GIBBES R.W.Livre Rare Book
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rif. QJZ-0Grand in 4° (32 × 24 cm) ; 27 pp., 8 pl.; articles extraits du Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2e série, vol. 1, article 12 : 139-147, pl. 18-21; article 14 : 191-206, pl. 25-27 et article 25 : 299-300, pl. 42. Ensemble bien complet avec un total de 8 planches gravées. Reliure à coin en cuir et plats marbrés, titre doré (reliure moderne); dernière ligne du texte de la légende au pied de la dernière planche (pl. 42) coupée mais la légende est néanmoins complète sur la page de texte en regard. - Large in 4°; 27 pp., 8 pl.; extraxted from du Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2th series, vol. 1, article 12: 139-147, pl. 18-21; article 14: 191-206, pl. 25-27, and article 25: 299-300, pl. 42. Complete with 8 plates. Three-quarter leather binding with marbeld paper, gold tooled title on spince (professional recent binding); the last line of the caption at the foot of the last plate (pl. 42) cut by the binder knife, however the same caption is present and complete on the opposite text page.
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
58 pages. Features: Nice color ad for General Electric radios inside front cover; Hudson Essex car ad shows mother dropping kids at school; Nice full-page ad for Mimeograph; They'll Come Shooting (short story); Power and Glory - the gutsy story of Boies Penrose, one of the most prodigious figures in American political life - article with photos; Wild Geese (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Naughty Girl - Lenore Ulric serves allure in generous portions - article with photos; The Meanest Beast - battle between black leopard and shark; The Road Back (part VI of short story); You Couldn't Hate Patrick (short story); Thoughts that Win - Advice by champion golfer Jerome D. Travers - article with photo; Nice full-page color ad for Seald Sweet grapefruits; Full-page ad for Canada Dry ginger ales; The Scotty Dog (short story); Fantastic centerfold two-colour ad for Colorado tourism; Louisville & Nashville (L&N) Railroad full-page ad; Full-page ad for Philco radios features photos of Gary Cooper; Nice Chrysler ad; Full-page Fleischmann's Yeast ad encourages readers to eat three cakes per day (!); Back page article on prohibition; Attractive color Ford ad inside back cover shows doctor making housecall in the evening snow; Color Ipana ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
2008rif. 169600Spokane WA: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2008. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. Red cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Black and color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow red and white lettering. 144 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Inscribed and signed on ffep by Jorda Schnitzer. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture hardcover books
2008rif. SM 5/2/9-40Spokane: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2008. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed by artist John Buck and dated 2008 by him. Near fine copy in near fine dustjacket with teeny bump to top corner. A very scarce autograph. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Hardcover
1812rif. 45169London W. Bulmer and Co. 1812. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1812 - Part II. Pp. 206-220 a. 4 engraved plates 1 large and folded showing a fine engravingof Squalus maximus. Faint foxing to plates. A classical taxonomic study of the shark unknown
Price on contents page crossed out. No other inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, small scratch to spine and no bumping to corners. 95pp.
No inscriptions or marks and not price-clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright laminated boards with very slight rubbing to front edge of front board, small scuff to rear and no bumping to corners. 95pp.
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped title page. 95pp.
No inscriptions or marks. Price clipped first page. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, slight rubbing to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 95pp.
1906rif. QJZ-1Grand in 4° (32,7 × 25 cm) ; 430 pp., 17 pl. (dont plusieurs sur doubles pages) ; Bien complet. Couverture souple et dos imprimée, quelques fentes aux dos, petit manque de papier en pied du dos, anciens tampons de bibliothèque sur la couverture sinon aucune autre marque à l'intérieur, intérieur frais. - Large in 4° (32.7 × 25 cm); 430 pp., 17 pl. (many double pages); complete. Original printed wrappers, small cracks on spine, small loss of paper at foot of spine, library stamps on front cover only (no other mark inside); inside clean and fresh.
