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1966réf. 309151966. Softcover. VG. White ill. stapled wraps. 14 pp. Numerous bw ills. paperback books
1975réf. 317401975. Softcover. VG- exlib with sticker to cover. White and rust wraps. 59 pp. 20 bw ills. paperback books
1967réf. 11586National Gallery of Canada 1967. Softcover. VG- cover somewhat soiled edges with a small amt. of wear one volume with ink writing 1st page. Color wraps. xviii 398 pp. 188 mostly bw plates. Illustrated and annotated catalogue of 188 works with essays. Also includes two-page essay by Robert Elie "Man and His World" an alphabetical index to the artists and their work and an alphabetical index to the authors. Text in French and English. National Gallery of Canada paperback books
2003réf. 313492003. Paperback. VG- light wear to edges and corners minor scuffing to wraps. Pictorial wraps. ix 412 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Organized by Colin Bailey Philip Conisbee and Thomas Gaehtgens. This exhibition was the first comprehensive survey of French genre painting of the 18th century from Watteau"s fete galantes to Boilly"s paintings of modern Parisian life. The book and exhibition feature 113 works in illustration of the variaty & vitality of genre painting throughout the period featuring works as well by Lancret de Troy Chardin Boucher Greuze & Robert that encompass military scenes theatrical subjects hunt pictures pastorals domestic & moral pictures paintings for the boudoir & panoramas of the Enlightenment in landscapes & townscapes. Works are thoroughly annotated. List of all genre paintings in 18th-century Salons. paperback books
1927réf. 5282Various locations in Minnesota and Canada 1927. Good. 1721pp. of mimeographed text illustrated with thirty-six original silver gelatin photographs mounted within the text. Original dark green cloth binder text bound with two brass brads. Abrasions and heavy rubbing to covers cloth fraying along spine. Minor toning and occasional thumb-soiling to text. Numerous ink corrections to text. A wonderful handmade detailed travel narrative documenting a two-week canoe excursion into the wilds of northern Minnesota and Canada in 1927. The author Harold R. Greenlee headed out from Winton Minnesota with his friend Donald MacNaught on June 5 and returned to the same location on June 23. In the meantime Greenlee and MacNaught traveled via canoe through "practically virgin wilderness without roads railroads or communication of any kind." Specifically they began their canoe trip up Fall Lake Basswood Lake and Prairie Portage then into Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario Canada. They then journeyed through Birch Lake Carp Lake Knife Lake and other locations along the U.S.-Canada border eventually reaching Saganaga Lake before they turned for home again. They were back in Minnesota by June 16 and spent the remainder of their trip at Red Rock Lake Ogishkemuncie Lake and various parts of the state on the way home. Greenlee's narrative records details on their fishing adventures catching mostly Great Northern Pike but also pickerel and trout locals and others encountered along the way the natural landscape and various natural features especially with regard to their rowing efforts the details in making camp and so forth. Greenlee's narrative is unusually detailed compared to similar fishing excursion memoirs of this type often comprised of a few or more pages per day. The photographs picture both Harold and Donald in their boat posed with fish carrying their canoe across the portages resting in camp cooking lunch on the river bank and more as well as scenes of the rapids at Prairie Portage an expanse of Knife Lake three different views of Silver Falls at Saganaga Lake a Native American grave on an island in Cache Bay on Lake Saganaga Jasper Falls a scene in Eddy Lake and "A full blooded Indian and canoe he built Saganaga Lake" among others. Harold and Donald spent part of their journey traveling with a party of engineers and a Native American canoeman and some of the photographs capture the other travelers. A representative entry reads as follows: "Just above the rapids and in Cypress Lake there is a sort of bowl shaped pool in which we saw Bass Wall-eyed pike Pickerel and Great Northern Pike. We decided to cast there a awhile and caught several Great Northern Pike and Pickerel. I hooked one Bass but he succeeded in throwing the hook out of his mouth. I was not sorry of this for the Bass season is not open. After fishing for a while we started up the Lake. We had to go through some narrows which looked more like a river than a lake and this lasted for some few hundred yards. We then had to make an abrupt right hand turn and headed northeast to Cypress Lake." We were unable to locate any other copies of this likely unique personal canoe trip narrative in OCLC or elsewhere. unknown books
