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1956023251Sydney, London, Melbourne, Wellington., Angus and Robertson., 1956. Illustrations by Ethel King and the author. Photographs by R. Mackay. 197S. Mit diversen farbigen Abbildungen von Schlangen. Mäßiger Zustand: Einband fleckig (Aufhellungen, vermutlich durch Wasser), im Text mit farbigen Unterstreichungen und teilweise Eintragungen. 8°. Leinen.
256 pages. Black and white frontis portrait of author plus dozens of wonderful black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Topics include: Origin and History of Wild Animal Training, Housekeeping for Wild Animals, The Feeding of Snakes and Elephants, Characteristics of Different Animals, Animal Instinct, How to Capture Whild Animals, How to Teach Wild Animals, The Principles of Training, The Animal Trainer, Guarding against Accidents. School stamps and a variety of pencil jottings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Above-average external wear. 3"x3" ink stain upon front board. Binding and hinges intact. A worthy reading copy of this most interesting work. Book
Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
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
Pages 114-224. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part X; My Baby Leopard - R.H. Summers describes raising the cubs of a large leopardess he shot - with photos; The Peril of Seaman Diver Young - he spent five hours upside-down underwater while attempting to retrieve a torpedo for the H.M.S. Hood; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part 3 of 3 of this excellent photo-illustrated recollection by Robert L. Jefferson; Our Baboon Hunt - South African farmer Mr. Charles Wisbey describes how he battled a serious pest - with photos; A Night to Remember - Edith and Leila become lost in a remote tiger-infested Indian jungle; The Jumping Procession at Echternach, Luxemburg - photo-illustrated article; A Masai Massacre - Missionary Rev. James Houghton and his wife are murdered in Central Africa; Through Pygmy Land - part II of a photo-illustrated account of Albert B. Lloyd and his trip; Entombed in a "Drive" - Australian Louis Anson is trapped deep underground; Venomous Snakes and Their Ways - photo-illustrated article, including Lieut.-Colonel N. Montgomery, who was killed by a Mamba in Zululand; Where Women Never Speak - photo-illustrated article on the Abbe Cestac in southwesst France; A Fight with Wolves on the Altar - Galician Stanislaus Bruhs is attacked by three large wolves in a church!; Dramatic photo of Judge Lynch and black man about to be lynched at Texarkansas; Photo of Persian being treated for opium addiction with milk and a twist; Photo of the Rosary Fete in the city gaol, Manila, Philippines; Photo-illustrated announcement of upcoming article on Charles Neufeld, a prisoner for 12 years in Omdurman; and more. Above-average wear. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: The "White Avengers" - III; A German Venice; Hassoo the Traitor; A Record Trip in the Yoho Valley; The Raiding of Robben Island; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - II; A Bolt from the Blue; Across America on an Automobile; How I became a Lion-Tamer; The Bird-Charmer of Paris; The Strange Story of John Evans; On Foot to Thibet (Tibet) - I; The Stronghold of the Snakes; My Spanish Servants; The Mystery of the Cross-Marked Trail; Sword-Fishing; Caught in a Death-Trap; The Haunted House by the Creek; On Foot to Thibet (Tibet) - II; At Sea with a Lioness; A Railway Race with Robbers; Through the Copland Pass; The Tale of the Tiger-People; The Voyage of the "Vaskapu"; Two Remarkable Walking Competitions; The Story of Vasili the Fisherman; "Up a Tree"; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - III; "Dead or Alive"; In Search of a Treasure Island; The Fairy-Tale Castle; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - III; In the Far North-West - II; The Medicine Wagon; A Wonderer in Asia Minor - II; The "Bandit Hunters" - The Disappearing Islands; The "Mountain Mystery"; A Californian Rabbit-Drive; Two Bachelor Girls in Madeira; A Home in a Tree-Top; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - I; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - III; The Legend of Manaia; The "Boy Police"; Amidst