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1955617G1233Seattle WA: University of Washington 1955. Book. Illus. by Rumely John H.; Janish Jeanne R. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Uniform and handsome in beige cloth. Volume 5 printed in 1955 Volume 4 in 1959 Volume 3 in 1961 Volume 2 in 1964 and Volume 1 in 1969. Umarked with light wear and sound bindings. An excellent first edition example of this magnificent work. Please note: Very heavy. Special shipping considerations may apply. University of Washington Hardcover
192473aa1980British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company. Fair. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great cover photo of Duncan operating room; Several photos of new interior plant equipment at Duncan; Sensational 9-page feature on Duncan and district with great photos of the area including Duncan Station Maple Bay Genoa Bay and an aerial view; Fire deprives downtown Vancouver of service - photos and text; Grand Forks office and staff; Table showing "Exchanges in order of Per Cent Good Calls Out"; Statement of Development as of 1 January 1924 showing number of phones per community; Cover photo of steamer Jacques Cartier; Nice full-page showing two views of Vancouver Harbour with many ships in port; 7 page feature on the Port of Vancouver with several great photos; Possibilities of both radio and wire telephony; Exchanges in order of percent good out calls; Excellent full-page photo of Ballantyne pier Burrard Inlet; Take advantage of company's new savings plan; Fine addition to shipping facilities on Burrard Inlet - Ballantyne Pier - 5 great photos with text; Greater Vancouver will benefit by reduced telephone rate; Repair shop has greatly expanded in recent years - 6 pages with nice photos; nice full-page photo of the Empress of Australia in port; Greater Vancouver Inter-Exchange Telephone Service; Fold-out map of Vancouver area exchanges complet with great statistics; Telephone extenstion to Campbell River; 8 page feature on the flow of commerce through Canada's western port with many absolutely smashing photos; Cover photo of Glenburn office; 6-page feature on the B.C. Herring fishery with excellent photos re: sea lions contains the following quote "The government is undertaking to greatly lessen the numbers of this prey animal"; archival photo of laying the first underground cable in Vancouver; Statement of Development - # of phones operating in each community; Cover photo of Milner office; photo mosaic of 5 lower valley exchange offices; Wonderful 8 page feature on the great supply district i.e. the lower Fraser Valley of BC coastal cities - excellent photos including a shot of the only remaining original Hudson's Bay Company building at Langley; New Gordon Head Exchange cut over; New Point Grey office under way; new observation office aids efficiency; Electrical Communication Development; Full-page photo of sailors from the battleship H.M.S. Repulse marching through Vancouver; Multiple photos of British warships docked at Victoria; Article and photos of the visit of the Royal Navy to Vancouver; The Traffic Department and the Public it serves; Tennis Tournaments; Printing a phone directory; Great feature on Ship Salvors Salvagers with many photos; A motoring trip through the U.S. with photos; Biggest cable will cross False Creek; Oxygen Farms; Cornelius Vanderbilt writes of his long distance call from Alberni to Los Angeles; P.B.X. serves interesting purposes - 5 pages with photos; Early motor tourists to B.C. with photos; Full-page photo of the Empress of Canada; 5 page illustrated article on the reclamation of the Sumas; The switchboard as a newspaper; Health secrets of the telephone pole - 3 illustrated pages; new Victoria equipment; Bayview library proves popular; cover photo of a long-distance operator timing a call with a calculagraph; Billing toll and inter-exchange calls keeps eight clerks busy - 3 pages with photos; 7 page a; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exc . British Columbia Telephone Company hardcover
1911WRCAM55081Ontario Canada 1911. 108pp. approximately 13000 words overall. Oblong 12mo. Original limp burgundy calf. Some rubbing to covers chipping at extremities. Minor tanning a few ink smudges. Very good overall. An entertaining diary chronicling a seven- week camping and canoeing trip in the Ontario wilderness by four Yale University students during the summer of 1911. <br> <br> We believe the author of this diary to be Henry Eldridge Perry a Yale student who was accompanied on this adventure by three friends: Jo Dugas Edward Bancroft Twombly a member of the Yale class of 1912 and of Skull and Bones and Jeff Jeffery. They met at North Bay Ontario and took the train to Cochrane and then on to Low Bush where their journey began. Their purported mission was to search for fossils minerals and other geological samples but the diary reveals they were mostly searching for adventure. <br> <br> Perry's daily entries detail their progress on the water portaging from lake to lake setting up numerous campsites in difficult territory battling the weather hunting and fishing and chance meetings with lumberjacks and Indians among other excitement. They regularly shot partridges for breakfast and caught pickerel and pike for dinner when they could "I kidded myself into thinking I was fishing but I really only held a pole" - July 20. <br> <br> The hunting highlight of the trip was the downing of a black bear on August 10: <br> <br> "This afternoon Jeff & I went out to Baker Lake to hunt for an outlet.we didn't see much some Indian wigwams a log house & all the