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Neatly signed, without inscription, upon half-title page by Robert Stanfield. viii, 279 pages. Index. "Revealed for the first time the man and the politician, what he was and what made him that way. Based on extensive original research, including lengthy interviews with Stanfield, his friends, his allies, and his enemies, this is the only comprehensive portrait of this fascinating and paradoxical national figure once described as the most liberal, humane, and civilized mind on our political landscape. Stanfield was the rarest of breeds; an honourable politician." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with light wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. SPADONI & DONNELLY 2494. Book
301 pages. Index. Thirty-two fascinating black and white photos. "I have tried to picture, from actual experience, something of the life in its early stages of the settler on the Canadian prairie." - page 5. Author spent two years on a homestead north of Radisson, Saskatchewan prior to the outbreak of WWI. Faint pencil erasure atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to publisher's tan cloth-covered boards. Narrow opening in binding at page 16. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating account. PEEL [2e] 2649, ARTIBISE 619. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part VI - Robert Wilton, a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, recounts his experiences, tells the true story of the tragic end of Rasputin, and discusses claims that the Czar is alive - article with photos of the Czar, his family, and Rasputin; The Most Savage of Beasts - John A. Jordan describes the strange tactics and danger of hunting the African Buffalo; A Hero of the Soudan - How the first Civilian's Victoria Cross was won by Sergeant J.J. Farmer - article with photo; My Niggers - humorous account of the writer's experiences of Gyppies at a camp along the Suez Canal; My Wanderings in Little-Known Angola - interesting article with many excellent photos; The Mechanically-Minded Skipper - Tobias Meddling of the 8-thousand ton ship Peerless; Capturing Seventy-Nine Germans Single-Handed - Canadian officer Captain MacDowell tricked Germans into surrendering at Vimy Ridge; The Battle for the Lake - German warships are ousted from the great inland sea in Central Africa, Tanganyika; Our Grizzly Bear Record - Francis Dickie and his companion set a new world's record for killing Grizzly bears in the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; Pipe Town - where Brier pipes are made for the "Tommies" and the "Poilus" - article with excellent photos; A "Rice Wedding" in Java - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Some Strange Escapes From Germany - Part I - how prisoners of war escaped from the Germans in WWI; My Escape From Russia - Madame Semenoff describes her escape from Petrograd after the Bolsheviks took over; Canada's Water Miracle - The Bassano Dam, the world's longest, built in Alberta, Canada - article with excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - Part I - a member of the Natal Mounted Police describes how an Englishman was murdered by a Zulu medicine-man and accomplices so a portion of the body could be used to make an effective love medicine; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 268-352, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
viii, 212 pages. Index. Footnotes. Generously illustrated with informative black and white reproductions of photos. "Provides a standard reference to the serious researcher and collector and gives to everyone an interesting insight into many aspects of what has made the Force what it is today. Most of the illustrations are being published for the first time." - Foreword. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A high-quality copy of this unsurpassed reference. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 63 plates and folding map on japon; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR'S SISTER WITH HER LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT RECORD.
3 volumi in 8vo (211x132 mm). vii, [5]-321, [3] p., [1] grande cartina ripiegata del Canada e [6] tavole; [4], 344 p. e [4] tavole; [4], 294 p. [mancante l'ultima carta, bianca] e [2] tavole. Volumi legati in brossura coeva con tassello al dorso. Qualche lieve rossore, ma buona copia con carte consistenti e ancora in barbe. Prima edizione francese. Resoconto del viaggio compiuto dal giovane Isaac Weld, che trascorse più di due anni in Nord America per studiare le condizioni per una possibile immigrazione massiva irlandese. Osservò il territorio nordamericano compreso tra il fiume San Lorenzo a nord, la Virginia a sud e Detroit a ovest, muovendosi con i mezzi più disparati (a cavallo, a piedi, in canoa, in battello e in calesse). Incontrò una popolazione quantomai variegata, e conobbe George Washington e Thomas Jefferson. Il suo racconto è una testimonianza di grande interesse per la diversità dei temi trattati e per il giudizio dato alle due regioni osservate: severo per gli Stati Uniti e i suoi abitanti, avidi e violenti; più accondiscendente per il Canada, saggiamente governato e ancora abitato per lo più da francofoni.<BR>Boucher de la Richarderie VI, p. 43-54. Chadenat 1228. Leclerc 2996. Sabin 102544.<BR><BR>
40 pages. Oblong 12" x 9.5". Circa 1923. Profusely illustrated with glorious contemporary black and white photos. Considerable supporting text. A sumptuous promotional work intended to highlight the investment potential of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company and its subsidiary companies: Vancouver Power Company Limited; Vancouver Island Power Company Limited; Western Power Company of Canada Limited; Vancouver Gas Company Limited; Victoria Gas Company Limited. Very attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon chocolate brown front cover. Clean and fresh with very light wear. Discrete prior owner's name atop front cover. Two short openings to fore-edge of front cover. An exceptional and rare copy of this exquisite vintage item. Book
Published in the late 1970s, this magnificently illustrated set brings to life the richness of our real Canadian past, in all its colour and vitality. "There are no fictional embellishments. Some of Canada's best authors have used sensitivity, imagination, and true literary skill to tell Canada's story as it really was. These are not academic textbooks, but a fascinating and accurate 'social history' that should appeal to everyone." - Professor J. Michael Bliss, University of Toronto. "Delivers a totally new and essential look at ourselves, with a broad down-to-realities approach." - Peter C. Newman. Includes the following volumes: The First Canadians, The Colonial Dream 1497-1760, Redcoats and Loyalists 1760-1815, Days of the Rebels 1815-1840, Pioneer Days 1840-1860, Dawn of the Nation 1860-1870, The Age of Innocence 1870-1880, Canada Moves Westward 1880-1890, The Naughty Nineties 1890-1900, Into the 20th Century 1900-1910, The Years of Agony 1910-1920, The Crazy Twenties 1920-1930, The Hungry Thirties 1930-1940, A Time of Heroes 1940-1950, The Booming Fifites 1950-1960, The Years of Progress 1960-1970. Moderate to average wear. Unmarked with the exception of the last volume which bears a few library markings. Binding of the 1930-1940 volume is taped at title page. Binding of the 1900-1910 volume is weak at title page. A quality copy of this magnificent set. Book
Association des Diplômés de Polytechnique, Montréal. 1937-1953. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 13 volumes reliés (recueils) et 14 numéros brochés. Etiquettes de code sur les dos. Du n° 89, 23e année, mars 1937, au n° 156, 39e année, hiver 1953-54. Art de l'ingénieur, Economie politique et sociale, Mathématiques, Législation, Histoire, Statistique, Architecture, Sciences, Hygiène, Industrie, Forêts, Finances, Transports. Sommaire du n° 89, mars 1937: Les Etats-Unis et les rébellions de 183è-38 dans le Bas-Canada, jean Bruchési. Le rôle de la Chimie dans la formation de l'ingénieur, Jean Flahaut. La régime douanier américain, Charles Hérisson. Le fléau du déboisement dans la province du Québec, J.H. Ménard. Etude d'un gazogène à charbon de bois pour l'Alimentation des moteurs à explosion, Ls-Philippe Cousineau. Revue des Livres. Vie de l'Ecole et de l'Association. Sommaire du n° 156, hiver 1953-54: Table des matières de l'année 1953. Nos collaborateurs. La prévention de la fumée, un problème d'ingénieur, Bernard Beaupré. L'électrification rurale dans le Québec, Rodolphe Laplante. La brigade canadienne en Allemagne, Thomas Greenwood. Aspects de la politique étrangère danoise, Kay Heckscher. Les transformations économiques de la Chine, Jean Malabard. Revue des livres.
85 pages plus six pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton and his adventures as a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, with photos. (Wilton's book entitled 'Russia's Agony' was first published in 1918); The Man-Eating Tigers of Rengarih; My Bear Hunt in the British Columbia Rockies - Part II, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Water-Wheels of Hama, Syria - with photo; Beyond the Law - part V - The Dalton Gang, the Condon Bank and the First National Bank at Coffeyville, Kansas; Fishing as a Vocation for War Heroes, by Ralph Stock; Photo of a fallen California Redwood - said to have been the largest tree in the world; In Unknown British Guiana - Part I - many nice photos; Tales of the Service - Part V - My Smuggle-Catching Adventures - by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired Customs and Excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Wonders of the Silver Spruce of British Columbia - in high demand for aircraft construction; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part V - by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with excellent photos; Our Seaplane Adventure - Captain Abbott Meade and his plane go down in the Indian Ocean; Photo of large pile of licorice root at Aleppo; The Revenge that went Wrong - James Bestow and his problem with a Yaqui Indian in Mexico; The Railway Conquest of the Australian Desert - construction of the thousand-mile transcontinental railway, from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta - with many excellent photos; The "War Wolf" - Serbia's war hero Colonel Voyin A. Popovich; Whale Flesh as Human Food - informative brief article on the growth of the whale processing industry in Canada, with photo; Doctoring War Horses - the personal experiences of Blue Cross worker Charles W. Forward in France and Italy. Nice ad for the Hudson Navigation Company's New York - Albany - Troy route. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Vivace scena di carattere bellico che si svolge nella marina e sulla costa della baia di St. Jean e che si inquadra nel lungo dissidio tra francesi ed inglesi, durato quasi due secoli, per i diritti di pesca nel mare di Terranova, conservati dalla Francia anche dopo la definitiva attribuzione dell'isola alla Gran Bretagna con il trattato di Utrecht nel 1714. La legenda in calce illustra i movimenti della piccola squadra navale francese accorsa in difesa dei propri battelli da pesca, mentre sulla terraferma, in primo piano, sono raffigurati gli schieramenti delle truppe in assetto di guerra, compresa la batteria di cannoni che spara bordate, a destra.
64 pages. A wonderful memento for Toronto Maple Leafs fans! Features: Front cover colour photo shows Leaf bench with George Armstrong, Frank Mahovlich and Eddie Shack; Colour photo ad for the Ford Country Squire Station Wagon inside front cover; Maclean's Reports - How one obscure report inflamed both sides of the Fluoride debate all over again; Editorial on Hypocrisy in the Criminal Code - "preventing conception" is an offense; The Maple Leaf Money Machine - a report on how they play and pay, by Peter Gzowski - fantastic two-page-wide black and white candid photo of the team spread out along the boards, complete with their names and positions - the following pages feature a similar two-page-wide black and white photo of the players spread out along the boards in their street clothes, complete with their names and second job, perhaps the most interesting of which is Myles G. (Tim) Horton, "Restaurateur" - little did he know how big his name would become with the eventual growth of his donut business; The Birth-Control Explosion; Portrait of Toronto's Little Italy - its citizens are 160,000 Italian Canadians; The Intimate Record of Sigismund Zippel's Open Heart Operation - artificial leaves in his main heart valve; Report from Africa's unreported war - in Portuguese Angola -Holden Roberto's rebels attack from the Congo; The Taping of Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer and Elsinore; Colour illustrated Chevrolet centrefold ad; Colour photo full-page ad for TCA, Trans-Canada Air Lines/Air Canada; Cool all-red full-page photo ad for the 1964 Buick Special - with three models shown; Sidney Katz makes the case for a sane look at drivers who drink. Contents gently tanned with age. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Magazine
92 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for the 1953 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan; Magnificent full-page photo ad for Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division features Montreal's Miron & Freres Ltd. using an HD-20G, the world's largest tractor shovel with a 4-yard bucket; Very colourful full-page ad for BA service stations; Great colour photo full-page ad for the General Electric Twin-System refrigerator; The fight over Vitamin E - a bonus length feature on how Dr. Evan Shute and Dr. Wilfred Shute claim to be using Vitamin E to improve major health problems of their patients - with photos; Response to the Vitamin E article by the Canadian Medical Association; The corpse that hoaxed the Axis - Part One of the amazing story of how "Major Bill Martin" was part of a British Secret Service plot to mislead the Nazis into thinking the Allies would invade Sardinia, not Sicily; Anna had to be a clown - Claudia Anna