An attractive 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". High quality printing, and gold ink used for the border and meats. Three closed tears: one short to the left and right margin and the other on the right intruding into the right hand ham. The sheet has two horizontal creases. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. View More...
v, [151] pages, and 11 (unused) ruled leaves at rear. No stated date of issue. The "Changes in Rules and Instructions for the Running of Trains. Effective Saturday 4th July, 1903" has been pasted over the original (undated) title page - the latter may be seen under bright light, and reads: 'Dominion Atlantic Railway Company. Rules and Regulations to be Observed by all Officers, Servants, and Employes (sic) of the Company'. This book stamped 666 to one A.S. Potter, agent at Waterville [NS]. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. An uncommon survival. 3 x 5 inches. View More...
Vol. II No. 5 (May 1905); Vol. III Nos. 7, 9, 12 (July, September, December 1906). 32, 36, 34, 34 pages respectively. "Official organ of the Master House Painters and Decorators Association of Canada". Large format, in double columns: 13.5 x 10.2 inches. Articles, and adverts primarily in b&w - this is not a journal of wallpaper samples. Light soiling to wrappers; III 7 is split from heel two thirds of the way up; else very good. View More...
120 pages.Scuffing and soil to covers. Sixth year of the publication. Staples rusted but holding fine. With the bequeathed-to stamp of Colonel Frederick Samuel Lampson Ford [Canadian Army Medical Corps / commanding officer No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station; A.D.M.S] to first leaf. Numerous ads at front and rear. View More...
116 pages. Scuffing and soil to covers; lower front right corner chipped off cover. First leaf pulling from staples; staples rusted but holding fine. Seventh year of the publication. With the bequeathed-to stamp of Colonel Frederick Samuel Lampson Ford [Canadian Army Medical Corps / commanding officer No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station; A.D.M.S] on first leaf. Numerous ads at front and rear. View More...
120 pages. Covers detached. Fourteenth year of the publication. Staples rusted but holding fine. With the bequeathed-to stamp of Colonel Frederick Samuel Lampson Ford [Canadian Army Medical Corps / commanding officer No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station; A.D.M.S] to verso of front cover. Numerous ads at front and rear. View More...
141 pages, plus ads. 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Very good condition: clean and unmarked in sound binding with sunning to spine and light soiling to rear cover Export ad as seen. The first 3 pink leaves are creased. View More...
Foreword by John C. Himmelman, 1994. Measures 5.5 x 4 inches. 18 pages (unpaginated). Clean and unmarked, with original staple holding fine without rust. View More...
81 unnumbered pages, 22 of which are adverts. No folding leaves or maps. No place or date of issue specified. Cover detached, chipped and splitting along spine; else very good. H. J.Beemer was the contractor for the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. 5.6 x 8.3 inches. View More...
viii, 439, 18, lii pages. Leather and label worn and nibbled; boards stained; light foxing to first few and final few leaves. Binding is sound. 9.75 x 6.4 inches. View More...
iv, 109 pages. Cloth darkened, stained, and bowed. Faint early blind embossed stamp of Acadia University and their brief notation to tile page. No other library indications; leaves unopened. View More...
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...
lxxvi, 172, 39 pages. Textblock separated as a unit from later cloth bound cover. Some scoring to the preliminary [roman numeral] section. Large fold-out at page 56 is present. View More...
408 pages. Chock full of typical farmers' almanac material including tide tables, light houses, railway and post office information, customs and tariffs, justices of the peace, &c. Trove of advertisements. More recent former owner's bookplate between pages 68 and 69. Many of the blank ruled leaves have been filled in diary style in pencil and pen. Owner lived in Windsor, NS. Cover detached in one piece. Text block otherwise securely bound. Complete with no missing pages. Date written on spine in an old hand. Union Blend Tea stamped on fore-edge. View More...
464 pages. Chock full of typical farmers' almanac material including tide tables, light houses, railway and post office information, customs and tariffs, justices of the peace, &c. Fewer advertisements than earlier issues. More recent former owner's bookplate between pages 88 and 89. Many of the blank ruled leaves have been filled in diary style in pencil and pen. Owner lived in Windsor, NS, with his signature to first leaf. Covers secure and binding sound. Complete with no missing pages. Date written on spine in an old hand on a paper label. S. Cunard & Co. stamped v. lightly on all three edg... View More...
464 pages. Chock full of typical farmers' almanac material including tide tables, light houses, railway and post office information, customs and tariffs, justices of the peace, &c. Fewer advertisements than earlier issues. More recent former owner's bookplate between pages 78 and 79. Many of the blank ruled leaves have been filled in diary style in pencil and pen, including: "Nov. 1st Bluenose came in first in fisherman's race but Columbia won on technicality. Bluenose went on wrong side of one of the buoys." Owner lived in Windsor, NS; with his signature to first leaf. Covers secure and bindi... View More...
256 pages. This issue replete with adverts (80 pages or so). Textblock cleanly detached from boards in one piece; else very good. 7.5 x 4.75 inches. View More...
264 pages. Chock full of typical farmers' almanac material including tide tables, light houses, railway and post office information, customs and tariffs, justices of the peace, &c. Trove of advertisements. More recent former owner's bookplate between pages 78 and 79. Many of the blank ruled leaves have been filled in diary style in pencil. Owner lived in Windsor, NS. Cover detached in one piece, final two leaves detached; text block otherwise securely bound. Complete with no missing pages. View More...
264 pages. Chock full of typical farmers' almanac material including tide tables, light houses, railway and post office information, customs and tariffs, justices of the peace, &c. Trove of advertisements. More recent former owner's bookplate between pages 76 and 77. Many of the blank ruled leaves have been filled in diary style in pencil. Owner lived in Windsor, NS. Cover detached in one piece, first two leaves detached; text block otherwise securely bound. Complete with no missing pages. Date written on spine in an old hand. View More...
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