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Four volumes in-12. pp. (16), 184 pp; 176 pp.; (2), 182, (1) pp.; (6), 198, (2); half title in first volume, none issued in volume 2 as Gaskell notes, contemporary calf, gilt fillet and fine labels, marbled endpapers. This is the rare variant without the dagger signature marks (Gaskell Foulis, 597).
Hardcover in very good condition. No jacket. Previously owned by Jorgen Nissen. Includes compliments slip. Minor bumps on hardcover edges. Page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
Hardcover in very good condition for age. Third edition, altered and enlarged. Xx, 21-222 pp. Contemporary leather binding. Contains two engraved plates and fold-out table. Bookplate of Archibald Speirs of Eldeslie on front pastedown. Leather boards are scored and worn. Abrasions on gilt-decorated spine. Page block and pages are foxed. Minor tear on upper edge of BEP. Binding is exposed at early and closing pages, but remains intact. Penned letters and numbers on front pastedown and title page. Creases throughout pages. Upper leading corner of page 213 is chipped. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Used
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 17 [of 18] plates (missing plate supplied in photofacsimile) and double-page map; original burgundy ribbed cloth, upper board letterd in white, gilt back, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Wanting the plate 'Mount Buckland' at p.190 (missing plate supplied in photofacsimile). With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE. Neate 180.
Lyon, chez B. Michel Mauteville, [1682 circa], in-12, legatura coeva in piena pelle, dorso a 5 nervi con titolo e fregi in oro (mancanza alla cuffia inferiore del dorso), pp. [16], 481, [3]. Si tratta, in realtà, di un viaggio in Terra Santa. Lievi bruniture.
In-8 gr. (mm. 270x175), legatura in p. pelle coeva, decorazoni a secco ai piatti. tit. oro su tassello al dorso (con abrasioni), pp. (4),232, con antiporta litografata a colori, vignetta al frontesp., ornato da deliziosi grandi capilettera e finali, tutti inc. su legno. Il volume è molto ben illustrato da 58 tavole litografate in tinta (vedute e monumenti), tutte protette da velina, e da una carta topografica della regione, più volte ripieg. Storia della Palestina con dettagliata descrizione dei più importanti monumenti della Terra Santa. Fiorit. per lo più margin. a qualche tavola, pagine con lievi ingialliture ma certamente un buon esempl. con barbe.
Carta geografica tratta dall’ Atlante geografico. Corredato di notizie relative alla geografia fisica politica, ed in generale alla statistica delle varie regioni del Globo. Compilato ed eseguito in litografia per cura e sotto la direzione di Benedetto Marzolla edito a Napoli nel 1858. Marzolla, autore di importanti atlanti sulle provincie del Regno di Napoli, è anche autore di diverse carte sulle Circoscrizioni Ecclesiastiche nel Regno delle Due Sicilie, pubblicate postume, nello stesso anno della morte (1858) a Napoli nello Stabilimento Geografico diretto da Luigi Manzella. Benedetto Marzolla fu disegnatore topografo e litografo; geografo e cartografo; membro della Commissione di statistica presso il Ministero dell'Interno. Personaggio di grandissimo rilievo nella cartografia napoletana ed italiana del XIX secolo, Marzolla ottenne in vita pubblici riconoscimenti ed attestati per la produzione cartografica di altissima qualità. La sua notorietà si è lentamente dissolta dopo la morte; va tuttavia osservato che solo la mancanza di uno spiccato coinvolgimento politico in senso risorgimentale e di una valenza letteraria nella sua opera non lo hanno reso famoso come i contemporanei Francesco Costantino Marmocchi (1805-1858) e Attilio Zuccagni-Orlandini (1783-1872), con i quali può certamente confrontarsi. I progetti culturali didattici e editoriali di Marzolla furono e rimangono di straordinaria modernità; egli inventò, è il caso di dire, un nuovo modo di intendere e di disegnare la carta geografica, fornendo una visione assolutamente originale della comunicazione dei dati