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NY: Niglutsch, 1896. Volume IV only. Finely bound in half leather. Published NY: Niglutsch, 1896. Small folio, 9 3/4" x 12 1/4." Illustrated with engravings and photo plates, color frontis. Green cloth with gilt pictorial cover, brown leather with raised bands with gilt titles and designs, red marbled endparers, all edges tinted red. Eastern Africa, Japan, India, Peru, Alaska, California, New York City with untypical and interesting engravings and photos - Union Square and Grand Central Station. Tips rubbed, otherwise a near fine copy.. Hard. Near Fine. Folio.
Royal Marines Conquer Another Antarctic Peak. Adelaide Island. Successful climb of the hitherto unscaled Mount Gaudry, highest mountain on Adelaide Island. by British Antarctic Survey - 7 February 1963
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Royal Marines Conquer Another Antarctic Peak. Adelaide Island. Successful climb of the hitherto unscaled Mount Gaudry, highest mountain on Adelaide Island.
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Three original British Official nitrate photographs. Issued for the British Information Services by the Central Office of Information. London. 7 February 1963. 20.5 x 25.5 cm. Royal Marines conquer another Antarctic Peak. Pictures just received from the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship H.M.S. Protector, taken during the successful climb to the top of the hitherto unscaled 9,000 feet Mount Gaudry, highest mountain on Adelaide Island inside the Antarctic Circle... made the final ten hour ascent in a night assault cutting steps and hand holds in a steep ice face... Each photograph has the original typewritten information pasted to reverse. Crown Copyright reserved (Admiralty) Stamped Daily Mail Filed 8 Feb 1963.
*Halt for refreshment along Fuchs Piedmont during the 17 miles haul to base camp. In front are: Marines M Constance; M Pike; P Bitcheno; A Cawthorne. Middle row: Corporal J Morton and Marine R Brotherton. Behind: Captain T J Wills, RM, and Corporal G Kingdon.
*Royal Marine detachment of HMS PROTECTOR manhauling sledges along the 17 mile route to Base Camp. On the left of the picture is the peak of Mt GAUDRY.
*Pictured on the way down, a thousand feet from the peak of Mount Gaudry. Mr John Green (left) and Captain T Wills had to build a snow hold and shelter for 18 hours during a blizzard. The photograph was taken by Marine McAuliffe.
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A Tour of the World, Its Famous Cities and Strange People, Their Histories, Religions, and Ethnology. Vol IV
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Louis Trigardt's Trek Across The Drakensberg 1837 - 1838
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Capetown S.A.: The Van Riebeeck Society, 1932 Interesting Book, Apparent First, Which Describes In Detail A Trek Across The Drakensberg, Complete With One Trifold Plate, Five Maps And Some B/W Photographs. . No Dust Jacket If Issued. Some Age Toning But Quite Sound And Clean, Rated Very Good. Verso of title page contains a stamp of former owner, Hiram Blauvelt, "Bluefield" Oradell, New Jersey. He was a notable big game hunter, conservationist and philanthropist. His Wildlife Art Museum, established in 1957 in the large stables next to his house is still operating. 171 pages plus prelims.
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With Byrd at the Bottom of the World; The South Pole Expedition of 1928-30 [from the Steve Fossett collection]
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Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1990. First Edition, 1st Printing. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed to Fossett by Author, [9.25x6.5in]; viii, 196 pp., eight plate with 34 black and white images, three maps; Blue paper covers with tan linen backstrip with blue ink lettering on spine, blue end papers, all edges trimmed; Light tan dust jacket with blue and black lettering on front and spine, image of skier looking into crevasse on front with illustration of compass rose, dark brown border strip at top and bottom, summary of book with image of men on back; Negligible shelf wear to book, inscription to Steve Fossett on title page, "To Steve Fossett, From one dog musher to another. I hope you enjoy the Iditarod as much as I. I've devoted 16 consecutive years to this race. It's a disease. No doctor can cure me. I hope you do not get it as badly. Sin adventurously. Norman D. Vaughan.", bookplate of Steve Fossett on front end paper; Negligible shelf wear to dust jacket except for slight fading to spine and…
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Junge Liebe in Einer Alten Stadt
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
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Himalaya Alpine Style.: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks.
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Fanshawe, Andy and Venables, Stephen. Himalaya Alpine Style. The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks. Hodder and Stoughton. 1995. 1st Edition, signed by Author. Sq4to (295mm x 305mm). Fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Title signed in ink, by Stephen Venables. Pp192, illustrated throughout with colour photographs. A fine book in Mint condition.
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`The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus To Which are Added those of His Companions Volume I, II & III
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New York: George P. Putnam, 1848, 1849. Revised. Original Cloth. Good/No jacket as issued. Three volume set with fold out maps, table of contents and index. Green cloth binding with blindstamp decorations on front cover and spine, gilt lettering on spine. Some edge wear to cover, corners and spine ends bumped, spines a bit faded, interior pages lightly tan with some foxing, pencil notations on front free end paper of Volume 1. Short tear in one map, foxing and wrinkles along with creases.
