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Best.-Nr. BN67306Das grosse Mercedes-G-Buch: Ein Off Road Sachbuch. Baureihen 460 461 463 Füngeling Michael unknown
1951Cover Painting by William Winter shows a joyous last day of school. Features: Colour photo Studebaker Commander V-8 ad inside front cover; Nice colour ad for George Weston Limited shows bride-to-be with family; Spyglass on Sweden - the Welfare State; If the Russians Attack Canada - article with photos and interesting map of likeliest Canadian targets; Wide Open, Excellency, by Lesley Holmes; How the Stock Crooks Operate, by Fred Bodsworth - how the 'blower boys' peddle worthless stocks via long-distance phone; The Long Ordeal of Mrs. Tak Sook Kyun - the Korean War has taken her home near the Manchrian border, her husband, her baby, and tossed her up like driftwood on the crowded Pusan hills - article by Pierre Berton with sad photos; Banff - a paradise for Sultans and Stenos - article with great colour photos; The Ups and Downs of Alan Young - originally from West Vancouver, he fought his way to the top in radio and movies; What it's Like to Live in the Dark - Larry Bartlett was blinded by a German shell; Boswell of the Brooks - Writer Roderick Haig-Brown milks a cow every day and gets called "Your Worship" - article with photos; The Secret Behind The Fiery Phantom that Sails Bay Chaleur; Nice colour illustrated ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd showing a grader levelling a country road; Attractive colour ad for the Hillman Minx Convertible; Colour illustrated Coke centerfold shows store display and picnic lunch packed and ready to eat; Colour Chevrolet ad featuring a 2-door Bel Air; Nice colour photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture; Colour illustrated ad for the Ford Custom Deluxe Convertible; Nice 2-colour ad for the Austin A-40 Devon auto; Nice colour Parker Pen ad inside back cover features endorsement by Mazo De La Roche; Colour Margene ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Magazine
1831Best.-Nr. PHO-1372Paris , Imprimerie Royale , 1831 , in-4 , 230pp. , relié demi veau époque , tranches cailloutées ,ex-libris T.E. Mionnet (numismate ) , cachet ,dos manquant , frottements aux plats , rousseurs éparses.
1978Best.-Nr. 013369Genève Claude Givaudan 1978 In-8 Cartonnage de L'éditeur Edition originale
1827XLIV, 477 pp., 7 pl. depl. (4 tableaux dépl. et 5 planches gravées) demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné (rel. de l'époque) 1827, 1827, in-8, XLIV, 477 pp, 7 pl. depl. (4 tableaux dépl. et 5 planches gravées), demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné (rel. de l'époque), Première édition de cet ouvrage « utile aux propriétaires de campagne, aux maires des communes rurales, aux membres des Conseils Généraux et d'arrondissements, aux préfets et sous-préfets, aux entrepreneurs de roulage et de messagerie, aux carrossiers, charrons et autres artistes » et consacré aux routes et à leurs défauts, aux moyens de les conserver et de les paver, à la théorie des roues, aux largeurs des jantes et à la nécessité de délimiter les changements, ainsi qu'aux voitures publiques. Une notice sur le procédé d'asphaltage des routes, selon le système de MacAdam complète l'ouvrage. Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817), écrivain et inventeur britannique, se proposait dans cet ouvrage de perfectionner les voies publiques en France et de développer le système de transports. Accidents à la reliure. Belles planches en fin d'ouvrage
Best.-Nr. 24570Cambridge/ London, Deighton/ John W. Parker, 1853 Bound, cloth, gold impression on back, fold out landmap as frontispice, original title page, 140 x 230mm., 188pp., fold out landmap at the end of the book, 4 landscape engravings ( 1 fold out too ).
