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32 pages. Features: Cover photo of the King and Queen in horse-drawn carriage on the way to St. Paul's for the Memorial Service of Lord Kitchener; Two-page illustration of Lord Kitchener's Memorial Service in St. Paul's; Five photos of Lord Kitchener's early life from a family album; One page black and white illustration of Colonel Henry Elliott Chevallier Kitchener, Second Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; Four sketches of a great Sea-Fight, including image of the sinking destroyer "Shark"; One-page illustration of the "Shark" firing her last torpedo as she sank in the battle of Jutland; Photos of five men who died with Lord Kitchener - Sir H.F. Donaldson, Brig.-General Wilfred Ellershaw, Mr. L.S. Robertson, Mr. H.J. OL'Beirne, and Captain of H.M.S. "Hampshire", H.J. Savill; Two-page illustration of German light cruiser sinking in the North Sea with British destroyers in background; Two pages with six photos of damage to British light war-ships after the North Sea victory; Two illustrations of the opening encounters of the naval battle, 31 May, 3:30pm; One-page memorial photo portrait of Field-Marshal Early Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, K.G., etc.; Two pages with nine photos illustrating Lord Kitchener and the armies raised by the magic of his name; Two pages with seven photos illustrating Lord Kitchener as Secretary of State for War, the last phase of his great career; Photo of Lord Kitchener visiting wounded Indian soldiers; Photo of Lord Kitchener visiting the wounded V.C., Subadar Mir Dast; Page with seven photos of Lord Kitchener with French, Russian and Italian allies; Center page includes nine photos of Lord Kitchener at the Dardanelles, visiting Gallipoli to consider the question of evacuation; Brief article on automobiles and 24-hour distance records; Several pages of charming vintage ads. Please note: Extra-heavy wear to this copy, particularly the last leaf which is missing the ads on its lower third. Center page loose but present. Outer page holding by one staple. A worthy copy of this special WWI isssue dominated by content on Lord Kitchener. Book
58 pages. Features: Nice color ad for General Electric radios inside front cover; Hudson Essex car ad shows mother dropping kids at school; Nice full-page ad for Mimeograph; They'll Come Shooting (short story); Power and Glory - the gutsy story of Boies Penrose, one of the most prodigious figures in American political life - article with photos; Wild Geese (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Naughty Girl - Lenore Ulric serves allure in generous portions - article with photos; The Meanest Beast - battle between black leopard and shark; The Road Back (part VI of short story); You Couldn't Hate Patrick (short story); Thoughts that Win - Advice by champion golfer Jerome D. Travers - article with photo; Nice full-page color ad for Seald Sweet grapefruits; Full-page ad for Canada Dry ginger ales; The Scotty Dog (short story); Fantastic centerfold two-colour ad for Colorado tourism; Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad full-page ad; Full-page ad for Philco radios features photos of Gary Cooper; Nice Chrysler ad; Full-page Fleischmann's Yeast ad encourages readers to eat three cakes per day (!); Back page article on prohibition; Attractive color Ford ad inside back cover shows doctor making housecall in the evening snow; Color Ipana ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
192862657Ohne Ort, ohne Verlag bzw. Drucker, o. J. (Nachdruck der Ausgabe Heidenau, Freya, 1928ff.). Kl.-8°. Illustr.-OHefte.
100951Paris, Georges Rapilly Editeur, 1903,1 volume de 220x320 mm environ, in-4, xvi-304 pages, broché. Orné de 15 planches dont 7 en couleurs. Edition originale. Couverture un peu salie, une petite étiquette contecollée au bas du dos, quelques rousseurs éparses, sinon bel exemplaire, en bon état, pages non coupées (jamais lu)..
194862662Wien, Maximilian Kraemer, o. J. (1948ff). 8°. Je Heft 48 S., Illustr.-OHefte.
2022x-1032383860Routledge 2022. Hardcover. New. 2nd edition. 528 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.31 inches. Routledge hardcover
1753QJZ-18A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1753 (il s’agit ici de la rare première édition, à ne pas confondre avec l’édition d’Amsterdam petit format publiée en 1757) ; 1 volume de 24,7 × 18,7 cm environ, [viii] (titre, table, errata) + 192 + 560 pp., (1) f.; vignettes et 18 planches dépliantes hors-texte (numérotées 1 à 13, 13*, 14 à 17) ; reliure plein veau raciné, dos à 5 nerfs portant titres et tomaisons dorés, pièces de titre en maroquin bordeaux, caissons à fleurons et feuillages dorés aux entre-nerfs, tranches rouges, gardes marbrées (reliure d’époque). Coins émoussées, rousseurs éparses, coiffe manquante, bon état pour le reste - Contient notamment un intéressant article, accompagné de 3 planches sur les dents de requins, intitulé « Recherches sur les usages du grand nombre de dents du Canis carcharias » par François David Hérissant (1714, Rouen – 1773, Paris), médecin, anatomiste, professeur de la Faculté de médecine de Paris, membre de lAcadémie royale des sciences. Contient également de nombreux autres articles sur la météorologie, la physique, l’électricité, l’astronomie, les maladies épidémiques de 1749, les techniques de filage de la soie des cocons, l’entomologie, la botanique et l’anatomie - Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1753 (rare first edition, not be confused with the small format Amsterdam edition of 1757). [viii] + 192 + 560 pp., 18 folded engraved plates (numbered 1 to 13, 13*, 14 to 17), several vignettes, contemporary full marbled calf, gold tooled spine, marbled end paper, leather at head of spine missing, few foxing otherwise tight binding, overall good condition. The volume contains in particular an interesting article on shark teeth (with 3 plates), entitled "Research on the uses of the large number of teeth of the Canis carcharias" by François David Hérissant (1714, Rouen - 1773, Paris), physician, anatomist, professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. It also contains many other articles on meteorology, physics, electricity, astronomy, epidemic diseases, techniques for spinning silk from cocoons, entomology, botany and anatomy.
