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Toronto: City of Toronto, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. SCARCE TORONTO SOCIAL AND UNEMPLOYMENT BOOKLET First Edition. 9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches. 63 pages. : folded plans.Signed by D.B. Harkness, previous owner on front cover. Also included is a May 1931 Toronto Daily Star newspaper clipping with an article titled "Former Status Retained by Social Service Bodies. Provenance: D.B. Harkness was Acting Secretary, Unemployrnent Relief Branch, Department of PubIic Welfare, , Secretary of the Manitoba Social Service Council, Secretary of the Social Service Council of Ontario.
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City of Toronto Civic Unemployment Relief Committee Report and Recommendations May, 1931
by H.S. Rupert, G.A. Lascelles and F.D. Tolchard & HARKNESS, D.B. (provenance)
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Typed Letter Signed (TLS) of Eugen Hadamovsky in German to J.G. Merrick, Toronto
by HADAMOVSKY, Eugen [1904-1945] & MERRICK, James G.B. [1871-1946] (provenance)
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1936. No binding. Fine. Typed letter signed. One page in German, 11-1/2 x 8-1/8 inches folded to 5-3/4 x 4 inches, with original envelope. Dated Reichsfendeleiter, 6 October 1936. Mentions Olympic broadcasts. Near fine condition.Interesting there is no stamp on the envelope suggesting in may have been hand delivered? Letters from Hadamovsky are rare to the market. Eugen Hadamovsky was a radio production director for Nazi Germany. He was an early Nazi supporter, who helped organize Nazi radio listeners and handled the technical details at many of Hitler's mass rallies. Shortly after the Nazi takeover, he served as the National Programming Director for German radio and in a variety of other posts during most of World War II. He was chief of staff in the Nazi Party's Central Propaganda Office (Reichspropagandaleitung) in Berlin from 1942-1944. Toward the end of World War II, Hadamovsky joined the 4th SS Polizei Division and died in combat as an Obersturmführer .James G.B. Merrick primarily located in…
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Home of My Youth (inscribed)
by HAHN, Josephine Elizabeth (1873-1958)
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[Hanover, ON]: Self-published, 1947. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition. 5-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches. (6),[7]-298pp. Red cloth covers with dull gilt on spine and front cover, sunned on bottom front cover 1/2 inch, otherwise very good condition. No dust jacket. Old newspaper clippings (about Hahn's death and shows a photo of her) affixed to front end paper.Illustrated with 12 b&w photographs. A very nice collectable local historical book of a small Ontario town (Hanover, in Grey County).Scarce inscribed and signed by the author "With the kindest regards of the Author, Josephine Elizabeth Hahn. Previous owner name, "Mrs. C.J. Halliday" neatly written on the front fly leaf above inscription..
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Lord Aberdeen signed photo
by HAMILTON-GORDON, John Campbell 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair [1847-1934]
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[Ottawa]: [Topley Photographers], 1895. Framed. 1 inch brown leather frame with gold 1/8 inch mat with a signed 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 inch black & white photo of Lord Aberdeen, Easel support on verso. Edwards & Sons of Regent Street London W.1. were the frame retailers. Photo of Lord Aberdeen probably by Topley photographers, Ottawa circa 1895. Photo not examined out of frame. Lord Aberdeen was Governor General during a period of political transition, throughout the terms of four Prime Ministers - Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. (John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair) and Lady Aberdeen (Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair) who both lived in Hamilton on Bay Street South (1890-1898) with their four children. They also presided over the opening of the Hamilton Public Library on September 16, 1890. In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Aberdeen Avenue is a historically designated street in Cabbagetown (formerly Carlton Avenue…
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Early Painters and Engravers in Canada
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. Later edition [1981]. 6-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches. xv,376pp. Orange cloth with gilt titles. Yellow endpapers. Internally very clean. Near-fine condition. Reprint of the 1970 first edition.
