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réf. 66504, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, vi + 675 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Language(s):Latin, German, English.* *new ISBN 9782503596136.
réf. DADAX3319455648New unknown
1978réf. ZB394116German Studies Association 1978-1998. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item volumes 1-21. 1978-1998. unbound textually clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. German Studies Association unknown
19508vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 7 and 2 full-page maps in the text; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, front panel and backstrip of dustwrapper mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With striking dustwrapper portrait by C.H. Birtwhistle. The first dedicated biography, it was a huge success and has been many times reprinted and reissued. Enser, p. 374.
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1967réf. 2091202133105785Suntory Limited 1967. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 36 Suntory Limited paperback
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1829réf. 28055London: John Murray 1829. Paperback. Very good condition. Important early report on the Swan River Colony based on Captain Stirling's findings during his 1827 expedition and intended as a guide for prospective emigrants. The 29 page article is titled "Regulations for the Guidance of those who may Propose to embark as settlers for the New Settlement on the Western Coast of New Holland" and includes a one page woodblock map. The map "Sketch of the New Settlement on Swan River" has the text "Fine undulating grass plains thinly wooded" stretching from Mangles Bay to Port Leschenault. The WA coast is shown from above Swan River in the north around Cape Leeuwin and further to the East. Disbound from Vol XXXIX with the title page pp 315-344 with some extraneous pages. John Murray paperback
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1934réf. 99357Perth: Govt Printer: Fred Simpson. 1934. 1st ed. royal octavo. pp xviii 489 b/w & colour fold. maps half-bound in kangaroo retaining the original gilt titled silk moire boards professionally repaired new gilt leather spine label ownership in ink of Western Australian historian to ffep. Loosely inserted news-cutting "The Case for the Case" dated 19th September 1934 showing the casket made of local wood which will contain the Secession petition . which will be presented to the King by the Secession delegate". A beautifully bound copy in near fine condition. The 1934 'case for secession' failed and support for the Dominion League in the Western Australian community dwindled. The secession debate was reignited briefly in 1974 by mining magnate Lang Hancock with the formation of the Westralian Secession Movement. The movement was sparked in reaction to the centralist policy of the Whitlam Labor Government. However the movement failed to achieve prominence due to the strong economy at the time and disappeared as quickly as it emerged. Harrop 1st edition. Half leather. Govt Printer: Fred Simpson hardcover
1798- EDIZIONE ORIGINALE, COLORITURA COEVA -Importante e decorativa mappa tratta dal "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni", edito a Roma dal 1792 fino al 1801, opera che la Calcografia Camerale commissionò al Cassini al fine di sostituire l’ormai obsoleto "Mercurio Geografico".Giovanni Maria Cassini, Chierico Regolare Somasco fu geografo e cartografo, ma anche intagliatore di architetture e prospettive - uno dei migliori discepoli di Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Cassini fu uno degli ultimi sferografi italiani del Settecento ed i suoi globi ebbero una notevole diffusione, come pure questo "Nuovo Atlante Geografico".Incisione in rame, coloritura coeva dei contorni, leggere bruniture, per il resto in ottimo stato di conservazione.L'Atlante del Cassini fu ristampato dalla Calcografia Camerale nel primo quarto del XIX secolo, prima del 1839. Solo gli esemplari di prima edizione come questo sono stampati su carta vergata coeva e sono colorati a mano in epoca. Le tirature del XIX secolo sono già su carta meccanica, priva di vergelle, e generalmente in bianco e nero. - FIRST EDITION, CONTEMPORARY OUTLINE COLOUR -The Italian painter and engraver, Giovanni Maria Cassini, produced this splendid map of as part of his epic three-volume atlas. Published in: Nuovo atlante geografico universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, Calcografia camerale, 1792-1801.Cassini was geographer and cartographer but he was also good at engraving architectural items and perspectives – he was one of the best disciples Giovanni Battista Piranesi had. Moreover, Cassini was one of the last artists to engrave spheres in the XVIII century and his globes were quite famous and widespread, and realized the most important Italian Atlas of the XVIII century; his maps always bear a cartouche, extremely rich in colours and details. Copperplate with fine original hand colour, some foxing, otherwise in very good condition.The Cassini's Atlas was reprinted by the Calcografia Camerale in the first quarter of XIXth century (before 1839). Only the first edition of the atlas is printed on contemporary laid paper, while the late issue are on XIXth century paper and often without colour.
