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Antiquarian and collectable books and catalogs. Many with illustrations.

TRUE MANHOOD LANDELS 1864

#B109 - $10

 WE POINTED THEM NORTH BY E. C. ABBOTT ("Teddy Blue") and HELENA HUNTINGTON SMITH
We Pointed Them North, Recollections of a Cowpuncher by E. C. Abbott (

#B11 - $25

 WORLD'S END UPTON SINCLAIR 1940

#B113 - $20
MARTIN'S ANNUAL CRIMINAL CODE 1963

#B115 - $10

 PAPERBACK A WOMAN'S GOLF GAME KASKIE
A Woman's Golf Game Techniques and Tips from Po Golfers Nancy Lopez, Beth Daniel, Amy Alcott, Hollis Stacy, Sally Little, Sandra Palmer, Judy Rankin, and others. By Shirli Kaskie, Contemporary Books, Chicago, 1982. Well illustrated with photos, 198 pages, 6 by 8 3/4 inches. Crease on front cover, page edges rough in a few spots but body of book is clean and in excellent condition, binding very good.

#B117 - $5

 MY TRAVELS SHIELDS 1911

#B118 - $20
CANOE & DOG TRAIN AMONG THE CREE AND SALTEAUX INDIANS
By Canoe and Dog Train Among the Cree and Salteaux Indians by Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young, published in 1890 by William Briggs, Toronto. Five and three quarters by seven and three quarter inches, 267 pages, quite a few engravings as illustration. Binding is a little weak around the hinges but is still intact, embossed and gilded cover shows a little soil and some wear but is still very attractive, interior is nice and clean with no damage. A very collectable book.

#B119 - $50

 FAIRPLAY SHIPPING JOURNAL MARCH1915 MAGAZINE
This is the March 18 edition of the Fairplay Weekly Shipping Journal published in London. 9 1/4 by 13 inches, 39 pages of actual magazine pages plus many pages of advertising. Contents would be of interest to people in the shipping business. Articles such as British India Steam Navigation, Shipbuilding Notes, Marine Insurance Notes, etc. etc. Shows signs of having been read and the outside is a bit soiled but inside nice and clean.

#B129 - $20

 RETINOSCOPY SHADOW TEST JAMES THORINGTON M.D. 1899
The book measures 8 ¼ X 5 ¾, has 86 pages including index and is offered without reserve. The full title is “ Determination of Refraction at one Meter Distance with the Plane Mirror by James Thorington M.D. Adjunct Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine; Assistant Surgeon to Will’s Eye Hospital; Ophthalmologist to the Elwyn and Vineland Training School for Feeble-minded Children; Ophthalmologist to the M.E. Orphanage; Lecturer in the Philadelphia manual Training Schools, 1896-97 on the Anatomy, Physiology and care of the Eyes; Resident Physician and Surgeon Panama railroad Co at Colon ( Aspinwall ), Isthmus of Panama 1882-1889 etc. “ At the back of the book there is a Classified Catalogue of books on Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Chemistry, Hygiene, Microscopy, etc. dated April 1900 which runs to 24 pages. There are a couple of pages of reviews on Thorington’s first edition (this copy being the third) printed in 1897. There are forty-three illustrations (smallish) twelve of which are in colour. The book is in excellent, clean condition. Please email for further information or pictures.

#B130 - $10
BOOK IN MEMORIAM THOMAS FRANCIS GRADY SENATOR 1912
Proceedings of the Legislature of the State of New York on the Life Character and Public Service of Thomas Francis Grady State Senator, February 5, 1912, Albany New York. 83 pages, beautiful heavy (maybe hand laid?) paper. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering. All in pristine condition. They thought a lot of this man!

#B132 - $20

 SPORT FISHES OF WESTERN CANADA & SOME OTHERS
Sport Fishes of Western Canada and Some Others by F.C. Whitehouse published by the author in Vancouver BC in 1946. 129 pages. Excellent condition. Several photos.

#B134 - $10

 THE LOUNGER 2 VOLUMES 1794 SIXTH EDITION
The Lounger. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1785 and 1786 London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadel, in the Strand; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1787. Henry Mackenzie, whom Sir Walter Scott called the 'Northern Addison', contributed 57 out of the 100 essays in these papers , but Hume contibuted also as did many other Scottish Notables Originally published between 1785 and 1787, The Lounger was a magazine covering society and the arts in the manner of The Spectator and Tatler. Ex Libris. The two volumes are in excellent condition. The cloth library bindings are tight and clean. Interiors have a little foxing but are otherwise good and clean. 8 vo. 440+ pages in each volume. Fairly priced at $50.

