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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: D1-003604 Title: Christie's Old Organ Author: Mrs O.F.Walton Publisher: R.T.S. Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D1-004121 Title: Lucia's Trust Author: Catharine Shaw Publisher: John F Shaw Price: 30.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D1-004201 Title: Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Author: Alice Cadwell Hegan Publisher: The Century Co Price: 20.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D1-005063 Title: The Water Goats and Other Troubles Author: Ellis Parker Butler Publisher: A L Burt Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D1-500002 Title: The spoilers Author: Rex Beach Publisher: A L Burt Price: 25.00 Description: This novel The Spoilers was quite successful at capturing the excitement of the Gold Rush, complete with claim-jumping, corruption, deception, villains, and heroes. It made the 1906 best sellers list and was made into a movie in 1914 featuring many of the popular actors and actresses of the day. Hard cover, light brown illustrated cover with mountains, trees and snow ,very solid and clean condition, 314 pages. Maybe a first edition ... Order Now! BookId: D1-500019 Title: The Winning of Barbara Worth Author: Harold Bell Wright Publisher: A L Burt Price: 40.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D1-500020 Title: Yew tree farm , a story of a separate career Author: Bessie Marchant ( Mrs Comfort) Publisher: Society for promoting Christian knowledge Price: 22.00 Description: Book Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Harold Piffard (illustrator). over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green picture boards with a little patchy soiling, and a lady farmer , picture is a bit faded , 317 pages , a few illustrations. Order Now! BookId: D1-500028 Title: The Sacrifice of the Shannon Author: Albert Hickman Publisher: William Briggs Price: 28.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-000597 Title: The Eastern Townships Author: De Volpi Charles P Publisher: Montreal: Dev-Sco Publications, 1962 Price: 125.00 Description: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. The Eastern Townships , a pictorial record . Historical prints and Illustrations of the Eastern Townships and the Province of Quebec . by Charles P De Volpi and P H Scowen.a beautiful coffee table book , large 4to , 240 pages 120 plates of old engravings and canadian prints Those prints are reproduced from woodcuts, engravings and lithographs of importance which were published over a period of fifty years from the earliest known in 1832. Green decorative cloth with a central small engraving , dust jacket in fairly good shape a stunning book on the once called area "waste lands of the Crown " by General Clarke in 1791-96. End papers decorative with maps of the Townships . ,small tear on top of the dust jacket . Order Now! BookId: D2-000598 Title: British Columbia , a Pictorial Record Author: De Volpi Charles P Publisher: Sherbrooke , Qc: Longman Canada, 1973 Price: 125.00 Description: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. British Columbia , a pictural Record , Historical prints and illustrations of the Province of british columbia , canada , 1778-1891. by Charles P De Volpi , a beau tiful coffee table book with a large selection of antique prints and historical illustrations on the Province of british Columbia . Orange decorative cloth with a small engraving in the center , dust jacket very clean , but shows some wear , small chips at the top , endpapers illustrated with a map of " Amerique Septentrionale 1773" from Russia ., 184 plates , a story in picture of the Province w hich joined canada in 1871 ., they are reproduced from woodcuts , engravings and lithographs of importance . a beautiful book of antique engravings !. Order Now! BookId: D2-000599 Title: Ottawa, a Pictorial Record Author: De Volpi Charles P Publisher: Sherbrooke , Qc: Dev-Sco Publications, 1964 Price: 125.00 Description: Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Ottawa , a Pictorial record , recueil Iconographique . Historical prints and illustrations of the city of Ottawa , Province of Ontario , canada .1807 -1882. by Charles P De Volpi .A beautiful coffee table book , bilingual, in4to, beige cloth decorative with a small engraving in the center , dust jacket is clean , but got some tears in the back , and small chips at the top ., endpapers are representing a map of the counties of Carleton and Russell in 1857. The book has over 263 pages and 123 platesof engravings , woodcuts and illustrations , i ncluding old maps and folding engravings . A gorgeous book for the collectoo of old and antique prints on Canada and her Capitale city . Order Now! BookId: D2-0006 Title: Canadian Landscape Portfolio Author: Sherman Ines Publisher: Stone House Price: 38.