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33144Halifax. Printed at the Royal Gazette Office. 1832. Hardcover. folio 31cm pp.137-319; 6023pp. appendix in the original half sheepand marbled boards blind panel rules and borders on the boards uppercover label removed otherwise a fine copy. atl TPL 672. The Journalswere issued from 1794 to 1860. This volume contains the submissions of100 petitions and 98 bills. Included are proclamations and messages fromthe Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia Sir Peregrine Maitland. TheseJournals and Proceedings give great insight into the governing ofcolonial Nova Scotia. Halifax. Printed at the Royal Gazette Office. [1832] hardcover
191959240Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1919-1936. Six vols. 8vo. v 1 4 675 1; vi 4 530; vi 474 pp.; 1 23; 1 18 1; 1 8 3 leaves. With 5 large folding colour maps numerous elevation plates photo plates. Three vols. uniformly bound in black publisher’s buckram gilt lettering stamped front covers & spine wear scuffing edgewear minor bumping to Newfoundland & Nova Scotia Pilots; Supplements w/self-printed softcovers minor chipping toning to fore-edges some predation still a good set w/ former stamps for NEGUS Nautical Instrument Makers and Supplies in New York. Fourth 7th & 6th editions stated of volumes 1st editions of Supplements of these very uncommon coast pilots and sailing guides to Canada’s Maritime Provincial waters. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions drawing upon British Admiralty Canadian and U.S. Navy sources. The index maps not only detail the available charts from the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office but also the suggested sailing routes across the Atlantic. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
1895512171895. Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia Statutes Canada. Nova Scotia. The Statutes of Nova Scotia 1865-67 1873-80 1882-84 1892-95. Halifax: Printed by Alpin Grant and other publishers 1865-67 1873-80 1992-84 1892-95. 18 books in all. Octavo 9" x 6". Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. lettering pieces to spines. Worn. A few boards detached backstrip lacking from one volume rear board from another internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines small stamps to title pages. $450. The first European settlement of Nova Scotia was founded in 1604 by the French who established the Acadia colony. A group of Scottish settlers arrived in 1621. Tensions between the French and English led to armed conflict. The British prevailed initially but they were later compelled by treaty to return to colony to France. Captured by the British during Queen Anne's War mainland Nova Scotia was ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island were likewise ceded after the Seven Years' War in 1755. In 1848 Nova Scotia became the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire. Despite a great deal of local opposition was one of the founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation 1867. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:84-86. unknown
elala3112Kingston: Creighton Printer 1868. First Edition. Including reports by A.Heatherington William Barnes and R.Bell and a folding map by W.C.Chewett & Co. Toronto. “From the reliable information which has been submitted in the foregoing pages it is obvious that gold mining in Nova Scotia has become a well established and profitable branch of industry and is now a safe field for the investment of capital. In Nova Scotia seven years of successful mining…afford the capitalist the best guarantee of what he may expect in the future…A high average yield being established beyond all doubt and there being an unlimited quantity of material to operate upon the production will be in direct proportion to the amount of labour employed…The gross yield is now about $600000 a year but there is nothing to prevent it becoming $6000000 per annum in ten years…â€. pp. 19-20 Not in Casey. 8vo. pp. 20. folding partly coloured lithographed map. library quarter cloth original printed wrs. bound in tears to wrs. library bookplate & 2 rubberstamps Kingston: Creighton, Printer, 1868 hardcover