The Canadian: Volume 1, Number 6. June 16th, 1930 .

By: N/A

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Ottawa, Confederation Publishing Company: 1930

Seller ID: Books006102

Condition: Very Good

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48 pages. Bennett : who he is and what he offers. "Circulated Throughout the Dominion in the Interests of the Liberal-Conservative Party". Sustained up-to-date propaganda just prior to Richard Bedford Bennett's defeat of King. Includes his heritage, pledges, official report of (and public viewpoint on) the Winnipeg speech. Very good condition, with light soiling to covers; unobtrusive vertical crease along centre, and "Preserve this" in pencil to front. Binding holes punched through along spine do not interfere with text. Original staples secure. View more info

Synoptic Report of the Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, for the Session of 1881

By: N/A

Price: $292.50

Publisher: St. John, Daily Telegraph Steam Job Print: 1881

Seller ID: Books006273

Condition: Very Good

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177 pages plus corrections, Index to Report, and List of Members and (their) Post Office Address. Reported by J.D. Hazen. Double-column format. Black cloth spine over marbled paper on thick card. Mild soiling to endpapers; else clean and unmarked in sturdy binding. View more info

Synoptic Report of the Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, for the Session of 1886

By: N/A

Price: $281.25

Publisher: Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada, Maritime Farmer Office: 1886

Seller ID: Books006274

Condition: Very Good

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110 pages plus Index to Report. List of Members and their Post Office Addresses at front. Reported by M. McDade. Double-column format. Tawny cloth spine over marbled paper on thick card. Front endpaper has two small tears/holes where it was apparently affixed to pastedown. Signature of historian W. C. Milner at top of title page; else clean and unmarked in sturdy binding. View more info

Synoptic Report of the Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, for the Session of 1894

By: N/A

Price: $281.25

Publisher: St. John, Office of "Progress": 1895

Seller ID: Books006275

Condition: Good

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177 pages plus Index to Report. List of Members and their Post Office Addresses at front. Reported by M. McDade and Frank H. Risteen. Double-column format. Dusty black cloth spine over marbled paper on thick card. Endpapers tanned. Chipping to spine and splitting to front exterior hinge though binding remains sound; else clean and unmarked. View more info

Manual of Instructions for Sheriffs, Presiding Officers, ETC.

By: N/A

Price: $156.25

Publisher: Halifax, Commissioner of Public Works and Mines, Queen's Printer: 1890

Seller ID: Books006280

Condition: Fair

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32 pages. Scarce early publication on governing voting practice in Nova Scotia, with instructions involving polling divisions, list of electors, prevention of corrupt practices, Sheriff's court, candidate's agent, duties of Sheriff on demand of a poll, proceedings at polling place, qualification of voters - objections and challenges, return day - recount - declaration, offences and penalties, miscellaneous provisions, &c. Binding was originally side-sewn with wraps pasted to edge. The thread remains and holds some leaves together but consider as disbound. Lacks rear cover, otherwise complete. ... View more info

Standing rules and regulations of the Legislative Council of Canada adopted in the first Session of the First Provincial Parliament. = Regles et reglements permanents du Conseil legislatif du Canada : adoptes dans la premiere Session du premier Parlement

By: N/A

Price: $7,150.00

Publisher: Kingston, ON., G. Desbarats & T. Cary: 1841

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books006719

Condition: Very Good

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xviii, [6]-69, xxxix, xii, xiii, [2], [1]-7, [1]-7. Title pages in English and French. Includes: Royal Instructions, Rules, Appendix, Index, Standing Orders on the subject of Divorce, and Prayers for the Parliament. Each section appears in English and in French. Very few copies apparently survive and none that we have traced mentions or includes in collation the two seven page Prayers / Prieres at rear. Original morocco, stamped in gilt on front with name Neilson / 1846 (or 1844) in ink beneath. Spine professionally and sympathetically repaired in leather. Final leaf of Index re-tipped in and ... View more info

Rules of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia 1929. Reported by the Committee on that subject, and adopted by the House, March 26th, 1928.

By: N/A

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Halifax, N.S,, King's Printer: 1949

Seller ID: Books007071

Condition: Very Good

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48 pages. 1949 issue of the Rules adopted in 1928. Clean and unmarked with original staples holding very well. View more info

The Democratic Congressional Register, 1937

By: N/A

Price: $281.25

Publisher: Democratic Party of the United States of America: 1936

Seller ID: Books007188

Condition: Very Good

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November First [1936]. 11 x 8.5 inches. 128 pages. A pleasing example of this "much maligned" Register, including a letter to Washington Corresponds from Executive Secretary Charles Hayden laid in. Please see our photos for the text of the letter. Clean and unmarked with top inch of spine panel flapped open from rear. Binding is sound. This large-format register includes a photographic reproduction of every Democratic Member of the the House and was printed for free distribution to their friends and constituents. It also includes paid advertisements for 80 companies and their products. View more info

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

By: N/A

Price: $32.50

Publisher: 1846

Seller ID: Books007224

Condition: Good

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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... View more info

Reports of the Debates of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, during the Session of 1870

By: N/A

Price: $206.25

Publisher: St. John, Geo.W. Day: 1870

Seller ID: Books006272

Condition: Very Good

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200 pages. Reported by T.P. Dixon and J.H. Dixon. Three-column format. Black cloth spine over feathered paper on thick card. List of Members of the House Assembly and comprehensive Index present. Plate of Chignecto Post Library to front cover and of historian W.C. Milner of Halifax to verso. Milner's signature to front endpaper; cloth split for 3 inches from head of spine along rear gutter. A scarce Confederation publication. View more info