skeletons hides & utensils they discard upon departure. Farther up we happened to run into a bear. Heard a big crashing in the bush & that we'd pinch a wild beast or two so I paddled nearer while Jeff adjusted his rifle. Just then the old brute broke thru the bush & trotted along the shore without seeing us. Then he began to swim across & I paddled after him like the dickens. Jeff began to shoot & the first shot the bear saw us & turned for shore. Jeff shot twice more & the third time pinked him under the ear. He flopped and after a few kicks was dead floating on the surface. How we vibrated! We tied a rope around his neck & towed him ashore. Then we got out in about two feet of water & lifted him clear of the water into the canoe. How we did it we'll never know. He weighs about 400 lbs is 6 ft 8 in from nose to hind foot 5 ft. 3 in. from nose to tail 44 inches round abdomen 40 round chest & 30 round neck. Jo says he's the biggest black bear he's ever seen." <br> <br> Perry is an amusing and self-effacing narrator never holding back his complaints about mosquitos or leaking tents and giving each campsite a new and clever name such as: "Camp Hang-over" "Camp Gloom" "Camp Larger Gloom" "Camp Hellgate" and "Camp Where the - are We Or - if I Know." Although he only refers to himself by his last name our Perry is likely Henry Eldridge Perry who roomed with Twombly during their last two years at Yale. A native of Crete Nebraska Perry may also have provided the backwoods expertise for this outing. A delightful glimpse of a substantial trip by four amateur outdoorsmen. Mortimer Robinson Proctor HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1912 YALE COLLEGE New Haven Ct.: Yale University 1912 Vol. 1. unknown books
elala3565Ottawa: Printed By Order Of The Commission 1885. Between 1881 and 1884 approximately 17000 Chinese immigrants came to British Columbia to work as labourers on the Canadian Pacific Railway. They were paid just $1 a day half the wage of white labourers and had to pay their own expenses which saved the CPR an estimated $3-5 million in construction costs. They were often given the most dangerous jobs and many lost their lives to landslides dynamite blasts and other accidents. In 1885 the British Columbia section of the railway was completed and the the status of these immigrants became a pressing issue. While Europeans were being offered free land to come to Canada the Canadian government decided to create a $50 "head tax" to limit the number of Chinese coming to the country. That also meant that those already here would have great difficulty bringing family to Canada. ìBritish Columbia has repeatedly by her Legislature as well as by her representatives in Parliament solicited the Executive and Parliament of Canada to enact a law prohibiting the incoming of Chinese to British Columbia. Nothing was done in that direction until last session of Parliament when Sir John Macdonald speaking in answer to a motion asking Parliament to enact a law in the above sense pledged his Government to issue a Commission to look into the whole subject during the approaching session and to consider exhaustively its trade relations its social relations and all those moral considerations which it is alleged make Chinese immigration undesirableÖî. Preliminary The report was prepared by commissioners John Hamilton Gray 1814-1889 a British Columbia judge and Joseph Adolphe Chapleau 1840-1898 Canadian Secretary of State. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. cxxxiv cii blank leaf 487. contemporary half calf worn joints cracked lower spine defective Ottawa: Printed By Order Of The Commission, 1885 unknown
elala0004np: 1803. An early Upper Canada land grant complete with the original wax seal of the province imprinted with anchor crown and sword. The grantee George Chisholm was a United Empire Loyalist who was settled in the Township of Flamborough East near Hamilton. His son William Chisholm became a prominent Upper Canada politician and businessman who founded the town of Oakville. with wax seal np: 1803 unknown
1838101145Toronto Canada 1838. Ephemera. Good. No Binding. Toronto: Printed at the Patriot Office 1838. pp. 133-160 2 161-167 1. Collation: 34-422. It's possible that this pamphlet was part of a larger work. Sewn gatherings the thread now gone no wrapper. Wove paper small pieces missing from the top right of the preliminary leaves and the last 2 leaves. Addressed to His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada the report was submitted by the Office of the Commissioners at Cornwall on 1 January 1838 by Jonas Jones the President of the Board. The report consists of the minutes of the Saint Lawrence Commission in 1837 with letters from engineers and contractors statement of expenditures 1834-7 and estimates of expenses for the completing the work on the Saint Lawrence Canals. Not recorded by Fleming's Upper Canadian Imprints 1801-1841. The only other copy of this imprint is located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto. unknown
36998Quebec. Printed by Command of his Excellency the Governor; by William Vondenvelden. 1796. Hardcover. 4to. 26cm 16p. bilingual title pages and text rebound in later half calf black cloth boards double crimson and black leather labels gilt titles blanks library stamp on the front endpaper a fine copy thus. cdn Tremaine. Bibliography of Canadian Imprint 1751-1800. # 994 - T.P.L. 692. Added title page in French; English and French on opposite pages. Even numbers on recto. Odd numbers on verso. Another edition was published in the same year. Cf. T.P.L. 691. Quebec. Printed by Command of his Excellency the Governor; by William Vondenvelden. 1796 hardcover
