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A. McKIM & CO.
The Canadian Newspaper Directory Fourth Edition 1905. With issued supplement, Special Maps Of The Provinces of Canada.
Montreal & Toronto: 1905..
8vo. pp. 116. 4 fold out maps in issued supplement. Cloth (spine sunned with some fraying at corners, hinges partially cracked). Fourth Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: aly1354 Order / Enquire
ABBOT, Philip Stanley ET AL.
Addresses At A Memorial Meeting Of The Appalachian Mountain Club, October 21, 1896, And Other Papers. [Reprinted Fom "Appalachia."].
np: [1896]..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 82. frontis. portrait & 10 other plates. Uncut & partly unopened in original wrs. (wrs. detached, spine chipped). Philip Stanley Abbot died while climbing Mount Lefroy in the Bow Range near Lake Louise, Alberta. His death became the first recorded mountaineering fatality in North America. Included here are accounts of Abbot's ascents of the Matterhorn and Weisshorn in the Alps with Swiss guide Peter Sarbach, the first ascent of Mount Hector in the Canadian Rockies with Charles Ernest Fay and Charles Sproull Thompson as well as the trio's unsuccessful attempts on Mount Lefroy.
$100 USD Book Number: dola2493 Order / Enquire
ABDY, E[dward] S[trutt] [1791-1846].
Journal Of A Residence And Tour In The United States Of North America, From April, 1833, To October, 1834.
London: John Murray, 1835..
3 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xii, 395; viii, 415; 1 p.l., [v]-viii, 408. contemporary half calf (bit rubbed). First Edition. Abdy accompanied humanitarian William Crawford on the latter's tour of inspection of the prison systems of the United States. He visited the major cities of New England and New York, Virginia and Kentucky, and his narrative is largely devoted to social and economic questions: education, trade unions, prisons and prison discipline, asylums for the poor, lunatics and disabled, poor laws, banking, gambling and slavery. In August of 1833, he made a brief unofficial excursion to Niagara Falls and Toronto. "The description though short, V.1, p. 288-315, is interesting, as it compares the social and economic status of servants, negroes and Indians in the United States and Canada at this time." (TPL) Clark III I. Howes A-8. Sabin 45. TPL 1817.
$961 USD Book Number: CDYurABD44 Order / Enquire
ABERDEEN [AND TEMAIR], [Ishbel Maria (Marjoribanks) Hamilton-GORDON, Marchioness of] [1857-1939].
The Canadian Journal Of Lady Aberdeen 1893-1898 Edited With An Introduction By John T. Saywell.
Toronto: Champlain Society [Publ. No. XXXVIII], 1960..
8vo. pp. lxxxiv, 517, xvi. 2 plates. original gilt-crested cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (staining to upper cover). First Edition, Limited to 600 copies. The journal covers Lord Aberdeen's tenure as Governor-General of Canada. "...[Lady Aberdeen's] open sympathy with the liberals and her interference in politics were resented by conservatives and were sometimes embarrassing to liberals and to senior civil servants." (Story p. 2) Lady Aberdeen founded the Aberdeen Association to send books and papers to settlers on the prairies, for which the Canadian government gave free postage, organized the National Council of Women in 1893, and assisted in founding the Victorian Order of Nurses in 1897.
$90 USD Book Number: elala5363 Order / Enquire
ABERDEEN, John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, First Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair [1847-1934].
Photo postcard, signed.
np: nd..
5 ΒΌ" x 3 3/8". ABERDEEN, John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, First Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair [1847-1934] [Governor-General of Canada (1893-1934)]. Photo (of Aberdeen) postcard, signed 'Aberdeen' to Miss M. John, stamped 'Private Secretary Lord Lieutenant.'
$150 USD Book Number: elala750 Order / Enquire
ABRAMS, Gary William David.
Prince Albert: The First Century 1866 - 1966.
Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1966..
8vo. pp. vii, 389. text illus & maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (few minor tears to edges of dw.). First Edition.
$65 USD Book Number: kdla67 Order / Enquire
ABU-LABAN, Baha.
A History of Canada's Peoples An Olive Branch on the Family Tree The Arabs in Canada.
[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. in association with the Multiculturalism Directorate, Department of the Secretary of St.
8vo. pp. viii, 259. 8 double-sided plates. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: CU-HiABU1 Order / Enquire
ACORN, Milton.
More Poems For People.
[Toronto]: NC Press, 1973..
12mo. pp. 112. wrs. (discoloured in lower edge of front cover). Signed Revised Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: aly319 Order / Enquire
ACRELIUS, Israel.
Beskrifning Om De Swenska Forsamlingars Forna och Narwarande Tilstand, Uti Det saa kallade Nya Swerige Sedan Nye Nederland, Meri nu for tiden Pensylvanien, samt nastliggande Orter wid Aelfwen De la Ware, Wast-Yersey och New-Castle uti Norra America.
