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‎Scott, William Robert‎

‎The Constitution and Finance of english, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720 - Volume II: Companies for Foreign Trade, colonization, Fishing and Mining‎

‎504 pages. Index. "The discovery of a number of minute-books and official documents has made it possible in a considerable number of cases to reach conclusions as precise as those obtainable about a modern company in the Official Intelligence or the Stock Exchange Year-Book." - from Preface. Frontis is comprised of a two-page black and white reproduction of a 1622 map illustrating the Somers Islands and the land-holdings of its shareholders. Average soiling and wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Please note: this book is Volume II (only) of a three-volume set. Book‎

‎Parkin, Tom‎

‎WetCoast Words - A Dictionary of British Columbia Words and Phrases‎

‎156 pages. "Few British Columbians will be able to study this dictionary without being reminded of the way their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers spoke about things. The words ring true to the days when we were hewers of wood and drawers of water, and saw nothing particularly wrong with such tasks, even rating them as more honourable than such modern pursuits as enforcing laws against solitaire players who cheat. Preverves almost 700 words which over the years have helped the people of this province to understand it, themselves, and their neighbours." - from Foreward. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Possible cigarette odour. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Various Contributors‎

‎The Illustrated London News Magazine - February 17, 1968‎

‎Features: Wilson in Washington; The Irish Economy; Inside the world of Cruft's; A textile town 4,500 years ago on Crete; Do we need the shadow of the censor?; Painters overtaken by fashion; Cocteau the supreme individualist; The many faces of tweed; English gardens in the Far East; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy Magazine‎

‎Various Contributors‎

‎The Illustrated London News - August 24, 1963 *GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY ISSUE*‎

‎Features/Photos: The most daring and fruitful mail robbery in English history - The Great Train Robbery; Karsh photo of Nikita S. Khrushchev; Looking back on the test ban treaty; the probably base for Vespasian's western campaign during the Claudian invasion of Britain - new discoveries at the new Fishbourne site; The new British Chieftan tank compared to tanks of four other nations; the Farmobil - a light multi-purpose cross-countyr vehicle; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine‎

‎Various Contributors‎

‎The Illustrated London News - November 10, 1962‎

‎Features/Photos: Sir Winston Churchill - his first outing since is accident in June; The sad fate of the French trawler, Jeanne Gougy; Cuba - a peaceful settlement; Petra - Archaeological section no. 2110 - 'rose-red city'; The English College in Rome; David Dean Rusk - Photo; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine‎

‎Various Contributors‎

‎The Illustrated London News - August 19, 1961‎

‎Features/Photos: An elderly East German couple is turned back at the West Berlin border; East Germany's threat to the Berliner's freedom of movement; Scenes from refugee camps in the Western sectors of Berlin; The Queen and her family in Northern Ireland; Gun Control - full-page photos of dozens of firearms handed in during an amnesty; Greek furniture - an Athens exhibition; Disaster in Norway - The Viking crashes with a load of English Schoolboys; The new Singer Vogue automobile; Above-average wear. Centrefold loose but present. Moderate moisture exposure to upper right corner. No odour. Worthy reference copy. Magazine‎

‎Various Contributors‎

‎The Illustrated London News - June 3, 1961‎

‎Features/Photos: British expedition conquers Nuptse, the last great undefeated peak in the Himilayan group; The Duke of Gloucester reviews his regiment; Royal Wedding in Amman, Jordan - King Hussein and his English bride; The Church of Scotland; South Korean military coup d'etat; Nazis arrested in New Orleans; Freedom Riders arrested in Alabama; Princess Margaret Expecting a baby; Centrefold colour cutaway illustration of the 'ship of the century', the great P&O liner Canberra; The Archaeological exploration of the Negev; The Vanden Plas Princess 3 litre; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine‎

‎Various Contributors‎

‎The Illustrated London News - March 4, 1961‎

‎Features/Photos: The Queen in Benares on the Ganges, in Madras, in Bangalore and Bombay; Rhodesia and Nyasaland; New discoveries from the Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika; Claimed to be the best fighter in the world - the English Electric Lightning; molecules and life; News from Katanga; The Jensen 541S; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎The Wide World Magazine, February 1946‎

‎Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book‎

‎Merivale, Jane; Page, Jack‎

‎Checkpoints : Developing College English Skills‎

‎304 pages. "Eases the writing journey by helping you build reading and writing skills while mastering the basics of grammar and mechanics." - from back cover. Cleand and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Wieder, Laurance‎

‎The Poets' Book of Psalms: The Complete Psalter as Rendered By Twenty-five Poets from the Sixteenth Centuries‎

