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THE NATURE CALENDAR - WILD FLOWERS. 1913.

By: N/A

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1913

Seller ID: 30371

Binding: Leather & Card

Condition: Good

Unpaginated (approx. 50 pp, printed on one side only with versos blank), 11" H x 7 1/8" W. "Velvet Calf" (soft leather) front cover with letter/decoration in gilt, card rear cover, stud fasteners. 12 tipped in colour plates of North American wild flowers. All pages have gold decorative borders. Each month is preceded by an illustration, describing the flower's preferred habitat, flowering season and distribution throughout the United States and Canada, and a poetic quotation, except for January where the illustration is on the title page. Then, depending on the amount of f...
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THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF CANADA.

By: Associated Screen News.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Associated Screen News, Montreal, n.d. (c1950).:

Seller ID: 6934

18 full page colour photogravures of the stunning scenery - glaciers, lakes, falls, tunnels, mountains and hotels - in the wonderful nostalgic style of the time. Oblong large 8vo card covers, spiral binding. Interior - faint foxing to inside of covers and facing pages, otherwise tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear. VG
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OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.

By: Buckler, Ernest.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968

Seller ID: 17212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

302 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "Oxen were still yoked to sledges and the scythe and the ax and the crosscut saw were common everyday tools when Ernest Buckler grew up on a Nova Scotia farm at the edge of the wilderness. (This book) recalls those days. With sudden stabbing immediacy it brings the reader a bird sound, an odor, acrid or delicious, a remembered vagary of wind or sun, the timbre of a voice, or the true look of the men and women who peopled the Nova Scotia of Mr. Buckler's boyhood. It brings back as well the whole texture of a life that now exists only in ou...
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OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.

By: Buckler, Ernest.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968

Seller ID: 28295

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF LANDS AND FORESTS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1936. SESSIONAL PAPER NO. 3, 1937.

By: Cain, W.C.; Fullerton, C.H.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas E. Bowman: 1936

Seller ID: 28749

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

114 pp, 9 3/4" H. Medium blue covers with gilt lettering on spine/front board, gilt Ontario crest on front board. Minister's Annual Report; Department Inside Officers and Clerks; Department Outside Agents and Inspectors; Statement of Lands Sold and Leased, with Collections; Gross Revenue; Revenue Refunds; Receipts (Special Funds); Disbursements; Timber Cut and Amounts Accruing re Dues, etc.; Revenue from Woods and Forests; Acreage under License; Timber Areas disposed of; Locations, etc., under Free Grant Section, Public Lands Act; Lands Sold and Patented; Instruments Issued; Report of Re...
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REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF LANDS AND FORESTS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st OCTOBER 1933. SESSIONAL PAPER NO. 3, 1934.

By: Cain, W.C.; Zavitz, E.J.; Rorke, L.V.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Herbert H. Ball: 1934

Seller ID: 28747

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

140 pp, 9 3/4" H. Medium blue covers with gilt lettering on spine/front board, gilt Ontario crest on front board. Minister's Annual Report; Department Inside Officers and Clerks; Department Outside Agents and Inspectors; Statement of Lands Sold and Leased, with Collections; Gross Revenue; Revenue Refunds; Receipts (Special Funds); Disbursements; Timber Cut and Amounts Accruing re Dues, etc.; Revenue from Woods and Forests; Acreage under License; Timber Areas disposed of; Locations, etc., under Free Grant Section, Public Lands Act; Lands Sold and Patented; Instruments Issued; Report of Re...
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REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF LANDS AND FORESTS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st OCTOBER 1934. SESSIONAL PAPER NO. 3, 1935.

By: Cain, W.C.; Zavitz, E.J.; Rorke, L.V.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Thomas E. Bowman: 1935

Seller ID: 28748

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

117 pp, 9 3/4" H. Medium blue covers with gilt lettering on spine/front board, gilt Ontario crest on front board. Minister's Annual Report; Department Inside Officers and Clerks; Department Outside Agents and Inspectors; Statement of Lands Sold and Leased, with Collections; Gross Revenue; Revenue Refunds; Receipts (Special Funds); Disbursements; Timber Cut and Amounts Accruing re Dues, etc.; Revenue from Woods and Forests; Acreage under License; Timber Areas disposed of; Locations, etc., under Free Grant Section, Public Lands Act; Lands Sold and Patented; Instruments Issued; Report of Re...
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CARIBOU AND THE BARREN-LANDS.

