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1930Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
1929Features: A motoris may be asleep even if his eyes are open; Editorials: save Old Ironsides, Humanizing science, Television's future, Submarine safety; Skilled workmanship on organs for church, theater and home; Architects as room designers; The strangest thing in physics; Firsts in aviation; Towers of Hudson River bridge are rising rapidly; The highest known velocity; Prospecting with artificial earthquakes; the month in medical science - punch drunk, u.v. rays, compressed air pranks, posture, yellow fever, rider's legs, tar poison, childhood teeth, food colors; The search for the first American; Education adopts the motion picture; Pointers from a pen maker; Death Valley; Egyptian vandalism 3400 years ago; Aerodynamic wind mills; Television advances; Protecting paintings for posterity; Roman engineering triumphs; Light airplaine design contest; Wasteful cotton baling methods; Early Indians in Florida.Major damage to front cover along spine. Half of spine missing. Back cover features colour Camel cigarette advertisement with the caption "Now it's unanimous. I'd walk a mile for a Camel... So would I" Two-colour "Dodge Brothers Trucks" advertisement inside front cover. Inside back cover is a very attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement with a few small spots of soiling. Ad shows a strapping young man fabricating auto parts. Well-worn. Magazine
1929Features: The new planetariums for Chicago and Philadelphia; Editorials - C.F. Brush, Sea safety code, Men's clothes, air country clubs; Licorice the versatile; Uncle Sam gives us new money - the process, in brief, of making paper currency; Why does an oil gusher gush?; Charting Canada's wilderness from the air - more accurate than with transit and chain; Our army's mechanized forces - development of the American fighting tank since war times (with interesting photos); What becomes of star light?; Is the diesel airplane practical?; Silvering the world's largest telescope; Foiling the burglar III - vault combinations and clocks; Sea Safety contest; the Zeppelin's American home - huge hangar being erected in Akron; Steam Come-back - outdistancing water for generation of electricity; Designing large telescopes; World's largest vineyard in California; Ancient history from aloft; Compressed air used in Novel hospital - diabetes, anemia, and other maladies treated in an unusual manner; the 'heat makes cold' regrigeration unit. Attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement inside back cover. Colour Lucky Strike advertisment upon back cover features a puckered damsel and the caption "To keep a slender figure no one can deny... Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." There are some rubbings/marks to this page. Page 198 is a full page advertisment for passenger aircraft manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan. Damage to bottom of spine. Unmarked. Magazine
1936Approx. 40 pages. Features: The Metadyne system of electric motor control; Engineers' Experiences; Electrical Pyrometers; Marine Control Gear; Power Factor Meters; 25-line Private Automatic Telephone Exchange; Electrical Equipment in a Modern Store; Making Agreements for Power Supply; Reading Switchboard Instruments from a distance; Development of X-rays in Dental Practice; Selection of Factory Substation Switchgear; Mercury switches and their applications; Ballast Resistances; Electrical Progress Overseas; Opportunities in the Cinema Industry. Well-worn. Bottom staple has torn through cover else no major defects. Unmarked. Blue and Orange front cover features advertisement for Callender Cables showing the vessel "Stirling Castle" equipped with 112 miles of their cable. Book
193639 pages. Features: Power Supplies for Large Buildings; Parallel Working of Alternators Simply Explained; Applications of Photo Cells to Mechanical Handling; Modern Methods of Battery Charging; A.C. Carbon Arcs; Electric Heating in Industry; Current Limiting Reactors; The Strowger Photo Tlelmetering System; Control gear for A.C. Motors; Power Factor Correction Plant; Recent Patent Specifications; Engineer's Experiences. Cigarette smoke odour. Small quantity of "nibbling" to top corner of front cover and first few leaves. Well worn but intact. Blue and orange front cover features picture of the vessel Queen Mary in an advertisement for Callender Cable which supplied 650 miles of cable for its construction. Two-colour center-fold advertisement for Crabtree Automatic Control Gear manufactured by J.A. Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Unmarked. Book
