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1931ref. 2230150London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover original 1931 publication and not a modern reprint. Gray cloth boards with black text on front and spine. Exterior shows spotting and soiling edges and corners show bumps/wear. Spine is also mildly sunned. The internal binding is good no hinge issues. The front pastedown contains a pasted in note which has left a shadow on the opposite end page which also has "R.A. Montes de Oca" penned along the top edge. No other handwriting found in the book. Pages are tones due to age and the pages do have a slight wave to them. This appears to be the way the book was bound. The edge bump that can be seen on the image showing the rear board is also on a few of the interior pages. The book contains numerous fold outs showing engine architecture as well as numerous charts and graphs and other illustrations and photographs. His Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1894Crown octavo. Pp. x, 194, (8) Publisher's ads. Appendices, indices, footnotes and extended Preface. Hardcover, bound in the original illustrated blue cloth, spine discoloured. In good condition. ~ SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. With a presentation inscription in the Author's hand, "To E. Taylor in memory of the Palestine lectures (.), September 1895, James Neil". Eleventh edition. This edition is printed throughout on exceptionally heavy paper, actually card, uncommon in small octavo. Also the cover differs from the plain leaf-green cloth of previous editions and displays now illustration of an orthodox Jew reading from the Torah. With interesting appendices about farming in Palestine, the scenery of the land, the Papal railway, the state of Europe and Russia. With detailed General Index and Index of Texts, which lists all passages of scripture explained or referred to in the text.
1971ref. 42888New York: Liberated Guardian 1971. 1st edition. Original color illustrated paper wrappers 8vo 48 pages. 20 cm. Includes many photos. Heavily illustrated booklet issued to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Weather Underground “The Weathermen” the left-wing militant organization which split off from Students for a Democratic Society SDS. Both SDS and the Weathermen were heavily Jewish see for example jewishcurrents.org/march-6-the-weathermen. The Weathermen took their name from Bob Dylan’s line “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” The booklet is loaded with cartoons photos and illustrations showing the group's activities including a bombing by the "Proud Eagle Tribe a group of revolutionary women" in Boston and another in New York in support of Puerto Rican liberation. It includes texts of communiques sent by the Weather Underground to the press in 1970 and 1971 as well as clippings from other publications such as The Liberated Guardian The Berkeley Tribe and Yippie-aligned underground press. These include dispatches and documents dated 1970 to May 1971 such as "Seattle" "Isla Vista" "Marin County" "Long Island City" and "Boston." Except for communiqes no. 4 an open letter from Timothy Leary after his Weather Underground-assisted escape from prison introduced by Bernardine Dohrn and no. 8 authored as indicated by Dohrn all communiques were issued to explain the purpose of specific Weather Underground bombings. The work presents the Weather Underground's actions in their own words covering topics such as bombings marches and protests. "We publish this pamphlet in the hope that reading the communiques together will remind the overground of its responsibilities both to the underground in this country and to the world revolution" page 1. Contents: - Communique no. 1. Declaration of war - Communique no. 2. "Tonight.We Blew Up the N.Y.C. Police Headquarters" - Communique no. 3. Don't look for us dog; we'll find you first - Communique no. 4. Rosemary and Tim are free and high! - Communique no. 5. Fall offensive : guard your children guard your doors - Communique no. 6. Message to brother Dan - Communique no. 7. ".We want to express ourselves to the movement.as tribes at council - Communique no. 8. We attacked the Capitol - Communique no. 9. Dear Mrs. Bacon. "This pamphlet was prepared by the Liberated Guardian Collective and other friends of the Weather Underground. Text of most of the communiques from documents sent to The Liberated guardian others from the YIPPIES and The Berkeley tribe and other papers." SUBJECTS: Radicalism -- United States. Terrorism -- Radicalisme -- E´tats-Unis. Terrorisme. OCLC: 11127801. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Cover split at bottom of spine paper toning cover less so Good Condition. B AMR-68-8-MMVX-'wwb. New York: Liberated Guardian unknown