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-0007 Title: Explore Canada Reader's Digest Caa Illustrated Guide Author: John W Fisher Publisher: Reader's Digest Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-002531 Title: Herodotus Author: Herodotus Publisher: Harper & Bro Price: 60.00 Description: Herodotus , a new and literal version from the text of Baehr with a geographical and general index by Henry Cary .Black Cloth. Fair to Good No Jacket. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". This hardcover treasure book is in good condition, showing some signs of age and wear, with a folding map to illustrate the travels of Herodotus The binding is solid, with no missing or loose pages, small tear at bottom of spine . 613 pages . . Order Now! BookId: D2-003307 Title: Canada The foundation of its Future Author: Stephen Leacock Publisher: Privately printed Price: 31.50 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-1 Title: Vanishing Canada Author: Rick Butler Publisher: Clarke, Irwin & Co Price: 25.00 Description: Doubleday author and hotel entrepreneur Rick Butler, the son of an American-born mother and an Irish-born Mountie father, was raised in small town Nova Scotia. He attended university in Ontario and England. He is the author of four books and numerous short stories. Two stories from The Mountie in the House were recently published by prestigious literary journals "The Nashwaak Review" and "The Antigonish Review." To select the 203 photographs that make up this book, Rick Butler travelled twice across Canada visiting archives and searching for private collections in every province. his only criterion what that the pictures should be candid shots of everyday life prior to 1914... This album of striking and often amusing photographs is a unique reflection of Canada'ss past. 210 pages , 203 photographs , a great book , very interesting and great photography in black and white. Order Now! BookId: D2-10 Title: A shortened History of England Author: G M Trevelyan Publisher: Pelican Book Price: 22.50 Description: Tells the story of the nation from the remote days of the Celt and the Iberian, through the raids of the Vikings, the Norman conquest, the first Elizabethan age and foundation of the Indian Empire to World War I and the setting up of the League of Nations. George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay. He espoused Macaulay's staunch liberal Whig principles in accessible works of literate narrative unfettered by scholarly neutrality, his style becoming old-fashioned in the course of his long and productive career. The historian E. H. Carr considered Trevelyan to be one of the last historians of the Whig tradition. Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important British political movement from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, as well as its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress. Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. Of his Garibaldi trilogy, "reeking with bias", he remarked in his essay "Bias in History", "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared." Book is in perfect condition for an older Pelican edition of 1977. Order Now! BookId: D2-11 Title: A short History of the English people Author: John Richard Green Publisher: MacMillan Price: 80.00 Description: A Short History of the English People is a book written by English historian John Richard Green. Published in 1874, "it is a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People." Green began work on the book in 1869, having been given only six months to live after being hit hard by disease that had plagued him throughout his life. Only having around 800 pages to write on, he had to leave out much of what he wanted to include. Green intentionally left out the battles of England feeling they did not play a big role in the formation of the nation, saying that historians "too often turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow men." His new ideas, and omission of information that others felt important, meant Green was criticized by other historians as well as the people close to him. Others thought highly of the book, including Francis Adams, who used quotations from the book in his poem The Peasants' Revolt. Easy to read , with plenty of notes and reference by dates. 820 pages plus index ..older book in poor condition but a must read for the historian as the approach of history is quite different from the usual.maps and index. Order Now! BookId: D2-12 Title: Le Morte d'Arthur Author: Sir Edward Strachey / Sir Thomas Malory Publisher: Macmillan Price: 200.00 Description: Le Morte d'Arthur Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table. The Text of Caxton , edited and with an introduction by Sir Edward Strachey . Le Morte d'Arthur (originally written as le morte Darthur; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources. Today, this is one of the best-known works of Arthurian literature. Many authors since the 19th-century revival of the legend have used Malory as their principal source. Apparently written in prison at the end of the medieval English era, Le Morte d'Arthur was completed by Malory around 1470 and was first published in a printed edition in 1485 by William Caxton. Until the discovery of the Winchester Manuscript in 1934, the 1485 edition was considered the earliest known text of Le Morte d'Arthur and that closest to Malory's original version. Modern editions under myriad titles are inevitably variable, changing spelling, grammar and pronouns for the convenience of readers of modern English, as well as often abridging or revising the material. This is the Globe edition in perfect condition, greencloth cover with gold name of the book and edition on the spine , globe logo on the front of the book. The book has no marking, writing or spoiling , no name of past owner , dated 1912. 