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Across Three Oceans. pb repr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Granada, 1984, ISBN:0246123095

Seller ID: 42648

O'BRIEN, Conor. Across Three Oceans. L: Granada, (1984). Pp 272. 8vo, ill. card covers. Later printing of Toy 453. Originally published in 1927. "On 20 June 1923, [O'Brien] left Dublin in the 20-ton Saoirse with a crew of twoand crossed the Atlantic to Pernambuco in Brazil, then on to Durban and ac ross the Indian Ocean to Melbourne. On the homeward passage he steered fromAuckland to Cape Horn and spent Christmas 1924 in the Falklands, which he describes in lively detail." -from the cover. Name, else vg. 10.00
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Agriculture, Trade and Food Security : Issues and Options in the WTO Negotiations from the Perspective of Developing Countries. Report and papers of an FAO Symposium held at Geneva on 23-24 September 1999. Vol. I [and] Vol. II : Country case studies

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Commodities and Trade Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2000,

Seller ID: 111224

(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Agriculture, Trade and Food Security : Issues and Options in the WTO Negotiations from the Perspective of Developing Countries. Report and papers of an FAO Symposium held at Geneva on 23-24 September 1999. Vol. I [and] Vol. II : Country casestudies. Rome : Commodities and Trade Division, Food and Agriculture Organ ization of the United Nations, 2000. Pp (2),iii-x,(2),1-174; (2),iii-viii,(2),3-350,(2). 8vo, green card covers, lettered in black. Contents : Vol. I.Part One - Report of the Symposium. 1. Introduction. 2. Agriculture, Trade ...
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Amazon Extreme : Three Men, a Raft, and the World's Most Dangerous River. in dj.

By: ANGUS, Colin MULGREW, Ian.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Stoddart, Toronto, 2001,

Seller ID: 42064

ANGUS, Colin. Amazon Extreme : Three Men, a Raft, and the World's Most Dangerous River. With Ian Mulgrew. (Toronto): Stoddart, (2001). Pp 208, [16] plates. 8vo, blue cloth.

An account of three men's attempt to navigate the Amazon, from its headwaters to the sea, in a rubber raft.

Very good in dustjacket. 20.00
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Amazon: The Story of a Giant River. in dj.

By: FURNEAUX, Robin FLEMING, Peter (foreword)

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Readers Union/Hamish Hamilton, London, 1971,

Seller ID: 56592

FURNEAUX, Robin. The Amazon : The Story of a Giant River. Foreword by PeterFleming. L.: Readers' Union / Hamish Hamilton, 1971. Pp. 258, frontis., + 16 p. of plates. 8vo, yellow cloth with cream spine. Vg in rubbed, edgeworndj. 18.50
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Army Quarterly and Defence Journal. Vol. 120, No. 2, April 1990.

By: BRIDGE, T.D. (ed.). McGEOCH, Ian REYNOLDS, Oliver THORNE, I.D.P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: West of England Press, Publishers, Tavistock, Devon, 1990,

Seller ID: 90201

BRIDGE, T.D. (ed.). The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal. Vol. 120, No. 2, April 1990. (Tavistock, Devon : Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, 1990). Pp (4),129-256,(4),+ 8 pp plates. 8vo, red printed card covers. Nautical content: Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch's “NIMS' the word” [“How do Captains view the new prospect of seagoing WRNS?”] (pp 170-173). Contents : T.D. Bridge's “Brazil's army: green to cut costs”; Maj. Oliver Reynolds's "A Captain at large in the province: impressions of Northern Ireland 1968-9”; I.D.P.Thorne's “Jerusalem: a myth of 1917”; and much more. Library stamp, cor...
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Atlantic Islands : Madeira, the Azores and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation. First Edition in dustjacket

By: DUNCAN, T. Bentley

Price: $70.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972, : 1972

Seller ID: 32445

ISBN-13: 9780226170015

DUNCAN, T. Bentley. Atlantic Islands : Madeira, the Azores and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press, (1972). First Edition. Pp (6),vii-xv,(1),1-291,(5). With some maps & tables in the text. 8vo (160 x 236 mm), maroon cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. With map end-papers. In the Studies in the History of Discoveries series. Thomas Bentley Duncan (b. Aug. 9, 1929, Brazil - d. February 24, 2015, Indiana) was teaching history at the University of Chicago at the time of publication. "In the seventeenth cen...
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Bamboo Church. signed.

