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301 pages. Undated. Appears to be circa 1990. Contents include: Two Early Chinese Freemasons; An Account of Freemasonry in Fiji; 'Auld Lang Syne'; The Masons' Mark; Philippine Masonry in Okinawa; American Indian Freemasons; Lu Ban and Hiram Abif -a study in parallels; Symbolism in the craft; The Grand Lodge of Hawaii; The Swatow Lodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. A high quality copy. Book
Features: Nice color Pepsi ad on page 3; Merrily we Probe Along - Ralph Schoenstein talks about the analysis fad and a nation of psychic Peeping Toms; The World Needs the Truth about America - RFK proposes a plan to sell U.S. Ideals on an open market; Water-Hole Wonderland - man-made Lake Texoma; Hawaii's Hustling Shepherd - Rev. Abraham Akaka of Hawaii infuses new vigor into the Christian ministry; Don't Tell Me About Diets - Jockey Eric Guerin reveals the dieting truths he has learned during a 15-year struggle to avoid eating himself out of business; The Many Moods of Robert Mitchum - an exclusive account of the turbulent career and times of Hollywood's rugged nonconformist - many great black and white photos; Luxurious Mountaintop - the Burgenstock in Switzerland; Frank Robinson Comes of Age; Grand Tour for a College Combo - the Route 2 Tooters junket through Europe bartering their jazz music for a summer's fun. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Seconda edizione, in -12°, pp. 408, inclusa una mappa ripiegata delle isole e tre tavole fuori testo incise e protette da velina, mezza pelle, dorso mancante. Stewart fu mandato nel Pacifico nel 1822 e fu uno dei primi predicatori residenti nelle Hawaii: questo è uno dei primi resoconti strutturati della vita e delle abitudini delle popolazioni indigene. Stewart was send on the Pacific Ocean in 1822 and was one of the first preachers to establish in Hawaii Islands.
Milano, dalla tipografia de' fratelli Sonzogno, 1824, voll. 4, in-12, br. editoriali, pp. XXXV, [1], 262 - 237, [1] - 287, [1] - 278. Con 13 tavole incise in rame acquerellate a mano (1 + 6 + 3 + 3). Resoconto di viaggio nel Pacifico (Western Australia, Timor, Hawaii, New South Wales). Prima edizione in lingua italiana, edita nella “Raccolta de' viaggi più interessanti eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo tanto per terra quanto per mare dopo quelli del celebre Cook e non pubblicati fin ora in lingua italiana”. Ottima copia (solo lievissimi difetti ai dorsi e una piccola gora a una copertina posteriore), nella sua brossura editoriale.
Boards with light rubbing and scuffing. One small bump to spine. Bookplate. Front free endpaper missing corner. Neat underlining to very few pages ; 8vo
184 pages. Features: Vogue's Eye View - It's Fit to be Fit; Swinging Coats, Capes and Ponchos worn by Joan Whitney Meyer, Shawn Ryan, Penelope Tree, Cecile de Forey and Sharon Harts; The Fashion for mixing prints, textures, color; The Beautiful People of Hawaii - Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lionel Warner, Princess Ira Furstenberg, Mr. and Mrs. John Carl Warnecke, Duc and Duchess de Crussol d'Uzes, Geraldine Chaplin and Tina Chen; Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree dress for the beautiful life in Hawaii; Long, languorous jerseys for evening; Lauren Hutton - hooked on crochet; The Enticers, 1970 - On TV; The Band... The Best?; Moroccan Wake-Up - the John Paul Getty, Junior, House in Marrakesh; Twexercises - new fitness routine for husbands and wives with Leigh Taylor-Young and Ryan O'Neal; Dozens of gorgeous ads; and much more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: The Kama Sutra - A Marriage Manual for the Maharajah, article by Gary Jennings; Navy Blues - Three-page pictorial essay on a sailor's one-day pass; Photo feature on Dina Frost, a native of Johannesburg, South Africa; Red River Red River - fiction by W.W. Russell; How to Bag a Starlet - humor by Jason McNichols; Photo essay of Mirian Mickelson and Conrad Pringle rehearsing for the Dance of Life; Wine, Women and Rhyme - article by Morton J. Golding on how skill with words can get you plenty of action; Frank Sinatra Speaks - interview with Jay Rosenburg; The Rose Mustache - fiction by H.C. Neal; Dear Old Dad - satire by Lee Steeger; Photographic essay of new Italian starlet Rosanna Schiaffino in"Two Weeks in Another Town" boat scene with George Hamilton; A Myth Punctured - fiction by H.D. Birns; Reduction AD - fantasy by A.M. Andres; Photo essay of Miss Louise (Lou) Lawson; Surfing photos from Hawaii; Photos of Bernardin training actress Francoise Brion how to strip; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