‎311 pages. Also includes 150 psalms in the King James Version. Usual library markings. Average wear. Sound working copy. Book‎

‎Bornstein, Harry; Saulnier, Karen L.‎

‎The Signed English Starter - a Beginning Book in the Signed English System‎

‎208 pages. Designed to be a first course in Signed English for home or class study." - from Preface. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality working copy. Book‎

‎Murray, Rona; Lillard, Charles; Gom Leona; Cathers, Ken; Kishkan, Theresa; Rhenisch, Harold; Skelton, Robin - Editor‎

‎Six Poets of British Columbia‎

‎176 pages. Unmarked with light to moderate wear. Tight and square. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Colombo, John Robert‎

‎Colombo's New Canadian Quotations‎

‎480 pages. Index. "Offers... 4000 new quotations plus 600 classic Canadian quotations... The majority of the remarks shed light n developments of the last two decades... Arranged by subject under 800 headings." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Karpinski, Eva C.‎

‎Canadian Connections : A Cross-Cultural Reader for Learning English‎

‎117 pages. "A uniquely Canadian collection of readings for the intermediate ESL student." - from back cover. Few markings. Moderate wear. Sound working copy. Book‎

‎Author Unstated‎

‎French and English: My First 1000 Words‎

‎90 pages plus index. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very nice copy in glossy boards. Book‎

‎Coates, William Herbert F.R.G.S. Comm., R.N.R. (retired)‎

‎The Old 'Country Trade' of the East Indies‎

‎205 pages. Originally published by Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, Ltd., London. Multi-panel fold-out map. 9 Black and white illustrations. "A century ago, when every known route was beset with its own dangers, the risks in the "Country Trade" were especially numerous, and it is difficult now to even believe, much more to realise, the vicissitudes to which a ship was liable in the 17th and 18th centuries from the time she left her anchorage under the friendly protection of the guns of old Bombay Castle... Pirates, cosmopolitan, Indian, Arab, even English, cruised the Arabian seas. The Straits of Malacca teemed with fierce cut-throats; the Gulf was a standing menace. These dangers were real." - From Preface. Contents clean, bright and unmarked, possibly unread. Tight and square. Light wear to white and blue cloth-covered boards. Bright silver lettering upon spine. Book‎

‎Morrison, Major W. Alexander‎

‎The Voice of Defence: The History of the Conference of Defence Associations - The First Fifty Years 1932-1982 (Bilingual English/French)‎

‎English section is 262 pages plus index. French section of similar length. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy of this detailed reference. Book‎

‎Author Not Stated‎

‎Colour Maps of: North and South Virginia - The Original Crown Grants; and The English Colonies in the Territories of the Present United States After the Succession in 1763‎

‎Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book‎

‎Author Not Stated‎

‎Map of Northampton & Bedford, England - Circa 1902‎

‎Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book‎

‎Daudet, Alphonse‎

‎Numa Roumestan: Roman in Zwei Banden (Engelhorn's Allgemeine Roman-Bibliothek)‎

‎155 pages. Red front board attractively decorated in black. Written in German. Small Munchen bookseller label inside front board. Sunning to spine. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name atop title page else unmarked. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: July 1936, Vol. 3, No. 1‎

‎96 pages. Features: Long Complete Air-War Adventure - to Sergeant Ryan there was One Square Mile of Enemy Territory that Must Remain Inviolate - yet Fate made it the Objective of the Most Daring Raid of that Crazy Band of Bombers, the Coffin Crew; Air Mystery Story - An R.A.F. Flying-Boat Vanishes on its Trial Flight and a Retired Fishmonger in Finland finds his Greenhouse Roof Broken by an English Schoolboy's Satchel; Air Mystory Story - The All-Seeing Eye of a Silent Witness supplied the Clue to a sinister secret that gave the German Raiders Supremacy of the Air by night; Thrilling Air War History - The full and authentic story of the rise and fall of the imperial German Air Service during the Great War; Real Life Story - I Flew for Bolivia - The Amazing story of the only Englishman who Fought and Flew for Bolivia in the Recent War of the Gran Chaco; Great Modern Air Story - The Peaslake Crash - the Dramatic story of a first and last flight; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book‎

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‎Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: September 1938, Vol. 7, No. 3‎

‎96 pages. Features: The Flaming Fighters - The Pilots of a Pup Squadron fall victim to a strange Hoodoo; The Mammoth and the Midge - Flt. Lt. Kinly goes to 'P.A.Q.', no ordinary restricted area; By Order of the Khan - Mischief in the Frontier Territory of Abdullah, The Khan; Hornets of the Skies - The story of the single-seater fighter from its birth in the early days of the Great War to its Near-Perfection in the Six-Miles-A Minute Projectiles of Today; Red Wings - A Red Ruse to trap the White Russians of Denikin's Army was betrayed to the Sharp Eyes of an English Airman; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎The Gun Report Magazine - January 1968‎