2005rif. 129458Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum 2005. 1st edition. As New. large octavo. softback with stiff wrappers 51pp. col. pls. bibliog. Ian Potter Museum unknown
26 pages. Features: Mailbag; Photo of guide Alan Schultz with 850-pound shark he caught at Vananda Island; Vedder River Steelhead Winners - with photo of ten-year-old Doug Thompson of Chilliwack with his 16-lb steelie; Shortsmen of B.C. - Tom Brayshaw - article with his photo - he was very interested in conserving B.C.'s fish streams; Sportsman's Corner; Rotary Boat Show, February 9-14; Several pages of boating information and ads; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Fling-Wing Soliders and their Rotary-Wing Birds; New Designs for America's Military; The Mach 2 Aerial Militia; The Rotary - rough on fighter pilots; Freeze or fry at Eglin; The Fabulous FAC's of Vietnam; Mike's Eight Hundred Dollar Warhawk; Military Aircraft 'Round the World; Military Pilot Requirements; United States Navy's First Fighters at Sea; Swing-Wing - the final leap forward?; The great load lifters; Fokker designs on foreign fronts; Leaves from a 'Lead-Sledders' logbook; A.F.'s Secret Electronic War; Recce Drone - The inside story; The RPV's are Coming!; Where did they all go?; Mediterranean Montage; Korean War Three-way ace; Big Eye in the Sky; The Emperor's Famous Phonix Fighters; World's fastest flying command post; Down the Drain?; Want an ancient air force?; Naval aviation's historical HQ; Convoluted quest for fighter engines; Can Kelly's Tigers contain foxbat?; Chopper warfare in Indochina; Marines New VTOL Harrier; Old USAF Planes in New Home; We fly the F-111; Mr. Mac's fantastic, formidible F-4; World Champ Airliner; 'The' Combat aircraft of World War Two; Serene Victor at 600 mph; The 'Spirit' - an individual creation; Destined for Immortality; Aeronautical History Sketchbook; Cutaway drawings of Wright biplane, Bleriot Cross-channel, Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Ryan N-Y-P 'Spirit of St. Louis", Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109E; Evolution of the Superfort; Pictorials of the Joint-Effort Jaguar and great planes at Ottawa; Cover photo of Sepecat Jaguar in Aerobatic dress; Sikorsky Grant; Boeing 747; The Guppies; Sorceress, Hot Canary, Shark; North American F-86D; Pitts Special; Stampe SV-4; Thorp T-18; North American B-25; Grumman F3F-2; Spitfire; Grumman Avenger; XB-70; Seadart, Seamaster; CF-105, TSR-2; Designers and pilots speak their minds - Curtis Pitts, Ed Granville and Pete Miller, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmy Haizlip, Igor Sikorsky; Biplanes 'n' Things - Caudron G.3, Morane Parasol, Fleetwings Seabird, Vultee V-1A; How to build the Fokker D-7; How to make a model old-four monoplane; how to build and detail the magnificent jug; A 'copter goes to school; Model rocketry is serious business; how to build the icarus model rocket; how the airplane flies; fly power - power a model plane with a housefly!; The Hovercraft; Breaking into Balsa; How to build a Star Trek Diorama; How to camouflage and detail the supermarine spitfire Mk-1; How to customize the Lear Jet; How to build a ticket counter special Boeing 707; Monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to paint camouflage with a brush; how to build and detail the Spad XIII; Hunting down the wolf pack; How to make the Battle of Britain Diorama; How to get an Aluminum finish that looks real; How to give decals that hand-painted look; how to build the Guillow Cessna; How to get the best from the Airbrush; Aerospace Symposium; How to build and display the Messerschmitt Bf 109F; Converting a Mosquito to a Hornet; How to build and detail the Apollo/Saturn; All the new models from the 32nd hobby trade show; 12 ways to better model building; Hunting down those rare birds; How to build a diorama; how to build and detail the confederate air force Mustang; how to draw aircraft, part I; How to simulate battle damage; how to superdetail the Hawker Typhoon; Baron Manfred von Richtoven's Fokker DR-1; How to build and detail the Tora Val type 99 - made in Hollywood!; how to build and superdetail major Lanoe Hawker's De Havilland DH 2; Here come de Judge; how to draw aircraft - part 2; the bombers that blitzed the monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to build and detail the Black Bolt; how to build and detail the Mitsubishi 1MT in Torpedo Bomber; how to construct a 2$ rocket tracking device; how to detail the OV-1 A/C Mohawk - a Vietnam observer. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