1887ref. 011080NY: Aqueduct Commissioners of New York City / Douglas Taylor Printer & Publisher 1887 January 1 1887. 63pp with the rest of the book loaded with Tables Profiles Diagrams Photographs Maps Drawings colo r Progress Profiles of the New Croton Aqueduct from Central Park to Croton Lake Plans and Engravings. Bound i three quarter leather and cloth spine taped covers very worn occasional paper edge chips. Aqueduct Commissioners of New York City / Douglas Taylor, Printer & Publisher hardcover
1971ref. 741031971. A Landmark First Amendment Case United States Reports Pentagon Papers. New York Times Co. v. United States. Putzel Henry Jr. Reporter. United States Reports Volume 403: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term 1970. Washington: United States Government Printing Office 1972. lii 983 pp. Publisher's original tan buckram red and black lettering pieces blind frames ink property stamp to lower right corner of front board. Very good. $250. First edition. Contains the authoritative printing of New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713 a landmark First Amendment case. In a 6-3 ruling the court determined that the government had not shown that the Times's publication of the Pentagon Papers posed a "grave and irreparable" danger to national security and its national security interests could not otherwise supersede the freedom of the press granted by the First Amendment. unknown
1932ref. 43495Buenos Aires: Yidishn vishshaftlekhn instut Argentiner optayl 1932. First edition. Original paper wrappers 8vo 29 pages includes illustrations. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "YIVO: Its Objectives and Activities." An overview of the activities of the Argentina chapter of YIVO in the year 1932. "In Argentina a group of activists organized in 1926 a support committee for YIVO and in 1928 the Argentine Section was formally established which together with the United States uninterruptedly sustained its work until today. In its almost a hundred years the Buenos Aires subsidiary became a reference for Jewish culture in Latin America. From there the IWO kept the Yiddish language alive through courses cultural activities book editing library historical archive and research projects. The IWO i.e. YIVO century of existence was marked by great tragedies. Vilnius' headquarters were destroyed during World War II; the heritage was looted by the Nazis protected by their workers within the Vilnius Ghetto and partially recovered after the Holocaust. Decades later the headquarters of the IWO YIVO in Buenos Aires suffered the attack on the AMIA in 1994 which completely destroyed the building where it operated. Thanks to the tireless task of more than 800 volunteers a substantial part of the documentary collection was rescued" IWO. SUBJECTS: Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut. OCLC: 19312136 Very Good Condition. PSB-1-15-BBE-'lxmccgg. Buenos Aires: Yidishn vishshaftlekhn instut Argentiner optayl unknown
ref. 50860Wien Springer-Verlag 1961. 8vo. XII 714 pp. folding table; VI 102 pp. Publ. printed cloth. Two volumes. Volume I: Main Session edited by Reuterswärd. Volume II: Small Sounding Rockets Symposium edited by Hjertstrand. A third volume containing the proceedings from The Third Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space was also published the same year. According to the foreword in volume I the proceedings of The Astrodynamics Colloquium and The Space Medical Symposium were to be published in forthcoming issues of the Swedish journal Astronautik. The main sessions covered in the first volume contained the inaugeral lecture by Sir Harrie Massey ”Scientific Research Using Space Vehicles” and 84 other contributions some abstract or title only distributed across ten different sessions: Planetary Atmosphere Environments Interplanetary Environment Medicine Navigation and Space Communications Guidance and Control Propulsion Space Projects Trajectories Vehicles and Power Supplies Economics and Miscellaneous. The congress in Stockholm gathered engineers and scientists from all around the world and among the many contributions can therefore be mentioned ”Results of Exploring Meteoric Matter with Instrumentation of Sputnik III and Space Probes” by T. N. Nazarova and ”Status Report on the U.S. Space Rocket Program” by Wernher von Braun. The latter mentions among other things the development of the Saturn rocket program which would become instrumental when the United States put astronauts on the Moon less than a decade later. hardcover
