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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages & 2 photographic plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Quantity Available: 2. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Inventory No: 182979. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean firm brown covers with gilt lettering on the spine, light bumping to upper and front vertical edges, small areas of marking on lower front and rear and light wear to spine-ends, sound binding, clean pages and slightly darkened end-papers. Volume contains many black and white plates, photographs and illustrations. Fold out plans facing pages 50, 132 (plan of Wenlock Priory in colour) and 204. Some faint evidence of water damage on leading edges of some pages. Contents include: I. Medieval Seals of the Bishops of Durham by C. H. Hunter Blair; II. Flint Implements of Special Interest by Reginald A. Smith; III. Devastation of Bedfordshire and neighbouring Counties in 1065 and 1066 by G. H. Fowler; IV. Weaverthorpe Church and its Builder by John Bilson; V. Irish Bronze Pins of the Christian Period by E. C. R. Armstrong; VI. Vellum Album containing sketches of public buildings and monuments by E. H. Freshfield; VII. Monastery of St. Milburge at Much Wenlock, Shropshire by Rev. D. H. S. Cranage; VIII. Two Medieval Bronze Bowls in the British Museum by O. M. Dalton; IX. Ibero-Roman Silver at Cordova by W. L. Hildburgh; X. Unpublished Plans of Dover Harbour by William Minet; XI. Pottery from the Waste Heap of the Roman Potters' Kilns discovered at Sandford, Oxon in 1879 by Thomas May; XII. Bath Inn or Arundel House by C. Lethbridge Kingsford. 290 pages. One volume of the 1-volume set. Contains colour and black and white plates. No dust jacket, as published. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on front end-papers and prelims. Pages of main text and plates (including reverse of plates) are free from stamps. Hand-written reference numbers on end-papers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40119061011. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Prater, E.; Hiley, F.; Wood, Stanley L.; Whitaker, W.G.; Webb, Arch; Robinson, T.H.; Abbey, S.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Waye, A.S. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Gilbert, A.; Pape, F.C.; Wood, Esmond; Wright, Frank; Rountree, Harry; Buchanan, Fred; Smith, Reg. F.; Evison, G. Henry; Gillett, F. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 194-284 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Romance of the French Foreign Legion; Adrift in a Mine-Field - two men drift through a mine-field in a crippled seaplane, fending off mines with their bare hands!; That Night - a rice-planter's cyclone ordeal on Bordelieu Island off the Florida coast; An Englishwoman in South America - Mrs. Mayer-Nixson describes the ways of Chilean (Chilian) policemen, the curious manners and customs of the people, and the odd habits of Chilean servants; The End of the Rainbow - an adventure of Etienne, a half-breed trapper in Northern Canada who had not heard of WWI; Rua the Prophet - the curious history of a Maori fanatic, Rua Kenana, who established a native "New Jerusalem" in the heart of the wild and inaccessible Urewera Mountains of New Zealand - article with great photos; Canada's Last Frontier - part II of a photo-illustrated narrative of a trip to Canada's Eskimo country - including a photo of Fort McMurray which was but a tiny clearing in the woods, plus a photo of an early oil well, and the Pelican gas 'gusher' which had been buring for 18 years!; Our Zambezi Lion-Hunt - adventure involving a black-faced lion; The Tale of the "Tara" - the adventures of the crew of the auxilliary cruiser "Tara," torpedoed off the North African coast - photo-illustrated article; Exploring the Black Canyon - A.L. Fellows and W.W. Torrence help tap a river by a tunnel which irrigates a previously barren valley in Colorado. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue.