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1948711j2280Ottawa Ontario: The National Research Council of Canada - Radio Branch. Good. 1948. First Edition. Paperback. "Recounts the Radio Branch's role in developing radar and other technologies for the Canadian armed services in World War II. The branch was established in 1931 and by the start of the war under the leadership of President McNaughton began working on radar development. Includes details of the Branch's organization collaborations with universities and other organizations and the specific projects it undertook." - AI. 205 pages including 71 pages of black and white reproductions of photos. Name of prior owner L.H. Legassickea member of the Radio Branch atop title page otherwise clean tight square and unmarked with gentle peripheral wear. Light toning to contents. A well-preserved example of this very informative history. ; 4to . The National Research Council of Canada - Radio Branch paperback
1936613h2005Vancouver B.C.: Household Service Department of the Vancouver Daily Province. Poor. 1936. First Edition. Paperback. A rare first edition example of this early Vancouver cookbook. Undated but Driver B86.1 suggests a printing date between 1935 and 1938. Subsequent revised editions were published in 1939 and 1941. "In this little booklet will be found recipes for almost every occasion. Each one has been carefully tested in The Province Modern Kitchen and if you have difficulty with any recipe a phone call or a letter to this household department of The Daily Province will bring the advice of trained home economist or dietitian to your rescue." - Introduction. 52 pages. Index. 25 x 17.7 cm. Few markings around the Lemon Cake Pudding and Butterscotch Sauce recipes on pages 25 and 26. Heavily worn with typical cookbook soiling. Middle page holding by one staple. Covers dangling from top staple. A wonderful piece of Vancouver culinary history.; Sm 4to . Household Service Department of the Vancouver Daily Province paperback
1932563H4962Chicago: M.M. Cole Publishing Co. 1932. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sensational vintage compilation of thirty-five 1930s lumberjack songs from the Pacific Northwest. Elmore Vincent was known as "The Northwest Shanty Boy" and the front cover art features his image superimposed over a scene of tall timber being brought down by hand as chainsaws were but a dream at that time. 64 pages. Includes lyrics guitar chords and piano sheet music for these songs: A Lumber Lad's Love Ballad of the Lumberjack Billy the River Driver Canaday-I-O Come With Me In My Little Canoe Darling Janet Down in That Lonely Valley Drinking Song Fair Charlotte Grizzly Hogan Lonesome Lumberjack Lumberjack Memories Moose Meat Smart Johnny the Logger Song of the Lumberjack Strawberry Lane The Death of George Phalen The Flying Cloud The Gambling Lumberjack and the Jim Creek Girl The Good Old Times The Great Fit The Green River Girl "The Jam at Gerry's Rock" The Lakes of Pontchartrain Three Leaves of Shamrock The Little Brown Bulls The Lumberjack and the Pretty Girl The Lumberjack's Alphabet The Lumberjack's Bible The Lumberjack in Town as sung on Seattle's "Skid Road" by Syd Johnson The Sandy Stream Song The Stranger and the Maiden Fair The Two Sisters Who Feeds Us Beans and Yodeling Lumberjack. Most songs have several verses or more. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A rare and wonderful musical memento of the glory days of Northwest lumberjacking. M.M. Cole Publishing Co. Paperback
1831elala1146York: James Baxter Printer 1831. 1831. 8vo. pp. 5. text in double columns. modern cloth-backed bds. foxing to title. Rare. Concerning the establishment of a school fund from the sale of Crown lands set aside for the purpose. The committee was chaired by William Morris 1786-1858 who by the late 1820s "had become a recognized authority on the distressing state of schooling in Upper Canada. " DCB VIII p. 640 Fleming 583 Public Archives copy only. Casey I 1334. Not in TPL. Hardcover. York: James Baxter, Printer, 1831. Hardcover
1839elala1150Toronto: Printed At The Patriot Office 1839. 1839. 8vo. pp. 87. old half sheep binding worn spine damaged foxing to outer leaves margins closely trimmed. The first half of the report dated April 30 1839 is concerned with the American involvement in the Rebellion: the raids conducted by sympathizers in the northern states including extensive discussion of the seizure and burning of the steamer Sir Robert Peel. The second half constitutes a commentary on Lord Durhams report. The last four pages contain the draft of an address to the Queen requesting continued support and protection. Fleming 1373. TPL 2334. Casey I 1727. Lande S2250. Toronto: Printed At The Patriot Office, 1839. unknown
19586163[Paris] Montréal, Éditions Erta, 1958. Grand in-8 en feuilles de 51-[5] p., couverture bleu rempliée.
18796329Paris, A. Quantin, 1879. 2 volumes in-12 de [6]-II-[2]-6 à 390-[2]p. et [4]-396p., demi-percaline verte, dos lisses, pièces de titre noires, têtes rouges (petit éclaircissement en queue du vol. 2).
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.
