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pp. vii, 23 + Plus numerous drawings, maps and photographs of the excavation. 4to. Original printed blue wraps. Very good copy. First excavated by James Pritchard (1956-1962), Gibeon has significant archaeological remains - especially from the days of the early Israelites. First Edition. SCIENCE BOX 3
Twelve full-page colour prints in a rigid portfolio folder. Presentation plate to Tom Pendry (now Lord Pendry) inside front cover. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Very clean prints in unmarked portfolio. 14pp. Photographic images of the USA Capital City including the White House, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the ceiling of the Capitol Rotunda, the Supreme Court building and the National Gallery of Art. Scarce in the UK.
Cover illustration of British soldier on skis in North Russia. Illustration of the French deliverers in Saverne (Zabert). War Reputations Lost and Won - article by Hamilton Fyfe. British Ships Against Bolshevism in the Baltic - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Calypso and Caradoc plus H.M.S. Angora and Wakeful. U Boat U44 Salvaged - 4 photos. Under the White Ensign in Kiel's Black Waters - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Hercules. Some of the Naval Inventions Employed in the War - article. Photos of the famous German Battle Cruiser Goeben. Two photos of Allenby and his men in Cairo. The Price in Blood and Treasure - article. Photo of earth removal at the base of the Vendome Monument in Paris. Several interesting photos of British mines and the mine-layer 'H.M.S. Wahine.' Four sensational photos of the Handley Page 'Giant'. How Paris & Dunkirk suffered by Bomb and Shell - two maps. Three photos of Holzminden, the worst camp of all. Hun Inhumanity to Helpless Men - some facts about German Prison Camps. Photos of Winners of the V.C. in the last weeks of the war. Demobilising the V.A.D.'s. Some soiling to covers. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, discolouration to small part of upper rear corner and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with general traces of storage. 256pp. Detailed guide to the Italian Lakes - Orta, Maggiore, Lugano, Como and Garda and the surrounding area. Well illustrated.
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. Clean tight pages with bright unmarked tape-free red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing. 231pp. An ideal detailed guide for the independent motoring traveller in Corsica.
New Haven-London, Yale University Press, 1965. Folio; XII-291 pp., con 24 reproducciones de mapas entre el texto y en láminas aparte, algunas de ellas plegadas. Encuadernación original en media tela. Un estudio fundamental sobre los orígenes de la debatida cartografía referente a Vinlandia y las expediciones a las costas americanas en el medievo.
No marks or inscriptions. Very clean map and covers with very minor creasing to oversize parts of covers. 1pp. Linen-backed map of London's roads. Opens up to 22 x 18 inches. Undated but the arterial roads were new around 1930.
71 pages including index. A guide-book to the future of a vast region awaiting development after the war. A study of the past, present and future of international co-operation in this region. Presents a high challenge to the people of Canada and the US, and their governments. Author was regional chairman of the National Resources Planning Board. Light soiling. Unmarked. Some yellowing. Includes three fold-out maps. Moderate wear to illustrated boards. Nice copy. Book
Previous owner's name and date on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to some corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with traces of storage. 80pp. Captioned photographic study of old and new Suffolk - the two counties - plus seven page introduction.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 181pp. The book which 'separates the myths about the Irish from the reality with a blend of caustic commentary, jokes that will make you laugh out loud and answers to questions you were too polite to ask'.
62 x 43.5 cm one-sided colour pictorial map reduces to 22.5 x 10 cm when folded inside original blue card cover lettered in black. Illustrates the route of the CNR's Triangle Tour of British Columbia which included "Jasper National Park, Mount Robson Park, the Canadian Rockies, and the scenic seas of the North Pacific coast." Without saying so, the right side of the map switches scales so as not to display Lake Louise, a prime tourist attraction of rival railway Canadian Pacific. Includes eight sepia-tone photos of sights of interest along the way. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A well-preserved copy of this excellent piece of vintage Western Canadian tourist ephemera. Reference: Cornell University Library, Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection 1219.01. Book
4to [27 x 21 cm]; 292 pp, hundreds of illustrations, almost all in color, including many full-page, index. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title on spine and cover, light corner wear, else fine, clean and unmarked, includes the loose list of prices realized. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. One of Sotheby's better sales of book and paintings on the middle east, describing 762 lots in detail, very well-illustrated. Sale L03622.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. There are some handling marks here and there and a scratch to the right page-edge, and spine. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's in London on October 14-15, 2003. Sale number: L03622. The sale consisted of paintings, watercolors, drawings, books, maps and photpgraphs of the Near and Middle East. 762 lots in the sale. Many illustrated in color. 11" high X 8" wide, 292 pages. Prices realized sheets included.
4to [27 x 21 cm]; 219, [iii] pp, hundreds of colored illustrations & maps, including many full-page, some black & white illustrations, bibliography, index. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title on cover and spine, fine, clean, with the prices realized on loose sheets. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A beautifully illustrated Sotheby's sale of books, maps and paintings on the middle east, describing 603 lots in detail, very well-illustrated, sale held in London 17 October 2001. A very useful reference. Includes large sections on Greece, Turkey, North Africa, etc. Sale L01956.