#B14 - $50
THE TRAITORS by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
The Traitors by E Phillips Oppenheim, 1920 reprint by The Review of Reviews of the 1903 edition of this book. Seven and one half by five and one quarter inches, 344 pages. Bound in rust colored cloth. This book has spent its whole life in a plain paper dust jacket. Frontispiece illustration. It looks unread and is in mint condition.

#B15 - $10

 NIGERIAN DAYS BY A. C. G. HASTINGS
Nigerian Days by A. C. Hastings with an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham with thirty-two illustrations. Published by John Lane the Bodley Head, London. Eight and one half by five and one half inches, 255 pages. Slight edge foxing, otherwise in excellent clean condition. This is the author's account of eighteen years spent in Nigeria as an administrator of a district. Illustrations are photos taken by the author.

#B2 - $30

 CANADA'S WEST & FARTHER WEST BY CARREL 1911

#B20 - $40
CHEMISTRY BOOKLET THE NOBLE GASES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
The Chemistry of the Noble Gases produced by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1967. The noble gases are helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon. 48 pages, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches, staple bound, excellent condition.

#B23 - $5

 CATALOG MATH ENGINEER DRAWING INSTRUMENTS 1904
The catalog measures ten by seven inches and has 272 pages and about 720 categories in the index covering thousands of items mostly all photographed. The book was put out by the A. S. Aloe company of Saint Louis about 1904 and contians listings of mathematical, engineering and drawing instruments. It has one page missing but is otherwise in good clean, almost mint conditon. All the illustrations are gravures of real photographs and these abound throught the book. Some of the main items are blueprint copiers, fourteen pages of transits with operating instructions, gurley surveying instruments, Saegmuller solar attachment, Brunton pockect transit, plane tables, five pages of wye levels, hand levels, sextants, rules and rulers, many of ivory, ten pages of compasses, miners saftey lamps, pedometers, odometers, anemometers, barometers, single and sets of drafting instruments, planimeters and thousands of other items. This is a fabulous book for the collector of scientific, surveying and engineering instruments. All the major instruments have set up and operating insructions in the book.

#B25 - $250

 BOOK ROMANTIC VANCOUVER ISLAND 1973 SIGNED

#B28 - $10
THE GREAT FIGHT FOR INDIA BY HERBERT STRANG
The Great Fight For India, part of the Romance of the World Series edited by Herbert Strang, published by Hodder & Stoughton, no publication date, cloth bound. Seven and one half by five and one half inches, 160 pages plus sixteen pages of ads for other books from the same publishers. Lovely decorated end papers, four colored plates and one map. Excellent condition.

#B3 - $15

 ESQUIRE BEST OF FORTY YEARS ANTHOLOGY 1973

#B31 - $15

 BOOK GUILD OF FREEMEN OF LONDON HB DJ

#B32 - $20
BOOK OXFORD COLLEGES LANG ILLUSTRATED

#B37 - $10

 THE GUILT OF GERMANY 1918 LICHNOWSKY

#B38 - $25

 MAGAZINE OLD GUARD FEBRUARY 1866
The Old Guard, A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Literature, Science and Art, and the Political Principles of 1776 and 1787. C. Chauncey Burr, editor. Published in February 1866 in New York. 136 pages 6 1/2 by 10 inches. Condition of outside can be seen in scan; inside is clean, a few lightly dogeared pages and one or two pencil marks but all intact and readable. May have had another cover, but this is unknown.

#B4 - $10
BOOK DANISH CARPENTRY HAANDGJERNINGDSBOG 1881
The book is seven and one half by four and one half inches and has six hundred and twenty-four pages. It is written entirely in what I believe is Danish. The information on the title page is as follows; (as near as I can make out the old letters!!)

#B41 - $20

 COLLECTING ANTIQUE SILVER BANISTER 1972
Collecting Antique Silver by Judith Banister, published by Galahad Books, New York in 1972. Eight by six inches, 128 pages, dust jacket, lots and lots of photos as illustration. Dust jacket shows a bit of battering, but it has done its job, the book is in beautiful condition, inside and out.

