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16530Grenoble, imprimerie C.-P. Baratier, 1830. In-8, XXXII-651 pp., demi-basane romantique brune, dos estampé de décors d'arabesques et de fleurons à froid, titre et année dorés au dos, tranches marbrées (épidermures, rousseurs, quelques annotations anciennes).
2000014249U.S. Government Printing Office 2000. Good condition Ex-Library Softcover Octavo 2000 1st edition 148 pages. Clear tape is reinforcing the edges of the wraps. Usual library disfigurements otherwise interior is unmarked and solid. NOT A REPRINT! THIS IS THE REAL DEAL!. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book. U.S. Government Printing Office Paperback
175028617mortagne 1750 1 document original de 12 pages brochées, pré- imprimées en noir et manuscrites à l'encre brune sur papier vergé crème, ligné et filigrané "GRAPPE DE RAISIN", format : 37 x 25 cm, orné des armes royales gravées en noir en tête de 1ère page, in-fine : Noms des Taillables Sortans de la paroisse qui seront tirés du Rolle de l'Année 1750 et Noms des taillables Entrans dans la paroisse qui seront compris dans le Rolle de 1750 manuscrits avec le montant de la taille reçue ainsi que la signature manuscrite de : LOUIS FRANCOIS LALLEMANT, CHEVALIER, COMTE DE LEVIGNEN, mortagne, le 3 novembre 1750,
8708In plano de 4 pages 440x64mm illustré en couleurs, au pochoir. La République devant les élections. La Monarchie et le Comte de Paris L’Empire et le Prince Victor Napoléon. Le général Boulanger. Le jeu de l’oie du général Boulanger. Imprimerie Pellerin & Cie, Gluck, entreprise spéciale de publicité industrielle et propagande politique par l’image populaire. Deux traces de pliure, dont une très peu visible, sinon très bon état, coloris très frais.
a488791952. Prepared by the Staff of the Senate Minority Policy Committee August 1952. 4to. 119 leaves rectos only spiral bound wraps. University Library stamp on front. VG. paperback
1852323680Np 1852. 16pp. 8vo. Removed with remains of later wrappers along the gutter margins of the first and last pages. 16pp. 8vo. Scarce piece of campaign ephemera relating to the election of 1852 which pitted Democrat Pierce against the Whig Winfield Scott. Pierce won in an electoral landslide. Sabin 91531 unknown
1868252282Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. First. pamphlet. very good-. Stewart and Nye of Nevada Delivered in the United States Senate.July 9th and 10th 1868 on the bill offered by Senator Edmunds of Vermont to regulate the counting of the Electoral Vote. 8pp. in double columns. 8vo one sheet folded into 8 pages light foxing to margins otherwise very good. Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Speeches that are pro-Republican and pro-Union. The speeches advocate that the Democratic Party is in favor of Southern rights and not hard enough on the South in enforcing Reconstruction. Sabin 51020<br/> <br/> Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown
1868252282Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. First. pamphlet. very good-. Stewart and Nye of Nevada Delivered in the United States Senate.July 9th and 10th 1868 on the bill offered by Senator Edmunds of Vermont to regulate the counting of the Electoral Vote. 8pp. in double columns. 8vo one sheet folded into 8 pages light foxing to margins otherwise very good. Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. First Edition.<br/><br/> Speeches that are pro-Republican and pro-Union. The speeches advocate that the Democratic Party is in favor of Southern rights and not hard enough on the South in enforcing Reconstruction. Sabin 51020<br/><br/> Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown books
48 pages. Contents: Garth Crockett and his work with native peoples; Patrick MacFadden rocks quiet old McGill University; The Outstanding Canadians of 1965 - text and photos for Teresa Stratas, Jean Vanier, Walter Homburger, Nathan Phillips, Claude WagnerBill Crothers, Alanis Obomsawin, Samuel Bronfman, Stephen Vizinczey, Frank Skinner; Alice Girard, Frank Sobey, John MacAulay, Bill McWhinney, Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey; How John Diefenbaker Lost (and won) the Election; The New Gastronomy - Ian Sclanders visits a Lucullan feast prepared by chef Coco Svetko and restaurateur Cliff Missios for Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs; What do you mean you don't like television commercials? Mike Duff - Image-maker on Wheels - one of the world's top motorcycle racers; What's causing this crazy weather? - is atomic testing changing the weather?; U.N. Crisis-Killer - Paul Tremblay (conclusion of a series Our Man in New York); Voila!, the Lion growled in French - a play about a boy and his lion is translated into French; Nice colour photo ad for the 1966 GM Beaumont on back cover. Age-related yellowing to cover and some pages. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Remembrance Day; Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record aboard his jetboat Bluebird; Aftermath of the Revolution in Iraq; The Nuclear Navy of the U.S. - A Pictorial Survey of Ships of Outstanding Ingenuity; Trinity College; Democratic Election Landslide in the U.S.; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1874004105<p>London: House of Commons 1874. Collection of papers relating to the Boston election of 1874 comprising - 1. 'Copy of the Shorthand Writer's Notes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of the Boston Election Petition' iv 76pp; 2. 'For the Trial of Election Petitions' pp19-30; 3. 'Summons to Witness' form 1p; 4. 'Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 5 vi-xiv 2 3-51pp 1; and 5. 'Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 3 2-268pp. Half calf and marbled paper over boards raised bands spine in six panels title label to second panel gilt thick and thin double rules either side of bands. Rubbed to extremities lightly foxed to edges and occasionally to margins a few pen lines to margins previous owners name to head of a few of the different reports but generally clean. The fourth named includes a poll book printed on blue paper. The Liberals William Ingram and Thomas Parry were initially elected but "an election petition found extensive bribery relating to Parry's votes which on the initial count totalled 1347. However 353 of these were struck off - and further may have been taken if the process had not stopped on 8 June 1874 - leading to Malcolm's election instead. A Royal Commission was established to investigate the borough. A separate petition against Ingram was dropped" Wikipedia - Boston Election page. First Edition. Hardback. Good. Folio.</p> House of Commons hardcover
1861ZB579780Washington: 1861. 161 pp issued as 37th Congress 1st Session HMD 4; extraction roughness at spine else very good in self wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington: unknown
Features: What Pearson won by losing; Why Diefenbaker lost Canada; Real Caouette's Road to Power - 26 Socreds upset Quebed and split Canada; The Long Watch; Birth of a Labor Party? - Tommy Douglas lost farmers and won union men; The Back-room Conspiracy - who does the thinking for the top party strategists; The Rosy World of Nutri-Bio - part cult, part showmanship, the 'food supplement' business is mostly profit; Spectacular last mile - the last, highest and costliest stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway - bridge-building in BC - great photos; The Glass Robin in our Coal Bin - how to haunt wrecked castles and build a dream house that scares architects. Nice colour Molson Canadian ad inside back cover. Coke ad on back cover. Closed four inch tear to top edge of front cover else average wear. A quality copy. Book
96 pages. Features: One-page ad for Sony high-fidelity tapedecks; Gerald LeDain and the Ledain Commission on drugs; Photo of Leonard Cohen as he works with Marshall McLuhan to name the Anik satellite; Harvesting trout in Manitoba; Royal Trust moves into the TD Center and a spacious 'leafy look' office layout; The politics of polarization in the US; Spiro Agnew's attack against the media bosses; Parades for peace and patriotism; Washington rally organized by Professor Charles Moser for Nixon's unsilent supporters; Arrest of Samuel Melville, George Demmerle and Jane Alpert after dynamite blasts in New York City; Edward Johnson and Willie Smith charged with murder and rape after the savage deaths of Hermine Rohs, Willy Rohs and Marilyn Rohs of St. Louis; The Apollo 12 mission; Nice one-page ad for Toronto's Royal York Hotel; The Start of SALT talks; Solzhenitsyn remains true to his credo; Election in India; Japan seeks return of Okinawa and Ryukyu island chain from U.S.; Victory for Marcos in the Philippines; Rare two-page colour-photo ad for Wardair - Canada's largest jet charter airline; The Suez Canal's Bleak Centennial; The New Feminists - Revolt against 'Sexism'; One-page ad for the ill-fated IOS, Investors Overseas Service, Ltd.; The art of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatests sculptor; Suddenly Washington, DC has no law to prevent doctors from performing abortions; Whole Earth Catalog; Fordham's administration building messed up; Passing of Donald J. McParland, Iskander Mirza, Ferdinand Eberstadt and Harry Scherman; Time to squirm for military contractors of the U.S. Navy; Price of Hershey Bar raised from 5 to 10 cents; Merger of Northweset Orient with Northeast airlines; Nickel shortage; Interesting 4-paragraph article on the price of gold; Ad for the Peugeot 504; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
