Best.-Nr. 63-6753London: John Boydell ca. 1767. Engraving 20" x 17" with Decorative Border On Paper Mounted on Canvas Good with marginal tears. [London: John Boydell, ca. 1767.] unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 194389Abu Dhabi: Markaz al-tadr b wa-l-tanm ah 1970s. An internal textbook of statistics unrecorded elsewhere produced by the Centre for Training and Development of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for students at the Al Dhafra training centre established in 1972. The centre was taken over by the ADNOC Technical Academy in 1978 to provide UAE nationals with specialist and technical training in the energy sector particularly oil and gas. The introduction explains that "a clear example of the importance of statistics in our time is the planning undertaken by the state to increase and multiply national income" with industry identified as the primary means of achieving this and statistics as the instrument for measuring progress. The chapters explain statistical concepts and methods of data presentation including pictorial and bar methods geometric figures frequency distribution curves geometric arithmetic and harmonic means and measures of dispersion and correlation including Pearson's correlation coefficient. Folio. Tables and diagrams. Mimeographed typed text in Arabic on one side only. Green spiral binding plastic wrapper at front. Contents a trifle toned occasional offsetting from tables and diagrams on blank versos: a very good copy. unknown
Best.-Nr. 1304Huile sur papier, signée et datée 1987 en haut à droite (38/57 cm).
1947Best.-Nr. 812CG1947. Oel auf Leinwand. Bildausschnitt: 58 x 71,5 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, Abb.
Best.-Nr. 59416BBo.J. Victor Popov geboren 1952 in Kasachstan, studierte Kunst in Lemberg. Er ist seit 1980 freier Künstler. Victor Popov lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf. [4 Warenabbildungen]
1940Best.-Nr. 1564AGBerlin, o.J. (um 1940). Öl auf Leinwand. Bildformat: 67 x 79 cm.
Best.-Nr. 1347.1aaf1947, 62x71.5 cm
1946Best.-Nr. 1045CG1946. Oel auf Holz. 72 x 43 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +
1945Features: X for Escape - Photo-illustrated article (part 2 of 2) by Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly describes the dramatic Great Escape from Luft Stalag III involving 83 prisoners, 50 of whom were later shot - basis for the classic WWII film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen; Shakedown - Political favours and liquor licences; Life with Ivan - How does the average Russian live?; Marriages Mended - Domestic Relations Judge H.S. Mott has a 90% success rate; The Mine That Shook the World - A vivid photo-illustrated report on Eldorado, the super-secret mine in the Arctic which produces the raw material for atomic bombs; King Size Tenor - Lauritz Melchior, mighty tenor of the "Met"; Russia - A Split Personality; Backstage Ottawa - the taxpayer wins a battle; Big Business Farmer - George Wesley of Wrentham, Alberta, farms 16,000 acres in Alberta and grows enough wheat to feed a small city; The Truth About Epilepsy - Robert H. Feldt, M.D., has made immense strides toward taming this dreaded brain disease; Man of Many Voices - Meet Mercer (One-Man Cast) McLeod, first radio actor to sell a Canadian-recorded program for U.S. broadcasting; If You Should Get Venison - cooking tips; and more. Short Stories: World Premiere; Uncle Alfred; For These Thy Gifts. Nice ad for: C-I-L; Imperial Oil (How an oil well works); Good Year (with color illustration of firemen and forest fire); Snyder's Furniture; G.E. Electric Blankets (& Electric Flying Suits); Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Westinghouse in the electrical age 1920-1945; Life Savers (nice one-page color ad); Chase & Sanborn - featuring Charlie McCarthy in colour; Waterman's Taperite pen; Once-page colour-illustrated ad by Carling's honouring Jack Miner of Kingsville, Ontario; T.S. Simms "Pure Badger" shaving brushes; Lovely 1946 Ford (dark red) ad inside back cover; B.C. Apples ad on back cover features charming colour illustration of young lass holding basket of fruit. 72 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Book
1945Features: X for Escape - Photo-illustrated article (part 1 of 2) by Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly describes the dramatic Great Escape from Luft Stalag III involving 83 prisoners, 50 of whom were later shot - basis for the classic WWII film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen; Nice cover illustration by R. York Wilson features brass band practicing; W.A. Irwin becomes new Editor of Maclean's - photo and brief article; Relax - It's Good for You; Bee Business - Ervin Hogarth has 150 bees near Tara, Ontario; Mars Gone Barmy - Maj.