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254 pages. Recipe Index. Includes a superb decade-by-decade bibliography of Canadian cookbooks. "A lavish, loving overview of our twentieth-century culinary history, celebrating both the traditional and the creative new styles found in meals prepared at home... Takes a chronological approach, layering decade upon decade, each showing how the flavour of Canada has evolved and how our tastes have changed... Highlights the major influences in each decade through text and pictures, captions and sidebards." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A beautiful copy of this wonderful work. Gift quality. Book
371 pages. Index. Bibliography. Copiously illustrated in black and white with some colour plates. "Takes the ceramic medium in the United States from an imitative, exploratory stance in the late nineteenth century to a vanguardist role in the 1950s and beyond." - from front cover. Prior owner's name atop half-title page else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with laid paper endpapers, neat signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly spotted; original boards, vellum back with five raised bands, second and third compartments lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, clean copy.
8vo. First Edition with numerous charts and tables; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
137 pages. Shares research and interviews from 1897 to the present. Many black and white illustrations. Clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear. Dust jacket preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book
pp. viii, 211. Profusely illustrated. Triple column. Oblong 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, chipped with loss. Very good. W100
195 pages including index and black and white plates. A history of the Sisters of Saint Ann and their contribution to education in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska. From the first "Log Cabin School" on the edge of Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia, the work of the Sisters of Saint Ann spread to thirty-four establishments on the west side of the Rocky Mountains. Front free endpaper removed. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Few small nicks to dust jacket which remains attractive. Very nice copy. Book
318 pages. Index. Black and white photos. A one-hundred-year history of the American Union of Swedish Singers. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket. Sound copy. Book
Bookplate inside front board. Foxing to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with lightly marked/shaded boards and minor bumping to corners. Spine slightly rubbed at ends with clear gilt lettering/embossing. 79pp. This account of English history includes the mysterious death of King Henry VI. The original manuscript dates from the fifteenth century. Includes facsimile from the original.
184 pages including index. Uses correspondence between the two men as the background against which is set the careers of two of the most significant and aristocratic racing personalities of the twentieth century. Usual library markings. Average wear. Front endpaper removed. Book
The work of 19 painters, illustrated. Blue cloth covers with blind stamped CR on front cover.
The work of 13 painters, illustrated. Maroon cloth covers with blind stamped CR on front cover.
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to front cover. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked, very slightly dusty covers and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Introduction by journalist and local historian Chris Aspin. These stories in Blackburn dialect verse written under the non-de-plume Jack o' Ann's were taken from the Blackburn Times over a period of 33 years from around 1880 onwards. They were written by the publisher's great grandfather. With four black & white photos of the author and the area from the 1890s plus some of his hand-written correspondence. Scarce.
222 pages including index. Traces the story of the cholera epidemics as they ravaged the Canadas and the Atlantic colonies. Important reading for those interested in Canada's social, political, and medical history. Infrequent light pencil markings to contents. Average wear. Binding is brittle and has opened at several places but no pages are loose. Book
This is a very good hardcover copy with light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine label a bit faded. This is a reprint of the original Cotgrave Dictionary, London: Printed by A. Islip,1611. This is volume 77 in the publisher's series 'Anglistica & Americana'. This is a facsimile reprint which reproduces the original typography and elaborately decorated title-page. One fold-out 'Table of Conjugating Verbes'. Unpaginated, but about 1000 pages. 11" high X 7" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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(10)p. Illustrated with color maps by John E. Shenkle. 4to. Original color pictorial wraps. Short history of Delaware County through the centuries. Nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_1 BX8
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 48 pages. 7 1/4"w x 10 5/8"h. Many black and white photos.
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's New York on October 7, 2010. Sale code: GIRAULT-2396. 'In the Course of his three year voyage, Girault de Prangey brought back from Cairo, Jerusalem, Constantinople and Baalbek, photographs that are today the very earliest that survive'. Essays by Philippe Garner and Christophe Dutoit. 74 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Prices realized sheet included. 11" high X 8" wide, 120 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
This is a very good hardcover 2 volume set (complete) in a very good dust jackets with just light edge-wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is the two volume reprint of Macquoid's classic reference, 'A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak and the Age of Walnut. The Age of Mahogany and the Age of Satinwood', first published in 1904-05. Volume 1 contains the first two of Macquoid's original four volumes, and volume 2 contains the last 2 of Macquoid's original 4 volumes. Illustrated throughout in black & white with approximately 1000 photographs in these volumes + 8 color plates (4 per volume). 11" high X 9" wide, about 243 & 255 pages. Large heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
This is a very good hardcover copy of the 1927 edition in tan cloth with the black smoking pistol device on the front cover. Almost no wear, completely clean inside, (faint spotting to the last two pages). Illustrated with 3 collotype plates and 38 black & white photos and line drawings. Covers the history of firearms from the beginnings in the 14th and 15th centuries on through the Renaissance and on up to the modern period, ending with the modern military rifles of World War 1. 8 appendices on individual makers like Smith & Wesson and Colt, and lists of makers in Britain and America. 4to, 10" high X 8" wide, 320 pages. A very nice copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present), titles and half-titles in red and black, 39 plates (all original tissue guards present), 7 large folding pedigrees on japon, 3 pedigrees in the text and armorial endpapers in silver and burgundy, neat signatue on front free endpaper, some mild spotting throughout as usual; original burgundy buckram armorial gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips lightly faded, upper hinge of first volume starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Thornton of Oxford on front paste-downs. VERY SCARCE. Thomson, p.133..
