LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA: Containing the Latest and Most Authentic Descriptions of Over Six Thousand Cities, Towns and Villages ...
Montreal & Rouse's Point, New York: Lovell, 1874. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Brown endpapers. [4], (2, pp 43-44 of ads), [2], (xiv).(15)-464, [2, list of offices of Montreal Telegraph Company, on yellow-orange paper]; 116, 42 (ads), [2]. Spine has repairs to front joint and to cloth tears at ends; inner hinges repaired with wide brown paper; blind stamp to front free endpaper and first blank of one Thomas G. Connon of Goderich, Ontario; May 1874 ink signature of Robert Gibbons, Sheriff, to verso of front free endpaper; in all, just good externally, internally VG, clean and unworn. Arranged in two parts. The first part covers Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Brtish Columbia, and the North West Territories. The second part, which has a separate title page, is a table of railway and steamship routes. The ads at the rear for numerous Canadian businesses, including a number of woodcuts, are interesting.This was the second Lovell gazetteer of B.N.A., the first being issued in 1873.