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In 8°, br. edit., pp. XII,408,(4); prima ed., copia molto buona. (a006) (spedizione standard SEMPRE tracciata con raccomandata-piego di libri, eventuale FATTURA da richiedere all'ordine)
Reliure moderne. 316 pages.
DISPONIBILITÀ GARANTITA AL 99%; SPEDIZIONE ENTRO 12 ORE DALL'ORDINE. OTTIME CONDIZIONI, LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. Descrizione bibliografica Titolo: Il peltro Collana: Volume 4 di Elite. Arti e Stili Autore: Nada Boschian Editore: Milano: Fabbri, 1984 Lunghezza: 153 pagine; 20 cm Soggetti: Storia, Metalli, Peltri, Arte, Cultura, Botteghe, Maestri, Leghe, Stagno, Rame, Ottone, Ferro, Piombo, Bronzo, Bismuto, 200 gradi, Temperatura di fusione, Origini, Corporazioni delle arti e dei mestieri, Crogiolo, Smerigliatura, Venezia, Mariegola dei Peltrai, Ossidazione, Miliazia, Lavorazione artistica, Artigianato, Accordi dei Garzoni, Antimonio, Lucentezza, Punzoni, Galvanoplastica, Collezionismo, Argento tibetano, Europa, Germania, Norimberga, Didascalie, Bibliografia, Divulgazione, History, Metals, Pewter, Art, Culture, Workshops, Masters, Alloys, Tin, Copper, Brass, Iron, Lead, Bronze, Bismuth, 200 degrees, Melting Point, Origins, Guilds of arts and crafts, Crucible, Grinding, Venice, Oxidation, Miliazia, Artistic workmanship, Handicrafts, Antimony, Gloss, Punches, Electroplating, Collecting, Tibetan silver, Europe, Germany, Nuremberg, Captions, Bibliography, Disclosure
Very Good French In contemporary red cloth bdg. 3 in 1. 4to (28 x 20 cm). In French. 85, 56, 14 p. 66 protocol documents and Turkish - Russian correspondence. Diplomatic correspondence exchanges between the Imperial Ottoman government and the Imperial Russian Embassy in Constantinople. Considerations concerning the dispute between the Ottoman Empire government and the Russian Empire. With regard to the indemnity to be paid to the Russian subjects for the damage suffered by them during the War of 1877. And includes
Mm 120x195 Edizione in francese / French edition. Collana "Les cahiers de la radicalité" - Brossura editoriale di 94 pagine con alcune illustrazioni in nero fuori testo. Copia in condizioni pari al nuovo, ovvero mai letta. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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
60 pages. Features include: Dieppe - The CBC and the Elusive Truth; "Calling Sarajevo Tower - This is UN 203..."; The first of many - Sgt Jim Kirk was aboard a Wellington, the first bomber of a Canadian Squadron to be shot down, 14 July 1941; Argus - Watchful Guardian; Nicaragua Flashback; Strasser's War - Commander Peter Strasser of the German Naval Airship Service was leader of several raids on England throughout WWI; General Store Publishing; The Iron Curtain is Lifting; Fright in Flight - Author was a WWII RAF Lancaster Pilot; Majaid - Major Air Disaster; Hitching a Ride - Sea King in the Adriatic; 4 Wing Farewell; Big Day for the Alouettes; Flying the PM - by LCol Donald F. Deeprose (Ret); The CF100 - a good old clunker - But!; Operation Firefly; P/O Andrew Mynarski VC; The Mosquito and the Scramble. Address label upon back cover. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Pages 577-660. Lovely color cover art by FM(?) Features: Nice color ad for Wills Sainte Claire, Inc auto inside front cover; Nice illustrated ad for the New Marmon Motor Car Company of Indianapolis - two images with text; full-page black and white Packard automobile ad; Turkey's Coming of Age - photo-illustrated article on how far the new republic is keeping its oath to be civilized and progressive; An Empire Builder of Old Japan - illustrations of Japanese Triptychs collected by Darrell O. Hibbard; Chang and Feng and Wu - photo-illustrated article of the Chinese Political Puzzle into its elementary terms; The Doom-Fraught Sahars - photo-illustrated article on this land where the incessant increase of sand augurs the dying out of