Along the Yellow River
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1975. 138p., paperback with minor shelfwear; color photos throughout. A celebration of post-Revolutionary China, visiting locations along the course of the river. More
Cat.No: 268760
Rivers
American Falls. Dewatered June 12, 1969
Buffalo, NY: US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, 1969. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8 inches, some foxing at upper left on front panel. Explanation of the diversion of water from the American Falls portion of Niagara Falls, due to the accumulation of broken rock at the bottom of the falls..... More
Cat.No: 291537
Asiatic Pilot Volume V - Sunda Strait and the Southern Approaches to China Sea with West and North Coasts of Borneo and Off-lying Dangers. Published by the [U.S.] Hydrographic Office Under the Authority of the Secretary of the Navy. First Edition.
Washington DC: GPO, 1915. Hardcover. x, 519p., illustrated with a fold-out "Index to Charts referred to in this book," a sort of map of maps (hydrographic maps available from government sources, none reproduced here) - and provided with perforated coupons that entitle bearer to free paperwork (all coupons present and..... More
Cat.No: 296958
Chain letter to stop the dredging and development of the Russian River!
[Sonoma County, CA]: npub, [c1967-1971]. Ephemera. 8.5x11 inch letter addressed to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, during Reagan's governance; photocopied, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 313605
The first ever haute route at the Lazy K Bar
Self-published by the author, c2019. Hardcover. About 100 unpaginated pages, 10x8 inch illustrated boards; profusely illustrated with color photos., in very good condition. Privately published book about a family's use of their high mountain property received as a result of the Railroad Land Grant of 1862. More
Cat.No: 316936
Geography of China
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1972. Paperback. 44p., 7x5 inches; b&w illus., maps, small pen mark on front wrapper, More
Cat.No: 272497
La desviacion del Rio Lauca
La Paz, Bolivia: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, 1962. Paperback. 303, [11] pages + 1 folded plate leaf, map, paperback. Some edge wear to covers. Book published by the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Relations arguing that Chile was altering the course of an international river (a claim Chile repeatedly..... More
Cat.No: 347291
Merced Wild and Scenic River: Revised comprehensive management plan and supplemental environmental impact statement. Part 1 of 2. Executive summary, Chapters I-IV
Yosemite, CA: National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, 2005. Paperback. Chapters individually numbered, over 300p in total, with numerous fold-out maps. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch wraps, a very good copy. Please note, "Part 1" only. More
Cat.No: 121555
Report on Feasibility of Feather River Project and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Diversion Projects Proposed as Features of the California Water Plan
Sacramento: State of California Department of Public Works, 1951. Paperback. viii, 127p., inserted b&w illustrations and map in colors; plus extensive appendices and 15 large folded "plates" (= maps) with spot-color. First issue of this version of the project mimeo'd recto-only under professionally-printed cover sheets and a dark blue binder's-tape..... More
Cat.No: 208982
Russian River, Dry Creek Basin, California; Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting: A letter from the chief of engineers, Department of the Army, dated July 27, 1962, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on an interim report on the Russian River, Dry Creek Basin, California, requested by a resolution of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, adopted July 1, 1958
Washington DC: GPO, 1962. xxxvii, 229p., text reproduced from typescript, illustrated with a number of line maps (some folded) and photoillustrations (poorly reproduced), softbound in 10x7.5 inch plain printed buff wraps. Covers somewhat grubby with handling soil and edgewear, entirely clean and sound within. A good copy. In brief, put..... More
Cat.No: 210489
![Cat.No: 230354 Saguenay Lake St-John [region], the Country of Maria Chapdelaine /...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/230354.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539813525)
Saguenay Lake St-John [region], the Country of Maria Chapdelaine / Saguenay Lac St-Jean, le pays de Maria Chapdelaine
[no city; Quebec]: Le Syndicat d'Initiatives Touristiques / The Saguenay and Lake St-John tourist Association, [mid-1930s]. Pamphlet. Tour guide bound dos-a-dos, French and English with same content but differing photo-illustrations. Softbound, 10x5 inches, ditto cover illustration in silver and black on white; the English section is worn and the inside..... More
Cat.No: 230354
The uprooting of a people in Kalinga-Apayao
Kowloon, Hong Kong: Asia Forum on Human Rights, 1980. Pamphlet. 62p., staplebound pamphlet, 7x8.5 inches, mild handling to covers. On opposition to the Chico River Hydroelectric Project. More
