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

London. Rich & Cowan. 1938, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 21.5cm, first edition, 336p., with 4 maps (1 folding), 7 plates (1 double page), illustrated endpapers, index, blue cloth with white titles, a very good copy (Ilds) Follows the journeys of St. Patrick as far as they are traceable." Preface.

Kingston. The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. 1936, 1936. Soft cover. Very Good. 23cm, 64p., local ads, a very good copy. (On).

[London]. Privately Printed. [1844]. 12mo. 19.5cm, vii,[-9],21p. Colophon: Printed by Reynell and Weight, 16 Little Pultney Street, self wraps, rare. (Cdn.bx). T.P.L. 2642. cites two copies; both smaller (18.2 & 18.8cm). Not in Lande. Part I includes letters by J.A. Roebuck (Agent in London for the Assembly of Lower Canada), Bancroft and Jared Sparks, the historians; the letters and Falconer's comment thereon, deal with the practice of appointing colonial agents in London, as followed about 1844 by Canada, and previous to 1775 by the other English colonies in America. Part II is written by Falconer, an English county court judge and a strong liberal, who travelled in America, 1840-42, and was later (1850) member of the Canadian boundary commission.

Niwot, Colorado. Roberts Rinehart Publishers. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1993. 23cm, xvii,510p., illustrations, maps, bibliography, names and general index, black cloth, fine in very good jacket (op in hc).

Montreal. Dawson Brothers., Publishers. 1886. Soft cover. 4to. 30cm, 38p., spine edge bit worn else fine in the original printed grey wraps (ho10). ~ John Reade (1837 1919), literary editor of the Montreal "Gazette", was noted for his contributions to the transactions of learned societies on a great variety of subjects. In these off prints, he writes of racial intermingling and the evolution of the alphabet.

Toronto. The Ryerson Press. 1959. 21cm, xiv,212p., frontispiece, 15 plates and illustrations, index, blue cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket. (Ar). The autobiography of a fur trader's wife.

Wilmette, Illinois. U. S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. 1961. Soft cover. 27cm, v,37p., references, figures, tables, folding map, stiff printed wraps, faded spine, a very good to fine copy (ads).

Wilmette, Illinois. U. S. Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment. 1960. Soft cover. 27cm, vi,36p., figures, stiff printed wraps, faded spine, a very good to fine copy (ads).

Alhambra, California. Private Press of C.F. Brown & Co., by permission of The Limited Editions Club. 1957. Hardcover. 24.5cm, 161p., with 5 illustrations including title vignette, bound in quarter blue green niger morocco, black ruled raised bands, gilt titles along the spine, marbled boards, near fine copy attractively bound (s1) Pierre Loti is the pseudonym of the French nautical novelist Julien Viaud (1850-1923). For two years he cruised the coast of Brittany providing the background for this novel of the men who fished the northern waters. A very attractively bound limited edition.

Ottawa & Winnipeg. Printed by National Publishers. 1967. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. 23cm, 502,[9]p., with c.150 plates and illustrations, appendices, bibliography, grey cloth, fine copy in very good to fine jacket (n17).

Ottawa & Winnipeg. Printed by National Publishers. 1967. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23cm, 502p., many plates maps and portraits, appendices, bibliography, grey cloth, lacks blank free fly, a very good copy in very good jacket. (cdn).

Brasilia. Banco Central do Brasil. 1972. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 36.5cm, 317p., red paper over boards (hardcover), a very good to fine copy in very good jacket (scs).

Mexico City. Diario Espanol. 1955. 4to. 29x 22cm, limited edition of 550 copies, xvi,ccclxiii,(378)pp., with hundreds illustrations (mainly of title pages), fascicles loosely inserted in a printed wrapper, (as issued), wrapper with title printed in red and black are chipped on the spine and frayed along the edges, Author's Signed (Francisco) Presentation Copy, internally very good to fine, Some extra leaves included. (gar). ~ Text in Spanish. A chronological list of Mexican medical publications from 1552-1833, most with title-page illustrations, with 852 entries listed.

