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Mrs Ann S Stephens, EditorBiblio.com

The Portland Sketch Book Important Provenance - William D. Williamson Maine Historian

Multiple ContributorsBiblio.com

British Columbia Telephone Company B.C. Tel./Telus Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January 1924 Through December 1924

192473aa1980British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company. Fair. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great cover photo of Duncan operating room; Several photos of new interior plant equipment at Duncan; Sensational 9-page feature on Duncan and district with great photos of the area including Duncan Station Maple Bay Genoa Bay and an aerial view; Fire deprives downtown Vancouver of service - photos and text; Grand Forks office and staff; Table showing "Exchanges in order of Per Cent Good Calls Out"; Statement of Development as of 1 January 1924 showing number of phones per community; Cover photo of steamer Jacques Cartier; Nice full-page showing two views of Vancouver Harbour with many ships in port; 7 page feature on the Port of Vancouver with several great photos; Possibilities of both radio and wire telephony; Exchanges in order of percent good out calls; Excellent full-page photo of Ballantyne pier Burrard Inlet; Take advantage of company's new savings plan; Fine addition to shipping facilities on Burrard Inlet - Ballantyne Pier - 5 great photos with text; Greater Vancouver will benefit by reduced telephone rate; Repair shop has greatly expanded in recent years - 6 pages with nice photos; nice full-page photo of the Empress of Australia in port; Greater Vancouver Inter-Exchange Telephone Service; Fold-out map of Vancouver area exchanges complet with great statistics; Telephone extenstion to Campbell River; 8 page feature on the flow of commerce through Canada's western port with many absolutely smashing photos; Cover photo of Glenburn office; 6-page feature on the B.C. Herring fishery with excellent photos re: sea lions contains the following quote "The government is undertaking to greatly lessen the numbers of this prey animal"; archival photo of laying the first underground cable in Vancouver; Statement of Development - # of phones operating in each community; Cover photo of Milner office; photo mosaic of 5 lower valley exchange offices; Wonderful 8 page feature on the great supply district i.e. the lower Fraser Valley of BC coastal cities - excellent photos including a shot of the only remaining original Hudson's Bay Company building at Langley; New Gordon Head Exchange cut over; New Point Grey office under way; new observation office aids efficiency; Electrical Communication Development; Full-page photo of sailors from the battleship H.M.S. Repulse marching through Vancouver; Multiple photos of British warships docked at Victoria; Article and photos of the visit of the Royal Navy to Vancouver; The Traffic Department and the Public it serves; Tennis Tournaments; Printing a phone directory; Great feature on Ship Salvors Salvagers with many photos; A motoring trip through the U.S. with photos; Biggest cable will cross False Creek; Oxygen Farms; Cornelius Vanderbilt writes of his long distance call from Alberni to Los Angeles; P.B.X. serves interesting purposes - 5 pages with photos; Early motor tourists to B.C. with photos; Full-page photo of the Empress of Canada; 5 page illustrated article on the reclamation of the Sumas; The switchboard as a newspaper; Health secrets of the telephone pole - 3 illustrated pages; new Victoria equipment; Bayview library proves popular; cover photo of a long-distance operator timing a call with a calculagraph; Billing toll and inter-exchange calls keeps eight clerks busy - 3 pages with photos; 7 page a; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exc . British Columbia Telephone Company hardcover

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FREZIER, Amedee Francois (1682-1773)Biblio.com

Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou fait pendant les années 1712 1713 & 1714 : dediée à S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc D'Orleans Regent du Royaume / par M. Frézier ingenieur ordinaire du roy ; ouvrage enrichi de quantité de planches en taille-douce

1716BB0841Paris: chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon quay de Conti au coin de la rue Guenegaud au Nom de Jesus Etienne Ganeau rue Saint Jacques aux Armes de Dombes vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin Jacque Quillau imprimeur-juré-libraire rue Galande aux Armes de l'Université 1716. First Edition. A defective first edition missing one map and one plate of this classic in the literature of Pacific voyages of exploration. 4to: xiv2982pp with 35 of 37 maps plans and plates 18 of which are folding; ornamental engraved vignettes and woodcut musical notation in the text never bound in were the map of Détroit de le Maire no. v and the plate of Indiens en habits simples no. ix; plate xvi was bound in twice. Contemporary calf spine richly gilt in six compartments brown leather lettering piece gilt "Caissotti" in gilt script on upper board all edges stained red marbled end papers red silk page marker. An exceptional wide-margined copy text maps and plates fresh and clean marred only by a stain in the gutter of first three leaves. Provenance: copper-engraved bookplate "Il Cittadino / Carlo Giac. Caissotti." Sabin 25924. Borba de Moraes 328. Hill p. 115. Leclerc 1736. Palau 94964. Gibson's Library p. 128. Item #BB0841. Frézier set sail in 1712 with a French commission to assess the strength of Spanish settlements on the Pacific coast and to revise existing charts. According to Hill he "brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value" to later navigators and his account is today appreciated for its keen observations of the customs commerce and natural history—including the cotton and strawberry plants—of Chile Peru and Tierra del Fuego. It's interesting to note that Frezier's surname was itself derived from fraise the French for strawberry. The chapters on Indian and Creole life include descriptions of costume and architecture as well as musical instruments. The folding plans of cities visited are often enhanced by panoramic views as in the case of Callao Concepción Valparaíso La Serena Salvador de Bahía and Angra Azores. Amongst the most important plates are the general map of the expedition the Strait of Lemaire Valdivia Bahía de an Vicente Santiago de Chile Lima and Bahía de Todos los Santos. An immediate success the work was soon translated into English and German and republished several times in the eighteenth century. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Arm unknown

