Ferguson Arch (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vii+198 pages. Illustrated. A few flecked spot at bottom of front cover. Plastic wrapper.

4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 198pp. B/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Prior to 1880, the responsibility for education in NSW was mainly in the hands of the various Church Authorities. Set up in 1883, Sydney High School has grown over its first 100 years.

4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 198pp. (sl foxing) to top edge & some pags. Bookplate on verso of ffe. B/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Prior to 1880, the responsibility for education in NSW was mainly in the hands of the various Church Authorities. Set up in 1883, Sydney High School has grown over its first 100 years.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 760pp, copiously illustrated with contemporary advertisements, some in colour, many charts, tables etc. In paper covered boards, largely displaying adverts, with linen spine (boards are a little faded and lightly rubbed at edges, spine cloth faded and rubbed, fraying at tips). Internally a little toned with some signs of fingering, strained gutters in a couple of places. Covers now protected in a wrap-around plastic cover fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. The 73rd annual publication of Brown's Nautical Almanac, incorporating Pearson's Nautical Almanac. Includes an astonishing array of facts and figures for sailor and those upon the sea, including tidal tables, Angle upon the Bow Tables, Conversion Tables, etc and sections on Directions for Restoring the Drowned, Eclipses, The Gyro Compass, How to Find the Principal Stars, Ice Definitions, Salvage, Sea and Swell Scales, Quarantine Signals and much, much more. Packed full of contemporary adverts for nautical equipment and related items.

Hardback, 22.5x29.5cm, 198pp. Very good condition (light wear; age-toned pages) in very good dustwrapper (light edge wear). ISBN: 0867773448.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.