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197936 pages. Features: Armorial Bearings of the Royal Military College (RMC); Arms for the Town of Goderich; Heraldry - For the Birds?; Canadian Academic Heraldry; Book Review; The Heraldic Bookplate; Arms of the "Royal City" (Guelph); Scottish Heraldic Bookplates; New Zealand Herald of Arms. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
200082 pages. Features: Embodying Cosmic Patterns - Foundations of an Art of Calligraphy in China; Silencing the Cry of Cold Insects - Meaning and Design in the Exile Calligraphy of Huang Tingjian and Su Shi; The Early Aesthetic Values of Writing and Calligraphy; Tradition and Authorial Identity in Chinese Calligraphy - Three Works from the Elliott Collection; Private Lives - Public Faces - Relics of Calligraphy by Zhao Mengfu, Guan Daosheng and Their Children; Severed Heads - Demarcating Conceptual Space in Mughal Painting; The Symbolism of Flowers and Birds in Chinese Painting; An Repositioning of a Medieval Painting Monument - the Ten Kings at the Seikado Library; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy of this beautiful issue. Book
1909Pages 333-372 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Notable American Homes - "Firenze Cottage," the Summer Home of Daniel Guggenheim, Esq., Elberon, NJ.; A Swimming-Pool for Private Gardens; Trellises; Vacation Home-Making; L'Art Nouveau Houses in Austria; Birds and the Country Home; A Group of Bungalows at Pasadena, California, Costing from Fifteen-Hundred Dollars Upwards - great two-page compilation of 16 photos; Photographing Birds; Concrete Ornaments for the Garden and How to Make Them; A Colonial Suburban Home - Guaranteed Cost $6,000; "Weldacre," The Home of George E. Smith, Esq., Philips Beach, MA; Do Plants Think?; Nice one-page photo-ad for the Invincible vaccum machine by the Electric Renovator Mfg. Company; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Covers and some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
1936Pages 487-530. Features: Cover page photo of state funeral of Adm. of the Fleet Earl Beatty; Major coverage of the funeral of Lord Beatty; Photo illustrated article entitled Flightless Birds in Three Continents; Lovely one page photo portrait of Queen Mary with three of her grandchildren; Two-page pictorial map entitled "Germany re-occupies the demilitarized Rhineland - a breach of the Versailles and Locarno treaties; Photo illustrated article entitled "A Vast Prehistoric Pompeii" revisited - further discoveries in Moravia, at Vestoice and the Pekarna cave; Two pages of photos of products of the paleolithic bone industry - weapons recalling Samson's "jawbone of an ass" and a big spoon; Page of photos and text describe mammoth hunters' cosmetics - dye-making utensils and other relics; Two pages of colour illustrations of animal art of 30,000 years ago - the earliest known sculpture; Page of seven photos document a trail of arson through Spain - the destruction of churches and convents; Photo of crowds surging to see the liner "Queen Mary" before she leaves her birthplace; Aerial photo of London Film Productions studio at Denham aflame; Photo of whales defeating Ireland in rugby championship at Cardiff, with crowds surging onto field of play; Photo of Hitler taking the salute at torch lit procession of 200,000 Nazis on the Theresienweise at Munich; Centrefold photo of the League of Nations Council meeting in London - the most vital for the peace of Europe ever held; Photos of Italian bombing of lava in Abyssinia; Photos of personalities of the week include Gen. Sir David Campell, Lord Dartmouth, Canon Nairne, Lieut. Col. R. S. Rait Kerr, Registrar A.Stiebel; the late Prof. J. S. Haldane, Sir Thomas Inskip, Sir Donald Somervell, Guila Bustabo, Ali Irfan, and the late Sir Dillon Bell; Nice one-page colour ad for the Ford V-8 car; One page Harrods ad features sports woollies for men; Nice illustrated one-page ad for the Hillman "Hawk" "Sixteen" "80" with "Evenkeel" Suspension; Classy halfpage photo ad for Bentley cars; Nostalgic one-page illustrated ad for Castrol oil features famed aviator Tommy Rose; and more. Coverfold holding by one staple. Archival tape repairs along coverfold. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1995viii, 14 pages. "The White-throated Swift (Aeronautes Saxatalis), is a breeding summer visitant of south-central British Columbia." - from abstract. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
