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1963Features: A vote against motherhood - Gael Greene; Danger from Within - Dwight D. Eisenhower writes that Indolence and lack of moral principle present a greater threat to America than the armed might of Communism; Perils of Pauline - America's highest-paid femail TV commentator, Pauline Frederick, fights skeptical bosses, prettier rivals and video's glamour code; "We Sailed the Columbus Ship" - Robert Marx relates how nine men in a forty-two foot boat braved wind and wave to recreate the first conquest of the Atlantic - many colour photos; Golf-Ball Goof - retrieving lost golf balls; Last Stop Alcatraz - Mickey Cohen and the inside story of how Federal agents put him behind iron bars at long last; Ice Hockey's Geriatric Marvel - 38 year of age, going on 45, goalie Johnny Bower of the Toronto Maple Leafs seems to have found the secret of perennial youth; Nuclear-age School - New Mexico students pursue knowledge under a 21 inch concrete slab in Artesia, New Mexico - Abo Public Elementary School is the only one in the nation underground - it doubles as a fully equipped fallout shelter; Black Merchants of Hate - fanatic and well-disciplined, Negro 'Muslims' threaten to turn resentment against racial discrimination into open rebellion - photo of Malcolm X. Nice colour Pepsi ad on back cover. Great two-page colour ad for Chevrolet trucks. Nice full-page ad for a blue 1963 Dodge Wagon; Colour Ford Auto centerfold features the Fairlane. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194230 pages. Features: Nice cover photo portrait of The Countess of Roseberry; Way of the War - story and photos of notable personalities; Myself at the Pictures, by James Agate; Four photos from Kipling's Jungle Book, filmed by Korda, Korda & Korda; The Theatre - Horace Horsnell; The Arts Theatre Club presents Jean Forbes-Robertson in "Twelfth Night" - please note that one of the four photos has been clipped out and is not included - this seven by four inch clipping removed a portion of the Social Roundabout on the next page; See "Big Top" at His Majesty's - The show with the Charles B. Cochran Touch - 7 photos; D.B. Wyndham Lewis article; Photos of Stage Star and Stable Owner Mr. Vic Oliver; Nice one-page cartoon illustration of the I.T.W. by Wing-Commander E.G. Oakley-Beuttler; July 4th centerfold photos at Eton; The John Clements and the Robert MacDermots - photos; The Marchioness of Londonderry and her Youngest Daughter - photo portraits; Sabretache - several interesting photos with text; Elizabeth Bowen - With Silent Friends; Photos of seven newlywed couples and two newly engaged young women; Full-page ad for The Nuffield Organization shows two military officers with map; Nice fashion photos on pages 378-379; Back cover colour ad for The North British Rubber Company shows golf clubs conversing over drinks. Center page loose but present. Average wear. Six-inch opening from top of cover-fold partway into front cover. Bit of writing on back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1937Stories: Arctic Drift; The Editor's Post Bag; The Quest of the O'Baki; Yellow Dog; My Princess; The Limping Tiger; Trouble for the Porcupine; The Blood Oath; Finger Prints; Golf in the Outposts; I am the Sergeant; The Wreck of the Dundonald; Broken Toe; The Great Leichhardt Mystery. Covers present but detached from textblock. Above-average wear. Book
196239 pages. Features: They gave me up for dead - Audrelyn Speight was driving from Dundas, Ontario to Hamilton when her back was broken in an accident - this pretty accident victim is undaunted ; Summer Stay-at-Homes - artist George Grammat provides colour illustrations of Montreal life; Miami's Problem Visitors - the city bulges with Cuban refugees who won't go elsewhere; Canada's Sunshine Island - Prince Edward Island - nice colour photos; An Unhappy Wife Gives the Gang Away - the Peugeot Kidnapping (part 2 of 2); Road Hogs - Photos of hogs pulling wagon of H.C. Hurley of Echo Bay, Ontario; Gift tip to Canada's Golf Fans - Dick Borthwick replaces 'twist' with 'slide'; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1926Features: Jack Farrington's Beanstalk, by David Loraine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; Getting Rid of Nelly, by Rebecca Deming Moore; Old Zack's "Plat-i-num", by C.A. Stephens; Runners of the Woods - VII, by Samuel Merwin; Afloat with the Sea Scouts, by Rhys G. Thackwell (black and white photos); Golf for Young Players - VII, By Glenna Collett; Model Airplanes - 3 Wings, by Alexander Magoun; The Boys Who Made Radio - 5, A. Atwater Kent; Nice Proctor and Gamble White Naptha Soap ad on back cover. Average wear. Book
