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1910réf. 46775N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1910. 1910. AROUND THE WORLD. 9" x 12" tri-fold color pictorial wrappers folds to 9" x 4" 44 1 pp. illustrated from photographs and line drawings. Includes cabin plans for steamers "Mongolia" "Manchuria" "Korea" "Siberia" and "China itineraries conditions of passage timetables route map exchange rates. Describes comforts of the ships cabins suites dining social hall music room and library smoking room etc. and includes sections on Honolulu and Hawaii; Japan; Shanghai and China; the Philippines; the China Sea and Singapore; Calcutta; Agra and Delhi; Side Trips to Egypt; Cairo; Nile Trips; Africa Across the American Continent Chicago Salt Lake City San Francisco; and famous California Resorts. This is a well-presented booklet and provides a great deal of information that is helpful to the traveler. Very good copy. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1910). unknown
réf. 56-0236Oakland Calif.: Southern Pacific Company 1931. Map. Blueline print 25" x 48". Some red and black pencilling. Map of Oakland Railroad Yard Limits includes Air Force Intransit Depot. Scale 1" = 1500'. Oakland, Calif.: Southern Pacific Company, 1931. unknown
réf. 56-0233San Francisco Calif.: Southern Pacific Company 1931. Map. Blueline print. 24 x 47 inches. Map of Oakland Railroad Yard from Oakland Ferry 16th St. Station to San Rafael Ferry and Point Orient. Includes list of 3 transfers or cannonball moves Parr Terminal Wholesale Co all lines in Oakland. Scale: 1 inch = 1500 feet. San Francisco, Calif.: Southern Pacific Company, 1931. unknown
réf. 56-0359Los Angeles Calif.: Southern Pacific Company 1950. Map. Blueline print 24" x 60". Includes City of Yuma with detailed railroad yard Southwestern Ice & Cold Storage Co Ice Plant Union Oil Company. From Colorado River to beyond Seventh Street. Scale 1" = 100'. Los Angeles, Calif.: Southern Pacific Company, 1950. unknown
réf. 56-0223Los Angeles Calif.: Southern Pacific Company 1921 revised 1946. Map. Blueline print. 16 x 50 inches. With red orange green etc. pencilling. Map of Oxnard. Scale: 1 inch = 100 feet. With inset marginal map of region no scale. Los Angeles, Calif.: Southern Pacific Company, 1921, revised 1946. unknown
réf. 56-0360Tucson Ariz.: Southern Pacific Company 1932 revised 1949. Map. Blueline print 24" x 48" with red pencilling indicating present switching limits. From mile marker 729 to US Army Base. Includes Colorado Yuma East Yard points detailed function map of railroad yard Colorado River. Scale 1" = 1000'. Tucson, Ariz.: Southern Pacific Company, 1932, revised 1949. unknown
réf. 1630in 12 broché panorama dépliant de la ville de Sydney Galles du Sud (100x185cm) en frontispice.titre,298 pages,carte dépliante en couleurs d’après l’atlas de M.Bonnefont,illustrations Hors-texte sous serpentes.E.Plon & Cie 1883.Edition originale.
18608vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; xii, 456 pp, 8 fine lithographed plates, 7 being hand-colored, other tinted, other illustrations from drwgs, the plates drawn by J. Wolf, W. Fitch, George Angas (4 are botanical, others animals, birds). later sim. leather, gilt title lettering on red leather label, new endpapers, lightly foxed on few leaves, else clean, very good+ copy, well-bound. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Ripley 26. Ferguson 6929. Wood 231: 'An interesting account of the author's observations on the flora and fauna of Australasia, in which birds figure large, at least half of the 23 chapters containing references to them'. The book contains an extensive chapter on the platypus, which the auithor here calls a water mole, together with a hand colored plate of same. Fitch, who painted the botanical subjects, was one of the most respected botanical artists of his time. Other subjects are by artists G.F. Angas, Thomas Baines and Joseph Wolf, each a highly respected and ijmportant natural history artist. An important contribution including marine biology, ornithology, bird migration, plants including those with agricultural application, botanic garden, medicinal remedies, etc. The last chapter describes overland routes from Sydney to Southampton. Included is a loose clipping from a periodical on the New Guinea Ant Eater with illustration.
