Fifty Years of Progress on Dominion Experimental Farms 1886-1936.
Ottawa. Government Printing Office. 1939. 25cm, map, plates and illustrations, brown printed wraps,
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Views of Society and Manners in America; In A Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England, During the Years 1818, 1819, and 1820.
New York: E. Bliss and E. White. 1821. 22.5cm, second edition (first american), xii,387p., with half title, rebound in red buckram with gilt titles, decorated paper boards, faint library stamps on reverse of title page, previous owners contemporary signature, some foxing and pencil underlining, Second American From the First London.....
A Short Sketch of the Osler Family 1837-1913.
Toronto: Wm. Tyrrell & Co., Ltd., 1938. 22cm, 19p., with frontis portrait, 8 plates and illustrations, brown cloth over paper boards, decorated label on the upper cover, few smudges on rear board, Nicely inscribed on the free fly, aslo with a card loosely inserted from Mrs. Edmund Boyd (Osler)...
The John Strachan Letter Book: 1812 - 1834.
Toronto: The Ontario Historical Society. 1946. 25cm, xxxiv,279p., frontis portrait of Strachan, index, green cloth with gilt titles, small white splash at top of spine, From his days as a minister in Cornwall to becoming the first Anglican Bishop of Canada, Strachan wrote profusely. These letters cover the War of.....
The Settlement of the Uinted Empire Loyalists on the Upper ST. Lawrence and Bay of Quinte 1784. A Documentary Record.
Toronto: Ontario Historical Society. 1966. 25.5cm, xiv,188p., green cloth with gilt titles,
The Collected Poems Of John Masfield.
London: William Heinemann, 1924. 18.2cm, ix,784p., index of first lines, bound in half red polished calf over red cloth boards, gilt ruled bands and panels gilt titles, lightly worn, some lightly fading on the boards, signed binding by Truslove & Hanson.
Yukon Water Doctor.
Whitehorse: Burns & Morton. 1986. 21.5cm, 123p., illustrations from photographs, printed wraps, warmly inscribed by the author,
Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak. One Woman's Journey Through the Northwest Passage.
Winnipeg: Turnstone Press. 1995. 24cm, 298p., map, colour plates from photographs, 2 maps, blue cloth, nicely inscribed by the author,
In Scotland Again.
London: Methuen & Co., 1933. 19cm, the first edition, xiv,415p., mapped endpapers, with 22 sepiatone photo illustrations, map, index, book ads, wine cloth with gilt titltes.
A Memorial of Anson’s Voyage, A complete Circumnavigation pf the World by George Anson, Esq; Commodore, in the good ship Centurion in which he brought Fresh Triumph & Honour To His Country ...
London. Printed for the company of Roche Products, 1976. 4to. 29x 21cm, with 3 folding facsimiles, (a map, a pamphlet, ms table; complete with reproduction of foxing, cover titles in back and red, alligator grain stiff card wraps, very good. Reproduced from items at the National Maritime Museum. ~ The.....
Measuring Mother Earth. How Joe the Kid became Tyrrell of the North.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 2007. 23cm, 348p., plates and illustrations, index, grey cloth, signed by the author on the title page,
Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin.
London: T. Nelson and Sons. 1885. 12mo, 20cm, xii,[1],10-443,[1]p., frontis plate view, 76 plates and illustrations from engravings, folding map, in the original bgreen cloth, gilt stamped titles and small decorations on the spine, black stamped titles andborders on the upper cover, bevelled boards, A reprint of Kane's famous account.....
Sir John Franklin.
New York and London. G.P. Putnam's Sons. nd. [1890's]. (The New Plutarch, series). 12mo,17.5cm, 238,[2]p., ads., with 2 maps (inc. 1 double-page folded), rebound in black cloth with gilt tltles, internally clean. A biography of the life of Franklin which concentrates mainly on the expeditions in the CanadianArctic, the search.....
Across The Sub-Arctics of Canada. A Journey of 3,200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe Through the Hudson Bay Region. Including a List of Plants Collected on the Way, a Vocabulary of Eskimo Words, and a Map Showing the Route of the Expedition. With Illustrations from Photographs Taken on the Journey andfrom Drawings by Arthur Heming and J.S. Gordon.. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
Toronto. William Briggs. 1908. Third and Best Edition. 8vo, 22.5cm, 280p., with portrait frontis and 84 plates and illustrations, folding map, originalblue pictorial cloth, black spine and cover titles. J.W. Tyrrell's exciting trip north to Baker Lake and Chesterfield Inlet, along Hudson Bay to Fort Churchill and back to Winnipeg.....
