Search Results: History: Canada and No. America from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1936. Hard Cover. x, 266 p., plates incl. color front., endpaper map; 22 cm. An automobile camping trip to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. Good, bookplate, edges frayed/ no dj. Stock# 101,389a.

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1935. 'Fourth printing, June, 1935'. A camping trip by car in Québec. Hard Cover. viii, 200, [6] pages, 25 illus. & halftone plates incl. color front., endpaper map; 22 cm. Pencil owner name, red cloth covers stamped in gold, spine faded, no dust jacket; Good+. Stock#101389.

Toronto, Collins, 1946. "There are times when Nova Scotia is not so much a land or a part of a country as an exhausting state of war between water and earth." Hard Cover. 6 leaves, 273 pages, illus.; 22 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#NS0130.

Eight book catalogues from D&E Lake of Toronto listing books on Canada and North America. #45, 95 items; #48, 328 items; #50, 91 items; #52, 105 items; #55, 180 items; #80, 422 items; #97, 347 items; #99, 322 items; all stapled in paper covers; all Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0310.

Three Reese catalogues listing materials about French North America, Canada, the Arctic, and "the North Country": #32, 163 items; #48, 268 items; #83, 602 items. Book Cellar's mimeographed list has 743 items. All have paper covers; all are Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0311.

Montreal, printed for Gregory Javitch by Stinehour Press / Meriden Gravure, 1978. Hard Cover. Facsimile of the Paris, 1603, edition made from the John Carter Brown Library copy. Introduction by Marcel Trudel. 13 p., [4], 36 leaves of facsimile. French explorer and chief founder of New France, Champlain explored the North American continent as far west as Lakes Huron and Ontario and south to Lake Champlain in New York, extending French land claims as far as Wisconsin. Bound in red cloth; near fine. Stock#20276.

Toronto : Doubleday Canada c1980. Soft Cover. 241 p. : illus. ; 25 cm. Material previously published in Cape Breton's magazine. 52 pieces on traditional folk ways including rum running, moonshining, leather sewing, fishing, lumbering, fiddling, bone playing, hooking rag rugs as well as events such as the sinking of a ferry by a U-Boat in 1942. Stock# 44,093. Good+, coffee slash lower edge of rear third (text not affected)/ soft cover.

Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951/ 5712. Hard Cover. xxviii, 301 p. 21.5 cm. The story of Jews in the Northern States and Canada. The index to this is contained in volume two of the set published in 1953. Stock #29,982.. Vg/ no dj.

New Brunswick Government Bureau of Information and Tourists Travel, 1941. Soft Cover. 119p., illus (one fold.) , 4 maps (3 fold.), 22.5 cm. A collection of historical information about New Bruswick, with an index. Stock# 34,810. Vg /paper.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1919. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 441 p. illus. frontis. (port.), 22.5 cm. Grenfell went out to Labrador in 1893 and would up setting up a health system that is named after him. Stock# 30,455. Good, worn at corners/ no dj.

Providence, R. I., John Carter Brown Library, 1965 [Anthoensen Press]. Soft Cover. 45 p., 8 collotype facsimile plates by Meriden Gravure; 27 cm. "An Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, May 14, 1964, together with a Catalogue of the Exhibition opened on that occasion." "There is a certain danger that in speaking of the part played by Englishmen in the discovery of North America we may tend to give them more than their due. Far be it from me as an Irishman to do so." Printed red paper wraps; VG. Stock#20339x.

NY: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1862. First but unauthorized American printing, appearing just four days before the authorized Lippincott edition. Contents include Newport-- Rhode Island; Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont; The Connexion of the Canadas with Great Britain; North & West; From Niagara to the Mississippi; Ceres Americana; Buffalo to New York; An Apology for the War; Cambridge & Lowell; The Rights of Women; Education & Religion; From Boston to Washington; Congress; The Causes of the War; Washington to St. Louis; Missouri; Cairo & Camp Wood; The Army of the North; The Government; The Law Courts & Lawyers of the United States; The Financial Position; The Post-Office; American Hotels; Literature; Appendices (Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; Constitution of the United States). Last 4 pages list "Fresh Books of Travel and Adventure, Published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, N.Y." Hard Cover. vii, 623, [4] pages; 19.25 cm. P\Bound in publisher's… Read More

Fourth Edition. Revised, Enlarged and Edited by Robert H. Becker. xx, 745 pages; index; maroon buckram; VG. Stock#ofc0152.

N.Y., Coward-McCann, 1930. Hard Cover. ix, [1], 85 p.; 25 cm. "A group of dramatic lyrics, songs of primitive folk dwelling along the British Columbia coast." These "are not translations or adaptations of Indian poems," but are inspired by the rhythms and feelings of the natives. The binding design is geometric red and black shapes against a white background, very attractive. Vg copy/ dj soiled and frayed. [Fifi] 101910.

Farrar & Rinehart Inc. [1942; J. J. Little and Ives, NY].. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Rivers of America. Edited by Stephen Vincent Benét and Carl Carmer. As Planned and Started by Constance Lindsay Skinner [1877-1939]. Art Editor Ruth E. Anderson. xiii, 274 p., index, illus., map; blue cloth covers, 21 cm.; spine faded, a small waterspot on the front cover, pencil owner’s initials; no dj; else VG. Twentieth in the Rivers of America series. Outlet for the Great Lakes, flowing eastward from Lake Ontario past the Gaspé Peninsula and Anticosti Island into the Atlantic. ‘The reader will find that the book largely concerns itself with the French regions of the St. Lawrence, for there is the river at its greatest and there is human life most shaped by its presence and influences.’ Artist A. Y. Jackson,… Read More

Paris, Paul Hartmann, MCMXLV (1945).. Soft Cover. 2 p. L., 7-56, [1] p., 2 L. 16 cm. During World War II, Jacques Maritain protested the policies of the Vichy government while teaching at the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies in Canada. "Moving to New York, Maritain became deeply involved in rescue activities, seeking to bring persecuted and threatened academics, many of them Jews, to America." Wikipedia. So for this philosopher the (anticipated) Allied military victory in France. In this expression of joy dated (p. [57]) 6 Juinm 1944"pour servr vraiment l'inderacinable aspiration a la justice et a la liberte qui ne fait qu'un avec la dignite de la personne humaine." Stock# 46,798. Excellent, uncut / on heavy stock paper