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1935Pages 1077-1116. Features: Cover photo of the five-power conference to negotiate a new international treaty for the limitation of naval armaments; Illustration of the great Finnish composer M. Jean Sibelius on the occasion of his 70th birthday; Page of illustrations of naval cruisers of Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy - a reduction problem for the five-power naval conference; Page of reproductions of archival illustrations of historic precedents for Lord De Clifford's trial; Photos of air raids on Dessie - Italian bonds damaged the palace of the Crown Prince just after the Emperor of Abyssinia had left it to me: Article discusses "What is Electricity?"; Page of illustrations present electricity as a "new servant"of man; Oil - the diplomatic problem of the hour - three pages of photos of the modern oil industry; A unique complex of bronze age Irish ring-forts - new discoveries of unusual interest, at Cush, in the County Limerick; Page of photos of newly found relics of Celtic Ireland in the Bronze Age; a 12th-century Irish reliquary - the shrine of St. Manchan - text and photos; Page of photos of anteaters Map of the present Abyssinian Empire; Two-page illustration of the boiler furnaces of the "Queen Mary" being lit; Photo of rioting in Lahore; Photo of a large band of Sikhs overlooked by mounted police during a pause in their march to Lahore for Shahidi day; One page colour ad says Guinness is good for oysters - good for you; Colour centrefold illustration of the "Silver Jubilee Procession"; Nice colour one-page ad for Craven 'A' cigarettes with Christmas motif; Photos of personalities of the week include: the Oxford and Cambridge rugby teams, E. O. W. Hunt, George A Strasser, his Majesty Haile Selassie, Señor Manuel Quezon, the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord De Clifford, Thomas Marlowe, C. Hayden Coffin, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Ulster with their hostess, Lady Brooke; Photos of survivors of the "Silverhazel" being rescued near the US destroyer "Bulmer"; Photo of the new Commonwealth of the Philippines being inaugurated at the legislative building in Manila; Photo of Signor Mussolini reading a restrained speech in the Italian chamber on the sanctions situation; Photo of saluting Italian war widows and mothers at the unknown warrior's tomb; Photo of Miss Jean Batten's damaged airplane on Araruama Beach, Brazil; Photo of the Wiley Post and Will Rogers aviation beacon recently placed on the George Washington Bridge in New York; Photo of wrecked Belgian airliner in Kent which crashed killing 11; Photos of Sir John Carden and Capt. Jean Schoonbroodt; Photo of Mr. S. V. Appleby crossing the channel in a "Flying flea"; One-page South Africa travel ad features illustration of native Village scene; One-page illustrated ad for Booth's matured dry gin; One page ad for the Vauxhall big six saloon; Review of "Steel of Empire", by John Murray Gibbon; Halfpage illustrated Estorial (Portugal) travel ad; One-page ad promotes Austria as the 'ski paradise'; article discusses economic 'stabilization' and it's difficulties; and more. Centrefold loose but present. Outer advertising pages not included. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1944Cover: The First Entry of Canadians into Caen. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The Bank of England: 1694 - 1944" by Reginald Saw; The Great World War: Moving on in Italy (inc maps); Books of the Day; and The World of Science: Wood Comes of Age. Pictorial Journals include: In Liberated Caen: The Mayor Hoisting the Tricolour; Caen After the Battle: The Key City of Lower Normandy, whose Capture Marked a Valorous British Victory; Two Aerial Photos: German Atlantic Wall, Eastern Section of the Cherbourg Peninsula; On the Western Front (Battle of Normandy): War and Its Aftermath; On the Western Front: Scenes From the Battle Zones of British and American Armies in Normandy; The Red Army Surges On: Important Cities in the Path of Battle; A Lancashire Fusilier's V.C.: Fusilier (Francis Arthur) Jefferson, Single-Handed, Breaking Up an Enemy Tank Attack (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); The Onward Advance of Gen. Alexander's Armies: War Scenes at Castiglione, Lake Trasimeno, The French Entry into Siena; Mediaeval San Gimignano and Its Towers; The War in Burma: The Clearing of the Kohima-Imphal Road; The Japanese Main Fleet Caught Napping - Another U.S. Sea Victory (Battle of Philippine Sea); New Additions to our Fighting Power: Flying Bombs from Start to Finish; A Threatened View - Durham Cathedral from River and Railway (illustrated by Sir Muirhead Bone); and War's Trail of Devastation in Normandy: Historic Buildings Wrecked in Fierce Armoured Battles on the Allied Front. Binding sound. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. A quality copy. Book
1962Features/Photos: In conference at LLandudno - the Liberal Party; Collapse of a building of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs; Blue Streak Rocket prepares for Woomera - 8 photos; A Severan Legionary Fortress at Carpow, Perthshire - Roman Scotland; Lovely 15 colour photo centre-fold (both sides) of Prince Andrew at age 2 and a half; The menace of the water hyacinth in Sudan; The work of architect Hawksmoor at the Arts Council; The potential and design of a hovercar and hovertrain; colour fold-out advert. for steel; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1962Features/Photos: The Christening of George Philip Nicholas, Lord St. Andrews; Paraglider at Rogers Lake - an early ultra-light aircraft; *Photo of JFK and Lyndon Johnson with Werner Von Braun with large rocket in background*; 2000 Years of Gibeon - tombs of the middle bronze age and their contents; The Italian Commonwealth Conference; Ceres - Australia's new phytotron - plant research laboratory; Exploring for oil-bearing rock under the North Sea; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1962Features/Photos: Earthquake in Italy - Ariano Irpino worst hit; Bronze age finds near Stonehenge; Tragedies at the Berlin Wall; French President escapes assassination attempt; Links with Western Asia in the Rajasthan of 4000 years ago; the problem of keeping a man in space alive; The North American Buffalo saved from extinction - new race formed under protection of the Canadian Government; Car of the Month - The New Morris 1100; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
