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193679427Wausau Wisconsin: Lemke Milk Products Co 1936. This complimentary heavy paper wall calendar capitalized on the popularity of the Dionne Quintuplets five girls born in a frontier farmhouse near Callader Ontario.<br /> <br /> The 11†x 14†wall calendar contains a color photograph of the babies a blue string for hanging on a wall and tear away monthly calendars all intact. A quarter page sheet included with the calendar recounts the story of their birth and the valiant effort made by the attending physician to keep them alive. “During the past 500 years births of 30 other quintuplets have been reliably reported but none every lived more than five days.â€<br /> <br /> After four months with their family the Red Cross took custody of the babies and paid for their care. Less than a year later the Ontario government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act 1935 which made them wards of the Crown until the age of 18. The Ontario provincial government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction. <br /> <br /> The materials are housed in the original brown paper mailing envelope stamped on the front H.C. Falk & Son Rothschild all in very good condition. Lemke Milk Products Co unknown
60224c.1890s. . Albumen print; fine photograph with very good tonal range. Title written on card. Dimensions 17 x 22 cm. <br /> <br /> [c.1890s]. unknown
186246121Quebec: Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats 1862. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers heavily chipped along edges lacking spine numeral stamped to front wrapper institutional stamp to title with a few notations minor browning to contents but overall quite good. 66 pp. 1 pp. 8vo. All about trade. Sabin 69884. TPL: 4119. Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats unknown
185233916New York: George P. Putnam 1852. Soft cover. Poor. 12mo. 2 volumes: 2 viii 211 pages 2; 2 224 pages. Illustrated title pages. Poor condition. Ex-institutional copy with covers detached. A pink library label from the Waterville Public Library found on the front paste down of one of the covers. Covers are made of plain board with leather spines. Leather is dry and rotted. Text blocks are in good condition with light toning and scattered foxing. George P. Putnam unknown
20540Ephemera. Very good overall. A complete collection of 50 cigarette cards for Wills's cigarettes W.D. & H.O. Wills Bristol & London issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain and Ireland Ltd. One of the first companies to include cigarette cards. Full color with text on the verso. Scenes pictured include: Ottawa Quebec Montreal Lake Muskoka Shawatlan's Lake and Falls Kootenay Reservation Lake Louise York Redoubt Fort William as well as timber raft threshing wheat grain elevators Rockies Three Sisters Moose Hunting. Card size 2 7/8 x 1 3/8". Condition vg. unknown
53940Toronto John Lovell 1857. Printed by John Lovell Toronto 1857. 62 x 47 cm. Hard-cover with leather at spine and corners. Gilt title on red label displayed on front cover. All 22 large lithographed maps describing the development of mining regions in Canada and explorations on the north shore of Lake Huron and eastward to Ottawa are complete and in good condition. Spine is damaged cover is mottled slight water damage to the outside of the pages some pages folded and even browning throughout. Toronto John Lovell 1857 hardcover
191454468London: Heath Cranton & OuseleyLtd. 1914. 8vo. 6 90 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates. Green cloth red lettering w/ d.j. photo cover art of the camp cook 2/6 price label on spine minor toning dustsoiling edgewear NF/VG copy. First edition of this scarce account of a Canadian Northern Railway engineer and surveyor experiences while working at the Selwood Junction Camp in 1910 laying the extension from the silver mines at Gowganda Junction to Port Arthur and onto Lake Superior along the Vermillion River and Post Lake. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. Heath, Cranton & Ouseley,Ltd., hardcover