Cat.No: 271706
Warm Springs Dam and Lake Sonoma Project Russian River Basin, Sonoma County, California. Draft Environmental Impact Statement
San Francisco: U.S. Army Engineer District Corps of Engineers, June 1973. Paperback. 155p., printed rectos only, plus about fifty appended printed pages plus eleven folded maps and elevations in colors; softbound in a copyshop comb spine, a little edgeworn with a couple tiny tears, some creasing, dust, and an ownership..... More
Cat.No: 201352
Man against flood
Peking: New World Press, 1956. 109p. hardcover, mild handling wear, generally very good. The New Zealand-born Maoist narrates "A story of the 1954 flood on the Yangtse and of the reconstruction that followed it." More
Cat.No: 286065
Man against flood
Peking: New World Press, 1956. Hardcover. 109p. hardcover, boards worn and foxed, a reading copy only. The New Zealand-born Maoist narrates "A story of the 1954 flood on the Yangtse and of the reconstruction that followed it." More
Cat.No: 286067
The Struggle for Baltic Markets; Powers in Conflict 1558-1618
Goteborg: Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhallet, 1979. Paperback. 232p., illustrated with one line map (very last leaf), text entirely in English, softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed (but rubricated) grey wraps (laid lines, nice stock), continental-style paperback with overlapping covers (a bit worn) and closed signatures (a former owner read all..... More
Cat.No: 265564
A Village By The Jordan: the Story of Degania
New York: Sharon Books, 1957. 176p, 6x9 inch blue cloth boards, very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj with a few small splash stains on the front panel and a 2 inch closed tear along the spine panel. Forty years of communal living amongst thousands of immigrants. More
Cat.No: 335263
Australian Caves, Cliffs, and Waterfalls
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1944. Hardcover. 126p., illustrated profusely with full- and half-page reproductions from photography on semi-glazed stock amidst a running text (presswork on semi-glazed alkaline stuff). Hardbound in 9x7 inch plain printed papered boards with a cloth backstrip titled black, a nice design in worn condition: boards are toned..... More
Cat.No: 297600
![Cat.No: 326969 New Town [North Dakota] Golden Jubilee, 1951 - 2001. Annette Braaten,...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/326969.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729123703)
New Town [North Dakota] Golden Jubilee, 1951 - 2001
[New Town]: New Town Chamber of Commerce, 2001. Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 200 pages, consisting almost exclusively of captioned b&w photos of unexceptionable local buildings which house city services (domestic violence resource, etc.), businesses (auto parts, etc.), you name it. Captions retail to us the names of original owners, years in..... More
Cat.No: 326969
Summer hawk
San Francisco: Norton Coker Press, 1991. 28p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, back cover is bumped and creased. A local dude, title poem invokes Russian River area. More
Cat.No: 164559
Wading the Russian River
San Francisco, CA: Norton Coker Press, 1993. 28p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 128672
Lightning Storm Mind -- Pre-Ancientist Meditations
Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2017. Paperback. 149p., photographic wraps, terminal leaves have suffered a small corner-tip bump else very good condition, 9x6 inches; anarchist perspective, the author currently still heavily influenced by Katrina's flood damage. Many of the photos that decorate Max's pronounciamentos are, we're sure, of the risen Mississippi. More
Cat.No: 331746
Le Chemin des Touristes; Description historique et Geologique illustree des Gorges du Rhumel a Constantine
Constantine, Algeria: Imprimerie a Vapeur Emil Marle (Audrino, Directeur), 1895. ii, 48p., illustrated with a frontis portrait of the author and five site photos on inserted semi-alkaline stock (all b&w offset), softbound in 9.5x6 inch printed wraps. Cover margins are extensively crimped, expect wrinkling and sunning to covers, textblock faintly..... More
Cat.No: 255429
All Aboard: a saga of the Romantic River
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1928. Hardcover. viii, 338p., very odd patterned offsetting or transfer on front and rear free endpapers otherwise a very good first edition in blue cloth boards with dark blue titles and riverboat vignette, in an unclipped and bright dj with mild edgewear, wraparound illustration. Cobb's..... More
Cat.No: 325958
Chinese Painting Master Pieces of the Mountains and Rivers by Con Shien
unknown: unknown, unknown. Paperback. Large oblong, 10.5x15 inches, string-fastened in traditional manner, covering nineteen numbered b&w plates printed recto only (versos blank), the terminal plate copied color to show stamp impressions in red. Edgeworn with marginal tears ( the largest inch-long). No English-language helps other than bare titles. Find lots..... More
Cat.No: 310155