2000réf. 2502170119xbvkLondon, late 1990s/early 2000s. Ca. 26,5 x 19,3 cm.
2000réf. 2502170120xbvkLondon, late 1990s/early 2000s. Ca. 29,7 x 20,8 cm (sheet), ca. 25,1 x 19,5 (image).
2000réf. 2502170116xbvkLondon, late 1990s/early 2000s. Ca. 29,6 x 21 cm (sheet), ca. 26,7 x 19,4 cm (image).
2000réf. 2502170121xbvkLondon, late 1990s/early 2000s. Ca. 29,6 x 20,9 cm (sheet), ca. 26,3 x 19,5 (image).
1929Splendid cover illustration of planes in spotlights by W. Gord. Wallace. 40 pages. Features: Nice Fairchild ad with photos of their Wasp, 21 and 41 models; Great photo ad for Canadian Vickers Limited showing their Vedette; Canadian Pacific Express photo ad shows packages beinng loaded into plane from a truck - super vintage ad for Canada's first air express service; Photo ad for Armstrong-Siddeley's Jaguar 455 H.P. air-cooled static radial engine; Great article with five photos discusses Industrial Photography in aviation - with aerial photos of American Falls at Niagara, Industrial Hamilton, General Motors of Canada's Oshawa Plant, and Ontario Hospital at Hamilton; The National Aeronautic Association of the United States - article by Senator Hiram Bingham; Saskatoon Aero Club - article with two photos including R. Randall, C. Yule, R. Schwinghammer, Dr. L. McConnell, T. Sigsworth, J.F. Bythell, S. McClelland and R. Mayson; News from the flying clubs; Expansion announced by Canadian Vickers, Limited; Photo of the inauguration of Canadian Pacific Express bi-weekly air service; Formation of the Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company; New metal Gipsy Moth passes strict government tests - article with photos; Helioplane developed by John E. Hess of New Westminster, B.C. - article; Great full-page photo ad for the Gipsy Moth by De Havilland; Short-wave wireless transmitter devised by R.N. Johnston and Charles Ward, two young engineers of the Ontario Forestry Branch; Ad for Montreal's Continental School of Flying with photo of Capt. J.H. St. Martein; Principles of Aeroplane Construction - article; Super vintage full-page photo ad for the rotary "Snow King" plow by J.S. Innes Limited; Full-page ad for the Wright Whirlwind engine; Nice full-page ad for the Woods Manufacturing Company of Ottawa shows their flying suits; Ad for the Monocoupe inside back cover; Rambler ad on back cover promotes their all-metal lighte aeroplanes. Average wear. Binding intact. One-inch opening to top of coverfold. A sound vintage copy of this excellent early issue. Book
1917réf. 100133019W. Girardet / Essen Düsseldorf Berlin 1917 in4. 1917. Agrafé. 51 volume(s).
réf. 100091126Goemaere / Plon in8. Sans date. Relié. 5 volume(s). La Belgique sous la domination française 1792-1814 - 5 tomes: 1/ la conquête 1792-1795 (non daté circa 1920) 2/ Début du directoire - 1924 3/ La guerre des paysans: 1798-1799 - 1926 4/ L'Empire - 1929 5/ La chute de l'Empire - 1929
2 volumes In-8, [12]-532-[26]; [4]-516-[26]p. Edition nouvelle, augmentée de plusieurs pièces curieuses, & enrichie de Figures & de notes pour éclaircir les endroits les plus difficiles. Edition illustrée de 13 planches gravées par Harrewyn, dont 11 portraits. Très bel exemplaire, élégamment relié et en parfaite condition.
8 volumes gr. In-8, environ 1700p. au total. Edition de luxe au tirage limité et numéroté sur Arches. Illustré de 173 aquarelles reproduites en pleine page de Dubout coloriées à la main par Maurice Beaufumé. Collection complète à l'état de neuf.
