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réf. A9781071918371Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1918réf. 62957New York Chicago & San Francisco: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. Inc. 1918. Thick tall 8vo. 1324 pp i.e. 1342. including the colour-tinted inserts including 1 large folding w/ map. Large folding double-sized frontisp. maps many maps strip maps illustrated ads text illustrations. Flexible Navy-Blue cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine colour ads on pastedowns minor creasing to spine still a VG bright copy. First edition thus of this surprisingly uncommon automobile travel guide for New England New York eastern Canada and the Maritime Provinces during World War I marking the end of the Brass Era. The Blue Books offered complete maps of every motoring road running directions at every fork and turn as signage was still rare and often incorrect mileages points of interest and tips for motorists. The illustrated insert for New York includes maps and illustrated ads for the Hotels Biltmore Manhattan Woodstock Chatham and others; the Hotel Lenox Puritan and Bellevue for Boston along with sights to see along with the splendid folding 1918 New England Tours colour brochure with map. Worldcat locates only 2 copies Newberry Vermont Hist. Soc. Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co., Inc., hardcover
1943réf. 96066Ottawa: General Motors Products of Canada 1943. September. Very Good. lge. octavo. stiff wrappers c.350pp. b/w plates diags. specs. index Operating Instructions and Maintenance Manual. 15 Cwt. 4x2 15 Cwt. 4x4 30 Cwt. 4x4 3 Ton 4x4 Heavy utlility 4x4 Field Artillery Tractor 4x4. Wrappers rather chipped & worn o/w internally very good indeed General Motors Products of Canada unknown
réf. B9781662892295Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. A9780520395640Hardback. New. hardcover
1897réf. 61925Victoria B.C.: R.E. Gosnell Agent General 39 Victoria St. 1897. 8vo. 500 7 pp. plus 26 pp. publisher’s illustrated advertisements. Over 50 photo plates 4 maps 2 large folding recto & verso text illustrations. Red pebbled publisher’s cloth black lettering & decorated border front cover gilt & black lettering on spine minor edgewear rubbing ownership stamps & writing on title still VG copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition thus of this expanded edition of Gosnell’s 1860-1931 noted British Columbia Year Book and was originally self-published by first British Columbia Legislative Librarian and the first Provincial Archivist. Unlike the initial print run for this publication which consisted of only 216 pages this Year Book in reaction to the Klondike Gold Rush excitement expanded with a section on “The Canadian Yukon” with notes drawn from William Ogilvie article by H. Bratnober additional maps and even includes a section on the “Routes into Klondyke.” Also featured are numerous printed photos documenting stampeders on their way into the golden rivers and streams of the North. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 211c. R.E. Gosnell, Agent General, 39, Victoria St., hardcover
réf. 62116Edmonton Alberta Canada: The Douglas Printing co. Ltd. 1954. Tall 8vo. 255 1 pp. Numerous photo plates plates 1 large folding map. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor bumping to a couple corners still VG copy. First edition of this informative and well-illustrated historyof Fort Edmonton and Edmonton including the Hudson’s Bay Co. The Northwesters and more. Detailed are the efforts of Samuel Hearne Alexander MacKenzie the formation and influence of Fort Saskatchewan Fort Edmonton Fort Vancouver John McLoughlin and more. The Douglas Printing co., Ltd., hardcover
réf. 62117Edmonton Alberta Canada: The Douglas Printing co. Ltd. 1959. Tall 8vo. 236 2 pp. Numerous photo plates plates 1 large folding map. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor bumping to a couple corners minor soiling to fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art photo of the Canadian Pacific Railway survey in 1872 minor toning to fore-edges some scuffing still VG/VG copy signed by the author on rear endpapers. First edition signed of this informative and well-illustrated follow-up history of Fort Edmonton and Edmonton drawing from Frank Oliver’s writings the Hardisty family records and Sir Donald A. Smith. The Douglas Printing co., Ltd., hardcover
réf. A9780366980895Hardback. New. hardcover
