Vancouver, B.C.
Vancouver. European Import Co. [ca.1910]. 21.5x15cm, with 48 full page colour illustrations, in brown ruled wraps with decorative border and titles on the upper cover, fine. (N12). Printed in Germany.
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The Trail of the Sandhill Stag and 60 Drawings by Ernest Seton-Thompson.
New York. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1899. 12mo., 19.5cm, the First Edition, 93p. with colour frontis and 7 plates and 52 line drawn & woodcut illustrations by the author, in the original decorated and blind stamped pebbled linen, quite dust worn, light edge wear, internally a very good copy.....
Jesuit Mission Presses in the Pacific Northwest. A History and Bibliography of Imprints 1876-1899.
Portland, Oregon. The Champoeg Press. 1957. Sm. 4to. 25 cm, limited edition of 804 copies, 66p., frontis portrait tipped-in (Father Joseph Giorda), bibliographical note, index, red illustrated cloth, gilt spine title, uncut, fine.(wst). In two parts. Part I: The St. Ignatious Missions with bibliography & notes. Part II: The Sacred.....
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1873-1973 Centennial Calendar.
Regina Chamber of Commerce. [1972]. 28x21cm, 13 coloured plates, text illustrations with historical descriptions, very good to fine. (Cmt).
Patronage et Pouvoir dans le Bas-Canada (1794-1812), un essai d'economie historique.
Montreal. Les Presses de L'Universite du Quebec. 1973. 22.5cm, 182p., printed wraps bound in, rebound in full blue morocco, with gilt titles and gilt ruled bands, in matching morroco slipcase with blue paper boards, fine.(qc).
The Art of Norval Morrisseau.
Toronto, London, New York. Methuen, 1979. oblong folio. 28x 33cm, 200p., appendix, containing more than 130 colour reproductions of paintings and prints, as well as numerous drawings and other pictures in black and white, accompanied by legends and lore connected with the heritage of an ancient culture, in full tan.....
The Atlantic Provinces. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island. Canadian Local Histories to 1950: A Bibliography.
Toronto. The University of Toronto Press. 1967. 25cm, 136p. two folding maps, facsimiles, index, green cloth, fine in very good jacket. (Atl).
A Plan of the Grand of the New Townships on the Grand or Ottawa River.
London. 1815. Engraved map by J. Walker. Image size 60.5x 24cm, with some contemporary hand colouring, nicely framed and matted. (). "Joseph Bouchette's books played an important part in the geography and topography of Canada. Some of them were illustrated by himself and he was also a noted cartographer" Spendlove.....
The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons.
London. E. Churton. 1851. 24cm, iv,496p., in half crimson calf over red pebbled cloth boards, gilt ruled bands and boards, gilt titles with elaborate gilt stamping on the spine, a.e.g, marbled endpapers, some occasional foxing, else a fine copy.(ds1). Enclosed is a letter to the Canadian Speaker of the House.....
Jesuit Relations of Canada, 1632-1673. A Bibliography. With an Introduction by Lawrence C. Wroth.
Paris. Arthur Rau. 1937. tall8vo, 24.5cm, xv,[1]310.[38]p., Limited numbered edition of 350 copies, the first 25 were printed on arches vellum-paper, appendices (this being #23), facsimile title pages, in publisher's wraps, with original glassine shipping wrapper, a fine copy, rare.(cdn). James Comly McCoy (1862-1934) was a "collector and student of.....
Life in the Open. Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse and Hound in Southern California.
New York and London. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1911. 21.5cm, xv,401p., frontis portrait, with 92 plates and illustrations, index, book ads (including an add for item #2 of this catalogue), in fine grain green cloth, with gilt titles and decorations on the spine, blind stapled hunting and fishing vignettes on the.....
Books and Baskets, Signs and Silver of Old-Time Nantucket.
Nantucket, Massachusetts. Printed by The Inquirer and Mirror Press, for the Author. 1940. 23cm, limited edition of 125 copies, this being #97, plates illustrations, grey cloth with paper label on upper cover, a very good copy.(agc). A history of the silversmiths of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
L'Union Des Provinces de L'Amerique Britannique Du Nord.
Quebec. L'Imprimerie de A. Cote Et Cie. 1865. 21.5cm, 152p., printed wraps, very good to fine. (Cdn). Gagnon VI - 3222. TPL 440. Lande - Confederation Pamphlets, p.19.
Report concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905.
