Richards Capt G H (3 results)
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Seller: The Merrickville Book Emporium, Merrickville, ON, CanadaThe Merrickville Book Emporium
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First publication of the journal of Captain G.H. Richards from his 1860-1862 survey mission to Vancouver Island. Extensively annotated and supplemented with excerpts from the journals of Second Master J.T.E. Gowlland. Copy is in very good condition. Absolutely minimal wear to the pictorial card…wraps save for slight bump and crease to top front outside corner. Interior is clean and unmarked with a solid, tight binding. A handsome copy of a very scarce text.
Published by The International News Company, New York 1922
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey throu…gh the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Prater, E.; Holloway, C.; Oakdale, E.G.; Hodgson; E.S.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Whitaker, W.G.; Coller, H.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).
Published by Hydrographic Office, London 1872
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Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaAlexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books
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An early printing of this sea chart that accompanied the Agreement between Her Majesty's government and the United States of America, defining the Boundary. It is the end result of the infamous "Pig War" of 1859., Size : 736x1138 (mm), 28.98x44.80 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term p…reservation.