Fine Editions Ltd · États-Unis1 249,00 $US≈ 1 056,78 €

ROBERTSON, William (1721-1793); Antonio Pillori [translates]Biblio.com

Hand-Colored Storia di America del dottore Guglielmo Robertson : tradotta dall' originale inglese dall' ab. Antonio Pillori Fiorentino The History of America

1783BB0692In Venezia Venice: Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia 1783. Original Wraps. Fine. Second Venice Edition of Antonio Pillori's translation of Robertson's standard work on the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Demy 8vo 202 x 136mm: xxiv240pp with frontispiece portrait of Columbus and large folding map of Gulf of Mexico showing Florida Cuba Jamaica and farther Caribbean islands; 25-328pp with frontispiece portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas and folding map of South America; 23-359 p. 181 misnumbered "281"; p. 304 "204"1pp with frontispiece portrait of Cortés and folding map of Mexico; 42951pp with frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and large folding map of Middle America. Original paper-case bindings with yapped edges manuscript titles and volume numbers to spines text block sewn on tawed tongs vol. iv with modern replacements. Worming to upper cover portrait title page and map margins of vol. iv now expertly restored by a paper conservationist. A remarkably fresh wide-margined set in original paper-case bindings complete in four volumes eight books as issued with all four folding maps colored in outline by a contemporary hand as the John Carter Brown Library copy. Borba de Moraes p. 740-41 first edition. Sabin 71997 noting the Venice editions of 1778 and 1802 only. Originally published in two volumes in 1777 by Strahan and Cadell in London and Balfour in Edinburgh "to a very positive reception" ODNB; first Venice edition published in 1778. "Its success" according to the ODNB "was even more marked on the continent where it was considered Robertson's masterpiece . . . With its dramatic sweep of narrative combined with a provocative confrontation of two very different stages of civilization Spanish and Native American and a prose that was more flexible and evocative than that of his earlier books the History of America is often regarded as Robertson's most interesting original and even Romantic work. However it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities." Borba de Moraes credits Roberston with writing the "first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. . . . The bibliography at the end of the second volume is remarkable for the time." Franklin D. Roosevelt owned the first Venice edition. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia unknown

Fine Editions Ltd · États-Unis1 249,00 $US≈ 1 056,78 €

Robert SibbaldBiblio.com

Scotia Illustrata sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis in quo Regionis natura Incolarum Ingenia & Mores Morbi iisque medendi Methodus & Medicina Indigena accurrate explicantur; et.

1684032500Edinburgh: Jacobi Kniblo Josuae Solingensis & Johannes Colmarii 1684 A good copy of this scarce work in later full cloth binding with 22 illustrations on 20 plates. Robert Sibbald 1641-1722 was born in Fife and qualified as a physician after study in Leiden and Paris. He was appointed as the first Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University and became Geographer Royal in 1682. He had a particular interest in creating frameworks for proper study - the proper institutions and evidence base. This work 'The Illustrated Essay of the Natural History of Scotland' is a systematic review of the natural resources of Scotland - from the weather to geography geology plant and animal life - including disease and local cures. This copy has a sound but worn rebacked cloth binding with gilt titles and date to spine. There is an ink signature of I Strachan to the fep which is not original and some ink letters and numbers to the initial blank which is. Contents with title page; dedication 2pp; contents framework 1p; approvals; and text laid out in 3 main sections with separate title pages and pagination; followed by an Appendix; further text and errata and the plates bound at the rear. Sections: title page 1683; poem 1p; diploma 2pp; text pp 1-15; half title; 4pp diploma 2pp; praefatio 3pp text pp 1-47; finis. blank text 49-102; finis partis primae; index 6pp. Title page 1684; dedication 2pp; index 2pp; texxt pp 1-56; catalogus plantarum pp 57-62; text pp 63-114; finis partis secundae; index 6pp; title page 1684; dedication 2pp; index 2pp; text pp 1-35; finis; appendix pp 36-7; index 4pp; half title; index 1p; text 41-56; index 2pp; plate list 1p; errata 1p; finis; plates. Contents are in very good clean condition. There is occasional light staining in the margins - mostly the top margin; very occasionally at the side. There are some very small ink lines in a blank area on one page; and one mispagination - 3rd part - 11-10-11-14 - with continuous text. There is an ink signature of Eben Vetch 1706 on the main title page. Jacobi Kniblo, Josuae Solingensis & Johannes Colmarii hardcover

