Search Results: Titles starting with N from The Personal Navigator

New York, NY: The National Biscuit Co, 1940. 20 x 28 cm. Cover photo shows young woman, dressed in Scottish tartan, coyly munching an NBC ""Lorna Doone"" shortbread, which is featured as ""Dessert of the Month."" Lead article: ""Let's Visit the N.B.C. Laboratory."" Employee news. Paper periodical, light wear, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Naples, Italy: Casa Editrice Libraria Napoli, Dottor Gennaro Giannini, Pza. Dante 62-64, ca. 1890. 18 x 13.3 cm. Excellent, delightful collection of photos of Naples, Italy includes panoramas from Villa Patrizi, Tomba di Virgilio, San Martino, Views of the Port, Mergellina, Posillipo, Corso Umberto I, Piazza della Borso, Piazza Municipio, Palazzo Reale, Via Caracciolo, Piazza Plebiscito, photos of fishermen at work, men making maccheroni. people in Galleria Umberto I, man delivering milk with the cow, man selling vegetables from his donkey, scugnizzi eating maccheroni, more. Paper booklet bound with cord, very good. . Catalogs: Travel.

Munich, Germany: Soyuzom Borbiy za Osvobozhdyeniye Narodov Rossii, 1954. 34 x 50 cm. Anti-Soviet Propaganda newspaper published in Munich, West Germany. Headlines: ""Spring begins in January"" and ""Legacy of the Last Year"" discusses the world political situation in Korea and Indo-China; the plight of the French in Indo-China; a ""Brilliant speech"" by President Eisenhower at the United Nations Organization about international control of atomic energy. ""Dvye Storoniy Medali"" (Two sides of the Medal) from the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism. Report of message by President Eisenhower to Congress, on support for nations of the free world and anticommunist states, including Indo-China and Chiang Kai Shek's Chinese government (Taiwan). Newspaper, very good. . Catalogs: Cold War/Newspapers.

New York, NY: The Nation, 1872. 24 x 32 cm. Spirited, intelligent commentary: Politicians of doubtful virtue support female suffrage; French arms affair; Assassination of Lord Mayo; Pope preparing to quit Rome?; Carpetbaggers. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: History/Periodical.

Washington, DC: National Press Assoc, ca. 1904. 11 x 15 cm. Booklet advertises possibility of selling your photographs to newspapers. You can join the National Press Association for $3 a year. Paper booklet, embossed gilt letters on cover. Very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Washington, DC: National Theatre, 1926. 15 x 23 cm. Cyril Maude, England's greatest comedian, in ""these Charming People""; Special return engagement of ""The Rivals"" a comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Chicago, IL: The National Home Magazine, 1903. 17 x 25 cm. Sample magazine with form letter to distributors and advertising agents, and order form, enclosed. Sample contains articles like ""A Mysterious Meeting"" by Rev. Axel Lundeberg; ""A Letter from Oregon"" by F.M. Lockett of Ontario, OR; ""Seneca, South Dakota"" by the editor of the monthly ""Unique Senecan"". ""Hope Valley"" by Arthur Alfred (about ten visits to the Coyote State); ""A Settled Old Maid"" about Miss Jane Beagle and her second chance with Billy Winkum. Paper periodical, good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

New York, NY: W.H. Bidwell, 5 Beekman St, 1858. 15 x 23 cm. Sermon by Rev. George Shepard, DD: The Moral discipline of giving; Sermon by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Discouragements in the Christian Life. Paper periodical, cover dampstained and lightly soiled. Very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

Niagara Falls, NY: The National Biscuit Co, 1936. 10 x 19 cm. Card with NBC logo and trademark picture of Niagara Falls, advertises Shredded Wheat. Calendar pad shows January 1936; all other months are blank. Paper calendar sample, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Washington, DC: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1926. 23 x 30 cm. "We Can Cooperate and Yet Compete"" by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce; ""Self-Government in Business"" by Julius H. Barnes; ""Business Can and Must Rule Itself"" by Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland; ""Washington Can't Do It All"" by Ogden L. Mills, Member of Congress, New York; ""Sailing Orders for American Business--Resolutions of Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States""; Full-page ads for Pierce-Arrow Six-Cylinder Motor Buses, Addressograph, Richards-Wilcox Mfg. Co. FyeR-Wall Door;Davey Tree Surgeons; Western Electyric, General Electric, more. Periodical, lower right corner pages dogeared, fair. . Catalogs: History/Business.

New York, NY: Silver, Burdett and Company, �1902. 21 x 18 cm. Handwriting lesson book, gives samples and leaves space for practice. Includes perforations for removing parts of book for help in practice. Handwriting lesson book, owner name on cover, student practice entered on first two pages only. On top of spine 3 cm. nibbles from biopredation. Good. . Catalogs: Educational.

