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Item #40239 Across Thibet: Being a Translation of "De Paris au Tonking [sic] a travers le Tibet...

BONVALOT, Gabriel (1853-1933).

Across Thibet: Being a Translation of "De Paris au Tonking [sic] a travers le Tibet inconnu". By Gabriel Bonvalot. With illustrations from photographs taken by Prince Henry of Orleans. Translated by C. B. Pitman.

New York. Cassell Publishing Company. c1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. tall8vo, 24cm, the First US edition of the English Translation by C.B.Pitman. xiv,417p., with 106 illustrations, including frontis. portrait, coloured folding map in front pocket, Publisher's pictorial grey cloth, with a scene in brown, grey and gilt "camels carrying supplies" on.....

Price: $500.00

Item #40552 Court of General Sessions for Charlotte County. Ordered, That any person who shall by...

BROADSIDE]. Charlotte County, New Brunswick. 1870.

Court of General Sessions for Charlotte County. Ordered, That any person who shall by insulting or abusive language or behaviour, taunting epithets, or threatening gesture, attempt to provoke another person to commit a break of the peace in any public street ... shall be liable to be fined ... GEO. S. Grimmer, Secreteary of Charlotte County. [ Court of General Sessions. Charlotte (NB)].

New Brunswick.: [publisher not identified]. April, 1870. Printed partly in black letter, one sheet, 34.2x 23.5cm, (13.5" x 9.25"), printed on fragile paper this copy is in fine condition, rare.(cgc.bx). At head of title: Court of General Sessions, for Charlotte County., print signed and dated: April 1870, Geo. S. Grimmer.....

Price: $300.00

Item #40554 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Townships of DEREHAM & Norwich, in the Western...

BROADSIDE]. Upper-Canada. Council-Office, Sept. 24, '99.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Townships of DEREHAM & Norwich, in the Western District of this province, are to be sold in Lots of three thousand acres each, exclusive of the Crown and Clergy reserves. There are sixteen blocks in each township, numbered from one to sixteen. The lands are of excellent quality, and lie between the River La Tanche and Lake Erie. Persons inclined to purchase are to give in their proposals in writing to this office, ...

York: Printed by Wm. Waters & Titus G. Simons. 1799. folio, single sheet, 31x 19cm, on laid paper, watermarked, old horizontal unobtrusive folds, clean and in fine condition.(ho4.2). No auction records or listing located. This broadside offers land for sale in the Townships of Dereham & Norwich, in the Western.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #37232 The Costume, Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the...

BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer

The Costume, Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies of the Mahrattas. With Ten Coloured Engravings. From Drawings by a Native Artist. (With: Indian Scenes stamped in the panels on the Boards of the Original Binding).

London. Printed by John Murray. 1813. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 26.3cm, [xii],358p., with 10 fine hand coloured aquatints including the frontis, Publisher's binding, original full calf, expertly rebacked reproducing the original spine, gilt ruled raised bands, blind decorated panels with gilt center panel devices, crushed black morocco label gilt, in.....

Price: $2,500.00

Item #31699 Annals of the Town of Guelph, 1827 -1877. C. Acton BURROWS, compiler

BURROWS, C. Acton (compiler).

Annals of the Town of Guelph, 1827 -1877.

Guelph. Herald Steam Printing House. 1877. 1st Edition. 8vo. 22cm, the first edition, 170p., including several illustrated ads., title repeated in printers frame border on the upper cover, ad on the bottom, slightly dust worn but it is difficult to imagine a better copy, rare. (on) An early, detailed, and.....

Price: $250.00

Item #39670 History of the 11 Canadian Army Field Regiment RCA. [From 1 September 1939 to 5 May...

CAMPBELL, Captain A.G., (compiled by)

History of the 11 Canadian Army Field Regiment RCA. [From 1 September 1939 to 5 May 1945].

Utrecht. Printed by Kemink en Zoon N.V. [1945]. Hardcover. 8vo, 24cm, 205, (1),v,p., casualty lists, honours & awards, in publishers red cloth with black titles, , printed on acid paper, not many copies could have survived, a fine copy thus, rare. (cmt) A very rare Canadian regimental history not found.....

