Category: Canada

Picturesque America: Its Parks and Playgrounds; An Illustrated Volume with Special Articles Contributed for Park and Playground Sections and Numerous Selections from the Works of Well Known Authors Expressing the Varied Appeal of Outdoors in America

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Resorts and Playgrounds of America : 1925

Seller ID: 020416

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 8" x 10 1/2." 521 pages, complete. Many black and white and multicolored plates and maps, complete. Most of the plates and maps are black and white. Index in back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Lettering on spine a bit faded. "In the volume Picturesque America, its Parks and Playgrounds, the publishers have endeavored to carry the reader in the illustrated pages over the Park-to-Park trips of the United States and Canad...
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Around the World in Fascinating Third-Dimension Pictures Selected Expressly for the Members of the Keystone Travel Club. Pacific Coast Region of the United States of America, Alaska and Northwest Canada Including Yosemite National Park, Multnomah Falls, Mount Shasta, Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Columbia River, Copper River, The Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Many Other Interesting Places. Volume 2, Stops 1,051 to 1,100, Number 10.

By: Keystone View Company

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 021301

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's gray wrappers with staple binding. Interior mimeographed pages on green paper. No date, circa 1930s. 8 1/2" x 11." Seven unnumbered pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight wrinkling on pages. Former ownership stamp of A. Lee Golden is on bottom margin of the front cover not affecting text. This pamphlet was published by the Keystone View Company and would have been used in conjunction with the company's stereocards. A list of numbered captions is presented and corresponds with a matching stereocard. The captions describe stereoviews of...
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Real Photo Post Card: "Maid of the Mist. Niagara Falls."

By: Leslie, F. H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada?, F. H. Leslie

Seller ID: 022761

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original black-and-white photo postcard. Circa 1915. Postmarked August 6, 1915 (or 1916) in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Postmark year is partially obscured. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. "F. H. Leslie, Limited, Niagara Falls" printed on the back. A red, two-cent King George V stamp is tipped in on the back. Postcard is used. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight surface wear. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows the steamer, Maid of the Mist, on a boating tour of the same name. The Maid of the Mist boat tour features a round trip from the Uni...
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Exposition Retrospective Des Colonies Francaises De l'Amerique Du Nord. Catalogue Illustre. Analyse Des Documents, Objets et Peintures Exposes By .

By: Leymarie, M.A.-Leo [editor]

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Paris, France, Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. : 1929

Seller ID: 12571

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

*text in French* lxv, 312 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (missing chips from the corners of the covers, front and back). Catalogue of documents and objects relating to the French colonies in North America, Canada and Louisiana. Description and commentary on each of the entries. Very good clean copy in the original paper wrapper with title on the cover.
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A Thousand Miles from a Post Office; Or, Twenty Years' Life and Travel in the Hudson's Bay Regions; With Illustrations

By: Lofthouse, J.; Archbishop of Canterbury (Preface)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Macmillan Company of Canada : 1922

Seller ID: 024069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks front free endpaper. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 184 pages, complete. Twelve black-and-white illustrations on nine plates, complete. Frontispiece is a printed portrait photograph of Lofthouse. One of the listed illustrations is a folding map. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Pages have slight age toning and slight wear along the fore-edge. Covers have slightly bumped corners and some fraying at the head and tail of spine. A Very Good copy. Joseph Lofthouse, Sr. (1855-1933) was a Canadian Anglican bi...
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The History of Trade-Union Organization in Canada

By: Logan, Harold A.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press. (1928). Chicago.

Seller ID: 2636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Cloth. Dust wrapper; chipping to top edge, slight chipping to bottom edge. From the Preface: "The aim of this work is to give a general survey of trade-union organization in Canada from its beginnings down to the present". Chapte rs d escribe: Early Labor Movement, 1825-80; Period 1880-1902; The Provincial Workmen's Association; Activities of the Congress Since 1902; The Canadian Federation of Labor; Rise and Decline of the One Big Union in Canada; etc.
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Vancouver Island and British Columbia . Their History, Resources and Prospects.

By: Macifie, Matthew

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green : 1865

Seller ID: 018196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's binding, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/2 X 8 3/4 inches. 574 pages with 2 pages of books that Longman, Green and company publish. Copy contains information on the voyage out, topography, geology, physical geography, and general history of Vancouver Island, the discovery of gold in British Columbia in 1858, and its influence on the growth of Victoria, Victoria as a free port, general resources of Vancouver Island, agriculture in Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Historical sketch-geology, etc, general description of British Columbia, the mines of British C...
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Image for Donald Mackenzie "King of the Northwest" : the Story of an International Hero of the Oregon Country and the Red River Settlement at Lower Fort Garry (Winnipeg)

Donald Mackenzie "King of the Northwest" : the Story of an International Hero of the Oregon Country and the Red River Settlement at Lower Fort Garry (Winnipeg)

