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46 pages. Features: early day mail lines in Texas; Bits of Historical Information; a desperate hand-to-hand battle; John L. Goforth - a plow pioneer of Parker; six-shooters in the old southwest; a journey through Texas in 1856; taking the law to the Rio Grande; Baileys and Polleys among Earliest Texans; Noah Smithwick recorded Texas history; "I'll know what you're talking about"; Rangers' desperate battle with the Indians; John B. Hood - the man of courage; old Rockport Road - laid out by a preacher. Clean and unmarked. Undated - circa 1990? Book
Features: Elora Gorge on the Grand River; Sunny Okanagan; Crafts on the River Route - the shore road along the St. Lawrence River; Newfoundlanders' harvest of the sea - with photos of the good old fishing days; From Orchids to Horned Toads in the Cypress Hills of Alberta; Something different in Nova Scotia - changes to Citadel Hill and 'The Ovens". Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: A Brief History of Early Days in North Texas and Indian Territory; Ghosts of the Copper Bells; God was with me; The Clearinghouse Mine; Old Boz - Yankee with a Gun; A Stagecoach Reunion; "I Rode for Gerlach"; The Dancing Countryman; River Rider; Old Morenci, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Artist "Shorty" Shope; Lost River of Silver; The Only Conchita; Dyrenforth's Assault on the Heavens; Jekyll-Hyde of the Twin Territories; Tragedy in Fremont County; When Steam was Power; The Murder of Cadete; Sam Colt's Big Pistol; Cyclones and Neighbors; Old Wimberley Mills; At Strawberry, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Sky's the Limit?; Maysville was a Whiskey Runner's Heaven!; Taking a Short Cut to a Long Shot; Old Cowboy Montan'; Lost Mines in the El Paso Range; George McJunkin's Pile of Bones; Missouri River Girl; The Bear Chaser; No Need to Talk Religion; On the Trail of Gabe Hans; British Columbia's Doukhobors; Murder or an act of war?; The Little Bit of Trickery; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Scotty's Fantastic Trip - record run from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe, chartered by Death Valley Scotty in 1905; Memories of Frisco Steam - some of the most beautiful locomotives in the country; Farewell, GM&O (Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) - merger spells the end; Rio Grande on the Run - Utah's Wasatch Range offers quite a barrier to the D&RGW's run to the west; Steam at Christchurch; Commuting in British Columbia - great article with map and colour photos; Guide to Night Photography; Through Illinois on the Locals; Little Dumpy Steams Again - restoration of a locomotive for the Monticello and Sangamon Valley Railway. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
20 pages. An early provincial booklet promotiing hunting and fishing in British Columbia. Undated - appears to be circa 1920s. Includes black and white reproductions of photos of: a flycaster with fish in net; a morning's catch of salmon at Campbell River; Four river fishermen in what appears to be a native-style carved boat; great shot of a dozens of caribou fording a wide body of water; a mounted bull moose head; smiling hunter standing over 4+ dead grizzlies; mounted big-horned sheep head; Wapati; large herd of caribou on a high plateau; coast deer; mountain goats on a rock face; prize-winning mounted head of a mountain goat. Includes considerable supporting text. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this great vintage B.C. collectible. Book
Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: East Broad Top - narrow gauge coal hauler is prospering considering its size - it meets highway competition; George M. Pullman - He Improved the existing sleeper, brought comfort to the rails; D&H 4-6-6-4; Penn-Reading Seashore - Once rival systems in southern New Jersey, P-RS now gives efficient cooperative services - maps, article and many photos; Glamor Girl - Avis Lobdell put the oomph in Union Pacific's Challenger service and kept traffic on the rails; Port Isabel Branch - Once the narrow gauge Rio Grande Railroad, now an important tidewater connection for MoPac; The Overnighter - Pere Marquette fast freight service keeps high polish on the Detroit-Chicago rails; Alameda Belt Line - California's island city is important rail-water terminal; Eastbay Railroading - suburban empire once had rapid transit to every district; Letters from readers. