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in-8°, 286 pp, nombreuses photos, cartonnage editeur, jaquete illustree. Bel exemplaire [NV-27]
in-12, 287 pages, broche, couv. Dos usagé, coin decoupé a la page de titre (sans atteinte au texte) sinon bon etat. [PF-1]
1 vol in-8°, 471 pp., photographies n&b, carte, broche, jaquette illustree. Tres bel exemplaire. [MI-15]
in-8°, 300 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, broche, couverture illustree plast. à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire.DEDICACE par l'auteur [109B-7]
in-12, 269 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, carte, broche, couv., jaquette illustree. Bel exemplaire (petit accroc a la jaquette). [MI-12]
Hardcover grand in-4 (35,5cm), 350pp.avec frontispice & illustrations dans le texte, carte depliante en couleurs, ig., 2 tres grandes cartes repliees, cartonnage illustre polychrome, dos décoré.- Tres riche illustration photographique. Bel exemplaire. TEXT IN FRENCH - ENGLISH - PORTUGUESE [GD4/1] Panorama géographique, politique et économique de l'état de Pará et de ses municipalites.- Texte sur trois colonnes en portugais, français et anglais.
Hardcover in-4° (44,5 x 21 cm), 416 p., planches et cartes couleurs hors-texte, abdt ill. in-t., cartonnage decore a froid ed., tete jaspee.- Tome 2 seul. Très bel exemplaire, très frais. [PIL-HA4] Afrique Reunion Comores Indochine Guadeloupe Antilles Guyane Tahiti Nouvelle-Caledonie
in-8 etroit, 400 pp., 1 planche depliante, cartonnage, dos papier fort. Bon etat. [CA26/4]
in-8, 218 pp., illustrations, broché, couverture illustrée. Tres bel exemplaire. [TX-8] Biographie et textes réunis par G. CRUNELLE.
in-12, XXIX-219 pages, illustre de 12 hors-texte en heliogravure, broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire. [DV-1] Contient un chapitre et des photographies sur la Guyane et le bagne.
Hardcover in-12°, 255 pages, nombreuses illustrations n&b, cartes, reliure demi-maroquin à coins, dos à nerfs, couverture conservée. Tres bel exemplaire, très frais. [CA32-6]
in-8 broche de 516. pages Bel exemplaire. [CA27-3]
in-16, 323 pp., broché. Tres bel exemplaire. [LP-10]
1974Features: Paphiopedilum roebelinii - One of the Real Charmers; Orchids in a growing Guyana, South America; Orchid Records; Some observations on the Ecological Adaptations and Distribution Pattern of the East Himalayan Orchids; Mrs. Ardell Lawton's Coelogyne cristata; The Genus Mesospinidium - Collector's Item; New and rare Brazilian Rupicolous Laelias - II; Growing Orchids in British Columbia; The Second south African Orchid Conference; The Genus Pteroceras. Lovely copy with faint signs of wear. Book
1996203 pages. The fascinating and almost unbelievable adventures of David Singh as he progressed from poverty in Guyana to the head of Fortune Financial in Canada. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Must reading for any new immigrants in need of a heavy dose of inspiration. Book
1955Features: Dead Men's Diggings - Diamon seekers in British Guiana; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang in the South-West United States (Part 2); Bush Pilots of the Northlands - the far north of Canada and Alaska - photos; The Golden Chain - a delicious story from Malaya by a Quantas engineer; Unlucky Ship - the Ecola; The Silent Killer - a python story; Phases of Life from all over the world - kilometre eight in Venezuela; Stretton's Luck - Gold Prospecting in Sokoto, Nigeria; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Front cover partially loose. A worthy copy. Book
1957Features: Smoke Jumpers of Silver City - forest firefighters of the United States Forest Service; Buffalo Bull - a gripping story set in the wild Acholiland province of Uganda; Contraband Cruise - sten gun pirates terrorize Tangier's 'free-traders' on the Mediterranean; Search for the Sahara Stallion - a quest for a fabulous strain of horses; The Gold-Rush Murders - the most shocking crime the Yukon had ever seen; The Fang Men of Malaya - The Hairy Giants/Ape Men of the Malayan Jungles; I Had a Man Friday - I Know an Island, Part IX - Antigua; Struggle for Survival - a continuation of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' - adventure in the jungle of French Guiana; and more. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
1957Features: Abdullahi's Quest - treachery and death in the East Africa Protectorate; Battle of the Dragons - I Know and Island, Part VIII - monstrous flesh-eating dragons of Komodo; Savage Vengeance - Japanese Pearl Fishers and Australian Aborigines; Terror Takes Over - an instalment of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' in the French Guiana jungle; Timber Wolves of Beaver Lake - Alford Harrison waged a ceaseless war on the killer wolves of British Columbia; Fugitives Adrift - a stolen whaleboat in the Cook Islands; Kesobo's Warning - An Indian senses a message from his father 150 miles distant; Maneater of Sirni - a giant crocodile in the Ghandak River; Hunting the Drug Smugglers - Drug Traffickers in Singapore and the chandu scourge; The Dead Carried Gold - a tale from the Isle of Anglesey in 1859; Yafouba Magic - a tale from the Ivory Coast; and more. Chips from backstrip. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
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
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1981Features: The Right Whales of Patagonia - a diving and photographing expedition; Mount St. Helens Report - emergency measures taken to meet crisis; Rio Iglesia 1980 Expedition - the year of the Nitas; Vail Archeological Site Excavation - Maine site yields important finds; Guyana, Primeval Land - is it Doyle's "Lost World"; Search for Primitive Life Forms - Cyanidium caldarium may be missing link; The Mighty Roan - African antelope royalty; Japanese Monkey Performances - an ancient art revived; The Sumerian Paradise Puzzle Solved - alleged 'East" passage not on Deluge Tablet; Giant Ammonites Found in Turkey - Lytoceras in Jurassic formations. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound 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
19221598 pages. An illustrated biographical record of men and women of the time. Sturdy recent red buckram binding. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1923Pages 177-264 plus 16 pages of wonderfully nostalgic ads. Features: Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part 1 of the amusing account of the travels of a husband and wife with their donkey; The Diamond Smuggler; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part 6 of 6; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part 4 of 4 of an important cinematograph expedition to the interior of Africa to film wild animals - article with many great photos; Two Robinson Crusoes - surviving three months on a desert island; Sorcery and Spiritualism in Papua - restoring the dead to life, table-rapping and curses that kill - photo-illustrated article; The Little Brass God - a planter's odd experience in India; Poaching on a King's Preserves; Through the East by Air - Part 6 of 6 of a wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a ten-month expedition to view middle-eastern cities by air; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 1- the amazing life story of a man who was once banished to Guiana; Afloat with a Madman - a fireman goes mad aboard the "Algerian Prince" in the Bay of Biscay; Capturing 'Coperhead' - the story of a murderous Kentucky feudist in the mountains near the Kentucky - West Virginia border; photo of man standing in front of the largest saw blade in the world, a 108" diameter product made by Henry Disston and Sons, of Philadelphia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