1880réf. 60949Montreal Canada: Imprime par J.B. Laplante 245 rue St. Jacques 1880. Two vols. 68 16; 15 1 pp. Blue-tinted printed softcovers for both vols. black lettering on front covers minor age toning slight chipping very minor creasing still both VG copies w/ presentation slip of Major. L.A. Huguet-Latour of the Prince of Wales Regiment of Rifles Montreal Canada noted bibliophile and manuscript collector ink inscription on 2nd piece at upper fore-edge. First editions of these uncommon original catalogue and the official list of contributing schools colleges and educational institutions to the 1880 Canada Dominion Exhibition held in Montreal for 10 days and also featured displays of industrial machinery farm products flowers along with horse racing lacrosse tournament and Highland games. The Dominion Exhibition was held annually in Canada from 1879-1913 and every year the location changed to assorted Provinces typically to coincide with local Fairs. It ceased at the outset of World War I. These catalogues detail all of the Catholic and Protestant schools convents monasteries colleges and universities appeared in Montreal often with samples of their student’s achievements in arithmetic geography literature history & art. Worldcat locates 7 copies of 1st Canada Archives U of Montreal Bibliotheque Nat. Strasbourg NYPL Cambridge Queens Univ. U of ONT IT; 4 copies of 2nd York U Lib. Leiden U of Torino Archives Nationales Quebec. Imprime par J.B. Laplante, 245 rue St. Jacques, paperback
1955réf. 60689London: William Kimber 1955. 8vo. 215 pp. plus 11 pp. publ. ads. Photo frntsp. photo illusts. map endpapers. Blue cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition in English of this scarce semi-autobiographical novel set against the backdrop of a fur trapper in the Northwest Territories of Canada originally published in Norwegian in 1941. Ingstad 1899-2001 was a noted adventurer and archaeologist who had sold his successful law practice in Levanger and become a fur trapper in Canada’s Northwest Territories by 1926 where for the next three years he traveled with the local Indigenous Ethen-eldeli First Nations peoples and wrote his bestelling Land of Feast ad Famine which was published in 1933 and provided much of the basis for his only novel. William Kimber, hardcover
réf. B9789353867171Paperback / softback. New. paperback
réf. B9789353865023Paperback / softback. New. paperback
réf. B9783752583496Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. B9783744679329Paperback / softback. New. paperback
réf. B9783752520583Paperback / softback. New. paperback
réf. B9783752570076Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. 59980London & New York: Witherby & Co. Charles Scribner’s Sons 1907. 8vo. 400 pp. Title in red & black. Photo frontisp. 64 plates. Green publisher’s cloth embossed gilt illust. of moose front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear dustsoiling slight fraying to rear outer hinge still VG copy. First edition of this noted big game hunter’s expeditions hunting moose near Lake Kippewa and portage to Lake Bois Franc; caribou in Newfoundland and St. John’s Lake; moose sheep & lynx in the Yukon Klondike and along the Macmillan River with specific mentions of hunting with Indigenous Peoples. Witherby & Co., Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
réf. A9781345722079Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. A9781345663341Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. A9781344007269Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. A9781346117485Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. B9783337209384Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1925réf. 59669London: W. & R. Chambers Ltd. 38 Soho Square 1925. 8vo. 196 pp. Photo frontisp. 17 photo plates. Blue cloth blue lettering minor shelfwear rubbing light wear to corners w/o ffep. w/ d.j. colour cover art photo price of 3/6 on rear flap minor chipping & tear head of spine upper fore-edge some dustsoiling minor creasing still G/G- copy. First edition of this semi-autobiographical memoir and partly fictional account of the Eskimo families on Southampton Island and others on Baffin Island. Munn 1864-1952 an inveterate adventurer prospected for gold through the Yukon Gold Rush into Newfoundland established a trading post at Button Point north of Baffin Island and clashed often with the Hudson’s Bay Company as it increased it’s posts into the Canadian Arctic. Scarce in original jacket. See: Kenn Harper Looking Back: An Inconvenient Munn the Well-Connected Quarrelsome Englishman Who Fought With Just About Everyone in the Arctic Up Here Life in Canada’s Far North June 1 2014. W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 38 Soho Square, hardcover
