Search Results: Native Americans from Leaf and Stone Books

New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0815307837 . KB40...xi, 364 pp. Works cited. Octavo. Scarlet cloth with silver gilt with very minor shelf wear. Interior has owner name on half title, an info sheet on the book was taped onto the inside front cover, tape has browned, last few pages of Works Cited have small storage turn down at the top corner, otherwise crisp and clean. ; Garland Reference Library Of The Humanities; Vol. 1559; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages .

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. Xii + 287 pps. Blue and black DJ. DJ is worn with small tear on front, and several tears on the back. Black cloth boards. Ex-library with single library stamp on front fly page - otherwise in good condition, clean with no other marks. ; Ex-Library .

Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0802039510 . KB40...viii, 326 pp. Index. B/W illustrations, maps. Octavo. Dark grey blue cloth with silver gilt is clean, minor shelf wear, interior clean and tight. A nice copy. Examines the encounters between Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries and the indigenous peoples with whom they worked in 19th and 20th century Canadian and overseas missions. Includes essays on Western Canada and the Artic, Canadian missionary presence and its legacy in east Asia, Inda and Africa; and the motives and methods of missionaries as important contributors to Canadian museum holdings of artifacts from Huronia, Kahnawake, and Alaska, as well as China and the South Pacific. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages .

New York: AMS Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. 040457758X . X, 184 pp. Index. 3 maps. Catholic University of America Studies in American Church History Vol. 8. A reprint of the 1929 original. Octavo. Dark brown cloth with brilliant gilt to spine, library spine label at bottom spine. Interior has normal library marks and pocket at rear, otherwise clean and unmarked. A very nice AMS Press reprint of the original, well bound and quite readable. ; Catholic University of America Studies in American Church History; Ex-Library; Vol. 8; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages .

Toronto: Rous & Mann, Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. c1928. First Edition. Hardcover. ES...[12] pp [17] ff plates. Square octavo. Signed on the title page "A. Y. Jackson." Original pine green textured paper-covered boards with pastedown, hand stitched blue yarn at spine. Covers are quite clean and unfaded, in older Mylar. No date but c1928. Lettering on cover label, decorated initials and map by Thoreau MacDonald. Title vignette, then intro by Banting, followed by a map showing places Banting and Jackson reached in the S. S. Beothic in 1927 and explanations of the plates, followed by the 17 black and white plates that follow "the course of the voyage from Godhavn to Labrador." First and only edition, we believe this is one of the 950 copies (of 1000) , as the spine is not cloth and there is no number indicating it is one of the first 50 printed. Nevertheless it is signed, which is quite a rare and lovely thing! This scarce and beautiful book is in good condition,… Read More

Montreal, QC: Guerin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 2760154300 . Kb? ...xlii, [ii], 737, [ii] pp. Octavo. Brick textured card covers with flaps, image of the 1648 title page of the original book "Affectus amantis Christum seu Exercitium amoris erga Dominum Jesum pro totâ hebdomadâ". First free endpaper has gift inscription from Hofbeck, along with another gift inscription, otherwise clean and nice. Hard to find, entirely in French. Father Chastellain was a Jesuit who came to New France in 1836, who spent 50 years in Quebec, many of them among the Huron. Heavy for international shipping. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 737 pages; Signed by Translator .

Chicago, New York: Rand McNally. Good with no dust jacket. 1920. Second Edition. Hardcover. 134, [ii] pp. Ads at rear. With 8 colour illustrations and many more black and white. Edition of 1920. With a pronouncing guide and bibliography at the rear. Khaki brown cloth with illustration of a white rabbit and a seagull on the front cover. Corners lightly bumped/toed in, spine tips have a little pulling but not much. Inside front cover has a child's Christmas book plate dated 1924 which has ghosted onto the opposite blank, bottom text block corner lightly bumped, title page has a bit of foxing but otherwise text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy of this book of Anishinaabe stories of the world's creation and other foundational mythologies. ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages .

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. 175-401 pp. Illustrated with cuts, plates and many folding maps and plans. Bright blue textured cloth with blind stamped ruling and decorative marks, spine has gilt title and date. Some general grubbiness to covers with a bit of bumping, old beverage ring on back cover but still respectable. Interior sewing is showing but binding seems firm, some occasional minor foxing, one page has an old mark (looks like something was wiped off which abraded a bit of text, although still legible), a few pages have page-turn chips, otherwise clean and unmarked. "The main features of the work of the Albatross during the summer of 1900 were a continuation of the exploration and examination of the stream and lake systems of Alaska, their general features and characteristics so far as they relate to salmon and other fishes, spawning-grounds, condition and nature of the water, ... At the canneries statistics were… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. 0802078583 . Xii, [4], 582 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Maps and numerous b/w photos. Large octavo. Goldenrod softcover with photo at residential school, red band at top and a colorful image of "The Teaching Wigwam." Old bookstore price sticker at top front cover, there is a small bump at the back top corner that is communicated to some of the last pages, but otherwise fresh and clean, good copy. This important history was published 25 years ago but is sadly still timely ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 582 pages .

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. xvii, 197 pp. With full page plates and 5 text cuts. Brown cloth covers with gilt decoration and blind ruling. covers are clean, bit of rubbing and wear at spine tips, joints lightly rubbed, interior pencil erasure first fly, front hinge starting, otherwise clean and nice. An attractive copy of this interesting look at tobacco, it's history and uses, long before the "saint" became known as a demon. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall .

London: Henry Colburn. Good with no dust jacket. 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. KB28...vii, 347 AND viii, 340 pp. Octavo. Bound in 1975 in slate blue buckram by UofT Press, unadorned, bit of shelfwear on the cloth, but otherwise neat and clean. New pale blue endpapers, both volumes have bookplate of author and historian Stanley Fillmore dated 1955. Books were donated by Mrs. Fillmore to a local history society, with their notation and stamps on title page and elsewhere. Much older ownership sig on title pages, otherwise the text is clean and unmarked, binding is sturdy and sound. Handsome and plain, good copy. "A remarkable record of social and scientific observations." MacTaggart was a Scot who was involved in surveying the land for the Rideau Canal, as well as possible waterways to Kingston, "significantly observing that he “got back to the Ottawa alive. " He was also involved with the Welland Canal and exploring tracts of land near Lake Huron. He also built a… Read More