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1948Pages 477-504. Features: Cover photo of scene in the St. Etienne mining district of France showing strikers attacking police guarding a coal mine; Fascinating two-page early morning illustration in Strand House, the great dispatch warehouse of W. H. Smith and Son which provides breakfast tables with daily newspapers; Wonderful article, photos and illustrations celebrate the Centenary of the Railway Bookstall, with photo of W. H. Smith I; Photo of rocket-assisted takeoff of U.S. Navy giant Lockheed Constitution aircraft on experimental flight; Photo of terrible wreckage of the K.L.M. Constellation which crashed at Tarbolton on October 21; 11 Dramatic photos of coal strike in France - a Communist manoeuvre or to retard the progress of this French nationalized industry; Photo of the Severn Bridge Wind Tunnel at Thurleigh, Beds.; Photo of fine mosaic floor, believed to be of the second century A.D., found by a Rome peasant digging beside his house; One-page photo of the floodlit glory of Trafalgar Square; Lovely two-page photo of the unveiling of the Memorial to Admirals of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe and Lord Beatty in Trafalgar Square; Seven photos of the marriage of Lady Margaret Egerton and Mr. John Colville on October 20, including Churchill and many royals; Photos of royal events and preparations for the birth of Princess Elizabeth's baby; Group photo of attendees of the first parliamentary Commonwealth conference since the war, and the largest conference of its kind ever held; Aerial photo of new 6 million pound power station at Kingston-on-Thames; Fantastic two-page photo spread features 16 automobiles displayed at the International Motor Show, first to be held since 1938; Two aerial photos of New Mexico taken by rockets 50 and 60 miles above the ground; Italian film "Paisa". Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy Magazine
194328 pages. Features: Front cover photo of London's great "Wings for Victory" Week - 100,000 people in Trafalgar Square; 12 related photos on the following two pages; Wonderful full-page photo of flying fortresses - prominent in the sensational Bismarck Sea battle; The Battle of the Bismarck Sea - article by Cyril Falls; Axis Forces Take a Pounding in the Retreat from Kasserine - Six photos; Indians gathered around a downed Japanese plane; Sketch of Germany's latest air transport - the Me. 323 six-engined "Powered Glider"; Large separate photos of submarine chasers the H.M.S. "Abelia" and the H.M.S. "Rother"; Hour-by-Hour the Bombs Rain Down on Emeny Targets in Europe - seven aerial photos; London Air Raid Shelter Tragedy - three photos of the shelter where 178 people died; Funeral of the Late Captain E.A. Fitzroy; The New Speaker of the House of Commons and his wife, Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown; Before and after photos of factory of the Societe des Produits Chimiques, at Tessenderloo, in Belgium - apparently when the factory was bombed there were 1,200 caualties and 4,000 left homeless; Squadron Leader H.R.K. Wells; Photos of new German anti-personnel bomb; Footbal cup final in Tripoli; Centerfold illustrations of doctors and dentists at work in the desert Army's Front Lines; Photos of London's "Wings for Victory" truimphal march through the city; Subhas Chandra speaking in Berlin; Captain S.H.A. Haggard; Alvar Liddell joins the R.A.F.; Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem; Photos of some of the international pilots of the Air Transport Auxilliary; Photos from two recent war films, the Russian "One Day of War" and the British "Desert Victory"; Fascinating photos of a training school for submarine crews; Glimpses of Nazi Germany - article by Charles E. Byles; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1934Pages 341-384. Features: nice ad for the Sporting and Dramatic News inside front cover; Cover photo of Canada's loftiest peak, the unconquered summit of Mount Waddington, plu two pages of text and photos showing a climbing party on the treacherous mountain; Photo of bizarre sea creature washed up at Querqueville, near Cherbourg - probably the remains of a basking shark; Two pages of detailed illustrations explaining drought and its dangers in rural England, plus schemes for alleviating water famine; Photo-illustrated book