Canada History

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Canada, George Brown, Rebound 1st Edition, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Rebound edition. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition on preliminary page in pencil. Bright blue bound cover boards. Some light tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Pages unmarked. Spine straight.

Softcover. Victoria BC, Horsdal & Schubart, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated guide to historical and modern Eskimo art. 96 pages, illustrated with more than 100 photographs, both color and black/white (many full-page). Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, dust jacket shows some light edge wear.

Softcover. Toronto, Musson Book Company Limited, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original cream paper cover with light green and black lettering and decoration, and color pastedown of a painting. Ad for Chateau Frontenac inside front cover, and one for McColl-Frontenac Oil Co. Limited inside back cover. Interior is clean and free of markings. The book describes historical places of interest in the Montreal area. 96 pages including Index. Size: 6 1/4 x 9 Inches. Mild edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Inscribed by author's son. 568 pages, b&w illustrations. Fold-out map in rear torn, but present. Bright blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light wear to corners; small stains on rear cover. Ex-lib with number on bottom of spine, embossed stamp on title page, pocket inside rear cover. Else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Montreal, Poirier, Bessette & Co., unk., 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 pages, many b&w illustrations including maps and fold-outs. Binding is shaken and both covers loose with cracked hinges, front fly leaf loose. Internally good. Leather spine and corners with pink pebbled cloth covers, marled end papers.

Softcover. Hantsport NS, Lancelot Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. The appendix is a 15 page list of Loyalists giving their residence in Nova Scotia, their nationality, American residence and their occupation. Includes articles on such subjects as Col. James Delancey, Nathan Pushie , the Black Loyalists, etc., etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 273 pages, endpapers map. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture--his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide--Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time. Light soil to dust wrapper, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Winnipeg MB, Turnstone Press, 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 135 pages, b&w illustrations. The trials, tribulations and small victories of professional baseball on the prairies from 1886 to the late 1990s. Stubbs' comprehensive research uncovers Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta's rich history of teams and leagues, as well as regional heroes of the game. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Edmonton CA, Hurtig , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. This book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, led by the ethnologist/ explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders.' Illustrated with 64 photos and 20 maps. Clean copy.

Softcover. McGill-Queen's University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 913 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Trigger's work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.

Hardcover. Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 377 pages. SIGNED BY MOWAT on the title page. Blue endpaper maps, b&w photo illustrations. chronology. notes. After years of research, sparked by his discovery of roofless ruins in Hudson Bay, Farley Mowat presents a speculative history of the first Europeans in North America and a challenge to the presently held notion that the Vikings were the first to inhabit northern Canada. Carbon dating placed these ruins hundreds of years before the Vikings landed in Newfoundland, but the conventional accepted historical theory could offer no explanation for them. Mowat`s search led him to Scotland and the Northern Isles where he discovered ruins that resembled those he had seen on the other side of the Atlantic. He painstakingly researched early historical accounts from Roman and pre-Roman times for answers and was able to reconstruct the story of a forgotten people.

Softcover. Ottawa CA, National Historic Sites Publications, Environment Canada, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages, b&w illustrations, tables, charts, maps, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, M. Carey, reprint, 1813, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Travels Through the Canadas Containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the Rivers and Lakes with an Account of the Productions Commerce and Inhabitants of Those Provinces. Hardcover, printed boards with calf spine that has a paper label with the title. 282 pages. Text generally clean with only occasional light foxing or soiling. Text pages intact. Internal binding strong. NOTE: this is a reprint of the 1807 book, minus any plates or illustrations. Previous owner's names, inscriptions on preliminary pages and title page. In an attractive maroon color slipcase that the book fits into nicely.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in white and gilt, 349 pages, b&w illustrations, top edge gilt. Chronicles the daring explorers who crossed oceans from the West to the far shores of the North Pacific. From the dawn of Russian and European ambitions to the first American and British voyages, the book weaves together the lives, motives, and trials of men who chased a sea of unknowns. It presents a vivid look at discovery, rivalry, and the costs of pushing beyond the maps. Drawing on primary sources, Laut illustrates the fierce competition for discovery and dominance in the fur trade among these intrepid adventurers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, mild wear to top of spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BAKER on title page. Unnumbered copy of 500 printed.

Hardcover. Alberta, Canada, West of the Fourth Historians, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 635 pages, photographs throughout, illustrated brown cover. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, gilt design, very little wear. Dust jacket with minor wear. Many b&w photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. The story of William Notman and his sons and proteges who for over 60 years chronicled North America ( Canada and continental United States ) through the eye of a camera. He gives an invaluable view of what was like to live in the latter part of the Victorian era.