6 209 résultats
1878réf. 147133Hobart Town: J. Walch and Sons 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hobart Town J. Walch and Sons 1878. Octavo xxiv 160 2 book list pages plus a chromolithographed frontispiece of a waratah and 3 plates containing numerous small line illustrations with all artwork credited to E.D. Spicer. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind; cloth a little rubbed and lightly worn at the extremities; a very good copy. J. Walch and Sons hardcover
1843réf. 025223Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston 1843. Paper. Good. No Binding. Sized 15.5 x 80 inches - 5 feet - rolled archival reinforcements noted on verso at top 16 inches or so and at all edges; short tear repaired at top edge remains wrinkled even when unrolled minor toning commensurate with age minor loss at top corner not affecdting text. A vintage facsimile. The Disruption of 1843 or the Great Disruption was a schism in 1843 in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland. The main conflict was over whether the Church of Scotland or the British Government had the power to control clerical positions and benefits. The Disruption came at the end of a bitter conflict within the Church of Scotland and had major effects in the church and upon Scottish civic life. . W. & A. K. Johnston unknown
1923réf. 9030716London: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1923. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt and white and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and one large and elaborate multi-fold map. Chipping to extremities of dust jacket the only dust jacket online! 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 328 pages. Burns Oates & Washbourne hardcover
1923réf. 9030716London: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1923. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt and white and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and one large and elaborate multi-fold map. Chipping to extremities of dust jacket the only dust jacket online! 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 328 pages. Burns Oates & Washbourne hardcover books
195384 pages. Features: The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, visits Canada; How to Fix a Horse Race - Swabby Swartz, thief turned mastermind, is caught at Fort Erie - article with many photos; The Shadow of the Duke of Windsor - part 2 of a series on the family in the palace by Pierre Berton; Karsh photographs Ottawa - including rare photo of Canadian Cabinet in session; The Bolshevik and the Wicked Witch, story by J.N. Harris - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Where's the Money Coming From? - the Crisis in Education; Nova Scotia's Strangest Son - A Maclean's flashback to Joseph Howe; Never Never Trust a Bull, by Thomas Walsh - many Canadians are injured by bulls - the killer with the poets eyes; Soups You Can Cut with a Knife - with cartoon illustrations by Oscar Cahen, Duncan MacPherson, George Feyer, Desmond English, Peter Whalley, and William Winter; You Can't Beat Kelly's Bear Grease - Kelly Chamandy is Canada's leading distiller of bear grease and the country's only licensed butcher of bear meat, beaver meat, muskrat meat, and raccoon meat; Nice ad for Allis-Chalmers excavating equipment; Nice full-page colour ad for Ganong's chocolates; Nice GM of Canada ad says "12,176 pairs of hands work on every car and truck..."; 1953 Meteor car ad; 1953 Chevrolet ad; REO truck ad; Elegant full-page ad for the Packard automobile; GE Push-Button Range ad; 1953 Ford Monarch V-8 ad; Nice colour 1953 Studebaker ad inside back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A high-quality copy. Book
1946100 pages. Features: Attractive one-page color ad for Dodge Trucks features bright yellow moving van; Seattle's worst earthquake in history; Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin wins Atlanta's Negro vote; Color ad for General Tire features well-dressed lady with lots of luggage being helped by black porter; Classy color ad for the Farnsworth Television and radio Corporation; Two-page poem commemorates the first anniversary of the Iwo Jima battle; Canadian exposure of spy ring turns doubting eyes on Russia - major article with photo; Nice one-page ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Attractive color ad for Ford cars features ski scene; Young UNO closes first session with hope, suspicion, and a veto; Photos of Francisco Franco; Field Marshal von Paulus; Sir Sholto Douglas; Photo of Mohammed Ali Jinnah; The bravest padre - Maj. John Weir Foote, Presbyterian chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry is awarded the VC; Brief obituaries for Dr. William Allan Neilson, Cornelius Johnson and Adolph Lorenz; Army posters to help soldiers adapt to civilian life; Tuberculosis germ killer; Photo and article of artist Alberto Vargas; Nice color-photo ad for the Boeing Stratocruiser; American Cyanamid color ad shows smiling coal delivery man iun bomber jacket; Dr. Henry A. Jones experiments with onions; Uneasy Swedes wonder what future holds; Photos of the lightweight Bobbi car; Aerial photo of downtown Chicago promotes the area for industrial development; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of John H. Sienold, Banquet Manager; Photos of American Cardinals; The Secret of "Huff-Duff" (radio direction finder) can be told - as part of ITT ad; Picasso of the Camera - Edward Weston; ad for Dr. Grabow pipes; and more. Covers holding by one staple. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
