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1944Contents: Caterpillar Diesel ad - They pushed back the sea at Port Moresby; drawing of a very primitive snowmobile as part of an electric power company ad; Photo of JFK - he returned to Los Angeles for a leave after 11 months of fighting in the Pacific; Greatest battle of air weighs U.S. Bombers vs. Nazi industry - but Germans still produce - meanwhile Eisenhower begins speeding D Day preparations; Mustang, aviation's ugly duckling, becomes a top long-range fighter; The outlook in the Battle of Russia - by Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone; Bid for Burma; Nazis seem to plan Ukraine stand despite red encirclement tactics; Why our Italian campaign is so tough; Enveloping Rabaul; Reds keep Curzon Line the issue in rejecting Polish conference - Pravda story of British offer of separate German peace injects new note in Allied relations; Lucky Strike cigarettes - attractive color ad; chart showing FDR's 12 budgets - reflect massive spending increases of WW II; Riddles of contract termination hold key to postwar prosperity; Nice military Oldsmobile/GM ad; Hereford T.Royal Rupert sells for record $38,000; A harbinger of things to come - photo of 5 Mexicans, wearing native hats and panchos (!), brought to New Haven to shovel snow due to manpower shortage; Photos and article on Bronko Nagurski; Kinsey Whiskey - nice color ad; Leadership in Merchant Shipping presents U.S. with big problem - is subsidy war inevitable or can world powers co-operate to ease trade competition. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
193672 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of boy celebrating summer vacation; Sisman's Scampers shoe ad inside front cover; Editorials deal with these topics - Partial Relief, A Doctor, Not a Nurse, Maintaining the Tradition, The Cooperatives, Farewell Toscanini, and Not Conquest but Murder; Trollop (short story); This Peace (short story); A Modern Odyssey - photo-illustrated article by Edgar N. Brown describes sea travel; Rough 'Un (short story); The Black Ace (short story); The Smooth Silence (short story); The Dilemma of Debt; Scotland Yard Versus Crime - photo-illustrated article on the system employed by this world famous organization to track down criminals, law breakers and lesser offenders; Golf Duds & Meteors - photo-illustrated golf article with photos of Charles A. Whitcome, Albert "Scotty" Campbell, Lex Robson, Tony Manero, Willie Lamb, and Tommy Armour; It's In the Bag - interesting article on the history of purses; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features Banff; Palmolive ad features photo of Montreal stylist and designer Doris Preston; Nostalgic half-page ad for McClary Stoves; Vintage half-page photo ad for Eddy's Sterilized White Swan toilet paper shows fellow in bathing suit at the beach; Movie news with photos of Clark Gable, Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, William Powell, Jean Chadburn, Alison Skipworth, Warren William, Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, and more; Lux soap ad features photo of Joan Bennett; Photo of Dick Powell in Quaker Puffed Wheat ad; Pond's ad features photos of Miss Barbara Hebbard and Lady Daphne Straight; Unusual half-page ad for Blue-Jay Corn Plaster, by Bauer & Black Scientific; Nice half-page Canadian Pacific photo-ad features the Empress of Britain; Business News includes mention of the recent Alberta default; Cooking article; Lovely one-page colour Kraft ad features their cheese products; Nice one-page Heinz ad features their vinegar and Olive Oil; Vintage half-page Rice Krispies ad; Beauty article; Why Baby Cries; One-page Carnation Milk ad features five large photos of each of the individual Dionne Quints; World Sayings; Colour ads inside back cover for Lifebuoy and Rinso; Rare colour back cover ad for Red Indian oil and Marathon Blue gasoline features illustration of native elders in feathered headgear, painted by Winold Reiss; and more. Covers loose but present. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
191788 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; The Port Elizabeth "Spook" - a very unusual ghost story; Strange Stories of the War - how we rescued the Commander/How a Dog Outwitted the Germans/Into the Hand of a Woman (a story of the invasion of Lithuania); The Death-Room - solving the mystery of how three men died in the same room in the same house; Pumping a Great Sea Dry - Holland's gallant attempt to reclaim the Zuider Zee (with photos); An Underground City of Salt - near Cracow, in Galicia - article with photos; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part III - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the second great transcontinental line to pierce the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; The World's Smallest Railway, The Grand Island Railway (text with photos); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
