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1933104 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Amazing cover illustration of a huge amphibious truck; Doctors face death trailing living poisons of mystery diseases; Radio pen writes in letters of fire on far-away screen - with photo of its inventor Allen B. DuMont; One-page photo-illustrated article on the preservation of vanishing totem poles in the Pacific Northwest; Photo of C.R. Klein of Santa Monica, California and his 268 HP motor; Girl fights octopus for underwater movie taken by inventor Leon F. Douglass; America's oldest road roaller found; Crackup of mighty glacier caught for first time by sound camera; Three American chinchilla farms produce most costly furs - with illustration of M.F. Chapman; Flies down radio beam through a mile of fog; How to check up on time and the seasons; Accidents still produce great inventions; Huge truck for land or water carries shipload of cargo. Ads: Fantastic one-page orange and black ad for The A.C. Gilbert Company, maker of Erector toys for boys, featuring the New Erector Sensational No. 7 Set; Nice Midwest Radio Corp. ad inside back cover features their 16-Tube All-Wave Radio, with inset photo of Wilbur Long, Jr. of Newberry, South Carolina; Outstanding back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features world billiard champion Erich Hagenlocher performing before attentive crowd. Modest wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1911298 pages. Numerous excellent black and white photographic plates, including frontis image of author in milkmaid garb. Line diagrams. "In this book it has been my earnest desire and aim to present the dairy industry in a simple, practical manner, in the hope of benefitting those desirous of improving and succeeding in their chosen occupation." - from page vi. The fifty-two chapters cover such topics as: farm, stable, cow, heifer, rations, silos, crops, water, milk, cream, butter, cheese, and many more. Author was Demonstrator and Lecturer in Dairying at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada. Both hinges open. Above-average wear to exterior which features a charming (albeit well-worn) milkmaid illustration upon front board. Blank 'Notes' pages at end of book contain several pages of handwritten breeding records from the 1930s. No other markings. Despite its heavy wear, this work presents a wonderful overview of dairying in the early 20th century and cannot help but bring a smile to the face of anyone involved in the modern dairy industry. Book
196272 pages. Features: Girl Who Married a Family - Joan Beaulieu was wed at 21 - to a husband and six lively boys! - article with nice photos; Full-page colour photo ad for an apparently short-lived product from the Campbell's soup people - Red Kettle Chicken Noodle Soup; We Waste Too Much Time Sleeping - So says Dr. Mangalore Narasimha Pai - who sleeps only three hours each night - article with photos; Using Television in Education at Queen Elizabeth High School in Nova Scotia - article with photos; Photos of amazing oversized typwriter and people; Welsh girl Valerie Gearon stars in film about Gandhi - article with colour photos; Mouth-watering colour photo ad for Lowney's Bridge Mixture candies; Photos of Polar bear and her cub; How to Make Kids' Sports Safer - article with colour photos of (now antiquated) hockey equipment; Nice two-page colour ad for Arrow shirts; Why Soviet Aid Failed to Stave Off Chaos - Understanding Cuba - part 2 of 2 - article with photos; Colour centerfold ad for Parker pens; Edie Adams goes it alone - article with photo about Ernie Kovacs' widow who is now back on the stage; Fantastic colour photo and write-up of Toronto Maple Leaf star Frank Mahovlich; Ottawa's Tudor Singers - article and cover photo; Handicapped Artists Who Help Themselves; Harold Lloyd Rediscovered - his zany comedy stil draw laughs - article with photos; Flying Santa from the Lakehead - Orville Wieben flies north from Fort William each Christmas to distribute clothing, toys, etc. to needy native kids - article with nice colour photo of native babies strapped onto colourful boards; Fashion photos of "Frivolous Nothings"; Nipper comic.Westclox colour ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
