Richards Capt G H (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First publication of the journal of Captain G.H. Richards from his 1860-1862 survey mission to Vancouver Island. Extensively annotated and supplemented with excerpts from the journals of Second Master J.T.E. Gowlland. Copy is in very good condition. Absolutely minimal wear to the pictorial card wraps save for slight bump and crease to top front outside corner. Interior is clean and unmarked with a solid, tight binding. A handsome copy of a very scarce text.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey through the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Prater, E.; Holloway, C.; Oakdale, E.G.; Hodgson; E.S.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Whitaker, W.G.; Coller, H.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).…

Nautical chart of British Columbia, first published in 1863 by The Admiralty in London, GB.It includes a view of Georgina Pt. Lighthouse., Size : 516x664 (mm), 20.31x26.14 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation.

Tide Tables for British Columbia.Lasqueti Island & Tucker Bay is situated in the Strait of Georgia east of Vancouver Island.Captain George Henry Richards surveyed and mapped the British Columbia coast between 1858 and 1864, naming landmarks like Lasqueti Island and Tucker Bay during his monumental Vancouver Island surveys., Size : 497x664 (mm), 19.57x26.14 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation.…

An early printing of this sea chart that accompanied the Agreement between Her Majesty's government and the United States of America, defining the Boundary. It is the end result of the infamous "Pig War" of 1859., Size : 736x1138 (mm), 28.98x44.80 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation.…