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Features: Flower arranger's greenhouse; Christmas at the manor; Proteas; design with Proteas; Singapore Orchids; The Big Day; The flora Calendar 1976; Chrysanthemum glory; Wintergreen; Gardening and flower arranging in Jamaica; Why I collect flower stamps; pink frost for Christmas; Coconuts for food and flowers; Flowers at Beaulieu; Men who arrange flowers; pot et fleur; winter in the garden; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Kl.8° quer. 40 S. Original-Broschur mit Deckeltitel. Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren: fleckig und gerändert, Rücken mit Fehlstellen. Einige Seiten am Rande etwas wasserfleckig, sonst innen gut erhalten. Original wrappers with title to spine. Covers worn: staining and with little tears, spine with material loss. Inside slightly stained, apart from this in good condition. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen nach sw Photographien. Texte vom Herausgeber und Henry A. Blake, Governor of Jamaica. / Many illustrations, texts by the editor and by Henry A. Blake, Governor of Jamaica.
Book shows only very slight use/very light shelfwear only. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. 251 pages. Graphs, charts, tables, maps.
Features: Desirable orchids of the Bahamas; Vanda cristata; Triplods are wonderful but...; Angraecum distichum vs. Mystacidium distichum - Collector's item; A sumer collecting trip to Jamaica; Gastrorchis humblotii; a survey of cymbidium composts - a Gripp on Growing; a checklist of the orchids of Jamaica; Improvement of species by inbreeding; Stenia species in Peru. Book
Features: Sweetly Scented Flowers; Autumn flowers from Bulbs; Butter Roses; in your garden; base thoughts; protection in the garden; flower festival at Westminster Cathedral; Flowers and button-holes; roses in flora containers; Castle Howard; flowers in praise; treasures from the sea; Derbyshire well-dressing; a flower arranger in Jamaica; watering your garden; flowers through the ages; Maruee Decoration; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
82 pages. Features: 2-page Van Heusen ad inside front cover; nice Pernod ad; Freaky Fables; Glenfiddich 'halo' ad; 2-page Cathay Pacific ad; Cross pen ad - auction scene; 2-page ad for Pure New Wool; 2-page ad for the Renault 11 Turbo; The Famous Grouse whisky ad; Alfa Romeo ad for the Alfa 33; 2-page Mercedes-Benz ad featuring the 190s; Faconnable ad; John Player Special - Blackjack ad; WH Smith 2-page ad; Bold 2-page ad for Jamaica tourism; Rothmans ad inside back cover; Back cover ad warns of the dangers of smoking - features venus flytrap; and much more. Average wear. Covers loosening but still attached. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
Features include: Australia's flying duck orchids; shoot-tip culture for the novice; stenoptera ananassocomos - acquaintance renewed in Jamaica; Limberlost Orchid and Tropical plant nursery - a tribute to the Perseverance of an orchidist; Specimen plants and Paphiopedilum Potting - growing orchids indoors; cattleya aclandiae; Acceleration of the germination of so-called "hard-to-germinate" orchid seeds; observations on growing catasetums; Erythrostylum - the Queen of Cymbidium species - a Gripp on growing; The morphological effects on pollination in the Brazillian Miltonias; A second look at Doritaenopsis. Book
8vo. First Edition, with numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, inked scribble on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings mounted on endpapers. SCARCE.
Two Volumes. Top edges gold gilt. Mildly XLib. 6.75" x 4.25" In 8's. Original full leather bindings, bound by Brentano's, New York. Boards ruled in gold with gilt turn ins. Spines decorated in gold with raised bands. Remnants of leather spine labels. Volume One spine repaired, front board very fragile. Volume Two front board detached. Hardbound. Very good. Michael Scott, wrote a series of amusing and exotic stories for "Blackwood's Magazine" which were later collected as "Tom Cringle's Log" and "The Cruise of the Midge." Published anonymously, their authorship was not known till after Scott's death at Glasgow. Scott paints many interesting and alluring pictures of his sea travels. Sea fights, tropical scenery, Creoles, planters, flirtations, duels, and other pleasures or dangers of West Indian life. Interestingly, the first known use of the phrase "Where there's a will, there's a way" came from these pages. Scarce original edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7
4to. Pp. 217, many photos and figs., tabs., refs. Orig. wrs. - Consists of 12 papers by an international team of invited authors, outlining sedimentology, geomorphology and aspects of geochemistry, as well as most of the principal groups of fossils including foraminifera, sponges, scleractinian corals, brachiopods, nautiloids, crustaceans, echinoderms, fishes, and trace fossils.
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
Dans ce numéro, les nouvelles de Londres sont consacrées à la guerre d'Amérique. La Gazette reproduit une requête des planteurs de sucre, propriétaire et négocians présenté au Roi le 16 décembre « au commencement de la malheureuse division entre ce Royaume & les Colonies de l'Amérique septentrionale, les Requerans, (…) représentèrent aux Ministres de V. M. les craintes qu'ils avaient des dangers et des malheurs auxquels les isles à sucre seraient nécessairement exposées (...)ils ont aujourd'hui sujet de regretter, par la perte de la Dominique et par le danger imminent des autres isles, que leurs fréquentes démarches pour obtenir de la protection n'ont pas eu l'effet désiré ; qu'ils sont à présent dans l'état le plus cruel d'incertitude, par le délai du secours envoyé de New-York aux Isles sous le Vent (…) tandis que la Jamaïque a été laissée presque absolument à ses propres efforts,lesquels, vu le petit nombre d'habitans Blancs, sont devenus extrèmement fatiguans » P. 87, une communication du chimiste et futur ministre de l'Intérieur Jacques Antoine Mourgue livre les résultats des Observations météorologiques, agronomiques & physiques, faites à Montpellier & dans les environs, pendant l'année 1778.
