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Australia's Southern Shores
by Breidahl, Harry
Port Mebouume Victoria, Australia: Lothian Pub Co. New. 1997. First Edition. Paperback. 0850917697 . New, unread, unmarked. Illustrated throughout in color. Sponges, Worms, Anemones, Barnacles, Shrimps, Sea Snails, Bivalves, Sea Balls--A World Teaming with a Myriad of Marine and Plant Life. This is an easy-to-follow guide to the marine and plant life on the beach, on rocky and sheltered shores and in the water all year round. With over 300 illustrations, including 15 full-color field guides, this...
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$32.50
THE ST LAWRENCE WATERWAY PROJECT - The Story of the St Lawrence River as an International Highway for Water-borne Commerce
by STEPHENS, George Washington
Montreal: Carrier. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1929. Third Printing. Hardcover. DJ heavily chipped with some loss top spine and top back panel, a few tears and creases, water stained on spine, book undamaged. On fold-out map torn out but still present, map undamaged. Front inner hinge started but solid, back hinge intact. ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar ; This is an early study of the St. Lawrence River in preparation for the construction of the Seaway. All fold-out maps present as well as...
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$25.00
The FALLS OF NIAGARA: being A Complete Guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighborhood ........
London, Edinburgh, NY, Tor.: Nelson, Sons &James Campbell. NEAR FINE/-. 12 tissue guarded color plates on very heavy stock. 1866 (1858 cp). early edition. Hardcover.. NEAR FINE book/-. Tight. FINE inside. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Frontis & 11 plates in color lithography. . Pp. (i-v)vi(7)8-64. Superb contents. Very tight binding. Plates are bright as new and based on Canadian artist Washington Friend's sketches and photos. In text woodcuts on pages 11 'The Rapids Above the...
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$200.00
The Cartography of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, From Cartier to Champlain
by GANONG, W. F
Royal Society of Canada, 1889. Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada. Section II, 1889. Disbound. Good. Pages 17 to 58. 30 cm. 8 early sketch maps. Disbound. 2 appendices. Appendix II may not be complete. Small tear in last page. Presented by Dr. George Stewart, May 8, 1889.
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$30.00
A History of the Welland Canal
by Unknown
St. Catharines, Ont.: Office of Engineer-in-charge, Welland Ship Canal, December 12, 1922. Booklet. Good. 8 p., one-sided. 23 cm. Brown paper booklet with two holes. Paper repair to each cover. Small mark on bottom front. Former owner's label on first page.
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$45.00
The Panama Canal: The Evolution of the Isthmian Crossing
by KEMBLE, John Haskell (ed.)
The Book Club of California, 1965. Loose_leaf. Very good +. Keepsake Series. 12 folders, each with an appropriate colour print on the cover, and an essay inside. In blue and grey cardboard folder inside matching blue slipcase. Former owner's label inside front cover and binder's label inside rear. Slipcase has mark on upper front corner. Folder has marked spine and slightly scuffed spine labels.
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$35.00
Souvenir of the Canal Zone
by BIENKOWSKI, A
Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama: A. Bienkowski, 1906. Staplebound. Good. [32 p.]. 20 x 25 cm. B&w photos. Maps inside covers. Staplebound booklet with small chips and tears to edges and general soiling and wear. Some spotting to inside covers. Dampstains to top margins of first half. Former owner's label on first page. Two innermost leaves are detached. Photos show police station, U.S. post office, canal offices, shipping bananas, a canal dredge, the American settlement, pipe line of Union Oil...
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$25.00
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting A copy of the Survey and Report for the Improvement of the Hudson River
by Secretary of War
Washington DC, 1832. Cloth. Near fine. Document No 189, 22nd Congress, 1st Session, March 30, 1832. 29 cm. 23 cm. Bound in quarter cloth with cream paper boards. Former owner's sticker on front endpaper and small bookbinder's label on rear pastedown.
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$100.00
The Facts and the Argument. Sustaining the adverse report of the Special Board of Engineers in the matter of a ship canal across the State of New York
by Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association
Washington DC: Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, December, 1927. Staplebound. ex library-very good. Bulletin No. 37. 43 p. 23 cm. Staplebound booklet. Ex library with ink stamp. Being a re-write of Bulletin 29, "Facts and Studies" presented before the Baord of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, March, 1926 and Bulletin 30, "The Truth," presented before the Union League Club, by the Hon. W. L. Harding, May, 1926.
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$20.00
Aquarium Atlas. Volume 1.
by Riehl, Rudiger And Hans A. Baensch
Melle, Germany:: Mergus/Hans A. Baensch., 1997 Revised edition in trade paperback. 992 pp. Color photographs. Minor shelfwear. Very Good.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. LR4-1.