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THE ROMANCE OF POLAR EXPLORATION: Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "Discovery". With 24 illustrations
by G. Firth Scott
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Seeley, Service & Co, 1915. Cloth. Very Good. Part of the publisher's 'Library of Romance' series; 351pp, (1pp publishers advertisements). Original dark blue cloth covers titled and decorated in red,white and gilt, with huskies and men dragging a sledge on front cover, musk ox on spine. This edition is one of the earlier ones having more illustrations than the later editions. The preface is dated 1906 and a Publishers note on page 8 brings attention to various expedition leaders and publishers for the use of their illustrations. Frontispiece + 21 b/w illustrations + 2 maps all as called for in list of illustrations. Shelfware, rear cover stained. Previous owners signature dated 1918 on front pastedown, some foxing mainly to eps and page edges. A rare item. Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2787. .
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Louis Trigardt's Trek Across The Drakensberg 1837 - 1838
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Capetown S.A.: The Van Riebeeck Society, 1932 Interesting Book, Apparent First, Which Describes In Detail A Trek Across The Drakensberg, Complete With One Trifold Plate, Five Maps And Some B/W Photographs. . No Dust Jacket If Issued. Some Age Toning But Quite Sound And Clean, Rated Very Good. Verso of title page contains a stamp of former owner, Hiram Blauvelt, "Bluefield" Oradell, New Jersey. He was a notable big game hunter, conservationist and philanthropist. His Wildlife Art Museum, established in 1957 in the large stables next to his house is still operating. 171 pages plus prelims.
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-Three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2006. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Inscribed & signed by both authors on the title page. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Text unmarked. Jacket clean and bright. Laid-in tri-fold pamphlet from the Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxvi + 230 pages. Crossing stick bridges over swollen rivers and battling swarms of tsetse flies, Mark and Delia Owens found their way into one of the most startlingly beautiful, wild places on earth, the northern Luangwa Valley in Zambia. As they were setting up camp to launch their lion research, gunfire echoed off the cliffs nearby. Gangs of ivory poachers were not only shooting the elephants but also virtually enslaving local villagers. Against unimaginable odds, Mark and Delia stopped the poaching by helping the villagers find other work, start small businesses, and improve their health care and education. Living with wild creatures all around (lions sleeping…
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British Scientific Research in Antarctica
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Antarctica, a Continent for Science.
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Antarctica, a Continent for Science.
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Antarctic Peninsula: A Visitor's Guide
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BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
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Antarctic Peninsula: A Visitor's Guide
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Antarctic Peninsula: A Visitor's Guide
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Antarctica - a topographic database
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(Cambridge: British Antarctic Survey, 1993). BAS Miscellaneous Series, Sheet No. BAS (Misc.) 7. Colour, 15-panel map of Antarctica, measuring 753 x 920 mm once opened, and 250 x 185 mm fully folded. The scale is 1:10 000 000. Very good condition. "This 1:10 000 000 scale map is a derivative product of the Antarctic Digital Database Project (ADDP). The preparation of the first seamless digital map of Antarctica was co-ordinated in the UK by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and its Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information. ... The seamless map of Antarctica has been prepared from cartographic material published in eleven nations." .
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Die Befreiung 1813 - 1814 - 1815 : Urkunden - Berichte - Briefe mit geschichtlichen Verbindungen
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A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More
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DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT, APPOINTING A JOURNALIST TO THE STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, 21 November 1917
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Hartford, CT: Governor's Office, 1917. Original document. Very Good. Partly printed document, accomplished by hand. In part: "...reposing special trust and confidence in the skill and patriotism of J.S. Anderson, Jr. of the Mirror of Stonington, Conn., do hereby appoint him...Special Representative of the division of co-operation of the press, committee on publicity, Connecticut State Council of Defense...." Large embossed seal. Signed in full by Holcomb, witnessed by R.J. Dwyer, Deputy Secretary. 11.75" x 9.5" Holcomb (1834-1932) was the 66th Governor of Connecticut.
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Junge Liebe in Einer Alten Stadt
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A 1st ed. good hardcover (cloth-bound), soiling of cloth & signs of age as in image, with stamp fr. end p. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg* spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1942 Gau Westmark". "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen. Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte nach den Erfolgen der letzten zwei Sammlungen ein…
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Surveillance; Hearings before the subcommittee on courts, civil liberties, and the administration of justice. on the matter of wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, and other surveillance. February 6 [through] September 8, 1975. Part 1 [hearings],: 94th congress, first session. Serial no. 26.
