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Berlin, Reimar Hobbing, s.d.(anni 30 del secolo XX), in-16, mezza tela editoriale con piatti in cartone figurato, pp. 94, (2). Con 72 illustrazioni in b.n. da foto UFA (acronimo della Universum-Film AG: la casa di produzione cinematografica fondata nel 1917 a Berlino e che ebbe il suo apogeo proprio negli anni '30). Collana "Die Welt im Bild".
in-8°, 220 pp., carte, broche, jaquette illustree. Bel exemplaire. [109B-2]
Mm 235x235 Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta originale, 503 pagine con un ricco corredo di illustrazioni in nero e a colori fuori testo. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
271p. +Plus frontispiece and 32 photographs. 8vo. 220mm. Original publisher's full cloth pictorial binding in green. Cover stamped and lettered in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Corners lightly bumped. spine slightly fading. Sticker from the Norman Remmington Co. on back paste down. A clean, tight binding. Hardbound. Very Good. NW67
8vo., First Edition thus, with 50 full-page coloured facsimiles in the text, page edges browning very slightly else a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Thorburn's classic two-volume edition first appeared in 1920-21. In addition to the wonderful illustrations this edition reproduces Thorburn's original text, adding Attenborough's introduction and a useful update and bibliography by Bishop.
Hong Kong Government Publication, 1980 -In-8 - Cartonnage éditeur avec jaquette illustrée en couleurs - Gardes illustrées - Illustrations en couleurs en texte, certaines PP - 15 Planches couleurs Ht - 224 pages - Très propre
318 pages. References. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Intended to provide a clearer understanding and appreciation of the world of water and create an awareness of the urgent need for accelerated research, planning, development and management programs." - from Preface. Chapters include: The World's Water Supply and Problems; Precipitation and Evapotranspiration; Oceans; Ice Caps and Glaciers; Lakes, Swamps, and Reservoirs; Streams; Water-based Recreation and Wildlife; Conservation; Water Resources Planning, Development, and Management. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1st paperback edition. 8vo, 160 pages, illustrated. Very good condition. 39712. eng
In-8 p., tela editoriale, pp. 388, con alcuni disegni nel testo e 105 ill. in b.n. in tavole fuori testo. Ben conservato.
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; The Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Stories: Beachcomber's Luck; Exploring in Unknown Tibet; Canada's Wildlife Sanctuaries; Falconry in India; The Day that Disappeared; Hank; The Cruise of the Teddy; Hot Oil; Dope (Drug Smuggling in Egypt); Second Mate; Messenger of the Court; The Man with the Harp Once More; The Haunted Island. Above-average wear. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Features include: The Tropic Seas for Trochus - author's experience with the hunters of these sea-molluscs; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County - Part I of the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois; Born Lucky; South Sea Solomon - The disastrous tale of a man with big ideas in the South Seas; The Runaway Steamer - The illegal voyage of a New Zealand river-steamer, the Ruawai, from Helensville to Auckland; Amazon Wonderland - author's experiences with Amazonian wildlife; Corporal Garaba's Return - A remarkable story from West Africa; Bushed - Lost in the Australian outback; Magic or Moonshine - A veteran inspector's puzzling stories of 'black magic' in Africa; Giuliano - Bandit Extraordinary; Close-Up - Peacock's Feathers; The Beehive. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 77pp. A report by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust on the wildlife and conservation of the Suffolk Estuaries.
57pp.with 42 figures, 29cm., in the series "Académie royale de Belgique. Classe des sciences, mémoires, collection in-4o, deuxième série" tome XVI fascicule 5, orig.softcover, pages uncut, VG
In his Zoo in Jersey Gerald Durrell has created something which is far rarer than it should be : a scientific centre for breeding and research which is also a source of entertainment and delight to all who visit it "A Warm, Wise, and Funny Account of His Struggles to Create the Perfect Zoo" 159p. + 16 pages of B & W plates. Remainder mark, else as new Book
In his Zoo in Jersey Gerald Durrell has created something which is far rarer than it should be : a scientific centre for breeding and research which is also a source of entertainment and delight to all who visit it 157p.illus. plates.maps om endpapers. Book
Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs. 217 paginated pages.
Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. "This definitive book contains detailed, authoritative, up-to-the-minute chapters on wildlife shooting, upland gunning, trap and skeet shooting; practical advice on shotgun makes, models, and functions; highly useful chapters on actions, gauges, barrels, loads, chokes, pellets, and ballistics." - dust jacket. 332 pages. Index. Photographic plates. Prior owner's gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Book
Original cloth dark blue boards with gilt lettering, 185 x 245mm., 255pp., 3 maps and 19 photos b/w. Factual presentation of the salient features ans characteristics of the existing individual herds of pedigreed Scotch Shorthorns. Good condition.
Features: Twilight of the great beasts - Africa's wildlife is disappearing - photo of dead rhino and smashed car after collision (large clipping from the first page of this article); A visit with Robert Frost - at 86, the great poet of New England is as perceptive as ever; I call on Perry Como (part 2 of 3) - Perry's candid view of the new generation of singers - and of the songs they sing; First Lady of the Funnies - Dale Messick is the 'mamma' of Brenda Starr; Dreamers on the Payroll - physicist William Thaler and his staff are used by the Navy to 'dream freely' to produce that one idea in fifty which might be useful; The Wondrous Outer Banks of North Carolina; Nice colour ad for the Chrysler Imperial, "America's Most Carefully Built Car." Nice color Cadillac ad. Ad clipped from page 61 - text unaffected. Above-average wear. Book
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 23 cm). In English, Turkmen, and Russian. 355, [15] p., color ills. The red data book of Turkmenistan. Vol. 1: Invertebrate and vertebrate animals.= Türkmenistanin gizil kitabi. Tom. 1: Omurgasiz ve omurgali hayvanlar. The red data book is intended for workers of nature protection services, specialists in the field of botany, zoology and ecology, students and instructors of higher educational establishments, for a wide audience interested in nature and ecological problems as well.
8vo, 254 pages, not illustrated. Light foxing to the page edges. eng