By: STERNBERG, Ricardo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2003, ISBN:0773525661

Seller ID: 62250

STERNBERG, Ricardo. Bamboo Church . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, (2003). Pp. 65. 8vo, printed white card covers with frenchflaps and "cage" porthole to front cover. A collection of poems by the Bra zilian-born University of Toronto professor. Vg. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. 20.00
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Baptist Family In Global Village

By: LANGLEY, Thelma, (ed.) McDORMAND, Thomas B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board, Toronto, 1972,

Seller ID: 100723

LANGLEY, Thelma, (ed.). Baptist Family In Global Village. [Toronto] : "Published by the Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board for the Committee on Missionary Education, the Baptist Federation of Canada", 1972. First Edition. Pp (4),5-173, (1). Illustrated. 8vo, red, black, yellow & white cardcovers, white lettering to spine. Thelma Langley was in Wolfville, N.S. at the time. Foreword by Thomas B. McDormand. Chapters : 1. Australia - What's Up Down Under; 2. Brazil - "Ola Brasil!"; 3. Czechoslovakia - Ecstasy and Agony; 4. England - Meet the British Baptist Family; 5. French C...
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Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Battleships of all Nations 1914-1918. 1st in dj.

By: PRESTON, Antony

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972,

Seller ID: 76734

PRESTON, Antony. Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated Encyclopedia ofthe Battleships of all Nations 1914-1918. (Harrisburg, Pa.): Stackpole Boo ks, (1972). First American Printing. Pp. [1]-260. Illustrated with drawingsand black and white photos, double column. 4to, black cloth covers with go ld lettering to spine. "Battleships of World War I presents data, illustrations, and career notes for each and every battleship, documenting not only the roles of the bigger dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, but also the workof the older, more obscure predreadnoughts - which often saw a larger s...
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Beautiful Empire. First Edition in dustjacket

By: GHOSE, Zulfikar

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Macmillan, London, 1975,

Seller ID: 40102

GHOSE, Zulfikar. The Beautiful Empire. (London) : Macmillan, (1975). Pp 383. 8vo, orange cloth. Faint rubbing to bottom edge, paper yellowing (as usual), else very good in rubbed, nicked dustjacket. 40.00
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Best of Beutel : Editorial Cartoons

By: BEUTEL, Josh CAMP, Dalton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lanceman Graphics Ltd., Rothesay, New Brunswick, 1983, ISBN:096915920x

Seller ID: 113243

BEUTEL, Josh. Best of Beutel : Editorial cartoons. Rothesay, New Brunswick : Lanceman Graphics Ltd., 1983. Pp (3),4-174. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo, illustrated red card covers, lettered in black. Foreword by Dalton Camp. "Josh Beutel has been the editorial cartoonist for the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe since the Fall of 1978. He has participated in avariety of international cartoon exhibits in Brazil, Poland, the United St ates ana Canada. Originals of his cartoons are in several public collections including the National Archives, the New Brunswick Department of Cult...
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Bound for Brazil

By: PEARCE, James E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Booth Steamship Co., 1948,

Seller ID: 20077

PEARCE, James E. "Bound for Brazil". (L.: Printed for Booth Steamship Co. Ltd. by Charles Birchall & Sons, 1948). Pp 15. Illustrated. Sm 8vo, wrappers. Reprinted from "Sea Breezes" June issue 1948. Vg. 25.00
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Brazil and the Struggle for Subber : A Study in Environmental History. First Printing in dustjacket

By: DEAN, Warren Studies in Environment and History series

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press /, Cambruidge [et al], 1987, ISBN:0521334772

Seller ID: 112118

DEAN, Warren. Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber : A Study in EnvironmentalHistory. Cambridge [et al] : Cambridge University Press, (1987). First Pri nting. Pp (8),vii-xv,(1),1-234,(4). Illustrated. Map. Index. 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubberwhen that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the m arket. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to once ag...
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Canada and the United Nations. A Tribute to the United Nations by Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited

By: Allied Countries - WW2).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited, 1943,

Seller ID: 80276

(Allied Countries - WW2). Canada and the United Nations. A Tribute to the United Nations by Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited. N.pl.: (Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited , 1943). Pp 1-20. Illustrated. 8vo, blue stapled card covers. “Guita Percha & Rubber, Limited, an all-Canadian Company, is happy to pres ent this booklet to our customers and friends as a tribute to the United Nations.” - from page one. This booklet has information on the allied countries participating in World War Two, including a brief summary of each country along with a picture of its flag and leader(s). The countries covered ar...
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Canadian Theatre Review Number 29, Winter 1981

By: RUBIN, Don, ed. Canadian Theatre Review 29 POLLOCK, Sharon. IONESCO, Eugene).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: CTR Publications, York University, Downsview, ON, 1981,