Stockholm: Harber & Hesselberg, 1759..
small 4to. pp. 10 p.l., 533 [ie. 503], [1]. woodcut ornaments. 19th century morocco, gilt back, inside dentelles, gilt edges (lightly browned throughout, spine dull, later inscriptions in Swedish on old flyleaves; a good copy with wide margins). First Edition of "the most trustworthy contemporary authority on Swedish settlements on the Delaware." (Howes) The author was Provost over the Swedish congregation in America and pastor of the Church at Christina [Wilmington, Delaware] from 1749 to 1756. Besides the Swedish historians, Campanius, Swedberg, Biorck, and others, Acrelius made extensive use of various manuscripts and documents in the Royal Archives at Stockholm and the Archives at New York, including a valuable unpublished manuscript by the Rev. Anders Rudman, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran congregation at Wicacoa from 1697 to 1701. Acrelius' account contains a history of the colonies under Swedish, Dutch and English government, with a general description of the land, natural resources, major towns, &c., an ecclesiastical history from 1655 to 1697, with a list of the names of all the Swedish inhabitants of Pennsylvania in 1693, and an ecclesiastical history of the congregations at Wicacoa, Christina, Racoon and Pensneck. "This important work is hardly less scarce than that of Campanius.especially when in good condition; it has, besides, the merit of being much more extensive and of reproducing a large number of documents, partly unpublished." (Muller) A complete English translation was not published until 1874. Bell A55. Howes A-34. JCB I 1202. Muller 1134. Rich I 132. Sabin 133. Winsor IV 494-95.
$2997 USD Book Number: CREskACR66 Order / Enquire
ADACHI, Ken.
The Enemy That Never Was A History of the Japanese Canadians.
[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart, [1976]..
8vo. pp. vi, [2], 456. 8 double-sided plates. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (few short tears, sunned). First Edition.
$61 USD Book Number: CACeADAC73 Order / Enquire
ADAM, G[raeme] Mercer [1839-1912].
Illustrated Toronto "The Queen City of the West".
Montreal: J.McConniff, 1891..
oblong 8vo. pp. 61, [3]. numerous illus., most from photographs (some full-page). original bds., rebacked with leatherette (corners worn). First Edition. Morley p. 226.
$200 USD Book Number: elala5707 Order / Enquire
ADAM, G[raeme] Mercer [1839-1912].
The Canadian North-West: Its History And Its Troubles... [At Head of Title: From Savagery To Civilization].
Toronto: Rose Publishing Company & Whitby: J.S.Robertson & Bros., 1885..
8vo. pp. vi, [7]-408. 12 portraits (incl. frontis.). decorative head & tailpieces & initials. original gilt-stamped cloth (covers bit soiled, spine faded & frayed at ends, library bookplate & number on lower spine, stain to inner margin of frontis. & title). First Edition. Peel 1325.
$150 USD Book Number: elala4576 Order / Enquire
ADAM, G[raeme] Mercer [1839-1912].
Toronto, Old And New: --A Memorial Volume -- Historical, Descriptive And Pictorial, Designed To Mark The Hundredth Anniversary Of The Passing Of The Constitutional Act Of 1791, Which Set Apart The Province Of Upper Canada And Gave Birth To York (Now Toronto) To Which Is Added A Narrative Of The City's Industries And Commerce, With Some Sketches Of The Men Who Have Made Or Are Making The Provincial Capital...
Toronto: The Mail Printing Company, 1891..
folio. pp. 2 p.l., 212. 4 plates (incl. frontis.). numerous text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with title portion of spine mounted (corners worn). First Edition. Morley p. 226.
$450 USD Book Number: elala4972 Order / Enquire
ADAMS, John Quincy [1767-1848].
The Lives Of James Madison And James Monroe, Fourth And Fifth Presidents Of The United States...With Historical Notices Of Their Administrations.
Buffalo & Cincinnati: Geo. H. Derby And Co., 1850..
8vo. pp. viii, [9]-432. additional engraved title incorporating 2 portraits & a view of the Capitol. contemporary calf (worn but sound, joints cracked, moderate foxing throughout). cfSabin 289.
$175 USD Book Number: elala4577 Order / Enquire
ADAMS, John Quincy.
The Great Design Two Lectures on the Smithson Bequest.Delivered at Quincy and Boston in November 1839 now first published together from contemporary printed and manuscript texts Edited, with an Introduction, by Wilcomb E. Washburn.
Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1965..
8vo. pp. 95, [2 leaves]. quartercloth (institutional bookplate). dw. (extremities chipped).
$36 USD Book Number: AAMeADAM54 Order / Enquire
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