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1956108 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in a growing baby-boomer subdivision; Colour-photo ad for GE kitchen mixers in '3 Festive Colours'; Duplessis is Not Unbeatable; Colour photo ad for Hoover Vacuums features lady in heels, dress and apron happily cleaning her home; One-page colour ad for Dodge features Dodge Mayfair Hardtop with push-button transmission; Who Really Owns Canada? - great article by Peter C. Newman explains how outsiders own most of our oil, mining, pulp and other biggest industries; How Man Will Conquer Mars - the detailed story, complete with timetable, of how the first Mars journey may be carried out - with nine illustrations, eight in colour, by Chesley Bonestell (not in Schuetz); I Married a Count - Catherine Cziraky explains how she married Hungarian Count Laszlo Cziraky; You Don't Have to Panic Over Rabies; The B.C. Coast - with large colour night photo of the intersection of Georgia and Granville in Vancouver; One-page photo of logger (faller) beside gigantic cedars he has taken down on the west coast of Vancouver Island; The Most Baffling Show on Television - Holiday Ranch is Canada's most popular show; You Really Run by Electricity - the electrical system of the human body is so ingenious that it makes man's inventions seem like clumsy toys; The Secret of Stolen Love Letters; I Cry at the Movies; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the Remington 60 de luxe Auto-Home electric shaver shows it at work at home and in a car; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Tappan electric and gas ranges; Fancy half-page ad for Allied Van Lines in bright orange; One-page colour ad for Chevrolet features six of their station wagons for 1956; Classy colour-photo one-page ad for Leonard appliances features glamorous photo of Anne Leonard; Heinz baby food colour-photo ad features mother breastfeeding; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Maxwell House coffee features smiling lady and card game; Classy one-page colour ad for the (yellow) 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport; Trans-Canada Air Lines ad; Colour Molson's Export ad features smiling newspaper man at quitting time; Half-page Olsonite ad features open toilet seat which eerily resembles a crocodile waiting to snap someone's backside!; One-page colour ad for Ford 225 HP V-8 cars (battling a big truck on the highway); 3/4-page photo ad for Electrohome Fans, of Kitchener, Ontario; Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank colour-photo ad features funky family checking into Motel; Classic colour O'Keefe's Ale ad features lumberman with peavey jumping over floating logs outside mill; Colour ad features five of the 1956 car models made by Packard - Clipper - Studebaker; R.O.T.P. (Regular Officer Training Plan) ad features smiling young man; Labatt's ad features photo of Arthur G. Turner of Toronto delivering ice(?); Nice colour GWG ad inside back cover features lineman climbing utility pole; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad shows four scenes; and more. Unmarked with average wear and external soiling. A sound vintage copy of this stellar issue. Book
19501028 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated. Covers: Diesel-Electric, Steam, Electric, Gas Turbines, Shops, Terminals, and Servicing Facilities. Somewhat above-average external wear. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Binding a little slack but intact. A worthy reference copy of this huge and magnificent vintage reference. Book
ref. BN91354Wirtschafts- u. Verlagsges. Gas u. Wasser. DVGW-TRGI 2018 Technische Regel für Gasinstallationen DVGW-TRGI 2018 Technische Regel für Gasinstallationen DVGW Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches e.V. Technisch-wissenschaftlicher Verein Wirtschafts- u. Verlagsges. Gas u. Wasser unknown
