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31 pages. Features: Escape from East Germany - Part 1 - by Gary Hart, as told to Paul Grescoe; "A Better Bet Than Pierre" - Liberal M.P. David Anderson may be the most eligible bachelor in Ottawa; The Quiet Resentment of Joe Zuger, Hamilton Tiger Cat (Ti-Cat) Quarterback; We Finally have a National Arts Centre; Your Name Can Date You; Trapped in the Ghetto - Canada's largest Indian slum in Winnipeg; Doug Wright's Family. Laid in is a 12-page Star Weekly novel entitled "The Short Night" plus a 16 page supplement entitled Star Weekly - Canadian Panorama. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
24 pages. Features: A Letter From India - Allan Hodgson and Patricia Welbourn learn to live with Calcutta; Sevearl pages of beautiful photos of Canada's northlands; How Mexican Police Unearthed the Truth About Two Canadian Archaeologists - Elizabeth F. Snow describes the experience she shared with her husband while on a dig in Mexico; The Girl with the Iron Gut - Karen Magnussen has earned a world championship and a contract of $100,000 a year as a professional figure skater - article with colour photos; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
80 pages. Features: The nuclear dilemma of the Western peoples - part I; My parents were deaf and dumb; The second coming of Morley Callaghan; An interim report on the next Ice Age - research on Heiberg Island; I went back behind the Iron Curtain - Marika Robert's account of her return to Czechoslovakia which she escaped 12 years ago - article with photos; Holiday weekend in San Francisco; The one doctor in four talks back - a warning about M.D.s flogging pills and cure-alls on TV; Montreal's grey-flannel hockey cartel - How Frank Selke's system has brought success to the Montreal Canadiens - with photo of Toe Blake, Selke and a group of players on the ice; You too can have a beautiful body - Ben Weider brings an International Federation of Body Builders' event to Montreal - article with great photos; Nice colour photo ad display's several Kodak cameras; The Spartacus movie receives a glowing review; Colour photo full-page ad for coloured phones - a big innovation back then!; Nice colour ad for the 1961 Dodge Dart; Beautiful colour photo ad for the 1961 Buick shoes a black Electra 225 4-door Riviera Sedan in front of a black office building - Gorgeous!; Foster Hewitt photo as part of ad for Swiss watches; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the1961 Chevrolet Impala Sedan including photos of the Nomad station wagon and the Biscayne; Nice two-page black and white photo ad for TCA (Trans-Canada Airlines) and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a pop (beverage) truck at work; Supita (fiction); Design for a new Dominion - The Rowell-Sirois Report is charged with significance for every individual Canadina living today and for his children and his grandchildren after him - with photo of the Dominion-Provincial Relations Committee; Sam Small's Better Half (fiction); Gerard Cote - Canadian Marathon Champ - article with photo; Twilight for Neville Chamberlain; Check Rein (fiction); Treasure in Iron - article and photos of the Steep Rock Mine near Atikokan, Ontario; Murder Off Stage (fiction); A Century in Steam - the story of the first transatlantic steamship to dock at a Canadian port on June 1st, 1840; Nice full-page ad for RCA Victor audio products; Gifts for the Bride; Full-page Dodge truck ad. Front cover nearly loose. Back cover badly chipped and loose. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 147-246 plus approximately 50 pages of ads, front and back. Contents: The Church and the People; The Adventure of Being Human; The Passing of a Brigadier; Judson Harmon - His Record and His Views; Savings or Efficiency? - second article on home making series; The Woman Spoke - article on native americans with quote by Chief Iron Eye of the Omahas; Art and the Average Man; Teaching Our Soldiers to Shoot - photo-illustrated article; The Story of Karl Witte - first of a series of articles on the progress and training of the child; Yankee Doodle in the style of the classical composers; From Stage Coach to Motor Car - great photo-illustrated article on early motoring. Many wonderful vintage ads including a great one-page ad for Rexall "93" Hair Tonic; Heinz Soup, Post Toasties, 2-page ad for R.M. Owen & Co. / Reo Motor Car Co. featuring Reo the Fifth, Quaker Oats - with photo of Prof. A.P. Anderson "The Man Who Invented Foods Shot From Guns", Educator Crackers, Van Camp's Pork and Beans, Dioxogen, Cheney Silks, Strathmore Paper, Hotel Chamberlin (Virginia), Santa Fe California Limited, Hamburg American Line ad for West Indies Cruise, Pebeco Toothpaste, Ostermoor Mattresses, Mott's Plumbing, The Columbia Buggy Company - featuring the self-starting 1912 Model 68-D, The Buick Model 35, Diamond Tires, American Woolen Company, and many more. Two library ink stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
142 pages. Features: Terry David Mulligan - article and cover photo; Twins of Iron - Kelowna's Patricia and Sylvaiane Puntous are top triathalon racers; Vancouver Fashion; Top Vancouver Realtor Shelley Lederman; and much more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy of this pleasing vintage issue. Magazine
Front cover photo of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, Commanding Second British Army Corps. How Serbia made ready to meet her giant antagonist. Shabatz - the first decisive battle of the war. Photos and illustrations include: Air-raid on the Dusseldorf Zeppelin Shed; Aeroplane with machine gun; Iron Cross Zeppelin crew and a zeppelin stable; Centerfold montage of some of the British officers recognised by Sir John French in his despatches of September 17th and October 8th, 1914; Surrendering Austrian soldiers; Serbia's leading commanders; The Serbian military; a boy Serb in the battle-line; Reservists at Nish, Serbia's temporary capital; and more. Well-worn but binding remains intact. Unmarked. Book
170070256Paris c.1700-05. Nicolas de Fer was the son of Antoine de Fer a Parisian map and print seller. This map from the Atlas Curieux shows the environs of Rome. At the time of publication de Fer was the official cartographer to the French Dauphin but he later became cartographer to both the French and Spanish kings. Size: 290 x 440 mm. Copperplate engraving with later hand colour. Good condition some slight toning and creasing. unknown
170552950Paris. 1705. An attractive map of part of Belgium showing forests and river valleys. 'de Fer's maps are popular despite or maybe because of their rather flamboyant decoration' Moreland & Bannister p130. Title at lower right. Atlas Curieux ou Le Monde. Copper engraving. Fine condition Later colouring. Size: 59 x 22 cm. Moreland and Bannister unknown
171753085Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. Paris 1717. Map of Switzerland with title at top left dedication and scales in lower corners Copper engraving. Fine condition Later colour. Size: 348 x 240 mm. 13½ x 9½ iinches unknown
171053827Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. c.1710. The lower half of this attractive engraving shows a map of the fortifications of Lisbon. The upper half has two views- To the left the 'Palais Royal de Lisbonne' and to the right 'Le Chateau de Belem'. Copper engraving. Fine condition. Uncoloured. Size: 330 x 240 mm. 13 x 9½ inches. unknown
171778864Paris: 1717. Map of the Catholic Low Countries or current day Belgium. Published in "Atlas Curieux ou le Monde". Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Sheet size: 274 x 405 mm Plate size: 216 x 326 mm Very good condition. unknown
ria9781799840961_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; There has been an evolution of the explanations on the results of research on human learning and how digital technologies have supported the design of more efficient learning environments. Previous theories such as Richard Mayer's cogni hardcover
1892R110240521AUGUSTIN CHALLAMEL. 1892. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Coins frottés, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 810 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte et dépliantes. Couverture muette. 2 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes
AUGUSTIN CHALLAMEL. 1892. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Coins frottés. Dos frotté. Intérieur frais. 810 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte et dépliantes. Couverture muette. 2 photos disponibles.
1963ROD0115208FEDERATION AUTONOME DES CADRES DES CHEMINS DE FER. 1963. In-Folio. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 370 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes
1916RO40214583Imprimerie Delmas, Bordeaux. 1916. In-4. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos très frotté, Intérieur frais. 358 pages. Illustré de très nombreux schémas en noir et blanc dans le texte. Titre, tomaison et filets dorés sur le dos. Annotations d'époque en page de garde (ex-libris).. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes
Imprimerie Delmas, Bordeaux. 1916. In-4 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Coins frottés. Dos très frotté. Intérieur frais. 358 pages. Illustré de très nombreux schémas en noir et blanc dans le texte. Titre, tomaison et filets dorés sur le dos. Annotations d'époque en page de garde (ex-libris). 2e édition refondue. Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Midi, Matériel et Traction.
1908R320059808ROUSSEAU ARTHUR. 1908. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 391 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes
1908RO40215477Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger, Paris et Liège. 1908. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 434 pages pour le tome I, 425 pages pour le tome II et 519 pages pour le tome III. Illustré de très nombreux schémas et photo-gravures en noir et blanc, dans le texte et sur planches hors texte. Manques sur les dos. Annotations sur les 1ers plats. Cahiers du tome I se détachant.. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes
Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger, Paris et Liège. 1908. In-4 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos abîmé. Quelques rousseurs. 434 pages pour le tome I, 425 pages pour le tome II et 519 pages pour le tome III. Illustré de très nombreux schémas et photo-gravures en noir et blanc, dans le texte et sur planches hors texte. Manques sur les dos. Annotations sur les 1ers plats. Cahiers du tome I se détachant. (Rare) 2e édition revue et mise à jour. Historique et organisation financière. Construction de la plate-forme. Ouvrages d'art. Voies. Stations. Signaux. Matériel roulant. Taction. Exploitation. Chemins de fer à voie étroite. Tramways.
RO30037294"NON PRECISE. Début XX°. In-8. En feuillets. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 2 plans de 45 x 66 cm en noir et blanc. Le premier représente l ""Carte des lignes à électrifier"", le second représente ""Matériel et Traction"".. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes"
1884R320176299J.Rothschild. 1884. In-8. Broché. A relier, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 795 pages + 584 pages + 752 pages + 1031 pages - plats désolidarisés - déchirures, manque, rousseurs, mouillures sur les plats - dos abîmé, ouvrages désolidarisés - papier jauni - rousseurs à l'intérieur des ouvrages sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture - 2 cartes en couleurs hors texte dépliantes en fin du tome 4 - 2ème plat absent sur le tome 1.. . . . Classification Dewey : 625-Chemins de fer, routes, autoroutes
