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Copperplate engraving from the First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, founded in 1768 and printed in 1771. 3 Volumes, this is Volume 3.
The largest encyclopedia of general knowledge published to date, with contributions by leaders in their fields.
Printed for Bell and Macfarquhar, Edinburgh. Original half leather binding, 970 pages this volume. 26cm x 21cm.
Nombre: Optimus Prime
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Transformers Prime First Edition
Clase: Voyager
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 507
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Name: Optimus Prime
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Transformers Prime First Edition
Class: Voyager
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 507
From the back cover:
"Two short novels by the greatest of all fantasy adventure writers -- creator of immortal tales of the jungle and on Mars."
Here is adventure -- BEYOND THIRTY
"The United Americas had been isolated for hundreds of years while the rest of the planet was wracked by incessant warfare. The Commander of an American ship patrolling the Eastern sea frontier on 30 degrees West longitude is cast adrift with three seamen by a treacherous fellow officer. The four men reach the coast of England to find a land of blasted cities. Saber toothed tigers of a new species and giant wolves have decimated the surviving naked savages. Battle and adventure on the Continent make this an exciting escape to the future."
More adventure -- THE MAN-EATER
"A huge African lion, how he was captured and brought to the United States, and his unwitting help in serving the cause of justice. Typical jungle adventure made famous by Edgar Rice Burroughs."
Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. His “Book of Magic” describes a range of stage tricks, including sleight of hand, card and rope tricks, and “mind-reading” illusions. A 1937 Pathé film, “The Famous Illusionist,” was made of Maskelyne, looking dapper and apparently eating a boxful of razor blades, one at a time.
Jasper Maskelyne was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered, however, for his entertaining accounts of his work for British military intelligence during the Second World War. His exploits in the camouflage unit during the war are described in David Fisher’s book, “The War Magician” (1983), and in Maskelyne’s own book , “Magic: Top Secret” (1949). Book reviewer Peter Forbes writes that “the flamboyant magician’s contribution was either absolutely central (if you believe his account and that of his biographer) or very marginal (if you believe the official records and more recent research).” [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is a link to David Fisher's book "The War Magician:"
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John Glenn is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. John Glenn returned to space on October 29, 1998, at age 77, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [Source: Wikipedia]
Engraving of mechanical devices from the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, founded in 1768 and printed in 1771. 3 Volumes, this is Volume 3.
The largest encyclopedia of general knowledge published to date, with contributions by leaders in their fields.
Printed for Bell and Macfarquhar, Edinburgh. Original half leather binding, 970 pages this volume. 26cm x 21cm.
The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. The publishers stated their hopes that the publication would match or supplement the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm
"In Darkest Africa (1890) is Henry M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley, readers became thrilled by stories of African expeditions and longed to follow in the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose 'In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria' are his account of what happened." [www.biblio.com/in-darkest-africa-by-stanley-henry-m/work/...]
Lee de Forest (1873-1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures. He had over 180 patents, but also a tumultuous career — he boasted that he made, then lost, four fortunes. He was also involved in several major patent lawsuits, spent a substantial part of his income on legal bills, and was even tried (and acquitted) for mail fraud. His most famous invention, in 1906, was the three-element "grid Audion", which, although he had only a limited understanding of how it worked, provided the foundation for the development of vacuum tube technology. [Source: Wikipedia]
Nombre: Optimus Prime
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Kre-O
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 508
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Name: Optimus Prime
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Kre-O
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 508
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Nombre: Optimus Prime
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Transformers Prime First Edition
Clase: Voyager
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 507
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Name: Optimus Prime
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Transformers Prime First Edition
Class: Voyager
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 507
A great time travel story with vivid descriptions of New York City in the winter of 1882. Jack Finney weaves a captivating story of Si Morley who embarks on a hypnotically-induced journey into the past to thwart an assassination plot. There he encounters busy streets with horse-drawn carriages, wagons and pedestrians, the El, the Dakota, the Statue of Liberty Arm, Central Park, and the colorful sleighs on the white streets of Manhattan, not to mention the love of his life. No story so clearly transports the reader to 1880’s New York City.
