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196840 pages. Features: Working mothers mean Canada has several hundred thousand child casualties of neglect - article with colour photos; Mark Ten Cigarette ad; Alex Hobson is featured in a GM ad; Joey Maher - Reigning World Handball Champion - photos and article; Nice ad for CCMN Mustant bike with banana seat - Bobby Hull endorsement; 2001-A Space Odyssey - article with photos, including one of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke; Springtime for Odette - with paintings by Bruce Johnson; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Arrow shirts; Claude Morin Wants a Better Deal for Quebec - article with photo of him striking an RCMP officer; Nice ad for BA/Gulf service stations; Maurice Genest and his SSS (Supermarket Scratch Saver); Singer Mary Lou Collins - photo and article; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Large 8vo. 2 vols. XIII, (3), 405, (1) pp. VIII, 347, (1) pp. With 2 lithogr. frontispieces and a folding map of the Arabian Peninsula. Contemp. blindstamped cloth with gilt title to spine. Only edition. One of the best English 19th-c. accounts of Arabia and the Gulf. Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to the surveying of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman, undertaken on a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. On board the surveying ship Palinurus he was the first European to set foot in the interior of Oman. Starting late in 1835 from the easternmost point of Oman, Wellsted made his way westward through the Ja`alan region to the Wahibah Sands and then struck north up the Wadi Batha to Samad. There he was joined by Lieutenant F. Whitelock, also of the Indian Navy, who had set out from Muscat later. Together they reached Nazwa, the ancient capital of Oman, and climbed the lower slopes of the Jabal al-Akhdhar, in central Oman. In January 1836 they arrived on the Al-Batinah coast and then turned west, recrossing the Hajar mountains and emerging on the edge of the Dhaharah, the rocky steppe that stretches west toward the Rub` al-Khali. - Bindings rubbed; spines rebacked. Interior somewhat foxed as common. Removed from the Worcester Public Library. Rare; the Peter Hopkirk copy fetched £3,500 at Sotheby's (Oct 14, 1998, lot 1192). Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 2283. Howgego III, 635. Weber I, 67. Wilson 242. Henze IV, 476. Not in Gay, Blackmer, or Ghani.
Small 4to. (14), 137, (19) pp. With engraved frontispiece and 22 engraved plates by Melchior Haffner. Contemporary calf. First facsimile edition of any oriental manuscript. 16 of the 22 finely engraved plates show a Persian perpetual calendar with Ottoman Turkish "commentarius" and floral borders. Welsch had acquired the ms. from Christoph Weikmann's Kunstkammer in Ulm. The remaining six plates are concerned with Arabian astronomy: astrolabe, orrery, zodiac, circular table of Sundays and names of the months in various languages. - The calculation of this calendar is today attributed to the 9th-c. Persian mathematician Wafâ al Buzjâni (cf. BSB München; Humboldt-Universität Berlin). The predominant attribution to one Turkish Sheikh Wafâ had been disputed by Babinger as early as 1927. Abu'l-Wafâ al Buzjâni is regarded as "the last great representative of the mathematics-astronomy school that arose around the beginning of the ninth century, shortly after the founding of Baghdad" (DSB I, 39). His astronomic oeuvre is preserved merely in fragments. The calligraphic commentary, however, is Turkish and (according to Babinger) was prepared by a 17th-c. magistrate, 'Ajn-i 'Alî Mueddinzâde. - Welsch (1624-77) was a physician and "a researcher of the very first magnitude [...] while the works of this polymath were mainly dedicated to the Arabian and Persian sciences, he also has provided proof of his close study of Ottoman Turkish. In this connexion, his important 'Commentarius in Ruzname Naurus' must be cited" (cf. Babinger 1919). Welsch's "Dissertatio" (with Arabic typeface) is aimed at the usefulness of the calendar for relative oriental chronology: he also compares the works of Schall von Bell and Andreas Müller on Chinese astronomy and chronology. - Bookplate of South Library on front pastedown. Occasionally browned. Zenker, Bibliotheca Orientalis I, 1077. Schnurrer 465. Babinger, Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen (1927), 116 & 141. Babinger, Die türkischen Studien in Europa, in: Die Welt des Islams VII, 1919, 117. Not in Balagna, L'Imprimerie Arabe en Europe.
8vo. (2), 160 pp. With a portrait of Eduard Glaser, 8 numbered plates and 2 large folding maps. Later half cloth, with the original front wrapper mounted on the front board. First separate publication (offprint) of "an extremely important article" (Smith) on the geography of north-west Yemen, based on the results of the unpublished journals of Eduard Glaser, who explored a region that still had to be visited by any other European. It includes a history of exploration of the region, a biography of Glaser, a description of the expedition of his expeditions and two large maps of region (the second a version of the same map in Arabic). The article was originally published in the Bulletin de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte XX. - A very good copy. Smith, The Yemens 40. Cf. Macro 2288.
