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Features: Canadian Glass Patterns; Allan Edson - Eastern Townships Artist; Kyoto's Antique Shops - Preview visit to Expo 70; More North West Company Relics; Festival Books of over 300 Years; Canadian Crafts - Old and New; Guidelines from Restoration of Antique Furniture - Part I; Period Pieces. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: An Explorer's Credo, by Theodore Paul Bank II - with his photos from the Aleutians and Hokkaido; Ted Bank 1923-1981; Western Egyptian Desert Expedition - Radiographic imaging to evaluate relics; Florida Sinkhold Archeological Site - yields evidence of human life 12,000 years ago; The Hyksos; The Outer Hebrides; Diurnal Raptors in Amazonia; The Elegant L'Hoest's Monkey; Search for Chili Peppers in Bolivia - botanist pursues research of evolution; Coring in Antarctica - searching for clues to the past; Nomads of the World - an endangered way of life. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Chinese Artifacts; Vancouver Island Bottle Show and Sale; Nanaimo Club Dig - with group photo; Sealed Bottles; Insulators; Relics; Auto Collectables; Old Guns; Vancouver Notes; International Wine Co.; Collecting Old Locks; Living Free; Old Phonographs; The Karbonated Korner; Furniture, Lamps, and Bric-a-Brac; French Ivory; Prairie News. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy early copy of this upbeat and quite informative vintage Vancouver Island periodical. Book
42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Old Guns; Early Vancouver Drug Store; Relics; Prairie News; Depression Glass; Sealed Bottles; Furniture; Pops; Insulators; License Plates; Locks; Vancouver Notes; Vancouver Mini Show; Patrick A. Milloy and his Montreal Soda Works. Light wear. Unmarked. A nice early copy of this upbeat and quite informative vintage Vancouver Island periodical. Book
66 pages. Features: Find gold ingots; a profile of Allan Darby; found! Ancient Inca relics; Tokens - underrated valuables; New evidence confirms lost site. Average wear. Book
Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
62 pages. Features: The Beaverhead Stage stop; Gold finding for the weekend; Good slabbin' means good cabbin' - suggestions for cutting gem rocks; Those Prolific Pops - bottle variety; The Modern Treasure Hunters; The Lost Ferry Boat Treasure - Lake Erie still holds 120 railway cars; History carved in rock - Louisiana rock formations; Are you a successful treasure hunter?; Dig yourself a whet stone; Boy scouts and treasure hunting - Fort Cureton relics; Learn your own soil conditions; Hawaii calls. Somewhat above average wear. Book
72 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Wreck of the Valencia; Sandon - The Silver City; Dr. Emily Stowe - Canada's First Female Practitioner; Memories of Erie; Canadian Raiders in the Southwest; Observing the Solar Eclipse - 1860; How to Recover Fine Gold; Collins' Overland Telegraph (Part 3); The Battle of Frenchtown; The Boston Bean Jar; Dog Child and the Samurai Sword; The Coureurs de Bois; Pioneer Relics; Canadian Chronicles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, backs gilt extra, dark tops, pictorial endpapers, a near fine set. With uniform bookplates on front paste-downs. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. EL 148, 149; Seymour 775.0, 776.0.
3 vols., sm. 8vo., Third Edition, on laid paper, with an engraved frontispiece, large engraved title-vignettes and large engraved armorials on dedications, some light offsetting and age-staining, tiny uniform signature on blank preliminary in each volume; handsomely bound in nineteenth century full oatmeal buckram, backstrips with five flat bands, second compartments with leather labels lettered, numbered and ruled in gilt, a most attractive set ideal as a gift of for presentation. THE SET WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF MICHAEL CHERNIAVSKY AND BEARS HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER OF FIRST VOLUME. Dedicated to Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland, Percy's 'Reliques' is one of the most important collections of poetry in English. First published in 1765, ii not only encouraged 'with lasting effect the revival of interest in our older poetry' (DNB) but became a fertile source of content and style for the burgeoning Romantic movement. Michael Theodore Cherniavsky (1920-1992) was a renowned and long-serving (1948-1966) master of history at Christ's Hospital School and subsequently Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Ontario from 1967 to 1983. A lovely copy and scarce in this condition. See NCBEL II, 385, 386.
viii,287 + 182pp., 25cm., text in Latin, contemporary hardcover (marbled boards, spine in green leather with gilt title and decorations), marbled endpapers, text printed in two columns, 2 stamps on title page, good condition, [Complete title of added Appendix: "Appendix seu altera collectio quamplurimorum summariorum indulgentiarum quae tam pro aliquibus ordinibus regularibus… a sacra congregatione Indulgentiis sacrisque reliquiis praeposita authentice recognita sunt ac probata ab anno 1668 ad annum 1861"], R108743
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 60 illustrations ands facsimiles in the text; boards blocked and lettered in black, cloth back gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front paste-down.
