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1899réf. 002382Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. a 288 page hardcover MDCCCXCIX c1899 in red cover boards and colophon on title page designed by artist Will Bradley with black titles and a wolf head on front and rear no DJ well preserved inner hinges book ownership label of Herman Melville scholar Harrison Hayford applied inside front cover board period signature on FEP dated 8-17-99 opposite half title is hand pasted a rotogravure lithograph of author with his signature unable to verify if signature is facsimile or an autograph cover boards corners are bumped causing inward bend to boards clear stain to rear cover and near wolf head on front cover age tone to spine Herbert S. Stone & Company hardcover
1800réf. 13951800. Very good. Etching on cream laid paper 4 x 4 3/4 inches 100 x 120 mm narrow margins. In very good condition with a number of inscriptions in pencil on the verso. Also on the verso there is an unidentified circular collector's stamp in black ink bearing the initials YVB or LVB not in Lugt. A copy printed later evidenced by the lack of the artist's initials which would have appeared in the upper-left image area. A fine 19th century impression. Bartsch 4. unknown
1897réf. 16410Chicago: Way and Williams 1897 First edition of a novel that influenced Jack London's own pre-historic fantasy novel Before Adam serialized in 1906-1907 in Everybody's Magazine. Waterloo eventually accused London of plagiarism though the latter denied the charges and insisted he was merely inspired by it. Publisher's black cloth stamped in yellow and red designed by Will Bradley 1868-1962. Octavo. Map frontispiece. Title-page printed in black and red. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Very minor wear to crown and tail of spine. The occasional minor stain. Contemporary ink signature on front flyleaf. A very good bright copy. Stanley Waterloo 1846-1913 was a Chicago-born newspaper man editor and author. The present work is about Ab a young Stone Age boy and his journey to manhood. During the course of the novel he catches a baby rhinoceros with his friend Oak and joins the men in his tribe on a hunt. After both he and his friend become enamored with Lightfoot a young woman they fight over her which ends in his friend's death. Though burdened with guilt Ab goes on to become the leader of his tribe. Waterloo's novel was based on the theory that there was not a sharp division between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and that mankind learned to make weapons naturally and gradually. Way and Williams, hardcover
1897réf. 16410Chicago: Way and Williams 1897 First edition of a novel that influenced Jack London's own pre-historic fantasy novel Before Adam serialized in 1906-1907 in Everybody's Magazine. Waterloo eventually accused London of plagiarism though the latter denied the charges and insisted he was merely inspired by it. Publisher's black cloth stamped in yellow and red designed by Will Bradley 1868-1962. Octavo. Map frontispiece. Title-page printed in black and red. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Very minor wear to crown and tail of spine. The occasional minor stain. Contemporary ink signature on front flyleaf. A very good bright copy. Stanley Waterloo 1846-1913 was a Chicago-born newspaper man editor and author. The present work is about Ab a young Stone Age boy and his journey to manhood. During the course of the novel he catches a baby rhinoceros with his friend Oak and joins the men in his tribe on a hunt. After both he and his friend become enamored with Lightfoot a young woman they fight over her which ends in his friend's death. Though burdened with guilt Ab goes on to become the leader of his tribe. Waterloo's novel was based on the theory that there was not a sharp division between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and that mankind learned to make weapons naturally and gradually. Way and Williams, hardcover books
1816réf. 28018A Paris, chez L. G. Michaud, 1816 / A Paris, chez Pillet, 1815 / A Paris, L. G. Michaud, 1816. Réunion en un volume de trois ouvrages au format in-8 (202 x 128 mm) de 1 f. n.fol., 1 frontispice n.fol. et 152 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol., viii - 144 pp. ; 211 pp. Reliure de l'époque de pleine basane racinée brune, filet à froid encadrant les plats, dos lisse richement orné d'un filet d'encadrement doré, filets verticaux dentelés dorés, triples filets dorés, semis de cercles dorés, larges fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin vieux-rouge, titre doré, entrelacs de filets dorés formant chaînette sur les coupes, tranches jaunes.