Seller ID: 111368

RUBIN, Don, ed. Canadian Theatre Review Number 29, Winter 1981. (Downsview, ON): CTR Publications, York University, 1981. Pp. (3),4-135,(9). 8vo, photo-illustrated card covers with white spine, white lettering to front, red lettering to spine. With the complete playscript "Blood Relations" (by Sharon Pollock); the following "Indigenous Culture" pieces: "Finding the Roots" (by Victoria Santa Cruz), "Brazil: Linking to a Deeper Culture" (by William Weiss), "Indigenous Peoples: Speaking with Pride" (by Therese Beaupre); and the following other pieces: "Blyth's New View" by Trish Wilson), "Lennoxv...
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Catalogue of World Ferry, Ship, and Canal Transportation Tokens and Passes. First Edition

By: SMITH, Kenneth E SMITH, Kirk S., comp. & ed.

Price: $140.00

Publisher: 1981, : 1981

Seller ID: 33941

SMITH, Kenneth E. and Kirk S. SMITH, (comps. & eds.). Catalogue of World Ferry, Ship, and Canal Transportation Tokens and Passes. Compiled and Edited by Kenneth E. Smith and Kirk S. Smith. Redondo Beach, California, United States of America : "Distributed through Kenneth E. Smith", 1981. First Edition. Pp (2),3-202,(6). Illustrated throughout with b&w photos. 8vo (155 x 234 mm), black cloth, with gilt lettering to front & spine. Surely a landmark in the field of nautical numismatics: an exhaustive, detailed, descriptive account of the world's ferry and canal tokens. Included among the exoti...
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Chambers's Geographical Readers of the Continents : America

By: Chambers's Readers)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W.& R. Chambers Limited, London & Edinburgh, 1902,

Seller ID: 100259

(Chambers's Readers). Chambers's Geographical Readers of the Continents : America. London & Edinburgh : W.& R. Chambers Limited, 1902. Pp (4),5-216, col.frontispiece + 7 coloured plates + 2 coloured maps. Small 8vo, decoratedbrown cloth. Contents : 1. A New World. 2. North America. 3. Partition of North America. 4. The Great Dominion - General View I. 5. General View II. 6. The Waterways of the Dominion (pp 21-25). 7. The Great Lakes (pp 25-28).8. The Maritime Provinces (pp 29-31). 9. The Maritime Provinces (continued ) (pp 31-35). 10. Quebec and Ontario. 11. Quebec and Ontario (continued). 12...
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Changing Law of the Sea : Western Hemisphere Perspectives. First Edition in dustjacket

By: ZACKLIN, Ralph, (ed.) MORIN, Jacques-Yvan FARER, Tom J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sijthoff, Leiden, 1974, ISBN:9028600841

Seller ID: 24381

ZACKLIN, Ralph, (ed.). The Changing Law of the Sea : Western Hemisphere Perspectives. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Inter-American StudyGroup of International Law. Leiden : Sijthoff, 1974. Pp (4),iii-iv,1-272,( 2). 8vo, navy cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Papadakis, International Law of the Sea: A Bibliography 4344. Chapters : 1. "The Quiet Revolution: Canadian Approaches to the Law of the Sea" by Jacques-Yvan Morin; 2. "Towards a New Law for the Seas: The Evolution of United States Policy" by Tom J. Farer and Paulann Caplovitz; 3. "Latin America and the Deve...
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Civilizing Mission : Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940. no dj.

By: PYENSON, Lewis

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1993, ISBN:0801844215

Seller ID: 78040

PYENSON, Lewis. Civilizing Mission : Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940 . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1993). Pp. (8),ix-xxi,(1),1-377,(1). Endpapers illustrated in colour. 8vo, green cloth spine with black cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine. Contents: 1. Mafia, Crucifix, and Epee; 2. Geophysics, the Military Establishment, and Overseas Expansion; 3. The Indochinese Gesture; 4. Algeria: The Overseas Projection of Metropolitan Terrain; 5. Tunisia and Morocco: The Antebellum Satrapies; 6. China: Missionaries to the Middle Kingdom; 7. Lebanon a...
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Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. in dj

By: RUSSELL, H. Diane LORRAIN, Claude LORRAIN, Claude

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Braziller, 1982,

Seller ID: 30550

RUSSELL, H. Diane. Claude Lorrain 1600-1682. N.Y.: George Braziller / Washington : National Gallery of Art, (1982). Pp 480. Illustrated. 4to, brown cloth. Vg-fine in dj. 100.00
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