1937Approx. 40 pages. Features: James Clerk Maxwell; Electric Ship Propulsion - Part I; German Standars for Electric Traction; The British Standard Specifications - Mining Electrical Equipment; Electrolytic Condensers; Wilson Electric Tower Wagon; Domestic and Industrial Electric Heating Installations; Portable Instruments in the Factory; Useful Data Relating to Three-Phase Motors (7.5-25 h.p.); Electrical Testing Instruments; Electron Tube Devices; Electrical Progress Overseas; Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Demonstration. Very well-worn with 1x2 inch chip from top corner of front cover. Front cover advertisement for the Midland Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. reads "Britannia rules the waves but M.E.M. controls the current." Unmarked. Magazine
1937Approx 40 pages. Features: Magnetic and Motorised Valves; Measuring Voltages in Excess of Meter Range; Inductive Interference; Construction of Steel Tank Rectifiers; Electrically Propelled Transfer Cars; Regenerative Braking Systems; Diary of an Electrical Contractor; The Design of Lighting Fittings for Particular Applications; Insulation Testing Instruments; Electrical Drying Equipment; Conversion Efficiency in Cinemas; Power Factor for the Plant Engineer. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Please Note: Large chunk has been torn from upper corner of front cover, which features an advertisement for Mazda Lamps. Book
196764 pages plus index. Recipes from Gabriola Island B.C. Although date is not stated, this book was probably published in 1967. Well used with some soiling to glossy front cover. Also contains nostalgic advertisements from contemporary local businesses, most notably a full-colour advertisement upon back cover by the G.W. Dorman Pulp Chip Co. Ltd. featuring a photo of "Chipper" Dorman's delightful daughter and wife. Book
196051 pages plus advertisement. Includes numerous black and white photographs. Subject was born in Rama, Ontario in 1820 and died in 1884. He began work among his own people in the North-West in 1840. Undated. Appears at least several decades old. Average wear. Closed one inch tear at base of cover fold. Unmarked. Circa 1960? Book
1955A very nostalgic 'scribbler' ca. 1950s, perhaps earlier. Back cover features full-page advertisement for the famous Bee Hive 5"x7" N.H.L. hockey pictures. This ad features facsimiles of several Toronto Maple Leaf players. Inside and outside of front cover, and inside of back cover consist exclusively of bright colourful ads for: Bee Hive Corn Syrup, Durham Corn Starch, Ivory Laundry Starch, and St. Lawrence Oil. Contents consist of 24 ruled pages, 14 of which contain hand-written notes. Light to moderate wear. Measurements: 7" wide x 9" high. A very nostalgic and collectible item, particularly for Maple Leafs fans. Book
194840 pages. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. Covers taped together. Includes colour full-page 'Jamavana' cigar advertisement. Features include: Craftsmanship in Mahogany; Silver Tea-Pots and Coffee-Pots; English Gate-Leg Tables; New Light on Old Pewter; Georgian Portrait Painters; Bow Porcelain 1745-75. Book
196532 pages. Features: Moving Towards the Climax in South Vietnam; Full-Colour MG Automobile Advertisement; The Queen visits Sudan; Turbulence in the Aircraft Industry; Art Treasures from French Churces; Astronaut's Underwater Escape Drill; Police Shooting at Westmorland; The Mine of Statuary in Aphrodisias; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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
1961Features: The Algerian Rebellion; The Abortive Invasion of Cuba; The Empress of Canada; The Education of Commonwealth Youth - Hilton College, South Africa; Lovely colour advertisement for the Humber Super Snipe; Colour Advertisement for State Express 555 Cigarettes; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1959Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1959Features: Lovely full-page colour Jaguar advertisement; Many gorgeous colour illustrations; Nice Rootes Humber Super Snipe full-page colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1959Features: Eton College, Five Facsimile Water-Colours by Dennis Flanders; Princess Saloon Advertisement; Nyasaland Disturbances; Serious Fire in Ilford; The Origin of the Solar System - Part V of a science series; Priceless Exhibition of Cambridge Silver; Hazor - the last season of excavation - part I, the lower city; Dramatic Sea and Air Accidents; The Eoka leader and his weapons; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: The Kariba Hydro-electric project opened by the Queen Mother; Brazillian Indians in the heart of the forest - the dying tribes; The man who threw the spanner - multiple photos of Khrushchev; a Bristol Siddeley flying lorry/truck which would travel from London to Birmingham in about 25 minutes; Nonsuch revealed in recent excavations; The