By: Calef, George. Foreword by David Brower.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee: 1981

Seller ID: 28222

ISBN: 0919996205

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

176 pp, 11 1/4" H. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs showing the caribou and their environment through the seasons, colour maps. "(T)o most people's view, the country of the caribou is all barren land: harsh, unproductive, devoid of beauty. One of the purposes of these pages is to show that nothing could be further from the truth. The northern wilderness is barren only to those lacking in perception and imagination. But if we should let the great herds vanish from the barren-lands, they will indeed become what the name implies, and we will have lost a part of the maj...
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FERNS OF THE OTTAWA DISTRICT.

By: Cody, W.J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada Department of Agriculture: 1956

Seller ID: 15343

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

94 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H) - dark green cloth with gold lettering on front board. B&w photographs, maps, diagram. "The ferns of the Ottawa District have been under study for over 75 years. Several lists of species found in the District have been prepared but no flora with keys and descriptions has ever been published. An attempt is made here to bring together the known information on the ferns of this region and to provide a means by which interested persons maybe come familiar with them. For the purposes of this manual the Ottawa District is defined as the circular area surrounding the Cit...
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THREATENED SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES OF THE WORLD. THE IUCN RED DATA BOOK.

By: Collins, N. Mark and Morris, Michael G.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Gland, Switzerland, IUCN: 1985

Seller ID: 24887

ISBN: 2880326036

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

401 pp + 8 colour plates depicting 40 threatened species, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). Contents: How to use this book; The swallowtail butterflies: an introduction to the family and its conservation; Swallowtails of the world: their nomenclature, distribution and conservation status; Analysis of critical faunas; Trade in swallowtail butterflies; Reviews of threatened species; Appendices (List of Papilionidae in threatened categories / Papilionidae that require further monitoring and research); Index; Plates. Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown, one tiny corner bump, light wrinkling at ...
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MONO CLIFFS PROVINCIAL PARK MASTER PLAN.

By: Dodds, Brian and Tomlinson, David.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Aurora, Ontario, Brian Dodds / David Tomlinson Landscape Architects for Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario: 1974

Seller ID: 28598

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

46 pp, 10 3/4" H. 7 monotone drawings by Dorothy Clark McClure, 8 maps (6 fold-out). Letter approving the Master Plan from Leo Bernier, Minister of Natural Resources, attached to rear of title page. Name of Deputy Minister on title page blacked out and replaced with stamped name. Contents: Letter to Minister; Introduction; Regional Context; Local Context; Park Site; Cultural History; Development Potential; Development Plan; Activities; Maintenance; Services; Development Costs; Operational Expenditure and Revenue; Acknowledgements; Public Meetings; Reference. Interior - clean and tight...
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'AND SOME BROUGHT FLOWERS': PLANTS IN A NEW WORLD.

By: Downie, Mary Allice, Hamilton, Mary, selected and introduced by.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1980

Seller ID: 17274

ISBN: 0802023630

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

164 pp, large 8vo (10 1/4"). 70 watercolors by E.J. Revell. "In seventy exquisite watercolours E.J. Revell has captured the beauty of plants found by early travellers in North America - from Ash to Wintergreen, Bittersweet to Wappatoo, the common Bedstraw and the uncommon Camass, the edible Fiddlehead and the ubiquitous Dandelion. Accompanying each painting are quotations from a variety of explorers and settlers, describing the plants and reflecting the practical, aesthetic, and botanic interests of newcomers in different parts of the country. The result is an intriguing mixture of na...
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THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT FROM TOBERMORY TO NIAGARA FALLS.

By: Gillard, William and Tooke, Thomas.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1975.:

Seller ID: 22376

137 pp, small 4to (10" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, maps. "This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's natural wonders. Stretching from Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula to Niagara Falls, the escarpment exhibits a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the present and in the past....Over 80 photographs....capture the various facets of the region. The rugged cliffs o f t h e B ruce Peninsula contrast with the pastoral lands beneath Mount Nemo; the neatly trimmed h...
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SEA OTTER INLET.

By: Godkin, Celia.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Markham, Ontario, Fitzhenry & Whiteside: 1997

Seller ID: 22187

ISBN: 1550410806

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Unpaginated, 11 3/16" H. Profusely illustrated in vivid colour. "Award-winning author-illustrator Celia Godkin explores the world of the sea otter and its relationship with the inhabitants of the kelp forest in her newest creation. Bold paintings depict the mysteries of sea otter territory, the intervention of human predators, and the consequences of an ecosystem out of balance. Ms. Godkin's illustrations combine precise scientific detail with lush full colour representation in an irresistible picture book for readers of all ages." Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of...
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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF LOWER CANADA.