review of "Secrets of the Red Sea", by Henry de Manfreid; Photos and text describe jewelry of a Byzantine-Nubian Queen - more treasures from a mysterious Egyptian cemetery; Photo-illustrated article on an expedition to Cocos Island in search of long-buried pirate treasure with gold and silver indicating instruments; 12 photos illustrate life in the Saar, a district to choose by plebiscite government by Germany, France or the League; Two full-page photos of vast flocks of ducks at the unique Open Lake Sanctuary in Arkansas, plus photos of Mr. George S. Wilcox who protects the ducks; Photos of personalities of the week include the commission of government inaugurated in Newfoundland, Sir James Jeans, Sir H. G. Lyons, Madame Stavisky, the archduke Otto and ex-Empress Zita; the Queen of Siam and H. W. Austin in the Monte Carlo lawn tennis handicap; Acquitted Reichstag fire trial prisoners released and welcomed in Moscow include Mr. Popoff, Dimitroff and Taneff, Norman O'Neill, John Dillinger, Prof. S. F. Oldenburg, and Princess Irina Youssoupoff, who was awarded damages in the "Rasputin" film libel action; Centrefold photos of Prince George's 4000 mile tour in South Africa; Photo of the outdoor construction of Imperial Airways liner "Scylla" (too large for a hangar); Photo of stowaways John Pitzer and Arthur Martin afloat in the Gulf of Mexico; Photo of huge crowd in Trafalgar Square gathered to hear speeches about the unemployment bill; Photos of low British reservoirs; Photo of zeppelin "LZ 129" under construction; Photos of destroyed buildings in Kalgoorlie, Australia after anti-foreigner riots; Article and three photos describe sinking of the "Cheliuskin" near Wrangell Island; Photos of archaic Chinese jade in perfection - finds in the Lo-Yang tombs; Two pages of text and photos describe discoveries which "surpass anything yet known of archaic Chinese jade"; One-page ad for the new Ford Fourteen car; Half-page ad for the Crossley two-litre car; Half-page ad for the Armstrong Siddeley Twenty car; Half-page Rover car ad; Nice half-page Bentley car ad; Back cover ad for Douglas Stuart; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1952réf. 32786Melbourne, London, Toronto, William Heinemann ltd., 1952. 202 Seiten , 21 cm, , Hardcover/Pappeinband
19668vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1933Book shows some edge wear, gilt lettering at spine, notation in pencil inside cover, extended inscription by previous ownern at front end paper. Warping to text block, foxing to page ends. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, b&w photos throughout. 552 pages. Presentation copy from John Burns to Marjorie Lockton, signed and dated 1933 with a note about having a sore arm from billiards. John burns was a labor agitator at the turn of the century London, arrested and prosecuted for sedition and aquitted in 1886, sentenced for participating in a riot in Trafalgar square then later elected member of Parliament in 1892, 1895, 1900 & 1906.
19977 vols., 8vo., First Paperback Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, a double-page plan of the Nile, a full-page plan of Trafalgar and several full-page facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean fine set. The standard edition of Nelson's correspondence, first published by Henry Colburn in 1844-46.
1806réf. 005777London, James Cundee, 1806. Goldgeprägter Lederband der Zeit, IV-350 Seiten / 4 Bll. (Index), Kl.-8°. Erste Auflage 1806. The British Trident, Or, Register of Naval Actions; Including Authentic Accounts of all the most remarkable Engagements at Sea in which the British Flag has been eminently Distinguished; from the Period of the memorable Defeat of the Spanish Armada to the present Time (Volume 5 of 6). Einband vor allem an den Kanten mit deutlichen Läsuren. Seiten nur leicht gebräunt und vor allem an der Oberkante teilweise etwas fleckig. Insgesamt ist der Buchblock aber noch gut erhalten. Alle Mängel wurden bei der Preisfindung berücksichtigt. Die Gesamtausgabe des "British Trident" erschien von 1804 bis 1809. Vollständige Ausgabe (Band 5 / 1806) mit dem Frontispiz ("Lord Nelson attacking the Spanish Gun-boates"), acht Bildtafeln, einer mehrfach gefalteten Karte ("Plan of the Battle of Trafalgar") und Index. Seltenes Werk zur Geschichte der Royal Navy von Archibald Duncan in der englischen Erstausgabe.
