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1945Stories: Scraps of Paper; Through India with a Camera; The Road to Fortune; The Curse of Kali; Country Beat; My First Boar-Hunt; A Birth of a Volcano; One African Night; The Wide World in War-Time; Pilot Adrift; The Imposter; Mr. Williams; Lucky Break; The Second Escape. Above-average wear. Book
1960Features/Photos: in colour - the new Forth Road bridge, and other subjects; Queen Mary seamen and crew strike; The first U.N. troops in Katanga - a peaceful entry; The Royal visit to Orkney and Shetland Islands - a British monarch's first visit to the Shetlands for 700 years; teaching the Australian aboriginals to live in a modern world; American military inventions - up-to-date equipment in the United States Army; Karabel in Lycia; An American space triumph - the 13th Discoverer satellite; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1961Features/Photos: The Queen before the Taj Mahal; the royal visit to India; Deterioration in the Congo; the Queen speaks before half a million people; large photo of the U.S. Navy's 'Mothball Fleet' at San Diego; After the fire which left 8,000 homeless - a helicopter view of the Valley Road area of Kowloon; The standard Vanguard Luxury Six Estate Car; and more. Centrefold loose but present. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Book
1943ref. TECH1133(Wien 1943). 4°, 68 Bl. Manuskriptdruck + 30 gef. Abb. in Kart.-Umschl. m. Leinenbindung, zus. in Leinenband m. ms. geschrieb. Rückenschildch., die Abb. sind sep. in Umschlaglasche am inn. Vorderdeckel, Rü. stärker ausgebleicht, Ecken etw. bestoß., abgegriff., papierbed. gebr., Bibl.-Expl. mehrf. gestemp.
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2012ref. DADAX3844349413Eae Editorial Academia Espanola 2012-12-01. paperback. New. 5.91x1.47x8.66. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Eae Editorial Academia Espanola paperback
ref. Ishimoto, FujiwoIn Pristine Condition. unknown
2001ref. mon0000106096Automobile Association 2001-03-31. Map. Very Good. in x in x in. Automobile Association unknown
ref. 61454724Royal Society of Chemistry RSC . Hardback. Used. Royal Society of Chemistry RSC hardcover
ref. Tuomi, Timo , Elina StandIn Pristine Condition. unknown
2012ref. DADAX384845114XEae Editorial Academia Espanola 2012-04-13. paperback. New. 5.91x0.73x8.66. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Eae Editorial Academia Espanola paperback
1835ref. 203763Philadelphia.: W. Marshall. Circa1835. Handcoloured engraved map 26.5 x 41.3 cms; 29.6 x 48.3 cms sheet central fold insets of "Oceanica" and "New Holland" central table some light staining in the image and margins in good condition. Eurocentrism laid bare. This 19th Century map includes a "State of Society" for each part of the world declared with a symbol to represent "Barbarous Half Civilized Civilized and Enlightened Societies" as well as noting religion and ethnicity. It includes a table of distances between chief towns or capitals and between these towns and Washington DC. Australia "New Holland" is styled principally as pagan barbarous unexplored and African a thin sliver of what is now New South Wales and Victoria is labelled civilized European and Protestant. Scarce. . (W. Marshall). unknown
1967ref. 169746Beijing.: 地图戰報.Di tu zhan bao. September1967. Maps printed in red and black single sheet printed on both sides folded scale not given photographic image of Mao Zedong. Some light browning at edges with tears and losses on left edge still good. Text in Chinese. Sheet measures 26.5 x 38.4cm. Includes a map of Autumn Harvest Uprising and also shows the routes of the military advancing towards Jinggangshan between September and October 1927. On reverse left section a map shows the route along which Chairman Mao led the Fourth Army of the Chinese Red Army marching towards south of Anhui and Jiangxi Provinces in 1929. On reverse right section a map titled "The Long March of The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army October 1934-October 1935". Quotations of Chairman Mao about the Long March insert on corners of the map. Issue no. 6 of a series of maps with text issued by the Red Guards organisations in the form of Cultural Revolution tabloid-sized newspaper. This issue is designed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Autumn Harvest Uprising which was one of the earliest armed uprisings organised by the Chinese Communist Party. . 地图戰報.[Di tu zhan bao]. unknown
1852ref. 185246London.: Cassell Petter & Galpin. circa1852. Map with outline handcolour 42.5 x 30.1 cms; 49.2 x 34.3 cms sheet margins a little toned small corner crase but in very good condition. Very detailed map of the Japanese islands with Sakhalin above and the coast of Manchuria and Korea. . Cassell, Petter & Galpin. unknown