1930réf. 2092902138303141Osakaya Bookstore 1930. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 284p Size: 19cm Osakaya Bookstore paperback
réf. 63-3748London UK: Henry Fawcett. Illustrated London News The Hornet & Vanity Fair 1872 & 1880. Chromolithograph from Vanity Fair 9.5" x 14" Good with marginal tears some creasing; published Dec. 21 1872; clipping on Fawcett affixed to verso. 9" x 15" Print of Engraving of Fawcett from The Hornet with related clipping affixed to verso Good with tiny marginal tear creasing. 9" x 12" Print of Engraving of Fawcett from The Illustrated London News Very Good with toning. Two Autographed Letters signed by Henry Fawcett Oct. 31 & Nov. 18 1872 Two Pages each 4" x 7" Ink on Laid Paper Very Good mounted on larger sheet 10" x 12" Good with losses tears staining. London, UK: Henry Fawcett. Illustrated London News, The Hornet & Vanity Fair, 1872 & 1880. unknown
réf. 0898210224-7-1Farm Wife Inc. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Farm Wife, Inc. unknown
réf. 0898210224-7-1-13Farm Wife Inc. Acceptable. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting as well as stains bent corners or any other major defect but the text is not obscured in any way. Farm Wife, Inc. unknown
1911réf. BK0114London: London News Agency Photos Ltd 1911. Original gelatin silver press photograph showing a large group of MÄori men and women in traditional and performance dress produced and distributed by London News Agency Photos Ltd. for coverage of the Festival of Empire. 8 x 5 ½ inches. Verso with L.N.A. "Please Acknowledge" agency stamp and contemporary typed caption "MAORI NATIVES FOR THE FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE"; later manuscript date "1914. Corner loss and general handling wear otherwise very good. An evocative press photograph documenting the MÄori presence at the 1911 Festival of Empire in London showing members of the touring company associated with MÄkereti Maggie Papakura the Tūhourangi guide performer and entrepreneur who brought a large Te Arawa concert party to Britain during the celebrations surrounding George V's coronation. Papakura's company had traveled to London expressly in connection with the Festival of Empire where contemporary reports anticipated their participation in the Pageant of Empire at the Crystal Palace. In the New Zealand portion of the pageant they were to represent the MÄori signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi and conclude the scene with a haka. Contemporary accounts of their arrival describe Papakura and the Tūhourangi leader Mita Taupopoki at the head of the party.1 A MÄori village was planned at the Crystal Palace but Festival authorities objected to the structures as a fire risk; after one was partly dismantled and the performers protested that tapu had been infringed the village was transferred to the Coronation Exhibition at White City.2 The troupe subsequently returned to perform at the Crystal Palace. 1 "ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES" New Zealand Graphic May 10 1911 7. 2 "TAPU VIOLATED. MAORIS DESERT CRYSTAL PALACE. DISAPPOINTING CONTRETEMPS." Taranaki Daily News July 18 1911 8. . London News Agency Photos Ltd unknown books
réf. PD38Oblong Folio album ca. 26x33 cm. 50 card stock leaves 21 blank. With 37 mounted original gelatin silver photographs with larger ones ca. 189x239 7 ½ x 9 ½ in and smaller ones from ca. 116x168 4 ½ x 6 ½ in to ca. 9x118 cm 3 ½ x 4 ½ in. Most photos signed and numbered in negative. Period full black pebbled cloth album fastened with a string; with the gilt-tooled generic title “Photographs” on the front cover; with the white ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper: “To Mr. F. G. Thaw Cruise Director “C.P.S.S “Empress of France” Mediterranean Cruise 1926 With the Compliments of Associated Screen News LTD. Montreal Canada.” Closed tears of a couple of leaves several photos with mild silvering but overall a very good album with strong interesting photos. Historically interesting album with large-size professional photos likely taken by an Associated Screen News LTD employee during a voyage from New York to the Mediterranean onboard C.P.S.S. “Empress of France” in 1926. According to the inscription on the front free endpaper the album was gifted to Mr. F. G. Thaw ca. 1879-after 1938 cruise director of the C.P.S.S. “Empress of France.” The Empress of France 1913–scrapped in 1934 departed New York on February 9 1926 for a 64-day Mediterranean cruise visiting 15 countries and 16 ports of call. The 27500-ton oil-burning liner carried over 450 passengers on a journey that included 19 days in Palestine and Egypt along with extended stopovers in Europe. The itinerary featured stops in Madeira Lisbon Cadiz and Gibraltar continuing to Algiers Syracuse Athens and Constantinople followed by visits to Beirut Haifa Alexandria Venice Naples Monaco and concluding at Cherbourg and Southampton. The album contains thirty-seven rare original photographs taken during the cruise in the mid-winter and early spring of 1926. The collection opens with three excellent large-size images showing the “Empress of France” on deck the steamer’s uniformed crew and the travelling party 11 men and 2 women of the Associated Screen News LTD posing for a group photograph. About eighteen photos