1999rif. 19616BBMünchen. Maecenas. ca. 1999. 1. Aufl. 20 cm. 127 S., Ill. kart. Deckelillustr. guter Zustand, Einband leicht beschmutzt. 1
rif. 1578648149.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 1528421744.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1983rif. 75708n.p. 1983. Paperback. Very Good. photos 60p. Wrapper. 28cm. Minor wear. Name and phone number in pencil on cover. Organization founded in 1954 of golf clubs organized by African Americans in California and other Western states. According to their 2022 website about 27 clubs including three asterisked as "predominantly female" clubs were members of this organization. paperback
1983rif. 75708n.p. 1983. Paperback. Very Good. photos 60p. Wrapper. 28cm. Minor wear. Name and phone number in pencil on cover. Organization founded in 1954 of golf clubs organized by African Americans in California and other Western states. According to their 2022 website about 27 clubs including three asterisked as "predominantly female" clubs were members of this organization. paperback books
8vo. 186, (2) pp. Modern library cloth. Only edition: an early study of the substantial traces which Arabic and other oriental languages left on the Spanish and Portuguese lexicon: Includes two copious word lists. The English antiquarian, clergyman and linguist Stephen Weston (1747-1830) also produced, in 1802, the earliest English translation of the Greek text of the Rosetta Stone. - Inscribed "From the Author" on the half-title. Spine faded. Removed from the Jews' College, London (a rabbinical seminary now known as the London School of Jewish Studies), with remains of a spine label and their several cancelled stamps. OCLC 224972497. Not in Vater/Jülg.
19338vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 51 plates on 21 and 3 folding plates, some light (and largely marginal) spotting to text, fore-edges lightly spotted; handsomely bound in full blue morocco, back gilt with raised bands, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 12pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Joyce Wethered, later Lady Heathcoat-Amory, is widely regarded at the finest British woman golfer of all time. She won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship four times (1922, 1924, 1925, and 1929) and the English Ladies' champion for five consecutive years (1920–24). This notable work provides a comprehensive account of style and play, and contains early examples of 'action' photography (including some sequences credited to Pathe) to illustrate technique. Very scarce in any condition.
19318vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text, preliminaries and title lightly spotted, some occasional but generally inoffensive browning to text; original series binding of terracotta buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, a bright, crisp copy.
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power." Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. - Ink ownership stamp of Charles C. Sterrett, an American Presbyterian missionary to the Christian population in the region, to the front pastedown. Binding a little rubbed and spotted, endpapers foxed. Small inked library stamp and cancellation to the title page, otherwise very good. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
8vo. XVI, 424 pp. Folding map frontispiece and 2 full-page maps to the text, 2 as plates, 23 plates. Original sand buckram, title gilt to spine and upper board, top edge gilt. First and only edition. Important regional study of the Arabian Gulf, published in response to the grant of the Baghdad Railway concession by the Ottoman Government to a German-backed consortium. Assesses the economic, military and political implications of rival claims in the various states of the area. - Whigham was a well-connected Scottish author who emigrated to America and worked as drama critic on the Chicago Tribune, and as a war correspondent at the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars. A close friend and correspondent of British Persian Gulf opinion-makers Lord Curzon and Sir Percy Cox, Whigham wrote the book, based on his extensive travels in the region, at the request of Lord Curzon, who had "advised [him] to go to the Gulf [and] instructed his subordinate officials in that part of the world to give me all the assistance in their power". Whigham is probably best remembered as a prominent amateur golfer, winner of the second and third US Amateur Championships, and author of "How to Play Golf", the first golf instruction manual illustrated from action photographs. Diba Collection 1978, 227. Wilson 243. OCLC 2987283.
