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80 pages. Features: Nelson Rockefeller's quest for the Republican Presidential Nomination; Nuclear Test-Ban Debate; The Ku Klux Klan is riding again in Dixie - with a set of tactics borrowed from the Negro protest movement; Blodshed in Bolivia? - communist-led tin miner strike; Integration's Victims - the nation's 133 Negro newspapers may become casualties of integration; The Biggest Pipeline Snakes to the North - Houston to New York; One-page color-photo Budweiser ad features pleasant streamside picnic; Vietnam's Future - "All Bets Are Off"; Back to back years with 7 million cars sold; Tooth Transplants; and much more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
8vo. Pp. [vi],143,[3], many nice drawings, index. Orig. cloth.
143p., illus. Allabout series 16 Hardcover Very good condition
Paris, Payot, Bibliothèque scientifique, 1943. In-8, broché, 216 pp. Avec 46 dessins de l'auteur. Bon ex.
Book is very clean with a little shelf wear to covers only: one crease at back Very slight corner wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 142 pages, about 32 pages in full color on glossy paper, many in large format, the remaineder of this heavily illustrated book in b&w. Blakes pictures are presented on the same page together with the poetry and Biblical passages that inspired them.
pp. 453-568, 4 pls., 13 figs., bibl. 8vo. Offprint, orig. wrs.
Bella incisione colorata a mano del 1825 circa tratta dalla monumentale opera di storia naturale di Buffon, carta spessa. L'incisione rappresenta due specie di serpenti: una vipera e un serpente brasiliano<BR>In buone condizioni, fioriture. TECNICA: Incisione su acciaio colorata AUTORE: Lacepede DIMENSIONI FOGLIO: cm 22x13,5 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 15,5x9 EPOCA: 1825 circa Buffon fu un'esponente del movimento scientifico legato all'illuminismo e le sue teorie influenzarono le generazioni successive di naturalisti in particolare Jean Baptiste Lamarck e Charles Darwin.<BR>Questa è la sua opera più celebre ed è l'"Histoire Naturelle" pubblicata per la prima volta tra il 1749 ed il 1789 in 36 volumi di cui 8 postumi grazie al lavoro di Bernard Lacepede. Buffon espone tutto il sapere dell'epoca nel campo delle scienze naturali e proprio in questo scritto rilevò le somiglianze tra l'uomo e la scimmia e la possibilità di una genealogia comune. Nice engraving of 1825 circa taken from the monumental work of natural history by Buffon, wide paper. The engraving represents ttwo species of snakes: one viper and a Brazil snake. In good conditions, foxings TECHNIQUE: coloured steel engraving AUTHOR: Lacepede LEAF SIZE: cm 22x13,5 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15,5x9 PERIOD: 1825 circa Buffon was an exponent of the scientific movement connected to illuminism and his theories inspired the next generations of naturalists in particular Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.<BR>His most famous work is l'"Histoire Naturelle" published for the first time between 1749 and 1789 in 36 volumes of which 8 are posthumous thanks to the work of Bernard Lacepede. Buffon exposes in the work all the notions in natural history and in this writing in particular underlined the similarity between monkeys and man with a possibility of common genealogy.1
Bella incisione colorata a mano del 1825 circa tratta dalla monumentale opera di storia naturale di Buffon, carta spessa. L'incisione rappresenta due specie di serpenti: La biscia comune e il Cervone (Elaphe quatuorlineata) In buone condizioni, fioriture. TECNICA: Incisione su acciaio colorata AUTORE: Lacepede DIMENSIONI FOGLIO: cm 21,5x13,5 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 15,5x9,5 EPOCA: 1825 circa Buffon fu un'esponente del movimento scientifico legato all'illuminismo e le sue teorie influenzarono le generazioni successive di naturalisti in particolare Jean Baptiste Lamarck e Charles Darwin.<BR>Questa è la sua opera più celebre ed è l'"Histoire Naturelle" pubblicata per la prima volta tra il 1749 ed il 1789 in 36 volumi di cui 8 postumi grazie al lavoro di Bernard Lacepede. Buffon espone tutto il sapere dell'epoca nel campo delle scienze naturali e proprio in questo scritto rilevò le somiglianze tra l'uomo e la scimmia e la possibilità di una genealogia comune.Nice engraving of 1825 circa taken from the monumental work of natural history by Buffon, wide paper.<BR>The engraving represents two species of snakes: common snake and Four lined snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata).In good conditions, foxings. TECHNIQUE: coloured steel engraving AUTHOR: Lacepede LEAF SIZE: cm 21,5x13,5 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15,5x9,5 PERIOD: 1825 circa Buffon was an exponent of the scientific movement connected to illuminism and his theories inspired the next generations of naturalists in particular Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.<BR>His most famous work is l'"Histoire Naturelle" published for the first time between 1749 and 1789 in 36 volumes of which 8 are posthumous thanks to the work of Bernard Lacepede. Buffon exposes in the work all the notions in natural history and in this writing in particular underlined the similarity between monkeys and man with a possibility of common genealogy.
