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1865Best.-Nr. LBW-3197London & Liverpool, Philip & Son, [circa 1865]. 520 x 610 mm.
1853Best.-Nr. LBW-3418London, George Cox, 1853. 400 x 310 mm.
1838Carta geografica edita dalla "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge". Incisione in rame, coloritura coeva, in ottime condizioni. Map of the islands of New Zealand.Shows towns, mountains, rivers, lakes, and details concerning the uninhabited regions. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was active from the 1830s through the 1860s and published some of the best regional maps of the era.Published by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Steel engraving with original colour. Perfect condition.
1896Best.-Nr. LBW-2760London, Edward Stanford, [1896]. 606 x 470 mm.
1825Best.-Nr. LBW-31631821 [1825]. 408 x 544 mm.
1827Carta apparsa nella sesta parte, "Océanique", dell'Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, statistique et minéralogique di Vandermaelen. L'atlante fu prodotto in un'unica edizione nel 1827; furono venduti solo 810 esemplari completi. Questa grande opera, che comprende circa 378 mappe uniche e che fu compilata nell'arco di tre anni, fu il primo atlante litografico e il primo a rappresentare il mondo con la stessa proiezione e in una scala uniforme. Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen è stato un cartografo fiammingo attivo a Bruxelles nella prima parte del XIX secolo. A Vandermaelen si deve uno dei più notevoli sviluppi dell'impresa privata nella cartografia, ovvero il suo straordinario Atlas Universel de Geographie in sei volumi. Vandermaelen, nato a Bruxelles il 23 dicembre 1795, viene considerato come il più grande cartografo belga dopo Mercatore e Ortelius. Figlio di un medico che era diventato un ricco produttore di sapone, muovendosi in un ambiente commerciale e da autodidatta, divenne un commerciante di prodotti chimici e farmaceutici. Fanatico di geografia, la sua carriera subisce una svolta definitiva quando, nel 1825, inizia a pubblicare un rivoluzionario Atlas universel che lo consacra come cartografo. Primo atlante al mondo a rappresentare la Terra su una scala unica ed eccezionalmente grande, l'Atlas universel offriva la rappresentazione più ampia, completa e precisa mai realizzata. I suoi contemporanei lo capirono, come la Chiesa cattolica romana, che era in una fase di espansione. Negli anni Trenta del XIX secolo, Roma sosteneva che questo atlante era assolutamente il miglior atlante disponibile, prezioso strumento della sua politica missionaria nell'Oceano Pacifico e nelle isole meridionali. Bibliografia Marguerite Silvestre, Philippe Vandermaelen, Mercator de la jeune Belgique, 2016. Map appeared in the sixth part, 'Océanique,' of Vandermaelen's Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, statistique et minéralogique. The atlas was produced in one edition in 1827; only 810 complete sets were sold. This great work, featuring some 378 unique maps and compiled over three years, was the first lithograph atlas, and the first to render the world on the same projection and at a uniform scale. Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen (December 23, 1795 - May 29, 1869) was a Flemish cartographer active in Brussels during the first part of the 19th century. Vandermaelen is created with "one of the most remarkable developments of private enterprise in cartography," namely his remarkable six volume Atlas Universel de Geographie. No one could have foreseen that Philippe Vandermaelen, born in Brussels on 23 December 1795, would become the greatest Belgian cartographer since Mercator and Ortelius. Son of a doctor who had become a wealthy soap maker, moving in a business environment and self-taught, he became a dealer of chemical and pharmaceutical products. As a geography fanatic, there was a definitive shift in his career when, in 1825, he began to publish a revolutionary Atlas universel which established him as a cartographer. As the first atlas in the world to represent the Earth on a single and exceptionally large scale, the Atlas universel offered the widest, most complete and most precise representation ever achieved. His contemporaries understood this, such as the Roman Catholic Church, which was in a phase of expansion. In the 1830s, Rome claimed that this atlas was “the best atlas available” and was the instrument of its missionary policy in the Pacific Ocean and the southern islands. Litograph, with original outline colour, very good condition. Bibliografia Marguerite Silvestre, Philippe Vandermaelen, Mercator de la jeune Belgique, 2016.
