‎The National Geographic Magazine Vol.LXXVIII (complete)‎

‎, 824pp.with bl./w. and coloured ill.(without seperate maps (?)), Washington, The National Geographic Society, July - Dec.1940 (bound together in hard cover)‎

‎The New Testament and gnosis: Essays in honour of Robert McL. Wilson‎

‎Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark 1983 xii + 258pp. + portrait, 23cm., hardcover, 3 stamps (of which a small one at lower edges), else VG, R70125‎

‎[The Picturephone System, containing 21 articles. See below.]. - [BELL'S PICTUREPHONE SYSTEM.]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1971. 8vo. Original full green cloth, bound with the original blue wrappers. Volume 50, 1971 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". Library stamp to free front end-paper and title page. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. [Mentioned articles:] Pp: 219-700. [Entire issue:XXXVII, (3), 1098].‎

‎First edition of the technical description of Bell System's picturephone System.When the system was launched it was regarded as a state of the art information tool. It was being used in various science fiction-movies, among these, Stanley Cubric's A Space Odyssey.""The AT&T picturephone offered full motion, a monochrome picture, and about half the resolution of a conventional TV image. It worked over three phone lines, and though fairly costly, was somewhat affordable. The AT&T picturephone utilized sophisticated image technology and was a well designed product offering desk-top, impulse use."" (Noll, Michael. Highway of dreams: a critical view along the information superhighway, 1997, p. 27).It never became a huge success and after a few years only, it was taken off the market. In the history of the telephone and communication in general, however, it occupies an important role, as this was the first time that a visual personal communication tool was being offered to a broad audience. In this respect, it can be regarded as the forerunner of web-cam and video mobiles. Other papers of interest is contained in the present volume:1. Baird, Jack A. The Picturephone System: Foreword. Pp. 219-220. 2. Dorros, Irwin. The Picturephone System: The Network. Pp. 221-233. 3. Crater, T.V. The Picturephone System: Service Standards. Pp. 235-269.4. Cagle, W.B." Strokes, R.R. Wright, B.A. The Picturephone System: The Station: 2C Video Telephone Station Set. Pp. 271-312.5. Gordon, A.M. Singleton, J.B. The Picturephone System: Station Set Components. Pp. 313-349.6. Brown, H.E. The Picturephone System: Transmission Plan. Pp. 351-394. 7. Brown, J.M. The Picturephone System: Baseband Video Transmission on Loops and Short-Haul Trunks. Pp. 395-425.8. Bunin, B.J. Hirsch, R.B. Olsen, R.E. The Picturephone System: Crosstalk Considerations in the Transmission of Analog Signals on Paired Cable. Pp. 427-457. 9. Millard, J.B. Maunsell, H.I. The Picturephone System: Digital Encoding of the Video Signal. Pp. 459-479.10. Broderick, C.W. The Picturephone System: A Digital Transmission System for TD-2 Radio. Pp. 481-499. 11. Gunn, J.F. Ronne, J.S. Weller, D.C. The Picturephone System: Mastergroup Digital Transmission on Modern Coaxial Systems. Pp. 501-520. 12. Urich, J.F. The Picturephone System: Switching Plan. Pp. 521-531. 13. Burgess, P.N. Stickel, J.E. The Picturephone System: Central Office Switching. Pp. 533-552.14. Breen, Charles. The Picturephone System: Customer Switching Systems. Pp. 553-565.15. Daskalakis, A. The Picturephone System: Key Telephone Systems. Pp. 567-584.16. Anderson, H.P. The Picturephone System: The 850A PBX. Pp. 585-604.17. Brown, D.W. Horvath, J.R. Paxton, T.S. The Picturephone System: No. 101 ESS. Pp. 605-620.18. Dougherty, H.J. Peterson, E.B. Schachtman, M.G. The Picturephone System: Maintenance Plan. Pp. 621-644. 19. Favin, D.L. Gilmore, J.F. The Picturephone System: Line and Trunk Maintenance Arrangements. Pp. 645-665.20. Bender, E.C. Howson, R.D. The Picturephone System: Wideband Data Service. Pp. 667-681.21. Warwick, P.S. Phipps, G.W. The Picturephone System: Computer Access. Pp. 683-700.And many other.‎

‎The Siam Society fiftieth anniversary, commemorative publication: selected articles from The Siam Society Journal. Volume I: 1904-1929‎

