Search Results: Authors starting with V from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Toronto, Vancouver. Clarke, Irwin & Co. 1974. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. sq8vo. 21x 18.5cm, 150p., many plates and illustrations, index, blue cloth, fine in very good to fine jacket. (s15). The story of early Canadian aviation.

Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 23cm, in 2 volumes, 486 & 487-960pp., red cloth, silver stamped titles, ex-library, fine thus (ds11).

Norman.University of Oklahoma Press. 1970. Hardcover. 23cm, xii960pp., red cloth, a fineset in slipcase (ds5).

New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21cm, the first edition, 246p., quarter blue cloth backed boards, gilt spine titles, a fine copy in fine complete jacket (s1).

Verona. Jacopo Vallarsi. 1759. 4to., [in 4's]., 31cm, LVp., (ie 55 pages), with 3 folding copper engraved plates, contemporary full vellum, dust worn, very good condition, as is (tr.ds). ~ Sacred ancient inscriptions marked with chisel above the lead box containing the sacred bodies of the SS. Martyrs Fermo and Rustico, the sarcophagus (a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece), and the ancient inscriptions. The book has palaeographic interest, the author transcribes and interprets the ancient inscriptions which appeared on the metal urn containing the bones of the holy martyrs Fermo and Rustico. They were removed following the flooding of the Adige in September 1757. Lozzi 6332. Platner 428.

Quebec. Ls.-A. Proulx. 1927, 1927. Hardcover. 18cm, viii,291p. including 15 pages of manuscript in facsimile, index, green cloth, gilt titles, a fine copy (mmds) Sarrazin, a physician, naturalist and a pioneer of Canadian science, was the author of "Histoire des plantes de Canada

New York. Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. N.d.. Hardcover. 20cm, xxi, 484pp.,frontis photographic portrait, marbled endpapers & leaf edges, a schoolprize copy rebound in dark green polished calf with gilt ruled border &school crest on front, presentation plate on front paste-down, in finesigned bindings. (sgc) First translated in 1902, the Osler introductionwas added in a two -volume edition in 1911 and in this one-volume editionin 1919. (Bibliotheca Osleriana). Very attractively bound as a prizeedition for Ashbury College, Ottawa with crest on front and presentationdate of 1931. Bindings signed by Birdsall (Northampton & London).

Paris. Librairie Hachette 1931. Soft cover. tall8vo. 25cm, 702p., frontis portrait, index, printed wraps, fine (s14) A biography, in French, of Louis Pasteur, the father of modern bacteriology.

N.p. Xlibris Corporation. 2009. Soft cover. 8vo. 22 cm, 203p., frontis portrait, illustrated wraps, fine condition (Ho2.8). ~ Two hundred books selected from a bibliophile's collection of Western Americana; classics of the West and California.

Burnstown. General Store Publishing. 1998, 1998. Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, 165p., illustrated, stiff colour printed wraps (trade paperback), fine (n16/17).

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo.18.5cm, first edition, viii,116p., decorated title page printed in black and red, olive green cloth, gilt decoration & titles, near fine (lt). ~ An attractive copy with title page & upper cover decorations by Margaret Anderson (signed MA on title page).

New York. CharlesScribner's Sons. 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 19cm, first edition, x, 296p., 8 plates, t.e.g.,blue cloth, gilt & green decoration on upper board & spine, very good tofine copy. (lt) Seven short stories of the Province of Quebec - in theLaurentians and on the North Shore. The first story -"A Lover of Music"- is located in early Ottawa - "He entered the backwoods village ofBytown." (opening line). The attractive cover decoration (unsigned) isby Margaret Armstrong'.

Rotterdam University Press. 1971, 1971. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 22cm, xvi,390p., grey cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket (s7) Studies presented at the Social Science Conference on The Perceived Role of the Military, France, 1970.

Washington, United States Geological Survey. 1896. atlas folio, 21" tall, 53x 45.5cm, being 36 colour maps, (inc. one folding), foliated, (printed on one side), library bookplate on the front endpaper, by wear on the corners, very good internally near fine, sound (ds1). "Presented to the library by Sir. J.W. Dawson, (emient Canadian geologist).

Boston and Laramie. Isaac Van Horn & Co. [1901]. Hardcover. 4to. 29cm, un-paginated c.[140]pp., frontis portraits, extensively illustrated with photographs, map, decorated endpapers, light olive green cloth, gilt titles on front, lower edges of covers & leaves damp stained, some soiling to covers, edges rubbed, a good copy, very rare (Amds). - A promotional book put out by The Van-Horn Miller Co-operative Trust to attract investors for the development of the natural resources of Wyoming. The plan called for the establishment of the Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific Railway Company. The frontis portraits are of Isaac Van Horn, investment banker, and Frederick A. Miller who managed the Trust office in Laramie, Wyoming. Testimonial letters, some from government representatives, are included. A mammoth promotional scheme that involved all aspects of development, the Trust and Railway went into receivership by 1911.

Paris. Editions du Chene. 1949. Folio. 31cm, first edition, 120p., rubricated title-page, 57 black & white plates & 23 tipped-in colour plates, with chronological index, cream coloured boards, gilt titles, binding slightly dust solied, small call number on the foot of the spine over layed, small stamp on text edges, very good condition, (ds1). ~ A finely illustrated study of lettering used in illustrated manuscripts from the 8th century to the 12th century. Included is a list of the manuscripts used (from the National Library of France).

Paris. Editions du Chene. 1950. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. folio, 31.5cm, (15,105), 120p., being 105 tipped in colour plates and plates illustrations, paper over boards, very good to fine condition in tired slightly dust worn jacket (hds).

Paris. Editions du Chene. 1950. Hardcover. folio, 31.5cm, (15,105), 120p., being 105 tipped in colour plates and plates illustrations, paper over boards, fine copy in near fine (slightly dust worn) complete jacekt (hds-38906).

Vancouver. Published by the Artists.1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. sm4to, 24cm, The First Edition, Limited and Numbered to 100copies, this being #63, signed by the artist & the typographer, D.Carson Wilde, designed and printed in handset 18pt. Cloister andHadriano capitals, on a Vandercook proofing press by Denise CarsonWilde at Winter Lily Press. The etchings were printed from theorginal intaglo plates on a nineteenth century Keltons Son pressand hand colour with watercolours by C.N. van Sandwyk. The papersis Somerset 100 percent rag and the book was bound by RasmussonHand Bindery. Also, 26 copies of the book lettered A-Z have beenproduced as an author's edition. In full crimson linen in matchedslipcase, with an etching inset on the front cover, marbledendpapers, on laid title page coloured etching, 7 hand colouretching plates by the artist, (9 etchings in total), as new, bothin the original shipped wrappers.(cgc).

New York. Privately printed. 1939. Hardcover. sm4to, 25.5cm, limited edition of 600 copies, many illustrations including4 in colour, 2 maps, blue cloth, gilt cover titles, near fine (Ads). The author writes of trips to northern Greenland, South America and New Zealand .Also includes essays on Sir Walter Scott as humorist, Washington Irving,Christmas books, and horse racing at Glenholme.