1827Carta apparsa nella sesta parte, "Océanique", dell'Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, statistique et minéralogique di Vandermaelen. L'atlante fu prodotto in un'unica edizione nel 1827; furono venduti solo 810 esemplari completi. Questa grande opera, che comprende circa 378 mappe uniche e che fu compilata nell'arco di tre anni, fu il primo atlante litografico e il primo a rappresentare il mondo con la stessa proiezione e in una scala uniforme. Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen è stato un cartografo fiammingo attivo a Bruxelles nella prima parte del XIX secolo. A Vandermaelen si deve uno dei più notevoli sviluppi dell'impresa privata nella cartografia, ovvero il suo straordinario Atlas Universel de Geographie in sei volumi. Vandermaelen, nato a Bruxelles il 23 dicembre 1795, viene considerato come il più grande cartografo belga dopo Mercatore e Ortelius. Figlio di un medico che era diventato un ricco produttore di sapone, muovendosi in un ambiente commerciale e da autodidatta, divenne un commerciante di prodotti chimici e farmaceutici. Fanatico di geografia, la sua carriera subisce una svolta definitiva quando, nel 1825, inizia a pubblicare un rivoluzionario Atlas universel che lo consacra come cartografo. Primo atlante al mondo a rappresentare la Terra su una scala unica ed eccezionalmente grande, l'Atlas universel offriva la rappresentazione più ampia, completa e precisa mai realizzata. I suoi contemporanei lo capirono, come la Chiesa cattolica romana, che era in una fase di espansione. Negli anni Trenta del XIX secolo, Roma sosteneva che questo atlante era assolutamente il miglior atlante disponibile, prezioso strumento della sua politica missionaria nell'Oceano Pacifico e nelle isole meridionali. Bibliografia Marguerite Silvestre, Philippe Vandermaelen, Mercator de la jeune Belgique, 2016. Map appeared in the sixth part, 'Océanique,' of Vandermaelen's Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, statistique et minéralogique. The atlas was produced in one edition in 1827; only 810 complete sets were sold. This great work, featuring some 378 unique maps and compiled over three years, was the first lithograph atlas, and the first to render the world on the same projection and at a uniform scale. Philippe Marie Guillaume Vandermaelen (December 23, 1795 - May 29, 1869) was a Flemish cartographer active in Brussels during the first part of the 19th century. Vandermaelen is created with "one of the most remarkable developments of private enterprise in cartography," namely his remarkable six volume Atlas Universel de Geographie. No one could have foreseen that Philippe Vandermaelen, born in Brussels on 23 December 1795, would become the greatest Belgian cartographer since Mercator and Ortelius. Son of a doctor who had become a wealthy soap maker, moving in a business environment and self-taught, he became a dealer of chemical and pharmaceutical products. As a geography fanatic, there was a definitive shift in his career when, in 1825, he began to publish a revolutionary Atlas universel which established him as a cartographer. As the first atlas in the world to represent the Earth on a single and exceptionally large scale, the Atlas universel offered the widest, most complete and most precise representation ever achieved. His contemporaries understood this, such as the Roman Catholic Church, which was in a phase of expansion. In the 1830s, Rome claimed that this atlas was “the best atlas available” and was the instrument of its missionary policy in the Pacific Ocean and the southern islands. Litograph, with original outline colour, very good condition. Bibliografia Marguerite Silvestre, Philippe Vandermaelen, Mercator de la jeune Belgique, 2016.
