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Cm. 27; pp. (2), V, (3), 569, (3). Legatura editoriale in tela rossa, titoli in oro al piatto e al dorso. Ritratto di Napoleone in antiporta, una cartina nel testo a piena pagina, 10 tavole fuori testo, 5 carte ripiegate custodite in tasca al fine volume. Ottimo esemplare, qualche lieve traccia d'uso. (729/P) 958/32
In 8, pp. 415. Lievissime mancanze al d. Gora al margine int. delle prime 60 e delle ultime 71 cc. Br. ed. Traduzione francese di un'opera militare pubblicata anonima in Germania nel 1843. Le lettere sono indirizzatea a Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), generale prussiano che contribui' alla sconfitta di Napoleone a Waterloo.
Complet en 2 tomes: ii,280 + 314pp.+ 1 carte dépliante des opérations militaires de 1815, 23cm., reliure cart. uniformes (plats marbrés, dos en toile rouge usés), quelques traces d'usage, qqs. cachets, texte en bon état, peu commun, B88130
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE AUCTION CATALOGUE, offering an unparalleled collection of prints by Antoine Waterloo (340 items, many unique). IV, 32 pp. Small 4to. Bound in contemporary cloth-backed decorated boards. Backstrip detached (but present). Internally FINE AND BRIGHT, with large margins.
Features: Hooked Rugs; The Unknown Furniture Master of Waterloo County; The Constancy of Glass; Christian L. Hoover - Markham Township fraktur artist; Remembering University College; The New Hamburg Pottery - Waterloo County, Ontario; Early Academic Laurels in Canada; Canadian Glass Collecting; The Shand House, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1890; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Carnegie Libraries of Canada; Funerary Heritage at Risk; The Legacy of Alexander Strathie - the architecture of the Strathie Family of Bonavista, Newfoundland; Closing the Seagram Museum - an era ends in redevelopment controversy in Waterloo, Ontario; Historic Preservation in Fort Simpson, NWT; Myrtleville's 160th Anniversary. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Across the Continent in Model A Fords; AAA Revives Glidden Trophy as 60th Anniversary Feature; Central Division Spring Meet at Waterloo, Iowa; Roamer Speedster Found! - Art Austria's 1921 model; Rambler Familiy Album, 1897-1962 - dozens and dozens of wonderful photos with captions; Paul Grard's 1900 Renault; A few notes on leather upholstery; and more. Front cover a bit faded otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Green Santas, Plum Pudding and Spritzen - Swiss, German, British and Ukrainian Christmas traditions are all current in Waterloo County, Ontario; Historic Houses re-create the Victorian Christmas; Signposts for Collectors VI - Canadian Presentation Pieces and Awards of Merit; Appraisals - how much is it worth? to whom? for what purpose?; Saints and Angels, Kings and Prophets - stained glass in Trinity College, University of Toronto; Railway Tickets - a new source of collectibles. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Harvie Ward Repeats; Chuck Kocsis Runner-Up; Art Wall wins at Fort Wayne; Marlene Hagge Wins; Photo of PGA President Harry Moffitt with Heather Downs and JoAnne Gunderson; Ten photos from the Knollwood Club include Will Grimsley, Wayne Fuson, Bob Goethals, Harvie Ward, Ken Venturi, Hugh Fullerton, Jr., Gerald J. Magee, Mrs. Joe Campbell, Mrs. Edward Harvie Ward, Jr. (Suzanne); Joe Campbell, Larry Robinson, Ted Gleichman, Johnny Dawson, Ronnie Wenzler, Chuck Kocsis, Hugh Fullerton, Lincoln A. Werden, Ward Wettlaufer and Rex Baxter; Two group photos from Eglin AFB include Larry Parker, Don Albert, Ray Terry, Don Saunders, Rand Carroll, and Ming Rose; Photo of Bob Davis; Photo of Lou Chiapetta with Dr. Norman G. Mathieson, and Marty Cromb; Photo of Jack Rule, of Waterloo, IA; Photo of attendees of Etonic sales meeting - their shoes have been selected by the PGA; Photo of three guests of the Pentagon - Charles Bassler, Shelley Mayfield and Max Elbin; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
32 pages. Map, car rosters and many black and white archival photos. "The name Canadian Pacific Electric Lines is the unofficial title given to the small electric railways leased by Canadian Pacific in Southern Ontario in the early 1900s. These began in Waterloo County between Galt and Preston and the first line, the Galt and Preston Street Railway opened on July 26, 1894." - from page one. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Bit of sticker remnant atop front cover. Sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
Leggera gora
8vo., First Edition, with 8 battle-plans in the text and 3 folding maps (2 coloured); original green cloth, upper board with double frame border in blind enclosing the Waterloo medal in gilt, gilt back, neatly recased else very good, clean copy. A rare survival in this condition.
