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56 pages. Features: Storyteller Michael Parents; G6 Leaders Meet at Montebello - article with color photos; Ronald Reagan - Commander from Culver City; Clinch River - a Breeder Reactor for Howard Baker; New US policies on immigration; Senators urge William Casey to quit CIA; Daniel Yankelovich predicts new "ethic of commitment"; Prince Charles Weds Lady Diana - feature article with color photos; Precarous Peace Between Israel and P.L.O.; Tough Challenges in Poland; U.S. Favouring China over Taiwan; Pope's Assailant Mehmet Ali Agca gets life; Attack from the right in El Salvador; Hunger strikers lose favour in Northern Ireland; Karl Barth's last letters mix vitriol and compassion; The merits oof multi-billion-dollar mergers; Chrysler turns up a winner under Lee Iococca; Cola wars in Thailand; Iceberg Cool - Theodore Taylor uses ice for air conditioning - on a large scale; Sailing article - "Happiness is a Hobie Cat"; Time Inc. shuts the Washington Star; MADD - growing protest against lenient punishment for drunk drivers; Passing of Carol Fox, Fernand Spaak, Gabriel Hauge and Abram Kardiner; Prehistoric zoo at Archer, Florida okra farm; Steps taken to save the whales; A vote for Egypt's Aswan Dam; Soprano Mirella Freni; Summer Computer Camps replace snakes and frogs; The Pessimistic Vision of the late artist Philip Guston; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice 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.
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
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.
Paris, Victor Palme, 1863. grand In-8 broché de 204 pages. Ouvrage débroché et présentant des rousseurs irréulières.
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, Laboratoires Corbière, 1934 ; petit in-4, broché, 74 pp. Planches en noir dans et hors-texte.
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.
pp. 453-568, 4 pls., 13 figs., bibl. 8vo. Offprint, orig. wrs.
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.
Paris, Payot, Bibliothèque scientifique, 1943. In-8, broché, 216 pp. Avec 46 dessins de l'auteur. Bon ex.
143p., illus. Allabout series 16 Hardcover Very good condition
8vo. Pp. [vi],143,[3], many nice drawings, index. Orig. cloth.
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
Four Volumes bound in two. Illustrated with Eighty-Five full page copperplates. Early manuscript ownership of Sarah B. Roger, 1847 on title pages of Volume One and Volume Three. Light age stain in volumes one and two. Mild damp stain on bottom corner margins of volume three and four. 230 mm. Original full leather bindings, worn. Spines very worn with loss. Front board of volume one detached, other boards very fragile. Hardbound. Fair. Text good. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766), his pastoral poem 'The Deserted Village' (1770), and his plays 'The Good-Natur'd Man' (1768) and 'She Stoops to Conquer' (1771). He is thought to have also written the classic children's tale 'The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes' (1765). First published in 1774 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature' was also extremely popular. This Philadelphia 1845 edition is scarce and complete examples are rarely offered for sale. PAIMP20
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Small date written on front cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of some page. Small chip from fore-edge of back cover. The woman comments; The thankless children; What British Brides can teach us; The Welcome Wagon; Are You Just a Plaything of Nature? (ad for Pinkham's vegetable compound); How Good a Mother Are You?: Her Murders are Profitable - Mary Roberts Rinehard; Mother Hubbard and her Frozen Cupboard; Bernhardt in the Suburbs - the little theater is big business; Pork can poison you; New Lives for the Old; Prevent Sunburn; They Shall Take Up Serpents; The women who walked in danger - Bryant's Station in 1872; Break bad Habits; Leave it to Girls; She raised her boys on morning glories - Ada Belle Pirle; Marriage Faces a Crisis; Hard Water - Household Swindle; Confessions of a Telephone Operator; Blind Pianist Jimmy Osborn; Martha Golm - the doctor who cured herself; Average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
First and only edition, 12mo, [2], 12, [2]pp., disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
Dijon chez A.M. Defay, 1785. Imprimeur de S.A.S. Mgr. Le Prince de Condé et des Etats. In-8 broché sous couverture muette d'attente, 160 + 115 pages. Divisé en 4 parties, savoir : I. Discours préliminaire, II. De la méthode la plus efficace pour le traitement de la morsure des animaux enragés. III. De la méthode de traiter les morsures de vipère, de l'orvet etc. IV. D'un précis sur la nature, la cause, les différences et le traitement de la pustule maligne. Mouillure sur la partie inférieure des deux dernières pages sans gravité.
52 pages. Features: Colour Studebaker ad inside front cover shows their Weasel tracked vehicle in action on a Pacific shore (it appears this vehicle or its engine was made in Windsor, ON); Not Enough To Eat - food shortages loom in the wake of WWII; My Author Husband - by Dorothy Duncan, wife of Hugh MacLennan; Hearts to Let (fiction); Test in Berlin - can Russian and Anglo-Saxons reach a common basis for the peace; What Canadians Don't Know (testing our general knowledge); Whopper! - New York Mayor La Guardia's 550 acre $42 million municipal airport; A Guest for Mary Ellen (fiction); The Liar Hunter, by W.O. Mitchell; Shoplifting in Canada; Snakes Alive!, by Gordon Sinclair on Ryerson Island in Lake Erie; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Mary Elizabeth Graham of "Greenacres", Aylmer to Gustave Eduardo Leguizamon, Chancellor of the Legation of Argentina; Several lovely colour ads; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
