During Battle Exercise in the Mediterranean: HMS Hood Demonstrating Britains Post War Improvement in Naval Gunnery - full fron page aerial photograph showing the ship firing 15inch Shells and hitting targets.
The Boston Art Club: A Recently Discovered Painting at The Club of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and his Daughter Jane.
The Spanish Nationalist Leader:
General Francisco Franco the Leader of the Spanish Insurgents in the Civil War - With his Wife and Daughter at His HQ in Salamanca - also two other men in photograph - info. wife, Carmen Polo aka Maria del Carmen Polo y Martinez-Valdes - daughter Carmen Franco aka Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo
General Franco's Forces Saluting as They March Through Salamanca on Their Way to the Front Line.
Full page.
Pantellaria - Italy's Strategic Island Base Between Sicily and Africa and a Potential New Base for Italy inthe Mediterranean? And Its Relationship to Malta and Gozo etc - a wonderful double page relief style map with two inset maps "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis with Inset Plan Reproduced by the British Admiralty Chart No 186...." - places shown on the map include, on Pantellaria: Punta S. Leonardo Lighthouse - Port Pantellaria - Kharuscia Point - Punta Bue Marino - Punta Spadillo Lighthouse - Leone Rocks - Montana Grande - Cuddia Di Mida - Miel - Cala Brabant - Punta di Suachi - Punta tre Pietre - Phnta tre Rossi Di Nica - Pollacca Point - Limarsi Point - Grotto die Brigana - etc. The Inset map shows Pantellaria and adjacent waters inc, Tunis - Bizerta Franch Naval Station - Galita island - Sicily with Marsala, Palermo, Cape Passero, Mt Etna - Lampedusa - Linosa - Gozo - Malta - etc - And the Admiralty chart inset.
World of Science Page:
The Darter a Steganopodous Bird Related to the Cormorant.
A Steganopodous Bird - The Pelican.
The Cape Gannet a Steganopodous Bird.
How a Leopard Charges Revealed by Photographs by Captain Steer Webster FRGS FZS - three photographs on a full page<p..
Page entitled The Maker of Modern Japan etc:
Relic of a Military Operation in Ieyasu's Career - Suit of Armour He wore at Otaka 1560.
A Model of De Liefde in Whic William Adams Reached Japan.
Japanese Court Dress Early 17thC - Ieyasu's Son Tokugawa Hidetada.
Exhibits in the Antional Gallery Plus Four Works Lent:
S. Pietro i Castello in Venice by Francesco Guardi - Lent by C. S. Gulbenkian.
View of Mira on the Brenta by Francesco Guardi. sleekburnc.
The Welsh Funeral at Bettws-y-coed by David Cox - New Acquisition.
Mademoiselle Salle by Maurice Quentin de la Tour - Lent by C. S. Gulbenkian.
Portrait of a Young Woman Attribbuted to Domenico Ghirlandaio.
Five photographs of the Giant Nightjar and Chick aka Poor-me-one - double page with three of the photographs taken by Mister R. E. Johnson.
Perched on an Old Cercropia Tree Stump - The Gian Nightjar Nyctibius Griseus - as above.
Examples from the Famous Hind Stamp Collection - full page showing Canadian Twelvepence x4; Two Woodblock Cape of Good Hope Provisional of 1861; Embossed Stamp of Scinde India by Sir Bartle Frere 1852; Early Engraved Stamps of Mauritius; Two Italian Stamps Duchy of Tuscany; Stamps of Trinidad; Two Ceylon 4d. 1862; Strip of three Spanish Stamps 18520; Pair of One Shilling Nova Scotia (ex Hind); Newfoundland 1s. 1857 and 8d; Two 2d Syndney View of New South Wales; Early New Zealand; Swiss Cantonal Stamps; Kingdom of Saxony 1850; VR Stamps of GB prepared but never issued; Brazil 1844 600 reis; 23 cents Georgetown British Guiana 1850; hand Struck Moldavia, Romania; Unmused Pair of 2 k. Of the Russian Levant 1865; Natal Embossed 1857; Ten Dollars USA For Use by Department of State - Full page with text.
One of the Great Obelisks from Aksum Arriving by Rail in Sections from Abyssinia - - info. Axum Ethiopia.
Two Cachalots or Sperm Whales Washed Ashore onthe Dutch Coast Arriving in Rotterdam.
