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1927réf. 26808Canada: Canadian National Railways 1927. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Double sided map of the railroad routes of the Canadian National Pacific Coast Services and the Canadian National Steamship Company Ltd. The map covers the area from Dawson Alaska to Portland Oregon. The verso is a pictorial map of the Triangle Tour of British Columbia Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Park with text about Jasper. Color map 17 x 30" folding 4 x 9 1/4" blue card wraps with green titles. Sml closed tear at one fold. Canadian National Railways unknown
1957réf. 26815Toronto: Rolph Clark Stone Ltd. 1957. Maps. Very good condition. large fold out color illustrated map of North America and Canada containing the railway Steamship& Airline routs with hotels marked. The verso has color illustrations and descriptions of the ammenities and types of coaches. 31 x 40" one small closed tear. Rolph Clark Stone Ltd. unknown
1912réf. 262681912. Good overall. Time table of the CPR corrected June 8th 1912 with a map of the Transcontinental route. Timetables and detailed commentary on sights along the route with times of arrival and departures. Routes described include: the transcontinental route the Crows nest pass route the Kootenay and Soo-Spokane route the transcontinental lake route the Muskoka route and the Short Line. Further information provided on CPR Royal Mail and Steamship lines railway lands and telegraph lines. Includes a full page advertisement entitled "If You Want a Farm" for land available in "sunny southern Alberta" p96. 8vo 101 pp. Memoranda 3 pp. Stiff paper wrappers printed in blue and green with Art Deco style decorative borders staple bound. Some light creasing of wrappers back wrapper cracks repaired with archival tape. unknown
1877réf. 24454Hamilton Ontario: Times Printing Co 1877. Railroad collectible. Good condition. Large imposing broadside printed in a variety of type fonts for the historic Canadian railway the first to be chartered in the province of Canada West today Ontario in 1834. From Monday 14th May 1877 Until Further Notice. Includes the Toronto Line and US stops New York Boston Albany Buffalo Suspension Bridge over Niagara Falls Detroit and Chicago. Schedules printed for the Loop Line; Toronto Line; Wellington Grey & Bruce Division; W. G. & B. South Extension; London Huron & Bruce Division; London and Port Stanley Division; and Sarnia Division. The Superintendent is Chas. Stiff; F. Broughton General Manager. Frederick Broughton severely cut costs at the railroad as a result of the 1873 financial crash; he was feared and hated within the company but managed to turn the Great Western into one of the best run railways of North America. At its peak the Great Western system covered 852 miles with its main operating base in Hamilton. The GWR's role as a bridge line between the New York Central and Michigan Central Railroads was highly profitable. Large printed sheet 17 1/2 x 25 1/2". Top edge chipped period folds flattened some period pencil calculations at left margin. OCLC: 1007494327 records a copy at Library & Archives Canada. Times Printing Co unknown
1851réf. B167Toronto: Thomas MacLear 1851. Internaly a good set. Binding: Modern black cloth Notes: English Size: 16mo 5cm x 25cm Illustration: 10 county maps and a general map of Ont. Volume: 1 and 2 of 2 Pages: Vignette title dedication preface index introduction pp 184; half-title title index pp 544. Category: ; Book Canada Thomas MacLear hardcover
réf. 11604Ottawa. Maclean Roger & Co. 1887. Hardcover. 25cm xv255p. 6p.subject index in half crimson morocco raised gilt ruled bands red pebbled cloth boards gilt spine titles edges worn else very good Extensive government dialogue relating to the announcement by President Chester Arthur that the fishery articles of the Treaty of Washington 1871 would be terminated and that fish products entering the United States from Canada and Newfoundland would be subject to duties. Ottawa. Maclean, Roger & Co. 1887 hardcover
