Irish Cooking in Colour.
London. Johnston and Bacon. 1980. Hardcover. tall8vo, 24.7cm, 128p., illustrated, colour plate illustrations, colour illustrated boards, fine in very good to fine jacket (gar). Traditional Irish cooking.
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Ice Tunnel Closure Phenomena. Technical Report 74.
Wilmette, Illinois. U. S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. 1961. Soft cover. 27cm, v,37p., references, figures, tables, folding map, stiff printed wraps, faded spine, a very good to fine copy (ads).
Permafrost Tunnel, Camp TUTO, Greenland. Technical Report 73.
Wilmette, Illinois. U. S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. 1960. Soft cover. 27cm, iv,20p., references, appendix, figures, tables, stiff printed wraps, faded spine, a very good to fine copy (ads).
Mary and The Bramble.
Herefordshire. Published by the Author. 1910. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo, 18.5cm, first edition, [8]p., plus a small block print (6.5x 6.5cm) mount on extra stock grey paper and loosely inserted, string tied, printed blue wraps, very good copy (lt).
The Sale of Saint Thomas.
Gloucestershire. Published by the Author. 1911. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo, 18.5cm, first edition, 29,[1]p., string tied, printed blue wraps, very good copy (lt).
The Journal of Lady Aberdeen. The Okanagan Valley in the Nineties. Edited by R M Middleton.
Victoria. Morriss Publishing. 1986. 1986. Soft cover. 8vo, 23cm, 91p., with 28 illustrations from photographs, index, attractively printed card wraps (trade paperback), fine copy (cnds). - Focuses mainly on time spent in the Okanagan Valley.
Dance on the Bridge. A History of Abernethy and Area.
Abernethy, Saskatchewan. Abernethy Heritage Association. 1983. Hardcover. 28cm, v,602p., with map, illustrations, index, green cloth with black titles and illustration, a fine copy. (cnds).
Modern Mountaineering.
London. Methuen. 1933. 12mo, 19cm, first edition, 198,8p., ads., with 16 plate illustrations, publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine titles, near fine (gar). ~ Neate, A-05. An instructive book for mountaineers by an experienced mountaineer.
The Copper Eskimos. An area economic survey. 1963.
Ottawa. Industrial Division, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. 1964. 1964. Soft cover. 4to, 27.5cm., v,194p., illustrated with 17 black and white photographs, 14 maps, 40 tables, 1 figure, 15 appendices, stiff printed wraps, reinforced spine, fine copy (Ads).
God Bless our Home. Domestic Life in Nineteenth Century Canada.
Np. Burns and MacEachern. Hardcover. 1966. 26.5cm, ix,233p., illustrated endpapers, text illustrations, ads, bibliography, index, red cloth, a fine copy in good jacket. (cdn).
The Rolls of Burgesses at the GuildsMerchant of the Borough of Preston, Co. Lancaster. 1397-1682. (From theOriginal Rolls in the Archives of the Preston Corporation.) [The RecordSociety for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashireand Cheshire. Vol. 9.]
London. Printed for The Society, 1884. Hardcover. 8vo,22cm, first editon, xlv,259p., indexes of names & places, originaldecorated dark green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, a fine (as new)copy (bh).
An Olive Branch on the Family Tree. The Arabs in Canada. (A History of Canada's People, [series]).
Toronto. McClelland and Stewart. 1980. Hardcover. 23cm, viii,259p., 12 plates, blue cloth, a fine copy in very good to fine jacket. (cdn).
Liste de livres sur ou par des Acadiens. A la Bibliotheque Louis R. Comeau preparee, pour "Le Colloque Acadien" (le 29 mars 1979).
(Clare). Universite Sainte-Anne. 1979. Soft cover. 4to. 28cm, 23,2pp., single-sided leaves, typescript, stapled printed wraps, fine (Mds). - A research guide for Acadian books, in both French and English.
New England Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly. New Series, Vol. VII., No. 2. October. 1892.