195560689London: William Kimber 1955. 8vo. 215 pp. plus 11 pp. publ. ads. Photo frntsp. photo illusts. map endpapers. Blue cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition in English of this scarce semi-autobiographical novel set against the backdrop of a fur trapper in the Northwest Territories of Canada originally published in Norwegian in 1941. Ingstad 1899-2001 was a noted adventurer and archaeologist who had sold his successful law practice in Levanger and become a fur trapper in Canada’s Northwest Territories by 1926 where for the next three years he traveled with the local Indigenous Ethen-eldeli First Nations peoples and wrote his bestelling Land of Feast ad Famine which was published in 1933 and provided much of the basis for his only novel. William Kimber, hardcover
18803113Ottawa: Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada 1880. Good plus. 139pp. Original printed wrappers rear lacking. Otherwise light dust soiling and toning. French-language edition of this extensive transcript of debates held in the Canadian House of Commons concerning the construction of the Trans Canadian Railroad. Speakers include Sir Charles Tupper Minister of Railroads and Canals and H.L. Langevin the Minister of Public Works. The plan for the railroad was eventually approved and construction of the line from Montreal to Vancouver began the next year. Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada unknown
185158122Montreal: Printed and published by John Lovell St. Nicholas Street 1851. Thick 8vo. 2 xi-xv 2 18-692 pp. With numerous woodcut engraved advertisement illustrations. Original publisher’s embossed polished calf covers illustrated & embossed in blind gilt lettering on spine rear outer joint starting wear to fore-edges rubbing occasional light foxing still G copy. First edition of this excellent Victorian Canadian reference work with a focus on Eastern Canada filled with an excellent range of early illustrated ads for businesses manufacturers and professions in Canada and the United States. The illustrated ads for Canadian companies encompass the Montreal Fire Engine Manufactory with a portable fire engine illustrated; the London Commercial Hotel opposite the Quebec Steamboat wharf with scene of Quebec sidewheeler below the hotel; A.H. Armour & Co. Booksellers Stationers Printers & Bookbinders depicting a leather bound ledger; A. & S. Nordheimer Music & Musical Instruments with image of a large piano forte as well as the Hagar & Vogt Hamilton Organ Factory on Cannon Street. The final 100 pages entitled Advertisements from the United States captures an extraordinary mix of pre-Civil War American Businesses including Brown Lawson & Co. Wholesale Druggists Boston; Edwards Holman & Co. Salamander Safes; Bennet’s Temperance House in Buffalo NY; Gregory’s California Express in New York dispatching Letters for California twice a month carrying gold dust parcels packages and valuables often ahead of the postal service; Fowler & Wells Phrenology specialists in New York featuring a phrenology head as well as Hall’s Rochester Threshing Machines Separators and horse powers. Printed and published by John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street, hardcover
1895089223Quebec: L.-J. Demers et Frere 1895. Paperback. pp. 271. 4to. Text in French. General shelfwear binding wraps missing chunk to bottom of spine some discoloured spotting pages rough cut nicks to edges rubber stamp to title page; very good-. L.-J. Demers et Frere paperback
19402230Winnipeg Manitoba Canada: Radio Training Center N.D. Circa 1940-50's. First Edition First Printing. Card Covers. Unpaginated. 4to's. measuring 8.25" x 10.75". Uniformly bound in bright red card covers and held with black utilitarian cloth backstrips. Replete with a variety of illustrations schematics drawings charts tables et al. Comprising of a total of 120 20 lessons per volume highly detailed "modules" or lessons the six-volume guide prepared the student for many of the technical practical and theoretical aspects of radio and television communications. Exceedingly rare in commerce and unrecorded in OCLC with no institutional holdings at time of cataloguing. A few light spots to lower margins of front covers of two volumes some light fraying to the cloth back-strips otherwise near fine. Contents remarkably well-preserved with bright clean and unmarked pages; tight sound bindings. Overall near fine. <br/><br/>At time of cataloguing not in Peel BAC/LAC University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Manitoba Legislative Library. Rare indeed. Radio Training Center unknown