‎Features: A Pair of Harpers Ferry Pistols; Lincoln's Other War; The Rarest '66; Two American Horns; The English Stagecoach Pepperbox; An Experimental Deringer Percussion Rifle?. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎The Gun Report Magazine - February 1987‎

‎Features: Civil war rarity - An identified American English Dragoon; Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Gunsmiths; T. Ketland & Company - Birmingham and London. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Macquoid, Percy‎

‎The Plate Collector's Guide: Arranged from Cripps's "Old English Plate"‎

‎200 pages. "Contains in a condensed form those portions of 'Old English Plate' necessary to a reader wishing to acquire a general knowledge on the subject." - from Preface. With numerous illustrations and plate marks. Usual library markings. Solidly rebound. Moderate wear. Sound reference copy. Book‎

‎Llewellyn, Sian‎

‎The Love Spoon - A Selection of Recipes from Wales‎

‎126 pages. Includes Hors d'Oeuvres and Savouries; Soups, Sea Food, Meats, Breads and Cakes, Omelettes, Pancakes, Puddings, Preserves, Sauces, Jams, Confectionery, Wines, Beverages. First 42 pages loose but present. Average wear. A worthy reference. Book‎

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society: Autumn 1980, Volume Twelve, Number Three‎

‎Features: Disputes Between Masters and Their Workmen; The Use of the Ultra-Violet Lamp in Painted Dial Restoration; Visit to a Clerkenwell Clock Factory; The Froxfield Clock; The Rise and Fall of Chronometer Manufacturing; The 13th Century 'King Hezekiah' Water Clock - Addenda; A New Look at the Dating of Early English Clocks; Sundials at Hever Castle; Eclipses and the St. Alban's Clock; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Plowman, Dr. J.M.‎

‎Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society - Spring 1980, Volume Twelve, Number One‎

‎Features: George Daniels; The Independent Jumping Sounds Mechanism of Jean Pouzait; Louis XIV "Oignons" III Unusual Examples; A New Look at the Dating of Early English Clocks; Pocket Chronometer Movement No. 1847 by Breguet; George Booth, Aberdeen, C. 1800; Section News; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Author Not Stated‎

‎A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary‎

‎1169 pages. Contains 55,000 entries. Prior owner's initials upon fore-edge of text else unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Quality working copy. Book‎

‎Hayek, Friedrich A. von‎

‎Preise Und Produktion ( Common English Title: Prices and Production)‎

‎xv, [1], 124, 3 [ads] pp. Index. Text in German. "Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut Fur Konjunkturforschung Nr. 3" - front cover. "A collection of four lectures covering theories of the influence of money on prices, the conditions of equilibrium between the production of consumers' goods, the working of the price mechanism in the course of the credit cycle, and the case for and against an 'elastic' currency." - Jacob Cohen. Unread as most pages uncut. Average wear to original brown wrappers which are partially separated from textblock. Bit of writing at base of spine. 1939 New York Times Book Review of Schumpeter's 'Business Cycles' laid in. A sound copy of this, Hayek's second book. Machlup B-2, Cody & Osrem B-2, Hutchinson 912, Cohen 183. Book‎

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‎Bradshaw, Marian Hahn‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, May/June 1985, Volume 20, No. 3: The Lachine Rapids‎

‎100 pages. Features: The Lachine Rapids and their mark on history; Indian trade silver in the McCord Museum collection; Lords of the Lakes - the North West Company 1784-1821; Wintering Dishes - recalling the famed Beaver Club dinners (with recipes!); Trade and Empire - Fishermen began fur trade in New France; The Challenge of Heritage Conservation (in English and French); Several articles in French; Domestic Interiors - Parks Canada's designated houses in Quebec; Exhibit of five centuries of old and rare maps; The Liliane Stewart Collection; Counterfeit Canadiana I; Paperweights. Light wear. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Bradshaw, Marian Hahn‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, March/April 1985, Volume 20, No. 2‎