#B45 - $10

 BOOK HOME AND HEALTH 1883
Home and Health and Compendium of Useful Knowledge: A Cyclopedia of Facts and Hints for all Departments of Home Life, Health and Domestic Economy, and Handbook of General Information, published by the Advertiser Printing and Publishing Co., London Ontario, Canada in 1883. Seven by four and one half inches, 346 pages, card boards and tape spine cover. The table of contents is wonderful!

#B47 - $20
MASTERPIECES OF ITALIAN ART 1868

#B48 - $25

 FRESH WATER ANGLING BY JOHN KNIGHT
Field Book of Fresh-Water Angling by John Alden Knight published by Putnam's, New York in 1944. Seven by four inches, 207 pages, cloth bound. Previous owner's book plate on inside front cover and dedication on flyleaf, some penciled notes on back flyleaf. Illustrated with a few drawings and tables and a couple of photographs. A penciled objection to some advice on page 37. Quite funny actually as the objection cites another book. Everything you ever wanted to know about fresh water fishing. Condition otherwise nice and clean. Some corner bruising as if the previous owner kept this book in a pocket.

#B5 - $20

 CANADA A SHORT HISTORY 1892

#B51 - $10
TRANSPORTATION RULE BOOK ILLINOIS CENTRAL

#B54 - $20

 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY DICTIONARY OF CORRECT ENGLISH
A Dictionary of Correct English, A Manual of Information and Advice Concerning Grammar, Idiom, Use of Words, Points of Style, Punctuation, Pronunciation, and Other Practical Matters by M. Alderton Pink, published by Sir Isaac Pitman, Toronto, 1938. This book is part of the Canadian Pacific Foundation Library. Five by seven inches, 198 pages, paper bound with a linen cover, in new condition. This is a prescriptive grammar book, rather than a dictionary, but it is set up in alphabetical format.

#B6 - $10

 BOOK HOW ANIMAL BODIES ARE CONSTRUCTED

#B60 - $5
BOOK HOW CANADA WAS FOUND DICKIE

#B63 - $5

 BOOK THE COMMERCAIL ROOM POEM 1847
1847. FIRST EDITION.

#B69 - $50

 BOOK FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR SIR W.H RUSSELL 1874
This is the diary of Sir William Howard Russell kept during his involvement, as an active war correspondent, in the conflict between France and Prussia in 1870. He seems to have been travelling with the German forces. The book is titled; My Diary during the last Great War and is a condensation of the articles appearing in the Army and Navy Gazette which he founded in 1872. SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL 1820-1907; b. Tallaght, Co. Dublin, ed. TCD, and Middle Temple; became first active-service war-correspondent; covered the Repeal movement in Ireland (1841), the Crimean War, for the Times, giving an account of the Charge of the Light Brigade ‘rushing to death’ on , 15 Nov. 185[4]; later travelled to see the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny (1858); covered the American Civil War (1861) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870), as well as the Zulu War (1879); founded Army and Navy Gazette; a novel, The Adventures of Dr. Brady (1868), supposedly based on events in the Crimea, was commissioned by Tinsley and proved a failure; H. Bentley edited Dispatches from the Crimea, 1854-56 (1970); there is a BBC radio adaptation of his war reports. Hardcover book, 583 pages, published by George Routledge, London in 1874. Binding is splitting in spots. Cover is soiled and scuffed, previous owner has put his name and monogram stamps throughout the book. Despite all this, the pages are clean and readable. This is a very rare book, well worth rebinding.

#B74 - $75
MAGAZINE THE FRIEND AUG 1909

#B75 - $5

 JOURNAL FICTION INTERNATIONAL FALL 1973
Fiction International, Fall 1973, published by Joe David Bellamy at St. Lawrence University, New York, 153 pages, paper bound. Fiction by Ablert Drake, Joyce Carol Oates, Robley Wilson Jr., Ronald Sukenick, Gregory Fitz Geralk and C.E. Povernon. Interviews, critiques and poetry by various authors. A little soiled as to cover but otherwise in excellent condition.

