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1991ref. DADAX0792313852Springer 1991-08-31. 1991. hardcover. New. 6.50x1.75x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
1924Profusely 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
1916Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1906Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
1820ref. 46405010Rouen, Émile Périaux, (vers 1820) ; 32 x 44 cm., Double canard dont les deux sujets sont séparés par un double filet. La partie supérieure porte une notice imprimée sur une colonne sur la vie des habitants du Kamtchatka, elle est illustrée d'une gravure sur bois rehaussée d'aquarelle rouge et jaune, montrant les Kamtschadales en compagnie de leurs chiens. Le second canard concerne le requin, texte sur 3 colonnes illustration en noir. Pas dans Hélot, semble manquer à toutes les collections. Provient de la collection P. L. Duchartre (cachet au dos). Quelques fentes réparées au dos, petites taches et rousseurs.
1992ref. 110595Chalcombe Publications 1992. second edition very slight cul to top cover corner. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chalcombe Publications Paperback
ref. SONG1138032921Used: Good unknown
1917ref. SKU1005379Devambez. Fair. 1917. Hardcover. Only 36 of the 40 illustrations present. Blue buckram boards rubbed and soiled edge worn. Plain spine red leather label to front cover. Limited to 275 on velin Hollande signed by artist and Lt. Col Requin. Also a presentation copy to Mr. Ch. Haskins signed Paris 24 Juin 1920. Paper toned and browing. . Devambez hardcover
1908Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
ref. 11664MAUERHARDT ROLF. 1. softcover. Maloftege! MAUERHARDT, ROLF paperback
1952ref. QJZ-2In 4° (27 × 21,5 cm) ; [ii] + 396 pp. + 1 feuille volante d’errata, 46 planches ; publié par le Protectorat de la République française au Maroc, direction de la production industrielle et des mines, division des mines et de la géologie, service géologique, Notes et Mémoires n° 92. Couverture originale imprimée, coin inférieur droit cogné. Bon état - In 4° (27 × 21.5 cm); [ii] + 396 pp. + 1 errata slip laid in, 46 plates; published by the Protectorat de la République française au Maroc, direction de la production industrielle et des mines, division des mines et de la géologie, service géologique, Notes et Mémoires n° 92. Stiff wrappers, lower right corner bumped. Overall good condition.
ref. ORD-9026Tome 1er (seul paru). Orné de 15 planches dont 7 en couleurs d'après les dessins de M. Ed. Garnier, Conservateur du Musée de Sèvres. Paris. Georges Rapilly. 1903. Gd in-8 (228 x 318mm) dos chagrin brun à 5 nerfs, orné de fleurons or, gardes mouchetées, couverture imprimée en rouge et noir conservée, XVI, 304 pages. Qq. rousseurs claires par endroits, traces noires en queue avec petite perte à la coiffe inférieure, menus défauts mais plutôt bon exemplaire.
1906ref. 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.
1948ref. 62754Wien, Maximilian Kraemer, Albert Kaltschmid bzw. Verlag Pollischansky, o. J. (1948ff). 8°. Je Heft 48 S., Illustr.-OHefte.
1914ref. 19782Torino, S. Lattes (Pietro Celanza tipografi), 1914 ; in 8, demi veau aubergine, dos à nerfs, titre doré (reliure de l’époque); 314 pp. [3]ff : Finito di stampare, catalogue de S. Lattes, le dernier blanc.
ref. SONG1600148697Used: Good unknown
1917ref. 11494Paris: Devambez 1917. Cloth. Very Good . E. Requin. Very impressive --and uncommon-- artist's sketchbook of life on the front lines during World War I. #263 OF ONLY 275 COPIES ISSUED "sur velin hollande" EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST E. REQUIN on the limitation. Tight solid and VG in its light-blue cloth with gilt-lettered title label to the front panel. Minor soiling along the front panel's fore-edge armorial bookplate to the front pastedown and small former owner name same person to the front free endpaper. 40 remarkable watercolors and aquatints by E. Requin of seemingly every nationality and ethnicity of soldier drawn into the conflict. Mostly portraits to be sure but also several landscapes of barren or even charred earth. High-quality reproductions of first-rate sketches from the front lines. Devambez unknown
1917ref. 11494Paris: Devambez 1917. Cloth. Very Good . E. Requin. Very impressive --and uncommon-- artist's sketchbook of life on the front lines during World War I. #263 OF ONLY 275 COPIES ISSUED "sur velin hollande" EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST E. REQUIN on the limitation. Tight solid and VG in its light-blue cloth with gilt-lettered title label to the front panel. Minor soiling along the front panel's fore-edge armorial bookplate to the front pastedown and small former owner name same person to the front free endpaper. 40 remarkable watercolors and aquatints by E. Requin of seemingly every nationality and ethnicity of soldier drawn into the conflict. Mostly portraits to be sure but also several landscapes of barren or even charred earth. High-quality reproductions of first-rate sketches from the front lines. Devambez unknown books
2012ref. 103290Gingko Press Distribution . New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 96 pages; well illustrated. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2012. 1937222101 . Gingko Press (Distribution) hardcover