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In Modena, Nella stamperia di Giovanni Montanari, 1768, in-4 piccolo, brossura decorata antica (lievi difetti), pp. [8], LXIII, [1]. Interessante pubblicazione che contiene scritti di C. Bonnet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, J. E. Hebenstreit e J. Klein. Prima edizione del testo dello Spallanzani. D. Prandi, Bibliografia di L. Spallanzani, p. 31. Una lieve gora ad una carta, ma bell'esemplare.
Very cute book in green cloth with gilt print at spine, embossed squirrel on cover (!), two lightly bumped corners, light sunning at spine edges. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered, tears at upper and lower spine, sunning, chipping at folds, not price clipped. Previous owner's book plate on front end paper; illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations. Fictional tales based on "actual animals in an actual place," the animals being: the Beetle Rock,The Weasel,The Sierra Grouse, The Chicharee, The Black Bear, The Lizard, The Coyote, The Deer Mouse, The Stellar Jay, The Mule Deer, otter, cutthroat trout, osprey, mosquito, scud, mink, varying hare, merganser, moose, leech, leopard frog, snail, trumpter swan, beaver. ACTUAL first ed., (not a later printing). The words "First Edition" appear on publisher's page with NAP. Wrapped in protective clear cover.
In 16°; pp. 71; brossura editoriale con tassello con titolo applicato al piatto; cucito.<BR>CONDIZIONI BUONE.
46 pages. This special issue contains many outstanding photos from the albums of Victoria photographer F. Dally who visited the Cariboo in 1868. Features: Transportation to the Goldfields; Photos of Barkerville and its pioneers; Famous photos of the Cariboo gold rush by C. Fulton; The Ne'er Do Well Claim; The Prairie Flower Claim; The Forest Rose Claim; The Mucho Oro Claim; The Aurora claim; The Davis Claim; The Quesnel hockey team in 1912; Soda Creek in 1868; Boston Bar in 1863; A mule train crossing the Quesnel River in 1868; The Cottonwood House; Various sternwheelers; Nicaragua Bluff in 1863; Clinton in 1868; Freight outfit departing Ashcroft 18 1898; The Bank of British Columbia at Richfield in 1868; The community of Van Winkle in 1868; A settlement on Mosquito Creek and Richfield in 1868; Camerontown circa 1868; Kellyville on Grouse Creek in 1868; Mrs. Janet Allen and her Mosquito Creek boarding house in 1868; Photo portrait of F.J. Barnard, founder of the famed B.X. Company; Several additional photo portraits of notable local personalities; Local cemetery photos; plus many wonderful ads, some with photos. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Two-page illustrated ad for the Lockheed C-130 Hercules shows its airlift capacity; Marine Corps Reserves; Sikorsky ad shows the HSS-1N at sea; Republic ad shows their Lark helicopter at work; Single Concept - Road to Disaster; Force Artillery - a quick look at the hardware of today and tomorrow; Force Motor Transport - article with truck photos; Seabeas 1961- what they do and how they do it; Force Troops, FMFLant - Mission, Organization, Readiness, Programs to Improve Readiness; Force Troops, FMFPac - Mission, Orgainzation, Readiness; Force Troops FMF Pac Report - Missiles; Aimed Fire - third of three articles on West European fire arms and tactics; Commando Course, RM - Capt Alfred J. Croft recounts his attendance at this rugged British school; Royal Marines, UK; FMF 1965 - proposed organization and major equipment; Nice photo Jeep ad illustrates the M-170 front line ambulance, M-274 mechanical mule and FC-170 12-passenger personnel carrier; Transfers and Promotions; Back cover photo ad for the Kaman Huskie search and rescue helicopter; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Volcanic Eruption on Ambrim Island in the New Hebrides in 1913 - article with spectacular photos; The Mad Mule - a mine mule turns murderer at the Blue Mountain Mine in Butte, Montana; The Mystery of Crowhurst Aylmer - a remarkable romance from 1890 is narrated by a life insurance manager; Whale-Hunting With A Camera - A fascinating account of the work of scientific naturalist-photographer H.J. Shepstone - the first man to secure a complete set of striking photographs of the various species of whales 'at home' in the water, and being harpooned, at a time when they were already facing extinction; An Accessory After the Fact - An English mining engineer's queer experience in Mexico; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part I - J. Campbell Besley and his expedition discover the source of the mighty Amazon high in the mountains of Peru and follow it down to the Atlantic, time and again fighting for their lives against savages and forces of nature; The Buried Treasure - the extraordinary experience of travelling salesman R.D. Morrison in North Carolina; The Hermits of the Alps - The lonely life of herdsmen who take their herds and flocks to high mountain pastures each summer - article with great photos; In Search of Adventure - Part III - The Story of a Chequered Cruise; Fighting a Giant Saw-Fish - James Willoughby describes