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British Artists and War : the Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914
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London: Greenhill Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 352 pp, 8-1/2 by 12 inches. Scarlet cloth boards, black-and-white and colour illustrations. A very good clean copy with dust jacket having tears along top, otherwise, good condition.Continental influences and contemporary criticisms are assessed. Harrington suggests reasons why some wars were illustrated less than others. From the Dust Jacket: "The second part of British Artists and War is a unique, comprehensive catalogue of more than 800 surviving oil paintings, depicting soldiers in battle and on campaign, in public and private collections around the world, including exhibition and provenance details where known." British Artists and War is an important reference work, examining how artists at home and in the field dealt with the subject of war during a period of more than 200 years, and how these images were perceived by the public in Britain. British Artists and War examines in detail the artistic…
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Province of Canada Land Grant to William Hoar, of the Township of Penetanguishene in the County of Simcoe. Signed by W.E. Head, E.A. Meredith, and Andrew Russell
by HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker [1805-1868] & MEREDITH, Edmund Allen [1817-1899] & RUSSELL, Andrew [1804-1888] & HOAR, William
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1857. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. 15-3/4 x 13-3/4 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal and two 1/8 inch holes at top, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail... William Hoar of the Township of Penetanguishene in the County of Simcoe, yeoman... One acre and three fourths of an acre Thirty Five pounds... Lots Numbers Five Six Seven and Eight on the West side of Penetanguishene Road in the afore said Town of Penetanguishene... 26th December 1857Signed: Sir Edmund Walker Head, E. A. Meredith, Secretary, & Andrew Russell, Commissioner of Crown Land Sir Edmund Walker Head: He was simultaneously Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1854-1861) and formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1847-1854). He was the cousin of Sir Francis Bond Head. E.W. Head was elected governor of the reconfigured Hudson's Bay Company…
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Province of Canada Land Grant to James Robert Gowan of the Town of Barrie in the County of Simcoe
by HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker [1805-1868] & RUSSELL, Andrew [1804-1888] & GOWAN, Sir James Robert [1815-1909]
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Toronto: Province of Canada, 1859. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. 15-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal, bottom corners folded back more, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail...James Robert Gowan of the Town of Barrie in the County of Simcoe, Township of Vespra...William McMaster, the assignee of John Lowry, to when compensation was allowed for deficiency in the lot Number one, in the Seventh concession... The West half of the Lot Number Six in the Eleventh cons session... one hundred and Eighty Acres...July 19, 1859 Sir James Robert Gowan lawyer, judge, and senator. He joined the York militia at the outbreak of the rebellion of 1837-38, during which he fought in the skirmish at Gallows Hill, north of Toronto. James Edward Small nominated him for the judgeship of the newly created Simcoe, the largest jurisdiction in Upper Canada District. Appointed on…
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Province of Canada Land Grant to Thomas Sloan of the Township of Derby in the County of Grey, Innkeeper, (signed by W.E. Head, Andrew Russell)
by HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker [1805-1868] & RUSSELL, Andrew [1804-1888] & SLOAN, Thomas
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Toronto: Province of Canada, 1859. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. 15-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal, bottom corners folded back more, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail...Three hundred dollars... Two hundred acres... Lot Number Twelve, in the Eighteenth concession of the aforesaid Township of Derby... Seventh of May Eighteen Hundred and Fifty nine...Signed; E.W. Head, Governor General, T Roranleo? Secretary Andrew Russell, Asst Commissioner of Crown Lands Thomas Sloan, General Merchant, tavern "Sloan's Hotel" and Postmaster. Early description of the area... A Post village in the centre of the Township of Derby, 7 1/2 m. from Owen Sound, 8 m. from Tara, and 23 m. from Southampton is on the Owen Sound and Saugeen stage road (see "Centre Road, Derby"), not on the the Gravel Road which runs through the Township near its Northern limit. The place…
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Seasonable and affecting observations on the mutiny-bill, articles of war, and abuse of a standing army: in a letter from a member of parliament to a noble lord
by [HERVEY, Admiral Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol, (1724-1779)]
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London: printed for W. Owen near Temple-Bar, 1750. 1st Edition. Disbound. Good. SEVEN YEARS' WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK First edition. 5 x 7-7/8 inches. (4), 67pp. Disbound wiith a half-title. First and last page 67 loose light soling, good condition.. Observations on the Act for punishing mutiny and desertion.ESTC T85340 The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1754 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America, known today as the French and Indian War.