rif. 14266White House Presidential Seal golf gift set produced as a presentation object associated with the presidency and described as a gift presented to visiting dignitaries and friends. Its combination of presidential insignia and golf accessories places it within the material culture of White House gift giving where objects bearing official emblems could mark personal diplomatic or ceremonial encounters. White House Presidential Seal Gift Box Golf Set. The fitted set contains one divot tool and one ball marker each bearing a diecast Presidential Seal together with three golf tees. The components are housed in a presentation box displaying the Presidential Seal. The supplied description identifies these sets as presidential gifts to visiting dignitaries and friends; no accompanying documentation establishing a particular recipient presentation date or presidential administration is present. Unused and in mint condition. The intact boxed presentation preserves the complete grouping of presidential golf accessories and its original gift format. unknown
rif. 14266White House Presidential Seal golf gift set produced as a presentation object associated with the presidency and described as a gift presented to visiting dignitaries and friends. Its combination of presidential insignia and golf accessories places it within the material culture of White House gift giving where objects bearing official emblems could mark personal diplomatic or ceremonial encounters. White House Presidential Seal Gift Box Golf Set. The fitted set contains one divot tool and one ball marker each bearing a diecast Presidential Seal together with three golf tees. The components are housed in a presentation box displaying the Presidential Seal. The supplied description identifies these sets as presidential gifts to visiting dignitaries and friends; no accompanying documentation establishing a particular recipient presentation date or presidential administration is present. Unused and in mint condition. The intact boxed presentation preserves the complete grouping of presidential golf accessories and its original gift format. unknown books
4to. 24 pp., including two black-and-white plates. Text in English and Polish. Bound in printed card covers as issued. Sole edition of this extremely rare publication, printed for private circulation, describing with great excitement the Polish programme of Arabian horse-breeding in the 1930s. On the eve of WWII, Dr George White visited the Polish State Stud and provides an invaluable record of the horses kept there, listing the stallions and mares he saw by name, as well as the names of those recently deceased. In 1939-40, many of Poland's prized Arabians were confiscated by the Russian and German armies, virtually demolishing the breeding programme in that country. - White had travelled the world comparing Arabian horses, having visited Egypt already in 1929 for that purpose, but was awestruck by what he discovered in Poland: "I had seen Arabian horses on four of the five continents of the world, but never before had such an Arabian horse display been exhibited before me ... The Polish Arab is superior in all material respects to the Egyptian". The plate at the end depicts "the author's conception of the world's two greatest living Arabian stallions - Kaszimir and Ofir", belonging to Prince Witold Czartoryski and to the Polish State Stud respectively, and White offers the prediction that "the day is not far distant when the countries of the world will be looking toward Poland for suitable foundation stock in the form of mares and stallions to either start or improve their Arabian horse breeding projects". - George Ransom White (b. 1874) was a friend and advisor to General Jacob M. Dickinson (1890-1963), the owner of Travellers Rest Stud in Nashville, TN. Dickinson began to import Polish Arabians in 1938 following Dr White's advice. - Rare: OCLC shows two copies worldwide, at the National Library of Poland and the British Library.
2009rif. 64290München, BLV Verlag 2009. 175 Seiten., 8°. OPappe mit grünem illustriertem OSchutzumschlag.,
Folio. 272 pp. With 136 text illustrations. Modern half cloth with gilststamped spine title. Study of mediaeval Arabic clock-making techniques, based on published works and unpublished Arabic manuscripts. - Perfectly preserved in a modern private library binding. OCLC 4703118. Nova Acta: Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. C Nr. 5.
1991rif. 9264BBMünchen, Heyne, 1991. 24 cm. 343, [12] S. Ill. karton., Pappband., m. illustr. Schutzumschlag. guter Zustand, m. Schutzum.
8vo. 181, (3) pp., final blank f. With 20 engraved plates in original hand colour. Contemporary boards. First edition, issued in ten separate instalments. An entire chapter is dedicated to the Wahhabi Bedouin Arabs, their customs and costumes. The charming engravings in vibrant original hand colour are based on Castellan's 1812 "Moeurs", each plate containing several meticulous costume illustrations. - Spine sunned. Contemporary ownership "S. M. Mayer zu Klagenfurt" on title page; additional (partly deleted) ownership on flyleaf. Very clean altogether. Rare. Formerly in the Ottoman collection of the Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer. Atabey 1333. OCLC 255511974. Not in Lipperheide, Colas, or Hiler.
1988rif. LFA-126730850Un ouvrage de 176 pages, format 195 x 215 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage couleurs, publié en 1988, Editions Robert Laffont, collection "Sports pour Tous", bon état
1878rif. 73498Leipzig, Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J.Weber, 1878. Original-Halbleinenband, 8°, 654 Seiten. Mit einem Frontispiz: Ansicht des Golfs von Neapel in Farbendruck und 7 Orientirungskarten. 2. mit ehem. Führer durch Pompeji bereicherte Auflage.
1916Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1985in 4°, pp. 192, leg. edit. ill. con sovracop. ill. Testo in inglese. Storia e sviluppo del gioco, grandi campionati e grandi campioni, risultati, glossario e indice dei nomi, con mm. foto a colori e in b/n. Ottimo. 604/34
