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ref. 29943, Rouen, Eustache Herault / Pierre Le Boucher 1702, in-12, plein veau brun de l’époque, dos à nerfs orné, tit. doré sur pc. rouge, tr. jaspées, roulette sur les coupes, vignettes, (lég. épidermures et tache sur les plats, coiffes accidentées, un coin écrasé, petit accroc à la pc. de tit., gardes défraîchies, rousseurs éparses, notes manuscrites anciennes sur une garde, (4 f.)-566p. + table.
ref. 52848, Paris, François Montalant 1715, in-4, plein veau fauve, dos à 5 nerfs richement orné de frises et fleurons dorés, roulettes dorées sur les coupes, lettrines, bandeaux et vignettes, Ex-Libris manuscrit, (mq. la pièce de tit. au dos, plats frottés avec qq. épidermures, coins émoussés avec mq. de cuir, coiffes accidentées, coupe inf. frottée, mors sup. fendu vers la queue, qq. trous de vers dont certains traversants mais sans incidence sur la lecture), texte frais , 700p.
ref. 3587Paris : l'éditeur, 1834 ,4e édition ,In-8 ,1/2 basane,dos lisse, défraichi,, VIII-572 p., + supplement 1839,153p.
ref. 51270, Toulouse, Pierre Soubiron 1906, 2 vol. in-8, demi-chagrin brun, tit. & tom. dorés sur pc. de maroquin noir, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de filets encadrants dorés et à froid, Ex-Libris manuscrit de Monsieur Castel, (plats papier et coupes frottés avec légers manques, coins émoussés), int. frais, exemplaires en bon état malgré les défauts mentionnés, 450 / 493p.
ref. 55353, Toulouse, Soubiron 1923, fort in-8, br., non coupé, (couv. fanée, br. fragile, papier jauni), int. frais, 448p.
ref. 42506, Paris, Moutard 1778, in-4, plein veau fauve marbré, tit. doré sur pc. brune, dos à 5 nerfs orné de filets et doubles filets dorés,, filets à froid sur les plats, tr. jaspées, (mors marqués, coiffes affaissées avec de petits accidents, coins émoussés avec des mq. des trous de vers marginaux), XXVII-558p.-[2 ff.].
197668 pages. Features: Cover story about new Tory Leader Joe Clark; Robert Stanfield's Farewell; Photos of Paul Hellyer, Brian Mulroney, Claude Wagner and Flora MacDonald; Henry Kissinger at work in South America - article with photos including Peru's D La Flor and Brazilian Foreign Minister Silveira; Irritation with U.S. presence in Panama; U.N. Buffer zone between Egypt and Israel; Putsch in Nigeria; Hard times for the Soviet Union; CIA director George Bush and CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr; President Ford orders overhaul of intelligence agencies - with photo of George Bush standing on CIA logo in lobby of CIA building; Richard Nixon visits China; Patty Hearst's long ordeal on the stand - article with color photos; Charges of Lockheed payoffs in Japan; Shah (of Iran) on a Shoestring; King Coal's Return - Wealth and Worry; Photo of Bette Midler showing her 'class' at Harvard; Sonny & Cher dolls; Major photo-illustrated article on Gore Vidal - laughing Cassandra; Passing of Commodore John W. Anderson, Eddie Dowling and Frank Sullivan; Dr. Hartman's list of lethal foliage; The T-Shirt - a startling evolution; Nice one-page color-photo ad for JAL (Japan Airlines) with four photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
ref. 40040Turnhout, Brepols, 2008 Hardback, X+324 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503520780.