17918A Amsterdam, Chez M.-M. Rey, 1776. 2 volumes in 1. (4), xxii, 272, (2) pp.; (2), 247, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with raised bands. Kress 7197; Goldsmiths 11375; INED 1075; Echeverria & Wilkie 776/6; not in Sabin; not in JFBL; R. Darnton, The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France 1769-1789, 258. Second edition, the work had been first launched in Amsterdam in 1772 before a French publisher dared to bring it on the market in France. That French publication was simultaneously with the present publication. 'Chastellux's analysis of American society was both more searching and influential. A member of the French Academy, one of the founders of the social sciences, and major general on Rochambeau's staff, he was easily the foremost intellectual in the French forces in America. In an earlier work, De la Félicité, he had sought to determine whether "society is susceptible, if not of perfection, at least amelioration," that is, of an increase in human felicity. (.....) The only possible answer was in social reform. The function of government, he posited, was to achieve "the greatest hapiness of the greatest number." Man must create through the free and enlightened use of his reason a liberal government midway between the extremes of pure democracy and pure absolutism, based upon a true understanding of economic principles (Physiocracy), which would guarantee a high standard of living, adequate leisure, and the right to private property. In this earlier work Chastellux had cited America as an example of man's ability to progress through liberty, reason, equality and agriculturism" (See at length: D. Echeverria, Mirage in the West, p. 110-14).
18768A Amsterdam, Chez J.L. de Lorme, 1704. Title printed in red and black. With 1 folding table. (10), 317, (1) pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering. Kress 2421; Goldsmiths 4038; Einaudi 1626,note; Sabin 98172n; Alden & Landis 704/56; Echeverria & Wilkie 704/7; not in Howes; not in Streeter; not in Leclerc; not in Muller; not in JFBL. The best edition, with extensive notes added. One of at least 7 editions published in 1704. Originally published in 1703. As a matter of fact there never was an English edition, but the author apparently preferred to pass it off as such to avoid problems with the authorities, since he represented the French court as an ambassador in The Hague. Anti-British work that surveys British trade and commerce in Europe and that with the American colonies and the Indies predicting that the Navigation Acts will result in revolt and independence for the British North American colonies. "Sets out the advantages and disadvantages of the Spanish War of Succession to Great Britain's commercial interests, together with the advantages to Spain of free trade in her colonies. This work is remarkable as containing a distinct prophecy of the revolt of the American colonies from Great Britain" (Encyclopaedia Britannica Online).
18735No place, 1772. 2 works bound in 1 volume. 151, (5, publisher's catalogue) pp.; 156, 3 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, marbled edges. First work: Fay 10.; Sabin 25583; cf.: Kress B.122 (incomplete copy); Goldsmiths 11761 (lacking last 5 pp.); this edition not in Einaudi. Second French edition, first published in 1777. The translation is by F.A. Quétant & J.B. Lecuy. The work had a tremendous and instaneous appeal as a sort of gospel of the virtues of bourgeois thrift and common sense (see at length: Echeverria, Mirage in the West.) Includes, apart from "La Science ...." also: 'Interrogatoire de M. Franklin devant le Parlement d'Angleterre' (translated by P.S. Dupont de Nemours), followed by 'Constitution de la République de Pensylvanie, telle qu'elle a été établie par la Commission générale de Philadelphie, au mois de juillet 1776' and followed by 'L'interrogatoire de M. Penn à la Barre du Parlement au mois de novembre de la même année.'Second work: INED 2863; not in Kress; not in Higgs; not in Einaudi; not in Goldsmiths. First edition. Etienne Silhouette, to a certain extent influenced by the ideas of Fr. Quesnay, was controleur-général des finances in 1759. He planned to tax the land property of the nobility and to reduce pensions, which provoked his disgrace. - With label J.S. Dussi on front paste-down. A very nice copy.
18689A La Haye, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1755. xvi, 246 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label with gilt lettering, red edges. Kress 5420; Higgs 1029; cf.: INED 884; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Conlon; Sabin 9602; Howes B.1049; cf.: Leclerc 241; Echeverria & Wilkie 755/5. Edition published in the same year as the first edition. Butel-Dumont argues that Great-Britain owes her power and wealth to the colonies. He analyses the commerce and trade as well as the population of the British colonies at the time of the Guerre du Canada. With the outbreak of the Seven Years War, many of whose battles were to be fought in the New World, considerable curiosity about the British colonies was excited. This was one of the books profiting from this curiosity. It emphasized the phenomenal growth and prosperity of the colonies. 'This is the first extensive French text on the British North American colonies and was occasioned by the heightened tensions preceding the Seven Years War. It gives accounts of the geography, history, religion, government, economics, trade, and products of the several colonies' (Echeverria & Wilkie). According to INED this work was also attributed to Véron de Forbonnais.
