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1815réf. 1401021815. 17 x 22 cm.
1830réf. 119521830 A Bruxelles, à la Lithographie royale de Gobard, sans date, vers 1830; album in-4 oblong broché, couverture gris-vert imprimée en noir au 1er plat servant de titre, dos muet. 13 planches lithographiées en noir et une carte dépliante coloriée.
1996réf. STM-9780387142296Europe: Springer Nature 1996. Paperback. Brand New. Book Condition:- Brand New. Secured Packaging. Fast DeliveryBookseller Inventory # 9780387142296 Springer Nature paperback
195976 pages. Features: Cover illustration of an evening scene on Montreal's Des Erables St. shows residents watching baseball game in distant Delorimier Stadium; One-page ad for Sparton TVs; Vintage one-page Bank of Montreal (BMO) ad features family finances; Wedding photos of Meribah Baxter and her husband-to-be, Lieutenant Brian Stark; One-page Holland-America Line ad features photo of their new flagship, the Rotterdam; One-page colour-photo Royal Trust ad features wealthy grandmother with grandson; The Day Canada Went to War - September 10, 1939 - excellent photo-illustrated article; My strange encounter with the world's most mysterious assassin - Terence Robertson's photo-illustrated article on the anonymous killer ('Jacson-Mornard-Mercadcer') of Leon Trotsky, who has been imprisoned in Mexico for 19 years; How TV Writers Get That Way - article on Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth with photos including Julie London and Andy Williams; Portrait of a High School - wonderful photo-illustrated article on Vancouver's King Edward High School; Are the British Better Off Than We Are? - photo-illustrated article; The Tragic Failure of Organized Medicine, by Harry Paikin, M.D.; "My Week In and Out of Modeling Schools' - R.T. Allen's great photo-illustrated article; Attractive colour one-page Black Label beear ad features golden prairie scene looking to the horizon; Northern Electric one-page colour ad features Saskatchewan theme; Canadian National (CN) passenger rail ad features photo of traveler and black porter; One-page Electrohome features their TVs, stereos and furniture; Waterloo County's Great Tombstone Mystery - tombstone of the two young wives of Dr. S. Bean; One-page Caterpillar ad features large aerial colour photo of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting's Flin Flon, Manitoba operation; Colour-photo ad for La Renault Dauphine car; GE Ultravision TV one-page photo ad features a young Robert (Bob) Goulet; Nice Hammond organ ad; Hertz ad on back cover features four photos of a ghastly pink 1959 Chevrolet; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1954Features. Coronation-sized crowds meet Billy Graham at Waterloo Station in England (article by Beverley Baxter; Can Hees revitalize the Tories?; Let's Stop Monopoly Television - Scott Young challenges the decree that TV competition isn't allowed in Canada; Kitimat, B.C. - how to start a city from scratch, with photos; 24 Hours in the Old Quarter of Montreal - with photos; The Exalted deaths of the Midland Martyrs - part four of a series by Thomas B. Costain; The Men who can't stand Marriage - Sidney Katz; A Hill of Solid Gold - Prince Obermuller; Wawanesa, Manitoba - the one-horse town that spawned a Giant - the Wawanesa Insurance Company; Down the Yukon in an open boat - Part 2 of 'I Married the Klondike' by Laura Beatrice Berton; He's Made a liar out of Kipling - Canada's Colombo Plan chief, Nik Cavell; The most successful fraud in show business - Gerald Peters and his radio show Memory Music Hall. Lovely colour photo Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover. Average wear. Moisture stains along all fore-edges. Address label. Half of page1/2 removed, affecting a Royal Bank add, most of the editorial, and most of the table of contents. Portion of page 41, 57 and 61 clipped, removing a portions of mundane ads. Book