Price: $400.00

Item #40127 Observations on Earl Cornwallis' Answer. [To Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative]....

CLINTON, Sir Henry in folio

Observations on Earl Cornwallis' Answer. [To Sir Henry Clinton's Narrative]. (Campaign in 1771).

Philadelphia. John Campbell. 1866. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to. 30.5cm, [iv],113,[2]p., First American edition, folding table, limited to 75 copies, in quarto of a total edition of 250 copies, printed wraps, title printed in black and red, wraps chipped on the edges and loose, spine cap wanting, text block is.....

Price: $200.00

Item #21430 The Bijou; or Annual of Literature and the Arts. Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE

[COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor]

The Bijou; or Annual of Literature and the Arts.

London. William Pickering. 1828. 1828. Hardcover. 16mo, 16cm, xiv,319,[4]p., ads., with 10 steel engraved plates including frontis, engraved title vignette, 4 head-piece engravings, in contemporary quarter crimson roan, decorated gilt spine title, decorated paper board covers, covers worn with most of decoration faded, foxing, a.e.g., missing front free-endpaper, bit shaken.....

Price: $150.00

Item #40245 Captain Cook's Florilegium. A Selection of Engravings from the Drawings of Plants...

COOK, JAMES, CAPTAIN]

Captain Cook's Florilegium. A Selection of Engravings from the Drawings of Plants Collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's First Voyage to the Islands of the Pacific, with Accounts of the Voyage by Wilfrid Blunt and of the Botanical Explorations and Prints by William T. Steam.

London, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. No. 9 of 100 copies printed. Large folio; pp. [I12]; engraved frontispiece and 29 engraved plates, all with tissue guards. Original black Nigerian morocco back, Japanese black silk paper-covered boards, with black morocco fore-edges by Zaehnsdorf, lettered in gilt.....

Price: $6,000.00

Item #36694 Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River...

DAWSON, S.J. and Henry Youle Hind

Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement, and between the latter place and The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan. With: North-West Territory. Reports of Progress: together with A Preliminary and General Report on the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition.

Toronto. John Lovell, printer. 1859. Hardcover. sm. folio. 33cm, 45 & [212]pp., with 11 very large folding maps, coloured in outline, 3 plates (one view) and text illustrations and diagrams, original black cloth boards, with new brown cloth spine, internally fine. (cgc) T.P.L. 3885 & 3912. Peel 207 & 211.....

Price: $400.00

Item #34090 Complete Works of John Doran . [17 Titles in 28 Volumes]. John DORAN

DORAN, John

Complete Works of John Doran . [17 Titles in 28 Volumes].

Boston. Francis A. Niccolls & Co. c.[1911]. Hardcover. 8vo, 21.5cm, in 28 volumes, limited edition of 26 lettered copies (this being G),decorated title-pages, around 130 plate illustrations including colour frontispieces, tissue guards, in half blue black polished calf, gilt decorated raised bands, attractive gilt floral decorations in the panels,gilt titles.....

Price: $4,500.00

Item #40559 A. J. Casson. Paul DUVAL

DUVAL, Paul

A. J. Casson.

Toronto. Roberts Gallery. 1975. full square folio, 31.2x 30cm, The First Edition, 191p., Limited to 325 Copies, Numbered and Signed by the Artist and the Author, this being # 150, with 70 colour plates and 51 b&w illustrations by A. J. Casson, With: a Lithograph drawn on ZincPlate, 8¼ x......

Price: $1,200.00

Item #32155 Relacion Del Viage Hecho Por Las GoletasSutil Y Mexicana En El Ano De 1792 Para...

