New Acquisitions
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# 46363
USAF (NORTHEAST AIR COMMAND)
Small archive of original photographs taken at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq) Airbase, Greenland, 1942-45.
Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 200 x 250 mm format; no inscriptions to versos, but presumably taken by a USAF serviceman; all of the prints are in excellent condition. These original photographs, taken sometime between 1942 and 1945, show USAF personnel at the airbase at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq), Greenland, which had been …
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# 46413
[PERRON, Joseph or JETTÉ, Jules, attributed]
[ALASKA; JESUIT MISSIONS] Canotlé Rannaga Kelékak. Délochét Roka.
[Canticles, hymns and catechism in the Deg Xinag language]. At head of title: A.M.D.G. (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam). Winnipeg, Manitoba : Free Press No-Rodeneletekteyar, 1904. Square duodecimo (140 x 110 mm), original limp black pebbled cloth, pp. 54; a fine example. A Catholic hymn book in the Deg Xinag (or Deg Hit’an; formerly, Ingalik) language, …
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# 46409
The alphabets of Korea and English for the students.
Seoul : East-West Academic Research Society [c.1950?]. Folding sheet, 175 x 380 mm (opened), 175 x 95 mm (closed), printed on both sides; front panel illustrated with the Taegukgi, followed by 6 panels with the two alphabets presented in tabular form with equivalents in each language, and a colophon in Korean on last panel; good …
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# 46408
VOELKEL, Harold, Rev.
A revival among missionaries in Korea.
Berkeley, CA : The author, [c.1940]. Duodecimo (130 x 90 mm), stapled self-wrappers lettered in black (lower wrapper with wet stamp of the author ‘Harold Voelkel, 2918F Regent St., Berkeley 5, Calif’; pp. 26; on the inside lower wrapper is printed ‘Additional copies may be secured by addressing Rev. Harold Voelkel, c/o First Presbyterian Church, …
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# 46534
BALANGERO, Giovanni Battista
Australia e Ceylan : studi e ricordi di tredici anni di missione.
Torino : G. B. Paravia & C., [March, 1924]. Large octavo (235 x 165 mm) publisher’s pictorial wrappers (upper wrapper with early ownership signature, otherwise very good); pp. xiv, [2], 386, [1]; with numerous b/w lithographed illustrations and several colour maps; text in Italian; occasional spotting, an excellent example. Memoir of a northern Italian Catholic …
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# 46337
Handbook for Americans in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal : American Embassy, 1983. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. 14, a fine copy. This 1983 edition does not appear on Worldcat, although two copies of the 1989 printing can be found in institutions (Library of Congress and Cornell).
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# 46323
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)
New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, March 1944 to December 1945. Twenty-one individual issues (i.e. not bound), uniform quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers, 8-page format; occasional illustrations; very good condition throughout. ‘The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest …
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# 46383
AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)
Sense and sensibility
With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1901. Octavo, decorated cloth, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, prize label to front pastedown, some offsetting, pp. xvi; 342; (2 – catalogue), illustrated by Hugh Thomson, a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, otherwise clean …
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# 46385
AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1902. Octavo, decorated cloth, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, bookseller’s label to front pastedown, some offsetting, pp. xvi; 444; (4 – catalogue), illustrated by Hugh Thomson, a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, otherwise clean …
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# 46384
AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)
Emma
With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1904. Octavo, decorated cloth, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, pp. xviii; 437; [blank]; (6 – catalogue), illustrated by Hugh Thomson, a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, otherwise clean internally, a very good copy. A …
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# 46084
BARDWELL, William
Signed studio portrait of the controversial anti-Catholic crusader Charles Chiniquy, known as “the Canadian Luther”. Melbourne, 1879.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visit format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); recto inscribed in ink across the bottom margin ‘Yours in Christ, C. Chiniquy’; verso with the gilt imprint of ‘Bardwell, Melbourne’; in very good condition. ‘Charles Chiniquy was a well-known Catholic priest in North America from 1833 to 1858, before being expelled and …
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# 46058
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
The Black Forest, Macedon Ranges, after bushfire. Central Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount imprinted Jones’s photographs of Australian Sceneries and inscribed in ink: ‘[Vi]ew at Black Forest after Bush fire’; verso inscribed in ink ‘No. 105’; the left-hand print is somewhat faded, and the mount is rubbed …
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# 46130
[Photographer unknown] A. PUMPHREY (publisher)
A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope.
[Title from printed caption in negative]. Circa 1870. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photographs, each individual image 68 x 72 mm, on yellow board mount 83 x 166 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption in the negative at far right edge ‘685. A Peep down the Melbourne Telescope’, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘A. Pumphrey, …
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# 46050
CEYLON & INDIA GENERAL MISSION
Ceylon & India General Mission collection box, circa 1920.
[London : CIGM, c.1920]. Wooden box, 152 x 80 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on five sides (one illustrated); surface wear commensurate with extensive use. The Ceylon and India General Mission (CIGM) was a non-denominational organisation founded in 1892. Initially its evangelical work was carried out among Ceylon’s Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus, but …
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# 46403
KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)
Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé
dans les ports et à la mer. Half title: Médecine nautique. A Paris : de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1824. Second edition. Octavo, bound in modern cloth backed marbled boards, spine with gilt ornament and leather title label lettered in gilt, pp 115, [1] engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator; mild foxing to the last few leaves, …
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# 46550
KNIGHT, Charles
A history of England
London : Bradbury, Evans & Co., circa 1860. Eight volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (edges a little rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels with gilt lettering (spines a little scuffed at heads); marbled edges and endpapers; various paginations, with numerous engraved plates …