Structure and Aims of Canadian Education.
Toronto. W. J. Gage and Company Limited. No date. Hardcover. 20cm, 77p., light foxing on the endpapers, ex-library stamps and pouch, ori ginal blue cloth with gilt titles, a good copy (eds).
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The Shows of London. A Panoramic History of Exhibitions, 1600-1862.
Cambridge, Mass. & London. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1978. square 4to, 25x 25cm, first edition, 553p., With 181 illustrations, notes, index, full maroon linen, gilt spine and cover titles, as new. (tr).
The Old California Trail. Traces in Folklore and Furrow.
Caldwell, Idaho. The Caxton Printers. 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. 23cm, 327p., frontis, 49 illustrations, mapped endpapers, bibliography, index, blue cloth, minor sunning to spine, several chips from jacket, near fine in good to very good jacket (b1). - The California Trail, the covered-wagon route that stretched from Independence, Missouri to Sacramento.....
The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract. With Twenty-Two Illustrations. [Reprint of the New York, 1922 edition.]
Birmingham. Alabama. The Classics of Medicine Library. 1990. Hardcover. 21cm. xii,192p. full red calf grain leather, gilt stamped decorations on boards and spine, raised bands, gilt titles, marbled end papers, a.e.g., fine, as new (dt).
Nineteenth-Century Glassware from the Roma Site, Prince Edward Island. Bound with: WADE, Barbara J. Cutlery from the Roma Site, Brudenell Point, Prince Edward Island. History and Archaeology 27.
Ottawa. Parks Canada and Environment Canada. 1979. 1979. Soft cover. 28cm, 141p., references, tables, illustrations, stiff printed wraps, light wear along the edges, a very good copy (S2.9).
In The Hudson Highlands.
New York. Publication Committee, Appalachian Mountain Club, New York Chapter. 1945. 1945. 12mo, 20cm, ix,265p., with 28 plate illustrations, mapped endpapers, very good sound clean copy (Tds).
Memoirs of Sir Andrew Melvill. Translated from the French, and The Wars of the Seventeenth Century. With a Foreword by Sir Ian Hamilton.
London and New York. John Lane. 1918. 1918. Hardcover. 8vo. 22cm, xvi,297p. with 9 illustrations, including 3 fold-out maps, blue cloth, concentric blind stamped ruled borders and title on upper cover, gilt titles on spine, lacks front free flye otherwise a fine copy (s7.5) First publication in English, Melvill Memoris.....
American Anthropologist. Vol. 52, 1950 - to - Vol. 65, 1963. (Complete run).
American Anthropological Assocation. 1950-1963. Hardcover. thick8vo. 23cm, 14 bound volumes, in dark blue buchram, gilt spine titles, all are in fine condition.
Sporting and Colored Plate Books illustrated by Henry Alken, Thomas Rowlandson, Edward Orme and other Famous Artists. With many Superb Original Drawings. The Renowned Collection of Fitz Eugene Dixon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
New York. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc. 1937. Hardcover. 4to. 27cm, 115p., frontis, 36 illustrations, grey paper over printed boards with mounted colour plate on the upper cover, fine condition (gar). ~ Two hundred and nineteen entries with notes. A valuable reference for collectors of sporting and colour illustrated.....
Vox XIX, No. 3. Sept 30th, 1887.
New York. The Society. 1887. Soft cover. 8vo. Pp225-336, folding map, original printed wraps, slightly dust worn else near fine Contains: Peary, R.E. A Reconnaissance of the Greenland Inland Ice. - Boas, F. Census and Reservations of the Kwakiutl Nation. Etc.
Calendar of the American Fur Company's Papers. Part I: 1831-1840 & Part II. 1841-1949. (In 2 volumes). Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1944.
Washington. G.P.O. 1945. 1945. Hardcover. thick8vo, 22cm, 23cm, in 2 volumes, part 1:vii,p519-982 & part 2: pp983-1951. (Including and extensive index of 250 pages), original green cloth, gilt spine titles, near fine sound complete set (). The first volume in this series is on an unrelated subject. (A bibliography of.....
An early nineteenth century notebook with steel engraved scenes by American artists interleaved with blank leaves. Occasional entries include hand-written poetry dated between l831 & 1832 by anonymous poets (some signed "D.L.K."). The engravings are by prominent American landscape artists: W.G. Wall, (New York City, Ticonderoga). T. Doughty (Delaware Water Gap, Schuylkill, Passaic Falls, Trenton Falls). Washington Allston ("Moonlight"). Two Italian scenes not credited but known to be engraved by eminent American engraver, Francis Kearny (Lake of Albano, Ischia Y Procida).
Np. c.1830. 12mo, 19x 15cm, over 120 double-sided pages, with 10 vignette type steel engraved illustrations (each 7x 11cm), some hand-written poetic entries, in quarter black shellac cloth, with pieces of the original leather label relayed, a.e.g., cloth boards lightly dust soiled, internally very good (tr.ds). ~ A Canadian association.....
Election Day. Written for the AmericanSunday School Union, and Revised by the Committee of Publication.
Philadelphia. American Sunday School Union. 1832. Hardcover. 24mo. 14cm, 101p.,frontis engraving, in the original quarter black sheep back marbled boards,gilt spine title, covers bit rubbed, a very good to fine copy. (amp) Ascarce instructional novel, in dialogue format, to explain the Americanelectoral system and to promote the Sunday school system.....