19128vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 2 volumes, xiv, 254; xvii, [255] - 515, [iv, ads] pp, 7 color plates (including 4 natural history), 2 folding maps, 365 plates and illus. original pictorial gilt cloth, spines faded and worn, good set, interior with minor foxing on some pages but clean, mounted hand colored map of New South Wales, eastern coast dated 1835 on endpaper from other work. A picture of this book is available upon
1912Features: Puget Sound Branch a Good Investment for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul's; Rumors of Graft in Puget Sound Extension; New Station at Kelso Opened; Robert Dollar's Views; What a Big Terminal Plant Means to a Port - by R.F. Ayers, President Pacific Terminals Company (with photo of Mr. Ayers); Ten Reasons Why There Should Be Free Tolls (through the Panama Canal); The Panama Canal and the West Indies; Coaling Light Vessels at Sea Hazardous Work - article with photo of light vessel stationed on Swiftsure Bank; Anti-Rolling Tanks Death to Seasickness - article with two diagrams illustrating tank arrangements; Jury Decides for Underwriters; Water Grades a Large Factor in Commerce; Repairs, Drydocking and Other Work; Photo of steel stern frame made by the Scullin-Gallagher Iron & Steel Company; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
194540 pages. Features: Dramatic cover photo of a Pacific LCI firing rockets; This is the Army We Have to Defeat - a picture of the Japanese soldier and of the organization of which he is the core; The Aircraft Carrier - lethal sea weapon and powder keg, too; Col. Howard A. Rusk explains the returning soldier's emotional problems and offers a solution; The Mediterranean will become a highway for all nations; Greatest Education Project in History - set up by our Army in Europe, it will have more than a million GI students; Claude R. Wickard explores Rural Electrification (RE); They Do a Sailor's Job - Six photos of female Waves at work in the U.S. Navy; Man of Science and of Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming talks of his discovery and its future promise; Nice color one-page ad for Virginia Rounds cigarettes; Good Words for Insects; Four photos of famous art pieces being returned to the Louvre from their provincial hiding places; Two pages of fashion photos of autumn suits for ladies; Nice color-photo back page Macy's ad features three ladies in winged-look raincoats; and more. Moderate external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
1927Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1920Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1980Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 280 pages. "Deals with the shrimps of the Pacific Coast of Canada. The seaward limit of the region corresponds to the outer perimeter of Canada's Fishing Zone 5, i.e. 200 nautical miles (321 km) from the outer coast. Eighty-five species are listed, and each species is given a common name. Complete keys, with accompanying diagrams, are provided. Accounts of 82 species include detailed morphological descriptions and halftone illustrations, notes on colour, main distinguishing characters, maximum carapace and total lengths, total known geographic and bathymetric ranges, first known local capture, and information on biology and economic importance. Seventeen species are recorded for the first time... Included are sections on shrimp parasites, sexing of shrimps, use of keys, explanation of measurements, and also a gazetteer, glossary, partial synonymy, and index to scientific and common names. Eight plates and a frontspiece illustrate the colours of 41 shrimp species when live." - Abstract. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Average wear with several short edge-tears to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality signed copy of this exceptional reference. Book
194790 pages. Articles: From Rags to Riches - Chaplin in a Bluebeard role; America's Number One Mystery Man (part 1 of 2) - the career of Frank Costello and his strange empire - great photos; John Bull Sees Red, White and Blue - Britain's privations give rise to bitter criticism of America; Dem Bums Abroad - Brooklyn Dodgers did their spring training in Havana, Cuba; Mr. Secretary Marshall (conclusiont) - his military background can help him achieve diplomatic victories; The Happy Gentleman - Frank Crowninshield - article with photo. Fiction: The Blast (part 1 of 2); The Blond Hairpin; Promise in the earth; The Flexible Mind; The Curse of the Krebils; White Man in the White Land. Includes these ads: "The Man Out" - great full-page movie ad - starring James Mason; Canadian Pacific Vacations; Santa Fe Railroad; The National Guard (two pages); Dubonnet; Oldsmobile