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WHERRETT, George Jasper.
The Miracle of the Empty Beds: A History of Tuberculosis in Canada.
Toronto & Buffalo: University Of Toronto Press, [1977]..
8vo. pp. xx, 299. 4 double-sided plates. text illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$61 USD Book Number: CEReWHER91 Order / Enquire

WHITE, Arthur V.
Long Sault Rapids St. Lawrence River An Enquiry. (Canada Commission of Conservation Committee On Waters And Water-Powers).
Ottawa: Mortimer Co., Limited, 1913..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 384. 25 plates (including 3 folding maps). index. cloth (front & rear hinge cracked, front endpaper missing). First Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: CITngWHI40 Order / Enquire

WHITE, Henry [b. 1879].
Gold Regions Of Canada. Gold: How And Where To Find It! The Explorer's Guide And Manual Of Practical And Instructive Directions For Explorers And Miners In The Gold Regions Of Canada, With Lucid Instructions And Explanations As To The Rocky Strata, Peculiar Shale Rocks, Veinstone, Etc. In Which Gold, And Many Other Valuable Minerals, Are To Be Found In That Region; With Easy Modes Of Determination And Analysis.
Toronto: Maclear & Co., 1867..
16mo. pp. v, [1]blank, [7]-108. 2 folding lithographed maps (1 hand-coloured). original blind-stamped cloth wrs., rebacked (tear in frontis. map neatly repaired - no loss). First Edition. Very Scarce. "The object of the following pages is, to supply to the gold mining emigrant coming into Canada, as well as those already in this country, with the information necessary to enable them to conduct, with felicity and certainty, the researches and operations which are essentially necessary to a successful issue in gold mining, as well as that of other operations of a similar nature.This work is therefore expressly prepared, with its accompanying geological maps, as a manual for explorers, and is designed to supply a want now very generally felt, respecting the Madoc Gold discoveries, and the occurrence of other valuable minerals in that (comparatively) unexplored and extensive region of Laurentian rocks.". (Preface) The author was a provincial land surveyor. White also discusses nickel, silver, tourmaline, cobalt, manganese and other minerals. The discovery in 1866 by a prospector of gold in Madoc township, Hastings County, led to a substantial but short-lived gold rush. The appended advertisements in this work offer lands for sale in the Madoc gold regions, mining tools from Belleville merchants, and one by White himself seeking partners with capital to develop mineral lands in Canada East and West. Morgan p. 289. TPL 4642.
$1399 USD Book Number: elala1154 Order / Enquire

WHITE, I[srael] C[harles].
The Geology Of The Susquehanna River Region In The Six Counties Of Wyoming, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia Montour, And Northumberland. [At Head of Title: Second Geological Survey Of Pennsylvania: Report Of Progress G7].
Harrisburg: Published By The Board of Commissioners For The Second Geological Survey, 1883..
8vo. pp. xxx, 464, [6]. 2 folding colour charts in rear pocket, colour frontis. map & numerous full-page text figures. original cloth (scuffed & slightly shaken).
$150 USD Book Number: elala1926 Order / Enquire

WHITE, James.
Altitudes In The Dominion Of Canada.Assisted By George H. Ferguson (Canada Commission of Conservation).
Ottawa: The Mortimer Co., Limited, 1915..
2 Vols. 8vo. pp. xxiii, 603; xii, 251. 6 folding maps (4 in rear pocket). index. cloth. Second Edition.
$205 USD Book Number: CITtiWHI18 Order / Enquire

WHITE, Michael Gladstone.
Windsor Days Before Yesterday: A Picture Book.
Windsor: Red Oak Press, [1992]..
folio. pp. 124. profusely illus. bds. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies, numbered by the author.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2491 Order / Enquire

WHITE, Samuel.
History Of The American Troops, During The Late War, Under The Command Of Colonels Fenton And Campbell, Giving an account of the crossing of Niagara by the troops under Gen'ls Gaines, Brown, Scott and Porter. The taking of Fort Erie, the battle of Chippew
[Rochester: Reprinted for George P.Humphrey, By Charles Mann, 1896]..
12mo. pp. 107. An uncut copy in original cloth-backed bds. (small piece chipped from upper blank margin of title). Fourth Edition, Limited to 300 copies. This is numbered 103 and initialed by Humphrey. The author was a volunteer from Adams County, Pennsylvania. His first-hand account of the capture of Fort Erie and the battle of Chippewa (pp. 5-76) is followed by topographical descriptions of Upper (pp. 77-92) and Lower Canada (pp. 92-107). Howes W-370. cfLande 896 & cfTPL 1021 (first edn.: 1829).
$231 USD Book Number: CITstWHI23 Order / Enquire

WHITEFIELD, George [1714-1770].
A Journal Of A Voyage From London To Savannah in Georgia. In two Parts. Part I. From London To Gibraltar. Part II. From Gibraltar to Savannah.
London: Printed for James Hutton, 1738..
8vo. pp. 64, [1]ad. woodcut ornament. uncut in modern half calf (light marginal dampmarks). Third Edition. Sabin 103534. cfHowes W-374. cfJCB I 591-92. See Clark I 177. [BOUND WITH:] WHITEFIELD, George. A Continuation Of The Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, From His Arrival at London, To His Departure from thence on his Way to Georgia. The Third Edition. 8vo. pp. iv, 115. woodcut title vignette. uncut. London: Printed for James Hutton, 1739. Sabin 103538. cfHowes W-374. cfJCB I 631. [BOUND WITH:] WHITEFIELD, George. A Continuation Of The Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, During the Time he was detained in England by the Embargo. The Second Edition. 8vo. pp. iv, 40. woodcut title vignette. uncut. London: Printed by W.Strahan, and sold by James Hutton, 1739. Sabin 103540. JCB I 634. cfHowes W-374. [BOUND WITH:] WHITEFIELD, George. The Rev. Mr. Whitefield's Answer, To The Bishop of London's Last Pastoral Letter [With Supplement]. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 27, [1]; 8, [1]ad. complete with half-title. woodcut title vignette. uncut. London: Printed by W.Strahan, and sold by J.Oswald, 1739. Second Edition. cfSabin 103577. The first, third and fourth journals of the famous Methodist clergyman, George Whitefield, relating his 1737-38 voyage from London to Savannah, Georgia, and his ministerial duties in England. Whitefield made seven trips to America and founded an orphanage in Savannah.
$1499 USD Book Number: elala1927 Order / Enquire

