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1853MASTER234170IQUEBEC: AUG COTE ET CIE. FAIR IN BROWN CLOTH WITH MARBLED EPS. NO DJ. TEXT IN FRENCH. Pages: 407. . 1853. HARDCOVER. TAPE REPAIR AT GUTTERS. WRITTEN & GLUED-IN NOTATIONS THROUGHOUT PERHAPS BY EDITOR WORN & SCUFFED. PAGES INTACT. . AUG, COTE ET CIE. hardcover
1866010446Montreal: John Lovell 1866. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 8vo. A nice copy in original brown boards with some rubbing to edges and corners and some chipping to crown and foot of spine. Some foxing to preliminary and final pages; and some light foxing to edges. John Lovell Hardcover
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
1874118336London: Levis and Kennebec Railway Company 1874. Circular. very good. 4pp. Quarto folded into narrow Octavo 22.5x9cm printed in black and red. With 2 page Intoductory letter on blue paper stock 1 page "Form of Application" printed in black and red and "Map shewing the Levis & Kennebec railway and connections" approximately 43x28cm folded to narrow Octavo 21.5x10cm showing the proposed route in red. Small hole and several short closed tears else a very good copy of an ephemeral piece. very good At head: "Dominion of Canada". The proposed railway from Levis Quebec to Kennebec Maine was to connect with a railway under construction from Lexington Maine to Kennebec. The president of the company was the Hon. J. G. Blanchet - Speaker Legislative Assembly the Vice President the Hon. Thomas McGreevy M.P. and directors included the Mayor of Quebec P. Garneau and J. Jobin - Mayor of Levis. 1874 Levis and Kennebec Railway Company unknown
1888141980Montreal: Desbarats & Cie. 1888-90. Hardcover. Fair. 85 2 leaves printed on one side only. B&w illustrations. 29 x 38 cm. Leather binding. Front board missing. Most pages are bright and clean. A few pages at end have slightly stained edges. French text. <br/><br/> Desbarats & Cie. hardcover
1888141979Montreal: Desbarats & Cie. 1888-90. Hardcover. Good. 85 2 leaves printed on one side only. B&w illustrations. 29 x 38 cm. Leather binding with gold impressing. All edges gilt. Spine is much deteriorated with both ends chipped boards are loosening edges worn. Pages are bright and clean. French text. <br/><br/> Desbarats & Cie. hardcover
185698839HBStuttgart und Augsburg:, Cotta, 1856. iv, 576 Seiten, goldgeprägter HLdrbd. der Zeit, marmorierte Deckel, farbiger Blattschnitt (Sprenkelmarmor), 21,5 x 13,5 cm.
1890037923Portland Maine: Chas. Frey 1890. First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. Contains 12 panels of views based on photographs leporello accordion-fold format; b&w Quebec City map inside back cover. Views include: City of Quebec from the St. Lawrence River; Dufferin Terrace; Island of Orleans; Drill Hall; Lunatic Asylum Beauport; St. Louis Hotel; J.S. Laubert's Fur Establishment; St. John's Gate; Kent Gate; Grand Battery & Laval University; Caleche; Frontenac Hotel; &c. Bound in gilt-decorative red boards; spine cloth deteriorating otherwise bright and clean 7.5" x 5.75" OCLC locates only one physical holding of this viewbook at the University of Victoria B.C. Chas. Frey 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.
