Burpee lawrence j editor (28 resultados)

Condición: GOOD. 1932. Vol. V, #IV-VI. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. The Witch-Canoe.La Chasse Gallery, The Old Grey Port of Saint John, Canada's Newest Mountains, A Hawaiian Holiday. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Contants noted to front cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1932. Vol. V, #III. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. Ontario's Route to the Sea, Island of Orleans, and Seeing Peru by Plane. GOOD. Textblock appears clean. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover. Minor wear to extremities.

Condición: GOOD. 1931. Vol. III, #3. Magazine. Halifax in Trade, Trail Metallurgical Plant, Lower Fort Garry, Agra and the Taj Mahal GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Contents noted to front cover. Light soiling to edges of cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1933. Vol. VI #3. Magazine. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Jehol - Twilight Land of Nomadism, Glasgow, Cape Breton Island, Rubber. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Light soiling to covers.

Condición: GOOD. 1933. Magazine. B/W photos and text. An Arctic Sled Journey; Waterton Lakes National Park; Adventurers of Bristol; Prehistoric Footprints in Peace River. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. 1 1/2 inch tear to front cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1932. Vol. IV, #II. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. The Graveyard of the Atlantic, Naming of America and Greenland, Scow Brigade on Athabaska, Sydney: Pacific Queen, and Prairie Hares in Winter. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1931. Vol. II, #III. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. Ottawa: More Than a City, European Sources of Non-Anglo-Saxon Immigrants, Skull-collectors of Formosa, and A Natural Bridge, Georgian Bay. GOOD. Binding sound. Occasional markings to textblock. Contents noted to front cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1931. Vol. III, #V. Magazine. Beauharnois Power Works, Iceland, Garibaldi Park, and Voice of the Wilderness. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Minor soiling to cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1931. Vol. III, #1. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. Biblical Languages Ville de Montreal, The Omnipotent Bean, The Royal Mint and Its Branches, and Fishing for Albacore. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover.

Condición: GOOD. 1932. Vol. IV, #1. Magazine. The Birth of Agriculture in Canada, Isles of Strait of Georgia, Climbing Fujiyama, and The Ojibwa Indian. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover. Bottom of spine has small stain.

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; ii, [57]-110, x pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, maps. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, very light wear of cover (light mark), clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Vagabonding in the Arctic by Thomas H. Inkster; Charting the Great Lakes by Roy F. Fleming; Village Life in Japan by E. H. Cassidy; Old Fort St. John by Philip H. Godsell; A Canadian in Carthage by Gordon Fournier, etc. With interesting ads with illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request.…

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; ii, [101]-159, xiv pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, one in color, maps. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, light cover mark, clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Solitudes of the Arctic by J. Dewey Soper; A Visit to Satan by Theophile James Meek, about devil-worshippers in Mesopotamia; The Prairie Orchestra by H. H. Pittman, on insects; Winnipeg by Thomas B. Roberton; The Handicraft of Renaissance in Quebec by Oscar A. Beriau, with much on rugs, weaving, etc. Interesting ads with illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request. …

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; viii, 363-464, ix-x pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, colored plates, maps including colored map of Canada forestry. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, light cover mark, clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Unto the Hills by R. Brian Meredith, on the Canadian Rockies with colored paintings by Charles W. Simpson; Green Gold by D. Roy Cameron, on logging and forestry in Canada; Colonization in Quebec by E. M. Kindle; Roof of the World by B. G. Radley, on Himalayas; Where BC ends and Alaska Begins, by Reece Hague, etc. Interesting ads with illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request.…

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; ii, 56, viii pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, maps. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, very light wear of cover (crease & light mark), interior is clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Mapping Canada by F. H. Peters with photos of instruments, aeroplane with camera; Ethiopia by Samuel A. B. Mercer with photo of supposed lost Ark of the Covenant, now hidden in Aksusm (Axum); Land of the Southern Slavs by Madge Macbeth; Objibway of the Lake of the Wood by Jocelyn Baker, etc. Interesting ads with illustrations including by Shelton Hotel in New York at $3 a day; Gold Flake cigarettes, 'The Smoke of the British Empire', etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; viii, [ii], 191-276, xiv pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, colored plate, map. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, very light wear of cover, interior is clean and near fine, unmarked. The main articles include Adventuring in Baffin Island by J. Dewey Soper; Memories of the Mountains by Henrietta Wilson (includes Banff, Prince Albert National Park, Jaspar, Glacier National Park, Kootenay, climbing mountains, etc); Grand Manan-an Island Gem of the Maritimes by Mariann Grey Otty; Motor-vagabonding on Vancouver Island by Helen V. Kerr; The Great West Festival at Calgary by Clara Holmes. All superbly illustrated with related photos. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Hard Cover/No Jacket. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. pp.48 with bibliography. Errata and acknowledgements, insert, The purpose of this atlas is to tell the history of Canada visually by means of a series of maps. clean tight copy former owner name on frontpiece covers show 2 1/2" tear down top spine edge slightly bumped corners stain on back cover and rubbing.…

