Category: History

1846 Congressional Senate papers US Army Pensions Louisiana Michigan Land Claims. Three Documents from 29th Congress, 1st Session.

Price: $68.91

Publisher: : 1846

Seller ID: Books007224

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Good

9 x 7 inches. Three Documents from 29th Congress, 1st Session: In Senate of the United States. June 27, 1846. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 218.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Welcome Parmeter, report. [411] 1 page. WITH: In Senate of the United States. June 27, 1846. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, made the following report: (To accompany Bill S. No. 219.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was recommitted the petition of John England, repo...
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3 Cent Pulp [six issues]

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Vancouver, Pulp Press : 1975

Seller ID: Books012558

Binding: One sheet folded

Condition: Very Good

One sheet folded to make four pages. Vol. I No. 12,14,16 [15 May, 1 June, 1July 1973]; and Vol. III Nos. 5,6,7 [15 Sept, 1 and 15 Oct., 1975. Light tanning and staining to each..
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A Collection of Plans of the Principal Cities of Great Britain and Ireland, with Maps of the Coast of the Said Kingdoms

Price: $3,789.85

Publisher: London, A. Dury : 1764

Seller ID: Books013253

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Dury's pocket atlas 'designed as a second volume' to his Universal Pocket Atlas. Complete: engraved title, engraved dedication, catalogue of maps & plans, 40 illustrated leaves (3 folding). Also bound in: Dury's (folding at foot) A Chart Shewing the Seacoast of England & Wales, with the Fortifications Royal Docks Harbours Sands &c at front, and a double of the Plan of Bath. Contemporary mottled calf; sound unrestored binding; customary offsetting; foxing/offsetting to the two blank leaves at front and at rear. Short closed tear to front free endpaper.
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A Description of England and Wales Containing a Particular Account of Each County. Volume VII [7 Norfolk; Northamptonshire; Northumberland; Nottinghamshire; Oxfordshire; Pembrokeshire]

Price: $241.17

Publisher: London, Newbery and Carnan : 1769

Seller ID: Books010835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

287 pages, 32 plates. Binding sound, boards rubbed; endpapers grimed. Signature of one Andrew Turpie [?] to front free endpaper and faintly on armorial bookplate on pastedown. Motto on bookplate is that of Home [Hume]: True To The End.
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A New History of England, by Question and Answer. Extracted from the most celebrated English historians, particularly M. Rapin de Thoyras, for the entertainment of our youth of both sexes

Price: $310.08

Publisher: London, T. Astley : 1752

Seller ID: Books013288

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

[2], 269, [2] pages, with frontispiece and 30 plates (lacking plate 30). Rebacked. 1754 gift inscription. Offsetting to endpapers, else clean, in sound binding.
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Alternate Press Vol. 2 No. 7: September, 1972. [St. John's Alternate Press]

Price: $97.50

Publisher: St. John's Nfld., Robinson Blackmore : 1972

Seller ID: Books012557

Binding: Saddle Stapled newsprint

Condition: Very Good

32 pages. Light tanning; ink to foot of front cover, small chip off rear cover with no loss of text.
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Bouctouche, Reflets D'Un Passe - Bouctouche of the Past

Price: $55.13

Publisher: Lunenburg, NS, Lunenburg County Print : 1984

Seller ID: Books013759

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

204 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs; text in French and English. Creasing to front cover, light rubbing to edges. Binding is sound. 8.5 x 11 inches.
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Calendario e Notiziario Della Citta per l'anno 1787 [Napoli] with map

Price: $337.64

Publisher: Napoli, Nella Stamperia Reale : 1786

Seller ID: Books009468

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

12.5 x 7.5 cm [4.85 x 3 inches]. 168 pages and folding map at rear. Contemporary stamped paper over paper binding is sound, with chipping to spine panel. Endpapers tanned; light foxing to title page; worm hole near gutter. Map folds out to 14.5 x 12.2 cm.
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Canada West Magazine - 14 early issues 1969-1975

Price: $240.50

Publisher: Summerland, BC, Canada West Magazine

Seller ID: Books014865

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

14 issues: Volume 1 Numbers 2, 3, 4. Volume 2 Numbers 1, 3, 4. Volume 3 Numbers 2, 3, 4. Volume 4 Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Volume 6 Number 1. No inscriptions. 10.75 x 8 inches.
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Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for the year 1792

Price: $1,688.20

Publisher: Boston, Appolo Press; Belknap and Hall : 1792

Seller ID: Books013419

Binding: half leather

Condition: defective

[4], 1-180; 281-288, [4] pages; page 180 misnumbered 380. NB: lacking pages 181 through 280 (bound thusly). Else complete, with Contents, Constitution, Introductory Address, and four pages of ads at rear including that calling for subscriptions to the American Appolo. Unrestored contemporary binding sound, with 2 blanks at front and at rear. Heavy foxing throughout. Book label of C.J. Holmes to front pastedown, and signature of Abraham Holmes (dated 1801 and 1806) to front free endpaper, to the following two leaves, and curiously enough to page 281. A sadly defective example of "the first hist...
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Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society For the Years 1893 - 1895. Volume IX [9]