illustrate the steamer’s stopovers along the southern and southeastern Mediterranean coasts. Seven excellent photographs of Egypt feature Opera Square and Shepheard’s famous hotel with the nearby shop signs “Wassar & Hajj“ “Kodak” “Maspero Freres LTD” in Cairo Sphynx and pyramids in Giza a group of rabbis and camel caravans. Six well-executed photos from the Holy Land show Jerusalem King David’s Tomb & Jaffa Gate with an Ottoman flag Tiberias the Great Mosque and Nazareth with the traveling group happily posing on the beach. An interesting scene from Jerusalem captures the bustling Jaffa Street alive with express wagons horseback riders pedestrians and a waving flag. There are also five photos of Algiers depicting a city panorama the Mosque of Djamaʽa el Djedid a street merchant selling Algerian fabrics and a portrait of a local man holding a baby in rags. About fifteen photos document the Empress’s stopovers in Europe. Six excellent photographs from Italy show Rome Colosseum Castel Sant’ Angelo Piazza Venezia Venice Grand Canal and Naples crowded Piazza Vittoria. Three rare early photos of Spain document the Land Gate in Cadiz and the Archeological Museum in Seville. There are also two well-executed images from Portugal showing King Pedro IV Square busy with trams cars and pedestrians and Benformoso St. with a butcher along with others curiously observing the photographer in Lisbon. The rest of the photos mostly capture the Rock of Gibraltar Casino de Monte Carlo and Syntagma Square in Athens. Overall a historically interesting album illustrating an early voyage from New York to the Mediterranean. hardcover
1911réf. BK0114London: London News Agency Photos Ltd 1911. Original gelatin silver press photograph showing a large group of MÄori men and women in traditional and performance dress produced and distributed by London News Agency Photos Ltd. for coverage of the Festival of Empire. 8 x 5 ½ inches. Verso with L.N.A. "Please Acknowledge" agency stamp and contemporary typed caption "MAORI NATIVES FOR THE FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE"; later manuscript date "1914. Corner loss and general handling wear otherwise very good. An evocative press photograph documenting the MÄori presence at the 1911 Festival of Empire in London showing members of the touring company associated with MÄkereti Maggie Papakura the Tūhourangi guide performer and entrepreneur who brought a large Te Arawa concert party to Britain during the celebrations surrounding George V's coronation. Papakura's company had traveled to London expressly in connection with the Festival of Empire where contemporary reports anticipated their participation in the Pageant of Empire at the Crystal Palace. In the New Zealand portion of the pageant they were to represent the MÄori signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi and conclude the scene with a haka. Contemporary accounts of their arrival describe Papakura and the Tūhourangi leader Mita Taupopoki at the head of the party.1 A MÄori village was planned at the Crystal Palace but Festival authorities objected to the structures as a fire risk; after one was partly dismantled and the performers protested that tapu had been infringed the village was transferred to the Coronation Exhibition at White City.2 The troupe subsequently returned to perform at the Crystal Palace. 1 "ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES" New Zealand Graphic May 10 1911 7. 2 "TAPU VIOLATED. MAORIS DESERT CRYSTAL PALACE. DISAPPOINTING CONTRETEMPS." Taranaki Daily News July 18 1911 8. . London News Agency Photos Ltd unknown
1867réf. 10025New York: John Dainty No. 37 Park Row - American News Company 119 and 120 Nassau Street 1867. Hardcover. Good . John Dainty Engravings. 12mo 165 pp. brown cloth covers with title lettered in gilt Not To Be Taken From The Hotel - 13 steel engravings folding map 21-1/4"x41" bound in between pp. 16 & 17; Legend: International Boundary - Indian Reservation Boundary - County Boundary Forest Reserve Boundary - Railroad - Wagon Road Trail - Township Lines - Ferry. Numerous full page merchant / business advertisements. -- Spine faded map has a couple of closed tears along the fold lines; otherwise quite nice. Binding tight moderately slanted. Text block is tight contents clean. -- Condition. John Dainty, No. 37 Park Row - American News Company, 119 and 120 Nassau Street hardcover
réf. 2091502135500241Japanese Silk Union N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 284 41p Size: 16x23cm Japanese Silk Union paperback
1936réf. 2111902156000521Nippon Dempo News Agency 1936. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Nippon Dempo News Agency? paperback