197464 pages. Features: Major Canadian Federal Election Coverage; The Chevrolet Summit - Nixon and Brezhnev meet - article with color photos; Washington Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson; Watergate investigation news; Charles Colson's Weird Scenario; Conflict between Palestineans and Israel; Returning to Quneitra, Syria; Trans-Canada Telephone System ad features caricature of Bill Sutherland of MacGregor Golf; Conflict in Angola; Japan's Kakuei Tanaka campaigns; The Shah and Empress Farah of Iran visit France; Pierre and Margaret Trudeau campaign in Quebec; Celebrity news of Bobby Kennedy Jr., Jerry Ford, Richard Burton, and Sammy Davis Jr.; Photo of street people on Berkeley's Telegraph Ave.; Hemispherical Psychologist Dr. Robert Ornstein; Musician Herbie Hancock - photo and article; OSHA Under Attack; Collapse of German bank Bankhaus I.D. Herstatt KGaA; The new Bricklin car hits the market in Manhattan - with photos; Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff; Press coverage of Watergate; Richard Dadd; Passing of Darius Milhaud, Vannevar Bush and Ernest Henry Gruening; The New Counter-Reformation in the Church; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1967Contents: Nice photos of Red Skelton in full-page ad for Garrard turntables; Long article on the CIA with photo of Langley complex; Photo of George Romney at Alaska Sled-dog race; 2-page series of 19 photos showing LBJ swearing in aboarad Air Force One; Deterrence by anti-missiles - Time Essay; Vietnam war update; Ford Thunderbird color photo ad; 100 Years of Harper's Bazaar; Harry F. Guggenheim names Bill Moyers publisher of Long Island's Newsday; Telefactoring; Two-page ad by Bethlehem steel shows the partially completed Madison Square Garden and some of the performers who will use it; The Rosenberg Myth - were Ethel and Julius framed?; Stan Makita; Bill Russell - "The Only Negro head coach of a major professional basketball team"; Andrew Wyeth; Cancer research; Rebuilding mixed-up hearts; The Psychedelicatessen; Max Palevsky; Gulf & Western and Desilu; Photo of Elia Kazan with Andy Warhol; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1967Contents: Excellent color photo ad for the Chevelle featuring the SS 396 Sport Coupe; The state of the Vietnam War; Carl Coppolino; Canada Discovers Itself - Feature article; Photo of ensign Laing ejecting from F-4B Phantom over Tonkin Gulf; Expo 67 at Montreal - colour photos; Mace - new police weapon; Nancy Sinatra - photo; Jeepster ad; Blackout on DMSO; Crown Zellerbach; Photo of John Paul Getty and 1960 Cadillac; Photo of Guy De Rothschild and wife at bank; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
195066 pages. Features: The Nation's Crossroads - stand at Chicago's 21st St. Tower and you'll see trains from Canada, the Gulf, and both coasts - great article and photos; Asa Packer's Railroad - Coal means so much to the Lehigh Valley Railroad that even its crack passenger train is known as the Black Diamond - long article with full-page map and many photos; The Hiawatha Story - How the first engine to carry the Indian totem came to be, as recalled by a C.H. Bilty, a Milwaukee Road man who helped create it; Photo Section; The Atlantic & Danville (A&D) - photos, map and article; Early Days in Oregon - at the turn of the century the Union Pacific had its eye on a group of little roads which held the key to the Puget Sound gateway - map, photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
1972126 pages. Features: Seven IRA men escape from prison ship The Maidstone; Leo Durocher; Noah Dietrich recalls the day they jailed Howard Hughes; Alan Gibbs - Hollywood stuntman; Handsome Marlborough centerfold loose but present; Eva Cropp - she swims with dangerous fish; The Uncensored adventures of Lewis and Clark; The Mad Marlin (fish) of Punta Carnero; Golf fashion photos; Five on a Raft - and then there were Three - Juan Puga, Richard Antonio and Tom Rash were rescued from Elliott Key, Florida. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Book
1962318 pages. Cover painting entitled "Mount Robson and Emperor Falls" by Jack L. MacLean. Great back cover colour photo ad for various models and colours of phones. Includes 192 pages of vintage local yellow pages ads plus several pages of ads for contemporary phone products. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful 1962 snapshot of Victoria, B.C. Book