193946 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Charming 1930s explanation of the 'birds and the bees". "This little book is the answer to this most important question which all children ask sooner or later. A child's welfare and happiness throughout life may depend on the way in which its questions are answered. Most parents find difficulty in presenting the true answer. This little book is to help them in their great responsibility." - from title page. Chapters include: Fathers and Mothers, Babies and Love, Love Among Flowers, How Baby Fish Come Into the World, About Eggs, How Baby Birds Come, How Kittens and Puppies and other Babies Come, About Human Babies. Pencil gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1985Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 234 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Laing "was a long lived, widely published, notable Canadian naturalist. His love was birds but his writing and his collecting expeditions ranged further... After living around North America he settled in the bird paradise of Comox, BC. This biography explores a man and a philosophy of conservation that insisted the naturalist be a good man with a gun." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
195730 pages. Features: Hunting Alone; The Blue Grouse is Tops; Square Tail Tactics (part 7); Protecting Migratory Birds; "It's Proof Enough"; Fishermen are Fun!; The Most Beautiful Will Ever Written; They Got Four Moose; Do Deer Migrate?; Magic Tinsel; Jackers Lose Hunting Licenses; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
198744 pages. Text in English. Features: The new "Leica GmbH"; Exposure measurement in practice - further details on the Leica R5; TTL automatic flash control with the Leica R5 - Dr. Arnim Tolke; Dedicated flash units; Catch them with the camera! - Ludwig Kolm and Nicholas Brown - insects and birds; Robert Hausser - a classic genius of modern photography; The photographic nude - is it art? - Siegfried Wallner; Objective/subjective; Agfa multicontrast; And more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
196182 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Pepsi ad inside front cover; 1962 Zenith TV ad; Political slush funds corrupt all parties; The Year the Government Sold the St. Lawrence River (power rights) to the Beauharnois power company; Last chance to save the world's rarest birds; 1961 - Summer of the Angry Forest Fires in the northern bush - article with colour photos; Brock Chisholm - Incredible Canadian; Disturbing report from inside the juvenile courts; A Weekend with the 'Wild Ones' at Wasaga Beach - short article with photos; UNESCO - the hope of the world - on paper; Cherchez La Femme de Montreal - photo feature; Julie de St. Laurent - portrait of a royal mistress; What it's like to lose the Irish Sweepstakes - Tom and Elsie Marsh of Squamish B.C.; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
196180 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for the 1962 Dodge Valiant (red) inside front cover; International Harvester mining equipment ad features photos at the McDame Mountain asbestos mine in the Cassiar range, near the B.C.-Yukon border; Colour 1962 Chrysler ad; Work Addiction - the habit that rules men who rule the rat race; The Undeserving Poor - a group portrait of the small and anonymous minority of Canada's poor who eat up the lion's share of welfare money; Why I Stole the Luxury Liner "Santa Maria"; A New Look at the Great Lakes - article with colour photos; A Fall of Birds (fiction); The Rise of the Tree-Savers - heavy duty equipment is used to transplant mature trees in Ontario which would otherwise be destroyed by development; The Nightmare Life of a Hemophiliac; My Secret Rendezvous with a Red Attache - Toronto student Harry Malcolmson and his meeting with Serguei Divilkovsky; The West Indians - Our Loneliest Immigrants - permanent strangers in a white land; The Fifth Comeback of Jacques Normand, Quebec's First Funnyman; Canadian Club colour photo ad features surfing photos of Mark Lyons; Log of Seagoing Scientists aboard the "Porte Dauphine"; The Prime Minister's New Vision - a national power grid; Operation Fleshcreeper - Red answer to NATO arms; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features young square dancers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