Ottawa. S.E. Dawson, King's Printer. 1906. 24cm, xcvi,135,53,48,661,12,9,262pp., folding maps, indexes, rebacked, blue wraps, near fine.(cdn). Contains: Genealogy of the families of La Beauce, by M. L'Abbe Charles Beaumont; Genealogy of the families of the Island of Orleans; Acadian Genealogy and Notes, by Placide Gaudet; Land Grants in Prince Edward.....
Report on Canadian Archives, 1896.
Ottawa. Printed by S.E. Dawson. 1897. 24.5cm, xxxii, 252,79pp., large folding colour map, in full black morocco, raised gilt ruled bands, gilt spine titles, gilt ruled borders on the boards, marbled endpapers, fine copy.(cdn). Government of Canada Bindery', gilt stamped on the foot of the spine. In the early days.....
Three Years of Arctic Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84, and the attainment of the Farthest North. With over One Hundred illustrations made from photographs taken by the party, and with the official maps and charts.
London. Richard Bentley and Son. 1886. thick8vo. 23cm, in 2 volumes, first London edition, xxv,428 & xii,444pp. with 43 plates from engravings (inc engraved frontis portrait), 82 text illustrations and 9 maps (including 2 double page, 1 folding), the large folding map supplied here in separate grey linen case, map.....
Memorandum on Cholera, Adopted At A Medcial Conference Held in the Bureau of Agriculture, In March, 1866.
Ottawa. Printed for the Bureau of Agriculture and Statistics. 1866. 19.5cm, 34p., yellow printed wraps, a bit soiled, fine.(sgc). TPL 9418.
A Fair Representation of His Majesty's Right to Nova Scotia or Acadie. Briefly stated from the Memorials of the English Commissaries; with an Answer to the Objections contained in the French Memorials, and In a Treatise, entitled, Discussion Sommaire sur les Anciennes Limites de l'Acadie.
London. Printed by Edward Owen. 1756. small8vo. 18.5cm, first edition, 64p. bound in half crimson morocco, over fine red linen, gilt titles with gilt ruled raised bands, and gilt ruled boards, a fine copy.(cgc). T.P.L. 246. Lande 216. Sabin 56129. Gagnon I-1323. Dionne II-552. A forceful redeclaration of Britain's position.....
The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893 -1898. Edited with Introduction by John T. Saywell. Champlain Society, No.38.
Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1960. 24cm, lxxxiv,517p., with 2 portrait illustrations, limited to 550 copies, this being #142, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy. (Cdn). In 1893 Lord Aberdeen became Governor General of Canada and he and Lady Aberdeen traveled extensively in Canada. Her journal is an important.....
The Sayings of Confucius. A New Translation of the Greater Part o f the Confucian Analects.
London. John Murray. 1920. 16mo. 16cm, 4th impression, 132p., title-page vignette, fine binding in full tan calf, black and gilt ruled raised bands, gilt panels decorations and titles, gilt ruled borders on the boards, wide elaborated gilt inner dentelles, matched marbled endpapers, all edges gilt ~ In signed binding "Bound.....
Peasant Art in Switzerland.
London. "The Studio" Ltd. 1924. 4to. 28cm, xxiv,76p., plus colour frontis, title-page vignette, and 431 illustrations including 15 colour plates, notes, on laid card vellum backed original pattern decorated stiff wraps with ads, several blind stamped library impression, laid in inscription on verso of frontis, new paper label, a very.....
Prairie Place Names. The Ryerson Canadian History Readers. Edited by Lorne Pierce.
Toronto. Ryerson Press. 1928. 12mo., 28p., printed green wraps, fine condition (Pol).
A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour. John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806-1807.
London. The Hakluyt Society. 2018. tall8vo, 24.5cm, xx,397p., 6 maps & 15 plates illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, gilt crested dark blue cloth, fine in fine jacket, as new (gar).
The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings.
New York. Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1970. 8vo. 22cm, second edition, xxiv,232p., frontis & 9 plates, index, light blue cloth, gilt spine titles, as new (bks.ds). ~ A reprint of the first edition of 1894. with chapters: The Craft of Binding; Early Italian Bindings; French Bindings; English Bindings. Herbert P......
Catalogus Librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana. In Two Volumes.
New York. Kestenbaum & Company. [1998]. thick4to. 27cm, second edition, in 2 volumes, cxxxi,3103,lc,vii, 32pp., double column, indexes, blue cloth, gilt spine titles on red leather labels, a fine (as new) set (gar1). ~ A facsimile reprint (limited to 150 copies) of the Berloni edition of 1852-1860. A massive bibliography.....