Dillon, Gordon W.: EditorMareMagnum
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Features include: Odontoglossums and Their Hybrids; Orchids Under Lights in New York City; Calanthes in Hawaii; Give Some Thought to the Pot; A Simplified Method of Sowing Seed; Culture of Odontoglossums; Orchids of Africa: An Interesting Species of Aerangis; Culture of Calanthe in Denmark; Orchids of India: Calanthe herbacea; Book Review "Beautiful Indian Orchids" by B.N. Ghose; Orchid Hall of Fame (Pt III): Laeliocattleya Bonanza; Name Changes in Orchids (Pt 2); and Collectors' Item: Stenoglossum coriophorum. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: The Genus Dendrobium; Dendrobium Culture in Hawaii; Growing the Nobile-type Dendrobium on Oahu; Effects of Gibberellic Acid on Dendrobium Seedlings; Incidents of Travel in Chiapas: Orchids on Churches - La Selva Negra; Orchids of Crater Lake National Park; Orchid Hall of Fame (Pt IV): Phalaenopsis Moonglow; and Collectors' Item: Maxillaria vittariifolia. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: Collecting Orchids is Hard Work - but Rewarding; The Trend in Bifoliate Cattleyas; Production of Dendrobium Seedlings by Aseptic Culture of Excised Ovularies; Multigeneric Hybrids Made in Hawaii; The Lady's-slipper as Prisoner of the Garden; My First Flasking or Things the Experts Don't Tell You; A Single Orchid Plant Gives Pleasure; Book Review "Orchid Corsages and Leis" by Glad Reusch; How to Grow Orchids (Pt 3): Phalaenopsis and Their Culture; and Collectors' Item: Pescatorea euglossa. Front/Back cover loose but present. Staples rusted and minor rusting Table of Contents and page 431. A sound copy. Book
431 pages. Glossary. Index. Black and white illustrations. Covers significant changes in Hawaii's sugar industry and in the development of Grove Plantation on Kauai. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice tight copy. Book
174 pages. Features: Exotic homes around the world; Cher in Malibu; Bali, Mexico, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Hawaii, Japan, Barbados, Marrakech; Nureyev; Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Letter from Leanna; A Wedding in Your Family?; Letter from Lucile; You and Your Camera, by Russell Verness; Photo of Mrs. Annis O'Dell, her mother and three youngsters, of Johnstown, Colorado; Letter from Frederick - with photo of pigeons at Capistrano; Caspar Meets Catastrophe, by Myrtle E. Felkner; Photo of brother Boy Scouts in Hawaii - Russell and Ronald Bachman; Entertainment for Bride's Shower, by Mabel Nair Brown. Average soiling and wear. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Chromosome doubling of a Dendrobium Hybrid with Colchicine in Meristem Culture; Introduction of Polyploidy in Vanda by Colchicine Treatment; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Significant orchid diseases in Hawaii; Patrick Kawamoto's Orchid Nursery in Manoa Valley; A Doctor Looks at Orchids; and more. Lovely copy. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
96 pages. Features: Dennis Ramsey installed two photovoltaic-powered lighting systems in Nepal; Robert Siebert feeds solar electricity into the local grid from his 'patio cover'; Solar Cooking in Nepal; Upcoming production electric vehicles; Electric Voltsrabbit; Jonathan Tennyson's electric vehicles in Hawaii; Electric Vehicle Testing & Troubleshooting; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
159 pages, black and white photos. Gift inscription on title page. Author was born in Red Deer Alberta in 1901. He retired from fishing at the age of 70 and "that's when life began." Sailing to Hawaii on a catamaran he helped build or catching a flight to Mexico at the age of 89 for a month long holiday - Jim's story is a revelation to all those who think that life after 70 is a life of limitations. Circa 1995? Book
246pp. met ills., ingebonden in gecart. band, zwartlederen rug met titel in goudopdruk, gemarbreerde schutbladen, 23cm., goede staat, [Mee ingebonden: HUBERT Eugeen: Pater Damianus priester van de congregatie der HH. Harten (Picpus) Belgische zendeling der melaatschen van Molokai : Nationale eerbetuiging aan Pater Damianus, Leuven, Karel Peeters, 1889, 24pp.], H103010
Broché. 128 pages. 17x27cm.
Large 8vo, 25.5cm. Pp. vi,399, 24 photos of views etc. on 10 pls., numerous photos of fossils on 42 pls., 38 figs., tabs., refs., index. Orig. printed wrs. Small neat repair to ends of spine, little rubbing to covers, contents very good. - With Ladd's signed presentation inscription. The large paleontological section (pp. 272-384) consists of several chapters each written by specialists on the subject in question.
Features include: Modern Cypripedium Hybrids (IX. Cypripedium Clementine Churchill); For the Beginner: Watering; Growing Vandas in Hawaii; Orchid Flower Storage; and Vanda Sanderiana from Seed to Flower in Thirty-Nine Months. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: beginning your collection; orchids as landscape plants; an aid to proper watering; living with orchids; Chysis tricostata - Colector's Item; Dendrobium culture in Hawaii; Some observations on Pollinaria in the Oncidiinae; Orchids for the masses; the culture of Nobile-type Dendrobiums. Two inch tear to covers at foot of spine has been repaired. Faint date stamp on front cover. Book
136pp.illustré avec des photos, relié en couvert.cart. avec plats marbrés et dos en toile (traces d'une étiquette aux plats), 21cm., cachet, bon état, A63715
Boards a bit darkened and with light rubbing to extremities. Light foxing to first few pages; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 461 pages
208 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "From much accumulated data we have woven a non-fiction historical book which it is hoped will fill a practical need in the literature of the Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands, and may interest readers in Canada, the United States, Hawaii and Great Britain... Extracts of Vancouver's original 1798 charts were photographed and are included, while in some instances these are compared with modern maps." - from foreward. Decorated front board. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
First published in 1934. 4 pages. Bits of writing and Hawaiian store stamp on front cover. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Colour photos throughout. Printed on glossy stock. Appears to be circa 1971. Features: Deepsea Canoe - George Tocher and David Moon and their voyage aboard the native-style vessel Orenda to Hawaii - article with photos; Aspenite sales; Non-masonary fireplaces; The Hutterite Way - they choose Aspenite for the new farm buildings at their Morinville colony northwest of Edmonton; New K3 Woodgrains. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
H et L Castermann SD (vers 1900), In-4 percaline de l'éditeur bleue, dos et premier plat trés décorés d'entrelacs dorés, 2° plat estampé à froid, 286 pages. Illustrations de MATHY à pleines pages. Roman pour la jeunesse dont l'action se situe aux Iles SANDWICH, à HAWAI et chez les KANAKES. Trés bel état.
Un volume di317 pagine. Ritratto in antiporta, Testo in francese. Brossura editoriale. Resoconto della prima missione di conversione al cattolicesimo degli abitanti delle Hawaii condotta dal padre Hilarion Lucas (1782-1865) - Notevole fonte di informazioni sulla storia e i costumi della civiltà delle isola Sandwich all'inizio dell'Ottocento.
63 pages. Black and white illustrations. Oblong trade paperback. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators .. History and Description of the Whole World... Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators..." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787
Incisione inserita nell'opera "A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Including All the Late Important Discoveries Made by the English, and Other Celebrated Navigators .. History and Description of the Whole World... Likewise the Essence of the Voyages of the Most Enterprising Navigators..." edita a Londra da J. Cooke nel gennaio del 1787
