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The Hudson Bay Route and the Port of Churchill in the Centre of Canada

Regina?, [No Pub.]. 1933?. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 63pp. Illus. maps. Occasional very light browning. Peel(3) 5722.

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Book number: 107959

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Transportation-Railway

LACOMBE, ALBERT

Dictionnaire de la Langue Des Cris (Bound With) Grammaire de la Langue Des Cris

Montreal, Beauchemin & Valois. 1874, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 711, [6], 190pp. 8vo. First edition. Beautiful, solid rebind. Large folding table in Grammaire. Pages 708 & 709 are not bound together as usual; however, the page 709 / 710 is missing. Foldout conjugation table is missing a piece at last fold. Lacks half title. Library stamp to verso of title page. Original back cover of the "grammaire" bound in. Peele 708, 709.

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Book number: 125925

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canadian History, Canadian Prairies, Cree, First Nations History, First Nations Language, French, Fur Trade

LACOMBE, ALBERT

Dictionnaire de la Langue Des Cris (Bound With) Grammaire de la Langue Des Cris

Montreal, Beauchemin & Valois. 1874, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 711, [6], 190pp. 8vo. First edition. Solid rebind in brown cloth with darker brown leather to spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Large folding table in Grammaire is in beautiful condition. Rarely, if ever, opened. Pages 708 & 709 are not bound together as usual; however, the page 709 / 710 is missing. Stamp to title page "Diocesan Property". Peele 708, 709.

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Book number: 130707

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canadian History, Canadian Prairies, Cree, First Nations History, First Nations Language, French, Fur Trade

CREE; LACOMBE,ALBERT

Petit Manuel pour apprendre a lire la Langue Cris. Small Manual to Learn the Reading in the Cree Language

Montreal, Beauchemin & Fils.. 1886, 1st edition. (12mo) Near fine. 43pp. Limp cloth, illus. Slight marginal browning. In Roman characters. Vocabulary in French, English & Cree, with the first sentence "Let us work to civilize the poor Indian". Evans 092. Peel(3) 1623. Banks p42. Pilling Alg. P285.

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Book number: 105851

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canada, Canadian Prairies, French, North American Indian, North American Indian Language, Religion-Catholic

LAMOND, ELIZABETH

Walter of Henley's Husbandry

London, Longmans, Green. 1890, 1st thus. (4to) Good to very good, no dust jacket. 171pp. Red paper covers. Tables. Ex-library. Usual library treatments present. An anonymous husbandry, seneschaucie and Robert Grosseteste's rules.

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Book number: 113875

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Natural Science, Agriculture, Breeding, Farming, Husbandry

LANKESTER, RAY

Diversions of a Naturalist

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1915, 1st edition. (hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. xvi, 424pp, [4pp adverts], 31pp adverts, [1]. 12mo. Green cloth boards; lettering in gold to spine, double-rule in gold at head and foot; lettering and simple single-rule border in gold to top board. Cloth rubbed; spine lightly darkened. Volume in clear protective acetate jacket. Edges foxed; top-edge dust darkened. Occasional foxing at margins, internally; heavier early. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Illus. Starting at p.96 / 97 and p.240 / 241, remaining entirely secure.

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Book number: 123667

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Natural Science, Animals, Biological Sciences, Biology, Environment, Natural History, Nature, Science, Zoology

LANSDOWNE, J.FENWICK; LIVINGSTON, JOHN A.

Birds of the Eastern Forest

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart. 1977/1970. (Folio) Fine in near fine dust jacket. Two volumes; Vol.I (231 pp) being a reprint. Vol.II, 1st ed. (261 pp). Copious colour and b / w. Paintings by Lansdowne; text by Livingston.

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Book number: 111153

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Ornithology, Birds

LANTIS, MARGARET

Eskimo Childhood and Interpersonal Relationships: Nunivak Biographies and Genealogies

Seattle, University of Washington Press. 1960. (Cloth) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 215pp. The American Ethnological Society series.

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Book number: 102531

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Genealogy, Inuit, North, North American Indian, United States

LANTIS, MARGARET (EDITOR)

Ethnohistory in Southwestern Alaska and the Southern Yukon: Method and Content

Lexington, the University Press of Kentucky. 1970. (Cloth) Near fine. 311pp. Illustrations. Inscribed by author. Studies in Anthropology 7.

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Book number: 102530

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canada, North, North American Indian, United States

LAPOINTE, RICHARD

La Saskatchewan de A a Z

Regina, La Societe historique de la Saskatchewan. 1987. (Mass market paperback) As new. 376pp. illus.

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Book number: 105885

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic, French, Politics-Economics

LAPOINTE, RICHARD

Saskatlas

Regina, La Societe historique de la Saskatchewan. 1993, 2nd edition, revised and corrected. (Mass market paperback) As new. 201pp. Illus.

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Book number: 105886

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Exploration, French, Fur Trade, North American Indian, Politics-Economics, Religion, Transportation

O'LEARY, PETER

Travels and Experiences in Canada, the Red River Territory, and the United States

London, John B. Day. (1877). (Cloth) Good. 226pp. Covers spotted & worn. Lacks front endpaper. Peel(3) 714, "A journey undertaken in 1874 to ascertain the possibilities for Irish emigrants of the labouring classes.".

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Book number: 107148

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ireland

LEE, ELLEN

Archaeological Investigations at Batoche National Historic Site, 1982

Ottawa, Parks Canada. 1983. (4to, wrappers) Fine. 12pp. Illus. Research Bulletin #191, March '83.

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Book number: 111991

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Archaeology, Canada, Canadian Prairies

LEE, JR., THOMAS A.

Los Codices Mayas

Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico, Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas NONE. 1985. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 215pp. 4to. Spanish text. In 1965, the Grolier Codex was found in Mexico. The story has been well-told, and the Mayan screenfold manuscript is noted to be pre-Columbian. Known as the Maya Codex of Mexico, the Grolier Codex, or Saenz Codex, in 2018, it was renamed officially as the Codice Maya de Mexico. There are only 4 known Maya codices, and the one described in these pages is the only one still to be in the Americas. This tome includes an introduction and bibliography written by Thomas A. Lee, Jr. and includes prints of Justin Kerr's colour photographs, which have been copyrighted. Jacket in loose mylar protective sleeve. Harvest gold, pebbled buckram, gilt titles stamped to front and spine. Internally clean, tight, bright, solid. Beautiful. Edicion Conmemorativa X Aniversario.

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Book number: 127178

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Ancient Manuscripts, Anthropology, Central America, Codex, Codices, Manuscript, Mayan History, Mexican History

LEECHMAN, DOUGLAS

The Way of the Indian: Thirteen Documentary Programs Broadcast on CBC Radio

Toronto, CBC. 1970. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 61pp. Oblong 4TO. Old red stain on cover. Fifth printing.

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Book number: 102536

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canada, North American Indian