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1899Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
1996ref. SBBI-mon0000148210Ashgate Publishing Limited 1996. paperback. Acceptable. Stains to cover page edges and/or pages inside. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Ashgate Publishing Limited paperback
1558ref. 3048Lyon, Theobald Pagan (Thibaud Payen), 1558 ; in-12 ; plein vélin ivoire, titre manuscrit (reliure ancienne) ; 359 pp., (10) pp. d’index, la dernière blanche.
1745ref. I479UIWA9D18Dordrecht 1745. 8vo. Christoffel der Moey 18th-century calf sewn on 5 cords gold-tooled spine with black label in second compartment red sprinkled edges green ribbon marker. With an engraved half-title a decorated cartouche with a Medusa head and military building and surveying attributes letterpress title-page with a woodcut angel device 18 folding engraved plates numbered I-XVIII most showing fortification plans woodcut decorated initials 2 series and letterpress tables. Set in roman and italic types. Engraved half-title 16 205 3 pp. plates. First and only Dutch edition very rare second and last issue of a great classic of French fortification by Blaise François Pagan 1604-1665 first published in French in 1645 and here based on the greatly revised and expanded German edition by Johan Jacob Wertmüller published in 1684. Pagan was a major influence on Vauban but Vauban's advances in the 1670s rendered the older manual out of date. Wertmüller's 1684 Frankfurt edition brought it up to date giving it new life for seventy years. The present edition the last in any language was first published by Joan Block in The Hague in 1738 and is here reissued with a cancel title-page but with the same engraved half-title though the title-page calls it a second edition. We have located only one other copy of the 1745 issue at Leiden University Library.With manuscript notes on the half-title and title-page. With marginal water stains at the lower outside corner and many plates and text quires somewhat browned or foxed but otherwise in good condition. Binding rubbed and worn at the hinges. Second copy located of the second issue of the first and only Dutch edition of a classic fortification manual that remained in use for a century.l Jähns II 129 note no location; Jordan 2777 citing Jähns: no location; KVK & WorldCat 1 copy; STCN same copy. MILITARY HISTORY Fortification & Military Architecture Military History 18th Century unknown
2015ref. 115711Cambridge Scholars Publishing. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 1443877565 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing hardcover
1659ref. 44916Paris, Antoine de Sommaville, 1659. 3 parties en 1 vol. petit in-8 de (14)-511-(1) pp., (sign. a , A-Z , Aa-Ii ) armoiries gravées au titre, veau granité, dos orné à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
ref. 8335Zuric [puis] Berne, Heidegguer [puis] chez la Société typographique aux dépens de la Société Oeconomique, 1760 - 1773. 21 volumes in-8, demi veau fauve à coins, dos à nerfs ornés de filets et fleurons dorés, tranches teintées en rouge. Quelques rousseurs, parfois plus marquées en p. de titre, mouillure pour l'année 1771. Bel ensemble en reliure uniforme, chaque volume portant la signature de H. L. Roux en page de titre.
1661ref. 374995London: printed for John Starkey 1661. First English edition. Engraved folding map. 30 153 7pp. 8vo. Later vellum covers a bit bowed. Provenance: Thomas Willughby Baron Middleton signature "T. Willughby" on title. First English edition. Engraved folding map. 30 153 7pp. 8vo. In the dedication of the original French edition of 1655 Pagan calls on Cardinal Mazarin to "take possession of the Amazon and establish several colonies. He proves that it would not be a difficult enterprise and large armies and many pieces of artillery would not be necessary. The map drawn by Pagan is of great importance as a proof of the French ambitions in the Amazon regions." Borba de Moraes. However in the English edition at hand translator William Hamilton urges the King of England to take the same action in his "Epistle Dedicatory." It is accompanied by the same map as found in the first edition. "This translation is rare." Borba de Moraes. Scarce especially compete with the map. Borba de Moraes p.646; ESTC R209931; Sabin 58412; Wing P162; Field 1164 printed for John Starkey unknown