193324 pages. Contents: Front page article about crabs with great photo of crab biting lady bather on toe; Grilling the house of Morgan & Co. Digs Up Plenty of Pay Dirt - Senator 'Kingfish' Huey Long grills Thomas W. Lamont; Oklahoma's Quadruplets - Mona, Roberta, Leots and Mary Keys - graduate from high school; Million Names on Uncle Sam's Pay Roll; Gandhi Fast No Record - with grainy photo from an earlier date; It's No Longer the 'hicks from the sticks' - now it's the 'gullible cityites'; Foreign News - World Economic Conference in London, German Reichsbank declares partial moratorium on foreign payments on its debt; Europe's Big Four Sign Up for 10 Years of Peace and Good Will; Broadcasting; Current Events; Illustration of Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, the only surviving officer of the Akron; Justice Department reveals details of gold hoarders; George N. Peek - Administrator of the Agriculture Adjustment Act (with illustration); Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson slated to be the czar of industry - with small illustration; Great ingenuity used to build models for Chicago Fair; Prof. F.E. Lumley on Propaganda; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of the official records of the House of Representatives - it holds 10,000,000 documents; Scientific; Gulf Stream Shifts off Boston; Huge new offering of US Bonds and Securities Greatly Oversubscribed; "Sunken Dollars" - a real old-time thriller story of th esea - with a guaranteed love interest (to be continued); Aviation - artist's rendering of a proposed seadrome, and discussion of airships; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1996réf. 2240ABAachen, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 1996. 21 cm, 128 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und graphischen Darstellungen, kartoniert. Einband minimal berieben, Rücken leicht gebräunt, Kanten und Ecken berieben.
8vo. 1 p. To the council of the Omar Khayyam Club: "Please forgive my delay but the [...] paper was mislaid & I had forgotten the date of dinner. I shall be happy to attend alone, no guest [...]". - On headed paper.
197528 pages. Features: 300 Reasons why people like to live in Canada; Nice colour photo ad for the 1975 Canadian Open Golf Tournament - with photos of Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer; Feature on the movie Rollerball - article and colour photos; Massive colour centerfold for Export A cigarettes; Prairie Gatsbys - Historic Mansions of the West - with a photo of the Edmonton home of W.J. Magrath, two photos of the interior of the home of J.H. Ashdown in Winnipeg, and a photo of the Coste home in Calgary; Nice full-page colour ad for movie The Wind and the Lion which starred Sean Connery and Candice Bergen; Doug Wright's Family; Nice double-page colour fashion photo of Paris couture; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
400 x 460 mm. Plaster relief plan of the city in original hand colour. Scale: 1:5,000 (millimetre to metre) for distances and 1:2,500 for height. Contained in the original wooden and cardboard box, imitating a book. Half cloth over marbled boards with spine-labels. All edges covered in marbled paper coating. With an index mounted to the inside of the cover. Exceptional three-dimensional model of Jerusalem: the fifth edition of this rare relief plan showing the principal landmarks of the city, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Via Dolorosa, and the Mount of Olives, as well as other places of worship, cemeteries, hospitals, hammams, schools, grottos, and the Pasha's palais. Heightened in blue, green, orange, yellow and brown. With a total of 215 labeled places of interest that are further detailed in the mounted index. - The plan was prepared by the French mathematician and surveyor Charles Muret, who made one of the first representations of a projected canal across the Isthmus of Panama around 1881, as part of the ultimately unsuccessful French venture to build the Panama canal. Muret's plaster cast of the topography of Panama was shown at the 1885 World Exhibition in Antwerp and was awarded a gold medal. In addition to the relief plan of Jerusalem, Muret created similar plans of Paris, Athens and the English Channel. - Small pieces of plaster chipped in a few places. Upper cover somewhat soiled, hinges cracked. Paper coating and cloth starting to peel off in places; fragments of spine-labels lacking. An uncommon specimen of French mapmaking, offering a glimpse of the Holy City and its topology towards the end of the 19th century. OCLC 659770835.
