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A HISTORY OF THE CROW'S NEST PASS
Lethbridge, AB: The Historic Trails Society of Alberta, 1981. pp (viii), 143. Photos. Ink name on title page, VG otherwise. Written in 1952 and finally published. Canadian Rockies. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 47238More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
A HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF HAMILTON [cover title)
Strasbourg, France: Editions du Signe, 2007. Glossy pictorial boards. pp (216). Colour photos. Fine copy. Roman Catholic diocese, Ontario, Canada. 1.5 kg; Quarto
Book ID: 50606More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF CAPE BRETON with some account of the discovery and settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1979. Octavo, green cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (vi), 473 + folding map at rear; illustrations and maps in text. Facimile reprint of the London, 1869, edition, with an added index. Faint sticker shadow on spine, small rubber stamp at front, rear, and top page edges, else fine. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 41957More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A HISTORY OF VAUGHAN TOWNSHIP CHURCHES.
Edition: First Edition
Maple, Ontario: Vaughan Township Historical Society, 1984. Blue cloth, endpaper maps. xviii, (442) pp. Plans, drawings, photographs, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has minor rubbing at head of spine, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel.; Octavo 0969220707.
Book ID: 22235More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A Journal of Visitation to Parts of the Diocese of Quebec, by the Lord Bishop of Montreal, in 1843 and 1844. Part II. With Statistical returns of the Diocese
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 27798More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
A JOURNEY THROUGH GLAMORGAN'S PAST
Edition: First printing
No place (Gooderham, ON): Bates and Charters, 2007. Glossy card covers. pp 326. Photos, index. Fine copy. Ontario local history (Haliburton County).; Octavo
Book ID: 51453More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A JOURNEY THROUGH GLAMORGAN'S PAST
Edition: First printing
No place (Gooderham, ON): Bates and Charters, 2007. Glossy card covers. pp 326. Photos, index. Fine copy. Ontario local history (Haliburton County).; Octavo
Book ID: 51450More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A JUST MEASURE OF PAIN: The penetentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
Edition: First UK printing
London: Penguin, 1989. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, card covers. Peregrin trade paperback. Diagonal corner crease to first 44 pages, text paper yellowed as always, Canadian price sticker on rear cover, VG+ clean & tight otherwise. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author & impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's tidy ink name and date at front. First published in the USA in 1978, it is his first book.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 37896More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
A LADY IN THE WILDERNESS
No place (Seattle?): No publisher, no date (ca 1938?). Octavo, pp (12, including covers), printed in yellow paper, stapled. Photo inside front cover, poem inside rear cover by Kathleen Keats White. Rear cover has a short creased tear at bottom of rear cover, VG otherwise. Reprints an article from the Canadian Home Journal, about Mrs. Otto H. Partridge and the famous garden she kept in the Yukon, Ben-My-Chree, and about the trip getting there, in 1930. The article was printed in the magazine in 1938. One of the noted Scottish-Canadian author's scarcest books. AMICUS locates only two copies in Canadian libraries. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 42691More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A LEADER AND A LAGGARD. Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario.
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1970. Green cloth. xiv, (222) pp, index. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket has small chipsl rubbing, bit of tanning and light soiling; good. An investigation, comparing data from 1946 to 1962, into why manufacturing in Nova Scotia lags behind that in Quebec and Ontario.; Octavo 0802016952.
Book ID: 20978More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
A Not Unsightly Building: University College and Its History (limited edition)
Edition: First Edition
Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press for University College, Toronto, 1990. Oblong quarto. The limited issue, #64 of 250 copies signed by the author. Red cloth. pp (x), 174. Numerous photos, some in colour. Black & white reproduction laid in. Fine copy. The dust jacket has sunning to the red spine lettering, else fine. The red cloth slipcase has bands of sunning to the margins, nice otherwise. History of this venerable college within the University of Toronto. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.; Signed by Author 0889624496
Book ID: 28912More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A PURITAN AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
Edition: First Edition
Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, 1913. pp 17, [3], stapled, in light brown printed paper covers. Front cover has short tear to fore margin internally repaired with archival paper tape and chips to outer corners, VG clean copy otherwise, no owner names. Bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, No. 8, July, 1913. A short monograph on English Presbyterian peer and member of the House of Lords Denzil Holles (b. 1599), who also served as Ambassador to Paris. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location. ; Octavo
Book ID: 28047More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
A RED SEA RISING: the flood of the century
Winnipeg Free Press, 1997. Oblong quarto, colour glossy photographic boards. pp x. 182, index, colour photos. Fine copy. "The Great Flood of 1997 was the biggest story that many of us at the Winnipeg Free Press had ever covered. From the moment that the centre of Grand Forks, North Dakota, was destroyed, the newsroom at the Free Press switched into gear that it has probably not been in outside of wartime.For more than two weeks, there was very little in the main news section of the Free Press other than coverage of the flood." Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 45353More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
A RESPECTABLE DITCH: a history of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920
Edition: First printing
Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queens University Press, 1988. Octavo, brown printed cloth. pp xiv, 455, [3]. Maps and photos in text. Indexed. Small bump to lower outer corner of front cover, else fine. Dust jacket has creases to the front flap, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel.
Book ID: 47670More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A SENSE OF TIME AND PLACE
Toronto: City Pamplets, no date (1971). pp 32, stapled, in card covers. Fine copy. Introduction by John Sewell, Foreword by Robert Fulford, Photos of heritage buildings in Toronto, with text. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. ; Octavo
Book ID: 45146More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
A SEPARATE AND SPECIAL PLACE: an appreciative history of Toronto's Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the occasion of its 110th anniversary
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: The Hospital, 1984. Oblong quarto, green cloth. pp (16), (115), [3] + many plates. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket.
Book ID: 45530More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A sequence of touching circles
No place (England): Offprint from Mathematical Gazette, Dec., 1960. Octavo, pale grey wrappers. pp 263-68. Near fine. Satterly was one of the best known and most respected figures in Canadian physics. He worked with J.J. Thompson at the famous Cavdendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He came to teach at the University of Toronto in 1912 and remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1950. Scarce offprint, issued in a very small number.
Book ID: 40652More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF CANADA.
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Markham, Ontario: Viking Penguin, 1988. Advance uncorrected proof in white card covers. Light covers soiling, nearly fine otherwise.; Octavo
Book ID: 8143More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A SOUVENIR FROM OSHAWA, ONT. The Manchester of Canada
[Oshawa, Ontario]: No publisher (Oshawa and District Historical Society), no date (1984). Oblong format, 18 x 26.5 cm. Brown cloth. decorated paper label on front cover. pp 42, rounded corners, glossy paper. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the rare Toronto: Canadian Souvenir Pub. Co., 1898, edition. The fact of it being a facsimile is nowhere indicated in the book.The unschooled could easily have believed this to be an original.
Book ID: 45414More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A TENDERFOOT WITH PEARY. With a Preface by G.W. Melville...With Forty-Six Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. Second Edition
New York: Stokes, c1911. Second printing. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, brown, and white, gilt lettered, pp xvi, 317, (3) + frontispiece with tissue guard + 16 plates (most double-sided) + folding map at rear. Spine lightly darkened, with gilt lettering just a little dulled, slight flaking to the white snow shoe, mild rubbing at ends, and publisher's imprint flaked away; yellowing to page edges; nice woman's bookplate at front; otherwise a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. AB 2022. "Account of Peary's North Pole Expedition 1908-9 by the youngest member, who was with one of the support parties during the first stage of the march and a sledge journey with MacMillan along the northern coast of Greenland."
Book ID: 36350More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50