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16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Animals of the Australian Bush; Meet the Grass Family - orchard grass; Nature makes an enchanted isle atop a rock in a garden pool; Our National Scenery in Travel Poster; Nature's Poet Laureate; A doubly floriferous Showy Orchis; Matthew Fontaine Maury's Work Goes On; Goldie, a Chinese Oriole; A life-saving thistle - Evert's thistle; Conservation - what of the closed season?; Conservation and use; Hawks - what they eat; Isle Royale National Park - threat of logging speeds move to preserve this island; A New Defender of the Wilderness - the C.C.C. - Civilian Conservation Corps; For the Duck Record; Cygnus and the Northern Cross. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, India, and Russia in the Middle East; The Angry South, by Ralph McGill; The Family in Modern Drama, by Arthur Miller; Memory (poem), by Theodore Roethke; The Soviet Challenge and American Policy - Danger Unrecognized, by Averell Harriman; Drug for the Major - story by Geoffrey Household; George F. Baker - an Atlantic portrait, by Katherine Anne Porter - episode from a novel in progress; Orchard (poem), by Richard G. Hubler; Faith and History, by Duncan Howlett; Three Aprils and a Poet, by Carl Carmer; Mozart Festivals, by Curtis Cate. Colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whiskey inside from cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
pp. xvi, 504 + Frontis. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams, charts and maps. Japanese language Bookplate and inked ownership. 4to. Original full black cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket, worn with loss. Hardbound. First American Edition. Very Good copy. ORIENT BOX 1
Very Good English Original fine grey-brown cloth bdg. Boards have titled bilingual in Persian and English, with the Iranian Commission for UNESCO logo. Brown endpapers. Large roy. 8vo. (24,5 x 18 cm). In Persian and English, not parallel texts. Text in English pp. i-244; in Persian pp. 1-199. One of a good printing in terms of the accordance of a western and an eastern language. Persian text starts from the right, English one is from left. [xii], [1 blank], 244, 199, 10 p. First Edition, thus. Slightly foxing on edges, a presentation inscription by pen. Overall a very good copy. Abû-Muhammad Muslih al-Dîn bin Abdallâh Shîrâzî, (1193-1292), better known by his pen name Saadi (or, Sadi, Sa'di), was a major Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname "The Master of Speech" or "The Wordsmith" (Ostâd-e soxan) or simply "Master" [Ostad] among Persian scholars. He has been quoted in the Western traditions as well. Bustan has been ranked as one of the 100 greatest books of all time by The Guardian. Bustan [i.e. The Orchard] completed in 1257and it's entirely in verse (epic meter). It consists of stories aptly illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims (justice, liberality, modesty, contentment) and reflections on the behavior of dervishes and their ecstatic practices. Gulistan is mainly in prose and contains stories and personal anecdotes. The text is interspersed with a variety of short poems that contain aphorisms, advice, and humorous reflections, demonstrating Saadi's profound awareness of the absurdity of human existence. The fate of those who depend on the changeable moods of kings is contrasted with the freedom of the dervishes. Saadi is also remembered as a panegyrist and lyricist, the author of a number of odes portraying human experience, and also of particular odes such as the lament on the fall of Baghdad after the Mongol invasion in 1258. His lyrics are found in Ghazaliyat [i.e. Lyrics] and his odes in Qasa'id [i.e. Odes]. He is also known for a number of works in Arabic. George Michael Wickens, (1918-2006), the translator of this edition, was a distinguished Canadian-British Persianist as well as Arabist, translator, and a University lecturer. Wickens was fluent in Persian and Arabic and was one of the pioneering figures of Persian literature in Canada. He translated several masterpieces of Persian literature as Boostan of Sa'di into English. (Source: Wikipedia).
Very Good English Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (19,5 x 13,5 cm). In English, Persian, and Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 26 p. Abû-Muhammad Muslih al-Dîn bin Abdallâh Shîrâzî, (1193-1292), Persian poet and prose writer, widely recognized as one of the greatest masters of the classical literary tradition. His influence is not limited to Persian literature. He also deeply affected Turkish and Urdu literature and the Western world (Encyclopadiae Iranica). Bostan [i.e. the Orchard] and Gulistan [i.e. the Rose Garden], his famous Works, were translated into many languages and commented. Pendname is one of Sa'dî's poetical works. In this ethical-based work, ethical values such as science, justice, consenting to fate, honesty, patience, generosity, modesty, and grace are praised. Bad habits such as talking to ignorant, cruelty, lie, arrogance, and stinginess are badly criticized. The Persian text of Sa'dî's Pendname, it's an English translation, and Ottoman Turkish translation in verse were printed together in the early 20th century. The work is about some moral characteristics that are seen as "acceptable and submissive" in societies and have been recited with the idea of benefiting people. (Source: A BOOK ON ETHICAL LITERATURE: SAADI'S PENDNAME, Melek Dikmen). Major William Henry Carmichael-Smyth, (1780-1861), was a British military officer in the service of the East India Company and an orientalist. In 1797, at the age of seventeen, he was commissioned into the Bengal Artillery. In 1803, the Second Anglo-Maratha War broke out, and he was present at the battles of Aligarh, Delhi, and Laswari. Carmichael-Smyth returned to India in 1810 as a captain and served in the Invasion of Java in 1811. Thereafter he returned to Bengal and went to Callinger as a field engineer where he was mentioned in dispatches for exemplary valor in 1812. He returned to England in 1820 and was elevated to Major in 1821. Not in Özege.; OCLC 50021435, 1065323294.
263 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Tells how to grow perfect fruits using natural methods. The planting and propagation of fruit are discussed in detail. Other topics include the production of various kinds of compost and the value of various forms of mulching. The pruning of fruit trees is described, as is the restoration of an old, neglected orchard." - from dust jacket. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, free endpapers lightly browned; green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. FIRST PUBLICATION IN ENGLISH OF THIS COLLECTION, containing 'The Cherry Orchard', 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Sea-Gull', 'The Bear' and 'The Proposal'. Published as The Plays of Anton Tchehov, Vol. I (but complete in itself), this edition forms part of Constance Garnett's monumental collection of thirteen volumes (1916-1922). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Meister 93.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, signatures on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Designed for both the amateur and commercial grower; illustrated. 125 pages. Full blue cloth boards. 5 1/4"w x 7 1/2"h.
in-12, 10 pp.+ 12 pp. illustrations couleurs, broche, couverture illustree à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire. [HI-5]