196646 pages. Features: Prince Charles Comes of Age; Christmas Presents; Pirate Radios - first moves to silence them; 300 Years of Fine Art - Spink and Son; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1941Pages 321-352. Features: Photos of capture of U-boat at sea; Britain Seizes Spitzbergen - two great photos; Photo of the Duke of Kent addressing thousands of workers at the vast Glenn Martin factory in Baltimore; Photo of N.C.O. prisoners enjoying their first meal since release from Vichy France; Two photos of Lord Louis Mountbatten aboard the 'Illustrious'; Photos of British toll on shipping at Rotterdam docks; Two pages of ten great photos of Britain's Army being toughened by intensive physical and endurance training; One-page photo of Italian submarine sailors standing aboard their sinking craft as they await pickup by British warships; Russia Fights On - article with map of the German pressure on Russia and map of the environs of Leningrad; Two photos of Leningrad; Photo of Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; Photos of seventeen people of the week, including numerous religious leaders, General Sir John Dill receiving an award from Polish President, M. Raczkiewicz, Prof. R.B. Mowat, King Peter's coming of age - in London, and Mrs. James Roosevelt (mother of FDR); Nine sepia-tone photos illustrating the 'Nazi Horror' - taken from a German propaganda film being transported to America; Centerfold illustration of a great British press exerting a 'squeeze' of 6,000 tons on a red-hot ingot as part of shaping an 80-foot propeller-shaft; Excellent one-page photo of super 'flying fortress', the Short 'Stirling' bomber in flight; Six photos of airmen who bomb Berlin - component members of a 'Stirling' crew; One-page graphic compares British naval losses, 1914-1916 with 1939-1941; Seven photos of the Soviet Ambassador's Luncheon to Allied Heads on August 29, 1941; Fascinating two-page composite of illustrations show the effects of blast and how research and experiment have helped to cope with this vital problem; Six photos of concrete and steel wartime barges; vintage ads. Unmarked with only moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
1952Pages 77 - 120. Features: Photos of Hatfield, Lord Salisbury's Great Mansion where Elizabeth Tudor spent her youth; Photos taken aboard the S.S. United States; Great aerial photo of the S.S. United States entering Southampton Docks at the end of her transatlantic record-setting maiden run from New York; Rumania's Foreign Minister Mme. Anna Pauker is number one in the ranks of women communists; Interesting page of illustrations present a new technique of radar navigation which optically weds the radar picture to the actual chart; Photos of demonstration of underwater radio transmission; The houses of the iron age in Ultima Thule-Jarlshof excavations; Great photos show how Iron Age Shetlanders lived; The Army's university at Shrivenham; Scenes at the military college of Science; Photos of General Eisenhower - the Republican's candidate - and some possible Democrat candidates; Fantastic centerfold photo of the Republican convention which selected General Eisenhower as Republican Presidential candidate; Photos of personalities of the week, including open golf champion Bobby Locke and D.J. Hulbert, hero of the Eton v. Harrow cricket match; Photo of the U.S. battleship Missouri in Portland Harbour; Dr. Hewlett Johnson supports claims of germ warfare on the Chinese by the U.S.; Nice ad for the Humber 8-seater Pullman Limousine on back cover; and more. Back cover loose but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1955Pages 485-528.. Features: Nice colour ad for the Walpamur Co Ltd. inside front cover; One-page Daimler car ad features the Regency Mk. II and Conquest Century; Nice one-page ad for the British Iron and Steel Federation features large illustrations of labourers; One-page ad for the Olivetti Summa 15 adding/listing machine; Nice one-page ad for Standard Cars; Great photos of the Wansdyke underground depository for records and valuables - offering full protection in this H-bomb age; The old U.S. lake steamer "Ticonderoga" makes her last voyage by land; Scenes from nationalist-held Quemoy Island - an armed camp only 5 miles from the Chinese mainland; Nuclear test tower in Nevada; Smoke from the biggest atomic explosion of 1955; Latest version of the B-52 bomber; Maiden flight of the French Super Mystere B-1; Lieut.-Colonel Robert R. Scott and the Thunderstreak jet fighter he flew from Los Angeles to New York in less than four hours; One-page photo portrait of Professor Sir Alexander Fleming; Latest discoveries at Sakkara - article with photos; Two pages of photos illustrate excavation of the Mastaba of the reign of Udimu, fifth Pharaoh of the first dynasty, at Sakkara; Photo of Choe En-Lai, The Panchen Lama, Mr. Mao Tse-Tung, the Dalai Lama and Mr. Liu Shao-Chi at a Peking banquet celebrating the Tibetan New Year; Centerfold photos shows how the Windsor chari may be assembled in ten seconds; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery mountaineers from plane - his photos are presented; Photos of !3 personalities of the week include Mrs. Wintringham, Hashim Khan, Mr. J.A. Milne, King Tribhuvana and Mr. Imre Nagy; The C.P.R. ferry boat Princess of Vancouver has an electrically-driven bow propeller; Margot Fonteyn; Winston Churchill feeds chicken to zoo lion; Mr. Donald Campbell's turbo-jet hydroplane Blue Bird on Ullswater; Sir Robert Howe with the Prime Minister of the Sudan; Lovely colour ad for the Humber Hawk car inside back cover; Nice colour-ad for Double Diamond on back cover. and.more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1975236p. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. OCC 9.
