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16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: The City of Mexico; City of Bombay, India; Island of St. Helena; Cape Town, Africa; The Royal Palace, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands (Hawaii); Constantinople; Ruins of the City of Capernaum; Royal Palace of Peterhof, near St. Petersburg; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Devil's Bridge, Switzerland; Island of Madeira; Salon, Marie de Padilla; Frederiksborg Palace, Denmark; Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden; The Palace of Versailles, France; The Assumption of the Virgin, by Murillo. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Cover photo of the cruise ship Norway; On the Waterfront; Ferry Fleets Update; Ferry Focus - Val de Loire; Old Friends Revisited - a review of Royal Navy warships still in service overseas; Ports of Call; European Liners Cruise On - Ted Scull reviews the varied fleet of European passenger liners in service today as cruise ships - Part 1 - Former French and Dutch Liners; Ships in the News; Classic Liners Cruise On! - colour photofeature; Callers at the Cape - colour photofeature; Farewell to the former United States Line's trans-Atlantic liner 'America' - photofeature; A New Heart for an Old Lady - the extensive refit carried out on the eighty-year-old missionary vessel Doulos, claimed to be the world's oldest active ocean-going ship; The Loss of the Fort Stikine - fifty years ago this month an explosion in Bombay docks killed or injured 1,400 people and destroyed nearly 35,000 tons of shipping - as recalled by survivor Dennis Cairns; Voyage Report - Elephant Ahoy! - David Barton shared a voyage on the City of Stafford in the mid-1950s with a baby elephant; Cruise Ship Review; Warships in Profile - Patrol Vessels; Large colour photo of the Cotswold inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Children and Dogs Amuse Each Other; Britain Without Sign-posts; Cover photo of Mrs. Michael Menzies (the former Kay Stammers) playing tennis; Some Candidates for the New Derby - Photos of 11 fine horses; Wilfred Taylor - Broadcasting the Derby; Sport Lives On; Rapier Sums Up the New Derby; Winchester Avoid Defeat by the M.C.C. (cricket news); Derbys and Oaks of the Last War - photos of winning horses from 1915-1918; Now is the time to know something about a rifle - Sir Pelham Warner changes his bat for a gun - brief article with 13 photos; Bombay Hunt's Gymkhana (near Bombay) - 13 photos; How They Race at Beersheeba - six photos of camel racing in Palestine; Stowe Too Strong for Bedford - 14 cricket photos with brief captions; Roehampton Sunday - six photos of the Red Cross Lawn Tennis Tournament, including photos of Murray Deloford, Mrs. Frank Strawson, Miss G.M. Harvey, and Rosemary Thomas; Photos of theatre stars Evelyn Laye and Robert Helpmann (in drag); Movie news and photos; Centuries Plentiful in Public Schools Cricket; Sergeant Braddock rejoins marines at age 52; Openings along coverfold, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy example of this vintage wartime issue Book
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
84, [14] plates. Printed upon glossy stock. Issued by the Trustees of the Port of Bombay to mark the first centenary of the Bombay Port Trust (1873-1973). Front endpaper map. Colour frontispiece. Section of black and white reproductions of photos at back. Light wear to gilt-decorated publisher's navy cloth. Binding intact. Bit of writing atop front free endpaper. Lacking foldout map. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A worthy copy. Book
First edition, 8vo (220 x 135mm), [4], 323, [1]pp., final 2 leaves a little chipped at margins, disbound. Not in the British Library.
In 8, pp. 428 + (4). Centinaia di ill. fot. anche a piena p. Intonso. Br. ed. Seconda edizione, la prima era stata pubblicata nell'anno precedente. Mons. Zaleski fu delegato apostolico in India, Spagna e Inghilterra. In quet'opera espone con dovizia di particolari le caratteristiche etnografiche alle quali pone a corredo un ricco apparato fotografico. Zalenski segui' Monsignor Agliardi come suo segretario
Very Good English Original bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. Many b/w plates. [xii], 340 p., 1 folding huge map. A tour through the famine districs of India.
