Honorary Degree Books 1987-99
1999
John Kim Bell
Kochno, Boris. Le ballet. [Paris]: Hachette, 1954.
Boris Kochno was personal secretary to Serge Diaghilev, the great Russian ballet master, and in this book he traces the history of the French ballet from fifteenth-century court masquerades to modern ballets. With over 400 illustrations reproduced in photogravure, an original lithograph by Picasso, and a Matisse design on its cover, this is a very special volume. [GV 1649 K62 1954]
Harold Cardinal
Iapi Oaye: The Word Carrier. Greenwood, [SD]: Dakota Mission, 1874-1887.
This monthly newsletter was published by and for the Dakota peoples. Printed in both Lakota and English, it promoted literacy and offered news relating to the activities and concerns of Dakota peoples during a period of change, including reports from Congress. Each issue features a richly-detailed engraving on its front cover. A very rare addition to the Peel library’s extensive collection of primary materials relating to the Indigenous peoples of North American. [E 99 D1 I27 folio]
Laurence George Decore
Collins, A. Frederick. Experimental Television: A Series of Simple Experiments with Television Apparatus. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1932.
A scarce book that explores emerging television technologies and includes more than one hundred diagrams to show readers how to create at-home experiments for scanning disks, photo-electric cells, and cathode rays. It offers a fascinating glimpse into the ways that these new and luxurious technologies were made accessible to “the amateur experimenter.” [TK 6630 C6 1932]
Millard Dean Fuller
Trimmer, Sarah. The Oeconomy of Charity, or, An Address to Ladies. London: J. Johnson, 1801. 2 vols.
The Peel library already has the first edition of this important handbook for educating poor children, but this is the considerably expanded second edition. Sarah Trimmer was a forward-thinking feminist writer who advocated for education and social change. This handbook provides information about setting up soup kitchens, discusses problems associated with child labour, and considers a range of children’s health issues. [LC 5056 G7 T83 1801 v.1-2]
Dr James Grierson MacGregor, Jr
Jouvancourt, Hugues de. Maurice Cullen. Translated by Nancy Côté. Montreal: Editions La Frégate, 1978.
Influenced by both academic painting and Impressionism in France, Maurice Cullen was an influential landscape painter. His earliest important works were exhibited in Montreal in 1897. A true interpreter of Montreal’s cityscape, particularly of dusk and night scenes, which invariably shimmer with light. This is a lavishly-illustrated limited edition of a hard-to-find volume, and is considered to be the most important study of Cullen. [ND 249 C96 J86 1978]
Gerald James Maier
Kerr, John. Curling in Canada and the United States: A Record of the Tour of the Scottish Team, 1902-3, and of the Game in the Dominion and the Republic. Edinburgh: Geo. A. Morton, 1904.
A splendid, highly detailed account of the North American tour of the Scottish Team in 1902-1903, an event described as “unique in the annals of curling.” The large volume is lavishly illustrated, and the team’s visits to Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg, with the history of many curling clubs, are colourfully set forth. A rare and delightful addition to the library’s holdings documenting Canadian sport. [GV 845 K38 1904]
James Fraser Mustard
Richardson, John. Wacousta, or, The Prophecy: A Tale of Detroit and Michillimackinac. Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1833.
This unglamorous volume is actually one of the great rarities of Canadian literature. First published in London in 1832, this is the first edition published in America. Following in the tradition of historical romances by Scott and Cooper, the novel is an imaginary treatment of intrigues and violence between British soldiers and the forces led by Pontiac at Fort Detroit in 1763. [PS 8435 I16 W1 1833]
Kenneth Clifford Welsh
Cibber, Colley. Edited by Robert W. Lowe. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, written by himself. London: J.C. Nimmo, 1889. 2 vols.
Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was a well-known actor on the London stage and a theatre manager. His important autobiography, first published in 1740, is sometimes inaccurate. This special limited and corrected edition is lavishly illustrated with portraits of Cibber’s fellow actors and playwrights. A fine addition to the Peel library’s collection on theatre history, which also contains the first edition of Cibber’s work. [PR 3347 Z6 1889]
Harriet Snowball Winspear (two items)
Compan, Charles. Dictionnaire de danse: Contenant l'histoire, les règles & les principes de cet art. Paris: Chez Cailleau, 1787.
