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1856086939Quebec: Augustin Cote & Cie 1856. Hardcover. pp. ix 102. 8vo. Quarter black leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Speckled page edges. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear library stamp to front endpapers and title page; very good. Text in French. Augustin Cote & Cie hardcover
187440423New York: D. Appleton & Co 1874. Steel engraving. 4to 12.¼" X 9". Very good. Faint bit of age toning at edges. A sharp attractive heavy stock steel engraving from the first edition 1872-74 of editor William Cullen Bryant's landmark "Picturesque America; Or The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains Rivers Lakes Waterfalls Shores Canyons Valleys Cities and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country" a hefty two-volume study of America's scenery in words and fine steel engraving considered highly influential to American tourism. "Quebec" was engraved by one of this work's most notable engravers Robert Hinshelwood b. 1812 a Scottish-born artist remembered for his landscapes based on a painting by noted landscape artist and illustrator John Douglas Woodward 1846-1924. This delightful cityscape shows a rural foreground the Saint Lawrence River laden with rowboats steamboats and sailboats of every size in the middle ground and a large city loming up on the hills and bluffs on the far side extending almost to the horizon where mountains are faintly visible in the distance. Most of the engravings were printed on regular text-weight stock and a much smaller number such as this example on a fine heavy stock. D. Appleton & Co unknown
1878518461878. Quebec. Statutes of the Province of Quebec Passed in the Forty-First Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; And in the Third Session of the Third Parliament. Quebec: Printed by Charles Francois Langlois 1878. 218 pp. Octavo 6-1/2" x 9-1/2". Quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands and gilt title to spine. Moderate rubbing fading to edges of front board internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small stamp to title page. $50. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:96. unknown
1881518481881. Quebec. Statutes of the Province of Quebec Passed in the Forty-Fourth and Forty-Fifth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; And in the Fourth Session of the Fourth Parliament. Quebec: Printed by Charles Francois Langlois 1881. 348 pp. Octavo 6-1/2" x 9-1/2". Quarter buckram over marbled boards gilt title to spine. Some shelfwear and soiling internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small stamp to title page. $50. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:96. unknown
1872512741872. Quebec. Statutes of the Province of Quebec Passed in the Session Held in the Thirty-Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria Being the Second Session of the Second Parliament. Quebec: Printed by Charles Francois Langlois 1872. 387 pp. Octavo 6-1/2" x 9-1/2". Quarter calf over marbled boards backstrip lacking binding secure. Moderate rubbing front joint starting. Light foxing to preliminaries internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small stamp to title page. $50. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:96. unknown
1877037070Montreal: W. Drysdale 1877. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 18 panels accordion format folding into embossed cloth covers gilt lettering. Views include: Montreal and the St. Lawrence seen from Mount Royal; Notre Dame Cathedral and Place d'Armes; Victoria Square; St. James Street; New City Hall; Bon Secours Market; Harbour Looking East; Grey Nunnery; McGill College; Ship Corinthian navigating Lachine Rapids; &c. 3.25" x 4.75 W. Drysdale unknown
189511267Mame, Tours 1895 (3e Serie, Format Grand in-8°). 160 Seiten mit mehreren Holzschnitt-Tafeln. Gr.-8°. Illustr.-Brosch. Gebrsp. Gebräunt. Etwas stockfleckig. Ecken etwas bestoßen. Hübsche Ausgabe.
185049640Ohne Ort, um 1850. Darstellung ca. 9,5 x 14 cm, Blatt ca. 13,5 x 20 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.