ESPINOSA y Tello, Jose & Dionisio Alcala Galiano & MartinFernandez de Navarrette

Relacion Del Viage Hecho Por Las GoletasSutil Y Mexicana En El Ano De 1792 Para Reconocer El Estrecho De Fuca;Con Una Introduccion En Que Se Da Noticia De Las Expediciones ExecutadasAnteriormente Por Los Espanoles En Busca Del Paso Del Noroeste De LaAmerica (Coleccion Chimalistac De Libros Y Documentos Acerca De La NuevaEspana) -- Includes Atlas.

Madrid. Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. tall8vo& 4to, 23 & 27cm, 2 volumes, (text & atlas portfolio), [xviii],clxviii,202,[1]p & atlas, 2nd Spanish edition; edited by Porrua, this Octavo 2ndedition is limited to 225 numbered copies of which 25 are lettered and200 are numbered, this being #192, in.....

Price: $2,499.94

Item #24664 A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in Which a New Method of...

FORSYTH, William

A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in Which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described, to which is added a new improved edition of " Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in all kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees", with, an account of a Particular Method of Cure.

London. Printed by Nichols and Son. 1802. 1802. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 27.2x 21.5cm, the first edition, viii,371,[1]p., (errata), with 13 folding engraved plates, index, in full contemporary tree calf, gilt ruled spine panels, gilt titles on crimson leather label, hinge starting but sound, a fine copy (snds).

Price: $499.99

Item #40364 A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of...

GASS, Patrick (1771-1870)

A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke [sic] of the Army of the United States, from the mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean, during the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806. Containing An Authentic Relation of the most interesting Transactions during the Expedition: A Description of the Country: And an Account of its Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, Curiosities and Vegetable and Animal Productions. By Patrick Gass, One of the Persons Employed in the Expedition.

Pittsburgh. Printed for David M'Keehan & London, Re-Printed for J. Budd, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Pall-Mall. 1808. 8vo, 21.8cm, the First London edition. iv.381,16p., (ads., for Longman's catalogue, dated June l, 1808), in the original quarter-vellum backed light blue fine grain linen over boards, black.....

Price: $12,500.00

Item #32097 Canada. Papers relative to theAffairs of Canada. May 1849. [Bound with:] Canada....

GREAT BRITAIN, Colonial Office

Canada. Papers relative to theAffairs of Canada. May 1849. [Bound with:] Canada. Further Papersrelative to the Affairs of Canada. 25 May 1849. (In continuation of thePapers presented May 1849.) [Bound with:] Canada. Further Papers relativeto the Affairs of Canada . (In continuation of the Papers presented 25thMay 1849.) 7th June 1849. Presented to both Houses of Parliament byCommand of Her Majesty, May 1849.

London. Printed by William Clowes andSons for Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1849. Hardcover. Folio. 33cm, 24, 16 &47pp., 3 title-pages, bound in modern leather-backed brown buckram, newendpapers, gilt titles on upper board, last page torn, near fine T.P.L.2995. Dispatches from the Governor of Canada, Lord Elgin, to Earl Greyregarding the.....

Price: $249.99

Item #36802 SHOOTING. In Two Volumes.[The "Country Life" Library of Sport]. Horace G. HUTCHINSON

HUTCHINSON, Horace G., edited by

SHOOTING. In Two Volumes.[The "Country Life" Library of Sport].

London. Published at theOffices of "Country Life". 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. 23cm, in 2 volumes, ix,328& x,336pp., frontispieces, 113 plates from photographs, 12 plans &diagrams, head & tail piece illustrations, volume indexes, originalbrick red book linen, gilt titles, uncut, a near fine set Authorsinclude: C,J. Cornish (pheasant, partridge, wild-fowl, hare,rabbit); C.E......

Price: $150.00

Item #40057 A Dictionary of the English Language; In which The Words are Deduced from their...

JOHNSON, Samuel

A Dictionary of the English Language; In which The Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To which are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar. The Fourth Edition, Revised by the Author. In Two Volumes.

Beirut. Librairie Du Liban. 1978. Hardcover. 39.5cm, 2284p., black cloth with gilt decorations, front endpaper torn at the gutter, binding still strong, a very good to fine set (ds1) A facsimile reprint of the fourth edition. The author's last final and only substantially corrected edition.

