|
|
Click on Title to view full description |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
902 |
Needham, Joseph; Ling, Wang Science and Civilisation in China : Volume IV (4) - Physics and Physical Technology Part II - Mechanical Engineering
Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 1974 0521058031 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Dr. Needham's fourth volume traces the development of physics and physical technology in ancient and medieval China. It is conveniently divided into three parts - this volume (Part 2) deals with mechanical engineering. With this part of Volume 4, then, we come to the application by the Chinese of physical principles in the control of forces and in the use of power; we cross the frontier separating tools from the machine. We have already noticed that the ancient Chinese concept of chi (somewhat similar to the pneuma of the Greeks) asserted itself prominently in acoustics; but we discover here that the Chinese tendency to think pneumatically was also responsible for a whole range of brilliant technological achievements, for example, the double-acting piston-bellows, the rotary winnowing-fan, and the water-powered metallurgical blowing-machine (ancestor of the steam-engine); as well as for some extraordinary insights and predictions in aeronautics. Previous owner's name and date on front end page. Dustjacket in protective mylar cover.
Price:
165.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
903 |
Needham, Joseph; Ling, Wang Science and Civilisation in China : Volume III (3) - Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth
Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 1975 0521058015 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr. Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally - and here Dr. Needham's work has no Western predecessors - there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy. Previous owner's name and date on front end page. Dustjacket in protective mylar cover.
Price:
175.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
906 |
Nelson, J. G. Canadian Parks in Perspective
Montreal, PQ, Canada Harvest House 1970 0887721079 First Edition Hard Cover Good Good
Some highlighting in text. Dustjacket has wear on edges, rubbing. Based on the conference "The Canadian National Parks Today and Tomorrow" held in Calgary, Alberta in October, 1968. 343 pages.
Price:
20.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
911 |
Nibley, Preston Exodus to Greatness
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Deseret News Press 1947 Hard Cover Good Fair
Dust jacket worn with various tears along edges and several pieces missing completely. Book has wear on edges and rubbing. Pages are yellowed.
Price:
25.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
913 |
Njururi, Ngumbu Agikuyu Folk Tales
London, England Oxford University Press 1966 Hard Cover Good Fair
Previous owner's name on front end page has been crossed out with blue marker. Dustjacket has wear on edges, rubbing, large (about 10 cm) closed tear on upper front which has been taped from behind, price clipped.
Price:
15.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
918 |
O'Neill, Colleen Orifaces : Sandra Meigs
Corner Brook, NL, Canada Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery 1990 0929025067 Soft Cover Good Sandra Meigs
Cover has wear on edges, rubbing, scrapes on front. 23 pages illustrated with B&W and colour photos. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the gallery, Sept. 9 - Oct. 28, 1990. Includes bibliographical references. Sandra Meigs was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She has taught at the University of Victoria since 1993 and served as chair of the Visual Arts Department for 4 years, between 1997 and 2002. Her work has been exhibited widely across Canada at major institutions including the Powerplant, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery and the Ydessa Hendeles Foundation as well as internationally. Sandra Meigs is one of Canada’s most powerful and insightful painters whose work sweeps away convention, both artistically and socially.
Price:
15.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
920 |
Ogden Area History Committee (Walter Boote, Chairman) Ogden Whistle: a History of Millican, Ogden Flats, Maryland, Valleyfield, Bonnybrook, South Hill, Cepeear, Lynnwood, Lynwood Ridge, River Glen, Crestwood, C.P.R. Ogden Shops
Calgary, AB, Canada Ogden Area History Committee 1975 0919212743 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
Wear on edges, rubbing. Local history of the Ogden area of Calgary.
Price:
25.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
928 |
Ooka, Makoto Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems 1972-1989 (Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan #17)
Santa Fe, NM, USA Katydid Books 1995 0942668456 First Edition Hard Cover New New
Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. "One of Ooka's virtues was that he was not an intellectual, someone who has forgotten that human beings are more important than ideas, that human beings take priority over everything. This poet knows, in the deepest sense, that human relationships rest on the relation of human beings to nature and to the universe. It is not difficult to see traces of the surrealist influence that colores Ooka's youth. But in contrast to many other Japanese poets, Ooka was never a blind worshipper of anything imported. Ooka is convinced that only when you approach actuality from two mutually opposing sides can you get a glimpse of its entirety. Rather than pantheism, the undercurrent of Ooka's poetry is paneroticism and it is that which saves him from indulging in conceptualization. " (from the preface by Tanikawa Shuntaro)
Price:
21.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
932 |
Oswald, Mary They Led the Way; Members of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
Wetaskiwin, AB, Canada Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame 1999 0968484301 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
This highly attractive and informative work commemorates the 25th anniversary of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame and provides fascinating biographies of the Hall's current 158 inductees. They Led the Way takes the reader through the history of aviation in Canada with stories about those who played an important role in its development beginning with the early aviators who designed the Silver Dart and made the first tentative flights in 1909. There are tales of the barnstormers of the Canadian Prairies of the 1920s and 1930s and of adventures following World War II when aviators explored Canada's vast wilderness working as bush pilots and surveyors, establishing mail routes or merely testing their abilities as entrepreneurs. Also covered are the exploits of Canada's most decorated airmen through two world wars, including the nation's seven Victoria Cross winners for valour in the air. The coveted Aviation Hall of Fame Medal is illustrated and discussed in depth together with a history of Canada's Order of Icarus and a complete roll of the recipients of this premier aviation order.
