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Birds of Arabia

1395  Meinertzhagen, Richard.  Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition (pp. xiii, 624, index). Small folio (28cm), illustrated with 19 full-page colour plates, nine full-page photo plates, 53 text figures, 35 text maps, and one fold-out map in rear pocket.   $800


Scarce Letter-  Perhaps Suckling, Perhaps Not

1407  Suckling, Sir John [Attr’d.]. The Coppy of a Letter Written to the Lower House of Parliament Touching Divers Grievances and Inconveniences of the State. London: Walkley, 1641. First edition (pp. [24], mispaginated at p.14).    $300 

Stout Fellows and Brave Work
1412  M’Leod, John.  Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck. London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition (pp. 323), frontispiece and five colour plates.    $400

The  Underground

1415  Reynolds, John W. The Earthworms (Lumbricidae and Sparganophilidae) of Ontario.

Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. First edition (pp. ix, 141), illustrations by Daniel L. Dindal.    $25


Not Just another Pretty Garden Face

1416  Sitwell, Sir George. The Making of Gardens, Being a Study of Old Italian Gardens, of the Nature of Beauty, and the Principles Involved in Garden Design. London: John Murray, 1909.  First edition (pp. viii, 109, index).    $500


An Early Collecting Expedition

1418  Le Vaillant, Francois. Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa. By the Way of the Cape of Good Hope; in the Years 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85.  London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. Translated from the French.  Second edition, in two volumes (pp. xxiv, 376; 403).    $950


Tradition of Fine Stone Carving

1419  Dewey, William J., et al. Legacies of Stone. Zimbabwe Past and Present. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa, 1997.  First edition, in two volumes (pp. 311, 194).     $350


Muddy York All Grown Up

1420  Robertson, J. Ross. Robertson’s Landmarks of Toronto. A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York from 1792 until 1833, and of Toronto from 1834 to 1893.  Toronto: J. Ross Robertson, 1894. Volumes I, II, and III (of six). First edition (pp.xvi, 561; xiv, 562- 1128; xiv, 596).    $1250


Ravilious Golden Cockerel

1424  Bowen, Elizabeth, [and eight others]. Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters, Each by a Different Author.  Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. First edition, one of a thousand unsigned copies. Frontispiece, title page engraved by Eric Ravilious.   $400


Ivy Clad

1425  Angier, Belle Sumner.  The Garden Book of California. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1906. First edition (pp. vii, 141). Illustrated with twenty hand-tinted colour photographs depicting garden designs from earlier times.   $75


Polar Passion

Mowat, Farley. The Polar Passion. The Quest for the North Pole with Selections from Arctic Journals. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. First edition (pp. 302), boldly signed on the title page by Farley Mowat.  80 pages of contemporary drawings and photographs.    $295

 

 

 

 

 


      

 






  

 



 



































 







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