réf. 2354Durley Chine Tunbridge Wells 29 Oct. 1922. British Women's Golf Champion c.1922 one page 8vo partly laid down good condition saying "Many thanks for your letter and congratulations. I much regret the unavoidable delay in replying and have great pleasure in giving you herewith my signature." With a newspaper photograph clipping from newspaper of her admiring her trophy. Durley Chine, Tunbridge Wells, 29 Oct. 1922. unknown
8vo. 233, (1) pp. Giltstamped green half calf. Top edge gilt. Only edition. First-hand account of military and intelligence operations in the Gulf area prior to and during World War I, including chapters on "The Arab Revolt in Kermak", "The Rebellion in Oman", "The Persian Gulf in 1913-14", etc. Lt.-Colonel C. C. R. Murphy, 30th Punjabis, from the Suffolk Regiment, wrote several works of military history. - Slight browning; minor chipping to top edge near beginning of volume. OCLC 13460560. Not in Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula.
1991213 pages including index and references. "The lovely Gulf Islands of the BC coast have captivated visitors and settlers for almost 150 years. Their tranquil present belies a turbulent past - the pioneers faced cattle rustlers, Indian battles, political upheavals and opium smugglers, but they were still attracted by the islands' independent lifestyle. Everybody worked hard, but they enjoyed themselves too, with tennis parties, picnics and dances that went on till dawn, so the guests could row home safely in daylight. Each island has a different story: Salt Spring exported apples before the Okanagan, Texada boasted an elegant opera house, Lasqueti sheltered notorious robbers, Mayne was known as "Little Hell" for its boisterous pubs. This colourful past is brought together in this volume." - from back cover. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
4to. 3 in 4 vols. With 2 folding maps and one folding panorama. Numerous illustrations and plans. Original wrappers. First edition of this standard work on the region: the first scientific account of the Nabataean antiquities, including the ruins of Petra. The Bohemian scholar Alois Musil (1868-1944) was fluent in 35 Arabic dialects. In 1898 he had rediscovered the lost desert castle of Qusayr Amra (built ca. 715 A.D.) in the Jordanian desert north of Amman. During WWI he was sent to the Middle East to thwart British operations against the Ottoman Empire, thus becoming the opponent of T. E. Lawrence. In 1827 he helped establish the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. - With contemp. ownership "Dr. Zweig" on wrapper covers (in Hebrew and German). Some pages uncut; professional repairs to edges. Rare with all 4 volumes; no complete copy recorded at auction during the past decades. Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1667. Howgego III, M103 (p. 664). Fück 262. NYPL Arabia coll. 171. OCLC 3114451.
Illustrated with 40 photographs and a map at rear. Original publisher's black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and cover. First edition of this popular account of Musil's experiences in Arabia Deserta. An excellent copy. Macro 1669.
1860Large 8vo. 3 vols. (instead of 5). I: (4), 328 pp. II: (4), 245, (1) pp., last blank f. IV.1: (8), 218 pp. 58 pp. 78 pp. Contemporary half calf. Islamic history of the world from creation to the Ottoman Empire. - Wants vols. III and IV.2. Babinger, p. 124.
8vo (18,4 x 12,6 cm). 14 ff., riq'a script, 17 lines on a page, black ink, text markers (Qala-aqulu) in red ink. Dark brown, half-leather binding. "Gloss on a Philosophical Work" by Mustafa Ibn Yusuf al-Bursawi, a Turkish theologian. He also wrote an important refutation on Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and his "Tahafut al-Tahafut". Greek philosophy had entered the Islamic society through the adoption of the neo-platonic worldview by the great philosophers of Muslim Spain. - Minor worming (not affecting text), some glosses near beginning; ff. 5-10 loose.