1992Best.-Nr. 018756N.Y.: Bantam 1992. 1st ed. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Not price-clipped. SIGNED at title page. A SHAMUS AWARD FINALIST for Best Novel of the year and an ANTHONY AWARD FINALIST for Best Mystery of the Year. Crais scarecest title. "Lullaby Town is Chelam Connecticut where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole The Monkey's Raincoat 1987--not reviewed goes in search of Karen Shipley divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen who's since developed deep pockets courtesy of a string of action hits beginning with Chainsaw and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like Elvis has found Karen and her son Toby all too easily Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It'll take all of Elvis's wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. Elvis is as sharp as a West Coast Spenser.and this story is pure pleasure from the very first page". -- Kirkus Review. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 021573Garden City New York: Crime Club By Doubleday & Company Inc. 1935. First Edition so stated. Now in beautiful facsimile dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Her First Book and the first in the Sheriff Rocky Allen series. Very minor wear else about fine. Previous owner's name at front endpaper along with label. Very scarce. Alfred Leale wealthy lumber king buys an old mountain resort hotel in North California moving his family there for the winter. Temporary deputy sheriff Rocky Allen who is off work sick due to a car accident three months ago decides to go along with his friend to Dayton Folly to drop off some supplies. He arrives on the scene just in time to witness the family patriarch keel over in the snow after taking a snifter from his brandy filled flask. A snowstorm cuts them off from help One of his house guests Theophilus Pope is quickly sure he died of poisoning and it is soon revealed that Pope had been invited along by Leale as a form of guard since he believed his life was in danger. Pope and Allen join forcess to solve crime while Allen must confront his feelings about a certain red-haired nurse who might just be a suspect. See "The Passing Tramp" blog of Saturday July 6 2019 for an excellent and detailed synopsis of the book and Rath herself. This copy although not marked as such originates from the auction of Gary Gorton's collection of detective fiction. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book. Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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1940Best.-Nr. 725unknown: Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company 1940. 18 x 16 inches. Good condition with map nicely mounted on mildly acidic board. This is a comprehensive compilation of long distance phone lines in the Pacific Northwest. The map goes from Crescent City California in the South to Nelson BC in the north. It goes from Buffalo Hump Idaho in the east to Zumwalt Oregon in the west. It is a fine print masterpiece getting a plethora of switching stations in the map. ðŸ—ºï¸ It is printed on paper mounted on board. The overall map is tanned from the mounting on a board with an acidic base. The browning is light and not aggressive and will respond well to deacif=dification. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company unknown
Best.-Nr. 2299San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co. 1883. . Large 8vo printed color-lithographed wrappers; lacking one inch at the head of the spine and one half inch at the foot. Institutionally common. Scarce in trade. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co., 1883. unknown books
1875Best.-Nr. 27665New York: Evening Post Steam Presses 1875. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. Stitched. iv 3-133 pp. Wrappers moderately worn else a clean text and Very Good. A comprehensive compilation of the legal documents creating and authorizing the Railroad and its branches and affiliates. OCLC locates five copies under several accession numbers as of March 2018. A shorter version with this title appeared in 1873. Evening Post Steam Presses unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 1394Pacific Valves Inc. Catalog G – Cast & Forged Steel Asbestos Parts 1959 Vintage Hardcover Reference Research Copyright 1959 published by Pacific Valves Inc. Long Beach CA. 240 pages. There is an extra insert Bulletin BV-2 that is included. Catalog G features steel valves by Pacific some of which utilized gaskets with Asbestos material. Catalog is divided into separate sections: cast steel valves small steel valves stainless steel corrosion-resistant valves and "Y" globe valves. Orange hardcover shows wear to include spine lean black smudges scuffs soiling nicks scratches bumped corners and edges bumped spine head and tail and nicks to the edges. Hard creases throughout with a wavy textblock. The textblock and pages are tanning with spots. Previous owner's stamps on the pastedowns