Topics/Photos: America's Gemini 3 blasts into space; Man's first steps into space as Leonov swims from Voskhod 2; American steps to reduce Russian lead; Selma Civil Rights March; The future of the public school; Battle of Waterloo refought upon the Chelsea table-top; Rowing Battles; Hancock's Heroic Dash saves day for England; Oldest Sardis begins to emerge in American diggings; Rocking-Horse School; 3 Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Paris, 1834 circa. Incisione in rame, colore, cm 26 x 40,8 circa (la parte figurata). Bella veduta animata della battaglia. In recente ma bella coloritura, buona conservazione.
56 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration features WWII sailor dancing with attractive blonde; Drying Eggs - a new war industry - article with photo of egg drying room in Trenton plant of the Canadian Doughnut Co.; Are Farmers Indifferent? - article with photos of the homesteads of Orley Shaw near Forest, ON, and K.M. Betzner of R.R.2 Waterloo, ON; Farmers of the Lower Saint John - article with photos of the Fox and Dingee homesteads of Gagetown, N.B.; Treasure of a Derelict (fiction); Storm Tide (fiction); Fascinating half-page ad by the Department of Munitions and Supply says "Drastic New Regulations Are Now In Effect" restricting sales of new and used tires, tubes and retreading services; Half-page ad for Findlay Ranges of Carleton Place, ON shows military scene and housewife saying she can wait for her range in order to provide metal to the military; An Army Without Banners - article explains how women are producing food at home to supply the military, with photos of Beth Kellington and Mrs. Will Hewlett of the Stouffville district in York County; Photo-illustrated article on the 1942 Kemptville Conference of the Women's Institutes; Aunt Helen's Boys and Girls; Illustrated half-page ad by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario says WWII is "A War of Steel and Electricity"; Nice photo of horse-drawn hay wagon in action on the Cotton farm near Orillia; Photo of Wallace Knapp of Galt, Ontario on horse-drawn potato planter; Photo of young John McTaggart feeding lamb at the Don Head Farm in Richmond, Hill; Photos of prize animals owned by Featherstone Bros. of Oakville, Haas Bros. of Paris, Byron Rath of Mossley, J.R. Beattie of Aurora, R. Norman Hogg of Uxbridge, and Alfred Bagg of Edgeley; Poultry section includes photo of chicken 'apartment building' of Dr. D.F. McKinley of Unionville, ON; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label remnant on front cover. Five-inch diameter hole neatly cut from back cover, otherwise a sound vintage copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
Pages 977-1032.. Features: Nice colour-illustrated Rolex ad inside front cover features illustration of divers; Royal Airforce recruiting ad; Nice half-page Hooper car ad for the 7-seater Limo., design No. 8400; Royal photos of the Queen Mother's return from the U.S. at Waterloo; Great two-page series of illustrations of "Tridac" - the biggeset calculating machine in England - used to assist in the design of guided missiles and high-speed aircraft; Photo of the two vessels of the Onassis whaling fleet seized by Peru; 80th birthday ceremony for Winston Churchill in Westminster Hall; Photos of Royal occasions; Passing of Mr. A. Vyshinsky; Unearthing the world's oldest funerary boat - the start of the Gize excavations; Lightshipi South Goodwin wrecked on the Goodwin sands by a mighty gale; Centerfold photo of this vessel on her side on the Goodwin Sands; Liberian tanker "World Concord" breaks in half; Photos of 17 personalities in the news, including Sir Edward Keeling, Professor Enrico Fermi, Alger Hiss, Sir George Robey, and Mr. Ronald Murton, the only survivor of the wrecked South Goodwin lightship; Magnificent Greco-Etruscan remains of 2400 years ago recovered from the mud of Lake Comacchio; the making of fine Britihs glass; Burbery's fashion ad; Colour-photo ad for Gilbey's Royal Whisky inside back cover with horse racing theme; back cover colour ad for Meltis New Berry Fruits; and more. Advertorial cover loose but present, otherwise moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58, [8 ads] pages. Features: Cover photo of memorial service for Ramsay MacDonald; Seven photos illustrated Ramsay MacDonald's last homecoming - Bermuda to Lossiemouth; Nice photo of M. Chautemps and M. Delbos of France outside French embassy in London; Two-pages of photos entitle "An Australian Problem - The Primitive 'Black Fellow' [Aborigine] of the Bush, Threatened with Extinction - 'Living Human Fossils' of Australia; One-page illustration of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret inspecting the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum; One-page illustration of construction of the