191314113Toronto: William Briggs 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Printing of the First Edition. Very Good Copy With Light Rubbing Wear To Extremities And Insignificant Foxing To Front End Papers. Decorative Cover Still Quite Bright. Signed Without Inscription By Kelly On The Title Page. William Briggs Hardcover
36704Quebec. Printed under the Authority. by William Vondenvelden Printer at the New Printing Office. Mountain-Street. 1795. Hardcover. 4to. 26cm 2307p. text in English and French on opposite pages rebound in quarter calf gilt ruled raised bands crimson morocco label gilt titles marbled boards chip on title page expertly restored fine. cgc Tremaine 943. Odd numbers on verso even numbers on recto. This is the first volume in the serial publication of the provincial statutes of Lower Canada. The laws of 1792-93 and 1794 had been published previously in folio. . After 1795 each session's laws were printed and issued separately at the end of each session. . it is expedient that there should be further and more ample means of the Public having information of the Laws. Quebec. Printed under the Authority. by William Vondenvelden, Printer at the New Printing Office. Mountain-Street. 1795 hardcover
1828PHO-1669London, John Murray, 1828, 1 volume In-4, relié pleine toile orange, dos lisse avec pièce d’auteur et titre, date en pied, xxvi-320pp.cvii-1f., petites rousseurs, mouillure angulaire sur les planches au tome 2, petits frottements à la reliure. Édition originale, 31 planches, les cartes manquent, Cachet Émile Petitot, Ex-libris manuscrit, Ex-libris Jean-Pierre Legrand-Deloron. Avec une mention signée : "membre de l'Expédition arctique T.A. 23 , 1972-1973" .
178910440A Londres et se trouve à Paris, Chez Le Jay fils et Maradan, 1789. In-8 de XVI-336 pp., veau havane marbré, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin vert, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
288 pages. Upon front free endpaper is hand-written in ink: "To David, With Best Wishes, From Tommy Douglas." In November 2004 a nation-wide vote by over one million Canadians selected Mr. Douglas as "The Greatest Canadian of all Time." "This collection of Tommy Douglas' speeches, anecdotes, and parables illustrates the essential features of the democratic left in Canada, the CCF/NDP." - from dust jacket. Black and white photographic plates. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which bears several short closed tears and is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Book
A most unusual and wonderful item. Appears to be a privately bound collection of early Calgary periodicals dated November 17th, 1916 through April 14th, 1920. Sturdily bound in red cloth with no external markings. Measures just over 2" thick, 11.5" high and 9" wide. Many issues included although we are not sure if a full run is contained. No table of contents or index. Contents tanned with age, otherwise sound. Captures an exceptional and vintage slice of early Calgary and Alberta history. Replete with contemporary advertisements. Book
Original Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Speakers' Handbook for use in the run-up to the Canadian federal election of 1945. Printing date not stated but was most likely 1944, possibly 1945. Unpaginated. Two inches thick. Provides the full spectrum of PC policies and points with which to attack the Liberal and C.C.F. parties. Contents divided into the following sections: Table of Contents; Leadership - with considerable biographical information on PC leader John Bracken; War Policy and Veterans; Agriculture; Labour; Reconstruction and Natural Resources; Transportation; International Problems; Liberal Policy; C.C.F. Policy. The sections on Liberal and C.C.F. policies extensively document the perceived weaknesses of these parties and were no-doubt intended to serve as the arsenal of attack ads and talking points to be used against these parties. Unmarked. Average wear and soiling. Due to wartime restrictions these handbooks were string-bound. Provides a comprehensive snapshot of the Canadian federal political scene prior to the election of 1945, as seen from the PC perspective. A unique and highly-informative WWII-era Canadian federal political memento. Book
1855082714Ottawa: William S. Hunter 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. pp. 19. Folio. Rebacked blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board page edges gilt. Newer endpapers. 15 engravings and a map: frontispiece vignette title fold-out map 13 tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards. Some foxing to tissue guards. An important early view book of Ottawa this edition with the addition of railroad routes to the folding map. Lithographs by John Perry Newell and John Henry Bufford; after William S. Hunter. With 6 of the views attributed to Winslow Homer thus representing his earliest book illustrations. Text in double columns. Sabin 33937. TPL 3563. William S. Hunter hardcover
18414444951<p>printed for the author by F. B. Penniman hinges cracked and weak but still holding title page coming loose black cloth worn remnants of spine label light foxing pages 145-148 missing from pagination no actual missing pages unmarked rare.</p> self-published hardcover
17498859Paris, Ballard fils, 1749. 2 volumes in-12 de [4]-LVI-182-[4]; [4]-319 (la pagination saute de 312 à 315) pages, plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs richement ornés, pièces de titre et tomaison rouge et marron, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, simple sur les coupes, tranches dorées.