réf. 20980Paris, Hetzel, (s.d. circa fin XIXe début XXe siècle) ; deux tomes grand in-8, cartonnage rouge et or et à décor en noir, grande vignette dorée représentant un soldat avec le drapeau tricolore identique pour chaque volume, motifs décoratifs au dos en noir et doré, toutes tranches dorées ; I) Le conscrit de 1813 : 96 pp. ; Mme Perez ou les volontaires de 92 : 88 pp. ; L'invasion : 104 pp. ; Waterloo suite du conscrit de 1813 : 120 pp. ; Histoire d'un homme du peuple : 116 pp. ; La Guerre : 83 pp. ; Le blocus : 100 pp. Illustrations par Th. Schuler et Riou. II) Histoire d'un paysan 1789 : 112 pp. ; Histoire d'un paysan 1792 : 112 pp. ; Histoire d'un paysan 1793 : 128 pp. ; Histoire d'un paysan 1794 à 1795 : 112 pp. ; Contes Vosgiens : 74 pp., [1] f. de table ; Le grand-père Lebigre 74 pp., [1] f. de table ; Les vieux de la vieille : 81, [1]p. ; Le banni : 67, [1]p., Illustrations par Th. Schuler, Benett, Lallemand, Lix et Philippoteaux.
1815réf. 23870paris 1815 une lettre (de 4 pages, une grande feuille pliée en deux) manuscrite à l'encre brune sur les 3 premières pages sur papier velin ligné filigrané, format : 20 centimètres de large x 25,5 centimètres de haut, adresse de la lettre au centre de la 4ème page à l'encre brune : à Mr Louis Admyraud à BEAULIEU par Mauzé (Charente-Inférieure), (lettre écrite par Mr Plessis), Paris LE 15 JUIN 1815,
1897réf. 135233Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Hardcover. very good. 3rd Edition. ix 351pp. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with yellow and red letter and decoration on front back and spine. Very slight bowing to boards with a small amount of professional restoration done to spine. B/W illustrated map frontis with many B/W illustrated plates through out. Clean pages. A few small spots in endpapers have been professionally repaired. Long outer and bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Top edge gilt. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free fly. A nice copy. very good Inscription reads "To W. B. Parker with the warmest regards of Stanley Waterloo Chicago July 14th 1898". This is Waterloo's most famous work. It was followed by a story by Jack London "Before Adam" which was so similar to Waterloo's novel that Waterloo accused London of plagiarism. London denied this explaining that his story was in the nature of a commentary on Waterloo's work. 1897 Way & Williams hardcover
réf. K80030On either side of a forest path are large trees behind a wooden fence. From a set of 'Large Landscapes'.Signed on the bottom right: Antoni Waterlo fe. Numbered on the bottom left corner: 2NL Grote landschappen serie A. De getrimde bossen. Aan weerszijden van een bospad staan grote bomen achter een houten afrastering. Gemaakt door Anthonie Waterloo. Etching on laid paper with small margin; total: 236 x 297 mm; state VI/6; some reparations on verso on the top corners especially traces of handling otherwise in good condition. Mounted on cardboard passepartout. Hollstein 108. unknown
réf. K80023At the edge of a forest two figures rest along a path. In front of them a dog drinks from the stream. From a set of 'Standing Landscapes'.Signed on the top left corner: A.W. in. et f.NL Aan de rand van een bos rusten twee figuren langs een pad. Voor hen drinkt een hond uit de beek. Gemaat door Anthonie Waterloo. Etching on laid paper within plate mark; total: 288 x 235 mm; state II/2; some soiling and traces of handling otherwise in good condition. Mounted on cardboard passepartout. Hollstein 120. unknown
réf. K80032A river flows on the right. On the left a steep country road leads between some trees. A hiker and a peddler are shown in the distance.Unsigned plate.NL Grote landschappen serie A. Rechts stroomt een rivier. Links voert een steile landweg tussen enkele bomen door. In de verte zijn een wandelaar en een marskramer weergegeven. Gemaakt door Anthonie Waterloo. Etching on laid paper trimmed on or within plate mark; total: 155 x 206 mm; state II/2; nicely contrasted state. Mounted on cardboard passepartout. Hollstein 99. unknown
