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réf. CZC-9141Edition originale, complet en 3 vols. in-8, 210x130, dos basane fauve ornés de filets et roulettes dorés en place des nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison vertes, gd fers dorés entre-nerfs, tranches jaunes jaspées, bien frais 15 portraits et vues hors texte In-fine, Sommaire des 3 premiers volumes et avis au relieur Très beaux exemplaires, peu courant ! P. Ladvocat et Charles Gosselin, 1825
réf. CZC-9141Edition originale, complet en 3 vols. in-8, 210x130, dos basane fauve ornés de filets et roulettes dorés en place des nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison vertes, gd fers dorés entre-nerfs, tranches jaunes jaspées, bien frais 15 portraits et vues hors texte In-fine, Sommaire des 3 premiers volumes et avis au relieur Très beaux exemplaires, peu courant ! P. Ladvocat et Charles Gosselin, 1825
194680 pages. Beautiful cover illustration of Canada Geese by A.J. Casson. Features: Colour photo ad for Eversharp pens and pencils inside front cover; Beautiful Toronto model Betty Syme featured with her son 3-year old son Paddy in a multi-photo ad for Ipana toothpaste; The Last Delegate, fiction by Margaret Lewerth; Stuttering Can Be Cured, by George W. Kisker; Big Larry of U.B.C. - Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie is President, by Clyde Gilmour; Hut Scene, fiction by Ralph Allen; Stries Without Strife, by Clarence H. Curtis; They Won't Go Home - Homeless, hopeless, buffeted by propaganda, a quarter million world war II Displaced Persons (DP's) rot in exile rather than face the real or fancied terrors of home, by Blair Fraser; Fall of the Sparrow, fiction by Robert Fontaine; Full-page Karsh colour photo of Field Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis, 17th Governor-General of Canada; Ballerina Tamara Toumanova - article with six photos; The Gift - fiction by Louis Kaye; Are The Russians Mad?, by Eddy Gilmore; Happy Island - Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Bulova; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel; Fantastic colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile Series 66 Club Sedan with Hydra-Matic Drive; Colour Northern Electric ad displays their range of radios, waching machines, refrigerators and electric ranges; Beautiful full-page colour Pontiac ad features a 4-door model; 2-page black and white Buick ad; Full-page colour ad by Erven Lucas Bols, a Dutch Distiller, thanks Canada for liberating their country from the Nazis; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft featuring the Canuck; Interesting ad by Blue Top Brewing Company of Kitchener, Ontario presents details of 'The Expanding Home'; Colour ad by O'Keefe's Brewing Company on back cover features Southern Ontario - Canada's Industrial Province; plus many more wonderful ads and short articles. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Address label atop front cover. A superior copy of this magnificent vintage issue. Book
1895réf. 512171895. Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia Statutes Canada. Nova Scotia. The Statutes of Nova Scotia 1865-67 1873-80 1882-84 1892-95. Halifax: Printed by Alpin Grant and other publishers 1865-67 1873-80 1992-84 1892-95. 18 books in all. Octavo 9" x 6". Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. lettering pieces to spines. Worn. A few boards detached backstrip lacking from one volume rear board from another internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines small stamps to title pages. $450. The first European settlement of Nova Scotia was founded in 1604 by the French who established the Acadia colony. A group of Scottish settlers arrived in 1621. Tensions between the French and English led to armed conflict. The British prevailed initially but they were later compelled by treaty to return to colony to France. Captured by the British during Queen Anne's War mainland Nova Scotia was ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island were likewise ceded after the Seven Years' War in 1755. In 1848 Nova Scotia became the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire. Despite a great deal of local opposition was one of the founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation 1867. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:84-86. unknown