and index page. There are small markings smudges and scuffs throughout the text but nothing significant. Overall this book is in Very Good minus VG- condition. Pacific Valves, Inc. hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 18880n.p.: Southern Pacific Lines 1928. First edition. Rubbed and retouched area at center of rear board else fine. Original reptile-skin patterned boards oblong quarto 8.75 x 15 inches 20 leaves printed on rectos only. 9 large group photographs several portrait photos of SP executives. Laid in loose are 1 5.5 x 9.5-inch cyanotype photo print of a locomotive works and 1 vintage 6 x 8.5-inch silver print photograph of a coal-fired locomotive and crew. Also laid in is a typed letter dated San Francisco July 3 1929 signed J. N. Clark to Mr. O. B. Schoenky presenting this album. Dated ink stamp recording receipt of Southern Pacific Co. Los Angeles Cal. July 5 1929 at top of sheet. Both sender and recipient are pictured in the management portraits portion of the album. Founded in 1865 1929 was Southern Pacific's heyday with 13848 miles of their own track. A fine piece of railroading history. Southern Pacific Lines hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 64697San Francisco CA: San Francisco Bay Exposition Co. Published by Pacific House Lithographed by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. & Schwabacher-Frey Inc. 1940. One oblong atlas folio map 25.5 x 19 in. colour lithographed on beautiful thick paper stock minor age toning slight dustsoiling on right portion still a VG bright original pictorial map. First edition of this separate issue souvenir map issued by the Golden Gate International Exposition GGIE World’s Fair which first opened in 1939 and carried over to 1940 celebrating the stunning series of giant murals painted in 1939 by Covarrubias for the Pacific House presenting the Pacific Ocean as an idyllic yet with remote and exotic areas prior to World War II. This splendid and vibrant pictorial map vividly presents the ranges of building methods and Indigenous Peoples dwellings from Yurts in Mongolia to peaked longhouses of the Maori in New Zealand not dissimilar to the cedar Longhouses of the Northwest Coast tribes along with thatched huts teepees and the pueblos of the Mesoamerican peoples of the Southwest. The six original murals ranged in size from 9 x 13 feet ”Native Dwellings” and “Transportation” while the other four such as “Flora & Fauna” measured 16 x 24 feet. Originally the set of six was exhibited until 1953 at the American Museum of Natural History shipped back to San Francisco in 1949 when the original “Art Forms of the Pacific” mysteriously went missing and exhibited at the Ferry Building until 2001. Covarrubias 1904-1957 was a noted Mexican muralist illustrator caricaturist painter and ethnologist who not only produced artwork and caricatures for the Mexican Ministries of Education and Communication but also later became noted artist and caricaturist for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker set designer and commissioned later by the GGIE to produce the murals series. San Francisco Bay Exposition Co., Published by Pacific House, Lithographed by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. & Schwabacher-Frey, Inc., unknown
1940Best.-Nr. 64698San Francisco CA: San Francisco Bay Exposition Co. Published by Pacific House Lithographed by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. & Schwabacher-Frey Inc. 1940. One oblong atlas folio map 25.5 x 19 in. colour lithographed on beautiful thick paper stock minor age toning slight dustsoiling on right portion still a VG bright original pictorial map. First edition of this separate issue souvenir map issued by the Golden Gate International Exposition GGIE World’s Fair which first opened in 1939 and carried over to 1940 celebrating the stunning series of giant murals painted in 1939 by Covarrubias for the Pacific House presenting the Pacific Ocean as an idyllic yet with remote and exotic areas prior to World War II. This splendid and vibrant pictorial map focuses the inventive ways in which Indigenous Peoples across the Pacific Rim traveled to new places from elephant back in India to catamarans in Tonga and Samoa reindeer sledge in Siberia to dogsled and dugout canoe in Alaska and Northwest Coast Peoples. The GGIE is represented by an illustration of a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat for Pan Am as the Treasure Island site following the World’s Fair was originally intended to be converted into an airport prior to World War II. The six original murals ranged in size from 9 x 13 feet ”Native Dwellings” and “Transportation” while the other four such as “Flora & Fauna” measured 16 x 24 feet. Originally the set of six was exhibited until 1953 at the American Museum of Natural History shipped back to San Francisco in 1949 when the original “Art Forms of the Pacific” mysteriously went missing and exhibited at the Ferry Building until 2001. Covarrubias 1904-1957 was a noted Mexican muralist illustrator caricaturist painter and ethnologist who not only produced artwork and caricatures for the Mexican Ministries of Education and Communication but also later became noted artist and caricaturist for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker set designer and commissioned later by the GGIE to produce the murals series. San Francisco Bay Exposition Co., Published by Pacific House, Lithographed by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. & Schwabacher-Frey, Inc., unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 53081Seattle & Berkeley CA: Ellis A. Davis 1909. Folio. 