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1911Features: Reasons Why the Canadian Pacific is So Prosperous; Spokane Rate Decision Eagerly Awaited; Value of Steel Equipment Demonstrated in Wreck of the Crack Milwaukee Train, Columbian on May 30th east of Ralston, WA; Continued Smuggling of Opium into West Coast Ports Aboard Trans-Pacific Steamships; Professional Biography of Joseph H. Young, President of Alaska Steamship Co. - with photo; Contracts Let for Coaling Plants in Seattle and Tacoma - article with two photos; $1 Million Available for Improvements at Moran Shipyards; Record Run Between Puget Sound and Callao by Schooner Wilbert L. Smith; After 20 Years on the Seattle-Tacoma Run, Steamer Flyer is Sold - Feature article with photo; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Photo of Steamer Tampico Submerged in Seattle Harbor; Photo of New Boilers for Steamer Charmer built by Commercial Boiler Works of Seattle; Effects of the Panama Canal on Pacific Coast - Oriental Trade; News of Tacoma; Launching of the Titanic - 1/3 page article including photo of the Titanic in drydock with man standing below her massive 100-ton rudder; Charming one-page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West" which connected Seattle with San Francisco; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
2007rif. 0261472007 Mercator Hardcover New
1949rif. 77035Couverture souple. Broché. 162 pages. 17 x 24 cm.
196732 pages. Features: Bobby Gimby - The unabashedly patriotic bandleader and his runaway hit song "Ca-NaDa"; Bush Pilot Robert Gauchie holds the record for northern survival after spending 58 days alone just south of the Arctic Circle when he was forced to land his plane on Samantha Lake - Part 2 of 2; Ad for Sunbeam shavers featuring Johnny Bower in his goalie equipment; "Coffee, Tea or Cribbage?" - Lucille Grant was the first stewardess at Trans-Canada Airlines; Warlord for Hire - General Tuan Shih Wen makes his money protecting opium shipments - and he spends a lot of it fighting communists; Doug Wright's Family comic. Somewhat above-average wear. Was exposed to moisture years ago, resulting in minor undulations and light discolouration. A sound copy. Book
194948 pages. Features: Cover illustration by W.A. Winter of happy evening horse-drawn sleighs; O'Keefe's ad inside front cover features Clare Shragge illustration of boy dreaming of becoming a flyer; The Quarrel - winner of the $1k first prize in Maclean's story contest; Will the Atlantic Pact Work?; The Amazing Career of George McCullagh; The Starling - Saint or Sinner?; Why They Won't Let You Have Television - Ottawa balks the CBC and the CBC balks private showmen; Full Circle Round Shahli's (fiction); What, No Opium Dens? - Vancouver's Chinatown (article with nice photos); Smallpox - a sleeping killer; Arrangements by Cable - Radio's Howard Cable; The Vindication of Suzanne Pas-de-Nom; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad shows bulldozer plowing through smouldering dump - a scene younger viewers may not believe!; Back cover colour Coke ad shows cooler with industrial backdrop, encouraging workers to drink up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1758rif. PHO-266In 12°, ix[3]-36 [ie369]pp Reliure de l'époque, plein veau marbré, dos fleuronné doré à nerfs, tranches rouges
1758rif. PHO-1426Londres,Lille, Panckoucke, Paris, Desaint, Saillant , 1758 , In 12°, ix[3]-36 [ie369]pp Reliure de l'époque, plein veau marbré, dos à nerfs ornés , tranches rouges , ex-libris , coins légèrement usés , coiffes usées.
1758rif. PHO-1642Londres , Lille (Panckoucke) Paris (Desaint & Saillant) , 1758.In 12°, ix-36-369pp. (manque les pages 363-369 de la table de matière).Reliure de l'époque, plein veau marbré, dos fleuronné avec pièce de titre, tranches rouges, coins usés, frottements et manque au dos, petite mouillure en début d’ouvrage.
2026rif. LRB48054825Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 544 pages. Volume 4 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1894. Text in English. This comprehensive report presents the findings of the Royal Commission on Opium established to investigate the opium trade and its social and economic impacts. The volume includes detailed minutes of evidence from witnesses appendices and supplementary materials providing a thorough examination of the subject during the late 19th century. It reflects the perspectives of key figures such as the Maharajah of Darbhanga and Lord Brassey offering valuable insights into historical debates on opium regulation and international trade. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026rif. LRB48054829Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 688 pages. Volume 2 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1894. Text in English. This volume presents the first report of the Royal Commission on Opium including minutes of evidence and appendices. The commission examined the opium trade its economic and social impacts and related correspondence with the Straits Settlements and China. The report is structured in multiple parts covering evidence sessions appendices and historical analyses with an index of witnesses and a glossary of Indian terms used in the proceedings. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
1924Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1980rif. 21670CBZürich, Verlag der Arche, 1980. 8°, 263 S., original Pappband (Hardcover), original Schutzumschlag, Erstausgabe Schutzumschlag mit Randanrissen (sauber mit säurefreiem Filmoplast hinterlegt), Schutzumschlag im Kantenbereich etwas angebräunt, su
rif. 12601Dresden, Schwarzeck 1926, 240x175mm, 272 + 189Seiten, Frontispiz, illustriert, Verlegereinband. Sehr schön. Sehr schönes Exemplar.
rif. 9348Geneva, The Anti-Opium Information Bureau, 1938, Imprimerie Studer, Genève. Document special No 6. 1 plaquette, agrafée, 16 pp., couverture souple imprimée, bon état.