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$14.95
Water. Histories, Cultures, Ecologies
by Leybourne, Marnie & Gaynor, Andrea
Perth: University of Western Australia Press. 2006. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good++ Condition. Some minor wear. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 246pp. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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AU$20.00
Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls
by DOW, Charles Mason
New York: State of New York / J.B. Lyon, 1921. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Two volumes. Blue cloth gilt. Very near fine.
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$50.00
The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands
by Cromie, William & Amos, William
Sydney: Readers Digest. 2006. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Sticker remains to top right corner of front DJ. Previous owners name to inside front free end papers. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 367 pages This book is the most lavishly illustrated account of oceans and islands ever published in a single volume. . Reprint. Hardback.
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AU$12.00
Oceanic Birds Of South America
by Murphy, Robert Cushman
New York: The Macmillan Company / The American Museum Of Natural History, 1936. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Two Volumes. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Spine discolored. Boards faded and scuffed. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped and frayed.
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$150.00
Proceedings of the Board of Trade of the City of Boston, Relative to a Canal From the Lakes to the Mississippi, and the Caughnawaga Ship Canal From the St. Lawrence to Lake Champlain. May 20, 1870
by Wright & Potter, Printers
Boston: Wright & Potter, Printers, 1870. Booklet. Fair. 36 p. 24 cm. Paper covers wrapped in mylar. Some chips and soiling to the exterior. Paper browned with chipped corners. Faint ink stamp at top of title.
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$30.00
Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA
by Bowden, Mark
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket - now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. A lovely book in excellent condition. 182 pages A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was influential in at least four fields - military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet little is known about his career, character or...
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AU$35.00
Report on Ship Canal From the Great Lakes to the Navigable Waters of the Hudson River
by ANONYMOUS
Washington, 1894. Hardcover. Near Fine. 53rd Congress, 2d Session, Report No. 913. 50 p. 24 cm. Bound in red cloth with marbled boards. White label. Former owner's label attached to front endpaper. Small bookbinder's label (Swansong) on rear pastedown.
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$50.00
The Erie Canal & Its Early Engineers. June 19-August 10, 1967
by Rome Historical Society; Fort Stanwix Museum
Rome, New York: Rome Historical Society; Fort Stanwix Museum, 1967. Staplebound. Near fine. 21 p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Staplebound booklet. Small smudge on front cover. Former owner's label on first page.
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$15.00
Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting A report showing receipts and expenditures of the Louisville and Portland Canal from June 11 to December 31, 1874
by Secretary of War
Washington, 1875. Hardcover. Near Fine. 11 p. 23 cm. Bound in beige cloth with marbled boards. Cream label. Former owner's label attached to front endpaper. Small bookbinder's label (Swansong) on rear pastedown. Some thumbing to top of title page and rear. Small dark spot affecting text on pp. 5 onwards.
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$35.00
The Thames From its Rise to the Nore
by ARMSTRONG, Walter
London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited, nd. Cloth. Fair. 2 vols.: iv, 176; iv, 176 p. 31 cm. 16 etchings and nearly 400 b&w engravings in the text, incl. a map of the Thames (V.1 & 2 facing p. 1), Reading (V.1 p. 97), Windsor (V.1 p. 139), and entrance to the Thames (V.2 p. 157). Green cloth hardcovers with black and gold impressing. Gilt edges. Ex lib. Corners worn. Vol. 1: cloth on spine coming loose, as is back board, top and bottom of spine torn, cracked at p. 81, 97. Vol. 2: tiny chip in...
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$150.00
From Steam to Cycles: The Lachine Canal Historical Guide
by SICOTTE, Anne-Marie; THÉRIAULT, René
Montreal: Association Les Mil Lieues, 1987. Spiralbound. Near fine. 64 p. 18 cm. B&w illustrations. Spiralbound. Former owner's label on first page.
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$15.00
The Duke of Bridgewater's Underground Canals at Worsley
by Mullineux Frank
Manchester Great Britain: Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1963. This is an offprint from the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society vol 71, 1961. 8 pages of text + 1 good whole page map + 4 very good whole page black and white photographic plates. In original yellow card covers which are somewhat shabby - contents are very good. Near Very Good. REDUCED POSTAGE ON THIS ITEM. . Offprint. Soft Cover. Near very Good. 8vo.
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£3.50
Trent Canal System 1959: Improved Natural Waterway Connecting Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay
by Department of Transport
Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1959. Staplebound. Very good. 10 p. 25 cm. Fold-out map at rear. Staplebound booklet. Former owner's label on first leaf. Small tear in bottom of p. 7. Small holes and ink note to inner margin of map.
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$35.00
The Sun, The Sea and Tomorrow
by SMITH,F.G. Walton & CHAPIN,Henry
London: Hurst and Blackett. 1955. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Black & white illustrations. 184pages. Examines the sea as a potential source of food, minerals and power. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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AU$10.00
