| 3448 200 YEARS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN PRAGUE 1796-1996. Prague Gallery, 1995 Anniversary publication, large softcover format, introductory comments by Pavel Tigrid, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, Jan Winkler, Chairman of the Administrative Council of the National Gallery, and Martin Zlahtohlavek, Director of the National Gallery of Prague. Illustrated with black and white and colour plates, unpaginated, approx 32 pages. In fine condition. |
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| 3666 ANTIQUITIES OF ROMAN BRITAIN. London The British Museum, 1964 Second reprint of third edition. A fine softcover, white card covers with illustration on front. Black & white plates and illustrations throughout. 0-7141-1307-7 |
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| 004980 ART TREASURES FROM JAPAN. 1965 Exhibition catalogue produced jointly by National Commission for Protection of Cultural Properties and the four exhibiting art galleries and museums. Illustrated in black & white and colour. Large softcover, slight fading across top of front cover. |
16.00
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| 1980 THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Secaucus, N.J. Chartwell Books Inc., 1985 Words and music for 58 19th-century carols, folk-songs and lullabies. Illustrated with contemporary images. First Edition. A near fine copy, some rubbing at corners, in a near fine dustjacket. 0-89009-978-2 |
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| 1367 THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, VOL. XXX, NO. 4, DECEMBER, 1949. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1949 Articles include; Agriculture in the Red River Colony by W. L. Morton; The Hudson's Bay Company Under Fire by John S. Galbraith; The Quebec Ship Labourer's Benevolent Society by J .I. Cooper; Canada and Commonwealth Affairs by J.D. McDougall, and the Reviews of Books found in each volume. Green wraps. |
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| 1369 THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, VOL. XXXI, NO. 2, JUNE, 1950. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1950 Good copy, crumpling to bottom right corner. Articles include: The Maritime Foundations of Imperial History by Gerald S. Graham; The Laconia Company of 1629: an English Attempt to Intercept the Fur Trade by R. A. Preston; The Indians in the War of 1812 by George F. G. Stanley; University Federation at Toronto: A Canadian Experiment by S. B. Sissons; James Stephen on Canadian Banking Laws, 1821-46 by Paul Knapland and the Reviews of Books in every volume. |
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| 4234 CAPESTHORNE. Cheshire 1984 Tourist guide and history of Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield, Cheshire. A near fine copy, includes black & white and colour plates, and a table of the father to son inheritance of family of Davenport of Cheshire. Also included two single page brochures of the locality. |
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| 005038 CHAMBERS ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY ILLUSTRATING THE MOVEMENT AND PROGRESS OF HISTORY FROM 3000 BC. Edinburgh W R Chambers Ltd, 1977 A near fine trade paperback. A geographical persepective on history. 0550180079 |
6.95
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| 4233 HAM HOUSE. London Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976 Publication of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Guide and history, diagrams maps and colour plates Fourth printing, a fine copy. |
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| 005083 LUMBERING ON THE RIVIERE DU LIEVRE, A SAGA OF MACLARENS AND BUCKINGHAM. Ottawa, Canada self published, A fine hardcover, dark green boards with gilt lettering, pages clean and tight. A history of the MacLaren family, the town of Buckingham Quebec, and the Lievre Valley produced for the Maclaren Companies. |
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| 4441 MONASTERIOS REALES DEL PATRIMONIO NACIONAL. Madrid Spain Impresion Luna Wennberg, A study of the monasteries and convents of Spain maintained by the National Heritage department. Introduction by Ramon Andrada, Managing Director of the National Heritage; text by Antonio Bonet Correa. Full colour illustration. Spanish text at the front of book and in English in the second half. A fine first edition, red boards, gilt lettering, illustrated endpapers, 246 pages, in a fine illustrated cloth-covered slipcase. 8485983386 |
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| 2487 MOUNTBATTEN: EIGHTY YEARS IN PICTURES. London Macmillan London Limited, 1979 224 pp, black & white and colour photos, family tree on end pages. First Edition. Blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, one blue ink mark on bottom page edges (not a remainder mark, just an accidental pen line), glossy pictorial jacket showing some edge wear, otherwise fine. 0-333-26558-0 |
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| 3908 RICHMOND CASTLE, MINISTRY OF WORKS OFFICIAL GUIDE-BOOK. London Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961 Reprint of 1953 edition. 16 pages, blue card covers, map of the castle tipped in at back cover. Includes black and white postcard of castle used as a bookmark. |
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| 2776 SCROLLS FROM THE WILDERNESS OF THE DEAD SEA. Toronto University of Toronto Press, 1965 A near fine copy of the catalogue for the exhibition "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Jordan" prepared for the National Museum of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum. Card cover with front panel folded in to protect illustrated front panel visible through front cut-outs, 30 pp, buff paper, brown ink, 8 1/2" x 11". |
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| 3906 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A VISIT OF ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH AND FRENCH LAWYERS TO CANADA AND THE USA, AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1930. London Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co Ltd, 1930 Pamphlet, 30 pages, sewn into blue card covers. Foxing, spotting to covers, pages clean and tight. |
