New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. Second (?) printing (first was in 1906). Green cloth. pp (xxiv), 503, [3] + frontispiece portrait of Alexander Graham Bell, with tissue guard and many other plates and text illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers and tissue guard, yellowing to page edges, four word rubber stamp to blank recto of frontispiece, small rubber stamped date on front free endpaper; else a fine, bright copy. Iles was a Canadian. This title not in Watters, but others by him are. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill - Queens University Press, 1996. Octavo, black cloth. pp (22), 274. Photos, notes, index. Fine in fine jacket. Biography of J.W. Dawson, 1820-99, the great Canadian geologist, principal of McGill for forty years, tireless promoter of science in Canada.

London: The Ray Society, 1965. Octavo, dark blue cloth. pp (x), (277). Small private owner name rubber stamped on front free endpaper; book has a musty odour (will disappear over time), but no damp stains; else fine. Dust jacket has edge nicks, VG. Reprints "the first two printed books relating to the British flora which have any claim to originality." Turner, a clergyman, physician, herbalist, and naturalist "has long been honoured as the 'father of British botany' ".

Manchester / London / Paris: Abel Heywood / Simpkin Marshal / Georges Carré, 1889. Octavo, dark brown cloth decorated in dark green, gilt lettered. pp 38 plates (about half folding) of machinery + 11 plates with 56 colour printed cotton samples pasted in. Slight dust darkening to some blank margins; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; spine very lightly sunned; slight wear to about an inch of the fore edge of the front cover; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names, the cloth samples bright. Volume 2 only (the plates, or Atlas, volume) of a two volume work, published in English in 1887 as The Printing of Cotton Fabrics, Comprising Calico Bleaching, Printing, and Dyeing.

London: Fifield, 1920. Second edition, re-set, with the author's corrections and additions to index. Octavo, blue cloth. pp 282, (2, ads). Light damp spotting to front and rear cover; yellowing and light foxing to endpapers; yellowing to page edges; rubber stamped private owner name at front, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy.

London: Wm. Dawson & Sons, no date (1956). Card covers. pp 610, (4, ads) + 68 plates on 34 leaves, some illustrations in text. Covers have been laminated; just a few red ink notes in text margins; VG otherwise. An extensive and useful reference by a distinguished antiquarian bookseller. 1.5 kg parcel.

Reading, MA: Perseus, 1998. pp (x), 194. Fine in fine jacket.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. xviii, (326)] pp, index, 88 illustrations (numerous maps), blue cloth. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket is rubbed on spine and front panel, good. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

University of Toronto Press, 1966. (xiv), 146 pp, red cloth stamped in gilt. Previous owner's name on front pastedown, very light rubbing to corners and spine tips, otherwise fine. Dust jacket with minor edge chips and small closed tears, light surface rubbing increasing at flap folds and spine, else very good. Articles in English and French on L'Abbé Léon Provancher, George Lawson, Rev. Dr. James Bovell, J.W. Dawson, and more. Number 9 in the Royal Society of Canada's "Studia Varia" series.

Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada Associate Committee on Soil and Snow Mechanics, January, 1963. Quarto, grey printed card covers, navy blue cloth spine, stapled binding, pp. 231 + 9 (Appendix), richly illustrated throughout with maps, charts, graphs, and black & white photos. Light fraying to spine ends with a 1 cm tear at both head & heel, staple puncture at top edge of upper cover, else a very good, clean, tight copy. Loosely inserted is A REVIEW OF PERMAFROST INVESTIGATIONS IN CANADA by R.J.E. Brown. Published in Ottawa, December 1962. Reprinted from The Canadian Geographer vol. VI, nos. 3-4, pp. 162-165. Cream printed wrappers, stapled binding, Fine, clean copy.

London: Percival Marshall, no date (1904). Octavo, maroon cloth gilt lettered. pp 105, (7) + 20 plates. Numerous text illustrations. Slight rubbing to spine ends, offset yellowing to enpapers, else a fine, bright and tight copy, no owner names. Popular science, an early book on the subject. The Curies only discovered radium in 1898.

Washington, D.C: AAAS, 1971. Green cloth. (xvi), 768 pp. Numerous photos and diagrams in text, one large folding map inserted. Laid in is the often lacking large (52 x 48 inches) colour folding wall map of Antarctica. Rubber stamp to front and rear free endpapers of a Canadian company library; bit of foxing to page edges; else a VG unworn copy. Dust jacket is used, with some sunning to upper spine; nicks, small chips; large creased tears to lower inner corner of rear panel and across spine internally tape repaired; just good. "This is the first single-volume report of the extensive scientific research conducted in the Antarctic since the International Geophysical Year and the global significance of those efforts." Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Brown cloth. pp (xx), 412. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket.

New York: HarperCollins. c2002. Third printing. Octavo, pp (xx), 380 + photos. Index. Fine in fine jacket.

Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980. Octavo, card covers. pp (xviii), 246. Spine has nicks and rubbing to ends, corner crease to front cover, VG otherwise. Text in English and French.

New York: Wiley, 1948. Seconnd printing (first was in 1947). Octavo, navy cloth. xii, 212 pp. Ink name and date to front free endpaper; yellowing to page edges and endpapers; near fine jacketless copy otherwise, no marks in text, of this historically quite important s tatistics text in which Wald, a Viennese mathematician who fled the Nazis, developes his new technique of sequential analysis.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Red cloth, pp 342. Fine, jacketless copy, no owner marks.

Lodz, Poland: Biuletyn Peryglacjalny, 1957. Offprint from issue number 5. Octavo, (51)-339 pp, stapled, in buff printed paper covers. Photos in text, folding map at rear.. Tears to spine repaired; soft crease to lower outer corner throughout; VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author at top margin of first page "Sir James Wardie C.B.E. with expressions of deepest regard from the Author. 20.5.58". Text entirely in Polish. Front cover also has a French title ZONE DU MODELÉ ET PHÉNOMÈNES PÉRIGLACIAIRES DE LA TERRE DE TORELL (SPITSBERGEN). Scientific study of glaciers in Spitsbergen, the Arctic archipelago in the Norwegian Sea that is about 60 per cent covered with glaciers.