Snow and Swamp in Central Africa - I; Christopher the Bear; The Monkey Gods of India; How We Settled the Tie; The Last Fire-Dance of the Sabobas; The Story of Kusanga; A Training School for Cowboys; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - IV; The Hold-Up at Hugo; On the Trail in Texas and New Mexico - I; Peasants at Play; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - II; An Open-Air School in France; The Grey Scourge; Mistletoe Farming; The Bear and the Barrel; The Hut in the Jungle; The Romance of Seal-Hunting; The Haunted Ferry; A City inside a Palace; What Happened to Ferguson; Christmas in Many Lands; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - III; Amidst Snow and Swamp in Central Africa - II; The Squatter's Cup; Riding on the Sea; On the Trail in Texas and New Mexico - II; Down the Wire; The Alligator Pool; A Race with a Flood; A Maori Wedding; My Debut at Kimberley; The Wild Ponies of Exmoor; The Quest for the "Biggest Bear"; Fun on a Liner; Two Ladies and a Pony-Cart in Central Japan - I; Captured by Filipinos - I;; The Dog-Derby of the Far North; My Turkish Wife; Into Unknown Papua - I; The Strike; The "Servant Problem" in East Africa; A Battle with Ice-Floes. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: In a Submarine in War-Time - Perils and harships; Billy the Kid - Photo-illustrated article on his demise at the hand of Sheriff P.F. Garrett; The Valley of Wonders - The first description and photos ever published of Red Rock Canyon in Southern California; Photo of ostrich-powered cart in Pasadena, California - the ostrich is named 'Black Diamond' and is worth $2k!; The Golden Image; In Quest of Cannibals - part 2 - Exploration and adventure in New Guinea - with interesting photos; Brief photo-illustrated article of an Indian juggler who lifts heavy weights with his eyelids; Snipe-Hunting; A Sapper's Night Out; On Foot Through South America - part 1 - Author tramped the entire terrible length of the Andes, a feat probably never accomplished before - with nice photos; On the Trail of the Big Black Elk - Hunting adventure in the Umpqua Mountains of Oregon; My South African Adventures - part 4 - In Search of Kruger's Millions; Cutting Ships in Halves - Photo-illustrated article on how a difficult transport problem was solved; Desert Flying - part 2 - The difficulties of flying over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Persia; The Saving of Freddie Wilson - The incredible story of how Negro woman Agnes Henderson witnessed the Mexican murder of an American couple, saved their son, and took him to Tampico to return him to his relatives; African Snakes. Unmarked with average wear. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "The White Brother of the Sheik" - Part I - W.B. Seabrook's strange experiences among the nomad Bedouins - the Brethren of the Black Tents - and the weird sects of the Whirling and Howling Dervishes, all on his way to meet Mitkhal Pasha El Fayiz, Sheik of Sheiks of the Beni Sakhr - with photos; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part II - C.V. Warren describes a tea-planter's life in Ceylon; The Blank Space on the Map - A district officer ventures into the unexplored interior of British New Guinea; A Trip to Eskimo-Land - C.V. Tench had a memorable summer vacation steaming 2,000 miles from Waterways, Alberta to Aklavik in the Arctic Circle - with many nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II - The continued amusing account of John Gibbons' tramp from the coast of France to Lourdes; Captured by the Liquor-Pirates - A British ship is seized and its entire cargo stolen by American prohibition-era thugs; In Search of a "Missing Link" - A trip to the Republic of Dominica to observe the world's rarest animal, a strange beast called the Solenodon Paradoxus The Strangest House in the World - "Spirit Home", built by Sarah L. Winchester in the Santa Clara Valley of California - with photos; Mistaken Identity - A Canadian trapper in the Rockies has an unpleasant ordeal; Recalled to Life - Certain castes of Hindus firmly believe that the wandering priests known as Yogis have uncanny powers in connection with snakes which can even restore the dead to life!; Sandy Haggett's Secret Mine - Seeking to retire from the strenuous goldfields to the life of a storekeeper, the author and his brother are soon enmeshed in a puzzling affair. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
