Search Results: Titles starting with Q from BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB

Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second edition. Vellum. pp. 785 + Index. Thick 8vo. Full vellum, with hand-lettering to spine. With 14 copper plate engravings, including illustrated title page, 7 folding illustrations, and one a map. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown (P. Small Keir Esq). Text unmarked, binding and joints sound. Lovely condition. The second edition, being more ornate and compact than the first. A biography of Alexander the Great, written originally in the first century or thereabouts, in ten books; later pieced together therefrom and printed in many editions as early as the ninth century.

Shaunavon, SK: South Shaunavon History Club, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. maps, b&w photographs. pp. vi, 494.,Large 4to,,One quarter of pp. 295/296 cut out (photo, probably), Some soiling & a bit of staining to boards. Endpapers spotted; else tight and in good plus condition. ISBN 0889250758.

Guelph, ON: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1998. Paperback. Unpaginated. Square 8vo. Colour illustrations. Very good+.

Venetiis [Venice]: Sumptibus Bertanorum Bertani, 1655. Hardcover. 4to. Loss at tail of spine, spine peeling back at head, hinges splitting but intact. Occasional dogears, chips to edges, contents show some foxing but legible, unmarked, very good. Tesauro (1563-1628) was magistrate of the Duke of Savoy. He wrote about matters of Roman law, and monetary theory. Herein is contained two titles, one about each subject, bound together in a contemporary binding.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Voice of Rupert's Land, 2000. Stapled Wraps. pp. 33. 8vo. Light shelfwear, owner's name to verso front cover.

Ottawa, Canada: University of Manitoba (Center for Settlement Studies)/ Ministry of State (Urban Affairs Canada), 9999. Paperback. Published: August, 1975. pp. 107. 8vo. Brown illustrations.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Voices of Rupert's Land, 2000. Stapled Wraps. pp. 33. 8vo. Sunning to spine; very good+. The Belcourt Lecture delivered before the University of Manitoba on 26 February 1999.

New York: Crown, 2001. Hardcover. pp. 312. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket.

New York: New Directions, 2015. Paperback. pp. 221. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine.

London: Verso Books, 1992. Hardcover. pp. 336. 8vo. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket worn to edges; very good in very good dustjacket.

Paris: Editions Scientifica, 1913. Paperback. pp. 318. 8vo. Edges of cards covers chipped. Covers a bit soiled & creased. Conts. clean: in good plus condition, overall. Text is in French.

London: [French Government Tourist Office], 1953. Paperback. pp. 175. 4to. Black & white and colour photographs. Light shelfwear, creasing to rear cover, text block separate from cover, short horizontal tear to first page, else very good. Gold covers with navy lettering to front.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

Toronto: Dundurn, 2015. Paperback. pp. 183. 8vo. Colour photographs. General shelfwear, some highlighting throughout and minor discoloured spotting; good+.

New York: Plume, 2004. Paperback. pp. 449. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+.

New York: Akashic Books, 2007. Paperback. pp. 342. 8vo. Light general shelfwear; very good.

Scotland, 1975. Stapled Wraps. pp. 176. 8vo. B&w photos. Light shelfwear; near fine.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1935. Hardcover. pp. 99. 8vo. Black & white photographs. Rebound in green buckram. Light shelfwear, library stamps to title page, tape mark to bottom of title page, not other library marking or damage. Peel 5942.

Forest Park: Oxford University Press, Usa, 1977. Paperback. pp. 139. Bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Tipped-in colour plates. Very good + condition, in very good plastic protective jacket. This is copy 1516 of a limited edition of two thousand numbered copies, signed by the illustrator.

New York: Random House, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. Slight spine slant, light shelfwear; very good- in very good- dustjacket with one tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel.