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réf. 1944455027.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1913réf. 26706Tegicigalpa: Tipografia Nacional 1913. Wraps. Good. 26 pages. Printed yellow wrappers. 7 3/4 x 11 inches. Browned paper uncut and unopened. Dampstaining near spine in several places throughout. A scarce publication. Wraps. Rough english translation: "Regulation of the Honduras Section at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco California 1915: approved by supreme agreement of May 28 1913 . followed by the Regulations and Rules for Reporting and Guidance of Those Who Claim to Participate in she dictated by the President of The Expresada Exposicon And Corrected And Approved By The Same Tipografia Nacional unknown
réf. 0666531137.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1966réf. 46055N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. Near Fine. N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 620pp.; halftone photographic frontispiece and illus. throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper margins else Fine. Gnaoua Press unknown
réf. 0331399377.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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2006réf. 631851Interrobang 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. - Signed on the title page and dated 1st September 2006 w/ an original colour illustration by the author and handwritten quote "Tybalt catapulted himself through the cat-flap and then to Justin's horror Fergus dogapulted himself through it a split-second later." - Also has a handwritten letter by the author w/ their signature and fingerprint confirming that the book is signed by them w/ an original illustration - Additionally the book comes in original brown paper packaging slip w/ the author's signature and fingerprint - Book is clean tight and bright and appears unread - A spectacular copy - 344 pages Fine Interrobang hardcover
1936réf. 5953Balboa Panama Canal Zone 1936. Very good. Eighty-four black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs each about 8 x 10 inches many with typed or manuscript captions on verso plus thirty-two typed documents some signed. Moderate edge wear occasional minor marginal chipping to photographs. Mostly minor wear to documents. A striking collection of photographs picturing construction of the Panama Canal during the years of the First World War. Many of the photographs are dated between 1914 and 1916 and almost all capture construction of the Panama Canal mainly around Dry Dock #1 at the Balboa and Pacific Terminals. Many of the photographs are captioned either typed or in manuscript on the verso providing valuable information on the settings of these images. Most of the images were taken from an elevated viewpoint from area towers offering unusual detail of the construction sites in the Balboa area "before flooding" of the canal with some images showing the canal "ready to be flooded;" the images taken at ground level also exhibit the sheer size and depth of the project with human figures dwarfed by the canal walls. A healthy number of images feature local workers of African descent engaged in manual labor on the walls and in the flat bottom of the canal. These workers are managed by a coterie of white subjects. In fact one of the more striking images speaks volumes about the literal separation between the managers and laborers in the Canal Zone. The photograph is a group shot featuring seventeen white managers standing in the foreground in front of a group of twenty-two Black workers. A sampling of the settings and activity revealed in the captions for the photographs include "Dy Dock #1 -- Entrance" "Placing granite in the hollow quoin -- Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa" "General view of Dry Dock #1 -- from the boom of Unloader Tower" "Progress of concrete in south wall as of Oct. 20 1914" "Head wall of Dry Dock #1" "Reinforcing around the suction chamber Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock looking from the head wall west towards the sea" "D.D. excavation looking eastward toward headwall of the dock from the Coffer Dam" "Reinforcement in and around cross culverts at the west and end of Dry Dock #1" "Dry Dock #1 one month after commencing concrete work in the south wall" "Dry Dock No. 1 Pumping Plant -- Erecting 54-inch Check Valves -- Looking west" "General view of construction progress around pump well and discharge culvert -- Dry Dock" "Dry Dock Gate -- South Leaf -- Heel casting after wedges have been placed and rivets driven" "Reinforced concrete pontoons -- Preparing to pour concrete in No. 2 pontoon" and "Placing the last girder on dock gate Dry Dock No. 1 Balboa." The photographs are accompanied by a group of more than thirty military documents relating to the service of Major William C. Foote in the mid-1930s. Most of the documents concern Major Foote's assignment to the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Amador in the Canal Zone in Balboa. Both the photographs and documents were found in a large envelope marked "Personal File Major William C. Foote." Finding the Panama Canal photographs along with Major Foote's later paperwork indicate that he probably acquired the photographs while serving in the Canal Zone and the material stayed together all these years. unknown
1931réf. 104566Chicago Ill: A. Kroch Publisher 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good -; ex libris sticker and ink inscription to front pastedown; pages are clean and binding is tight; slight must; no jacket; a couple dampstains and cup rings to boards; corners bumped; some fraying to spine and rubbing to edges. Octavo with dark green boards; 261 pages: illustrations map portraits; 24 cm. Many full-page b&w quality photoplates of the Canal's construction. "Paper presented at the first meeting of the Panama section of the American society of civil engineers held in Panama city on February 27 1931 in honor of the members of the Interoceanic canal board and the chief of the Nicaragua canal survey." "Illustrations are so arranged and referred to in the text that they practically tell the story of the dredging wok on the Panama Canal from its beginning to date." --Introduction. Prior owner Robert L. Beckwith appears to have worked on Canal. Address provided is in C.Z.--Canal Zone. A. Kroch Publisher hardcover
1964réf. 000762Panama: Oficina de Informacion del Canal de Panama 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 122pp: HB blk w/gold no title on spine cornersedgesspine rubbed; clean tight pgs. b/w photos throughout. 50th anniversary of Panama Canal. Forward by Lyndon Johnson. In Spanish. Oficina de Informacion del Canal de Panama hardcover
1911réf. 100851Souvenir pamphlet 8vo colored printed pictorial wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Folded and creased down the middle with a little wear at the fold some minor rubbing to wrappers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a scarce piece of ephemera commemorating the 1911 groundbreaking ceremony by President William H. Taft for the exhibition in the Golden Gate Park. While the purpose of the exhibition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal it seemed to function more as a worlds fair held in San Francisco. It took over three years to construct and the exhibition ran from February through December 1915. There are a number of black and white photographs in the booklet including a double page panoramic view of the city of San Francisco. The activities of the ceremony are recorded in this pamphlet which feature speakers songs marches and what they had for dinner Blair-Murdock Co.,
1965réf. 80906Balboa Heights C.Z.: Panama Canal Company December 29 1965. Presumed First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. viii 144 4 pages. Organization Chart. Tables. Some cover wear. Includes Introduction; Chapter 1--Review of Canal Traffic; Chapter II--The Waterway; Chapter III--Supporting Operations; Chapter IV--Administration; Chapter V--Financial Report and Statistical Data. Followed by a section on the Canal Zone Government; Chapter I--Public Health Chapter II Public Education Chapter III--Public Order and Protection Chapter IV--Posts Customs and Immigration Chapter V--Licenses Insurance and Estates Chapter VI--Municipal Improvements and Chapter VII--Financial Report and Statistical Data including Financial Statements and Related Supplementary Reports. The Board of Directors has initiated investigation of the feasibility of securing certain support services from private sources instead of making further investment of Company funds in capital plant to provide such services. Balboa Heights was the administrative headquarters for the U.S.-owned Panama Canal Company during the period 1903-79 when the Canal Zone was in operation. Murals in the administration building still in use by the Panama Canal Authority depict the canal's construction. The Canal Zone Library and Museum founded 1914 in Balboa Heights exhibits relics and miniatures of important ships in Panama's history. The Canal Zone Government and the Panama Railroad Company renamed the Panama Canal Company designated as the civil government and operating agency respectively of the Canal Zone and the Panama Canal effective July 1 1951 by an act of September 26 1950 Superseded by the Panama Canal Commission. The Panama Canal Railway is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The route stretches 47.6 miles 76.6 km across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón Atlantic to Balboa Pacific near Panama City.2 Because of the difficult physical conditions of the route and state of technology the construction was renowned as an international engineering achievement one that cost US$8 million and the lives of an estimated 5000 to 10000 workers. Opened in 1855 the railway preceded the Panama Canal by half a century; the ship canal was later constructed parallel to the railway. Known as the Panama Railroad Company when founded in the 19th century today it is operated as Panama Canal Railway Company reporting mark: PCRC. Since 1998 it has been jointly owned by Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products and leased to the government of Panama. The Panama Canal Railway currently provides both freight and passenger service. The line was built by the United States and the principal incentive was the vast increase in passenger and freight traffic from eastern USA to California following the 1849 California Gold Rush. The United States Congress had provided subsidies to companies to operate mail and passenger steamships on the coasts and supported some funds for construction of the railroad which began in 1850; the first revenue train ran over the full length on January 28 1855. Referred to as an inter-oceanic railroad when it opened it was later also described by some as representing a "transcontinental" railroad despite transversing only the narrow isthmus connecting the North and South American continents. For a time the Panama Railroad also owned and operated ocean-going ships that provided mail and passenger service to a few major US East Coast and West Coast cities respectively. The infrastructure of this railroad was of vital importance to the construction of the Panama Canal over a parallel route half a century later. Panama Canal Company hardcover
1914réf. 38258New York: Wittenberg Coal Company 1914. 8vo. 8 11/16 x 5 15/16 inches. 36pp. Early cloth backed boards original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Marinens Bibliotek old inked stamps; deaccessioned by the Garnisions Bibliotek in 2017 Among the earliest directions for sailing through the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic on August 15 1914. This work issued as a promotional piece by an American coal company prints Wilson's July 9 1914 Executive Order number 1990 which detailed the rules and regulations for ships passing through the canal. Unrecorded in OCLC. Wittenberg Coal Company unknown
1900réf. 99653Panama circa early 1900s. 1900s. Good. - Fourteen original silver print photographs of the Canal Zone each measuring 3-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. The images include scenes of workers on and debarking from ships people strolling along village or town streets with horse drawn carriages what is likely an official residence and 5 images of construction work on what would later become the Panama Canal. One of the photos depicting construction work is a duplicate. The photographs are slightly curled with creases to the corners of a very few photos and minor chips to the edges of 4 of these. Very good. [Panama], circa early [1900s].
réf. 1168148731.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