Bella incisione colorata a mano del 1825 circa tratta dalla monumentale opera di storia naturale di Buffon, carta spessa. L'incisione rappresenta tre specie di vipere delle quali una vipera comune, una vipera aspis, una vipera rostrata. In buone condizioni, fioriture. TECNICA: Incisione su acciaio colorata AUTORE: Lacepede DIMENSIONI FOGLIO: cm 22x14 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 15,5x9 EPOCA: 1825 circa Buffon fu un'esponente del movimento scientifico legato all'illuminismo e le sue teorie influenzarono le generazioni successive di naturalisti in particolare Jean Baptiste Lamarck e Charles Darwin.<BR>Questa è la sua opera più celebre ed è l'"Histoire Naturelle" pubblicata per la prima volta tra il 1749 ed il 1789 in 36 volumi di cui 8 postumi grazie al lavoro di Bernard Lacepede. Buffon espone tutto il sapere dell'epoca nel campo delle scienze naturali e proprio in questo scritto rilevò le somiglianze tra l'uomo e la scimmia e la possibilità di una genealogia comune. Nice engraving of 1825 circa taken from the monumental work of natural history by Buffon, wide paper.<BR>The engraving represents three species of snakes: one of them a common viper, an aspis viper, a Rostrata viper. In good conditions, foxings. TECHNIQUE: coloured steel engraving AUTHOR: Lacepede LEAF SIZE: cm 22x13,5 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15,5x9 PERIOD: 1825 circa Buffon was an exponent of the scientific movement connected to illuminism and his theories inspired the next generations of naturalists in particular Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.<BR>His most famous work is l'"Histoire Naturelle" published for the first time between 1749 and 1789 in 36 volumes of which 8 are posthumous thanks to the work of Bernard Lacepede. Buffon exposes in the work all the notions in natural history and in this writing in particular underlined the similarity between monkeys and man with a possibility of common genealogy.
Bella incisione colorata a mano del 1825 circa tratta dalla monumentale opera di storia naturale di Buffon, carta spessa. L'incisione rappresenta due specie di vipere delle quali una vipera ferro di lancia<BR>In buone condizioni, fioriture. TECNICA: Incisione su acciaio colorata AUTORE: Lacepede DIMENSIONI FOGLIO: cm 22x14 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 15,5x9 EPOCA: 1825 circa Buffon fu un'esponente del movimento scientifico legato all'illuminismo e le sue teorie influenzarono le generazioni successive di naturalisti in particolare Jean Baptiste Lamarck e Charles Darwin.<BR>Questa è la sua opera più celebre ed è l'"Histoire Naturelle" pubblicata per la prima volta tra il 1749 ed il 1789 in 36 volumi di cui 8 postumi grazie al lavoro di Bernard Lacepede. Buffon espone tutto il sapere dell'epoca nel campo delle scienze naturali e proprio in questo scritto rilevò le somiglianze tra l'uomo e la scimmia e la possibilità di una genealogia comune. Nice engraving of 1825 circa taken from the monumental work of natural history by Buffon, wide paper.<BR>The engraving represents ttwo species of snakes: one of them lancehead viper.<BR>In good conditions, foxings. TECHNIQUE: coloured steel engraving AUTHOR: Lacepede LEAF SIZE: cm 22x13,5 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15,5x9 PERIOD: 1825 circa Buffon was an exponent of the scientific movement connected to illuminism and his theories inspired the next generations of naturalists in particular Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.<BR>His most famous work is l'"Histoire Naturelle" published for the first time between 1749 and 1789 in 36 volumes of which 8 are posthumous thanks to the work of Bernard Lacepede. Buffon exposes in the work all the notions in natural history and in this writing in particular underlined the similarity between monkeys and man with a possibility of common genealogy.
