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Bell, Charles Napier (President of the Society). The Journal of Henry Kelsey (1691-1692); The First White Man to Reach the Saskatchewan River from Hudson Bay, and the First to See Buffalo, and Grizzly Bear on the Canadian Plains. Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba | Printed by Dawson Richardson Publications Limited, 1928. Transaction No. 4 (New Series), 24th May, 1928. pp. 43. 8vo. Black textured cloth boards. One fold-out map affixed to the front pastedown, one photographic reproduction of Indigenous people, eight additional maps. Lightest rubbing to the extremities, small ink name to front pastedown otherwise the contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Scarce. Hardcover. (#510) $75.00
![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)
