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22 pages. Features: Trail Creek Tramway; Official diagram of MTC Observation Car No. 1; Sightseeing in four cities - Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec; Maritimer to Museum - Number 5, a 4-6-0 of the Maritime Coal, Railway and Power Company (with photo); An L.C.L. shipment - decorated cars; The Winter Timetables; Pine Point Railway; Notes and news. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Toyota 1982 Corolla SR5 Hardtop ad; Peter C. Newman - Canada is the world's luckiest land; The Subtle art of clowning around, by Michael Clugston; Delaying democracy - the Liberals delay calling by-elections; Three dead at Archambault Prison; Canada's antiquated sex laws, by Susan Riley; The grim resort to desert law - Beirut; Mad Mike Hoare jailed; Indira Ghandi visits Washington; Somalia - lessons for a shaky leader; Confidence crisis over the Canadian banks; Penn Square Bank failure; Lietzke win's Canadian Open; Cover Story - After-Hours Learning is our most popular pastime; Photo of Miss Universe Karen Baldwin; Photo of Prince Charles and Lady Di with baby Prince William; The little towns and villages that grew - people moving out of the bigger cities; Airdrie Alberta - a town gone wild; Money Mart - cashing cheques with or without ID; The Synchro-Energizer; Nationalizing antiquity in Greece; Injecting soul into a new machine - the band TBA; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: George Wallace; What is Art Today? - a Time essay; Chiang Kai-Shek; Nice full-page color-photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Goa; Disputed farmland between Syria and Israel; Bart Starr; Great Ford color photo centerfold ad features the Mustang, Cougar and Thunderbird; Numerous color photos of smog over American cities - and article on smog; Photo of electric-powered Dauphine car with silver-zinc batteries; Nice color photo ad for the Lincoln Continental with suicide doors; Fire at McCormick Place - with photos; Widmer's Winery; New Larynx for Lance Corporal Walter Lopata; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: New Haven urban renewal; Urban Coalition; A Program for Cities; George Lincoln Rockwell and the National Socialist White People's Party, and Rockwell's murder by John Patler (Patsalos); Photo of maiden flight of Navy F-111B; Trainees at For Sill P.O.W. Course - preparing for the worst - with photo; Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard awarded Medal of Honor - with photo; Smoking and Safety; Forest fires in the Northwest; Vietnam War update; Macnamara on Bombing the North; Arab Refugees after war with Israel; Review of Israel's victory; Photo of North American Aviation's XB-70 and X-15 supersonic aircraft; Ch'u Silk Manuscript; Photo after marriage of George Scott Romney, oldest son of Michigan Governor George Romney; Photo of Bobbie Gentry; Bus Mosbacher; Swimmer Debbie Meyer; Gaylord Perry and the Spitball; Sandy Dennis - article with photos; Photo of Edgar M. Bronfman who purchased shares in MGM from Philip J. Levin; The death of Henry John Kaiser - story with photos; "Alligators" - LaCoste sports shirts; Clarence Jackson of Phoenix, AZ and his fight with Sears; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear to cover. Book
RARE JAPANESE EDITION of an album dedicated to the collection of Indian prehistoric, ancient, medieval and early modern art, as well as Nepalese and south-east Southeast Asian art. Contains numerous color and b&w full-page plates with captions and list of plates in both Japanese and English, a more extensive explanation of plates in Japanese. 370x270mm. 184 pages. White leather gilt Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket rubbed. Jacket upper edges and corners worn/tattered. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and beautifully illustrated album, presenting the numerous rich collections of the largest and oldest museum in India, is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Contains color and b&w plates. 315x255 mm. XIII+768 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Spine edges slightly bumped. Few first pages slightly wrinkled. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
28.5x22 cm. 224 pages. Hardcover. Front cover bottom edges slightly cracked. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original manuscript unpublished autograph poem signed by Kemal Edib. 22x16 cm. In Turkish (Modern). This is a poem / pray titled 'Hürmetine'. No date, ca. 1950. Text in Turkish: Bize lütfeyle, ilahi yüce din hürmetine! Nûr-i Kur'an-i mübin, feyz-i yakin hürmetine! Mazhar-i sirrin olan, mutlu zaman hürmetine! Vecd-i vahyin ile, kutlu zemin hürmetine - Kalem-i afvini çek, defter-i isyanimiza, Mustafa askin ile, ashab-i Güzîn hürmetine, Elimiz bos, yüzümüz kapkaradir Allah'im! Kerem et, merhamet et, ars-i berin hürmetine, Ihtirasin, hevesin, nefsin elinden kurtar, Bizi, Ta ile Ha, Ya ile Sin hürmetine, Dinle sekvâmizi, ey Rabb-i kavi, Kâbe'nde, Dökülen yas, edilen ah ü enin hürmetine - Koyma Kur'an'dan uzak, bizleri Allah'im aman Onu senden getiren, Ruh-i Emin hürmetine.". Kemal Edip Kürkçüoglu, (1902-1977), who had taught history, literature and Islamic mysticism in high schools and faculties and done administrative services, was a poet and scholar whose fifteen books about religion, history and literature had been published. Only a few of his poems had been published until today. (Source: The Poem Of Kemal Edip Kürkçüoglu Eulogizing Jalâl Al-Dîn Al-Rûmî, by Emine Terzioglu).
