Tyrrell J B Editor (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Greenwood reprint. A used book with light shelf wear to red cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. Additional information and photos upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Scarce 1st edition. Quarter brown cloth, tan paper boards, B&W pictorial onlay. xii, 171 pp. [1] B&W fold-out plate. Rubbing to cloth, wear to corners, some staining to boards. Handwritten recipes to front endpapers.

8vo. pp. xix, 419, xii. 17 plates & 5 maps (2 folding). original gilt-crested cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some soiling to cloth, spine darkened). Limited to 550 copies, this copy unnumbered. The text consists of four parts, the first three in both the original French and in English translation: 1) Father Antoine Silvy's journal, now first published in English translation (by Agatha Leonard), gives an account of a voyage in two ships from Quebec to York Factory in 1684, of life on the Hayes river in the winter of 1684-5, and of the return voyage to Quebec in 1685; 2) Father Gabriel Marest's letter giving an account of the French expedition against York Factory in 1694, and of the winter spent on the banks of Hayes river in 1694-95; 3) the preliminary matter and first nine chapters of Claude-Charles Bacqueville de la Potherie's Histoire to l'Amérique Septentrionale (1722), now first published in English translation (by D.R.Keys, A.Ewart and D.Shiell), which includes a first-hand narrative of the 1697 French expedition commanded by Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville which succeeded in capturing Fort Nelson and York Factory, English trading posts on Hudson's Bay; 4) a history of Hudson's Bay being the last chapter of Volume I of John Oldmixon's British Empire of America (1708). Peel 7.

1 of 550 copies. Sm.4to., orig. red cloth, xviii, 611, xii pp. With illustrations and folding maps including a large folding chart in a pocket at rear. Spine a bit darkened, lower corner bumped but still a near fine copy of a scarce title.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1849 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 988 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 988 Language: English.