1936Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Service to Japan, Hawaii and the Philippines now available; Anchors foul cable 4 times within 10 days - Burrard Inlet; Classified system will be extended to remainder of territory - includes full-page rate sheet; Company gains telephones in 1934 after 3 year decline (presumably due to the Great Depression); Company architect, Hugh D. Simpson; Our overseas service kept growing last year; Employee Sales Team Results; Statement of Development, 1 January 1935 - show # of phones per community; System suffers heaviest storm damage in history - January 1935 - 8 pages with photos; New exchange for the Albernis; John C. Miles succeeds John Johnston as Building Head; World Telephone network now includes 60 countries; Billy Palliser - champion salesman for Victoria Plant; Sechelt Company picnic; New phone system for thriving Alberni area - 4 pages with photos; Record 19,000 mile call from Vancouver to Perth, Australia; Dog's bark in Vancouver heard in Scotland; Round the world telephone talk sets record; Telephony's part in Canada's Jubilee celebration - 2 pages with photos; Parksville Exchange has Dial Unit at Qualicum Beach; Arthur R. Harness - garden awards; New switchboard handled by sightless operator - article with photos; PNE float details and photo; 2-page bio. with photo of Eugene P. LaBelle, the company's General Superintendant of Plant *MR. LABELLE'S NAME IS STAMPED ON THIS COPY*; Carrier circuits established between Vancouver and Calgary; Number of phones increased last year; Miss Elizabeth Murray, Vancouver's first chief operator, dies; New radio stations established; Fraser telephone building remodelled; Conference calls link Canadian cities by long distance (!); Operator school reopened; George E. Pittendrigh of Cloverdale, BC - installed Vancouver's first telephones; Telephone folks to the rescue; New Long Distance developments embrace Howe Sound Points; Key to Safety on the Job; New radio link serves Quesnel and adjacent mining area; Vancouver's first emergency phone calls; Newcastle Island Picnic; C.A. (Charlie) Price - Queer theories prove that people read the 'Yellow Pages"; James Welsh - our first formen; Article on the challenges of information operators; Seymour operating room photo; Mr. W.F. Salsbury - helped pave the way for our present telephone system; *CARICATURE OF E.P. LABELLE* and other company executives; Vancouver Arena fire damage quickly repaired; PNE float photo and details; Long Distance developments this year; Dominion Telephone organization meets in Victoria; Ex-policeman Ernest A. Harris recalls use of telephone in 1891; Monte Butler wins more rowing laurels; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Half-leather binding intact. Backstrip loose along front edge. Book
1800réf. 214185Japan. Kansei 12 1800. Black and white woodblock kawaraban print 25 x 33cm. Some worming repaired with Japanese tissue margins uneven. A strong dark image. This intriguing kawaraban reports on the shipwreck of a Chinese trading ship in December 1800 Kansei 12 at Yamana County in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture. The print was crafted to convey the details of the incident to various authorities featuring an illustration of the distressed Chinese ship. The coastal area where this occurred faces the Pacific Ocean and has been historically referred to as the shipwreck coast. The report accompanying the illustration provides information on the circumstances of the incident offering insights into the nature of the shipwreck and detailing the size of the ship involved. This historical print serves as a visual and informational record of a maritime event in the early 19th century reflecting the challenges faced by vessels navigating the waters off the coast of Yamana County. . unknown
réf. 121987Christmas Island Royal Army Educational Corps May 15 1957. . 2-leaf mimeographed broadside wire-stitched 33.5 x 20.5 cm text printed in red and black slight rusting from the staple excellent condition. A rare newsletter celebrating the supposed detonation of Britain's first hydrogen bomb as part of Operation Grapple in the Christmas Islands during 1957. The text describes the preparation the event itself and the Valiant XD 818 used to drop the bomb. Task Force Commander Air Vice Marshall W.E. Oulton and Scientific Director W.R.J. Cook are profiled. 'In MayJune 1957 the first three Grapple tests were held at Malden Island codenamed Grapple 1 Short Granite Grapple 2 Orange Herald and Grapple 3 Purple Granite. The nuclear devices were detonated high over the ocean after being dropped from a Valiant bomber. After the three tests the British Government falsely stated that it had achieved a thermonuclear explosion in the megaton range. The MidPacific News - a newsletter produced for staff and troops on Christmas Island - reported: 'Bomb Gone! H-Bomb puts Britain on level terms' Maclellan Grappling with the Bomb: Britain's Pacific H-Bomb Tests p. 2 2017. It was quickly determined that none of the detonations had actually reached 1 megaton but Grapple X in November of the following year achieved this. Christmas Island, Royal Army Educational Corps, May 15, 1957. unknown
1938Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
In-4, 91p. Edition limitée à 301 exemplaires illustrés de 10 eaux-fortes hors texte tirées en bistre de Gierolewski. Ornementations (culs-de-lampe et encadrement) en 2 couleurs. Traduction française d'Ostroya et G. Masson. Un des 275 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin d'Arches. En excellente condition.
Pt. In-4, 64 pages non chiffrées. Edition originale. Un des 1000 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin Lafuma de Voiron. Illustré de 25 compositions en couleurs de Raoul Dufy. Impression soignée par Louis Kaldor, illustrations tirées sur les presses à bras d'Aimé Jourde et coloriées au pochoir par Richard. Exemplaire en parfaite condition, agréablement relié.