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Approximately 38" x 24". Average wear. Library markings. Allows viewers to realize the tremendous expansion of Toronto which has taken place in the past 50 years or so. Book
79 pages including index and photos. Black and white photos and illustrations. Geological maps (back pocket). Table of contents include stratigraphy of Bullhead Succession (Monteith, Beattie Peaks, Monach, Brenot, and Crassier Group formations), description of localities and sections (French Petroleum Co, Grant Knob, Peace River Canyon, Rainbow Rocks) and economic geology (coal, oil and gas). Somewhat above-average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
90 pages. Features/Articles: Airships - key to Canada's frontiers?; The Exciting First Dirigible Visit to Canada; - the R-100; Raising the Hamilton and Scourge - U.S. Warships sank during war of 1812; Huge warships were built on both sides of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; Young Inuit learn, earn at archeological sites; Old Montreal its old self once again; Wild Orchids - exquisite, irresistible, vulnerable; Fish Habitat re-created in Coquihalla River diversion; The Spectacular dunes of Prince Edward County; New Downtown for the nation's capital - $500 million facelift in Rideau Street area; Folk art on tour - A show organized by the National Museum of Man - From the Heart, Folk Art in Canada; The Lodgepole runaway gas well - the most fearsome natural gas blowout in the history of the Alberta petroleum industry lasted 68 days and affected almost everyone in the province. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Two-inch opening at bottom of cover fold. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the cruise ship Norway; Large photo of the Rangitata inside front cover; Full-page photo of the Good Hope Castle; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; European Ferry Commentary; The British Mexican Petroleum Company and its Standard Oil Tankers after WWI; Where to see the Cruise Ships; With 'Bulwark' to the breakers - a report on the last voyage of the HMS 'Bulwark'; Salute to the Steam Colliers - Part 3; Naval Review; Rotterdam Excursion report - an 'extended day trip to Rotterdam' organised by the Thames Ship Society in April; 'Algerine ' Class Minesweepers - part 4 - Fleet List and History; Nice photo of the reefer ship Breverhaven inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo, 24.5cm. Pp. x,166, 1 double-page map, 40 wood-engraved figs. in text. Orig. printed wrs., uncut. Covers partly browned or foxed and a bit frayed to edges, contents clean and good. - Rare review of the early petroleum industry in the United States. The author was a prominent pioneer in the development of oil industry in Germany.
PARIS, Dunod -1925 - IN-4° - Relié dos cuir noir, plats toilé granité - Figures NB dans le texte - 710 pages - XI & 743 pages - Bon exemplaire
in-4° 598 pp., illustrations et figures, reliure plein cuir noir de l'editeur, dos lisse, titre et tomaison en blanc. Cartonnage leg. sali sinon bel exemplaire. [P-27]
Very Good French Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 17 cm). In French and Turkish. 24 p. Chemins de fer de Bozanti - Alep - Nissibine et prolongements. Livret de la Marche des trains a dater du 26 Mai 1932. Ligne: Haalep - Nissibine - Telziouane & Embranchement Derbesiye - Mardine. Ligne: Halep - Adana & Embranchement Toprak Kale - Alexandrette.= Bozanti - Halep - Nasibin ve temdidatidemiryollari katarlarin hareket cuzdani. 26 Mayis 1932 tarihinden müteberdir. Halep -Nasibin - Telzivan hati ve Derbesiye - Mardin sube hati. Halep - Adana hati ve Toprakkale - Iskenderun sube hati. First and Only Edition. Scarce.
Features: In light of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Barbara Amiel argues that the rabbis are wrong to suggest that debating certain questions is wrong; Turning off the tap of Soviet emigration; Alberta's separatist WCC party; Tough times for unions; Hospital lineups in BC; Troubles with Haitian taxi drivers in Montreal - Serge Veilleux shot; The Iraq Iran war; Geoffrey Prime - tip of an espionage iceberg; Unemployed Irishman finds his way into Queen's bedroom; Namibia - a faltering breakthrough; Trouble on Nicaragua's border; Geoge Schultz - new Secretary of State; Pulitzer Prize winner Fred Sparks bequeathes $30k to the PLO - Jewish lobby opposes; Cover Story - The Future of the PLO; Jamil Hilal of the DFLP - Q&A; Power play splits OPEC; Operation Exodus makes a haul - illegal computer shipments from US to Soviet Union; Bow Valley Industries increases its East Coast oil position; Dome Petroleum and its plan to build a $1.7 billion liquefied Natural Gass (LNG) plant and pipeline in Northern B.C. with terminal at Prince Rupert; Victoria - Maui Yacht race; Sweep Six proves very popular at Vancouver's Exhibition Park - horse racing/betting; Canadian team leaves for second Everest attempt; Another voice stilled - Today Magazine to cease publication - Paul Zimmerman; Homeschool article by Judy Shapiro - parents are battling for the right to educate at home; Rapes getting more violent - countermeasures being taken - Jennifer Isford; Branding cattle for a vacation; 1982 Toyota SR5 Corolla hardtop ad inside back cover. Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Singapore - a paradise haunted by dark fears; Haitians dying in exodus; Giovanni Vigliotto claims to have married 105 women; The Gillespie-Lalonde Affair; Herb Gray and the federal government's blue books; Trudeau the the Belize case; Sick Kids baby deaths - who did it?; German election campaign; Brutal tragedy in Assam, India - Hindu/Moslem violence; The world according to Saudi Arabian oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani; Jack Gallagher's farewell to Dome Petroleum - with additional coverage by Peter C. Newman; Controversial National Film Board films on Acid Rain; Troubled Central America hosts the Pope; Bargain-hunting by Canadian tourists; Herschel Walker and the USFL; Cover story - John le Carre's trail of terror - with colour photos. Average wear. Soiling to front cover. Book