190 pp. Illust. & decorated title 100s of photo illusts. over 100 colour maps many double page 1 very large folding colour map tipped-in on rear pastedown a couple minor closed tears at creases. Red cloth silver lettering & decoration embossed on front cover minor bumping to corners bumping & minor fraying head & foot of spine very faint tidemark to fore-edges still a VG- copy very clean and bright textblock. First edition of this well-illustrated commercial atlas intended to promote the Pacific Northwest during the Alaska-Yukon Exposition carefully listing most of the major and minor cities their counties industries local products and 100s of photos of buildings logging railroads shipping and more. The atlas includes detailed economic statistical maps of Oregon Washington and Idaho; street maps of Spokane WA Portland OR Seattle WA Boise ID and more. The large folding colour map at rear is of Oregon State -- these atlases were also issued with Idaho Washington and Oregon & Washington colour maps separately. Ellis A. Davis, hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 63438The Dalles OR: Benj. A. Gifford 1902. Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 in. 37 leaves unnumbered. including 18 boudoir-sized collotype photographs printed on matte-finish paper stock w/ Benj. Gifford copyright notice lower fore-edge of image captions & negative number indicated all printed with excellent contrast w/in the negative also included 18 printed caption tissue guards. Dark gray ribbed softcovers yapp fore-edges w/ folding clasp flap at fore-edge of front cover decorative white lettering front cover punch-sewn w/ colour silk braid at gutter margin minor chipping to foot of spine into lower left front cover minor shelfwear creasing to yapp fore-edges still a VG- copy w/ ownership markings on title for Lillie D. Stewart a railroad company stenographer living in Denver CO at the beginning of the 20th Century and she paid $ 1.50 for the booklet. First edition of this very scarce and nicely printed collotype photographic views of the Columbia River Gorge sold from Gifford’s studio in The Dalles OR. Gifford 1859-1936 is considered perhaps Oregon’s most famous photographer and his beautiful images included here depict Rooster Rock sternwheeler at the Dalles Latourelle Falls Cape Horn the Pillars of Hercules Multnomah Falls shot 12 years prior to the historic Benson Footbridge at Multnomah Falls constructed by Robert Lee Ringer in 1914. Other images include the Sternwheeler Regulator Warren’s Salmon Cannery Sternwheeler Bailey Gatzert approaching the Cascade Locks Fish Wheel on the Columbia the Oregon Railway & Navigation Chicago-Portland Special leaving Tunnel 2 and the Native American burial ground of Memaloose Island. Gifford first worked in Portland until 1895 then opened a studio in The Dalles and later returned to Portland in 1910 where he continued to operate both studios until about 1920. Later his son Ralph I Gifford took over operation of the studio and continued to operate the business. Worldcat locates 1 copy OSU. Benj. A. Gifford, paperback
1843Best.-Nr. 9124New York: Greeley & McElrath 1843. Third edition. 23.5x15.5cm 112pp. Printed in two columns with tables ads on inner wrappers. Stitched in original printed brown wraps. Damp staining to upper corner of first 35 or so pages more pronounced at title and near the front. Spine cocked and with ends chipped chipping along edges of wraps. Pencil annotation to front cover. A very good copy. Third edition following the 1841 and 1843 Poughkeepsie printings of this popular text issued as an "Extra" of the New York Tribune. The book is essentially an account of the first overland to Oregon migration of emigrants bound for the territory led by Farnham and known as the "Peoria Party." They left Independence Missouri on May 20th 1839 and as a substantially smaller group arrived in Oregon on September 23 1839 with Marcus Whitman. Scarce in the original wrappers. Howes F50. Wagner-Camp 85:3. Washington 89 20. Greeley & McElrath unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 64757Portland OR: Portland Linotyping Company 512 NW 17th Ave. ca. 1960. Oblong folio. 