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342 items. Excellent glossy colour photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Book
5-141 p. illus. (some col.), facsims. (1 col.). 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Truly a rare and special item! The first ever issue of 'The Wide World' magazine. "From the late nineteenth century to the swinging sixties, this publication was the bestselling magazine for men craving adventure. Each issue was filled with amazing-but-true-tales of survival, catastrophe and derring-do gathered from around the world... Written in the muscular prose of true heroes and accompanied throughout by photographs and adverts of sublime absurdity, 'The Wide World' was a thrilling testament to an age when men kept their upper lips stiff for a reason and the truth was more dangerous than fiction." - from dust jacket of the book 'The Wide World', published by Macmillan in 2004. Condition: Small chips missing from each end of spine. Binding sound. Modest foxing to front cover else clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Staples rusty inside front cover. Surprisingly good condition for an item of this vintage. Contents of this issue include: The Romance of Seal Hunting - an interview with Sir Geo. Baden-Powell; Down the Perak River; Houses in Air and in Water (Papua New Guinea); Tragedies of Mont Blanc; The Most Remarkable Newspaper in the World - Michigan State Prison, Jackson City; Memories of Navarino; How the North Pole will be reached, by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen; The New Route to the Klondike; The Cruise of the Slaver 'Carl'; Castaways in the Frozen North; and more. Numerous wonderful black and white photos. A marvelous gift for fans of this most entertaining of magazines. Book
89 pages. Reference notes. Bibliography. Index of manufacturers. Appendix - references to wheat pattern manufacturers. Profusely illustrated with diagrams and black and white photographic plates. "Ceramic tableware and toiletware decorated with the moulded Wheat pattern and its variations have been in continuous production from 1851 to today and are found in almost all North American archaeological sites occupied during the second half of the 19th century. The survey identifies and illustrates the wheat-inspired patterns produced on ironstone by forty British manufacturers, one Canadian manufacturer and one French manufacturer." - from back cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Chinese Artifacts; Vancouver Island Bottle Show and Sale; Nanaimo Club Dig - with group photo; Sealed Bottles; Insulators; Relics; Auto Collectables; Old Guns; Vancouver Notes; International Wine Co.; Collecting Old Locks; Living Free; Old Phonographs; The Karbonated Korner; Furniture, Lamps, and Bric-a-Brac; French Ivory; Prairie News. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy early copy of this upbeat and quite informative vintage Vancouver Island periodical. Book
42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Old Guns; Early Vancouver Drug Store; Relics; Prairie News; Depression Glass; Sealed Bottles; Furniture; Pops; Insulators; License Plates; Locks; Vancouver Notes; Vancouver Mini Show; Patrick A. Milloy and his Montreal Soda Works. Light wear. Unmarked. A nice early copy of this upbeat and quite informative vintage Vancouver Island periodical. Book
Premiere issue. 30 pages. Features include: Second annual Victoria and Nanaimo Antique Bottle Show; Letters; We Dig Bottles, by "Bob & George"; Blowing Off Foam! - The Karbonated Korner, by Bob & Donna Skrill; What on Earth Is It?; George Coletti & Son of Nelson, B.C.; Jewels of Talking Wire - insulators; Cecil and Joan Harris of Vernon, B.C.; Books in Review; Relics, by Jim Heidt; License Plate Collecting by Allan Gadsen; Old Ads from Victoria Colonis, Christmas 1874; Photos of Free blown bottle; Pottery Jugs; Ads; Club News. Printed on glossy stock. Covers and first few pages wavy from moisture exposure, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy collectible copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
48 pages. Features: Letters; Chinese Artifacts, by Flo & Al Clemens; 3rd Annual Vancouver Island Bottle Show & Sale - photo-illustrated article; Nanaimo Dig Club; Sealed Bottles, by Dick & Barbara Hoyle; Insulators, by Larry & Wendy Lundgren; Relics, by Jim Heidt; Auto Collectibles, by Allan Gadsen; Old Guns, by Mike Hill; Vancouver Notes, by D. Harrison; Gold Seal Liquor Co., Vancouver, B.C.; International Wine Co., by G. Northcote; Collecting Old Locks; Documents & Other Paper Collectibles; More Jugs; Living Free - Patricia Armitage writes about Dieter and Tina Bonkowski of Yellow Point - with photos; Old Phonographs, by Coleman Kiss; Depression Glass; Fruit Jar Corner; Collectors of Note; The Karbonated Korner - The Comox Valley Mysteries, by Bill Patterson; The West Coast Mystery - "Stone Bear" found by Morris McNally of Nanaimo; Articles from the collection of Norm and Sandy Barker of Chase River, B.C.; Furniture, Lamps & Bric A Brac; French Ivory, by M. Skrill; Prairie News; Club Directory; Classified ads; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
New English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and Turkish. 111, [61] p., color and b/w ills. The Turkish war medal. Gallipoli Medal - Eiserner Halbmond.= Harp madalyasi. Çanakkale madalyasi. Often and incorrectly referred to as the 'Gallipoli Star' or 'Iron Half-Moon', my interest in the Harp Madalyasi (War Medal) , started a few years ago and I was immediately confronted with a myriad of unanswered questions due to the general lack of substantiated information on the subject. Luckily, I befriended other collectors interested in this award and eventually met the author in one of these online forums. First, let me say, that a printed reference on this subject was long overdue and I could not think of a better, more knowledgeable person, to bring this subject to light. The book briefly discusses the history of the Ottoman Empire and how it's military awards came into being, along with the European influence on design and purpose that led to the establishment of the War Medal. Various battles and campaigns are mentioned and examples of the various clasps often encountered on the War Medal ribbon are also shown. One of the book's highlights centers around the award regulations and amendments that applied, which are shown in great detail and reprinted with full translations. This is something many references overlook and often the collector has to rely on hearsay or other collector opinions, which often lead to confusion or erroneous statements as facts.