ref. 1334586152.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1915Pages 294-388 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Captain's Baby - a respected officer of the Australian Steam Navigation Company takes a little urchin under his protection, leading to humorous difficulties; A Journey into Arabistan - photo-illustrated account of a journey through a little-known part of Persia; The Quest of the Peso-La-Ki - the romantic story of a hidden Western Navajo silver mine, sought for vainly by daring prospectors for over a century; Tight Corners (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures from West and Central Africa; The Girl-Man - a young woman aged 23 tires of an unhappy marriage and sinks her identity and sex to reappear as a man named Frank Duffy and wander the United States for three years - until she is discovered by a policeman and a court orders her to 'go back to the skirts'; Icebergs - interesting photo-illustrated article by Lacey Amy; Dodging Death - in Australia, Sydney Wright falls from a building under construction, only to be saved by landing on telegraph wires (per cover illustration); A wife on an Indian coffee plantation cures her husband of constantly 'talking shop'; Milly's Hobby; Europe's "Wild West" - photo-illustrated article on the great Hungarian Hortobagy; "The Doctor" - in Ceylon Gunner Duncan is tragically burned to death; Our Travels in Safari-Land (part III) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) describes her ambitious journey through British East Africa; The Missing Ship - in 1897 the American clipper T.F. Oakes and her crew were considered lost, but miraculously saved by the crew of the "Kasbek"; Interesting photo of the grave of a British Columbia Indian chief in a hit above stumps; Photo of a Burmese boy 'undergoing the operation of tattooing', with brief write-up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1972xxiii + 410pp., dans la série "Université de Louvain, Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie" 6e série facs.1, non coupé, bel état, R30779
19458vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 62 coloured plates, 130 plates and illustrations in monochrome, 88 diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of coarse-grain terracotta leatherette, upper board framed in black and blocked and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip blocked in black and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, radial corners, a near fine copy. Includes descriptions of every family of British spiders, every species of harvestman and false scorpion, and the more familiar of the British mites and sea-spiders. Colour plates by Florence M Brummitt. Enlarged and extended version of the original edition of 1935; the section on harvestmen is enlarged and the sea-spiders appear here for the first time. A lovely copy. See Marren, pp.166-167.
1977xiii + 317pp.+ frontispice + 4 plates, cloth, 23cm., ex-library copy (some stamps & label on spine) else G
1972Reprint of the 1916 first edition. 224 pages. The Lusitania Massacre is one of the great landmarks in history, not alone in American history but in human history, because it ensured German defeat in the World War. Chapters include: Should passenger vessels carry war material?; English orders to fight submarines; The German warning; The American warning; The Cunard Company's warning; American Ruling (not law) on foreign armed merchant vessels; Was the Lusitania armed?; The Manifest of the Lusitania; Who is responsible?; View of the English, Austrians and Germans; The official English investigation; and more. Black and white illustrations. Some markings. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Front hinge secured with librarian's tape. Spine leaning moderately. Remains a decent working copy. Book
1907Features: Photo portrait and write-up re: The Late J.G.S. Anderson, the late Captain of "E" and "G" companies; Our Regimental Plate - No. IX - the "Lumsden" Cup - photo of the cup and article by 3304; Notes by the C.O.; Annual Inspection - with photo of Cols. Balfour, His Grace The Duke of Argyll, and Montgomerie, all in top hats at the saluting base; Shooting Results; Notes on Writing Orders, Tactical Problems, and the War Game (a); and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
1961Features: Yuri Gregarin's Flight - Extensive Coverage; Eichmann Trial; Nylon net stops jet; The Maya Stelae of Aguateca; Jewels in the service of chivalry and royalty - Orders of Knighthood and an Empress crown (in colour); Courtship among animals (in colour); The AMI 6 Citroen; Large fold-out advertisement by AEI (Associated Electrical Industries Ltd); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1914ref. 951F7London: The Government of India by John Murray 1914 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. The very scarce first edition of this richly illustrated account of George V's 1911 visit to entia to take part in the Imperial Durbar in Delhi. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece eight colour plates two photogravures forty-four collotypes and numerous monochrome plates alongside four plans one of which is folding.Collated complete.With the bookplate of Christopher J. E. Jarchow to the front pastedown.The Delhi Durbar or Imperial Durbar was a mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park Delhi India to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar it was held three times in 1877 1903 and 1911 at the height of the British Empire. The 1911 Durbar was the only one that a sovereign George V attended. It took pace in December 1911 to honour King George V and Queen Mary's coronation in Britain a few months prior and to proclaim their titles of Emperor and Empress of India. All Indian princely state kings and governors were called to pay respect.This work in great detail depicts this display of imperial power during the British Raj and includes detailed itineraries speeches and illustrations of this defining event of Colonial India. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Light spotting to perimeters of front board with a touch of fading to centre of rear board. Light spotting to text block fore edge. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good The Government of India by John Murray hardcover
