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1993ref. BN426306Den Haag : Stroom/Haags Centrum voor Beeldende Kunast 1993. 1993. Softcover. De bocht van Guinee De bocht van Guinee Peters Philip & Waling Boers & Gepke Bouma & Irma Boom design & Lily van Ginneken voorwoord Den Haag : Stroom/Haags Centrum voor Beeldende Kunast paperback
1913100 Pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Features: The Crusader's Ghost a tale from Manorbier, a village in Pembrokeshire; The Ice-Harvest of Norway - *fascinating* article and many descriptive photos explain how large blocks of ice are produced and transported to London for sale; Twenty Dreadful Days - Captain W.H. Derard's vessel, the "Siddartha" was dismasted in the Atlantic; Through the Land of Witchcraft - Part 3 - "Ju-Ju" in remote bush districts of West Africa; How We Saved the Team - an Australian teamster saves his runaway bullocks as they hang over a precipice; Paid in Full - Captain G.D. Haigh was captured and mistreated by Boers but he escaped and brought justice to his former captors; Our Trip to the Cedars of Lebanon - *magnificently* photo-illustrated article; The Hunted Hunters - While chasing a French-Canadian lumberman/murderer the pursuers are hunted by wolves!; Stopping a Runaway Engine; Across the Congo - Part 4 - photo-illustrated article describing the 3,500 mile journey of Marguerite Roby from Boma to Elizabethville; The "Beast-Man" - John Tornow vowed a vendetta against the entire human race in the Chehalis County area of Washington state; A Wanderer in Sicily - wonderful travel article with many great photos; School-Teaching in the West - wild times at a mixed composition school at Beaver Creek near Fort Benton, USA. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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
1847ref. 1155441847 2 in-8 Paris, A. René et C°, 1847, 2 volumes in-8 de 150x230 mm environ, XVI, 580 pages - (2) ff., 622 pages, SEULEMENT 1 carte dépliante (Chasse) sur 2 mais complet des 8 planches hors-texte. Demi-chagrin rouge, dos portant titres et tomaisons dorés, toutes tranches dorées, gardes de papier nacré. Coins légèrement frottés, sinon exemplaires en bon état, intérieur frais.
2021ref. x-036743766XRoutledge 2021. Hardcover. New. 248 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.71 inches. Routledge hardcover
2026ref. x-9048562511Routledge 2026. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.45 inches. Routledge hardcover
1900ref. 16360(France vers 1900) 200 x 155 mm
1900ref. 16361(France vers 1900) 200 x 155 mm
1993ref. BN424887Dordrecht/Boston/London : Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993. 1993. Hardcover. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Phosphorus in Sediments Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Phosphorus in Sediments Boers Paul C.M. & Thomas Ernst Cappenberg & Wim van Raaphorst Dordrecht/Boston/London : Kluwer Academic Publishers hardcover
ref. 5666notamment dans le territoire de NATAL,dans celui des Cafres Amazoulous et Makatisses et jusqu’au tropique du Capricorne exécuté durant les années 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 et 1844. Avec une introduction par M.ALBERT-MONTEMONT.Deux tomes en un volume in 8 demi-chagrin rouge époque,titre,fer,filet, roulette dorés,filets à froid.Tome 1:faux-titre,portrait de l’auteur lithographié par GRENIER,sous serpente;titre,XVI, 580 pages,5 lithographies hors-texte,y compris le frontispice.Une carte dépliante pour l’intelligence du voyage(une tache brun-clair)Tome 2:faux-titre,titre,622 pages,3 lithographies hors-texte,une carte de chasse, dépliante,indiquant les lieux qu’habitent les diverses espèces d’animaux paris A.René & Cie 1847,quelques rousseurs éparses;Sinon très bon état.Un des premiers grands voyages cynégétiques sur le continent africain.Il explora pendant 6 année l’Afrique Australe partant de Cape Town,il visita d’abord la plaine désertique du Grand Karou puis prenant Port Natal comme base de départ,il se rendit en Cafrerie,remonta vers le nord en longeant la chaîne du Drakensberg,qu’il traversa. Il visita ensuite le Natal, le Zoulouland,franchit le Waal et parcourut les territoires de la baie de Delagoa appartenant aux portugais.Il effectua de nombreuses parties de chasse dans le but de reunir des spécimens rares,destinés aux musées d’histoire naturelle. Thiébaud 259 Gay 3215
19368vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, double-page facsimile and 2 large folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presention. The original South African edition, published by Constable, was published a year before the standard trade edition.