cars (nice); Great full-page color-photo ad for Fortune shoes for men; Schick Electric Shaver "Fits Your Face" - full-page color-photo; Packard cars (classy); Washington State Tourism (color-photos); Chevrolet; Life Savers; Timely Clothes; Red Cap Ale; Hickok Belts; Canadian National Railways - travel; Red Top Ale; Queen Anne Pecan Roll; Puritan Sportswear; United Jewish Appeal full-page ad features photo of General Eisenhower and lengthy excerpt of his speech to the U.J.A. in Washington, D.C.; Eversharp pens; Coke ad on back over features three young office ladies. Average wear. Center page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1912Features: B.F. Bush on Evil Results to Accrue from Diversion of Capital from Railway Enterprises; Japanese Trainmaster kills self after Emperor is delayed; Tell the Truth, Mr. (Gifford) Pinchot! - fallout from a December 16th article about Alaska; Charles F. Speare discusses the alliance between the Northern Pacific and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads; Southern Pacific and Pacific Mail (article from the Wall Street Journal); Cash Shortage in Western Canada; Captain N.E. Cousins has been in the employ of the Pacific Coast Steamship Lines Co. since 1878 - article with photo; Get Ready for the Opening of the Panama Canal; Economy of the [Seattle] Municipal Plan (part 2) - major article with map; Cunard and Anchor Lines Amalgamate - article with list of the vessels, and their tonnage, of each company; Protest the Carriage of Navy Coal in Foreign Bottoms - George F. Thorndyke of the Globe Navigation Company speaks out; Edvard Jansen to take over from Ida Wilson Lewis, "The Grace Darling of America", tending the Lime Rock light station; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Illustration of the central winch on Dredge New Orleans; Portland News Notes; Schedule for Canadian-Pacific Railways Steamships connecting Seattle with Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1972211 pages. Index. "This richly illustrated book represents the full scope of Colville's work. There are the early canvases; the war art commissioned when he was overseas with the Canadian forces; the highly praised designs of Canada's Centennial coins issued in 1967; and such latter-day masterpieces as Pacific, To Prince Edward Island, and January. In all, forty-eight major works are reproduced in full colour, with fifty-six black-and-white illustrations of Colville's sketches, drawings, coin designs, paintings and serigraphs." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
1965Features: Pacific International Air Races; The Burgess Co. Story - Part 2 - 1911-1912; Bill Gary and the Hoople - William Pierce Gary; Checkertails - History of the 325th Fighter Group, May 1944-May 1945 (part 2); The Lockheed Sirius; The Hensley Affair - Col William N. Hensley; Reading Air Show; 601st Aircraft Repair Squadron; Beginnings of Hickham Field; Presque Isle Army Air Field, Maine, in WWII; Bibliography Section; and more. Exceptionally well-illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Pages 231-302. Cover features photo of a Lockheed Sirius 8 Special, NR 211 c/n 140 flown across the Pacific and Atlantic by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this very informative vintage issue. Book
193976 pages. Features: Nice cover photo of the King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth; Fisher Body one-page ad features a McLaughlin-Buick; Wonderful colour one-page ad for Frigidaire fridges; News digest includes these headings - 'The Wild Geese', 'Politicians and Newspapers', 'Totalitarian Swapping', 'First Families', 'A Modern Napoleon', 'Mr. Bennett's Farewell', 'Dictatorship as a Refuge', 'Canada's Lesson from Europe', 'Dominion Unity', and 'Democracy's Frontier'; *Gorgeous* one-page colour ad for a dark blue 1939 Nash 4-Door Sedan; Canada's King and Queen Come Home - photo-illustrated article on their Canadian visit; The Iron Key (short story); Crime Comes to South Street (short story); All Our To-Morrows (short story); Historical Rhymes of Canada; Mr. Mayland Takes a Single (short story); Not in our Stars (short story); Strictly "Off the Record" - nice photo-illustrated article on Canadian figure skating with photos of Mary Rose Thacker of the Winnipeg Winter Club, Norah McCarthy, Canadiand Ladies' Junior Champion of 1938, and her 1939 Canadian Pair Champion partner Ralph McCreath, of the Toronto Skating Club; Nice one-page ad for the 1939 Pontiac; One-page Kodak ad with photos of six of their cameras, complete with prices and basic specs; The province of Saskatchewan is high-lighted in a one-page ad by the Automotive Industries of Canada; Banff and Alaska are featured in Canadian Pacific travel ad; Movie news with photos