Russell-Brown is a funny lady! - with large photo; The Duke of Edinburgh - the man behind the Queen - part 7 and final instalment of series "The Family in the Palace"; Can the West Stand Peace? - will Malenkov's peace offensive increase the danger of a slump and turn it into a propaganda victory for the Communists?; Louis Hemon - Vagabond Genius - article with photos; The Strange Death of Daddy Daniels (fiction); Henry Morgan and Company Limited, of Montreal, are the holdest and most courtly department store keepersin Canada - article with great photos; Never tell a woman anything (humour); The fastest man on four legs - Horse Jockey Johnny Longden - article with photos; Colour ad for the Chevrolet Bel Air 4-Door Sedan; Nice vintage colur ad for Cycla-matic Frigidaire refrigerators; Nice full-page two-colour ad for 1953 GMC trucks; Electrohome television and radio ad; Excellent colour photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows 1953 scraper in action plus a rare 1923 photo of a tractor pulling a scraper which is loading a horse-drawn wagon with earth; Great Coke ad on back cover shows smiling woman at gas station; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: The Rothschilds' fabulous stake in Canada - very rare 6-page article by Peter C. Newman, with photos; What you don't need to know about rock 'n roll - "it works on man's emotions like the music of the heathen in Africa"; Just look at the old ice-creem parlor now - George Dawson's drive-in can have twelve thousand people drop in on a Sunday; The Great Cross-Canada hike - five people walked from Halifax to Vancouver - here's the footrace that stirred all Canada back in 1921; The alarming truth about Konrad Adenauer - we call him a friend but this Grand Old Man of Germany is really a threat to pro-Western policy; When Every woman looked like Regina Lee - Blance Howard discusses the Liberal stranglehold on Ottawa; How to handle your kids in the holidays; The miracle that saved our son's mind - Frank Barkey's 'perfect baby' was on the dim edge of consciousness, his body wracked by convulsions, his brain a shattered blank - this is the story of that ordeal. Interesting ad inside back cover shows iron lungs with Caterpillar backup power. Somewhat above-average wear. Please note that page 5/6 is missing. It appears to have contained the London letter by Beverley Baxter. Fantastic colour ad for the 1956 Buick on page 10. Nice colour Coke ad on back cover. Bit of writing atop back cover. Magazine
Complete set of eight colour plates dated 1951 by artist. Printing date not stated. Each illustration depicts a regimental member in ceremonial dress. Regiments illustrated include: The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, The Seaforth Highlanders, The Toronto Scottish Regiment, The Canadian Scottish Regiment, The 48th Highlanders, The Black Watch - Royal Highland Regiment of Canada; The Calgary Highlanders, and The Essex Scottish. Colour portion of plates measures 8.5" x 6.5". Mat backing for each plate measures 13" x 10". All illustrations stored in sturdy original manilla folder. All plates in pristine condition. Moderate wear to storage folder. An excellent set. Book
X [ads], 465-554 pages. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos. Features: Jasper National Park - article which includes five full-page colour reproductions of A.Y. Jackson paintings; Five Million Tourists - Canada's second greatest industry; Asbestos - "Pierre a Coton" - article with dozens of excellent photos of Quebec's mighty asbestos industry; The Story of the R-100 Airship - largest and greatest in the world - article illustrated with many sensational photos; New Books; Glorious vintage ads for national Canadian brands; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this extraordinary Canadian aviation history memento. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
170 pp. Bibliography of books [in English] about Bethune. Eighty-five black and white reproductions of documents. Opens with an informative fifteen page footnoted introduction by David Lethbridge. Dr. Norman Bethune [1890-1939] is revered to this day in China for his front-line medical service to the Communist Army in the late 1930s. "But from the moment he joined the Communist Party of Canada, the RCMP secret intelligence division kept extensive and detailed files on his every move. Only recently declassified, and fully reproduced for the first time in this volume, are the actual secret police files on Bethune. Never before have Bethune's own words spoken so clearly about the political convictions and personal courage that have led him to be remembered as a revolutionary militant of 'absolute selflessness.'" - back cover. Former library copy with usual markings and above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