1833Hardcover. No jacket. Boards are lightly marked. Leading corners and spine are worn. Spine ends are nicked. Leading corners are slightly split. Page block and pages are marked. Text is clear throughout. Binding is intact. HJW Used
196384 pages. Features: Fantastic three-panel colour photo ad for Ford's 1964 models inside front cover; Peter C. Newman on Paul Hellyer; Canada's first World's Fair, by Peter Desbarats; Can we save Latin America from itself?, by Ian Sclanders; The Mafia in Canada - Part 3 - The Inner Workings of the Crime Cartel; What is behind the new wave of TV think shows, by Robert Fulford; Honest Ed Mirvish - the least likely art patron in the world; Blair Fraser reports on The Violent Realities of the New Black Nations, where tribal warfare is less than a lifetime away; Rev. Leslie K. Tarr makes the case against Christian Unity; Boy Meets Girl in Naples on the Humber - a camera crawl of Toronto after midnight; Melvin Arbuckle's first course in shock therapy - a new short story by W.O. Mitchell; Colour centerfold featuring four Chevrolet models for 1964. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
195796 pages. Features: Cover illustrations of Jasper the bear (and cubs) overlaid on Group of Seven paintings; how the Chinese plan to control their birth rate; How limited Free enterprise survives in China; Lovely ballroom colour ad for Matinee cigarettes; Crown Zellerbach ad featuring John MacNaughton, Editor of the Ladysmith Chronicle on Vancouver Island; Author of Jalna, Mazo de la Roche - "I Still Remember..." - our most famous - and least-known writer breaks a lifetime's silence to recall her childhood, books she loved, her first story, the secret drama of Jalna, and celebrities she has known - with nice black and white photos; Blair Fraser Reports from Peking on the spy system that covers all China, a co-operative farm for 82 families, a model factory town and a Shanghai slum, and Christianity under the Chinese rule - great photos; Arthur Hailey - the hottest playwright in the business; How Bamford-Gordon abolished the income tax, by John Gray; The launching of the Encyclopedia Canadiana; The lurking death of our crowded skyways - mid-air collisions; Father Maurice Metayer, OMI photographs the Arctic - great colour photos of igloos, etc.; 'How I'd Make Hockey a Better Game" - by Charlie Conacher with Trent Frayne; Nice colour '57 Plymouth ad; Two-page colour Canadian Pacific ad featuring "The Canadian" and its dome cars; Nice colour ad for the Sunbeam Automatic Mixmaster; Spectacular colour photo ad for the all-new Ford Fairlane 500 Sunliner; Northern Electric centerfold ad entitled 'Forward with Canada'; Colour Pontiac ad; Nice full-page black and white illustrated ad by Trans-Canada Air Lines announcing 'Giant DC-8 jet-liners to bring startling advances in long-distance air travel; Colour O'Keefe ad; Colour ad inside back cover by the Tea Council of Canada. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A nice copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Book
1958Cover illustration of the scoreboard at Maple Leaf (Baseball) Stadium by Duncan Macpherson. Features: Blair Fraser reports on Baghdad and its new Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem; Editorial on Princess Margaret's visit and the (smelly) Don River in Toronto; Let's Stay Off the Moon, by Bertrand Russell; When is Adultery News, by Beverley Baxter; Why Do We Hate The Police? - a Maclean's national survey; Holiday weekend in Montreal- an introduction to the fascinations of the continent's most flavorful city, revisited by novelist Morley Callaghan who once lived, worked and played there; Now even the Canoe is going Modern; What is it about Budgies? - the may soon make dogs man's second-best friend in Canada; The double life of