geografici attraverso la combinazione di testo e immagine. Con tale operazione, egli riuscì a fondere in un'unica opera, storia, geografia, economia, statistica e cartografia, raggiungendo un equilibrio grafico di rara efficacia (cfr. V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell'800 Europeo, Brindisi 2008). Bell’esemplare con coloritura coeva dei contorni, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Bibliografia V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell’800 Europeo (2008), n. 136. Map taken from the Atlante geografico. Corredato di notizie relative alla geografia fisica politica, ed in generale alla statistica delle varie regioni del Globo. Compilato ed eseguito in litografia per cura e sotto la direzione di Benedetto Marzolla published in Naples in 1858. Marzolla, author of important atlases on the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, is also the author of several maps on the Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, published posthumously in the same year of his death (1858) in Naples in the Stabilimento Geografico directed by Luigi Manzella. Benedetto Marzolla was draftsman topographer and lithographer, geographer and cartographer. Character of great importance in the Neapolitan and Italian cartography of the nineteenth century, Marzolla obtained during his life public recognition and certificates for the production of high quality cartography. His notoriety slowly faded after his death; it should be noted, however, that only the lack of a strong political involvement in the sense of the Risorgimento and of a literary value in his work did not make him as famous as his contemporaries Francesco Costantino Marmocchi (1805-1858) and Attilio Zuccagni-Orlandini (1783-1872), with whom he can certainly compare himself. Marzolla's cultural, didactic and editorial projects were, and remain, extraordinarily modern; he invented a new way of understanding and drawing maps, providing an absolutely original vision of the communication of geographical data through the combination of text and image. With this operation, he was able to merge in a single work, history, geography, economics, statistics and cartography, achieving a graphic balance of rare effectiveness. Benedetto Marzolla is famous for being among the most important cartographers of the XIX century, for being the one to print geographic maps using high quality lithographies. His Atlante Geografico, made of 58 maps, presents finely sketched works. Six maps depict North America, among them famous map of gold diggers in California, deriving from Hippolite Ferry. Extremely relevant are also the maps of Antarctic, South Africa with the plan of Cape Town and those about Australia. Though the maps are dated between 1843 and 1856, this 1858 edition, printed in Naples at the Stabilimento Geografico Strada San Carlo (founded by Marzolla himself), represents the final version of his atlas, the last one before his death. A posthumous edition will be published in 1865. The atlas is pretty rare, is not actually listed in Phillips, British Library e OCLC. Beautiful specimen with contemporary coloring of the contours, in excellent condition. Bibliografia V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell’800 Europeo (2008), n. 136.
Carta geografica tratta dall’ Atlante geografico. Corredato di notizie relative alla geografia fisica politica, ed in generale alla statistica delle varie regioni del Globo. Compilato ed eseguito in litografia per cura e sotto la direzione di Benedetto Marzolla edito a Napoli nel 1858. Marzolla, autore di importanti atlanti sulle provincie del Regno di Napoli, è anche autore di diverse carte sulle Circoscrizioni Ecclesiastiche nel Regno delle Due Sicilie, pubblicate postume, nello stesso anno della morte (1858) a Napoli nello Stabilimento Geografico diretto da Luigi Manzella. Benedetto Marzolla fu disegnatore topografo e litografo; geografo e cartografo; membro della Commissione di statistica presso il Ministero dell'Interno. Personaggio di grandissimo rilievo nella cartografia napoletana ed italiana del