This is the rare first edition of the first dictionary of dance, setting forth a common language by which to teach, study, and appreciate the art form. Dedicated to Mademoiselle G****, this volume includes sections on dances from China, Egypt, and Canada, and delves into complex concepts of movement, technique and style. [GV 1585 C73 1787]
Castil-Blaze, M. Dictionnaire de musique moderne. Bruxelles: L'Académie de Musique, 1828.
This is an early edition of a very uncommon, thorough, and significant dictionary of musical terms and concepts, one that reflects many aspects—“modern” at the time—of the Romantic movement in music. [ML 100 B41 1828]
1998
John T. Ferguson
Engler, Bruno. A Mountain Life: Stories and Photographs of Bruno Engler. Canmore: Alpine Club of Canada, 1996.
A lively recounting of Bruno Engler's colourful tales from his life as a famous guide, mountaineer, and photographer in the Rocky Mountains, published to celebrate his 80th birthday. One of a limited edition of 36 copies, this special volume is lavishly illustrated by Engler's superb photographs, including three originals that he hand printed himself. Bound in full goatskin by Courtland Benson. [GV 199.92 E58 A3 1996]
Dr Robert Hall Haynes
Carrera, John, and Sam Walker. Putreffati. Boston: Quercus Press, 1995.
A limited edition artist's book (No. 11 of 25) created for the "Science and the Artist's Book" exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in 1995. It is based on a landmark seventeenth-century Italian book by Francesco Redi who disproved, through various experiments, the popular belief that life could be spontaneously generated by rotting meat: turning the pages, the text is gradually encompassed by disintegration and burrowing insects. [N 7433.4 C37 A6 P88 1995]
Dr Maxwell Leo Howell
Guts Muths, Johann Christoph Friederich, and C.G. Salzmann. Gymnastics for Youth: Or a Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises: For the Use of Schools: An Essay toward the Necessary Improvement of Education, Chiefly as It Related to the Body. Philadelphia: William Duane, 1802.
Thought to be the earliest manual on sport printed in North America, this is a little-known work of significant importance, containing detailed chapters on the value and utility of gymnastics and exercise. Its charming copper-engraved illustrations depict boys jumping, pole-vaulting, wrestling, swimming, and trundling a hoop. A significant addition to the library's historical materials relating to physical education. [GV 341 G99 E5 1802]
Dr Joseph B. Martin
Thoner, Augustin. Observationum Medicinalium. Ulmæ: Sumptibus Johannis Gerlini Bibliopolae, 1649.
Published in 1649, this is a first edition of a landmark book of neurology, penned by the director of the medical college at Ulm. It contains hundreds of case histories treating a range of conditions from headaches to melancholy to epilepsy. The first edition sold well and a second soon followed. [R 127 A2 T486 1649]
Raymond J. Nelson
Johnson, E. Pauline. Shadow River: The Selected and Illustrated Poems of Pauline Johnson. New Westminster, BC: Pie Tree Press, 1997.
A limited edition (No. 21 of 40) handmade book by one of Canada’s great book designers, illustrated and hand printed on handmade paper by Jim Rimmer and his typography students at University College of the Fraser Valley. This special book celebrates the life and work of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), one of Canada’s earliest and most influential Indigenous writers. [PS 8469 O38 S52 1997 folio]
Claude Ryan
Bosworth, Newton, ed. Hochelaga Depicta: Or, a New Picture of Montreal, Embracing the Early History and Present State of the City and Island of Montreal. Montreal: W.S. Mackay, 1846.
An enlarged edition of an important nineteenth-century illustrated history of Montreal containing some of the few remaining original sources relating to the city’s early architecture: 20 engraved plates, 11 wood engravings, a large folding plan of the city, and drawings by James Duncan, one of Canada's first historic artists and draughtsmen. A welcome addition to the library's collection of rare illustrated Canadiana. [FC 2947.4 B74 1846]
Professor Roger Woodward
Liszt, Franz. XIX. Magyar Rapszódia: Zongorára. 1885. Budapest: Editio Musica, ca. 1985.
An exquisite full-colour facsimile edition of Liszt's original manuscript of his final, spectacularly difficult, piano rhapsody, completed the year before his death. This celebratory limited edition includes a special binding with an embossed bronze cameo of the composer on the front cover. [ML 96.5 L77 1985 folio]
1997
Dr Per-Ingvar Brånemark
Twiss, Richard. A Trip to Paris, in July and August, 1792. London: Minerva Press, 1793.
