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1811réf. PHO-2352Paris : F. Schoell, 1811, 2 tomes en 1 volumes in-8 (23x14cm), X- 525pp. ; 2ff.-532pp., relié demi veau et coins époque, auteur et titre au dos, étiquette de la librairie Dondey-Dupré en page de garde. Frottements aux plats et coins usés, mouillure claire en coin par intermittence.
1936Telephone 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: Service to Japan, Hawaii and the Philippines now available; Anchors foul cable 4 times within 10 days - Burrard Inlet; Classified system will be extended to remainder of territory - includes full-page rate sheet; Company gains telephones in 1934 after 3 year decline (presumably due to the Great Depression); Company architect, Hugh D. Simpson; Our overseas service kept growing last year; Employee Sales Team Results; Statement of Development, 1 January 1935 - show # of phones per community; System suffers heaviest storm damage in history - January 1935 - 8 pages with photos; New exchange for the Albernis; John C. Miles succeeds John Johnston as Building Head; World Telephone network now includes 60 countries; Billy Palliser - champion salesman for Victoria Plant; Sechelt Company picnic; New phone system for thriving Alberni area - 4 pages with photos; Record 19,000 mile call from Vancouver to Perth, Australia; Dog's bark in Vancouver heard in Scotland; Round the world telephone talk sets record; Telephony's part in Canada's Jubilee celebration - 2 pages with photos; Parksville Exchange has Dial Unit at Qualicum Beach; Arthur R. Harness - garden awards; New switchboard handled by sightless operator - article with photos; PNE float details and photo; 2-page bio. with photo of Eugene P. LaBelle, the company's General Superintendant of Plant *MR. LABELLE'S NAME IS STAMPED ON THIS COPY*; Carrier circuits established between Vancouver and Calgary; Number of phones increased last year; Miss Elizabeth Murray, Vancouver's first chief operator, dies; New radio stations established; Fraser telephone building remodelled; Conference calls link Canadian cities by long distance (!); Operator school reopened; George E. Pittendrigh of Cloverdale, BC - installed Vancouver's first telephones; Telephone folks to the rescue; New Long Distance developments embrace Howe Sound Points; Key to Safety on the Job; New radio link serves Quesnel and adjacent mining area; Vancouver's first emergency phone calls; Newcastle Island Picnic; C.A. (Charlie) Price - Queer theories prove that people read the 'Yellow Pages"; James Welsh - our first formen; Article on the challenges of information operators; Seymour operating room photo; Mr. W.F. Salsbury - helped pave the way for our present telephone system; *CARICATURE OF E.P. LABELLE* and other company executives; Vancouver Arena fire damage quickly repaired; PNE float photo and details; Long Distance developments this year; Dominion Telephone organization meets in Victoria; Ex-policeman Ernest A. Harris recalls use of telephone in 1891; Monte Butler wins more rowing laurels; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Half-leather binding intact. Backstrip loose along front edge. Book
1652réf. 16628Ulmæ, Johannem Görlinum, 1652. In-12 de [542] pages non numérotées, plein vélin ivoire à rabats, titre manuscrit au dos et plats frappés des armes dorées de Louis-Henri de Loménie de Brienne.
1848réf. WOC-1147Avec une introduction générale pour chaque province. Ouvrage illustré de 88 planches de vues hors-texte gravées sur acier, avec une protection de papier serpente, 11 planches en couleurs de blasons, présentant 132 armoiries et 1 carte dépliante en couleurs. Paris, Furne et Cie & Perrotin & H. Fournier, 1844-1848. 6 volumes grands in-8 (27x4,5x17,5cm) reliés demi chagrin noir, dos à faux-nerfs surligné d'un trait doré et de caissons dorés, titre doré, plats de papier marbré. XXIII,687pp. + 719pp. + 628pp. + 626pp. + 828pp. + 820pp. .
1937réf. 21634Grenoble, Arthaud (Bellegarde Ain, gravure et impression Sadag), 1937 ; in-8, demi-veau rouge à coins, dos à quatre nerfs encadrant les pièces d’auteur et de titre vert foncé, premier plat et dos en couleurs conservés, non rogné (reliure de l’époque) ; 168 pp., 5 planches hors-texte en couleurs, y compris la couverture et de très nombreuses illustrations de toutes tailles tirées en sépia.
