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London, Longmans, Greene and Co., 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 18.5cm, First Edition, in 2 volumes, xvi, 439 & xvi,456pp, with ; 56 plate illustrations, including two coloured frontispieces (flags), numerous illustrations in the text, many full-page, in contemporary half calf, cloth boards, gilt decorated raised bands, spines ornately gilt decorated in the panels, t.e g., some bubbling along one border on the bottom board of volume two, near fine condition, attractively bound. (Tr) Among the contributors to this work were Sir Edward Sullivan, Lord Brassey, R. T. Pritchett, Sir George Leach, The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, etc. This work is important to the field of yachting, covering as it does every aspect of the sport. It also provides an interesting view of the British and European yachting scene at the close of the nineteenth century.

Published by The Emerson Press, New York and The Author, Quebec, Montreal & London, England. 1901, 1901. Soft cover. 16mo, 17cm, 262p., plus many plates from photographs and text illustrations, ads., in the original printed red wraps with half-tone illustration laid down on the upper cover, front free loosely inserted otherwise a fine copy (N2). - The author's views . "of the most picturesque old city in the Western World

New York & Quebec. Published by The Emerson Press & The Quebec News Co. 1901, 1901. Soft cover. 16mo, 16cm, (copyright leaf),198p., 1 plate, original printed wraps bound in quarter blue calf and marbled boards, gilt spine rules and titles, two internal oval library stamps, a fine copy (n1) There is another issue in the same year with illustrations.

Yarmouth, N.S. The Author. 1902. F. Hardcover. 24cm, first edition, 647,[34]p., illustrated ads., & index, with 3 folding linen backed plates, frontis & 65 plates illustrations, light brown full fine linen, gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, in black ruled border, a very good sound copy An extensive historical record on this once great Nova Scotia port in the days of wind ships drawn mainly from personal records.

London and Toronto. J.M. Dent & Sons. Nd. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 22cm,x,291p., with plates and illustrations, index, fine linen over giltsamped brown paper boards, a bit faded, otherwise a fine copy in verygood jacket. (agc).

London. The Royal Geographical Society. 1924. 24.5cm, various paginations, plates and illustrations, rear folding map, publisher ads, blue wraps, very good to fine. (tr).

New York. John Wiley, 1849. Hardcover. 12mo, 20cm, 2nd U.S. edition, 136&171p., in the original elaborately blind decorated green cloth, gilt spine titles, internal damp stain in the gutter corner, heavy foxing to the preliminaries and on the margins throughout, the binding is in fine condition, sound, (hos). ~ ".the record of a happy year I spent in Italy." (dedication to Edward Sartoris.) Fanny Kemble had returned to England following the her marriage breakdown in the United States with Pierce Butler and spent 1846 with her sister in Rome.

Np. Published by the Author. Nd. Soft cover. 21.5cm, 313p., with maps, illustrated wraps, a very good copy. (on).

Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author. 1777. 8vo, 21cm, the first edition, 2 volumes bound in One., xvii,295,[1] & [6],245(i.e. 242), 1 (advert), with 11 engraved plates, minimal light foxing, edges of 3 leaves lightly worn, not affecting text, rebound in quarter brown calf, gild and decorated raised bands, blind stamped device decorations in the panels, double black crushed morocco labels, marbled boards, a fine copy attractively bound of the scarce first edition (tr). ~ Cox cites only the second edition of 1786; DNB vol. LVI, pages 132-133. Thicknesse was a fairly.

Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Humanities Press. 1982. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, xiii,259p., plate illustrations, original light brown cloth, gilt spine titles, fine condition. (hdds).

Dublin. Dolmen Press. 1966. 12mo, 20cm, reprint of second revised edition of 1963, sketch illustrations, double-page map, indexes, illustrated wraps, very good. ~ Includes the place names related to Yeats' poems and plays (with list) in County Sligo (known as "Yeats Country" ). The drawings and maps were made by Ruth Brandt during visits to places mentioned in the text. A Dolmen Press Book edited by Patrick Gallagher.

[Dublin]. The Dolmen Press. 1965. 8vo, 22.5cm, pp111-124, red and black printed brown wraps, near fine (hids). ~ No. V of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers.

[Dublin]. The Dolmen Press. 1965. Soft cover. 22.5cm, pp87-108, red and black type, printed wraps, near fine (hids). No. IV of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers.

London. Grant Richards Ltd. 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 19cm, first edition, first issue, 293p., 12p rear publisher's ads dated October 1914, olive/green cloth, free fly clipped, address label on front endpaper, very good sound copy (irhmds). ~ Ten short stories : The Yellow Ticket, The Veils of Isis, A French Artist, In the Vale of Tears, A Daughter of Eve, A Prostitute, Isaac and Rebecca, A Miracle and No Wonder, A Fool's Paradise, The Ugly Duckling.

Toronto. Macmillan of Canada. F. Hardcover. 1930. 12mo. 19cm, first Canadian edition, ( American sheets), vi,355p., blue cloth, titles stamped in yellow, very good to fine, scarce Peel 3182. A novel of immigrant life in Western Canada.

Boston. Aldine Book Publishing Co. 1889, 1889. Soft cover. sm4to, 24x 17.5cm, 160p., numerous plates and illustrations, ads on the endpaper & rear cover, quarter maroon cloth backed chromo-litho pictorial boards, printed on fragile pulpy papers, a fine copy (chds). - A very scarce American children's 19th century magazine annual. With many illustrations by Harrison Weir.

London. Printed for Harvey and Darton. 1826. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 24mo, 14cm, The First Edition, iv,168,[4]p., ads., engraved frontispiece, in the original quarter maroon russia and spanish marble paper over boards, gilt spine titles, wear on the board edges, often found foxed this copy is clean with the normal transfer from the frontis, very good to fine condition. (cgc) T.P.L. 1424. Osborne p. 192. Not in Watters. Not in Morgan. Not in Lande. The three sisters, Agnes, Elizabeth and Catherine Strickland had literary careers, but Catherine, the youngest, was first into print. In 1826, Canada was not her horizon, except as an exotic setting for this improving volume - 'lessons of mental firmness, piety and industry.' But in 1832 she did emigrate to Canada, where she played significant role in the development of a Canadian pioneer literature. 'Many of the scenes and events contained in [The Young Emigrants], are communicated to the writer by the member of a very amiable family, who emigrated to… Read More

Springfield. Charles C. Thomas, Publisher. 1958, 1958. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23cm, xx,292p., with 9 plates (36 illustrations), bibliography, index, beige cloth, fine in very good jacket (mdds). - With a Foreword by Sir Henry Dale, O.M. The Author was Kinsman Professor of Neurological Research, University of British Columbia and dedicated the work to his teacher, Wilder Penfield.

Montreal. Wm. Drysdale & Co. 1888. F. Soft cover. sq12mo. 17.5x 14.5cm, first edition, [vi]200p., original printed wrappers, a fine copy (clds) Watters p.329. Rohdenizer p728. Author's First Novel.

London. Jonathan Cape. 1957, 1957. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 20cm, 242p., frontis portrait (author), 7 plates, map, index, red cloth, fine in fine jacket (tgc). - A series of letters from 1874 to 1879 by a newly recruited member of the Indian Civil Service. He writes of two major famines, in the Behar district in 1874 and in Madras in 1877.