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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcover; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. Book.

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Original Wraps. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 39 p. + 7 p. of ads at rear. 23 cm. Tan paper covers are chipped and torn. Front cover has been repaired. Resources include agriculture, minerals and timber. Includes a section on general information for emigrants.

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Plaquette. In-8 (14,3 x 21,3 cm), plaquette brochée, 47 pages ; déchirures au dos, rousseurs aux plats, mouillure et tampons au premier plat, pliure au quatrième plat, par ailleurs intérieur bien conservé, en l'état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.

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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Smiley, Russell J.; Prince, William Meade; Ballantyne, Joyce; Glaser, George (illustrator). First Edition. 136 pages. Many black and white photos plus some color ads. Features: Russell J. Smiley's cover art depicts his triumph over a mighty marlin; Wood Ticks and Dog Tricks - The wood tick causes deadly spotted fever; The Education of the Wrecker - Training a problematic dog; Death in the Timber - The peril caused by forest fires; The Gristmill Whopper - The real fisherman knows what to do if he lands the whopper; Bass Plugs and Bass (Part 2); Jungle Journey - Part 4 of E.P. Haddon's adventures hunting and fishing in the almost unexplored back-country jungles of tropical Yucatan Peninsula; Farm Fishponds - Second article on farm fish ponds, reporting on a co-operative experiment in constructing 60 ponds in North Carolina and the result after two years; The Lizard of "Was" - The Gila Monster; Know Your Ducks (7) - The Blue-Winged Teal; One-page photo of George Paulson stepping out of his boat on Leech Lake, MN, with a string of fish; One-page photo of Bernard Rocha casting into the Owens River in California; Matinee on the Marsh - Hunting and betting; The Champion - The record and life story of perhaps the most brilliant handler of all time, Clyde Morton of Alabama; Bucktails for Steelheads (Part 2) - Peter J. Schwab reveals how to tie his sensational new wire-body bucktails for steelheads; Iron rifle Sights - The peep type site is very accurate; and much more. Many great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Sheldon, C.M.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, J.E.; Whittaker, W.G.; "Robin"; Elcock, Howard; Small, A.G.; Wright, Frank; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest; Paxton, R.B.M.; Morrow, Albert (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Woman of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Mitchell, Michael; Mink, David; Shook, Euclid; Berman, Sam;Dwyer, James; Koskinen, Harry; Patterson, Robert; Darrow, Whitney Jr.; (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Articles: My 4-Year War with the Reds (part 1) - Brig. General Frank Howley warns "The Russians are international gangsters who will destroy us if they can" - with photos; Lustron - the House That Lots of Jack Built - Carl Strandlund's company received $50 million from the government to build masses of steel-enamel homes in his Columbus, Ohio factory; Jean Peters - The Girl Who Didn't go After Hollywood - article with super full-page color photo; Those Explosive Nobel Prizes (part 1 of 2); World's Most Robbed Bank - State Bank of Rangeville, VA has been robbed 490-odd times since 1945 - it's a dummy created by the F.B.I. on the Quantico Marine Corps base at Quantico, VA; Slide, Fujimura, Slide! - Baseball in Japan is as popular as ever - article with excellent photos, especially the shot of 'emancipated' women appearing in public at games; Letter Found on a Lady's Desk; Lineman of the Year? - Notre Dame's giant end Leon Hart - article with nice color photo. Fiction: The Equatorial Man; The Difficult Age; Saturday Date; Courtesy of the Road; Bootlegger's Treasure (part 3 of 4). Includes these nice vintage ads: Zenith entertainment products; Elgin watches; Packard Cars; Hamilton watches; Pall Mall cigarettes; Chevrolet cars; Dupont antifreeze (nice cartoon illustrations); Auto-Lite ad features nice photo of Ida Lupino; Schlitz beer; Pendleton shirts; Budweiser; Congress playing cards - featuring Mme. Schiaparelli and "Gogo" Berenson; Brunswick bowling products; Camel cigarettes (back cover) - featuring auto-racing champion Bill Holland. Covers loosening from staples. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, November 5, 1949.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Bates, Leo; Coller, H.; Nicolson, W.C.; Whitaker, W.G.; Small, A.G.; Verpilleux, E.; Soper, G.; Elock, H.; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.

