[Rarebooks] FS: REDUCTIONS

[Norman Kane]

PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF CANADA, VOL. 29 PART 1 - VOL. 32 PART 1.

Toronto, Spring 1991 - Spring 1994.

A run of 7 volumes in original wrappers, very good. (Unearthing Malcolm Lowry's Two Unknown  Volumes of Poetry; Early Canadian Almanacs; Canada's First Bookseller's Catalog; the Publication of Haliburton's 'Clockmaker'  -  2 articles; &c.)

$50.00 ($45.00 to the trade) + post.



MAGGS BROS., LTD.

15 CATALOGS LISTING MILITARY BOOKS, 1913 – 1988.

London, 1913-1988.   Original wrappers, very good.

Lot consists of: "Four Centuries of Military Books"; "Military & Naval Portraits"; "Military Books" (5); "Military & Naval History" (7);  "Military India.”

$50.00 ($45.00 to the trade) + post.



MAGGS BROS. AERONAUTICS CATALOGS:

1). A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE . . .  THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIRSHIP & THE AEROPLANE. CAT. 545, 1930. Bound in sturdy cloth, original wappers bound in, ex Franklin Institute Library (defunct) bookplate, &c.  9 X 7 inches; 184 pages.  Illus.

2). AEROSTATION. A CATALOGUE .. . ILLUSTRATING  THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIRSHIP & THE AEROPLANE . . . 1638 TO 1935 . . .

Cat. 685. 1940.  .  Sturdy later cloth, original wrappers bound in, Franklin Institute bookplate, &c. A few margins rough - no loss.  8 1/4 X 6 1/4 inches; 96 pages + lengthy Index. Fronts. Listed chronologically. A rather uncommon catalog.

The 2, $50.00 ($45.00 to the trade) + post. 



BARBIER, A[NTOINE] - A[LEXANDRE].

DICTIONNAIRE DES OUVRAGES ANONYMES.

Paris, [1964].  WITH; (same imprint) BRUNET, G. SUPPLEMENT AUX SUPERCHERIES LITTERAIRES DEVOILEES ET AU DICTIONNAIRE DES OUVRAGES ANONYMES DE J.-M. QUERARD & BARBIER.  5 volumes in all, fine, in the original cloth bindings. The best edition, complete with the Supplement, which is often lacking.

$350.00 ($300.00 to the trade + post.  



EATON, ARTHUR W. H.

THE HISTORY OF KINGS COUNTY [CANADA].

Belleville, 1972.

" Kings County, Nova Scotia ... the French and their expulsion ... the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910."  Nice reprint edition, large thick 8vo, original cloth stamped in gilt, [4], xi, [4], 898 pages, very good ++.  Index. (The ethnic cleansing embodied in the expulsion of the French is described in Longfellow's "Evangeline.")      $50.00 ($45.00 to the trade) + post.


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