190323255Paris, Rapilly, 1903 In-4 de XVI-304 pp., demi maroquin, couvertures et dos conservés, tête dorée. (Reliure signée Lavaux).
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1992110595Chalcombe Publications 1992. second edition very slight cul to top cover corner. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chalcombe Publications Paperback
Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
182046405010Rouen, Émile Périaux, (vers 1820) ; 32 x 44 cm., Double canard dont les deux sujets sont séparés par un double filet. La partie supérieure porte une notice imprimée sur une colonne sur la vie des habitants du Kamtchatka, elle est illustrée d'une gravure sur bois rehaussée d'aquarelle rouge et jaune, montrant les Kamtschadales en compagnie de leurs chiens. Le second canard concerne le requin, texte sur 3 colonnes illustration en noir. Pas dans Hélot, semble manquer à toutes les collections. Provient de la collection P. L. Duchartre (cachet au dos). Quelques fentes réparées au dos, petites taches et rousseurs.
1917SKU1005379Devambez. Fair. 1917. Hardcover. Only 36 of the 40 illustrations present. Blue buckram boards rubbed and soiled edge worn. Plain spine red leather label to front cover. Limited to 275 on velin Hollande signed by artist and Lt. Col Requin. Also a presentation copy to Mr. Ch. Haskins signed Paris 24 Juin 1920. Paper toned and browing. . Devambez hardcover
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
11664MAUERHARDT ROLF. 1. softcover. Maloftege! MAUERHARDT, ROLF paperback
1952QJZ-2In 4° (27 × 21,5 cm) ; [ii] + 396 pp. + 1 feuille volante d’errata, 46 planches ; publié par le Protectorat de la République française au Maroc, direction de la production industrielle et des mines, division des mines et de la géologie, service géologique, Notes et Mémoires n° 92. Couverture originale imprimée, coin inférieur droit cogné. Bon état - In 4° (27 × 21.5 cm); [ii] + 396 pp. + 1 errata slip laid in, 46 plates; published by the Protectorat de la République française au Maroc, direction de la production industrielle et des mines, division des mines et de la géologie, service géologique, Notes et Mémoires n° 92. Stiff wrappers, lower right corner bumped. Overall good condition.
ORD-9026Tome 1er (seul paru). Orné de 15 planches dont 7 en couleurs d'après les dessins de M. Ed. Garnier, Conservateur du Musée de Sèvres. Paris. Georges Rapilly. 1903. Gd in-8 (228 x 318mm) dos chagrin brun à 5 nerfs, orné de fleurons or, gardes mouchetées, couverture imprimée en rouge et noir conservée, XVI, 304 pages. Qq. rousseurs claires par endroits, traces noires en queue avec petite perte à la coiffe inférieure, menus défauts mais plutôt bon exemplaire.
1906QJZ-1Grand in 4° (32,7 × 25 cm) ; 430 pp., 17 pl. (dont plusieurs sur doubles pages) ; Bien complet. Couverture souple et dos imprimée, quelques fentes aux dos, petit manque de papier en pied du dos, anciens tampons de bibliothèque sur la couverture sinon aucune autre marque à l'intérieur, intérieur frais. - Large in 4° (32.7 × 25 cm); 430 pp., 17 pl. (many double pages); complete. Original printed wrappers, small cracks on spine, small loss of paper at foot of spine, library stamps on front cover only (no other mark inside); inside clean and fresh.
194862754Wien, Maximilian Kraemer, Albert Kaltschmid bzw. Verlag Pollischansky, o. J. (1948ff). 8°. Je Heft 48 S., Illustr.-OHefte.
191711494Paris: Devambez 1917. Cloth. Very Good . E. Requin. Very impressive --and uncommon-- artist's sketchbook of life on the front lines during World War I. #263 OF ONLY 275 COPIES ISSUED "sur velin hollande" EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST E. REQUIN on the limitation. Tight solid and VG in its light-blue cloth with gilt-lettered title label to the front panel. Minor soiling along the front panel's fore-edge armorial bookplate to the front pastedown and small former owner name same person to the front free endpaper. 40 remarkable watercolors and aquatints by E. Requin of seemingly every nationality and ethnicity of soldier drawn into the conflict. Mostly portraits to be sure but also several landscapes of barren or even charred earth. High-quality reproductions of first-rate sketches from the front lines. Devambez unknown
191711494Paris: Devambez 1917. Cloth. Very Good . E. Requin. Very impressive --and uncommon-- artist's sketchbook of life on the front lines during World War I. #263 OF ONLY 275 COPIES ISSUED "sur velin hollande" EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST E. REQUIN on the limitation. Tight solid and VG in its light-blue cloth with gilt-lettered title label to the front panel. Minor soiling along the front panel's fore-edge armorial bookplate to the front pastedown and small former owner name same person to the front free endpaper. 40 remarkable watercolors and aquatints by E. Requin of seemingly every nationality and ethnicity of soldier drawn into the conflict. Mostly portraits to be sure but also several landscapes of barren or even charred earth. High-quality reproductions of first-rate sketches from the front lines. <br/><br/> Devambez hardcover books
191419782Torino, S. Lattes (Pietro Celanza tipografi), 1914 ; in 8, demi veau aubergine, dos à nerfs, titre doré (reliure de l’époque); 314 pp. [3]ff : Finito di stampare, catalogue de S. Lattes, le dernier blanc.
2012103290Gingko Press Distribution. New. 2012. Hardcover. 1937222101 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 96 pages; well illustrated. -- with a bonus offer-- . Gingko Press (Distribution) hardcover
