Madrid: Oficina de Antonio Fernandez, 1778. 196pp. Small quarto. Contemporary Spanish tree calf, gilt leather labels. Light wear and rubbing to extremities and spine. Very minor foxing to contents. A Spanish compilation on the history of the British colonies in North America, published just before Spain joined the fight on..... More
[Mainly Galiano Island, B.C. 1911-1919]. [25] leaves, illustrated with 100 vernacular photographs, the great majority annotated in white pencil on the album pages. Contemporary suede souvenir snapshot album with image of Native American on front cover, string-tied. Minor chipping and light soiling to covers. Two leaves detached, and two photos..... More
[Victoria. 1906]. [24]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very light wear at wrapper edges. Scarce photographic pamphlet promoting early 20th-century Victoria, British Columbia. Contains many images of street scenes, local buildings, and the natural surroundings. Also with several advertisements for prominent downtown hotels. The color printed wrappers carry an image of..... More
Chicago & New York: [1895]. [12]pp., with folding map measuring 14 x 21 inches. Original printed wrappers. Printed in black, red, and blue. Small portion of lower corner of front wrap chipped away. Light wear and minor soiling. Text evenly tanned, faint occasional foxing in map margins. Scarce alternate issue..... More
Ottawa: Imprimerie du Journal "Le Canada" 1880. 139pp. Original printed wrappers, rear lacking. Otherwise, light dust soiling and toning. French-language edition of this extensive transcript of debates held in the Canadian House of Commons concerning the construction of the Trans Canadian Railroad. Speakers include Sir Charles Tupper, Minister of Railroads..... More
[Toronto? ca. 1900]. Folding blueprint map, approximately 22 x 27 inches. Small perforation at lower right corner, not affecting map area. Unrecorded large blueprint map of iron ore deposits between the east shore of Lake Nipigon and the Sturgeon River in Ontario, northwest of Thunder Bay. The map shows rectangular..... More
[Toronto]: 1907. Giant folding map, consisting of four separate sheets, the total measuring approximately 62 x 74 inches. Printed in black and light blue. A few short separations at folds. Light tanning, very occasional small patches of light staining and minor wear. A scarce and massive map of Ontario that..... More
Banff: [1920s]. Nineteen real photo postcards, each captioned in the negative. One with writing on the image, minor wear and soiling else. A few with notes on the verso. A wonderful collection of real photo postcards documenting the Stoney Nakoda Indians at Banff Indian Days, taken by noted photographer Byron..... More
Winnipeg: 1905. 112pp. 12mo. Original green cloth, cover stamped in black. Light wear, corners rubbed. Minor soiling and wear internally. A Lutheran hymnal printed in Icelandic for the immigrant community in and around Manitoba, the title of this work translates as, "Hymns and Other Songs of the Community and Sunday..... More
[Various places in British Columbia & Alaska: 1907-1922]. Fifteen real photo postcards. Light wear and soiling. Several with manuscript notations and/or postmarks on verso. A collection of real photo postcards depicting First Peoples and indigenous life in British Columbia, with two images depicting similar scenes in Alaska. Taken by various..... More
Watervliet, NY: Century Printing Co., [1917]. Broadside, 8.5 x 6 inches. Evenly toned, a couple of shallow edge chips. A rare surviving flyer advertising a series of speeches at "The Final Mass Meeting" of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party before voting takes place for "Woman Suffrage Amendment No..... More
Chicago: John Anderson & Co., [ca. 1881]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor biopredation at lower right corner, slightly affecting printed area of rear wrapper, but nothing else. Contemporary ink stamps on wrappers. Light tanning internally. Scarce promotional for the routes and grants lands published by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway..... More
Wien: 1825. [1],140pp. Original printed wrappers, lacking front wrap and spine nearly perished. Light foxing and dust soiling. An abridged German translation of Talbot's narrative detailing his life in Canada and travels therein. Talbot's work was originally published in London the previous year as Five Years' Residence in the Canadas..... More
Opelousas, La. The Jacobs News Depot Co., 1907. 107,[1]pp. plus frontispiece and four plates. Original grey cloth, stamped in gilt. A few bumps to edges, minor soiling. Internally clean and fresh. Memoir of Acadian resettlement to Louisiana. "The writer has presented a prose pastoral, that in its unique composition, will..... More
[Various locations in Canada and Alaska]: 1920. 211 silver gelatin photographs on twenty-four leaves, most measuring 5 x 3.5 inches or 3.5 x 2 inches. Plus two photos and a copy of the Daily Alaskan newspaper laid in. Oblong folio. Original brown cloth covers, string-tied. Light wear to covers. First..... More
[Numerous locations, including New Mexico, Arizona, California, but mostly British Columbia: ca. 1910]. Forty-six leaves, illustrated with 232 photographs, between 3.25 x 5.5 inches including forty small panoramic images measuring around 3.5 x 12 inches, some manuscript annotations, some images captioned in the negative. Oblong folio. Contemporary pebbled leather, stamped..... More
[Various locations]: 1932-1940. Forty leaves, illustrated with 251 black-and-white photographs, measuring between 2.75 x 2 inches and 5.75 x 3.5 inches, artfully arranged in mounting corners, most leaves with at least one annotation in white ink. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black textured leather photograph album, string tied. Bookplate of Ruth Richardson..... More