plant and animal life; Little Femail "Nanook" - a broken-hearted polar bear tethered outside an Eskimo igloo near Barrow (includes photo of Detroit Arctic Expedition aircraft commanded by G.H. Wilkins - plane on ground with dog team and Eskimos in foreground); Marriage A La Mongole - a wedding where a plate for gifts is passed to guests plied with millet whiskey - photo-illustrated article; J.V. Stalin - Heir of Lenin - an Asiatic, whose iron control of Russia befits his name, which means 'Steel"; Lhasa at Last - a Revelation of Hidden Mysteries and Curious Customs at the Tibetan Capital - photo-illustrated article; "Madam President" in the Chair in India - Sarojini Naidu guides the Indian National Congress; Full page Cadillac ad; Full page illustrated ad for the Chrysler "70"; Lovely full-page color ad for the RCA Radiola; Nice colour ad for Camel cigarettes with July 4th theme; *Fantastic* black and white photo ad for American Leather Producers Inc, featuring interior and exterior photos of a leather upholstered luxury auto with body by Locke and chassis by Rolls-Royce; Nice ad for Canadian Pacific and its Empress of Scotland world cruise; Colour ad for Davey Tree Surgeons; Dollar Steamship Line ad; ad for Bankers Trust travelers checks; Red Star Line ad re: Belgenland world cruise; Very classy colour ad for Lincoln automobiles inside back cover. Color-photo ad for Listerine on back cover promotes its use in the treatment of dandruff. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Partial opening of front cover along spine and chipping to backstrip. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Magazine
30 pages. Features: Cover illustration of "Culchillum, son of the head chief of the Cowitchins", by Paul Kane; The Half-Buried Hatchet, by W.A. Kenyon; Haida Art in Argillite, by S.W.A. Gunn; Indian Trade Silver, by Donald B. Webster; Early Canadian Iron; Tshmishian and Tlingit - northwest coast native art; North Pacific Coast Indians; Early Canadian Kitchen Utensils; Coast Indians produced Matchless Native Art, by Mildred Valley Thornton. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Victoria's Crystal Garden - a landmark in iron and glass; The Art and Science of Josiah Wedgwood; The Canadian National Exhibition 1879-1978; An Unrecorded View on 19th Century Earthenware; The Historic Naval and Military Establishments - Penatanguishene, Ontario; Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald - Painter; Niagara Furniture Makers - IV; Prince Edward Island Silversmiths. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
38 pages. Features: An Iron Man - Carved of Wood; The Masks of Lotschenthal; Yorkarvers Stage Splendid Exhibition; A Message to Fellow Carvers/Sculptors; Exploring Power Carving; Into Michelangelo's Steps; Carving a mantelpiece is fascinating challenge; Robert Miller - Woodcarver Extraordinaire; and more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Dean Martin has the Last Laugh (without Jerry Lewis); The Beast of Belsen and the Dragon Tattoo; The Shrinking Violet - a story for lads with taller sweeties; Sucker in Paradise; Those Brooklyn Indians - 5,000 Mohawks in New York's most famous borough - Iron Workers, Big Chiefs of High Steel Construction; "My Favourite Girl" Photo Contest; The Man Who Married Annie Oakley - Frank Butler; The Great Football Swindle; Chinatown's Bloody Emperor - Fung Jing Toy evaded 200 attempts on his life; The Real-Life Drama of Willie the Actor - Willie Sutton; Yankee Lynch Mob - an angry crowd goes berserk at Port Jervis, New York; A Sight for Tired Eyes - Gale Fagan; Killer Trail of the Glanton Gang. Many nostalgic ads. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
