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18656297Foxborough Mass.: Published by A.L. Elliot 1865. Booklet 13 x 7.5 cm. 8 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. The second in a series of three handy money-saving books: No. 1 - How to Save Fuel; No. 2 - Water-proof Boots & Warm Feet; No. 3 - Cures for Coughs and Colds. While the wrappers indicate "Others will be ready soon" there is no evidence more booklets were produced beyond the three. Includes twenty small receipts for various waterproofing salves and oils. Fine in original unevenly cut salmon- colored wrapper. Scarce. OCLC locates just one copy of the complete set at AAS and no copies of the item alone. Published by A.L. Elliot unknown books
32 pages. Features: The Queen of Kipling's Mandalay - article on Burma with photo of Supayalat and King Thibaw; The New 'Real Estate Bond' Industry (2nd article of 2) - First Mortgages on the Unknown Future Amount to Many Millions; A Good Look at Our Young People - analysis discloses that the newer generation is not deteriorating; Why Not Keep Faith with the Moro Race? - Justice is due to these people as well as to the other natives of Philippines - photo illustrated article on these people of Mindanao; What Has Become of Ben? - a boy whose restless gypsy blood made him an aimless wanderer; Mr. Henry Ford's Page - "Low wages shows poor management, poor finance, poor production"; Editorials - Senator Borah to the Lead, The Unitarian Women of the U.S., How important is news?, Which way is Coolidge going?, Anesthetic discovery at the University of Wisconsin; African Lions Roamed in Hollywood - discoveries indicate prehistoric game trail once extended from Old World to New; Why the Great Strike Failed - American gives vivid pictures of English lovel-headedness when millions of workers downed tools - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria - Westward Ho! (part 5 of a series); When General U.S. Grant Gathered Hides at Galena - for a time he forsook army life to engage in humble ways of earning a living in commerce; Ad for The Canal Band and Trust Co. of New Orleans; interesting piece about Jewish historian Josephus and his original text, in Aramaic, describing Jesus and his life; Mark Twain as Traveler (short article); New Oriental Limited ad features Glacier National Park; A Dance a Week - Positions of Feet in Dancing; Wild Flower Gardens - The Pansy King of Wisconsin, William Toole, Sr.; Fascinating illustrations of Pioneer tests in Aerostats (balloons). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Little Known Afghanistan; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
171444514(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1714). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1712"". Pp. 115-147 and 3 large folded engraved plates with many figs.
171444514Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1714. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1712". Pp. 115-147 and 3 large folded engraved plates with many figs. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a classic paper in animal physiology in which Réaumur investigates the means by which mollusks starfish and various other invertebrates move about. He was the first to describe ambulacral feet."Réaumur was among the greatest naturalists of his or any age. In the breadth and range of his researches in the patient detail of his observations and in the brilliant ingenuity of his experiments it would be difficult to name his equal. Thomas Henry Huxley has compared his favourably with Darwin."DSB. </em> unknown
1999x-0765761033Jason Aronson Inc 1999. Hardcover. New. 435 pages. 9.25x5.25x1.75 inches. Jason Aronson Inc hardcover
20127723Paris, Editions Jannink, collection 127 n°5, 2012. Poster couleurs de 100 x 70 cm., plié sous emboîtage noir orné d'une étiquette de titre imprimée en deux tons et contrecollée au premier plat, avec dépassement sur le dos. Etiquette de l'éditeur à l'intérieur de l'emboîtage. A l'état de neuf.
0880485345New. spiral_bound. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
Very Good English Original bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. Many b/w plates. [xii], 340 p., 1 folding huge map. A tour through the famine districs of India.
