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Thucydides Volume III, Books V and VI (History of the Peloponnesian War)

By: Smith, Charles Forster (Translator)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press/ William Heinemann Ltd.: 1966

Seller ID: 013326

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original olive cloth on boards with bright gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket. Part of the Loeb Classical Library. Text in Greek and English. 375 pp. plus 7 pages of ads.
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Covered Wooden Bridges of Bennington County(Vermont)

By: Spargo, John

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Bennington, VT, Bennington Historical Museum and Art Gallery: 1953

Seller ID: 002068

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original beige card cover printed in brown. Stapled. Images and descriptions of 12 wooden covered bridges of Bennington County, Vermont. 20 pp.
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The Face of Early Canada; Pictures of Canada Which Have Helped to Make History

By: Spendlove, F. St. George

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Ryerson Press: 1958

Seller ID: 005929

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original light green cloth on boards. Inscribed and signed by the author. A different previous owner's name. Based on the Sigmund Samuel Collection, Royal Ontario Museum. Six colour plates plus 122 black/white prints. 162 pp.
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Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail

By: Sperlin, Ottis B. (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Longmans Green and Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 001472

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original yellow-green cloth heavily decorated and lettered in black on boards. No DJ. Front free endpaper is missing, OW very good. One of Longman's English Classics, Ashley H. Thorndike, Ed. This appears to be the only copy of this early date on offer. Minor top and bottom spine wear. 363 pp with extensive Notes plus ads.
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To California By Covered Wagon

By: Stewart, George R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Random House: 1954

Seller ID: 008902

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original green cloth on boards. Ample white space between lines as well as average level vocabulary suggests tha tthis edition was intended for juveniles. Generously illustrated in two colours with brief maps. 182 pp. with index.
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Outlines of the World;s History, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Special Relation to the History of Civilization and the Progress of Mankind

By: Swinton, William

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co.: 1876

Seller ID: 002224

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth with gilt emblem on boards. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering. Diagrams and colour maps. First front free endpaper missing. Previous owner's name. Glued-in poem naming the kings and queens of England in order. Bookseller's stamp. Slight spine and corner wear. 498 pp.
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Outlines of the World's History, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

By: Swinton, William

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co.: 1877

Seller ID: 011511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Green cloth on boards, backed in red leather. Two leaves (pp. 11-14) have chipped edges. Many maps, colored and black/white and other illustrations. 498 pp. with index.
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The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada By the United Empire Loyalists, 1784-1884. The Celebrations at Adolphustown, Toronto, and Niagara, with an Appendix, Containing a Copy of the U.E. List, Preserved in the Crown Lands Department at Toronto.

By: The Centennial Committee

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Rose Publishing Company: 1885

Seller ID: 013334

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original chestnut cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration, and embossed design on the front cover. Previous owner's name. Pencil notes inside front cover, and some minor notes in the book. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting. Minor corner and edge wear. Appendix has list of Loyalists, where they settled in Ontario, and additional information such as their regiment if they were military. Valuable resource for anyone with Loyalist roots. 334 pp.
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The Canadian Almanac and Miscellaneous Directory for the Year 1911

By: Thomas, Arnold W. (Ed.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Copp, Clark Company, Limited: 1910

Seller ID: 010384

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Green softcover book of 504 pp. Lists of all sorts of information such as post offices, military personnel, bank records, railroads, duty rates, ship schedules, government officials, etc. 504 pp. Book is intact and complete, but has small bits missing from head and foot of spine. No writing.
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The Medieval World; An Illustrated Atlas

By: Thompson, John M. (Ed.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 2009

Seller ID: 006260

ISBN: 1426205333

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Original maroon faux leather on boards. Unclipped pictorial DJ. All FINE. A beautiful, informative book which would make an appreciated gift. Original price $40.00 US. 383 pp. Large, heavy book will need extra postage.
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Politics in New Brunswick

By: Thorburn, Hugh G.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronoto, University of Toronto Press: 1961