1860réf. 902295AGLondon:, Tallis, [um 1860]. Stahlstich 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Blattgröße 21 x 27,5 cm.
réf. 27627in4 plein maroquin,plats decorés,trés frotté,titré museo Londres,sans page de titre, tranches dorées, 80 eaux fortes sous serpentes avec le texte en regard, montées sur onglets, Author: Thomas H Shepherd, (Thomas Hosmer), artist.Contributor: Wallis, William, 1796- engraver.- rare-
1999réf. LFA-126741148Une revue de 16 pages, format 220 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, Editions Atlas, bon état
2001réf. LFA-126741208Une revue de 12 pages, format 220 x 285 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, Editions Atlas, bon état
189316 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Monaco, France; A Square in Utrecht, Holland; Johan's Strasse and Royal Palace, Christiana, Norway; Palace of the Crown Prince, Stockholm; Frelsors Kirk, or, Church of Our Redeemer, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Place of Commerce, Lisbon; Mansion House, London; The Royal Palace, Madrid; St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg; Winter Palace, St. Petersburg; Mars Hill, Athens; The Suez Canal; The Great Sphinx, Egypt; Mount of Olives; Trafalgar Square, London; Stone Relief in the Church of St. John and St. Paul, Venice. Small chips from spine. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1936Pages 1349-1380. Many great black and white photos. Features: Battle of Trafalgar (continued); France's Key to the Mediterranean - Marseilles; The British Admiralty - rarely appreciated by the civilian; Building Marine Machinery - it must be done with accuracy and precision; Handling the Sailing Ship - an outline of all the major operations of seamanship and how they are carried out in various circumstances; Captain Fryatt and the "Brussels" in the War of 1914-1918; Moderate wear. Unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
1936Pages 1317-1348. Many great black and white photos. Features: Extracts from the Log of the late Captain J.W. Holmes (continued); Britain's Coastal Trade; From Aegean to Black Sea - the series of straits dividing Europe from Asia Minor; The Glory is Departed - Beneath the dirty paint of many hulks to be seen in various parts of the world are concealed the beautiful lines of proud sailing ships that were once undisputed mistresses of the Seven Seas; Undersea Weapons - torpedoes, mines and depth charges; The "Rex" and the "Conte Di Savoia" - transatlantic records have been broken by these vessels of the Italia Line; Battle of Trafalgar. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
20008vo., First Edition, with endpaper plans by Peter Goodwin; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by David Scutt. The seventeenth novel in the Sharpe series.
19868vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The sixteenth Ramage novel.
réf. GF20563Gravure originale à l'eau forte et aquatinte - format 13,5 x 13,5 cm sur une feuille de 29,5 x 21 cm - Vers 1820 - bon état malgré quelques petites piqures marginales sans gravité -
1703réf. 11099Marseille, Pierre Mesnier, 1703 ; in-4 ; plein veau havane marbré, dos à nerfs bien décoré et doré, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque) ; (12), 340, (4) pp. (Polak, 6701).
20018vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 20 coloured plates on 8, 41 monochrome plates on 16 and pictorial endpapers; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19888vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written biography by two of Britain's leading naval historians.
20042 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; black cloth, gilt backs, navy endpapers, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Complete set of Sugden's acclaimed biography, more than twenty years in the making and virtually certain to become the definitive account. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
19298vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, endpapers lightly browned, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt and legible), a very good, bright, copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in end, and the trade ticket of W H Smith, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, on front paste-down.
19768vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper; navy cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1805réf. 358595Annual Register London 1805. Softcover Booklet - Unbound Pages. Very Good Condition. 56 pages. An authentic standalone article extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register;. Annual Register paperback