210 pages. Features: Budget Cords - the Graham Hollywood and Hupmobile Skylark; The 'Shark' - the new generation of Corvette in 1968; Big Studebakers - the Lark; Cover Car - 1933 Chevrolet Eagle Coupe; Mr. Mustang - the rags-to-riches story of Carroll Shelby; Olds F-28; Pierce-Arrow - Crowning a new champion; Using high-build primers; Ferrari - the short-wheelbase 250GT makes its mark; Ford Courier - the first one appeared in 1955; 1929 Packard Phaeton 645 with Dietrich body; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
114 pages. Features: Oscar Isaac; How business jargon jumped the Shark Tank; In Living Color - 25 years later; 19 rules for looking right in the rain; The Fabio Effect; The Ultimate Home Office; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Sticker removal mark on front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Astride the Comet; Exploring "Big Foot"; 1983 Huautla Vertical Cave Expedition; Under the Ice in Antarctica; new England Coast Shark Photography; The Mountain Gorilla - a tribute to Dr. Dian Fossey; Where is Tollan?; Indonesian Islands - Nias, Madura, Samosir. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's fall dresses; ladies' fall and winter suits; A Future Style; Manners Upon the Road - of honesty and policy; New York Fashions - the princess polonaise, the double talma and apron-front suit, the dolman suit, the scarf mantle, velvets, passementerie ornaments, wool goods; Personal; Needle-work medallions for cravat ends; child's crochet caps; hem-stitching for lingerie; ladies' fall hats and bonnets; tatted and crochet edging and insertions; needle-work insertion and trimming for lingerie; Paris Gossip; Victoire's Faith; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits - nice full page illustration; Capture of a Shark in the Tropics; To the Bitter End - continued; Lady's Walking Dress; Prince Charles in Hiding - with nice illustration; Red; humor. Average wear. Book
Features: Communication in Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphins; Vessels vs. Whales; The Mummichog a Fish for all seasons; Hang Gliding - Underwater; The Sargasso - Sea of Fascinations; Dividing the Continental Shelf Pie; Artificial Reef Propagation of a Salt Marsh; Jaws of Extinct Shark at Planet Ocean. Sound copy. Book
Features: Tsunami!; Amphipods - Little-Known Crustaceans; The Valuable Alaskan Herring; Seafloor Signals; the Trumpetfish - the advantages of Being Thin; Enewetak Atoll - restoring the environment; Upstaging the Film Stars - tiger shark; The Florida Out-Islands and their unique animals; Ascension. Sound copy. Book
Features: Petroleum under the Sea; The Mysterious Grampus; Columbus's first landfall; Columbus's Arawaks - the sea and the Virtuous Savage; The Cormorant that Evolved Backward; The filter anemone; The Leatherback - turtle without a shell; The Bigeye thresher shark. Sound copy. Book
Features: Fresnel - genius of Illumination; African, Asian and Australasian Lighthouses on Stamps; the Coast Guard's Search-and-rescue Pigeons; Saltwater Fuel; Crustacean Symbiosis; The North Pacific Salmon Shark; Time Capsules in the Sea. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Unicorn that Goes to Sea; What is Sea Level; the Successful Submarine that Failed; Protection from Shark Bite - a suit of mail; Catalina's life-saving marine laboratory; Up from the deep; Waikiki roughwater swim; The Australian Institute of Marine Science; the Birds of Midway Islands; Life in a Boat Channel. Sound copy. Book
Features: Dry Tortugas - Products of Time; Budding Anemone; The Awesome Basking Shark; Fighting oil-platform fires at sea; Sand bars - when the waters ebb; beachfront roulette; the lowly blue bloods. Sound copy. Book
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
