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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
68 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration of grass-cutting man mowing flowers while girl-watching. Contents: Great colour ad for Veedol motor oil inside front cover; Nice ad for International Trucks 2-ton trucks; Investors Syndicate ad features William H. Lotts, President of Overland Construction Company; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; Roosevelt Acts - M. Grattan O'Leary reports on the "Prophet of Recovery" - including photo of President Roosevelt with Premier Bennett; A Sporting Gesture, by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Article on Sir Arthur Currie; Forgotten Money in Bank Accounts, by Grant Dexter; Ins and Outs of Sport - how different sports go in and out of favour; Arctic Air Trail - Flight Lieut. J.D.M. Gray and his plan to fly the "Sourdough", a Fairchild monoplane, across the Atlantic; False Colors, by Captain Dingle; Sleepy, by Beverley Owen; My Hat!, by Dora Sanders; The (Great) Depression, by Honorable E.C. Drury - Part 2 - Causes; Match Point, by John Holden; We Shouldn't Own Ships - O.F. MacKenzie argues that now that WWI is over the Canadian government need not own ships; A very lovely full-page colour ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup featuring a waving girl in a tomato-coloured dress and blue hat and jacket; Salesman of Music - Milton Blackstone and the Hart House Quartet which also includes Adaskin, de Kresz and Hambourg; Full-page Canada Dry ad shows boy and girl running; Europe Fears Treaty Revision; Nice Dominions Tire ad; New Guinea is Rich Gold Field; There are now 230 weekly comic strips; Great Wall is Useless Now; Modern Alarms Catch Burglars - electrical devices installed in banks make robbery practically impossible; Baseball has been changed by the Curve Ball and other Developments; Jerusalem now has Y.M.C.A.; Super-Markets Cause Concern - Large-scale grocery selling in cheap warehouses worries regular trade; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Standard Six and Master Six; The Future of Medicine; Vintage Dentyne chewing gum ad includes photo of Eskimo lady with healthy teeth; Lovely colour Shredded Wheat ad; Nice Champion Spark Plug ad features Eddie Miller in an Auburn 12 Speedster; Trans-Canada Long-Distance ad with contemporary prices per minute; Outdoor Weddings, by Helen G. Campbell; Lending Companies have Good Depression Record, by W.A. Higgins; Nice 2-colour ad for Northern Electric Electric range inside back cover; Nice ad for Kodak Verichrome Film on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Pages 453-492 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The Country Seat of Howard Henry, Esq., at Camp Hill, PA; The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling; Decorations and Furnishings For the Home - X - Treatment of Fireplaces and Mantels; Old South Salem in Northern Westchester County - article with photos of local buildings including the Horse and Hound Tavern; Artistic Wax Work; A Group of Modern Houses Costing From $1,800 Upwards - nice 12-photo 2-page spread includes the homes of Mr. Warren Bartholf, Mr. W.A. Westerson, Mrs. Colgrove, Mr. R.E. McGregor, Mr. Benjamin A. Paust, Miss Helen J. Holboe, Mr. W.W. Huntress, Mr. Benjamin Waller, and Mr. Ellis Ashley; Handicraftsman - Leather Craftwork; Crafts That Children Can Do; Ostrich Farming as an Industry; The Small Country House - A Dutch Colonial House Costing $2,150 Complete; A Craftsman's House Costing $2,400 Complete; A House of Modern Design Costing $3,200 Complete; A House and a Garage - the home of James Masterson, Esq., at Crescent Hill, Bay Ridge, NY; Garden Notes; American Homes and gardens' Garden Competition - First Garden Prize wond by Dr. Shiro Miyaki, St. Louis, MO, Second Prize Won by James M. Hull, Esq., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Third Prize wond by M.F. Ault, Indianapolis, IN, with photos of all three; L. Wolff Mfg. Co. ad features photo of the new North Western Passenger Terminal Station in Chicago; Ad for Hotel Chamberlain at Old Point Comfort, VA, with small photo of the large hotel; Index to American Homes and Gardens, Volume VII, January to December, 1910; Back cover color ad for the Columbia Grafonola "Regent" and Graphophone; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Small date stamp atop back cover and small piece missing from bottom of page 457, otherwise complete and unmarked with average wear. Disbound from a larger volume with some of the former binding affixed to spine. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1995x-075070182XFalmer Pr 1995. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 236 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. Falmer Pr hardcover
1933098434Toronto: The Champlain Society 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spines. Top edges gilt. Maps and illustrations throughout; map/plate volume complete. Ex-Hudson's Bay Company library: sticker to spines and HBC bookplate and rubber stamp to front endpapers. Spines sunned some boards bowed some plates mis-folded map slipcase frayed at edges. Six volumes plus Portfolio of Plates and Maps. Each volume is numbered 56 of an edition of 550. In French and English. Translated and edited by H. H. Langton and W. F. Ganong.; The French texts collated by J. Home Cameron. The Champlain Society hardcover