XIX secolo, Marzolla ottenne in vita pubblici riconoscimenti ed attestati per la produzione cartografica di altissima qualità. La sua notorietà si è lentamente dissolta dopo la morte; va tuttavia osservato che solo la mancanza di uno spiccato coinvolgimento politico in senso risorgimentale e di una valenza letteraria nella sua opera non lo hanno reso famoso come i contemporanei Francesco Costantino Marmocchi (1805-1858) e Attilio Zuccagni-Orlandini (1783-1872), con i quali può certamente confrontarsi. I progetti culturali didattici e editoriali di Marzolla furono e rimangono di straordinaria modernità; egli inventò, è il caso di dire, un nuovo modo di intendere e di disegnare la carta geografica, fornendo una visione assolutamente originale della comunicazione dei dati geografici attraverso la combinazione di testo e immagine. Con tale operazione, egli riuscì a fondere in un'unica opera, storia, geografia, economia, statistica e cartografia, raggiungendo un equilibrio grafico di rara efficacia (cfr. V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell'800 Europeo, Brindisi 2008). Bell’esemplare con coloritura coeva dei contorni, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Bibliografia V. Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell’800 Europeo (2008), n. 74. Benedetto Marzolla is famous for being among the most important cartographers of the XIX century, for being the one to print geographic maps using high quality lithographies. His Atlante Geografico, made of 58 maps, presents finely sketched works. Six maps depict North America, among them famous map of gold diggers in California, deriving from Hippolite Ferry. Extremely relevant are also the maps of Antarctic, South Africa with the plan of Cape Town and those about Australia. Though the maps are dated between 1843 and 1856, this 1858 edition, printed in Naples at the Stabilimento Geografico Strada San Carlo (founded by Marzolla himself), represents the final version of his atlas, the last one before his death. A posthumous edition will be published in 1865. Map taken from the Atlante geografico. Corredato di notizie relative alla geografia fisica politica, ed in generale alla statistica delle varie regioni del Globo. Compilato ed eseguito in litografia per cura e sotto la direzione di Benedetto Marzolla published in Naples in 1858. Marzolla, author of important atlases on the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, is also the author of several maps on the Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, published posthumously in the same year of his death (1858) in Naples in the Stabilimento Geografico directed by Luigi Manzella. Benedetto Marzolla was draftsman topographer and lithographer, geographer and cartographer. Character of great importance in the Neapolitan and Italian cartography of the nineteenth century, Marzolla obtained during his life public recognition and certificates for the production of high quality cartography. His notoriety slowly faded after his death; it should be noted, however, that only the lack of a strong political involvement in the sense of the Risorgimento and of a literary value in his work did not make him as famous as his contemporaries Francesco Costantino Marmocchi (1805-1858) and Attilio Zuccagni-Orlandini (1783-1872), with whom he can certainly compare himself. Marzolla's cultural, didactic and editorial projects were, and remain, extraordinarily modern; he invented a new way of understanding and drawing maps, providing an absolutely original vision of the communication of geographical data through the combination of text and image. With this operation, he was able to merge in a single work, history, geography, economics, statistics and cartography, achieving a graphic balance of rare effectiveness. Beautiful specimen with contemporary coloring of the contours, in excellent condition. The atlas is pretty rare, is not actually listed in Phillips, British Library e OCLC. Bibliografia Valerio, Benedetto Marzolla. Brindisino, Geografo e Cartografo dell’800 Europeo, p. 57, 3F. Tooley,s Dictionary, p. 216.
