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64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Jarad Spencer Comes to Town - Record Prices Broken in bidding for the Paul Richards Collection - early American flasks, by Scott Grandstaff; Getting the Glug Out - Henry Stiles Patent Recherche Ware of Cleveland, Ohio - by Jack Sullivan; Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition - may great vintage illustrations, by Dave Cheadle; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; Auction Directory; British Bottle Bits - Awesome and Strange, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Eskay's Alumenized Foods, Cereal Milk - Wells & Richardson Co. of Vermont, Skilton, Foote & Co's Bunker Hill Pickle jars, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Bryan's Top Shelf - Questions Answered about mystery bottle, by Bryan Grapentine. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Includes the following issues: March 1994, December 1993, June 1993, December 1989, March 1989, Winter 1988, June-August 1982. Each issue contains fascinating illustrated stories about local topics. All volumes in very good condition or better. Book
Features: When the Mediterranean went dry; Clowns of the Galapagos; Discovery of the Admiral's flagship; The Stars at Night; Full Circle for Vema; The Living Nautilus; 'Fingerprinting' Offending Tankers; One more Whale to Count; the road to Hokkaido; From Father Neptune's Stable. Sound copy. Book
Features: Salad from the sea - cultivating kombu in Hokkaido; The influence of the sea upon our language; Caught in conflict - managers trapped in fisheries dilemma; The Pacific Walrus; RRS Discovery and the Discover investigations; beautiful broccoli of the sea; a portfolio of winners - 1988 international marine photo contest; Save the beaches. Nice copy. Book
56 pages. Features: What it means to be Canadian; Mr. McIntosh's wonderful apple - in 1811 a settler made a strange discovery; The trial of Ambroise Lepine - murder, politics and the public memory; In the footsteps of the workers - Canadian labour history walking tours; Mr. King and Lady Byng - Hate at first sight; Canada's Black Defenders - former slaves answer the call to arms; The struggle for a secret Canadian ballot. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
20 page board book. Average soiling and wear to outer boards. No markings. Five inch crease to top right corner of front board. Contents clean and bright. A picture story book with no words providing discovery, surprise and fun for pre-reading children from 3-6 years. Book
160 pages. Features: Jim Stephens, Mike Siddal, and R. Mark Neyman - The RANDANDY; The Beauty of Construction Models; Liverpool historical discovery; FOREST BELLE - the superior value of plank-on-frame construction; The Butt Block - an integral part of a wooden boat's structure; Westport's flat-iron skiff and its sharpie cousin; George Luzier's boatshop in Sarasota; Renewing the deck - an expert approach; Dragonquest - in search of the Chinese junk; From the brink of extinction - Mediterranean molding in Brazil; Matter of Detail; Perfectly Seasoned - Air Drying your Lumber - Part I. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
268 pages. Author's signature atop first leaf. "Joy's beginning, as daughter of a prominent, horse loving farmer in England, a fine education, service in the WRNS, 2 husbands, a long standing affair, penniless immigration to Canada, culminated in her discovery of the American Quarter Horse, and attaining outstanding success in spite of overwhelming odds." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Crease to upper corner of front cover and first few pages else as new. Excellent copy. Book
335 pages including index and some illustrations. Traces the growth of the Euroamerican societies in the Western Hemisphere during the eighteenth-century perioed of European expansion. Light wear. Minimal markings. Tight and square. Solid copy. Book
214 pages including index. Describes the major components of the universe as they are know today: the stars, galaxies, radio-galaxies and quasi-stellar objects. Discusses in detail the red shift of the lines in their optical spectra, which leads to the idea that the universe is expanding. Second half of book discusses the discovery and significance of the 3 K microwave radiation, its relation to the hot big bang and the helium problem, to cosmic high energy processes and to questions of isotropy. Moderate wear and leaning to spine. Highlighting and some markings to text. Dust jacket with average wear/small tears at edges and larger tearing at bottom edge of back panel. Book
112 pages including index. "...Describes the life and history of a mid-twentieth century copper mine and its contribution to Merritt, the Nicola Valley and British Columbia.... A story of the formation of the orebody beneath the earth's surface, and the eventual discovery of its mining potential - concluding with an explanation of how the land is returned and restored to cattle range." - from back cover. Black and white illustrations. Tight and square. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
