‎Batiments‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1927 Through December 1927‎

‎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: Miss K. Perrin joins as health supervisor; New West office upgraded - super photos; New York Engineer describes latest developments i.e. transmitting photos over phone lines; the truth about instrument zoning; Excitement at Duncan office; Diary describes observations on Chilliwack line; New cable successfully laid from Galiano Island to Point Grey - 9 pages of text and good photos; New Trans-Gulf circuits opened; sleeping car reservations by phone; Joe Gagnon; Phone expansion in Bay store; Seymour remodeling complete; Operating room photos; Coal, Travelling Men and Toll Lines Feature Nanaimo; High Poles removed from Seymour St. - 6 pages of text and great photos; Miss E.R. Walker - manages traffic on Vancouver Island; Cobble Hill Exchange; photo of updated Ladysmith office; Coast now linked with Okanagan by phone; Miss A. Falconer of the Port Coquitlam office; Successful Canadian jubilee broadcast from Ottawa; Photo of Chemainus Office; Royal Alexandra Apartments Fire - phones used from burning buildings by reporters; Company will have its own line to Vernon; Photo of public phones/'Pay Stations'; Photo of Belmont office near Victoria; Table of phones in use per province in Canada; Six pages of info. and great photos re: Kootenay; Battling Storm King; Mexico City can now communicate with Vancouver; Direct cable to be laid to West Vancouver; Article on poles; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Substantial wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, May/June 1975, Vol. 10 No. 3 *SPECIAL NEW BRUNSWICK ISSUE*‎

‎Features: New Brunswick Heritage; Biographical Studies in New Brunswick; New Brunswick Indian Crafts; Acadian Village - Preservation of a Heritage (bilingual); Early Silversmiths; Two New Brunswick Furniture Craftsmen - Thomas Nisbet and Alexander Lawrence; New Brunswick Before History; Architecture in New Brunswick - an Historical Survey; Of Ships and Shipbuilders; Heritage Under the Sea; Some Historic Buildings; The Acadian Museum of the University of Moncton (bilingual); Kings Landing; Stone Church - St. John's; George Neilson Smith - The Artist in New Brunswick; The Best of Pine and Maple; The Town of St. Andrews; A New Brunswick Contribution to Canadian Potting - Courtenay Bay Pottery; Capturing Canada's Past - The J.C. Webster Collection; The Creek and the Corner - a History of Woodstock, N.B.; New Brunswich Artists - a rapid glance at 18th, 19th and 20th century painting; Museums and Historic Sites. Date hand-written on front cover. Details blacked out on address label atop back cover. Average wear. Moisture exposure has resulted in gentle undulations to most pages, otherwise a sound copy of this very informative issue. Magazine‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, May/June 1976, Vol. 11 No. 3‎

‎119 pages. Features: Studying British Columbia - A Recent Burgeoning; The Indians of the Northwest Coast; Discovering Totem Poles; Cook at Nootka - The Engraved Record; Preserving a Precious Heritage - The Totem Pole; An Interview with Bill Reid; Fort St. James; The Royal Engineers in British Columbia; The Restoration of Historic Barkerville; The Architecture of Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury; The Restoration of British Columbia's Parliament Buildings; British Columbia Painters; A Chinese Herbalist in British Columbia; Artifacts of British Columbia Technology; Domestic Interiors; Two B.C. Samplers - Susan Irving and Mary Irving; Early Banks, Coins and Stamps of British Columbia; Restoring Victoria; Conserving Vancouver; Heraldic Stained Glass in Vancouver; Mission Churches; Maritime Legacy; The Crystal Glass Company - British Columbia's First Glass Factory; Chinese Decorative Art in British Columbia; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Concrete and Constructional Engineering Including Prestressed Concrete: Volume LX (60) - Containing All Issues from 1965‎