-Gen. J.F.C. Fuller argues atomic war cannot be won; Where Milk is Medicine - Europe's lack of food in the aftermath of WWII; Britian's Place in the World; Washington Memo - U.S. Strikers want to keep war wages (52 for 40 or Fight!); Backstage Ottawa - NRMA men (Zombies) were sent to the First Canadian Division on or after VE Day; Is the Union Shop Democratic? - arguments for and against; Sculptors Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Mani Hahn - Photo-illustrated article; "When the Ice-Worms Nest Again" - Brief article discussing Robert Service; Stretch the Meat; and more. Short stories include: Molly Was a Doctor; White Horse; Soft Music. Nice ads for: The Wartime Prices and Trade Board (encouraging the mending of clothes); Imperial Oil (featuring oil exploration); Frigidaire, Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese; Canadian Pacific (color illustration of driving of the last spike to celebrate 60 years of progress, 1885-1945); Pepsodent Tooth Paste; Eveready Flashlight Batteries - featuring image of Vancouver radio personality Thora Anders; Arrid deodorant - featuring photo of Gertrude Niesen; Nostalgic one-page Maclean's subscription ad; National War Finance Committee; Nice colour-photo Caterpillar Diesel ad inside back cover features two dozers preparing new rail bed through mountains. 68 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Book
Best.-Nr. 59415BBo.J. Victor Popov geboren 1952 in Kasachstan, studierte Kunst in Lemberg. Er ist seit 1980 freier Künstler. Victor Popov lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf. [3 Warenabbildungen]
1901Best.-Nr. 4590Oklahoma City OK: Daily Oklahoman 1901. Map Illustrated Advertisement. Near Fine. A seminal promotional piece by an American oil company offering a nascent map of the rich Spindletop drilling area in Southern Texas during it's proving and cash-raising stages. Published in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper in 1901 to encourage investors to "buy-in" to the excitement of the oil boom this enticing ad worked her wallet-opening charms well as the region ultimately became famous for both it's quality and quantity of sustained oil production. The ad measures 19.5 inches tall x 14 inches wide with some toning and faint fold lines barely evident. It has been deacidified and linen backed with a few tiny archival repairs to top and left edges. A significant and early piece of Texas Petroliana. Daily Oklahoman unknown
Best.-Nr. 60630BBo.J. [3 Warenabbildungen] (Petra Petitpierre, geborene Frieda Kessinger, geboren am 13. Mai 1905 in Zürich, gestorben am 23. Dezember 1959 in Murt
Best.-Nr. 59417BBo.J. Victor Popov geboren 1952 in Kasachstan, studierte Kunst in Lemberg. Er ist seit 1980 freier Künstler. Victor Popov lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf. [3 Warenabbildungen]
2002517 pages. Index. Many consider David Rockefeller to have been the world's most powerful man. "It's almost inconceivable that one man's life could encompass so many things. But (his) life has, and he tells the world all about it in this candid and highly informative book. This is the first time a Rockefeller has ever told his own story." - from dust jacket. Personalized bookplate, ostensibly for a fellow member of the Council on Foreign Relations has been signed by author and mounted upon front free endpaper. Dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. A handsome copy. Book
1970Best.-Nr. 754DGca. 1970. Oelgmälde. Leinwandgrösse: 73 x 60 cm. Bildformat: 89 x 75 cm. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, A
1947Best.-Nr. 812CG1947. Oel auf Leinwand. Bildausschnitt: 58 x 71,5 cm.
Best.-Nr. 1339.1aafImage 38x47.5cm/cadre 46.5x56.
Best.-Nr. FRE51Folio strap cloth binding ca. 334x227 cm 13 x 9 in. 129 pp. of typewritten text including 2 plats. Previous owners’ pencil inscriptions “T. G. Lindsey” and “Contract. T. J. Davis / R. R. Jinkler Issue” on the front cover and page no. 1. First page with minor tears at the edges but otherwise very good. Abstract of title for “Tract No. 16 in the Fairview Gardens Annex No. 3” today’s 15835 Northwest Fwy Houston Texas documenting a century of Texas land history from the early Republic period through the Great Depression and the Texas Oil Boom. The abstract was compiled by Southern Abstract & Title Co. for Wright Loan & Securities Co. in 1938 apparently to establish clear ownership records for the sale of individual lots and to support the leasing of underground mineral rights during the height of the local drilling rush. The Texas oil boom began with the 1901 discovery of oil at the Spindletop field near Beaumont where a massive gusher transformed Texas into the center of the American petroleum industry. The resulting land rush which continued through the major discoveries of the 1930s compelled owners and developers to meticulously document property boundaries and ownership histories to safely lease mineral rights and avoid costly legal disputes. As follows from the abstract the property's history begins in 1838 when the military bounty land claim of deceased soldier Thomas Hogan established the 1476-acre Hogan Survey Abstract 326. The tract was patented in 1851 and remained in the Brashear family until its first subdivision in 1895. After a series of inheritances and sales the property was reduced to a 73.19-acre parcel before passing to the Wright Loan & Securities Company during the Great Depression which platted the Fairview Gardens Annex No. 3 subdivision in 1933. Amid the Texas oil boom the mineral rights for a 22.35-acre block of the subdivision encompassing the 4.84-acre Tract 16 were