186024334London: Printed by W. Mitchener 1860. Hardcover. Very good overall. Instructions from the Commissioners of Audits approved by Queen Victoria's Commissioners of the Treasury which were provided to the Agents General of British colonies. <br /> <br /> Among the "Supplies" procured and forwarded to the colonies are included "Sub-Marine Telegraph Cables Steam Vessels Dredging Vessels" showing a keen involvement with advancing telegraph capabilities after the successful launching of the first telegraphic cable across the Atlantic by the Great Eastern in 1858. <br /> <br /> The instructions include two types of colonies "Crown" and "Representative" seemingly related to the application of the instructions which are "Strictly Applied" in Crown Colonies and "Applied when Practicable" in Representative Colonies. The Crown Colonies include many islands of the Caribbean - Bermuda Jamaica Grenada St. Lucia Bahamas Turks Islands and Trinidad. Bermuda is unusually listed "Convict Service only partly representative. Other Crown colonies are Ceylon Mauritius Western Australia the only Australian state so designated Gibraltar Malta Natal Labuan Sierra Leone Gambia Gold Coast Hong Kong British Guiana British Columbia British Kaffraria St. Helena Falkland Islands Heligoland. <br /> <br /> Representative colonies include Victoria Tasmania and New Zealand Cape of Good Hope New Brunswick Newfoundland Vancouver's Island and St. Kitts. Also included are lists of supplies to be procured and forwarded and incidental duties. <br /> <br /> 8vo 24pp. Brown gilt calf presentation binding with gold gilt title border and royal crest. Deaccessed from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library with their stamp at the front end paper. Rubbed at spine paper "Duplicate" label partially present at front cover title page detached. Binding slightly separated but firm. <br /> <br /> Trove cites digital copies only. OCLC: 276298293 cites 2 copies at the Archives of Canada and Auckland Libraries. Printed by W. Mitchener hardcover
1880087284Liverpool: Dep't of Agriculture Government of Canada 1880. Second and complete edition. Paperback. pp. 173 ads. Grey wraps with black lettering to cover. Colour fold-out map of Canada at front. A few spots and chips to covers minor occasional spots of foxing internally otherwise unmarked. Peel 911: "The…Minister of Agriculture…of Canada caused a number of Delegates representing Tenant Farmers in the United Kingdom to be invited to visit the Dominion…in 1879 for the purpose of examining its resources and reporting on its suitability as a field for settlement…". This second edition includes material missing from the first edition of the same year. Dep't of Agriculture, Government of Canada paperback
193751633Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude I.S.O. King's Printer ca. 1937. ca. 1937. CANADA. 8" x 5" colored pictorial wrappers. 4 64 pages. Overview of Canada's climate waterways various forms of transportation available accommodations language customs etc. Brief overview of Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchean Alberta British Columbia and Yukon. Hunting fishing canoeing camping hiking golfing boating etc. Journeying via car railway steamship. Tiny chip to head of spine along with glue residue to rear wrapper corner as well as agent stamp to front wrapper. Very good and quite informative. J.O. Patenaude, I.S.O. King's Printer, ca. 1937. unknown
19291073Ottawa Ontario Canada: Canada Department of the Interior Natural Resources Intelligence Service Printed by F.A. Acland 1929. First printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 32. Small 8vo. Illustrated stapled card covers bearing an illustrated image of a muskrat to front cover. A comprehensive and curious booklet examining the economic viability of muskrat farming with much in instruction on handling farming uses. A list of the number of muskrat farms operating in the Dominion between 1926 and 1927 accompanied with estimated values estimated prices production estimates by province. Very light rubbing to covers contents bright unmarked with tight sound binding; very good. Scarce. "In the commerce of furs there is no fur-bearer of more importance than the humble but prolific muskrat. Under the trade name of "Hudson Seal" its pelt has become a favourite filling admirably the great demand of the average citizen for a fur moderate in price and durable in quality. It is used in the making of many articles of fur and is effective whether natural plucked blended or dyed." <br/><br/> Canada Department of the Interior, Natural Resources Intelligence Service | Printed by F.A. Acland paperback
