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1839CA 0619London: Richard Bentley 1839. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First US Edition. 8vo. original boards cloth spine 332 pages half-title edges worn & bumped boards are soiled wear to spine ends small tear and signs of wear along spine paper label is present tight internally clean with many pages uncut. Richard Bentley, Hardcover
186830661Montreal : Dawson Brothers 1868 . First Edition . Near Fine . 12MO . An odd little bit of Canadiana variously attributed to Edward Ellice a prominent merchant and landowner who was instrumental in the amalgamation of the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and one John Harris. The Book-Keeper of the title is the Recording Angel who keeps a profit and loss ledger on every person and the translation from Shciller is The Song of the Bell with German and English on facing pages. Bound in brown gilt-titled cloth. Lightest of wear with some very minor scrapes on the rear board. Watters p.65. Lande S0228 McGill Library. Dawson Brothers hardcover
1900811G2234Toronto: E.L. Ruddy. Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages including thirty-two magnificent pages of vintage Toronto ads at back. Black and white photographic plates. List of Officers. Roll of Honour. Music and words to the regimental march "Highland Laddie". Presents the origin and history of this regiment and a short account of the Highland regiments from time to time stationed in Canada. Printed upon coated paper. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding taped at front hinge and title page. A worthy reference copy of this important Canadian military history. Dornbusch 62 Cooke 3 p.132.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The 48th Forty-Eighth Highlanders of Toronto - Canadian Militia - The Origin and History of This regiment and a Short Account of the Highland Regiments from time to Time Stationed in Canada Military History Canada Black Watch Fraser's Highlanders 84th . E.L. Ruddy hardcover
1890079253Toronto: William Briggs 1890. Hardcover. pp. 389. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board bevelled boards. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard folding map; all illustrations present as called-for in contents list but with only one map whereas two are seen in other copies. Slight spine slant spine pulled edges and boards rubbed internally clean and unmarked binding sound; very good. William Briggs hardcover
187551587Montreal Toronto & London: George N. Tackabury Printed by the Burland-Desbarats Lithographic Co. 1875. Folio. 14.25 x 17.75 in. 251 1 pp. Colour lithograph illustrated title page showing the Parliament Building in Ottawa Canada from photograph by W. Notman 53 colour lithograph maps many double-page many tables. Publisher’s plum-coloured embossed cloth gilt decorative lettering on front cover marbled endpapers nicely rebacked in simulated black calf corners renewed some wear & rubbing to corners 1 leaf w/ repairs to creases minor tidemark to upper right corner not affecting maps still G copy. First edition of this fine atlas of Victorian-era Canada including maps of climatology possessions provinces prior to Alberta Saskatchewan & Newfoundland becoming provinces plat maps of counties Railways as well as maps of the United States and Europe. Of particular interest are the city maps of Quebec Ottawa London Hamilton Kingston Toronto and Montreal. This excellent reference work also provides a comprehensive list of railways in Canada steamships in use lists post offices railway stations cities and populations as well as business cards located by city and town. George N. Tackabury, [Printed by the Burland-Desbarats Lithographic Co.], hardcover
188528250Ottawa : A S Woodburn 1885 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . A later work by Canadian pioneer and author Catherine Parr Traill illustrated with 8 chromolithographs from painting by her neice Agnes Fitzgibbon daughter of Suzanna Moodie. Heliotype portrait frontis. Bound in green pebbled cloth quite elaborately decoreated in gilt AEG. Scattered foxing some to the plates. Hinges cracked but book is solid. Some wear to the corners spine tips eroded gilt somewhat dulled. A S Woodburn hardcover
1883334879Montreal: Dominion News Co 1883. Folding map/plate printed recto and verso. 171pp. Numerous ads. 12mo. Publisher's wallet-style morocco with pocket housing the folding plate repaired at one joint. Ads mounted to pastedowns as issued. Folding map/plate printed recto and verso. 171pp. Numerous ads. 12mo. The recto of the folding plate comprises maps of Montreal and Quebec; the verso with 17 woodcut vignette views. Dominion News Co unknown
