Lawrence Burpee Editor (32 results)

Condition: GOOD. 1932. Vol. V, #IV-VI. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. The Witch-Canoe.La Chasse Gallery, The Old Grey Port of Saint John, Canada's Newest Mountains, A Hawaiian Holiday. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Contants noted to front cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1932. Vol. V, #III. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. Ontario's Route to the Sea, Island of Orleans, and Seeing Peru by Plane. GOOD. Textblock appears clean. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover. Minor wear to extremities.

Condition: GOOD. 1931. Vol. III, #3. Magazine. Halifax in Trade, Trail Metallurgical Plant, Lower Fort Garry, Agra and the Taj Mahal GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Contents noted to front cover. Light soiling to edges of cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1933. Magazine. B/W photos and text. An Arctic Sled Journey; Waterton Lakes National Park; Adventurers of Bristol; Prehistoric Footprints in Peace River. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. 1 1/2 inch tear to front cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1933. Vol. VI #3. Magazine. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Jehol - Twilight Land of Nomadism, Glasgow, Cape Breton Island, Rubber. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Light soiling to covers.

Condition: GOOD. 1932. Vol. IV, #II. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. The Graveyard of the Atlantic, Naming of America and Greenland, Scow Brigade on Athabaska, Sydney: Pacific Queen, and Prairie Hares in Winter. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1931. Vol. II, #III. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. Ottawa: More Than a City, European Sources of Non-Anglo-Saxon Immigrants, Skull-collectors of Formosa, and A Natural Bridge, Georgian Bay. GOOD. Binding sound. Occasional markings to textblock. Contents noted to front cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1931. Vol. III, #V. Magazine. Beauharnois Power Works, Iceland, Garibaldi Park, and Voice of the Wilderness. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Minor soiling to cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1931. Vol. III, #1. Magazine. UNCOMMON issue. Biblical Languages Ville de Montreal, The Omnipotent Bean, The Royal Mint and Its Branches, and Fishing for Albacore. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover.

Condition: GOOD. 1932. Vol. IV, #1. Magazine. The Birth of Agriculture in Canada, Isles of Strait of Georgia, Climbing Fujiyama, and The Ojibwa Indian. GOOD. Occasional markings to textblock. Binding sound. Contents noted to front cover. Bottom of spine has small stain.

Hard Cover/No Jacket. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Good 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. pp.48 with bibliography. Errata and acknowledgements, insert, The purpose of this atlas is to tell the history of Canada visually by means of a series of maps. clean tight copy former owner name on frontpiece covers show 2 1/2" tear down top spine edge slightly bumped corners stain on back cover and rubbing.

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; ii, [57]-110, x pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, maps. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, very light wear of cover (light mark), clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Vagabonding in the Arctic by Thomas H. Inkster; Charting the Great Lakes by Roy F. Fleming; Village Life in Japan by E. H. Cassidy; Old Fort St. John by Philip H. Godsell; A Canadian in Carthage by Gordon Fournier, etc. With interesting ads with illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; ii, [101]-159, xiv pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, one in color, maps. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, light cover mark, clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Solitudes of the Arctic by J. Dewey Soper; A Visit to Satan by Theophile James Meek, about devil-worshippers in Mesopotamia; The Prairie Orchestra by H. H. Pittman, on insects; Winnipeg by Thomas B. Roberton; The Handicraft of Renaissance in Quebec by Oscar A. Beriau, with much on rugs, weaving, etc. Interesting ads with illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; viii, 363-464, ix-x pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, colored plates, maps including colored map of Canada forestry. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, light cover mark, clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Unto the Hills by R. Brian Meredith, on the Canadian Rockies with colored paintings by Charles W. Simpson; Green Gold by D. Roy Cameron, on logging and forestry in Canada; Colonization in Quebec by E. M. Kindle; Roof of the World by B. G. Radley, on Himalayas; Where BC ends and Alaska Begins, by Reece Hague, etc. Interesting ads with illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 24mo. viii 112 pp., teg. Dark red calf with gilt title and decorations. Binding a bit loose, small black ink splotch on front cover, bottom edges dented. Scarce.