ref. BN164661Wirtschafts- u. Verlagsges. Gas u. Wasser. Praxis der Gas- und Wassernetzanschlüsse: Kundennahes spartenübergreifendes und wirtschaftliches Planen und Bauen Praxis der Gas- und Wassernetzanschlüsse: Kundennahes spartenübergreifendes und wirtschaftliches Planen und Bauen DVGW Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches e.V.- Technisch-wissenschaftlicher Verein - Wirtschafts- u. Verlagsges. Gas u. Wasser unknown
194356 pages. Features: Cover photo of young lady standing atop sailboat; Vintage wartime Canadian National / Canadian Pacific ad inside front cover entitled "There Goes Your Letter To Your Boy" shows mother putting letter into mail box, to be delivered, in part, by rail; Brief news bits touch on the split to the Russo-Polish alliance, how Berlin chuckled, and the case for the Poles; One-page Trans-Canada Telephone System implores long distance users to use the limited wartime capacity efficiently; Invasion Tactics - Great photo-illustrated article shows Canadian troops practicing for the D-Day invasion; Wolf at the Door (short story); Quick Ending (short story); A Photo Finish (short story); Our Invisible Ally - photo-illustrated article explains how the electron aids Canada's war effort with marvellous electronic devices; Momentum to Mutiny - photo-illustrated article explains how some German troops are rebelling, particularly Walter Bluthner, who refused a transfer to Norway to the Russian Front; No Double Cross for Dolly (short story); Hollywood news - article with photo of Vivien Leigh; One page ad for Woodbury Soaps features photos of Elisabeth Howe, of Ottawa; Nice half-page Heintzman & Co. piano ad features illustration of grand piano; Illustrated Johnson's Wax one-page ad entitled "The Lindsey Girls Have Had a Busy Day" shows ladies in uniform; *Sensational centrefold colour ad for General Motors features illustrations of fourteen of the 1943 military vehicles they are contributing to the war effort, including: four-wheel-drive service truck, gas tank truck, water tank purifier, general transport, staff car, plane gassing truck, and many more - and apparently they made an additional 36 vehicles; Photo and brief write-up of Mrs. H.M. Aitken, Supervisor of Conservation, and one of Canada's most versatile women; Modess ad features illustration of female aviation mechanic; On the Kitchen Front - recipes; Home Canning - Your Patriotic Duty; Attractive colour half-page Pepsi ad features young lovely and Frise illustration of boys fishing; Fashion illustrations; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Dorothy Lamour; The Housewife Takes a Job - article discussing how wives are taking jobs to support the war effort; World Sayings; Ford ad inside back cover includes large illustration of Canadian gun crew in battle; Back cover colour Coke ad entitled "Caps off to our fighting men" mentions the Victory Parade Program with Canada's Spotlight Band, featuring Mart Kenney and his Western Gentlemen; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this extraordinary vintage wartime issue. Book
ref. EYL-52Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetant & Guill. Barbier, 1670. In 4 de 4 ff., 396 p. Veau blond de l’époque, triple filet doré sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, charnière sup. fendillée mais solide, coiffes arasées, coins frottés, rousseurs. Bon exemplaire.
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ref. BN360141Oldenbourg RVM. Hardcover. Wasseraufbereitung - Grundlagen und Verfahren mit CD-ROM Wasseraufbereitung - Grundlagen und Verfahren mit CD-ROM Hrsg. v.DVGW Deutsche Vereinigung d. Gas- u. Wasserfaches e.V. Bearb. v. Gimbel RolfJekel MartinLießfeld Rainer Oldenbourg, RVM hardcover
ref. ORD-4356de 1895 à 1962, une bonne partie illustrée souvent en couleurs, provenant de nombreuses villes de France. Réunis dans un classeur, sous protection plastique (23x31cm).
