Featured items that Wilfrid M. de Freitas plans to bring to RMBPF 2011.
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Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller
Wilfrid de Freitas & Susan Ravdin
Box 883, Stock Exchange Tower Montreal QC H4Z 1K2 Canada
514-935-9581
www.defreitasbooks.com
wilfrid@defreitasbooks.com
First Editions, Natural History, Travel and Exploration, Architecture, Sir Winston Churchill, Vanity Fair prints
Booth Number: 13

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Sir Winston Churchill. The Second World War. London. 1948-54. Six volumes; first editions in dust jackets. **Inscribed by Churchill in volume 1**. Sometimes referred to as the Greatest Briton, it has been said of Churchill that he marshaled the English language and sent it into war. He was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature; The Second World War, is, arguably his most famous work. Price $6,000.00
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[Natural History] Griffith Hughes. The Natural History of Barbados in Ten Books. London 1750. First edition. Small folio. With folding double-page map of the island, and thirty spectacular engraved botanical and zoological plates. Price $6,000.00
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[Natural History] Sowerby, G.B. Illustrated Index of British Shells. London. 1887. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Spectacular original gilt lettered scarlet cloth, with twenty-four superb hand-coloured plates; all edges gilt. Price $525.00