‎470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Topics include: Some New Concrete Bridges; Stithians Dam; Cruachan Dam; Prestressed Precast Concrete Construction at Cardiff; A Calculator for Concrete Mixes; Motorway M6 - Preston/Lancaster Section; New Equipment for Concrete Road Construction; Piccadilly Plaza Building Manchester; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessel for Wylfa Nuclear Power Station; Building Constructed over a Railway Tunnel; Large Cooling-water Chambers at Tilbury; Sewage Works, Dalmarnock; Sewage Works, Godstone; Restrained Ribbed Slabs with Distribution Ribs; Library and Swimming Baths, Hampstead; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - I; Early Concrete Buildings in Britain; Precast Construction of Asbestos-cement pipe factory, Eire; A Precast Concrete Fire-drill Tower; A Cantilevered Concrete Grandstand - Coventry City Football Club; Pierced Shear-Walls - I; Modern Designs for Prestressed Concrete Bridges; Stockbury Viaduct; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - Parts II and III; Oil-Tanker Jetty at Milford Haven; Repairs to Piles in Sea-water; Market Hall, Wakefield; Pierced Shear-Walls - II; Developments in Formwork for concrete structures; Air-Permeability of Concrete; A simplified Method of Analysing Free-standing Stairs; Pierced-Shell-Walls - III; Recent Lightweight-Concrete Structures; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessels; Research on Concrete Structures in Nuclear Engineering; Stresses in Wide-Flanged T-beams; Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Town Hall Extension, Ealing; Foundations and Other Construction Below Ground; The G.P.O. Tower during construction; The Design of the G.P.O. Tower, London; Data for Load-Factor Design of Beams and Slabs; The Interaction of Parallel Frames; A Pioneer of Concrete - George Semple of Dublin; Fatigue Behaviour of High-Yield Steel Reinforcement; A Computer Programme for the Analysis of the Effects of Torsion; Design of Continuous Concrete Slabs Supported on Steel Beams; Concrete Roads in Nigeria; Economic Design by the Ultimate-Load Method - Parts I, II and II; Cracking of Slabs Spanning in Two Directions; Design of Bow Bridge Intersection; Membrane Analysis of Parabolic Conoids; Concrete Dam in Yorkshire - The Thruscross Dam; A Code for Structural Lightweight-aggregate Concrete; A New Gauge for the Measurement of Internal Strains in Concrete; Circular Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Recent construction of silos; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Garden Railways Magazine, November-December 1993‎

‎126 pages. Features: The very first garden railways; The J.B. Railroad; Kitbashing Bachmann's O-4-0T; Weathering with Chalk; Getting Started in Garden Railroading - Part 8; Build a Smith/Crane car; The Colorado Midland; An inexpensive Feedwater Pump; A New England garden raiilway; Garden railway-assisted therapy; Crates for Loading Docks; Weathering and detailing plastic buildings; Lighting for Outdoor Railroads; Garden Railways - Past, Present, and Future. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Heritage, Spring 2001: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation‎

‎Features: Mennonite Architecture in Waterloo; Plain Old Heritage - the challenge of protecting old order Amish and Mennonite Landscapes; Looking for a positive outcome for the York Cinema; Fort Henry breaking down; Fire Protection of Seasonal Heritage Structures; Markham's Proud Heritage; Calgary Youth adopt buildings; The St. Roch II - makes a voyage of rediscovery; Harpist buys Stratford Public School; and more. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Heritage, Summer 1999: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation‎

‎Features: A view from St. John's - heritage conservation and cultural landscape; Fogo Island - last chance for authentic outport culture; Bonavista; Heritage Precinct or Parking Lot - options for a gateway to Canada's National Captain; Fund-Raising for Heritage Buildings - The Saint George's Experience; The Henry Ruckle Farm on Saltspring Island; U.S. introduces Historic Homeownership Assistance Act; Nova Scotians want lighthouses protected by legislation; Gabrielle Roy's House needs donations; Curtain rises again on Montreal's Corona Theatre. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Proceedings of New Life for Old Buildings - A British Columbia and Yukon Heritage Conference: February 10-12, 1977 Vancouver B.C.‎

‎225 pages. Unmarked. Average wear. Includes useful reference and other material. Solid copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎The Winnipeg Tribune - Weekend Magazine, March 10, 1962‎

‎39 pages. Features: My holiday ended in a red jail - Milorad Cop went to see his son in Prague and was accused of spying; Marie St. Laurent at the Florida Message Centre helps Canadians down south; Skiing for Eight - On a Budget: Fun-filled weekends are a way of life for the Moore Family (son Tim went on to great success with AMJ Campbell Van Lines); Arlene Phillips Braves the Heights - goes atop buildings with her high-steel worker father Joey Phillips, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Caughnawaga Indian reservation near Montreal; I live for work and love says Melina Mercouri - the star of Never on Sunday; Seat of Trouble - comic; Great colour photos with story about NHL goalies Gump Worsely and Jacques Plante; The Rockefellers Change with the Times - the fourth generation of the family has a different approach to wealth - inclues 8 interesting black and white photos; The Fleet Nobody Wanted - British Columbia's government-owned ferry service (B.C. Ferries); Nipper by Doug Wright. Many great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Theatre Organ Bombarde, Journal of the American Theatre Organ Enthusiasts, December 1969 *Edwin A. Link and the Roberson Center Organ*‎