195272 pages. Features: Great cover art of a confused Lineman atop a utility pole; Jergens Lotion ad featuring photos of Esther Williams and Barry Sullivan; The Greatest Three-Cent Show on Earth - The Toronto Star got to be one of the loudest, craziest and most successful papers in the world by unleashing an army of reporters on stories and stunts carefully calculated to please - as well as infurate - some of the people all of the time - article with photos of many famous personalities, by Pierre Berton (part 1 of 2); How Racketeers Sold Entry into Canada - Corrupt Canadian Government Officials and Unscrupulous Travel Agents Have Extorted Thousands of Dollars to Smuggle Italian Immigrants into Canada; The Princess and the Wild One - story by W.O. Mitchell, illustrated by Duncan MacPherson; The Lord Will Take Care of Us - The Hutterites of Alberta - article with photos, including colour photo of Ann Wurtz and her sister Susie Waldner posing with Anne's twins; The Beard - Feature photo-illustrated article on Robertson Davies; Qu'Appelle - The Saskatchewan Valley That Calls; Marie Dressler - Queen of the Movie Queens - a Maclean's Flashback to the Cobourg-born 1931 winner of the best actress Oscar; Chase for Killer Stanley Buckowski - How Detective A.J. (Trigger) Payne tracked the murderer of Alfred Layng, Robert and Gloria McKay, and Helen Edmunds - interesting article with photos; A Secret Manual for Week-End Guests - humour by Eric Nicol, illustrated by Harold Town; Royal Roads Military College ad; Nice colour photo Kodak camera ad; Li'l Abner-themed Cream of Wheat ad; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Peter Whalley Cartoon; Virginia Mayo is featured in an Auto-Lite spark plug ad; The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Motor) is honoured in a colour ad sponsored by O'Keefe's Brewing Company; Murrell Belanger and his Belanger 99 Special and pit crew are featured in a two-colour Champion spark plug ad; Great Coke ad on back cover features attractive young nurse. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
191516 pages. Features: Is the End Near?; A Russian Waterloo; The German and English Replies; "American Independence Union" - Committee on organization appointed at Washington conference holds its first meeting in New York and elects officers; Must be Interned - Armed English Merchant Ships; Warning! - it is the intent of the English government to sink an American vessel in the war zone by one of her submarines and make it appear that the destruction was wrought by a German craft (false flag attack); New York's German Theater; The Duty of German-Americans, by Kuno Francke; Russia's Black Record; Map of the Old German Empire; Shells and Foodstuffs; New York Sun prints passages from a book that never existed - "Britain as German's Vassal" by Friedrich von Bernhard; England and Providence, by Dr. Edmund von Mach; News from Germany by Louis Viereck; Advertising Talk# 8 - Persuading advertisers to support this publication; Captives in Japan - Rules for the prison camp in Kurume; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy copy. Magazine
19423 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save one volume), with numerous maps in the text and endpaper maps, neat contemporary signature on half-title of first volume; purple cloth, gilt backs, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers mildly rubbed at extremities. THIS SET WAS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE EMINENT NAVAL AND MILITARY HISTORIAN J. H. OWEN. THE SECOND VOLUME BEARS THE FORMER'S LONG AND WARM ENCOMIUM TO OWEN ON COLLINS STATIONERY MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO, AND SEPARATE HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON TITLE. The trilogy comprises The Years of Endurance 1793-1802 (second impression, 1942); Years of Victory 1802-1812 (first impression, 1944); The Age of Elegance 1812-1822 (first impression, 1950). 'A well-written narrative of the years of war with France and of return to peace' (Brown & Christie). With a small quantity of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Brown & Christie 98; Sadler 525.
1895réf. 78983Chicago: The Equitable Pub. Company. Good. 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Owner's Name Inside Spine Strip Slightly Torn; 204 pages . The Equitable Pub. Company paperback
1942Pages 197-224 plus advertorial covers. Features: Cover photo of North African sand storm; Two photos of H.M. aircraft-carrier "Formidable" at sea; Two pages of photos of American bomber crews training in Britain; Two pages of photos of Caucasus landmarks; Five photos from the El Alamein front; Page of photos of the "Do.217e" Bomber and its tail-brake controls - diving speed to 500 mph; Photos of Churchill in Cairo, Moscow (with Stalin and Molotov), and the Alamein area with Aussie troops; Five photos of the Solomon Islands - now mainly taken from Japan by U.S. Forces; Centrefold artist's rendering of the new Waterloo Bridge as it will appear when completed; Photos of personalities of the week include E.N. Syfret, Sir W. Welsh, Air Marshal P. Babington, Dr. A.P. Newton, Capt. C. Bain-Marais, Canadian air chiefs Breadner, Power and Edwards in London; Princess Margaret, A.C.G. Mars, Harold Drew, Admiral Vian, Sir George Philip Langton, Vincent Harris, Lord Loch, and G. Kingsley Sheils; Page of photos of the Shah of Iran with Queen Fawzieh and baby princess Chahnaz; Photos of Polish submarine "Sokol" returning home after daring Mediterranean exploits; Illustration of blitzed Guildhall in York with charred timbers still standing; Photos of H.M.S. "Manchester" and "Eaglle", both of which are now sunk; Photos of the U.S. Mustang aircraft and the Lancaster bomber under construction; Photo of Aussie female 'picketers' greeting U.S. soldiers with signs warning them not to reveal troop movements with innocent talk; Seven excllent illustrations depict duties of a Merlin bomber crew of seven; Twelve excellent photos show the life of coal miners at a large Midland group of collieries; nostalgic ads; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1940Pages 677-728. Features: Twelve photos (over 4 pages) of Nazi Parachutists in training - falling and rolling, landing and fighting; Three illustrations of the British local defence volunteer force and how it confronts invading parachutists; Dramatic two-page aerial photo of R.A.F. operating against a Nazi motorized column between St. Menges and Floing, north of Sedan (a huge crater at a fork in the road forces Nazis to detour); Air photo of R.A.F. bombing on Dinant; Air photo of demolished bridges at Sedan; Sketch of destroyed Church of St. Pierre at Lessines, west of Brussels; Four sketches from Belgium show downed Heinkel near Waterloo, British troops shooting at German planes, bomb damage in Tournai, and Refugees fleeing Brussels; The War with Nazi Germany - The Great German Offensive (article); Flanders again devastated - six pictures from war-ravaged Belgium; Six photos of refugees from Belgium and the Netherlands receiving sanctuary in England; Centerfold illustration of the second martyrdom of Belgium - a swarm of German planes bombing Tournai, while a British roadside post with Bren gun waits for low-flying attacks; Nine excellent photos of Nazi mechanized units - heavy, medium and light tanks, armoured cars, motor-cyclists, and motorised guns; Photos of personalities of the week include Turkish delegation in London, Nazi prisoner in London, Class 'B' enemy aliens being marched through Liverpool, and Dutch Premier Jonkheer de Geer with four colleagues in London; One-page illustration of Nazi 'Blitzkrieg' offensive combining air and tank attacks; Photo-illustrated article on the vanishing American Bison; Photo of Hitler with his Army leaders; Illustrations of General Von Brauchitsch and Halder; Two-page world map illustrates 66 items which are still available to Great Britain via world trade; Weather Predition (article); Many nice vintage ads including a fantastic one-page photo ad for "Staybrite" steel by Firth-Vickers of Sheffield which shows large-scale production in their mill; Two photos of troops on the Faroe Islands (The Faroes) at Thorshavn; Photos of Bedford, Ford, and Fordson tractors being exported from Britain; Photo of General H. G. Winkelman, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands Army. Please note: Brown discolouration of unknown origin to bottom 0.75" of all pages. All text legible. Average wear and a minor nibble from foot of spine. A sound copy of this dramatic wartime issue. Book