19577146Montreal Quebec: DKE Delta Kappa Epsilon Alumni Assocation of Lower Canada & the TAU Alpha Chapter 1957. Card Covers. Unpaginated pp. 3. Square 12mo. measuring 5" x 5.5". Plain bi-folded inviation card comprising of a short programme upon the occasion of the initiation of new members to the fraternity headlined by guest speaker Lt. General The Honourable Price J. Montague held in the "York Room" of the Windsor Hotel located in Montreal Canada. Includes a detailed menu served for the event verso lists the names of new initiates. A few light spots to the front cover some penvil notations and scrawl to the verso. Overall very good. Charming period ephemera which includes the names of several notable Canadians including Major General John Meredith Rockingham 1911-1987 et al. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in LAC/BAC. <br/><br/> DKE [Delta Kappa Epsilon] Alumni Assocation of Lower Canada & the TAU Alpha Chapter unknown
1902067302Ottawa 1902. Paperback. pp. 93. 8vo. Cover missing exposing staples. Some dog-earing minor considering age-toned contents unmarked binding sound. Sessional Paper No. 27a. A listing of the Indian Reserves in Nova Scotia PEI New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba and NWT Yukon and British Columbia comprising pg 22-93. Includes variable information from one area to the next including Agency giving number name where situated tribe or band area in acres/miles and remarks. Index to Schedule of Indian Reserves in BCbeing an alphabetical list of Tribe/Band Agencies. paperback
19495204Winnipeg Manitoba: 49 Kennedy St. Winnipeg Man. Educational Department Headquarters of Ukrainian Catholics of Canada 1949. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 9. Tall 4to. measuring 8.5" x 14". Illustrated mimeographed twice-stapled light-yellow covers. Mimeographed text comprising of a multi-act play nine leaves of patriotic sheet music and poetry written and published to commemorate Ukrainian Heroes' Day celebrated annually every 23rd of May in remembrance of those who fought for Ukrainian independence. No detectable flaws; fine. Exceedingly rare to be offered in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC at time of cataloguing. Not found in Peel UofM Archives & Special Collections the Manitoba Legislative Library et al. Text in Ukrainian. No detectable flaws; fine. <br/><br/>Rear cover features a variety of additional programmes printed by the Winnipeg-based Ukrainian Catholic Council of Canada including those for celebrations relating to: Andrey Sheptytsky Mother's Day Programme Homily to Ukrainian Catholic Martyr Andrewy Shetptytsky 1865-194 Christmas Holiday Commemoration of Holodomor etc. , (49 Kennedy St., Winnipeg, Man.) [Educational Department, Headquarter paperback
193131080various: n/a 1931. n/a. Photograph Album. Fair. Oblong brown suede leather photograph album approx. 11" x 14". 236 black and white photographs. Owners name written in white pen on the first sheet. Suede is worn torn flaking chipped and peeling on both covers. Interior pages and photographs in very good condition. One sheet torn out. Most of the photographs are identified in white pen and were taken in Europe. 12 pictures were taken in Quebec Canada. <br /> <br /> Photographs titles include the "Empress of Britain" Sunset at Sea Icebergs in the Strait of Bell Isle Cherbourg Harbor Notre Dame Seine Left Bank Hotel des Invalides Tomb of Napoleon Paris from Montmartre Forest of Fontainbleau Chateau Fountainebleau Hotel Barbison Versailles Little Triamon's Park Hamlet of Marie-Antoinette Bridge of Arignon Algerian Soldier St. Remy Ruins at Les Baux Nimss Nice Corniche Drive Monaco Monte Carlo Lake Maggiore Montreux Lake Geneva Castle of Chillon Grindelwald Glacier Rhone Glacier Lucerne Salzburg Danube River Views Prague Views along the Elbe River Down the Rhine Vineyard and Castle Castles Holland Canals A group drinking Rhine Wine Holland Volendam Marken Amsterdam Harbor England Cambridge University Byron's Tomb Ruins of Kenilworth Castle Little Yeldham Southampton Docks "Returning - Empress of Britain with Mr. & Mrs. Van Norman and Martha Parmentor and many more. <br /> <br /> Album binding is fair only. Pictures are in very good condition. A very nice presentation of photographs from Europe between the two World Wars. n/a unknown