1962CONTAINS 20 FOLD-OUT AND FULL-PAGE MAPS AND 9 FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. RARE survey produced for the Department for Landscaping and Preservation of Historic Sites, Prime Minister's Office, Israel. [CONTENTS]: Historical Introduction / The Remains of the City - The Ancient City; The Crusader City; The Turkish City / The City as a Historical Monument / Survey and Planning Proposals / Summary of Proposals / List of Sites / Photographs. 320x230mm. 56 pages & 9 full-page photographic plates bound with cloth spine and laid in folder right pocket. 20 fold-out and full-page maps are separately spiral-bound and laid in folder left pocket. Grey cloth Hardcover folder with embossed lettering on front cover. Folder stained and rubbed. Folder edges slightly bumped. Folder corners rubbed and slightly bumped. Folder spine edges slightly peeling. Folder right pocket bottom edge and middle part slightly stained. Sticker residues on maps rear cover. Maps rear cover bottom edge wrinkled. Maps and front cover partly detached from spiral binding. Maps 2 and 3 verso slightly stained. Several maps verso slightly dirty. Three small holes on map 2. Map 3 somewhat wrinkled and dirty. Maps rear cover and text pages front cover yellowing and slightly stained. Rear whitepage wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare survey of the old city of Acre, renowned as the final stronghold of the Crusader states and the holiest city of the Baha'i Faith, is in good condition.
1930Telephone 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: Twentieth Year of Telephone Talk; P.A.B.X. for Telephone Company in Vancouver; When this magazine was a bab - by the first editor of Telephone Talk; North-west Telephone Company acquires Prince George System; Hard battle for phone men in rough country along Howe Sound; Christmas gale puts 75% of toll lines out of order; cover photo of 20 ton cable reel for use in Fraser River link in Vancouver-Victoria line; Preparatory work on new trans-gulf cable job nears completion; Speeding Aeroplanes can keep in touch with the earth - two; George Gaetz - Victoria 'heavy' gang foreman; Cover photo of woman demonstrating how to use dial phone; Full page photo of cable barge Brico; First section of new trans-gulf cable successfully laid - 6 pages with many photos; New construction in Victoria; Night work required to build line across Ladner Marsh; The Brico succeeds the Iwalani; Heavy Gang Foreman Andrew Bertram (Andy) Jackson; Land portion of new Victoria-Vancouver cable route now complete - 3 pages with many photos; New Traffic Headquarters in the Georgia Building - several photos; Richmond is thriving Neighbour of big coast cities - photos and text; Picture for Telephone Talk obtained via ship-to-shore phone call; Over half of Trans-Atlantic calls are with Great Britain; We can now talk with South America; Nanaimo heavy gang restores Nanaimo-Victoria service; Vancouver can talk to ship on the Atlantic; Wilfred Calman; 5 page illustrated article announcing completion of Vancouver-Victoria cable; B.C.'s first radiotelephone service now open; Second Calgary Circuit provides Windermere Valley connection; Cable to link Europe with North America; New type of conduit being used for underground work; Record load handled by New Westminster staff; Work on Victoria's central office equipment progressing - many photos; Nice cover photo of the Prince Henry, first passenger ship on the Pacific equipped with dial phone system; New type of pay telephone in Vancouver; Burnaby feature - rapidly industrializing; Bob Perry - Blaster - The Lone Canadian; Ruined Burrard Inlet cable to be replaced; Phone service now available to/from a train; Dunsmuir residence in Victoria speaks with London, England; Dials being placed on Victoria phones - 4 pages with photos; Direct coast and Alberta service now available for Revelstoke; Phone men fight fire which takes 5 buildings in Nanaimo; Dial demonstration popular at Victoria Exhibition; John (Jack) C. Miles; Prince George Reconstruction; Many photos of new Plant and Engineering building in Vancouver; Radiotelephone experiments at coast points successful - 6 pages with photos; William Palliser; Powell River System joins phone family; Trans-Gulf cable now in service; The Terminal and Repeater Equipment of the all-cable toll route - 4 pages with photos; Victoria now using new dial system - photos; Nanaimo high span replaced with submarine cable; Building the B.C. link of the Trans-Canada Line; 17,500 mile link connects Vancouver to Australia; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Backstrip almost entirely loose. Book
réf. 81321Brun Lyon, Auguste Brun, 1860, xx p. (page de faux-titre, page de titre, introduction), 65 planches réparties sur deux pages, 96 p., percaline vert sapin, 30.5x20.5cm, un accroc sur l'un des mors et sur le bas du dos, coins émoussés, plats tachés, bords des pages jaunis.
