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BY-LAWS SELECTED FROM AMONG THOSE PASSED DURING THE YEARS 1859 TO 1922. TOWNSHIP OF TRAFALGAR, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.

By: N/A

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Oakville, Ontario, Oakville Star: 1923

Seller ID: 29022

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

83 pp + (2 pp) Reeves and Deputies +(2 pp) Index to By-Laws, 9" H. Green cloth boards with red leather spine - date in gold on spine, gold lettering on front board. B&w photographs. By-laws include those: To provide for the obtaining and maintaining a Hall for the use of the Corporation of Trafalgar (1881); To Encourage Tree Planting in the Township of Trafalgar (1883); to Authorize the Purchase of the Bronte Harbor and Appurtenances and Other Lands in the Village of Bronte (1899); Respecting Public Morals (1899); To Commute a part of the Statute Labor of the Village of Omagh (1899); Fo...
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THE POST-OFFICE ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR 1836-37: CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MERCHANTS, TRADERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS: AND A SECOND LIST OF THE NAMES OF MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS, IN GLASGOW AND SUBURBS.

By: N/A

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Glasgow, John Graham (For the Letter-Carriers of the Post-Office): 1836

Seller ID: 29484

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good-

xv, 341, 118 pp, 7 1/8" H. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper-covered boards, black leather title label on spine with gilt lettering, additional gilt date and decoration, blindstamped design. Small label at top of front pastedown: "J. Carss & Co., Bookbinders, 31, Argyle Street, Glasgow." Title page continues: "Classed and Arranged Under Each Distinct Head of Trade or Profession: With a Street Directory: and An Appendix Containing many Useful Lists. Ninth Publication." The first section (xv pp) consists of a Calendar (July, 1836 to December, 1837); Stamp D...
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BURLINGTON'S STREETS: WHAT'S BEHIND THE NAME?

By: Armstrong, Peggy and Armstrong, Les.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Burlington, Ontario, Burlington Historical Society:

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 25172

ISBN: 0969104022

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

89 pp, + fold-out map at rear, 11" H. No date (c2001). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. Gives the history/meaning behind the street names of Burlington, Ontario. Arranged alphabetically. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor rubbing, very minor edge wear.
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BURLINGTON'S STREETS: WHAT'S BEHIND THE NAME?

By: Armstrong, Peggy and Armstrong, Les.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Burlington, Ontario, Burlington Historical Society:

Edition: Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 29696

ISBN: 0969104022

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Bennett, Geoffrey. Preface by Rodney M. Bennett.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Penguin: 2001

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 22923

ISBN: 0141390875

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

310 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements - battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea - with analysis of the strategy and tactics of both sides. He brings these sea battles dramatically to life, and confirms the Allied navies' vital contribution to victory. In his words, 'Though the ti...
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NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Bennett, Geoffrey. Preface by Rodney M. Bennett.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Penguin: 2001

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29083

ISBN: 0141390875

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

LIVING STEAM 1984. A STEAM RAILWAY SPECIAL.

By: Bird, John.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: N/A:

Seller ID: 19239

31 pp, 5 7/8" H x 8 1/4" D, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs. "This guide gives full technical details of 31 steam locomotives, and on the following pages are in-depth descriptions of 20 of the m ost popular main line performers. At the time of writing, no-one can be certain whether all of these, or indeed others, will actually take to BR rails in 1984, but the majority probably will...." Interior - clean and tight with no previo u s o w n e r s h ip marks. Exterior - two small corner creases, minor wear on spine. Very ...
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THE ROMANCE OF ENGLISH HARBOUR. REVISED 3rd EDITION.

By: Blackburne, Kenneth, Sir, foreword by.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Friends of English Harbour, Antigua, 1959, revised 3rd edition.:

Seller ID: 19228

36 pp, 8 3/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs, reproduction, plan. Contents: Foreword; Guide to the Dockyard; The Story of English Harbour; Nelson and English Harbour; Some Tales of the Dockyard; The British Army and English Har bour; The Dockyard Today; Appendix: Note on Careening. Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover and on first page, small area of very tiny dints on first few pages, minor rusting on staples, two pages with tiny foxing m a r k i n margin, small crease at top corner of last few pages, otherwise clean and tight with no pr...
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SOUTH ATLANTIC SEAWAY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE PASSENGER LINES AND LINERS FROM EUROPE TO BRAZIL, URUGUAY AND ARGENTINA.

