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Image for Rules, Orders, and Forms of Proceeding of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, adopted by the House, in the First Session of the First Parliament. Including the British North America Act.

Rules, Orders, and Forms of Proceeding of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, adopted by the House, in the First Session of the First Parliament. Including the British North America Act.

By: N/A

Price: $515.63

Publisher: Ottawa, Hunter, Rose and Co.: 1868

Seller ID: Books006269

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

138 pages. Includes the Rules, Orders, &c and Index to these (up to page 37). Thereafter follows The British North America Act, 1867, with Schedules [pp. 39-108] as well as the Index to the Act [pp. 109-138]. Now-faded mauve cloth over boards. Moisture stain from a beverage has lifted the cloth surrounding gilt titles on front cover though cloth remains affixed at circumference; chipping to spine; former owner's signature and soiling to front pastedown / endpapers; else clean and unmarked in secure binding with sound hinges. A scarce Confederation publication.
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Synoptic Report of the Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, for the Session of 1881

By: N/A

Price: $321.75

Publisher: St. John, Daily Telegraph Steam Job Print: 1881

Seller ID: Books006273

Binding: cloth spine over card covers

Condition: Very Good

177 pages plus corrections, Index to Report, and List of Members and (their) Post Office Address. Reported by J.D. Hazen. Double-column format. Black cloth spine over marbled paper on thick card. Mild soiling to endpapers; else clean and unmarked in sturdy binding.
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Synoptic Report of the Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, for the Session of 1886

By: N/A

Price: $309.38

Publisher: Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada, Maritime Farmer Office: 1886

Seller ID: Books006274

Binding: cloth spine over card covers

Condition: Very Good

110 pages plus Index to Report. List of Members and their Post Office Addresses at front. Reported by M. McDade. Double-column format. Tawny cloth spine over marbled paper on thick card. Front endpaper has two small tears/holes where it was apparently affixed to pastedown. Signature of historian W. C. Milner at top of title page; else clean and unmarked in sturdy binding.
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Synoptic Report of the Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick, for the Session of 1894

By: N/A

Price: $309.38

Publisher: St. John, Office of "Progress": 1895

Seller ID: Books006275

Binding: cloth spine over card covers

Condition: Good

177 pages plus Index to Report. List of Members and their Post Office Addresses at front. Reported by M. McDade and Frank H. Risteen. Double-column format. Dusty black cloth spine over marbled paper on thick card. Endpapers tanned. Chipping to spine and splitting to front exterior hinge though binding remains sound; else clean and unmarked.
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Manual of Instructions for Sheriffs, Presiding Officers, ETC.

By: N/A

Price: $171.88

Publisher: Halifax, Commissioner of Public Works and Mines, Queen's Printer: 1890

Seller ID: Books006280

Binding: wraps

Condition: Fair

32 pages. Scarce early publication on governing voting practice in Nova Scotia, with instructions involving polling divisions, list of electors, prevention of corrupt practices, Sheriff's court, candidate's agent, duties of Sheriff on demand of a poll, proceedings at polling place, qualification of voters - objections and challenges, return day - recount - declaration, offences and penalties, miscellaneous provisions, &c. Binding was originally side-sewn with wraps pasted to edge. The thread remains and holds some leaves together but consider as disbound. Lacks rear cover, otherwise complete. ...
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The Public Statutes of Nova Scotia Passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George V Being the Third Session of the Thirty-Fifth General Assembly Convened in the said Province

By: N/A

Price: $178.75

Publisher: Halifax, Commissioner of Public Works and Mines, King's Printer: 1914

Seller ID: Books006282

Binding: Side stapled without wraps

Condition: Good

ix, 139 pages. Comprehensive historical documentation at the outbreak of WW1. Consists of Acts and Acts to amend chapters on such diverse topics as: bills of sale, inspection of steam boilers, children's protection, coal mines protection, compensation, the encouragement of dairying, debentures, education of deaf and mute and blind persons, farmers' co-operative societies, protection of woods against fires, fraud, highways, insects, liquor license, mines, marriage, motor vehicles, municipal sanitariums, railways, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance, oyster fisheries, ru...
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Report of Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, for the year ended 31st December, 1933.