By: Mackenzie, Cecil W.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, California, Ivan Deach, Jr., Publisher : 1937

Seller ID: 016679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Few pencil notes, otherwise fine condition. 210 pages with portraits of subject and author. Donald Mackenzie (1783-1851) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader whose travels covered much of the Pacific Northwest. He also served as Governor of the Red River Colony (present-day Manitoba, Canada) from 1821-1834. This biography was written by a descendent.
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Plain Tales of the North

By: Mallet, Thierry, Captain

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Revillon Freres. 1925. New York. : 1925

Seller ID: 2629

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Cloth backed boards. Margin illustrations. Cloth spine has small split at top and bottom of spine. Slight discoloration to boards. Page edges are uncut. For twenty years Captain Mallet spent part of each year inspecting Revillon Frere s trading posts on the outskirts of civilization in the far North. He also collected these unusual and striking tales: A Grave in Saskatchewan; War News in Husky Land; An Indian Wake; Fighting Against Starvation; A Greenhorn in a Rapid; A Pra ctical Joke; Eskimo Arithmetic; etc.
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Speeches Delivered in Canada in the Autumn of 1908

By: Milner, Viscount

Price: $25.00

Publisher: William Tyrrell & Co. 1909. Toronto. : 1909

Seller ID: 2620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth backed boards. Some pages unopened. Page edges are uncut. Book plate on front end paper. Some speeches delivered by Viscount Milner during his 1908 visit in Canada; "Imperial Unity. External Advantages"; "Imperial Unity. Internal Benefi ts"; " South African Development"; "Preferential Trade"; "Imperialism and Social Reform"; etc.
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Roughing It in the Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada

By: Moodie, Susanna

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Bell & Cockburn : 1913

Seller ID: 024603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Third London Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 6" x 8 1/2." 569 pages, complete. Seventeen plates in black-and-white and color, including tipped-in color plates illustrated by R. A. Stewart. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning throughout and foxing on front and back endpapers. Covers are clean and intact overall but have rubbing and fading along spine, rubbing on front and back, and splitting along front inner hinge (binding is a bit loose but still holding). A Good copy. Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) was ...
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The Tour of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales Through British American and the United States. By a British Canadian.

By: Morgan, Henry J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Montreal, Canada, John Lovell : 1860

Seller ID: 021949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. 6" x 8 3/4." 271 pages, complete. Printed on title page: "Montreal: Printed for the Compiler by John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street. 1860." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight rubbing and edge and corner wear to the covers. This book is about Edward VII's four-month tour to Canada and the United States in 1860 when he was nineteen years of age. During the tour, Edward inaugurated the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, laid a cornerstone of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, visited t...
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Beet Pulp and Juice Flowing Into Large Iron Tanks, Where it is Subjected to Diffusion By Water"

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 7657

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 271-20944 by the publisher. The black and white photo shows a man standing at the foot of a conveyor belt, filling a bucket with beet sugar. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back explaining the photo and the sugar beet industry. Letter "B" written on back.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Fifth Royal Highlanders of Montreal in the Military Parade of the Quebec Tercentenary, July, 1908."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 8254

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 266-16-37 by the publisher. Shows long column of soldiers in kilts marching with buildings and streets in background.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Indian Basket Weaving, Prince Edward Island, Canada."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 8252

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 263-13882 by the publisher. Shows two women making baskets in front of a tepee, with a man standing in the background. A few brown stains on the right hand side of the photograph. No date, but circa 1915. Two columns of text on the back about Indian basket making and Prince Edward Island.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Indian Woman Working on Moose Hide Near Atlin, British Columbia

By: None

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 7630

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 265-27359 by the publisher. Shows the woman standing in front of the moose hide, which is on a stretcher. Circa 1910. Two columns of text on back explaining the photo. Letter "B" written on back.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Inner Harbor, Victoria, British Columbia."

By: None

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 7646

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 277-13837 by the publisher. Black and white photo showing people walking in front, an automobile and then the harbour with both sailing and steam ships. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back discussing Victoria history. Letter "B" written on back.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Quebec from Tower of the Parliment Building Looking Across the St Lawrence to Levis

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 7651

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 264-16002 by the publisher. Bird's eye view. Circa 1915. Black and white photo. Two columns of text on back explaining the photograph. Letter "B" written on back.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "The Wharves, Montreal, Canada."

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 8253

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Fine

3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 267-10625 by the publisher. Shows wharf, buildings, railroad cars, sailing ship and cargoes. No date, but 1914 mentioned in text on the back, which discusses the wharves and Montreal history.
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Original Stereocard Photograph: "Winding Linen Yarns on Bobbins, Guelph, Ontario"

By: None

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Keystone View Company

Seller ID: 7652

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 268-20967 by the publisher. The black and white photo shows two women, one working the spindle, the other hanging the finished thread. Two columns of text on back explaining the process. Circa 1915. Letter "B" written on back.
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Category: Canada