183230177QUEBEC: The Quebec Almanac 1832. very good to fine. Printed and sold by Neilson & Cowan. 14.5cm 248p. 2 folding tables in the original printed wraps upper cover tattered at the front edge slight loss of text T.P.L. 707. Gagnon I-96. All volumes have sections in English and in French. Most of the volumes contain information on astronomy calendars remarkable events courts in Quebec duties and customs members of the executive and legislative councils of the Assembly and government departments lists of notaries surgeons pilots constables military organizations and religious and educational institutions. William Brown began printing this valuable compendium in 1780 and after his death in 1789 it was continued by the Neilson family until 1841. It did not appear however in 1781 1783 1790 1793 or 1795. The only collection known to contain all the volumes issued was burned in the Library of Parliament in Montreal April 25 1849. Contents generally include: Common notes and calendar - Diameter of the planets - Tide table - Chronological table - Remarkable events of our own times - governor Legislature Executive Council public officers and commissioners - Courts of justice - Justices of the Peace - Advocates - Notaries - Surveyors - Physicians and Surgeons - Trinity House pilots and rates - Officers of the customs - General post office - Militia staff and officers - Clergy of the established church - Church of Rome and convents - Church of Scotland - School masters - Public and charitable institutions - Free-mason - Governor and principal officers of Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island Cape Breton and Newfound-land - Court terms - List of bailiffs - Duties on importations - Roads and stopping Houses etc. etc. The Quebec Almanac unknown
185160651Quebec: P. Sinclair 1851. First Edition. Thin 16mo 165mm. Publisher's blindstamped cloth titled in gilt on front cover; patterned plaid endpapers; 76pp; folding map opens to ca. 14" x 19" on blue paper. Externally well preserved but textblock nearly detached from case: Good. The map titled "Plan of the City of Quebec and its Environs" is mildly toned at extremities with a brief P. Sinclair unknown
1894317361N.p. 1894. Manuscript pictorial title in ink on board 8 album leaves with 40 mounted photographs 24 4 x 5 inches 16 3 x 3-1/2 inches. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 7 x 10 inches. Some edge chipping to leaves small losses to corners of pictorial title. Good plus occasional silvering of photos. Laid into a custom beige linen folding box. Manuscript pictorial title in ink on board 8 album leaves with 40 mounted photographs 24 4 x 5 inches 16 3 x 3-1/2 inches. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 7 x 10 inches. Pictorial record of the Nonantum Club an American fishing club organized from New Haven circa 1892 with lands leased on Lac des Commissaires next to the lake village of Lac Bouchette west of Saguenay. The club is mentioned in reports of Canadian angling in Field and Stream at the turn of the twentieth century and an 1895 guide to Quebec fishing indicates that the club R.H. Brown president had recently built a clubhouse.<br /> <br /> The pictorial title includes a central vignette with crossed fishing rods fish tent a canoe on trestles and a creel about a central image of a goat among a pile of tin cans.Two corner pieces include initials a wall with D U R and a heart with G and E.<br /> <br /> The photographs include views of rail and horse transit waterfalls canoeing on the lake picnics at the edge of a cleared forest gatherings on doorsteps fishing and camping scenes.<br /> <br /> A unique visual record of 1890s sport in Canada. int unknown
186236853Quebec: Printed at the "Mercury" Office 1862. First edition. 3 woodcut illustrations by John Henry Walker the eminent Canadian illustrator and engraver. Pp. 122 including frontispiece and 8 pages of advertisements dated May 22 1862 mostly for train or steamboat travel in the pagination folding map 9 1/2 x 5 inches creased soiling along outer edge trimming of lower margin affecting imprint. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Original rose cloth stamped in blind with all-over wavy pattern covers with ruled borders floral cornerpieces inset cloth label in upper cover with title within gilt ruled border. Some chipping of lower spine darkening or light discoloration a few stains on cloth endpapers browned else a very good copy with the signature of T. W. Baldwin Quebec '66. First edition. 3 woodcut illustrations by John Henry Walker the eminent Canadian illustrator and engraver. Pp. 122 including frontispiece and 8 pages of advertisements dated May 22 1862 mostly for train or steamboat travel in the pagination folding map 9 1/2 x 5 inches creased soiling along outer edge trimming of lower margin affecting imprint. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. RARE. Contains G. T. Cary's "County Seats on the Shores of the St. Lawrence Round Quebec" and Sir James McPherson LeMoine's "the Legendary Lore of the St. Lawrence." Sir James MacPherson LeMoine 1825-1912 noted Canadian author published several works on Quebec and the lower St. Lawrence. He is best known for his publication "Maple Leaves" a series of miscellanies published from 1863-1906. The Cary family founded the Quebec "Mercury" in 1805 and it remained in the family for three generations. Not in Lande Printed at the "Mercury" Office unknown
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
1852105907BBBuffalo (New York), Jewett, Thomas & Co, 1852. 8°. 158 S. mit meist ganzs. Holzstich-Ansichten u. 1 gefalt. lithogr. Karte. OLn. mit goldgepr. Rücken- u. Deckeltitel u. reicher Rückenvergoldung. [7 Warenabbildungen]
183941706ABZwickau, R. Zückler, 1839. 8°. 192 S. Mit 15 lithgr. Taf. Halbleinwand. Rü. beschäd., Deckel stärker beschabt. Braunfl. tls. wasserrandig.