First Edition. First edition. 8vo. 196 pp., (22) pp. of ads. 10 albumen photographs (3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches) mounted on stiff leaves with printed captions and "Notman, Photo." (leaves foxed). Original dark brown cloth (edges bumped, spine head chipped); a very good solid copy. This early tour guide follows both rail and river routes, primarily from the mouth of the Saguenay to Niagara. Most of the hunting and fishing advice is found in the flow of his tour narrative, except for a list of salmon and trout rivers "below Quebec", which gives 22 rivers and two stretches of the St. Lawrence. William Notman's photographs, include five views (Montmorenci Steps and Falls, Niagara Falls, Montreal Harbor, Ottawa's new parliament building) and five scenes and genre characters from paintings (three by "Krieghoff" and two others, possibly his; Cornelius Krieghoff, 1815-1872, was a Dutch-born Canadian genre painter, popular in his day and still appreciated for his record of the era). Appendices list mammals and birds.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Reynolds, Warwick; Small, A.G.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, J.; Hodgson, E.S.; Holmes, Fred; Bates, Leo; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; Elcock, Howard; Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Ferrier, A.; Soper, G. (illustrator). First Edition. 90 pages plus 16 pages of nice ads. Features: Our Hunting Trip in Brazil - dealing with giant snakes and jaguars; Photo of Sulphur Bottom Whale leaping out of water to avoid swordfish; Stalked by a Mountain Lion (cougar) - while mining in the Selkirk Mountains near Golden, British Columbia; The Leaf-Wearers of Orissa - great photo-illustrated article on these native people's of India; My Adventure in Sing Sing; Silk Mask Jim - this amazing Chicago criminal, James J. Harrigan, was head of a great thieves trust responsible for over seven hundred robberies in a single year; My Strangest Experience; A Fight on a Mountain Top - the Philippine Constabulary seeks out remnants of Aguinaldo's forces - article with photo; Into the Unknown (part 1) - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea ; The "Pinto" of Great Black Pine Mountain - the life and death of a wonderful wild horse in Southern Idaho; The Lifted Veil - part 5 of the story of two British officer POWs in Turkey who apply Spiritualism to escape; Where No Writ Runs - photo-illustrated article on life in the highlands of Kurdistan; The Ghost of the "Lycaon" - a steamship of the Blue Funnel Line; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing - when policement become criminals; The Rector's Story - a South African clergyman's story; Odds and Ends - photo of Arizona Gila Monster listening to phonograph. Covers beginning to detach from textblock. Average wear. A nice vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Nicolson, W.C.; Whitaker, W.G.; Prater, Ernest; Reynolds, Warwick; Gillett, Frank; Hodgson, E.S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Wood, Stanley L.; Horne, A.E.; Avis, W.; Wigfull, W.E.; Small, A.G. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part 1) - Sister Janina vanished from Isadore, Michigan and it was 12 years before the mystery was solved; Post-Hole Pete - an amusing bear story from the Alaska wilds; The Maddest Exploit of the War - Trooper Gerald Fitzgerald No. 1313 1st King Edward's Horse was unaware of the Armistice so single-handedly pursued the retiring German Army; The Ship That Came Back - the liner "Sesostris" was wrecked off the coast of Guatemala, lifted into a jungle by a volcano, then salvaged to resume her career! - article with photos; Short Stories; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - and After (part 1) - Sergeant H. Wright, D.S.M., of the Royal Marine Light Infantry provides striking narrative; Ants and Other Pests - Mining Engineer E.T. McCarthy's thrilling experiences; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 4 - Mr. Philby describes his travels in central Arabia among the Wahhabi (Wahabi) Arabs - article with photos; The Hunting of Felizardo, a notorious brigand in the Philippines - photo-illustrated article; On Foot Through South America - part 7 of 7 - travels in the "Great Wilderness" of Bolivia, and a meeting with "Jack Thompson" - photo-illustrated article; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron on the Western Front - part 4 (illustrated); Down at Iceland - sights and events on a trip to Iceland in a typical Grimsby trawler ; A Battle with Bears - an exciting story from the wilds of Wyoming, by Frank M. McMaines; Nice illustrated B.V.D. underwear ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Large, faded, olive green cloth coloured, hardback book, with gilt title impressions on the spine, black title impressions on the front board, along with decorative design and beautiful gilt image impression of a church. The book is in reasonably good condition, normal wear, marks, and tear apply consistent with use and age. Corners slightly bumped, some fading, odd specks of foxing, nice hand cut paper. There are several cut-out pieces of paper within the book, one particular newspaper article covers the death of the artist and author of the book itself, David Small. All pages intact, all pages, text and stunning plates/illustrations are in good, clean, readable order. Please note this is a large heavy book therefore postage/shipping may increase from listed price depending on final destination. Please ask for a delivery quote by sending a postcode to me via www.abebooks.com. Published in 1896, First Edition. Four Hundred and Fifty Copies of this Work have been printed for Sale. This Copy is No. Complimentary Copy signed MB. Forty Full-Page Drawings and Twenty-Three Text Illustrations by David Small. With Descriptive Letterpress, by A.H. Millar. Just a fabulous book, perfect for any Glasgow Historian, or anyone interested in the past of this great city. A truly wonderful book, that has survived the test of time and should be preserved for future generations.