1880réf. 3113Ottawa: Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada 1880. Good plus. 139pp. Original printed wrappers rear lacking. Otherwise light dust soiling and toning. French-language edition of this extensive transcript of debates held in the Canadian House of Commons concerning the construction of the Trans Canadian Railroad. Speakers include Sir Charles Tupper Minister of Railroads and Canals and H.L. Langevin the Minister of Public Works. The plan for the railroad was eventually approved and construction of the line from Montreal to Vancouver began the next year. Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada unknown books
1881réf. 35023Ottawa: Printed by MacLean Roger & Co. 1881. Original printed salmon wrappers stitched. 2 10 large folding map short closed tear 20 11 3 2 2 pp as issued. Vertical fold light edgewear. Very Good. offered with Booth C.J. President: THE CANADA ATLANTIC RAILWAY CO'Y. PROSPECTUS. Ottawa: 1889. 4 pp printed on rectos only. Caption title as issued. Pinned at upper blank corner and docketed in ink on final blank "Canada Atlantic RR Prospectus January 1889." Fine. The map in excellent condition is titled "Canada Atlantic Railway Map December 1881" accomplished by "Geo. Bishop & Co. Lith. Montreal." It measures 18" x 35" with the route of the railway; extensions and other railways also noted; other boundaries in green. All the documents creating the Company set forth in the title of the pamphlet are printed each individually numbered. The Railway as the Prospectus states "extends from Ottawa in a south easterly direction a distance of 142 miles and connects with the Central Vermont Railroad at the village of Alburgh Springs Vt. U.S.A." "The Canada Atlantic Railway CAR was a small regional railway created in 1880 by lumber baron John Rodolphus Booth. Initially planned as part of the transportation network for his vast lumber holdings the railway quickly grew into a general-purpose railway serving passengers and communities along the route. Booth's first target was to gain access to Vermont in order to connect with the Central Vermont Railway CV and further exploit the US markets" "Canada Atlantic Railway" Ontario Railways accessed at Canada-Rail website May 2018. As of January 2026 2026 we do not locate either of these documents-- or the map-- on OCLC. Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co. unknown books
1864réf. 295596Montreal: Dawson Freres 1864. hardcover. very good. Text in French translated from English by P.J. Darey. Illustrated in black and white. 1043 pages. Thick 4to faded black cloth; cloth worn and slightly soiled. Montreal: Dawson Freres 1864. A very good copy. Dawson Freres unknown books
1904réf. 262740Canada: Department of Public Works 1904. unbound. Set of 8 Map. Color lithograph. In original cardboard case. This set of eight maps depicts the government telegraph lines throughout the dominion of Canada. Issued by the Department of Public Works contains the maps of the different sections or systems to accompany the report on the Canadian Government telegraph lines compiled up to 1st August 1904. The maps include an index map and seven other regional maps depicting the British Columbia and Yukon System the Northwest Territories system Pelee Island Ontario system Chicoutimi and North shore of St. Lawrence and Gulf Grosse Isle system Bay of Fundy system Chatham-Escuminac New Brunswick system and the Magdalen Island system. Each map notes important cities and telegraph lines are shown with red and black lines. The maps are printed on onion skin paper and are brittle and fragile. Some maps show rips along folds. Surplus of Library of Congress stamp. All maps slip into an envelope inside hard cover case. Gives a good overview of the telegraph system in the early 20th century. Department of Public Works unknown books
1989réf. 248358Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada 1989. hardcover. fine/near fine. Essays by James Borcoman Estelle Jussim Philip J. Pocock Lilly Koltun. Produced in collaboration with the National Archives of Canada. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. 4to black cloth dust wrapper. Wrapper is very lightly edge-worn still near-fine. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada 1989. Near-fine. National Gallery of Canada unknown books
réf. 59255Victoria British Columbia. Folio 4 pages. A compilation of local news and advertising. unknown books
