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Acquired in honour of Dr Ruth Collins-Nakai

Although this is an American cookbook, originating as a semi-literary series for Good Housekeeping, this particular copy belonged to Albertan Lilian Leversedge (1913–2001), perhaps the daughter of Anglican minister Walter Leversedge and his…

Loose Sheets. 14 x 14 x 2 cm.
N 7433.4 M52 A6 L15 1984

One significant new direction in my collection since A History of Fish debuted is my effort to collect books in less-common languages and from non-Western authors. This set, purchased from a bookseller in Japan, includes the complete fish section of…

Codex. 18 x 27 cm.
N 7433.4 V211 A6 H26 2007

Jean Brodie was a popular Toronto-based food writer in the 1930s, responsible for 100 Tested Recipes, produced for the Farmer’s Dairy in Toronto. She also edited a food column for the Toronto Star: as one early ad put it, “To further its…

This plate from my fragmentary copy of Renard’s Poissons [1754] illustrates four species of tropical fish from the Indonesian archipelago.

The decorative title page of Strack’s work credits “Arnz & Co” as the lithographers.

Children’s books are a fascinating genre to collect, as these books were often heavily used and thus show evidence of how previous owners cared for their books. Elsje bij de Visschen [1892] was fitted with a custom dust jacket bearing an…