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1913réf. 21074Perth: A. Curtis 1913. First printing. Paper wrappers pamphlet. Very good condition. A scarce program brochure pertaining to the early Australian Navy just three years after its creation in 1910 by the passage of the Naval Defense Act. The demand for an autonomous Australian navy independent of the British Admiralty had been growing since about 1907 when Prime Minister Deakin had sought British approval which was initially rejected. However following the enthusiastic Australian public reaction to the visit of the American Great White Fleet the tide had turned and by 1910 the HMAS Parramatta and the Yarra were both launched. The commander for the new Royal Australian Navy was Admiral George Edwin Patey Rear Admiral Commanding HM Australian Fleet on loan from the Royal Navy. The brochure with first page listing 19 ships and 2 submarines including the first and second ships Parramatta and Yarra; arrangements in connection with the public visiting the warships at Albany; a list of the officials of athletic sports; the programme for athletic sports 14 events including a wheelbarrow race; a center spread with large b&w photographic image titled "HMAS " Australia" Our Dreadnought" Battle Cruiser" with red white & blue cord page marker & with text at right and left margins; officials for aquatic sports and programme for aquatic sports; and general arrangements Sept. 20th - 26th. Other photographic illustrations in the brochure include: The Swan River St. George's Terrace Perth; apple picking in Albany; Queen's Gardens Perth; Hannan Street Kalgoorlie; The Golden Mile; The Western Australian "Ascot" at Perth; A View of the jetty at Bunbury; Perth's King's Park; Victory Quay Fremantle. 8vo 12 pp. String bound. Pale pink printed wrappers title in black at front wrapper; rear wrapper with photographic illustration of 5 views of caves in Yallingup District Busselton WA. A bit bumped base of spine wrappers a bit sunned. Internally very good. Libraries Australia ID 24072493 one copy Victoria State Library. A. Curtis unknown
1925réf. 64632Portland OR Seattle WA & San Francisco CA: Willamette Iron & Steel Works Designed & Produced by Hall & Emory Agency Printed by Sweeney Varney & Straub 1925. 4to. 155 1 pp. printed in Khaki & black. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations tables diagrams. Embossed simulated flexible calf raised gilt lozenge Willamette Co. logo on front cover brown textured endpapers very minor bumping to corners w/o ffep. minor rubbing still a VG bright copy from the library of Harold M. Hall Seattle Washington ownership markings in pencil on front pastedown. First edition of this very scarce lavish catalogue from the storied manufacturer in Portland Oregon including logging steam donkeys high lead yarding rigging Willamette steam engine logging locomotives steam hoists ocean-going log rafts and more. This catalogue also features many well-composed photo illustrations of the equipment and equipment in operation in logging operations along the West Coast along with part cutaways and photos of the factories and manufacturing facilities. Worldcat locates 6 copies of this original catalogue Hagley Multnomah County OHS US Patent Off Everett Pub. Lib. U of W later reprinted in 2004 due to scarcity of this original. Willamette Iron & Steel Works, [Designed & Produced by Hall & Emory Agency, Printed by Sweeney, Varney & Straub], unknown
1910réf. 53592N.P.: Privately printed 1910. 1910. First edition. 19" x 25" sheet folded to 9 1/2" x 8 1/4. Printed in brown green and red. Photographs. On one side of sheet is information and illustrations. Information about Harney County crops dairy poultry water irrigation lumber railway transportation Burns. Photographs include agricultural scenes and a photo of downtown Burns. Opposite side of sheet offers a map of the entire state of Oregon with Harney County highlighted. Map printed by Poole Bros. of Chicago for the Great Northern Railway and dated 1910. "The Oregon and Western Colonization Company was incorporated in 1910 as a South Dakota corporation by Watson P. Davidson Sr. and several other investors for the purpose of trading in real estates. The corporation acquired 800000 acres of Oregon lands including several billion feet of standing timber from the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road. These lands comprised a federal land grant awarded the Willamette Valley company in 1871 to construct a military road and consisted of alternate sections 15 to 20 miles wide extending from Ontario in eastern Oregon to Albany midway between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific." Rare. Light soiling else very good plus. Privately printed, 1910. unknown