Richard Twiss was an important travel writer, and his eye-witness account of the bloody French Revolution is particularly vivid and graphic, reflecting the “barbarity and callousness” of the time. This is the author’s own copy and contains his extensive notes. A unique volume. [DC 194 T974 1793 c.2]
Charles Chan
Siren, Osvald. The Walls and Gates of Peking: Researches and Impressions; Illustrated with 109 Photogravures after Photographs by the Author and Fifty Architectural Drawings Made by Chinese Artists. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1924.
A landmark study of the historical gates of Peking, with a stunning array of visual material including architectural drawings by Chinese artists. Siren was a Swedish art historian who wrote several authoritative volumes on Chinese art. No. 54 of 800 copies. [DS 795 S62 1924 folio]
Georges Henry Erasmus
Wolf, Arne. They Say! Berkeley, CA: A. Wolf, 1993.
This artist’s book takes its text from the creation story recorded in 1912 by Pliny Earle Gaddard from the Cahto (or Kato) people. A thought-provoking piece that asks us to contemplate the worlds contained within Indigenous creation stories that continue to be told today. No. 7 of 30 signed copies. [N 7433.4 W853 A6 T84 1993]
Professor William H. Hurlburt
Department of Immigration and Colonization. Land Settlement: Across Canada with Lord Lovat; Inspection of Farms of New Citizens Brought to Canada under the British Family Settlement Scheme. Ottawa: Land Settlement Branch, Dept. of Immigration and Colonization, 1928.
A textual and visual history of Canadian settlers, including family histories and photographs of first homesteads. This government publication offers significant historical detail, including reproductions of hand-drawn maps by Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat. [FC 570 L253 1928 folio]
Dr Robert Kroetsch
Ross, William Wrightson Eustace. Laconics. Ottawa: Overbrook Press, 1930.
This exceedingly rare little volume is the first book of modernist poetry in Canadian literature. Though he published in some prestigious American periodicals in the 1920s and 1930s, W.W.E. Ross was largely unknown during his lifetime and was rediscovered by scholars decades later. [PS 8535 O84 L36 1930]
The Honourable Tatsuo Ozawa
Brinkley, Frank, ed. Japan. Boston: J. B. Millet, 1898.
A classic study of Japanese life, culture, and art with hand-tinted photographs, including a reproduction of a tenth-century painting of the Kose School. Bound in a traditional style–flower-patterned silk over boards–this is no. 12 of a limited edition of 25 copies. [DS 809 B85 folio v.1-10]
Andrew George Alexander Russell
Harmon, Jacob Crismon. Crazy - the Kid, or, the Cowboy Scout. Sioux City, IA: n.p., 1921.
This modest pamphlet is exceedingly rare. Jacob Harmon’s colourful and vivid tales are inspired by his own experiences after he ran away from home and spent his teen years (the 1860s) living as a cowboy. [F 596 H37 1921]
Dr Manmohan Singh
Hoffmeister, Werner. Travels in Ceylon and Continental India: Including Nepal and Other Parts of the Himalayas to the Borders of Thibet with Some Notices of the Overland Route. Edinburgh: William P. Kennedy, 1848.
A volume of Werner Hoffmeister’s writings, compiled after he died during the expedition. Hoffmeister pressed over 100 new plant species, preserving them to accompany his written observations, making a significant contribution to the scientific record in Europe. [DS 413 H699 1848 E5]
Dr Christopher R. Somerville
Sherman, Thomas. The Second Part of the Pilgrims Progress: From This Present World of Wickedness and Misery, to an Eternity of Holiness and Felicity; Exactly Described under the Similitude of a Dream. London: Malthus, 1683.
This very rare volume is an interesting addition to the Peel library’s important collection of John Bunyan’s Works. Following the extraordinary success of numerous editions of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Thomas Sherman penned a “second part” ostensibly to “correct the frivolous tone” of Bunyan’s original. [PR 3687 S15 S54 1683]
Dr Mamoru Watanabe
Levillier, Roberto. Americo Vespucio. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1966.