570 pages including index and numerous archival black and white photographic plates. Author's signature and inscription inside front cover. An extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollections, and oral testimony. Presents a panoramic history of Asian Americans. "...Effortlessly weaves the stories of thousands of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans into a single tale of discovery, endurance, and courage." - San Francisco Chronicle. Average wear. Contents unmarked. Light yellowing at edges. Price sticker remnants upon back cover. Book
321 pages including bibliography and index. The history of the pre-Klonkike era, as recorded in the journals, letters, reports, and books of the first Europeans to penetrate the American northwest. Dabs of liquid paper upon title page. Sticker scar on front cover. Average wear. Book
219 pages including bibliography and black and white illustrations. "Rich in information about our past, from European discovery to settlement, the creation of the townsite, incorporation, and the development of the modern town, while preserving its village character." - Jack Collins, Mayor, Qualicum Beach. Clean and unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
Ed. Lucien Mazenod - 1947 - Coll. "La Galerie des Hommes Célèbres" - Fort in-4 - Broché - Couverture rempliée - , composé pour cet ouvrage en frontispice - Nombreuses illustrations NB et en couleurs HT, certaines doubles pages - Cartes et index - 367 pages
8vo., First Edition, with a folding map as frontispiece, 13 plates, a folding map, and 4 maps in the text; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing a sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright clean copy. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CXX 120. Includes documents from English, Portuguese and Spanish archives, and from printed sources, relating to the Atlantic voyages out of Bristol between 1480 and 1508-9, including the voyages of John and Bastian Cabot. Bridges & Hair, p.287.
Book shows only very slight use/very light shelfwear only. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. 251 pages. Graphs, charts, tables, maps.
473 p. Woodcut diagrams. Original cloth binding, head of spine chipped. XLib Hereford Literary Society. Officers and Regents of the Smithsonian at this time included: Andrew Johnson; Louis Agassiz; James A. Garfield; and many other important figures of the era. The articles include studies of: Cuvier; Oersted; Hodgkinson; Mechanical Theory of Heat; meteorites; Vibratory Movement of Matter; Barome ters; Anthropological Society of Paris; Drilling Stone Without Metal; Agricultural Flint Implements in Southern Illinois; Etc. There was a large printing of this report in 1869 and, because demand was strong, a printing of 2000 copies in 1872. This book is from that later printing. SM7
959 p. Illustrated. 8vo. XLib. Modern library buckram binding. Includes important papers by the most noted authors on topics such as: Astronomy; Geology; Mineralogy; Chemistry; Zoology; Physics; Botan y; Anthropology; and Ethnology; Indians; Native Americans; etc.
pp. 1004 + Eight lithographed Plates. Foxed. Aged. Original full cloth binding, worn. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BOX 66 Basement
688 p. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Old glue on rear board. XLib. Includes articles on: The Value of Ancient Mexican Manuscripts; Native Plants of New Mexico; Chinese Architecture; Ferns of North America; Radio-telegraphy; Physiology of Sleep; Astronomy; Etc.
469 p. Woodcut diagrams. Original cloth binding. XLib Hereford Literary Society. Officers and Regents of the Smithsonian at this time included: Andrew Johnson; Louis Agassiz; and many other important figures of the era. The articles include studies of: the Senses; Colors; Gravity; Indians of British and Russian America; American Migration; Vitality; Shells; Barometer; Indian Pottery (Rau); Etc. Because of the Civil War, this volume could not be published until 1872. **
959 p. Woodcut diagrams and illustrations. Slight loss on last page of index. Original cloth binding. The articles include studies of : Astronomy; Geology; Meteorology; Physics; Mineralogy; Biology; Zoology; Anthropology; Ethnology; and a nice group of papers relating to various Indian sites. **
149 pages. "A summer of adventure and discovery begins for Barbara Loren, nearly fifteen, when the steamer Camosun docks at Lalooma, British Columbia. Barbara soon forgets her homesickness for Toronto, as she is swept into a new world of sun and sea, of towering forests and great mountains, and, best of all, of fascinating, friendly people." - from dust jacket. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic frontis. Dust jacket rough but now protected by archival-grade brodart cover. Book shows only light wear and is unmarked. Binding sound. Book
Features include: Fifty years of cymibidium culture in america - Master Grower's Series; A short history of the World Orchid Conferences; Orchids and the discovery of auxin; Registration of Phalaenopsis hybrids; Bulbophyllum maculosum (or B. guttulatum?) and Cirrhopetalum umbellatum - Collector's item; A second look at the "Revision of the Genus Phalaenopsis"; Close-up photography of flowers with flash; Orchid genera illustrated XX Book
