Downs, A.; Downs, D.MareMagnum
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195846 pages. This special issue contains many outstanding photos from the albums of Victoria photographer F. Dally who visited the Cariboo in 1868. Features: Transportation to the Goldfields; Photos of Barkerville and its pioneers; Famous photos of the Cariboo gold rush by C. Fulton; The Ne'er Do Well Claim; The Prairie Flower Claim; The Forest Rose Claim; The Mucho Oro Claim; The Aurora claim; The Davis Claim; The Quesnel hockey team in 1912; Soda Creek in 1868; Boston Bar in 1863; A mule train crossing the Quesnel River in 1868; The Cottonwood House; Various sternwheelers; Nicaragua Bluff in 1863; Clinton in 1868; Freight outfit departing Ashcroft 18 1898; The Bank of British Columbia at Richfield in 1868; The community of Van Winkle in 1868; A settlement on Mosquito Creek and Richfield in 1868; Camerontown circa 1868; Kellyville on Grouse Creek in 1868; Mrs. Janet Allen and her Mosquito Creek boarding house in 1868; Photo portrait of F.J. Barnard, founder of the famed B.X. Company; Several additional photo portraits of notable local personalities; Local cemetery photos; plus many wonderful ads, some with photos. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
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
192784 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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
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
19768vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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;
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
1784réf. 6495Amsterdam et Paris, 1784 ; in-8 ; cartonnage rigide de papier bleu de l'époque, non rogné ; XVI, 591 pp., 2 gravures hors-texte d'après Marillier.
2011réf. Q-1429673338Capstone Press 2011-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Capstone Press paperback
réf. 1490799109.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