Features: Cover photo of Helmut Schmidt; Bob Jones University - article with photos; Via Rail cutbacks; Hitler's Haunting Last Laugh - Rick Salutin argues against Israel's invasion of Lebanon; Byelection trouble for the federal Liberals - Jennifer Cossitt, and Peter Worthington; Jim Lee becomes PEI Premier; Alberta to sell PWA Airlines; Large gap between Australia's whites and Aborigines; Beirut - article with photos; Theft of gold and platinum from Rustenberg Refinery near Johannesburg; Cover Story - Helmut Schmidt becomes scapegoat for the recession; Germany after Schmidt - Helmut Kohl; the power of Green in Germany; The Brisbane Commonwealth Games; Peter C. Newman on Mitel and Kenneth Cowpland; The debacle of Dome Petroleum; LAV contract for GM Canada; One more push to rescue CANDU; Bendix, Asbestos and WCB; Last edition of L'evangeline of Moncton, N.B.?; Death by extra-strength - Tylenol poisoning; Interesting article on 'A Home-style computer' which looks at the current market - photo of a Dynalogic Hyperon; Jarvis Benoit - a lifelong case of fiddle fever; Otto Rogers - Landscapes of the Soul; Ford Lincoln Continental ad inside back cover; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
253 pages. Index. Footnotes. "Sheds fresh light on this secretive 92-year-old, known simply as K.C., who has emerged victorious over small competitors, faced down multinational oil companies, and battled provincial and federal governments in his drive for weath and power." - from dust jacket. Light wear. Prior owners's details upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. A quality copy. Book
141 pages. Bibliography. Marvelous black and white photos throughout. "From Mom and Pop groceries with their single pump to metropolitan full-service show places, relive the era when uniformed attendants pumped gas, washed windows, and checked the battery, oil and tires; and stations resembled everything from Greek temples to lighthouses... Presents a nostalgic look at gasoline and service stations of the period, through photographs specially selected from the collections of the Library of Congress and the Phillips Petroleum Company Corporate Archives." - from back cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy of this wonderfully nostalgic compilation. Book
grand in 8, (2), 399pp., figures dans le texte, broche, couv. Edition originale Dos renforcé - Bel exemplaire. [CA-11] Claude est l'auteur d'un grand nombre de travaux dont les conséquences pratiques se sont révélées considérables. En 1902, il met au point un procédé industriel de liquéfaction de l'air ; il se sert de l'air liquide pour préparer l'oxygène et l'azote.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 186 pages.
406 p. + Portrait Frontis. Illustrated. Some signatures loose. Original publisher's cloth binding, worn and stained. Wonderful record of the infant days of early Pennsylvania oil. PA 26.
166 + 46 pp., 23cm., br.orig.? Dissertation présentée à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de l'Université de Lausanne pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès sciences commerciales et économiques, cachet au verso de la p.d.t., texte frais, E110305
4 volumes brochés. 239 + 284 + 263 + 278 pages. Manque au dos du volume 1.
Book shows light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior has occasional marginalia in pencil. 145 pages with b&w photos, charts, tables, maps. Sections include: Plankton primer, Studying plankton (stocking , productivity), Plankton hall of fame: phytoplankton, diatoms, dinoflagellates, phytoflagellates, zooplnakton, protozoans, crustacans, rotifers, molluscs, chordates, Sills, Spring bloom, Deep inlets, Food chain structure, Plankton and pollution, Pulp and paper, Petroleum, Heavy elements, Red tides, Marine pastures: hunting, ranching , farming, etc.
New English Paperback. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 63, [5] p., color and b/w ills., 1 folding page. From black trains to high speed trains: 161-year history of Turkish railways, 1856-2017.= Osmanli'dan bugüne kara trenden yüksek hizli trenlere: Türk demiryollarinin 161 yillik öyküsü, 1856-2017.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1936. 4to. mayor; XIX pp., 280 pp. Con 40 gráficos y mapas entre el texto, 15 ilustraciones fotográficas en láminas y 5 planos plegados encartados en la contracubierta. Encuadernación original en tela. Uno de los libros fundamentales para la dura controversia petrolera entre México y los Estados Unidos entre 1917 y 1942, presagiados por el Gran Blow-Out de Dos Bocas, en San Diego de la Mar, en la Huasteca, en 1908, y el consiguiente desarrollo de la Tampico-Tuxpan Golden Line.
256 pages. Glossary. Black and white illustrations. "A vivid mosaic of life in Alberta's Oil Patch as it was 50 years ago. These stories, anecdotes and tall tales are the legends of the Leduc Oilfield" - from page 11. "Compliments of" sticker inside front cover. Light wear. A quality copy. (Please note: possible light cigarette smoke scent) Book
280 pages. Bibliography. "Designed for both the professional and the layman as a basic guide on the practical aspects of the petroleum industry." - from Foreward. Liquid paper atop title page else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Petroleum under the Sea; The Mysterious Grampus; Columbus's first landfall; Columbus's Arawaks - the sea and the Virtuous Savage; The Cormorant that Evolved Backward; The filter anemone; The Leatherback - turtle without a shell; The Bigeye thresher shark. Sound copy. Book
Contents: Westinghouse ad features photo of the new Connecticut Yankee plant; Nice Cadillac color photo ad; Adam Clayton Powell; Photo of RFK preparing speech; Autocide; Group photo of Reagan, Nixon, Romney and Percy; Jim Garrison; Wharlest Jackson; Henry R. Luce; Vietnam War; Riots in Aden; South Korea - hope in the Hermit Kingdom; Nice ad for Chrysler 300; Photo of Beatles in moustaches; Helicopter traffic reporters Ross & Lange; Iraq Petroleum Co.; Photo of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and family; Nice Ford Mustang ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
