Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title and author are printed on the image in small font. Publishing information also printed on the back at top. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight age toning on the back and a crease affecting the lower-left corner of the image. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia. Gowen & Stevens was a photography studio founded in 1916 by Frank Gowen and Sidney Stevens of Vancouver, B.C. From 1919-1920, the studio operat... View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1920s-1930s. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2." Title is printed on the image in small font. "Published by the Gowen Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B. C." printed on the back. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few tiny spots on the back and a small spot on the image. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows three women, a man, and a child standing on the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The bridge was built in 1889 by George Grant Mackay, a Scott civil engineer and Va... View More...
Text is in German and English. Original publisher's beige wrappers with staple binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." Seven pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall except for some pencil marks in the bottom margin of the front cover and a few light smudges on the back cover. Two stamps of the "Hoover War Collection" and a stamp reading, "Library of Congress Duplicate Exchanged by Transfer Jun 8 1919," are placed in the margins of the front cover, inside of the front cover, and Page 8. "University Printing Office, Columbia University" also printed on a back page. In the back is... View More...
Original publisher's beige wrappers with staple binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." Seven pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall except for a split going down about 2/3 along the spine. Two stamps, one on front cover reading, "Hoover War Collection," and another on inside of front cover reading, "Library of Congress Duplicate Exchanged by Transfer Jun 8 1919." "University Printing Office, Columbia University" also printed on inside of front cover. In the back is a list of Numbers 1 through 4 in Series 1 of the Columbia War Papers. A pamphlet about the treatment of German U... View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Wrapped in mylar. 5" x 7 1/2." 286 pages, complete. Referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 20117: State "A" of the binding. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is Fine. Some weakness to the front joint and light cracking to the back joint. Very faint dampstaining in the lower-right corners of the pages, barely, if it all, affecting text. There is a chip in the lower of one of the back flyleaves. A Fine copy. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, natu... View More...
Original book fair poster with white lettering on a black background. Color illustration of a vintage 1925 advertisement promoting the Trans-Canada Limited at center. The illustration shows a train riding through a scenic landscape with purple mountains and a yellow sky. 18" x 22." Poster is very clean and intact but has some wrinkling, a few horizontal creases, and a couple of dampstains on right edge (faint on the front; more visible on the back). A Very Good copy. A book fair poster printed on the occasion of the Vancouver Antiquarian Book Fair of March 1990. Additional lettering on ... View More...
Professional contemporary binding, very attractive. Some minor foxing in body of work, otherwise in excellent condition. Part 1 - 309 pages plus 179 pages of appendices. 4 fold-out maps and 16 illustrations, complete, however one map and one illustration are not located where indicated on list of illustrations. Multiple tables. Part 2 - 132 pages. The first part of this volume is a detailed account of an arctic expedition undertaken by Sir William Parry (1790-1855), English Rear-Admiral and famous Arctic explorer, and his crew in 1819. The purpose of the expedition was to find the Northwest Pa... View More...
Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration of man sitting and writing next to a body of water on front. Minor rubbing. 156 pages with index and 8 illustrations complete. Some spotting on frontispiece, otherwise clean and attractive. From colophon, "Of this edition . five hundred copies only have been printed.This is number 424". Edited by F. W. Howay. Part of the series "The Canadian Historical Studies : A Library of Historical Research", this volume contains "Remarks of the Voyages of John Meares" by George Dixon, "An Answer to Mr. George Dixon" by John Meares, and "F... View More...
