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LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Written by George Catlin; Michael Macdonald Mooney.
Stock no. 1826992
Published by Gramercy Books. Circa 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in 1841 in two volumes entitled 'Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians'. This edition edited and with an introduction by Michael MacDonald Mooney in one volume. Black cloth spine with gilt title, orange paper sides. B/w illustrations and 4 colour plates. ISBN: 0517147440. Reprint. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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WORLD TIMBERS VOLUME TWO: NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA (INCLUDING CENTRAL AMERICA & THE WEST INDIES)
Written by B.J. Rendle.
Stock no. 1826758
Published by Ernest Benn Limited. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive work containing some of the better known world timbers illustrated in colour and concisely described with the minimum of technical terms. The information is presented in a form designed to appeal to those who are interested in timber but are not specialists in wood technology. Intended primarily for use by architects and their clients, the timber trade, and timber-using industries. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0802016677. A few minor marks to boards, lower corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's library label to front and rear pastedown. Light browning to page edges and text block. Black dustwrapper with yellow spine is lightly rubbed and scuffed.

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MEXICO CITY (WORLD CITIES)
Written by Peter M. Ward.
Stock no. 1826397
Published by John Wiley & Sons. 2nd 1998. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Revised Second Edition. Mexico City is one of the largest and most dynamic 'megacities' of the world. The last four decades of dramatic growth have seen great economic, demographic, political and social change. Does such profound change threaten the fabric of urban life in Mexio? Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 047197529X. Inscription in ink to half-title page, minor foxing to top edge of text block else contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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PROFESSOR POTTS MEETS THE ANIMALS IN NORTH AMERICA
Written by Peter Spence. Illustrated by Gillian Chapman.
Stock no. 1325051
Published by Franklin Watts Ltd.. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout accompany the rhyming verse. ISBN: 0851668968. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some pale page edge browning to contents.

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A NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN TREES
Written by Donald Culross Peattie. Illustrated by Paul Landacre.
Stock no. 1825287
Published by Trinity University Press. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

A fascinating look at the history of trees in North America, including how species were discovered and the roles each played in America's history. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781595341662. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN DIVING BIRDS
Written by Arthur Cleveland Bent.
Stock no. 2139121
Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1963. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Auk, Grebe, Auklet, Guillemot, Loon, Puffin, Dovekie, Murre, Murrelet. Republication of the original 1919 edition. ISBN: 048621091X. Some light wear to edges and corners.

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ROCKWELL THE HERITAGE OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Bill Yenne.
Stock no. 2138459
Published by Bison Books. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. With over 250 photographs, diagrams and cutaway drawings. ISBN: 086124544X. Some brown offsetting to endpapers. Wrapper has a little edge-creasing.

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THE WEST INDIES
Written by John Henderson. Illustrated by A.S. Forrest.
Stock no. 2137139
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1908. Almost very good condition.

A & C Black Colour Book 20 Shilling Series. Cerulean blue cloth with attractive sailing ship, crab and sun vignettes. Gilt titles to spine and front cover. 74 tissue-guarded colour plates. Top edge gilt. Index and booklist to rear that lists books later than 1905. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine and edges are browned; a few nicks to cloth to top and tail of spine. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Joints are a bit cracked. Frontis is MISSING! Tape marks to tissue-guard of plate opposite page 104. Some light foxing and browning. Assumed reprint from books listed in booklist to rear.

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MONTCALM AND WOLFE
Written by Francis Parkman.
Stock no. 2134947
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A continent at war - the Seven Years' War in America. First published in two volumes in 1884. This edition has an Historical Foreword by Esmond Wright, Professor fo Modern History in the University of Glasgow. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. B/w frontis. Top edge blue. xx and 719 pages including index. Spotting to covers. Browning and a few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine, with tears and chips, but minimal loss; some browning.

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THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Jacob H. Studer. Illustrated by Theodore Jasper.
Stock no. 2131003
Published by Harrison House. 1st thus 1977. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue leather-look covers with gilt titles and decorations. Studer's Popular Ornithology Series. With 119 full-colour plates. For the first time in almost 100 years this celebrated American classic is made available. ISBN: 0517229153. Page edge browning. Wrapper is faded to spine with some closed tears and chips; edge-creasing.

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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA: A NATURAL HISTORY AND FIELD GUIDE
Written by James A. Scott.
Stock no. 1816664
Published by Stanford University Press. 1997. Very good condition.

A complete natural history, fully describing the biological and ecological world of butterflies in general. All North American butterfly species. Black pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations & distribution maps, colour photos. xii and 583 pages including index. ISBN: 0804720134. Reprint. Laminate covering cardwraps is heavily creased horizontally. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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THE ATLANTIC REGION TO CONFEDERATION: A HISTORY
Written by Phillip A. Buckner; John G. Reid.
Stock no. 1815696
Published by University Of Toronto Press. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

An overview of emerging regional themes and issues, beginning with the evolution of Native cultures and the impact of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xviii and 491 pages including index. ISBN: 0802069770.

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