28 pages plus advertorial covers. Extensive WWII coverage including: Karsh cover photo of Churchill and Mackenzie King; Five photos of "Huge Military Convoy Reaching India Without Losing a Ship or Man - Disembarkation Scenes"; Two-page illustration of "The Relative Size, Velocity and Weight of Shell Used in the Latest North African Battles - General Grant Tanks, The Mark IV, and the German 88-m.m. anti-tank gun"; Ten Photos of devastation in Malta, "The Heroic Island, continuously battered from the air, unfailing courage of the most bombed place in the world"; Article on the Threat to Egypt; Eight photos of bomb damage to Canterbury and other historic sites; Photo-illustrated review of "Last Train From Berlin" by Howard K. Smith; One-page photo of 'starboard vista' view of British aircraft carrier; Six illustrations of the fighting in Africa by Captain McIntyre of New Zealand; Six aerial photos of Mersa Matruh, Libya, now in the hands of Rommel; Centerfold illustration of Senior army officers being trained to fix trucks; Photos of scorched earth in Sollum, Libya; Aerial photo of bomb damage to 'Gneisenau' at Brest; Photo of King Feisal II of Iraq on his 7th birthday; Photo of emblems of Yugoslavia's guerilla army - featuring skull and crossbones; Photo of U.S. sailor being trained to swim in a sea of buring oil!; Excellent photo illustrates the 56 personnel needed to maintain, service and fly a heavy bomber of the 'Sterling' type, including plane, fuel truck, bomb trailers, etc.; Photo of King George of the Hellenes addressing joint session in Washtington; Royal Visit to Ulster; Excellent one-page photos of dozens of 'General Grant' tanks, used in the Battle of Libya, under construction at the giant Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit; Photo-illustrated article on Sir James Dewar and his pursuit of liquid air and liquid hydrogen; Five photos of the British Army training in troop-carrier gliders; Twelve excellent photos illustrating "Sebastapol's heroic defence against overwhelming odds in Crimea - scenes from the Russian battlefronts opposing Germany's gathering offensive; Photos of personalities of the week including Mervyn Haigh, Dwight Eisenhower, C.S. Staniland, Elinor Mordaunt, parents of Kenneth Campbell, V.C., Churchill with Attlee, Eden and Sinclair, Churchill with wife and daughter, Wife of able seaman Savage, V.C., Sir Edwin Cooper, V.A. Crutchley, V.C., Lord Glanely, Tom Driberg, and parents of Petty Officer Sephton, V.C. Unmarked with average wear. Spine taped. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 693-724. Features: Photo of Major John Bagot Glubb Pasha, reportedly killed in action in Iraq; Four photos of British evacuation from Greece; Informative two-page, seven-illustration feature describes the winged invaders of Crete - troop-carrying gliders - and the JU '52' sky tug; Excellent two-page illustrated feature entitled 'War in the Stratosphere' explains some problems presented by the enigma of flight miles above the earth; Six photos beneath the caption 'Eagle Wings of the Royal Navy - The Victorious Fleet Air Arm; H.M.S. Hood lost May 24 - photo of the ship and photo of part of her crew on deck during firing practice; Photo and illustration of the "Bismarck," sunk on May 27; The Battle for Crete - article; Three maps showing the strategic importance of Crete and Cyprus; Centrefold illustration depict Germany's air invasion of Crete - the first major attack by air-borne troops, across over 200 miles of sea; Photos of the "Beaufighter" night-fighter-bomber and the famous U.S.A. "Catalina"; Photos of thirteen personalities of the week include Igor I. Sikorsky setting record in Connecticut, Vice-Admiral L.E. Holland, Captain R. Kerr, Lord Austin of the well-known automaker, General Smuts, Sir Horace Rumbold, Flight-Officer F.H. Hanbury - first member of the W.A.A.F. to receive the M.B.E.; Two pages with twelve photos from Libya illustrate "Where Panzer Units Become Junk" - The Gallant Defenders of Tobruk; Five photos illustrate fighting in the western desert of North Africa where British patrols harass Nazis; Air photos of the cities of Rakki, Palmyra and Falluja; Photo of the King inspecting paratroops; Photo of truck carrying the wreckage of the ME. 110 fighter which Rudolf Hess flew to Glasgow; New discoveries in Iran exemplify the superb art of Persian goldsmiths over a period of seventeen centuries. Nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative wartime issue. Book