1889866a4761Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1889. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Public Acts dealing with: Consolidation of the Statutes Bush Fires Charitable Associations Companies Courts - Official Stenographer Regulation of Elections Protection of Game Jurors Land Grants Licenses Mechanics Liens Lulu Island railway purposes Magistrates Medicine and Surgery Minerals other than Coal Quartz Mines Municipalities Probate and Letters of Administration Canadian Western Central Railway Columbia and Kootenay Railway Public Roads Royal Columbia Hospital Royal Hospital Public Schools Summary Proceedings before Justice of the Peace Supply Taxes on Property Trespass on Enclosed Land. Private Acts relating to: Anglican Synod of B.C.; Brockton Point Athletic Club Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company New Westminster Incorporation Canadian Western Central Railway New Westminster Southern Railway New Westminster and Vancouver Short Line Vancouver Street Railway National and Electric Tramway and Lighting Vancouver Incorporation Victoria City Official Map. Binding fragile. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1877866a4773Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1877. Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Appeals; A. Astrico; Alexandra Company; Coroners; Supreme Courts; County Courts; Elections; Insurance; Intestacy; Land; Legal Professions; Licences; Liquors; Loan; Magistrates; Coal Mines; Minerals; Minors; Mortgages; Municipalities; Sheep; Schools; Supply; Statutes; Taxes; Trespass; Thistles. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1883866a4767Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1883. Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Act Interpretation Regulation of Coal Mines Prospecting for Coal Mines Coroners County Courts Assize and Nisi Prius Superior Courts Creditor's Relief Attachment of Debts Sumas Dyking Evidence Ferries in Municipalities Game Island Railway - Graving Dock and Railway Lands Jurors and Juries Justices of the Peace Crown Lands Married Woman's Property Minerals Prospecting for Minerals Municipalities Salt Spring Island Provincial Officers Quesnelle Lake Dam Columbia and Kootenay Railway Fraser River Railway New Westminster Railway South Wellington Railway Sleighs on Cariboo Trunk Road Stipendiary Magistrates Supply Victoria City Official Map Victoria Transfer Company Voters Eagle Pass Wagon Road Yale Fire Brigade Extention of Yates Street in Victoria. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1872866a4777Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1872. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Land Registry Ordinance; Justice of the Peace; Mineral Ordinance; Gold Mining; Municipality Act; Election of MLAs; Office of Sheriff; The Public School Act; Public Works Act; Drainage Dyking and Irrigation; Wild Land Tax; Road Ordinance; Election of MLAs; Gold Mining; Courts Merger; MPs ineligible to be MLAs; Fireman's Protection Act; Proof under Oath; Suits against the Crown; Supply of Water to Victoria; Land Ordinance 1870; William Creek Fire Brigade; Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company E&N Incorporation of; Replevin; The Public Inquiries Aid Act; An Act to Secure Wives and Children; Indemnification of members of the Legislative Assembly; Asylums for the Insane; Rights of the Property of Married Women; Bills of Sale; The Constitution Act 1871; Scale of Fees to be taken by certain officers; Agricultural Societies; Allowances to Jurors in Criminal Cases; the Legislative Assembly Privileges Act; Game Ordinance; Attorneys of the Supreme Court to be called to the bar of said court; The Homestead Ordinance; Defraying the expenses of civil government; Indemnification of Members of the Executive Council and others; Practitioners in the County Courts and other inferior Courts; Privileges of the members of the Legislative Assembly; An act to render legitimate children born out of lawful wedlock. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1888866a4762Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1888. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Public Acts relating to: Bills of Sale Bridges Cattle Ranges Civil Procedure Companies Assize Courts County Courts Absconding Debtors Trial of Controverted Elections Foreign Mining Companies Game Granville Squatters Justice's and Coroner's Oaths Crown Lands Land Registry Licences Mechanics Lien Married Woman's Property Regulation of Coal Mines Quartz Mines Municipalities Pawnbrokers Poisons Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway re: Beecher Bay Branch Kootenay Railway Shuswap and Okanagan Railway Recognizances Public Schools Sherrifs Statutes Supply Taxes Trustees Vancouver Preservation of the Peace Noxious Weeds Workmen's Wages. Private Acts relating to: Mtasqui Dyke New Westminster City Nicola Mining Company Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Kootenay Railway Harrison Hot Springs Tramway Victoria City Official Map. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Rubber stamp of one E. Johnson inside boards and scattered through text. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1876866a4774Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1876. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Assessment; Power of Attorney; Breeding Stock; Cattle Ranges; Choses in Action; Civil Causes; Foreign Companies; Voluntary Conveyances; Debentures; Debts and Choses in Action; Elections; Execution against Lands; Fences; Gold Mining; Jurors; Land; Licences; Loan; Methodist Church of Canada; Mining; Municipalities; Public Parks; Procedure; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Road Tolls; Roads; Public Schools; Supply; Taxes; Tolls; Trustees; Victoria and Esquimalt Railway E&N; Voluntary Conveyances. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1880866a4770Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1880. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Affidavits Declarations and Affirmations; Bills of Sale; Births Deaths and Marriages; Execution Creditors; Executive Council; Fences; Game; Graving Dock; Insolvency; Lands; Lieutenant-Governor and his Deputies; Members' Indemnity; Municipalities; New Westminster; Independence of Parliament; Partition; Police Constables; Quesnelle River Ditch Company; Sheriffs and Appointment of Registrars of the Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Telephone Company Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.; Tolls Cariboo Waggon Road; Victoria City; Waverly Hydraulic Mining Company. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1890866a4760Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1890. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 395 pages. Public Acts dealing with: agricultural societies; Mischievous Animals Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages Bush Fires Cattle Ranges Incorporation of Companies Constitution County Courts Assignment for benefit of creditors Registration of Voters Firearms Game Protection Homestead Juvenile Reformatory Crown Lands Land Grants for Charitable and other purposes Land Registry Legal Professions Licenses Mechanics Lien Magistrates Medicine and Surgery Minerals other than coal Mines coal prospecting Mines coal regulation Municipalities New Westminster Incorporation persons dying intestate Provincial Royal Jubilee Hospital Quieting titles to real estate Railways Railways - Columbia and Kootenay land grant Railways - Shuswap and Okanagan land grant Rivers and Streams - clearing of Royal Columbian Hospital Sheriffs Supply Timber - marking University of British Columbia. Private Acts relate to: Ashcroft and Cariboo Railway Co British Columbia Electric Company British Columbia Jockey Club British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company Columbia and Carbonate Mountain Railway Company Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company Coquitlam Water Works Crow's Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Hill's Bar Gold Mining Company London and Canadian Fire Insurance Company Nanaimo Telephone Company National Electric Tramway and Lighting Company News-Advertiser Company New Westminster Electric Light Company Okanagan and Kootenay Railway Company Pacific Coast Fire Insurance Company Westmister Street Railway Company Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company Vancouver Incorporation Vancouver Street Railways Company Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Binding intact. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1881866a4769Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1881. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Administration of Justice; Appeals to Supreme and Exchequer Courts Canada; Bishops of British Columbia Caledonia and New Westminster; Cattle - transfer of brands and marks and more; Coroner's Inquests; Supreme and Exchequer Canada Courts; Dogs - damage by; Drainage Dyking and Irrigation; Documentary Evidence; Fences and Water Courses; Firemen; Lien; Loan; Gold Mines; Municipalities; Poisons - preventing indiscriminate use of; Public Parks; Quesnelle Lake Dame Co.; Revenue; Supply; Swine - to prohibit running at large of; School Taxes; Provincial Revenue Taxes; Trustees; Vancouver Coal Mining Co.; Victoria Official Map; Victoria Water Works; Woollen Mill. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1878866a4772Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1878. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Powers of Attorney; Companies BC Express Company Moodyville Saw BC Milling and Mining; Constitution; Corporations; Supreme Courts; Supreme and County Courts; Dyking and Reclaiming Lands at Chilliwack Sumas and Matsqui; Elections; Game; Highways; Crown Lands; Licenses and Municipalities; Liquor Licenses; Public Loans; Coal Mines; Quartz Mines; Minerals; Municipalities; Prisoners; Legal Professions; Schools; Sheriffs; Supply; Chinese Taxes better collection of; Property Taxes; Tolls; Trespass. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1886866a4764Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1886. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains public acts relating to: Breeding Stock Constitution Courts of Assize County Courts Recovery of Small Debts Dentistry Debt Judgements Crown Lands Loan Licenses Medicine and Surgery Minerals Municipalities Victoria and Saanich Railway Settled Estates Smelting Works Consolidation Statutes Surveyors Supply Timber Road Tolls Water Viewers. Private Acts relating to: Electric Light Findlay Creek Mining Gas Insurance Victoria and Saanich Railway New Westminster and Port Moody Telephone Tramways Vancouver Coquitlam Water Works Nanaimo Water Works Vancouver Water Works. Covers heavily worn. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Queen's Printer Paperback