Reigate - Some of the 300,000 Air Raid Wardens Being Enrolled and Watching Demonstrations by the Fire Brigade.
Switzerland - Air Raid Precautions Which Has Sought Written Assurances from Herr Hitler - Women in Geneva Wearing Gas Masks at Reive an Air Raid Drill.
Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia - Searching for Victims Under Heavy Wreckage in the State Coal Mine Disaster.
Wonthaggi - A Miners Fox Terrier Belonging to One of the Dead Men, Waiting at the Pit Head Since the Disaster.
Croydon Aerodrome - Arctic Conditions after a Recent Snowstorm and a Scylla Airways Liner Taking Off.
An Unusual Road Sign in Liechtenstein: "Smoking in Windy Weather Prohibited" - in the town of Liechtenstein formerly Vaduz.
HMS Devonshire Taking part in the Combined Exercises in the Mediterranean.
King Farouk of Egypt with His Mother Queen Nazli - Arriving at St Moritz for Winter Sports.
The Girls Guildry Display in Queens Hall London - Queen Elizabeth Being Greeted By Mrs Walter Elliot.
Two New Camperdown Commemorative Miniatures by John Smart: Captain Walker of the "Monmouth" - Captain Wells of the "Lancaster".
Personalities of the Week page:
Mr James Woodford ARA.
Mr Charles Cundall ARA.
Dr Hafez Pasha Afifi The Egyptian Ambassador to the Court of St James's.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scot RA.
Sir William Reid Dick RA.
Appointed Bishop of Lichfield - The Right Rev. E. S. Woods.
Vicar of Halifax and Former Bishop of North Queensland - Dr G. H. Frodsham.
Sir Gavin Simonds The New Judge of the High Court Chancery Division.
Mister Dion Clayton Calthrop the Playwright Artist and Author.
Mister Frank Vosper Actor and Playwright - Lost Overboard from the Liner "SS Paris".
Sir George Cunningham the New Governor of North West Frontier Province.
Madrid - General Miaja th Spanish Government Leader - signing a document, another man in the photograph.
Sir Joseph hocking the Novelist.
The Japanese Art of Bon Kei - "Tray Landscape" in Miniature - a double page showing thirteen photographs of the varying techniques, dwarf trees, models etc.
The Menace of Ice Formation on Aircraft - Its Depostion by super Cooled Rain - Its Malignant Action on Wings, Controls, and Motors - Efforts to Overcome it by Mechanical, themal and Chemical Means - a wonderful double centre page (tipped in so can be removed without damage) of diagrammatical sketches "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis with King Assistance of the Air ministry and Royal Aircraft Establishment".
The Dutch Tin Dredger " Kantoeng ", Built at Schiedam for the Netherlands Colonial Dept, Being towed Out of Rotterdam harbour - Later Capsized in a Storm off the Eddystone Lighthouse.
The Spanish Government Arms Ship "Mar Cantabrico " Leaving New York, Followed by a US Coastguard Cutter - Later Sunk by the Insurgent Cruiser "Canarias" in the Bay of Biscay.
Captured and Executed by the Italians: Ras Desta the Abyssinian Chief After His Capture - The Son in Law of the Emperor Haile Silassie Meets His Doom - Ras Desta Before He Was Shot by a Firing Party.
The Antung Theatre in China - A Manchurian Disaster in Which Seven Hundred People Were Killed.
The Spanish War: Collecting Scrap in a Wrecked Factory at Malaga.
The Washington General Post Office USA: Women Office Messengers Roller Skating From Department to Department - two photographs on a full page.
The King Edward VIII Coinage in Circulation Overseas: A Penny and A Halfpenny Issued in British West Africa; And A Penny Issued in New Guinea - actual size.
Adelaide Australia: Australias Services Contingent for the coronation on Parad and Marching Through the Streets Before their Departure for England.
Government House Adelaide: Governor Sir Winston Dugan Talking to Colonel Lind the Officer Commanding the Coronation Contingent.
The Morley College for Working men and Women - Queen Mary - Archbishop of Canterbury - And others - mentioned in the caption are (but not sure if in pic.) President Professor R. H. Tawney - Mrs Gustav Holst - Dr Vaughan Williams.
Elections in India - A Large Crowd Outside a Polling Station at Lahore.
