1951Institut de recherche scientifique Tananarive-Tsimbazaza, 1951. In-8 broché,198 pp et 87 figures intercalées dans le texte. Une tâche sur le premier plat de couverture.

Librairie La Soupe aux Livres · Francia12,00 €

AnonMareMagnum

Flight International: A Picture Pageant of the RAF and Its Museum

1972Numerous illustrations. Light wear to covers.

Andmeister Books · Regno Unito15,92 €

Brady, John (Editor)MareMagnum

Physiological Entomology Volume 6, Number 3, September 1981

1981Paginated 231:332.

Andmeister Books · Regno Unito11,37 €

EDWARD BISHOPMareMagnum

The Wooden Wonder: The Story of the De Havilland Mosquito

1980Book is in excellent condition in every respect with sharp corners on the covers. Text is clean and unmarked, solid, square, straight binding showing little to no wear of any kind. Dust jacket has edge wear, and chipping at corners, a few small tears. Many b&w photos, very detailed text, 189 pages. Former owner's embossed stamp on front end paper. Chapters include The air staff have doubts; Mosquito in five editions; low level and shallow dive; Embry and the Pinpoint raids; the Mosquito goes to sea;

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Stati Uniti71,35 €

Kline, M.S.MareMagnum

Steamboat: Virginia V

1985Book is as-new with a solid binding, sharp corners, 90 pages with many large, b&w photos. No marking or writing of any kind to text/interior, creaseless covers and spine. Depicts the steamboat passengers who recall the steamboats' days on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest and features the Virginia V, member of the 'Mosquito Fleet' of steamers on Puget Sound, from active career to restoration. Fold - out schematic at back in excellent condition. In business for 20 years we provide excellent customer service and ship with appropriate packing material to assure you purchase arrives undamaged.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Stati Uniti36,62 €

Ellis, BillMareMagnum

First Annual Collection: 'Ksan, 1978 Original Graphics

1978A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's address stamp inside. 9 3/8"w x 6 7/8"h. Includes artwork by Ken Mowatt, Neil Sterritt, Walter Harris, Vernon Stephens, Art Sterritt, and Earl Muldoe.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Stati Uniti41,72 €

Carrighar, SallyMareMagnum

One Day on Beetle Rock

1944Very cute book in green cloth with gilt print at spine, embossed squirrel on cover (!), two lightly bumped corners, light sunning at spine edges. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered, tears at upper and lower spine, sunning, chipping at folds, not price clipped. Previous owner's book plate on front end paper; illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations. Fictional tales based on "actual animals in an actual place," the animals being: the Beetle Rock,The Weasel,The Sierra Grouse, The Chicharee, The Black Bear, The Lizard, The Coyote, The Deer Mouse, The Stellar Jay, The Mule Deer, otter, cutthroat trout, osprey, mosquito, scud, mink, varying hare, merganser, moose, leech, leopard frog, snail, trumpter swan, beaver. ACTUAL first ed., (not a later printing). The words "First Edition" appear on publisher's page with NAP. Wrapped in protective clear cover.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Stati Uniti70,00 €

Neal, Carolyn; Janus, Thomas KildayMareMagnum

Puget Sound Ferries: From Canoe to Catamaran

2001Inscribed by Tom Janus and Carolyn Neal to Seattle columnist Paul Dorpat. Includes bookmark advertising this book and business card for Thomas Kilday Janus. Spine a bit cocked. 9 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 224 pages. A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated history of the Puget Sound's water-based public transportation system.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Stati Uniti46,36 €

Great BritainMareMagnum

British aircraft guns of World War Two: The official air publications for the Lewis, Vickers, and Browning machine-guns, and the Hispano 20mm cannon (R.A.F. Museum series ; v. 9)

1979Book is in excellent condition with some foxing on the top page ends as the only flaw, otherwise pristine with price clipped front end paper. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, fading to spine, no tears now wrapped in clear protective cover. 206 pages with photo exploded diagrams of subject guns and cannons with numered parts, very detailed discription of parts, their function, disassembly, assembly.