WHYMPER, Edward [1840-1911].
Travels Amongst The Great Andes Of The Equator.
London: John Murray, 1892..
8vo. pp. xxiv, [2], 456. with half-title. 4 maps & plans (3 folding). 20 wood-engraved plates & 118 wood-engraved text illus. by Edward Whymper after F.Barnard, A.Corbauld, F.Dadd & others. Stonyhurst gilt-stamped prize binding of contemporary calf, gilt back (extremities rubbed, joints cracked). Second Edition. After many years climbing in the Alps, Whymper decided to organize an expedition to the Andes of Ecuador. His primary purpose was to study altitude sickness and the effect of reduced pressure on the human body. During 1880, he made two ascents of Chimborazo (20,498 feet), also claiming the first ascent, and made first ascents of half a dozen other great peaks ranging in height from 15,000 to 20,000 feet. He spent a night on the summit of Cotopaxi (19,613 feet), and was able to thoroughly study the features of the great volcano. Whymper's great contributions to science and exploration were recognized by the Royal Geographical Society, which in 1892 conferred on Whymper one of their Royal Medals "in recognition of the fact that, apart from his mountaineering exploits, 'he had largely corrected and added to our geographical and physical knowledge of the mountain systems of Ecuador, fixed the position of all the great Ecuadorian mountains, produced a map constructed from original theodolite observations extending over 250 miles, and ascertained seventy altitudes by means of three mercurial barometers." (DNB) Whymper also brought back important collections of rock specimens, volcanic dusts, and natural history specimens. He devised a popular form of tent which bears his name, and was able to suggest improvements in aneroid barometers. As usual this copy is without the separately published supplementary volume of scientific observations. Neate 899.
$649 USD Book Number: elala3278 Order / Enquire

WHYMPER, Frederick.
Travel And Adventure In The Territory Of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded To The United States - And In Various Other Parts Of The North Pacific.
London: John Murray, 1868..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xix, 331. lacking half-title. folding engraved map, 16 wood-engraved plates, & 20 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. title vignette). contemporary half calf (rubbed, neat gilt institutional crest on upper cover, some foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. An account of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66. Whymper, who was the artist on the expedition, describes their journey and experiences at Vancouver, Sitka, St. Michael, Norton Sound, Kamchatka and the west coast of the Okhotsh Sea, the Yukon Territory, their ascent and descent, by canoe, of the Yukon River, &c. Also included are remarks on fishing and the fur trade, the Russian and Indian settlements in Norton Sound, and the manners and customs of the Tchuktchis and the Co-Yukon Indians. The first five chapters contain the author's reminiscences of his travels in British Columbia in the 1860's, including an account of his trip to the interior of Vancouver Island in 1864 with Robert Brown's exploring expedition, and details of the Bute Inlet massacre. Arctic Bib. 19424. Field 1657. Smith 10977. Ricks p. 255. Lowther 320. Wickersham 6030.
$699 USD Book Number: elala1155 Order / Enquire

WHYTE, Jon.
Open Spaces. September 27-October 1977.
Banff, Alberta: Peter Whyte Gallery, [1977]..
folio. [pp. 24]. wrs. (wrs. bit soiled). First Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: dola2634 Order / Enquire

[WHYTE, William E.] [b. 1826].
O'er the Atlantic, Or A Journal Of A Voyage To And From Europe. By W.E.W. [Gwilym Iorwerth Gwynn.].
New York: Published And Sold For The Author By The American News Company, 1870..
12mo. pp. xxiv, [25]-295, [1 leaf]errata. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (slight fraying to extremities). First Edition. Whyte visited England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, and Canada. The last two chapters, pp. 263-295, relate his travels to Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, and Niagara Falls. Smith W72.
$150 USD Book Number: elala3128 Order / Enquire

WIEGMAN, Carl.
Trees To News A Chronicle of the Ontario Paper Company's Origin and Development.
[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart, 1953..
8vo. pp. xii, [2], 364. 12 double-sided plates. maps on endleaves. text illus. index. cloth. First Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: CEGeeWIE94 Order / Enquire

WIESELGREN, Harald [Ossian] [1835-1906].
Öfver Atlanten.
Stockholm: Ivar Haeggströms Boktryckeri, 1876..
small 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 111. 13 text illus. (6 full-page) (14 called for on title-page, in error, or possibly including a front wr. illus. - the wrs. not present here). contemporary quarter roan (spine worn). First Edition.
$179 USD Book Number: CESveWIE57 Order / Enquire

WIGLE, Hamilton.
The Veteran And Other Poems.
Toronto: William Briggs, 1910..
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 88. frontis portrait. cloth (cloth bit soiled, some light foxing). Inscribed from the Author. First Edition. Watters p. 211.
$41 USD Book Number: CGLeWIGL44 Order / Enquire

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