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1883866a4767Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1883. Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Act Interpretation Regulation of Coal Mines Prospecting for Coal Mines Coroners County Courts Assize and Nisi Prius Superior Courts Creditor's Relief Attachment of Debts Sumas Dyking Evidence Ferries in Municipalities Game Island Railway - Graving Dock and Railway Lands Jurors and Juries Justices of the Peace Crown Lands Married Woman's Property Minerals Prospecting for Minerals Municipalities Salt Spring Island Provincial Officers Quesnelle Lake Dam Columbia and Kootenay Railway Fraser River Railway New Westminster Railway South Wellington Railway Sleighs on Cariboo Trunk Road Stipendiary Magistrates Supply Victoria City Official Map Victoria Transfer Company Voters Eagle Pass Wagon Road Yale Fire Brigade Extention of Yates Street in Victoria. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1880866a4770Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1880. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Affidavits Declarations and Affirmations; Bills of Sale; Births Deaths and Marriages; Execution Creditors; Executive Council; Fences; Game; Graving Dock; Insolvency; Lands; Lieutenant-Governor and his Deputies; Members' Indemnity; Municipalities; New Westminster; Independence of Parliament; Partition; Police Constables; Quesnelle River Ditch Company; Sheriffs and Appointment of Registrars of the Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Telephone Company Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.; Tolls Cariboo Waggon Road; Victoria City; Waverly Hydraulic Mining Company. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1881866a4769Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1881. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Administration of Justice; Appeals to Supreme and Exchequer Courts Canada; Bishops of British Columbia Caledonia and New Westminster; Cattle - transfer of brands and marks and more; Coroner's Inquests; Supreme and Exchequer Canada Courts; Dogs - damage by; Drainage Dyking and Irrigation; Documentary Evidence; Fences and Water Courses; Firemen; Lien; Loan; Gold Mines; Municipalities; Poisons - preventing indiscriminate use of; Public Parks; Quesnelle Lake Dame Co.; Revenue; Supply; Swine - to prohibit running at large of; School Taxes; Provincial Revenue Taxes; Trustees; Vancouver Coal Mining Co.; Victoria Official Map; Victoria Water Works; Woollen Mill. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1882866a4768Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1882. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Includes Acts relating to: Coroners' Inquests; Supreme and Exchequer Canada Courts; Superior Provincial Courts; Drainage Dyking and Irrigation; Fences and Water Courses; Crown Lands; Free Grants of Crown Lands; Gold and other Mines; Municipalities; Legal Professions S.P. Mills Charles Wilson Andrew Leamy; The New Westminster and Port Moody Railway Company; The Vancouver Land and Railway Company; Railway Reserve repeal of the E&N Railway Act of 1875; Public Schools; Supply. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1887866a4763Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1887. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains public acts relating to: Absconding Debtors Assignees etc. for benefit of Creditors Bush Fires Cattle Ranges Incorporation of Companies Coroner's inquests within municipalities Courts of Appeal from Summary Convictions of Magistrates Courts of Assize County Courts Supreme Courts Drunkards Sumas Dyking Estates Evidence Game Jurors Crown Lands timber lands Land Registry Loan Married Woman's Poverty Medicine and Surgery Minerals Gold etc. Municipalities Quartz Mines Kootenay and Athabasca Railways Shuswap and Okanagan Railway Public Schools Statutes Statutes Consolidation Supply Swine Property Taxes Vancouver City. Private Acts relating to: Delta Railway Kootenay and Athabasca Railway New Westminster Southern Railway Vancouver City Incorporation Victoria Fire Department Charitable Association. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
187314876Ottawa: I. B. Taylor. Good. 1873. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Bound in three-quarter leather. Usual xlib marks. Covers are worn bumped & scuffed but intact. Contents are "fine". ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . I. B. Taylor hardcover
1855351958Montreal: John Lovell 1855. Two large folding maps. 106pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt green endpapers. Minor foxing. Armorial bookplate. Two large folding maps. 106pp. 8vo. A very detailed description of every aspect of Canada accompanied by a "Map of the Province of Canada and the Lower Colonies showing the connection by steam navigation with New York Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin & Minnesota." and a map of "Mercators Projection. With the Great Circle Shortest Sailing or Air Lines. Illustrating the directness & capacity of the River St. Lawrence from Lake Erie to the Atlantic." According to a note in TPL the maps were apparently not issued with all copies. TPL 3557; Gagnon I:1696; Sabin 32422 John Lovell unknown