Bookshop Pistil Books Online · Stati Uniti42,61 €

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Airforce - The Magazine of Canada's Aviation Community - Spring 1994, Volume 18 No 1

199460 pages. Features include: Dieppe - The CBC and the Elusive Truth; "Calling Sarajevo Tower - This is UN 203..."; The first of many - Sgt Jim Kirk was aboard a Wellington, the first bomber of a Canadian Squadron to be shot down, 14 July 1941; Argus - Watchful Guardian; Nicaragua Flashback; Strasser's War - Commander Peter Strasser of the German Naval Airship Service was leader of several raids on England throughout WWI; General Store Publishing; The Iron Curtain is Lifting; Fright in Flight - Author was a WWII RAF Lancaster Pilot; Majaid - Major Air Disaster; Hitching a Ride - Sea King in the Adriatic; 4 Wing Farewell; Big Day for the Alouettes; Flying the PM - by LCol Donald F. Deeprose (Ret); The CF100 - a good old clunker - But!; Operation Firefly; P/O Andrew Mynarski VC; The Mosquito and the Scramble. Address label upon back cover. Unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada49,95 €

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Airforce - The Magazine of the Air Force Association of Canada: Volume 21 No 1 Spring 1997

199760 pages. Features include: Pathfinder - PFF; Mosquito Pilot - Bob Boyden; Whiskey Whiskey Papa (Welland W. Phipps - innovations in Arctic transportation; The Shadow Army - Safe House in Belgium; Dewy is Here - ATG (Air Transport Group); Cherry Blossoms in the Cockpit - North Star strikes trees in Japan; The Unknown Ally - A Mexican in the RCAF; Keeping the Rolls-Royce Merlins Flying; Lester Pearson meets the RFC; Address label on back cover. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada79,95 €

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Air Classics Magazine Vol. 10, No. 10 October 1974

197482 pages. Features: B-23 The Reluctant Dragon; Swept-Wing Furies; The New Luftwaffe; Mexican Mosquito; South Pacific Warbirds. Unmarked. Average wear. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada59,95 €

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Planes Magazine - Volume 1, Number 2 1981

198160 pages. Contents include: deHavilland Mosquito NF.XV; Bristol Fashions; Piratical Pot-Pouri; Blackburn/HS Buccaneer S.1 plans; Down Memory Lane; Of Lancaster and York; where to draw the line. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada49,95 €

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The Wide World Magazine, December 1951, Australian Edition

1951Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada149,95 €

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The War Illustrated, No. 231 - 18 January 1919

1919Cover illustration of a demobilised soldier putting his uniform away. Illustration of the H.M.S. Caradoc firing upon a Bolshevist position on the Estonian coast. Demobilising the Women - finding work for a million. Photo of the French Army marching into Bavaria. A Mosquito tank utilised as a tractor for barges on the Meuse Canal. Under the Union Jack in Wintry Baltic Waters - 5 photos. British Naval Activity Against the Bolshevists - 3 photos. Versailles - Then and Now - article. Superb photogravure center spread features portrait of Woodrow Wilson with King George V, M. Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George. Triumphs of our Military Genius - Victorious Inventions in War Machinery. New Devices of Defence and Defiance in the Navy - 5 photos. Triumphant Italians Installed in Trieste - Two Great photos. Britons Released by Revolutionary Berlin - Ruhleben Camp, near Berlin - 3 photos. Photo of Liebknecht, leader of the 'Spartacus' group of German Socialists, speaking to a large crowd in the Siegesalle, Berlin. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada179,95 €

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Nature Canada Magazine: Summer 1985 - Cycling B.C.'s Golden Triangle

1985Features: Cycling among mountains - BC's Golden Triangle is a peak-rimmed challenge; What get's a porcupine's back up?; Growing Wild - Wildflower Gardens revel in the subtle charms of woodland flowers in their own backyards; Manitoba's Mosquito Wars - Winnipeg battles an unbeatable foe.; Murres on the Menu - Marauding gulls and foxes take their share of murres, but ravens are the true robber-barons of Digges Island. Usual library markings. Average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada59,95 €

Johnson, Emory R.MareMagnum

The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, March 1911, Whole No. 123, "The Public Health Movement"

1911334 pages. Papers include: Health Needs and Civic Action; Housing and Health; Scientific Research by the Public Health Service; The Census and the Public Health Movement; Sources of Information upon the Public Health Movement; Work of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health; Public Health Movement on the Pacific Coast; Protecting Public Health in Pennsylvania; Health Problems of the Indians; Health Problems of the Negroes; The Rural Health Movement; Sanitation in Rural Communities; Tropical Diseases and Health in the United States; The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease; The Mosquito Campaign as a Sanitary Measure; Clean Milk and Public Health; Ventilation and Public Health; Social Service Work in Hospitals; Mouth Hygiene and its Relation to Health; The Physical Care of Children; What American Cities are Doing for the Health of School Children; The Elimination of Feeble-Mindedness; Prevention of Infantile Blindness; The Warfare Against Infant Mortality. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada199,95 €