Bella incisione colorata a mano del 1825 circa tratta dalla monumentale opera di storia naturale di Buffon, carta spessa. L'incisione rappresenta due specie di serpenti dei quali il cobra dagli occhiali o cobra indiano. In buone condizioni, fioriture. TECNICA: Incisione su acciaio colorata AUTORE: Lacepede DIMENSIONI FOGLIO: cm 22x14 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 15,5x9 EPOCA: 1825 circa Buffon fu un'esponente del movimento scientifico legato all'illuminismo e le sue teorie influenzarono le generazioni successive di naturalisti in particolare Jean Baptiste Lamarck e Charles Darwin.<BR>Questa è la sua opera più celebre ed è l'"Histoire Naturelle" pubblicata per la prima volta tra il 1749 ed il 1789 in 36 volumi di cui 8 postumi grazie al lavoro di Bernard Lacepede. Buffon espone tutto il sapere dell'epoca nel campo delle scienze naturali e proprio in questo scritto rilevò le somiglianze tra l'uomo e la scimmia e la possibilità di una genealogia comune. Nice engraving of 1825 circa taken from the monumental work of natural history by Buffon, wide paper.<BR>The engraving represents two species of snakes: one of them the Indian Cobra.<BR>In good conditions, foxings. TECHNIQUE: coloured steel engraving AUTHOR: Lacepede LEAF SIZE: cm 22x13,5 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 15,5x9 PERIOD: 1825 circa Buffon was an exponent of the scientific movement connected to illuminism and his theories inspired the next generations of naturalists in particular Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin.<BR>His most famous work is l'"Histoire Naturelle" published for the first time between 1749 and 1789 in 36 volumes of which 8 are posthumous thanks to the work of Bernard Lacepede. Buffon exposes in the work all the notions in natural history and in this writing in particular underlined the similarity between monkeys and man with a possibility of common genealogy.
Paris, Laboratoires Corbière, 1934 ; petit in-4, broché, 74 pp. Planches en noir dans et hors-texte.
2nd printing. 8vo, 32 pages, illustrated in colour. Illustrated by Ray Keane, name of previous owner on title page in pen. Light creasing to the covers. eng
Paris, Victor Palme, 1863. grand In-8 broché de 204 pages. Ouvrage débroché et présentant des rousseurs irréulières.
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. The contents are very good (+). No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with tape-free black cloth boards with tiny marks to lower front edge and no bumping to corners. Half-title page missing. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with lioght creasing and traces of handling. 122pp. The fascinating array of wildlife and scenery through the changing seasons is captured in Michael Leach's outstanding colour photographs, and his text is an impassioned plea for the preservation of Snowdonia.
xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 255pp. This book provides a combination of stunning photographs and an authoritative yet accessible text describing the astonishing riches and complexity among the crowns of the giant rainforest trees.
111 pages. An awesome collection of blues songs including: All Your Love, Back Door Man, Blues Get Off My Shoulder, Boom Boom, Bring it on Home, Call Me, Can't Hold On Much Longer, Carol, Checkin' Up on my Baby, Close to You, Don't Start Me Talkin', Every Day I Have the Blues, Evil is Going On, Fattening Frogs for Snakes, Goin' Down Slow, Good Morning Little School Girl, Here Tis', I Can't Quit You Baby, I Love the Life I Live, I'd Rather Go Blind, It do me so Good, Killing Floor, Little Queenie, Mellow Down Easy, Mother Earth, Reconsider Baby, The Seventh Son, Sitting on Top of the World, Smokestack Lightnin', So Many Roads, Spoonful, Steppin' Out, The Sun is Shining, Susie-Q, Tell Me, That's All Right, Walking by Myself, Wang Dang Doodle, Who Do You Love, Who's Been Talking, You Shook Me. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening to front cover at base of spine. A worthy copy of this superlative compilation. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of downton Nelson; Bird's-eye photo of Nelson from atop a mountain on north shore of west arm; Kootenay Feature 'The Romance of the 1890s - 8 pages of text and archival photos, including electric street cars in Nelson!; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Cover advert. for Northern Electric Vacuum Cleaner!; Review of growth show steady expansion - 3 pages; Telephoning across Atlantic by AT&T Wireless continued for hours; When the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company issued its own (one call) nickels; B.C. Industrial Review - statistics; Bar graph of # of phones operated from 1906 through 1923; the company's operator school; Issuing of monthly phone bills a work of magnitude - 4 page article with photos; photos of the