246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous musical notations in the text, series title and title lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; decorative cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-marked, upper hinge cracked but quite sound else a good, sound copy of a very scarce work. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, LV.
Paris, 1760 circa. Incisione in rame al'acquaforte, colore, cm 23 x 35,2 (alla lastra). Sono segnati meridiani e paralleli sulla “Longitude du Méridien de l'Isle de Fer” e sulla “Longitude du Méridien de Paris”. Buone condizioni.
159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Official Wrestling Ratings; Bobby Shane loses his hair - photo with writeup; Great photo of Muhammad Ali with the Mighty Zulu, plus writeup; Bobby Heenan's Terrible Plot to Destroy Bruno Sammartino! - article with photos, including henchman Baron Fritz Von Raschke; The Jamaica Kid - photos and article; Nick Bockwinkle and Ray Stevens Tag Team - photos and article; Tony Marino article with photos; Ole Anderson says he has found Jack Brisco's weakness - article with photos; Great article and photos of Andre the Giant; Article and photos of Midge Wrestlers, including Little Beaver and Sky Low Low; Susan and Barbara wrestle - photos and article; A Look into Chief Wahoo McDaniel's personal photo album; Analyzing wrestler handwriting!; Photos of Mighty Igor and his plans for the Sheik; John Tolos article with photos; Great full-page ad for "Love Doll" blow-up doll; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1598 pages. An illustrated biographical record of men and women of the time. Sturdy recent red buckram binding. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Very Good English Original 36 b/w photographs taken by anonymous Turkish traveler to the US in 1958-59. 9x12,5 cm. Printed on Kodak Velox Paper. Embossed frames. Dated mostly February 1958 and April 1959. Photographs show the entrance of Rockefeller Plaza, New York with flags of various countries (including the Turkish flag); streets and districts of NY; Botanical Garden; Bronx Zoo of NY; New York Coliseum Long Island; Triboro Hospital of Jamaica (NY); QGH (Queens General Hospital) and parking cars in front of the building; Queens Hospital Center of NY; Animal Hospital (Boarding - Grooming); Road of Jamaica NY; Rockefeller Plaza building; Garden of QGH; building for doctors; Some American houses of NY; Ice rink of Rockefeller Plaza; Lakeshore, etc. A fine vintage photo collection of the 1950s' New York.
Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Nice ad for Sony Cassette-Corder inside front cover; Great one-page ad for Harness House features photo of gent with belts slung over his bare shoulder; The 'Black Mayonnaise' at the Bottom of Jamaica Bay - photo-illustrated article; Yale Faculty Makes the Scene - article with photos of Charles Reich, Kenneth Keniston, Erich Segal, Robert Lifton, Robert Penn Warren and Robert Brustein; Was Eisenhower a Political Genius? A Brilliant Man?; The Four Big Fears About Nuclear Power; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of young Glen Conway; 'Valentino' fashion photos; Interior design photos of Harrison Cultra's small city duplex. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
80 pages. Features:; Great Jamaica tourism ad; Safire on Sneer Words; Little Red Riding Hood Revisited; Love and Sex in China - The wall of puritanism the Communists built around China's sexual mores shows signs of crumbling, but a traditional Chinese reticence still remains - color-photo illustrated article; Past Master of Posters - A.M. Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron) - with beautiful colour examples of his work; Two-page color-photo ad for Jordache Jeans features topless gents with lady; Pianist Peter Serkin; Kirin Beer ad with Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympic Games theme; With the Afghan Rebels - article with photos; The Dark Roots of Violence; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for Trissi features model at Walt Disney World; Six pages of *Gorgeous* color photos of 'Bathing Beauties of 1980';Amarone; Real estate and Camp ads; and more. Small library stamp on front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of child musical prodigies at the Juilliard School; Nice Jamaica ad; Chivas Regal ad; Baileys Irish Cream ad; Safire on Hyphenating Americans; No More Orange Motorcycles; The Pleasures and Perils of Being a Child Prodigy - article with full-page color photo of violinist Charlie Kim; Stalin Makes a Comeback; The Georgia on L.A.'s Mind - Georgia Rosenbloom has helped guide the Los Angeles Rams into the playoffs - article with photos; Black & White Scotch ad features photos of Backgammon players Onnik Hovanesian, Lewis Deyong, William Boyd, Gloria Donahue, Irving Kellman, and others; Shoe Fashions; Camp ads; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Jamaica Surveyed by Staff Com.r G. Stanley 1873-5 and Lieut.t T. F. Pullen 1876-9. Morant Cays by Lieut A. Carpenter and the Officers of H. M. S. Sparrowhawk 1890.London Published at the Admiralty 27 October 1880 under the Superintendence of Captain F.J. Evan. Small corrections: 1931. Folded
Port Antonio (556x644 mm) Surveyed by Captain R.W. Glennie assisted by Lieut.t Com.dr C.S. Lockhart A.E. Harbord D.L. Cowan R.M. Southern & A.H. Stanley H.M. Surveying Ship "Mutine" Jan.y - March 1921. Intesting "Objects on this chart conspicuous to the Navigator" Titchfield Hotel, Richmond House, Isolation Hospital...London Published at the Admiralty 7 May 1923 under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Fred.k C. Learmonth. Folded
