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Journal of the New Brunswick Museum 1978

By: Ross, David (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., New Brunswick Museum: 1978

Seller ID: 006090

ISBN: 0-919326-04-8

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original off-white perfect bound softcover. Some of the articles are: Miscou and Lameque, Silversmiths, Vertebrate Collection, Recent Amphibians, Micmac and Maliseet Clothing Styles, and List of Publications. 163 pp.
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Journal of the New Brunswick Museum 1979

By: Ross, David (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., New Brunswick Museum: 1979

Seller ID: 006091

ISBN: 0-919326-42-0

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original light blue perfect bound softcover. No writing or damage . Article include: Three Saint John Woodcarvers, Black Settlers, Gardner's Creek, Coastal Place Names, Mammals of Grand Manan, Bird Populations, Whales and Tapa, Furniture and Fashion, Publications. 190 pp.
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California; From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco; A Study of American Character

By: Royce, Josiah

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, and Company: 1886

Seller ID: 009135

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original brown cloth on boards. American Commonwealths Series, edited by Horace E. Scudder. A foldout colour map is split at fold. Remains of library bookplate and Dewey number on spine. Top corner of title page missing. 513 pp.
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Tales of a Grandfather; Being the History of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Union of Scotland and England

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Simpkin Marshall, Limited:

Seller ID: 005496

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. DJ complete, but repaired by tape. Minor pencil notes inside cover, balance clean. Corner bump. 254 pp.
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The Churches, Ireland and the Irish

By: Sheils, W.J./Wood, Diana (Eds.)

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, England, Ecclesiastical History Society/Basil Blackwell: 1989

Seller ID: 005939

ISBN: 0-631-16114-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Papers read at the 1987 Summer Meeting and the 1988 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Stamps of Dominican College Library. No writing or damage. 418 pp.
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Pictou's Past (Signed)

By: Sherwood, Roland H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hantsport, N.S., Lancelot Press: 1988

Seller ID: 004903

ISBN: 0889993823

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial cover trade paperback. Founding of Pictou, Battle of Pictou Town, Women's bucket brigade, Haunted places, Sunk by witchcraft, Paupers, Taverns, Railroads, Bridges. Another of many local histories by this author. 160 pp. No marks other than signature, and no damage.
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Russia; A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

By: Sixsmith, Martin

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Overlook Press: 2012

Seller ID: 012579

ISBN: 978-1-59020-723

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"Gives a human face to a paradoxical people." - The Times. 611 pp. with index. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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The Railway Builders; Vol. 32, Chronicles of Canada, Edited By George M. Wrong and H.H. Langton

By: Skelton, Oscar D.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company: 1921

Seller ID: 010029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Maroon cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Part IX, National Highways, continued. Canadian Pacific. Canadian Northern. Van Horne. 254 pp.
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The Huguenots in France After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: With a Visit to the Country of the Vaudois

By: Smiles, Samuel

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1874

Seller ID: 011475

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Green cloth on boards. Two tan spots where news clippings were stored. Rear hinge cracked and glued. The Edict of Nantes was issued in 1598 by King Henry IV, which gave the Protestants, called Huguenots, freedom of worship. It was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685, leading to the deaths of several thousands by torture, hanging, or press gang. 430 pp. with index. Gift note.
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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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