Rare & Out-of-Print Titles

Attention Handook Collectors, Book Lovers and Researchers

 

We have a small supply of out-of-print books, available for purchase while they last. Many are first editions and in pristine condition; others are slightly used or scuffed, or marked with researcher’s notes or library catalogue data.


Many of these books contain outdated information, but they remain valuable for their historical significance or as part of a collection. The asterisk after a listing indicates that a newer edition is still in print and listed in this catalogue .

These rare and out-of-print titles are available only from the Royal Museum Shop. Please inquire about availability and price before placing an order.


Museum Handbooks
(handbook numbers in parentheses)
Alien Animals in B.C. (14)
Amphibians (2, 45)*
Barnacles (7)
Birds of B.C. 1, Woodpeckers; 2, Crows (6)
Birds of B.C. 3: Shorebirds (8)
Birds of B.C. 4: Upland Game Birds (10)
Birds of B.C. 5: Gulls, Terns, Jaegers & Skua (13)
Birds of B.C. 6: Waterfowl (15)
Birds of B.C. 7: Owls (18)
Birds of B.C. 8: Chickadees, Thrushes, Kinglets Pippits, Waxwings & Shrikes (22)
Birds of B.C. 9: Diving Birds & Tube-nosed Swimmers (29)
Birds of B.C. 10: Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hummingbirds & Swallows (37)
Birds of B.C. 11: Sparrows & Finches (42)
Dragonflies (35)*
Edible Plants, Guide to Common (20)
Ferns and Fern Allies (12)
Figwort Family (33)
Food Plants of B.C. Indians, Part 1: Coastal Peoples (34)*
Food Plants of B.C. Indians, Part 2: Interior Peoples (36)*
Freshwater Fishes (5)
Grasses (9)
Heather Family (19)
Intertidal Bivalves (17)
Intertidal Univalves (26)
Lily Family (25)
Mammals (11)*
Marine Fishes, Some Common (23)
Marine Life, Guide to (21)
Mosquitoes (41)
Mosses, Some Common (28)
Mushrooms & Other Fungi (4)
Mushrooms, Guide to Common (24)
Orchids (16)
Pea Family (32)
Plants in B.C. Indian Technology (38)*
Reptiles (3, 44)*
Rose Family (30)
Sea Stars (39)*
Seaweeds, Guide to Common (27)
Sedge Family (43)
Trees and Shrubs, Guide to (31)*


Other Titles
 
First Nations
An Earlier Population of Hesquiat Harbour, B.C. (Cybulski 1978)
Bella Coola Texts (Davis & Saunders 1980)
CRARA 77: Papers from the 4th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Rock Art Research Associates (Lundy, ed. 1977)
Report on Excavations Around Totem Pole Bases of Anthony Island (Abbott & Keen 1993)
Senewelets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden (Burley 1989)
Spoken Word (Levine 1983)
Test Excavations at Georgeson Bay, B.C. (Haggarty & Sendey 1976)
Thompson Ethobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of BC (Turner et al. 1990)
Victoria Conference on Northwest Languages (Efrat, ed. 1979)
Wisdom of the Elders (pb / hc, Kirk 1986)
History
Annotated Bibliography of Education History of B.C. (Giles 1992)
Captain James Cook & the Pacific Voyages (Parker & Turner 1978)
Motion Picture Production in British Columbia, 1849–1940 (Browne 1979)
Responding to Fashion:  The Clothing of the O’Reilly Family (Careless 1993)
Natural History
Ecological Reserves (Foster, ed. 1975)
Mountains & Seas: Selected Papers (Hosford, ed. 1976)
Natural History of the Forbidden Plateau Area (Hardy 1954)
Our Living Legacy: Proceedings of a Symposium on Biologocal Diversity (Fenger et al, eds, 1993)
Zoology
Bibliography of Pacific Northwest Herpetology (Campbell et al 1982)
Allan Brooks: Artist, Naturalist (Laing 1979)
Collecting & Preserving Fishes (Peden 1976)
English, French and Scientific Names of Pacific Fish of Canada (Jean et al 1981)
Evolution of Mammals of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Foster 1965)
Fishes Observed at Canadian Weathership Ocean Station Papa (Peden et al 1985)
Freshwater Ostracodes from the Sourthern Interior of B.C. (Green 1994)
Mammals of B.C.: A Taxonomic Catalogue (Nagorsen 1990)
Mosquitoes of B.C. (Curtis 1967)
Birds
Acoustic Signals of Shorebirds (Miller 1992)
Attracting & Feeding Birds (Campbell & Hosford 1979)
Bibliography of B.C. Ornithology, vol. 1 (Campbell et al 1979)
Bibliography of B.C. Ornithology, vol. 2 (Campbell et al 1988)
Birds of B.C., Vol. 1: Nonpasserines, Loons through Waterfowl (First edition, Campbell et al 1990)
Birds of B.C., Vol 2: Nonpasserines, Birds of Prey through Woodpeckers (First edition, Campbell et al 1990)*
Birds of the Okanagan Valley (hc/pb, Cannings et al 1987)
Birds of Pacific Rim National Park (Hatler et al 1978)
Field Studies of the Falconiformes of B.C. (Bebe 1974)
Waterfowl on a Pacific Estuary (Leach 1982)
Botany
Bromus L. of North America (Pavlick 1995)
Flora of the Saanich Pen. 1972
Flora of the Southern B.C. - supp. 1947
Illustrated Key to (1) Common Grass Genera, (2) Gymnosperms (Barneveld et al 1980)
Illustrated Key to Dicotyledon Families of B.C. (Rafiq et al 1982)
Illustrated Key to Gymnosperms of B.C. (Barneveld et al 1980)
Illustrated Key to Monocotyledon Families of B.C. (Rafiq et al 1982)
Sunflower Family of B.C., vol. 1: Senecioneae (Douglas 1982)
Sunflower Family of B.C., vol. 2: Asteraceae (Douglas 1995)
Wildflowers of Manning Park (Underhill & Chuang) 1976
Wildflowers, Mt Revelstoke (Soper & Szczawinski) 1976

Museums
A Selection of Highlights from the First Peoples Ethnology Gallery (1979)*
Heritage Interpretation (Barkley, ed. 1981)
In Support of Difficult Shapes (Ward 1988)
Journey Through Time (Books 1 and 2, 1974)
Modern History Exhibit Guide (1974)*
Museum Collections: Their Roles & Future in Biological Research (Miller, ed. 1985)
Open Ocean: Creating Marine Models for Museum Exhibits (Aikins 1994)
Planning Docent Programs (Wood & Cuthbertson 1975)
Rocks, Rigs & Roughnecks: B.C.’s Oil & Gas Story (1988)
The Travelling Museum (Cuthbertson 1977)
What is a Provincial Museum? (1974)
Wild Harvest: Manufacturing Methods of Museum Components (1989)