193796 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone poles by the British Columbia Telephone Company - article with photo; Hand Methods Must Give Way to Mechanization in Eastern Canada - article; Photos of sawmill scenes in Sweden and Finland; Novel Effects in Wood at Paris Exposition - article with photos; Unique Power Plant of Vancouver Island Lumber Operation - Nootka Wood Products, Ltd. mill at Port Tasis (Tahsis) is driven by wood gas - article with photos - including photo of John P. Blenkinsop and Harry Smith and another photo of plant manager Lute D. Rogers with George M. Cornwall of this publication; Fantastic two-page two-color illustrated ad for the Ross Lumber Carrier, Model 90; S.A. Woods Machine Company ad features their new 412 planer and matcher; Magnificent full-page ad for Disston precision ground cross-cut saws includes photos of fallers at work with this two-man saw; Distinct saving shown to be possible with two-man bucking crews - article; Plywood's outdoor uses are increasing - photo-illustrated article; Meeting of the Wooden Box Association at San Francisco; Mark Markkula and his logging Bunks and Chunks - article with photos of products and Mr. Markkula; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Hercules Engines of Canton, Ohio; Logging in Tillamook - article with photos; Super one-page photo ad for Feenaughty Machinery Co.'s FWD trucks - with photo showing a massive load being hauled; Nice truck-logging themed photo ad for Waukesha engines; Awesome photos of Allis-Chalmers tractors at work for the Big Lakes Box Company in Klamath Basin; Fantastic full-page ad with photos of the Washington Diesel Yarder made by Washington Iron Works; Crazy photo of trucks driving 132' logs across the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills' narrow old logging bridge above Skykomish, WA; Photo of a Dow low stump power saw at work; Small illustrated ad for P. Sharkey & Son Horse Collars; Photo of an FWD truck at work for Mr. W.S. Jeans of Culp Creek, OR; Superheaters - their use on Donkeys and Locomotives - article; Oriental strife affects Pacific Lumber Trade - article; France decides between steel and wood rail cars; Foreign Lumber Fleet - list of lumber vessels visiting Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia - and their capacities; Three Bamfiled, B.C. photos accompany brief article about Pacific Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and their cable which extends from Bamfield to New Zealand; Photo of G.L. Graiff with redwood charcoal experimental wood gas-powered truck - Hammond Redwood Co. of Samoa, CA; Reunion of pioneer members of the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association - with photos of T.H. MacLafferty, C.A. Doty, Charles Gilchrist, W.C. Miles, Jerry Startup, S.S. Somerville; Obituary of August K. Berter; Nice illustrated ad for the Warren Axe and Tool Co. of Warren, PA.; and more. Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Chips missing from backstrip. Binding intact. A rare surviving issue of this highly informative vintage lumber periodical. Magazine
1902ref. 6057Verzinkerei. Eschweiler 2. (Katalog: Sonder-Erzeugnisse: Gas u. Wasserbehälter. 6. Auflage. Februar 1902). Mit zahlr. (1 farb.) Abb. meist nach Photographien. Eschweiler, Selbstverlag (Druck: Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei-Ges.), 1902. 4to. (32,0 x 24,0 cm). 151, (1) S. Farbig illustrierter Orig.-Leinwandband mit geprägter Vignette auf dem Vorderdeckel.
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1929ref. 2111902160201233Dainippon Fire Association Nagano Branch 1929. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Dainippon Fire Association Nagano Branch paperback
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1911ref. 58482New York Brooklyn Newark Jersey City & Philadelphia: Delaware Gas Light Co. ca. 1911. Small 4to. 5.75 x 7 in. 24 pp unpaginated on thick paper stock. With 7 silver gelatin photos on thick glossy photo paper stock hinged at gutter margin minor soiling to upper fore-edges of a couple images. Pebbled calf split-pin post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover black silk pastedowns wear & scuffing to fore-edges minor rubbing minor wear to corners minor fraying to the fore-edges of the silk pastedowns still VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce Progressive Era sales catalogue for the Delaware Gas Light Co. lighting system. Using patented gas lighting equipment developed by Roessler & Armington this Easton Gas Co. subsidiary marketed