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The Youth's Companion, May 13 1926

1926Features: What I Learned from the (Tennis) Champion (W.T. Tilden, 2nd), by Alexander L. Wiener; The Scratches on the Glass - VII, by Gladys Black; Alias Mosquito, by Zay Philbrook; That's Facing it, Bingo!, by Valentine Vine and Arthur Floyd Henderson; The Art of Adjustment, by Gamaliel Bradford; How to make real bows and arrows; Our own League of Nations (at Wellesley, by Elizabeth Page); Ray Coon and the Doughnuts, by G.H. Smith; and more. Nice ad for 'Checkers' candied popcorn on page 371; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada99,95 €

Kermath, Bob; Wolfram, G.; Stent, H.V.; Cartier, Waldemar; McGillen, Pete; Landis, C.S.; Morrow, Les; Gillese, J.P.; Nicholson, H.P.; Frost, RexMareMagnum

Rod & Gun in Canada Magazine, May 1959 - Quebec Feature Issue/Wheeler Airlines Cover Photo

1959Features: Nice two-colour Browning Rifles ad inside front cover; Leased Lakes Pay Off; Trout and the Beginning Angler; Hike to Hatheume; Quebec Province Fabulous in Choice of Outdoors Fare; Visit Quebec This Summer; Interestsing illustrated ad for the Swingfog mosquito and blackfly fogger; Pete McGillen on Fishing; Recoil or Kick; The Pest That Was the Pheasant; May and Dogs; Great ad for Chinook Sleeping Bags on back cover; and more. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada99,95 €

Carlin, W.J.; Charles, Bernard; Domville-Fife, C.W.; O'Hargan, Roderick; Rayne, Major H.; Cocroft, Thoda; De Termes, Capt. M.M. J.; Harris, C.L.; Hedstrom, Sir J. Maynard; Barns, T. Alexander; Aubuchon, Tampton; Pound, Reginald; Turner, J.N.MareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine, April 1925 - Eskimo Wireless

1925Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book

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Explorer's Journal, March 1979

1979Features: Bowman Island Expedition 1978 - a return to Ellesmere Island; Turtles from the age of Dinosaurs; U.S. Revenue Cutter Tahoma - pride of the Bering Sea Patrol; The Wary Bongo - escaped notice over a wide range; Iceland's Natural Energy Resources - its potential evaluated; Up North in Kenya; William Crawford Gorgas - mankind is in debt to his genius; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion - its time has come; Ladakh Journey - a flag report; A Leopard named Harriet. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada79,95 €

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Explorer's Journal, June 1982

1982Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada79,95 €

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Explorer's Journal, June/July/August 1983

1983Features: The Black River area of the Mosquito Coast, Honduras - Rio Tinto Expedition; The Footsteps of Liu - variety of amphibians and reptiles; Yellowstone - Nature's Laboratory; The Panama Choco Expedition - Flag 172; The Transglobe Expedition completes objectives and receives the Explorers Medal; A visit to South China. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada79,95 €

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Maclean's Magazine, August 1, 1983 - The World of Alex Colville

1983Cover photo of Alex Colville. Contents: Crisis of mounting AIDS hysteria in San Francisco; Anti-cruise missile protests; Grant Devine's Farmland Safari in Saskatchewan; Brian Mulroney campaigning in the Maritimes; Washed-out bridge at Rogers Pass; Manitoba fights mosquito war; The Return of Henry Kissinger - special report; Gathering clouds of war in Central America - Nicaragua; Photo of Lebanon's Gemayel in Washington with Reagan; Craxi takes the helm in Italy; Martial law lifted in Poland; Kohl confronts the doves in Germany; Photo of Shannon Tweed and news about her leaving Playboy Enterprises Inc.; Centerfold ad for the new Audi 5000S; Controversy for John Turner over film-investment company; Potholes in the path of the Tour de France; Investigation of shipping lines at Port of Monteal; Jose Maria Ruiz-Mateos of Spain's Rumasa financial; William Lyon Mulroney Lives, by Peter C. Newman; Greenpeace in Siberia; Using Mountain Bikes in the city; The World of Alex Colville - 6 page illustrated article; The Prime of golfer Jim Nelford; Brian Mulroney's honeymoon, by Douglas Fisher. Nostalgic Commodore Vic 20 computer ad inside front cover. Book