Football's fiercest Coach - Jim Trimble is coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats; Women are Equal - Especially Ellen Fairclough, Canada's new Secretary of State; Colour photo sailing-themed Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1966Features: Phoney $20 bills - our big growth industry; Is Steven Truscott Innocent?; Is Prince Phillip Really Necessary? - he does a tough job - often with an uncivil tongue in his head; Jon Ruddy on CBC Executives; Exploring the World's Last Frontier - colour diving photos; Blair Fraser reports from Salisbury, Rhodesia - "Is brash defiance the prelude to collapse?"; Freeze now, Live Later - a chance at immortality; How this Mary Martin Makes the Scene - a onetime Bay Street Clerk turned Super Girl Friday is on her way up in the New York world of big-time Showbiz - with photos; The Consultants - how the how-to-do-it-better men are changing your life; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; The Americanization of Winnie-The-Pooh; Barrister Kenneth Smookler writes "Don't blame the law for the arts' troubles with censorship - blame the ignorance of the 'expert' witnesses."; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
193844 pages. Features: Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford on their 50th wedding anniversary; Nice one-page color ad for Packard cars features the new 1938 Packard Eight Touring Sedan; Building reports sustain hope of early recovery; Labor Board blasts 'Little Steel' on two fronts; Theatre Week - George Jean Nathan; The 'Holy Reich' - Hitler is 99.08% right; Japan's First Great Defeat; FDR takes a licking with good grace; Ohio Governor Davey craves a bumper crop of wallflowers; Nice one-page ad for International Trucks features the new 2-Ton D-40 with utility stake body; Defeat of Reorganization Bill beclouds President's future; Photo of Gabby Hartnett; Nice one-page photo ad for the Chrysler Royal; Nice one-page photo ad for the Studebaker Commander Club Sedan; 2/3-page Pabst beer ad features black bellhop delivering liquid room service beneath the caption "These sho am quality foks"; Back cover features nice color ad for the Marchant electric calculator; and much more. Small clipping from page 9. Large clipping from page 19. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy Book
194968 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
1963Features: What we can do about fallout - how to protect yourself from the hottest year for nuclear fallout since testing began - Canada is the hottest country in the world; What is a Screen Gem? - the tv show machine that turns out the lion's share of the canned entertainment on our screens - a profile of the factory and the shrewd men who run it in the United States and Canada; Mordecai Richler reports from the world hockey tournament in Sweden; The cottage industry of Timmins, Ontario - Stealing Gold; Moral Re-Armament/MRA - a private citizen's security check on this 'mysterious organization that claims to be fighting communism'; Mackenzie Porter among the Bunnies - what these lovely young women are like on their own time; Pierre Berton spends election night with the Pearsons. Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows young lady in red gown and young man in clown suite. Some chipping and sunning to edges of front cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
194248 pages. Cover photo of convoy watcher. Features: Arctic Convoy - photo-illustrated article describing the adventure and danger of escorting munitions to North Russia in a destroyer north of the Arctic Circle; Listen, Soldier! - a sergeant provides some army humour; Can the Conservatives Come Back? - at Winnipeg Canada's Conservative Party can resume its historic mission or write its obituary; All Are for the State - Canadian Editors tour Britain's military production facilities and are impressed - article with photos; London Letter - Should We Hate the Germans?; "The Crucial Moment" - Douglas Reed reports that war hope centres on a major victory in North Africa; He Saved Fundy's Eider - Taxidermist Allan Moses saved the American eider ducks from extinction; No Lady of Leisure - Elissa Landi, actress, author, ballet dancer, singer and lecturer will have a Broadway play produced. Fiction; Wimmen is Humans (by W.O. Mitchell); A Kind of Magic. Nice one-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force Air Crew ("Women Too"). Half-page "Del Maiz" brand corn appears to be a predecessor to the Green Giant brand(?). Nice half-page ad for Waterman's pens includes illustration of Billy Bishop, a WWII airman, and a small photo of the company's plant in St. Lambert, PQ. Back cover colour G.M. of Canada ad shows brown armoured vehicles in action. Unmarked with moderate wear. Two neat vertical creases to front cover. Ads on half of page 3/4 missing. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book