195996 pages. Features: Cover illustration by William Winter depicts nervous invitation at youth dance; Movie censorship by province (brief article); Young business man Stephen William Garber; Finance Minister Fleming making enemies with his tight pursestrings; Fort William's censorious mayor Catherine Seppala - Lady Chatterley's Lover; Editorial says "If we burn Lady Chatterley, why not the Bobbsey Twins?"; The Grey Cup - and football - "are for the birds" says Frank Fredrickson; One-page colour ad for Orient & Pacific ocean liners; My Part in the Stratford Adventure - Tyrone Guthrie is the great director who guided the beginnings of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival; A Plan to Protect Our Savings Against Inflation, by H. Scott Gordon of Carleton University; Monty vs. Ike - a new report on the war's most successful and turbulent military partnership - article with photos from the memoirs of Viscount Alanbrooke; The Fraser River - six hundred miles of savage force; How I Sell Pretty Nearly Everything - Clifford V. French manages a Steinberg's supermarket in Dorval; The Mystery of the "Mice From the Sky" - Sally Carrighar studied lemmings for an arctic winter; The 'Secret Society" that saves marriages - the one thousand unpaid counselors of Britain's National Marriage Guidance Council; How to Lie Your Way to the Grey Cup - article on how CFL coaches lie about the health of their teams; I Watched the Titanic Rescue - Sir James Bisset was second officer of the Carpathia and recalls the rescue dash through icebergs and the grief of the survivors - article with photos; Canadian Club colour-photo ad features treasure divers Art McKee and Jim Thorne; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Philips Sterio Hi-Fi (model F882); Colour-photo ad for Tooke shirts shows curling scene; Molson's Canadian one-page colour-photo ad features the tall clear bottles they used before converting to stubbies; One-page colour ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air 2-door sedan (red); One-page ad for "Canada's Own" Electrohome range of products; Zenith TV ad; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features couple in flower garden; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1899An early issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 226-336. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part V; The Votaries of Eternal Silence - the Monastery of La Trappe; E.G. Henham is Saved by a Horse - an 1891 adventure in North-West Canada; A River of Red Lava - photo-illustrated Hawaiian story by Overend G. Rose; Abandoned - Morgan Andrews was left on a desolate island in Lake Winnipeg for 8 days; (Fantastic) Klondike Pictures supplemented by text; The Voyages of the "Mole Hill"; Curious Birds' Beaks; Pirate Hunting in China - Admiral J. Morseby describes the chasing of pirate junks, the queer incidents that happened, and the extraordinary method by which the pirates were smashed (includes photo of Moresby and illustration of the H.M.S. "Snake"); The Indian Child and His Toys - Ute child Capitano and photos of him, his complete outfit of toys, implements and dolls; Christmas in an African Desert - illustrated article by big-game hunter F.C. Selous; How the "Maid of the Mist" Shot the Niagara Rapids (with illustration of Joel R. Robinson); Parachuting adventure of Captain Bidmead (with photos); and more. Front cover loose but present. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1898This undated edition was published by L. Rene in London, probably in the late 1890s. "Complete Edition, with engravings." - title page. Colour plates. A fascinating nostalgic presentation of the birds and the bees, and the development of the child from conception to birth, and beyond. "Erection is chiefly caused by scuraum, eringoes, cresses, crysmon, parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to powder and drank in muscadel, scallion, sea sheel fish, etc... The act of coition being over, let the woman repose herself on her right side, with her head lying low..." - p.10. Hinges open. Some plates loose but present. Above-average but not excessive wear. Tiny binder's tag inside back board, otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
195652 pages. Features: Lovely full page black and white photographic portrait of Miss Fiona Myddelton; Birds of a Desert Island - Desnoeufs Island in the colony of the Seychelles; From scythe to mowing machine; Dogs that Cannot Bark - Basenjis of the "Of Syngefield" Strain; Some problems of tree growth - interesting photos; The Father of Shooting - Colonel Peter Hawker (1786-1853), one of the greatest wild-fowlers of all time; Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Admiral Keppel's Column; Problems of Wintering Sheep; Britain's Painted Cave - the Gower Cliffs in South Wales, where Bacon Hole is situated; Many interesting real estate advertisements. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
196322 pages. Features: The Secret to Kootenay Hunting; Alberta Offers The Best Upland Bird Shooting; Alberta Upland Game Birds and Waterfowl Season for 1963; Prince George Hosts North Central Shoot - article with six photos and list of winners; Clay Chips - a letter to Yvonne Johnston; "Be Seen - Be Safe"; Alberta - Montana Red Hot Trap Shoot; Photo of decoy maker Vic Faulkes and son Lee of Vancouver; Many nice vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