#B78 - $6

 BOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES HENDERSON QUAKERS 1944

#B80 - $15
BOOK RAILWAYS FOR ALL 4TH ED. GAIRNS & TAYLOR

#B81 - $10

 BOOKS 2 VOLUMES SACRED POETRY OF THE 17TH CENT. 1836

#B82 - $50

 BOOK HISTORY OF TUDOR ENGLAND HUME 1759 VOL I

#B83 - $125
BOOK JESS ROUNDTREE TEXAS RANGER COOLIDGE 1933 1ST

#B84 - $10

 BOOK BOUND JOURNAL CANADIAN GAZETTE 1916-17

#B85 - $25

 BOOK SUPERFLUOUS HAIR & ITS REMOVAL NIEMOELLER 1938

#B87 - $10
BOOK UNCLE TOM'S CABIN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE EARLY

#B88 - $10

 RARE BOOK A VIEW OF THE TIMES BY CHARLES LESLIE 1750 VOLUME 1 ONLY
Charles Leslie was born and educated in Dublin, but he moved to London when he was about 40, and became a prolific pamphleteer in the cause of conventional Anglicanism, writing incessantly against Jews, Quakers, Presbyterians, dissenters, and deists. He began this broadsheet journal on August 5, 1705; the first number was called The Observator, but the title was immediately changed to The Rehearsal; publication at first was irregular, but with the second volume the paper appeared virtually every week on Wednesday and Saturday. One of Leslie's chief opponents here is Daniel Defoe, who is frequently mentioned specifically, and whose weekly Review was running concurrently. The original numbers of Leslie's paper chiefly survive in volumes such as these; no collected edition appeared until a six-volume 12mo set in 1750. Publication of this periodical came to a halt with Vol. IV, No. 48, on March 26, 1709. The volume offered here is Volume 1. A View of the Times, Their Principles and Practices in the First Volume of the Rehearsals by Philalethes (Charles Leslie's pen name) Published in London by W. Bowen in 1750. The binding, as can be seen in the photo, is in dire condition. The front cover is nearly off. The interior has some foxing, but interestingly enough, many of the pages have not even been cut. Seven by four and one half inches, 420 pages. A very rare little book.

#B9 - $50

 BOOK HELL BENT FOR ELECTION WARBURG 1935

#B90 - $10
CATALOGUE DRAWING AND ART SUPPLIES TRANSITS COMPASSES
The catalog is from J.G.Fraser 621 West Pender St. Vancouver British Columbia and is undated, although by the style I would say probably 1950s. It is 9 ¼ X 6 inches 126 pages and is in excellent condition. There are Drawing instruments and supplies, Pocket transit, Compasses, slide rules, airbrushes and compressors, art and drawing books drawing pens and pen nibs, handicraft supplies etc.

#B91 - $10

 JAPAN FIGHTS FOR ASIA GOETTE
Japan Fights for Asia bu John Goette, published by Macdonald & Company, London, no date. 190 pages, 5 3/4 by 9 inches. Written by a foreign correspondent of the time, resident in China for many years, about the Japanese war with China and the Pacific War which was the Japanese arena of WW2. Cloth cover scuffed and worn, weak front hinge but pages all clean and readable.

#B92 - $10

 FAMOUS BATTLES BY LAND AND SEA LONG 1902
Famous Battles by Land and Sea by John D. Long, Thomas Bailey Aldritch, editor. Volume XVI of the 'Young Folks Library' of 20 volumes,1902. 7 3/4

#B93 - $10
THE SCARLET LETTER HAWTHORNE 1866
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields in 1866. 307 pages, 5 by 7 1/4 inches. Brown cloth binding with slight corner bruising, otherwise this very early edition of this classic novel is in excellent condition.

#B94 - $50

 THE ROUGHNECK ROBERT W SERVICE 1924
The Roughneck by Robert W. Service, illustrated with scenes from the photoplay a William Fox Production. Published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1924. 450 pages 5 by 8 inches. Cloth binding scuffed and hinges weak but book in basically clean condition.

#B95 - $10

 A GIFT OF LIFE HENRY DENKER1989

#B96 - $10
WAIKNA ADVENTURES ON THE MOSQUITO SHORE 1855

#B97 - $40

 CATALOGUE ARTS CRAFTS FURNITURE CHANDELIERS LAMPS C1910
The French catalogue measures 8 by 5 3/8 inches and has about 63 pages of single and double items. There are occasional tables, sewing stands, chandeliers, lamps, sideboards, picture frames, coat racks etc. This book seems to border on the Art Nouveau-Arts & Crafts Period. The workshop is only identified by the initials D.M. It is loose leaf held together by two bifurcated rivets.

#B99 - $25

#E105 - $5

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