By: Bonsor, N.R.P.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Jersey, Channel Islands, Brookside Publications: 1983

Seller ID: 27014

ISBN: 0905824067

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

525 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). Map endpapers, b&w photographs. "(T)he first comprehensive book devoted to the passenger lines and liners running from Europe to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Seventy-one lines have been deemed to merit a chapter and fleet list, but it is a sad thought that only one of them, the Costa Line, is still running a multi-passenger service between the Old World and these countries of the New, and even their sailings are not very frequent. The reason, of course, is that the steamship and motorship have been eclipsed by the aeroplane. (This book) contains abo...
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INDIAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.

By: Brady, Cyrus Townsend.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page: 1909

Seller ID: 30194

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good reading copy only.

423 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w drawings, photographs, maps & plans (including tissue-covered frontispiece) - collated. Contents: Part I. Protecting the Frontier: The Powder River Expedition; The Tragedy of Fort Phil Kearney; The Thirty-Two Against the Three Thousand; Personal Reminisences of Fort Phil Kearney and the Wagon-Box Fight; Forsyth and the Rough Riders of '68; The Journey of the Scouts and the Rescue of Forsyth; A Scout's Story of the Defense of Beecher's Island; Carpenter and His Brunettes. The Fight on Beaver Creek; A Further Discussion of the Beaver Creek Affair; The Battle of the Was...
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THE ROYAL MARINES, 1664 TO THE PRESENT.

By: Brooks, Richard.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, (2002), Ist U.S. edition.:

Seller ID: 14519

340 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "A unique corps, recruited as soldiers but trained to serve at sea, the Royal Marines are the recognized experts in amphibious warfare, possessors of an invaluable combination of military and naval skills...This absorbing book, the only one-volume history of 350 years of the Marines, is published in the bicentennial year of the service receiving the distinction 'Royal'. It tells their story from its origins in the era of King Charles II, drawing extensively on the largely unpublished records held in the Royal Marines Museum in...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NAVAL AND MILITARY OPERATIONS IN EGYPT FROM 1798 TO 1802.

By: Burgoyne, John M., Lieut.-Col. Sir.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Poniard, Mississauga: 1996

Edition: Facsimile Reprint.

Seller ID: 17391

ISBN: 0968087507

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

181 pp, 7" H. B&w maps, reproductions. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear on rear hinge.
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THE IDOL OF SAINT MONCREETH: A SCHOOL STORY OF MYSTERY, HUMOUR, AND SPORT.

By: Burrage, A. Harcourt.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, n.d. (gift inscription dated 1928).:

Seller ID: 20466

319 pp, 12mo (7 3/16" H), hard cover (orange cloth with black lettering and illustrations on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. B&w frontispiece. A public school mystery featuring the theft of The Gold Cup of Saint Moncreeth, the adventures of The Detective Clique and cricket. Moderate browning on endpapers, gift inscription on free front endpaper, book very slightly cocked, slight darkening to top of textblock, minor soiling to edges of textblock and on boards, very small bump to top corners of boards, very light edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Good+
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CHEMISTRY AND THE AEROPLANE.

By: Clancey, Vernon J.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1942

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28183

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

176 pp, 7 3/8" H. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold lettering and winged lion emblem on front board. Part of the Nelson's Aeroscience Manuals series. B&w illustrations. Contents: Making Flight Possible; Petrol; Substitute Fuels; Petrol Plus Engine; Steel; Non-Ferrous Alloys; Plastics; Chemical Energy; The Gas Laws; Behaviour of Gases; Accessories; Index. Minor browning on free endpapers, two large corner creases on rear free endpaper, two tiny corner bumps, one tiny edge bump. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - moderate at top of spine, light browing to spine and...
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AERODYNAMICS OF THE AEROPLANE.