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Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn (inscribed)
by HIRSHHORN, Joseph H. (Herman) (1899-1981) subject & ALLEN, Robert Merritt (provenence) & JACOBS, Jay (author)
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[New York]: Reprinted from Art in America, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12 x 9 inches. 20 pages plus light blue light card cover. 16 page full colour article written by Jay Jacobs, reprinted from Art in America, July - August 1969 (Art in America. Vol. 57, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1969), p. 56-71.) Photos of sculptures and paintings by Geoffrey Clements Inscribed and signed by Hirshhorn: To Robert Merritt Allen Dated Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 26th, 1975 Very good condition. Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899-1981) was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Hirshhorn graced his Greenwich mansion with paintings by Willem de Kooning, Raphael Soyer, Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, and Thomas Eakins, and the grounds outside with sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, and Henry Moore. He allowed many nonprofit groups to use tours of his sculpture garden for fundraising. WikipediaIn 1966 Hirshhorn donated much of his collection, consisting of 6,000…
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The Law of 1863 relating to Roman Catholic separate schools in Upper Canada bound with Ontario and Manitoba [Louis Riel & North West Rebellion)
by [HODGINS, John George (1821-1912)] & ANONYMOUS
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1872. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches. Rustic green cloth book bound with rare two titles; Both titles, quite scarce to rare.#1) The Law of 1863 relating to Roman Catholic separate schools in Upper Canada : together with extracts from the Common School Acts, departmental regulations, &c., affecting the Roman Catholic separate schools. [John George Hodgins (1821-1912). 64pp. [1863. Toronto : Lovell and Gibson, Printed for the Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell and Gibson.] Title-page missing for the Law of 1863, instead there is a manuscript title and the signature of a previous owner, John Murphy in Ottawa. Local superintendent's school manual. The consolidated acts relating to common & separate schools in Upper Canada; together with a full digest of the decisions of the Superior Courts, relating to school cases, down to 1864; and forms, general regulations, and instructions for executing their provisions. Together with a copious analytical index to the…
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Albumen 1913 photo of E. Homan Mulock
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1913. 1st Edition. No binding. 11 x 7 inch card photo is mounted to, embossed and name and date written. Albumen photo is 5-3/8 x 2-11/16 inches fully mounted to the beige mounting card.E. Homan Mulock Xmas 1913 with blind embossed logo under photo and was in a folder labeled Auxiliary Portrait Studios, Westminster, SW. Photo has some minor ghosting otherwise in very good condition. Research indicates the subject is Edward Homan Mulock (1881-1946) and thus was 32 years old when this photo was taken. The early origins of the Mullock/Mulock are Irish, a well-established local family probably based within the territories of the Dal-Araidhe, modern day Northern Ireland. Only son of Francis Berry Homan Mulock JP, of Ballycumber, King's County. Born on 20th October 1881 and educated at Wellington College and St. John's College, Oxford (or Trinity College, Cambridge). Appointed as a Student Interpreter for the Consular Service in the Ottoman Dominions, Persia, Greece and Morocco on 17th October 1904…
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Captain James Cook, The Greatest Discoverer: The Parks Collection [Bookseller Catalog]
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Sydney: Published by Hordern House, 2008. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 174pp. (unpaginated). Burgundy cloth with gilt text, with dust-jacket. Both in near-fine condition. 133 lots described and illustrated with many colour plates, plus index, and price-list. "The Captain James Cook collection of Bob and Mary Anne Parks is a landmark of its kind, and represents the finest such collection offered. This comprehensive and extensively illustrated catalogue will undoubtedly become one of the standard reference works on the subject. The catalogue includes highlights such as: an extraordinary original letter by Cook, entirely in his own hand, asking for the return of a press-ganged sailor; Joseph Banks's engraved map of Cook's first voyage, the first map of the east coast of Australia, and never before offered for sale; magnificent engraved portraits of Cook, Banks, Omai and others; an original manuscript map from Cook's surveying of Newfoundland; and all of the major…
