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Revaa, Harald; Corinee Berkin. A Merchant Seaman’s Story. Vancouver: Cordillera Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. ISBN: 9781895590234. pp. xii, 96. Small 8vo. Pictorial boards. Replete with black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. Hardcover. ”Harald Revaa, a native son of Norway and a Canadian by adoption, was born in Ramnes, Near Tonsberg in 1921. He went to sea before his fifteenth birthday as messboy aboard a whale oil factory vessel, and thus started a career which would lead to the traumatic occasin which is the central event in this book. This book is a tribute to the Norwegian merchant navy which at the time of the invasion of Norway has most of its ships at sea or in foreign ports. The addition of several hundred Norewegian ships to the Allied cause was one of the great events that contributed to final victory.” (#2575) $25.00
![I’ve scarcely finished cataloguing this lovely little book of pressed flowers from the Holy Land. Just had to share it with all you. 🌺
Wild Flowers of the Holy Land; Matt. VI, 28, 29, 30 ; London Society’s Mission to the Jews.
[Ferdinand Vester]; London Jews’ Society’s “House of Industry”. Jerusalem, Palestine: Printed at the London Jews’ Society’s House of Industry, Jerusalem, N.D. [Circa 1890’s?]. First Edition. Unpaginated [Fourteen unnumbered leaves]. Oblong 12mo., measuring 12 x 18 cm. Original quarter maroon leather over gorgeous polished bevelled olive-wood boards bearing “Jerusalem” in black atop a deeply carved Jerusalem cross to the front board; like carving to the rear boards with Jerusalem printed in Hebrew characters to the centre; marbled edges, and ivory silk-moiré endpapers. Comprises of eleven beautifully arranged dried flower specimens mounted on stiff leaves, most (excepting two) accompanied with their original, remarkably well-preserved, tissue-guards, and individually captioned with their respective geographic origins (e.g.: “Flowers from Mount Zion”, “Flowers from the Mount of Olives”, etc.). Lightest wear to the leather spine, else, no other flaws noted to the extremities. Faint toning to the title page, otherwise, contents remain near-uniformly without blemish, and with firm, sound binding. A most lovely, and unique period offering from the Holy Land. Rare to be offered in commerce in this edition, and state. This edition unrecorded in WorldCat, however, nominally corresponds to OCLC #753636624 (with notable differences in pagination, and the number of specimens). See also OCLC #698494522. (#7243)](https://blacksbooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