‎Bangkok, The Siam Society 1954 vii + 290pp. with illustrations, 24cm., hardcover (publisher's blue cloth binding), few stains on front board, good condition, X76565‎

‎Thracia 8‎

‎Serdicae [Sofia], In aedibus Academiae Litterarum Bulgaricae 1988 247pp.with ills., 25cm., cloth, good condition, [contributions in French, English, German and Russian], G75778‎

‎Thracia 9‎

‎Serdicae [Sofia], In aedibus Academiae Litterarum Bulgaricae 1989 160pp., 25cm., cloth, small stain of humidity on cover, good condition, [contributions in German], G75777‎

‎Thracia IV‎

‎Serdicae [Sofia], In aedibus Academiae Litterarum Bulgaricae 1977 337pp.with ills., 25cm., cloth, some water damage at last pages, text in good condition, [contributions in French, German and English], G75776‎

‎Thracia V: Problèmes ethno-culturels de la Thrace antique‎

‎Serdicae [Sofia], In aedibus Academiae Litterarum Bulgaricae 1980 301pp.with ills., 25cm., cloth, very good condition, [contributions in French, German, English and Russian], G75775‎

‎Tractata Altaica, Denis Sinor sexagenario optime de rebus altaicis merito dedicata‎

‎Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz 1976 xi + 773pp. + frontispice + 2 plates + table out-of-text, 24cm., softcover, VG, X71498‎

‎Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. Volumes 1 to 9 [complete series, all published]‎

‎London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1872-1893 Complete series of 9 volumes (no more published), together ca. 4700 pp., with illustrations in text and plates out of text of which quite some folding and some of them in colour (maps, plans, facsimiles, tables, diagrams), 23cm., 9 uniform hardcover bindings, spines in cloth with small label at lower end, copy from the collection of the famous French orientalist Jean-Baptiste Chabot (with his ex-libris stamp), library stamp at recto and verso of title pages, content and text is clean and bright with only few foxing, good condition, rare, [Contains numerous scholarly articles regarding oriental archaeology and history, a.o. on Assyria, Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Chaldea, etc., With an index and a list of members in each volume. All volumes were issued in 2 parts, except for vols.7-8 each in 3 parts. Bound together with vol.4 is: "Catalogue of the Library of the Soceity of Biblical Archaeology" (London, 1876, 109pp.)], total weight: 10kg., X93276‎

‎Transatlantic Communications. [11 papers, see below]. - [FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST SUBMARINE TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE CABLE SYSTEM, TAT-1]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1957. 8vo. Volume 36, 1957 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". In the original printed blue wrappers. Sunning to spine, and very minor spotting to wrappers. Internally near mint. 348 pp.‎

‎First edition of the first technical description of the TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. The 2,240-mile cable was laid by the cableship Monarch and ran from Gallanach Bay, near Oban in Argyll, to Clarenville, Canada.""The papers that follow describe the design, manufacture and installation of the first transatlantic telephone cable system with all its component parts, including the connection microwave radio-relay system in Nova Scotia."" (From the introduction to the present volume).""Years of development led up to 1956 when the first transatlantic telephone cable system started carrying calls"" this is an interesting story in itself. Two coaxial cables about 20 miles apart carried 36 two-way circuits. Nearly 50 sophisticated repeaters were spaced from 10 to 40 miles along the way. Each vacuum tube repeater contained 5,000 parts and cost almost $100,000."" (Petruzzellis, Thomas. Telephone Projects for the Evil Genius, 2008, p. 4). The electronic repeaters, the devices that held together the many separate cables, were designed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. In terms of reliable operation, the most critical component of the system was the repeater. These devices, spaced at intervals of 37.5 nautical miles along the cable, compensated for loss. The repeaters were of a unique flexible design, which allowed them to be handled in the same manner as cable.TAT-1 carried the Moscow-Washington hotline between the American and Soviet heads of state.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:1. Kelly, Dr. Mervin J." Radley, Sir Gordon. Transatlantic Communications - An Historical Resume. Pp. 1-5.2. Mottram, E.T. Halsey, R.J. Emling, J.W. Griffith, R.G. Transatlantic Telephone Cable System - Planning and Over-All Performance. Pp. 7-27.3. Lewis, H.A. Tucker, R.S. Lovell, G.H. Fraser, J. M. System Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 29-68.4. Gleichmann, T.F. Lince, A.H. Wooley, M.C. Braga, F.J. Repeater Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 69-101. 5. Lamb, H.A. Heffner, W.W. Repeater Production for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 103-138. 6. Meszaros, G.W. Spencer, H.H. Power Feed Equipment for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 139-162.7. McNally, J.O. Metson, G.H. Veazie, E.A. Holmes, M.F. Electron Tubes for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 163-188.8. Lebert, A.W. Fischer, H.B. Biskeborn, M.C. Cable Design and Manufacture for the Transatlantic Submarine Cable System. Pp. 189-216.9. Halsey, R.J. Bampton, J.F. System Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 217-244.10. Brockbank, R.A. Walker, D.C. Welsby, V.G. Repeater Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 245-276.11. Thomas, J.F.P. Kelly, R. Power-Feed System for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 277-292.12. Jack, J.S. Leech, Capt. W.H. Lewis, H.A. Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 293-326.‎