18803113Ottawa: Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada 1880. Good plus. 139pp. Original printed wrappers rear lacking. Otherwise light dust soiling and toning. French-language edition of this extensive transcript of debates held in the Canadian House of Commons concerning the construction of the Trans Canadian Railroad. Speakers include Sir Charles Tupper Minister of Railroads and Canals and H.L. Langevin the Minister of Public Works. The plan for the railroad was eventually approved and construction of the line from Montreal to Vancouver began the next year. Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada unknown
189761925Victoria B.C.: R.E. Gosnell Agent General 39 Victoria St. 1897. 8vo. 500 7 pp. plus 26 pp. publisher’s illustrated advertisements. Over 50 photo plates 4 maps 2 large folding recto & verso text illustrations. Red pebbled publisher’s cloth black lettering & decorated border front cover gilt & black lettering on spine minor edgewear rubbing ownership stamps & writing on title still VG copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition thus of this expanded edition of Gosnell’s 1860-1931 noted British Columbia Year Book and was originally self-published by first British Columbia Legislative Librarian and the first Provincial Archivist. Unlike the initial print run for this publication which consisted of only 216 pages this Year Book in reaction to the Klondike Gold Rush excitement expanded with a section on “The Canadian Yukon†with notes drawn from William Ogilvie article by H. Bratnober additional maps and even includes a section on the “Routes into Klondyke.†Also featured are numerous printed photos documenting stampeders on their way into the golden rivers and streams of the North. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 211c. R.E. Gosnell, Agent General, 39, Victoria St., hardcover
189021552Mankato MN et al. 1890. Very Good. Mankato MN et al: ca. 1890s. Small oblong octavo 14x18cm.; publisher's grey card wrappers lettered in white; 16ll. of pale grey stock to which are mounted sixteen 16 silver gelatin snapshots all ca. 8x8cm. on rectos only usually with manuscript captions on facing page. Some photographs a bit overexposed at margins else an exceptional album in Near Fine condition. Retains the album seller's ticket inside rear cover "Ward's Souvenir Album" rubberstamped no. 11.<br /> <br /> Small souvenir album capturing the rather long journey from Mankato Minnesota to British Columbia. The first nine photographs appear to have been taken in the former location possibly the photographer's home the images depicting scenes around a woodframe house and a young girl astride a horse before turning outward to views of the Minnesota River from the bluff of North Mankato the cows on said bluff Minneopa Falls and the Minnesota River Bridge. The next location captured is a train station between Denver and Colorado Springs presumably Pikes Peak looming in the background. The next shot shows a rather large group of people both men and women walking along the railroad tracks through Royal Gorge Colorado the bank of the Arkansas River just a few feet to their left. The following photograph jumps from the Gorge to the Cawston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena California where a rather substantial clutch of ostriches peer out at the photographer from behind their enclosure's gate. The farm the first of its kind opened in 1886 to meet the demand for newly-fashionable ostrich feathers and was immediately a major tourist attraction. Two photographs follow of a horse-back ride across Mt. Lowe a peak in the southern folds of the San Gabriel Mountains California. The concluding two photographs show the train ride from northern California en route to Portland Oregon and finally a view of Mt. Sir Donald "highest peak of the Selkirk mountain British Columbia. unknown
1871721H4488Toronto: Hunter Rose & Company 1871. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. v 1 408 1 ads pages. Frontispiece illustrations of notable personages. Front hinge open. Back hinge starting. Bookplate inside front board. Name upon front free endpaper and atop title page. Heavy wear to publisher's dark green cloth over bevelled boards. A worthy reading copy of this informative early Manitoba history. Alexander Begg 1839-1897 wrote several books about Canadian history and went on to become the Queen's Printer of Manitoba in 1877. Peel 2 319 Artibise 1139 Sloane Roseneder & Hernandez 221. Hunter, Rose & Company Hardcover