A scientist by the name of Griffin (we never learn his full name) finds a way to make himself invisible but doesn’t know how to reverse the process. He becomes consumed with power, resorts to crime for survival and, eventually, goes crazy. It paints an unflattering picture of a scientist as someone who is selfish and lacks a conscience and humanity. Bah humbug! Ripping good story, though.
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Shipping horses aboard 'The Undaunted' in Sydney bound for India to reinforce the English units in the Indian Campaign.
Woodcut from The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featured a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. A competitor to the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
After Turner.
The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. The publishers stated their hopes that the publication would match or supplement the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
Various Clock and Watch Mechanisms.
Copperplate engraving from the First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, founded in 1768 and first printed in 1771. 3 Volumes, this is Volume 3.
The largest encyclopedia of general knowledge published to date, with contributions by leaders in their fields.
Printed for Bell and Macfarquhar, Edinburgh. Original half leather binding, 970 pages this volume. 26cm x 21cm.
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Nombre: Optimus Prime
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Transformers Prime First Edition
Clase: Voyager
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 507
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Name: Optimus Prime
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Transformers Prime First Edition
Class: Voyager
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 507
Nombre: Optimus Prime
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Transformers Prime First Edition
Clase: Voyager
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 507
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Name: Optimus Prime
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Transformers Prime First Edition
Class: Voyager
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 507
“The Blue Poetry Book” was Andrew Lang's first and only “colored” book of poetry. It collects nearly 150 poems by masters such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Longfellow, Burns, Byron, Shakespeare, Poe, Marlowe, Coleridge, Milton, Macaulay, among others. The poems are accompanied by 100 black and white illustrations by Henry J. Ford and Lancelot Speed.
Andrew Lang (1844 -1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales and for his twelve “colored” fairy books, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own color, beginning with “The Blue Fairy Book” (1889) and ending with “The Lilac Fairy Book” (1910). In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented. The series was immensely popular, helped by Lang's reputation in folklore, and by the packaging device of the uniform books. The series proved of great influence in children's literature, increasing the popularity of fairy tales over tales of real life.
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
Comets have a long history as bad omens and unwelcome visitors, but H. G. Wells’ novel “In the Days of the Comet” turns that silly superstition on its head. A comet enters the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrates, turning the nitrogen of the air into a healing gas that brings happiness, peace and generosity to even the most violent of humans.
It is interesting to note that Earth was destined to pass through the tail of Halley’s comet in 1910, just four years after the book’s publication. One of the substances discovered in the comet’s tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen. The astronomer Camille Flammarion claimed that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." His pronouncement led to panicked buying of gas masks and quack "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas" by the public. [Source: Wikipedia]
I promise I did get further than the title page! ^-^
Yeah, but I did spend a long time looking at it!
Willy Ley (1906-1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight both in Germany and in the United States. He was a rocket designer and co-founder of the world’s first rocket airfield in Berlin. In 1935, he fled Nazi Germany for Great Britain and then the United States.
Willy Ley also enjoyed writing about the mysteries of natural history and was one of the early chroniclers of cryptozoology. He wrote about Sea Serpents, Yeti and the possibilities of living dinosaurs. He also suggested that some legendary creatures (e.g. the Sirrush, the Unicorn and the Cyclops) might have been based on real species (or the misinterpretation of certain animals or their fossils or remains).
Many of his articles published in journals, newpapers and magazines were on cryptozoological topics. The German book “Drachen Riesen” (Dragon Giants) appears to be the German edition of Willy Ley’s “Dragons in Amber: Further Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist,” first published in the UK in 1951. It is an early example of Ley’s cryptozoological writings where he describes strange animals from yesterday and today and makes amazing connections between science and legend. He writes about extinct animals and animals from the distant past that are still living in hidden corners of the earth.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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January 2020
To celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria of England and Prince Frederick of Prussia.