78 pages. Features: Gaffney the Accused; 'Jap Kids Are Our Job'; The Paper Trail; Pride's Castle; Trouble is My Middle Name - article by Rocky Graziano; Mickey Mouse, and How He Grew; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Iron Man (Alben William) Barkley; Truth or Consequences; Our Reeking Halls of Justice (Part 2 of 2); Let's Eat with the Harvey Boys - the Harvey network of Hotels, restaurants and shops; Alice in Wonderland; and more. Nice colour advertisements include: 1949 Mercury auto ad.; De Soto Auto ad; super 2-page centerfold Plymouth ad!. Above-average wear. Some library markings. Covers discreetly reinforced with flexible kraft paper. Binding intact but tender. A particularly interesting and entertaining issue. Book
Features: Fiery Vesuvius; The Peregrine Falcon's Return; Marine Chart Revisions Urged; In the Wake of Typhoon Pamela - survey of the effect on the Guan Reefs; Offshore Migration of Land Birds - Weather Fronts assist long-distance fliights; Meteors; Underwater Archeology - Photogrammetry of artifacts near Bimini; Native Iron in Western Greenland - discovery and interpreation; Semiotics; St. Lucia Expedition - to collect and photograph wildlife. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Have you thought about patio?; the elegance of wrought iron; pests of ornamental plants; Golden wedding; the lady of the rose; flowers through the ages; my garden - the Duchess of Norfolk; The Arundel Floral Carpet; A flower arranger visits Singapore; Cutting material from a very small garden; It's in the pot; summer in the garden; colour it blue; shell scripture; the preservation of roses; the rose as a traditional Chinese brush; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
112 pages. Many excellent black and white photos and diagrams. Articles include: Brunel and the Crystal Palace; Industrial Heritage of the Iron and Steel Industry in the Lower Rhineland; Excavation and Survey at Higher Woodhill Mill, Bury; The Glass Industry Revisited; 'The Name Liveth' - A remote sensing survey to decipher the illegible inscriptions on St. Mary's War Memorial, Nottingham; Coke ovens at Vobster Breach Colliery; Housing the Loom - a comment. Government stamp to title page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Transfer Block; Two for the Men; A Custom Bola; The Art and Science of Automatic Jewelry Finishing; Advantages of Crown Apex Facets; The Sirius Cut; Crafty Craftsmen; From Printer's Box to Coffee Table; Opal Triplets; Polishing on Cast Iron; Agate Near Beaver, Utah; On to the Expo of Gems by way of Oregon; Mission Trails Gem and Mineral Show; Microscopic Inscriptions on Gems; the Sabre-Tooth Cat; Men Wear Jewelry Too. Above-average wear but still a sound reference copy. Date stamp to front cover. Book
Features: Gold, Diamonds and Overhead Electrics - West Rand Consolidated Mines Ltd. - South Africa's last original Narrow Gauge Surface gold Mine Tramway; Mallet Locomotives; Cab Forward - Part 2; Post 1945 Polish Industrial Steam Locomotives - Part 2; Ecuadorian National railways - the last steam-worked Andean railway - Part 2; Notable 2FT Gauge Lines - Estrado do Ferro Perus-Pirapora; The Origins of Narrow Gauge Steam Railways; Back Track. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
72 pages. Magnificent cover art from the Canadian Life Series by A.C. Valentine entitled "The Habitant". Contents: Nice colour Heinz Tomato Ketchup ad inside front cover. Hudson Motor Car Company ad for its Essex model; The Parts Pigs Play, by G.R. Stevens; Canada's Fighting Airmen - Part 3 - Billy Bishop Earns His Second Decoration, by Major George A. Drew; The Tides of Hymen, by Leslie Roberts; Letters of a Woman M.P. - humour by H.F. Gadsby; The St. Lawrence Question - Part 2 - The Dangers of Non-Co-operation - debating the deepening of the St. Lawrence, with photos; Gamblers, by Victor Lauriston; Canada in the Caribbean - our trade efforts in the West Indies, by Harwood Steele, with photos; Gurl's Garters, by Hubert Evans; Give the Girls A Hand - Canadian Women have crashed open the gate of sport, by H.H. Roxborough; Vimy V.C.'s - Another Chapter from the record of the Canadians