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; ii, 56, viii pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, including full-page, maps. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, very light wear of cover (crease & light mark), interior is clean and near fine. Well-illustrated articles including Mapping Canada by F. H. Peters with photos of instruments, aeroplane with camera; Ethiopia by Samuel A. B. Mercer with photo of supposed lost Ark of the Covenant, now hidden in Aksusm (Axum); Land of the Southern Slavs by Madge Macbeth; Objibway of the Lake of the Wood by Jocelyn Baker, etc. Interesting ads with illustrations including by Shelton Hotel in New York at $3 a day; Gold Flake cigarettes, 'The Smoke of the British Empire', etc. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; viii, [ii], 191-276, xiv pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, colored plate, map. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, very light wear of cover, interior is clean and near fine, unmarked. The main articles include Adventuring in Baffin Island by J. Dewey Soper; Memories of the Mountains by Henrietta Wilson (includes Banff, Prince Albert National Park, Jaspar, Glacier National Park, Kootenay, climbing mountains, etc); Grand Manan-an Island Gem of the Maritimes by Mariann Grey Otty; Motor-vagabonding on Vancouver Island by Helen V. Kerr; The Great West Festival at Calgary by Clara Holmes. All superbly illustrated with related photos. A picture of this book is available on request.

1927. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 48pp. Maps, notes, tables, chronology, bibliography. Spine lightly worn at top and bottom, corners rubbed, some minor ink margin notations. Locale: Canada. (Atlases, Historical Atlas).

8vo [26 x 17 cm]; xvi, [ii], 335-406, xiv pp, numerous illustrations, mostly from photos, colored plate, map. original heavy paper printed wraps, title and design on front cover, light wear of cover, interior is clean and near fine. The main article is on Toronto by William Arthur Deacon, 41 pages, with a colored plate from painting by Gordon Gillespie of Toronto sky-line from harbour, and dozens of photos of buildings, street scenes, two full-page aerial views, etc. Other articles include Brittany by Esther Brann and Sailing Labrador Seas by Bonnycastle Dale. Of interest are many full-page ads including the V-12 Cadillac with color painting, General Electric, Old Faithful Geyser, Jasper National Park, cigarette ads, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref. ) Dark blue cloth boards with yellow titles. Slight wear to head and heel and rubbing around edges with a few small light scratches to boards. Some tanning to endpapers. Short tear through page edges pp.17-22 otherwise good contents and generally unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 24mo. viii 104 pp. Attached card jacket featuring paste-down reproduction of a watercolour by Walter Tyndale. Prose and poetry by Joseph Howe, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, William Henry Drummond, Mrs. Everard Cotes, James McCarroll, George Thomas Lanigan, and James Demille. Jacket shows light wear. Scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Photographs & Illustrations (illustrator). Six volumes published in 1932. April Vol. IV No.4 - May Vol. IV No.5 - June Vol. IV No.6 - July Vol. V No. 1 - September Vol. V No. 3 - December Vol. V Nos. 4-6. Blue stapled wraps (softcover) are all lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities with light/moderate soiling to show. Interiors are quite clean and unmarked for the most part. Sold as a set. Remarkable photography of events all over the world. The advertising is very interesting !

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt to spine, dust wrapper not called for in this edition, a reprint of the Champlain Society publication of 1927. A very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, seven folding maps, xxiii + 548pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Photographs & Illustrations (illustrator). Eleven volumes published in 1933, complete run except for January. Blue stapled wraps (softcover) are all lightly bumped and rubbed to extremities with light/moderate soiling to show. December has a small chip near the spine, dog eared corner and short tear to the foot of the spine. Interiors are quite clean and unmarked for the most part. Sold as a set. Remarkable coverage and photography of events all over the world. The advertising is very interesting ! May require additional postage to your address.

24mo. pp. viii, 111, [1]. original cloth-backed bds. First Canadian Edition. Watters p. 29.

Soft cover. First edition. "Canadian Treasury Series." 12mo., orig. pictorial paper wrappers, (92)pp. Foot of spine chipped o/w a nice copy. Watters p.305.

1968 facsimile reprint of the 1927 Champlain Society edition. 548 pages, with 7 fold out maps. Condition of the book is Very Good Plus. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. All maps are present and in excellent condition.

Paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Orig. wraps, 82 pp. Sme wear to wraps, with some tape repairs, and small losses at corners of wraps, but quite sound overall with well preserved internals. An accompanying map is mentioned on p. 7, but all sources indicate that this map was never published (cf. Graff, Streeter catalog, etc.). Howes L-107. Graff #2403.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1907. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 64, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 64 64.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1910. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 83, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 83 83.