New York, NY: Institute of Social Economics, ca. 1891. 15 x 23 cm. Bates, who was United States Commissioner of Navigation, makes the case for a strong merchant marine, with good, well-built American ships. The ocean ship is the arm of empire, an object of life and beauty. Nations that take and keep the sea develop military, as well as civil, prowess. Author gets quite emotional about ""what a selfish, short-sighted, disparaging ridiculous suggestion.. To quit building ships ourselves, and buy from Great Britain!"" Paper booklet, cover spine partly torn, edge frayed, cover soiled, hole punched through corner of booklet, poor. . Catalogs: Nautical/History.

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1943. 15.5 x 23.4 cm. How the Navy Department is organized; shore establishment; shipboard organization; Disciplinary system. Flexible cloth book, dark blue, cover printing faded, some pencil underlining in Disciplinary section of book, good. . Catalogs: Navy/Nautical.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1923. 12 x 18 cm. Rulings about sailors who misbehaved; responsibility of commanding officers; legal decisions; dismissal; Joint Resolution of March 3, 1921. Cloth on board, very good. . Catalogs: Navy/Reference.

Chicago, IL: The American Merchant Marine Library Association, 1928. 11.8 x 17.5 cm. Prof. George L. Hosmer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivers a lecture, which comprises the first part of this booklet, giving a history of navigation, explaining the principles involved in finding latitude and longitude. In the second part, Alfred E. Burton, Sc.D. provides a listing of books to read, beginning with Prof. Hosmer's book, Navigation, 1926 $2.50; then Nathaniel Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, 1928, $2.25; also Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, annually, $1.00; Wrinkles in Practical Navigation by S.T.S. Lecky, 1919, $5.00; and Whys and Wherefores of Navigation by Gershom Bradford, 1919, $2.00. Paper booklet, cover soiled, good. . Catalogs: Naval/Maritime.

Washington, DC: Stokes Walesby, 1959. 17 x 26 cm. Comic book format tells story of Pearl Harbor, Admiral ""Bull"" Halsey, ""Butch"" O'Hare, Hugh Barr Miller, Sam Dealey, The Battle off Samar, Underwater Demolition Teams, Okinawa, Chester W. Nimitz and the American Bluejacket. Paper booklet, full color, cover shows light wear, good. . Catalogs: Navy/World War II/History.

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Academy, 1955. 21 x 28.3 cm. Program for football game at Thompson Field, Annapolis between Navy and William & Mary. Program cover shows Navy Midshipman smoking an Indian Peace Pipe (in the days before marijuana) and an Indian looking quizzically at a Boatswain's pipe.Many ads by Defense contractors. Photos of Navy and W&M players. Captain of Navy team was John L. Hopkins; W&M Co-Captains were Al Grieco and Bill Marfizo. RADM Walter F. Boone was USNA superintendent. VADM (Ret.) Alvin Duke Chandler was president of William & Mary. Edward J. Erdelatz was head coach of Navy, John J. Freeman was head coach of W&M. Centerfold featured index of players by their jersey numbers, with large ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Football program, color cover, very good. . Catalogs: Education.

Boston, MA: New England Home Magazine, 1898. 14 x 22 cm. Pretty Miss Martha Stein is pictured on cover. ""The Women Who Wait"" while the boys are away in the war to free Cuba--Mrs. William A. Bancroft, Mrs. Charles F. Woodward. Miss Amy Phipps, daughter of millionaire partner of Andrew Carnegie, is serving in the war as a nurse. Also, photo of Mrs. Jose Marti, widow of Cuban leader, called the father of the present rebellion. ""Women Who Have Made History"" -- Catherine and Marie De Medici, by Edoua D Dupre. ""Married"" by Amy Bragier. ""Romances in Daily Life"" by Henry R. Frost. ""Four Favorites""-- Actresses who last season made hits in Boston: Miss Gertrude Elliott, Miss Edith St. Clair, Miss Hope Ross and Miss Katherine Florence. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Women's.

Boston, MA: John B. Russell, 1830. 23 x 28 cm. Lead story: Milk of the Cow Tree from Colombia. We've just received a quantity of the juice from this tree for Harvard University. Deathly poem by farmer's boy for New Year 1830. Paper periodical, worn, good. . Catalogs: Educational/Agricultural/Botany.

Boston, MA: John B. Russell, 1830. 23 x 28 cm. Remarks on the canker worm; Mildew on gooseberries; Importation of pigs; More on horse diseases; Mr. Pierpont's sermon before the Ancient and Honorable. Paper periodical, worn, good. . Catalogs: Farm/Educational/Agricultural.