réf. 64964River landscape with fishermen vissers engaged in different activities. On the right sailing boats towards the distance. The letter on top left has been removed scratched from the plate.The top corner has been repaired afterward.set: twelve lettered plates.NL Het wachthuis op een muur. Etching on laid paper trimmed within plate; total: 91 x 138 mm; state I/2; in some parts the paper is thinner; Hollstein 31. unknown
réf. K80390View of Rhenen on the Rhine with neat fields receding to the horizon the Cunera Tower in left background; from a series of six landscapes; eighteenth-century Basan impression.Basan reworked the plate adding cross-hatching on the bank at lower left; in the foreground between the roads; and in front of the fence at the right. Furthermore most of the rust spots and some of the shading in the sky are burnished out.NL Links ligt Rhenen met twee molens en een kerktoren in een vlak landschap. Rechts ligt een zeilschip in het water. Vooraan loopt een figuur met goederen in zijn hand en op zijn hoofd. Waterloo heeft deze staat niet uitgegeven. Antieke tekening door Jan Ruijscher ca. 1625-ca. 1675 en Anthonie Waterloo 1609-1690. Etching on hand laid paper with narrow margins; nice contrast. total: 121 x 208 mm; state III/3; In very good condition; some light smudges in the top. Hollstein 90. In a paper passepartout total 320 x 350 mm. unknown
réf. K80389Village on a river with a fisherman in the front and three people on the dyke. In the back the river and the fields with mills and church towers.e right. Furthermore most of the rust spots and some of the shading in the sky are burnished out.NL Antieke prent door Jan Ruijscher ca. 1625-ca. 1675 en Anthonie Waterloo 1609-1690. Gezicht op een landschap met bebouwing in vogelperspectief. Vooraan ligt een dorp met een kleine kerk aan een rivier. Op de voorgrond zijn enkele figuren weergegeven. Zelfde prent aanwezig in Rijksmuseum onder nummer RP-P-OB-61.421. Plaat bewerkt door Anthonie Waterloo 1609-1690 met adres linksboven AW ex. .Hollstein L.196.91 IIJan Ruyscher Ruischer Ruijscher Anthonie Waterloo Etching and dry needle on laid paper pasted on some some thicker paper weakness in the paper on the top middle not visible narrow margins; total: 123 x 213 mm; state 91/II; In good condition; Hollstein 91. unknown
réf. K80391Antique etching known as Hamlet in a valley. View from the Cunera tower at Rhenen the Rhine fields in the front and a wooden gate. Eighteenth-century Basan impression.Basan reworked the plate adding cross-hatching.NL De Cuneratoren werd in de periode 1492 1531 gebouwd. De pelgrims kwamen op de relieken van de Heilige Cunera af die vanaf de achtste eeuw werden vereerd. Antieke tekening door Jan Ruijscher ca. 1625-ca. 1675 en Anthonie Waterloo 1609-1690. Etching on aid paper with no margins; total: 122 x 212 mm; state III/3; In good condition; some light smudges in the top some defects in the right and left top. Hollstein Waterloo 93. In a paper passepartout total 320 x 350 mm. unknown
195268 pages. Features: Editorial - Why are We Afraid to Grow (i.e. why are we afraid of immigration); Mr. Gromyko is welcomed to London, England; The Last Days of Dr. Harry Cassidy, Canada's outstanding authority in the field of social welfare - He knew he would die within three weeks - How he tied together the loose ends of his life - with portrait by Charles Comfort, RCA; She Leads the Housewives Crusade - Dorothy Walton, once the world's best badminton player, is fast becoming our best-known housewife as she spearheads half a million women on in a campaign to make shopping easier, cheaper and better; How To Live Through an Auto Crash - this article could save your life; Father Thomas Coughlin - The Holy Terror from Hamilton - a Maclean's flashback - article with photos of the 1930s radio priest who held millions spellbound; The Hottest Spot in Canada - Point Pelee National Park - article with colour photos; The Happily Married Cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario - article with photos; They'll Move Anything - George Hill and Hill the Mover, Canada's largest moving company - article with photos; Leo, the