194652 pages. Features: Great New Year cover art by Harold Eldridge; Fantastic International Harvester ad inside front cover shows large crawler dragging a massive log through the woods; Interesting full-page ad for Canadian General Electric's fluorescent lighting; Strike Town - A Close-up of Windsor, Ontario when 20,000 auto workers went on strike; Photos of prize-winning writers - Kay Webster (Mrs. Paul Belanger) of Vancouver, Jean Howarth of Vancouver and Anka Stewart of Sarnia; Money in Mushrooms - Charles Slack of Waterloo, Quebec is the British Empire's top mushroom grower - article with photos; Wilfred and the Two-Ton Romeo (fiction); They Sleep to Survive - article on animal hibernation; Field Marshal Alex (Major-General the Honorable Harold R.L.G.Alexander) - article with photo; When You Win You Lose - short story; How Fast Can We Fly? - Aviation article by Wolfgang Langewiesche; Hot-Heads (people with bad tempers); Laurentian Playground - article with photos; Nice half-page 2-colour ad for Aunt Jemima Buckwheats; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel inside back cover shows equiment moving a mountain near Charleston, West Virginia; Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
194944 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of Newfoundland outport by John Phillips; Morley Callaghan asks "Which Myth Do You Follow?"; Half-page colour ad for Swift's Prem tinned meat; Handsome one-page ad for Snyder's Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Newfoundland (is welcomed to Confederation) - Photo-illustrated article by Prime Minister Joseph R. Smallwood; Quicksand (short story); Girl Overboard! (short story); Nice one-page colour O'Keefe's ad includes large reproduction of John Worsley painting of boy watching construction of new high school; Hot From the Cold War - Austin Cross reports from Europe; Half-page two-colour ad for Canadian Admiral Corp features their AC-DC-Battery "Personal" portable radio and Model 5R12 Mahogany radio; 3/4-page two-colour (black and blue) Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) recruiting ad; Cats, Cats, Cats! - photo-illustrated article; Half-page ad for the 1949 C.N.E.; Uncommon half-page ad for Burgess batteries; Half-page Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) ad shows paperboy visiting accountant in branch; Charming half-page colour ad for Canada Dry; Photo-illustrated article on swimwear fashions for ladies; Half-page colour ad for Heinz baby foods; Attractive half-page colour ad for Aylmer Tomato juice, catsup and soup; Great vintage one-page colour-photo ad for Burns tinned meat balls, bologna and hamburgers; Cooking article with recipe for blueberry jelly; Small photo ad for Kranich & Bach pianos of Toronto; Tips for keeping your home cool; Half-page Javex ad; Half-page ad for Frigidaire ranges; Nice one-page Frigidaire fridge ad; Magnificent back cover colour Coke ad shows aerial image of busy supermarket with enormous Coke cooler on its roof; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1927The 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. Book
1815réf. 23872paris 1815 2 lettres (de 4 pages, une grande feuille pliée en deux) manuscrite à l'encre brune sur les 3 premières pages sur papier vergé 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 1er juillet 1815 pour la première lettre et le 4 Juillet 1815 pour la 2ème lettre,
réf. 21510Paris, J.G. Dentu, 1816 Relie, demi veau a l'impression dore sur le dos, page de titre au vignette, 125 x 205mm., (iv)298. + 4 planches depliantes.