285x220 mm. 522 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners and edges slightly bumped. Pen marks on front whitepage. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
New English Original bdg. 4to. (29 x 22 cm). In English. Color ills. [x], [1], 226 p., ills. Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum et Islamicorum Turkey 3: Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation Collection at the Pera Museum. Part 2: Late Roman and Byzantine weights. There are over five thousand weights from the Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation Collection at the Pera Museum, ranging in date from the Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman periods. This large collection will be published in a number of separate volumes as part of the series of Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum et Islamicorum. The first volume covers 635 Greek and Roman weights. The Roman truncated spheres are included in the second volume, which covers the Late Roman and Byzantine weights. The majority of the weights in the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Collection were acquired over a period of thirty years by Inan Kirac through various local and international auctions and collectors. The present second volume, completed in a three-year-long study, covers the Late Roman and Byzantine weights in the same collection. The catalogue covers 742 weights, 38 of which are of glass. The majority of the weights were acquired between 2005 and 2008. In the catalogue 201 weights are grouped under the title of "Commercial Weights" while 456 weights are grouped under the title of "Coin Weights". Furthermore, the catalogue covers circular weights with concentric circles and bowl-shaped weights both of which date to the Middle Byzantine Period.
SIGNED TWICE BY ARTIST WITH DEDICATION dated 1960. Signed by Raskin in Hebrew and English on front whitepage. The same front whitepage contains an additional undated dedication in Yiddish, but not by Raskin. Saul Raskin (1878-1966) was an eminent Russian born American artist, writer, lecturer and teacher, best known for his depiction of Jewish subjects, and illustrations of Jewish classic Jewish religious books: Ethics of the Fathers, Passover Haggadah and the five scrolls. This album contains an extensive selection of Raskin's drawings of Negev, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Safed, Haifa, Tiberias, Kvutzoth, and other Israeli cities and cites, as well as of the people of the Land, with captions in English (some drawings also contain inscriptions in English and/or Hebrew or Yiddish), preface in English and Yiddish, and introductory texts in English. 390x310mm. 128 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover. Jacket yellowing and age-stained. Jacket edges and corners tattered and partly chipped/torn. Front cover fore edge and rear cover upper edge bumped near upper corner. Spine edges bumped and peeling. Some pages fore edge slightly water-stained - NO damage to text. Pages bottom corner water-stained and wavy - NO damage to text. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This beautiful album of various drawings of Israeli cities, sites and folk, signed and dedicated by the artist, is otherwise in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Includes black and white plates. 25.5x33 cm. 310 pages. Gilt hardcover. Top of spine slightly chafed. Wrinkle in first white page. Pages are age stained. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE FIRST VOLUME of the final report of the excavations of the Persian and Hellenistic settlements at the site of Apollonia-Arsuf - an ancient city south of Caesarea, Israel. In Hellenistic and Roman Judea the city was called Apollonia (renamed in the late Roman era to Sozusa), and after falling to the Muslim conquest in 640 and fortified against Byzantine attacks, was known as Arsuf (Latinized Arsur). Re-conquered by the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1101, it was a strategically important fortress in the Third Crusade, during which the Battle of Arsuf (1191) was fought nearby. The fortress fell to the Mamluks in 1265 and was destroyed. The site of Arsuf (Tel Arshaf) is now in Herzliya municipality, Israel, and was intensively excavated from 1994 and opened for visitors as Apollonia National Park in 2002. This volume is the first in the series of three (in preparation). Contains many color and b&w plates and figures. 275x225mm. XVI+300 pages. Dark blue cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Cover and spine somewhat stained/dirty. Cover upper corners wrinkled/slightly bumped. Spine edges rubbed. Spine bottom edge slightly wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare report of excavations of an important cite in Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and medieval periods, is in good condition.
RARE comprehensive monograph on the Madaba Map (also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map) which is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Map dates to the 6th century AD and contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The author - Adolf Schulten (1870-1960) was an eminent German historian and archaeologist. Contains a reproduction of the Madaba map on two pages and full-page plate with 6 b&w figures. 270x210mm. 121 pages. Hardcover with cloth spine. Cover yellowing, stained/age-stained, somewhat curved and wrinkled. Wormholes on cover and spine. Cover edges and corners bumped and worn. Spine worn. Spine edges peeling. Spine hinges partly cracked and tattered. Sticker residues on spine bottom part. Ink writing on front inner cover, whitepage and title page. Ex-library copy with stamp on front and rear whitepages, and contents page. Wormholes on inner cover, whitepages and edges of all pages - NO damage to text. Wormholes on Madaba map with slight damage to middle part and hinge. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on the oldest map of the Holy Land and Jerusalem has sustained some damage, but is still in good reading condition.
