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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 128 p. 23 cm. Over 60 b&w illustrations, many in ads. Gold paperback with red and purple print. Moderate wear to covers, crease in rear. Former owner's label and stain inside front cover. Tears in first leaf around staples. History includes pioneer days, list of those killed in the world wars, business and industry, churches, social clubs, etc.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by Leist, Fred; Perceval, C.H.; Reynolds, Warwick; Wood,Esmond; Prater, Ernest; Bates, L.; Elcock, Howard; Pride, Sid; Webb, Arch;Austen, Winifred; Dovaston, Margaret; Pitcher, Sotheby (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, February 1917, Cheetah-Hunting, India, Lewis R. Freeman, The Mad Hatter, Kalgoorlie, Ivory-Poaching - German East Africa, elephant hunting, J.A. Jordan, Lion-Tamer, Alexander Feely, Paraguay, New Guinea, Pygmies, Mortar, Alvarez Brot.

Zustand: Good. Square folio. Rebound in library buckram lettered in gilt, custom clamshell case. 36 x 38cm. With maps, lithograph plates in sepia, some double-page, many with multiple images. First Edition."Resolved, that the Atlas map of Tulare County, California, now being published by Thos. H. Thompson . is hereby declared the Official map of Tulare County, California." .In 1893 Kings County was formed from a part of Tulare County.Detailed mapping of the county replete with lithographed views of the various farms and ranches. Rocq 15171.Thompson lived in Tulare County; he made a special edition of the atlas (150 copies) in sepia tone, of which this is one. The map of Tulare County has full color; map of California is printed with full color; all others are sepia.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1000135407.: Physical Description:147 pages, 61 leaves of plates : maps (some color) ; 40 cm; Huntington Library , call no. 244737.A detailed subdivision and township atlas of Tulare County, in the southern Central Valley of California. Large lots are labeled with names of the owners, and in this copy many changes of ownership are noted in pencil. ROCQ 15171. NORRIS CATALOGUE 3965. 4pp. Double-sheet key map plus 108 township maps .Condition:Title page, table of contents, and margins of a few other pages repaired with tape or backing, occasional smudging and creasing; very good.

9 x 5.75, half leather, printed boards, rebacked with new leather spine, 171 pp + contents + ads, covers worn and stained, back cover quite wrinkled, contents foxed but still nice and usable, with original errata slip bound in at rear and old business card for a Boston pianoforte company (Wm. Moore, with Emerson Pianoforte Co) affixed inside front cover. Fifth edition. With much on old lighthouses!!.