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In addition to the diversity of perspectives that non-Western books bring to my collection, the physical books themselves reveal differing characteristics of book-making around the world. These Japanese books are bound by punching holesthrough the…

This plate from Harris’s The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (1898) features the Pumpkinseed Sunfish, a fish of personal significance to me. This species was one of the first fish I captured from a local pond and is…

Artists Iain and Ingrid Baxter formed the NE Thing Co in 1966. The Company, which was incorporated under Canadian law, challenged the supposed divide between art and everyday life—and particularly everyday economic life—while also parodying the…

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.