1962Features: The sweaty fight for a single seat - the current federal election campaign; The merciful aftermath of the Moroccan oil tragedy - almost ten thousand men, women and children, paralyzed by poisoned cooking oil in 1959 are walking and working again - a Canadian medical team helped in the most devastating medical story of our time in Meknes, Morocco; The case for taking children away from their parents - Dr. Karl Bernhardt; Jeanine Beaubien - the woman who stages plays in 5 languages in Montreal's Powderhouse; How to spot a home-grown (Canadian) image; How Zoo Animals get their kicks - with photos; Ralph Allen's 'Lost Art of Fishing for Fun'; Nice colour photo full-page Pepsi ad; Toronto and Montreal should be provinces, by Donald C. Rowat; The Medical Care (Medicare) War - Ralph Allen reports from Saskatchewan. Moisture stains to upper corner of all pages. Average wear. Address labe. Binding intact. Book
194256 pages. Features: Colour cover photo of the lift locks at Peterborough, Ontario; Two photos of an Italian propellerless (jet) airplane above an editorial entitled "Weapons Win Wars"; Big Ben Westclox ad with military theme; RCA Victor ad explains how their transmitters and receivers are ready to warn Canada of surprise attack; Parker Vacumatic Pen ad; Bruce Hutchison writes about Canadians in light of his millionaire friend, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, and Marshal Petain, of Vichy; Spring Practice, a story illustrated by John Scott; They Were Prepared - the true story of an unnamed Nova Scotia coastal community which was organized to rescue survivors of a torpedoed boat; Japan's Cult of Death, by Morris C. Shumiatcher claims "Fanatic Jap soldiers welcome death because to die in battle is to be worshipped as a god."; Listen Boss, Now Listen! - story by Neill C. Wilson; Interesting short BC article reports on the evacuation of the Japanese and the provinces fear that it may come under Japanese attack; Bomber Ferry - The Royal Air Force Ferry Command delivers aircraft to Britain under the command of Sir Frederick Bowhill - article with photos; Toat to Tomorrow - story by Manning Coles; Pianist Ross Pratt - portrait of a Canadian whom U.S. critics have called one of the 'most gifted' younger pianists; Woodbury soap ad featuring photos of Claire Morin of St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec; Ford Motor Company ad explains their Xray process for examining crankshafts to be used in fighting equipment; Two-colour ad for Hewetson Shoes of Brampton, Ontario. Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
1964160 pages. Features: Cover photos of RFK and Kenneth Keating; Nice color-photo fashion photos; Close-up of the Vietcong in their Jungle - a French reporter held captive by guerrillas in South Vietnam reports on what he saw of the Vietcong; Barry Goldwater's Nine - photos and write-ups of Denison Kitchel, Dean Burch, F. Clifton White, Edward A. McCabe, John Grenier, Wayne J. Hood, Karl Hess, Tony Smith and Stephen Shadegg; An 'Ombudsman' for America; Uncle Sam is Really Needed - growing Federal role in local affairs; The More the Congo Changes - military photos; If 'Creeping Inflation' Begins to Run; Government as Patron of the Arts - there are dangers in official sponsorship and uncritical goodwill; The Flowering of a Campus Hybrid - the two-year community college; Sihanouk - Prince Under Pressure - article with photos, including his ballerina daughter Bopha Devi; Robert Goulet is featured in a color-photo fashion ad for The House of Worsted-Tex; K7UGA Will Get the Ham Vote - Senator Barry Goldwater may get votes from the 266,000 U.S. amateur radio operators; Thirty Years Ago - The Morro Castle burned off the New Jersey shore with a loss of 134 lives; The Basuto Enclave (Basutoland) in South Africa; 2/3-page color ad for movie 'Mary Poppins'; Some sports are 'in' and some are 'out' - a guide to the chic seven; Jokes LBJ has been telling lately; Fashion photos of French designs; When Children Discover Money; Designed for privacy - The New Haven home of Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander; The movie 'Three Coins in the Fountain' has led to millions of dollars pelted into fountains and pools; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of J.W. Richards, Joan Lakow and Nelson Reed; Zero Mostel - Rome to Russia; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
