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By: N/A
Price: $39.00
Seller ID: Books006604
Condition: Very Good
A small well-produced agricultural sales brochure for the Acme Potato Digging Attachment of the Potato Implement Co. of Traverse Mich. Undated; measuring 5.5 x 3.4 inches, with 8 pages plus wraps. 3 illustrations: one shown in scan and two of men using the implement. Scarce. Light rust to staples; small round dampstain to front cover just above the left bag of $; corner crease to rear cover. A very well preserved item. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $65.00
Seller ID: Books006605
A superb piece of butchery memorabilia from the early days of organized meat-processing in Canada. Advertising hams and bacon for the Easter trade, dated March 16th, 1896. Easter Sunday fell less than three weeks later, on the 5th of April. Laing Packing and Provision Co., Montreal: "Anchor Brand". For such a piece of ephemera to survive is uncommon; the high quality of printing, including the use of gold ink for the border and meats, is remarkable. Tipping the ad one sees iridescence in the shining gold not seen in our scan. There are three closed tears: one short to the left and righ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Seller ID: Books006606
A great piece of dairy advertising in a 1940s hardcover copy of Shirley Temple and the Spirit of Dragonwood By Kathryn Heisenfelt, illustrated by Henry E. Vallely, published by Whitman. In fair to good condition with hinges split but holding, with dust jacket. The Vi-Co advertising bookplate is intriguing. The substance appears similar to modern-day wear-off tattoos applied with water and pressure: very thin and shiny. The bookplate would have been applied by rubbing. It measures 4.25 x 2.5 inches. Searching the web offers interesting, and in some cases conflicting, information. I do not know ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $84.50
Publisher: London, Dean and Son: 1908
Seller ID: Books009487
Condition: Very Good
154 pages. Red cloth; white titles on front and now rubbed off spine. Binding is sound; pencil ticks to some recipes. offsetting to endpapers. Title page appears to be a cancel, with London: Dean & Son at foot of title page and on verso: Copyright 1908 by George W. Jacobs & Company / Printed in U.S.A. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $84.50
Publisher: Montreal, William Ewing & Co.: 1884
Seller ID: Books009498
Condition: Very Good
8 pages plus covers. Illustration on rear of Sutton's Champion Swede by E. Whimper. Includes four types of tobacco. Ewing's was located at 142 and 144 McGill Street, Montreal. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.50
Publisher: Boston, Bowker Fertilizer Company: 1896
Seller ID: Books009499
Condition: Good
32 pages plus covers. Cover detached, with staining to left margin. Staples rusted but holding fine. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Stamped on front for sale by; J. Horncastle & Co., Indiantown, N.B. The leaves were stapled such that the pagination is off, but the catalogue is complete. View more info
![Image for The Home Adviser. Dedicated to the Sunday School Building Fund. Published by the Ladies' Aid Society of Olivet M. E. Church [Methodist Episcopal] Coatesville, PA](/assets/images/product/Books009542_8a2804da883760dc101606c8ec7e62ce.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $97.50
Publisher: Coatesville, PA, Union Publishing: 1905
Seller ID: Books009542
Condition: Good
150, [2] pages, with eleven instances of bound-in blanks (two leaves) for handwritten recipes. One blank torn out, 11 recipes/directions added. 7.5 x 5.9 inches. Pliable black pebbled cloth over paper. Considerable soiling / staining throughout. Lacking endpapers. Binding sound. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $214.50
Publisher: New York, Hecker and Brother: 1869
Seller ID: Books009546
Condition: Very Good
31 unnumbered pages plus covers. 5.6 x 4 in. Catalogue and recipes of Heckers' Croyton Flour Mills, 199, 201, and 203 Cherry Street, New York. Store stamp of D.S. Bursk dealer in groceries, fruits, confections, glassware and lamps: 17 E. King, Lancaster PA to verso of front and rear cover. Wrap remains fully attached; puncture hole top left. Tideline to lowest inch throughout. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Belize, Angelus Press: 1990
Seller ID: Books009551
Condition: Very Good
vii, 141. Residue of price sticker on front. Illustrated; clean and unmarked. contributors' names for each recipe. View more info
![Image for Series of Articles on Dairying in Nova Scotia [1908]](/assets/images/product/Books009589_11bfb8074006025961f03a7c908271cc.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $156.25
Publisher: Halifax, N.S,, King's Printer: 1909
Seller ID: Books009589
Condition: Very Good
[ii], 151 pages, plus 12 photograph plates. Cover title continues: Being a Reprint from the Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture Province of Nova Scotia. For the year 1908. Creasing to covers, small loss to heel of spine paney. Sound binding. 31 articles. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $93.75
Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Board of School Trustees: 1948
Edition: Third edition
Seller ID: Books010747
Condition: Good