1936réf. 79427Wausau Wisconsin: Lemke Milk Products Co 1936. This complimentary heavy paper wall calendar capitalized on the popularity of the Dionne Quintuplets five girls born in a frontier farmhouse near Callader Ontario. The 11” x 14” wall calendar contains a color photograph of the babies a blue string for hanging on a wall and tear away monthly calendars all intact. A quarter page sheet included with the calendar recounts the story of their birth and the valiant effort made by the attending physician to keep them alive. “During the past 500 years births of 30 other quintuplets have been reliably reported but none every lived more than five days.” After four months with their family the Red Cross took custody of the babies and paid for their care. Less than a year later the Ontario government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act 1935 which made them wards of the Crown until the age of 18. The Ontario provincial government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction. The materials are housed in the original brown paper mailing envelope stamped on the front H.C. Falk & Son Rothschild all in very good condition. Lemke Milk Products Co unknown
1947réf. 50324Toronto: Ontario Dept. of Travel and Publicity 1947. 12mo. 100 pp. Double-page map. Illustrated wrappers stapled; poor quality paper browned but still very good. Ontario Dept. of Travel and Publicity unknown books
1926réf. 66170Toronto: Ontario Publicity Bureau 1926. Promotional for the province. 8vo. 72 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs plates double-page map. Hunting fishing golf and other leisure activities. Laid in are a contemporary illustrated brochure for "Toronto Tours" and an advertising broadside for a highway restaurant chain "The Eighteen Sixty-Seven." For the title promotional very good in illustrated wrappers stapled; the other two pieces very good as well. Ontario Publicity Bureau) unknown books
réf. 60224c.1890s. . Albumen print; fine photograph with very good tonal range. Title written on card. Dimensions 17 x 22 cm. [c.1890s]. unknown
1862réf. 46121Quebec: Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats 1862. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers heavily chipped along edges lacking spine numeral stamped to front wrapper institutional stamp to title with a few notations minor browning to contents but overall quite good. 66 pp. 1 pp. 8vo. All about trade. Sabin 69884. TPL: 4119. Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats unknown
1862réf. 46121Quebec: Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats 1862. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers heavily chipped along edges lacking spine numeral stamped to front wrapper institutional stamp to title with a few notations minor browning to contents but overall quite good. 66 pp. 1 pp. 8vo. All about trade. Sabin 69884. TPL: 4119. Printed by S. Derbishire and G. Desbarats unknown 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
1880réf. 46109Ottawa: Citizen Printing and Publishing Company 1880. First edition. Paper wrappers. Wrappers soiled with library withdrawal stamps spine chipped bottom forecorners of first 1/2 dozen leaves chipped or folded starting to separate at spine contents lightly browned but very good. 62 pp. 2 leaves plates. Illus. with 2 b/w plates. 8vo. The first issue of this publication. Includes James Fletcher: Flora Ottawensis minutes and notes o seven soirees rules and annual report. Scarce in the trade. Citizen Printing and Publishing Company unknown books
réf. 20540Ephemera. Very good overall. A complete collection of 50 cigarette cards for Wills's cigarettes W.D. & H.O. Wills Bristol & London issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain and Ireland Ltd. One of the first companies to include cigarette cards. Full color with text on the verso. Scenes pictured include: Ottawa Quebec Montreal Lake Muskoka Shawatlan's Lake and Falls Kootenay Reservation Lake Louise York Redoubt Fort William as well as timber raft threshing wheat grain elevators Rockies Three Sisters Moose Hunting. Card size 2 7/8 x 1 3/8". Condition vg. unknown
réf. 53940Toronto John Lovell 1857. Printed by John Lovell Toronto 1857. 62 x 47 cm. Hard-cover with leather at spine and corners. Gilt title on red label displayed on front cover. All 22 large lithographed maps describing the development of mining regions in Canada and explorations on the north shore of Lake Huron and eastward to Ottawa are complete and in good condition. Spine is damaged cover is mottled slight water damage to the outside of the pages some pages folded and even browning throughout. Toronto John Lovell 1857 hardcover