Price:
35.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
934 |
Owen, David Viva! Alfa Romeo
Somerset, England The Haynes Publishing Group 1976 0854292071 Hard Cover Very Good Good
Dust jacket is rubbed and creased with wear along edges. Front page is stamped with previous owner's stamp. Bottom of foredge of pages are stained.
Price:
20.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
936 |
Paine, Lauran Sex in Witchcraft
New York, New York, U.S.A. Taplinger Publishing Company 1972 0800871510 Hard Cover Good Good
Dustjacket is rubbed with wear and tape along edges. Previous owner's name is written on front end page.
Price:
25.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
939 |
Paolo Rizzi Masi Simonetti (1903-1969)
Italy 1971 Limited / Numbered Hard Cover Good Good
Contemporary art by Italian artist Masi Simonetti with a preface written by Giuseppe Marchiori. Number 914 of 1000 printed. Written in Italian and French. Stamp on inside cover with date. Additional notes in ink across from a few plates with added description. Tear on jacket back top corner, wear on jacket edges front and back, smudges on back jacket.
Price:
60.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
958 |
Persons, Benjamin S. Laterite: Genesis, Location, Use
New York, NY, USA Plenum Press 1970 Hard Cover Good Fair
Wear to edges. Dustjacket has wear, rubbing, taped along edges, price clipped. Previous owner's name on front end page, title page, (ink has run through to copyright page, taped over), dedication page.
Price:
12.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
961 |
Pilley, Phil (editor) Golfing Art
Topsfield, MA, USA Salem House Publishers 1988 0881623199 Hard Cover Very Good Fair
Wear to edges. Dustjacket has wear, rubbing, tear on bottom back spine edge corner, closed tear on top edge of spine.
Price:
20.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
967 |
Pollock, Ann; Reid, Mary; McEwen, John Marconi in the Sculpture of John McEwen
Winnipeg, MB, Canada The Winnipeg Art Gallery 2007 978-0-88915-239 Soft Cover Very Good
This beautifully illustrated oversized volume is the most important monograph yet on the work of the senior Canadain artist. For thirty years, John McEwen's sculptures have explored the nature of communication between animals, animals and people and the artwork and the viewer. He creates life-size silhouettes of animals, mainly dogs or wolves, most of which are flame cut from sheets of steel. By locating them in different environments, new relationships are produced and new associations are evoked. For McEwen the one constant in the human imagination is the animal and Marconi, a full-size German Shepherd created in 1978, was the first sculpture in a long series. This retrospective publication examines Marconi's original role as a vehicle of the imagination, a primary component of which is that animals are a necessary source of deliverance and hope. We are also provided with a visual reminder of the many public spaces across the country - universities, institutions, memorials and parks - that are indelibly marked by McEwen's emblematic works. 96 pages with 40 colour illustrations.
Price:
30.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
977 |
Qinzhing, MA (essay) Jiang Tie Li 1999-2001
Card Covers Very Good Jianf Tie Li (Tieli)
24 page catalogue of sculptures by the artist - 22 pages of colour photos. One page essay "Shoulder to Shoulder with Trend" by MA Qinzhong. Whites card covers. The artist's email address and a drawn symbol are written inside back cover (possibly by the artist?) No publication information.
Price:
20.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
985 |
Rasky, Frank Industry in the Wilderness: the People, the Buildings, the Machines-Heritage in Northwestern Ontario
Toronto, ON, Canada Dundurn Press Limited 1983 0919670660 Soft Cover Good Ex-Library
Wear to edges. Cover has wear, rubbing. Ex-library markings, stamps, stickers, pocket removed, etc.
Price:
20.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
986 |
Rayden, Arthur E. Mercers' Hall
London, England Country Life Ltd. 1947 Limited / Numbered Hard Cover Good No Jacket
Top edge cut and gilt, other edges uncut. #171 / 1000. Tipped in on front end page is a gift note from The Mercers' Company. Spine faded from sunning. Pages yellowing on edges. 54 pages illustrated with B&W plates. The records of the Mercers' Company date back to 1348 but the Company is certainly older than this for in that year new ordinances were drawn up for the conduct of its affairs. The second Hall, designed by Edward Jarman and John Oliver, was built between 1667 and 1676 and opened in May 1676. The second Hall was extensively refurbished during the period 1877 to 1881. The frontage was remodelled by George Barnes Williams and the interiors were redesigned by John Gregory Crace, the renowned and fashionable Victorian designer. Further restoration was also carried out in 1926-30, but on the night of 10/11 May 1941 the Hall was completely destroyed by fire during an air raid in the Second World War.
Price:
60.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
987 |
Raymond, Marietta (editor); Raymond, Michael (compiler) The People of South Himsworth: a Centennial History 1990
Powassan, ON, Canada History Book Committee, the Centennial Committee, Township Council of... 1991 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
Previous owner's name, etc. on front end page. Local history of the Township of South Himsworth, Ontario. 137 pages illustrated with numerous B&W photos, drawings, maps and documents.
Price:
30.00 CDN
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
