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Features: Impressions of Danish Railways; A Norwegian Rail Survey; The Malmbanen - the iron ore line from Lapland; Unusual Southern Steam Workings; Flying Scotsman in the USA; Railways and Painting; The West Coast Speed Up - 1; Volks Electric Railway - the pioneer line at Brighton still carries nearly a half-million passengers a year; David Percival Rides The Highwayman; The Battle for the Rother Valley; TC Paddington - Buckfastleigh May 2, 1970; and more. Moderate wear. Price stamp on front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book
8vo., neat signature on front preliminary, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; handsomely bound in contemporary marbled boards, brown morocco back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all compartments ruled in blind, marbled endpapers, a most attractive copy. Contains seven plays, ten poetic pieces, a short story and extracts from four books of voyages: Lapland, Flanders/Holland, Denmark, Sweden. Nice copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
192 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1900. Fold out map of Sweden at page 11. Chapters include: Early Religious History of Sweden; Sweden since the Reformation; The Swedish Diet; Rev. Fred. Olaus Nilsson; Rev. Andreas Wiberg; Mr. Wiberg in America; Stockholm; Dalecarlia; Baptists in Dalecarlia; Skania; Island of Gottland; Wester Norrland and Aland; Swedish Lapland; Persecutions. Usual library markings. Front hinge taped. Back hinge open. Binding open at title page. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: Title page illustration of British Artillery officers tobogganing on the Italian Front; Flesh-Food Shortage - Ways to Reduce It (article); The Blue Laurel (article); War and the Oceans (article); One illustrated page of coverage of the Malvy Trial in the French Senate; Two pages of photos of the British Army in camp and in the trenches in Mesopotamia; G.K. Chesterton writes of the importance of Poland and Alsace-Lorraine to the present war; Nine photos of "Men of the Moment" including C. A'Court Repington, T.H.J.C. Goodwin, Lord Glenconner, Travers Clarke, Sir Herbert Lawrence, Sir A. Hunter-Weston, Sir R.Y. Tyrwhitt, Count Hertling and Count Czernin; Illustrations of Cossack Troops, a subject of recent Bolshevist rumours; Two photos of Roumanian troops; Photo of the Bolshevist "Revolutionary Tribunal" dealing with Countess Panina; Photo of Russian Constituent Assembly members before they were disbursed by Red Guards with bayonets; One-page photo of Dryburgh Abbey; Two-page illustration of Italian trench-raiding party crossing the Piave by night on a raft; The Nitrogen (fertilizer) Problem Again (article about food in short supply); Page of photos of 21 British officers on the Roll of Honour, including Capt. John Fox Russell, V.C., M.C., R.A.M.C.; Two-page illustration of a German counter-attack crushed at Cambrai; Two-page illustration at Bourlon Wood where British rifles and machine-guns infliected huge losses on the German counter-attack; Five photos of British naval winter life in the Arctic Circle; Two photos of Royal Navy visitors on the Lapland coast; and more. 36 pages, including ten pages of charming vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. In particular, the back cover ad for "Harlene Hair-Drill" will fascinate anyone interested in early women's hair treatments. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
First edition in French, 4to (237 x 179 mm), [14], 408pp., with additional engraved title, folding engraved map, 21 engraved plates and several engravings in the text, with the cancel leaf A2 before the map, marbled endpapers, contemporary full mottled calf, five raised bands, spine richly gilt, red morocco title label, edges dyed red, a beautifully bound copy in fine condition. First published in Latin at Frankfurt in 1673 this important book remained the standard work on Lapland for some 200 years. The present French translation is by Augustine Lubin and in the preface it is stated that the additions which begin at p.358 were provided by Scheffer himself and are not included in any other edition. The preface continues - 'on ne verra point dans cette histoire des arm?es rang?es en bataile, des sieges des villes, ni cette fine politique dont toutes les autres sont remplies; la faim, le froid, la solitude, & la guerre contre les bestes sauvages sont les ennemis qui exercent la force & l'adresse de ces peuples: n?anmoins parmi la barbarie de cette nation, & au milieu des tenebres.... on ne laisse pas d'entrevoir quelques traits admirables d'humanit?...'. Brunet V, 194.