1960"A re-creation of Minoan life in the palace of Knossos" 240p.+ 12 leaves of plates[2 in colour] index. Neat tight text, corners bumped Book
1910Best.-Nr. 030025New York NY: The Horseless Age 1910. Pagination: 12 449 - 488 13- 59. The separately numbered front & back sections are primarily advertisements many illustrated for automobile & related manufacturers and service enterprises of the time. Contents include news of an auto-tour of El Camino Real with a little map; a dictionary of automobile terms; new vehicle model news for 1911 with pictorial descriptions; industry news snippets; commercial applications of truck equipment; a lengthy illustrated article including track lap time coverage by entrants chart for the Long Island NY Vanderbilt Cup racing event as well as the Massapequa sweepstakes race results; garage & salesroom news; industry & trade information and more. Approx. 9" x 12" size; top cover detached & edge-chipped; contents in good condition. Periodical. Soft Cover. Good. The Horseless Age paperback
Best.-Nr. 16901, The Hague/ Zwolle, Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder/ Waanders, 1994**, Bound, yellow cloth, illustrated dustjacket, frontispice in color, 245 x 285mm., 388pp., beatiful color ( some folding ) illustration troughout. ISBN 9066304685.
1990A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 240 pages. In Near Fine maroon slipcase. Cover shows gilt decoration on full brown cloth boards. Map endpapers. Contents: Intoduction: The Discovery of the Hittites; Outline of History; Hittite State and Society; Life and Economy; Law and Institutions; Warfare; Language and Races; Religion; Literature; Art; Conclustion. Black and white photos.
1965242 pages. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Book
1987Best.-Nr. 154081Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1973-1987. XVI, 614; XVI, 606; XXI, (1), 704; XIX, (1), 705-1015 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenbände mit Orig.-Schutzumschlägen. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1987Best.-Nr. 162840Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1973-1987. XVI, 614; XVI, 606; XXI, (1), 704; XIX, (1), 705-1015 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenbände mit Orig.-Schutzumschlägen. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Best.-Nr. 32571London, Paternoster Row, 1830, 5 volumes in 8° reliés demi-basane tabac à coins, dos à faux nerfs orné, étiquettes de titres rouges, et de tomaison bleues, XXVII-479, XVI-603, XXIX-531, XV-504 et XVI-527 pages ; rousseurs et traces dhumidité, reliures frottées ; 6 étiquettes manquent.
18301 vol. in-12 reliure demi-chagrin noire, dos à 4 nerfs, tranches marbrées, Colburn and Bentley, 1830, XX-348 pp. Bon état (rel. lég. frottée). Good (binding slightly rubbed) Anglais
1830Best.-Nr. 485301 vol. in-12 reliure demi-chagrin noire, dos à 4 nerfs, tranches marbrées, Colburn and Bentley, 1830, XX-348 pp.
1968pp. xxii, 238 + Frontis and sixteen full page illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding. OCC 13
1976Best.-Nr. 2082702114608640Not Available 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
Best.-Nr. 0656471913.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1918128 pages. Presents information presented before the Krotona Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1915. The only date printed in this book is 1918 but this copy appears too fresh to have been printed then so we offer it as a reprint. Binding tight. Moderate wear. Decorative rubber stamp upon front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1941413 pages. Index. Written to transmit the thoughts of Hindu Vedanta and Buddhism to the West. Chapters include: The Ultimate Path; The Religious and Mystic Grades; The Hidden Philosophy of India; The Philosophical Discipline; The Worship of Words; The Arbitrament of Thinking Power; The Revelation of Relativity; From Thing to Thought; The Secret of Space and Time; The Magic of the Mind; The Downfall of Materialism. Dust jacket not included. Above-average wear to maroon cloth-covered boards. Binding open at half-title page. Few pencil markings to contents. A worthy reading copy. Book