Signature on beige card by Henry George Vennor in light brown ink. No date, circa 1860s-1880s. 3 1/2" x 2 1/2." Card reads: "Henry G. Vennor, Montreal, Canada." Card and signature are very clean and intact. Henry George Vennor (1840-1884) was a Canadian geologist, ornithologist, and meteorologist. As a college student, he made a fossil collection and also wrote papers and did research on local bird life. Vennor worked for the Geological Survey of Canada where he researched and collected information on various rock types and their mineral and metal compositions. These surveys also requi... View More...
xiv, 394 pages; illustrations, map, folding map in back; modern full leather binding - a facsimile of the original cloth binding. Captain John Claus Voss, a Canadian from British Columbia, sailed around the world to England during 1901-04 in a modified cedar dugout canoe named 'Tilikum'. This volume contains an account of his around the world voyage. Very good copy in full leather binding. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and front cover and multicolored illustrated dust wrapper with an image of a totem pole and a yacht in the Canadian wilderness. 5 1/4 "x 7 3/4." 311 pages, complete. Pages, covers, and dust wrapper are very clean and intact. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. A fictional story about a man named X. Anaxagoras, his wife, and his quirky brother-in-law as they sail on a yacht in Canada. Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) was an American author who is best-known for writing novels set against the backdrop of the wilderness. ... View More...
No date, but circa 1907. Publisher's deep red cloth with gilt lettering and edecorations in gilt and black. Minor wear at extremities. No writing or staining internally. A handsome book. 6 x 8 3/4 inches. 262 pages, plus one leaf (two pages) of suppliers for bowlers. View More...
Original publisher's hand-colored engraved map showing the eastern states and territories of the United States and the southeastern edge of Canada. No date, circa 1828. Paper with margins measures 16 3/4" x 11." Actual map area measures 9 3/4" x 14 1/2." Paper is very clean and intact except for a few spots. This map is from the first edition of Emma Willard's atlas titled, A Series of Maps of Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. Pink, yellow, green, and blue watercolors highlight the state and territory boundaries. The Northwest Territory is shown along with... View More...
Original publisher's hand-colored engraved map showing the East Coast of the United States, Nova Scotia, and Canada. No date, circa 1828. Paper with margins measures 9" x 11." Actual map area measures 7" x 9 1/4." Paper is very clean and intact except for a few spots. This map is from the first edition of Emma Willard's atlas titled, A Series of Maps of Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. Pink, yellow, green, blue, and purple watercolors highlight the boundaries of former provinces and territories along the East Coast. In the upper-left is an inset illustrat... View More...
Original publisher's hand-colored engraved map showing the eastern states and territories of the United States and the southeastern edge of Canada. No date, circa 1828. Paper with margins measures 17" x 11." Actual map area measures 9 1/2" x 14 1/4." Paper is very clean and intact except for a few spots. This map is from the first edition of Emma Willard's atlas titled, A Series of Maps of Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. Pink, yellow, green, blue, and purple watercolors highlight the state and territory boundaries. The map includes states from Maine to t... View More...
Original publisher's black and white engraved map of the "Principal Seats of the War of 1812-13-14." from the first edition of Emma Willard's atlas titled, A Series of Maps of Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. The map is a composite of five smaller maps showing parts of Michigan, Canada, New York, Louisiana, Maryland, and Virginia. No date, circa 1828. Paper with margins measures 8 3/4" x 11." Actual composite map area measures 7" x 9." Paper is very clean and intact except for very slight wrinkling, chipping, and general wear at the edges and a few small sp... View More...
Original publisher's hand-colored engraved map showing the eastern states and territories of the United States and the southeastern edge of Canada. No date, circa 1828. Paper with margins measures 16 3/4" x 11." Actual map area measures 9 1/2" x 14 1/2." Paper is very clean and intact except for a few spots. This map is from the first edition of Emma Willard's atlas titled, A Series of Maps of Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. Pink, yellow, green, and blue watercolors highlight the state and territory boundaries. Louisiana (New Spain) is the westernmost po... View More...
Original publisher's green-brown (olive) cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Dark green illustrations on front cover of people canoeing and riding by dog sled. 6" x 8." 267 pages, complete. Thirty-four black-and-white illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in the front. Pages are very clean and intact except for minuscule age toning and occasional, small marks. Covers have a few stray marks, slightly bumped corners, and slight wear to the edges. Some splitting along front and back inner hinges. The binding feels a bit loose, but it is holding. A Very G... View More...
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