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BROOKLINE HISTORICAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY; Brookline, Mass.,

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Brookline,, Brookline Historical Pub. Soc.,:

Seller ID: HS 0971

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

9 issues of the publications of the society, circa 1894-1898, 8 vo., printed paper wraps, disbound, Pub No 1, A Letter From Rebecca Boylston To Edward Boylston; 6pp., Pub. No.2, The Sharp Papers i the Brookline Public Library,8-14 pp.; Pub. o 3., Brookline in the Revolution; 16- 34 pp., Pub. No. 4, Papers of the White Family of Brookline, 1650-1807; 38 -53 pp; Pub. No. 5, Roxbury Church Records Relating to Brookline; 56-57 pp.;Pub. No. 9, The History of the Lyceum Movement in Brookline; 138- 142 pp.; Pub, No. 10, Brookline in the Civil War; 144- 158pp.; Pub. No. 11,Threee Glimpses of Brookline...
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CAMDEN MISCELLANY XXXII; Camden Fifth Series Volume 3;

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, & Cambridge, Royal Historical Society;: 1994

Seller ID: HS 0165

ISBN: 0 86193 300 1

Binding: Red Cloth, Gilt Spine,

Condition: Very Good

pp., 513, 3 maps, indexes, jam at bottom edge of front cove near spine, small ink stamp on top edges else a v.g. copy.Contains: Jones, M. & Walker, S. ; Private Indentures for Life Service in Peace and War 1278-1476: Murphy, Mrtin, William Atkins, A Relation of the Journey Form St Omers to Saville, 1622: Jnnkins, T.A.; The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawany, 1868-73
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, Or Critical Journal for January, 1874, April 1874

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London & Edinburgh, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, & Adam and Charles Black: 1874

Seller ID: 122805

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, raised bands,gilt spine labels, marbled edges, pp., ii, 579, coloured folding map of Eastern Toorkistan (sic) and the Adjacent Countries, ex library with only slight library marks, shelf wear, some scuffing, ink sig on front free endpaper, Contains reviews of; The Russians in Central Asia; High Tartary, Yarkund, and Kashghur, by R.B. Shaw; Lahore to Yarkund, Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870. by G. Henderson, &A.O. Hume;Central Asia by Arminius Vambery, London, 1874; plus numerous other review...
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Image for A BOOK OF DISCOVERY. The History of the World's Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole...Fully Illustrated from Authentic Sources and With Maps.

A BOOK OF DISCOVERY. The History of the World's Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole...Fully Illustrated from Authentic Sources and With Maps.

By: (Margaret Bertha} M. B. Synge

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons,:

Seller ID: 1124200

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

( no date,circe 1955), blue pict. cloth, cover & spine, with cover paste-down of map, pp., xxvii, 554 p.,deckle edges,numerous illustrations, (9 plates in full color, (some folding,) numerous text illustrations,d.j. is NOT price-clipped, index, chronology, a bright, clean copy , d.j. has some edge wear and minor edge tears,small lossat foot of spine of d.j., in protective mylar jacket.
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THE SCOTCH COLONY : the story of 1873

By: A Friend of the Colony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Margate, England, A Friend of the Colony:

Seller ID: 112556008

Binding: Paper Covers

Condition: Very Good

n.d. (1960's), pict. paper wraps, 28 pages,designed and printed at The Thanet Press by Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, Margate, England ,includes a "list of passengers." also Includes list of emigrants to New Kincardineshire, New Brunswick, on the 'Castalia' in 1873. "With the compliments of H. Watson James Agent General Canadian Atlantic Provinces, 60 Trafalgar Square, London WC2." (ink stamp inside front wrap). light soil to wraps,
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The French-Canadian idea of Confederation, 1864-1900

By: A I Silver

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1982

Seller ID: 11255666

ISBN: 0802055575

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

pict trade paper, pp.,ix, 257 , very good copy, CONTENTS: Introduction -- Confederation and Quebec -- Confederation and minority rights -- Confederation and the North-West -- La Question Manitoba-Brunswick -- French-Canadian Province -- French Canada in the West -- Riel affair -- Manitoba schools and the rise of bilingualism -- Conclusions and conjectures .
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THE PEOPLE OF NEW SWEDEN: Our Colony on the Delaware River, 1638-1655

By: Aberg, Alf

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Natur och Kultur: 1988

Seller ID: 1125231

ISBN: 9127019098

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

pict. fabroid covers, 203, [1] , illustrated, map,index, translated by Roger Tanner. Size: 8 Vo.22 cm.
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THE NATURE OF THE BOOK : print and knowledge in the Making

By: Adrian Johns

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press;: 1998

Seller ID: 112557257

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

cloth, d.j., pp, xxi, 753 p. : illustrations, a very good copy , in protective mylar jacket, Description of the relation between print and knowledge in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England.
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Balleneros vascos del siglo XVI : (Chateau Bay, Labrador, Canada´) : estudio arqueolo´gico y contexto Histo´rico

By: Agusti´n Azkarate Garai-Olaun; Jose´ Antonio Herna´ndez; Julio Nu´n~ez; Pai´s Basc. Departamento de Cultura.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Spain, Vitoria-Gasteiz Servicio Central de Publicacio´n del Gobierno Vasco: 1992

Seller ID: 1125230

ISBN: 8445701320

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

pict. hard cover, 261 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;2 folding plates (map & plan) an archealogical investigation of 16th-century Basque whaling industry in southern Labrador, text in Spanish
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CONFLICT IN STUART ENGLAND Essays in Honour of Wallace Notestein;

By: Aiken, William, Appleton & Hennning, Basil D., [Edited by]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York Univ. Press,: 1960

Seller ID: HS 0699

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

gilt dec. cloth cover and spine, pp., 271 pages, 6 pp bibliography, (Wallace Notestein), portrait frontispiece, index, small piece cut from the top fore-edge of the front end-paper, light spine fade, small ink stamp on the top fore-edges, else a v.g. copy
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MORE UP COUNTRY MEMORIES; more pictures and stories about how it used to be along the Lower St. John River

By: Aiton Linda & Bormke Diane (Compiled by)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Grand Bay, N.B, Bayfield Services: 2000

Seller ID: 112557453

ISBN: 0968423213

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

pict. paper wraps,pp.,vi, 146 , illustrated, ink sig on front endnapaper, else as printed, great early photographs, much on families, Size: Folio (22 x 28 cm)
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HISTORY OF HALIFAX CITY

By: Akins, T.B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Belleville, Ont, Mike Publishing: 1973

Seller ID: 112555736

ISBN: 0919302637

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

green cloth, gilt cover and spine, 320 pages : illustrations, by T.B. Akins ; illustrated with maps and engravings. Introd. by D.A. Redmond., Canadiana reprint series (Mika), no. 52., Facsimile edition. Originally published in Halifax, 1895, edge and corner wear, three line ink sig of former owner on front blank.
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Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia : published under a resolution of the House of assembly passed March 15, 1865

By: Akins,Thomas B; Benjamin Curren; Nova Scotia. Commissioner of Public Records,

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Halifax, N.S., Charles Annand, Publisher: 1869

Seller ID: 112557098

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Poor

green cloth, gilt spine, ii, 755 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 3 unnumbered leaves (blank), 1 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded) (ONE PLATE MISSING) : illustrations, 2 folded facsimiles, Title vignette is the seal of Nova Scotia, CONTENTS: Papers relating to the Acadian French. 1714-1755.-- Papers relating to the forcible removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768.-- Papers relating to the French encroachments in Nova Scotia, 1749-1754, and the war in North America, 1754-1761.-- Papers relating to the first settlement of Halifax. 1749-1756.-- Papers relating to the first establish...
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To all our children : the story of the postwar Dutch immigration to Canada

By: Albert VanderMey

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Jordan Station, Ont, Paideia Press: 2004