54 pages. Features: Attractive cover illustration of lady in swimwear; Let's Have Direct Relief for Our Real Forgotten Man - Editorial against high real estate taxes; Death Looks for Cinderella (part 1); Is Father Coughlin Anti-Semitic? - His Own Answer - article with photo; Country Club Scandal (short story); I Was a Showman Too - Volatile Ex-New York Mayor James J. Walker talks of brass bands and ballyhoo; Hearts in Danger (fiction); How to Win Sick Friends and Influence Them - flowers are lovely but show a little originality!; The Good Earth Answers (pioneer family fiction); Purge in Hot Springs (conclusion); Matinee Today (short story); To the Ladies; Hell's Bargainers - Traitors to the Law - Sam Leibowitz exposes the method of lawyer-criminals; Rancher-Artist Augustus (Gus) Kenderdine - candidate for the Canadian Hall of Fame (article with photo); Tennis is a Dub's Game - words of cheer from champion Helen Hull Jacobs; Toronto's Royal York Hotel is featured prominently inside back cover; Colour back cover ad for the Physical Culture Hotel, Dansville, New York. Somewhat above-average external wear. Light pencil doodling to cartoon on page 46 and art contest blank on page 51. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
104 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of blessing of the Cod fleet at Caraquet, New Brunswick; Lovely nostalgic one-page colour-photo ad for Weston's cookies features young lady sitting in Muskoka chair; London Letter - Why the Germans Don't Want a New Army; Fantastic one-page colour Popsicle ad features their $100,000 contest prizes and small inset photo of "Pinky Lee"; The Canadian Bank of Commerce half-page colour-photo ad features fashion show scene; One-page colour ad for 1955 Dodge cars features two yellow and black cars; Report on Eating - the dramatic changes in our eating habits in a single generation - article with great colour photos including Billy O'Connor, Austin Willis, Elaine Grande and Joan Fairfax; Are We Eating Too Much?; How Long Can the Earth Keep Us Eating? - article with amazing photos of child surrounded by thousands of pounds of the various food products she will eat in the course of a 70 year life; The Courageous Comeback of fiery Quebec chanteuse Alys Robi as she recovers from mental illness - photo-illustrated article; Osmond Kendall's Marvelous Music Machine - with the magic of electrons this inventive Canadian composes piano concertos and turns doodles ino the sounds of an eighty-piece orchestra - fantastic photo-illustrated article; The Lawyer Who Never Wins a Case - Crown Prosecutor Henry Bull QC - photo-illustrated article; The Great Herring Mystery - scientists attempt to discover where Atlantic herring vanish to, and why, once the herring run ends - photo-illustrated article; Not This August (conclusion of this story); The World's First Dog Psychiatrist - Alva McColl - photo-illustrated article; We're Off to Mars; The Best Way to Take a Holiday - Photo-illustrated article explains how Fred Bosworth's family of five camps for $2.08 a day each - cheaper than living at home; Nice one-page colour ad for the Meteor Rideau 4-door town sedan (aqua and white); Colour one-page Samsonite luggage ad features couple boarding train; Vintage one-page colour ad for Leonard home appliances; Classy one-page colour Chrysler ad features two-tone purple 250 hp New Yorker DeLuxe St. Regis; Colour ad for Christie's Digestive Biscuits; Colour ad for General Motors Locomotives; Colour Chevrolet ad features yellow 1955 Bel Air convertible; Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic ad features Fearless Fosdick comic; Nice colour-photo ad for Heinz baby food; Vintage colour ad for Thermos vacuum bottles; Nice one-page ad for 1955 GMC trucks; Jantzen fashion ad features tartan shorts for him and her; Colour-photo ad for CNR passenger rail features charming scenes on-board of well-dressed passengers; Barrett Company photo ad features D.A. Boem of Boem Construction, Order Clerk Peter Englholm and Frank Hartshorne; Nice BOAC ad features their Coronet double-deck stratocruiser service Montreal to Britain; Labatt's ad features photo of warehouseman Richard Simpson of Downsview, Ontario at work; Great colour GWG ad inside back cover features man relaxing with ladies after cutting grass; Back cover Coke ad features colour photo of handsome trio beneath read and white umbrella; and more. Average wear. Numerous short openings along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Features: Greatest Navy on Earth provides a pageant of power for Truman policy outline - with photo of commissioning of giant carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt; Photo of a million people in Central Park listening to the President; Zionists assail 'ambiguity and delay' on Palestine at a New York Rally - with photo and text; Detroit Mayoralty Race - Gerald L.K. Smith, Jeffries, William Z. Foster, Frankensteen; Red Army's odd ways in peace tilt course of Russian Diplomacy; Photos of tough market life in Warsaw, Poland; Japanese Zaibatsu to be abolished; President Achmed Sukarno of Indonesia; Outer Mongolia now 'independent'; Services war unity flies apart under shock of the atom bomb; Discrimination against blacks in Britain; photo of car down lakefront ravine in Scarborough, Ontario; Labor-Management parley to fix labor strife re: wage-hour questions; Meter, Yard or EII? - Swedish compromise would shift measurement unit to end conflict; and more. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Evidence of moisture exposure to last ten pages or so. A sound copy. Book
Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
36 pages. Features: News digest includes the purging of North Africa, strategic value of the 'purge', and hoodwinking Hitler; Editorial titled 'Canada Needs Your Food-Power"; Without a Mask (short story); Toys Train These Men - photo-illustrated article explains troop training; Thirty Days in Jail (short story); Britain Goes to Earth - photo illustrated article explains how Brits are living and manufacturing underground; The Lake (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Jergens Lotion ad includes photos of Corinne MacLennan of Short Hills, New Jersey; Quarter-page black and white photo ad for the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C.; Woodbury Powder ad includes photo of Hedy Lamarr; On the Kitchen Front Line - Are Canada's Livestock Better Fed than Canada's People?; Good Resolutions - article on self-improvement for ladies; Quotes from around the world; Pepsi ad inside back cover shows family with man in uniform around the fireplace; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
LAUSANNE. 1869. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos fané. Intérieur frais. 149 pages - Titre inscrit en lettres dorées sur le 1er plat - Dos fané avec un accro - Plan en fin d'ouvrage Visité par le Dr Ermete Pierotti, architecte-ingénieur avec appendice concernant M. Le comte de Vogue & M. Ernest Renan, membres de l'institut de France
Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine and front cover. Gilt sun-dial also embossed on front cover. Top edge gilt; bottom of page block rough cut. Light shelfwear on bottom edges of cover and spine; some rubbing along the edges of the spine. Slight hinge break on half-title page. Some foxing on the the first and last few pages in the book, but majority are clean and bright. Used
Pages 418-528. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - Part VI; How Mohammedans Pray - photo-illustrated article; The Pirate of "The Ghost" - a stowaway saves a blockade-runner; Where Beasts are Baptized - astonishing ceremonies in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; The Story of an Alpine Adventure - Miss A.E. Metcalfe and Miss M. Cartwright take a wrong turn in the Swiss mountains; A Race up Mont Blanc, by Samuel Turner (with is photo); Fascinated by a Snake - photo-illustrated tale from Australia; Congo Money - fascinating photo-illustrated article showing grass mats, cowrie shells, beads, etc.; Bob Mansell's Lion; Run Amok - Borneo tale by E.W. Barrant (with his photo); Floating Church on the Seine - article with nice photos; Strangest Horse Race on Earth - the 'Palio' of Sienna - article with great photos; Gun Robbers of Fyzabad - tale related by veteran Michael Lynch, with his photo; The Havoc Wrought by One Man - Chinaman Gong Ung Chung blows up powder magazine at the Western Fuse Works in Oakland, California - article with photos; The Wreck of the "General Grant" - a desert island experience; Illustrations of the curious "Knapp" roller-boat; Photo of William Laurens and the boat he lived in for years; Photo of a bag of 369 caribou in Newfoundland; and more. Front cover missing. Back cover loose but present. Above-average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Cover photo from deck of battleship "North Carolina" with guns firing; Two pages of photos from the Russian