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1959Features include: The First Phalaenopsis Hybrid; A Hobbyist's Indoor-Outdoor Culture of Orchids; Epicattleyas - What Future?; Book Review "Grosse Liebe zu Orchideen" by Matthias Riehl and "Die schonsten aber sind Orchideen" by Walter Richter; Orchid Growing in Java; Collectors' Item: Chondrorhyncha lendyana Rchb.f.; Orchid Classics (Pt II): Observations on Angraecum sesquipedale; Cymbidiums in Fir Bark; Orchids of Economic Use (Pt II); Orchids of Venezuela; and A New Bulbophyllum from French Cameroons. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
192896 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Walking and Morning Dresses; Etiquette of Address; New York Fashions - silks and satins, items about dresses, trained casaques; Personal; Embroidery design for cigar-cases, port-folios, etc.; Point Russe Embroidery on Java Canvas for Antimacassars; Wicker-work and Netted Basket; Squares in Netted Guipure; Sofa Pillow with Crocheted Stripes; Point Russe Embroidery for mats, ooilette cushions, etc.; Gobelin Embroidery on Silk for Slipper; Medallions in Point Russe and Application for Cigar-Cases,; Crochet and Tapestry Lambrequin; Sweet Seventeen; Love versus prejudice; Saying and Doings; The complete art of Plain Sewing - Two pages with dozens of illustrations and text; Goose and Gander; Debenham's Vow - continued; Riding Habit; Full page compilation of eight different illustrations of different Belles (women) i.e. The Dumb Belle, Morning Belles, etc.; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Lady's Summer Dress; Imitation Stained Glass; Lovers versus Husbands; Manners Upon the Road - of pot and kettle; New York Fashions - summer foulards, French muslin dresses, polka-dotted grenadines, flannel polonaises, French fancies, household matters, refrigerants; Personal; cashmere and java canvas wall-pocket; netted and bead work-basket; cane wind screen; summer hats and bonnets for young and old ladies; Were They Vagabonds?; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' summer dresses; For the Ugly Girls - No. IX; Paris Fashions; To the Bitter End - continued; Our Flower Garden; The Common-Sense of Dress; Illustration "Between Love and Riches"; Geneva and the Arbitration; humor. Average wear. Book
1916Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1915Pages 289-382, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: When the Water Came Down - the author and his Gurkha orderly are fishing in the Himalayas when a sudden 'spate' rages down through the mountains; "Washing-Day" All Over the World - article with many fantastic photos of (mainly) woman washing their clothes in outdoor waters in many countries around the world; In Search of Adventure - Part 1 - the story of a chequered cruise to the South Sea Islands by "The Firm", "Freckles", and "The Spinster"; A Woman Alone in China - Part 3 - photo-illustrated travels of Mary Gaunt and her Peking cart travels in China - with photos; Adrift on a Raft - the crew of the sinking Liverpool barque "Cordillera" built a raft to survive; The Native Festivals of Java - article with many great photos; The Story of My Chinese God - how a collector finally got his God curio in China; The Forest Hermit - a Moose- Hunting Story - they camped on the shore of Lady Evelyn Lake in Canada - article with interesting photos; The Man Who Understood Natives - a story of the rinderpest epidemic in Pondoland in 1897; The "Wide World" (this publication) being read in unusual places; Amazing photo of men handling the minute hand of "Big Ben", the largest clock in the world; Emblem Motorcycle ad; Nice Red Cross Line ad inside back cover; Back cover features interesting B.V.D. men's underwear ad with illustration of scene in what appears to be the New York Yankee's dressing room. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1959ix, 282 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. The tale of a destroyer which served with the Home Fleet then went to the Far East to be sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea. Front free endpaper removed. Somewhat above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Law 1043. Enser page 125. Book
1989Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 208 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Describes the experiences of two young Australians, Kenneth Linford and the author. Linford was captured by the Japanese in Timor, the author in Java. This work describes the ordeal of these two men and and absorbing account of how Linford and two others escaped from a camp in Thailand - a very rare occurence." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy. Book
1985131 pages. Bibliography. Reproductions of black and white photos. Diagrams. Combines the WWII adventures of the three authors as they travel to Singapore only to be chased from place to place by the Japanese before returning for revenge. Small address label inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice tight copy. [Not in Enser] Book
1996Profusely Illustrated in colour and black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival grade Brodart. A lovely copy. Book