halibut industry before 'the fish were scarcer in quantities and their habitats more scattered'; William Farrell- an appreciation of the former company president; 7 page article on B.C.'s deep sea fishing industry - great photos - halibut, herring, flounder; multiple photos from the Kootenays of snakes which have climbed up phone poles onto the wires!; photo of 25 year-old phone; Great full-page photo of the CIBC building at Hastings and Granville; 8 page article on the banks of vancouver with excellent photos; First interdepartmental football game; new power plant at Seymour office; A phone in B.C. for every 6 persons; Feature on Dams and the water-powers that turn the wheels of industry - photos of dams and various industries which use electricity, including the American Can factory and grain elevators; new power plant at Seymour office - illustrated; photos of productive farms and ideal homesites with super centerfold luxury Saanich home; Cover photo of U.S. President Harding in Stanley Park; Full-page photos of the U.S.S. Henderson entering the narrows and at dock with President Harding aboard; 13 page illustrated feature on the visit of President Harding - the first visit to Canada made by a President of the United States (President Harding died mere days later on August 2nd in San Francisco and this is reported as well); Photo of Crosland Bros. Farm in Duncan; 9 page illustrated feature on the seed growers of B.C.; photo of Duncan office under construction; Nice 8-page illustrated feature on Haney and area; photographing sound; Exploring Kootenay - Bill Skilling; 9 page illustrated feature on the Delta and Ladner district; Many miles of new long distance circuits; Improved inter-office trunk lines in Vancouver; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of the backstrip which is missing small chips and loose at back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Spine leaning moderately. Book
Features: The First Men on the moon - the ultimate assignment, by John H. Faber; Caucasus Mountain Expedition - a naturlist returns to Central Asia; Sea Bears of the Pribilofs - will they survive human predation?; Saturation Diving - a new frontier of nautical archeology; Exploring Nepal's Rivers - the Talu Beri, Beri and the Karnali; Australia's Lake Eyre - when the rains came; East African Field Trips - students sample ethnic lifeways; Solar Energy - a return to basics; Sea Snakes of Gato Island - an exotic resource of the Philippines. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
74 pages. Features: Kitbashing the Bachmann flatcar and gondola; Acoma Central No. 4; Eliminating rail snakes; Locomotive aging made easy; Installing sound systems; The Marietta & Cincinnati; Working M/U cables; The 7th Annual National Garden Railway Convention. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
98 pages. Features: Double Header; From the Producers of America's Funniest Home Videos; The Myth of the Eternal Beertini; A Folkloric Perspective on the Primal Beginnings of the "Idiot Teens" of Jerry's Corners, New York; Snakes in the Bathroom; Club Hed Ad; Politenessman's Manners of the World; The 1990 Boy Scout Handbook; The Emergency Accountants; The Lost Liebermans - White Headshrinkers of the Amazon!; The National Lampoon Classic Library; Mandela Watch; and more. Some moisture exposure to front cover. Above-average wear. A worthy working copy. Magazine
24 pages. Contents: Venom of Snakes Lends Encouragement to Cure for Disease; How Socialism has Spread Over the Earth in One Century; Too Many Train Wrecks; Blight Hits Elms; Detroit Bank Probe; Admiral Byrd Going South again (with small photo); Split in the German Protestant Church; Lost Canadian Balloon crews found; Death of King Feisal el Husein of Iraq; Cuban Junta Quits with Grau San Martin Provisilnal President; Current Events - with photo of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; Marion Bergeron of West Haven, CT. crowned Miss America 1933; Photo of Norman Thomas, who has been Socialist candidate for President multiple times; Photo of Senator Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin; Capital Chat - with photo of Senators aboard capital monorail subway train; Photo of King Boris III of Bulgaria; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Contents: Managing solid waste; the geometric phase - the behavior of particles in certain quantum-mechanical situation; Plasticity in brain development; Patterned ground; Fertilization in mammals; Soft X-ray lasers; Snakes, blood circulation and gravity; Canal builders of Pre-Inca Peru. Average wear. Book
Features: 'Silent Majorities' and the Vietnam War; The Origin of Galaxies; Genetic Repressors; Computer Displays; How Snakes Move; Neoglaciation; An Archaic Indian Cemetery in Newfoundland; The Clock of the malaria parasite. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