who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Great War, with photos of Major T.W. MacDowell, V.C., D.S.O., Lieutenant R.G. Combe, V.C.,k Private J.G. Pattison, V.C.; To Love and to Cherish - Part 4, by Constance Travers Sweatman; Nice Chrysler ad featuring the new '75' Royal Sedan; New Dodge Brothers Six car ad; Durant Motors of Canada ad for their "40" De Luxe Sedan; Strombert-Carlson Radio ad; Nice 2-colour ad for Swift's "Silverleaf" brand pure lard; Full-page Canada Dry ad with New Orleans theme; Nice Ford car photo ad promotes the concept of homes having two cars!; Nice Ovaltine ad; 10-minute Salads; Great vintage full-page ad by the Wallaceburg Brass & Iron Mfg. Co. for their Wallrich Shower and Waldorf Sink Faucet; Furniture finishing article; Business and Investments section; Great colour ad for Libby's Pork and Beans inside back cover; Very attractive colour ad for Parker Duofold DeLuxe pens. Address label upon front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Middle page loose but present. Cup ring on back cover. A worthy copy of this marvelous piece of Canadiana. Book
Features: Nice colour ad for the new 1954 Mercury Meteor inside front cover; Nice full-page colour Chrysler ad; My six weeks with the comrades - story and pictures by John Lofft, who went to a 'peace' rally behind the Iron Curtain with a Communist-front group - a bonus-length feature; How Lethbridge licked the drought with 'The Ditch"; Grammar is a waste of time! - by Dr. Rudolf Flesch; Hamilton - the busiest city in Canada - Yousuf Karsh finds Hamilton brimming over with the same kind of energy that won the Grey Cup for its Tiger Cats - includes amazing full-page colour inside the Lifesavers candy plant; Karsh Portrait (in words and photos) of a Hamilton Steelworker - Paratrooper George Marshall; The Fire that wiped out South Porcupine in 1911 - a Maclean's flashback, with photos, of the bush fire that roared down on an isolated mining settlement; The 3-D courtship of Benny Crambo - by John Bonett; Great colour centerfold of a yellow 1954 Star Chief Pontiac. Somewhat above-average wear with openings at each end of cover fold. Address label on front else unmarked. Minor moisture staining to some fore-edges. Book
72 pages. Features: Why We Are Loosing the Cold War - what does it profit America to have the world's biggest bomb if it has forgotten the ideals that made it great?; The Busiest Woman in the World - Kate Aitken keeps 21 secretaries punch drunk with 260,000 letters a year, she makes 600 broadcasts to 5 million listeners, takes tea with the Queen - but she can't knit - article by Gordon Sinclair with photos; Rendezvous in Riga - Part One of the tale of how Bill Cosgrove got his wife Anna from behind the Iron Curtain; The Mighty Saskatchewan River; Maverick Member from Fernie, B.C. - Tom Uphill has parlayed political pranks into a record eight-session term at Victoria; I Tried Suicide; Eggs Are What You Make Them - a fun article by Robert Elliott; The Girl in Stateroom 9 - story by Allan R. Bosworth - illustrated by Jack Bush; Pogo's Pal Kelly - Walt Kelly's swampland satire is the hottest newcomer in the comic strip parade; Tinned Meat and Old Masters - After being swept from Europe by the Nazis Fred Mendel brought jobs and glamour to a startled Saskatoon - article with photos; Exercise is the Bunk - Relax!; Dow Brewery ad honours bus driver Russell Millen of Huntingdon, Quebec who evacuated his school bus before it was struck by a train; Nice colour Chevrolet ad; Little Lulu featured in Kleenex ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover features Coke machine with caption "Host of the Highways". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Features: What about the Comics? - are they good or bad for your children?; Daredevils of Mercy - RCAF rescue crewsfly the most dangerous job in peacetime aviation; Princess Margaret Gets Her Own Way - precocious, giddy and a little spoiled, she intends to enjoy life and be England's best-dressed woman; Bright Angel by Charles Bonner; Maclean's All-Canadian Football Team; The Red Tide Has Turned - has Karl Marx lost the hundred years' war? (short piece); At Summerhill School, the Kids are the Boss; Soldier of the Lord - The Salvation Army's Edith McLean; Ungava strikes it rich - enough iron to keep Canada going for 150 years, and that's just a start; Rhyme nor Reason - by Phyllis Lee Peterson; He was a lonely slave - stories gush from the mind of Thomas P. Kelley; Don't be cruel to your steak - Robert Elliott; Half-page colour Pepsi ad on page 36. Nice colour Lifesavers ad on page 38. Above-average wear. Chunks missing from pages 1-4 - content unaffected. Some water stains. Book
60 pages. Features: Illegal housing in Vancouver; Roy Thomson tries to sell 5-pin bowling in Britain; Bank of Montreal ad inside front cover; Dorris Dodd and her battle against religion in the classroom; McKenzie Porter writes an early column in favour of free-range poultry; Nice colour full-page ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Colour ad for RCA Victor Stereos; Why the Things You Buy Don't Last; Colour full-page ad for Black Magic chocolates; Canada's Final Agonizing Choice on Nuclear Arms - Peter C. Newman article; Twelve Days of Christmas; Yoga Anyone; The Communists are Hard at Play - Marika Robert's astonishing account of the lighter side of life behind the Iron Curtain; The Weirdest Secret Weapon of the War - Geoffrey Pyke sold Winston Churchill a vision of unsinkable carriers made of unmeltable ice; How to Improve Your Ploy - or, How to interview Stephen Potter, who discovered Gamesmanship; Football Weekend - The songs, the parties, the fallings in and out of love - even the fake cannon blast that knocked an old grad down - on the weekend when McGill came to Toronto, ostensibly to play football - by Peter Gzowski; Cartoon by Ab Sens; Canada Packers full-page colour ad featuring Christmas turkey; Two-Page centerfold colour photo ad for Remington Roll-a-matic and Lektronic electric shavers; Colour ad for Kodak cameras; Seagram's V.O. colour ad; Full-page ad for Molson's Canadian; Nice 2-page ad for the Pontiac Tempest; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Black Label Beer; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe Ale inside back cover; Wonderful Coke Santa ad on back cover shows Santa in green armchair having a drink poured for him and his slippers being put on by a group of elves. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound, vintage copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Nice cover art depicts an active school gym; Bagdad on the Thames - London Report by Beverley Baxter; Cigarette Smugglers Beware - Ottawa Report; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; The Riddle of Louis Riel - Maclean's flashback - article with photos, part 1 of 2; South Africa's Ku Klux Klan - the Broederbond believes God made the white man to be boss - article with photos; Blizzard in the Banana Belt, by Farley Mowat - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Vancouver Takes to the Hills - Skiiing in Vancouver - article with colour photos atop Mount Garibaldi and Grouse Mountain; Why I Work for God - The Reverend David S. Duncombe of Holy Trinity Church, Hicksville, Long Island - article with photos; The Shy Midas Behind the Ungava Iron Development - Julles Timmins- article with photos; She Cooked Dinner for the Princess - Maria Colquhoun - she is probably one of Canada's best cooks at Eagle Crest Lodge near Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island - article with photos; How to Catch an Eagle - Winnipeg's Charles Broley is an international authority on banding eagles - article with amazing photos; "All Aboard..." - humor by Eric Nicol, illustrated by l'Amare; Bold colour centerfold ad for the 1952 Pontiac; Classy ad for the 1952 Chrysler cars; 1952 Studebaker ad inside back cover; Book