1987rif. 63873Stuttgart, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk GmbH, 1987. origi.Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, 4°, 246 Seiten.
rif. 19173Paris, Delarue, "Bibliothèque d'Hygiène et de Médecine Usuelles", s.d. (1894), 1 broché, couverture illustrée dans le style "Art Nouveau". in-8, faux-titre, titre, VIII-187 pages et 16 pages de catalogue ;
1970412 pages. Four black and white illustrations including frontis portrait of author. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Tight and square. A sound copy. Book
rif. c3970Paris, Editions Pierre Laffitte, 1920 ; in-8°, broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs ( fumeur d'opium) ; 111pp.,1p.nch.Texte sur 2 colonnes.Très petits manque de papier au dos de la couverture, papier jauni.
1906rif. 18814Partitions sur la Drogue Labbé Marcel 1906 approx.
1922rif. 89061Partitions sur la Drogue,Partitions sur l'Asie Beuscher Paul 1922
rif. 12958Taipei, SMC Publishing, 2009. 1 thick volume, in-4, 426 pp., illustrated with hundreds of b.& w. and colour plates, hard bound with a colourful dust jacket, new book.
1841rif. 192022September 1840-February 1841. Noble fragments A moving and historically significant record of companionship in confinement Anne Noble being one of the few Western women to see the interior of China before the opening of the treaty ports. These notes sent surreptitiously by two British officers detained in nearby cells are the most important surviving artefacts of her extraordinary five-month imprisonment. An experienced seafarer and traveller Noble née Watson 1814-1877 ventured to China in the late 1830s onboard the Kite a trading ship captained by her husband James Smith Noble. Following the outbreak of the First Opium War the ship was requisitioned as a transport ship but ran aground on 15 September off the Chinese coast near Zhenhai. The survivors - Noble's husband and infant son both drowned - were carried in cages to Ningbo where Noble and the ship's military commander Lieutenant Charles Douglas were incarcerated in separate lice-ridden cells at the residence of the city's ranking mandarin. Douglas was soon joined by Captain Philip Anstruther known to contemporaries as "the life of every party he joined" quoted in D'Arcy-Brown p. 92 who was captured in mid-September while reconnoitring near Dinghai. The captives met only when they were carried in cages to meet Chinese officials and they were not released until 21 February 1841. By bribing jailers and locals with money received from Chinese officials and British forces Noble and Anstruther & Douglas could exchange notes hastily written on whatever paper they had to hand. The 40 here - the only that appear to have survived - convey the camaraderie and close bond shared by the prisoners their hopes and uncertainty concerning their detention and their experiences of isolation. The two cells frequently shared suggestions and snippets of gossip concerning the prospects of their release; Anstruther & Douglas could communicate with British forces by letter and pass on to Noble morale-boosting reassurances "They dare not keep us longer" - Douglas 15 November 1840; "do not give way to doubt and fear" - Anstruther undated. Noble occupied her time mending clothes sent by the men while they advised on how to deal with the corruptible jailers. They sent money and soup; she provided needle and thread in return. During the five months they were assisted by the enterprising Bu Dingbang - known as "the comprador" - who had been arrested for treason while assisting the British fleet near Chusan. Despite being a convict Bu appears to have had regular access to the outside world and to the Westerners including to cook them food and Noble acted as an indispensable conduit of information between Bu and the men. Some of these concerned the matter of their release but the officers were equally concerned with their health and the well-being of the rank-and-file British soldiers and sailors held in the city jail. Anstruther was seemingly often preoccupied with the state of Bu's cooking "a little less garlic and more chilly sic" - undated but likely mid-October 1840. Unfortunately for him the beer wine and cheroots ran out by mid-November. The final firmly dated note in this collection was sent on 18 February 1841. The preceding month British ships sacked the forts at Canton which forced Ningbo's officials to release their hostages on 21 February. Noble and her ordeal became a sensation in China and back home and her account of her confinement was rushed into print in the Chinese Repository "Loss of the ship Kite and Mrs. Noble's narrative of her captivity and sufferings in prison in China in 1840-41; in a letter to a friend". The British community around Canton raised $8000 for her passage back to England and her prison cage was displayed in London. In 1844 she emigrated to the United States. This collection surfaced in the early 21st century as part of a broader group of papers from the Noble family sold at a New Hampshire auction. They were bought from the purchaser a member of the American trade by an American private collector in 2015. The contents of the notes are discussed on pages 108-110 and in Chapter VI of "A White Barbarian Lady" by Liam D'Arcy-Brown who used a rough transcription made when the material was offered for sale in the early 2010s. The notes are accompanied by five letters sent to Noble shortly after her release including one from Douglas as well as 44 letters and documents associated with Noble and her family. Together 40 sheets or bifolia ranging in size up to 210 x 260 mm many on fragile paper. Written in ink or pencil ink annotations in a different hand perhaps Noble's. Full listing available on request. Old folds 5 split into two or more fragments and with small losses slightly affecting sense 1 seemingly a fragment of a much longer note: a well-preserved collection of delicate material. Liam D'Arcy-Brown "A White Barbarian Lady": The Story of Anne Noble a Victorian Woman Imprisoned in China 2016. hardcover
1940rif. 2410Partitions sur la Drogue Eschig Max 1940 approx.
rif. 3991Paris, E. Flammarion, éditeur, 1924, broché, couverture illustrée, 12x19 cm, 288 pages, préface de Pierre Louÿs, illustrations de Louis Morin.