2002242 pages. Bibliography. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "Chronicles the history of radiation treatment used in British Columbia throughout the twentieth century... Liberally referenced with source material and contains 123 black and white illustrations, personal remembrances, biographical sketches of significant individuals and Author's Notes to help guide those less familiar with the scientific aspects of the treatment." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
1961Feature articles include: The Pressures Against Air Safety; My Other Books, by James Michener; The Baffled Young Men of Japan, by Peter Drucker; Senator Dodd vs. Kenneth Tynan; New Start in Foreign Policy; The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King - James Baldwin; Can de Gaulle Avoid Civil War?; Hoodlum Priest and Respectable Convicts; Mr. Justice Black, the Supreme Court, and the Bill of Rights; Surgery for Strokes; The Tyranny of Multiple-Choice Tests; Writing the "Inside" Books; How to Talk to People, If Any, on Other Planets; California's $2 Billion Thirst; "Anti-Americanism" in Canada; Trial by Combat in American Courts; Adenaurer and McCloy; The Good Slum Schools; The Happiest Creatures on Earth?; John Gunther; Adam Yarmolinsky; Special Supplement - the mood of the Russian People; Secret Angola; Portrait of Bevin; Up-to-date Texas; Nobel Prizes; Apocalypse; A cure for bewitchment; The Pitchman; America's Wandering Scholars; The Coming Bust in the Real Estate Boom; The American Negro's New Comedy Act; William Carlos Williams; A Small Atomic Accident; Riesman and his Readers; and more. Light wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
193856 pages. Features: The Guy With the Face, by Charles L. Shaw - Any dolt could see Igar's face was his future; Out of Torment - Peace!, by Beverley Baxter, who is optimistic about the future of Europe after the Munich conference; You're Driving Me Crazy, by Elmin Sproule - never call your wife a nincompoop; Canon Scott, by Hubert Evans - he was a padre who babbled poetry and ate potatoes out of his hat, but the First Division still remembers him as a hero who deserved a halo; The General Died In..., by Benge Atlee - Kent Power in the puzzling case of the General who thought he had no enemies; Drama the Crowd Misses - by Dink Carroll - the inside story of many a football battle is even more thrilling than the game itself; Medicine Man, by George Edward Allen - in which white man's magic dices with death and probes the secret of the Wild Wa's shrine; Nostalgic photos of a fall fair; They Knew Joy Boyle, by Flora Alexander Boyle; Fantastic two-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge Custom; Great two-page colour centerfold ad for the new 1939 DeSoto (held by one staple), followed by another beautiful colour two-page ad for the 1939 Chrysler - this ad missing a 3" x 3" clipping from its right margin; Great colour ad for International trucks on back cover shows the range of their products from light delivery unit through dump trucks. Above-average wear. Pages 5-8 loose but present. Pages 49-52 missing. Address label atop front cover. Book
1965Features: nice colour photo ad for the 1965 Beaumont inside front cover; Can we succeed in NATO without really trying?; How to survive in the CBC jungle - and other TV Tribal secrets - Percy Saltzman interviews Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman; Madman on the Bridge, by Kenneth Walker, MD; Churchman Reverend A.C. Forrest talks back to critic Pierre Berton, author of "The Comfortable Pew"; Toronto - Canada's high-rising, high-living, heady new sophistocate, by Ian Sclanders; When little Tommy Burns outslugged the biggest brutes in boxing - a Maclean's flashback to the stridently Canadian boxer who barnstormed around the world in 1908 - with photos; How Canada Lives - the winter Samaritan of Ile-aux-grues - Albert Vezina wrestles a freight-laden boat over Canada's toughest delivery route to keep a St. Lawrence island alive; Now we know why C.D. Howe had Churchill screaming 'sellout' regarding uranium in the second world war. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1980Almost two inches thick. Some of the many topics include: Blood feud between Iraq and Iran; Uniforms for white collar industries; Shelly Duvall; Helmut Schmidt; Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Arctic Oil; Lindsay Wagner; Urban Cowboy; Strike by PSAC; Anne Murray; Politically incorrect lawn jockeys; Burt Reynolds; William Pollock and Drake International; France's Nuclear Gamble; Rita Moreno; Vietnamese Boat People; CDC - Canada Development Company is now majority-owned by private shareholders; El Asnam Earthquake; Brian Peckford - Confederation's Bad Boy; Carter vs. Reagan campaign; Tennessee Williams; Monique Leyrac; Big Government Squeezes Big Oil; Trudeau's National Energy Policy (NEP); Sterling Lyon; Michaele Jordana; Reza Pahlavi assumes the mantle of Shah in exile; Reagan Beats Carter; Single parent poverty; Problems with the Dall Sheep in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon; Lockeport Nova Scotia has lost three fish plants but the people remain strong; Melody Anderson; The Global Struggle for Human Rights; Discovering Saturn; Susan Jacks; Lynn Johnston; Roy McMurtry and RCMP wrongdoing; The West Goes Wild over federal energy policy; Douglas Christie and the Western Canadian Concept; Sharon Timmins; Nick Taylor; John Fraser views China; The Pain Threshold; Mood Drugs - cure or curse; Cherie Lunghi; Farewell to Jules Leger; Devastating earthquake in southern Italy; Search for an industrial strategy for Canada; Viktor Beleko lands his Soviet Union Foxbat aircraft in Japan; Two Hungarians defect to Canada; Soviet tanks roll into Poland; Joni Mitchell dons black face to play a pimp; John Lennon killed - cover photo; Brooke Shields; Poles in search of food; The Kent Commission looks at the concentration of Newspaper ownership; Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
193840 pages. Features: Dubinsky dissents as Lewis plans permanent C.I.O.; Theare Week - George Jean Nathan; The Angl-Italian Treaty; The Spanish Replublic faces doom on its birthday; China - the dragon turns; Governor Horner of Illinois knots a 'boa constrictor'; Nice one-page photo ad for Budd stainless steel passenger rail cars; Photo of Countess Vera Fugger; Conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine; Taierhchwant; Photo of repairs to the Tomb of Christ in Jerusalem after earthquake damage; Photo of the aluminum car John Cobb of London will use to try to break the land speed record; Chicago Black Hawks win Stanley Cup; Movie "Test Pilot" - with photo of Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy and Clark Gable; Jackie Coogan sues his parents for money he earned as a child; Treasury Desterilizes Gold - Reserve requirements cut; End of Pierce-Arrow; Back cover features nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes - man in white hat holds tobacco leaves. Clippings from page 7 and 19; Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy Book
réf. 14667Paris Imprimerie Ramé 1876 in 8 (22x14) 1 volume relié demi chagrin rouge époque, dos à nerfs soulignés de filets dorés, fleurons dorés, plats de percaline rouge, tranches dorées, 134 pages, quelques rousseurs. Notre exemplaire est enrichi d'un poéme manuscrit de 4 pages, titré: à l'hermite du Val-de-Seine, et signé: Grignard Fr., daté du 28 juin 1877 (inséré après le feuillet imprimé d'introduction, signé de initiales P. G.). Document manuscrit qui permet l'identification de l'auteur de l'ouvrage. Bel exemplaire
réf. 12239P., Pierre Ribou, 1712 ; in-12. 4 ff. n. ch.- 108 pp.-2 ff. (table). Vélin souple, dos lisse, titre manuscrit partiellement effacé sur la plat sup. Des rousseurs. (Reliure de l'époque).
1987a cura di Adriano Cera la pittura neoclassica Italiana repertori fotografici Longanesi rilegatura in tela con scritte dorate sul dorso e ricoperto da una sovraccopertina di carta plastificata ottime condizioni con illustrazioni
1994réf. 112609Torino Einaudi 1994. In 16° cartonato con sovraccoperta pp. LXXXIV 314. Prima edizione. NUE 216. ". Questa e' la storia di un libro maledetto e desiderato temuto e accanitamente ricercato: un libro che prima di diventare reale fu piuttosto una fantasia una testa senza corpo un embrione di libro. All'inizio ci fu un'idea un titolo: i tre impostori. Ma che titolo: i tre impostori erano Mose' Gesu' Cristo e Maometto. E l'idea era quella di attribuire l'origine delle tre religioni monoteistiche mediterranee all'impostura dei fondatori ." Adriano Prosperi unknown
1912Mm 250x305 Volume in copertina rigida, xcxix-377 pagine, 70 tavole, dedica al frontespizio.Traduzioni della Orazione Domenicale di Dante Alighieri nelle diverse lingue del mondo. Edizione di 200 esemplari, il nostro è il n. 44. Alcune pagine sono intonse. Ottimo stato. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
1922réf. 010482Roma: Tipografia del Senato 1922. Collana Fonti per la storia d'Italia pubblicate dall'Istituto storico italiano 56. Un volume di LXIII-431 pagine tela rossa con titolo dorato al dorso la brossura originale è conservata all'interno. Dimensioni: 185x275 cm. In barbe. Rare fioriture per il resto ottime condizioni. Tiratura limitata di 350 esemplari numerati questo il numero 31. Raro in questa prima edizione. Tipografia del Senato unknown
1835réf. 20191835 P., Bellizard, Barthès, Dufour et Lowell Editeurs, 1835. Grand in-8°, demi chagrin rouge, dos lisse orné de motifs dorés, titres rouges sur fond or, plats de papier "chagriné" rouge, signet, tête dorée, non rogné (Reliure de l'époque).