Price: $500.00

Item #29333 A Social History of Ancient Ireland. Treating of The Government, Military System, and...

JOYCE, P.W.

A Social History of Ancient Ireland. Treating of The Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People.

London, New York & Bombay. Longmans, Green and Co. 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. thick8vo, 22cm, The First Edition, in two volumes, xxiii,632 & xi,651,[i]pp., ad., with 328 illustrations from engravings, bibliography, index, in original dark green cloth, gilt titles and Celtic decorations and borders on the spines and upper covers.....

Price: $1,199.97

Item #37263 Als Eskimo unter den Eskimos. Eine Schilderung der Erlenisse der Schwatka'schen...

KLUTSCHAK, Heinrich W.

Als Eskimo unter den Eskimos. Eine Schilderung der Erlenisse der Schwatka'schen Franklin- Aufsuchungs -Expedition in den Jahren 1878-80.

Vienna, Budapest & Leipsig. A. Hartleben. 1881. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, [1].245pp., frontis, and numerous text drawings including 12 full-page, 3 coloured maps (2 folding), elaborate gilt and black stamped decorated pebbled cloth, gilt and black decorated bands and panels, gilt spine titles, light foxing, fine copy. (cgc) An account of.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #21417 The Lovely Lady. D. H. LAWRENCE

LAWRENCE, D.H.

The Lovely Lady.

London. Martin Secker. 1932. 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, the first edition, 246p., oirignal fine grain chocklate brown cloth, gilt titles and two rules on the spine, blind borders on the boards, a fine bright copy in dust worn and chipped complete jacket (n14). The jacket spine panel is.....

Price: $399.99

Item #35431 The Dictionary of National Biography. Founded in 1882 by George Smith. The Concise...

LEE, Sir Sidney & Helen Palmer (Edited by)

The Dictionary of National Biography. Founded in 1882 by George Smith. The Concise Dictionary. From the Beginnings to 1911. Being an Epitome of the Main Work and its Supplement, to which is added an Epitome of the Supplement 1901 1911. [With]: The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part II 1901 1950. Being an Epitome of the Twentieth Century D.N.B. Down to the end of 1950. [In 2 Volumes.].

London. Oxford University Press. 1920 & 1961. Hardcover. thick8vo, 23cm., in 2 volumes, vii,1456,129 & 528pp., printed in double column, indexes, vol. I in the original dark green cloth in very good to fine condition; vol. 2 in dark blue cloth, internal library stamps else fine in very good jacket.....

Price: $150.00

Item #38292 Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln. Thomas LOWRY

LOWRY, Thomas

Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln.

London. Privately printed for Beatrice M. Lowry and her friends Minneapolis. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. 21cm, 32p., on hand made paper, photogravure frontis portrait of the author, with tissue guard, in fine signed binding, full crushed leavant blue green morocco, raised bands, gilt borers in.....

Price: $600.00

Item #25603 An Elementary Compendium of Physiology; For the Use of Students. Translated from the...

MAGENDIE, Francois

An Elementary Compendium of Physiology; For the Use of Students. Translated from the French, with Copious Notes and Illustrations, by E. Milligan, M.D.

Edinburgh. Printed for John Carfrae, Medical Booksellers. 1823. 1823. Hardcover. 8vo, 20.5cm, xxxiv,445,[xvii]p., tables & errata page, folding table, notes, in contemporary half calf, red morocco label, gilt titles, marbled boards, endpapers foxed and some other occasional light foxing, , worn at the edges, some wear on the boards, a......

Price: $200.00

Item #37357 Syria. The Illustrations by H. Warren & Engraved by J. Rogers. The Map Drawn and...

MAP - TALLIS]

Syria. The Illustrations by H. Warren & Engraved by J. Rogers. The Map Drawn and Engraved by J. Rapkin.

London and New York. The London Printing and Publishing Company. [ca.1853]. 27.5x 36cm, decorative borders, vignette illustrations, colour outline, folded vertically (as issued), fine.

Price: $150.00

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