‎Transatlantic Communications. TAT-1. - [FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST SUBMARINE TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE CABLE SYSTEM, TAT-1]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1957. 8vo. Original full green cloth, bound with the original blue wrappers. Volume 36, 1957 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". Library stamp to pasted down front free end-paper. Minor bumping to extremities. A nice and clean copy. [Entire issue:] 20, 1513 pp.‎

‎First edition of the first technical description of the TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. The 2,240-mile cable was laid by the cableship Monarch and ran from Gallanach Bay, near Oban in Argyll, to Clarenville, Canada. The initial capacity was 36 calls at a time at a price per call of $12 for the first three minutes. Since trans-Atlantic service opened in 1927, calls had traveled across the ocean via radio waves. But cables provide much higher signal quality, avoid atmospheric interference and offer greater capacity and security.""The papers that follow describe the design, manufacture and installation of the first transatlantic telephone cable system with all its component parts, including the connection microwave radio-relay system in Nova Scotia."" (From the introduction to the present papers).""Years of development led up to 1956 when the first transatlantic telephone cable system started carrying calls"" this is an interesting story in itself. Two coaxial cables about 20 miles apart carried 36 two-way circuits. Nearly 50 sophisticated repeaters were spaced from 10 to 40 miles along the way. Each vacuum tube repeater contained 5,000 parts and cost almost $100,000."" (Petruzzellis, Thomas. Telephone Projects for the Evil Genius, 2008, p. 4). The electronic repeaters, the devices that held together the many separate cables, were designed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. In terms of reliable operation, the most critical component of the system was the repeater. These devices, spaced at intervals of 37.5 nautical miles along the cable, compensated for loss. The repeaters were of a unique flexible design, which allowed them to be handled in the same manner as cable.TAT-1 carried the Moscow-Washington hotline between the American and Soviet heads of state.Other papers of interest contained in the present volume:1. Kelly, Dr. Mervin J." Radley, Sir Gordon. Transatlantic Communications - An Historical Resume. Pp. 1-5.2. Mottram, E.T. Halsey, R.J. Emling, J.W. Griffith, R.G. Transatlantic Telephone Cable System - Planning and Over-All Performance. Pp. 7-27.3. Lewis, H.A. Tucker, R.S. Lovell, G.H. Fraser, J. M. System Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 29-68.4. Gleichmann, T.F. Lince, A.H. Wooley, M.C. Braga, F.J. Repeater Design for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 69-101. 5. Lamb, H.A. Heffner, W.W. Repeater Production for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 103-138. 6. Meszaros, G.W. Spencer, H.H. Power Feed Equipment for the North Atlantic Link. Pp. 139-162.7. McNally, J.O. Metson, G.H. Veazie, E.A. Holmes, M.F. Electron Tubes for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 163-188.8. Lebert, A.W. Fischer, H.B. Biskeborn, M.C. Cable Design and Manufacture for the Transatlantic Submarine Cable System. Pp. 189-216.9. Halsey, R.J. Bampton, J.F. System Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 217-244.10. Brockbank, R.A. Walker, D.C. Welsby, V.G. Repeater Design for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 245-276.11. Thomas, J.F.P. Kelly, R. Power-Feed System for the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia Link. Pp. 277-292.12. Jack, J.S. Leech, Capt. W.H. Lewis, H.A. Route Selection and Cable Laying for the Transatlantic Cable System. Pp. 293-326.And many other.‎

‎Transcaucasica II‎

‎Venezia, 1980 135pp., 24cm., softcover, in the series "Quaderni del seminario di iranistica, uralo-altaistica e caucasologia dell'Universita degli studi di Venezia" volume 7, [Contains 9 articles on Armenian subjects (of which 7 in Italian and 2 in English)], X114396‎