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Nine prize-winning photos from Railroadians' salon; The 6:57 - The Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast; Silverton Branch - Denver & Rio Grande Western's most remote train squeeze up the gorge of Rio de Las Animas Perdidas twice a week; World's Biggest (in 1883) - El Gobernador - Nineteenth-century Mastodon; The NYO&W - built new merchandise traffic to replace collapsed hard-coal trade; The Track Circuit - this simple electrical detector tells when a train is on the track, and is used in all types of signaling; Below the Mason & Dixon Line - Medium-sized railroads abound in the south; Bill Moore's Trip - aa first-class railroad vacation trip - across Canada on Canadian Pacific is the first lap; The Ubiquitous Rock Island - a photo spread. Average wear and soiling. Small address stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Railroad Vacations - suggestions for your summer trip - choice routes for scenic and rail interest; Gone From Our Town - Social life of village once centered around the station, but now the railroad's gone, by Vince Edwards; Fast Freight Line - Western Maryland Railway, rooted at the mines in West Virginia, is important as an Eastern trade trunk; Illinois Central Portfolio - Eight old engines and a touch of the flavlor of modern power from a great North-South route; SP Cab-In-Front; Norfolk & Western's Spring Cleaning - photos of manual labour; Groucho, Harpo & Rio Chico RR - A Reel Railway in which the Marx Brothers take over the Sierra RR. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
42 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Bombs Away - what railroads do when enemy planes attack their plant and trains; Crystal River & San Juan - a marble railroad in the Colorado Rockies; What the Signals Say - detailed illustrated article on the development of railroad signals; Westbound Freight - a watercolor by Kent Day Coes; The Railroads of Bethlehem - this Pennsylvania city boasts six steam railroads - includes colour map; Tickets for Locomotive Fuel - with colour photos; C&O Brothers - locomotive photos and specifications; In the Army Now - old narrow-gauge engines don't escape the draft; Locomotive Building Program; The Man in the Tower. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Loaded with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Reprint of the book 'Three Months with Wild Indians" by Ole T. Nystel, who was held captive by the Comanches; "Tex" Banta, Mountain Man of the 1880s; Silver Creek Reminiscences - Idaho; The Sadie Bloomer Affair; The Mayor of Old Los Angeles - Stephen C. Foster; Warrior's Pledge - Chief Crow Dog; Railroading by Smoke - great early rail tales; Secret Sorrows of a Sheepherder; Behind the Donner Monument; I still dig for buried treasure; Devil's Grin; Wash Barker and the Rock Pens; Beef on the Move - roundup on the Powder River in 1895!; They stole the Parson's Pants; Buffalo Roundup at Sea - Catalina Island; Heap good Medicine - mustard plaster; Doughbelly's Doin's; Hell-for-leather (Jim) Pike; He didn't want to smoke - a tale involving James Bowie and his famous knife; The Bronc-buster from Texas; The town of Rough and Ready's 100 year war in California; Outlaws never die; Gentleman Jackass. Chip from fore-edge of page 48 (with no loss of content). Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
In 8°; 731 (ma 734) pp. e 9 c. di tav. delle quali una doppia e una più volte ripiegata. Bellissima legatura coeva in mezza-pelle rossa. Dorso a 4 nervi. Autore, titolo, filetti in oro e fregi a secco ai tasselli ed ai nervi. Piatti foderati in tela. Prima edizione in ottime condizioni di conservazione di questa importante opera dedicata a Rio de La Plata e Tenerife scritta dal celebre fisiologo, patologo, igienista, neurologo, antropologo e scrittore italiano, Paolo Mantegazza (Monza, 31 ottobre 1831 - San Terenzo, 28 agosto 1910) fra i primissimi divulgatori delle teorie darwiniane in Italia e fra i primi antropologi moderni. "Subito dopo la laurea, spinto dal desiderio di avviare imprese economiche e probabilmente anche per motivi sentimentali, il M. lasciò l'Italia: dopo essere passato per la Francia, la Germania e l'Inghilterra, si recò in Argentina, in Paraguay, in Bolivia, ove compì numerose osservazioni naturalistiche, botaniche, etniche ed etnoiatriche. Nel 1856 a Salta, in Argentina, conobbe e sposò Jacobina Tejada Montemajor, dalla quale l'anno successivo ebbe il suo primo figlio. Intrapreso nel 1858 il viaggio di ritorno in Italia, la lunga sosta alla quale, per motivi sanitari, fu costretto a Tenerife gli offrì l'opportunità di dedicarsi allo studio antropologico e craniomorfologico delle popolazioni locali. Frutto dell'esperienza maturata in questi viaggi furono i due volumi Sulla America meridionale; lettere mediche, editi a Milano nel 1858-60, e i lavori: Sulle virtù igieniche e medicinali della coca e sugli alimenti, in Annali universali di medicina, s. 4, XXI (1859), 501, pp. 449-519, al quale nel 1858 era stato conferito il premio Dell'Acqua dell'ospedale Maggiore di Milano; Degli alimenti nervosi narcotici, in L'Igea, III (1864), pp. 354 s.; Sull'uso terapeutico della coca, ibid., V (1866), p. 284; Rio de La Plata e Tenerife: viaggi e studi, Milano 1867." da Treccani.