1909078054Toronto: F. C. Stephenson 1909. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 331. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and b&w pastedown photo to front board. Many tables photos illustrations etc. Edgewear bookplate and ink notation to front endpaper one page sliced out and laid-in and showing paperclip indent and rust some ink underlines and ticks to margins. "Observing the grim results of industrial capitalism in Canada and Britain Woodsworth concluded that his church's stress upon personal salvation was wrong. Moving from middle-class pulpits to a city mission All People's Winnipeg he worked with immigrant slum dwellers 1904-13. By 1914 he had become a controversial supporter of trade-union collective bargaining and an ardent democratic socialist - on Fabian and British Labour Party lines. He was also adamantly pacifist seeing war as a product of capitalist and imperial competition and he was fired from a governmental social-research position in 1917 for openly opposing conscription." - Canadian Encyclopedia. Despite his then-progressive stance through a 21st century lens the ideas and terminology herein are difficult to read; as such this is an important neglected piece of Canadian history. Introduction by J. W. Sparling; Author's Preface.The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Canada; The Young People's Forward Movement Department Text-Book No. 5. Scarce. Peel 3353. F. C. Stephenson hardcover
20011-0771067186Firefly Books Ltd 2001. Hardcover. New. special edition. 17.25x11.00x2.25 inches. Firefly Books Ltd hardcover
18726193London, Hurst & Blackett, 1872. In-8 de XIV-[2]-347p. + 16p. de catalogue, pleine percaline verte d'éditeur ornée de fleurons à froid. Rousseurs sur la page de titre et le frontispice uniquement (à cause de la serpente).
1866256569London: Hurst and Blackett Publishers 13 Great Marlborough Streeet 1866. First edition with tipped in errata slip. 6 chromolithographs and numerous text illustrations. xv 3 334 pp. Savill and Edwards Printer Chandos St. 1 vols. 8vo 26.5 x 18 cm. Original green cloth with gilt moose on upper cover. Fine. Signed "J.C. Cutting 1869. First edition with tipped in errata slip. 6 chromolithographs and numerous text illustrations. xv 3 334 pp. Savill and Edwards Printer Chandos St. 1 vols. 8vo 26.5 x 18 cm. A detailed and useful guide to Canadian sport. Four of the 12 chapters are devoted to fishing: "The Fisheries of Canada" concerning salmon rivers lakes and lesser waters; "The Salmon" its location size etc. includes data on trout and white fish; "The Canadian Shad" habitat etc. including other fish; and "The Tom Cod" annual arrival etc. including discussion of bass sturgeon and others. Rare in this condition. Bruns K-49; Gee p. 61; Lande 1886; Sabin 37857; TPL 6220 Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Streeet unknown
1849WRCAM22323Montreal: Armour & Ramsay 1849. 21533pp. plus large folding map 36 x 19 1/4 inches. 12mo. Original green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Map detached from book with tape reinforcements on verso along several folds. Else clean and very good. A rare anonymous Canadian guide book containing Edward Staveley's fine engraved map of Canada: "A Map of Canada Compiled from the latest Authorities. By Edward Staveley. Montreal 1848. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnson Edinburgh for Armour & Ramsay Montreal." With inset maps of Montreal Quebec Niagara Kingston and Toronto. This map is well-known and first appeared separately in 1844. The text consists of interesting descriptions of tourist destinations historical essays a tariff schedule for all manner of produce and accounts of the primary Canadian cites and towns. This is the fourth issue of the map and the first edition of THE CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. TPL 2975. GAGNON I:661. PHILLIPS MAPS p.197. DIONNE 565. SABIN 10627. Armour & Ramsay hardcover books
191526402Villebon-sur-Yvette 1915 -in-4 plein-veau 1 album, reliure plein veau havane marbré in-quarto à l'italienne (28,5 x 19 cm), dos 4 nerfs (spine with raised bands) muet (spine - no title), décoration "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), filet perlé "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet à froid et un filet "or" de part et d'autre des nerfs, double filet "or" en tête et en pied, premier plat décoré "or" , titre frappé "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or", 4ème plat décoré "or" , d'un filet "or" en encadrement, dentelle "fleuron or" sur les chasses (lace-like gilt decoration on the turn-ins), toutes tranches découpées "à la ficelle", album de 25 photographies albuminées en noir et montées sur onglets de cuir marron du CHATEAU DE VILLEBON-SUR-YVETTE : MAISON DE CONVALESCENCE MISE A LA DISPOSITION DE M. LE MINISTRE DE LA GUERRE (ALEXANDRE MILLERAND) PAR LE DOCTEUR CHARLES BONNET - MAI 1915 (AUJOURD'HUI CENTRE DE RETRAITES DES PÈRES LAZARISTES), 1915 sans nom de photographe,
18626192[Victoria], The Colonial governement, 1862. In-8 de [4]-63-[1]-18-[2]p., demi-maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs (reliure moderne).