leased in 1934 to Ralph A. Johnston and later assigned to Stanolind Oil & Gas Company which later became part of Amoco/BP and Amerada now known as Hess Corporation. During our internet research we discovered that historical drilling records identify the broader 1476-acre Hogan Survey as part of a highly productive natural gas field with the No. 1 Fischer well producing an estimated 11 million cubic feet of gas per day in the 1950s. Modern GIS mapping however confirms that no well was ever drilled on the 4.84-acre Tract 16 itself and instead the parcel was pooled into neighboring drilling units. Today the historic Tract 16 has been absorbed into Houston’s urban sprawl with its modern address 15835 Northwest Fwy Jersey Village now occupied by a municipal Public Works facility directly fronting the Northwest Freeway US-290. The abstract covers the period from 1838 to 1938 presenting a detailed sequence of early Texas notary-certified documents that trace the legal history of the tract. It opens with two rare original plats: one showing the division of the original Thomas Hogan Survey into twelve tracts and another detailing the wedge-shaped Fairview Gardens Annex No. 3 subdivision highlighting Tract 16. Among the featured documents are letter patents petitions deeds including deeds of trust right-of-way deeds and quitclaim deeds estate documents affidavits releases assignments certified copies of wills earnest money contracts extensions and mineral leases with references to prominent Texas pioneers. Especially interesting is an 1859 application for administration of the estate of Isaac W. Brashear ca. 1811–1859 a Harris County senator which records that he left “an estate consisting of lands negroes and other property.” Documents from the early 1930s include multiple extensions of deeds of trust echoing developers’ desperate efforts to avoid foreclosure during the Great Depression. Another important 1934 “Assignment of Oil and Gas Lease” records Ralph A. Johnston’s transfer of drilling rights on a 22.35-acre tract to Stanolind Oil & Gas Company and Amerada Petroleum Corporation shortly after securing the lease. This decision likely reflected the applier’s attempt to capitalize on the oil boom and generate urgently needed funds. The folder concludes with a notarized certificate from Southern Abstract & Title Company confirming the accuracy of the abstract. Overall historically important abstract documenting a century of Texas land history from the early Republic period through the Great Depression and the Texas Oil Boom. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 1045CG1946. Oel auf Holz. 72 x 43 cm.
1925Best.-Nr. 49705Pittsburgh PA & Port Arthur TX: Gulf Refining Co. ca. 1925. Folio. 11.5 x 14.25 in. 5 large oversize folding leaves of typed descriptions measurements specifications; mounted 7 linen-backed photo leaves 2 folding -- w/ 39 images printed on 34 silver gelatin photos. Original split-pin post-binder blue silk red cloth corners brass split pins minor edgewear rubbing minor fraying to corners first typed leaf w/ creasing minor closed tears still a VG exemplar from the library of John W. Jackson former Marketing & Sales executive with Gulf Oil Corporation Tulsa OK. This spectacular packaging catalogue for Gulf Oil Company petroleum products in the 1920s provides an incomparable photographic reference for all of the available products their dimensions sizes specific directions about tin lithograph colours as well as the cardboard and wooden shipping crates. Gulf Oil Corporation was initially organized in May 1901 by J.M. Guffy Andrew W. Mellon and others. By 1907 they had built a 400-mile pipeline from Port Arthur to the Glenn Pool Field in Oklahoma and started refining Oklahoma crude by 1907. By the 1920s this integrated Oil Company had built service stations across the country sold Good Gulf Gasoline and actively promoted automobile travel with Gulf Maps marketing promotions and more. This catalogue begins with photos of 1 5 10 and 25 lb. tins of Gulf Supreme Grease Transmission Grease Red Top Axle Grease Gulf Petrol-atum Gulf High Pressure Grease and Gulf Lubricant with all of the product tins carefully sized by stack showing their side graphics sizes lids and lid configurations. The oil cans include Tractor Oil Auto Oil Harvester Oil Gulf Motorcycle Oil small illustration of 1920s era motorcycle with Gulf Logo and even the blank tin soldered cans of assorted sizes. Of particular interest are the images of all the specialty products Gulf Oil was marketing during the Flapper Era including Venom pesticide & bug killer in glass bottles with screw-top tin lids & corks; Gulf Gas-o-Clenz cans in 1/2 pint 1 pint 1 quart and 1 gallon sizes; Gulf Gleam Cans Gulf Jelly Clens tubes Gulf Grease tubes and more. The last group of photos show all of the varieties of Gulf Venom Jelly-Clenz Gulf Pressure Grease Gulf Gleam cardboard and wooden packaging complete with printed labels lithograph labels Venom hand-sprayers and packaging and crates in assorted sizes and amounts. These types of photographic sales catalogues for the Petroleum industry are quite scarce and often unique items. Gulf Refining Co., hardcover