Pages 213-252 plus xxiv pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Notable American Homes - "Braemar," the House of Mrs. M. Rumsey Miller, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, NY; What Can Be Done in a Hand-Loom; "Druidream," The Residence of Charles W.L. Roche, Esq., Brantwood, Short Hills, NJ; The Begonia; A Successful Remodeled New England Barn; Sixteen Houses of Moderate Cost - great photos; House with a Guaranteed Cost - a reputable building firm has guaranteed to build this house under normal conditions for $5,400 within sixty miles of New York City; A Colonial House at Portsmouth, NH - The Warner house was initially the residence of Captain Archibald Macpheadris; The Summer Home of Arthur W. Hall, Esq., at Crystal Brook, Long Island; "Homewood," the Country Seat of Richard G. Tower, Esq., at Lexington, MA; Wall Gardens; A Group of Inexpensive Houses at Forest Hills, Long Island, including the homes of Mssrs. Babington, Holmes, Frederick Betts, Austin, and Meyer; Chickering & Sons piano one-page ad; Photo ad for the Grand Trunk Railway destination at Muskoka Lakes, Canada; Nice color back page ad for S.C. Johnson's artistic wood finishes; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
95 pages. Author's signature upon title page. "Money, and in modern times credit, in all their forms and instruments, are the lifeblood of society and the nation. For generations, practically all modern industrialized nations have experienced periods of boom times and inflation, followed by depression, hard times and a shortage of 'money'... and in recent decades, every country seems plagued with an escalating mountain of debt - and taxation to pay the interest on the mounting debt." - dust jacket. Author has been an inexhaustable and prominent proponent of freedom for Canadians for many decades. Unread. Gift quality. Book
"Contains information published for the first time, of navigable distances of lakes and rivers in north-western Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Mackenzie Territory; the draught and number of steamers plying on thoses waters. Similar information is given of the inland waters of British Columbia for the first time. In the description of the Transcontinental and Intercolonial railways much new information appears... Original photographs of various localities were procured from the headquarters of the railways and steamboat lines. The book is copiously illustrated." - A. Johnston, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries. "Intended as a sketch of Canada, for the use of representatives, delegates and members of the XIIth Congress of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, to be held at Philadelphia. Contains information relating to Canada, important lines of communication on this continent, and ocean going steamers, that will be valuable to travellers engaged in business, tourists, sportsmen, yachtsmen, canoeists, surf bathers, and others who may find the means of satisfying any reasonable desire connected with travel, pastime or recreation." - from Introduction. Prior owner's name upon first blank leaf else unmarked. Average wear with the following exception: Affixed to the last leaf is a 35" x 21.5" fold-out map of the Dominion of Canada which shows national rail lines, resource locations, fog signals, lighthouses, wireless stations, and more. Through use, this leaf and the two which preceed it are loose but present. Two-inch opening at base of back cover and backstrip. Also included is a 21" x 17.5" fold-out map entitled "Chart of Radio-Telegraph Stations on the East Coast". Profusely illustrated with often enthralling black and white photography. Attractive gilt lettering upon embossed chocolate brown cover. A magnificent survey of Canada's natural resources and transportation infrastructure in the Pre- World War One era. Book
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION (aside from recent junky reprints) OF THIS ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA UNDERTAKEN IN 1912 BY A GROUP OF FRENCH DIGNITARIES TO CELEBRATE CHAMPLAIN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS. They departed on the ocean liner SS France the day after the Titanic disaster and remained for several weeks. Includes accounts of New York, Mount Vernon, Washington, Columbia and Harvard Universities, Lake Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls, etc. 2 leaves; X, 225 pp plus TWO FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ORIGINAL PRINTS BY AUGUSTE LEPERE, a wood-engraving and an etching. Edition limited to 230 numbered copies printed on fine Rives laid paper. 4to. Attractively bound in marbled boards. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare.
356 pages plus advertisements. Marbled boards. Unmarked. Binding cracked at Table of Contents. Lettering upon spine worn but legible. Significant but not excessive external wear. Book
494 pages. Apparently rebound in black half-leather and blue/gold marbled boards and endpapers. Index. "In 1899 a treaty with the Indians of the great Mackenzie basin followed the report of a Senate select Committee, chaired by Sir John Schultz; but, owing to the absence of roads and markets, and other essentials of civilized life, not to speak of the vast unsettled areas of prairie to the south, the incoming, until now that the railways are projected, of any great body of immigrants was very wisely discouraged, and this in the interest of the settler himself. The following narrative, therefore, has lain in the author's diary since the year of the expedition it records." - Preface. Numerous black and white photographic plates including tissue-protected frontis. Attractive colour fold-out map dated 1900 depicts the areas encompassed by Treaty No. 8 and the Indian tribes therein. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and unmarked. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Wallace p.54, Lande 1332, Peel [3] 2463. Book