196018 pages. Features: Old Vienna ad inside front cover features photo of trophy grizzly and discussion of their location in B.C.; Mailbag; Last Day Luck - a moose hunting tale; Ice Fishing - it's solid water fishing; Sportsman's Corner - includes photo of Reg. Carver; The .22 Sporting Rifle; Some Uncommon Birds; Photo of Mrs. Betty Crossley with young Gary Cleven; Photo of Fred Langeler, Sr.; Photo of "Joe" Whitmore who is retiring; Home Game Management; Off Season Shooting Practice; Boats; Back cover ad by the Department of Recreation and Conseration explains that 1960 Angling licenses are now required; Many additional nostalgic ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1928[8]-123, [7] pp. Index. Glossary. Color state map indicating life zones. Many detailed black and white illustrations. "Common and scientific names are given in all cases, with the number of each bird given to it in the Check List of the American Ornithologist's Union. Following the birds' names are given indicating letters, which tell of the birds' residential or visiting habits, and the portions of the State in which the birds may be found." - Foreword. Printed upon glossy stock. Above-average wear. Covers and blank first leaf detached but present. A worthy copy of this vintage Illinois ornithological memento. Book
1991160 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Gems of China's Cultural Relics; Birds and Animals as Ming and Ch'ing Badges of Rank; Ch'ing Dynasty Imperial Enamelled Glassware; Late Ch'ing Dynasty Opium Boxes; Collecting Ming Furniture of Huang Hua-Li Wood; Saleroom News; Vietnamese Ceramics - an introduction to Ly and Tran monochromes; Book Reviews; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1875[7], 8-104 pages. Forest green publisher's cloth handsomely adorned in black and gilt with beautiful colour illustration affixed to front. No indication of any prior editions. 6" x 4.5". Apparently written for younger readers. Discusses where to find birds of paradise, preparing birds for sale, and sections on the Parrot, Malacca Parrakeet, Ringed Parrakeet, Cockatoo, Trogon, Bell-Bird, and more. What appears to be the color frontispiece illustration is loose but present. Three addiional colour plates are loose but included. We do not know if others are missing so offer this copy as is. Prior owner's name, dated 1884, atop table of contents. Front hinge open. Despite its deficiencies, an attractive and charming vintage ornithological item. Book
197796 pages. Generously illustrated in black and white. "This book was only made possible through granted permission to use researched information through the diligent research of dedicated breeders to whom we give credit in the book. Through liberal use of pictures and illustrations we have strived to make this a most educational and helpful work." - Preface. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this excellent reference.. Book
195244 pages. Features:;Six by Two - article on the ship's bunk; British Signals for a Pilot; The Bermuda Race; Shipwrights of Buckler's Hard - this tiny hamlet was once an important shipyard; Intuition of Sea-going rats; Looking at Lisbon - City of Ulysses - article with nice photos; The Gannet - the largest and most impressive of British sea birds; Cleared Foreign; Sailors' Warning; Danish Captain Christiansen , Pilot - A photo-illustrated admiring article of this highest order seaman and navigator by Commander J. Radford, R.D., R.N.R., Retired; Oil Tankers To-day - photo-illustrated article; H.M. Queer Craft - strange vessels which did and did not see operation in WWII, including several two-million ton artificial icebergs envisioned as floating aircraft carriers by Churchill; and more. Numerous excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1945A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Rockingham-glazed Earthenware Pitcher - Prontispiece Editorial; The Pineapple - Symbol of Hospitality; Kentucky Silver and its Makers; Blow Birds; Running Fireman; St. Louis Fire Hats; The Fire Engine in Prints; Gideon Shyrock - Kentucky Architect; Edwards Place - In Abraham Lincoln's Springfield; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. 56 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
2002No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 224pp. A wealth of exciting ideas for game recipes - Birds (pheasant, pigeon, partridge, grouse), geese, rabbit, hare and venison.
651p. illus. Steel engravings by Pearson Hardcover Ex-Library in good condition; worn spine