194196069Oshawa: General Motors Canada 1941. 1st edition. Very Good. small octavo. card covers 143pp. b/w plates text ills. diags. index Well-used & many grease stains but still a very good reference copy General Motors Canada unknown
28223New York: The Mechanical Gold Extractor Co. 1893. Paperback. A scarce imprint not recorded on Trove. Page 11 refers to "Instances of Success" recounting the "Australian ore from the Ravenswood Mine which fails to yield more than 25 per cent. of its Gold at an ordinary stamp mill yielded upward of ninety per cent to the Crawford Mill and this without roasting or chemical treatment of any kind." Mount Morgan is also mentioned. Canadian gold pp 13. P 15. reprints written testimonials from Helena Montana; Nova Scotia the Irish Geological Society & New Mexico. "Testimonials": pp 20-27; "Statement of gold ores treated at the works of the Mechanical Gold Extractor Co. . N.Y. City": pp 14-17 lists metals treated of ores from Virginia Georgia North Carolina Colorado New Mexico Arizona Oregon Wyoming Kansas S. Dakota Iowa San Salvador Nicaraugua sic and Columbia sic. <br /> <br /> This edition not cited on OCLC. OCLC: 932851574 cites 2 copies in Canada of 27pp. The "computer file" at OCLC: 1062073568 states it is 32pp. 8vo 32pp peach printed wrappers. Removed from an album with some staining and slt. loss at back cover covers slt. marked and a small stain lower part of page 20 through 32. <br /> <br /> A scarce imprint. The Mechanical Gold Extractor Co. paperback
19173474Ottawa Ontario Canada: Government of Canada The Military Service Council October 1917. First Edition First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 31. 8vo. measuring 6" x 9". Tan twice-stapled card covers. Excepting a few unobtrusive spots to the rear cover the extremities remain remarkably well-preserved with tight sound binding. Internally the text-block is entirely without blemish with bright clean pages. Near fine. Corresponds to OCLC #798874075. Rare in commerce our offering being the only extant copy at time of cataloguing. <br/><br/>An exhortation by an unnamed writer offering a firm defence and a historical basis for the legitimacy of the Allied war effort against the Germans during the First World War. Invoking Napoleon Lincoln the founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures and events the writer pleads for the Allies' just motivations for waging war to a war-weary Canadian public. The writer further offers justification for the continuation of the system of conscription a denunciation of those men who would invoke their "disabilities of conscience"; writing bitterly of those men "wiling to fabricate "conscientious scruples" in order to avoid service noting the "bitterness with which a man who is required to leave wife children and livelihood and does so with a quiet dignity of which I have been a respectful witness in hundreds of cases regards a conscientious objector remaining at home and enjoying the fruits of other men's sacrifices.". A remarkably well-preserved piece of First World War ephemera from a decidedly Canadian perspective. [Government of Canada] | The Military Service Council unknown
19927360Saskatoon Saskatchewan: Fifth House Publishers 1992. Softcover. As New. pp. lxii 325; 318. 8vo's. measuring 22 cm. Richly illustrated with with dozens of black-and-white maps charts tables illustrations etc. Appears unread; as new. <br/><br/>¶ Facsimile reprint originally published in 1891. Comprises of the only complete collection of the actual texts of all pre-Confederation treaties land cessions numbered treaties and surrenders relating to land and governance until 1890. Volume I contains an index to the documents in all three volumes arranged alphabetically by First Nation township and the names of the Crown's representative in the transaction. It will be of use to land claims researchers historians and students. Fifth House Publishers paperback
1889142410Ottawa: Government House 1889. 30pp. Skinny paper pamphlet measuring 10.5 cm by 20 cm. Staple bound as issued. Clean and without any chipping or tearing to the wrappers. A near fine copy of a scarce item. A rule book for all employees working on the government railways in Canada issued on October. 26 1889. 1889 Government House unknown