Seller ID: 012014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. DJ chipped along head and foot of front cover. DJ flap points out the problems which New Brunswick shares with Canada as a whole. That still seems to be the case. No. 10 in Canadian Government Series. 217 pp. with index.
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The Romance of London: Historic Sketches, Remarkable Duels, Notorious Highwaymen, Rogueries, Crimes and Punishments, and Love and Marrage

By: Timbs, John

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.:

Seller ID: 001609

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. No DJ. "The Chandos Classics". Previous owner's name and bookplate. Front hinge cracked; not separated. Musty. 509 pp.
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France From Behind the Veil: Fifty Years of Social and Political Life

By: Vassili, Count Paul (Princess Catherine Radziwill)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited: 1914

Seller ID: 013256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original purple cloth on boards with bright gilt lettering and decorations. Previous owner's name. Top edges gilt. Born into a family of Russian aristocrats, the author wrote about life in high society in Europe, causing scandal as much of her work was gossip. Her private life included affairs, an illegitimate son, and even sixteen months in jail for possessing forged money! Large book - may require extra postage. 396 pp. including Index.
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The New Brunswick Magazine; Vol. III (July-November, 1899)

By: W.K. Reynolds

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: St. John, N.B., W.K. Reynolds: 1899

Seller ID: 006879

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Good Minus

ORIGINAL issues of this important monthly. Volume III had only five issues. Covers have more wear and several are separated. Front cover for November is missing. Interiors are complete and intact. The Consest (sic) for Sebaskastaggan by Rev. W.O. Raymond; Our First Families (Ninth Paper) by James Hannay; The Story of an Emigrant by Historicus; Recollections of an Old Timer by W.M. Jordan; The Evacuation of New York; The Genesis of New Brunswick; Hancock and Adams.; The Fishery Quarrel by W.O. Raymond; The Story of an Emigrant (Concluded) by Historicus; Punishments of Seventy Years Ago by Cla...
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The Cariboo Road

By: Wade, Mark S.

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Haunted Bookshop for Hugh S. Wade: 1979

Seller ID: 004363

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright red cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ slightly soiled and edgeworn. Previous owner's name. Researched, annotated, and indexed by Eleanor A. Eastick, whose signature appears below the Limited Edition information. A newly-found manuscript written in the 20's and never before published. Large foldout map of gold fields inside back cover. 264 pp. plus foldout map.
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Behind the Hill

By: Wade, Scott and Lloyd, Hugh

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Students' Representative Council, Associated Alumni, and the Senate of the University of New Brunswick: 1967

Seller ID: 000499

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original pictorial cloth on boards, pictorial DJ. A history of the university, not a student yearbook. 222 pp.
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The United Empire Loyalists; A Chronicle of the Great Migration; Vol. 12, Chronicles of Canada, Edited By George M. Wrong and H.H. Langton

By: Wallace, W. Stewart

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1921

Seller ID: 013418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Maroon cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Both hinges cracked. Part IV, The Beginnings of British Canada. Persecution. Exodus to Nova Scotia. Quebec. New Brunswick. America. 148 pp.
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Encyclopedia of Classic Warfare 1457 B.C. - 1815 A.D.

By: Watkins, Jack (Gen Ed.)

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: London, Amber Books Limited: 2011

Seller ID: 012502

ISBN: 978-1-907446-91

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Records of 170 key encounters from ancient Egyptians to the end of the Napoleonic era. Huge, heavy book of 320 pp. will need extra postage. Book is faultless. DJ has one-inch tear at foot of spine.
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The Thirty Years War

By: Wedgwood, C. V.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Book of the Month Club: 1995

Seller ID: 012284

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Grey paper boards backed in grey cloth. No marks or damage to book or DJ. 544 pp.
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The Union of the British Provinces

By: Whelan, Hon. Edward (M.P.P.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Gardenvale, Quebec, Garden City: 1927

Seller ID: 000289

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Reprint of an 1865 volume, in excellent condition. Green cloth with blind-stamped border, no DJ. "F82/.W2" on FFEP its only marks. Portrait front. with tissue guard. Introduction by D.C. Harvey, Professor of History, University of Manitoba. 248 pp.
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Category: History