Search Results: Titles starting with F from Michael's Pride and Joys

Publisher: Bombay Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1884 Vol I 83pp Vol II 135 +4 pp Vol III 295+13 pp. wraps in a form of perfect binding. Used - Very Good Very good No dust jacket Parts 1 and III are VG Part 2 is near VG. 3 volume set. Green wraps. Part I 1884, Part II 1886 Part III 1888. FIRST EDITION 3 volume set. Green wraps. Part I 1884, Part II 1886 Part III 1888 Sastri a famous Tamil folklorist. PAGE NUMBERING IS CUMULATIVE WITH VOL III ENDING AT P 295 WITH 13 PAGES ADS ETC TO FOLLOW. This first edition is extremely rare. THREE VOLUMES

dull with bumps and rubs and partial, 2-inch, separation at other side of spine-front join that does nOT extend to the other side. Large print and liberally illustrated

This is from the library stacks although there is no pocket, and yet it is at the high end of the Very Good range with no substantial defects other than the one BOOKSALE and two LIBRARY stamps. Please note it in only Volume II

Fight at Dame Europa's School Shewing How the German Boy Thrashed the French Boy and How the English Boy Looked on
by Pullen H.W.
An enormously popular book of 19th century satire Trade paperback. Simpkin Marshall (1871) Good. No dust jacket as issued. name on front page. Roughened edges at front. two smallish pieces missing from back cover, not affecting print. Small soft cover booklet of 28 pages (plus 3 pp ads) in green covers. Book first published October 21 1870 by Brown and Co. Salisbury in 500 copies. It caught the public imagination partly because the rise of a powerful Germany was feared as a disturbance to the balance of power. A further 500 were printed November 17, 1870, butIt went on to enormous success so that Simpkim Marshall (London) took over the task. Records show that in February 1871, they were already printing the hundred and eighty-ninth thousand. The Simpkin Marshall print runs differed from Salisbury in a key respect. The fourth line if the Salisbury… Read More

Publisher: H.M. Caiserman, 1942Used - Like New, Usually ships in 1-2 business days, Looks about new save for not-very noticeable edge scuffs, feels new, and probably never read. An account of "christian" politicians in Victoria, B.C. trying to exclude Jews from parliament. Author describes the settlement of jews in Victoria in 1849. He reveals how many of the name we associate with the early development of Victoria were anti-semitic either from prejudice or to improve their own lot. He also writes of Jews welcomed into the communuty--one in particular who was secretary to theTiger Company (the firefighters). I have the much-later book, First Water, Tigers for sale.) Rome relates the lection for the legislature when De Cosmos used his paper, The Colonist, to oppose Mr. Selim Franklin. Franklin wone and de Cosmos tried to have 'votes by negroes' declared and failed. Then came the "On the truth as a christian' problem Canada inherited from UK (which the UK had aboilshed). In March 1860, Franklin was… Read More

PARKER, Dave First Water, Tigers! A History of the Victoria Fire Department Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1987 - History of the Fire Department and Fire-fighters of the City of Victoria, British Columbia. 234pp, photo illustrated. Fine copy, bright and fresh. Dust jacket has small closed tear and corner crease and edge rubs

Calder, James A; Taylor; Mulligan, Gerald FLORA OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. Part I: Systematics of the Vascular Plants. Part 2: Cytological Aspects of the Vascular Plants Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa 1968 - Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and drawings. 148 pages illustrated, Brand new in brand new DP that is Brodart protected "Compliments of Biosystematics Research Institute' stamped inside board

The Flower-Boy of the Prairie [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1860 floral, gilt and pink, blind-stamped cloth hardcover, First ed. first printing American Tract Society (1860) All edges gilt. slightly-loose tissue protected frontis of The Boy. Other plates. some toning. Still tightly bound and with some sunning, Remarkable survivor. Always is private hands with no writing or remnants of any sort

by NisbetHard cover. Blackwood (1905) Good. 2 volume set. Includes illustrations. Vol 1 506 pp Vol 2 642 pp Quite remarkable but I am not a forester and was only briefly interested. A comprehensive study of information and advice on forestry in the 19th century. Liberally illustrated. No writing and no defects other than minor corner bump