front include an armoured Russian train about to be blown up, a Soviet armoured car ablaze, German troops occupying the city of Dniepropetrovsk, a crippled panzer unit, terrified horses as shells explode nearby, large Soviet motorized gun, and bridge blown up by the Soviets on their retreat from Narva; photo of De Gaulle inspecting Free French troops in Surrey; Photo of Averill Harriman with Lord Beaverbrook, Mr. Eden and M. Maisky; Photo of rail crash wreckage in Cheshire where nine died; Photos of the Shah of Iran and the former Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpoor Mohammed Riza; Two pages of photos showing Russia's women at war - determined to take over men's jobs and hold key positions in U.S.S. R. workshops; Detailed illustrations explain the Acoustic Mine - a new terror of the under-sea war; Photo of HItler and Mussolini strolling through a devastated Russian village; Six photos of Russia's industrial might; Photos of Lieut.-Comdr. G.A. Thring and Squad.-Leader J.H. Thompson; Photo of Captain Margesson presenting award to Sandhurst cadet N.B. Erskine; Illustrated article explains the life of a sailor with a corvette on convoy escort duty; Centredold illustration of convoy at sea; Seven intimate photos of the Royal family at home; Wow! photos of thousands of tanks inspected by the King - the greatest concentration of armoured land forces that has ever been witnessed in Great Britain; Photos of the new Handley Page "Halifax" bomber; Photos of the latest cannon-firing "Spitfire"; Photos of scorched earth to infrastructure and coal in Spitzbergen before the residents are removed to Britain - including photo of Canadian officers Brigadier Potts of Saskatoon and Major Geoffrey Walsh of Oakville; Photos illustrated "Luftwaffe Life-Boats" - pneumatic craft carried as small packs; Two pages with nine *fascinating* photos of the primitive people of Tierra Del Fuego; and more. Staples removed. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy of this extraordinary WWII issue. Book
90 pages. Articles: From Rags to Riches - Chaplin in a Bluebeard role; America's Number One Mystery Man (part 1 of 2) - the career of Frank Costello and his strange empire - great photos; John Bull Sees Red, White and Blue - Britain's privations give rise to bitter criticism of America; Dem Bums Abroad - Brooklyn Dodgers did their spring training in Havana, Cuba; Mr. Secretary Marshall (conclusiont) - his military background can help him achieve diplomatic victories; The Happy Gentleman - Frank Crowninshield - article with photo. Fiction: The Blast (part 1 of 2); The Blond Hairpin; Promise in the earth; The Flexible Mind; The Curse of the Krebils; White Man in the White Land. Includes these ads: "The Man Out" - great full-page movie ad - starring James Mason; Canadian Pacific Vacations; Santa Fe Railroad; The National Guard (two pages); Dubonnet; Oldsmobile cars (nice); Great full-page color-photo ad for Fortune shoes for men; Schick Electric Shaver "Fits Your Face" - full-page color-photo; Packard cars (classy); Washington State Tourism (color-photos); Chevrolet; Life Savers; Timely Clothes; Red Cap Ale; Hickok Belts; Canadian National Railways - travel; Red Top Ale; Queen Anne Pecan Roll; Puritan Sportswear; United Jewish Appeal full-page ad features photo of General Eisenhower and lengthy excerpt of his speech to the U.J.A. in Washington, D.C.; Eversharp pens; Coke ad on back over features three young office ladies. Average wear. Center page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Letters about Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum - marvel or monstrosity?; Seeds of Revolt in Red China? - Richard Hughes writes of the chances of Chiang returning to the mainland; Close-Up of the First Earth Satellite - The U.S. will soon re-attempt to place a satellite in orbit some 225,000 miles up to study the moon; Children in a Crucible - "An account of the impact of the process of desegregation upon both white and Negro children at the high school in Clinton, TN, which was bombed after twelve Negro children were integrated with the 700 white students two years ago, as described by teacher Margaret Anderson; In Defense of the Politician - by Senator Richard L. Neuberger; 'To Learn and Teach the Truth' - Evaluating the performance of UNESCO; How to Mix a Cocktail Party ; A Painting That Tells Modern Art's Story - A Cezanne masterpiece sold last month for $616,000, exemplifying its soaring prestige; Why Russian