1879866a4771Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1879. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Cost of Arbitrations; Auditor and Accountants; Bills of Sale; Toll Bridges; Cattle Ranges; Cemetery Ordinance; Cemetery Companies; Cemeteries; Fire Companies Nanaimo; Constitution; Coroners; Costs of Arbitration; Costs of Levying Distresses for Rents and Penalties; Appointing Judical District Courts; Constables; Crown Lands; Civil Service; Distresses for Rents and Penalties; Judicial Districts; Dyking Sumas; Cancellation of Debentures; Fees; Fencing of Land; Fences and Water Courses; Gaols; Graving Dock; Justices of the Peace; Judicial Districts; Journals; Crown Lands; Land Registry; Licences; Marriage Licences; Liens; Public Loans; Law Stamps; Magistrates; Marriage Licences; Municipalities; Mining Licences; Prisons; Revenue; School Tax; Public Schools; Statutes and Sessional Papers; Sheriffs; Sumass Dyking; Winter Stock Ranges; Supreme Court; Supply; Property Taxes; Toll Bridges. Front hinge open. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1874866a4776Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1874. Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains Acts relating to: Articles 2 and 12 of the Terms of Union; Crown Lands; Gold Mining; Coroner's Jury Act; Road Tax Extension; Oaths of Office; Public Boarding Schools; Administration of Justice; Agricultural Societies; Courts Merger Ordinance; Qualification and Registration of Voters; Breeding Stock; Ferries; Municipality Act; Victoria Water Works Debentures; Legal Professions; Vancouver Island Real Estate Taxes; Licences Ordinance; Fireworks - careless use of; Remedies of creditors against the Lands of their debtors; Real Estate Conveyance; Granting of Leases. Front hinge going. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1882866a4768Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1882. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Includes Acts relating to: Coroners' Inquests; Supreme and Exchequer Canada Courts; Superior Provincial Courts; Drainage Dyking and Irrigation; Fences and Water Courses; Crown Lands; Free Grants of Crown Lands; Gold and other Mines; Municipalities; Legal Professions S.P. Mills Charles Wilson Andrew Leamy; The New Westminster and Port Moody Railway Company; The Vancouver Land and Railway Company; Railway Reserve repeal of the E&N Railway Act of 1875; Public Schools; Supply. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1887866a4763Victoria BC: Queen's Printer 1887. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Contains public acts relating to: Absconding Debtors Assignees etc. for benefit of Creditors Bush Fires Cattle Ranges Incorporation of Companies Coroner's inquests within municipalities Courts of Appeal from Summary Convictions of Magistrates Courts of Assize County Courts Supreme Courts Drunkards Sumas Dyking Estates Evidence Game Jurors Crown Lands timber lands Land Registry Loan Married Woman's Poverty Medicine and Surgery Minerals Gold etc. Municipalities Quartz Mines Kootenay and Athabasca Railways Shuswap and Okanagan Railway Public Schools Statutes Statutes Consolidation Supply Swine Property Taxes Vancouver City. Private Acts relating to: Delta Railway Kootenay and Athabasca Railway New Westminster Southern Railway Vancouver City Incorporation Victoria Fire Department Charitable Association. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Queen's Printer Hardcover
1889CAN1767Toronto: John Notman. Good with no dust jacket. 1889. First Edition. Half-Leather. 348 pp iv pp contents and xvii pp index. Edgewear. Spine ends corners bumped and worn. Endpapers foxed. Black cloth boards with red leather binding. Gilt lettering on spine. Light dampstain to edges of lower corners of last few pages. Being the statutes passed during the third session of the sixth Legislature of Ontario 1889; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . John Notman hardcover
1885CAN1773Toronto: John Notman. Good with no dust jacket. 1885. First Edition. Half-Leather. 433 pp xxviii pp contents plus index. Edgewear. Spine ends corners bumped and worn. Endpapers foxed. Red cloth boards with red leather binding. Gilt lettering on spine. Being the statutes passed during the second session of the fifth Legislature of Ontario 1885; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . John Notman hardcover