1823PHO-1668London, John Murray, 1823, 1 volume In-4, relié pleine toile orange, dos lisse avec pièce d’auteur et titre, date en pied, xvi-768pp, tome 1, tâche sur les 5 premiers feuillets, petites rousseurs, petits frottements à la reliure. Édition originale, illustrée de 30 planches dont 11 en couleurs, les cartes manquent, Cachet Émile Petitot, Ex-libris manuscrit, Ex-libris Jean-Pierre Legrand-Deloron. Avec une mention signée : "membre de l'Expédition arctique T.A. 23 , 1972-1973" .
Signed "In Friendship" upon title page by the author in July 1982 in her home town of Noirmouton, Quebec. "Here at last the legendary Madame Benoit opens the door to the kitchen in her own home, at her sheep farm near Sutton in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She tells about the joys of cooking at home with her family, and she shares recipes that are her own personal and family favorites from the many she has collected and developed over the years." - dust jacket. "Jehane Benoit is a remarkable woman, filled with exhuberance, warmth and love. Her cooking reflects these qualities. I couldn't wait to get my copy - and to use it." - Bruno Gerussi. xiii, 335 pages. Colour photos. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in mylar. Surely a treasured addition for any serious Canadian cookbook collection. Book
1796elala1784Quebec: William Vondenvelden 1796. 1796. 4to. pp. 2 p.l. 16 blank leaf. text in French & English on opposite pages. modern wrs. Order in council enforcing the terms of Jays Treaty 1794. The Treaty arranged reciprocal concessions regarding trade and commerce between the United States and British North America and provided for the appointment of a commission to settle the north-eastern boundary and for the withdrawal of British troops from American territory. Tremaine 994. Dionne I 40. Lande 552. TPL 692. Vlach 40. Vlach IP 66. Quebec: William Vondenvelden, 1796. unknown
Paris, 1754. Incisione in rame all'acquaforte, b/n, cm 56,5 x 89,7 (alla lastra) più margini. Cartiglio in alto a destra, margini graduati su tutto il perimetro. Rara carta nautica del mare orientale del Canada e del Golfo di San Lorenzon. Rare nautical maps of Eastern Canada Sea and the Gulf of Saint Laurent. Tranne un punto di ossidazione sul margine sinistro del foglio, esemplare stampato su carta forte, in ottimo stato di conservazione. .
18752No place, no date, (Paris, 1790.) 2 volumes. (4), 166, 141 pp.; 31 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards (volume 1), modern half morocco, marbled boards (volume 2). Martin & Walter 15478 (first volume only); Sabin 28152 (first volume only); not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in JFBL. Original edition, extremely rare with the "Supplement ...." which is almost always lacking. Against the policy of La Luzerne with regards to the colonies. Gouy d'Arcy led the colonial delegates in support of the Tennis Court Oath: the colonies had sent delegates to the upcoming Estates General in France and had even drafted their own cahiers des doléances in which they voiced their demands for more home rule and economic freedom.Gouy d'Arcy acquired a consderable fortune by marrying Anne-Amable Hux de Bayeux, a rich creole from Saint-Domingue and he became an ardent defender of colonial and Saint-Domingue interests, was founder of the colonial committee of Paris and the Club Massiac, and was instrumental in legislation favouring the colonists, and a fierce opponent of Brissot and the Amis des Noirs. Together with Moreau de Saint-Méry, he organized fierce opposition to any colonial reform (see: Albert Soboul, Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, pp. 516-7.)The original frontcover of volume one is preserved and gives, both recto and verso, the chronology of the events in Saint-Domingue covering the period December 1st 1789 - 22 October 1790. - Very rare in this complete state.
8965A Paris, Chez F. Buisson, (Chez F. Buisson et Testu for the second volume), 1793-1792. 2 volumes. (4), 239, (1) pp.; (4), 16, 224 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering. PMM 241 (English edition); Gimbel collection 48F (p. 95); not in Sabin; Fay 30 (2nd part only); Echeverria & Wilkie 793/91 & 792/78. Second edition of first volume, first edition of second volume. The first volume was originally published in 1791 of which edition several different issues exist. The second volume was published in 1792. The translation was done by Francois Soules. The work is a defense of the French Revolution and a statement of the principles of 1776 and 1789 and, of course, the famous counterblast to Burke's Reflexions on the Revolution in France. It is also an exposition of the principles of government underlying the American and French revolutions. For an elaborate analysis of the work see: John Keane, Tom Paine, a Political Life.'The Rights of Man, published in 1791 and 1792, was written after his return to England in 1787 in response to Edmund Burke's attack on the French revolution. This pamphlet stimulated the radical reform movement in England and the Jeffersonian Republican party in the United States and led to the prosecution of Paine in England for sedition and to his election to the French National Assembly. In England, the Rights of Man became a foundation text of the English working class movement until about 1880' (IESS, xi, pp. 364-5).Thomas Paine "symbolisé, de 1776 à 1793, l'élan révolutionnaire, tant en Amérique qu'en France" (Dictionnaire historique de révolution française, p. 808)The second volume includes propositions for schemes of taxation, including one for the abolition of the poor-rate. Since 1792 the work was adopted as the manifesto of the party which sympathised with the French Revolution. The title-page of the second volume reads: Droits de l'Homme, Seconde Partie, réunissant les principes et la pratique; ........ Traduit de l'Anglois sur la troisième édition.
1795PHO-1044Paris : Bastien, An III. (1795) 7 volumes in-8 ; AVEC , PAUW recherches philosophiques sur les Américains , An III , 3 volumes in-8 , XIV-421pp, 475pp,482pp. AVEC : PAUW : Recherches philosophiques sur les Égyptiens et les Chinois. Paris : Bastien, An III, 2 volumes in-8, carte dépliante (déchurure sans manque), XVIff,472pp , 466pp; AVEC : PAUW : Recherches philosophiques sur les Grecs. Paris : Bastien, An III, 2 volumes in-8 , XVI-400pp,366pp . Reliure d’époque en basane marbrée, dos lisse orné avec titre et tomaison , quelques manques de cuir , petit travail de ver sur 10ff ,Tome 1.
In-16 p. (mm. 170x100), 3 volumi, p. pelle bazzana coeva, dorso a cordoni (restaur.) con decoraz. e tit. oro su due tasselli, tagli rossi. Pubblicata in 80 volumi nel formato in-16, questa celebre raccolta di viaggi contiene "ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable .. dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré.. Enrichi de cartes géographiques et de figures". Sono disponibili i volumi: 55-56-57: "Voyages & établissemens dans l'Amérique Septentrionale" dei francesi e degli inglesi; descrizione del Canada con le relazioni di diversi viaggiatori - Usi e costumi degli Indiani - Viaggi vari al Nord-Ovest e al Nord-Est per la scoperta di un passaggio alle Indie Orientali. I 3 volumi sono molto ben illustrati f.t. (e completi come da Indice) da: “14 carte geografiche” (Virginia e Maryland - Canada con Nuova York e Pensilvania - Carolina e Georgia - Luisiana e paesi limitrofi - parte del Canada - Baia di Hudson - corso del fiume S. Lorenzo (2 carte) - laghi canadesi - carta ridotta dei Mari del Nord - Nouvelle Hollande - parte del Mare Glaciale - carta ridotta delle parti settentrionali del globo (fra Asia e America) - lo Spits-Berg), tutte più volte ripieg. E da “9 tavole” di cui 3 piante delle città di: Boston, Quebec e Nuova Orleans, più volte ripieg.: le restanti raffigurano usi, costumi, storia naturale, ecc., tutte inc. in rame. Qualche lieve e uniforme arross., peraltro esempl. ben conservato.