réf. 014903Paris Directeur-Rédacteur: René Delange 0 En feuilles
réf. 1k2934Stalling Oldenburg 1927. VII/255 S. mit zahlr. Abb. auf Tafeln u. 4 mehrfach gefalt. Karten in der Anlage. original Halbleinen. Kanten gering berieben. - Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. Truppenteile des ehemaligen preußischen Kontingents. Der Schriftenfolge 189. Band. 5. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 165 - unknown
192632 pages. Features: The Loneliest Man in New York - an intimate study of Frank A. Munsey by one of his former newspaper executives; Through the colored glasses of Freudism the doctor looks at Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady - and decides that Freud should be repudiated; Building Good Roads by Gasoline - income from tolls, gas tax and licenses pays for U.S. roads; America's Scattered Children - the American flag flies in Alaska and more than halfway across the Pacific on thousands of islands; 'Bad English' is a Heritage from Olden Times - much of the grammar now classed as incorrect has come down to us by word of mouth from the time of Chaucer and before; Henry Ford's Page - understanding how the public mind moves from interest to disinterest; Editorials - the defeat of Mrs. Ferguson in Texas was actually a repudiation of her husband, Jim Ferguson, corn is a huge commodity, taxes hurt the British whisky-making industry; Voyage of the Victoria - The Passage of the Strait (part 9); The Women of Mexico Awake - they claim freedom which their American sisters enjoy; Pity the Poor Baseball Scout! - he deals in human ivory; Phoning in the Woods - photo-illustrated article on phone lines serving fire-fighting Forest Rangers in Montana; Chats with Office Callers - New Yorker article explains how for three times in a row the writer attended church, only to witness the uplifting of those of another religion; Rare Americana in a Unique Setting - the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Some Vanished Towns of Kansas - cities that died before they had lived/State Capital which could not be found; Interesting tree photos inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
2021réf. 145057NP: Satoshi Yamamoto 2021. 260 pp. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth binding. Profusely illustrated with all colour photos. Original multi colour dustwrapper. Housed in custom made fold over box. Inset original Salmon fly. Book signed by the author on the front fly and on a label inside the box. The box is 28/35 copies and the book is 23/35 copies. A mint set overall. a fantastic production and design. The very large inset hand tied fly is amazing. Very very limited edition. 2021 Satoshi Yamamoto hardcover
195184 pages. Features: Great cover illustration of Victoria Harbour by Franklin Arbuckle; Parker pen ad inside front cover with photo of Sir Ernest MacMillan; Housing outlook grows darker; Why Wives are Going Out to Work - close-up look at this social and economic revolution - with photos of Mrs. Audrey and Mr. Lorne Hunt and family of Toronto; The White Pagan (fiction by Ward Holm Tanzer); Ontario's Quetico Park; Everybody's Playing the Stock Market Again - the busiest flurry since 1929; Why Uncle Sam has blocked the St. Lawrence Seaway; We Found the Last Wild West (part 3 of this tale by Richmond P. Hobson Jr.); Milk Run to Korea - Pierre Berton flies with the RCAF to Korea on one of its many flights to deliver supplies and bring the wounded home; The Toughest Man Afloat - 57-year-old Fred White, bosun of the Canuk Line freighter Triberg; The Small-town movie house at Hantsport, Nova Scotia; They Say You Taste Like Pork - the last ten years have been easily the worst in the recent history of cannibalism; Nice colour one-page ad for the Hillman Minx (blue convertible); Austin car ad; Nice colour Buick ad features red two-door Riveira Custom; Very nice one-page colour Chevrolet ad features the Bel Air; Half-page two-colour tourism ad for Ontario; Penicillin for Sweet Molly - by James Thurber; 1951 Ford car colour ad; 3/4-page Canadian Pacific ad features their Alaska, Banff and Lake Louise destinations; Dow Brewery Award features James Philpott of Toronto who suffered burns rescuing youngster from Scarborough home; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover with illustration of taxi driver relaxing; and more. Chunk from upper corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
