Twenty-Seven Years In Canada West; Or, The Experience Of An Early Settler by Major Samuel Strickland installation art some staining to the sides

some staining to the sides of the text block

Lear embarked on an ambitious project to draw all the known parrot species

the orchid

Venice / La Cappella Badoer-Giustinian in San Francesco della Vigna a Venezia by Anne Markham Schulz

The two extensive sets of drawings and watercolors date from different creative phases

Twenty-Seven Years In Canada West; Or, The Experience Of An Early Settler by Major Samuel Strickland installation art some staining to the sidesSTRICKLAND, Major [Samuel] [1804 1867]. Twenty Seven Years In Canada West; Or, The Experience Of An Early Settler. Edited By Agnes Strickland. 2 Volumes in 1. 12mo. pp. 1 p. l., [ix] xix, [1], 311, [1]; viii, 344. 1 music illus. in the text. original blind & gilt stamped cloth (cloth stained & spine ends bit frayed, inner front hinge of Vol. I cracked). London: Richard Bentley, 1853. $750 First Edition. The candid reminiscences of almost three decades