38 pages. Features: Full-page photo of the Pope's Coronation; Photos of Representatives of Great Britain and other powers at the Papal Coronation; Full-page photo of the Pope's Open-Air Coronation on the Balcony of St. Peter's; Papal Coronation seen by a vaster crowd than ever before; The "Scapa Flow" of the Spanish Republican Fleet!; A Bronze Age Potter's Workshop - The First Found in Palestine - photos; Lachish - Traces of Nebuchadnezzar's Invasions - and Art Relics - photos; Two photos of the first white giraffe seen in Kenya - an adult "Albino" Bull; Among the "Red Men" of Ecuador - article with photos; How the Colorados Dye Themselves Scarlet and Trim their Hair - photos; Two dramatic photos of the sinking of the S.S. "Lillian" after a collission with the German freighter "Wiegand"; Royal Events and Activities of the Week - photos; Sultan of Perak Installed; The Japanese bomb Shumchun Market near Hong Kong - photo; Strange photo of gas mask for babies; Incredible colour photo of literally a "Red Indian" - a Colorado of Ecuador with skin and hair dyed scarlet from seeds of the blood tree and wearing a silver nose pin; Colour centerfold illustration of the only town established by the Romans in Wales - Venta Silurum; Photos of personalities of the week including Mahatma Gandhi, Field-Marshal Goering (in civilian clothes) and his wife, Colonel Rodriguez Lister, Dona Dolores Ibarruri; The Crisis in Slovakia - photos of leading personalities and turbulent scenes - Hlinka Guards; King of the late King George V. in St. George's Chapel; and more; Average wear. Centerfold and pages 411-416 loose but present. Pages 445-450 and any pages beyond page 452 missing. Magazine
Premiere issue. 30 pages. Features include: Second annual Victoria and Nanaimo Antique Bottle Show; Letters; We Dig Bottles, by "Bob & George"; Blowing Off Foam! - The Karbonated Korner, by Bob & Donna Skrill; What on Earth Is It?; George Coletti & Son of Nelson, B.C.; Jewels of Talking Wire - insulators; Cecil and Joan Harris of Vernon, B.C.; Books in Review; Relics, by Jim Heidt; License Plate Collecting by Allan Gadsen; Old Ads from Victoria Colonis, Christmas 1874; Photos of Free blown bottle; Pottery Jugs; Ads; Club News. Printed on glossy stock. Covers and first few pages wavy from moisture exposure, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy collectible copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
48 pages. Features: Letters; Chinese Artifacts, by Flo & Al Clemens; 3rd Annual Vancouver Island Bottle Show & Sale - photo-illustrated article; Nanaimo Dig Club; Sealed Bottles, by Dick & Barbara Hoyle; Insulators, by Larry & Wendy Lundgren; Relics, by Jim Heidt; Auto Collectibles, by Allan Gadsen; Old Guns, by Mike Hill; Vancouver Notes, by D. Harrison; Gold Seal Liquor Co., Vancouver, B.C.; International Wine Co., by G. Northcote; Collecting Old Locks; Documents & Other Paper Collectibles; More Jugs; Living Free - Patricia Armitage writes about Dieter and Tina Bonkowski of Yellow Point - with photos; Old Phonographs, by Coleman Kiss; Depression Glass; Fruit Jar Corner; Collectors of Note; The Karbonated Korner - The Comox Valley Mysteries, by Bill Patterson; The West Coast Mystery - "Stone Bear" found by Morris McNally of Nanaimo; Articles from the collection of Norm and Sandy Barker of Chase River, B.C.; Furniture, Lamps & Bric A Brac; French Ivory, by M. Skrill; Prairie News; Club Directory; Classified ads; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
66 pages. Features include: super treasure hunter Norman Scott; Pirate chest found?; Georgia Indian relics found!; Nelson Jecas - THing entrepreneur; Treasure shows up in the oddest places; Repros, Reps. and forgeries; Indian campgrounds yield unusual finds; Frank Mellish, International Treasure Finder; Glen Phillips tells his story; Florida's never-ending treasure. Average wear. Book