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[Honorable Joseph Howe] albumen photo
by HOWE, Joseph [1804-1873] & NOTMAN, William [1826-1891] (photographer)
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[Montreal]: [William Notman], 1865. No binding. Albumen cabinet-size 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 inch original portrait photograph mounted on 8-3/8 x 5-3/4 inch page.Spotting on page but not on mounted photo which is in very good condition. Joseph Howe was a Nova Scotia leading proponent of representative government. He was born at Halifax in 1804 lived long enough to see Nova Scotia enter Confederation, a transition which he bitterly, but futilely, opposed. He was a newspaperman and a politician. Considered by many to be the greatest Nova Scotian. Nova Scotia had become the first colony to achieve responsible government, and Howe boasted it had been done without "a blow struck or a pane of glass broken." 1869 he entered the dominion cabinet as president of the council. He signed this 1873 (the year he died) document as Secretary of State for the Provinces and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs from 1869 to 1873.William Notman (1826-1891) was a Canadian photographer and businessman. Notman was born in…
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U.S. Iana (1650-1950)
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New York: R.R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library, 1978. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 2nd edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. [1978 copyright stated] 6-3/8 x 10 inches. 652 pp. Original brown cloth hardcover.A Selective Bibliography of 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of The United States. Full collations are provided, as are annotations concerning the rarity and particular significance of the titles described. Arguably the most important single volume on books relating to the United States. Wright Howes was a highly regarded bookseller based in Chicago, and remembered for his fundamental bibliography on Americana, U.S.IANA. This bibliography of uncommon and rare Americana is enhanced by Howes' concise and witty annotations. He was an acknowledged master in the field.
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Sir Sam Hughes Typed Letter "stamped" Signature
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Ottawa: Sir Sam Hughes, 1921. 1st Edition. No binding. On Canada House of Commons letterhead, was sent to Geo. Smith of Sydney NSW Australia on March 28, 1921 complaining of ill health and Hughes died 5 months later, August 24, 1921 (aged 68). Signature was a "stamp" Hughes often used to sign his letters. Hughes also makes reference to a photo enclosed but none now with this letter.Sir Samuel Hughes was a soldier, journalist and politician of no little reputation. Hughes was appointed Minister of Militia after the election of Robert Laird Borden in 1911 until 1916 when Canada took up arms in World War One. He resigned amid controversy with notable achievements to his name. Hughes was born January 8, 1853, at Solina near Bowmanville.Sam Hughes was a senior militia officer and an influential Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party. An intensely patriotic, strong-willed man, he disliked professional soldiers. An unauthorized effort to raise his own brigade for service in South Africa, and a…
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Canada and South Australia A Commentary on the part of The Earl of Durham's Report
by HUNT, Thornton Leigh (1810-1873) & DURHAM, Lord John George Lambton Earl of Durham [1792-1840] (subject)
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Adelaide: South Australian Facsimile Edition No. 30 Public Library of South Austalia, 1962. Later edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches. vi, [7]-95pp. Original green cloth boards with gold type on spine. Scuffing marks to front board. Overall very good condition.South Australian Facsimile Edition No. 30. Photocopies from the original book published in 1839. All pages are copied on 4pp sheets and folded in book so each page is untrimmed as a two page section, complete, no missing pages. Full title: Canada and South Australia. A Commentary on that Part of The Earl of Durham's Report which relates to the Disposal of Waste Lands and Emigration. In three papers, Delivered at the South Australian Rooms, No. 5 Adam Street, Strand Ferguson, 2774Thornton Leigh Hunt was the son of the writer Leigh Hunt. He was the first editor of the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph. By Laman Blanchard's influence he became, in 1836, director of the political department of the 'Constitutional,' of…
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