The Stereoscope: Its History, Theory, and Construction with its Application to the Fine and Useful Arts and to Education by Sir David Brewster
Hastings-on-Husdon, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan Inc., 1971. 12mo. 50 illus. Facsimile edition. Introduction by Rudolf Kingslake. Reproduced from an original in the George Eastman House collection. Orignally published in London by John Murray, 1856. A very good copy.
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Includes a list of stereoscopic pictures offered for sale by the London Stereoscopic Company in 1856, as well as a chapter on the history of the stereoscope.
The Story of Advertising in Canada: A Chronicle of Fifty Years by H.E. Stephenson and Carlton McNaught
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1940. xvi, 364 p. 8vo. Illus. A good copy.
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Topics include newspapers, advertising cards, clothiers, department stores, cleaners, packaging, tea, coffee, food, men’s wear, housewives, gas, electricity, furniture, bicycles, buggies, carriages, automobiles, propaganda, Victory Loans, pianos, organs, cigars, tobacco, pens, office equipment, beauty, poster, movies, radio, industry, and insurance.
The Triumph of Culture: 18th Century Perspectives edited by Paul Fritz and David Williams
Toronto: A.M. Hakkert Ltd., 1972. 387 p. 8vo. Illus. Publications of the McMaster University Association for 18th-Century Studies, v. 2. Includes some text in French. A very good copy.
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Subjects include Tivoli, George Dance, Voltaire, Newton, Condillac, William Coxe, George I, Boswell, Benjamin Constant, Goethe, Crime, and the Deerfield Massacre.
The Writers’ and Artists’ Year Book 1964
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1964. 438 p. 8vo. Ads. Hardcover. Red cloth. Includes sections on copyright, publisher agreements, pen-names, and income tax.
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Covers literature, writing, publishing, journals, newspapers, magazines, publishers, agents, book clubs, syndicates, societies, photographers, broadcasting, and prizes.
Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America by Paul Kane
Title continued: from Canada to Vancouver Island and Oregon Through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territory and Back Again. Toronto: The Radisson Society of Canada Limited, 1925. liv, 329 p. 8vo. Frontisport. B&w illus. Reprint. Revised edition. Introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. Edited by John W. Garvin. Red cloth. Spine sunned with minor marks, small tears in top and bottom of spine.
Originally published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1859.
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Author was an essential artist and documenter of the Canadian frontier. Includes sections on the Winnipeg River, Lake of a Thousand Islands, Fort Alexander, Fort Garry, buffalo hunting, Pemmican, Norway House, Fort Edmonton, Sir George Highland, Jasper’s House, Fort Vancouver, Jesuit missionaries, Fort Victoria, among many other subjects.
William Henry Clarke 1902-1955: A Memorial Volume
Title continued: A Memorial Volume Containing Some Recent Speeches and Writing Chiefly Concerned with Publishing & Education in Canada Over Thirty Years.
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, (1956?) xvii, 141 p. Frontis port. Ltd. ed., #432 of 500. Hardcover. Red cloth. Lacks slipcase.
Wortgeographie der Hochdeutschen Umgangssprache by Paul Kretschmer
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck &. Ruprecht, 1918. xvi, 638 p. 8vo. First edition. Index. Rebound. A very good copy.