14.25 x 10.25 in. iv 2 206 i.e. 250 pp added supplement pages in assorted sections. printed throughout w/ peach-coloured border at lower fore-edge type specimens included throughout with each section divided by thick cardstock divider and thumb tab. Original publisher’s blue buckram 16-ring binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine slight shelfwear NF copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and massive type font specimen book issued by the Portland Linotyping Company who specialized in commercial trade typesetting for many local Pacific Northwest regional newspapers magazines and job printers. This particular type specimen catalogue was intended to be expanded as per the additional 34 supplement pages and note on colophon specifying “New type faces are being constantly added to our library and when they become available new insert sheets will be printed and distributed to the holders of our specimen books.” Their Linotype Composition faces encompassed Baskerville to Condensed Gothic Garamond to Oldstyle Antique as well as Spartan Book and Times Roman; Monotype Composition included Bodoni Copperplate Gothic Garamond Modern Rockwell Antique and 20th-Century Medium; while the Handset Display typefaces ranged from Aurora Condensed to Bulmer Italic Craw Modern to a series of Gothics as well as Optima Italic P.T. Barnum and more. Through the 1960’s under Ray Sneddon 1926-2017 the company would evolve into Phototypesetting and further into film and computer-based advertising typefaces for PNW designers and ad agencies. Sneddon was recruited out of Canada and in 1958 he became printer owner/operator of Portland Linotyping Company where he remained overseeing the operation until his retirement in 1989. No copies in Worldcat. Portland Linotyping Company, 512 NW 17th Ave., hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2299San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co. 1883. . Large 8vo printed color-lithographed wrappers; lacking one inch at the head of the spine and one half inch at the foot. Institutionally common. Scarce in trade. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker & Co., 1883. unknown
Best.-Nr. PC71Thirteen unmounted gelatin silver prints ca. 155x205 cm 6x8 in. All with pencil titles in English on versos. This interesting collection of photos of New South Wales includes views of the Sydney Harbour taken from the deck of HMS “Powerful” Circular Quay taken from RMS “Orontes” two images of Bondi Beach and three rare views of the Parramatta River taken on a day of the famous scull boat race between George Towns and Jim Stanbury one of two races between them either in 1905 or in 1906. The photos show the Parramatta river full of canoes paddle boats and “steamers going up to the starting point” as well as “the Parramatta River after the finish of the Stanbury-Towns boat race the boats hurrying back to town.” The other images show the Hacking River taken from the Moombara district Port Hacking southern Sydney Jamberoo village on the Illawarra South Coast of New South Wales; Nowra Bridge over the Shoalhaven River built in 1881 and the Bomaderry Creek near Nowra South Coast. The last view shows the harbour of Hobart with HMS “Challenger” on the right taken from the deck of RMS “Orontes.” “George Towns was the Australian Single Sculls World Champion from 1901 to 1905 and 1906 to 1907. He was the last of the seven Australian World Sculling Champion who between them held the title almost uninterrupted from 1876 to 1909” Wikipedia. His two races with another famous Australian sculler James Stanbury 1868-1945 took place on 22 July 1905 and 28 July 1906. “Stanbury was a tough proposition as he had been World Champion from 1891 to 1896 and had held off several challenges before losing to Gaudaur. The race was agreed to be run on 22 July 1905 on the Parramatta with a stake of £500 a side. The water was smooth and the weather was fine with just a light breeze. Again large crowds were on hand to witness what was expected to one of the great sculling contests. At the start Stanbury at once went to the front and by Uhr’s Point was a length and a half ahead. Towns then spurted but could make no impression on the leader. For every effort Towns made Stanbury responded and he crossed the line by two lengths in a time of 19m.47s. Often when one sculler was beaten by another he was offered a return match to have the chance to get even – or go two down. Stanbury offered Towns and they had another Championship race on the same course almost a year later on 28 July 1906. After the start Towns took an early lead but was soon overhauled by Stanbury who then continued to widen the gap until he was two lengths ahead but at Cabarita he started to show signs of distress. It was evident that his right shoulder was troubling him and about which rumours had been circulating. He had to slow down considerably and Towns then managed to catch up. Stanbury’s shoulder finally gave out and from there on the race was a procession. Towns won by about twenty lengths in a time of 19m.53s. This was Stanbury’s final Championship race; he had raced in seven and won five” Wikipedia. unknown