210 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Spine sunned and creased. Foxing to front inner wrap. ; 10.7 X 9.9 X 1.8 inches; 680 pages
127 pages. A collection of reprints from the 1888 catalogue of the Toronto Silver Plate Company. Reprint of the 1888 first edition. Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Book
288 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition tattered d.j.
Oversize, 207p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
3" tear at top of dust jacket.slight rubbing to edges of cover, otherwise very good. B/w illustrations and photographs. Used
119pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
New English Paperback. Pbo. Large 8vo. (24 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 73 p., color and b/w ills. The Sisli Mosque. Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Photography Collection.= Sisli Camii. Suna ve Inan Kiraç Vakfi Fotograf Koleksiyonu. [Exhibition catalogue]. The photographs collected constituted the kernel of the Foundation's Photography Collection. Since the day the Istanbul Research Institute was opened in 2007, this collection grew with acquisitions and other donations, reaching approximately 130,000 photographs, with Istanbul as their main focus and covering a period from the 1850s to the 1960s. Years of classification and identification have finally brought us to the point of being able to create new projects. As a result, we have planned the Suna and Inan Kirac Photography Collection Series, which will consist of thematically structured groups of photographs. This album-book is the first publication in this series, discussing the architectural journey of Sisli Mosque, the first monumental religious building of Republican Istanbul. One of the reasons we have chosen Sisli Mosque is that this is the first mosque in the city's history that was built not under the aegis of the sultan or statesmen but through the collective effort of the people. Another reason is that Sisli Mosque, unlike the architectural thought and production of the 1940s, which was shaped throughout the country by winds of modernism, reflected the classical Ottoman style and has been accepted as a stylistic example, providing a prototype for neo-Ottoman mosques built in its wake. In addition, the photographs of the mosque we publish here have almost exclusively been taken by Foto Sabah, one of the leading studios of the period, which indicates that the process of the mosque's construction between 1947 and 1949 was deliberately documented at regular intervals. In those years when documentation and preservation was not habitual and architectural work was seldom archived, such an effort is noteworthy. We hope that this title and the album-books we will publish will help researchers in analyzing Istanbul's historical identity.
337p. Hardcover Very good condition good Sequel to Henry Gross and his dowsing rod.
337p. Hardcover Very good condition good Sequel to Henry Gross and his dowsing rod.
Two auction catalogues back to back. Many dozens of excellent photos on glossy stock. Half an inch thick. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
xix, 297, [8] p. of col. plates Hardcover Very good condition good
240p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
135p. Hardcover Very good condition good Inscribed by the author to E. Reed
432 pages. Many black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. "Still the basic Rolls-Royce work of reference and the best." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy of this informative work. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 303, [1] p., color ills. This catalogue has been prepared by Vehbi Koc Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Remnants: 12th and 13th Centuries Byzantine Objects in Turkey' on display from June 26th until 31th 2007 organised in conjunction with the First International Sevgi Gonul Symposium on Byzantine Studies. "The Remnants: 12th and 13th Centuries Byzantine Objects in Turkey" exhibition brings together works of art from the period concerned in a variety of materials, and mostly hitherto unpublished, from the museums in Turkey and aims at presenting the traces of intercultural interactions in art and the universality of art reaching out to the entire mankind and going beyond the political borders. Concomitantly, the exhibition presents the character of the artistic production in Byzantium within the historical circumstances of the 12th and 13th centuries.".