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 24mo. viii 112 pp., teg. Dark red calf with gilt title and decorations. Binding a bit loose, small black ink splotch on front cover, bottom edges dented. Scarce.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Vol. 11, No. 05. Learn more about the Canadian Gravure Company, Rodney Bowden Smart, Hart House, Royal York Hotel, growlers, Chateau at Brest, Rolltite, and Long Lake. The lead article for these 71 pages is entitled Toronto. The other two articles are on Brittany and Labrador. The principal authors are William Arthur Deacon, Esther Brann and Bonnycastle Dale. The vintage ads - travel, film and smoking mixture - will tweak your nostalgia fibres. One coloiur playe.Spine fine, binding tight. Light general wear. No names nor tears. Collectible ! Quote (p. 393) (volumes were sequentially numbered) : " We went ashore. In the ice-riven, bare, rocky harbour the little houses of these migrant fishermen were set, perched wherever a rocky slope gave flatness enough. Around David's - for all I ever knew of any family was the father's first name (all British names), however), a regular host of ._._._. ." Size: 4to. B/W Drawings and Photographs (ilustrador).…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Robert Emgland's article on Western Canada (immigrants) opens these 64 pages, Five other articles. Split introduction (advertisements like: British Consols) numbered with Roman numerals adds 16 (XVI) pages Read more about : English Harbour, Caoe Gidore, Diego de Colon, La Fretta Castle, flakes, blasty-boughs, Mundare, Yugo-Slavs, and Ozama River. Big article on Nova Scotia map. Excellent b/w photography. Curious `vintage' adverts. Cond : Paper wrapper is powder blue. Cover graphic; globe and torch. Tiny wear points at corners. No names nor marks. Almost as new. Collectible ! Quote (p. 31) : " On an occasion one of Messrs. Hunts, Newman and Christopher's vessels took a part cargo of salt at Cadiz, filling up with wine from Oporto. The wine was discharged at Dartmouth in Devon, but in their haste to depart, either to take advantage of favoring winds, or to obtain protection from a convoy, some pipes of port were left embedded in ._._._. ." Size: 4to. B/W Photographs (ilustrador).…

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; xvi, [ii], 335-406, xiv pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, colored plate, map. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, light wear of cover, interior is clean and near fine. The main article is on Toronto by William Arthur Deacon, 41 pages, with a colored plate from painting by Gordon Gillespie of Toronto sky-line from harbour, and dozens of photos of buildings, street scenes, two full-page aerial views, etc. Other articles include Brittany by Esther Brann and Sailing Labrador Seas by Bonnycastle Dale. Of interest are many full-page ads including the V-12 Cadillac with color painting, General Electric, Old Faithful Geyser, Jasper National Park, cigarette ads, etc. A picture of this book is available on request. …

1927. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 48pp. Maps, notes, tables, chronology, bibliography. Spine lightly worn at top and bottom, corners rubbed, some minor ink margin notations. Locale: Canada. (Atlases, Historical Atlas).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. (Ref. ) Dark blue cloth boards with yellow titles. Slight wear to head and heel and rubbing around edges with a few small light scratches to boards. Some tanning to endpapers. Short tear through page edges pp.17-22 otherwise good contents and generally unmarked.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 24mo. viii 104 pp. Attached card jacket featuring paste-down reproduction of a watercolour by Walter Tyndale. Prose and poetry by Joseph Howe, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, William Henry Drummond, Mrs. Everard Cotes, James McCarroll, George Thomas Lanigan, and James Demille. Jacket shows light wear. Scarce.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Six volumes published in 1932. April Vol. IV No.4 - May Vol. IV No.5 - June Vol. IV No.6 - July Vol. V No. 1 - September Vol. V No. 3 - December Vol. V Nos. 4-6. Blue stapled wraps (softcover) are all lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities with light/moderate soiling to show. Interiors are quite clean and unmarked for the most part. Sold as a set. Remarkable photography of events all over the world. The advertising is very interesting . Photographs & Illustrations (ilustrador).…

hardback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt to spine, dust wrapper not called for in this edition, a reprint of the Champlain Society publication of 1927. A very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, seven folding maps, xxiii + 548pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Eleven volumes published in 1933, complete run except for January. Blue stapled wraps (softcover) are all lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities with light/moderate soiling to show. December has a small chip near the spine, dog eared corner and short tear to the foot of the spine. Interiors are quite clean and unmarked for the most part. Sold as a set. Remarkable coverage and photography of events all over the world. The advertising is very interesting ! May require additional postage to your address. Photographs & Illustrations (ilustrador).…

24mo. pp. viii, 111, [1]. original cloth-backed bds. First Canadian Edition. Watters p. 29.

Soft cover. First edition. "Canadian Treasury Series." 12mo., orig. pictorial paper wrappers, (92)pp. Foot of spine chipped o/w a nice copy. Watters p.305.