Features: The rise and fall of the VNAF - the rise and fall of the South Vietnamese Air Force, from 1951 to 1975; America's Spitfires - the USAAF was second only to the RAF as a major operator of the Supermarine Spitfire - a review of their operational history in American service; The RAF in Greece - 1940/41 - the fulfillment of Britain's treaty obligations; CW-21 - the St. Louis Lightweight - the story of the relatively unknown Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighter in WWII; Sixes and Sevens - completing the story of the 4-engined Douglas transport family, begun in AE/15 - the DC-6 and DC-7; The Blenheim in Yugoslavia - two successful years of Blenheim operations in Yugoslavia were followed by eight days of disaster in 1941; F13 - the Pioneer from Dessau - first flown in 1919, the Junkers F 13 was still serving after WWII; Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings - Laminar flow research and boundary layer control, as applied to the A.W.52 flying wings; Walrus - amphibious angel of mercy - designed by Reginald Mitchell; PR Flying and the Spitfire - an account of war-time photographic reconnaissance operations in the Middle and Far East; "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" - this 1931 headline summed up the culmination of an 18-year endeavour; The MiG Killers of Korea - the North American F-86 Sabre achieved the greatest success in air-to-air combat; Fokker's D VIII - the reluctant Razor - the world's first operational cantilever-winged fighter; Caught by the wing-tip - C.E. 'Bud' Anderson's experiences as a test pilot in the wing-tip coupling experiments; Bombay - Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray - the flying characteristics and operational career of the Bristol Bomber-transport; Quest for Altitude - The First Generation MiGs - a comprehensive account of the first fighters to bear the MiG appellation; Return of the Razorbacks - the restoration and flight demonstrations of the only Allison-engined Mustangs now extant; A seversky in the Spanish War - the SEV-3; Stratocruiser - ending an airline era - the role of the Boeing Stratocruiser in post-war air transport evolution; Destination - Disaster - how 8 new Saab B 18Bs of the Swedish Air Force met their doom, and how they came back; Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
This is a near fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. The lower right corner of the front board a bit bumped, not affecting text block at all. This is an illustrated history of the celebrated Taj Hotel in Mumbai, known simply as the Taj. It was first established in 1903 and quickly gained a reputatation as India's finest hotel. This book is full of archival or vintage photographs of the hotel in its' heyday. Lots of color photographs of the hotel both exterior and interior shots of rooms, and the many public areas. It also tells the story of the rebuilding of the hotel after the 2008 terrorist attack. 13" high X 11" wide, 336 pages.Scarce. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Literary Contributions by Harold Begbie, Walter Besant, Guy Boothby, F. C. Burnand & John Strange Winter. With 31 full page plates. Not paginated. Covers worn and browned around edges. Previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION (aside from recent reprints) OF THIS EARLY AND IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF AN INDIAN (from Calcutta) BY AN INDIAN (from Bombay). xxi, 386 pp. Printed on good wove paper. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with paper spine-label. A bit of wear and spotting to binding, internally FINE AND BRIGHT. A pristine example of a rare and important book.
13 vols. in one, folio, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked but holding, rubbed, morocco labels. 1. Copy of a Minute of Sir John Shore,.... late Governor General of Bengal; detailing the measures adopted in Oude, which led to the deposition of Vizier Ally, and placing on the throne the Nabob Saadut Ally,.... [18 other papers], [4], 71, [1] pp. 2. Such Extracts of the Letter from the Governor-General in Council at Bengal,.... as relate to the Continuance of a Part of the Company's Troops in the Territories of the Nabob Vizier at Futtyghur;.... [15 other papers], 44 pp. Supplement 2. to No. 3. Rajars of Sasnee and Bidjeghur, and of Cutchura and Titteah. 271-302 pp. 5. No.6. - Copy of all Communications to the Secret Committee or Court of Directors, by the Governor General; respecting the Nabob Saadut Ally, previous to, or after, the Conclusion of the Treaty of Lucknow in 1801;.... with large folding map, 41, [1] pp. 6. Copy of a Treaty concluded between the Marquis Cornwallis, then Governor General of India, and the late Vizier Afoph ul Dowlah; in 1787.... [7 other papers], 19, [1] pp. 7. Copies and Extracts of such Proceeding of the Governor General in Council, as regard the Claims of Individuals on the late or present Nabob of Oude,.....29, [1] pp. 8. Account of all the Sums of Money which have been paid, by the East India Company, into His Majesty's Exchequer.... [8 other papers], 49, [1] pp. 9. A List of all Pensions payable by the East India Company:- and, a Return of all Sums of Money granted by way of Gratuity,... 13, [1] pp. 10. Copies of Covenants entered into by the Servants of the East India Company; and the Orders issued to their Servants relative to Loans from the same, to the Princes of India and Natives thereof. 20 pp. 11. Copies of Letters from Lord Cornwallis to the Court of Directors and Secret Committee, dated 1st August 1805;.... [2 other copies of letters], 15, [1] pp. 12. Return of the 1st, Order of.... the House of Commons of 18th April 1806, which requires, "Copy of a Treaty between Affuf ul Dowlah and the late Nabob of Furruckabad, and guaranteed by the Marquis Cornwallis, in 1787.", [15 other papers], 30 pp. 13. Extracts of Letters, &c. received from the Presidency of Bombay; relative to the Sum of Bombay Rupees 31,25,944,.... said to be Money lent to the Guicowar., 7, [1] pp. 14. Copies of all Applications to the Court of Directors by any Claimants on the late or present Nabob of Oude, with the Decision of the Court of Directors,.... 7, [1] pp.
In-16 (mm. 175x115), 2 volumi, tela edit., pp. (6),CXX,240; (4),591 (numeraz. continua) + 64 di pubblicita’ dei Manuali Murray. L’opera e’ corredata da 3 carte geografiche f.t., di cui 2 più volte ripieg.: “Madras and the environs - Environs of Bombay - Town and fort of Bombay”. "Manca" la carta (inserita nella tasca al risg. del vol.) su Bombay. “Murray's Guide to Madras and Bombay Presidencies for 1859 is in many ways the first modern guide book to India. The work encompasses a vast and fascinating range of topics, including meticulous descriptions of acceptable dress codes for European males and females and an exposition on “the Manners of the Natives!” Today, the chief scholarly value of the book lies in its construction of Indian history, politics and culture from a 19th century European frame of reference”. "Rarissima edizione originale" di questa guida dedicata all’India e di cui furono pubblicate, sotto questo titolo, solo due parti: Madras e Bombay (cosi’ precisa la British Library). Solo il piatto anteriore di un vol. un po’ ammaccato, altrim. esempl. ben conservato.