2 voll. in un tomo in-8° (205x133mm), pp. XVI, 296; 392, (2) di errata; legatura coeva m. pelle marrone con titolo, filetti e fregi in oro e a secco al dorso. Piatti in cartone marmorizzato policromo. Tagli azzurri a spruzzo. Due antiporte xilografiche con vedute del porto di Anaroura, nell'isola di Waho, e della californiana missione di San Luis Rey; tra le pp. 250-251 del primo vol., veduta di Monterey presa dalla rada; tra le pp. 174-175, veduta di Ross ("Stabilimento Russo vicino alla Bodega"). Qualche lieve fioritura. Ottimo esemplare. Prima traduzione italiana, dovuta a Carlo Botta, del Voyage autour du monde, principalement a la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich, pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828, et 1829, importante resoconto di viaggio nel continente americano e nelle Isole Sandwich (le Hawaii) compiuto da un capitano di marina, letterato e mercante francese. Notazioni geografiche ed etnografiche su Rio de Janeiro e il Brasile, Capo Horn, le Ande, il Cile e Valparaiso, il Perù e Lima, il Messico, San José, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Barbara e la sua missione spagnola, San Pedro, San Diego, Santa Clara, Los Angeles (allora ancora modesto pueblo, in cui l'autore conta appena 82 case per un totale di un migliaio di persone circa), le Hawaii, la Cina e Canton, Macao, Sant'Elena. In appendice al secondo vol., alle pp. 339 e sgg., "Osservazioni sugli abitanti delle Isole Sandwich e della California" di Paolo Emilio Botta (l'archeologo, figlio di Carlo Botta, che aveva accompagnato il Duhaut-Cilly nel suo viaggio americano), un compendioso vocabolario hawaiiano ("Italiano-Sandwiccese"), esempio di numerazione hawaiiana ("numeri sandwiccesi") e varie altre osservazioni dello stesso Paolo Emilio Botta sugli abitanti della California e delle Hawaii. I capitoli finali del Botta compaiono qui in edizione originale. "This commercial enterprise, although a financial failure, resulted the first foreign account of Spanish California by a literate and observant French trader, who, while trying to sell his goods, visited most of the missions, presidios, and pueblos of Alta California, and wrote the best contemporary account of the region. He had a splendid opportunity to observe affairs and took advantage of it, being the first outsider to become intimately acquaninted with the the thriving area. The ship Héros also visited Valparaiso, the Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, Macao, and Java" (The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages). Il Duhaut-Cilly, vissuto tra il 1790 e il 1849, effettuò i suoi viaggi attraverso il mondo fra il 1826 e il 1829; lasciò varie altre relazioni odeporiche, tra cui una di viaggio in Russia. Sabin, 21164. Cowan, II,186. Howell, 50:64. Howes, D-547. Zamorano, 80:32. Silveira De Braganza-Oakes, The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, 23-24. Hill, p. 23. Forbes, 882.
Oblong quarto in red cloth with ornamental gilt titling; [10], 239 pages frontispiece, sepia plates, portraits 16 x 25 cm Profusely illus with b&w photo reproductions. Hawaii -- History. Imperialism. Business History. Hawai'i.
xii, [2]-412 pp. Index. Bibliography. Synopsis of the Postal History and Postage Rates of Hawaii. Black and white illustrations. "A handbook on Hawaii worthy of the name, containing everything necessary to the understanding and study of the stamps, postal markings and postal history of this fascinating country." - Preface. Printed upon glossy stock. Map endpapers. Few small ink drops to top edge otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear to publisher's blue cloth. Binding tight. No dust jacket. A quality copy of this essentiall reference. Book