509 pages including glossary , index and notes ... also the long introduction in three part 1-authorship and matter of the book , 2-the text and several editions, 3- an essay on chivalry. Of course Le Morte d'Arthur has attracted generations of people for its adventures , and still is one of the best seller in times. Order Now! BookId: D2-123401 Title: A Vast and Magnificent Land An Illustrated History of Northern Ontario Author: Matt Bray / Ernie Epp Publisher: Ontario Ministry of Northern Affairs Price: 100.00 Description: Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine dust wrapper, Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed by Matt Bray and many of the researchers Physical description: 205 pages: illustrations (some colour), maps; 32 cm. Subjects: Ontario History, Local. Ontario Description and travel.Ontario, Northern History.Ontario, Northern Description and travel. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory A beautiful souvenir book . Order Now! BookId: D2-17503 Title: Emperor of the North Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable story of The Hudson's Bay Company Author: James Raffan Publisher: HarperCollins Price: 22.00 Description: Emperor of the North is the vibrant tale of a man who shaped much more than a fur-trading company—he launched an empire of ideas that led to the creation of a country. The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a country. The histories of Sir George Simpson and the HBC in the golden years of the 19th century are in many ways one history, for Simpson’s professional acumen and personal ambitions propelled a failing business to a position of great wealth and political power. At its height, the HBC trading territory covered an astonishing one-twelfth of the world’s surface. Raffan captures the many contradictions of the larger-than-life man at its centre: a brilliant manager who kept an iron grip on his fur forts from east to west, ensuring British power across the land; a pompous dandy who was most at home in a voyageur-paddled canoe; a man ashamed of his illegitimate birth but who went on to sire 13 children with eight different women, only one of whom was his wife; a master businessman who laid the foundations for the single greatest business enterprise of its day. Emperor of the North is the vibrant tale of a man who shaped much more than a fur-trading company—he launched an empire of ideas that led to the creation of a country. Meticulously researched, highly readable and wonderfully illuminated by maps and archival photographs, Emperor of the North is a delight for history buffs, armchair adventurers and biography fans alike. The book is in very good condition, soft cover with illustrated cover, of a canoe rafted by the most famous Habitants , the book has 484 pages .... A long commentary by the last owner on the front end paper, and a few rare pencil notes through the book but no real spoiling or writing with pen. many illustrations including 4 maps (one folding facing p 340). Order Now! BookId: D2-19A1051 Title: A History of Ancient Egypt Author: Nicolas Grimal Publisher: Blackwell Price: 45.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-19A1054 Title: Civilization before Greece and Rome Author: H.W.E. Saggs Publisher: Yale University Press Price: 40.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-19A1055 Title: A History of the Ancient World Author: Chester G Starr Publisher: Oxford university Press Price: 60.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-19J0400 ISBN: 9780393061963 Title: The End Of Empire Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome Author: Christopher Kelly Publisher: Norton Price: 28.00 Description: First edition. As New. W. W. Norton & Co., 2009. Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a by-word for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire. Drawing on original texts, this riveting narrative follows Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the opulent city of Constantinople and the Great Hungarian Plain, uncovering an unlikely marriage proposal, a long-standing relationship with a treacherously ambitious Roman general, and a thwarted Roman assassination plot. Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome reframes the warrior king as a political strategist, capturing the story of how a small, but dedicated, opponent dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover. An exceptional copy; fine dust jacket in an equally fine tight, 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages; illustrations and maps . Order Now! BookId: D2-2/3 Title: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Author: Edward Gibbon Publisher: James & Virtue Price: 300.00 Description: Two volumes. Numerous steel engraved plates (56), folding maps and panoramas 8vo (10 x 6 3/4 inches), pages: xii:643 & xii:666. Original half leather bound cover in poor condition (bottom part missing on vol 1), spines gilt ruled on raised bands and gilt lettered (faded). Binding will need repair , Inside is in good condition , no writing or spoiling condition. Weight 3.050 kg thus extra postage will be requested.Beautiful old books , very likely a First edition. Some of the detailed architecture from the silver etchings of James & Virtue is excellent and will definitely please an architect , the others etchings are works of Art and very collectible. Gibbon offers an explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to attempt it. According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens. He began an ongoing controversy about the role of Christianity, but he gave great weight to other causes of internal decline and to attacks from outside the Empire. The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians. Order Now! BookId: D2-4/5/6/ Title: Lord Macaulay's The history of England from the accession of James II. 3 volumes Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Publisher: Everyman's Library J M Dent Price: 135.00 Description: Three volumes in very good condition but for markings on the red cloth cover of the Everyman's Library due to some flood of some kind, the book are in very good condition but for these markings. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as The History of England.There are only 3 volumes in this particular set by Everyman's library It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the corregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death. Macaulay's approach to writing the History was innovative for his period. He consciously fused the picturesque, dramatic style of classical historians such as Thucydides and Tacitus with the learned and factual approach of his 18th-century precursors such as Hume, following the plan laid out in his own 1828 "Essay on History". The History is famous for its prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England threw off superstition, autocracy and confusion to create a balanced constitution and a forward-looking culture combined with freedom of belief and expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history. Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians for its one-sidedness and its complacency. Karl Marx referred to him as a "systematic falsifier of history". His tendency to see history as a drama led him to treat figures whose views he opposed as if they were villains, while his approved characters were presented as heroes. Macaulay goes to considerable length, for example, to absolve his hero King William III of any responsibility for the Glencoe massacre . the books are clean , solid , no marking or spoiling inside , vol 1 has 804 pages, vol 2 856 pgs, vol3 758 pgs. a dust of white paint at the back of third volume. A must for the English History's lover. Order Now! BookId: D2-45350 Title: Empire of the Bay An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay company Author: Peter C Newman Publisher: Madison Press book Price: 45.00 Description: This fact-packed volume chronicles the colorful 319-year history of the Hudson's Bay Company whose mercantile empire at one time extended from the Arctic Sea to Hawaii.With verve and seeming omniscience, Newman ( Company of Adventurers ) tells outsize tales of the remarkable characters who manned the lonely outposts, Montreal mansions and London boardrooms of the HBC. He writes of the adventurers who explored the wilderness for the company; the internecine wars of fur traders; the establishment of forts and settlements; the parliamentary squabbles and backroom deals manipulated by HBC to retain its monopoly; and the present-day department-store chain, The Bay. Historical illustrations and National Geographic photographer Fleming's documentary shots decorate this sprawling, exciting, illuminating story. Condition : a fine book , as new, 220 paages, many color pictures, map. PETER C. NEWMAN has been writing about Canadian politics and business for nearly half a century. The author of twenty-fourbooks that have together sold more than two million copies,Newman has won some of the country's most illustrious literary awards, both as an author and a journalist. A beautiful book , could be a coffee table book or prefect in your libary . Order Now! BookId: D2-501601 Title: Caesars of the Wilderness (signed By author) Author: Peter C Newman Publisher: Viking Price: 40.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: D2-501602 Title: Company of Adventurers (signed by author) Author: Peter C Newman Publisher: Viking Price: 40.00 Description: |
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