The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. The publishers stated their hopes that the publication would match or supplement the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
The pamphlet contains a lecture that James McNeill Whistler first gave in February, 1885, which was his first public appearance as a lecturer on art. Oscar Wilde who was present in Prince’s Hall for the lecture was quite impressed by Whistler’s marvelous eloquence and his utter impertinence when he, “with charming ease and much grace of manner, explained to the public that the only thing they should cultivate was ugliness, and that on their permanent stupidity rested all the hopes of art in the future.”
Oscar Wilde goes on to say: “The scene was in every way delightful; he stood there, a miniature Mephistopheles, mocking the majority! He was like a brilliant surgeon lecturing to a class composed of subjects destined ultimately for dissection, and solemnly assuring them how valuable to science their maladies were, and how absolutely uninteresting the slightest symptoms of health on their part would be. In fairness to the audience, however, I must say that they seemed extremely gratified at being rid of the dreadful responsibility of admiring anything, and nothing could have exceeded their enthusiasm when they were told by Mr. Whistler that no matter how vulgar their dresses were, or how hideous their surroundings at home, still it was possible that a great painter, if there was such a thing, could, by contemplating them in the twilight and half closing his eyes, see them under really picturesque conditions, and produce a picture which they were not to attempt to understand, much less dare to enjoy. Then there were some arrows, barbed and brilliant, shot off, with all the speed and splendour of fireworks, and the archaeologists, who spend their lives in verifying the birthplaces of nobodies, and estimate the value of a work of art by its date or its decay; at the art critics who always treat a picture as if it were a novel, and try and find out the plot; at dilettanti in general and amateurs in particular...”
Christine is the story of a vintage 1958 Plymouth Fury that is possessed by supernatural forces. John Carpenter directed the film adaptation of King’s book:
The Lancia Stratos HF (Tipo 829), widely and more simply known as Lancia Stratos, is a car made by Italian car manufacturer Lancia. The HF stands for High Fidelity. It was a very successful rally car, winning the World Rally Championship in 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Vol. III, Second Series, First edition.
Originally written as newspaper journalism, “Sketches by Boz” is the public record of Dickens’ apprenticeship. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and were originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836, including the “Morning Chronicle,” the “Evening Chronicle,” the “Monthly Magazine,” the “Carlton Chronicle” and “Bell’s Life in London.” Fist published in book form in 1836, the whole work is divided into four sections: “Our Parish,” “Scenes,” “Characters,” and “Tales.” Dickens’ writings are enhanced by the regular inclusion of illustrations by George Cruikshank to highlight key scenes and characters.
“Silent Spring” inspired an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency. The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment – particularly on birds – of the indiscriminate use of pesticides and it brought these environmental concerns to the American public. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly. In spite of fierce opposition by chemical companies, the book spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy and led to a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses. [Source: Wikipedia]
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Commissioner Yey of Canton was captured and deposed by the British in the Battle of Canton of 1857.
Woodcut from The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. A competitor to the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
“Jim standing a siege.”
“Tom Sawyer Abroad” features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world’s greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. The story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn and is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series, “Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” [Source: Wikipedia]
Here's another literary masterpiece printed at the Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey: The Winter of our Discontent by the mighty John Steinbeck. This first edition was published in the UK by Heinemann in 1961.
This was Steinbeck’s last novel. He wrote 33 books in all, and was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his other titles are household names – East of Eden for example; The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row.
The Windmill Press was set up by Frank Doubleday, chairman of William Heinemann, and among its authors were not only Steinbeck, but luminaries such as Graham Greene, Nevil Shute, HG Wells, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Monica Dickens and John Masefield.
The Press stood in extensive grounds in Kingswood. It opened in 1928 and ceased operations in 1997.
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