Siluria. The History of the Oldest Known Rocks containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold over the Earth.
London. John Murray. 1854. thick8vo., 23cm, the first edition, xii,523pp., with 37 rear folding lithographed plates with printed descriptions of the tissue guards, folding hand-coloured map in rear pocket, numerous woodcut text illustrations, in the original fine pebbled green cloth, elaborate blind-stamped decorations and borders on the boards, gilt spine.....
Tales From The South China Seas. Images of the British in South-East Asia in the Twentieth Century.
London. Andre Duetsch. British Broadcasting Corp. 1982. 23.3cm, 240p., many plates, illustrations and maps, notes, glossary, maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine copy in fine jacket in the original cellophane shipped wrapped.
Volcanism and Volcanic Rocks. Summaries of lectures presented at a Seminar Series at the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, 1972-73.
Ottawa. Geological Survey Canada, 1973. 4to. 28cm, iv,176p., typescript type face, many illustrations, contents list, self printed wrappers, fine condition. rare, no on line listings located.
Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain.
London. Edward Stanford. 1964. tall8vo., 24cm, fourth edition, viii,288pp., map index & general index on the endpapers, and 29 maps, 5 figures, 53 fossil composite illustrations, quarter black cloth backed grey linen boards, gilt titles along the spine, a fine copy 45.00. "Stanford's Geological Atlas was first published in.....
People's Art. Naïve Art in Canada.
Ottawa. The National Gallery of Canada. 1973-1974. square sm4to. 147p. 164 illustrations (inc some in colour), very good jacket stiff printed wraps, some slight shelf ear on the wraps otherwise internally fine. This is the exhibition catalogue at the National Gallery, which preceded the book published by the Uniersity of.....
Selected Birds of America. V1. & Selected Quadrupeds of North America.
Kent, Ohio. Published by Volair Limited. 1977'. small4to., in 2 volumes. xvi,287 & vii,319pp., plus c. 150 attractively presented colour plate, in full rowan brown morocco, with elaborate gilt decorated boards, borders and decorations, raised bands, gilt titles and decorations in the panels, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, fine as.....
The Birds of Canada. Colour illustrations by John A. Crosby. [Who was for many years a customer at 783 Bank Street]. Line drawings by S. D. MacDonald.
Ottawa. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 203. Biological series, No. 73. 1966. 4to., 28cm, 428p., plus colour plates for each species with range maps, mapped endpapers, index, dark blue cloth, spine titles stamped in white, fine in very good colour illustrated jacket, top and bottom spine edge edges a bit.....
Geological and Mineralogical Map of Sutherland. To accompany his papers on the geognosy of Sutherland published in the Mineralogical Magazine, No. 21.
Published for the Mineralogical Society by W. and A.K. Johnston. 1881. The first edition, a large folding hand coloured folding map, 84x 100cm, (33”x 39.58”), mounted on linen in panels, 21x 14cm., in original pebbled green cloth case, gilt gilt stamped cover titles in black stamped decorated borders and corner.....
Traces in Scotland if Ancient Water-Lines, Marine, Lacustrine, and Fluviatile. With Some Account of the Drift Materials on which these Traces are Imprinted and Speculations regarding the Period in the World's History to which they may be referred, and the Climate changes they suggest.
Edinburgh. David Douglas. 1882. 8vo. 22cm first edition, 149p., figures, dark green cloth, gilt spine titles, fine - With the author's presentation inscription to prominent Scottish naturalist and lawyer, John Rurnbull of Abbey St. Bathans (1820-1891). No online listing located.
Canoescapes. Foreward by Christopher Chapman.
Erin, Ontario: Stoddart. A Boston Mills Books. 1995. square4to., 25.5x 26.5cm, 160p., plus 160 colour plate illustrations of painting on the subject, black cloth, silver stamped spine titles, a fine copy in fine colour illustrated jacket. "I have always believed that the Canadian canoe is one of the greatest achievements.....
Miners and Moonshiners. A Personal Account of Adventure and Survival in a Difficult Era.
Victoria, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. 1983. 22.5cm, 203p., with 51 illustrations, blue cloth, jacket is taped, signed by the author,