The first and only edition of a major study of the life and work of Americo (or Amerigo) Vespucio, the influential fifteenth-century merchant and explorer after whom America seems to have been named. The volume is a valuable addition to the library, and includes many illustrations and maps. [E 125 V5 L68 1966]
Margaret Zeidler
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is best known for Sonnets from the Portuguese, but Aurora Leigh is in many ways a more important book. An enormously popular epic poem/novel, one that contributed significantly to debates about gender and power in the Victorian period. This is the uncommon first edition. [PR 4185 A1 1857]
1996
Margaret C. Cammaert
Muter, Elizabeth McMulline. Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864.
This first edition of Elizabeth Muter’s travel book offers a fascinating look into women’s lives, both everyday events and under extraordinary circumstances, in the British colonial period. Travel writing was a popular genre for women writers in this period and their work offers a critical source of historical information. [DS 413 M88 A38 1864 v.1-2]
Eric Ericson
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix. Paulus: Opus 36; Oratorium nach Worten der heiligen Schrift. Bonn: N. Simrock, [1837].
German composer Felix Mendelssohn was just 27 years old when his oratorio Paulus–treating the life and work of the apostle Paul–debuted in Düsseldorf to great acclaim. His father, who died before it was completed, said that it "united old customs with modern means." This is the uncommon first edition. [M 2000 M53 P33 1837 folio]
Eldon D. Foote
Humbert, Aimé. Japan and the Japanese, Illustrated. Trans. Cashel Hoey and H.W. Bates. London: Richard Bentley, 1874.
This is the first English edition of a richly-illustrated study of Japanese culture, including domestic life, religion, politics, education, theatre, etc., written by a Swiss diplomat during his two years (1863-1864) serving in Japan. [DS 809 H919 1874 folio]
Richard F. Haskayne
Evers, Larry, and Felipe S. Molina. Wo’i Bwikam: Coyote Songs from the Yaqui Bow Leaders’ Society. Illus. Cynthia Miller. Tucson: Chax Press, 1990.
No. 21 of a limited edition of 100 copies, this stunning artist’s book offers fresh translations of centuries-old Coyote songs gathered from Yaqui Elders accompanied by scholarly notes. It is a valuable addition to the Indigenous language materials housed in the Peel library. [PM 4526 Z77 W6 1990 folio]
Paul Janssen
Daudet, Alphonse. Lettres de mon moulin. Monte Carlo: Éditions "Le Parnasse," 1965.
Alphonse Daudet’s Lettres de mon moulin (or “Letters from My Windmill”) is a collection of short stories that was first published in 1869. This special limited edition (No. 39 of 188) features 53 original watercolours by Hubert Clerissi reproduced in full colour, and the unbound pages are encased in a special handmade box. [PQ 2216 L5 1965 folio]
The Honorable H.A. "Bud" Olson
Tolfrey, Frederic. The Sportsman in Canada. London: T.C. Newby, 1845.
In this delightfully-illustrated narrative, the author describes his travels and adventures during a trip to Upper and Lower Canada in 1815. Hoping to entice European settlers to “this land of lake and mountain,” the author highlights the appeal of being a “sportsman” in Canada. [FC 72 T649 1845 v.1-2 c.1]
Michael Smith
Jay, Ricky. The Magic Magic Book: An Inquiry into the Venerable History and Operation of the Oldest Trick Conjuring Books, Designated "Blow Books" [For Whomsoever Bloweth on the Pages, If He Be Versed in the Secret Method, May Cause the Images to Appear, Vanish and Change at Will Several Times] Adorned with Original Renderings from the Ateliers of These Esteemed Delineators of Artistic Impression: Vija Celmins ... Embellished with Ancient Iconography from the Collection of the Author of This Curious Compendium. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994.
This delightful publication is both a compendium and a trick. The first volume is a historical overview of books of magic, or “conjuring” books, enriched with illustrations and historical anecdotes. The second volume is an illusion of its own, complete with instructions on how to employ the “magic” it holds within. [GV 1547 J42 1994]
Paul M. Tellier
Carmichael-Smyth, Robert. The Employment of the People and the Capital of Great Britain in Her Own Colonies: At the Same Time Assisting Emigration and Penal Arrangements by Undertaking a Great National Work ... All This Fully Explained in a Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend the Author of "The Clockmaker": Containing Thoughts on the Subject of a British Colonial Railway Communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific. London: W.P. Metchim, 1849.