1945Features: Greatest Navy on Earth provides a pageant of power for Truman policy outline - with photo of commissioning of giant carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt; Photo of a million people in Central Park listening to the President; Zionists assail 'ambiguity and delay' on Palestine at a New York Rally - with photo and text; Detroit Mayoralty Race - Gerald L.K. Smith, Jeffries, William Z. Foster, Frankensteen; Red Army's odd ways in peace tilt course of Russian Diplomacy; Photos of tough market life in Warsaw, Poland; Japanese Zaibatsu to be abolished; President Achmed Sukarno of Indonesia; Outer Mongolia now 'independent'; Services war unity flies apart under shock of the atom bomb; Discrimination against blacks in Britain; photo of car down lakefront ravine in Scarborough, Ontario; Labor-Management parley to fix labor strife re: wage-hour questions; Meter, Yard or EII? - Swedish compromise would shift measurement unit to end conflict; and more. Average wear. Address label on front cover. Evidence of moisture exposure to last ten pages or so. A sound copy. Book
réf. 63157Paris, chez Maradan - Petit - Delajonchere, 1808, EDITION ORIGINALE sur papier à la cuve, fort in-12, br. dans une couv. "d'attente" en papier d'époque, le livre se trouve dans un emboîtage-coffret moderne en papier gris clair avec auteur et titre dorés sur pièce de titre rose sur dos, XVI - 424 pp., ill. d'une gravure en taille-douce en frontispice, représentant l'assemblée de l'Etat-Major des Gobe-Mouches, Avertissement de l'éditeur, Errata, Epitre dédicatoire de l'éditeur, Statuts de la Société des Gobes-Mouches, Un ouvrage typique de "l'Esprit français" de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Curieux ouvrage écrit sur le mode "burlesque" sur la "Société des Gobes Mouches", uniquement composée de gourmets. Moucheron étant un pseudonyme cachant Alphonse, Toussaint, Josephe, André, Marie MARSEILLE, comte Fortia de Piles (1758 - 1826). Grimod de La Reynière étant repris dans les statuts comme secrétaire de cette société et dont Louis-Sébastien Mercier était le Garde des Sceaux. L'auteur est le seul témoin occulaire à faire une description authentique des fameux repas "semi-nutritifs" organisés par Grimod de La Reynière. Livre très important pour la connaissance de la "gastronomie" du début du XIXe siècle en France. Bien complet du frontispice gravé par Mariage, qui est souvent absent. cette gravure représente un repas où huit gourmets sont attablés. Un des convives n'est autre que Grimod de La Reynière, que l'on peut reconnaître par la perruque "ancien régime" qu'il porta même après la Révolution ! Très RARE. Cet exemplaire est dans son "jus" de l'époque. Non rogné avec bords salis mais heureusement avec de grandes marges. Papier en bon état avec quekques traces d'anciennes mouillures; frontispice en très bon état, bien complet de la signature manuscrit de l'éditeur.
1926réf. 15545Paris, Delagrave, 1926 ; grand in-8 ; demi-percaline vert empire, titre doré au dos (reliure de l'époque) ; XII, 842 pp. et Supplément 165 pp. + 2 pp. de catalogue ; avec les 48 planches hors-texte de poissons lithographiées en couleurs, dessinées par Mesnel, les 3 planches hors-texte de mouches en couleurs et 1 planche de perches également en couleurs, dans le Supplément ; Préface et Supplément par Edmond Renoir, Rynez et Lucien Jouenne.
1798réf. 21300Basle, Henry Haag, 1798-1804 ; 3 tomes in-8, demi veau glacé vert foncé, dos à faux nerfs de filets à froid et dorés, roulettes décoratives, plaquette à décor de cathédule en queue, titre doré (reliure de l’époque) ; LII, 397 ; 435 ; 384 pp. et trois frontispices en noir et blanc gravés par Leizelt, une planche dépliante en noir et 150 (47, 52, 52) planches hors texte soigneusement aquarellées et gommées, soit 154 planches en tout.