Richard Dudley Hubbard, A Memorial. Born, September 6, 1818; Died, February 28, 1884 [his son's copy]

By: N/A

Price: $422.50

Publisher: Hartford, The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company: 1894

Seller ID: Books009457

Condition: Very Good

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172 pages, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. 9.3 x 6.75 inches. Cloth mottled; binding sound; no inscriptions. Dot of soiling lower right to second front free endpaper on which is pasted the card of Mr. William D. Hubbard [presumably son of Richard, d. 11 March, 1914: see Hartford Courant, 12 March, 1914]. Very light tideline to foot of frontispiece margin, more pronounced at foot of tissue guard. A half inch closed tear to foot of title page. View more info

Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States. Published for the Washington Benevolent Society. [WITH Constitution of the United States of America...]

By: N/A

Price: $357.50

Publisher: Hartford, Hudson and Goodwin: 1813

Seller ID: Books009539

Condition: Good

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72 pages. Contemporary marbled paper over stiff paper boards, leather spine. Washington portrait appears not to have been bound in. One free endpaper at front and at rear. Washington Benevolent Society certification leaf not filled in. No indication of the second work on title page of the first. Paged continuously; second title page: Constitution of the United States of America as Proposed by The Convention held at Philadelphia, September 17, 1787 and since ratified by the several states, with the amendments thereto. Published for the Washington Benevolent Society. Binding sound, contents stai... View more info

The London Quarterly Review. Volume LXXXVI & LXXXVII. American Edition: Number CLXXI, CLXXII, CLXXIII, CLXXIV: January, April, July, October 1850

By: N/A

Price: $156.25

Publisher: New York, Leonard Scott: 1850

Seller ID: Books005854

Condition: Good

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[2], 315, iv, 312 pages. Gilt titles on maroon label to spine. Leather spine, marbled boards. Front hinge starting. Endpapers, title page, and margins of July foxed, a few internal smudges and dog-ears but generally a clean and tidy interior, with moderate scuffing to exterior. Unobtrusive closed tear to title pages at gutter. A fund of information and commentary including: James Pritchard: Physical History of Mankind, The Natural History of Mankind; Natural History of the Human Species: Typical Forms, Primeval Distribution, Filiations, Migrations by C. Hamilton Smith; Egyptian Researches in ... View more info

Responsible Government or Machine Rule? It's Time For A Change. Do It For Nova Scotia. [1925 Nova Scotia general election Conservative Party propaganda]

By: N/A

Price: $156.25

Publisher: Conservative Party of Canada: 1925

Seller ID: Books011712

Condition: Very Good

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52 pages. Chip off lower right corner not affecting text. Binding is sound. Conservative Party propaganda for the forthcoming election that would see their candidate E.N. Rhodes win by a landslide. Illustrated with cartoons by McRitchie. Uncommon. View more info

Prefatory Tables Compiled From Official Returns of the Trade and Navigation of the Dominion of Canada for the Fiscal Year Ended 30th June 1897.

By: N/A

Price: $306.25

Publisher: Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau: 1898

Seller ID: Books011747

Condition: Good

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76 pages. Black pebbled cloth with gilt titles to front. Upper joint splitting; else very good. View more info

History of the Bank of Nova Scotia, 1832-1900. Together with Copies of Annual Statements [Abner Reid McClelan's copy]

By: N/A

Price: $343.75

Publisher: Halifax, Bank of Nova Scotia: 1901

Seller ID: Books012330

Condition: Very Good

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178 pages, with numerous plates, and folding chart at rear. Handsomely rebound in burgundy cloth and rampant red lion paper. All edges gilt. Inscriptions indicating this as a gift at Riverside, NB, from the library of New Brunswick politician and Lieutenant Governor Abner Reid McClelan. A few ticks next to names on the Branches page at front; else unmarked. View more info

Religion in the Middle East 2 Volumes: Three Religions in Concord and Conflict, Volume I Judaism and Christianity AND Volume II Islam

By: A. J. Arberry, ed.

Price: $130.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1969

Seller ID: Books008644

Condition: Very Good

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xii, 595; xi, 750 pages. Closed tear to head of Vol I jacket and chip off foot of spine jacket Vol II; jackets in removable protective sleeve. Former owner signature blanked out with liquid paper top right of front endpaper both volumes. Publisher's blue topstain; other edges a touch dusty. Interiors clean and unmarked, in sound bindings. A very good set. Overseas shipping will be more due to weight: please inquire. View more info

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

By: Adams, Henry; Brooks Adams intro.

Price: $58.50

Publisher: New York, MacMillan: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books009182

Condition: Very Good

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xv, 317 pages. Top edge a touch dusty; else clean and unmarked in sound binding. View more info

A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the years 1792, 1793 & 1794; containing the various circumstances of the Embassy, with accounts of the customs and manners of the Chinese; and a description of the country, towns, cities, etc., etc.

By: Anderson, Aeneas

Price: $181.25

Publisher: New York, T. and J. Swords: 1795

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: Books010625

Condition: Good

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xxiv, 328 pages. Lacking front board and endpaper; rear board and endpaper detached; half-title is present; textblock remains secure. Top inch of title page cut away; sporadic light stains up to p. 13; leaves tanned and with occasional light foxing. Chip off fore-margin of p. xix with loss of a few letters. A good working copy and suitable for rebinding. View more info