4to [27 x 21 cm]; 225, [i] pp, hundreds of colored & uncolored illustrations & maps, including many full-page, bibliography, index. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title on cover and spine, few minor notes, near fine, clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A beautifully illustrated Sotheby's sale of books, maps and paintings on Africa, Australasia, Near & Middle East, Americas, Asia, Europe, wall maps, atlases, etc describing 447 lots in detail, very well-illustrated, sale held in London 2 December 1999. A very useful reference. Sale L09215.
4to [27 x 21 cm]; 272 pp, hundreds of colored & uncolored illustrations & maps, including many full-page, bibliography, index. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title on cover and spine, few minor notes, near fine, clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A beautifully illustrated Sotheby's sale of books, maps and paintings on Africa, Australasia, Tahiti, South Seas, North & Central America, Caribbean, Europe, etc describing 454 lots in detail, very well-illustrated, sale held in London 14 December 2000. A very useful reference. Sale L00720.
Broch?. 64 pages. Couverture l?g?rement d?fra?chie.
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards and a little bumping to upper edge and corners. Dust jacket not price clipped, front cover very slightly marked, rear cover soiled and with nicks and light creasing to edges. 296pp. Very detailed tourist guide to South Africa in 1969. Well illustrated, although strangely, there don't seem to be any black people living in the country !
RARE illustrated account of a travel from Cairo to Damascus undertaken by a Scottish traveler and pastor Robert Walter Stewart (also called Roberto Gualtiero, 1812-1887), who was an important figure in Italian Protestantism and author of several books, among them "On the present condition and future prospects of the Waldensian Church, in Lectures on Foreing Churches delivered in Edinburgh and Glasgow" (Edinburgh, 1845), and "An Italian campaing, or Evangelical movement in Italy, 1845-1887" (London, 1890). The book features a frontispiece, additional 15 b&w illustrations and a large fold-out map of the Sinai peninsula. 220x150mm. XVI+528 pages (+ 8 advertisement pages). Quarter-cloth rebound Hardcover. Spine dirty. Spine edges slightly bumped. Ex libris sticker on front end-paper upper corner. Previous owner's name written in ink on title page upper corner/edge. Map inner edge bear binding slightly torn. Title page and page III/IV coming loose. Page XIII/XIV detached from binding (but present). Pages yellowing and slightly wavy. [SUMMARY]: Save for some light wear, this rare and beautifully illustrated travel account is in good condition.
228 pages. Index. "Intended as a text on maps and their uses in field operations in war and peace." - from Preface. Prior owner's details inside front board. Book
Folds out to measure approximately 40"x30". Average wear. Unmarked. Attractive and interesting reference. Circa 1975? Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creases to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 696pp. Very detailed work covering almost 90 resorts across the south of England. How to 'holiday' in 1965.
193 pages including index. From the rise of Adolf Hitler to the surrender of Japan - here in one lavishly illustrated book is the engrossing story of the second world war. Intended for younger readers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Clean, bright and unmarked. Attractive glossy colour illustrated boards. Minimal wear. Wonderful copy. Book
336 pages including index. "The British Columbia Electric Railway consisted of 111 route miles of streetcar operations in four cities: seven interurban lines totaling 141 route miles; 40 million passengers carried in 1910, and almost 146 million in 1947. For 68 years - 1890 to 1958 - the streetcars and trams dominated and defined urban and interurban transportation in the most populated areas of B.C. Today only traces remain of this fascinating and well-run system that once brought people from all over the world to examine its operation. Includes over 270 fascinating illustrations, plans of rolling stock, tickets, transfers, beautiful route maps, public schedules, employee's timetables, rosters of rolling stock and old Buzzers." - from dust jacket. An amazing, and perhaps unbelievable, reference for residents of the now grid-locked lower mainland. Very heavily worn. Front hinge partially open. Usual library markings. A worthy reading copy. Ex-Library
336 pages including index. "The British Columbia Electric Railway consisted of 111 route miles of streetcar operations in four cities: seven interurban lines totaling 141 route miles; 40 million passengers carried in 1910, and almost 146 million in 1947. For 68 years - 1890 to 1958 - the streetcars and trams dominated and defined urban and interurban transportation in the most populated areas of B.C. Today only traces remain of this fascinating and well-run system that once brought people from all over the world to examine its operation. Includes over 270 fascinating illustrations, plans of rolling stock, tickets, transfers, beautiful route maps, public schedules, employee's timetables, rosters of rolling stock and old Buzzers." - from dust jacket. A wonderful and almost unbelievable reference for residents of the now grid-locked lower mainland of British Columbia. Very light wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Partial lean to spine. Short opening to back panel of dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A high-quality copy. Book