90 pages plus 16 pages of nice ads. Features: Our Hunting Trip in Brazil - dealing with giant snakes and jaguars; Photo of Sulphur Bottom Whale leaping out of water to avoid swordfish; Stalked by a Mountain Lion (cougar) - while mining in the Selkirk Mountains near Golden, British Columbia; The Leaf-Wearers of Orissa - great photo-illustrated article on these native people's of India; My Adventure in Sing Sing; Silk Mask Jim - this amazing Chicago criminal, James J. Harrigan, was head of a great thieves trust responsible for over seven hundred robberies in a single year; My Strangest Experience; A Fight on a Mountain Top - the Philippine Constabulary seeks out remnants of Aguinaldo's forces - article with photo; Into the Unknown (part 1) - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea ; The "Pinto" of Great Black Pine Mountain - the life and death of a wonderful wild horse in Southern Idaho; The Lifted Veil - part 5 of the story of two British officer POWs in Turkey who apply Spiritualism to escape; Where No Writ Runs - photo-illustrated article on life in the highlands of Kurdistan; The Ghost of the "Lycaon" - a steamship of the Blue Funnel Line; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing - when policement become criminals; The Rector's Story - a South African clergyman's story; Odds and Ends - photo of Arizona Gila Monster listening to phonograph. Covers beginning to detach from textblock. Average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
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
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn with very faint creasing to upper edge. 256pp. Starting with sections on how amphibians and reptiles have evolved to their present status, the book goes on to describe these species in detail. Very well illustrated in colour.
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
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 232 pages. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. B&W photos throughout. Contents include: Sufi snakes and ladders, dashboard monk, plush cuddly Buddha, squeaky toy laptop Buddha, Lookin' good for Jesus game, Makinah salat fun game, Karma chakra game, Haji Fun game, Kosherland, BuddhaWheel, Bibleopoly, Catholicopoly, Missionary Conquest, etc.
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
1369978Bologne: Ex typographia Clementis Ferronii, 1640 (collophon 1639) in-folio (36 x 23,5 cm), titre, frontispice, (6)-427-(28) index, (2) errata et registrum. Reliure veau d'ép., dos à 6 nerfs, caissons ornés, double filet doré sur les plats, épidermures sur les plats, coiffes et mors restaurés, rares rousseurs et lég. mouillure angulaire aux derniers ff., autrement bon état. "Ex bibliotheca Joann. de Cray doct. med. Monspel". EDITION ORIGNINALE. Très bel ouvrage sur les serpents et d'étonnats dragons imaginaires.
13776P., Ledoux, 1845 ; 3 vol. de texte et 1 atlas, in-8. Demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs, titres et roulettes dorées. 2 ff.-488 pp. - 2 ff.-480 pp. - 2 ff.-427 pp. - 153 planches sur acier coloriées. Rousseurs parfois marquées sur les volumes de texte. Papier un peu jauni pour l'atlas.
19091644Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1909. 1 volume in-4 de [4]-254-[2] pages, plein vélin, dos lisse orné, plat orné au centre d’un médaillon aux armes dorées, titre, auteur et édition en lettres dorée, tête dorée. Accroc au coin supérieur du premier plat.
23597Paris, Payot, 1950. 14 x 22, 319 pp., 122 figures, reliure dos/coins cuir (imitation serpent), bon état (papier légèrement jauni).
183310260London, H. Fisher, son & CO., 1833. 2 volumes in-4 de [4] et [4] pages, suivies des planches auxquelles sont relatives pour chacune 4 pages de texte, numérotées de 1 à 4. Demi-chagrin brun à coins, dos lisses avec encadrement romantique, titre et tomaison dorés, plats de percaline, tranches dorées. Mors, coins et coiffes un peu frottés, quelques rousseurs.
194018356Paris Stock, Les Livres De Nature 1940 In-12 227 pp, jaquette couleur, avec des rousseurs
19331937Paris, Ed. Tallandier, 1933. 1 vol. br. in-4 de 192-[4] pages. En belle condition, non coupé.