‎Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photo of the interior of the Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee. Ad for a Conn Theatre Organ. Edwin A. Link and the Roberson Center Organ - great 2.5 page article with photos. Letters. Theatre Organ Etiquette - don't overburden people who have moved organs to their private homes or buildings. Real Pipes for the Price of a Plug-In? - It Can be Done - comparing electronic with real organs. Did you bring your music with you? - comparing performers who did or did not play from music. Building a Back Beat Relay - technical article. Sooner Sonic Sights and Sounds - the artists and instruments (plus their nostalgic ad). The Real Crawford Special - wonderful 3.5 page article with photos. Record reviews. Hollywood Cavalcade. Eddie Weaver returns to New Haven Paramount. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Wonder Morton to be restored for New York Convention! - the four manual, 23 rank organ in the former Loew's 175th Street Theatre in Nyew York. Billy Nalle entertains at Canton Palace. Lee Erwin plays ten shows at Alexandria. The Tower (Theatre) Lights are Bright in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania - great 3-page article with photos. Tony Fenelon blows in from down under. Loew's Columbus, Ohio Theatre is Saved! Classified ads. Chapter news. Wonderfully nostalgic Larry Ferrari record ad inside back cover, as well as a copy of a Snuffy Smith cartoon from 1961 which features a large organ! Impressive Rodgers Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Time Magazine, July 5, 1976 - America's New Immigrants‎

‎90 pages. Features: Celebrating the Bicentennial; Immigrants celebrate coming to America; Nancy Donnelly is removed from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Italian election results; Shock waves from Soweto Riots; Arab peace-keepers arrive in Lebanon; Lopez Portillo in Mexico; Seychelles President James R. Mancham; Color photos of impressive new buildings in multiple American big cities; Dan Burden and Bikecentennial '76 which saw cyclists pedal from Astoria to Williamsburg; Great color photos of the ol' RWB (red, white and blue); Washington Cathedral - article with color photos; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Munn, Orson D.‎

‎Scientific American February 1932 Volume 146 Number 2‎

‎Features: How shall we live in the future - houses will be heated in winter, cooled in summer, lighted by man-made healthful sun-lamps; editorials - all honor to marconi - metallic thrift - future leaders - science and art; Commemorating a century of progress - buildings for the 1933 World Exposition are rapidly being completed on a site close to other Chicago attractions; Weighing the satellites - mass, on the astronomical scale, can be measured only by the power of gravitation; Science and the permanent wave - what makes human hair wave when stretched and steamed?; Pigeons go to war college - interesting German method of training carrier pigeon messengers and photographers; "Jobs from Junk - Wages from Waste" - Buffalo, New York , has a good plan to help the unfortunate; Engineering a ski-jump tower - unusual problems are encountered in the construction of the world's highest ski-jump tower; A new style theater, front and back - a trick stage, unusual scenic effects, scientific lighting - a new high point in technique is reached in new theater; Our railroads must be saved - the integrity of the railroad's finances mean much not only to the nation but also to the individual; Science trails the criminal - Laboratory utilizes all the resources of modern science for the benefit of peace officers; A snow avalance "Caught in the Act" - striking photographs of stages of a snowslide; amateur astronomy in the wild west - in tacoma, members of a large club of amateurs have built telescopes; Radio and forest fires - rangers on the lookout for fires, and fire fighters keep in touch with headquarters by means of portable radio sets; Greedy "white ants" cust us millions - termites eat their way into wooden framework of structures and cause great damage. Moderate to average wear. Unmarked. Magazine‎

‎Musgrave, E.I.‎

‎Hopetoun House West Lothian: An Illustrated Survey of Scotland's Most Famous Adam Mansion: The Historic Home of the Hopes, Earls of Hopetoun and Marquesses of Linlithgow‎

‎No date, 32 pages, illustrated, maps, light rubbing to covers. eng‎

‎N Y Heights of Buildings Commission‎

‎Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on the Height Size and Arrangement of Buildings of the Board of Estimate and . New York: December 23 1913 Classic Reprint‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0267043082.G ISBN : 0267043082 9780267043088