Price: $34.45

Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Printing Company : 1895

Seller ID: Books007588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

207 pages. Paper over boards, chipped along spine. First few leaves stained; text complete and quite clean. Topics covered include: Voyages and Discoveries of the Cabots / Township of Onslow NS / Louisbourg: An Historical Sketch / Ships of War Lost on the Coast of Nova Scotia and Sable Island during the Eighteenth Century / Richard John Uniacke.
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Condition of the Banks In the United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury. 1862

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Washington, DC, House of Representatives : 1862

Seller ID: Books013227

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

211 pages. Annual report on the banks in the United States. "Compliments of Geo. P. Fisher, late mamber of Congress" inked to head of front free endpaper. Fisher was Attorney General of Delaware 1855-60; Congressman '61-'63; and was nominated by Lincoln to the Supreme Court in March of "63 [Wikipedia]. Foxing to first few and final few leaves; paper toned; some predation to cloth; binding is sound.
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Description of the Napoleon The First's Tomb and of the Chapel of the Hotel of the Invalids. With a notice concerning the gallery of the plans in relief of a certain number of fortified places and the artillery museum.

Price: $162.50

Publisher: Paris, Charles Noblet : 1875

Seller ID: Books009483

Binding: Printed wrapper

Condition: Good

16 pages. 8.3 x 5 inches. Publisher's printed wrapper. Curling along top and lower edges. Sadle stitched binding secure. Colportage stamp of Seine to front and faintly to rear, with date 187?: possibly 4, but note verso of rear cover is an 1875 imprint. Text is in English.
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Fetes du Bi Centenaire de la Survivance Acadienne. 1955 Sept Iles.

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Sept-Iles, : 1955

Seller ID: Books007372

Binding: wraps

Condition: Very Good

Programme of festivities Sept-Iles, Shelter Bay, Clarke City, Moisie: 1-2-3-4 Juillet. 9 x 6 inches, 26 unpaginated pages plus covers. Most of the booklet is taken up with various persons and businesses offering felicitations ~ some with photographs. Part of Longfellow's Evangeline appears on the rear cover in English.
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Health Reader, No. 1. With special reference to the effects of alcohol, tobacco, etc. upon the human system.

Price: $447.89

Publisher: Halifax, NS, T. C. Allen & Co. : 1893

Seller ID: Books008955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

114 pages. Progressive School Series. Black cloth stamped in blind on front. Illustrated. Mild wear and soiling to covers. Hinges slack but binding secure. Some soiling within, but generally a good interior with soiling not particularly obtrusive and a some ticks/notation in pencil and a few in red. Former owner's name to title page and at top of first Preface page. J. & A. McMillan of St. John also issued this. Date of 1893 appears as the year it was entered according to Act of Parliament; this publication initiated in the wake of the 30th April 1892 Act to provide for the "more thorough stud...
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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Ont.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Toronto, H. Belden & Co. : 1879

Seller ID: Books014718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Complete, including the double-page plate of Parliament Square at front, the double-page maps in colour at rear : the Dominion of Canada [eastern and western sheets], Province of Manitoba and part of the District of Keewatin and North West Territory shewing the townships and settlements, and Railroad Map of the United States. As well: 13 double-page maps, 4 single-page maps and the two Eastern and Western hemisphere maps at rear, 7 single page plates, and 4 single-page groupings of portraits. General Index, and Patron's Directory present. Cloth considerably rubbed, spine panel chipped; the rea...
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In Memoriam, Richard Greenough : born November 11th, 1814, died January 16th, 1886

Price: $344.54

Publisher: Leigh, Lancashire, D. and J. Forbes : 1886

Seller ID: Books014523

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vi, 42 leaves printed recto. All edges gilt. Light rubbing and soil to cloth; foxing to first few and final few leaves. "With the kind regards of the family" inked to first white leaf. 10.2 x 7.7 inches.
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Index to Private Acts of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, from 1851 - 1896

Price: $1,033.60

Publisher: Halifax, NS, Queen's Printer : 1897

Seller ID: Books013787

Binding: half leather, marbled boards

Condition: Very Good

136 pages. Wear and spotting to covers; foxing to first few and final few leaves. Binding is sound. 9 x 5.75 inches.
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Journal and Proceedings of His Majesty's Council of the Province of Nova-Scotia

Price: $413.44

Publisher: Nova Scotia. Legislative Council. : 1837

Seller ID: Books014247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

106, x pages. Covers detached; foxing to first few and final few leaves. Textblock sound. 12.5 x 9.8 inches.
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KARATON SURAKARTA

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Jakarta, Jayakarta Agung Offset : 2004

Seller ID: Books006565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

411 pages. Mauve cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Excellent condition with no inscriptions; binding is sound. Please consult scans for contents and list of contributors.
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Category: History