581 pages. Index. Bibliography. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Appears unread. An excellent copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Film-Maker Robert Altman; Two-page color-photo ad for the Volkswagen Rabbit features Mr. Leslie T. Cho-Chu and family of Agincourt, Ontario; Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP Foundation) ad; Norman Bethune - Not Yet Ready for Prime Time; Two-page color-photo ad for the Honda Accords (2- and 4-door); The Sheik of Massawippi - Saad Gabr of North Hatley, Qubec; Election coverage of Joe Clark vs. Pierre Trudeau; Federal election race in Atlantic Canada, where bread and butter count; Lie Detectors used in employment screening; Bone marrow transplant between twin brothers Barry and Gary Armstrong of Chipman, New Brunswick; Ed Broadbent - The Third Man; NDP - the party that rose from the dust - with nice photo of CCFers in 1933; Idi Amin looses power in Uganda; Violence in Nicaragua; Warfare inside the Teamsters union; Actor John Voight; Jake Moore of Brascan attempts to buy F.W. Woolworth Co.; Guitar Manufacturer Normand Boucher of La Patrie, Quebec; Archaeology article re: Old Crow; Overuse and Abuse stalk Lake Louise - "The Coney Island of the Rockies"; Childhood Leukemia - stalemate in a long war - article with photo of Carol and Becki Scott; Musician Murray McLauchlan; Michael Ondaatje - "Home is Where the Hurt Is"; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Toronto's Yonge St. Mall; Judge Sandra Ellen Oxner of Nova Scotia; Windor, Ontario - A Few Years of Grace (in wake of Detroit riots); Tricia Nixon to Marry Edward Finch Cox - major article with nice color photos; Brigadier General John W. Donaldson; Jimmy Hoffa Steps Down - For Now; Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) ad shows sky crane (helicopter) working from one of their boats, the Fort St. Louis, at Pond Inlet; Murder suspect Juan Corona in California; Audie Murphy; Coming to Terms with Vietnam; South Vietnam Presidential election; Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns; The disputed Aksai Chin; Celebrity photos of Liberace (in crazy outfit) and Raquel Welch playing tennis; Austerity on the U.S. Campus; The Jackson Five at Home - article with great photo; Improving on Methadone; Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Calgary Inn shows chef carving beef in dining room; Race horse Canonero; Passing of Reinhold Niebuhr; and more. Small tick marks to index. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
viii + pages 224-325. Contents: Reactions to the Hart Election; In the Legislature; Petitions; Hart is Questioned; The Debate of Feb. 20, 1808; More Petitions and the Governor; Elected Again; Political Motivation. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
19812091502135414764Not Available 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Not Available paperback
003684Edinburgh: Alexander Dunbar Single sided printed broadside approximately 175mm 410mm in size n.d. but 1835. Lightly browned slightly creased one or two tiny nicks to edges but generally fairly bright. The printer Alexander Dunbar doesn't appear in the SBTI but is possibly the son of the Alexander Dunbar fl. 1763 mentioned as a 'running stationer' ie. street hawker of books and pamphlets in the SBTI. The broadside is a satire on the Conservative candidates James Andrew Broun-Ramsay and John Learmonth who were comfortably defeated in the Edinburgh election of 1835 by the Whigs John Campbell and James Abercromby. Abercromby later became speaker of the House of Commons and then a lord and his seat was then won by Thomas Babington Macauley. NLS only in JISC. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Elephant Folio. Broadside. Alexander Dunbar Paperback
Pages 273 - 312. Features: Lovely colour ad for the De Havilland Comet used by British Overseas Airways Corporation shows plane in flight; Photos of avalanche terror in the Alps - engulfed villages; Great two-page photo of the start of the famous Tasman Ocean Yacht Race; Wow - two illustrated pages describe the Alberta tar sands "containing four times the rest of the world's known oil reserves"; Photos of personalities of the week, including Spain's first ambassador to Britain since 1946, Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, and his wife; Two pages of photos of the marriage of the Shah of Iran (Persia) to his new Empress, formerly Miss Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari; Photo-illustrated article on the Life of John Maynard Keynes; The Gold Coast's first steps in democracy - election photos; Two pages of photos of U.N. troops in winter war action in central Korea; Centerfold photo of incredible devastation caused by the Mount Lamington eruption; Mice demonstrate road safety in Glasgow!; Photo of huge B 36 Bomber; Restoration of St. George's Hall, King's Lynn - believed to be England's largest medieval guildhall; photos of new French and British weapons; Photos illustrated how bulky files of newspapers are transfered to tiny rolls of microfilm; Amazing photos of lying squirrels in flight; Swedish ballets; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather toilet powder inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Jacob & Co's Cream Crackers on back cover; and more. Cover holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 505-532. Features: Cover photo of statesmen charged with reconstructing and uniting Europe - Bevin, Marshall, and Schuman; Photos f minority candidates for the US presidency Include John G. Scott of the Greenback Party, Claude A. Watson of the California Prohibition Party, and Dr. John Maxwell of the Vegetarian Party; Photos illustrate the French coal strike and the government's bold measures; Photos of personalities of the week include King Frederick of Denmark, Dr. William T. S. Stallybrass, Mr. Justice Lynskey, Miss Mary Lucy Cartwright, Russell Vick, Ivor Thomas, Gerald Upjohn, the 'Itma' players; Photo of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, who was in Paris for the Security Council debate; photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rieder of Cape Town who picked up a television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace; Article on the Commonwealth Conference; Two large photos of the New Territorial Army on parade - the King reviews 8000 Troops in Hyde Park; Photo of the King opening the new power station at Kingston-on-Thames; Photos of acceptance of the Berlin plan at the UN; Photos of the first State opening of Parliament with full ceremonial for 10 years; Six photos of huge crowds and outstanding exhibits at the Motor Show; Full-page photo portrait of Thomas E. Dewey; Full-page photo portrait of Harry S Truman; Centrefold illustration of Sulgrave Manor, birthplace of George Washington's ancestors; Six photos of dairy show exhibits at Olympia; Sudan's first election, with nine photos including Sayed Sir Abdul Rahman Pasha El Mahdi, and Sir Robert G. Howe; Aerial photos of Khartoum and Omdurman in Sudan; Three large photos of the Royal Command Variety Performance at the London Palladium; Seven excellent photos illustrate the Egyptian debacle in South Palestine where Israel scored a decisive victory in the Negev; 300 men of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards Marched through Singapore; Photos of demonstration parachute drop of Jeep from Halifax aircraft; Photos celebrate the 75th birthday of the typewriter and its inventor Christopher Latham Sholes; Photo of "Autoblast" orchard sprayer, the first of its kind in this country; Photo of scallops or Mr. Haseltine beside his recently unveiled statue of a racehorse Man 'O War. Centrefold holding by one staple. Outer advertising pages not included. Above average wear and soiling. A worthy reference copy Magazine
92 pages. Features: Glorious cover illustration by John Little of wedding scene on St. Urbain St. in old Montreal; Editorial in favour of banning atomic tests until their harm is known; One-page International (Harvester) Construction Equipment ad features St. Lawrence Seaway construction and the 24-ton Payhauler used to move rock; Communism, too, bears seeds of freedom; J.B. Priestly's Canadian play sizzles, fizzles; Nice one-page Matinee cigarette ad features illustration of fashionable couples at yacht club; Federal Election - why should we vote for you?; Will Harry Ferguson Revolutionize the Car Industry Too? - he did it to farming with a pint-sized tractor that even Henry Ford marveled at, and now he's designed a new car the world's been waiting for; The Wonderful World of French-Canadian TV - article with great colour photos; The Shy Baroness of Brokerage - Muriel Sprague Richardson of James Richardson and Sons Limited; Look Now, Horseman... - Novelette; The Embattled Ringmaster of Fighting Words - photo-illustrated article on Nathan Cohen who, when he isn't inciting guests on his TV panel to mayhem is committing it himself as Canada's toughest drama critic; John D. Hayes runs 127 Laura Secord chocolate shops and 401 Fanny Farmer chocolate shops in the U.S. - and he's almost blind - article with nice photo; Nostalgic centrefold federal election ad for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada features one-page black and white photo portrait of John Diefenbaker; Nice one-page colour ad for the Pontiac Laurentian (white convertible); One-page ad for the Polaroid Land Camera; Hugh Maclennan's most memorable meal - a Greak feast on a ruined roast; One-page ad for Trans-Canada Airlines features illustrations of their DC-8, Vanguard and Viscount planes; One-page election ad for the federal Liberal party features photo of Louis St. Laurent; Nostalgic Oldsmobile ad features colour photo of man leaning on hood of red car; O'Keefe ad features colour photo of man in armour riding horse in front of a CF-100 fighter jet; Nice colour ad for Black Label Beer features "Mabel"; Great colour GWG ad inside back cover features various denim and other garments; Back cover Coke ad features illustration of sailboat social scene; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