8vo. pp. 196. 10 plates: photographs by Notman mounted on stiff card. original cloth (bit rubbed, gutter showing before title, some light foxing, stain to top of 1 photo mount & 4 leaves, upper inner corner of p. 171 adhered to plate verso with subsequent loss to some text). First Edition. The guide contains chapters on Quebec and its environs, the lower St. Lawrence, the River Saguenay, the Eastern Townships, Montreal, Montreal to Lake Champlain and River Richelieu, up the Ottawa River, Montreal to Quebec, down the St. Lawrence, Kingston to Toronto, Toronto to Collingwood, Collingwood to Sarnia, Sarnia to Toronto, and Niagara Falls. The Notman photographs include views of the Montmorenci Steps, Montmorenci Falls, the Saguenay River, Lake St. Charles, Montreal Harbour with Victoria Bridge, Barrack Hill and the new Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Niagara from the American side, and 3 of Krieghoff paintings. Casey I 3482. Dionne III 1317. Gernsheim 317. Lande 2206. Morgan p. 349. Sabin 82198. TPL 4536.

Forest trees, timber and forest products. First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, damaged. Former owner's signature to front wrapper. [iv], 66, [ii]pp. Montreal, Dawson Brothers,

186 x 135 mm. (7 3/8 x 5 1/4"). Single column, 20 lines in a gothic book hand. i (blank), 108, i (blank) leaves (bound too tightly for a close collation, but APPARENTLY COMPLETE). Contents: Calendar (f. 1r); Gospel Lessons (f. 7r); Hours of the Holy Cross (f. 11r); Hours of the Holy Spirit (f. 15r); Mass of the Virgin (18r); "Obsecro te" (f. 21r); "O Intemerata" (f. 23r); Suffrages (f. 24r); Hours of the Virgin (f. 33r); Office of the Virgin as said throughout Advent (f. 71r); Penitential Psalms (f. 76r); Litany and petitions (f. 81v); Office of the Dead (f. 87r). HANDSOME RENAISSANCE ENTRELAC BINDING (upper joint and parts of spine very skillfully repaired), covers with a gilt floral border surrounding a central panel of gilt strapwork design with traces of original polychrome painting, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, original bosses and catchplates (clasps renewed), all edges gilt. Rubrics in red, numerous one-line initials in blue with red penwork, or gold with dark purple penwork, many two-line initials in burnished gold on pink and blue ground with white highlights, most of these with floral sprays extending into the margins, 22 SMALL MINIATURES (measuring approximately 45 x 37 mm.), each with panel borders of colorful acanthus and flowers at the top and bottom of the page, connected by a strand of gilt bezants, and 14 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES, each surrounded by a full border of acanthus, flowers, and bezants, the facing pages also with full borders and a large six-line initial painted pink or blue, filled with swirling vines and flowers, on gilt and painted ground. Subjects of the large miniatures being: Crucifixion (f. 10v); Pentecost (f. 14v); Virgin and Child (f. 17v); Annunciation (f. 32v); Visitation (f. 42v); Nativity (f. 49v); Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 52v); Adoration of the Magi (f. 55v); Presentation in the Temple (f. 58v); Massacre of the Innocents (f. 61v); Flight into Egypt (f. 66v); Coronation of the Virgin (f. 70v); David in Prayer (f. 75v); Raising of Lazarus (f. 86v). Front pastedown with a 16th century inscription (see below); rear pastedown with a 17th century ownership inscription in ink, signed François le Paige. Lower joint a bit rubbed, margins with a little soiling and occasional wrinkle, fore-edge border rule just grazed by binder in a few places (the other borders quite ample), miniatures with tiny chips, light fading or rubbing in a couple places, etc., but IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, the attractive period binding very well preserved, with boards showing virtually no signs of wear, the vellum generally clean and bright, and the miniatures fresh and richly colored. This is an extensively illustrated Book of Hours preserved in an especially attractive early binding, with richly colored miniatures attributed to the Master of Philip of Cleves' "Book of the Hunt." Active in the Low Countries from approximately 1470-90, this artist was patronized by some of the area's wealthiest elite, and is known to have collaborated with another important illuminator called the Bruges Master of 