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1840Best.-Nr. 354279Mexico: Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido 1840. 964pp. plus one plate. Contemporary pictorial wrappers. Spine reinforced with archival tape minor dust soiling. Very good. 964pp. plus one plate. Variant issue without priority also printed in New Orleans in the same year. The text of a letter sent to Mexican president Anastasio Bustamente calling for a convention to address various ills affecting the newly independent state of Mexico. Estrada is heavy on political theory and with good reason. At the time of publication Mexican democracy was in a crisis. In July Gen. Urrea acting on behalf of Valentine Farias actually stormed the National Palace and took Bustamente prisoner. Bustamente soon escaped but the ensuing conflict between Farias and Bustamente for legitimacy had a devastating effect on hopes for a true democracy of the kind Estrada extols here. An excellent sample of Mexican political history and thought. SUTRO COLLECTION p.739 OCLC 7320339 Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido unknown
1840Best.-Nr. 354279Mexico: Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido 1840. 964pp. plus one plate. Contemporary pictorial wrappers. Spine reinforced with archival tape minor dust soiling. Very good. 964pp. plus one plate. Variant issue without priority also printed in New Orleans in the same year. The text of a letter sent to Mexican president Anastasio Bustamente calling for a convention to address various ills affecting the newly independent state of Mexico. Estrada is heavy on political theory and with good reason. At the time of publication Mexican democracy was in a crisis. In July Gen. Urrea acting on behalf of Valentine Farias actually stormed the National Palace and took Bustamente prisoner. Bustamente soon escaped but the ensuing conflict between Farias and Bustamente for legitimacy had a devastating effect on hopes for a true democracy of the kind Estrada extols here. An excellent sample of Mexican political history and thought. SUTRO COLLECTION p.739 OCLC 7320339 Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. x-0471977136John Wiley & Sons Inc 1998. Hardcover. New. 194 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
1850Best.-Nr. 177528London.: The London Printing and Publishing Company. circa1850s. Lithographed map with original outline hand colour 25.8 x 33.5 cm three vignette illustrations decorative border central fold in very good condition presented in a window mount. Attractive decorative map with three vignettes by Rapkin: Yedo; a State barge in sail with penants flying--the paired oarsmen depicted through 10 small windows below deck; and Koreans in traditional costume; the map after the great mapmaker and publisher John Tallis. From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled catalogue mark on the verso. . The London Printing and Publishing Company. unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 206545Calcutta: Compiled and drawn by the Survey of India. Second Edition. 1945. Large folding colour map 77.5 x 80cm; 95.5 x 86.2cm sheet including legend and small inset showing adjoining maps light toning and wear to upper margins and at corners and folds; but in very good condition. Very large clear map of China printed in 1945. The projection is noted as the "Lambert Conical Orthomorphic" a polyconic projection employed by the exhaustive Survey of India and the map includes surrounding countries: Taiwan Korea French Indo-China with a small inset key to Korean place-name abbreviations. As is typical of maps of this period Arunachal Pradesh is shown as Tibetan territory.The legend lists borders and provinces railways roads and canals with topography indicated with colouration. . Compiled and drawn by the Survey of India. unknown
1944Best.-Nr. 214362Los Angeles.: Los Angeles Examiner. April 31944. Colour pictorial map on a single newspaper leaf 37 x 50 cms; 41.5 x 54.6 cms sheet unrelated text on the verso although with an interesting account from a soldier's letter about an air raid in China toning more marked at the central fold two small splits no loss to the map edge wear with several small marginal edge tears neatly repaired on the verso with archival washi map unaffected in good condition. A dynamic map prepared and illustrated by the Examiner's art critic and editor Howard Burke covering the area surrounding India and Central Asia showing Japanese conquered territory in Malaya Thailand Indo-China and Burma; and in India British-controlled states and native feudal and protected states. Text boxes and pictographs give an overview of the geopolitical situation from the Allied perspective. One box notes "Chanda Bose has many adherents and fanatical followers in Bengal. They may prove to be a powerful fifth column in India". Text at lower edge opines "The situation in India is critical and has grown more so as the all-out offensive against Japan has been delayed. If the Allies do not act at once and with great force all our gains may be wiped out and the war in the Pacific prolonged indefinitely." The decisive and devastating bombings that were to signal such an end were four months away. Rare on the market. . Los Angeles Examiner. unknown
Best.-Nr. 54794Amsterdam.: Jodocus Hondius. Circa Early 17th Century. Map depicting the southeastern part of present day Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula including the northern most part of the Black Sea and reaching north to Smolensk. Published by Hondius in the French edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Hand outline colour topographical detail shown pictorially some wear along centrefold occasional pale foxing mostly in margins decorative title cartouche upper right corner French text on verso showing through clear plate mark even age toning 48.5 x 58 cm. . [Jodocus Hondius]. unknown
1994Best.-Nr. 9451Bouliac, chez l'auteur, 1994. In-8 à l'italienne de [150] pages, demi-basane brun ocre avec titre doré au centre du premier plat (en percaline vieux rose) et au dos, couvertures à rabats et dos conservés. Premier plat insolé, petites griffures au dos.
