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31pp.avec qqs.figures dans le texte, br.orig., 26cm., extrait de la "Vie contemporaine" (1er juin 1894), 2 cachets, bon état, rare
136 pages. Features: What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers - Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, USAFR was in charge of Project Blue Book, the official Air Force investigation of UFOs, from 1951 to 1953 - this is what he learned about them - article with photos; Lord Calvert ad inside front cover features photos of Mr. Tom May of the May Company with stores in many states; Thirteen Against the Gods - P-32 and Corregidor; Beyond the Hindu Kush; The Artful Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers; Double-Duty Duds; Camera in the Wilderness - Herb Crisler; Stanley Ketchel Was a Wild Man; Sports Cars vs. Gas Bag (balloons); GI's at last are learning how ot shoot; The Great American Mystery (Fishing) Fly - the nymph; Bunyans of the Back Yard - garden tillers; Paintings by Remington; Lucky Strike ad features tennis player Jack Kramer; Wild ad called "Mental Poisoning" by the Rosicrucians of San Jose, CA; and more. Nibbling to upper half of backstrip means covers are partly loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
3 works bound together in 1 volume (cart.cover), texts in gotic german, 20cm., VG, [content: I."Die Lustseuche…" : Wien, 1827, 3rd edition, xxxii + 228pp. // II."Die Kinderkrankheiten…" : Wien, 1832, xvi + 388pp., 2nd ed. (Zweite mit den Beobachtungen der neusten Zeit vermehrte Ausgabe) // III."Die Hülfe bey Vergiftungen…" : Breslau, Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1818, xvi + 180pp., 1st edition]