1784ref. 174896London.: Alexander Hogg at the King's Arms. circa1784. Engraved map in triptych on laid paper 20.1 x 32.7 cm three insets: cross section of the north side of Queen Charlotte's Islands Solomon Islands with detail of a volcano "6 leagues North"; Swallow's Bay Harbour; and Byron's Harbour early hand colour trimmed to the plate mark at the top edge neat sealed tear affecting the publisher's caption slight edge wear and paper toning but a most attractive map in very good condition. Attractive engraving of the Queen Charlotte's Islands Solomon Islands. The Islands were named for the consort of King George III by Philip Carteret the British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69. His ship the Swallow gave her name to the Bay and Carteret's commanding officer on the first of his voyages John Byron to the Harbour depicted in this most attractive early chart. . Alexander Hogg at the King's Arms. unknown
1850ref. 177525London.: The London Printing and Publishing Company. circa1850s. Lithographed map with original outline hand colour 33 x 24.5 cm including border and captions seven vignette illustrations two reference keys decorative border central fold light toning mainly at the central fold and to the verso of the sheet in very good condition preserved in a window mount. Attractive decorative map with fine vignettes of the London Post Office Suez Bombay Madras. Aden Malta Gibraltar and a wonderful camel train led by a carriage and horses crossing North Africa originally by the great mapmaker and publisher John Tallis. The two reference keys note steam packet routes railways electric telegraph and the Suez Canal. . The London Printing and Publishing Company. unknown
1805ref. 570721805. Copper engraving with handcolouring map shows the border of the Austrian Empire and Hungary Vienne sic and the Danube can be seen at the top of the map Two keys and scale inset. Few closed tears and some browning edges otherwise a clean and bright image. Map measures approximately 34 x 44cm. Map of Germany indicating the present division of this empire as well as the new possessions of the princes who make up the Germanic body and including Batavia and Helvetia Switzerland with their divisions. by E. Mentelle a member of the institute and P. G. Chanlaire one of the authors of the National Atlas. An xiii 1805. Paris. There is a key to the explanation of the signs and an explanation of the colours used for the district of the various states contained in this map. . unknown
1935ref. 215892Lahore.: Government Printing Office. Revised Edition. 1935. Four folding colour maps xi 311 pages 26.5 x 18 cms; original papered boards spotted and a trifle scuffed linen backstrip with paper title label worn; foredges and endpapers spotted a few leaves toned but on the whole in very good condition the maps particularly bright and clean. A remarkable association copy: the author Frederick Blyth Wace's copy with his inked initials to the front free endpaper and his humorous unpublished foreword tipped in opposite the preface together with a dedication leaf both in Wace's hand and his business card loose within. As a further dedication makes clear this copy was given by Wace's son a couple of his loose notes on scrap paper are included the eminent botanist Nigel Morritt Wace 1929-2005 late head of the Australian National University's department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in 2003 to his fellow academic and marsupial biologist Dr. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. Both Wace and Biscoe were born in India and began their schooling in Kashmir at the school founded by Tyndale-Biscoe's father a Christian missionary and for whom the school is named. From the collection of Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe. . Government Printing Office. hardcover
1897ref. 2605120102Philadelphia: Armstrong & Fears 1897. 10. Maps. Very Good. Double sided foldout colored map 43 x 39 cm labelled "L.A.W. Local cycling Map" and colored corresponding to the road type. 79 p. Includes: an official list of consuls hotels and repair services in the area that acts as a very early example of a travel coupon. Pages include routes from Adamsville to Zionsville with route maps and information about the views road conditions and recommendations from riders. Published to capitalize on the bike boom of the period where recent innovations in safety components and reduction of manufacturing costs made bicycles more commercially available and bike clubs sprung up across the country. Philadelphia was one of the centers of this Bike Boom due to it's relatively flat cityscape and was home to some of the most prominent cycling clubs. The League of American Wheelman was one of the most prominent with 103000 members in 1898 the year after this map was published. The league of American Wheelman still exists to this day. Catalogued by Anastasia Rittenhousesmith. Armstrong & Fears unknown
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1955ref. ZB585541Corvallis 1955. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item 112 pp issued as Oregon State College Engineering Experiment Station Circular No. 18; text darkening still very good in paper wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Corvallis unknown
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2019ref. __3110655640De Gruyter 2019. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 380 pages. 9.05x6.10x0.94 inches. De Gruyter hardcover