18895370Québec: Darveau 1889. Title con'td. And the uses to which it may be applied in abridging telegraphic and other correspondence. Introduction: Française: XXVII. English: XXVIIerrata346pp.302pp.285pp.foldout chart. Very unusal attempt at creating a Universal language with numbers. Wraps torn & tattered text not affected. Prev. owners bookplate stamp on french title page. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 7 X 6. Darveau Hardcover
1860263494Toronto 1860. Invitation printed on a pink card addressed in manuscript to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Pond and signed by the Secretary of the Committee. 4 x 6 inches. Remnants of prior mounting on verso. Invitation printed on a pink card addressed in manuscript to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Pond and signed by the Secretary of the Committee. 4 x 6 inches. A scarce piece of ephemera relating to the Prince of Wales's 1860 visit to Canada to mark the opening of the Victoria Bridge. unknown books
1860WRCAM10894Quebec 1860. 39pp. in French. Original green printed wrappers. Light chipping along spine; minor stains at foot of front wrapper not affecting text. Overall very good. Second edition. General sketch of Canadian resources and institutions. Sabin cites only an 1857 edition published in Toronto. Description of Canada her people resources revenue etc. Scarce. unknown books
1859WRCAM11310Montreal 1859. ii122pp. Dbd. Bit tanned else good. Prints many extracts from documents as well as biographical sketches of French viceroys and officers who served in North America of importance to Canadian history. unknown books
1871512371871. Winnipeg: Coldwell and Cunningham 1871 1873-1887. Winnipeg: Coldwell and Cunningham 1871 1873-1887. Manitoba Statutes 1871-1887 Canada. Manitoba. Statutes of Manitoba 1871-1887. Winnipeg: Printed by Coldwell and Cunningham Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 1871 1873-1887. 12 books in all. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Later quarter cloth or calf moderate to heavy shelfwear backstrips lacking from two volumes several boards loose internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spine small stamps to title pages. $500. One of the ten provinces of Canada Manitoba was established in 1870. It was the first province created from the Northwest Territories. These volumes document the early legal and social history of the province an interesting period that marked its final transition from a collection of territorial settlements to a mature political entity. No sets of these early statutes on OCLC. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:75. unknown books
183326860London: Whittaker Treacher and Co. 1833. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo. Pp. viii 434. Maroon leather binding triple gilt frame and blind-tooled border gilt panelled spine with gilt spine lettering. School prize book with gilt-stamped Arms of the University of Glasgow to both upper and lower covers marbled endpapers all edges marbled bound by Carss Glasgow with small binder's ticket to verso of front free endpaper. Engraved prize bookplate to front pastedown. invisibly rebacked with original spine strip laiddown. Very good clean square copy. Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. Hardcover
186114866London: A.W. Bennett 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. pp. viii 278 2 ads frontis portrait of the author and 15 plates illustrating aspects of Ojibwe life and culture. Rebound in green cloth gilt title on spine. Edges trimmed mild spine slant; very good. Jones 1802-1856 was a Mississauga Ojibwe chief and Methodist minister from Upper Canada. As a missionary he made significant inroads for Methodism by translating hymns and biblical texts into Ojibwe and Mohawk and because of his ability to communicate with non-English speaking Indians. This work edited and published posthumously by Jones' wife Eliza offers a detailed survey of the history social structure religious beliefs ceremonies language etc. of the Ojibwe in Canada and the United States. A final chapter offers an assessment of the "present state and future prospects of the North American Indians." Sabin 36590; Howes J-238; Field 797. A.W. Bennett hardcover books
1877CNApoCAN58Ottawa: Printed By MacLean Roger & Co. 1877. 1877. 8vo. pp. 257. large folding lithographed map of Western Canada. modern cloth original printed wrs. bound in wrs. defective & mounted. "Evidence on the agricultural potentialities of the West submitted by J.Y.Shantz A.G.B.Bannatyne Hugh Sutherland Thos. Spence Mr. Hill Mr. Fuller and Col. Short." Peel Peel 452. Hardcover. Ottawa: Printed By MacLean Roger & Co., 1877. Hardcover
1898115675Dunod 1898 Dunod, 1898, 13 cartes, demi-basane, 37.5x29 cm, reliure frottée, des déchirures sans manque en bordure de la garde blanche et celle de couleurs, intérieur propre et sans rousseurs.
