Canada from Walkabout Books

Ottawa: F.A. Acland, Printer to the King's Excellent Majesty, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Issued as Bulletin No. 61, Anthropological Series No. 12. 275 pp, including 33 b/w plates. Briefly inscribed by Barbeau on the title page. Light rippling to the first ca. 25 pages, otherwise very good. From the Preface: "the following description and analysis of… Read more about this item

Very good. 7" x 11" string-tied album containing 190 corner-mounted photos., most measuring 3.25" x 5.5". Some blank spots where photos were removed, a few images damaged, but condition is very good overall. This interesting album appears to have been compiled by a man from Calgary, Alberta, who was employed in the railroad industry before serving in the… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag von Heinrich Matthes, 1862. Hardcover. Very good. First German edition of Paul Kane's "Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America". 8.25" x 6", pp xii, [1]-225 + [2] ad pp, illustrated with 4 chromolithograph plates, additional illustrations in the text. Bound in roughly contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, with no lettering on… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Very good. Revised and enlarged edition of "Camping in the Canadian Rockies." 309 pp, with numerous illustrations from photographs by the author, two folded maps in rear pocket. Original green cloth binding nicely decorated in gilt. Moderate rubbing to boards, corner of front free endpaper clipped, binding sound, text clean. Neatre… Read more about this item

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. Hardcover. Good+. Third edition (issued in the same year as the first edition). x, 388 pp, with folding map (as frontispiece) and 6 plates, in original dark red cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Spine slanted, map has some creasing from being mis-folded, contemporary owner's signature on title page.… Read more about this item

Toronto: Stewart Derbishire & George Desbarats [and] John Lovell, 1858. Hardcover. Very good. Two works bound together: 1) Hind, Henry Youle. Report of a Topographical and Geological Exploration of the Canoe Route between Fort William, Lake Superior and Fort Garry, Red Rver; and also of the Valley of Red River, North of the 49th Parallel, during the Summer… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 291 pp, with color frontispiece, bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, illustrated labels mounted to front board and spine. Some rubbing and a touch of fraying to cloth, small chips in spine labels, internally sound and clean, other than a ownership signature, dated 1912, on the front… Read more about this item

[London], 1776. Hardcover. Near fine. Second edition of this important report, first issued in 1749 and bound here (as issued) with 12 other committee reports first published between 1737 and 1765. Folio, 486 pp, with one folding map (not related to the Hudson's Bay report), in a later binding of quarter leather and marbled boards. Each report has… Read more about this item

Toronto: Published for the author by Mundy-Goodfellow Printing, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5" x 5.25", 170 pp + [4] plates, in original red cloth binding. Corners and spine ends rubbed and lighly bumped. Inscribed on the half-title page "With kindest regards and good wishes to Mrs. Harold Marsh from the author, your second cousin, S.D. Gaudin,… Read more about this item

Winnipeg: Women's Canadian Club, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 130 of 1000 copies subscribed for in advance. 8.5 x 6.25 in., 261 pp, illustrated, in blue pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Boards rubbed at extremities, previous owner's information in ink on front free endpaper, front hinge a bit wobbly. Binding otherwise sound, text clean. Account of… Read more about this item

London: [J. Brettell], 1817. First Edition. True first edition, issued prior to the John Murray trade edition and distributed only to Selkirk's and Halkett's close associates and certain highly-placed officials in the British Foreign Office. 8vo, pp. 125, lxxxix, with folding map by A. Arrowsmith titled "Sketch of a Part of the Hudson's Bay Company Territory," in a modern… Read more about this item

Toronto: William Briggs, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 515 pp, illustrated. Subscribers' edition, in navy blue cloth with Hudson's Bay Company crest on the front cover. Some rubbing to extremities, binding tight, text clean. Bison Books edition description: "The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867.… Read more about this item

Toronto: William Briggs, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xi, 349, with folding map and 21 plates, bibliography, index. An attractive copy in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and insignia of snowshoes, rifle, and bow and arrow. Light rubbing to corners, a few small nicks in cloth at spine ends, penciled ownership inscription dated 1904 on… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Greene, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. Two volumes, pp. xx, 494 + publisher's ads; xvi, 472, with seven maps (two folding) and one folding profile -- all with hand coloring; 20 chromoxylographic plates; and many additional illustrations in the text. Later full leather with red spine labels, marbled endpapers. Scuffing to extremities, old restorations to half-title… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 7.75" x 4.75", pp xii, [13]-308; vii, [1], [9]-328 pp, in original brown blindstamped cloth, spines decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers with publisher's advertisements. Chipping to cloth at spine ends, old repairs visible at joints, but still an attractive set, uncommon in the original cloth. Wagner-Camp 169:… Read more about this item

Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1881. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 32 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light dust soiling, front wrapper has previous owner's name written at the top and one small tear; very good. Sir Francis Hincks (1807-1885) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and British colonial administrator. In 1878, he represented the federal government on the Ontario-Manitoba… Read more about this item

New York: American Alpine Club, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 152 pp, indexed and illustrated, with map in rear pocket. Blue cloth boards are lightly scuffed. Binding tight, contents clean.. "A classic monograph on this range which includes the Bugaboo Mountains and the Snowpatch Spire" (Neate T28).

London and New York: Macmillan, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp ix, 300 + 55 (publisher's catalogue). Index, two folding maps, errata slip bound in. Publisher's green cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. Mild rubbing to extremitie, previous owner's name on half-title page. Narrative of the author's hunting (musk ox, caribou) and explorations in 1889-91 in the region… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. Second and preferred edition, with folding map. 25.5 cm, 283 pp. in original pictorial cloth boards, beautifully illustrated with 25 full-page photogravures and many additional illustrations in the text. Boards are lightly spotted, but still quite attractive; internally clean and sound. The topographical map, titled "Map of the Lake… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Issued under Direction of Hon. J.A. Calder, Minister of Immigration and Colonization, 1922. Softcover. Good. 40 pp, in original pictorial wrappers, with many illustrations from photographs and 5 colored foldout maps. Rubbing to front cover, lower corner creased throughout, maps with a few small splits at folds, archival tape repair to spine; good. A very detailed… Read more about this item