In 8, pp. 309 + (1b) + (4) di pubbl. con molte foto in b/n, cartine e ill. n.t. anche a piena pagina. Mancanze al d. Br. ed. dec. Fa parte della Collezione di Monografie Illustrate. Serie viaggi. Dall'Indice: In rotta per le Canarie, Sull'Orenoco, Gli Indiani dell'Orenoco, del Rio Negro e di altre regioni del Venezuela, Una fermata a Barbados, Un giorno a Puerto Rico, A Cuba libera, Al Paese degli Aztecas, Messico a traverso l'istantanea, Tra i ruderi della Roma Azteca, Italia e Messico, Ai deserti dei Maya, Il carnevale di Merida, etc...
Fine Russian Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Russian. 107, [1] p. 3000 copies were printed. 2094 / 3000. 'Geray' family with Turkish rooted of Crimean Khanate and their genealogical tree with biographies. Rare.
Very Good Turkish Black cloth. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 90 p. A duplicated copy. Istanbul Türk Karaim Cemaati gelenegine göre cenaze, defin, zeher ve matem ritüeli ve tercümesi. Funeral, burial, lament rituals according to the Karaite tradition. This book is distributed to the congregation by the Karaite community.
8vo., First Edition, with a map as frontispiece; green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Full-page black and white photos of: The Casino at Monte Carlo; The Kremlin in Moscow; Houses of Congress, Santiago, Chili (Chile); Place de la Concorde, Paris; The Rock of Gibraltar; The River Jordan - lovely country image; Unter-den-Linden, Berlin; Royal Palace at Charlottenburg, Near Berlin; Castle of Heidelberg; Imperial Opera House, Ringe Strasse, Vienna; Correggio's "Holy Night" (Painting); The Roman Pantheon; City of Palermo, Sicily; Panorama of Pompeii; The Leaning Tower of Pisa; The Champs-Elysses, Paris. Moderate staining/soiling. Unmarked. Chips from rust brown covers. Book
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Piccadilly Circus, London; Durham Castle, England; Hall of Knights in the Royal Palace, Berlin; Bridge of Sighs, Venice; Interiors of the Pompeiian Museum; The Sea of Ice, Switzerland; The Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg; Natives of Australia Fishing; Native Street and Houses in Ceylon; Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; In the Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River; The Mission of San Antonio, California; The Cathedral of Lima, Peru; The Tomb of Canova; Niagara Falls, Winter of 1892-3; Jupiter Terrace, Yellowstone Park. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Bank of England - great street scene; The Bromielaw or Harbor, Glasgow; The Hamburg Warehouses - River Elbe scene; The Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy; A Street Scene in Naples; Hall of Justice - in the Alhambra at Granada in Spain; Port Said; The Acropolis, Baalbek, Syria; Native Street in New Zealand; English Parade, Hong Kong; Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York; The Post Office, Buenos Ayres (Aries); Carmen Church Ruins, Guatemala; St. Martyn's Church, Canterbury, England; Shanes Castle, Ireland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
193 pages. "A collection of stories which recall the history of the Piercy Clan from the late 1800's to the present, and recounts episodes of his life in early logging in British Columbia, from 'gypo logger' to his successful ventures as a contractor and independent logger. This is a special piece of history of our country, focussing on a small part of Vancouver Island." - from back cover. With the exception of some ink markings to page 57, book is clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Nice copy of this important compilation of Vancouver Island history. Book
87 pages. Features: Historic houses; The Dialect called Bungi; Early Manitoba Furniture; Seven Oaks House; Legislative Buildings; The Magnificent Adventure - The first printing press and publications west of Toronto in 1940 - James Evans; Log Construction at Red River; The Crockery Trade; Lower Fort Garry; St. Andrews on the Red; Story of Transportation; Ukrainians in the Manitoba Mosaic; Upper Fort Garry; Sir Thomas Button; St. Boniface Museum; Manitoba Glass Works; Local Museums preserve history; Manitoba Art; Portageto Winnipeg; Indian Trade Silver; Museum of Man and Nature; The Metis and the Buffalo. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