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Agreement of Sale between the American Baptist Publication Society and John Wanamaker
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1905. Good +. Signed 3-page typescript of a agreement of sale between the American Baptist Publication Society and John Wanamaker. The American Baptist Publication Society sold to John Wanamaker the Crozier Building at 1420 and 1422 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, for $900,000. The Crozier Building was designed by Frank Miles Day & Brother and was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1980. American merchant John Wanamaker (1838-1922) had made $1.5 million in profits and interest from his stores in Philadelphia and New York in 1904, suggesting that his acquisition of the Crozier Building was an investment. The Crozier Building has continued to function as a successful office building to this day. In Good+ Condition: chipping at edges; loss of lower corner of first page, with minor loss of text; separating along some of the 2 horizontal creases in each page; signatures are clean and intact.
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Invariance of Light Speed: Reality or Fiction?
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[Tapuscrit] Maître de sa joie (extraits) / Façons d'exprimer
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1902. Dactylographié. Bon. Cuir. 21 x 13,5 cm (R), deux tapuscrits à l'encre bleue réunis en un volume : 1) Extraits de "Maître de sa joie", Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1902, 2 ff. n. ch. - 39 pp. - 1 f. n. ch. ; 2) "Façons d'exprimer", Paris, Maison des Poètes, sd [1900] (publié par Hélo), 1 f. n. ch. - 47 pp., reliure de demi-basane verte, nom de l'auteur en long au dos. Curieux tapuscrit fait sur un papier de fabrication américaine (le "Cosmos Bond", produit par R. P. Andrews Paper Co. dans la première moitié du XXe siècle). On trouve à la fin du tapuscrit de "Maïtre de sa joie" une bibliographie des oeuvres de Dolent qui comporte de légères variantes par rapport à l'édition Lemerre et indique comme "à paraître" : "Maître de sa joie", "Les Matins" et "Les Parades de Jean…
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La Bohème à travers les Siècles
by Duraccio, Maria Cecilia
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Naples, 1950. Livre. Bon. Couverture rigide. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. Napoli [Naples], Istituto universitario di magistero "Suor Orsola Benincasa", 1949-1950. 28 x 23 cm, tapuscrit ronéotypé de 3 ff. n. ch. + 262 pp. (i.e. 262 ff.) + 1 f. n. ch., reliure à la Bradel en demi-toile verte, premier plat doré, dos muet. Rare mémoire de maîtrise (tesi di laurea) présenté sous la direction de Vittorio Bertoldi. Centré sur les "Scènes de la vie de Bohème" de l'écrivain Henri Murger, celui-ci analyse, depuis François Villon, la tradition sociale et littéraire de la bohème et celle du quartier latin auquel cette bohème est attachée. Bel ENVOI de l'auteur au peintre Lionello Balestrieri, dont une lettre à l'auteur sur le sujet de la bohème est par ailleurs reproduite en annexe. Coiffe de tête accidentée, sinon bel…
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5 letters, 1873-1879, to William Ward (1837-1895) [re: Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad]
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1873. Near Fine. 5 handwritten letters to William Ward, 1873-1879, regarding the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad, which existed from 1872 to 1885; it was succeeded by the Philadelphia Midland Railroad. William Ward was one of the organizers of the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad and in 1874 was the president and treasurer pro tem. Letters #1 and #2 (Sept. 5 and Dec. 5, 1873) are from Jos. H. McKeehan, an attorney in Philadelphia, who is writing about deliquent subscribers to the railroad. Letter #3 (Dec. 18, 1873) is from the Village Record, a newspaper in West Chester, Pa., with a copy of the advertisement that ran in the paper listing the dates that instalments from railroad subscribers were due in 1872. Letter #4 (Nov. 26, 1875) is from John Smith of Ridley Park, about a plan to petition to vacate a street and public ground adjoining Mr. Bartol's purchase. Letter #5 (Sept. 8, 1879) from the superintendant of the Government Paper Mill in Dalton, Mass., complaining about the…
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Nous dénonçons une grave injustice, des pasteurs et des prêtres prennent la parole.
by [Pétition - Guerre d'Algérie - Prisons - Amnistie - Robert Davezies - Jean-Jacques Brochier]
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1963. Livre. Très bon. Couverture souple. Ed. originale. In-8 Etroit. Sl, sn, 1963. (imp. Hérissey, Evreux) 21,5 x 13,5 cm, 21 pp. - 1 f., plaquette agrafée, couverture blanche imprimée. Très rare pétition, datée du 14 avril 1963 et lancée par un groupe de pasteurs et de prêtres (premiers signataires : Francis Bosc, Georges Casalis, Jacques Lochard, Etienne Mathiot, Jean-Paul Meyer, Louis Simon, Jacques Walter, M. D. Chenu, Pierre Dabosville, Yvan Daniel, Robert Davezies, André Depierre, Marie-Jean Mossand, Louis Rétif) demandant la l'amnistie des Français emprisonnés pour leur solidarité avec la lutte pour l'indépendance algérienne, parmi lesquels "cinq jeunes hommes et femmes [leur] sont particulièrement proches : Gérard Meier, Jean-Claude Paupert, Jean-Jacques et Nicole Brochier, Claudie Duhamel". Exemplaire de l'un des cinq condamnés :…
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