Boston. New England Magazine Corporation. 1892. Soft cover. 25.5cm, pp.141-274, 60p.advertisements, numerous illustrations, illustrated wraps with advertisements, covers worn along edges, spine chipped, contents very good (ds5.6). A variety of articles including two by Nova Scotians: "The Acadian Province-By-The-Sea" by Arthur Wentworth Eaton and "The Whereabouts of Vinland" by future.....
L' Acadie ses Missionnaires. Jesuites, Recollets - Capucins, Freres des Mis
Montreal. Editions du "Devoir". 1925. Hardcover. 12mo, 18cm, 45p., black cloth backed printed paper over boards, internal library stamp, very good Guilbeault 1178.
Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Annee MDCCIX. Avec les Memoires de Mathematique & de Physique, pour la meme Annee. Tirez des Registres de cette Academie.
Amsterdam. Chez Pierre de Coup. 1711. Hardcover. 16mo. 17cm, [xii],232p., engraved frontis, rubricated title page with vignette, 4 folding plates, table of contents, 2p. approbation (in Dutch), full contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt spine title on crushed morocco label, small library plate on front paste down endpaper, spine edges worn.....
The History of My Friends or, Home Life with Animals. Translated from the French.
New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons, Publishers. 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 19cm, first American edition, 193p., with 12 illustrations, original elaborately gilt, black decorated brick brown cloth, some wear on the edges, very good copy (Nh). ~ "The history of some animals, whom I consider it an honor to have.....
The Royal Cabinet of Art. Fifty-five Beautiful Engravings on Steel from the Works of the Most Esteemed Painters. (4th series of Heath's British Galler y).
London. Published by Ackermann and Company. Nd. c.[1836]. Hardcover. 8vo, 23cm, 72p., steel engraved frontis, half-title vignette and 53 plates, in contemporary quarter blue black morocco and blue marbled boards, gilt s pine titles, some wear at the edges, internal private library stamps, very good to fine, rare A vivid.....
Le Troupeau de Clarisse.
Paris. Ernest Flammarion, Editeur. N.d. c.[1919]. Soft cover. 12mo. 18.3cm, 252p., printed on pulpy paper, bound in quarter crimson fine grain morocco, ornate gilt borders decorations on the spine, gilt titles, red marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,some slight edge wear on the boards, else a fine copy beautifully.....
John Quincy Adams Ward An Appreciation.
New York. The National Sculpture Society. 1912. Hardcover. 28cm, 64p. with 15 plates, brown cloth with gilt titles, a bit scuffed, a good to very good copy. (agc) Limited to 1000 Copies.
The National Domain in Canada and its Proper Conservation.
Ottawa. Commission of Conservation Canada. 1915. Soft cover. 24.5cm, 48p., folding map, plates and illustrtions, printed wraps, very good (cnds).
The National Domain in Canada and its Proper Conservation. Presidential Address before the Royal Society of Canada,1914.
Ottawa. Lowe-Martin Co. Ltd. 1915. Soft cover. 24.5cm, 48p., with foldingcolour map, illustrations, printed wraps, a very good copy.(cnds) Commission of Conservation, Canada.
Medicinal Plants and Their Cultivation in Canada. (Bulletin No. 23, Second Series, Bulletins of the Experimental Farms). Division of Botany, Dominion Experimental Farms, Department of Agriculture.
Ottawa. Government Printing Bureau. 1915. Soft cover. 24.5cm, 60p., 36 figures, bibliography, appendix, index, grey wraps, very good ex-library copy (ds11). The author, John Adams, was the Assistant Dominion Botanist a time of publication and was formerly a lecturer on Botany and Vegetable Materia Medica at Dublin, Ireland.
The Tyger Voyage. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to, 25cm, first U.S. edition,30,[2]p., with 15 colour plates & 2 vignettes, colour glazed boards, afine clean (no signature or internal marks) copy (as new) in finecomplete (not price clipped) jacket, dated 9/76.
The Soul Cage. An Irish legend retold in 20 wood engravings and some words.
Dublin. The Dolmen Press. 1958. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, 20,1p., limited to 50 signed copies, numbered 1 - 50, and 450 ordinary copies numbered 51-450, This being number 44, signed Tate Adams, in light blue green cloth, gilt spine titles, decorations and gilt ruled designs on the upper cover, decorated endpapers.....