1984ref. 2080502106501429Not Available 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
ref. 98094201London 1902-6 His Majesty's Stationery Office. New black cloth very clean 5 parts bound in 1 1901 22p. 1902 27p. 1903 22p. 1904 15p. 1905 24p. charts statistics tables essays. R A R E Official British government reports. . Essays by Mr. Forster Mr. Acting-Consul John B. Rentiers Mr. Consul Layard Mr. Consul F.W.W. Playfair Mr.Acting Consul Parlett. . Covers the value of foreign trade trade with U.K. & colonies and other foreign countries imports/exports bone manure submarine cables sardines whale meat specie population coal exchange shipbuilding effects of the Russo-Japanese War import trade of Kuchinotsu & Karatsu Takashima & other mines shipping of French German Russian Americans & Japanese. . . Highly reliable official resource. Color scans of this and most of our other items are posted to our website. unknown
ref. 98094301London 1902-6 His Majesty's Stationery Office. New black cloth very clean 5 parts bound in 1 1901 28p. 1902 50p. 1903 47p. 1904 40p. 1905 46p. charts statistics tables essays. R A R E ! Official British government documents. . Essays by Mr. Arthur H. Lay Mr. H. Parlett Mr. G. Barclay & Mr. Crowe. . Covering financial condition of Japan trade imports wire nail-making government iron foundry customs duties Japanese made gunboats ordered for the Philippines direct trade German American French trade locomotives bridge work automobile bicycles trade with China Shimonoseki new British Consulate special commercial convention between Japan and Spain Osaka exhibition tax tables Japan merchant navy railways & many other subjects. . A reliable official resource. Color scans of this and most of our other items are posted to our website. unknown
ref. 98093901London 1902-1906 His Majesty's Stationery Office. New black cloth very clean 5 parts bound in 1 1901 20p. 1902 23p. 1903 25p. 1904 20p. 1905 35p. charts statistics tables essays. R A R E Official British government documents. . With essays by Mr. Consul H. A. Bonar Mr. Consul E.M. Hobart-Hampden Mr. Consul-General Hall Mr. Acting Vice Consul Harrington. . Covers the total trade imports/exports shipping harbour reclamation railway scheme waterworks population exchange Echigo oil-fields ports of Taketoyo & Shimizu directories silk copper tea Chambers of Commerce trade-marks wages government contracts money cost of living insurance public works &c. . A highly reliable official resource. . unknown
ref. 98094401London 1902-6 His Majesty's Stationery Office. New black cloth very good 6 parts bound in 1 charts statistics tables essays. S C A R C E . Official British government documents. Essays by Mr. Consul Kenny Mr. E.A. Griffiths & Mr. Consul Wileman. Covers total trade imports/exports beer flour kerosene piece goods tobacco value of imports from China Japan railways junks shipping harbour works Formosa public loan bond Bubonic plague inoculation brigandage taxation Japanese merchants new administration bureau sugar rice salt Anping & Takow ports British ice company Pescadores lighthouse banking British share &c. . Very reliable & solid primary resource. . Color photos are posted to our website. unknown
ref. 98094501London 1901-05 His Majesty's Stationery Office. New black cloth very good 1901 16p. 1902 20p. 1903 12p. 1904 17p 1905 20p. charts statistics tables essays 5 parts bound in one. S C A R C E . Official British government documents. Essays by Mr. Consul Layard Mr. Consul Playfair & Mr. Consul E.F. Crowe Covers paper tobacco Kelung imports other ports camphor coal tea hemp rice river traffic railways foreign residents names of towns Kelung exports population harbour works exchange cotton opium Tamsui Kelung gold mines &c. . Very reliable & solid primary resource. . Color photos are posted to our website. unknown
