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170 pages. Colour frontis. Black and white plates. "This is a fascinating book, a beautiful book, a magnificent memorial to the pioneer period with which it deals." - From dust jacket. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper else unmarked. Average wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound working copy. Wallace p.119. Book
160 pages including footnotes, bibliography and index. Numerous black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. "Tells the story of Anticosti and its people from the discovery by Jacques Cartier to the present day." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with average wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
Features: Orca, The Sociable Whale - Life among British Columbia's Most Intelligent and Awesome Predators; A Cuban Odyssey - Foot-loose in the Shadow of Fidel, An Underground Traveller's Report; Cosmic Crucibles - Scientists Probe the Workings of the huge Nebulas; Christopher Pratt and Mary Pratt - The First Couple of Contemporary Art; Bone Age Man - Canadian Find Sparks One of the Hottest Archeological Debates of the Century. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: How to Forge a Ring; New Mexico's Catron Country; Casting with Water-Soluble Wax; Mexican Wulfenite Discovery; Beads and Bear Claws; Ben Mayo - Space Age Silversmith; Make a Bead Punch; Seashell Roses; The Precious Plumes of Graveyard Point; Rack'em Up; Pt. Mugu Coquina; Working with Opals. Above-average wear. Date stamp and company stamp to front cover. Magazine
281 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. Explains the far-ranging factors bearing on the Nootka stage: European War, the Russian presence in the northern Pacific, the onset of Spain's waning fortunes, America's thrust west, the British East India and South Sea trading monopolies, and the steady advance of coastal charting by explorers like George Vancouver. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A sound copy. Book
cartonnage, jaquette illustrée 1997, 1997, in-8, , cartonnage, jaquette illustrée, PREMIERE EDITION. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleur
pp. 120, (8) [Publisher's catalogue]. Early book label of David Sanford. Inked ownership of Geo. H. Hazzard (George Henry Hazzard [1846-1929) on title page. 12mo. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in gold. Extremities have some wear. Hardbound. Extremely important. VOYAGES BOX 1
876 p. + Numerous plates. Illustrated. 8vo. XLib. Modern library buckram binding. Includes important papers by the most noted authors on topics such as: Indian Tribes of the Northwest Coast; Ceramic Art in China; Fire-making Apparatus; Stone Age Implements; and the usual articles on Astronomy; Geology; Mineralogy; Chemistry; Zoology; Physics; Botany; Anthropology; and Ethnology.
116 pages, signed by both authors on title page, many b&w photos.
735 p. + Numerous plates. Illustrated. 8vo. XLib. Modern library buckram binding. Includes important papers by the most noted authors on topics such as: Washington Territory Indian Tribes; Indian Mounds; Indian Mummies; and the usual articles on Astronomy; Geology; Mineralogy; Chemistry; Zoology; Physics; Botany; Anthropology; and Ethnology. The Native American monographs are highly prized. Smith Mag. 1
359p. + Plus engraved half title, full page engravings and a folding map. Foxed. 12mo. Disbound. AFRICA/6
pp. xvi, 598, (4)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus two portrait frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page woodcuts. Age stained. 8vo. Original full black embossed cloth binding, gold lettered. Worn and stained. AFRICA/2 = 2nd c. spine torn, lacks first fly leaf.
878 p.+ Numerous plates. Illustrated. 8vo. XLib. Modern library buckram binding. Includes important papers by the most noted authors on topics such as: Artifacts Collected from the Hupa Reservation; Customs of the Dakotas; Atnatanas of Alaska; Indians of the Quinaielt Agency; Charm Stones or Plummets; and the usual articles on Astronomy; Geology; Mineralogy; Chemistry; Zoology; Physics; Botany; An thropology; and Ethnology. Really important documents of the native Americans. Scarce.
620 p. + 103 Plates. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Chipped at head. XLib. Includes important papers by the most noted authors on topics such as: Japanese Wood-Cutting and Woodcut Printing; Prehistoric Anthropology; Relation of Biology to Geological Investigation; the Shofar; Scientific Taxidermy for Museums; Comparative Oology of North American Birds; Etc. The article on taxidermy is especially significant, and its ramifications can still be seen today in the major American natural history museums. SM 8
496 p. Woodcut illustrations. Original cloth binding, spine gone. XLib Hereford Literary Society. Officers and Regents of the Smithsonian at this time included: Andrew Johnson; Louis Agassiz; A. D. Bache; and many other important figures of the era. The articles include studies of: Aurora Borealis, or Polar Light; Sense of Feeling; Electrico-Physiology; Lake Neuchatel; Gravity; Birds; etc. Because of the Civil War, this volume could not be published until 1872.