a monster catch and the battle he put up - article with great photo of the fish, 14.5 feet long; A Capture of Dacoits - an account of an exciting day's work in the Punjab; and more. pp. 6 [ads], 482-576, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Vertol ad inside front cover features photo of HC-1B Chinook in flight; Sensational one-page photo Jeep ad features the M-170 front line ambulance, M-274 Mechanical Mule, and FC-170 12-passenger personnel carrier; Marine Corps Reserve; Permutations of War - WWIII is on, but its dominant form is economic and psychological; Interview with Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller; Missing Link - all-weather terminal guidance for helicopters; Louie Cukela - feature photo-illustrated article; I Remember Gallipoli - the memoirs of a British company officer who was there; Camouflage - a neglected art; Baseplate McGurk; Netherlands Marines; FMF 1965 - proposed organization and major equipment; Transfers and Promotions; Back cover photo ad for the Kaman HU2K-1 Seasprite helicopter performing search and rescue at night; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Un ampio ed esauriente trattato sull' origine, i caratteri e la valutazione del mulo. I diversi tipi di mulo e le loro caratteristiche. Tecnica di produzione di muli. La ferratura, le malattie più frequenti. 23 illustrazioni al fine. Ottimo esemplare Brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 76, in 16°
Mm 175x245 "Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato - Saggi". Catalogo della mostra e Atti del convegno di studi, Archivio di Stato di Salerno, maggio 2009. Brossura editoriale a stampa, sopracoperta originale a colori, ix-340 pagine con illustrazioni in nero nel testo e 16 tavole a colori non comprese nel testo. Libro in stato di nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
98 pages. Fiction: Roman Mosaic; Old Sorority Sister; Stranger Than Truth; Tiger Swamp Campaign; The Spur; Faster Than a Mule. Articles: A Republican suggests solutions for our major problems; Peace Street / Rue de la Paix - The Wall Street of Fashion in Paris - article with photos of Rambaud, Schiaparelli; Billions in the Mud - article and photos of our pacific bases - wrestled from the Japs - which are now monuments of neglect (photos of acres of equipment); Brains in the Ballet; Ted Williams - The World Series and Me; Curare may be a cure for Polio; Pictures in Stones. Ads include: Sheaffer's pens; B.F. Goodrich tires; Seiberling tires; Rensie Watches; Knox men's fashions; Borden's Instant Coffee; Hudson Cars - a very attractive color ad; Firestone tires; Columbia Records - featuring Frank Sinatra; Ford cars; General Motors - featuring image of boy at wooden school desk; Miller beer; Jeep station wagons; Remington shavers; "No Leave No Love" movie ad featuring Van Johnson; Fantastic color photo ad for Caterpillar bulldozers; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring kindly old doctor. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Includes lyrics, guitar chords and piano sheet music for these songs: Along a Texas Trail, An Olden Melody, Call of the Rockies, Dreamy Rocky Mountain Moon, Hills of Idaho, I'm An Old Cowhand, Leanin' On the Ole Top Rail, Li'l Liza Jane, Midnight on the Trail, My Lop-Eared Mule My Broken Down Horse 'N' Me, Roll Along Prairie Moon, Song of the Range, Swinging Along the Blue Ridge Trail, Take Me Back to Col-Ler-Rad-Da Fer To Stay, Texas Star, The Moon is Low, The West, A Nest and You, The Yellow Rose of Texas, Uncle Elmer's Almanac, When I Was a Boy From The Mountains, When the Golden Corn is Waving, and When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain. Unmarked with average wear. Covers holding by one staple. A sound vintage copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
26 pages. Features: Mailbag; Photo and brief write-up of G. Ed. Meade; Nice one-page illustrated fishing tackle ad by Harkley & Haywood Sporting Goods Ltd.; Fishing for Cohoes by the Clock at Little River near Comox; Nice one-page illustrated ad for salmon fishing tackle by Gibbs Tool & Stamping Works Ltd.; Photo of Don Walde and Cliff Hultgren of the Penticton Fish and Game Club; New Transportation Tool - the Jeep!; Chilcotin's Land of Too Much - article with photo of Bob Stewart of Nimpo Lake Lodge and guide Vic Blewett; Columbia River Hydro Development; Clay Chips - article including photo of Harold Woolley, Jack Radford and Jack Wiley, Bill Mills, Ed Kohlman, Ron Hartin, Doug Keer, Wm. Turner, Danny McDonald, Bill Peterson, Les Roblin, Rufe Gibbs, Walter Scott, Herb Sabine, Rod McIndoe, F.W. Clendenning, Jim Couse, Jim Logan, Bud McIntyre, Tom Held, Yvonne Benham, Elton Benham, Ray Yasui and his daughter, Mrs. Bob Giuliana, George Williams, and Ian Kennedy; Quarter-page illustrated ad for the "Pack Mule" mini-bike offered by Fred Deeley Ltd.; Photo of Parksville sportsman Howard Pettigrew with 22-lb steelhead from the Englishman River; Nice illustrated Lucky Lager ad on back cover; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. 132 pages. Many b&w photos.
