Author: VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS
Title: The Illustrated London News, 1 June 1946 - Mount Palomar Telescope
Description: London, England: 30 January 1943, 1946. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Cover: Britain Takes "A Most Hazardous Step": Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The River Jordan": by Nelson Glueck; Aftermath of War: And Some Battles Long Ago; The Martyrdom of St. Euphemia: A Seventh-Century Church Laid Bare in Constantinople; The World of Science: The Return of the Challenger; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: Black Light: The "Cat's Eye" Effect of the German Infra-Red Telescopes and Searchlights in Darkness (Illus. by G.H. Davis); General Mihailovitch Today and As Yugoslav War Minister in 1942; Pictorial Commentary on Air, Sea and Land Events; Budapest - Pre-War and Post-War: Famous Buildings in Ruins; Budapest - Pre-War and Post-War: Famous Bridges of the Hungarian Capital - Then and Now; Europe's Housing Problem: Reconstruction Starts in Greece; Royal Occasions: At Home and Abroad; The Royal Barge of Yesterday and Today; A Ship Which Carries Enough Deep-Sea Cable to Bridge the Atlantic: H.M. Telegraph Ship "Monarch" (Illus. by C.E. Turner); News from America: A Miscellany of Ancient and Modern Inventions; The U.S. Railway Strike: Scenes at Stations in New York; The World's Largest Telescope Takes Shape on Mt. Palomar; A Plague of Locusts; Japanese War Criminals; and Spain's Dictator; Eight Shillings' Worth of Stamps Valued at Thousands of Pounds; and The Passion of St. Euphemia Brought to Light in Byzantine Frescoes. Binding sound. Prior owners ink stamp with some writing on the advertising front cover. Ink smudges on advertising back cover. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Britain Takes "A Most Hazardous Step": Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council. Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "The River Jordan": by Nelson Glueck; Aftermath of War: And Some Battles Long Ago; The Martyrdom of St. Euphemia:. Good .

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