1969mon0000084603Colnaghi 1969-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Clean copy sound binding. Colnaghi paperback
1904262740Canada: Department of Public Works 1904. unbound. Set of 8 Map. Color lithograph. In original cardboard case.<br/> <br/> This set of eight maps depicts the government telegraph lines throughout the dominion of Canada. Issued by the Department of Public Works contains the maps of the different sections or systems to accompany the report on the Canadian Government telegraph lines compiled up to 1st August 1904. The maps include an index map and seven other regional maps depicting the British Columbia and Yukon System the Northwest Territories system Pelee Island Ontario system Chicoutimi and North shore of St. Lawrence and Gulf Grosse Isle system Bay of Fundy system Chatham-Escuminac New Brunswick system and the Magdalen Island system. Each map notes important cities and telegraph lines are shown with red and black lines. The maps are printed on onion skin paper and are brittle and fragile. Some maps show rips along folds. Surplus of Library of Congress stamp. All maps slip into an envelope inside hard cover case. Gives a good overview of the telegraph system in the early 20th century.<br/> <br/> Department of Public Works unknown
1904262740Canada: Department of Public Works 1904. unbound. Set of 8 Map. Color lithograph. In original cardboard case.<br/><br/> This set of eight maps depicts the government telegraph lines throughout the dominion of Canada. Issued by the Department of Public Works contains the maps of the different sections or systems to accompany the report on the Canadian Government telegraph lines compiled up to 1st August 1904. The maps include an index map and seven other regional maps depicting the British Columbia and Yukon System the Northwest Territories system Pelee Island Ontario system Chicoutimi and North shore of St. Lawrence and Gulf Grosse Isle system Bay of Fundy system Chatham-Escuminac New Brunswick system and the Magdalen Island system. Each map notes important cities and telegraph lines are shown with red and black lines. The maps are printed on onion skin paper and are brittle and fragile. Some maps show rips along folds. Surplus of Library of Congress stamp. All maps slip into an envelope inside hard cover case. Gives a good overview of the telegraph system in the early 20th century.<br/><br/> Department of Public Works unknown books
15622A Paris, Chez A.A. Renouard, 1822. 2 volumes. (4), 350 pp.; (4), 332 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, paper covered boards, corners. Not in Kress (cf.: 7197); not in INED (cf.: 1075); Goldsmiths 23385; Einaudi 1038. '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 ..... 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 happiness 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 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). - Somewhat paperspotted, handwritten ownership's entry "Ges. Gobin jeune" on verso front free flyleaf.
Decorativa ed interessante carta geografica del Canada disegnata dal Bellin ed edita nel 1755 dagli Eredi Homan. Coloritura d'epoca. Antico restauro al margine inferiore e piega centrale appena accennata
300 pages. "Contains the entire first edition, published in 1952. Known errors have been corrected and new material on the 1st Battalion in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945, has been added. The history of the Regiment has been brought forward from 1951 to 1994." - from copyright page. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Light wear to book which bears minimal library markings. Binding sound. A handsome copy of this treasured reference. Book
1780PHO-2207Nyon l’Ainé, Paris, 1780, 2 vol. in-12 de XIV - XVIII -389 pp. et 1 f.- 352 pp., relié plein veau marbré époque, dos à nerfs orné avec pièces de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges, petits manques au dos, coiffes sup. arasées, coins usés, légères épidermures.