Features: Taking Mule Deer Along the Peace River; Reloading is Easy; Winter and the Angler; Make Your Own Line Drier; Western Salmon Come East; The Value of a Good Hunting Dog; Today's Wild Hunters; Smell to Success; South Paw Rifle; Camera Hobby Popularity Expands; and more. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Carving with Roger Andre Bourgault; The sky's the limit for Chuck Kubilos; The Idaho Twins - Elaine Allen of Boise and Eileen Schrier of Lowman; Don't Skate on Thin Ice; Paul Luvera retires from totem carving; Carve a little owl neckerchief; Let's Carve a Mule; Carve a Whittler's Poke; I'd like to try woodcarving; Carve a Chow; Stamps honor hand-carved carousels; Many show photos and reports; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Reprint of scarce book - Indian Fighting on the Texas Frontier by Captain John M. Elkins; Apache Tears - Nino Cochise; The Wake of Whiskey Bill; The First War Correspondent, 1846; Treasure rode in the boot; Mysterious trapper Billy Nay; Bill Hickok's girl on the flying trapeze; Alias 'Shooting Star' - a drifter covets a horse; The day the glue pot became a cauldron! - the Seattle fire of 1889; A cavern of gold in New Mexico?; The Army's 'stubborn fact' - the Army mule driver; A hard man to understand - Stephen W. Dorsey; people of the Laramie Plains; Ghost Ferry in Hoodoo Valley - Seneaquoteen Post; Rufus 'Potato' Clark of Denver; Pioneer Child - Nettie Hight Yarbrough; James Case's Last Frontier. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Daniel - Potter Feud... a grim Arkansas frontier recollection of bloodletting whose beginning had no neutral witnesses; Beloved Cowboy, Ben Bird; D. Storms' High Mesa - there was a strange alliance between river refugees and a lawyer few people ever really understood (Stormsville); The Ancient Eel Trail; Mule Meat and Shoe Leather - travails on the 19th Kansas Cavalry; Seeking the Lost Adam; A Frontier Doctor - Part I; Deadwood, South Dakota; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Bloodiest Miles on the Union Pacific - The Indians Nearly Stopped Construction of the Railroadi; Barney Riggs - Man of Violence - he was sent to prison for killing one man and turned loose for killing two!; Butch Cassidy Didn't Do It - The Winnemucca Bank Robbery; Black Widow of Kansas - Nellie Benthusen-Bailey-Reece; Frontier Heartbreak - the story of Darius Athorp and his wife, Harriet - separated forever; Muscatel and a Mule; Mustangs (wild horses) on the Gila River; Last of the Lednhi; Terror in the Night - Bald Knobbers; Sourdough from the Old West - with recipes; Masterton's Militia - a short career for Bat's Brother; Jim White - Boss Hunter; The Christmas Kiss. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Warm Weather Ne'er-do-wells; Get Up, Mule... Please!; Gold Cache at Cedar Hill; End of a Madman's Trail; The Price Was Right; Two Sides of the Green Boys; Battle of the Beard; Trapper Man; From No-Account to Plain Mean; Old Fort Robidoux; Stub's Express; A Different Kind of Race; Deaf Smith Versus Santa Anna; Night of Terror; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Marine Farming; The Absorption Lines of Quasi-Stellar Objects; Auditory illusions and confusions; human embryos in the laboratory; optical interference coatings; rickets; Permanent Magnets; The Mule. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Dad Fairbanks - Desert Man and his Nevada mule teams; Midnight Ride - Black Devil; Those Marrying Earp Men; Bond's Alley - Hillsboro, Texas; "Escorting' sheep from California to Montana; When Klondike Mike Broke Trail with a Dead Man - Tanana Valley, Alaska; The Day General E.S. Godfrey Got Lost; Wild Old Days!; A Dog Called Baldy; Blizzard on Hog Eye Mesa. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Pete Kitchen's Road of Deam Men; Jim Baker - Forgotten Plainsman; Can the Gila Monster Kill?; Trailing the Horse Thieves; Hangman's Hill in South Dakota; Sen-nes or Curly Jim - Diplomat of the Spokanes; The Yocum Silver Dollar; Andy Adams, Author; Death in the Yellowstone; Holdup!; A Cabin on Price River; Buckskin Jim Cutler and his Montana Water Fights; Making Do; Wishart of the Oxcart Brigade; Wild Old Days; The Towns the Ghosts Forgot - Sacramento; Chili Bean the mule; Rosebuds and Whiskey and Whistling Springs; Land of Shalam - one of the world's least known religions. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