By: Gosse, P.H.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coles: 1971

Seller ID: 13743

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

372 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H). B&w drawings. One of the Coles Canadiana Collection - a facsimile of the John Van Voorst, London, 1840 edition. A series of observations on the natural history of the area surrounding the village of Compton in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada (Quebec), arranged month by month. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, minor soiling to edges of textblock, spine flat and uncreased. VG
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HALTON: RISING, WILD, AND BECKONING. WITH 'YOUR GUIDE TO HALTON' FOLDING MAP.

By: Guthrie, Ann, text. Foreword by Robert Bateman. Conclusion by Pat and Rosemarie Keough.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Milton, Ontario, Conservation Halton Foundation / Boston Mills Press: 1998

Seller ID: 22372

ISBN: 1550462863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

144 pp, oblong 9 3/8" H x 11 3/4" D. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs and maps. Folding guide map laid-in. "(A) guide to one of the most beautiful and diverse places in Ontario, the Halton watershed , which includes the world-renowned Niagara Escarpment, Carolinian forests, Lake Ontario shoreline, creeks, valleys and rich wetlands. The book features 160 spectacular photographs that show how these vital natural landscapes coexist with Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Halton Hills and other communities in the watershed. More than 5,500 hectares of conservation lands pr...
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HALTON: RISING, WILD, AND BECKONING. WITH 'YOUR GUIDE TO HALTON' FOLDING MAP.

By: Guthrie, Ann, text. Foreword by Robert Bateman. Conclusion by Pat and Rosemarie Keough.

Price: $24.00 USD

Publisher: Milton, Ontario, Conservation Halton Foundation / Boston Mills Press: 1998

Seller ID: 29740

ISBN: 1550462863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

THE DRAMA OF THE FORESTS: ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE.

By: Heming, Arthur.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, S.B. Gundy: 1924

Seller ID: 29495

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

324 pp, 7 3/4" H. 14 colour plates, including frontispiece (collated). "(I) travelled twenty-three times through various parts of the vast northern woods, between Maine and Alaska, and covered thousands upon thousands of miles by canoe, pack-train, snowshoes, bateau, dog-train, buck-board, timber-raft, prairie-schooner, lumber-wagon, and 'alligator'. (B)ack again I went at all seasons of the year to encamp in that great timber-land that sweeps from the Atlantic to the Pacific. thus it has taken me thirty-three years to gather the information this volume contains - (but) I wish to e...
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WILD FLOWERS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MOUNTAINS.

By: Henshaw, Julia W.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride: 1915

Seller ID: 30411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

383 pp, 8 3/8" H. Reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering & black/red/gold illustration on front board. 16 colour plates (including frontispiece and one plate with two examples), 64 b&w plates - all present. Contents: General Key to the Families; Ferns and Fern Allies; Trees; Reeds, Grasses, Sedges and Rushes; White to Green and Brown Flowers; Pink to Red Flowers; Blue to Purple Flowers; Yellow to Orange Flowers; Glossary; Index to Scientific Names; Index to English Names. In spring, "the snow-crowned mountains rule over an enchanting land of foliage, ferns...
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PEREGRINE FALCON POPULATIONS: THEIR BIOLOGY AND DECLINE.

By: Hickey, Joseph J., ed. (Daniel Anderson, Clayton White, Frank Beebe, Morlan Nelson, James Enderson, Richard Banks, Richard Fyfe, Joseph Hagar, James Rice, Horst Schroder, Jean-Francois Terrasse, Hans Herren, Ian Prestt, Tom Cade, Walter Spofford, e

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Madison, University of Wisconsin Press: 1969

Seller ID: 24888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

596 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w tables, graphs, maps, photographs. "(D)escribes a contemporary ecological disaster and the search to explain it. Its extensive analysis offers, on the one hand, an unusual landmark in population biology and, on the other, perhaps the requiem of a species. Once the prized favorite of medieval falconers, the cosmopolitan peregrine falcon was, until quite recently, a remarkably successful example of avian evolution. By the early 1960's, however, peregrine populations were catastrophically declining on two continents. Other raptors were mysteriously and r...
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Category: Canada - Natural History