Seller ID: 112557293

ISBN: 0888151004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

blue cloth, gilt spine, 511 pages : illustrations, portraits, a very good copy, CONTENTS: 1. The Land They Left Behind -- 2. The Vanguard -- 3. How It All Began -- 4. Deciding to Leave -- 5. The Parting is Hard -- 6. The Crossing -- 7. On Solid Ground -- 8. Another Journey -- 9. New Homes -- 10. Earning Bread -- 11. In the Beetfields and Elsewhere -- 12. Homesickness -- 13. Everything Was So Different -- 14. The Language Barrier -- 15. The First Car -- 16. One Family's Dream Come True -- 17. Immigrants of All Kinds -- 18. Keeping the Faith -- 19. Helping Hands -- 20. Forging a Visible Ident...
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AN OLD TOWN BY THE SEA;

By: Aldrich, Thomas, Bailey,

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin,: 1894

Seller ID: 0348

Binding: Green Cloth, Gilt Spine,

Condition: Very Good

128 pages, t.e.g. index of names, a description of the poet/novelist's birthplace , Portsmouth N.H. Reprinted in 1917 under the title; Portsmouth; An Old Town by the Sea
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CHURCHILL WINSTON;Original soundtrack recording from Columbia Picture's Young Winston

By: Alfred Ralston; Edward Elgar

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hollywood, CA, Angel: 1972

Seller ID: 1125124

Binding: Sound Recording

Condition: Very Good

1 sound disc (41 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo., 12 inch, CONTENTS; Overture -- Young Winston with the army in India -- The battle in the Indian village -- The electioneering sequence -- The Harrow examination room -- Jennie's theme -- Randolph and Winston -- Pomp and circumstance -- Entr'acte -- The desert -- Winston's ride to Kitchener and the approach of the dervishes -- The cavalry charge and the ambush of the armoured train -- Winston's escape from the Boers -- Winston with Lloyd George in the commons -- The dream ; End titles. Pomp and circumstance. Desert. Young Winston. Young Wins...
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THE GRAND MANAN HISTORIAN; No. XXVI, Shipwrecks of Grand Manan

By: Allaby, Eric

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Grand Manan, N.B, Grand Manan Historical Society.: 2001

Seller ID: 112555681

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Fine

pict. paper wraps, 156 pages, illustrated, map, postage will be reduced, A chronological account of shipwrecks that occured on and around Grand Manan Island from 1720 to 1946. A well researched study of the subject.
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Waweig United Church 1948-1967 : supplement to Through the years 1848-1948

By: Allan Armstrong, Mrs.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Waweig, New Brunswick, The Church: 1967

Seller ID: 11255930

Condition: Very Good

printed card wraps, 29 pages. : illustrated., ports. many names, a very good copy of a scarce church history printed in Canada's Centennial year, Waweig is a rural community in Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Waweig is centered on the intersection of Route 760 and Route 127.
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PROVINCIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT VERSUS HOME RULE

By: An Irish Democrat

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Isaac Pitman & Sons: 1913

Seller ID: 123470

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

printed paper wraps, 121 pages, wraps a little dusty
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The History of Arabia Ancient and Modern Containing a description of the country, an account of its inhabitants, antiquities, political condition, and early commerce, the life and religion of Mohammed, the conquests, arts, and literature of the Saracens

By: Andrew Crichton

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Published by Harper & Bros: 1840

Seller ID: 112558021

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Poor

2 volumes, orig cloth gilt spines,: illustrations, folding map , Vol 1, 418 pp; Vol. 2, 422: Volume 1 has the map called for but only one of the 2 full page plates is present; Vol 2, has only one plate of the 5 called for, covers are scuffed shelf worn, top portion of vol 1 missing, endpapers foxed, some scattered foxing, bindings are tight, a scarce set of vols badly inneed of repair. FULL TITLE READS; The history of Arabia. : Ancient and modern. : Containing a description of the country, an account of its inhabitants, antiquities, political condition, and early commerce, the life and religi...
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