‎102 pages. Features: Painted Illustions - Decorative Wall Painting in Saint John, New Brunswick; The Fascinating World of Historical Costume Design; Louisbourg Gaming; Artifacts of the Saphire - a glimpse of life on board a 17th century English warship; Furnishing Louisbourg; The Orderly Gardens of 18th century Louisbourg; Fashions and Fabrics at 18th century Louisbourg; The Durell service - Chinese export porcelain with a Louisbourg connection; Art History at Beausejour; A colonial merchant's life-style in 18th century Canso; P.E.I.'s Confederation Chamber; An invitation to Fanning Bank, P.E.I.'s gracious Government House; The Temperance Wars - a chronicle of booze and temperance in Newfoundland; Part II (2) of Traditional Crafts in Nova Scotia Today; Quilts from the New Brunswick Museum; The Mystery of Robert Field; Nova Scotia's smaller museums. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Bradshaw, Marian Hahn‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, January/February 1985, Volume 20, No. 1‎

‎78 pages. Features: The Joseph Shephard House - a rural gem in Metro Toronto; Conservation Laws - fact or fiction?; Parks Canada Centennial; The Wheat Pattern; Pictures of home and family life - Parks Canada's research collection; Military Portraiture; Wildfowl Sculptor - Regina's William Hazzard; Necessitous Strangers - the Huguenots and their influence on English silver; Article on the mementos that filled the ornate parlours of the late Victorian era; Tapestries and needlework in the home; The True Spirit of Reform - Flasks. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Bradshaw, Marian Hahn‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, November/December 1984, Volume 19, No. 6‎

‎78 pages. Features: Patterns of Power - The symbols of Great Lakes Indian Art; Mason's Ironstone - 'improvements in the manufacture of English porcelain'; Bermuda's Government House; Seeing Double - The 19th century's Stereoscope; South China Sea Find - Ming-filled wreck provides earlier dating documentation; Wilno Furniture - Made in the first Polish settlement in Canada; Nineteenth Century Pottery and Porcelain for Canadian Collectors; Cornwall Pewter Plate Mystery. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Bradshaw, Marian Hahn‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, May 1984, Volume 19, No. 3 - Simcoe's Legacy‎

‎78 pages. Features: Simcoe's Legacy - Ontario, Toronto, and the Queen's Rangers; The Hague Porcelain - a brief history and description of The Hague porcelain; Georgian Elegance in Canada; Prologue to Toronto - The Town of York, 1793-1834; Straw Weaving - Revived in Saskatchewan; David and His Harp - An Historic Canadian Organ Case in Chicago; Trafalgar Lodge - a rare example of Gothic Revival in Montreal; English Silver - The French Connection. Light wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, September/October 1983, Volume 18, No. 5‎

‎68 pages. Features: The Weldon Collection - Part II - English Pottery; Snuff Bottles; The Loyalists - Bicentennial Exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum; Silk Roads, China Ships - Inspiration for 2000 years of collecting; Furniture-Making in Harbour Grace - Part II, Albert Rogers; James Kerr-Lawson Restored; "La Haute Folie" Still Standing - The Hurtubise house has endured three turbulent centuries; Survival Transcended - Folk Art in Canada; An American in London - a report on London's Grosvenor House Antique Fair. Light wear. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, May/June 1978, Vol. 13 No. 3‎

‎Features: Botanical Plates; The Doctor's Home - Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village; Medicines out of the Earth; Mrs. Traill's Books for Collectors; Feeding the 19th Century Baby; Preconfederation Medical Instruments; Colours from Nature; Flowers on English Pottery and Porcelain; Packing the Panacea - Medicine Bottles in Upper Canada. Sound copy. Magazine‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Collector Magazine, September/October 1975, Vol. 10 No. 5 *VICTORIAN ISSUE*‎

‎Features: The Victorian Experience - from Coronation to Jubilee; Architecture in England; The Spirit of the Place - Canadian Architecture in the Victorian Era; The English Interior; The Canadian Interior; The Aesthetic Movement; The Victorians at Table; Pottery and Porcelain - In the Victorian Mood; Painting in Canada; Silver and Silverplate; Victoriana; Preserving Victorian Canada; The Changing Silhouette; and more. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, March/April 1974, Vol. 9 No. 2‎

‎Features: Puppets Old and New; The Evolution of the Windsor - English, American, Canadian; The Cameo - For the Collector of Antique Jewelry; Small Collectibles - Card Holders and Stevengraphs; Colourful Tile Pictures; Clocks in Canada - Arthur Pequegnat Clock Co.. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine‎

‎Rogers, Douglas B.‎

‎Write of Way : Essay Strategies and Readings *SECOND EDITION*‎

‎557 pages. Clean and unmarked. Some curl to front cover. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector - January 1971, Vol. 6, No. 1‎

