Morritt W B (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. B/W Photo Illustraions (illustrator). Signed by Pauline McGibbon on front fyl leaf. Plain gray cloth binding with gilt authors, title and publisher on spine. Top and bottom of spine and corners of binding lightly rubbed. 127pp. Content clean, bright and sound.This boo may require additional postage. Photos available on request. Signed by the Subject.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). SUBTITLED : ` The Founding of North America;'s Petroleum Industry '. Canada's oil industry is thought to have originated in 1852 in Oil Springs, Ontario. These 195 pages will lead you through the infancy of that industry. LEARN more about : Victor Oil Works, John R. Minhinnick, London Steam Supply, Woodstock, well-shooters, Krosno, Maryampole, Equitable Fire and International Life Assurance Cpmpany, Hugh Nixon Shaw, and John Henry Fairbank. B/W photos plus 2 b/w maps (page 10) accompany text. Cond : paper wrapper is dark green with copper coloured lettering. Front cover photo shows two horse-drawn oil tankers in the Petrolia field - circa 1868. Clean and bright with v. minor edge wear. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Excellent oil patch reference . Quote (p. 87) : " Edna Fairbank realized that her husband had found security and a life-long interest in the oil industry, Although she no doubt complained about leaving her Loyalist family ties and land in Niagara, she moved in 1866, to the pioneer ._._._. Size: 8vo.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Peddie, T.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Goss, G.W.; Prater, Ernest; Williams, Fleming; Bendall, C.; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9"). [2], xxviii, xxiii, [1], 812pp; xix, [13], 715pp, [1]pp (Errata), [2]pp (Publisher's advertisement); [2], xv, [12], 20, 822pp; [2], xx, [14], 735pp, [1]pp (Errata); xii, [14], 763pp, [1]pp (Errata); [2], iv, [14], 555, [1]pp. Modern half black morocco over dark grey cloth, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Raised bands. First volume with a striking tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Richard Golding, after a painting by John Opie. Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece in each volume. First edition of Edward Daniel Clarke's magnum opus "Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa" the author's personal account of a fascinating journey throughout three continents. Following a tour of Scandinavia in 1799, Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) travelled through Russia and the Crimea before proceeding to Constantinople, Rhodes, and afterwards Egypt and Palestine. Greece was the country next visited. While touring this country, Clarke, as a mineralogist and antiquary, collected marbles, coins and vases and purchased a large ancient statue at Eleusis. From Athens he proceeded by land to Constantinople, and after a short stay in that city directed his course homewards through Rumelia, Austria, Germany and France. Each of the six volumes is lavishly illustrated throughout with numerous in-text vignettes and woodcuts, as well as full-page copper plates (many folded), depicting views, monuments, natives in traditional costume, ceremonies and processions, antiquities, etc. Includes several folded maps and charts. All the 185 copper plates and 157 vignettes and cuts are accounted for. Plates engraved by Joseph Skelton, R. Pollard, Laetitia and Elizabeth Byrne, F. R. Hay, J. Fittler, and R. Cooper after illustrations by E. D. Clarke, Angelica Clarke, Guarenghi, Martin, Dreier, W. Havell, Camporesi, J. B. Lusieri, Morritt, W. Harraden, Grelot, Fauvel, G. Wilkins, Henry Wrighte, and Preaux. Most of the delightful vignettes were engraved by Elizabeth and Laetitia Byrne. The maps and plans were engraved by S. I. Neele, and H. Mutlow. Some offsetting to text pages facing plates. Moderate to heavy foxing to plates throughout. Minor foxing to text pages. Sporadic clear water-staining along edges of plates in second volume (Part 2, section 1). Ex-library copy with perforating library stamp to each title page, and small reference stamp at inner gutter of the first text leaf of each volume (not affecting lettering). Bindings in overall very good, interior in good to very good condition.