194660 pages. Features: Lovely colour one-page Banff Springs Hotel/Canadian Pacific ad; On the Eve of the Peace Conference; Photo of Lt.-Col. Henry "Kit" Carson; Photo of C.W.A.C's Pat Lebbiter of Ottawa, Lillian Cairns of Winnipeg, and Marion O'Connor of Toronto; Colour Maxwell House Coffee ad features "Omar and the Gorgeous Coffee Bird"; One-page colour Seagram's ad features illustration of man using fanciful/futuristic disks which resemble electronic memory devices which came decades later; One-page ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone system; Hay in Her Hair (short story); Marrow to His Bones (short story); The Charm of Nova Scotia - article with nice colour photos; The Soviet Chooses - photo-illustrated article on the world's biggest General Election, with nearly 110,000,000 citizens electing the Supreme Soviet; Sweet Water Moon (short story); Nice one-page photo-illustrated Singer sewing machine ad; Photo of Gale Storm in Jergens Lotion ad; Woodbury soap ad features multiple photos of newlyweds June Graham of Ottawa and Flight Lieutenant Edward Carl Likeness RCAF; Advances in Science; One-page colour ad for Frigidaire fridges; Fantastic one-page colour-photo ad for Heinz condiments; Arrid ad features photo of lovely Ilona Massey; Sexy one-page colour-illustrated ad for NuBack undergarments features young blonde holding kitty; Style and cosmetics articles; Tangee ad features Mrs. Adolphe Menjou; Nice one-page colour ad for Waterman's Taperite pens features city skyline; Nice colourWabasso Cottons ad inside back cover features mother, daughter and cats; Fantastic colour-illustrated Coke ad on back cover features soda shop scene with young man singing into napkin container like it's a microphone; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1923Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
194776 pages. Features: Lovely Franklin Arbuckle cover illustration of couple admiring winter view of Peyto Lake at Banff National Park; Nostalgic Canadian Pacific colour ad inside front cover features young lady looking forward to seeing Canada by train; One-page DeSoto ad features a maroon Custom; Pay-Off in Oil - Leduc, Alberta has been stampeded by roughnecks after the recent discovery of oil; Labor War is Civil War - article by Charles Luckman of Lever Brothers Company in the U.S.; Marigold Spring (fiction); E.K. Brown explains his Ontario - rich but repressed, powerful but timid, and disliked but loved by her own; Bell's Sweet Singers - Dr. Leslie Bell conducts the 60 lovely girls of the Ontario College of Education choir - article with nice photos; Divorce - a Racket and a Scandal; Excellent colour-photo Campbell's soup ad features attractive housweife in front of a wall of soup cans; Nice colour Waterman's Taperite pen ad; When the Crowd Roars - Ted Reeve conjours up the biggest thrills of 40 years in sport; Guardian of the Clock (fiction); Flying Railwayman - New head of CPR is W.M. Neal, who rose from office boy to President; Article on mosquitoes by Max Braithwaite; The Faraway Music Company (fiction); Wonderful one-page colour White Rose gas station ad shows vehicles lined up for service; Colour photo Caterpillar ad shows highway excavation in progress, with tarp protecting crawler operator from the cold; Nice back cover Coke ad features young lady with 'come hither' look gazing down from porch. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
900Two maps, Haapai Group Northem & Southern portion Surveyed by Captain A. Mostyn Field, Assisted by Lieutenants F.C. Pasco, A. Waugh, G.E. Nares, A.W. Lowis, C.R. Brewis, and M.r F. Payne, Boats. H.M. Surveying Ship Penguin, 1898. London Published at the Admiralty, 9th Mar. 1900, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Sir W.J.L. Wharton, Hydrographer. Small corrections: 1929. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Pacific Ocean - Haspai Group. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 655x991 + 653x990 mm