This small volume gives us educated musings on the nature of transport within the British Empire in 1849. Contained within the volume is a beautifully detailed, America-centric world map with sea routes between major harbour cities within the British Empire. [FC 508 R3 C287 1849 c.2]
Convocation Ceremonies in 1983. Image courtesy of
University of Alberta Archives.
1995
Olive Patricia Dickason
Laon, Jean de. Relation du voyage des François fait au Cap de Nord en Amérique. Paris: Pierre David, au Palais, 1654.
This seventeenth-century volume recounts the voyage of Jean de Laon, Lord of Aigremont, and his company on an expedition to French Guiana. Dedicated to the Duchess of Aiguillon, the book contains detailed descriptions of the region's land, people, and way of life. The text is accompanied by two illustrations and two fold-out maps, and bears the stamp of the Société de Géographie de Lyon, France's first provincial geographical society. [F 2450 L36 1654]
Clare James Drake
Bull, William Perkins. From Rattlesnake Hunt to Hockey: The History of Sports in Canada and of the Sportsmen of Peel 1798 to 1934. Toronto: The Perkins Bull Foundation; G. J. McLeod, 1934.
The second of ten volumes in the Perkins Bull Historical Series, this volume tackles the history of sports in Peel County, Ontario in great detail. Perkins Bull's text is accompanied by almost 200 illustrations, including eight in full colour. Beautifully bound and complete with its original dust jacket, this book was printed in Toronto and is no. 97 of 100 signed and numbered copies. [GV 55 B93]
Peter "Petro" Jacyk
Berynda, Pamva. Leksykon Slavenorosskiĭ. Kuteĭno: Tip. Obshchezhitel'nogo monostyri͡a, 1653.
This book has an extraordinary binding made of black pigskin over boards with bosses (metal knobs on the front and back covers) and iron clasps on leather straps. This "Church Slavonic" to "literary Ukrainian" dictionary was written by outstanding Ukrainian lexicographer, linguist, baroque poet, and Orthodox monk Pamva Berynda, and was inspired by his work as a proofreader and editor with the Kyivan Cave Monastery Press. The first edition was published in 1627; this is the second edition, published in 1653, which includes a foreword by Ioil Trutsevich, first abbot of the Orsha Kutein Monastery. [PG 693 B47 1653]
Gary William Wilcox McPherson
United States Census Office. Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in the United States (Except Alaska) at the Eleventh Census, 1890. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894.
This census volume by the U.S. Department of the Interior is one the most exhaustive treatments of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century. Indigenous peoples had not been treated in detail in previous censuses, and this study includes status reports on life on the reservations, schooling, employment, and many other topics. It is lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs on colour plates. A very scarce volume and a valuable addition to the Gregory Javitch Collection of Books about Indigenous Peoples. [E 98 T24 U55 1894]
Dr Tattanahall Lakshminarayani Nagabhushan
Cummins, Maureen. The Garden: A Visual Meditation on Man and Nature. New York: Inanna Press, 1993.
This beautiful, wordless fable about our intense and fragile relationship with nature is told through simple, striking coloured woodcut illustrations contained within an accordion binding, thus allowing the complete story to be "read" at once. Created by book artist, printer, and binder Maureen Cummins of Inanna Press, this is a significant addition to Peel library's artists' books collection. It is housed in its own lovely cloth-covered slipcase, complete with a watercolour illustration mounted on the case's cover. Printed, bound, and signed by the author, this is no. 14 of 30 copies. [N 7433.4 C97 A6 G218 1993]
Dr Glenda Patricia Simms
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. Retrospection: Or, a Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, Which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind. Vol 1-2. London: John Stockdale, 1801.
This very scarce first edition, made up of two volumes, is a thoughtful, personal examination of major historical events from the first century A.D. to 1801. Written by Hester Lynch Piozzi, a close friend of Dr Samuel Johnson, who edited his letters and wrote the Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. She also published lively observations of an Italian tour and several other volumes. [D 18 P569 1801 vol. 1-2]
Jake Superstein
Ozick, Cynthia. Epodes: First Poems. Prints by Sidney Chafetz. Athens, OH: Logan Elm P at Ohio State U, 1992.