Large folio. Half morocco, retaining the original cloth covers and gilt cover label. 11 (instead of 21) plates. Author's Edition. Landmark collection of Muybridge's revolutionary "instantaneous photography", a self-developed technique that allowed for high-precision series of high shutter speed stop-motion photographs. He began his work with photographing horses, but in time it would also include athletes, birds, lions, and even camels. Muybridge first photographed a horse with all 4 hooves off the ground in 1872, after Leland Stanford (later the Governor of California) hired Muybridge to determine whether a horse leaves the ground completely when running, a hotly debated issue at the time. (Stanford believed they did, and Muybridge won Stanford a $25,000 bet.) By 1885, Muybridge had accumulated over 20,000 photographic negatives, or 781 sequential series of photo-plates, shot from multiple cameras at carefully planned locations and angles, each of which showed a human and/or animal engaged in a continuous motion. This required Muybridge to develop cameras for faster shutter closure. In cases where a human or animal moved any great distance, photographing the movement required a team of photographers, rather than a single photographer. Muybridge and H. Allen, a physiology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, published 37 eleven-volume sets which contained a collotype of every one of the 781 photographic series. This "Author's Edition" consists of a selection of the most important collotypes contained in the full work; the present set includes all the plates to show animals: No. 565. Horse trotting. - 616. Horse and rider, trotting more rapidly. - 626. A third horse and rider, running, including several frames with all 4 hooves off the ground. - 647. A horse jumping a hurdle at high speed, with a bareback jockey. - 659. Mule jumping and kicking with his hind limbs. - 710. Race hound at high speed, including frames with all 4 feet off the ground. - 721. Lion circling along the wall of a small enclosure. - 739. Camel walking. - 755. Bird flying, including swoops down. - 3. Runner. - 152. Runner jumping a hurdle. - The combined illustrated area of any given plate varies, but is typically about 21 x 30 cms. Muybridge had focused his early photographic work on San Francisco and Yosemite, but had later been sent by the Federal Government to photograph Alaska for the High Sierra Survey. (The latter project was in 1868, shortly after the territory was purchased. He was later sent on a second trip to Alaska to photograph the Tlingit tribe and the Modoc War.) During his time as a photographer, Muybridge owned a racetrack. Late in life, he invented the zoopraxiscope, a primitive forerunner of the motion picture camera. Analyses made possible by the technique later had a wide range of implications for sports, podiatry, physical therapy, vertebrate paleontology, and other fields. - Pastedowns and spine renewed, otherwise an excellent, clean copy in the original boards. Grolier, Truthful Lens, 123. Parr/Badger, The Photobook I, 52.
8vo. (10), 56, (4), 370, (28) pp. Near contemporary vellum with giltstamped spine label. All edges sprinkled in red. First edition. The editor, Joseph Labrosse, "was born in Toulouse in 1636 and entered a Carmelite order, taking the name of Fr. Angelus of St Joseph. In 1662 he went to Rome and studied Arabic for two years before travelling to Isfahan to study Persian. While in Iran, he used medicine as a means of propagating Christianity and in the process read many Arabic and Persian books on medicine and 'visited the houses of the learned people of Isfahan and paid hundreds of visits to the shops of the druggists, the pharmacists, and the chemists.' After returning to France in 1678 he published his 'Pharmacopoea persica', which consisted of a Latin translation of a Persian book on compound remedies written in the previous century by Muzaffar ibn Muhammad al-Husayni (d. 1556), with additional comments by Labrosse" (in: I. Loudon [ed.], Western Medicine [1997], p. 52f.). Hyde (Biographia Britannica, cited by Langlès, Biographie universelle) asserts that the credit for this work really belongs to Père Matthieu. - Insignificant chipping to spine label. Some minor browning and brownstaining. 18th century annotations on first endpaper and engraved bookplate to pastedown. From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Wilson 7. OCLC 13058281.