1914réf. 54468London: Heath Cranton & OuseleyLtd. 1914. 8vo. 6 90 pp. Photo frontisp. 15 photo plates. Green cloth red lettering w/ d.j. photo cover art of the camp cook 2/6 price label on spine minor toning dustsoiling edgewear NF/VG copy. First edition of this scarce account of a Canadian Northern Railway engineer and surveyor experiences while working at the Selwood Junction Camp in 1910 laying the extension from the silver mines at Gowganda Junction to Port Arthur and onto Lake Superior along the Vermillion River and Post Lake. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. Heath, Cranton & Ouseley,Ltd., hardcover
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
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
1855réf. 66164Quebec Canada: Stewart Derbishire & George Resbarats 1855. First edition. 8vo. 31 1 pp. Original green printed paper wrappers rear wrap detached; small oval stamp of the Legislative Assembly Canada on rear wrapper. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper. Brittle edges of wraps and text pages chipped. Signed in type by Allan Macnab E.P. Tache T.Edmund Campbell and George Frederick de Rottenberg. OCLC lists single copy at Univ. of Montreal. Stewart Derbishire & George Resbarats unknown
1851réf. 58122Montreal: Printed and published by John Lovell St. Nicholas Street 1851. Thick 8vo. 2 xi-xv 2 18-692 pp. With numerous woodcut engraved advertisement illustrations. Original publisher’s embossed polished calf covers illustrated & embossed in blind gilt lettering on spine rear outer joint starting wear to fore-edges rubbing occasional light foxing still G copy. First edition of this excellent Victorian Canadian reference work with a focus on Eastern Canada filled with an excellent range of early illustrated ads for businesses manufacturers and professions in Canada and the United States. The illustrated ads for Canadian companies encompass the Montreal Fire Engine Manufactory with a portable fire engine illustrated; the London Commercial Hotel opposite the Quebec Steamboat wharf with scene of Quebec sidewheeler below the hotel; A.H. Armour & Co. Booksellers Stationers Printers & Bookbinders depicting a leather bound ledger; A. & S. Nordheimer Music & Musical Instruments with image of a large piano forte as well as the Hagar & Vogt Hamilton Organ Factory on Cannon Street. The final 100 pages entitled Advertisements from the United States captures an extraordinary mix of pre-Civil War American Businesses including Brown Lawson & Co. Wholesale Druggists Boston; Edwards Holman & Co. Salamander Safes; Bennet’s Temperance House in Buffalo NY; Gregory’s California Express in New York dispatching Letters for California twice a month carrying gold dust parcels packages and valuables often ahead of the postal service; Fowler & Wells Phrenology specialists in New York featuring a phrenology head as well as Hall’s Rochester Threshing Machines Separators and horse powers. Printed and published by John Lovell, St. Nicholas Street, hardcover
1840réf. 44264No Place given 1840. fine. original watercolour on stiff paper 20.8x 27.2cm. With an unobtrusive 7cm tear through the lower left quadrant contemporary manuscript title on the verso "An American Cutter". Overall a fine bright image. A handsome unsigned watercolour depicting a single-horse sleigh pulling a clever-looking American trapper with hunting dog barely keeping up. A lively image probably a Canadian scene very displayable. Reminiscent of Krieghoff. The trapper is looking out ten to fifteen feet behind the dog indicating maybe the pursuit of the legendary wolfe. Reversable archival repair on the version of the tear. unknown
1855réf. 66164Quebec Canada: Stewart Derbishire & George Resbarats 1855. First edition. 8vo. 31 1 pp. Original green printed paper wrappers rear wrap detached; small oval stamp of the Legislative Assembly Canada on rear wrapper. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper. Brittle edges of wraps and text pages chipped. Signed in type by Allan Macnab E.P. Tache T.Edmund Campbell and George Frederick de Rottenberg. OCLC lists single copy at Univ. of Montreal. Stewart Derbishire & George Resbarats 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
1774réf. 11950London. 1774. These acts proposed to pay for the court system in Quebec and Canada by putting a duty on hard liquor and charging licensing fees. pp.1899-1904. Folio. Dbd. Very good. with: AN ACT FOR AMENDING AND EXPLAINING AN ACT. London. 1775. pp.1227-29. Folio. Dbd. Very good. unknown
