[Vancouver, BC]: Valley Lumber Yards LTD., 1930. First Thus. Printed wrappers. Oblong 8vo. Pp. 31. Illustrated throughout with plans of cabins and cottages, in black and white photographs and sketches, often two or more per page. Bound in blue paper wrappers, illustrated with black and white photos. Saddle stapled. Some.....
San Francisco: The History Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. Full calf. Large 8vo. Pp. xxxii, 792. With maps, including a fold-out map at beginning of first chapter. Index. Marbled edges. Bound in leather with gilt lettering printed on spin over black title-blocks. Front hinge cracked; age-toning to edges of preliminaries.....
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1929. First Edition. Stiff paper wraps. 4to. Pp. 275. Illustrated with 33 black & white plates. Bound in printed wrappers, some creasing to spine, corners lightly bumped. One of the better copies we've handled. Anthropological Series, No. 12 Bulletin No. 61. A handsome, well preserved.....
Toronto: Methodist Book and Publishing House, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xx, [2], 501. Frontis. black & white portraits of "Four Great Governors of the Hudson's Bay Company." Illustrated with black & white photographs and portraits on glossy stock. Appendices. Index. Bound in light green cloth, spine lettered in.....
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. TURBAYNE, Albert Angus. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 271, [2], Frontis. color plate with captioned tissue guard. Illustrated with 75 color plates and sketch fold out map of Canada. With two indices. Plum cloth, title stamped in gilt with illustration and decoration stamped in.....
1912. Original Print. Matted framed photograph. Original back & white platinum photo print mounted on a period mat board stamped "Larrigan / Victoria" and framed within an additional mat board, all within a 17 x 12.5 inch wood frame. Small dampstain the size of a US dime at lower margin.....
Toronto London: Oxford University Press, (1941). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. xiii, [2], 3-174. Foreword by Ira Dilworth. Illustrated with a frontis. and three plates, all by Carr in color. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and design stamped on front board and spine. Slight discoloring.....
Victoria, BC: T.N. Hibben & Co., 1883. New Edition. Illustrated wraps. 8vo. Pp. 35. Original illustrated wraps lettered in black, bottom corner of front wrap and first few leaves clipped (not affecting text), spine mostly deteriorated with tape reinforcement. First published in 1877. One of the earliest commercial Chinook Jargon.....
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 352 + 2 15pp. sections of publisher catalogs. Introduction by The Lord Bishop of Derry. 24 illustrations and a map. Blue cloth, front board with gilt illustration, spine lettered in gilt, some toning to spine, some creasing to.....
(Toronto): The Arctic History Press, (1978). Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 549, plus 25 pages of maps to rear. Illustrated with black & white maps, including a fold-out map housed in pocket inside rear cover. Bibliography. Index. Bound in padded faux leather; cover and spine lettered in gilt. A trace.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xi, 349, appendices, index. 5 folding maps, including frontispiece. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt, light creasing to title page else a bright, clean copy. The author's Ph. D thesis, a comprehensive look at this Canadian fur trade company that.....
London: William Wesley, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. 364, appendices, index. Frontispiece. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt device to front board. Name, old catalog description taped to front endpaper, light soiling and rubbing to boards, offsetting to endpapers. Seminal work by this Scottish botanist who made three.....
Montreal & Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1997). R. V. KIKKIK. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. x, 224, prologue, epilogue, map, notes, index. Illustrated with 14 b/w photographs. Bound in blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Through the collection of fourteen Inuit carvings.....
London: Trelawney Saunders, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 293 + 2pp. publisher's ad. Folding map. Rebacked with original boards which are lettered and ruled in black. Front hinge weak, lacks rear endpaper, boards rubbed and soiled, ownership signature of " W.H. Gray Astoria" (twice, on front pastedown and free endpaper).....
New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 354. With a page of "localisms" used in text. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In the dust jacket, $2.00 price intact, that shows slight chips and edge-wear. First.....
New York: Henry Schuman, Inc., (1952). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. xiii, 369. Frontis. b&w photo. Illustrated with maps and numerous b&w photo reproductions. Black & white photo illustrated cloth covered boards, illustrated endpapers, top edge dyed black: toning to leaf trimmed edges. In the photo.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901. New Edition. Hardcover. With Notes, Illustrations and Biographical by Bain. 8vo. Pp. xxxv, 347, index. Frontis. portrait, folding maps. Rust cloth with printed title label on spine. Hinges starting. Ex-library with label shadow at foot of spine, partially removed bookplate to front pastedown; discreet.....
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). James Houston. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. viii, [2], 275. Illustrated by the author with black & white drawings. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with bronze and silver lettering stamped to spine. Light sunning to upper edges. In the dust.....
Toronto: The Radisson Society of Canada, 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. liv, 329. Frontis. black & white reproduction of a portrait of the author. Foreword by the editor, John W. Garvin. Introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. Illustrated with black & white illustrations and reproductions. Notes. Bound in burgundy-colored cloth;.....
Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty, 1764. First Edition. Leather bound. 4to. Pp. (4), vii, 280, (8). English Translation by James Grieve. With all five plates accounted for, with four of them folding, and the two folding maps. Index. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco over contemporary.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. viii, 551. Frontis. black & white reproduction of a portrait of Sir Alexander MacKenzie by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Illustrated with several fold-out maps. Bibliography. Index. Bound in navy-blue cloth; spine lettered in gilt; MacKenzie's gilt signature facsimile.....
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 387. Frontis. black & white photograph. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings, and one fold-out map at rear. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Bound in tan cloth with black lettering and wrap-around illustration stamped on front.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. Pp. xi, [3], 358; vii, [3], 375. Frontis. black & white illustrations. Appendix. Bookplate on front pastedown, tipped-in over lending library bookplate ("Bradford Library and Literary Society;" no other library markings). Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering stamped on.....
Toronto: The Musson Book Co, 1935. New Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 396, frontis. Prince Rupert portrait. Appendices, index. With 22 plates, maps by R.H.H. Macaulay. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers. New Edition April 1838 stated. Couple of stains to boards, bookplate on verso of FFEP, mild toning to.....
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. Three-quarter leather. 8vo. Two volumes. Pp. xiv, 290; 332. Frontis. portrait of the author, with tissue guard. With three large fold-out maps. Marbled endpapers. Rebound ca. 1920s in three-quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine, raised bands. Mild.....