and Caribbean life in the early twentieth century. unknown
200659144Hamburg, XENOS Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2006. origi.Pappband, kl.4°, 48 Seiten.
Milano, 1932, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 12 con 10 illustrazioni fotografiche. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
1112604103.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0656526319.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
21x13. 224p.
1998R100075774Michalon. 1998. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 209 pages - quelques planches de photos en noir et blanc - une carte en noir et blanc hors texte en début d'ouvrage.. . . . Classification Dewey : 986-Colombie, Panama, Equateur
7211Edition Litteraire de France, 1943. Format 14x19 cm, broche, 241 pages.Bon etat.
Un volume (24 cm) di 564 pagine. In lingua francese. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Buone condizioni.
Primo romanzo di Steinback. Storia bizzarra del pirata Henry Morgan e della conquista di Panama.
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
41525 November 1913; on letterhead of the Isthmian Canal Commission Canal Zone. New York journalist 1847-1928 and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt; Secretary Isthmian Canal Commission. One page quarto. Very good but lightly creased a little grubby. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. He has received the letter 'asking me if I can furnish you with material on the social side of the work at Panama. It would give me much pleasure to supply this were it in such form as to make it possible to do so. There has been a great deal written about it but nothing in concrete form so far as my knowledge goes. All that I have to say about it is published in my book "The Panama Gateway" Charles Scribner's Sons New York. I am so overwhelmed at present that it is quite impossible for me to make any collection of articles on the subject much as I should take pleasure in doing so. I have placed your name on the list of those receiving the Canal Record regularly beginning with the issue of the present volume.' 5 November 1913; on letterhead of the Isthmian Canal Commission (Canal Zone). unknown
2003Q-0961501421The Cookbook Marketplace 2003-12-31. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Cookbook Marketplace hardcover
1975Q-0961501405The Cookbook Marketplace 1975-12-31. Spiral-bound. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Cookbook Marketplace unknown
1985Q-0961501413Bay Publications/The Junior Service League of Panama City Inc 1985-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bay Publications/The Junior Service League of Panama City, Inc hardcover
1921107780dans la Revue des Deux Mondes, 1921, gr. in-8°, 16 pp, reliure demi-percaline rose, dos lisse avec fleuron et double filet doré en queue, pièce de titre basane vert olive, couv. conservées (rel. de l'époque), bon état. Exemplaire de l'auteur, avec son ex-libris et sa signature autographe
"Get Ready For the Panama Canal". Features: Over $25 million invested in Harriman Terminals; Kenneth C. Kerr describes Washington and Alaska's attendance at big New York land show; Editorial discusses the early opening of the Panama Canal and describes it as the "Greatest Epoch in American History"; Martin A. Knapp discusses Interstate Commerce Regulations; O.-W.R. & N. Co. News; G.W. Luce of the Southern Pacific discusses Panama Canal; Brief business biography of Frank W. Parker of the Northwestern Line, including photo of Parker; Appointments, Changes, Personals, etc.; Article by J.H. Bloedel, President of the Larsen Lumber Co., about the Panama Canal with reference to its influence on Pacific Coast Forest Products; Economy of the Commission Plan; Port of Vancouver Drydock and Shipbuilding Company plans big steel drydock for Vancouver; American-Hawaiian S.S. Co. Enters Bids for Carrying Mail; Big Coal Depots for Panama Canal; Missouri River Preparing for Panama Canal; Modern Fireboat Badly Needed for Tacoma's Harbor (article with photo of the harbor); Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Pacific Coast Casualties; "The Chester" - The World's Lightest Draft Steamer - article with photo; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, for local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A sound copy of this highly-informative memento of the rail and marine businesses of the Pacific Northwest over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1987R100075141Chêne. 1987. In-Folio. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Non paginé, environ 110 pages - nombreuses photographies en couleurs hors texte - une étiquette collée sur le 2ème plat de la jaquette - déchirure sur une page de l'ouvrage en pied ne gênant pas la lecture.. Avec Jaquette. . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 986-Colombie, Panama, Equateur
198213319Berlin: Militärverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1982. 2. Auflage 223 Seiten , 23 cm, kart.,
14667Broché 15,5 x 23,5 -177 pp - 47 ème année1940 n° 5 - Editeurs Calmann-Lévy Paris - illustrations -
35215Neuchâtel, La Baconnière, 1962. 16 x 22, 173 pp., nombreuses illustrations en N/B et en couleurs, cartes, broché, bon état.
1962146765Couverture souple. Broché. 173 pages.
197432938Paris Presses Universitaires de France 1974 cachets de la société géographique de Tours qui a vendu sa Bibliothèque
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue boards, grey cloth back lettered in gilt, grey silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