1919Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part VI - Robert Wilton, a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, recounts his experiences, tells the true story of the tragic end of Rasputin, and discusses claims that the Czar is alive - article with photos of the Czar, his family, and Rasputin; The Most Savage of Beasts - John A. Jordan describes the strange tactics and danger of hunting the African Buffalo; A Hero of the Soudan - How the first Civilian's Victoria Cross was won by Sergeant J.J. Farmer - article with photo; My Niggers - humorous account of the writer's experiences of Gyppies at a camp along the Suez Canal; My Wanderings in Little-Known Angola - interesting article with many excellent photos; The Mechanically-Minded Skipper - Tobias Meddling of the 8-thousand ton ship Peerless; Capturing Seventy-Nine Germans Single-Handed - Canadian officer Captain MacDowell tricked Germans into surrendering at Vimy Ridge; The Battle for the Lake - German warships are ousted from the great inland sea in Central Africa, Tanganyika; Our Grizzly Bear Record - Francis Dickie and his companion set a new world's record for killing Grizzly bears in the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; Pipe Town - where Brier pipes are made for the "Tommies" and the "Poilus" - article with excellent photos; A "Rice Wedding" in Java - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Some Strange Escapes From Germany - Part I - how prisoners of war escaped from the Germans in WWI; My Escape From Russia - Madame Semenoff describes her escape from Petrograd after the Bolsheviks took over; Canada's Water Miracle - The Bassano Dam, the world's longest, built in Alberta, Canada - article with excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - Part I - a member of the Natal Mounted Police describes how an Englishman was murdered by a Zulu medicine-man and accomplices so a portion of the body could be used to make an effective love medicine; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 268-352, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to be the lineal descendants of Raleigh's ill-fated "Lost Colonists," with whom, in 1587, the friendly Red men abandoned the settlement of Roanoke and went out into the wilds to start life afresh; Left in Charge - A 19-year-old, just six weeks from home, finds himself in charge of a lonely South African sheep farm, only to have alarming things begin to happen, including a skirmish with sheep stealers; The Money-Finder - An amusing story involving a peppery West African Commissioner, a wily native chief who tried to avoid paying his taxes, and a young officer who was a bit of a conjurer; The Boy Who Sought Adventures - Part III - B. Wicksteed continues his amazing young adventures; The Opium-Smugglers - In the ancient walled city of Manila the author met a friend who told him this strange story; My Mystery Job - A queer story told by a builder's foreman concerning a remarkable job he had been called upon to undertake; Whose Hippo? - A nasty legal battle ensues after a Hippo is shot; The Land of Mystery - Part III of III - Col. E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Colonel Gallowhur continue their travels through unexplored Nepal - with many lovely photos; The Djimat - The figurehead of an old sailing ship goes missing during alterations and the superstitious natives of Java are sure trouble is sure to follow; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1901réf. 123227Bonn, Emil Strauß (1901). * Mit 8 Tafeln, 144 Textabbildungen und 6 (1 gefalteten) Karten. IX, 244 Seiten, 1 Blatt. 25 x 17 cm. Illustrierter grüner Original-Leinenband (Gelenke gering angerissen) mit Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung.
1902réf. 123082Leipzig, B. G. Teubner 1902. * Mit 16 farbigen Tafeln, zahlreichen Textabbildungen und 1 gefalteten Karte. X, 270 Seiten, 1 Blatt. 24,5 x 18 cm. Illustrierter schwarzer Original-Leinenband (minimal fleckig und berieben) mit gemusterten Vorsatzpapieren und marmoriertem Schnitt.
1980réf. 008519Mainz, Philipp von Zabern, 1980. Illustrierter Orig.-Pappband, 291 Seiten, Gr.-8°. Sein in Stille und Spiel. Katalogband zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung in Stuttgart, Essen und München (1980/81). Mit einer kleinen Broschüre des Staatlichen Museum für Völkerkunde in München als Beilage. Sauberes und sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen.
1900réf. 14405Berlin, Rich. Eckstein Nachf. (= Friedrich Gerstäcker's Gesammelte Schriften I. Serie - 2. Band) o.J., circa, 1900. mit monochromen Bildern auf Tafeln von Hans STUBENRAUCH.. ill. OLwd., 488 S. (marmor. Schnitt), 8°
1900réf. 14406Berlin, Rich. Eckstein Nachf. (= Friedrich Gerstäcker's Gesammelte Schriften I. Serie - 3. Band) o.J., circa, 1900. mit monochromen Bildern auf Tafeln von E. ZIMMER. ill. OLwd., 488 S. 8°
1941réf. 4240Berlin, Dt. Buchgemeinschaft, (1941). 8°. Mit 106 Fotos u. 1 Karte. 114,[4] S. Illustrierter Original Halbleinen. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren.
1984réf. 20511CBHannover, Verlag M. & H. Schaper (= Textilkunst-Fachschriften), 1984. 8°, 128 S. mit zahlreichen s/w- und Farbabbildungen, farbig illustr. original Pappband (Hardcover), Erstausgabe sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar mit auf Rückdeckelinnenseite montiertem Korrekturzettel
2000réf. 955891Birmingham: Wrox Press, 2000. 1233 S. Originalbroschur.
1925réf. 1017Amsterdam 1924 + 1925. Mit Bildtafeln, 138 + 262 S., Gr.-8°, OLn., Kopffarbschnitt
1955réf. 292939Tübingen : Mohr (Siebeck), 1955. XII, 419 S. ; gr. 8 Originalbroschur. 23 cm
réf. 250149Missionsbuchhandlung Stursberg, Neukirchen, ohne Jahr. 32 Seiten. Originalbroschur. 15 cm,
1990réf. 20920ABKew, Bentham-Moxon Trust, Royal Botanic Gardens, 1990. 30 cm. 407 S. mit mehr als 700 Farbfotos. Original Pappband (Hardcover) mit ggpr. Titel, Fadenheftung. Tadelloses gepflegtes Exemplar. Schutzumschlag minimal angerändert.
1944réf. 1255515Berlin: Reimer, Berlin: Andrew & Steiner, 1944. 151 S. Illustr.; Tab.; graph. Darst.; fadengeh. Orig.-Halbleinenband.