‎Features: Why Josiah Wedgewood Chose Etruria; The First English Canadian Novel - St. Ursula's Convent or The Nun of Canada; 18th Century Italian Fantastists - Metropolitan Museum of Art; English Lustre Ware; Silhouettes; Candelabrum; Swedish Glass & Crystal; Copper Kitchen-ware. Some pages were stuck together and have now been separated with minimal impact to text and illustrations. Still a worthy reference copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector - December 1970, Vol. 5, No. 11‎

‎Features: Pioneer Christmas; Introduction to English Clock Making; The American Windsor Chair; The Court Martial of an Admiral - Admiral Keppel (1725-1786); Gifts to the Gallery; Decorating with Antiques; Period Pieces; Marks and silver - and what they mean; Collections of the Jesuit Relations of France. Average wear. Sound reference copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector - November 1970, Vol. 5, No. 10‎

‎Features: Victorian Furniture in Canada; Castle Villeneuve - A French Fantasy in Upper Canada; The Compleat bureau plat; Staffordshire Figures; The Circuitous Odyssey of Irish Art; The Resurgent Francis Hans Johnston/F. Hans Johnston, O.S.A./Frank H. Johnston, A.R.C.A./ Franz Johnston; The Glass Brothers - Late Starters; Some Thoughts on Canadian Glass; North American and English Furniture Compared. Average wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector - February 1969, Vol. 4, No. 2‎

‎Features: Worcester Scale Blue Decoration; Royal WorcesterTrade Marks; London Letter - Sales Sidelights; Tiffany Glass; English Clocks; The Vaughan Collection - the art of understatement; Early Magazine Drawings - Group of Seven; John Hammond, R.C.A. - 1843-1939; Gun Collecting - Thoughts and Tips. Average wear. Sound copy. Book‎

‎Multiple Contributors‎

‎Canadian Antiques Collector - October 1968, Vol. 3, No. 10‎

‎Features: Collecting Boom Continues; Canadian Views on English Transfer-Printed Earthenware; English Chair Styles 1660-1860 (Part 2); Decoupage; Bick's Cruet Collection; Nova Scotia Historic Houses. Somewhat above-average wear. Worthy working copy. Book‎

‎Scholefield, E.O.S.; Gosnell, R.E. (Signed)‎

‎British Columbia (B.C. / BC) - Sixty (60) Years of Progress: A History‎

‎Unread. As new. Number 216 of limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by co-author R.E. Gosnell. "Few publications, if any, of similar size and excellence have been produced in Canada." - From Editor's Foreword. Part I includes 210 pages and eighteen chapters which constitute "a survey of events from the earliest times down to the Union of the Crown Colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada." Part II is "a history, mainly political and economic, of the Province since Confederation up to the present time." Part I is preceded and followed by dozens of tissue-protected black and white portraits of individuals influential in the early history of the province, complete with their brief biographies upon the tissue. Part II comprises eighteen chapters over 226 pages plus 5 pages of addenda followed by dozens of tissue protected portraits of "some of the men conspicuous as present day factors in development." Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright, and unmarked with zero wear. Brown suede exterior appears as fresh as the day it was applied over 100 years ago. This majestic fourteen pound tome measures 13" x 10.5" x 4". A magnificent acquisition for any serious collector of British Columbia history. A better copy will not be found. [Lowther 1607, Hale 2523, Edwards & Lort 3177, Strathern 495] Book‎

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‎Pentland, H. Clare; Phillips, Paul Arthur‎

‎Labour and Capital in Canada, 1650-1860‎

‎280 pages. Index. Reference notes. "An engaging and endlessly fascinating study - the major work of an author of startling originality often described as an iconoclast who drew on the English Marxist school, the theories of Harold Innis and his own western Canadian background in a remarkable exploration of the roots of labour and capitalism in Canada." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Book‎

‎Orchard, Imbert (interviewer)‎

‎Ashcroft (British Columbia): People in Landscape‎

‎17 pages. Black and white photos. Ashcroft country: history and description of Cache Creek, origins of Ashcroft, brief description of early Ashcroft, story of the journey of the Clippendale family from England to Ashcroft, impressions of Ashcroft in 1910, attitudes toward English immigrants. Growing up on a ranch near Ashcroft. Interviewees: Dorothy Goldrick, Nellie Baker, Mary Baker, Vince Gresty. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Undated. Quality copy. (Circa 1980?) Book‎

‎Southby, Robert‎

‎English Seaman: Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, Drake, Cavendish - Volume I (One)‎

‎403 pages plus 40 pages of advertisements. Subjects include: Lord Howard of Effingham; The Earl of Cumberland; Hawkins and Drake; Thomas Cavendish. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Partial lean to spine. Binding intact. Worthy working copy. Book‎

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