‎Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales‎

‎Union Square (1/2016)‎

‎LIVRE A L’ETAT DE NEUF. EXPEDIE SOUS 3 JOURS OUVRES. NUMERO DE SUIVI COMMUNIQUE AVANT ENVOI, EMBALLAGE RENFORCE. EAN:9781435161368‎

‎Turk dilleri arastirmalari 1992 (Dizisi: 4) [Researches in Turcic languages, vol.4, 1992]‎

‎Ankara, 1992 216pp., 24cm., in the series "Turk dilleri arastirmalari Dizisi:4", contains articles in English, German and Turkish, VG, ISBN 975-7444-02-2, [contains a.o.: DOERFER Gerhard, Bemerkungen zu Talat Tekins "Orhon Yazitlari" (pp.5-17) & ODA Juten, A recent study on the Uighur Document of Pintung's Petition (pp.35-46),...], X77199‎

‎Turkish Carpets from the 13th - 18th centuries‎

‎Istanbul, Ahmet Ertug 1996 xliv + 236pp. with 164 full-colour plates, 38cm., publisher's hardcover in grey cloth with gilt lettering, in publisher's slipcase, text in English, publication on the occasion of the exhibition in Istanbul (Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, 26 september - 12 november 1996), very good condition, weight: 3.6kg., S97046‎

‎Ulenspiegel, revista bimestral organo de la Associacion belgo-ibero-americana, Volume I (1934) ; no.1 (1 enero 1934) & no.2 (marzo 1934)‎

‎Antwerpen [Amberes], La Chapelle de Bourgogne 1934 Complete collection of 2 large fascicules (1934 complete, all ever published), together 816pp., with some illustrations, 24cm., bound in 2 uniform cart. bindings, periodical dealing with the cultural relations between Belgium and the Ibero-american world, with articles in various languages (Spanish, French, Dutch), good condition, rare, B95809‎

‎Un santo laico dell'età postgregoriana. Allucio da Pescia (1070 c.a. - 1134). Religione e società nei territori di Lucca e della Valdinievole‎

‎Roma, Jouvence 1991 391pp. with some facsimiles + 22 bl/w illustrations out of text, 23cm., editor's softcover, text in Italian, in the series "Pubblicazioni del dipartimento di medievistica dell'Universita di Pisa" volume 2, good condition, H93345‎

‎Unsere liebe Frau. Eine Ausstellung im Krönungssaal des Rathauses zu Aachen (7.Juni-14.September 1958)‎

‎s.l., s.d. [+/- 1958] 155pp. + frontispice + ills. (of which some in colour), 25cm., illustrated softcover, 2 stamps, G, R73292‎

‎Uns ist in alten Mären Das Nibelungenlied und seine Welt‎

‎Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2003 240pp.with ills. in colour, 28cm., exhibition catalogue (Badisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Karlsruhe, 13-12-2003 - 14-03-2004), cart.cover, dustwrapper, VG, T72473‎

‎Ursulinen in Köln (1639-1989). Festschrift zum 350jährigen Bestehen der Ursulinenschule Köln‎

‎Köln, Ursulinenschule 1989 302pp.with ills., 25cm., illustrated cart.cover, stamp, VG, R73604‎

‎Veit Stoss in Nürnberg. Werke des Meisters und seiner Schule in Nürnberg und Umgebung‎

‎München, Deutscher Kunstverlag 1983 366pp. with 203 illustrations, softcover, 27cm., very good, S84609‎

‎Vestnik drevnej istorii, 1 (119). Journal of ancient history, 1 (119), 1972‎

‎Moskva, Izd-vo Nauka 1972 280pp.with ills. + some plates out-of-text, original softcover, 26cm., text in Russian in Cyrillic script, edition of only 3680 copies, X77712‎

‎Vesuviana, an international journal of archaeological and historical studies on Pompeii and Herculaneum. Volume 1 (2009)‎

‎Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra 2009 182pp. with bl/w illustrations, 25cm., softcover in stiff paper, dustwrapper (few stains), interior and text in fine condition, G94440‎

‎Vetus Testamentum. A quarterly published by the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. Vol.37 (1987) [complete volume]‎

‎Leiden, Brill 1987 xii + 536pp., 24cm., cloth, few stamps, VG, R68471‎