20 pages. Features: Getting Wound Up for Christmas; New Evidence in the Case of the Crown vs. Gun-an-noot - article with photos; Not the Average Our Gang Comedy - interesting children from across Canada; Sweeping Them Off Their Feet - Lou Sendel is the best ballroom dancer in Canada; Doug Wright's Family cartoon; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 161-196 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Cover photo of the Eiger, where Barry Brewster lost his life, plus text and more photos; Russian dock collides with the South Goodwin lightship; Photo of Simon Paterson coming ashore after swimming the English Channel underwater in just under 14 hours; Photo of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the pro--fascist union movement, being knocked to the ground by demonstrators in Manchester on July 29; Four photos of the Queen at Plymouth and Dartmouth; Indian forces attack Chinese post in Ladakh - article with photo; Photo of Egyptian tank and Conquerer rocket; Major Michael Banks, Lieut. Hugh Wiltshire, and John Hinde successfully climb Mount McKinley; Major E. J. E. Mills and Capt. M. R. Jones are killed 5000 feet from the summit of Khingyang Chish in the Himalayas; Photo of new French bathyscaphe, L'Archimede, which successfully plunged to a depth of 31,350 feet on July 15; Photo of First Lady Mrs. Kennedy and Col. John Glenn waterskiing near Hyannis Port Massachusetts, Photo of Russian high jumper Valeriy Brumel setting world record of 7'5" at Stanford on July 22; America's Cup sailing photos, Aerial photo of devastation caused by exploding propane truck at Berlin, New York; Honolulu crash scene photo where 27 people died when a Britannia airliner crashed while landing; Photo of triple-hulled airship under construction at Trenton, New Jersey; Two photos of NASA's "Project Apollo"; Review of "Red Plush and Black Velvet", by Joseph Wechsberg - Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's queen of song; Two pages of illustrations show how the USA proposes to land two men on the moon in a few years; Two pages of photos of the new Chelsea barracks; Fantastic centrefold aerial photo of a packed Los Angeles Dodgers baseball stadium surrounded by many acres of cars; Four illustrations of the threatened monuments of Nubia; Photos of historic English buildings to be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere; Photos of personalities of the week include Richard Aldington, Sir Burke Trend, Sir Laurence Hellsby, W. Armstrong, the Very Rev. M. M. Gibbs, Mr. C. Dearrsley, Aelred Watkin, Lord Freyberg, V. C., Major E. J. E. Mills, Capt. M. R. Jones, Mr. J. Mannings, Mr. J. T. Molony, the Duke of Norfork, The Right Honourable T. Rinfret, P. C.; Page of photos of horses and riders at the Royal International Horse Show; One-page photo of Miss Pat's Smythe riding Flanagan at the White City; Three photos of Bubbles, the 14 foot black pilot whale at Marineland, California, performing her tricks; Beautiful one-page aerial photo of the Colossus of Chiba, Kwannon, the Japanese goddess of mercy, standing 170 feet tall; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Pages: 245-280. Features: Cover photo of Sir Anthony Eden preparing to address the nation about the Suez crisis; Nice one-page Sunbeam car ad; Lovely colour Guinness ad inside front cover features the gramophone; Photos from Egypt re. the Suez Crisis, including Nasser; The Suez Crisis -two pages of photos and text of British troop movements and preparations, evacuees from Egypt and French warships at Toulon; The G.I.G.S. Conference at Camberley; Dr. Musaddeq released from prison; Photos of the Queen in Iona - first monarch to visit for 900 years; One-page photo portrait of Princess Anne; Steeple of Milwaukee Lutheran Church being lifted by crane; Great centerfold photo entitiled "Scene of Departure" shows British paratroopers of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade Group waiting dockside before going on board the 'Theseus' enroute to Suez; The Temple at Nippur, the ancient holy city of Sumeria and Babylonia; Photos of seventeen personalities of the week, including Dr. Harold E. Wynn, Sprinter Mrs. J.F. Paul, 100m record breakers Pte. I. Murchison and Pte. W. Williams, Sir W. Paterson, Pablo Picasso at bullfight and King Idris of Libya with President Bayar of Turkey; Columbia dynamite disaster at Cali - 1,000 dead; Belgian mine disaster shocks the world - five photos - 276 miners trapped 3,000 feet underground; Photos of 50 conductors and artists performing at the tenth Edinburgh International Festival; Nice colour-photo Brooke Bond ad inside back cover features Major and Mrs. George Delaval Astley and their two children; Back cover features nice colour photo ad for B.O.A.C. with Stewardess offering delicacies to well-dressed passengers; and more. Average wear. Minor bit of moisture exposure to fore-edge. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 969-1012. Features: Great colour ad for Standard Triumph (cars) features Christmas church bell-ringers; Cover photo of the Queen with the leaders of the Commonwealth; Nice one-page Rolex ad features woodcut illustration of a gardener by Eric Fraser; Photo of the Scottish Court of Chivalry; Nice one-page photo of the summit of Everest 8,000 feet above the recent Swiss expedition, plus four other great half-page photos of the expedition; Interesting photos of the home fleet's arctic cruise - testing protective clothing in the far north; Two pages of photos of miniature Queens from the Lilian Lunn doll collection; National Service Under review; First stamps of Elizabeth's reign; The Duchess of Kent's return; Colour centerfold illustration of the historic gems now in the regalia of British sovereigns; Three colour-photos of the people and homes of the North Cameroons - the Fali, a mountain people who believe humans were first taught knowledge by a toad; Nice one-page series of illustrations show how diamonds are processed at a large Amsterdam works; Malayan Navy photos; photo of a German WWII two-man submarine with torpedoe still attached - found near Alkmaar, 20 miles from Amsterdam; Fresh masterpieces discovered in the palace of the Byzantine Emperors; Food, Bacteria and Farming; Two half-page photos illustrate the siege of Na-Sam, the fortified airstrip in northwest indo-china in which 10,000 to 15,000 French Union troops faced three communist divisions; Photos of personalities of the week, including figure skater Miss V. Osborn and Cicely Hamilton who passed away on December 6th; Photo of the Shah of Iran and Queen Soraya touring the Abadan refinery; Photo of Jomo Kenyatta at Kapenguria in handcuffs; Photo of the recent Swiss Everest team; Photo of the remains of the native township of Albertynsville, near Johannesburg; Photo of a huge underground nazi WWII petrol storage tank; Charming full-colour ad for Meltis' New Berry Fruits candies inside back cover; Nice colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover features Christmas/New Year theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
18 [ads], 313-374 pages. Features: A Diver Down a Gold Mine - an Italian worker stranded 1,000 feet down a flooded Australian mine is saved by deep-sea divers; The Forgotten Islands - The Chathams; A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe - In 1904 the British barque Brier Holme went down and the only survivor lived three months on an uninhabited island; The Green Scarab; The Thief-Catcher - a holy man in India; Money to Burn - experiences while left in charge of a Transvaal farm; The Woman Who Walked to Siberia - Lillian Alling; Smugglers All; On the Edge of the World - final installment of Richard Brenton's adventures in Tierra del Fuego; Coin counterfeiters in Tanganyika; The Taking of Ventotene - a naval story in the Drake tradition; The Jinx - a man brings bad luck to others but escapes unscathed; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Article on how 1,300 BC doctors are 'cutting the cancer toll'; Corruption - a modern manual of Graft in Civic Office; Nice colour full-page ad for the Pontiac Parisienne Sports Sedan; The Hidden Kingdom of B.C.'s Holy Terrorists - The 3,000 Sons of Freedom may be losing their grip on 9.000 more peaceful Doukhobors; Lovely colour photos of seasonal wildflowers; What Thinking Machines are doing for us, and to us; Cuba's program to export revolution - William Eccles' notes after two months inside Castro's camp - many great photos; How Wade Hampton found his feet - on crutches - the disabled former ski champ now heads a company of 50 handicapped employees; There's more in whiskers than meets the eye. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
2015BN250030Diplomica Verlag 2015. 2015. Softcover. Cybermobbing an Schulen: Lösungsorientierte Präventionsmaßnahmen und Interventionsprogramme <br/><br/>Cybermobbing an Schulen: Lösungsorientierte Präventionsmaßnahmen und Interventionsprogramme Eva Pies Diplomica Verlag paperback
BN212805De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Hardcover. Das weite Feld der Ökonomik - Von der Wirtschaftsforschung und Wirtschaftspolitik bis zur Politischen Ökonomik und Wirtschaftsethik <br/><br/>Das weite Feld der Ökonomik - Von der Wirtschaftsforschung und Wirtschaftspolitik bis zur Politischen Ökonomik und Wirtschaftsethik Ingo Pies De Gruyter Oldenbourg hardcover
2015BN73705Verlag Herder GmbH 2015. 2015. Der Markt und seine moralischen Grundlagen: Diskussionsmaterial zu einem Aufsatz von Jeff R. Clark und Dwight R. Lee Angewandte Ethik - Marktwirtschaft und Moral Diskussionsmaterial zu einem Aufsatz von Jeff R. Clark und Dwight R. Lee <br/><br/> Verlag Herder GmbH unknown
BN98568Kristallstrukturdaten anorganischer Verbindungen. Teil b2: Schlüsselemente O S Se Te. Substanznummern b 1818 - b 2804. = Landolt-Börnstein - Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Naturwissenschaften und Technik - Neue Serie - Gruppe 3: Krisatall- und Festkörperphsik - Band 7 Teil b2. <br/><br/>Kristallstrukturdaten anorganischer Verbindungen. Teil b2: Schlüsselemente O S Se Te. Substanznummern b 1818 - b 2804. = Landolt-Börnstein - Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Naturwissenschaften und Technik - Neue Serie - Gruppe 3: Krisatall- und Festkörperphsik - Band 7 Teil b2. unknown
1979BN130593Springer Berlin 1979. 1979. Kristallstrukturdaten anorganischer Verbindungen. Teil c3: Schlüsselement C Substanznummern c 3339 - c 4734. = Landolt-Börnstein - Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Naturwissenschaften und Technik - Neue Serie - Gruppe 3: Krisatall- und Festkörperphsik - Band 7 Teil c3. <br/><br/>Kristallstrukturdaten anorganischer Verbindungen. Teil c3: Schlüsselement C Substanznummern c 3339 - c 4734. = Landolt-Börnstein - Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Naturwissenschaften und Technik - Neue Serie - Gruppe 3: Krisatall- und Festkörperphsik - Band 7 Teil c3. Pies W Weiss A. Springer, Berlin unknown
awd-719Tirage argentique d’époque en noir et blanc (18,4/24 cm). Légende indiquée au verso. Bon état.
awd-720Coureurs au départ du Tour de Longchamp (vers 1945). Tirage argentique d’époque (15/20 cm), logo Paris-Soir et commentaire intégrés dans un cartouche : « Peu après le départ, Gaillot, qui va gagner l’épreuve, a déjà pris la tête. » Bon état.
