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SERPENTS & WEREWOLVES Stories of Animal Shape-Shifters from Around the WorldBiblio.com

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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1923 Through December 1923

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

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[Snakes] Schlegel HBiblio.com

ESSAY ON THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF SERPENTS. Translated by Thos. Stewart Traill M.D.

184333383Edinburgh: Maclachlan Stewart and Company 1843. VERY RARE First Edition in English from the almost as scarce French edition of 1837 printed in the Netherlands. With large fold-out map of the world showing the distribution of venomous snakes in seven colours and with two plates showing the heads of herpetodryas carinatus. 8vo in the publisher's original brown cloth the covers with panel designs in blind the spine ruled in blind and gilt lettered. vii 254pp 2 plates 1pp. errata. A very rare survival in very pleasing and fresh condition the text is nearly pristine the folding map and plates also in fine condition front endpaper slightly creased and with neat ownership marking of Dr. George Fair the hinges strong with no splitting to the paper the brown cloth is a bit mellowed and shows some fairly minor age at the tips and corners but is still quite attractive with bright gilt. VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION AND IN ORIGINAL BINDING UNRESTORED. VERY RARE WE KNOW OF ONLY ONE OTHER COPY RECENTLY IN COMMERCE AND WORLD CAT LISTS THE NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER OF THE NETHERLANDS AS HAVING THE ONLY COPY IN INSTITUTION COLLECTIONS. Hermann Schlegel was a noted herpetologist of German origin who was a times both the Director of the Natural History Museum in Leyden and correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. The English naturalist Charles Darwin knew of Schlegel's reputation from his close friend the British botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker.<br> No fewer that four snakes are named for Schlegel: Bothriechis Schlegelii the Eyelash Pit Viper; Calamaria Schlegeli the Red-Headed Reed Snake; Aspidomorphus Schlegelii Schlegel's Adder; and Afrotyphlops Schlegeliii the Beaked Blind Snake. Several species of reptiles amphibians and birds are named for him as well. Maclachlan, Stewart, and Company hardcover

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 326,78 €

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A HISTORY OF THE EARTH, AND ANIMATED NATURE. Illustrated With Eighty-Five Copperplates. A New Edition, With Corrections And Alterations. In Four Volumes. (Bound in Two Volumes).

A Look Around Snakes

All About Snakes

All about snakes. Illustrated by Rudolf Freund.

All Top Hits - Recorded By Today's Top Stars: Words, Music, Guitar Chords

Anfibi e Rettili : Vol. 1.

British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1923 Through December 1923

Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution Vol. 1

Contribution à l'Herpétologie < Herpétologie > de la Région des Grands Lacs de l'Afrique centrale. I. Généralités. II. Chéloniens. III. Ophidiens. < Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge >.

CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY. First Series.

De venenis et antidotis prolegomena... In quibus diffinitiva methodus venenorum proponitur per genera, ac differentias suas... De canis rabiosi morsu, et eius curatione

Destruction of Life by Snakes Hydrophobia etc. in Western India. By an ex-commissioner

Die Giftschlangen Europas und die Gattung Vipera in Afrika und Asien. Peter Brodmann

Die Lurche und Kriechtiere des Rhein-Main-Gebietes. Herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Frankfurt am Main.

Een en ander over gifslangen en slangengif.

Einheimische Schlangen.

Enzyklopädie der Schlangen. Aus dem Englischen (The New Encyclopedia of Snakes; London, 2007) von Michael Lohmann, unter Beratung von Wolfgang Böhme.

ESSAY ON THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF SERPENTS. Translated by Thos. Stewart Traill M.D.

Exlibris für Dr. Bruno O. Pribram. Motiv: Um Initiale "P" gewundene Äskulap-Natter

Exlibris für Dr. Hans-Joachim Bandilla. Motiv: Drei weibliche Akte. Unten rechts Schlange. Signiert

Exlibris für Lore Mühlhäuser. Motiv: Kinder-Aktpaar gemeinsam einen Stab mit Schlange haltend

Exlibris für Michel Deisenhofer. Motiv: In Laube sitzende Lesende mit großem Buch, links große Schlange, unten Kaninchen

Exlibris. Exbibliotheca Doctoris H. Singer. Motiv: Blumenblüte und Schlange. Signiert

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