of Herbert Stothart, Bob Wright, Chet Forrest, pianist Stokowski, and Deanna Durbin; Fashion Illustrations; Canadian National ad features Jasper; Kellogg's All-Bran ad features "Fair Enough!" comic by C.A. Vought; Are You House Dreaming? - article on house design suggestions; Spring Magic - beauty article; Pond's ad features photos of The Lady Ursula Stewart and The Lady Bourke; Another Pond's ad features photo of Lady Harmsworth; Eating for Efficiency and Health; vintage Magic Baking Powder one-page ad features the New York World's Fair; Fabric Fundamentals; World Quotes; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover features young man in tie and jacket drinking, with small inset colour photo of Coke cooler; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1952448 pages. Index. "... Rockefeller's Institute of Pacific Relations controlled the spy ring that instigated the attack on Pearl Harbor, ... they knew in advance, to the very day, when it would occur and involve us in the war." - page 281. Moderate wear to book. Binding sound. Prior owner's address label atop front free endpaper. Publisher's address corrected in ball pen upon back panel of dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is missing several chips and bears a variety of short openings. A sound copy. Book
1911"Get Ready For the Panama Canal". Features: Over $25 million invested in Harriman Terminals; Kenneth C. Kerr describes Washington and Alaska's attendance at big New York land show; Editorial discusses the early opening of the Panama Canal and describes it as the "Greatest Epoch in American History"; Martin A. Knapp discusses Interstate Commerce Regulations; O.-W.R. & N. Co. News; G.W. Luce of the Southern Pacific discusses Panama Canal; Brief business biography of Frank W. Parker of the Northwestern Line, including photo of Parker; Appointments, Changes, Personals, etc.; Article by J.H. Bloedel, President of the Larsen Lumber Co., about the Panama Canal with reference to its influence on Pacific Coast Forest Products; Economy of the Commission Plan; Port of Vancouver Drydock and Shipbuilding Company plans big steel drydock for Vancouver; American-Hawaiian S.S. Co. Enters Bids for Carrying Mail; Big Coal Depots for Panama Canal; Missouri River Preparing for Panama Canal; Modern Fireboat Badly Needed for Tacoma's Harbor (article with photo of the harbor); Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Pacific Coast Casualties; "The Chester" - The World's Lightest Draft Steamer - article with photo; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, for local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A sound copy of this highly-informative memento of the rail and marine businesses of the Pacific Northwest over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1930134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
1936Cover Painting by Stuart. Features: Eveready Flashlight ad inside front cover; Editorial regarding the crisis of Canada's large quantity of unsold wheat; Waterman's Ink-Vue Pen ad; Roadhouse Blues, by Benge Atlee; Gold in Saskatchewan, by Leslie Roberts - Lake Athabaska's gold fields - article with photos; Place, by Tayler Sutton; Whale Coming Up! - Whaling in the North Pacific isn't what it used to be, but it still provides both peril and profit for the hardy - article with photos; Three cents an hour - women are working at that wage in Canada, under conditions that would be a disgrace to any civilized society; Hobby House, by Eleanor De Lamater; They Call Him Summertime Santa - J.D. O'Connell is Canada's most unique philanthropist; Arctic Doctor - Dr. James A. "Fred" Urquhart, of Aklavik, is Canada's most northerly doctor - his territory, an area of 900,000 square miles!; Canadians in England (Lord Beaverbrook, Gladstone Murray, Sir Campbell Stuart, Bonar Law, Lord Greenwood, Peter Donovan), by Beverley Baxter; Marriage Isn't a Place, by Margaret Lee Runbeck; Sahara Lighthouses - short article on the beacons which lead desert travellers; Siam falling under the domination of Japan - short article; Fire Bombs - an accurate prediction that in the next war they will be used by the thousand to destroy cities; Canadian Pacific ad featuring the Empress of Britain; Nice ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Those First Meals, by M. Frances Hucks at the Chatelaine Institute; Wonderfully artistic two-colour ad for Heinz Tomato Soup inside back cover; Red Indian/Marathon "Blue" colour ad on back cover for the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. Address label atop front cover which bears a six inch opening to its lower corner. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
1911Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