1980Best.-Nr. KOS00600224Taisho Nichinichi Shimbun 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS00600224 Taisho Nichinichi Shimbun paperback
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1855Best.-Nr. 466Chicago: ICRR 1855. Broadside sheet. 280 x 195 mm. 11 x 8 /12 inches. Printed on blue paper folded brown stain in center portion of the sheet otherwise quite a good sound copy. Rare ICRR broadside containing instructions to their agents regarding freight accounts and passenger business with emphasis on recording and submitting Monthly Reports on all activities at their stations. It is signed by R. B. Mason General Sup't and though undated is from the early 1850's. Col. Roswell B. Mason was associated with the Illinois Central Rail Road from its inception overseeing construction of the line from 1852 to 1856 until he resigned in 1869 to become Mayor of Chicago. He was mayor during the fire of 1871 and used his power to declare martial law in its immediate aftermath. It is known that Abraham Lincoln served as counsel for Illinois Central in the early 1850s earning a fee of $5000 that occasion a law suit for nonpayment. Rare: this broadside in not among the Illinois Central Rail Road publications of the 1850s listed in OCLC. Not in Checklist of Ante-Fire Imprints 1851-1871. Not in Byrd Cecil B. Bibliography of Illinois Imprints 1814-1858 although three similar broadsides issued by Roswell Mason as General Superintendent are cited published in 1852 2 and 1855 1 all of which are in single copies at the Chicago Historical Society. (ICRR unknown
1855Best.-Nr. 466Chicago: ICRR 1855. Broadside sheet. 280 x 195 mm. 11 x 8 /12 inches. Printed on blue paper folded brown stain in center portion of the sheet otherwise quite a good sound copy. Rare ICRR broadside containing instructions to their agents regarding freight accounts and passenger business with emphasis on recording and submitting Monthly Reports on all activities at their stations. It is signed by R. B. Mason General Sup't and though undated is from the early 1850's. Col. Roswell B. Mason was associated with the Illinois Central Rail Road from its inception overseeing construction of the line from 1852 to 1856 until he resigned in 1869 to become Mayor of Chicago. He was mayor during the fire of 1871 and used his power to declare martial law in its immediate aftermath. It is known that Abraham Lincoln served as counsel for Illinois Central in the early 1850s earning a fee of $5000 that occasion a law suit for nonpayment. Rare: this broadside in not among the Illinois Central Rail Road publications of the 1850s listed in OCLC. Not in Checklist of Ante-Fire Imprints 1851-1871. Not in Byrd Cecil B. Bibliography of Illinois Imprints 1814-1858 although three similar broadsides issued by Roswell Mason as General Superintendent are cited published in 1852 2 and 1855 1 all of which are in single copies at the Chicago Historical Society. (ICRR unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 166505N.p.: MGM Television 1979. First Draft script for the season three episode eight of the 1977-1983 NBC television series copy belonging to actress Christina Cummings who played the role of the "Bank Teller" with the ink annotation of her name on the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations of her name and circling her character on the cast page. CHiPs was a popular crime drama series about the lives of two motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol CHP played by Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada and aired on NBC premiering on September 15 1977 and ran for 139 episodes over six seasons before ending on May 1 1983. In this episode a series of jewelry robberies are committed by thieves in city trucks and Ponch Estrada recovering in the hospital believes he may have solved the crimes. Set in and shot on location in California. Untitled MGM Television wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated August 17 1979 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Alexander and Revisions by William D. Gordon and James Doherty. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing bound with two gold brads. MGM Television unknown
1979Best.-Nr. 166505N.p.: MGM Television 1979. First Draft script for the season three episode eight of the 1977-1983 NBC television series copy belonging to actress Christina Cummings who played the role of the "Bank Teller" with the ink annotation of her name on the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations of her name and circling her character on the cast page. CHiPs was a popular crime drama series about the lives of two motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol CHP played by Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada and aired on NBC premiering on September 15 1977 and ran for 139 episodes over six seasons before ending on May 1 1983. In this episode a series of jewelry robberies are committed by thieves in city trucks and Ponch Estrada recovering in the hospital believes he may have solved the crimes. Set in and shot on location in California. Untitled MGM Television wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated August 17 1979 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Alexander and Revisions by William D. Gordon and James Doherty. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing bound with two gold brads. MGM Television unknown books
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2010Best.-Nr. __1441926984Springer 2010. Paperback. New. 580 pages. 9.30x6.10x9.25 inches. Springer paperback