8vo., with 10 wood-engravings; patterned boards, burgundy buckram back lettered in gilt, burgundy top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; original blue pictorial cloth, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Scott's own account of the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904 was first published in 1905. This is a nice copy of the reissue of the first one-volume edition of 1929. Scarce, especially in this condition. Spence, 1072 (recording the first one-volume edition).
332p., map Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends worn
Two volumes. pp. 784; 380. The second volume contains the drawings and illustrations for the patents. Foxed. Original full black cloth binding. Hardbound. Good. BOX 66 Basement
pp. (8), 55, (11), 34 + Map. Early publisher's full cloth binding; decorated in blind. This is a fully lithographed facsimile (done in 1848) of the RARE 1698 first edition. This copy is from the estate of Hampton L. Carson (1852-1929), Attorney-General of PA (1903-1907), President of the PA and American Bar Associations, ETC. The book itself is a promotional for Penn's lands by an early settler. The title continues, in part as an account. The Richness of the Soil, the Sweetness of the Situation. The flourishing Condition of the City of Philadelphia with the stately Buildings, and other Improvements there. The strange Creatures, as Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Fowls, with the several sorts of Minerals, Purging Waters, and Stones, lately discovered. The Natives, Aborogines, their Language, Religion, Laws, and Customs; The first Planters, the Dutch, Swedes, and English, with the number of its Inhabitants; As also a Touch upon George Keith's New Religion, in his Second Change since he left the QUAKERS. Sabin 95396; Howes T167. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 18
52 pages. Text in English. Features: Bernd Lohse turns 75; Africa in colour - Erna and Helmut Blenck; Rencontres d'Arles '86 - Kodak courts the younger generation of photographers; Yvette Troispoux; Kodachrome 1936 - 10 DIN; Erich Salamon - the discovery of a Leica photographer; Super - Kodachrome 200; Photokina 1986; Setyadi Yoedaatmadja; Red and Blue - colour as the triggering element; Documentary photography; New colour materials for even better print quality; Agfa's 70 years in colour photography; Title slides with computer and camera; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Signed and inscribed by author upon title. 312 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Map endpapers. "Imperial Leduc No. 1, depicted on the dust jacket, was the most important economic event in Alberta's oil history. This book is the most gripping narrative yet to come from Kerr's pen. Forty-five years in the making, the subject has been researched from the ground down and reflects the author's first-hand involvement with this landmark discovery and the ensuing development." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A suberb copy. Gift quality. Book
327 pages. Index. "In this ambitious and extravagant volume is realized, for the first time, a totally unique presentation of over 500 years of Canadian history.... Presents countless little-known and rarely seen photographs, illustrations, paintings, engravings and maps collected by Dr. Lamb during his tenure as Dominion Archivist and National Librarian of Canada." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean, unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Book
Features: Malevolent Mountain - The Western Hemisphere's Highest Peak Challenges Canada's Himilaya-Bound Mountaineers; The Quiet Famine - Biologists Protest and Bureaucrats Ponder as Hunger Decimates Canada's Seabird Colonies; Reflections in an Orbiting Eye - Canada from Space, Beauty and Science in the Images of Landsat; Leduc - A Legacy of Eclectic Excellence from a Quebecois Painter Undiscovered in his own time; Caribbean Backwaters - Riding the Ebb Tides of Colonialism in the Turks and Caicos. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Conservation Priorities - Preservation in an Age of Need; The Mid-Victorian Gothic Revival Church - Fort Massey Church, A David Stirling Original; Blue Shield Summit in Canada; Protecting heritage interiors in Vancouver; The Bonavista Peninsula Heritage Inventory; 'No Oil in Alberta' - the 50th Anniversary of the Leduc discovery; Montreal's Early Care Providers. Bilingual English/French. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
