Search Results: Titles starting with O from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

Montreal: Self-published, 1957. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition xvi, [1]-329pp.,[1]. 9 x 6-1/4 inches. The pages are clear and the binding is tight. The beige cloth and burgundy leather cover.. In very good condition.This Edition De Luxe is Limited to 250 Copies of which this is No. 54 (marked in blue ink). It is also signed by the author.A most interesting compilation on early Canadian poets by Lawrence Lande (1906-1998) the noted lawyer, bibliophile and avid book collector. This is a collection of biographical information, and sample poetical works of some of the earliest Canadian poets.Main headings headings include: Early Poetry in Acadia, Early French Canadian Poetry, Early Poetry in Lower Canada (Quebec), Early Poetry in Upper Canada (Ontario), and Early Poetry in Newfoundland.Some of the poets include: Henry Alline, Joseph Stransbury, James Hogg, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Aylwin, Levi Adams, Adam Kidd, Bishop Mountain, Gustavus William Wicksteed, Jonathan Odell, George… Read More

Ottawa: Published in at the office of the Surveyor General and Chief Hydrographic Service, 1937. 1st Edition. No binding & hard cover. Good. SCARCE TYPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF KINGSTON AREAOntario Kinston Sheet, Leeds and portions of Lennox and Addington, Frontenac Lanark and Grenville Counties. Showing Counties, Townships Cities Towns over and under 4,000 population boundries, Railways and Canals. Standard Typographical Map Sheet 10 S.W.Folded paper size: 10 x 12 inches. Flat paper size: 58-3/4 x 38-3/4 inches. Map canvas backed, folded, bound in hard cover 12-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches boards with gilded title on Cover. Good condition. Bound for Mr. Lesslie R. (Rielle) Thomson (1886-1958) was a mechanical engineer and pre-war professor of Civil and Fuel engineering at two Canadian universities.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 6-3/4 x 10-7/8 inches. xxxi, 322 pages. Beige cloth with black lettering on spine, and front board with right bottom corner bumped, black illustration on front board. B&w illustrations. Very good condition. Contents: Introduction; Illustrations; Key to Bibliographies Cited and Selected Sources; Abbreviations; Library Symbols Used; The Bibliography: Part 1: Ontario (Ontario and Regions / Counties and Districts / Cities, Towns and Townships); Part 2: The Canadian North (Canadian North / Hudson Bay / Northwest Territories - Regions - Settlements / Yukon Territory - Regions - Settlements); Indexes Volume 3 of Canadian local histories to 1950. Comprehensive bibliographies of local history. Histories of exploration of the Canadian North as precursors of specific settlement histories. Gives library locations for all titles cited.

Guelph: Wellington Field Naturalists' Club, 1906. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. First edition. 5-7/8 x 5-1/2 inches. No. 2 booklet. 52 pages plus soft purple cover. Xlibrary with only marking on top of booklet. Soft cover paper well worn and missing pieces on spine. Pieces missing from bottom right of cover and tp page 2 internally. Fair condition of a scarce to market booklet. THE ONTARIO NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN Journal of the Wellington Field Naturalists' Club, Guelph, Ont. An Annual devoted to the Fauna and Flora of Ontario.A. B. Klugh, Editor.CONTENTS:Use and Abuse of the Subspecies - J. DWIGHT, JR., M. D. page 1Birds of Halton County, Ontario - ALLAN BROOKS - page 6Robin Notes—JAMES H. FLEMING - page 10 Birds of Wellington County—Corrections and Additions - A. B. KLUGH page 11Extracts from Notes on Natural History—C.K. CLARKE, M.D. page 12Trinomials—P. A. TAVERNER - page 16The Breeding of the Pine Siskin in Wellington County, Ont. - A. B. KLUGH - page 17Range of the Sharp-tailed… Read More

Ottawa: Department of Mines and Resources, Surveys and Engineering Branch, Hydrographic and Map Service, 1931. No binding. Very Good. Flat size: 32 x 25-1/2 inches. Folded size: 16 x 13 inches. Very good condition.An orographical map of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland from 1931. Relief is shown by gradient tints, hachure, and spot heights. Mountain ranges are named. Relief shown by gradient tints, hachure and spot heights. Mountain ranges named. Shows waterways, cities and towns. Scale 1:7,920,000 or 125 miles to 1 inch.

Toronto: Toronto Public Library, printed by the University of Toronto Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Volume I: Third edition. 1975. Reprint (and best) edition with additional corrections of the 1958 first edition and 1966 second edition. Judith St. John, prepared by. An introduction by Edgar Osborne. 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches. xxiv, (1),561pp.(1). 12 colour plates, 38 black and white plates. Pictorial cloth boards with gilt titles on green cloth spine. 3,000 titles. Very good condition. In 1958, in accordance with the terms of the donation, the Toronto Public Library published Volume I of the Osborne Collection catalogue, listing and describing a representative selection of . The second volume of the Osborne Collection Catalogue, in 1975, describes an additional , selected from accessions to the collection in the past twenty years.Volume II: First edition. 1975. 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches. xii, (1), page 563-1138. 2,600 titles Judith St. John, prepared by with the assistance of Dana Tenny and… Read More

various: various, 1938. No binding & hard cover. Good. Owen Wister dubbed the father of Western fiction, was a prolific novelist, short story writer, biographer, and historian. His most famous work is The Virginian (1902), a novel set in the Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. In 1898, Wister married Mary Channing, his cousin. They had six children, including Marina Wister (1882-1967).The collection has 15 items dating from 1922 to 1938, specifically 5 letters written by Wister, 2 signed cards, and 2 signed books. In addition there is a signed and annotated copy of his daughter's poetry book with news clippings, holograph poems and 5 letters addressed to her.5 Letters:• 2 ALS to Mark Sullivan (American journalist and political columnist), 7 October 1922 and 15 November 1932, complimenting Sullivan on his article on Lord Northcliffe ("parallel to John Sargeant's best. Light & shade, values, likeness, interpretation, justice") whom Wister met in London in 1919 and in Paris in 1921; tells Sullivan… Read More