1895réf. 512171895. Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia Statutes Canada. Nova Scotia. The Statutes of Nova Scotia 1865-67 1873-80 1882-84 1892-95. Halifax: Printed by Alpin Grant and other publishers 1865-67 1873-80 1992-84 1892-95. 18 books in all. Octavo 9" x 6". Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. lettering pieces to spines. Worn. A few boards detached backstrip lacking from one volume rear board from another internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines small stamps to title pages. $450. The first European settlement of Nova Scotia was founded in 1604 by the French who established the Acadia colony. A group of Scottish settlers arrived in 1621. Tensions between the French and English led to armed conflict. The British prevailed initially but they were later compelled by treaty to return to colony to France. Captured by the British during Queen Anne's War mainland Nova Scotia was ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island were likewise ceded after the Seven Years' War in 1755. In 1848 Nova Scotia became the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire. Despite a great deal of local opposition was one of the founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation 1867. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:84-86. unknown books
réf. elala3112Kingston: Creighton Printer 1868. First Edition. Including reports by A.Heatherington William Barnes and R.Bell and a folding map by W.C.Chewett & Co. Toronto. “From the reliable information which has been submitted in the foregoing pages it is obvious that gold mining in Nova Scotia has become a well established and profitable branch of industry and is now a safe field for the investment of capital. In Nova Scotia seven years of successful mining…afford the capitalist the best guarantee of what he may expect in the future…A high average yield being established beyond all doubt and there being an unlimited quantity of material to operate upon the production will be in direct proportion to the amount of labour employed…The gross yield is now about $600000 a year but there is nothing to prevent it becoming $6000000 per annum in ten years…”. pp. 19-20 Not in Casey. 8vo. pp. 20. folding partly coloured lithographed map. library quarter cloth original printed wrs. bound in tears to wrs. library bookplate & 2 rubberstamps Kingston: Creighton, Printer, 1868 hardcover
1977Neatly signed, without inscription, by Carrie M. Best atop title page. vi, 258 pages. Colour photo portrait of Ms. Best. Many black and white reproductions of photos in text. News clipping of Ms. Best's obituary laid-in. "A woman of outstanding worth, a tenacious crusader for good and noble causes, a gracious lady who has devoted her life and her generous gifts to the betterment of the human condition. She has given hope and dignity to her own race and is an example and inspiration to all people in both word and work. Poet, journalist, informed commentator, incisive critic, Mrs. Carrie Best in the golden glow of a luminous life, continues to exert articulate leadership and thus engages our abiding admiration." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important Canadian autobiography. Book
1767réf. 52831Halifax N.S.: Printed by Robert Fletcher 1767. Early Canadian Laws and Imprints A quite early Canadian and Nova Scotia imprint the rare first revised edition of Nova Scotia statutes The Perpetual Acts. which contains the text of acts passed and still in force between October 1758 and October 1766. Robert Fletcher was paid £40 for printing 200 copies of The Perpetual Acts and he continued to print supplementary session laws until he gave up his printing business in 1770 after which Anthony Henry took over the printing of Nova Scotia laws. This copy's index is improved by contemporary manuscript additions and each page is headed by a contemporary annotation which names the governor or lawmaker responsible for the below laws. Not in TPL Lande or Lande SUPPLEMENT. Folio. Bound to style in half calf and marbled boards leather label. Several leaves repaired a handful of early library stamps some contemporary clerical marginalia including "Sec'y's Office" at top of titlepage scattered light stains. Very good. TREMAINE 111. SABIN 56160. ROSENBACH 8:898 ref. REESE & OSBORN STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA 33 ref. hardcover
1767réf. 52831Halifax N.S.: Printed by Robert Fletcher 1767. Early Canadian Laws and Imprints A quite early Canadian and Nova Scotia imprint the rare first revised edition of Nova Scotia statutes The Perpetual Acts. which contains the text of acts passed and still in force between October 1758 and October 1766. Robert Fletcher was paid £40 for printing 200 copies of The Perpetual Acts and he continued to print supplementary session laws until he gave up his printing business in 1770 after which Anthony Henry took over the printing of Nova Scotia laws. This copy's index is improved by contemporary manuscript additions and each page is headed by a contemporary annotation which names the governor or lawmaker responsible for the below laws. Not in TPL Lande or Lande SUPPLEMENT. Folio. Bound to style in half calf and marbled boards leather label. Several leaves repaired a handful of early library stamps some contemporary clerical marginalia including "Sec'y's Office" at top of titlepage scattered light stains. Very good. TREMAINE 111. SABIN 56160. ROSENBACH 8:898 ref. REESE & OSBORN STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA 33 ref. hardcover books