réf. 3180A LYON , ET SE VENDENT A VIENNE CHEZ CLAUDE BAUDRAND SOUS LES HALLES , 1659 reliure d'epoque plein veau dos lisse , decoré piece titre verte , bon etat , a noter que la table des matiere est manuscrite d'epoque ray W5
1959réf. 014757Paris Editions du Seuil - Album Petite planète 3 1959 In-4 Cartonnage toilé éditeur Edition originale Dédicacé par l'auteur
réf. 6355Paris, Firmin Didot, 1840 - 1845, 12 volumes in-8 ; suivi de Annales de France, 1840 - 1843, deux volumes ; soit en tout 14 volumes in-8 en reliure uniforme ; demi-chagrin rouge-cerise, dos à faux-nerfs dorés, fleurons, titre et tomaison dorés, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque) ; 560, (2), 18, 15, (1 bl.), 22 pp. ; 576 ; 576 ; 576 ; 588 ; 851 ; 802, (2) ; 844 ; 880 ; 892 ; 908 ; IV, 1015 pp. et 496 ; 744 pp. et 33 cartes coloriées et en tout 616 gravures hors-texte (exemplaire collationné, bien complet des 616 gravures et non 620 comme annoncé). Texte imprimé sur deux colonnes.
réf. 4585, Montceau - Les - Mines, Cercle des Bibliophiles Anavoizard, 1971., En suite, toile, dos orne de piece de titre dore, 29,5x38,5cm, 162pp, illustre en couleur.
1945Contents: Nash car color ad inside front cover; Commercial Solvents Corp. ad with great Iwo Jima beach landing photo; Chrysler *Fluid Drive* color ad; Only Stalin of first trio is left but Attlee carries on where Churchill left off; Very graphic 6-photo sequence of a 'Jap' being burned to death by a flame-thrower; British Labor landslide stirs the world - the winning issue was not Churchill but new homes and jobs for Britons; Photo of a masked 'squeeler' identifying Gestapo agents hiding in the ranks of the Wehrmacht in Norway; Nice color ad for Martin aircraft; Photo of Dutch people tearing up trolly blocks for desperately needed fuel; Trial of Marshal Petain in France; Amazing coverage of B-25 Mitchell bomber striking the Empire State building - the diagram looks just like what the world witnessed September 11th, 2001; The Big Playhouse - Michigan's cushy prison at Jackson; Japan on the ropes - strikes at Kure naval base cover harbor with blazing ships - B-29s blast forewarned cities; Photo of American troops from Europe massing in Manila; *Super* color centerfold featuring a 1942 yellow Buick convertible; photo of leaflet dropped on Jap cities prior to bombing (with article); Photo of Canadian General Crerar who's army has been dissolved; Kaiser lines up Graham-Paige in march toward reconversion - with Frazer's selling genius added to Western Steel facilities, Combine's one need is capital; Photo of experimental helicopter, the PV-3, in flight; Nice color Imperial whiskey ad; Surplus problem - whether to scrap the Office of War Information's (OWI) profitable magazines abroad; Swiss family air force - survival training; Motorola radio ad; Great color Union Pacific Railroad ad with emphasis upon beautiful Washington state; Unmarked with average wear. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
1929réf. 57861929 La mère des villes russes. Texte, Aquarelles et dessins de G. K. Loukomski. Préface d Ch. Diehl, membre de l'Institut. Paris, Edition J. Danguin, 1929 In-4 , XV-119 pp., 16 pl. aquarelles en couleurs, sous serpentes hors texte, 64 planches de photographies en noir hors texte, Superbe reliure demi-chagrin fauve plat en bradel : superbe papier avec des eclats d'or. Couverture souple du brochage conservée . Parfait etat , bel objet
réf. 41485Paris.1736.In-12 demi-relié.E.O.268 p.112 planches gravées. TBE.Reliure XXème,demi-cuir brun avec pièce de titre en maroquin rouge.Gardes.Dos à 4 nerfs avec ornements dorés.Tète rouge.