This beautiful artist's book combines poetry and vibrant hand-inked linoleum block prints. It is printed on handmade cotton and abaca fiber paper sheets which are sewn onto a willow wood spine, and has a matching custom willow wood box. It is the first collection of poems–many of which were previously published in various journals–by novelist, critic, and poet Cynthia Ozick, whose work explores themes of Jewish identity, the divine, and the role of art in culture. This is no. 90 of 150 copies, signed by poet Cynthia Ozick, designer Robert Tauber, producer Russell McKnight, and print artist Sidney Chafetz. [PS 3565 Z64 E66 1992 folio]
William Arnold Thorsell
Blake, William. An Island in the Moon: A Facsimile of the Manuscript. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP with Institute of Traditional Science, 1987.
This is a meticulously-executed scholarly facsimile of one of Blake's earliest manuscripts, which had never previously been published. Written around 1785, this work is significant to understanding Blake at a formative stage in his development as both a poet and a printmaker. The manuscript includes the dramatic satire known as An Island in the Moon, as well as draft versions of three of his Songs of Innocence and Experience, and early references to his illuminated printing methods. The facsimile features a transcription of the text as well as annotations, and includes a second copy of the manuscript, bound as a standalone booklet without additional text. Beautifully printed in Verona, Italy, it is no. 399 of 775 copies. [PR 4144 I7 1987 folio]
1994
Doris Badir
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. The Linwoods, or, “Sixty Years Since” in America. New York:
Harper, 1835. [PS 2798 L56 1835 v.1-2]
Paul Davenport
Snow, Kathleen M. Maxwell Bates: Biography of an Artist. Calgary: U of Calgary P, 1993.
[ND 249 B29 S66 1993]
<James> Frank Elliott
Dove, Toni. Mesmer: Secrets of the Human Frame. New York: Granary Books, 1993.
[N 7433.4 D68 A6 M47 1993]
Dasha Sosia Goody
Curll, Edmund. Faithful Memoirs of the Life, Amours and Performances, of That Justly
Celebrated, and Most Eminent Actress of Her Time, Mrs. Anne Oldfield; Interspersed with
Several Other Dramatical Memoirs by William Egerton. London, 1731.
[PN 2598 O44 C97 1731]
Dr Leslie Claude Green
Plato. The Symposium of Plato. Trans. Tom Griffith. Engraved by Peter Foster. Marlborough,
Wiltshire, England: Libanus Press, 1986. [B 385 A5 G68 1986]
His Excellency The Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Reuilly, Jean, Baron de. Voyage en Crimée et sur les bords de la Mer Noire, pendant l'année
1803; suivi d'un mémoire sur le commerce de cette mer, et de notes sur les principaux ports
commerçans. Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1806. [DK 511 C7 R45 1806]
Roger Alexandre Hurtubise
Canto, Francisco de. Arte, y Vocabulario en la lengua general del Perumallada Quichua, y en
la lengua Españols. Los Reyes: Francisco del Canto, 1614. [PM 6306 C368 1614]
David <George Alexander> McLean (two items)
Hudson's Bay Company. Private Instructions for the Company's Agents. London: Hudson's
Bay Company, 1858. [FC 3213.9 W3 H886 1858 folio]
Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, Baron. Correspondence Relating to
Disturbances at Red River, 1869-70. London: Printers: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, 1875.
[FC 3214 C824 1875 folio]
Stanley Albert Milner (5 items)
National Parks Branch, Canada. The Banff Windermere Highway. Ottawa: F.A. Ackland,
1924. [FC 3664 B2 C21 1923a]
Chateau Lake Louise. What to Do at Lake Louise in the Canadian Pacific Rockies. Lake
Louise: Chateau Lake Louise, 1928. [FC 3664 B2 W55 1928]
Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Resorts in the Rockies. C.P.R., 1931.
[FC 219 C216 1931]
Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper National Park, Alberta in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Jasper: C.N.R., 1931? [FC 3664 J3 J343 1931]
Jasper Trails. Ottawa: Canada Department of the Interior, 1930. [FC 3664 J3 C225 1930]
1993
Violet Archer
Huggins, Margaret L. Gio. Paolo Maggini., His Life and Work. London: W.E. Hill, 1892.