To the Honorable the Senate and Assembly in Legislature Convened. The Memorial of the subscribers, Inhabitants of the County of St. Lawrence, respectfully sheweth:-. Your petitioners desire to approach your body as the citizens of the state, divested of sectional feelings, to urge the propriety and benefit of uniting the Erie canal with waters of the St. Lawrence. we appear as advocates of the Black River Canal. We wish to be disconnected in our commercial and agricultural intercourse, as we are in our civil and political privileges, from our Canadian neighbors. We wish the trade of the St. Lawrence to be turned to the city of New York, and by opening a canal from Ogdensburgh through the county of St. Lawrence to the Erie Canal, the product
Np. Np. [1827]. three 4to Sheets joined, folding, opening to 91x 20 cm (36"x 8"), first sheet printed, the rest contains 123 signatures, folding creases, very good to fine condition, rare. (cgc) Construction commenced on the Black River Canal ten years after this Petition and was completed in 1855 in.....
Canadian Alphabet Canadien.
Montreal. BernardAmtmann. 1956. Hardcover. 4to, 27.5cm, 209,[9]p., leaves, with a check-list of theCatalogues issued by Bernard Amtmann since 1948, listing 3233 books,pamphlets etc., in quarter wine fabrikoid and grey boards, gilt spinetitles, a few additional annotations in the verso, very good sound copy(gar).
Contributions to a Dictionary of CanadianPseudonyms and Anonymous works Relating to Canada.
Montreal. The Author.1973. Soft cover. 23cm, 144p. Printed stiff red wraps, a fine copy. (cdn) Text inEnglish and French.
Contributions to a Short-Title Catlogue ofCanadiana.
Montreal. Bernard Amtmann. 1971. Hardcover. 4to. 28cm, IN 4 volumes,981p., dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine set. (bks) Listing27,933 entries.
Montreal Book Auction Records,1967 - 1980. In Six Volumes. Canadiana, Americana, Arctica, Books andPamphlets, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, Atlases & Maps.
Montreal.1972. Soft cover. 21cm, various paginations, volumes one and two bound in winefabrikoid, volumes three to six bound in red paper wraps, a very good tofine set. (bks).
Nordostpassagen, Maudfaerden Langs Asiens Kyst 1918 - 1920. H. U. Sverdrups Ophold Blandt Tsjuktsjerne Godfred Hansens Depotekspedition 1919-1920.
Kjobenhavn, Berlin, London. Kristiania Gyldendalske Boghandel . 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. thick tall8vo, The First Edition, [viii],467p., portrait, numerous plates and illustrations from photographs, with 5 maps (4 folding), title page printed in red and black, bound in contemporary half dark brown morocco, light brown on the spine, blind ruled.....
"The North West Passage". Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907, by Roald Amundsen with a Supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen, Vice-Commander of the Expedition. With about one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations and three maps.
London. Archibald Constable and Company. 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 23cm, the First Edition, in 2 volumes, xiii,335 & ix,397pp., with two gravure frontis plates (portrait & ships), and 237 plates and illustrations, 3 maps (2 folding in rear pocket), original gilt stamped and decorated dark green cloth, bevelled boards, top.....
Travels Through the Interior Parts of America. In a Series of Letters. By an Officer. Vol. 1. ONLY.
London. Printed for William Lane. 1789. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 21cm, first edition, Volume One only of 2 volumes, vii,[i,xix,i],467, (including half title, errata, list of subscribers), wanting the folding frontis map, containing the 5 engraved plate illustrations, ~ the 2 larger folding plates have a repariable tear at the.....
A Pictorial History of Turkish Dancing, from folk dancing to whirling dervishes-belly dancing to ballet.
Ankara. Dost Yayinlari. 1976. 4to, 26.5cm, 182p., with 194 plates and illustrations, (101 in colour), colour printed stiff wraps (trade paperback), a fine copy, (Tr). "Metin And has written a book that gives us all a clear picture of the structure and significance of the dance in Turkey ..." (cover).....
Quacks, (uack). The Story of The Ugly Duckling.
London & New York. Ward, Lock and Co, Warwick House. [1885]. 1885. Hardcover. sm4to, 23.5x 19.5cm, vingette title page and 26 leaves printed on one side each with a beautiful full colour chromo-litho plates or illustration (inc. 3 plates with 2 illus., & one full page plates), original light green.....
Med "Monsunen" Paa Atlanterhavet.
Copenhagen, Nordiske Verlag, 1931. Hardcover. 4to, 25cm, 221p.,with 56 illustrations on 11 sheets, 1 full-page map, in half terra cotta leather with matched marbled paper boards and similar marble edges, some slight edge wear else very good to fine clean copy (Ho11.2). ~ In Danish. [With the "Monsoon" on the.....
The Romance of Fra Filippo Lippi. A New Versionof the Love Story of the Friar-Artist and the Nun Lucrezia.
London.Stanley Paul & Co. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 22cm, first edition, 314p., frontis, 16plates, appendices, index, t.e.g., red gilt decorated cloth, gilt spinetitles, plate removed from front paste-down, corners bumped, coversrubbed, good Illustrated from the paintings of the 15th centuryartist, Fra Filippo Lippi, with Lucrezia sitting as model for theMadonna.....