188060949Montreal Canada: Imprime par J.B. Laplante 245 rue St. Jacques 1880. Two vols. 68 16; 15 1 pp. Blue-tinted printed softcovers for both vols. black lettering on front covers minor age toning slight chipping very minor creasing still both VG copies w/ presentation slip of Major. L.A. Huguet-Latour of the Prince of Wales Regiment of Rifles Montreal Canada noted bibliophile and manuscript collector ink inscription on 2nd piece at upper fore-edge. First editions of these uncommon original catalogue and the official list of contributing schools colleges and educational institutions to the 1880 Canada Dominion Exhibition held in Montreal for 10 days and also featured displays of industrial machinery farm products flowers along with horse racing lacrosse tournament and Highland games. The Dominion Exhibition was held annually in Canada from 1879-1913 and every year the location changed to assorted Provinces typically to coincide with local Fairs. It ceased at the outset of World War I. These catalogues detail all of the Catholic and Protestant schools convents monasteries colleges and universities appeared in Montreal often with samples of their student’s achievements in arithmetic geography literature history & art. Worldcat locates 7 copies of 1st Canada Archives U of Montreal Bibliotheque Nat. Strasbourg NYPL Cambridge Queens Univ. U of ONT IT; 4 copies of 2nd York U Lib. Leiden U of Torino Archives Nationales Quebec. Imprime par J.B. Laplante, 245 rue St. Jacques, paperback
1883404211 vol. in-12 br., coll. Voyages et Découvertes Géographiques publiée sous la direction de M. le Comte H. de Bizemont, Librairie de la Société Bibliographique, Paris, 1883, 176 pp. et une carte dépliante.
184399233HBLondon:, Virtue and Co., [1843]. 2 Bände: 1 Bl., 1 Bl. (Stahlstich-Titel), 2 Bll., 128 Seiten, 54 Stahlstich-Tafeln; 1 Bl. (Stahlstich-Titel), 2 Bll., 116 Seiten, 64 Stahlstich-Tafeln, goldgeprägter OLnbd., 27 x 21 cm.
183743482Np: Np 1837. Rare. 12mo 17x 13cm uncut 8p. an original document self wraps foxed Gagnon I 1085. T.P.L. 2054. Ducharme Catalogue No. 1 of the Victor Morin collection no. 895<br /> issued April 1950 calls it très rare and prices it at $7.00. - The pamphlet is a defense of Bishop Lartigue's pastoral letter of October 24 1837 denouncing the actions of the Patriote leaders. Np unknown
18865321n.p. 1886. Mounted Photograph. Near Fine. A gold-toned 1886 photograph credited to Edouard Deville measuring 7.75 x 5.5 inches wide and mounted onto a 9 x 6-1/8 inch thick green card captioned in black ink near lower edge "Waggon Road and Fraser River Canonsp". Deville was the Surveyor General of Canada from 1885 to 1924 and was responsible for introducing new techniques such as photogrammetry to Canadian surveying. The BC Archives hold of copy of this 1886 photo which they also credit to Deville see 198604-011. Verso with a badly damaged 6 x 8 inch wide photo captioned "Hog's Back Falls Ottawa". The Hog's Back Falls officially known as the Prince of Wales Falls is rarely referred to by this name today. Deville photo with minor stains and rubs. An intriguing photo from a seminal moment of the "connecting" of a new nation fastening together here in a single photo-narrative the latest technological advances of the country's road builders tunnel and bridge makers telegraph operators and the Canadian Pacific Railway. unknown