By: N/A

Price: $50.05

Publisher: Halifax, Minister of Public Works and Mines, King's Printer: 1934

Seller ID: Books006285

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

51 pages. Lengthy appendices on donors and donations of books, newspapers, manuscripts, pictures and muniments. Also: early descriptions of Nova Scotia, 1782 sketch of the province by Isaac Deschamps, journal on a tour with Genl. Campbell in July & August 1785. Signature of Ewart G. Morse to front cover; else clean and unmarked. Holding well together with original staples.
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Report of Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, for the year ended 30 November, 1947

By: N/A

Price: $50.05

Publisher: Halifax, King's Printer: 1948

Seller ID: Books006286

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

46 pages Lengthy appendices on donors of books, pamphlets, periodicals and pictures. Also: general description of Nova Scotia in 1848 by Sir John Harvey, and a four-page letter of 1848 on the General Post Office. Former owner's signature to front cover; else clean and unmarked. Holding well together with original staples
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Report of Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, for the year ended 30 November, 1948

By: N/A

Price: $50.05

Publisher: Halifax, King's Printer: 1949

Seller ID: Books006287

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

56 pages. Lengthy appendices on donors of books, pamphlets, periodicals and pictures. Also: journey to & thro' part of France &c by Sampson Salter Blowers (1743-1842), two letters from Joseph Howe to William Garvie, and two letters from E.M. McDonald to Garvie. Former owner's signature to front cover; else clean and unmarked. Holding well together with original staples.
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Report of Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, for the year ended 30 November, 1949

By: N/A

Price: $50.05

Publisher: Halifax, King's Printer: 1950

Seller ID: Books006288

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

44 pages. Lengthy appendices on donors of books, pamphlets, periodicals and pictures. Also: Richard J. Uniacke estate documents and documents relating to lieutenant governorship. Former owner's signature to front cover, chipping to top corner of first few pages, light blue stain to rear cover seeping through to p. 25. Holding well together with original staples.
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Santamarian, December 1923. Year Book of St. Mary's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

By: N/A

Price: $64.35

Publisher: 1923

Seller ID: Books006355

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Good

100 pages. Measures 10 x 7 inches. Complete Year Book of St. Mary's College, Halifax. Of the 100 pages, 36 are devoted to advertisements. Full page photo of Archbishop McCarthy and many photos of dignitaries, theatricals, sports (baseball team), short essays on the mineral wealth of Nova Scotia and the lumber industry in the maritime provinces, Canadian literature, obituaries, college roll for 1922-23, &c. Top right corner clipped off through page 12; marginal stains to first 20 pages of ads; binding is holding well together.
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1896 Easter Ham & Bacon LAING PACKING Montreal Meat Processing Advertisment

By: N/A

Price: $71.50

Seller ID: Books006605

A superb piece of butchery memorabilia from the early days of organized meat-processing in Canada. Advertising hams and bacon for the Easter trade, dated March 16th, 1896. Easter Sunday fell less than three weeks later, on the 5th of April. Laing Packing and Provision Co., Montreal: "Anchor Brand". For such a piece of ephemera to survive is uncommon; the high quality of printing, including the use of gold ink for the border and meats, is remarkable. Tipping the ad one sees iridescence in the shining gold not seen in our scan. There are three closed tears: one short to the left and righ...
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Advertising Bookplate 1940s VI-CO Chocolate Milk

By: N/A

Price: $55.00

Seller ID: Books006606

A great piece of dairy advertising in a 1940s hardcover copy of Shirley Temple and the Spirit of Dragonwood By Kathryn Heisenfelt, illustrated by Henry E. Vallely, published by Whitman. In fair to good condition with hinges split but holding, with dust jacket. The Vi-Co advertising bookplate is intriguing. The substance appears similar to modern-day wear-off tattoos applied with water and pressure: very thin and shiny. The bookplate would have been applied by rubbing. It measures 4.25 x 2.5 inches. Searching the web offers interesting, and in some cases conflicting, information. I do not know ...
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Colour Litho Advertising Blotter Life-Buoy Rubbers Caoutchoucs Kaufman

By: N/A

Price: $50.05

Seller ID: Books006607

Early and uncommon bi-lingual pictorial blotter advertising Life-Buoy Rubbers of the Kaufman company (established 1907 in Berlin / Kitchener, Ontario). Measures 6.1 x 3.4 inches.Condition very good, with minor edgewear. Original, unused.
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Image for German Bible owned by Ferdinand Conrad Temme: Die Bibel, oder Die ganze Heilige Schrift des alten und neuen Testaments, nac der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Abgedruckt nac der hallischen Ausgabe 1813

