Original publisher's cloth binding.. 9 1/2 X 12 inches. 96 pages. Copy contains 56 pages of black and white photographs and 27 pages of black and white illustrations. This copy contains information on business's, realty, parks, water ways, steamboats, railroads, manufacturing, schools and colleges, public buildings and the early history of British Columbia. Binding darkened. Front and back end papers and pastedowns soiled. Terxt finje and complete. View More...
Original publisher's maroon-brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 198 pages, complete. A few black-and-white plates, including a printed frontispiece portrait of the author, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages slightly age-toned. Slight rubbing and fading to spine. A few faint marks on front and back. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. Personal account of William W. Smith with a pro-temperance message. Smith writes his account under the pseudonym, "A. L. O. C." This is a retelling of an apparent attempt on Smith's... View More...
# 13830 (274). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the glacier in Rocky Mountain Park, Canada and Mt. Victoria. Nice upclose view of the glacier with Mt. Victoria in the background. View More...
# 20941 (270). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the harvesting and storage and production of beets into sugar. View of a very large storage bin warehouse filled with beets. Nice clean copy. View More...
Unnumbered. Stereograph on light green board (6 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch) with publisher's name printed on the backside. Early view of a Catholic cathedral in Montreal ca.1870s. Nice clean copy. View More...
# 16320 (278). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the city, harbor, province and industry. Nice view of the harbor looking toward the town. View More...
# 13802 (275). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the Selkirk Range and its glaciers and the mountaineering involved in crossing them. Nice image of a guide looking over the glacier and its unusual formations. View More...
# 13806 (276). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about Mt Sir Douglas and the Selkirk Range with the glaciers coming off the side of the mountain. Nice image of a woman viewing Mt Sir Douglas with glaciers feeding the steams far below in the valley. View More...
#13987 (264). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the city and Duffein Terrace, a sort of public promenade for the city. Wonderful view of the St. Lawrence Seaway and lower old town Quebec. View More...
# 13895 (262). Stereograph on gray board 97 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the French in Nova Scotia and the forced removal by the British after conquest. It also quotes from 'Evangeline' by Henry W. Longfellow. Nice view of the countryside in Nova Scotia with a wide valley below and a women in period clothing looking down. View More...
3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 277-13837 by the publisher. Shows man sitting on ledge, overlooking railroad depot with inlet in background. Circa 1910. Two columns of text on the back with information about Vancouver. View More...
55 pages; illustrations, maps; stiff illustrated paper wrapper (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inch). Slight soiling to the cover. Maps showing the route from Calgary to Victoria with photos of the hotels and scenery with geographical information. Travel brochure for the Canadian Pacific Railway issued for their customers. Very good clean copy. View More...
Department of Mines - Geological Survey. Memoir 168 (Publication No. 2283). 76 pages; tables, maps; bibliography; gray paper wrapper (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inch). A study of the Late-Glacial period in North America to correlate the ice borders and events in Northern Manitoba. The author has assembled existing data concerning the direction of the ice flow, the moraines, etc has been compiled. Very good clean copy. View More...
Previously bound, fold in corner and some chipping, not affecting text. From title page, "Read at the Annual Meeting of the Franklin Institute, January 15th, 1902, and Reprinted from the "Journal of the Franklin Institute" for March, 1902. Inscribed by author, "To C. VanH. Engert Esp. in remembrance of a very pleasant visit. Thomas Willing Balch February the second 1912. Philadelphia." 45 pages with 8 maps, complete. Thomas Willing Balch (1866-1927) was the son of famed historian Thomas Balch. The younger Thomas wrote several works on the Alaska border and Canadian-American relations. In this ... View More...
Two volumes, a complete subset that is part of a thirty-four-volume series. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Lightly impressed decorations on front and back covers. Vol. I published 1886. Vol. II published 1888. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." All pages of both volumes, complete. Vol. I: [i]-xxxix, [1]-789. Vol. II: Pages [i]-xv, [1]-808. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Vol. I has a black-and-white folding map of Oregon tipped in before Page 1. Index in back of Vol. II which may not comprise Vol. I. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall... View More...
Publisher's red cloth. Lettering on spine somewhat dulled. An unworn copy with no dust wrapper. Folding frontispiece, not torn at fold. Text clean and unmarked. 216 pages, including index. View More...
First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Ink notation front end paper. Although millionaires and industrial leaders have helped to develop Canada, so too have the so-called "lesser men" built this country. Some people described by the a utho rs: John Ross Robertson -- a Benevolent Despot; General Steele -- Courage; Rev. Albert Carman -- The Uncompromising Cleric; Sir William Van Horne -- Prodigious; C. A. Magrath -- A Genuine Westerner; etc. View More...
Original pencil sketch on brown paper by Arthur William Brown. The artwork may also be done in crayon. The paper is stiff like cardstock and appear to have a layer of light brown paper on top. Signed by the artist on front: "To Vernon McKenzie, Arthur William Brown." Copyright information by the Saturday Evening Post appears on a tipped-in piece of paper on back. 21 3/4" x 14 1/2." Drawing is very clean and intact overall. The front of the drawing has a few small stains, minimal age toning, slight edge wear, a tiny chip in upper-left corner not affecting drawing, and surface chipping in... View More...
Cloth. In French. Registre de la paroisse anglicane de Montreal, 1766-1787. Precis des actes de Foy et Hommage. Livre de lettres sur les affaires de la Floride, 1768-1770. Documents relatifs aux cours martiales, etc., 1758-1779. Papiers divers , ord onnances et situations, 1756-1776. Etc. View More...
Original publisher's red and white paper wrappers with staple binding. 5 1/4" x 6 3/4." 96 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are intact overall but have light soiling and age toning throughout, slight wear to extremities, and splitting and moderate soiling along the spine. A Good copy. A guide to Canadian badminton. Most of the pamphlet is about championships throughout Canada and results for each match or tournament. Includes men's, women's, and mixed singles among other tournaments. Following the information about cham... View More...