Women Work Like Men; End of the Boffolo Texensis; Marks of Office - Photos of interesting items in Washington offices; Visitors to the U.N. headquarters in New York; Great color-photo ad for Rheingold Extra Dry beer features photo of Madelyn Darrow, Miss Rheingold 1958 in motorboat; Classy one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Noel Coward sipping tea in pounding surf; Article on Boy Scouts; Photos of women's fashions for enchanted; Photos of various fashionable home heating stoves; Four photos from the making of "A Night to Remember" about the Titanic; Six photos of the Aga Khan IV at Harvard; The New York Horse Show; and more. 92 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Great cover art of a confused Lineman atop a utility pole; Jergens Lotion ad featuring photos of Esther Williams and Barry Sullivan; The Greatest Three-Cent Show on Earth - The Toronto Star got to be one of the loudest, craziest and most successful papers in the world by unleashing an army of reporters on stories and stunts carefully calculated to please - as well as infurate - some of the people all of the time - article with photos of many famous personalities, by Pierre Berton (part 1 of 2); How Racketeers Sold Entry into Canada - Corrupt Canadian Government Officials and Unscrupulous Travel Agents Have Extorted Thousands of Dollars to Smuggle Italian Immigrants into Canada; The Princess and the Wild One - story by W.O. Mitchell, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Lord Will Take Care of Us - The Hutterites of Alberta - article with photos, including colour photo of Ann Wurtz and her sister Susie Waldner posing with Anne's twins; The Beard - Feature photo-illustrated article on Robertson Davies; Qu'Appelle - The Saskatchewan Valley That Calls; Marie Dressler - Queen of the Movie Queens - a Maclean's Flashback to the Cobourg-born 1931 winner of the best actress Oscar; Chase for Killer Stanley Buckowski - How Detective A.J. (Trigger) Payne tracked the murderer of Alfred Layng, Robert and Gloria McKay, and Helen Edmunds - interesting article with photos; A Secret Manual for Week-End Guests - humour by Eric Nicol, illustrated by Harold Town; Royal Roads Military College ad; Nice colour photo Kodak camera ad; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Peter Whalley Cartoon; Virginia Mayo is featured in an Auto-Lite spark plug ad; The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Motor) is honoured in a colour ad sponsored by O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Murrell Belanger and his Belanger 99 Special and pit crew are featured in a two-colour Champion spark plug ad; Great Coke ad on back cover features attractive young nurse. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Cover: The Camera's "Eye" Looks at Earth From a V-2 Rocket During American Tests. Features include: Our Notebook; A Romantic Find: Two of the Missing Fouquet Miniatures From the Hours of Etienne Chevalier; Book Review: "Portrait of the Dalai Lama": by Sir Charles Bell; Aftermath of War: New Light on German Invasion Plans (inc. maps); The World of Science: Wolves of the Water; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: "Free and Unfettered"? The Rumanian Elections; Dartmoor, One of England's Greatest Playgrounds, Which May be Acquired for Military Training; A National Heritage of Beauty Where Claims of the Public and the Services Conflict; The Price of the Palestine Mandate: British Losses in a New "Reign of Terror"; An Epic Rescue Rivalling Fiction: Crash Victims Rescued by Fieseler Storch from the Swiss Alps; Road and Rail Transport for Their Majesties in South Africa; Inundated Farmland, and Impassable Raods: The Havoc of Storms; Britain A Desolate Waste of Water: Results of Ceaseless Rain; Aluminium Homes By the Thousand, Instead of Bombers: The "Clapham Junction" of a Former Aircraft Factory (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); The Aluminium Home: Produced Every Five Minutes, Erected Inside an Hour, Good for 100 Years of Life; The Long Suffering Public: Scenes in Manchester's Unofficial Bus Strike; Events on Land and Sea Recorded by Camera; Home News in Pictures; A "Fish That Eats Men": Enlarged Photograph of the Deadly Jaws of the Small Piraya (Piranha); and The New British Film "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby". Page 613/614 missing. Page 627/628 loose but present. A worthy reference copy. Book
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