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| 3661 SUMERIAN ART ILLUSTRATED BY OBJECTS FROM UR AND AL-'UBAID. London The British Museum, 1969 First Edition. Near fine softcover, illustrated white card covers, black & white and coloured plates. 0-7141-1048-5 |
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| 3890 TENDERFOOT TO QUEEN'S SCOUT. Ottawa, Ontario The National Council Boy Scouts of Canada, 1965 Revised edition. Illustrated card cover lightly rubbed and darkened with age, pages clean and tight. Previous owner's name at top of title page. |
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| 005088 TORONTO, THE HEART OF THE CITY. Toronto Key Porter Books, 1988 Portrait of the city of Toronto in 120 full colour photographs portraying the streets, the people, and the architecture of Canada's largest city. Foreword by Mayor Arthur C Eggleton. A fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. 0886658934 |
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| 3907 THE TOWER OF LONDON, MINISTRY OF WORKS OFFICIAL GUIDE-BOOK. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961 Dark blue card covers, 24 pages, clean and tight. Early printing. |
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| 4262 WIMPOLE HALL, CAMBRIDGESHIRE. The National Trust, 1986 Guide to the largest and one of the most important houses in Cambridgeshire. A fine copy, illustrated green card covers, black & white diagrams and illustrations, 66 pages. |
12.50
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| 1998 A YOUNG PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF TORONTO: A SCRAPBOOK HISTORY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN TORONTO. Toronto Toronto Board of Education, 1985 A sesquicentennial project of the Toronto Board of Education, to help celebrate Toronto's 150th anniversary, produced by a student editorial staff. Includes photos of schools, educators and students from 1830 to 1985. 39 pp, illustrated endpapers. A fine copy, softcover. |
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| 1336 Acland, Eric and Bartlett, Ernest H. LONG LIVE THE KING: GEORGE V - KING AND EMPEROR; PRINCE AND SOVEREIGN - EDWARD VIII. Toronto The John C. Winston Company, Ltd., 1936 Fine red cloth binding, decorated in black and gold. No dustjacket as issued. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First Edition |
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| 3902 Adler, Mortimer J. ART, THE ARTS, AND THE GREAT IDEAS. New York, NY, U.S.A. Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1995 Small trade paperback, clean and tight. 0-684-80420-4 |
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| 3614 Al-Farsy, Fouad. MODERNITY & TRADITION : THE SAUDI EQUATION. London Kegan Paul International, 1991 Originally published 1990. Reprinted 1991. A history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-7103-0395-5 |
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| 4290 Alcock, Leslie. WAS THIS CAMELOT? EXCAVATIONS AT CADBURY CASTLE 1966-70. Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1972 An interesting examination of the possibility of Camelot. Edited by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 15 color plates, 95 monochrome plates, 36 line drawings. A very good copy, light wear at edges of boards, pages clean and tight, small stain at bottom of jacket and spine. First published by Stein & Day, New York. 081281505X |
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| 1376 Alcorn, Douglas with Souster, Raymond. FROM HELL TO BREAKFAST. Toronto Intruder Press, 1980 The story of a Canadian airman who served as a navigator from 1941 to 1945, flying 51 operations in the Boston and then the Mosquito. As new in a mylar- covered dustjacket, minor rubbing to bottom of spine. First Edition. |
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| 1908 Aliki. MUMMIES MADE IN EGYPT. New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1979 The "fascinating, if somewhat grisly, process step by step from the embalmer's slab, where the corpse was made ready, down into the tomb, where the mummy with its treasure would be sealed away from the world and sent on its way to a new life in eternity". Illustrated in colour throughout by the author. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dustjacket, one tear on front panel, worn at top corner. 0-690-03858-5 |
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| 005068 Allen, Glynford P. (editor); Allen, Barbara A. (editor). APPLEWOOD : A HISTORIC ETOBICOKE HOUSE AND THE BIRTHPLACE OF JAMES SHAVER WOODSWORTH. Etobicoke, ON, Canada James Shaver Woodsworth Homestead Foundation, The, 1993 A fine trade paperback, black & white and colour illustrations. 0969744900 |
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| 4346 Anderson, Chester G. (editor). GROWING UP IN MINNESOTA : TEN WRITERS REMEMBER THEIR CHILDHOODS. Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Press, 1976 A very good trade paperback, pages clean and tight, light wear to cover. Includes memoirs of Harrison Salisbury, Meridel Le Sueur, Robert Bly, Gerald Vizenor, Toyse Kyle, Keith Gunderson, Shirley Schoonover, Edward and Howard Hong and Mary Hong Loe . 0816607656 |
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| 2140 Anderson, Kenneth. US MILITARY OPERATIONS 1945-1984. New York Bison Books, 1984 First Edition. Black boards, gilt lettering on spine, previous price written at top of front endpaper, illustrated jacket, one small tear at top front. Over 260 illustrations, photographs. 0-96124-192-4 |
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| 3679 Andronicos, Manolis. NATIONAL MUSEUM. Athens Ekdotike Athenon S A, 1978 One of the series of five paperback texts on the five most important Greek museums. A near fine copy in glossy illustrated wraps, french flaps. 96 pages, previous owner's name written at top of half-title page, otherwise clean and crisp. |