Moth-Eaten Lion - Jack May saved the life of Leo the Lion at Toronto's Riverdale Zoo; What Every Young Bridegroom Should Know - humour by Barry Mather, illustrated by James Hill; Large colour ad for Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs); Chevrolet ad; Massey-Harris colour-photo ad displays their new Electro-Forging process for making crankshafts; Full-page RCAF Recruiting ad; Full-page ad for Household Finance "I Rent Money"; Nice colour half-page ad for Aylmer canned peas; Great vintage ad for Pres-o-lite batteries features black and white photo of Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Ted (Teeder) Kennedy; Bold colour ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario inside back cover; Colour ad for Gyproc on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice vintage copy. Book
1928Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
194392 pages. Features: Promo for Movie of the Month, "Du Barry Was a Lady" with photo of Red Skelton, Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly; Fantastic one-page photo ad for the Carbine Rifle made by the Underwood Elliott Fisher Company; Lana Turner's marriage annuled; Brief obituaries for Getulio Vargas, Jr., Frank Burke, Frank Calder, Gen. Senjuro Hayashi, and Woodbridge S. Van Dyke II; Nostalgic one-page photo ad for Bell Telephone shows Operator with clunky voicepiece hung around her neck; Axis armies take it in Europe; Japs punch back in Pacific - with photo of dead Japanese soldiers in New Guinea; Considerable war coverage, including Tunisia; Photo of Paulus surrendering to Rokossovsky and Voronoff; US manpower crisis looms; Outstanding one-page color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features Curtiss dive-bomber test pilot "Red" Hulse; War Dog Fund; Photos of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa and their five sons (the fighting Sullivans) who were all lost after the sinking of the cruiser Juneau at Guadalcanal; Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Union Pacific Railroad showssome of their workers preparing bandages for the Red Cross; Errol Flynn is found not guilty of raping Betty Hansen, 17 and Peggy Satterrlee, 16 - article with photos; Finland puts out feelers for Red Peace; Depressing Michigan Smelting ad shows horse-drawn wagon collecting scrap; Germany defeated at Stalingrad; Nice one-page color Ballantine's Ale ad shows young couple inspecting house plans; Photos of glass fishing floats made in Seattle; Interesting two-page ad for Pan American Clippers shows young boy and girl and talks of curing disease; The Fight Against Runaway Inflation; Article about working the the mammoth Pentagon; Nice one-page color ad for Kimberly-Clark shows Pacific soldiers waiting in line for a meaty meal; Mrs. Beatrice Houdini quits trying to contact her husband's (Harry) spirit (article with photo); Boxing photo of Jacob La Motta snapping Ray (Sugar) Robinson's victory string; Artist Maxim Kopf - article with photos; Elmer Davis back on the air; and much more. Middle six pages loose but present. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Hardcover in-4° oblong, non pagine (54 pages), Introduction et 25 planches a pleine page et texte au verso. Page de titre decorative. Cartonnage d'editeur illustre en noir et rouge, dos toile verte.- RARISSIME E. O. Excellent etat, TRES FRAIS. (Exempt d'inscription, de plis, de dechirures ou de rousseurs) TTBE - VG+++ Very rare. [PLG-1]
1913Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with a frontispiece, 6 photographic plates, a full-page outline map coloured by hand, 5 engraved illustrations in the text and a large folding plan of the battle coloured by hand, page-edges browning slightly as usual; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back with raised bands lettered in gilt, original printed wrappers preserved, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Cotton served in the 7th Hussars and later spent fourteen years as resident guide to the battlefield. This edition is one of the several issues printed by Tilbury for the Hotel de Musee. A lovely copy.