[ML 424 M23 H89 1892]
Helen Forrester
Wakeman, Geoffrey. Victorian Colour Printing. [Loughborough]: Plough Press, 1981.
[Z 151 W15 1981 folio]
Ray Fortune
Salguero, Pedro. Vida del Venerable Padre. Roma: En la Imprenta de los Herederos de
Barbielini, 1761. [BX 4705 B252 S24 1761]
Edgar T. Jones
Berg, Stephen. Sea Ice: Versions of Eskimo Songs. Omaha: Cummington Press, 1988.
[PS 3552 E66 S4 1988]
Walter Kaasa
Fenton, Frank, ed. Pioneer Western Playbills. San Francisco, 1951. [PN 2273 W4 B72]
Yukio Kobayashi
Jones, Douglas G. A Thousand Hooded Eyes: Poems. Vancouver: Editions Lucie Lambert,
1990. [N 7433.4 J66 A6 T56 1990]
Hiroshi Kurimoto
Allix, Susan J. A Flora: Words About Flowers. London: S. Allix, c1992.
[N 7433.4 A45 F56 1992 folio]
Levko Lukianenko
Pravda 1867-[1896]. Lʹviv, 1878. [PG 3900 P918 r.11:t1-2 1878]
The Right Honorable Donald F. Mazankowski
Warriner, Francis. Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac round the World, During the
Years 1831-34, Embracing the Attack on Quallah Battoo, with Notices of Scenes, Manners,
etc., in Different Parts of Asia, South America, and the Islands of the Pacific. New York:
Leavitt, Lord & Co.; Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1835. [DS 646.1 W295 1835]
James R. Shaw
Ingraham, J.H. Lafitte, the Pirate of the Gulf. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836.
[PS 2048 I52 L34 1836]
Michaëlle Jean received an Honorary Degree from University of Alberta in 2008. Image courtesy of U of A photographer Richard Siemens.
1992
Ted Tetsuo Aoki
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. San Francisco:
Arion Press, 1991.
[B 3376 W833 U14 1991 folio]
David Edward Barmes
Vallisnieri, Antonio. Lezione Accademia Intorno all’
origine delle Fontane. In Venezia:
Appresso Gio. Gabbriello Ertz, 1715.
[GB 1198 V189 1715]
Hélène Cixous
White, Patrick E. Eurydice Unbound. Relief prints
by John Talleur. Lawrence, Kansas:
Holiseventh Press, [1988].
[N 7433.4 W587 A6 E89 1988 folio]
Naomi Louisa Hersom
Mansfield, Katherine. Prelude. Richmond:
Hogarth Press, 1918. [PR 6025 A61 A75 1918]
Marjorie Hodgeson
Liggins, Kerry D., and Michael A. Owen, eds. Hotamé-Taneo’o: Art of the Dog Soldiers.
Victoria: Howard B. Roloff and Northland Explorations Inc., c1987.
[E 98 A65 H84 1987 folio]
Oleksandr Honchar
Bible. Gospels. Church Slavic. Kiev: Veliko, 1697. [BS 2554 C45 1697 folio]
The Rev. K. Glen Johnson
Freneau, Philip Morin. Poems Written Between the Years 1768 and 1794. Monthmouth, NJ:
Freneau, 1795. [PS 755 A1 1795]
Ronald Earl Jordan
Rogerson, Ian. Agnes Miller Parker, Wood-engraver and Book Illustrator, 1895-1980.
Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press, 1990. [NE 1147.6 P32 R75 1990]
Mary Lobay
Green, Sarah. Mental Improvement for a Young Lady on Her Entrance into the World:
Addressed to a Favourite Niece. London: Minerva Press, 1793. [BJ 1681 G798 1793]
Hugh John Sanders Pearson
Bontier, Pierre. Histoire de la première descouverte et conqueste des Canaries: Faite dés
l'an 1402 par Messire Jean de Béthencourt, chambellan du Roy Charles VI. Paris: Michel
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George Elliott Clarke received an Honorary Degree from University of Alberta in 2005. Image courtesy of U of A photographer Richard Siemens.
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In partnership with the University Senate, librarians at Bruce Peel Special Collections began selecting books to celebrate honorary degree recipients in 1987 so that is where this record ends. Honorary Degrees have been awarded by the University of Alberta since its founding in 1908, and a complete list of recipients can be found on the Senate website here.