‎N. A.].‎

‎[OTTOMAN MAP OF RHODES] Rodos.‎

‎Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Folded. Oblong atlas folio. (50 x 60 cm). In Ottoman script. Shows Rhodes and Tilos Islands. Scale: 1/200.000. Hegira: 1332 = Gregorian: 1916. Not description on map-maker. This is one of the series of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. This is one of the series of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to produce these maps covering Turkish territory, Reconnaissance Branch was incorporated into The Mapping Commission. The maps were produced in the datum based on the latitude and longitude of Ayasofya Mosque in an equal area Bonn Projection. The field works for the 123 sheets covering the country were conducted by 76 staff. The production was completed in 18 years starting from east-west. Fieldworks continued without stopping except in the years 1914 and 1920. This map series called also reconnaissance maps contributed a lot to producing 1:25.000 scale maps. A very detailed and attractive map of Rhodes Island showing its harbors and Ottoman place names.‎

‎National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings‎

‎Historic Preservation. volumes 17-47; lacks volume 38. 1965-1995‎

‎National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings 1965-1995. volumes 17-47 all complete volumes lacking volume 38; partly bound library markings textually clean & tight price is for the set. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : ZB394226

‎National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings.‎

‎River Basin Archaeology: A Race Against Time. Reprinted from July-Sept. 1949 Planning and Civic Comment; Quarterly Pbulciation of american Planning and Civic Association.‎

‎Washington D.C.: National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings 1949. Octavo paperbound stiff white stapled printed wrappers illus. with f b&w photos figures 64 pp. Near-Fine with former-owner signature. “Since the beginning of the program in 1946 the National Park Service the Smithsonian Institution and several state organizations have made archeological surveys in 185 proposed reservoir areas besides conducting excavations in 18. These surveys uncovered remains ranging in time from the early Folsom type of primitive hunter to the more elaborate late prehistoric Temple Mound Buildiner and they vary in character from simple village sites in open fields to complexly arranged mound structures. In addition to the vestiges of ancient Indians these reservoir basins contain many historic sites of local and national significane which should be thoroughly studied before they are flooded. National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, (1949). unknown books‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 005474scs

‎National Trust‎

‎A Description of the Contents of Montacute House, Somerset‎

‎5 pages, some light creasing. eng‎

‎National Trust‎

‎Melford Hall Suffolk‎

‎4 pages, some light creasing. eng‎

‎National Trust for Historic Preservation‎

‎America's Forgotten Architecture‎

‎Oversize 311p., illus. SOFTCOVER. Paperback Good condition; 1 inch split at top of spine‎

‎New York (N y ) Dept of Buildings‎

‎Report‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : A9781344127882 ISBN : 1344127886 9781344127882

‎New York. State Dept. of Education‎

‎School Buildings and Grounds Vol. 3 of the Eleventh Annual Report‎

‎Folio, 440p., illus. Hardcover Ex-library, Good condition, top on backstrip split‎

‎Newcomb, Frank‎

‎A Short History of St. Mary's Church, Knaith in Lincolnshire‎

‎16 pages, list of curates, bibliographical references, appendix, foreword by Francis Hill. eng‎

‎Nichols, Dorothy Young‎

‎Views and Vignettes of Virginia City in My Day‎

‎Large format 44 page booklet with two color cover and many b&w photos within. Many photos of historic homes, buildings, street scenes, schools, group photos of workers, school childeren, International Hotel, red light district, Chinese labor, etc, with captions. Copy of McKenney's Pacific Coast Directory 1886 - 7 listing establishments of the time at back. Cover coffee stained at top, corners very slightly worn, text/interior unmarked and Fine.‎

‎Nicolin, Pierluigi (Editor)‎

‎American Lofts - I loft americani. Lotus 66, quarterly architectutal Review - Rivista trimestrale di architettura‎

‎Elemond Periodici & Electa, Milano, 1997. 26 x 26 cm ; kart.‎

‎Großformatige Paperbackausgabe, Text in englischer und italienischer Sprache, 127 Seiten mit zahlreichen Fotos und Zeichnungen. Buchrücken eingerissen und nun mit professionellem Reparaturband ausgebessert. Exemplar mit Alterungs- und Gebrauchsspuren. pw510 ISBN: 8828904658‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 102855