1870réf. 128157Paris, Henri Plon 1870 In-8 23,5 x 15 cm. Reliure postérieure bradel toile rouge, dos lisse orné d’un petit fer doré, VII-442 pp., 5 cartes et plans repliés, table. Dos passé, rousseurs marginales. Exemplaire en bon état.
20023 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured portrait frontispieces, numerous coloured plates, many maps (a number coloured in outline) in the text, and patterned endpapers; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case framed and lettered in gilt. The set comprises Vol. I: The Rise. February 1793 - September 1805; Vol. II: The Zenith. September 1805 - September 1812; The Fall. September 1812 - June 1815. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sandler 689 (recording the first edition of 1966)
1927réf. 628a2155Kitchener Ontario: The Waterloo Historical Society 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Eleventh annual report from 1923 includes: Annual Meeting President's Address - Early Settlements in Upper Canada - W.H. Breithaupt; Aboriginal Agriculture in Southwest Ontario - William Herriot; War Memorials of Waterloo County - Miss L.M. Bruce; Brubacher Family History - Benjamin Brubacher; Eby Family - A.A. Eby; Biography of Miss L.M. Bruce; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier; Illustrations of the Ayr Monument Trinity Church Tablet Galt and Miss L.M. Bruce. Twelfth Annual Report from 1924 includes: Early Days in Ayr - Miss E.D. Watson; The Trees of Waterloo County - William Herriot; Jacob Y. Shantz and Russian Mennonites - H.M. Bowman; Reminiscences of Freeport - M.G. Sherk; Biography of Thomas Carscadden; Biography of David Forsyth; Illustrations of Jacob Y. Shantz Shantz homestead Shantz barns Freeport Academy Group photo of Freeport Academy teachers and students with names circa 1869 Thomas Carscadden David Forsyth. Thirteenth Annual Report from 1925 contains: History of the Galt Collegiate Institute 1881-1914; Reminiscences of Early Waterloo; Galt Sixty Years Ago; The Exiles of 1838; Biography of Sir Adam Beck; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier Supplemental. Includes illustrations of Galt Collegiate Institute Thomas Carscadden The Old Galt Hish School Sheriff A.S. Allan and Sir Adam Beck. Fourteenth Annual Report from 1926 includes: The Galt Collegiate Institute 1914-1926; The Waterloo County Pioneers Memorial Tower; The Public Schools of Galt; Also includes a biography of Dr. Augustus Stephen Vogt. Illustrations include: Pioneers' Memorial Tower; Galt Collegiate Institute 1924; Dr. Augustus Vogt; Officers Pioneers' Memorial Association. Additional articles: Blazing the Trail in New Dumfries; The Pennsylvania-German in History; Significance of the Memorial Tower. Fifteenth Annual Report from 1927 covers: The Trail of the Aborigines through Waterloo County; History of the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School; Early Days of Elmira; Hespeler Public Schools; Hespeler Public Library; The Reserve of the Six Nations Indians on the Grand River and the Mennonite Purchase; Origin of the Place and Stream Names of Waterloo County; Museum Report etc.; Current History; plus biographies of Hugh McCulloch and John Mickleborough. Illustrations include: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School; Map of Waterloo County-Places and Streams; Old Waterloo Mill. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Gilt lettering upon green spine. Prior owner's small bookplate inside front board. A sound copy. The Waterloo Historical Society Hardcover
1840réf. 125251840 br. papier vert imprimé. (mouill. marginale à qq. planches) album in-8 oblong, 12 vues lithographiées et une grande carte, Bruxelles Gerard lithographe éditeur, (ca.1840)
1866réf. PHO-1032Paris,J. Dumaine, 1866, 8, [4]-LV-[1]-491-[1] p., demi-toile verte postérieur à coins, dos lisse avec pièce de titre et date en pied, tête dorée , couverture conservée , étiquette de la librairie Clavreuil et de la bibliothèque de Chambly. Bon exemplaire.