196720 pages. Chapters include: The Vatican; The Dioceses and Parishes; The Religious Orders; Unrelated Business; Government Grants. Prior own's details inside front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
18888vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, expertly recased, a near fine copy. With the QRAI revision slip (printed in red) mounted facing p. 71. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
192732 pages. Features: A Preacher Tells The Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and His Preacher Book; A $20,000,000 Bond Issue That Will Cost the Taxpayers $49,500,000 (second in a series presenting some of the hidden features of modern finance underlying public bond issues); Gibson Girls, Gibson Men and the Chicago World's Fair; Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars - Freedom from Extra Taxation for Armaments What They Most Want - article with wonderful photos; Every Person Has At Least One Book in Him; Henry Ford's Page - Finance Must Get Into Step; Editorials - Professor E.W. Kemmerer and Polish debt, Conspiracy, Fraud, the Elk Hills Oil Reserve, and Messrs. Doheny and Fall, attempt to impeach Judge Frank Cooper for upholding the country's prohibition law; People of the British Isles - The English; A Doctor Looks at Doctors - and sees them as they cannot see themselves; The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb - article with illustration of Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (Mrs. Columbus Tyler) and teacher Miss Polly Kimball; One-page ad (with photo) for Edison - Columbia - Victor recordings of the Old American Dances, as played by the Henry Ford Dance Orchestra; What is a Dollar Worth? (short piece); Chats with Office Callers - Smedley Butler cleans liquor from the San Diego Marine Barracks; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Controversial play entitled "The Captive" and Otto H. Kahn of Famous Players, Ripon College student Lynn Wells operates a bookstore but carries no inventory, with nearly all his orders going to foreign countries; News Bits; photos of large sailboats inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear with nibbling along coverfold. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1977164 pages including index, references and colour photography. Presents the current state of soil taxonomy in Canada. The history and rationale of soil classification in Canada are outlined briefly to point out the changes in concepts and the current point of view on soil taxonomy. This is followed by chapters that define soil, soil horizons, and other basic terms, and explain how to key out the classification of a soil. A chapter is devoted to each of the nine soil orders and the great groups and subgroups within each order. Average wear. Unmarked. Excellent reference. Book
20022002 reprint of 1987 edition. ; Oxford Medieval Texts; 1.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 500 pages; This is the first full edition of the canonization dossier of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, who died in 1189 and was canonized in 1202. It is a document of exceptional interest for the history of the canonization process in Rome, for the history of the one English religious Order of the Middle Ages, the Order of Sempringham, and for the biography of the founder himself, St. Gilbert. The order was founded to be primarily an Order of women, was confined to England, and so disappeared at the Reformation.
1974Features: Cover photo of Ab Jenkins and his 1933 V-12 Pierce-Arrow; Obituary of Arthur Kumpf inside front cover - Mr. Kumpf had a long association with the Pierce-Arrow, including service as a racer and endurance driver in the U.S. and Europe; list of Ab Jenkins' Driving achievements; Fredericksburg Meet Photos on pages 13 through 20; items on pages 4 through 9 are from the March 31, 1930 issue of 'The Pierce-Arrow News' (which was a large 'newspaper format' factory publication); Some Pierce-Arrows at Harrah's - with text and photos; New Parts Set-Up Gives Rush Service; Downton Window Display Proves Successful for Holden-Nelson; Here's the way your parts orders are handled; Speech of Col. Charles Clifton, 1917; Speech of Mr. Day about factory plans for the maintenance and up-building of Pierce-Arrow quality; Paint Shop Memories, by William L. Fischer; Many great photos from the 1974 PAS meet; Text of talk given at meet by Maurice A. Thorne. Back cover features reproduction of an ad for the Pierce-Arrow Travelodge, an early house/travel-trailer which could be pulled by car. Moderate wear. Umarked. A quality copy. Book
193324 pages. Features: Vintage illustrated ad for Peters shotgun shells on front cover; Publich Shooting Grounds; The American Jack Snipe Society; Advocating Game as a Replacement Crop; Canada Orders Buffalo Hunts; U.S. Sleuthing for Data to Aid "Duck Come-Back"; The Southwestern Club's Trials - article with photos of President Carl E. Duffield, Secretary Dr. Felix M. Adams and several dogs; Virginia Amateur Field Trials - article with photos of President Ernest C. Mead and Secretary J. Wiley King; Illustrated ad for Western Xpert shotgun shells; Field Dog Stud Book Registrations; Veterinary Q & A; Classy one-page ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) features hunters and dog at work; Nostalgic photo ad for Purina Dog Chow shows truckload of sacks of dog chow being manually loaded onto ship the Jacob Ruppert, Admiral Byrd's ship, before it set off for the Arctic in 1933 with 50 tons of food, enough for 153 huskies for two years; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
ref. 1332747388.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