1960réf. COL-3981960. Silver prints 25. Collection of photographs documenting new commercial constructions in the Minneapolis area. Each of the photographs and buildings exudes an aura of clean mid-century-modernism with sharp lines and distinct angles. Norton & Peel clearly skilled commercial photographers apparently understood the ways in which a certain compositional devices or framing could visually augment the architects' designs. In an age of post-war prosperity "acme" and chevrons architects and photographers alike began to closer examine the relationship between form and function. 8 x 10 inches ; Each with the Project title and Architect's name on recto and the photographer's stamp and credit verso. unknown
1875réf. 115929The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1875. 45,5 x 37,5 cm ; Halbleder
réf. 18374Recueil de photographies de tableaux, oeuvres d'art, monuments et vues de villes d'Italie en un volume in-quarto (340x265 mm), plein velin ivoire rigide, dos arrondi décoré et doré d'entrelacs de feuilles et fleurs, plats bisautés décorés d'un large encadrement d'entrelacs dorés sur fond rouge vif de style renaissance, lui-même entouré en extérieur et intérieur d'une large roulette décorative dorée et filets rouges et or, titre "Italia" en lettres peintes et décorées en rouge et or, tranches rouges (étiquette du relieur Giulio Giannini. Firenze). 40 feuilles de carton montées sur onglets avec de nombreuses photographies (fin XIXe - début XXe siècle) de tableaux (41), sculptures (12), vues de Venise (16), de Florence (2), Milan et Bellagio. Les 8 derniers feuillets sont occupés par des cartes postales anciennes.
2000New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Folio. (43 x 30 cm). In Persian and English. [i-xxxvii] pp. text in English, [8], 264 p. text in Persian, richly illustrated. After a large historical background, the presented book has old views, city plans and maps of Iranian cities including Russian, Iranian, Arabian and Western cartographers in the Qajar dynasty (1794-1925). A very comprehensive large and heavy book on Iran in the 19th century cartographic material.
1713réf. PHO-1341A Paris, Chez Pierre Ribou et Rouen chez Jean Baptiste Machuel (tome 5), 1713. 6 volumes in-12, relié plein veau époque, dos à nerfs orné avec pièce de titre et tomaison, tranches marbrées, Tome 5, reliure légèrement différent avec tranches rouges, coins et coiffes usés .T1,27p-501p-1f(table); T2, 1f-465-1f (table);T3 ,1f-402-3f(table);T4,1f-367-2f(table);T5 ,3f(titre, épître)-467-2f(table),T6 3f(titre, épitre)244 -2f (table) .Illustré de 63 planches la plupart repliées, dont un portrait et 3 grandes cartes (manque la carte du Japon) ; quelques vignettes dans le texte , quelques planches au tome 5 volantes, 1 planche doublée.
réf. 7531 En feuillets, sous couverture imprimée rempliée, chemise et étui d'édition (passés, insolés, coupes frottées). 33,5 x 26 cm, 1f.b.-124pp-[6]-2f.b., gravures in et hors-texte en couleurs + chemise avec 2 suites. Le Vésinet, Victor Dancette, 1946.
réf. 7531 En feuillets, sous couverture imprimée rempliée, chemise et étui d'édition (passés, insolés, coupes frottées). 33,5 x 26 cm, 1f.b.-124pp-[6]-2f.b., gravures in et hors-texte en couleurs + chemise avec 2 suites. Le Vésinet, Victor Dancette, 1946.
1809réf. PHO-1983Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, sd (1809), folio éléphant (70x53cm), 1f.- XCII-8pp.-14ff.-20ff.-11ff.-16ff.-20ff., demi percale époque, tranches mouchetées bleues, relié par Zoubre avec son étiquette, frottements, coins et coupes usés, fente sur 5cm, quelques rousseurs.
1900612 pages. Chronology of the Boxer Uprising. Glossary and key of Chinese terms. Black and white illustrations. "Containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese; oriental splendors; superstitions; secret societies; the opium habit; idol worship; industries; great cities; natural scenery; etc.... This great work contains full accounts of recent atrocities in China... Profusely illustrated with scenes in China and all objects of interest in that wonderful country." - from title page. Above-average wear and soiling. Hinges open. Partial lean to spine. Brown staining to lower corner of first ten leaves - text unaffected. A worthy copy of this chauvinistic work. Book
réf. ORD-17544Paris. Imp. Erhard. 1879. Grande carte couleurs en 4 parties de ca 87 x 72 cm formant une fois réunies une carte de 175 x 144 cm, entoilée et repliée en 128 parties de ca 11 x 18 cm sous emboîtage cartonné avec étiquette au dos Commune de Marseille. Cartonnage abîmée carte en excellent état. Rare et remarquable. Photo sur demande.