1948Best.-Nr. 8116London: Iraq Petroleum Company 1948. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. Original publisher's grey cloth lettered in red. Portrait frontispiece of King Faisal 26 black and white plates after photographs 6 maps 1 folding 1 genealogy of the Hashimite House. Small neat blue ink ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper stitching a little weak at head of gutter of plate XVI cloth a little marked with spine slightly sunned. A Very Good copy. A first edition of this highly detailed handbook for IPC employees detailing the company's operations and highlighting the increasing importance of the petroleum industry to the Gulf Arabia and the Levant. A significant portion of the book is devoted to regional breakdowns with a few examples as follows: Bahrain is described as "in all some 100 villages. The developed and most fertile area is the northern fringe of Bahrain island"; Qatar as having a "population that is scanty and wretchedly poor. The Company's present operations supply almost the sole source of wealth in the territory"; and the Sheikhdom of Dubai as "The resources of the Sheikhdom are small and handled by the Shaikh's personal staff. The relations of the territory with its neighbours on both sides are not uniformly cordial." pages 67-70. The plates are also excellent with subjects including but not limited to the Kirkuk Fields Kadhimain San'a Makalla Manamah and Bahrain and Qatar from the air. Very Good. Iraq Petroleum Company unknown
1948Best.-Nr. 8116London: Iraq Petroleum Company 1948. First edition. Very Good. Octavo. Original publisher's grey cloth lettered in red. Portrait frontispiece of King Faisal 26 black and white plates after photographs 6 maps 1 folding 1 genealogy of the Hashimite House. Small neat blue ink ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper stitching a little weak at head of gutter of plate XVI cloth a little marked with spine slightly sunned. A Very Good copy. A first edition of this highly detailed handbook for IPC employees detailing the company's operations and highlighting the increasing importance of the petroleum industry to the Gulf Arabia and the Levant. A significant portion of the book is devoted to regional breakdowns with a few examples as follows: Bahrain is described as "in all some 100 villages. The developed and most fertile area is the northern fringe of Bahrain island"; Qatar as having a "population that is scanty and wretchedly poor. The Company's present operations supply almost the sole source of wealth in the territory"; and the Sheikhdom of Dubai as "The resources of the Sheikhdom are small and handled by the Shaikh's personal staff. The relations of the territory with its neighbours on both sides are not uniformly cordial." pages 67-70. The plates are also excellent with subjects including but not limited to the Kirkuk Fields Kadhimain San'a Makalla Manamah and Bahrain and Qatar from the air. Very Good. Iraq Petroleum Company unknown books
Best.-Nr. 66662Kuwait: Prepared by General Oil Affairs Department Ministry of Finance and Oil and published by the Kuwait Government Printing Press August 1970. 8vo. 24 x 17 cm. pp.951 colophon. Original pictorial wrappers printed in black and blue. 9 black and white illustrations including three portraits numerous diagrams in the text and a fold-out colour map to rear. Some light shelfwear and toning to wrappers including some trivial rubbing to spine superficial abrasion to title-page old sticker to upper cover generally a very good copy. A scarce Arabic-language pamphlet first published in 1963 which is at once a statistical record of Kuwaiti oil production and a policy document arguing for oil as the key factor in the development of the country. The text is accompanied by a superb fold-out map showing the state's oil fields and the companies that ran them at the time. Following a very brief outline of Kuwait's geography climate and history the first chapter is devoted to oil production. Kuwait is named as the fourth-largest producer of oil in the world after the United States the Soviet Union and Venezuela. Subsequent sections are given over to each of the five oil companies operating on Kuwaiti territory: Kuwait Oil Company Ltd Aminoil Japan's Arabian Oil Company Shell Kuwait and Kuwait National Petroleum Company. The most expansive sections give precise information on how many fields and wells the companies ran how many barrels each field produced per year and the annual volume of exports by country with numerous accompanying tables. The second chapter is devoted to revenues again broken down by company and details the concessions paid by the American and Japanese concerns to the state of Kuwait. The third chapter discusses Kuwaiti oil policy including the state's role in the foundation of OPEC in 1960 to avoid unilateral decreases in the price of oil as well as its commitment to train home-grown talent in the oil sector and thereby reduce dependence on foreign expertise. Kuwait: Prepared by General Oil Affairs Department, Ministry of Finance and Oil, and published by the Kuwait Government Printing unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 754DGca. 1970. Oelgmälde. Leinwandgrösse: 73 x 60 cm. Bildformat: 89 x 75 cm.