900Islands and Anchorages in Cook Islands In the upper left side of the chart insert of Arutunga Anchorage From a British Survey in 1892 and Rarotonga Island From a New Zealand Government plan of 1913 (with additions from a British survey in 1922). In the middle of the chart insert of Aitutaki Island From a British survey in 1892 (with additions from a New Zealand Gov.plan of 1906) and Atu Island From a New Zealand Gov. survey in 1919. In the right part of the chart insert of Hervey Islands From a New Zealand Gov. plan of 1906 and Mauke Island From a New Zealand Gov. plan of 1906. In the lower part of the chart insert of Avarua and Avatiu Harbors From a British survey in 1922. Washington D.C., published Apr. 1902, at the Hydrographic Office, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Small corrections: Printed Mar. 1928. Folded editorialyy. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Cook Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 960x661 mm
1863Raoul or Sunday I. Surveyed by Capt. H.M. Denham, assisted by Lieut: J. Hutchison, J.W. Smith, Mast. E. Wilds, F. Hixson, & F. Howard Sec. Masters 1854. In the left side of the chart insert of CMacauley I. From a Sketch Survey by the Ass. Surveyor General of New Zealand in 1887, Curtis I. From a Sketch Survey by the Ass. Surveyor General of New Zealand in 1887. London Published at the Admiralty, May 4th 1863, under the Superintendence of R. Adm. Washington, Hydrographer. Small corrections: 1930. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: New Zealand - Kermadec Group - Polynesia - Pacific Ocean. Anno: 1863 [1930]. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 471x670 mm
900Samoa Islands Island of Tutuila From United States Naval surveys between 1901 and 1922. In the upper left corner of the chart insert of Manua Islands - Tau, Ofu and Olosega Islands From a United States Naval survey in 1915 - and insert of Rose Island From latest information. Washington D.C., published June 1923, at the Hydrographic Office, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Small corrections: Printed: April 1932. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Samoa Islands - Pacific Ocean. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 789x1215 mm
900South Pacific Ocean. Sheet III. The curves of Variation are for 1915. Washington D.C., published Oct. 1883, at the Hydrographic Office, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Small corrections Printed: July 1932. Folded editorially. Autore: Admiralty Charts. Luogo: Pacific Ocean South. Anno: '900. Tecnica: incisione. Dimensioni: 594x774 mm
1835Mappa dell'Oceania.Carta geografica tratta dal "Dizionario Geografico Universale..." edito a Venezia nel 1835. In buono stato di conservazione. Map of Oceania taken from the "Dizionario Geografico Universale..." published in Venice in 1835.In good condition.
1873ref. 42992Paris, Henri Plon, 1873. Grand in-8 de (6)-641-(3) pp., 116 illustrations, demi-chagrin vert, dos orné à nerfs, tranches dorées (Ch. Magnier).
1998ref. MG253291998 2 volumes (A+B complete). 1250 p., 2500 figs, 500 b/w & 200 col. photographs, 4to, hardbound. Spines somewhat discoloured, else a good copy. Now out of print. The most comprehensive and authoritative treatment yet of Australia's marine, freshwater and terrestrial molluscs. It is a significant international reference, with contributions from 70 authors, and in which some 7700 papers in the primary literature are cited. Most molluscan families described in the book are also found in the Northern Hemisphere, making this title an essential reference for malacologists worldwide.
1785ref. LBW-28591785. 230 x 499 mm.
1774ref. LBW-2718[1774]. 275 x 431 mm.
1774ref. LBW-2757[1774]. 270 x 272 mm.
1789ref. PHO-853Paris, chez Maradan, 1789. in-8 (20,5 x 13 cm), [6]-581 + [4]-292-46-[4] p. + h.-t. 2 vol. reliés époque , dos lisse avec titre , tomaison et nom du collectionneur en queue. Édition originale de la traduction française, cet exemplaire comporte bien les tables dépliantes à la fin du volume 2 mais compte 19/22 planches et cartes hors-texte (manquent 18, 21, 22). Marques d'usure aux reliures, plusieurs fentes aux mors, restaurations de papier à la p. de titre et la suivante dans le vol. 1, mouillure claire sur quelques ff. du vol. 2 et tache en marge haute des derniers ff. Sabin, 20366, Chadenat, n°1593
1833ref. LBW061b1[Paris, 1833]. 257 x 362 mm.
1833ref. LBW061b5[Paris, 1833]. 263 x 348 mm.
1833ref. LBW-5460[Paris, 1833]. 302 x 460 mm.
1833ref. LBW-5462[Paris, 1833]. 250 x 330 mm.
1827ref. LBW-4442[1827]. 498 x 351 mm.
1827ref. LBW-4440[1827]. 496 x 772 mm.
ref. 60187Paris, Librairie Plon, 1904, ouvrage orné de 174 gravures et de cartes, d'après les photographies et les documents de l'auteur, 355 pp. + planches et cartes, relié, très légères traces d'usage, bon état général.
