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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVarnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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Frigidaire
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrigidaire
Dayton: Delco-Light Company, No date.Describes the benefits of the oak or white enamel Frigidaire, including the ice cube drawers in which may be made 72 ‘crystal-pure cubes of ice for table use.’ Also includes recipes for Frozen Dainties made with the Frigidaire. This copy with The Frigidaire Corporation printed through on the colophon and printed No Made and Guaranteed by Delco-Light Company, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Antiquities of Roman London
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Antiquities of Roman Britain: Guide to the Principal Roman Sites in England Outside London
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Iowa Law in Regard to Registration and Regulation of Motor Vehicles (2 Volumes)
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. C. Hayward; W. S. Allen
Des Moines: Emory H. English and Robert Henderson, State Printers, 1911-1913.As enacted by the 34th General Assembly. Takes effect July 4th 1911, and as Amended by the 35th General Assembly 1913 to take effect May 1st 1913
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Addendum to the Instruction on the Use of Aerial Observation in Liaison with the Artillery
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArmy War College, Washington
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918.January 19, 1917 (Modifying “Field Artillery Notes No. 1”).
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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The Symbol of Service
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSouthern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date. -
The Telephone in America
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBell Telephone System
[United States]: Bell Telephone System, 1950. -
Some Telephone Suggestions
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSouthern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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America’s Most Famous Teeth
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReidar F. Sognnaes
Washington, DC: Vick Clark Cleveland, 1974.Reprinted from the Smithsonian Magazine, February 1973. “What kind of dentures did Washington wear? Wood, elephant tusks, elk’s teeth, gold?” (from p.1). Published by a denture company.
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Teatro Reale Dell’ Opera [Roma]: Il Nuovo Palcoscenico Meccanico
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCasa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli
Milano and Roma: Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1929.Royal Opera Theatre: The New Mechanical Stage. Promotional booklet after the 1926 renovations of the theatre which reopened in 1928.
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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
Vedic and Mesopotamian Interactions
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartN. Kazanas
Adyar: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, The Theosophical Society, 2007. -
Katu Folktales and Society
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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Dikter
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohan Bergman
Goteborg: Wettergren & Kerber, 1894.Poetry by Swedish archeologist and parliamentarian Johan Bergman (1864-1951).
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Tours in Sunny New South Wales
AU$110.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Lynch
Sydney: Edward Lynch, No date.1920s NSW travel guide. Published in collaboration with the Government Railways’ Publicity Department.
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A Nocturne and Other Malayan Stories and Sketches
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Swettenham; William R. Roff
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993.Sir Frank Swettenham (1850-1946) was the first Resident General, from 1896 to 1901, of the Federated Malay States, which brought together the states of Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang. “His interest in the country and its people is reflected in the wide range of his stories and sketches.” (from wrapper)
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British Salmonidae
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Jardine
London: Decimus, 1979.First published privately in Edinburgh between 1839 and 1841, this facsimile is limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 327. Paintings by Jardine, engraved by William Lazars, who engraved the early sets of Audubon’s Birds. Four page essay ‘Sir William Jardine and the British Salmonidae’ by Alwyne Wheeler, Curator of European fishes at the British Museum (Natural History), laid in.