1482. Some trademarks of our painter include faces with subtle blue shading; high, arched eyebrows; thin golden halos; and women with very straight, shoulder-length hair highlighted with strands of gold. Outdoor scenes often contain narrative elements in the distance, such as the figures of a young David and Goliath in the miniature of King David at Prayer, or pagan idols dropping from a column in the Flight into Egypt, recalling a popular apocryphal tale of pagan relics miraculously falling to pieces as the Holy Family passes by. Some miniatures of note (in addition to these two) are the Raising of Lazarus for the Office of the Dead--a popular alternative to funeral images, particularly among Flemish illuminators--and the Massacre of the Innocents for the hour of Vespers, a particularly violent episode in which King Herod commands his soldiers to slaughter the male infants of Bethlehem. Like other miniatures in this work, the action in these scenes is spread out between the fore, middle, and background, creating a multi-layered narrative that invites the eye to explore and meditate. The artist's color palette in this manuscript is quite memorable, and includes a bright mustard yellow, pale green, and cherry blossom pink. The Coronation of the Virgin makes particularly strong use of color, with a sunset-like gradient giving way to billowy blue clouds. The Annunciation miniature also demonstrates the Master's facility with color; here, the Angel Gabriel's red and green wings are fully extended, while the Virgin is radiant against a golden yellow wall covering. In addition to the large compositions, we are treated to 22 smaller miniatures depicting the Evangelists and saints, each of which is charming in its more confined presentation. Although the saints found in the Suffrages are quite typical for a Book of Hours, the Calendar is another story. Despite being rather sparsely filled out, the calendar here includes several feast days, some of them unusual enough to provide additional insight into the manuscript's localization and use. For example, there is St. Landoaldi (19 March), a missionary to Northern France and Belgium, and St. Winnoc (6 November), the son of a Breton king with a former abbey in the far north of France. The calendar is idiosyncratic in other ways as well, with saints' names that are repeated, and others that are either extremely obscure or whose dates seem to be wrong. Whatever the case, additional research into the calendar would undoubtedly prove revealing. We are fortunate to have some early provenance information written into this Book of Hours. The inscription on the front pastedown reads: "This last day of September 1590 we [name erased, but Claude le Paige] lieutenant of the guards of his highness of Bar le Duc on the one hand and Alix de la Taxe on the other hand have married in front of the holy Catholic church at the place of Mir[e]court." Below.

First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial green wrappers with 3pp ads. Wrappers a little soiled, else very good. [4], 66, [2ads]pp. Montreal, Dawson Brothers, "Canada's forest wealth has been one of the great instruments in her progress, and it is with the object of more fully drawing public attention to this source of wealth, that the foregoing pages have been written."   A scarce work by Canadian naturalist Henry Beaumont Small (1832-1919). This attractive pamphlet gives detailed statistics on the productivity of timber industries in different forest regions, with much data on biodiversity. The majority of the text is concerned with classifying and describing the trees found in each province, with information on their various uses. There are also sections on cattle, forest fires, parasites, maple sugar, sumac, and paper making.   British born Small emigrated to Canada in the 1850s, and after a brief stint serving in the US Sanitary Commission in Virginia during the American Civil War, he joined the Canadian civil service in the Marine and Fisheries, and subsequently Agriculture Departments. He wrote many works on natural history, his most famous being The Canadian Handbook and Tourist's Guide (1866).   This publication is rare. OCLC finds copies in Canada at: Universite Laval, U of Northern B.C., B et A Nat. de Quebec, Lib & Archives Canada, Toronto PL; in Europe at: BNF & Belgium; and in US at National Agriculture Library only. .