1849réf. 22524London: Richard Bentley 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 7.75" x 4.75" pp xii 13-308; vii 1 9-328 pp in original brown blindstamped cloth spines decorated in gilt patterned endpapers with publisher's advertisements. Chipping to cloth at spine ends old repairs visible at joints but still an attractive set uncommon in the original cloth. Wagner-Camp 169: "John McLean entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company during the winter of 1820-21 and worked in the Ontario area for the next decade. He was then sent to New Caledonia by way of the Saskatchewan River and to Fort St. James on Stuart's Lake in British Columbia. Streeter finds McLean's style entertaining but the Company's methods of suppressing competition prosecutable under present United States law." Field 996: "the largest portion of these volumes is devoted to the narration of incidents of travel among the Indians of the territory; descriptions of the life habits and character of the different tribes inhabiting it and the relations of the Hudson's Bay Company to them. All of the statements of the author confirm the most authentic accounts of others.The last volume terminates with a vocabulary of Indian dialects." Graff 2640; Smith 6418; Streeter VI: 3712; Sabin 43514; TPL 2729. Richard Bentley hardcover books
1947réf. List3322Trail British Columbia: Hall Printing Co 1947. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches. Folded with some wrinkling and very small tears at margins; excellent. The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine then the Transcaucasus with some of their leadership exiled to Siberia. In the late nineteenth century they were allowed to emigrate and with the help of both Quakers and the Christian anarchist Tolstoyans—whose beliefs largely accorded with the Doukhobors’—many ended up in western and central Canada. In Canada the dissident group Sons of Freedom or Freedomites Svobodniki formed out of the Doukhobors; their opposition to assimilation and government interference was more extreme than their parent group and they were known for eschewing cooked food the use of animal labor and clothing.1 The Freedomites became increasingly violent in their protests of the modern world particularly making use of arson and bombings leading the vehemently pacifist Doukhobors—who were often their victims—to disavow the group. Offered here is a broadside produced by the Doukhobors in British Columbia appealing to the Canadian government for help in apprehending and controlling the radicals ending the Doukhobor’s “dreadful existence under constant fear.” The broadside reproduces the correspondence between the Union of Doukhobors of Canada and various provincial and federal officials and especially emphasizes that contrary to popular belief the Doukhobors had been open and cooperative with law enforcement. Despite the “suspicion on the part of our people as to whether necessary measures were ever taken by the proper authorities” the group tried “to cooperate to the best of our ability.” They ask: “We regarded Canada as foremost in racial and religious tolerance. Why is ‘a civil war between Doukhobors’ allowed to go on and people forced to engage in violence in contradiction to the principle of faith they endeavor to uphold” We find one copy of this broadside in OCLC. 1 Maurice Gerschon Hindus “Doukhobors and Dissenters” in A Traveler in Two Worlds Doubleday 1971 290–303. Hall Printing Co unknown books
1998réf. 94720Boston: Beacon Press 1998. Hardcover. xiv 160p. brief inscription by the African American social worker/activist very good first printing in like dj. Beacon Press hardcover books
réf. B301876-1Ottawa 1972. 160pp. 132 illus. 6 color. 4to. Wraps. Ottawa, 1972. paperback books
1974réf. 66209Alberta Canada: Southern Printing Company Limited 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 545pp. Octavo 24 cm Blue spine and boards with gilt stamping. Illustrated throughout. The text block is cracked at the rear but is still very sturdy. From the Introduction- "When speaking at St. George Utah to gather people to build the irrigation system in Canada Apostle John Taylor said that he could not see why anyone would stay in St. George country with such a country as Canada available to live in. He got called on that. One settler told him flatly that they had been called to settle that country and they would stay there and build it up as they were told to do. And so they did unless specifically called to go elsewhere. They loved the beauty of those bare mountains more than any place on earth. But the same fierce loyalty brought people from all the Mormon settlements on special call to settle Canada and build an irrigation system. Southern Printing Company Limited hardcover books