German Bible owned by Ferdinand Conrad Temme: Die Bibel, oder Die ganze Heilige Schrift des alten und neuen Testaments, nac der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers. Abgedruckt nac der hallischen Ausgabe 1813

By: N/A

Price: $3,503.50

Publisher: London, Großbritannischen und Ausländischen Bibel-Gesellschaft:

Seller ID: Books006714

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[2], [1]-1189, [1], [1]-398 pages [lacking 2 leaves at rear]. Measures 22 x 14 cm; 8.75 x 5.5 inches. A well preserved and foundational memento of Ferdinand Conrad Temme's sojourn as the third pastor of the Lunenburg Lutheran congregation. With receipt for the purchase of this Bible: 5 schillings paid to Johann Nicolaus Kaulbach, signed and dated December 1819 on verso of title page. A distinguished career of pedagogy in his homeland was interrupted by Napoleonic invasion from which he fled to Pennsylvania to serve as a pastor, from whence he was called to fill a vacancy in Lunenburg: "I r...
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Image for Standing rules and regulations of the Legislative Council of Canada adopted in the first Session of the First Provincial Parliament. = Regles et reglements permanents du Conseil legislatif du Canada : adoptes dans la premiere Session du premier Parlement

Standing rules and regulations of the Legislative Council of Canada adopted in the first Session of the First Provincial Parliament. = Regles et reglements permanents du Conseil legislatif du Canada : adoptes dans la premiere Session du premier Parlement

By: N/A

Price: $7,865.00

Publisher: Kingston, ON., G. Desbarats & T. Cary: 1841

Seller ID: Books006719

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xviii, [6]-69, xxxix, xii, xiii, [2], [1]-7, [1]-7. Title pages in English and French. Includes: Royal Instructions, Rules, Appendix, Index, Standing Orders on the subject of Divorce, and Prayers for the Parliament. Each section appears in English and in French. Very few copies apparently survive and none that we have traced mentions or includes in collation the two seven page Prayers / Prieres at rear. Original morocco, stamped in gilt on front with name Neilson / 1846 (or 1844) in ink beneath. Spine professionally and sympathetically repaired in leather. Final leaf of Index re-tipped in and ...
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The Acts and Proceedings of the Thirty Fifth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Hamilton, Ont., June 2-10, 1909

By: N/A

Price: $71.50

Publisher: Toronto, Murray Printing Co.: 1909

Seller ID: Books006750

Binding: wraps

Condition: Good

80, 601, vi pages. Copious statistics and reports, alphabetical list of ministers, index to minutes, etc. Cover fair only with chips, tears and stains. Last 50 pages lower corner dog-eared; else clean and unmarked in sound binding.
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The First Class Scout's Book

By: N/A

Price: $21.45

Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian General Council of the Boy Scouts Association: 1933

Seller ID: Books006775

Binding: wraps

Condition: Fair

64 pages. illustrated. Chip off lower corner of front cover; most pages dampstained (but no mold or odor); pages tanned. Binding is sound with no loose pages.
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Image for The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church : according to the use of the Lutheran Church of Nova Scotia.

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church : according to the use of the Lutheran Church of Nova Scotia.

By: N/A

Price: $1,787.50

Publisher: Halifax, Macnab & Shaffer: 1864

Seller ID: Books006856

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Fair

144 pages. On verso of title page: "Extract from the minutes of the council of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, held at Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, N.S., on 2nd January, 1864.: Whereas we, the council of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, feel the necessity of having a Liturgy of our Church suitable for a British congregation, therefore resolved That we empower the Pastors of the English Congregation in Lunenburg County to edit and publish a British edition of the Book of Common Prayer for the Lutheran Church; said book including a copy of our Articles of Faith, as found in ...
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Image for 1955 Prize Meeting of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association to be held at Connaught Rifle Ranges, Ottawa. Programme, Prize List, Regulations and General Instructions

1955 Prize Meeting of the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association to be held at Connaught Rifle Ranges, Ottawa. Programme, Prize List, Regulations and General Instructions

By: N/A

Price: $78.65

Publisher: Ottawa, Dominion of Canada Rifle Association: 1955

Seller ID: Books006990

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

141 pages, plus ads. 6.75 x 4.75 inches. Very good condition: clean and unmarked in sound binding with sunning to spine and light soiling to rear cover Export ad as seen. The first 3 pink leaves are creased.
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Category: Canadiana