1ère édition de ce recueil d'articles publiés par Louis DELOURMEL dans la "Dépêche de Brest et de l'Ouest" sous la rubrique "Les Rues de Brest": "Evènements historiques et faits divers, [...] histoire de nos édifices publics, de nos monuments et de nos vieilles maisons, moeurs et coutumes d'autrefois, biographies de Brestois célèbres", d'après les archives municipales, la presse, et les travaux des historiens locaux (ouvrages cités). Index. Illustré de reproductions de gravures, vues, portraits et plans anciens. Précieuse mémoire d'une ville dont le centre a été détruit en 1944. Français
0435357182.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1976100125379Taylor & Francis Ltd 1976 310 pages 14 4x2 8x21 4cm. 1976. Cartonné. 310 pages.
2011Q-0738579513Arcadia Publishing 2011-01-24. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Arcadia Publishing paperback
A9781138780606Paperback / softback. New. paperback
44156Leuven, Dangis, 2014 softcover, 320 bladzijden Gewicht : 970 gr. text in NL - FR. rijkelijk geillustreerd met foto's van merktekens. broche, Nombre de pages: 320 Poids: 970 gr. texte dans NL - FR. richement illustre avec des photographies de marques.
183673971836 Paris,Edition impremerie Adolphe Everatet Cie / bureau central des dictionnaires - 1836 - 1 edition - 2 tomes en un fort volume in/4 - Reliure demi-basane marron - Dos lisse à liserets dorés, Titre doré - Plats jaspés -Coiffe usagée - 494 et 519 pages - Bon exemplaire malgré les quelques défauts.
559Paris L. Boulanger ( 1er vol. ) L. Boulanger , Tresse et Stock ( 2ème vol. ) c. 1885 2 vol. grand in-8 , par livraisons ( 28,5 x 19 cm ) ( poids = 3,7 kg ) T. , 824 pp. + Fx. t. , t. , 892 pp. . Texte sur deux colonnes . Une carte couleur sur double page HP . Très nombreuses illustrations n. et bl. : vignettes ( paysages , villes , monuments ... ) et cartes . Paru en 215 livraisons . Demi-basane vert foncé . Dos à cinq faux nerfs , orné doré , nom de l' auteur , titre et tomaison dorés . Plats papier annonay moucheté vert . Gardes papier marbré ombré . Etiquette " Lasalle relieur Agen " . Qqs frottés . Papier jauni , qqs rousseurs . Au vol. I , petit manque de papier marginal pp. 7 à 12 , déchirures sans manque pp. 427 à 429 légèrement salies , très petite brûlure atteignant une ou deux lettres ; dans les marges , notes manuscrites p. 257 et une opération à l' encre p. 455 ; manque peut-être le faux-titre . Au vol. II , longue déchirure sans manque p. 39 - 40 ; tâches d' encre noire pp. 269 à 275 , importantes pp. 273 et 274 ; manque angulaire pp. 443 - 444 avec perte de qqs lignes ( concernant Meaux et Meched ) .
2000Q-0967994101Int'll Association of Character Cities 2000-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Int'll Association of Character Cities hardcover
RARE report on the map of Sede Boqer-East and archaeological surveys conducted in this area, with description of some 135 sites from Epipaleolithic to Early Arab periods, of which about 125 were previously unknown. The author - Rudolf Cohen (d.2007) was deputy director of the Israel Antiquities Authority until his retirement in 2005, and co-director of the 'En Hatzeva excavations. For three decades, Cohen focused his archaeological activity on the Negev, where he excavated Roman and Nabatean sites, along with dozens of desert fortresses, some thought to be from the time of Solomon. The survey team for Sede Boqer-East included R.Cohen (leader), B.Cohen, R.Floresheim, Y.Gat, M.Golani, Z.Herzog, D.Nahlieli. Includes a large folding map and many b&w plates and figures. 270x205mm. XXXII+XVI+88 pages. Softcover. Cover corners and edges wrinkled. Rear cover wrinkled. Sticker residues on spine bottom edge. Ex-library copy with stamps on whitepages and map upper edge. Inner cover yellowing and slightly age-stained. Several first pages bottom edge and map upper edge slightly wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare archaeological report and map is otherwise in good condition.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (34 x 24 cm). In Turkish. [xvi], 195 p., 31 plates. Pamphylia ve Pisidia kentleri. Vol. 1: Pamphylia. Translated by Selma Bulgurlu Gün. Stadte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens. Cities of Pamphylians and Pisidians.
