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in 16°, rilegato in tela con titoli oro al dorso, conservata cop. originale anteriore
119 pages. Black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Traduction du récit d'un voyage effectué au XVIè siècle de Joachim Heinrich CAMPE, pédagogue et auteur allemand de nombreux ouvrages pour les jeunes (dont un célèbre "Nouveau Robinson"), qui fonda à Brunswick une librairie d’éducation (1746-1818); 2 planches hors texte: "Samoïèdes en habits d'été" et "Samoïèdes en habits d'hiver". Mention de "nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée"; exemplaire avec mention de prix verte ornée de motifs floraux contrecollée au verso du 1er plat. Français
bross. edit., paginazione che segue quella dei fascicoli, macchie, pieghe e rottura in copertina, piccole mancanze all'angolo inf. delle pagine iniziali
Reliure demi-basane. 467 pages. Rousseurs.
257 pages. Black and white photographic plates, including tissue-protected frontis. Gilt lettering legible upon red spine and front board. Title page loose but present. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper. Back hinge repaired with tape. Two inch chip missing from back free endpaper. Front hinge going. Binding opening at dedication page. Above-average but not excessive wear. Nice reading copy. Book
26 pages. Features: The Town that Hit the Jackpot - Nickie Rubuliak and the residents of Smoky Lake, Alberta who defeated Imperial Tobacco's Casino Contest; The Mob - Part 5 - A foothold in Ontario; Dignity in Decay - Totem Poles along the British Columbia coast; Four-page feature on mothers having *two* sons playing hockey in the NHL; Glenn Martin of the Pine River Cheese and Butter Company near Goderich, Ontario; Funny Doug Wright's Family comic strip. Average wear. Unmarked. Short closed tear to back coveer. A quality copy. Book
119 pages. Features: Studying British Columbia - A Recent Burgeoning; The Indians of the Northwest Coast; Discovering Totem Poles; Cook at Nootka - The Engraved Record; Preserving a Precious Heritage - The Totem Pole; An Interview with Bill Reid; Fort St. James; The Royal Engineers in British Columbia; The Restoration of Historic Barkerville; The Architecture of Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury; The Restoration of British Columbia's Parliament Buildings; British Columbia Painters; A Chinese Herbalist in British Columbia; Artifacts of British Columbia Technology; Domestic Interiors; Two B.C. Samplers - Susan Irving and Mary Irving; Early Banks, Coins and Stamps of British Columbia; Restoring Victoria; Conserving Vancouver; Heraldic Stained Glass in Vancouver; Mission Churches; Maritime Legacy; The Crystal Glass Company - British Columbia's First Glass Factory; Chinese Decorative Art in British Columbia; and more. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
218 pages. 'A monument in itself... a sourcebook to which the scholar can return over and over again... a valuable companion to the museum visitor who wishes to learn more about the context of the Haida poles... pleasurable and informative reading for anyone interested in Northwest Coast culture... The historic photographs are stunning. To see the villages as the earliest photographers saw them is to recapture in part the wonder and majesty that was the Haida cultural heritage. At the same time the grief that was the destruction of the villages is all too apparent." - From back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Moisture exposure to fore-edge of front cover and first fifty pages has resulted in light staining and mild undulations. A sound copy of this impressive work. Book
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the third and final novel of the 'Eustace and Hilda' trilogy, following 'The Shrimp and the Anemone' (1944) and 'The Sixth Heaven' (1946).
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
218 pages. From limited edition of 1600 copies. "Concerned entirely with the Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands of the last century, the intricacies of the kinship patterns of the great families, and how they saw themselves as part of a fantastic, but in its own terms, logical, cosmos, and most of all how this was all expressed in their remarkable architecture with its perfectly integrated massive carved and painted embellishments, the great totem poles of the Haidas." - from Foreward. "The documentary photographs that survive are among the few remaining records which illustrate the richness and variety of Haida monumental art. Of the more than five hundred carved poles which appear in the plates, only about fifty were removed to museums for safekeeping. The remainder have perished entirely or survive at the village sites as decayed fragments overgrown with the lush vegetation of the islands." - from Preface. Light external wear and soiling to cream-coloured cloth-covered boards. No external markings. Discreet bookplate and bit of writing inside front board. Blindstamp to lower corner of title page. Bit of writing in upper left corner of title page. Remnant of card pocket inside back board. Binding tight. A quality copy of this magnificent work. Book
