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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 27 January - 18 March 1990, and travelling to other galleries. "Highlights the Canadian subject matter of Frances Anne Hopkins"- page 9.. 112 pages. Chronology. Selected Bibliography. Includes excellent contextual essay by Robert Stacey. Text in English and French. Printed upon glossy stock. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Please note: extensive high-lighting and some writing to contents. Average wear. Minor soiling inside front cover. Binding sound. A worthy reference copy of this excellent reference. Book
First edition, 8vo, 59, [1]pp., disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 24922.
368p. Small 4to. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original priced dust jacket illustrated by Richard M. Powers. Hardbound. Very good plus. First Trade Edition. Nice copy. LIT BOX 2
New English Paperback. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 63, [5] p., color and b/w ills., 1 folding page. From black trains to high speed trains: 161-year history of Turkish railways, 1856-2017.= Osmanli'dan bugüne kara trenden yüksek hizli trenlere: Türk demiryollarinin 161 yillik öyküsü, 1856-2017.
Fine English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 24 cm). In English. 289, [38] p. Color and b/w ills. CONTENS: HISTORY - TRADE - ISTANBUL.; Trade in history - Trade in the islamic world - Trade in the eastern world. FROM PRINCIPALITY TO EMPIRE: Trade in anatolia until the time of Mehmet II., The canging history of a rising empire.; History, Economy and trade during the decline of the Ottoman Empire. FROM THE EMPIRE TO THE REPUBLIC: End of the empire and Birth of the Republic.; Building the Repuplic. OUTBOUND TURKEY: From Menderes to Özal.; From 1980 to today.
399 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "From its humble beginnings as a wholesale grocery partnership in 1896, Kelly, Douglas has prospered and grown, responding decisively to each new challenge that emerged with the changing times. Author brings that history to life with engaging anecdotes and a storyteller's sensitivity to the problems faced and the obstacles overcome in almost 100 years of enterprise." - from back cover. At time of publication, Kelly, Douglas was western Canada's largest wholesale food distributor and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Loblaw Companies Ltd. of Toronto, which was, in turn, controlled by the Weston family. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Partially visible crease to top corner of front cover. Excellent copy. Book
250 pages. Author's inscription and signature upon title page. Map endpapers. "True-life story of author's father's life, beginning in South Africa during the Boer War, moving to Alaska, then to New York, Buffalo, Kansas, San Fransisco, Vancouver and back to Alaska. Based upon letters written to subject's family." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked in glossy illustrated boards. Excellent copy. Book
Features: The Makin' of a Brush Propper Cowhand - chasing mavericks in Arizona; Whiskey Traders of Fort Whoop Up - center of the trade in northern Montana and the south prairies of Canada - John J. Healy and Alfred B. Hamilton; Sweet Trail to the Gallows - the Penascal murders; Search for the Old Overland (stagecoach); Alexis Godey's Kinship with risk; Land of the violent sun - Old Hachita; Doc Crumbine of Dodge City; Narrow-Gauge Royalty - The Slim Princess; Ambush and gold dust - a Black Hills tragedy; Mojave desert's wild Dutchman - Charlie Koehn; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Massacre! - in the 1850s, California's Indians were treated with heartless brutality; Gold of the Coquihalla River in British Columbia; Warrior's Witches - a display of temper earned an Indian girl a bad reputation; Fair Play Meant a Hanging - to the Fairplay 105; Sequoyah Houston fell to Cherokee Bill; Kit; Living on Borrowed Time - Horatio Larned saved the life of Porcupine... and thereby saved his own; Readin', 'Ritin', and Retribution - ; $110 per sack!; Northwest Trade Gun - the Indian's magic smoke pole; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Signed, dated and generically inscribed by author/subject upon half-title page. 245 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece photo of author/subject in travel attire. Anderson "recounts his nearly half a century in the Canadian north. By snowshoe and dog team, by canoe, sailboat and steamer, he travelled throughout the woodlands and the Arctic regions of Canada - with numerous side trips to the west coast of Greenland. Includes many a fabulous anecdote - tales of courage and privation, humour in the bivouac and excitement on the trail. Discusses the fur trade and its history, interspersing his narrative with reflections which provide sharp insight to this theme." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop half-title page. Light wear to book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
grand in-8, 236 pp., broché, couv.- 9782804100957 Etat correct (Plis à la couverture et aux premières pages). [NV-40]
64pp., signed with handwritten dedication by th author, 23cm., original softcover, offprint from "Vierteljahrschrift für Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte" IV, good condition, B91831
P.36 à 38: Critique élogieuse de l'ouvrage « La seule richesse du peuple », (de François Maupin) qui préconise l'augmentation des fumures.
Le numéro 4 de l'année 1779 de ce grand périodique relate notamment un incendie intervenu dans une Eglise arménienne schismatique de Turquie et les premiers succès de l'introduction d'un costume national en Suède par Gustave III. Page 26, un court rapport spécule sur les gains que le commerce français pourrait retirer d'une victoire Américaine sur les Anglais, favorisant les îles de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe.
xii, 147, 2 [ads] pp. Index. "Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut fur Konjunkturforschung nr. 1" - front cover. Text in German. In 1933 this work appeared for the first time in English as "Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle". Hayek went on to share the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Moderate wear to original brown paper wrappers. Binding sound. Small chip from top of backstrip. Top corners of last five leaves were folded. Several mostly imperceptible pencil erasures in first 66 pages. A well-preserved example of the first edition of this, Hayek's first book. Masui p.1277, Cohen 184, Cody & Ostrem B-1. Book
First edition, viii, 54pp., half-title, disbound. Kress, S5845; Goldsmith,19185.1.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a folding map on japon; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE.
8vo, xii, 479, [5]pp., 1 hand-coloured folding engraved map, 28 engraved plates (5 folding, 2 hand-coloured), cont. half calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.
8vo, xii, 479, [5]pp., 1 hand-coloured folding engraved map, 28 engraved plates (6 folding, 2 hand-coloured), occasional spotting and offsetting, recent buckram, morocco title label to spine. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.
8vo, xxiv, [2], 366pp., with half-title and errata leaf, 1 engraved map and 1 plan, 5 engraved folding plates, illustrs., within the text, cont. half calf, marbled boards, rebacked with the remains of orig. spine laid-down. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.
8vo (220 x 135 mm), viii, 173, [3]p., folding hand-coloured engraved map, 4 engraved plates (3 folding), occasional spotting and offsetting, cont. half calf, rubbed, rebacked with original spine laid-down. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.
Third edition, 8vo (220 x 140 mm), x, [1], 432pp., hand-coloured folding engraved map,, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional spotting and off- setting, recent cloth, leather title label to spine.
pp. vii, 197. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Essays exploring the production, marketing, distribution and use of printed matter in 19th Century America. Includes contributions by: Michael Winship, James N. Green, Madeleine B. Stern, Michael H. Harris, Alice D. Schreyer, Robert D. Harlan, Bruce L. Johnson, and Terry Belanger. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF2
New Turkish Original bdg. in publisher's special box. Folio. (31 x 22 cm). In Turkish. [v], 160 p., richly illustrated. History of the 'cheque' in the Ottoman and Turkish period from its beginning to the present. With many illustrations from a special collection.
230 pages including index, bibliography and black and white illustrations. The story of a remarkable man, and a fascinating period in B.C. history. From fragments of recorded history, official documents, and exhaustive interviews with the coal miners who knew Cumberland and knew Ginger Goodwin, she has pieced together an extraordinary tale. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