1875réf. 64248Salem & Portland OR: E.M. Waite Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes 169-177 Second Street 1875-1887. Fourteen parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 96; 88; 65 3; 98; 95 1; 63 1; 64; 80; 90 2; 29 3; 43 1; 44; 109 1; 10 pp. Oregon Pioneer Association emblem on titles 3 collotype photo plates tables. Contemporary quarter-brown calf over black cloth rubbing edgewear scuffing rubbing & wear to fore-edges wear to corners shaken still G copy from the library of Addie Mae Wilson Brant 1898-1985 noted home cook from Yoncalla Oregon granddaughter of famed Oregon settler William Hunt Wilson 1822-1902 who drove wagons for Jesse Applegate 1811-1888 over the Oregon Trail and a staunch abolitionist who virulently opposed the anti-immigration and anti-Black laws passed in early Oregon w/ additional pencil inscription of “Uncle Jesse Applegate” on front pastedowns possibly indicating this was his copy. First editions of these thirteen early publications issued by the Oregon Pioneer Association featuring an invaluable separately printed index as well as the first local printing of Applegate’s famed “A Day with the Cow Column in 1843” which was first published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly. The account is still considered one of the best early first person accounts of pioneer families trekking across the Oregon Trail. Nesmith 1820-1885 has included his own memoir of the 1853 Rogue River War serving with General Joseph Lane and commanding forces at the pivotal 1853 engagement at Evans Creek resulting in the Table Rock Treaty. Within two years following the 1855 Lupton Massacre the Rogue River War renewed resulting in the forced removal of the Takelma Shasta and Applegate Indigenous Peoples to the Siletz Reservation. E.M. Waite, Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes, 169-177 Second Street, hardcover
1886réf. 46293New York: Compiled and published by the Passenger Department of the New York Lake Erie & Western Railroad 1886. 1886. RAILROAD NEW JERSEY. First edition. 8vo. Attractive colorful wrappers that have been bound into a cloth case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine 40 pp. rear cover is a color map showing the territory specially adapted to Suburban Residence for the Picturesque Erie beautiful black & white illustrations list of Suburban Real Estate Agents and Suburban Building Associations. This is a promotional by the railroad to encourage people to locate in Northern New Jersey due to crowded conditions in NYC. They promote that to build a home in Northern New Jersey and New York state is the way to go and point out the wonderful convenient and speedy service available to and from NYC via their railroad company. Provided are home plans showing that a three bedroom home to an eight bedroom home can be built for a low of $2000.00 to a high of $5000.00. Recommended counties in New Jersey are Bergen Passaic and Essex and Rockland County in New York. The railroad company provides most of the information for one to consider moving to the areas where expenses are considerably less there is room for growth and they can supply economic and regular transportation. Fine copy. Compiled and published by the Passenger Department of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, 1886. hardcover
1925réf. 178071925. Photograph and postcard archive circa 1910s-1940s documenting rodeo culture and competitive riding traditions across the American West with particular emphasis on organized events such as the Pendleton Round-Up and regional competitions in Oregon Montana and Nevada. The collection captures core rodeo practices including saddle bronc riding bull riding relay racing and bulldogging presenting visual evidence of both individual performers and large public gatherings. Identified riders such as Leonard Stroud Soapy Williams Milt Moe Frank Smith and Paddy Ryan appear in action situating the material within a period when rodeo emerged as a structured spectator sport tied to regional identity and western heritage. Images of grandstands filled with spectators Labor Day competitions and named championship events indicate the scale and institutionalization of rodeo culture in the early twentieth century while repeated depictions of high-risk maneuvers document the physical demands and performance conventions that defined the sport. Archive of 16 photographs and real photo postcards primarily measuring approximately 4.75 x 3 inches with one smaller photograph measuring approximately 1.75 x 2.5 inches. Most images are real photo postcards several bearing AZO and DOPS stamp boxes consistent with production dates between approximately 1925 and 1942 alongside earlier material including a copyrighted 1918 image and one example dating to 1904. Locations identified include Pendleton Oregon; Bozeman Montana; and Nevada. Several images carry printed or negative titles including "Leonard Stroud on Indian Tom wins championship at Cheyenne Wyo."; "Soapy Williams on Glasseye"; and "Milt Moe on Tea Trader." The archive includes multiple scenes from the Pendleton Round-Up featuring bulldogging by Frank Smith in 1923 relay racing during a 1925 Labor Day event and additional captioned scenes such as "They treat 'em rough at the Roundup." Other images depict riders thrown from horses bull riding sequences and staged or candid action views that emphasize the dynamic movement and risk inherent in rodeo performance. Sixteen photographs and postcards on cardstock mounts with a mix of black and white and sepia tones. Light wear consistent with handling including minor surface wear and occasional spotting; overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of early twentieth-century rodeo culture in the American West documenting named competitors regional events and the development of rodeo as a public spectacle. unknown