New Waterloo Bridge; Fifteen photos of the Quetzal - the Aztec symbol bird - first speciments ever kept alive in captivity or photographed; Article on ships includes cross section illustration of boat with flash steam propulstion; Wonderful three-page article 'English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century' includes five beautiful colour photos of clothing samples; Five-photos illustrate airplane de-icing techniques; Photo of the 'Ayro' wheel being demonstrated to air apprentices; Photo of wreckage after German plane crashed into Croydon hangar; Photo of Prince Bernhard's car after it crashed with a truck; Article and colour photos of jewels found at Tsarskoye Selo; Colour centrefold illustration of the Cango Caves in South Africa; Nice one-page colour Dunlop tire ad with red background; Photos of personalities of the week include: J.D. Low, J.A. Brett, Nahas Pasha with Sir Miles Lampson, E.O.W. Hunt, D.E. A. Pettit, the Maharaja of Kapur-Thala; General Iwane Matsui and his wife, Miss Lilian Baylis, Dr. C. Tate regan, Clive Forster Cooper, H.L. Murphy, Maurice Hely-Hutchinson, Herr Walther Funk, Laurence D. Holt, Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, M. Janson of Belgium; Ten photos of Japanese military recruits being honoured with ceremonies, scrolls, money and 'senin-baris'; Three interior photos of Hitler's mountain home near Berchtesgaden where he recently spoke with Lord Halifax for five hours; Three photos from Goering's estate where he too met Lord Halifax; Nice colour Peek Frean's ad; Colour ad for Craven 'A' cigarettes; Nice Martell ad shows butler bowing mid-table between two imbibing gentlemen; Harrod's Christmas gift ideas; Classy Bentley car photo ad; and more. Unmarked with above-average external wear. A worthy vintage reference copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Coverage of the Royal Visit; Nice Westclox ad; The Edinburghs - eight pages on the Royal Family - text with numerous photos, including young Prince Charles; How I Photographed the Royal Couple - by Karsh - illustrated with his colour photos, including the Queen with Princess Ann; When a Queen Ruled Britain - article with photos from the Victorian era; The Runaways - story by Ware Torrey Budlong; The Butcher with a Poet's Soul - Canada Packers President James Stanley McLean - article with photos; Let's Abolish Homework, by Sidney Katz; Charlottetown Likes to Laugh - article and photos on the capital of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.); Humor by Robert Thomas Allen and William Frederick Miksch - "Shopping's a game women play but men don't know the score"; Confessions of a Big-Town (Toronto) Cabbie - by John Rowland - article with photo; Nice Kodak colour-photo ad; Vintage Massey-Harris ad shows corn cobs being harvested by a man on an implement with no cab; Cartoon by Peter Whalley; Colour centerfold for Snyder's fine furniture of Waterloo, Ontario features their Dynavista sectional designs; Full-page ad for Imperial Furniture manufacturing of Stratford, Ontario; Nice Chrysler ad; Rare full-page colour Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Recruiting Poster - very nice!; Dodge car ad; The Hargreaves Quads - Joan, Janice, Jennifer and Joyce - are featured in a nice colour ad for Aylmer strained peaches; Betty Grable is featured in a Auto-Lite battery ad; Colour Karsh Portrait of Prince Philip in full-page ad for O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Nice vintage ad for GMC heavy trucks; Babe Didrikson Zaharias - world's greatest woman athlete - featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Several short external archival tape repairs. Bits of writing on front and back covers. Much writing on Westclox ad on page 1. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Colour photo ad for the 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle inside front cover; The Great Kiti-Wat Name Game - only in Kitchener-Waterloo could two universities get almost identical names; The paradox of your car insurance - Everybody loses, by Jack Batten; Harold Wilson's daily gamble with defeat; The case of the Tortured Tunesmith (or Quick, Watson - the music!), by Richard Gehman; How to fix Canada - according to a new generation of intellectuals; What Quebec's 'primitives' don't know about art is making them rich!; When the Saints Came Marching North - the vanguard of Mormon emmigration to Canada crossed into Alberta from the United States 78 years ago, ending a gruelling 800-mile trek - with photos; Robert Thomas Allen's sentimental journeys, #2, Paris. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