réf. 64969View on a wood landscape with a stream of water on the left. On the right among trees two figures walking towards the background.Signed on top left: 'Antoni Waterlo fe.' and lettered on the top right corner: 'd'.set: Landscapes.NL Het bospad. Etching on laid paper trimmed to plate total: 123 x 142 mm; state I/2; in outstanding condition despite a small stain on top margin; scribbling in pen and ink and pencil on verso and traces of previous mountings; Hollstein 62; Bartsch 62 Dutuit 62 Wess. 62. unknown
réf. 64980Wooded landscape on the left and on the right the couple embracing. Cupid Cupido playing with the hunting dogs jachthonden. Beautiful aerial perspective on the right.Numbered and signed on top left: '5. A.W.in et f.'.set: Landscape with Ovid's Metamorphoses.NL Venus en Adonis. Etching on paper with margins; plate mark: 293 x 246 mm total: 311 x 261 mm; state III/4; some light foxing. Traces of previous mountings on the verso. Hollstein 129. Watermark: 'P.Toma.'. unknown
réf. 64979Pan son of Hermes and Penelope chasing nymph Syrinx in the woods running through a stream of water.Inscribed on top left: '4 A.W. in et f.' and on bottom right: 'A.W.f.'. On verso collector's marks: Kunsthalle Hamburg L.686 and other two not in Lugt: J. Schook and M.The story is that Syrinx wanted to stay a virgin and prayed to the gods that she would escape from Pan. Her prayers were answered just in time she was transformed into cane. The cane that Pan made his flute Panfluit of.set: Landscape with Ovid's Metamorphoses.NL Pan en Syrinx. Etching on paper with broad margins; plate mark: 297 x 243 mm total: 360 x 292 mm; state II/3; some light foxing. Traces of previous mountings on the verso. Hollstein 128. unknown
2020réf. DBS-9781774073476Delve 2020. 1 ST. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
2020réf. DBS-9781774073476Delve 2020. 1 ST. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
2020réf. DBS-9781774072219Delve 2020. 1ST. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
2020réf. DBS-9781774072219Delve 2020. 1ST. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
1956réf. 162874Waterloo IA: Downtown Waterloo Inc 1956. Vintage seven-page promotional investment prospectus from Downtown Waterloo Inc. a local non-profit consortium of local Iowa business owners seeking investors for a campaign to modernize the city's downtown business district during the automobile boom of the 1950s circa 1956. The seven pages of the prospectus includes: An introduction promoting "Centrally located and easily accessible" "Down Town Parking." A Downtown Waterloo Inc. common stock offering $100 a share listing all of the non-profit's officers and directors. A page listing downtown businesses above a page of a map of the area with the locations of the aforementioned businesses labeled numerically. Three two-page spreads illustrating the "Before ." and "After ." of proposed remodeling to include overhead parking with photographs of the area on the top pages and illustrated architectural proposals on the following pages. The areas illustrated include two opposing views of the intersection of West Fourth Street and Jefferson Street and one of the intersection of Commercial Street and West Fifth Street. A reprint of "Let's Keep Business in Downtown Waterloo" a two page ad from the Sunday January 29 1956 Waterloo Sunday Courier proposing overhead parking public restrooms public lockers and a bridge connecting the east and west sides of Commercial Street between West Fourth Street and West Park Ave with a large diagram of the proposed parking in the area. And a page illustrating and describing a double-spiral "Parkit" overhead parking design by Moline Architect M. R. Beckstrom. 9.5 x 14 inches side-stapled with card wrappers. Very Good plus with faint toning to the wrappers. Downtown Waterloo, Inc unknown
1956réf. 162874Waterloo IA: Downtown Waterloo Inc 1956. Vintage seven-page promotional investment prospectus from Downtown Waterloo Inc. a local non-profit consortium of local Iowa business owners seeking investors for a campaign to modernize the city's downtown business district during the automobile boom of the 1950s circa 1956. The seven pages of the prospectus includes: An introduction promoting "Centrally located and easily accessible" "Down Town Parking." A Downtown Waterloo Inc. common stock offering $100 a share listing all of the non-profit's officers and directors. A page listing downtown businesses above a page of a map of the area with the locations of the aforementioned businesses labeled numerically. Three two-page spreads illustrating the "Before ." and "After ." of proposed remodeling to include overhead parking with photographs of the area on the top pages and illustrated architectural proposals on the following pages. The areas illustrated include two opposing views of the intersection of West Fourth Street and Jefferson Street and one of the intersection of Commercial Street and West Fifth Street. A reprint of "Let's Keep Business in Downtown Waterloo" a two page ad from the Sunday January 29 1956 Waterloo Sunday Courier proposing overhead parking public restrooms public lockers and a bridge connecting the east and west sides of Commercial Street between West Fourth Street and West Park Ave with a large diagram of the proposed parking in the area. And a page illustrating and describing a double-spiral "Parkit" overhead parking design by Moline Architect M. R. Beckstrom. 9.5 x 14 inches side-stapled with card wrappers. Very Good plus with faint toning to the wrappers. Downtown Waterloo, Inc unknown books