Montreal. McGill University Press. 1968. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 25.5cm, xiii,421p., bibliography, index, original brown cloth with gilt spine titles, brown dust-jacket, a fine copy in fine jacket, as new, (S12.9).

[Norwood, Massachusetts]. Privately Printed at The Plimpton Press. Nd. c.[1915]. Hardcover. 20cm, 14p., on laid paper, original quarter brown calf backed brown paper over boards, gilt spine title, some slight edge wear else near fine (bks) ~ An attractive American edition of Cobden Sanderson s essay first published by his Doves Press in 1900. Reprinted for private distribution only by The Plimpton Press for its friends through the courteous permission of the author . This copy is inscribed from Reg with affectionate regard. Souvenir du Grand Tour ! The Plimpton Press, Norwood Massetts. 16 June 1915.

London; Toronto; Paris. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.;J.M. Dent et Fils. 1923. Hardcover. 20.5cm, 251p., with illustrations, book ads,index, blue cloth with gilt titles, a good to very good copy. (tgc).

Toronto. The Musson Book Company & London. Hodder & Stoughton. [1911]. 4to. 26.6cm, [8], [174] plus 21 leaves of tipped-in coloured plates, including frontispiece. In the original publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine and cover block titles, full ornate gilt decorated with crowns, hearts and a sword, on the spine and upper cover, repeated in blind on the bottom board, with gilt decoration of swords on front and rear paste-downs, design repeated on the fly-leaves. decorative initials; each plate laid down in wide printed border with tissue guards printed with caption titles in blue taken from the text, slight minimal wear on the top and bottom spine edges, very good to fine sound copy, this issue is very scarce.(lt). Howey and Reimer F209. NOT in Aurora. WorldCat does not locate any copies of this issue. The poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Britain from 1850 to 1892. He chose classical and mythological themes for his epic poems, particularly the legends of Ulysses and King Arthur. His… Read More

Torino. Francesco Casanova. 1878. Hardcover. 16mo. 15cm, 205p., rubricated title page, bound in half vellum and marbled boards, gilt panels rules and gilt flora device decorations in the panels, gilt spine title on crushed crimson morocco label, all edges stained red, very slightly dust soiled but a fine sound copy (ho2.1). ~ Text in Italian. The drama in verse "Brother in Arms", first performed in Turin in 1877, by Italian dramatist Giuseppe Giacosa (1847 1906). Giacosa is best remembered for his librettos to Puccini operas.

Venezia. Stabilimento Antonelli,, 1861, 1861. Hardcover. Very Good. folio, 33cm, volume 4 (of 4 volumes),xi,448,21p., with 15 composite portrait plates, in contemporary half crushed crimson morocco, wide raised bands with blind rules tied over the hinge, gilt titles and decorations in the panels, match marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., rest uncut, inner linen hinges, some wear at the edges, bottom hinge re-glued, a very good clean sound copy attractively bound (gar). - Ducal Venetian Palace.

Venitia. Appresso Michiel Bonb'ello. 1596. 12mo, 15x 9.5cm, (in 8's), [viii,(including half title and title page both with vignette devices, one being the Papal crest),[viii,(index)326p., in original limp vellum, hand lettered spine ties, bands laced over the hinges, wrinkled, bottom wrap tattered with loss on the foredge half, last blank page with ms note which is defective with text loss, slight stain on the preliminaries, two worming holes on the fore edge, text block sound, good to very good, (hm.an.ds). ~ "The Treasury of Good Health. In which is Taught the Way to Conserve Health and Prolong Life." A collection of folk remedies with hygiene and dietary suggestions. Originally published in 1586 by Italian doctor and poet, Castor Durante (1529 1590), Church Physician at the Court of Pope Sixtus V. [Ask about binding restoration costs].