1802PHO-1231Paris, F. Buisson, et Giguen, an X – 1802. In-4, broché ,titre sur le plat Atlas seul contenant 14 planches gravées (vues, costumes) et une carte dépliante du détroit qui sépare l'Asie de l'Amérique. Bon exemplaire.
1933200PARIS-XV°. EDITIONS MORNAY. 1933. IN-4 BROCHE (20,5 X 25 X 2,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (4) + 206 PAGES, SOUS COUVERTURE REMPLIEE ILLUSTREE EN BEIGE, TITRE IMPRIME EN BISTRE. ILLUSTRE DE 54 COMPOSITIONS EN COULEURS DANS LE TEXTE. PREMIER TIRAGE LIMITE A 2080 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, DONT 80 HORS COMMERCE. UN DES 1900 SUR PAPIER BLANC DE RIVES A LA FORME, CELUI-CI PORTANT LE NUMERO 1761. «BELLE EDITION (PARUE HORS COLLECTION); ELLE EST TRES RECHERCHEE ET COTEE. ILLUSTRATION EXECUTEE SUR LES LIEUX MEMES PAR L'ARTISTE CANADIEN.» (CARTERET. IV. 199). QUELQUES ROUSSEURS EPARSES, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.
205663Paris, Dentu, 1807 in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 310 pp., un f. n. ch. de table, avec un portrait-frontispice par Adam d'après Lawrence, broché sous couverture d'attente de papier rose, première couverture se détachant.
18757London, printed for J. Debrett, 1784. With 16 tables (mainly folding). (4), xlvii, 345, (30), 24 pp. and 4 lvs of publisher's catalogue. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering. Sabin 32633; JFBL S290; Howes H.616; not in Streeter; Kress B.784; Goldsmiths 12623; cf.: Black 1348 (Dublin edition); not in Einaudi. Much expanded edition. A detailed exposition and statistical comparison of the imports and exports of Great Britain and the United States, from 1700 to 1783. With each edition, Sheffield substantially revised and enlarged the text. Written in opposition to the bill introduced by Pitt in 1783, proposing to relax the navigation laws in favour of the States, the work was influential in determining the abandonment of the motion. Sheffield points up the weak position of America and continually stresses the growing commercial importance and potential of the West Indies and Canada (especially Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, particularly with regard to fisheries, lumber, and ship-building). Howes writes that the work was very influential in shaping England's trade policy from 1783 to 1789, so detrimental to American commerce and shipping interests as to contribute greatly to the formation of a Federal union, better able, than were the separate federated states, to retaliate against British maritime might.The tables provide extensive statistical information, giving a comparative export and import survey of the trade between the United States and other countries. The tables have been bound in a bit of a disorder: tables 12-15 are bound before the "Contents of Tables", the tables start with number 16, followed by the numbers 1-11, but all 16 tables are present. - Page xxiii/xxiv with some damage but no loss of text; inscribed by the author in upper margin of the title-page, slightly touched by the binder's knife.
176311860Londres, sans nom, 1763 ; 8 tomes in-12 ; demi-chagrin vert-sapin, dos lisses à grand décor de rinceaux et roses dorés, 4 faux-nerfs dorés, palette en queue, tranches marbrées multicolores (reliure du tout début XIXe) ; VIII, LX, 415 ; (4) en tête à chaque volume ; VIII, 560 ; IX, 566 ; VI, 454 ; VIII, 484 ; VI, 477 ; VI, 483 ; VI, 375, (1) pp. ; chaque tome a sa propre table alphabétique ; 2 portraits gravés par Legrand au tome 1er.
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
2003BN126703Taylor & Francis Inc 2003. 2003. Hardcover. Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete <br/><br/>Handbook on Nondestructive Testing of Concrete V.M. CANMET Ottawa Ontario Canada Malhotra Nicholas J. National Institute of Standards and Technology Maryland US Carino Taylor & Francis Inc hardcover
1953RO40192299Association des Diplômés de Polytechnique, Montréal. 1937-1953. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 13 volumes reliés (recueils) et 14 numéros brochés. Etiquettes de code sur les dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 971-Canada
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
10874Quebec. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly and sold by John Neilson M.DCC.XCVI. 1796. Soft cover. 4to. 24.5cm 2p.l.318p. added French title page text in French and English on facing pages 5 folding leaves included in the pagination small repairs to English title-page rebound in half speckled tan calf black and gilt ruled bands crushed green morocco label gilt titles with the contemporary marbled boards a fine copy ds1. - Tremaine 996. Tremaine notes: "The House ordered that 100 copies of its Journal of the fourth Session of the first assembly Nov. 20 1795 - May 7 1796 be printed in English and French for the use of Members and that none but the printer be so licensed to print the same. An index was issued later.without printer's name of date.upon paper with the date 1807 in the watermark. It is only occasionally found with copies of the Journal." This 41p. Index is not with our copy. Quebec. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly, and sold by John Neilson, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796] unknown
