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In-8° pp. VIII-504 con molte foto n.t. Bross. edit. ill. Ottimo stato, targhetta al dorso.
130 pages with index. Mild patch of soiling to front endpaper, underlining and marginalia on page 9, one inch stain to bottom edge and sticker patch atop front cover, otherwise clean, tight and square. Presents Canadian attitudes and shows how and why they felt the distinctiveness of their own values and character in the nineteenth century vis-a-vis the United States. Book
63 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: Silver City; Early Birds of British Columbia; The Battle of Foxtrap; The Murder of Barney The Maltese Trader; Klondike Lost - the Story of Grand Forks; Methods of Placer Mining; Collins' Overhead Telegraph; Muskets vs. Bows and Arrows; The Murder of Daniel Cutway; The Adamite Invasion. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Gold Pool of the Similkameen; Historic Houses - Part II; The Death of Nigger Dan; The Collector's Page; The Lost Patrol; 10,000 Lost Coins; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Prohibition and the Runners of Rum; Phantom of the Unuk; Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel; The Silk Connection; West Kootenay Memories; Wild Old Days; Victoria's First Mayor was a Character; The Great Fire at Miramichi; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Spirit Wrestlers - Alberta's Doukhobors fled persecution in Russia but found more in Alberta; Gabriel Dumont - Metis Warrior; Collins Overland Telegraph (part 1); The Ghost at Mackenzie House; Murdered in the Township of Blenheim - J. Reginald Birchall; Tom Clarke - The Man Who Shot NWMP scout Jerry Potts; How to Locate Placer Gold; Ghost Town Log - B.C. offers hundreds of ghost towns, mining camps and historic sites (conclusion); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
44 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Gold! - Part 1 - Gold throughout the ages; Massacre at Seven Oaks - the battle became a massacre when a Metis shot the governor; The Black Donald Mines - John Moore slipped on a rock and made the largest and richest graphite discovery in Canadian history; On the Klondike Trail - some struck it rich but many more experienced only hardship; A Brief History of Matches; The Saga of the Steam Threshing Machine on the Canadian Prairies; Writing-On-Stone in the Milk River Valley - a replica of the NWMP fort recalls the border patrols of the past; British Columbia's First Visitors from Outer Space; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
44 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Bulldog Kelly - Cold-Blooded Murderer; Victoria Mariner's Search for Gold - Capt. C.H. McLeod; Daredevil in a Petticoat - Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell the tale; Some Facts About Gold (part 2); A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey - when colonists arrived in the promised land there was no one to meet them and none of the food, lodging or transportation they had been promised; The Night of the Meteors; West with the Harvesters - an army of 1,500 adventurers headed west to harvest the wheat and perhaps grow up with the country; Ghost Town Log (part 1) - British Columbia offers hundreds of ghost towns, mining camps and historic sites; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Defence of Fort Vercheres against the Iroquois; How History Came to the Blindman River in 1895; The Conquering Cook - Chinaman Lee Poon; Renata, B.C. - Eden of the Arrow Lakes; Gold - The ABC's of Gold Panning; Collins' Overland Telegraph (part 2); Disaster at Dejardins Canal - 59 passengers and crewmen rode the train onto the bridge to disaster; John Costello, aka "Billy the Bug"; 1679 - The Mystery of the Griffon - 300 years after La Salle's trading ship sailed into oblivion the mystery remains unsolved; An Earful; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: They Came Before Cook - Explorers who visited British Columbia before Captain James Cook; Church at Yale, B.C. Has Roots - it has seen over a century of service; The Haunted Man - An 1861 Victoria Detective Story; The Unknown Land - times have changed since American fisheries officer James Swan visited the Queen Charlotte Islands almost a century ago; Poundmaker - Son of Crowfoot; British Columbia's Hedley Camp and the Nickel Plate Mine; Reminiscences of hundred-year-old mining man John 'Jake' Turnbull; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Beyond Lillooet; Nature Notes; Tokens From Yesterday; Allison Pass Memoirs - part 4 of 5; Our Vanishing Heritage - disappearing lake boats; Ymir - Old Kootenay Mining Town. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Gold Along Little Hixon Creek; The K and S Railway; Our Vanishing Heritage - Salishan Indian Basketry; Old Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island; W.G. Cox - Gold Commissioner - Part III; Collector's Page; The Battle Bend Country; W.S. Hatton's Paintings; Historic Three Forks, in the silver country of the West Kootenay. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Lost Morgan Mine (near Greenwood City); The Highest Judge in the Highest Court in the HIghest City in Canada - W.R. "Willie" Williams; Historic Hedley, B.C.; Gold Bullion at Twelve Fathoms - the Pacific went down in 1875 off Cape Flattery; The Money Shell - money used by native peoples of Western Canada was dentalium or higua, a sea shell; Letters from the North-West - Part I - A.R. Dyre was a young North-West Mounted Policeman who served in the wests from 1882 to 1885. Name atop front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Weaker Sex - Anna Ullman at Hazelton, B.C.; British Columbia's Greatest Marine Disaster - the foundering of the Canadian Pacific liner Princess Sophia in Lynn Canal in 1818 took 343 lives; The Case of the Stolen Church - St. Peter's Anglican of Windermere, B.C.; The B.C. Boomtown Phenomenon - most of them have now disappeared altogether; Coalmont-Blakeburn - Coal Dust Twins; The Copper Hoard of the Pewabic - the steamship Pewabic carried more than a hundred persons to a watery grave in Lake Huron; North to the Klondike - David Doig of Victoria headed north to service gold miners; Brief bio and photo of polio-stricken author Harold Fryer; Brother XII (Twelve) - a B.C. Character (one-page article); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Prohibition and the Runners of Rum (Alberta); Phantom (Growler) of the Unuk River Country; Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel - miner Fred Beach goes on a rampage with his Winchester; The Silk Connection - the silk train roared from Vancouver to New York with her valuable cargo of silk from the Orient; West Kootenay Memories - the village of Procter; Wild Old Days; Billy Newcombe - son of Dr. C.F. Newcombe; Victoria's First Mayor Was a Character - Thomas Harris; The Great Fire at Miramichi, October 7, 1825; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Ship That Turned Over In Her Grave - the 'Gulf Stream', owned by Gulf Lines, Ltd., served the Vancouver to Powell River run; Jack Fannin - this pioneer extraordinaire was the first curator and virtually creator of the British Columbia Provincial Museum; Forgotten Towns of the West Kootenay - many have been lost to flood and fire; 1689 - Year of the Massacre - Missionaries killed by the Iroquois; Klondike Journey - Part 2 of 3 on Klondike of the 1890s and the travels of Robert beresford Allison; The Gold-Plated Nickels - counterfeiting method used by a deaf-mute in the U.S. in 1880; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
287 pages. Index. Black and white photos. Detailed diagrams. Features "Canada Tru-Lay steel wire rope for every purpose". Contents include: Flattened Strand; Wire Rope Slings; Wire Rope Fittings; Care and Maintenance; Splicing of Wire Rope; Excavating and Contracting Ropes; Industrial Ropes for Material Handling; Ropes for Mining; Logging Ropes; Marine Ropes; Gas and Oil Well ropes; Elevator Ropes; Engineering data; Glossary. Diagrams of the High Lead, North Bend/Tight Skyline, Skidder, Slack Line, and Tyler Systems of log transport. Great series of photos demonstrating how to splice a very thick wire rope. Decorated black imitation leather covers. Prior owner's detaills inside front cover. Binding somewhat tender but intact. Average soiling and wear. A worthy copy of this nostalgic, interesting and informative volume. Book
In-4° 124 pagine non numerate con 50 tav. a col. con spiegazioni a fronte in inglese e francese. Leg. edit. con sovrac. ill. a col. Dedica sul foglio di guardia.
PARIS, Bloud & Gay - 1950 - In-12 - Broché - XII-205 pages - Propre - Envoi rapide et soigné
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
152 pages. Index. Colour photography throughout. "The most splendid Canadian aviation book yet published... With detailed text and a spectacular wide-ranging photographic gallery, the book is a comprehensive look at the many tasks and the ever-fascinating selection of aircraft making up today's air force." - from dust jacket. Prior owner taped a clear protective cover over dust jacket, resulting in several modest brown tape marks upon illustrated endpapers. Book
100 pages. Generously illustrated with images of the various awards. A reference for Canadian Army cap badges from the second world war. Prior owner's ink stamp atop title page, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this informative and handy reference. Book
68 pages. Black and white photos. Presents Canada's Memorial Chamber which honours her war dead. Printed upon glossy stock. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
222 pages including index and list of cases cited. A unique discussion of the judicial system in Canada. Written in accessible language and offering data never before published, it is the first book to consider the court system from a social science, rather than a legal, perspective. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book
342 pages. "This story of Canadian victories in the great struggle, with an entertaining analysis of what lay behind them, makes up a book which will not only be immediately interesting, but will also be a strong feature in your library in years to come. Look, for instance, at the story of our boys' capture of Vimy Ridge, and think with what avidity your children will read this ten years from now." - from dust jacket. Book unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Dust jacket bears several peripheral tears and is missing several chips but is handsome in new archival-grade brodart cover. Rare in jacket. WALLACE P.64. Book
