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in-8, 344 pages, cartes, broché, couv. ill. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire [HI-3/2]
Seuil, 1979. In-4 relié toile sous jaquette illustrée rempliée de 263 pages. Nombreuses Photos. Préface d'André Malraux. Très bon état.
Rubbing to spine ends and with gilt lettering faded. Edges darkened and with light foxing. Moderate foxing to first few pages. ; 8vo; 337 pages
60 pages. Features: My Favorite Yashio Azaleas; Rhododendron "Marcia Ann' - Grandchild of the ARS Seed Exchange; What is an Azalea; Sikkim 2000 - The Danish Rhododendron Adventure; Root Weevils - Troublesome Rhododendron Pests; Fifty Years of Azalea Gardening at Callaway; Trekking the Siskiyous; Building a Garden in a Georgia Woodland; Treading Paths of Dr. Sleumer in the Arfak Mountains, Vogelkop Peninsula, New Guinea; Let's Talk Hybridizing; Volume 55 Index; Society News. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Potting Cattleyas - Part 2 - Basic Orchid Culture - 6; Collecting in the Western District of Papua, New Guinea; An F.C.C. at Age 16; Huntleya meleagris 'El Valle de Anton'; Gigantic Doritaenopsis Awarded; Mesophyll Collapse in Phalaenopsis; A Personal Essay - Observations of an A.O.s. Student Judge; A Summer Outing for ORchids; Plectrophora clutrifolia and P.alata - Collector's item; Species Orchid Seed - Conservation and Distribution; Orched Genera, Illustrated - XLV - Huntleya; The Gulf Coast Lath House; F.C.C.'s of 1974. Lovely copy. Book
293pp. + 11 bl/w ills. out of text & 3 folding map, with 3pp. of theses, 24cm., text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, A112263
vi + 556pp.+ frontispice (portrait), 1e édition, br.muet moderne, qqs.rousseurs, 23cm.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Sold from an institution wits neat stamp on title. A volume in the Official History of Australia in WWII.
fort volume in-8, 606 pp., illustrations, broche, couv. ill. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire du SP, DEDICACE par les traducteurs. [TX-9]
vi + 556pp.+ frontispice (portrait) + 2 cartes double-page en couleurs, 1e édition, reliure demi-toile, qqs.rousseurs, 23cm., bel état
Western Approaches to Torres Strait Compiled from the latest British & Netherlands Gov.t Surveys. London Published at the Admiralty 15th June 1881, under the Superintendence of Capt.n F.J. Evans, Hydrographer. Small corrections: 1925. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Australia - New Guinea. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 475x645 mm
Papua or New Guinea - sheet 8 - Louisiade Archipelago Bramble Haven to Rossel Island Surveyed by Lieut. Com. A.M. Field, assisted by Lieut. W.P. Dawson, H.J. Gedge and V.B. Webb, H.M.S. Dart, 1887-8. The portion in hair line by Captain Owen Stanley, 1850. London Published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty May 24th 1852. Small corrections: 1929. Folded editolially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Papua - New Guinea. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 617x961 mm
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in three winters of living with the people of Upper Egypt - article with photos; Captain Doudera's Bet - The amazing photo-illustrated story of Captain Frank Doudera, of Brooklyn, New York, and his quest to obtain a timber wolf pelt within six weeks; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part II - Beatrice Grimshaw travelled up the Sepik River of New Guinea, where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Chippin' Paint - An amusing sea story; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part II - A British officer's remarkable journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; The Treasure of Tristan Da Cunha - Photo-illustrated article about a hoard of gold and jewels said to have been hidden here by pirates in 1810; Photo of a literal river full of logs in British Columbia; The Three Angleteers - Part IV - Three bored Englishmen travel to Europe for trouble and adventure; In the British Guiana Jungle - A vividly-written photo-illustrated account of an eventful boat-journey into the interior of British Guiana with a motion picture camera, culminating with a visit to the mighty Kaietuerk Falls, the greatest cataract in the world, five times higher than Niagara; The Secret of the Wilds - photos of wild animals which resemble those of prehistoric times; "Grip" and I - Part II - A bull-terrier spared from death by its new owner Count Nils Cronstedt returns the favour by saving him multiple times during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendent in Northern Nigeria; One Night - the story of a hunt in the darkness and a panther who stood his ground; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
8vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Paris Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales,1930. Petit In-folio relié demi percaline bleutée, plats de papier marbré, couverture illustrée conservée, 350 pages. 486 figures en 114 planches. Bien complet de la grande carte dépliante de la Nouvelle Guinée. Très rare exemplaire de cette monumentale étude, ici en édition originale, et à ce jour jamais égalée. On ne peut que signaler de petits défauts à la percaline sans gravité, l'intérieur est en parfait état.