The normal publication was in cloth, but this is one of the PRESENTATION EDITIONS IN LUXURIOUS BLACK LEATHER WITH GILT PATTERNING TO FRONT AND A RIBBED AND PATTERNED SPINE. FIRST EDITION, OF COURSE AND GIFT-SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
END PAGES MARBLED WITH WITH GILT-DECORATE LEATHER BORDERS. ALL PAGE EDGES IN GILT AND ROSE-RED CROSS-HATCHING. SEE EXAMPLE ON SCANS. ALL MAPS/ILLUSTRATIONS FINE AND THE ENTIRE INSIDE LOOKING AND FEELING BRAND NEW. Look carefully at scan of front and decide whether there is a rub at top left. A DELIGHT AND MAGNIFICENT GIFT.
FINE BINDING. Please examine carefull in case there are rubs I have missed
I show it as a first edition because it is the first modern edition but is a facsimile reproduction of the diary of the Governor-in-Chief of Hudson's Bay. It has ben edited with a Historical ntroduction and Notes by James F. Kenney, M.A., Ph.D., F.R. Hist,. S., Director of Histrical research and Publicity in the Public Archives of Canada. James Kenney. At the time of his premature… Read More

Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart
by Davy, Humphry, Sir, And Davy, John first edition First edition. half leather. J. Churchill, London (1858) UNBELIEVABLY NEW LOOKING AND NEW FEELING Fine. No dust jacket. Almost NEW and pages open as certainly never read. Foxing but not on text pages. On back a blemish lesss than half square inch viii, 330 p. illus. 22 cm. Reddish marbled boards and gorgeous red end pages. Page edges red. half leather with attractive spine having five raised ribs, 5 panels with blind indented pattern, and one panel with gilt title. marbled boards and marbled end pages. Opens as though it has never been read. On back cover is a small lacune helf-inch square. I also show a scan of two blank front end pages so that you may see the Smyth stitching-- and note binding is tight
Sir Humphrey Davy; FRS. President of Royal Society, did pioneering work on the metallic bases of the fixed alkalies and is perhaps best known for his… Read More

29-page book of verse in purple velvet-feel? card covers published 1931 and still brand new although some toning over the years. Presumably that is because of the paper that was used as this book has lain unopened for over eighty years since the day it was signed by the author. It cannot have been read as it has never been fully opened. Villon was a Parisian-born 15th century poet, one of the best-known of the 15th century

PERFECT GIFT QUALITY First edition. 125th anniversary ed. 119 p. : ; 29 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits.125TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION published in recognition of the 125th anniversary of The Winnipeg Police Force this historical record has been published by the Winnipeg Polic Museum and Historical Society Inc. in co-operation with The Winnipeg Police Service Administration.Events 1874 to 1999. Liberally illustrated..Winnipeg Police Force, Assinbola Police Department, Brookland Police Department,, Fort Garry Police Department, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, North Kildonan Police Department, East Kildonan Police Department. West Kildonan Police Department. Old Kildonan/West Saint Paul Police Department, Saint Boniface Police Department, Saint James Police Department, Saint Vital Police Department, Transcona Police Department, Tuxedo Police Department, Catalogs: History, Law.

by Hsieh, Yvonnefirst editionFirst edition. Hard cover. Summa Publications (1996) New. No dust jacket. new or indistinguishable from new Perfect gift quality

Gleaming New in gleaming new dust jacket. Digestive function and therapeutic strategies from antiquity to 17th c.; digestive agents; gastric fistulae; the French contribution; pepsin, neglected enzyme; vagal; surgical; histamine; gastrin; cellular mechanisms; pharmacotherapy; proton pumpgastric; proton pump inhibition. Brilliant color illustration-s.

McLeod, Robert Randall Further Studies in Nature Halifax N. S: Commercial Printing Company 1910. Robert Randall McLeod born Nova Scotia 1842, died 1909 Massachusetts. This book was published a few months after his death and is gift signed to Dr Farish by his widow Agnes McLeod (nee Swansburg, married 1870). Dr Henry Greggs Farish (1825-1914) practised in Nova Scotia 126 p, Very good. No dust jacket as issued

Book has an errata sheet slipped in. It has 8 maps (8 plates) all perfect, all numbered, all protected by a tiussue in which is printed in red the plate number and title, and all dated betwen 1768 and 1792. The book has no writing inside, no dirt, no defects. It is in near fine condition for its age,but has a piece of paper strip missing from top of spine. I highlight that in one of the scans.
The author has signed "from C.F.Newcombe" at the top of the front cover, gifting the book. Newcombe as a noted naturalist and a volunteer at the Provincial Library.
Memoir # 1 by the Archives of B.C. Archives of B.C. published a number of Memoirs. This is #1. I have for sale #5 Menzies Journal of Vancouver's Voyages, #iv House of Assembly Correspondence. #vii Assay Office and Proposed Mint, #viii Colonial Postal System and Postage Stamps. and #ix Overlanders of '62. Some signed