The Long Lost Chekiang Kiln Sites in China:
The Site of the Famous Yueh, Sung Perior, Potteries Discovered in Chekiang on the Shores of Lake at Shang Lin Hu - the location of the kilns are marked with Xs.
A Map Showing the Position of the Site at Shan Lin Hu and Illustrates Mr Plumer's Journey from Hangchow.
Mr Plumer the Discoverer Holding a Mass of Misshapen bowls at a Kiln Site.
Place of Origin of the Famous Yueh Sung Period Pottery - Shang Lin Hu in the Province of Chekiang - Waste Material Exposed After a Grave Had Been Dug Out.
Kiln Site 1 at the Yueh Ware Potteries - A Local Farmer with Mr Yang Who Accompanied Mr Plumer.
Remains at Yueh Kiln Site with Pieces of Precious Pi Se Yao in the Undergrowth - A Hat Indicates the Size.
At Kiln Site II Shang Lin Hu - Roots of a Pine Tree.
Kiln Site III Lost Under thick Vegetation of a Wooded Knoll.
Peasants Unconscious of the Importance, Assist in the Digging - A Chinese Countryman Unearthing Shards at Kiln Site III.
A house Near the Yueh Ware Kiln Sites, Its Walls Composed of Sung Kiln Wast and Containing Countless Fragments of precious Pottery.
Another Example of the Use of the Sung Pottery Rubble as Building Material by the Local Farmers at the yueh Kiln Sites - With Ancient Saggars Being Used to Weigh Down the Tiles.
Drawings at the British Museum Exhibition:
The Young Joshua Reynolds Aged about 27, A Drawing by John Astley - a wonderful full page signed and dated May 1750 - In an exhibition of drawings at the British Museum.
John Wilkes - Drawn by Hogarth. c.keenlyside.
Famous Engraving by Durer - Virgin and Child with Monkey.
Durer Drawing Which Furnished the Background for the virgin and Child etc.
Theatre Page:
Miss Jane Baxter as Frankie in "George and Margaret"...
Scene from "Big Business" at the London Hippodrome - Bobby Howes - Bertha Belmore - and others.
Scene from "Suspect" at the St Martin's with Mary Morris; David Horne; and Campbell Gullan.
Johnnie Walker - Good Whisky Gets Rounder and Rounder ... full page advert.
Morocco The Land of hospitable Peoples - advert.
The Windmill at Chailey in Sussex - full page advert issued by Worthington and Co of Burton on Trent.
Motoring Page:
The New Ford V8 "30" Cabriolet.
The Morris Ten.
The New "12" and "14" Vauxhall ....
The New Alvis 4·3 Litre Car.
A Riley "Adelphi" in The Clent Hills in Worcestershire.
1½ Litre MG Tourer on the Berkshire Downs.
3½ Litre Bentley in Epping forest Near high Beech.
the New Austin Ten Cambridge Saloon - A Grandstand View of a Giraffe at Whipsnade Zoo.
The 1937 2 Litre Triumph Continental.
The Flying Standard Fourteen Car.
The Rover Twelve Sports Saloon.
14hp Armstrong Siddeley Saloon onte New Road Circuit at Brooklands - at the Hairpin Bend on the Members Hill.
A Humber Snipe Four Light Saloon an Official Humber Team in the RAC Rally at Hastings.
The Humber Drophead Coupe ... £540 etc - full page advert; artwork unknown.
The Austin Eighteen - full page advert.
The Hudson Terraplane Car - full page advert.
The Rover Sixteen Car - half page advert - with endorsement by Autocar
This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have NO images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include:
Note Book Page by Arthur Bryant.
Collectors page by Frank Davis.
Cinema Page by Michael Orme.
The Gorgeous East in Fee - Being an Appreciation of "The Maker of Modern Japan" by A. L. Sadler.
Hunting for the Poor-Me-One The Tree Stump Giant Nightjar of Trinidad Nyctibius Griseus - by R. E. Johnson.
Collectors Page by Frank Davis.
Books by Charles E. Byles.
Long Lost Chekiang Kiln Sites and Sung Pottery Building Material! - By James M. Plumer.
Theatre Page by Ivor Brown.
Motoring page by H. Thornton Rutter.
Science Page by W. P. Pycraft.
The Playhouses. sleekburnc. 1303
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