170 pages. Index. of figures. "Raised a Mennonite, Peter Estril Snyder has devoted over twenty years to the creation of paintings that reflect the lifestyle of the gentle, industrious Mennonite farmers of South-Western Ontario. Snyder's love of nature and of country life is also revealed in paintings and drawings from his travels to Europe, Virginia and throughout Canada. Personal anecdotes by the artist about his approach to painting and life, accompany the paintings." - from dust jacket. Signed and dated (August, 1986) by author upon title page, else book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket bears two 2" closed openings to front panel and is now attractively preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy. Book
144 pages plus ads. Features: K-I-L-L - the complete novel; Ice - short story; Otherwise Inexplicable - short story; The Message from Garcia - short story; The Pearl of La Paz - short story; The Waterloo of Gus and Pete - short story; Fued on Furnace Creek - short story; and more. Lovely color Chesterfield cigarette ad inside front cover features pole vault competition between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge at a Harvard Stadium track meet (artist's name illegible but is probably Myron Perley - please check with us if you wish to confirm). Color Listerine ad on back cover - "never sold in bulk". Unmarked. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear. Tape repairs to back strip, back cover and first page. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and folding map, title lightly browned, wanting blank preliminary; strongly bound in burgundy full calf, sides framed in blind, upper board with arms of Magdalen College surmounting initials 'S.F'., all in gilt, back with flat bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in blind, doublures framed in blind, marbled endpapers, upper joint mildly rubbed with short split (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, crisp copy. Bright copy of a much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1847. Arguably the best of the mid-Victorian accounts of the battle. VERY SCARCE. Sandler 1451.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 12 fine chromolithographed pates showing uniforms (all original tissue guards present), 2 portraits in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and several monochrome illustrations in the text; original black diced cloth, upper board with elaborate gilt frame border enclosing crest and motto blocked in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, corners bruised else a very good, bright, clean copy. With an armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Decent copy of one of the best illustrated and most lavishly bound cavalry histories of the period; Norie's plates are particularly fine. Includes detailed account of the regiment's service in the Peninsular and at Waterloo. A remainder issue was published without plates. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p 68; White, p.20.
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Why are We Afraid to Grow (i.e. why are we afraid of immigration); Mr. Gromyko is welcomed to London, England; The Last Days of Dr. Harry Cassidy, Canada's outstanding authority in the field of social welfare - He knew he would die within three weeks - How he tied together the loose ends of his life - with portrait by Charles Comfort, RCA; She Leads the Housewives Crusade - Dorothy Walton, once the world's best badminton player, is fast becoming our best-known housewife as she spearheads half a million women on in a campaign to make shopping easier, cheaper and better; How To Live Through an Auto Crash - this article could save your life; Father Thomas Coughlin - The Holy Terror from Hamilton - a Maclean's flashback - article with photos of the 1930s radio priest who held millions spellbound; The Hottest Spot in Canada - Point Pelee National Park - article with colour photos; The Happily Married Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario - article with photos; They'll Move Anything - George Hill and Hill the Mover, Canada's largest moving company - article with photos; Leo, the Moth-Eaten Lion - Jack May saved the life of Leo the Lion at Toronto's Riverdale Zoo; What Every Young Bridegroom Should Know - humour by Barry Mather, illustrated by James Hill; Large colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs); Chevrolet ad; Massey-Harris colour-photo ad displays their new Electro-Forging process for making crankshafts; Full-page RCAF Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Household Finance "I Rent Money"; Nice colour half-page ad for Aylmer canned peas; Great vintage ad for Pres-o-lite batteries features black and white photo of Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Ted (Teeder) Kennedy; Bold colour ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario inside back cover; Colour ad for Gyproc on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book