Search Results: Titles starting with D from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Montreal. Mansfield Book Mart: H. Heinemann, 1963, 1963. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 22.5cm, 64p., maroon cloth, fine in fine complete jacket, This edition is limited to twelve copies numbered A to M (not for sale) and 375 numbered copies, this being copy "H" , with a presentation note from the author loosely inserted (lgc).

Boston & New York. John P. Jewett and Company. 1859. Hardcover. 12mo, 19.5cm, xiii,394 (of 395)p., wanting the last page & with 3 (of 4) wood engraved plates & 10 plates (containing 26 illustrations from wood engravings), original blind stamped brown cloth, gilt spine titles, disbound, cloth faded and heavily worn, contents relatively good, very rare, as is (sc). George D. Dadd, veterinary surgeon, was the Lecturer on Veterinary Science at the Boston Veterinary School. ". there are but few persons in this country conversant with the theory and practice of veterinary medicine, in its application to cattle; and my object in writing this work is, to supply, to the best of my ability, a deficiency which all husbandmen have had occasion to lament." The author rails against the contemporary, unscientific treatments of bloodletting and use of poisons. The author published several veterinary books.

Toronto. The Ryerson Press. 1923. Hardcover. 22cm, 85p., blue cloth with gilt stamping on upper cover, a very good copy. (tgc).

Edinburgh. John Grant. 1897. Hardcover. 16mo. 15cm, 18th edition, 160p., text in Scottish Gaelic, original purple pebbled cloth, printed paper label on front, fine as new conditon. Gar). ~ Peter Grant (1783 1867) was a Scottish pastor in the Baptist Church and through his evangelical work and songs was known throughout the Highlands for many years. This book although in Scottish Gaelic, has Peter Grant's prefaces to his fifth and sixth editions in English.

Ottawa. Department of Agriculture. 1951. 28cm, 28p., illustrations from photographs, blue mapped wrapps, pencil notations throughout, otherwise very good, scarce. (cnds).

Washington. Dept. of the Interior. 1893. Hardcover. 4to. 29cm, xxxii,239p. in the original cloth, gilt titles, a fine copy. (Ab).

Washington. Dept. of the Interior. 1893. Hardcover. 4to. 29cm, xxxii,239p., original gilt stamped brown cloth, a fine copy.(Ab) Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. IX.

Toronto. Thomas Allen, Limited. 1962. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 20.5cm, 160p., red fabrikoid with blue titles, a fine bright copy in near fine jacket. (Lt).

Ottawa. Oberon Press. 1978. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. 21.5cm, 219p., frontis portrait, index, full fine maroon linen, gilt titles, a few careful pencil notations in the margins else a fine copy in very good jacket. (cdn) Oberon typically only produce a few hundred copies of the hardcover issue.

London. Chapman and Hall. Nd. Hardcover. 188?]. 21.5cm, 698p., original extra black and gilt stamped red cloth, edges rubbed and worn, hinges shaken, a good reading copy (s9.4).

Boston/Toronto. Little, Brown. 1976. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. tall8vo, 24cm, 400p., map, references, bibliography, index, light green cloth, a very good to fine in similar jacket (gi) A humane but masterful exploration of the political and social relations between Ireland and England during the period 1800 1922. (Jacket).

Toronto. Amberley House Limited. 1978, 1978. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 23cm x 26cm, 64p., with 49 illustrations (32 colour), full brown fabrikoid simulated leather, gilt title on front, with six folio colour prints (30cm x36cm), in separate folder contained in specially made illustrated box which encase the book and contains the folder, fine in near fine sleeve box (s18). - A very attractive study of the Canadian artist, Ken Danby, noted for his sports watercolours. The 6 full-colour prints depict a different Olympic sport: Gymnast, High Jumper, Diver, Sculler, Sprinter, and Cyclist.

Ottawa. Queen's Printer. 1968. Hardcover. 25cm, xiv,205p., 93 figures (including music), 26 photographic plates, bibliography, printed wraps, gilt titles, near fine. (cdn) This report is primarily a choreographic and musical survey of Canadian Longhouse customs with the related art of costuming.

Abernethy, Saskatchewan. Abernethy Heritage Association. 1983. Hardcover. 28cm, v,602p., with map, illustrations, index, green cloth with black titles and illustration, a fine copy. (cnds).

Toronto. Macmillan of Canada. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1982. 22cm, first edition, 183p., blue cloth, fine in fine jacket (s1) The second novel by the noted Canadian journalist and fiction writer.

New York. E.P. Dutton. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. The First American Edition, 219p., quarter tan cloth backed boards, spine titles stamped in gold along the spine, remained mark on the bottom edge, a fine copy in fine complete jacket, as new (ho11.1). ~ "One of North America's most elogquent writers about the natural world". Jacket.

London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Soft cover. Nd. c.[1887]. 22cm, 56p., with 11 illustrations, decorated illustrated paper over boards, (inc. ads on the back), spine and edges of boards worn, leaves browned, very good (igc) A collection of six stories by the noted author of children's books, Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885). Most of the stories were originally published in "Aunt Judy's Magazine", started by the author's mother, Margaret Gatty, in 1866.

Paris. Firmin Didot Freres. 1846. Hardcover. 8vo. 21cm, 415p., printed in double columns, with 23 steel engraved plate illustrations, index, in contemporary quarter sheep, gilt titles and decorations on the spine, spine edges worm, upper hinge holding, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, library stamps on the title page, internally clean and sound, good to very good (gar). ~ One of the 40 European volumes in the "L'Invers" series of 57 volumes.

Toronto. Coles Publishing Limited. 1973. 21.5cm, 142p., map, wine cloth, fine in fine jacket. (Ar). A facsimile reprint of the 1740 first edition.

GardenCity, New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1922. Hardcover. 8vo. 19cm, firstedition, first issue, 5 plates including frontis, grey pictorialdecorated cloth, light edge wear, sound, good to very good (gar). ~Originally copyrighted by The Boy Scouts of America. Illustrated byAmerican artist, Remington Schuyler.