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236 pages including index. Moderate amount of blue highlighting. Some of B.C.'s best-known forest policy analysts update us on the major issues that fuel the current battles between loggers and environmentalists. Book
254 pages. Index. Glossary. Illustrated with two-hundred colour and black and white photographs. Printed on glossy stock. "This detailed historical account of the evolution of mechanized logging equipment describes how a special breed of inventive people, in various parts of the workd, designed and build the tools needed to haul timber from the forest... The most comprehensive history of the global logging industry ever written." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy. Book
304 pages. Signed by author upon title page. Index. Extensive list of oral history sources. A superb reference abundantly illustrated with black and white archival photographs. Chapters include: The Coastal Forest; Beginnings; Early Steam Power; Yarding Them Out; The Railway Era; The Birth of Truck Logging; Final Mechanization; Postwar Conversions; Modern Logging. Appendix - B.C. Coastal Log Production. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper and half-title page else unmarked. Average wear to book. Light wear to handsome dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
416 pages including index. "Macmillan was a prominent and influential man, always forthcoming on matters of principle. But he was also very reserved, private and complicated. Drushka's portrait of him, compiled over years of reading through the public record and working closely with MacMillan's family and business associates, is a respectful but clear-eyed look at the real H.R.: the ardent conservationist who was also a ruthless business tycoon; the shy, retiring gentleman who was also described as an "elemental force of nature:' the strait-laced businessman who had a lifelong friendship with his eccentric cousin Mazo de la Roche; the devoted family man who maintained a decades-long intimate friendship with his secretary." - from strikingly illustrated dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
304 pages. "Drushka describes the forests of BC, explains how they are administered and traces the development of the forest industry from the first handloggers of the 1860s to the high-tech multinational operations of today." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Book
304 pages. Index. Extensive list of oral history sources. A superb reference abundantly illustrated with black and white archival photographs. Chapters include: The Coastal Forest; Beginnings; Early Steam Power; Yarding Them Out; The Railway Era; The Birth of Truck Logging; Final Mechanization; Postwar Conversions; Modern Logging. Appendix - B.C. Coastal Log Production. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Gift quality. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). [xiv], 252 p., 36 p. folding plans and forms. B/w ills. Research of transportation of forest as transport technique in Bolu and its environment. In Turkish and large abstract in English. A study on forest transportation in Bolu Region from the viewpoint of transport technique.= Bolu mintikasinda orman nakliyatinin nakliyat teknigi bakimindan arastirilmasi.
Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). B/w ills. 176 p. A study on Anatolian stone pine forests and their productivities. Fistik çami ormanlarimizda meyva ve odun verimi bakimindan arastirmalar ve bu ormanlarin amenajman esaslari.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). [xvi], 248 p., 22 folding schema. B/w ills.
62 pages. Features: B.C.'s Natural History; Waterfowl Sanctuary on the Fraser Delta - The George C. Reifal Waterfowl Refuge; Outdoorsman's Observations; Around B.C.-Yukon with Rod and Gun; Pollution in Canada Conference; Naturalist's Notebook - Steve Cannings; B.C.'s Log Fences; Coastal Crusing - Will Dawson; Adventure in Rocks - Ron Purvis; Pioneers of British Columbia - Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie; Canadian Forestry Association News; Upper Fraser Sternwheel Days - Part 4; and more. Advertisements: B.C. Tel; Nice full-page photo ad for CJOR 600 featuring Phil Gaglardi; Bowell McLean Motor Ltd.; Lucky Lager Beer (on back cover; and many more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Reliure toile de l'?diteur. 127 pages. 27,5x22 cm.
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Broch?. 278 + 16 pages.
118 pages. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
32 pages. Features: They Were People of the Forest; Craddock's Slough; The Cowichan's Roaring Twenties; The Good Old Days; The Evolution of Yarding Methods at the Coast. A nice clean copy with sound binding. Magazine
Broché. 34 pages. 21x30cm.
290 pages. "This plan has two principal objects as follows: i) to act as a general and flexible guide to all concerned as to the manner in which planning control within the area of the plan will be discharged, and particularly as to the kind of development for which planning permission is likely to be granted by the Local Planning Authority. ii) to designate land as subject to compulsory acquisiton by any Minister, Local Authority or Statutory Undertaker." - from Foreword. Topics treated in this volume include: Regional Setting and Characteristics; Development of Settlement Pattern and Main Land Use Features; Communications and Transport; Employment, Industry and Population; Agriculture, Derelict and Marginal Land, and Forestry; Economic Geology and Mineral Resources; Housing; Public Utility, Educational, Library, Health, Recreational and Social Services; Landscape and Development in Rural Areas; Camping and Caravanning; Archaeology, Ancient Monuments and Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest; Development by Government Departments; Programming; Summary of Analysis. Former reference library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
301 pages. "This plan has two principal objects as follows: i) to act as a general and flexible guide to all concerned as to the manner in which planning control within the area of the plan will be discharged, and particularly as to the kind of development for which planning permission is likely to be granted by the Local Planning Authority. ii) to designate land as subject to compulsory acquisiton by any Minister, Local Authority or Statutory Undertaker." - from Foreword to Part I. This part considers the following towns: Bodmin, Bude-Stratton; Falmouth; Fowey; Launceston; Lostwitheil, Newquay, Padstow, Saltash, St. Austell, Torpoint, Truro. For each of these towns the text is divided into the following sections and includes diagrams relating to Population and the Location and Growth of each town: introduction and brief description; Historical Summary and Population Trends since 1801; Regional Communications; Mineral Resources; Population Structure in relation to Employment; Topography and Existing Land Use; Housing; Public Utilities; Social Services; Analysis of Urban Survey; Other Primary Land Uses; Programming. Former reference library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
163 pages. Signed and numbered by author upon title page. An excellent adventure through the glory days of coastal logging in British Columbia. Features numerous candid reflections supported by a wealth of wonderful old black and white photographs. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Madrid, Biblioteca Costa, 1912. 4to.; 2 hs., 184 pp., 2 hs. Cubiertas originales.
4to [26 x 20 cm]; xii, 312 pp, 130 plates from photos including frontis, 10 other full-page illustrations from drwgs, tables, index. original cloth, gilt lettering, uncut, rear corner bumped, short tear at spine, a very good uncut copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A thorough work, this being the first major study of galls effecting trees and plants.
Broché. 60 pages. 21x29cm.