Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1956. 24cm, xxii, 636p. appendix, with folding map and 5 plates, limited to 550 copies, this being #142, in the original crested red cloth, t.e.g., fine (wst). "This volume was prepared to make available, in the first instance, the journal kept by Alexander Begg in Winnipeg.....
Toronto. Coles Publishing Limited. 1973. 21.5cm, 142p., map, wine cloth, fine in fine jacket. (Ar). A facsimile reprint of the 1740 first edition.
New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1980. 23.5cm, first American edition, xxi,665p., many plates, illustrations and maps, notes, sources, index, black cloth, silver spine titles, some minor pencil notations, a very good copy in very good jacket. (Ar).
Boston & New York. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1883. 23.5cm, the first edition, in 2 volumes, xii,440 & x,(-441),911pp. with two engraved portraits, 13 wood-engraved plates, 1 colour lithographed plate, 23 maps, charts and diagrams (including one folding), and 41 illustrations, rear folding pocket.....
Paris. Baudry's European Library. 1836. 8vo. 21cm, viii,338p., with front folding map, bound in quarter green calf, gilt titles and decorations on the spine, marbled boards and endpapers, bookplate, some foxing, a very good copy in attractive binding. (Ar). Back, who had been on both Franklin expeditions, was sent out.....
London. John Murray. 1819. 4to., 26.5cm, The First Edition, xxxix,[l],252,cxlivpp., (appendices), complete with 32 maps, plates, and tables, of which l3 are folding & 15 are coloured, in the original marbled boards, later rebacked in dark brown calf, wide raised bands, blind stamped decorations and borders in the panels, gilt.....
Toronto. ECW Press. 1998. 25cm, 714p., blue cloth with silver titles, and stamping of Leacock's portrait on the upper cover, fine. (Lt).
The Champlain Society. No. 37. Toronto. 1959. 24cm, x,285p. with 9 plates & 2 maps, limited to 600 copies, this being number 142, original gilt crested red cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy. (cmt). In the year 1884 a force of nearly 400 Canadian boatmen (in fact lumbermen, experienced in white.....
Toronto. The Champlain Society, No. 46. 1970. 24cm, cxxiv,391p. with a colour frontis portrait and 3 maps, limited to 850 copies, this being #142, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., very good to fine. (cmt). John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen) (born 1770, Scotland (?)- died 1827, Upper Canada)[1] was adopted by the Mohawk.....
Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1947. 24cm, lii,277p. appendices, index, limited to 550 copies, this being #33, original crested red cloth, gilt titles, t.e.g., the rest untrimmed, a fine copy. (Wst). "The document here presented is Governor Simpson's own account of his second journey of inspection from Hudson Bay to the.....
New York. Reprinted by the New York Meeting for Sufferings. 1844. 8vo. 19 cm, second edition, 144 p., in full calf, gilt spine title on morocco label, scattered foxing, light edge wear, very good. (amp). State of man: "Wherein is shown the nature of his fall, and the necessity, means.....
New York & London. Harper & Brothers. 1906. 8vo. 21 cm, first edition, 4 colour illustrations by L.W. Ziegler, in publisher's pictorial stamped cloth, t.e.g., gilt titles and decorations, decorated endpapers, a near fine copy. (Tr). A novel of Japan by Canadian author & playwright, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) who wrote.....
Leipzig. K.F. Koehler. 1942. Sm. 4to. 26 cm, 175, (1)pp., frontis, indexes, paper covered boards, lacking spine, internally very good. (ds1). "Chamisso as a Naturalist. A Bibliography". A collection of books (393 entries) related to the German poet and naturalist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). Noted as the author of "Peter.....
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex. F. Lewis Publishers. 1947. Sm. 4to. 24 cm, first edition, 56p., colour illustrated title-page, 24 illustrations including 9 full-page in sepia, former owner's inscription, fine in fine jacket. (Tr). Author, C. Fox Smith was "C.F.S." of Punch. A book of the English countryside written shortly after World War.....
Carbonbdale. Southern Illinois University. 1969. 4to. 28 cm, iv, 166p., double column, bibliography of sources, index of places, printed wraps, fine. (Bks). Bibliographic Contributions No. 4 The Library, Southern Illinois University.
Minneapolis. Associates of the James Ford Bell Library. 1995. Sm.4to. 25 x 18 cm, number 91 of a limited dition of 600 copies, (ii), 79p., illustrated, facsimile, index, two-tone blue cloth, fine. (Tr). On October 29, 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was executed on a scaffold in the yard outside London's.....
London & Toronto. Jonathan Cape. 1938. 8vo. 23 cm, first edition, first state, 896p., 16 illustrations including frontis, 4 maps (2 folding), index, brown cloth, gilt spine titles, fine in very good jacket. (Tr). "In this book the career of T.E. Lawrence from the time he was a schoolboy, interested.....
New York. Burt Franklin. 1970. 4to. 26 cm, reprint of the original 1942 edition, xxiv, 411p., addenda, errata, index of authors, light blue linen, fine. (Bks). Number 40: Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference. A comprehensive bibliography of published materials on the invention of printing with moveable types. Originally published on.....
New York. Kraus Reprint Co. 1970. 8vo. 23 cm, facsimile reprint of the 1893 London edition, 364p., dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, fine. (Bks). "Including all writings by authors before joining and by those after having left the Society." (sub. Title).
New York. The Macmillan Company. 1914. 8vo. 20 cm, first edition, ix, 291p., 16 plates including frontis, rear ads, navy blue cloth with gilded decoration, gilt titles, fine. (Tr). Japan and its peoples after sixty years of moderization and entry onto the world stage. Includes a chapter on Count Okuma.....
New York. Kraus Reprint Company. 1968. 8vo. 22 cm, facsimile reprint of the 1873 edition, 474p., list of authors, dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, fine. (Bks). Bound with: Part I (A. to Anonymous) of Bibliotheca Quakeristica, A Bibliography of Miscellaneous Literature relating to the Friends (Quakers). By Joseph Smith.....
Toronto. Viking Canada. 2004. Tall 8vo. 23 cm, first edition, 302p., 12 maps including 1 double-page, grey cloth, signed by the author, fine in fine jacket. (Cdn). The story of a walk from Thunder Bay to Manhattan, a journey of 2,200 kilometres. A very entertaining anecdotal tale with a cast.....
Metuchen, N.J. & London. The Scarecrow Press. 1988. 8vo. 22 cm, xv, 367p., blue cloth, blue linen, fine. (Bks). Author draws on the Evans Bibliography and the Shaw/ Shoemaker Bibliography. Extensive indexes: date of publication & place of publication, name, book title, map title, geographic.
Toronto. The Ryerson Press. 1943. tall 8vo, 23cm, first edition, xxiv,371p. with 18 portraits and illustrations from photographs, bibliography, original dark blue cloth, a very good sound copy, Robert's signed presentation copy "To Les... from the other Roberts, Christmas, 1943", (lt).
London. Whittaker, Treacher & Co. 1830. 18cm, xvi,415 & vi,422p., with folding map, frontispiece, with vignettes at the head of chapters, publisher's ads, front hinge cracked but holding, three small bookplates, small previous owner's signature in volume two, original red cloth with paper spine labels, lacks blank free fly in.....