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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
1936238pp. + uitvouwbare platen en zw/w foto's buiten tekst, 24cm., gebroch., Doctoraal proefschrift (Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden), stempeltje op verso titelblad, tekst is helder en in goede staat, X111784
19518vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates by EME Glenister, and photographs by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. 'A useful guide in a convenient form to the birds of a large region' (Tate p.69). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.202.
1913français Grand in-8 de 297 pp.;demi-maroquin à coins, dos à quatre nerfs, tranche de tête dorée, plats et dos de couverture conservés (reliure moderne). Deuxième édition illustrée de 67 gravures d'après des dessins de l'auteur et des photographies. Bel exemplaire.
1923Relaté avec légèreté et humour, le voyage d'une femme à Java en 1908-1909 (Singapour, Batavia, Priok), par la journaliste Erique GUILLOTEAUX (1861-1958); illustré d'après dessins et aquarelles de l'autrice (reproductions en noir) et photos; carte de Java. Français
1958G (no dj, lightly marked grey cloth lightly tanned on spine and edges, ex BBC Library copy with number on spine and library stamps endpapers and reverse of title page, pages clean and unmarked) octavo 281pp. First edition. 16pp b/w photographs.
19698vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal armorial stamp on front free endpaper.
19898vo., First Edition, with plates and rear endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1954xi + 323pp., illustrated with music examples, 27cm., softcover, Doctoral Dissertation (Univesiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands), stamp at verso of t.p., text is clean and bright, weight: 1.1kg., M109511
2000Mm 190x240 Brossura editoriale di pagine XIV-753, leggermente deformato ma ottimo esemplare. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
1987x + 433pp., 30cm., Doctoraal proefschrift (Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden), gebroch., stempeltje op achterzijde titelblad, tekst is helder, goede staat, gewicht: 1.2kg., X112186
1979Kummerly - Frey 1979, In-4 relié cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 264 pages. Avec photos. Bon état.
1937Large 8vo. Vol. 1: pp. xxiv,[2],413, 7 (1 col.) pls., 30 figs., index; vol. 2: pp. [vi],742, 7 pls., 90 figs., index; vol. 3: pp. viii,[2],498,[4], 6 pls., 4 fold. maps, 19 figs., index; vol. 4 (atlas): pp. [vi],1019, numerous drawings in 1319 figs. (mostly full-page), index. Half cloth (text) & cloth (atlas). - Rare complete set. After the death of S.H. Koorders in 1919 the publication of the atlas was continued by his wife Anna Koorders-Schumacher (1870-1934) with installments 2 to 5 and 7. The 6th installment (pages 689-864 containing figs. .977-1152) was never published, thus the 7th (covering fam. 128: Leguminosae) was the last one to appear. - Stafleu & Cowan 3866.
1927In-8, cartonato, pp. VIII,203, con tavole in bianco e nero nel testo. In buono stato (good copy).
1948Folio, 12pp (one blank) with large folding plan; wire-stitched as issued, one or two small rust marks as often, lower edge light dust-soiled else a near fine copy. 'Supplements to the London Gazette' are of great value to the naval and military historian. In many cases they represent the first publicly published accounts of the engagements concerned, and normally contain excellent maps and plans together with direct transcripts from official despatches not easily available elsewhere. This supplement includes the following transcripts: Commodore J. A. Collins RN (Commanding China Force) to C-in-C Eastern Fleet 17 March 1942; Report by Captain H. M. L. Waller RAN (HMAS PERTH) 27 February 1942; Report by T. J. Cain RN (Senior Surviving Officer, HMS ELECTRA) 27 February 1942; Despatch by Captain O. L. Gordon RN (HMS EXETER) to Admiralty 1 October 1945.
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
19548vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and folding map coloured in outline, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities. 'This is perhaps the most horrifying and amazing escape during a war that was probably richer in escape stories than any war that was ever fought' (H.E. Bates). This classic account was written by the author as an expanded version of the brief outline contained in Brickhill's 'Escape - or Die' (1952). VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.405
2000Clean Copy
1970Hommes et Civilisations Horizons de France 1970, In-4 toile grége de l'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, 287 pages. Avec atlas et bibliographie in fine. Parfait état.
1984Features: Hunting White Butterflies - searching for evolutionary clues from Columbia to Cape Horn; George Borup (1885-1912) - athlete, explorer, writer - the "Tenderfoot" with Peary; In Search of Lanka - looking for Lanka in Central India, not Sri Lanka; Mount Kaijende Cave Expedition - a major discovery climaxed this venture in Papua New Guinea; The Preservation of Borobudur - a 15-year international project in Central Java. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1945Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
195866 pages. Features: Taped Smut - recordings of unsuspecting newlyweds in hotel rooms and dirty stories read by sultry-voiced actresses are latest gimmic of Filth Peddlers; When the Nazis Tried Human Vivisection, as told by a former Corporal in the SS; Tijuana - city that mass-produces vice (with photos); It's the Day of the Gray Flannel Fag - "Not all Homos are Easy to Spot"; Ripley's Torture Museum; When a Gal Says "Your're the Dad!"; Phallic Worship in Japan; The Dawn I Knifed an Arab - when you live on the Borders of Israel you work, eat, sleep and make love with a gun at your side (with photos); Blood on the Diamonds - a tale from British Guiana; Air Gunner Gone Native - he wanted to stay with his 11 native wives and 47 kids on Kopu, Largest of the Ongtong Java Islands; I Escaped Siberia in a Coffin; and more. Above-average wear. Evidence of moisture exposure. No odour. A decent 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
1907Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