1796prefazione, introduzione e indice delle materie nonch? avvertimenti dell'autore e del traduttore 4 20x12.5 cm.; LXXII, 248 ; 284 ; 272 ; 260 pp., capilettera, testatine; legatura editoriale con titolo ms. al dorso: esemplare in buone condizioni, con ampi margini, in barbe; terza edizione ricorretta sull'originale; traduzione dall'inglese in italiano Guglielmo Cullen, personalit? in vista all'epoca, era medico presso la Universit? di Edinburgo.
réf. 208642Paris, A. Picard et fils, 1905 grand in-8, 511 pp., [2] pp. n. ch., avec 310 illustrations dans le texte et 102 planches hors texte, demi-basane bleue, dos à faux nerfs orné de filets à froid et de lions héraldiques dorés, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque). Infimes épidermures au dos.
1819réf. 101913Palermo Dalla Tipografia di Francesco Abbate Qm. Domenico 1819. Volumi 2 in 16° mezza pelle coeva con titoli e fregi oro ai dorsi. Pp. 729 continuate 5 n.n unknown
1911In-4to (27.5x18cm), cc.(7) inclusi la brossura originale in cromolitografia, occhietto, frontespitzio, 1 tavola cromolit.; pp 867, cc.(1) con la 3°di copertina in cromolit.); con 386 incisioni in rame, tavole cromolitografiche (7), carte celesti. Rilegatura coeva in mezza pelle e piatti marmorizzati, dorso a nervi con titolo e fregi dorati con contiene l'originale in brussura). In-4to (27.5x18cm), cc. (7) inclut la feuille de brochage original en chromolygraphie, faux-titre, frontispice, 1 planche chromolit.; pp 867, cc. (1) avec le quatrième plat en chromolit.); avec 386 figures, planches en chromolygraphie (7), cartes célestes. Rousseurs sans exès, une tache d'eau à marge de quelques feuilles. Reliure demi-chagrin rouge in-4to, dos à 4 nerfs ornés de filet or, entre-nerfs à double filets or à fleuron au fer évidé et rinceaux, titre frappé or, plats décorés à froid.
1943réf. 009831Firenze: Sansoni 1943. Un volume di VII-637 pagine tela originale con tassello di titolo al dorso. Dimensioni: 22x285 cm. Piccole imperfezioni al tassello col titolo per il resto ottime condizioni. 436 illustrazioni in b/n nel testo. Tiratura di 1000 esemplari. Prima edizione. Sansoni unknown
194974 pages Features: Charlie Brannan and his Wonderful World - The Secretary of Agriculture; Who Said Promised Land? - transplanted Europeans fled tyranny only to find disillusionment and tragedy in the sugar lands of Louisiana - article with moving photos; The Actor Who Won't Stay Dead - Rudolph Valentino - article with photos; Broadway Ticket Scandal; The Old Home Town Fights to Live - Lexington, Illinois - article with good photos; A One-Shot Cure for Syphilis; Sawyer of the Phillies - Freshman Manager Eddie Sawyer; Vivien Kellems; The Iron Butterfly (part 1 of 4); Very Unusual in California; Freddy Fowler and the Ace; My Birthday's in July; The Golden Dart (conclusion); Morning After. Nice ads for: Gem razor blades; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad featuring color photo of Miss Gladys Munn Pulitzer; Admiral portable radios; RCA Victor radios; Fisher Body; Seagram's Gin; B.V.D. clothing; Westinghouse fridges; Kleenex Tissues - features Little Luli and Tubby; Super Canada Dry full-page colour ad features their Spur Cola, Ginger Ale, Club Soda and Hi-Spot; The Martin Viking, by Martin Aircraft; Scotch Cellophane Tape; Packard cars; Lucky Strike (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book