this lighting system as better light than electric arc lighting at one fifth the cost steady brilliant illumination no blackening of mantles no smoked ceilings and no abnormal heat. The systems which were only rented to the consumer featured a small high pressure pump invented by Roessler 1872-1939 and a separate reservoir and piping -- all installed and maintained by the company. The photos show the styles which were available in copper or black enamel assorted size and density glass globes from clear to opaque and could be fitted with by-pass lever or chains to control the lighting. The Delaware Gas Light Co. had originated in Delaware OH in the 1870’s and in 1903 was absorbed into the Easton Gas Co. along with Easton Fuel Gas William’s Township Gas Co. Forks Township Gas Co. and others becoming the Easton Gas & Electric Co. No copies in Worldcat; See: Pennsylvania News Items Light Vol. III No. 1 August 1903 p. 285; Gas-Lamp; Combined High & Low Pressure Gas-Lamp Amandus C. Roessler & William A. Armington U.S. Patent Office Vol. 184 1911-1912 pp. x xxxiii 150-152 290. Delaware Gas Light Co., unknown
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1944Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "All circuits are busy; I will call you" - the phrase of operators dealing with heavy traffic; Good-bye to the Seymour and Trinity manual offices - photos; Photo of the ladies of the Nelson small bore rifle club; adding switching equipment in Victoria; Gas masks, helmets, and more in Alma operating room - photo; Action photo of the First Vancouver Cadet Training Corps; Record load of telephone calls handled in B.C. in 1942 - article and photos; George Friend - Alma plant man - article and photos; Second birthday of the Van-Tel Credit Union; A few lines from the front lines - parts of letters from phone men on active service; John Jessop dies - photo and article; Back cover wartime announcement "Be Careful What You Say"; Photos of females filling in for males in the Vancouver Engineering department; Victory Bond ad.; Wire Shortage - here's why; "Behind the Lines!" - by George Matthew Adams; Wartime Problems of Telephone Business set forth in Annual Report; Great Cheque mystery solved by new payroll machine - 2 pages of photos and text; Popular traffic official dies - Robert A Henderson; Honour Roll, World War II; Honour Roll, World War I; Credit Union article; Letter by operator Elsie Forman; variety of photos emphasizing wartime parts shortages and recycling; Victory Bond ad.; E.E. (Slim) Sinden, wire chief at Chilliwack; Operator's form association; Roland Arthur Chute, former Kamloops Manager, retires; John Sowerby - survived fire and earthquake to become a phone man - article and photos; P.J. (Pete) McCormick retires; Illustrated letter from G.R. Peakes, Major-General, G.O.C.-in-C., Pacific Command, saluting the telephone industry; Many additional war photos/content; Using phones to report forest fires; Article on operator 'Quiz Kids' - information operators; honour roll of employees who have joined the war effort; Oliver Plant man Reuben Echlis retires; article from Reader's Digest arguing for wartime wage and price controls; James D. Baker passes away; William Henry Cooke retires; Update from Pipe-Major Edmund Esson in Sicily; Ex-operators rally to aid of telephone company, including newspaper ad.; Miss Leonie Michaud retires; Hockey star and telephone man Leslie Steel dies in Vancouver; many wonderful Victory Garden photos; war bond ad; Victory Loan depends on the Phone; Introducing Jack Veitch; Ads showing the wartime contributions of operators; in memory of Henry G. E. Goult; Victoria construction gang at work in photos; Photo of Victoria's operators at work; Farewell to Ernest F. Helliwell; Cranbrook operator, Minnie Egan, retires; Edward Dawson dies suddenly; Sergeant James Clark, R.C.A.F., reported a missing; Ernest S. Harris bids farewell; Cover photo of Pilot Officer Gordon Heselton, the first B.C. man to win a decoration in WWII (with story inside); photo of '25 club' war savings stamp booklet; 40 miles of phone bills - many photos; Record long distance load in 1943 but local calls show decline; John D. Johnston, general commercial manager; Full page instructions with the heading "Strict Conservation of Paper now a Necessity"; Jim Baigent and Arthur (Pop) Harness retire; "Lick Stamps to Lick Hitler" on back cover of one issue; Telephone Talk is shrunk to conserve paper; Net Revenue decrease in 1943; Full-page article o Book
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