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| 005131 Appel, Alfred. ART OF CELEBRATION: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PAINTING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND JAZZ. New York Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992 Art history. Illustrated throughout in both colour and black & white, 80 photographs and 42 illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Second printing. 0679400079 |
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| 3356 Arnett, Peter. ARNETT : LIVE FROM THE BATTLEFIELD: FROM VIETNAM TO BAGHDAD, 35 YEARS IN THE WORLD'S WAR ZONES. New York Simon & Schuster Trade, 1994 Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof in yellow wraps. A near fine copy softcover, publisher's date written in red ink, publisher's business card stapled to front cover. 0-671-75586-2 |
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| 2056 Ascoli, David. A VILLAGE IN CHELSEA: AN INFORMAL ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL. London William Luscombe Publisher Limited, 1974 A history of the British institution which has cared for British soldiers for over 300 years. Jacket design by Andrew Farmer. First Edition. A very fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Inscription from the author at top of title page. 0-86002-037-1 |
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| 004947 Austin, M M; Vidal-Naquet, P. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE: AN INTRODUCTION. Berkeley University of California Press, 1973 Large trade paperback, pages tight and clean, cover shows light wear, 397 pages 0520042670 |
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| 1115 Bailey, Brian. VILLAGES OF ENGLAND. New York Harmony Books, 1984 Fist edition. Very good in very good dust jacket, corner clipped. This book includes descriptions of more than 400 villages, with 200 full-colour and black-and-white photographs. |
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| 005358 Baillie, Joan Parkhill. LOOK AT THE RECORD, AN ALBUM OF TORONTO'S LYRIC THEATRES 1825-1984. Oakville Mosaic Press, 1985 With an introduction by William Kilbourn. A fine hardcover in a very good dustjacket, one closed tear at back spine edge, 294 pages and index, fully illustrated. 0889622361 |
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| 1303 Baker, David. VICTORY IN THE AIR : THE WINNING YEARS. London IPC Magazines Limited, 1995 50th Anniversary Souvenir, from the publishers of Aeroplane. Large magazine format, softcover, in fine condition. |
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| 1432 Baldyga, Jerzy A., translator. THE OLD TOWN AND THE ROYAL CASTLE IN WARSAW. Warsaw Arkady, 1988 Illustrated throughout with black & white and colour drawings and photos. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition. 8321333575 |
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| 005144 Barber, Malcolm. THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD: A HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE. New York Cambridge University Press, 1996 History of the Knights Templar. Reprint. A near fine trade paperback, pages clean and tight although slightly darkened., black & white illustrations. 0521558727 |
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| 4700 Barnett, Correlli. THE LOST VICTORY : BRITISH DREAMS, BRITISH REALITIES, 1945-1950. London, United Kingdom Pan Books Limited, 2001 A very good trade paperback, small crease at one corner, light wear at outer back edge. 0330346393 |
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| 005139 Barris, Ted. DEADLOCK IN KOREA : CANADIANS AT WAR, 1950-1953. Toronto, Ontario, Canada C D G Books Canada, Incorporated, 1998 Introduction by Joe Schlesinger. A near fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket, very slight wear. 0771575912 |
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| 005049 Barzini, Luigi. THE EUROPEANS. Middlesex Penguin Books, 1984 A near fine trade paperback. 0410071504 |
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| 4658 Bastedo, Jamie. REACHING NORTH : A CELEBRATION OF THE SUBARCTIC. Calgary, AB, Canada Red Deer College Press, 1998 A near fine trade paperback. 0889951705 |
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| 3898 Baxter, Angus. IN SEARCH OF YOUR CANADIAN ROOTS. Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1994 A fine trade paperback. 0-8063-1250-5 |
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| 4458 Bercuson, David J; Herwig, Holger H.. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BISMARCK. Don Mills, ON, Canada Stoddart Publishing, 2001 First edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0773733256 |
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| 3984 Bertinetti, Marcello; Bertinetti Angela White; De Fabianis Manferto, Valeria. NEW YORK. New York Bison Books, 1984 First published by White Star Ediziooi, Vercelli, Italy. A near fine hardcover, black boards, beautiful photography of the city. Glossy pictorial jacket, front panel is "The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center reflected in the Hudson River at sunset". The back panel is "Yellow Cabs in New York". Title page is a double fold out panorama of the city skyline. 0861241894 |
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| 1403 Berton, Pierre. NIAGARA: A HISTORY OF THE FALLS. Toronto McClelland & Stewart, 1992 A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. First Edition. 0771012128 |
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| 2835 Beschloss, Michael R. TAKING CHARGE: THE JOHNSON WHITE HOUSE TAPES, 1963-1964. New York Simon & Schuster, 1997 First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. 0-684-80407-7 |
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| 005258 Blunt, Wilfrid. THE DREAM KING, LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA. New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press, 1970 A fine hardcover in a near fine price-clipped dustjacket, short closed tear at back top corner. 0670284564 |
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