62 pages with 12 blank pages at rear, 5 with writing. Ownership details to front pastedown and free endpaper: Lorraine Curry in grade 8 at King George School and in grade 9 at Princess Elizabeth School, with her address and phone number. A few leaves stained, some emendations in pen and pencil. Edges rubbed; mull visible along hinges but binding remains sound. Compiled by the Teachers of Home Economics Department of the Saint John City Schools in 1943, revised in 1948. Third Edition stated on title page, 1948 date at foot of same. Referenced as NB54.2, in Elizabeth Driver's Culinary Landmarks:... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $281.25
Publisher: Cincinnati; Chicago, The Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Company:
Seller ID: Books010779
Condition: Very Good
232 pages. Handsome gilt and blue exterior with embossed letters. No date of issue or printer specified. "This new catalog No. 54 covers our complete line of 'BOSS' Machinery and Equipment for: Hog killing and cutting / Offal and casing department / Tracking and conveying, etc. / Beef, calf and sheep killing / Edible and inedible rendering / Sausage making / Trucks, etc." May 15, 1945 letter from the Order Department on letterhead laid in. Single sheet Boss mailing laid in, postmarked 1930. One leaf, page 7/8, has been reattached to the hinge with tape. Light tideline to upper edge; bi... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $306.25
Publisher: Montreal, &c., Consolidated Distilleries Limited: 1936
Seller ID: Books010800
Condition: Very Good
36 pages. Light creasing to wraps; spine rubbed; the word/name Day in pencil to elephant's rear. Tideline and associated ripple along top edge (most evident is shown in photo). Staples firm and not rusted. The price list at rear is for the province of Nova Scotia. View more info
![Image for To The Voters of Saco Maine - two Constitutional Amendment pamphlets. Prohibition against the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. [26th amendment to the Maine Constitution]](/assets/images/product/Books010912_f51600abbd61cad5b3344e144bd83134.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $368.75
Publisher: Maine, 1884
Seller ID: Books010912
Condition: Very Good
Two leaves printed recto only, supporting the 8 September 1884 Maine Constitutional Amendment vote. 8.5 x 5.1 inches; tanned and curled and chipped at head and foot. One is specifically "To The Voters Of Saco", the other is not place-specific. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $1,531.25
Publisher: London, Marsh and Miller: 1830
Seller ID: Books011001
Condition: Very Good
xii, 296 pages. Contemporary half leather, with feathered paper over boards. Gilt and raised bands to spine; all edges sprinkled. Armorial bookplate of Alexander Speirs, Elderslie, to front pastedown. Offsetting to corners of first few and final few leaves; foxing to front endpapers. A handsome volume with sound binding. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $281.25
Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hattie & Mylius: 1900
Seller ID: Books011443
Condition: Very Good
128 pages. No stated date of issue, circa 1900. Referenced in Driver's Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949 as O48.10. General light soiling; leaves tanned; a few corners turned down. The digitized copy on the NS Archives' 'What's Cooking?' site lacks covers and shows the actual partial/detached first leaf as final leaf. Our copy is complete, with original staples secure. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $281.25
Publisher: Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Steele, Briggs Seed Co.: 1910
Seller ID: Books011497
Condition: Very Good
96 pages, folding order form tipped in. 2x1 inch chip off front cover, short closed tear to first leaf; moderate spine wear; binding sound. Profusely illustrated. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $281.25
Publisher: Windsor, Ontario, D. M. Ferry & Co.: 1891
Seller ID: Books011498
Condition: Very Good
xii, 92 pages, folding order form tipped in. Cover detached in one piece, with tape repair to spine. Original stapled textblock binding secure. Profusely illustrated. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $431.25
Publisher: Philadelphia, E.L. Carey and A. Hart: 1837
Edition: Third edition
Seller ID: Books011663
Condition: Good
161 pages. Illustration at page 116. Cloth over board stained and rubbed; paper label chipped top left. Old inked signature [John Smith] to first front free endpaper. Front hinge slack, withlower cord severed. Tidelines at rear from page 100. 7 pages of adverts at rear for temperance groceries &c. in Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, and Albany. No author indicated. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $106.25
Publisher: Montreal, Lake of the Woods Milling Co. Ltd.: 1913
Seller ID: Books011912
Condition: Good
144 pages. Good only, with loss to front cover, spine, lowest inch of title page, and significant chipping to first three leaves. Recipe for Dandelion Wine in pencil pinned to fourth leaf. First leaf has all three coupons present (with loss from chipping to the right-most]. Binding remains sound; interior generally clean. Nothing added to the 4 pages of "additional recipes" at rear. Recipes pasted on colophon, but not obscuring the copyright date of 1913. View more info