E C Books · Royaume-Uni900,00 £GB≈ 1 027,62 €

Walter BlithBiblio.com

The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed Discovering the Improveableness of all Lands.With a Second Part; Containing Six Newer Peeces of Improvement

1652032849London: John Wright 1652 A good copy of the 'Third Impression much Augmented' in full leather binding with new spine with raised bands and title label and contemporary boards. Blith 1604-1654 was known as a writer on husbandry. He was a supporter of Cromwell as the decorative title page with the motto 'Vive La Re Publick.' demonstrates. The book sets out and promotes improvements in husbandry and was suppressed after the Restoration in 1660. The binding is sound and clean. There is a lot of wear and leather loss at the corners. The marbled endpapers look to have had repair and are probably predate the binding work. The contents have toning and there has been some close trimming to margins notable in the epistles section at the beginning where page titles are missing but there is no loss to text. There is the signature of Philip Styles to the initial blank and a signature of Tho Wilkins 1683 to the recto of the decorative title - possibly although could be another Wilkins repeated at the side of the title page. Contents: decorative title; letterpress title blank verso; dedication 12pp; Various epistles 30pp; Poems 3 pp; errata 1p; text pp 1-262 with one diagram in the text 2 folding and 2 single plates; finis with signature of Tho W; appendix 8pp; table 10pp; finis. Extra leaves have been inserted in some places on instruction: between 230 and 231 and 248 and 249. A leaf has been added between 256 and 261 - on instruction and the ties work from 256 to the new leaf and to 262 There are some mispaginations with no loss of text: 22-73-24; 228-226-230; 235-234-235-238; 264-752-258. There is occasional staining and there is a little tearing in the gutter of the final leaves of the table. Occasional light annotation and underlining - most in pencil. Book size: 19 cms x 14 cms. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images. John Wright hardcover

E C Books · Royaume-Uni900,00 £GB≈ 1 027,62 €

Hooker, William Jackson (et al); [JE Smith & J de Carle Sowerby] J EBiblio.com

Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J.E. Smith and Mr Sowerby. Volumes I II III & IV with approximately 366 hand coloured plates

1831021666London: Sold by the Proprietor J. Sowerby or C.E. Sowerby; latterly J.W. Salter 1831. 1831 - 1849. Four volumes octavo illustrated with approximately 366 hand coloured plates four of which are folding generally in very good condition occasionally printed on slightly duller paper recently bound in a plain but qood quality brown cloth slight markings to the upper cover of one volume. Volume I - plates 2593 - 2692 extremely clean and bright. Volume II - plates 2693 - 2796 the first ten plates and text have faint fold markings otherwise very clean and bright. Volume III - plates 2798 - 2866 lacking 2797 one plate with a paper crease probably a production fault. Volume IV - is where it gets complicated. The plates and text are now bound more or less in systematic order - 2886 2908 2951 2918 2916 2955 2943 2922 2898 2944 2928 2917 2906 2934 2905 2903 2952 2900 2935 2903 2909 2892 2893 2891 2890 2895 2887 2968 2870 2930 2946 2914 2897 2958 2875 2953 2876 2877 2904 2950 2868 2949 2960 2945 2929 2915 2884 2931 2896 2910 2885 2923 2895 2924 2880 2932 2901 2887 2919 2888 2936 2878 2871 2942 2907 2925 2947 2873 2874 2957 2902 2872 2921 2912 2882 2881 2938 2937 2889 2894 2948 2913 2879 2889 2911 2940 2920 2959 2941 2954 2926 2927 2958 2939 2933. lacking 2883 & 2940 . The paper in this last volume is of poorer quality with a little age-toning occasional scattered light blemishes or foxing. RARE. A further volume was published in 1863 but is not present here but all volumes are exceedingly scarce. A vital addition to the first edition of English Botany but rarely to be found. In the advertisement to Volume I it explains that the death of Sowerby in 1822 and Smith in 1828 delayed any possibility of the publication of these new discoveries. However Sowerby's two sons were now embarking on this venture which they originally thought would be complete in two volumes. Latterly the descriptions were completed by eminent botanists such as C.C. Babington William Borer M.J. Berkeley and William Wilson. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Sold by the Proprietor J. Sowerby or C.E. Sowerby; latterly J.W. Salter Hardcover

Mike Park Ltd · Royaume-Uni895,00 £GB≈ 1 021,91 €

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