By: Cowley, W.L.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

201 pp, 7 3/8" H. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold lettering and winged lion emblem on front board. Part of the Nelson's Aeroscience Manuals series. 42 b&w figures (collated). Contents: Sustentation of Aeroplanes; The Aerofoil; The Complete Aeroplane; The Propeller; The Aeroplane in Steady Flight; Aerodynamic Measurements - I Model Tests; Aerodynamic Measurements - II Full-scale Tests; Fluid Motion - Aerofoil Theory; Fluid Motion; Vibrations in Aircraft; Answers; Index. Light browning to edges of text block, tiny bump to fore-edge of rear board, light wrinkling at top of ...
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THE GARDEN OF CANADA: BURLINGTON, OAKVILLE AND DISTRICT.

By: Craig, Martha. With contributions by A.W. Peart & W.F.W. Fisher, Geo. E. Fisher, C.C. James, Thomas Hood, David Sinclair, J.J. Barker, W.A. Emory, O.T. Springer, H.H. Hurd, et al.

Price: $25.00 USD

Edition: Facsimile Reprint

Seller ID: 28561

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

96 pp, 9 1/4" H. Black cloth with gold lettering on front board. A facsimile reprint of the William Briggs, Toronto, 1902 edition. B&w photographs of farms, fruit picking, residences, churches, businesses, residents, etc.. Contents: The Garden of Canada; Burlington District; Officers of the Burlington Fruit-Growers Association; Burlington Horticultural Association; The Burlington Fruit Experiment Station; "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them"; Geo. Fisher, Esq.; "Shady Cottage" Dairy and Fruit Farm; "Bonnie Place" Fruit Farm; C.F. Coleman: House and Sign Painter,...
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THE SPIRITUAL MANDELA: FAITH AND RELIGION IN THE LIFE OF NELSON MANDELA.

By: Cruywagen, Dennis. (Nelson Mandela.)

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Watertown, MA, Imagine: 2018

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 30322

ISBN: 1623545307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

224 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Nelson Mandela revealed nothing about his personal religious beliefs in his writings or in his public pronouncements. He purposely avoided discussing them in his autobiography for political reasons, but those who were closest to him knew he held Christian views. At Mandela's request, the final components of his funeral followed the Methodist service. 'The Spiritual Mandela' explores the ways in which Nelson Mandela balanced Christianity with traditional African beliefs and with his political views, and how he reconciled his faith with the fact that religion had ofte...
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PENLAKE: REFLECTIONS ON PENINSULA LAKE.

By: Darling, Anna Mirrette Campbell, preface.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Erin / Toronto, Boston Mills Press / Stoddart: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23018

ISBN: 155046096X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

144 pp, square large 8vo (9 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Between these covers lies the fascinating story of pioneer life and early cottaging on one of Muskoka's most beautiful and pristine lakes. In its 150 historical photographs and lovingly researched text, 'Penlake' captures the essence of cottage life. For anyone who has spent time in Cottage Country, this wonderful volume will rekindle memories, reawaken the senses, delight and entertain." Chapter headings: Early History; The Coming of the Cottagers; Penlake Resorts; Life on the Lake; Recreation; ...
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NELSON'S FAVOURITE: HMS AGAMEMNON AT WAR 1781-1809.

By: Deane, Anthony.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29816

ISBN: 184067430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings, maps. "This compelling narrative recounts the 28-year career of HMS Agamemnon, a 64-gun ship of the line which became one of the most famous vessels of the Royal Navy, commanded between 1793 and 1796 by Nelson, who always referred to her as his favourite ship. For three of the most critical decades of British naval history, Agamemnon was at the centre of events, fighting at the Battle of the Saintes, Copenhagen and, of course, Trafalgar. Later she served in the West Indies, participat...
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NELSON'S FAVOURITE: HMS AGAMEMNON AT WAR 1781-1809.

By: Deane, Anthony.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Caxton: 2003

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 30592

ISBN: 184067430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

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