1925réf. 178071925. Photograph and postcard archive circa 1910s-1940s documenting rodeo culture and competitive riding traditions across the American West with particular emphasis on organized events such as the Pendleton Round-Up and regional competitions in Oregon Montana and Nevada. The collection captures core rodeo practices including saddle bronc riding bull riding relay racing and bulldogging presenting visual evidence of both individual performers and large public gatherings. Identified riders such as Leonard Stroud Soapy Williams Milt Moe Frank Smith and Paddy Ryan appear in action situating the material within a period when rodeo emerged as a structured spectator sport tied to regional identity and western heritage. Images of grandstands filled with spectators Labor Day competitions and named championship events indicate the scale and institutionalization of rodeo culture in the early twentieth century while repeated depictions of high-risk maneuvers document the physical demands and performance conventions that defined the sport. Archive of 16 photographs and real photo postcards primarily measuring approximately 4.75 x 3 inches with one smaller photograph measuring approximately 1.75 x 2.5 inches. Most images are real photo postcards several bearing AZO and DOPS stamp boxes consistent with production dates between approximately 1925 and 1942 alongside earlier material including a copyrighted 1918 image and one example dating to 1904. Locations identified include Pendleton Oregon; Bozeman Montana; and Nevada. Several images carry printed or negative titles including "Leonard Stroud on Indian Tom wins championship at Cheyenne Wyo."; "Soapy Williams on Glasseye"; and "Milt Moe on Tea Trader." The archive includes multiple scenes from the Pendleton Round-Up featuring bulldogging by Frank Smith in 1923 relay racing during a 1925 Labor Day event and additional captioned scenes such as "They treat 'em rough at the Roundup." Other images depict riders thrown from horses bull riding sequences and staged or candid action views that emphasize the dynamic movement and risk inherent in rodeo performance. Sixteen photographs and postcards on cardstock mounts with a mix of black and white and sepia tones. Light wear consistent with handling including minor surface wear and occasional spotting; overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of early twentieth-century rodeo culture in the American West documenting named competitors regional events and the development of rodeo as a public spectacle. unknown books
19508vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates on 9 and 4 large folding maps coloured in outline; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 'Popski's Private Army' was the smallest independent unit in the British Army, yet the success of its exploits behind enemy lines in the Western Desert was out of all proportion to its size. Enser, p.482.
réf. 65334, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, cxl + 853 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Language: Latin. ISBN 9782503593081.
196656 pages. Features: We are running out of places to bury our garbage; Mental hospitals obsolete in Saskatchewan?; A farewell twitch by BC's Tories; My sixteen months as a Nazi - John Garrity got a 16 month look inside the Canadian Nazi Party - he bugged their meetings, photographed their files, and screened their membership - article with fascinating samples of handbills/tracts - curiously, this work was conducted just before related legislation was passed in Ottawa; The Synthetic Woman - or, how I put on fake hair, eyelashes, nails and a fake figure and found femininity, by Marjorie Harris; And Now... The Synthetic Male, or how I powdered my nose, donned my angora hairpiece and learned to smell more like a man, by Robert Thomas Allen; Is the world ready for Leonard Cohen? - article and great photo; what I learned in a Borneo Classroom, by Manson Toynbee - with many great colour photos; Canada's Kinsey - Dr. Ted Mann, an Anglican priest, began a study of premarital sex on the campus of the University of Western Ontario - when he finished, he was not longer a professor there, by request; Nice colour photo centerfold for Ford's 1967 auto lineup; Rockcliffe Park - the richest, toniest, newsiest village in Canada?, by Susan Dexter; Canadiana by Gerald Stevens; Full-page Crown Zellerbach black and white photo ad shows 50-ton log trailers at Nanaimo Lakes on Vancouver Island; Gerald (Gerry) Caplan says we shouldn't hesitate to threaten Rhodesia with force; and more. Average external wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
1908Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book