1972réf. 220810n.p.: the Committee 1972. 8.5x14 inch mimeographed handbill horizontal fold crease some toning. Signatories to the call are listed as Communist Party of Canada M-L; Communist Party of Quebec M-L; American Communist Workers Movement M-L; Association of Communist Workers Louisville Ky.; Red Collective New Orleans La.; Red Star Tampa Fla.; and the Communist League. the Committee unknown books
1776réf. 23234London 1776. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio. Second edition of this important report first issued in 1749 and bound here as issued with 12 other committee reports first published between 1737 and 1765. Folio 486 pp with one folding map not related to the Hudson's Bay report in a later binding of quarter leather and marbled boards. Each report has its own title page but a title page for the full volume is lacking; otherwise a fine copy. According to ESTC N69513 four volumes of these committee reports were officially ordered to be printed on 28 June 1773 and were published in 1774-1776. They were reprinted along with 11 additional volumes and an index between 1803 and 1820. The 1803 reprint of this report is commonly found but this 1776 edition is scarce. See Peel 26 TPL 213. In 1749 the House of Commons appointed a committee of enquiry into the lands and trade of the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. It was undertaken as a result of a petition made by a group led by Irishman Arthur Dobbs who hoped to have the HBC''s trade monopoly revoked on the grounds that their policies had led to a loss of British control of the fur trade and that showed little interest in promoting expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage. The Report offers a history of the Company from its formation and includes the journal of Joseph La France a pioneer trader with the Indians inhabiting the region of the Great Lake who describes visits into French Canada the state of the fortresses there and French trade with the Indians. It also includes testimony given before the Committee by many witnesses including serveral people employed by the HBC as well as merchants engaged in trade in HBC territory. The Appendix includes the text of the HBC's charter a list of vessels sent by the HBC in search of a Northwest Passage tables of the HBC's annual sales and exports "A Journal of a Voyage and Journey undertaken by Henry Kelsey to discover and endeavour to bring to a Commerce the Naywatamee Poets an unidentified people who may have been the Hidatsa or Gros Ventre 1691" and much other interesting material. hardcover books
1968réf. 272514Department of Labour of Canada 1968. Pamphlet. vii. 108p. 9x6 inches; small sticker on front wrapper wrappers evenly toned staples rusted else in good condition. Department of Labour of Canada unknown books
1970réf. 272769Ottawa: Co-operative Union of Canada 1970. Staplebound. 18p. 11x8.5 inches; wrappers slightly toned small pen mark on front wrapper else in very good condition. Co-operative Union of Canada unknown books
1970réf. 272520no pl: Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada 1970. pamphlet. 27p. 5x3.5 inches; spine slightly sun faded else in very good condition. Later became the P.P.W.C or Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada. Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada unknown books
2006réf. 200751n.p. Caracas: Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela 2006. Pamphlet. 8p. softbound pamphlet in stapled 8.5x5.5 inch glossy wraps very good condition. Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela unknown books
1979réf. 147902Montreal: The Marxist-Leninist Organization of Canada In Struggle! 1979. 29p. staplebound pamphlet very good. The Marxist-Leninist Organization of Canada In Struggle! unknown books
1960réf. 56399Boston: The Socialist Party of Canada/The Workers Socialist Party of the United States 1960. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 22pp. Lightly edgeworn light foxing to the front light sunning to the back else very good. The Socialist Party of Canada/The Workers Socialist Party of the United States paperback books
1946réf. 56481Boston: The Socialist Party of Canada/The Workers Socialist Party of the United States 1946. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 97-108pp. Lightly edgeworn light foxing to the edges light water damage to the bottom right corner slight horizontal crease throughout else very good. The Socialist Party of Canada/The Workers Socialist Party of the United States paperback books