Leys School; Colour Decca Stereo advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: First photographs in colour - treasures of the Russian Kremlin; Prince Andrew baptised; a drive-in bank; the shots at Johannesburg; An underground township protected against nuclear attack - a Cornell University model; The great temples of Abu Simbel; What the high dam will do to the antiquities of Nubia; St. John's College, Johannesburg, South Africa; Brasilia - Brazil's new capitol; one-page colour advertisement for Daimler Majestic; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1960Features/Photos: In colour - Canadian flowers, Istanbul, 'The Sleeping Beauty'; BMC truck advertisement in colour; Prince Andrew arrives; Dozens killed by police at Sharpeville, South Africa; Moby Dick - a projected nuclear-powered submarine for Britain (2-page cutaway drawing); A great new British liner - Canberra; Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
191440 pages. Part 10 of a series "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - from Preface. Contents: Chapter XXII - The German Advance to Brussels; Chapter XXIII - The First French Offensive in Alsace; Centerfold "Map To Illustrate The German Advance to Brussels". Dozens of excellent black and white archival photographs. Upon back cover is an interesting and attractive advertisement for the "Swan" Fount Pen, intended for a soldier's kit. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Magazine
191440 pages. Part 11 of a series "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - from Preface. Contents: Chapter XXIV - German Vandalism in Belgium; Chapter XXV - Evidence of German Atrocities. Dozens of excellent black and white archival photographs. Interesting "Swan" Fount Pen advertisement upon back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Magazine
1900Scenes of fighting in Natal. The seige of Ladysmith. Scenes at the front. Scenes near Estcourt, Natal. New South Wales Contingent departs for action aboard the 'Aberdeen' (photo). The "Medic" departs Fort Melbourne Pier for the Cape with Victorian and Tasmanian Contingents (photo). Bringing Boer Prisoners into Ladysmith (illustration). 16 Photos of Casualties at the front. Photo of the Canadian contingent passing up Adderly St., Cape Town. Photo of the Bluejackets of H.M.S. "Terrible" with 4.7" gun. Centerfold illustration entitled "The Transvaal War: The Loss of Our Guns at the Tugela River". The Khalifa's last stand at Umdebereikat, in Kordofan. The Battle of Abu Aada. Full-page Monkey Brand Soap advertisement. Photo of four officers of the Dublin Fusiliers. A jubilee group of colonials - photo. Quaker Oats ad upon back cover. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Book
1900Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Cover illustration of The Battle of Magersfontein. Photos of: Squad of the Essex Artillery Volunteers, Detachment of the London Scottish Volunteers, Machine-Gun Detachment of the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, the new Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert", Prominent officers on active service, Scenes on the Western Line of Communicationsl, The Camp of the Grahamstown 1st City Volunteers, at Cradock, Lord Curzon's visit to Lucknow, A Group of Irish Nurses bound for South Africa, Scenes at De Aar. Illustrations include: "With the Kimberley Relief Column, The Burial of General Wauchope and Lieutenant-Colonel Goff, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the field of Magersfontein, The City of London Volunteers for South Africa, How Long Tom's Shell Disturbed the Middies' Sucking-Pig, Bursting of the Shell that Passed through the Royal Hotel, Ladysmith, and killed Dr. Stark, Rimington's Tigers, on the Mooi River, Manning the breastwork at Naauwpoort Camp, Arundel Camp, Bluejackets Saving Their Gun (Centerfold), Lovely full-page Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1900Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos include: The Colonel and Staff of the South Wales Borderers, The City Imperial Volunteers Farewell Supper, Scenes of the Departure of the City of London Imperial Volunteers, Queen Victoria shakes hands with Captain Seeley of the Imperial Yeomanry. Illustrations include: Dublins and Inniskillings across the Tugela, How Lord Roberts' Son Fell at Colenso, New South Wales Lancers, Incident at Modder River, Boer Prisoners from Belmont, Troops detrain at De Aar Junction, Inside the Johannesburg Fort, Trestle Bridge at Frere, Modder River Temporary Bridge Construction, Burial of General Wauchope (centerfold), Full-page Cadbury Cocoa Advertisement, Berkefield Filter Advertisement, The Highland Brigade Re-Forming after the Battle of Magersfontein. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book