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197056 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
198727.4" x 18.5" Vintage Canadian Airlines International advertising poster for their service to Lima, Peru. Great colour illustration by artist Heather Woodall features various traditional Inca cultural highlights. Illustration measures 17.6" x 17.8". Moderate wear. Pin holes at each corner. A lovely memento of Canadian Airlines and its Lima service. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Similar posters for other Canadian Airlines destinations available. Poster
197656 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: Summer Notebook, Part 1; Ancient Treasures from Peru - Gold for the Gods at the ROM; Western Untitled at the Glenbow Centre; 17 Canadian Artists - a Protean View; Some Major Nova Scotia Painters; Alternate Gallery - A Space; The Demise of Corridart; Dale Amundson - A Question of Conception; Mark Prent and the SX-70 experience; Artspace steps out; Jack Bush in Retrospect; Artists Stamps and Stamp Images; Carol Bretzloff - a critical examination; New talent at the Sable-Castelli; The Drawings of Norman McLaren; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
2004208 pages. Bibliography and glossary. Sumptuously and profusely illustrated with colour photos and reproductions of archival maps and illustrations. Text in English. "Documents the tremendous impact the arrival of New World gold and silver had upon Europe and the world economy. Describes the routes followed by the galleons on their return to Spain, loaded with precious metals, and the techniques used for their extraction. Discusses how mining towns were established, and famous fairs held in Portobelo and Jalapa. From this we learn how several mints were founded." - from Prologue. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A suberb copy of this beautifully-presented work. Gift quality. Book
1915Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Volcanic Eruption on Ambrim Island in the New Hebrides in 1913 - article with spectacular photos; The Mad Mule - a mine mule turns murderer at the Blue Mountain Mine in Butte, Montana; The Mystery of Crowhurst Aylmer - a remarkable romance from 1890 is narrated by a life insurance manager; Whale-Hunting With A Camera - A fascinating account of the work of scientific naturalist-photographer H.J. Shepstone - the first man to secure a complete set of striking photographs of the various species of whales 'at home' in the water, and being harpooned, at a time when they were already facing extinction; An Accessory After the Fact - An English mining engineer's queer experience in Mexico; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part I - J. Campbell Besley and his expedition discover the source of the mighty Amazon high in the mountains of Peru and follow it down to the Atlantic, time and again fighting for their lives against savages and forces of nature; The Buried Treasure - the extraordinary experience of travelling salesman R.D. Morrison in North Carolina; The Hermits of the Alps - The lonely life of herdsmen who take their herds and flocks to high mountain pastures each summer - article with great photos; In Search of Adventure - Part III - The Story of a Chequered Cruise; Fighting a Giant Saw-Fish - James Willoughby describes a monster catch and the battle he put up - article with great photo of the fish, 14.5 feet long; A Capture of Dacoits - an account of an exciting day's work in the Punjab; and more. pp. 6 [ads], 482-576, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1956100 color plates in two linen vols. Text in Japanese with some English Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition in worn portfolio
1989208 p., illus. w/ drawings & photographs by the author Hardcover Very good condition good
2001309pp. 22 cm. Paperback Very good condition Uncorrected proof
18472 v. fronts. (ports.) 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, spines chipped, front hinge of v. 1 repaired BAL 16346 (state B)
1982Stato di conservazione: OTTIMO, solo un lievissimo ingiallimento. Collana: I narratori. I edizione. Traduzione dallo spagnolo di Angiolina Zucconi e Luisa Pranzetti. Illustrazioni di Francisco Mariotti
18734°, cm 30 x 20, pp. (2), II, 651, (1), una grande carta (cm 65 x 99) "Mapa del Peru por A. Raimondi - Departamento de Ancachs con la nueva provincia dos de Mayo del depart: De Huanuco". Legatura coeva in mz. pelle, titoli e fregi in oro al dorso. Toccature e lievi abrasioni alla legatura, 2 strappetti senza danno all' attaccatura della carta, timbro di collezione al frontespizio, bella copia ad ampi margini. Non comune.
18203 volumi, cm. 18, brossura editoriale, pag. XIV, 246 (su 248: manca ultima carta di indice) più ritratto in b/n; 267 più carta geografica rip. e 4 tavole f.t.; 274 (manca l'ultima c. con elenco delle tavole) più 6 tavole f.t. (manca la n° 4). La carta geografica riguarda le Isole Washington. Collana "Raccolta de' viaggi più interessanti eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo, tanto per terra quanto per mare, dopo quelli del celebre Cook...". Ottimo esemplare.
1987Cm.13x19, pp. 206, cartoncino editoriale illustrato. Nuovo.
1859PARIS HACHETTE 1859. mm. 174 x 110 Traduzione dal tedesco per W. De Suckau. Seconda edizione. Mezza percallina verde con titolo in oro al dorso (piccole mancanze). pp. (4), VIII, 633, (2). Una carta geografica f.t., piu' volte ripiegata con l'intinerario del viaggio. Dall'indice: Borneo, Sumatra, Ascension du Merapi, California, Lima, Quito, Panama, New Orleans, Chicago, Cleveland, Quebec, New York, Boston, Liverpool, Lisbona, etc.
2001No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper rear cover, faint indenting to rear and traces of storage. 214pp. A study of the treasure-filled tombs of two sun kings, buried over 1,500 years ago in the long-lost pyramids of Peru.
1982No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor dint to front and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with dint to front lower edge and label removal effect to front dust flap. 158pp. In this study, based on the BBC TV Natural History Unit production, the author describes in vivid detail the landscape and ecology, the flora and the fauna of the entire Andes mountain chain through South America. Very well illustrated.
16°, br. edit., pp. 232. Nino Barazzoni (Bibbiano 1870 - 1936), medico e storico, fu console d’Italia a Callao.
1989SAGEP EDITRICE 1989 FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: SEGNI DEL TEMPO ALLA SOVRACCOPERTA, CHE PRESENTA ANCHE UNO STRAPPETTO AL RETRO, VOLUME INTONSO, MAI SFOGLIATO
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