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Acadian Shore / A la Baie Ste. Marie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 0,

Seller ID: 84522

(Clare, N.S.). The Acadian Shore / A la Baie Ste. Marie. N.pl.: n.pub., n.d. [1980s?]. Pp (16) including covers. Illustrated. Map. 4to, illustrated blue and white stapled wrappers. A tourist guide to Clare, Nova Scotia. Back to back bilingual texts (French and English). Contents : The Acadian Shore.The Acadian Forest. On Saint Mary's Bay. Cover crease, else very good. 10. 00
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Ambling Through Acadia. First Edition, with TLS

By: TOWNE, Charles Hanson HEITLAND, W. Emerton

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Century Co, 1923, : 1923

Seller ID: 51204

TOWNE, Charles Hanson. Ambling Through Acadia. With drawings by W. Emerton Heitland. New York and London : The Century Co., (1923). First Edition. Pp. (16),3-250, including plates. Illustrated. 8vo (146 x 210 mm), dark green cloth with illustrations to spine & front board. Charles Hanson Towne ( b. February 1, 1877, Louisville, Kentucky - d. February 28, 1949, New York City). Wilmot Emerton Heitland, N.A. (b. July 5, 1893, Superior, Wisconsin - d. July 9 1969, St Petersburg, Florida). Morley pp.19 & 85, Vaison p.74, Tennyson 1099, Rhodenizer p.69. Following the Spring North; F...
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Away to Cape Breton. First American Edition

By: BRINLEY, Gordon Brinley, Putnam

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York, 1936,

Seller ID: 18383

BRINLEY, Gordon. Away to Cape Breton. Illustrated by Putnam Brinley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1936. Pp (6),vii-x,(2),1-266,(2), colour frontispiece + 30 plates. 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. Map end-papers. Katherine Gordon Sanger Brinley (d. 1966). Tennyson Cape Breton: A Bibliography 694, Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 1718, MacDonald, Bibliography ofVictoria County 30, Laugher p.58, Rhodenizer p.70, Dagg, The Feminine Gaze : A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836 -1945 pp.46-47. Chapters : 1. The Start of It All; 2. Through the Green Mou...
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Bernardin J. Comeau : Biographie - un Acadien vaillant / Biography - a truly innovative Acadian

By: COMEAU, Germaine COMEAU, Bernardin J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Comeau Seafoods, 2011, ISBN:9780919937734

Seller ID: 108774

COMEAU, Germaine. Bernardin J. Comeau : Biographie - un Acadien vaillant / Biography - a truly innovative Acadian. [Saulnierville, N.S.] : (Comeau Seafoods, 2011). Pp (6),7-129,(3). Illustrated. Dopuble Column. Large 8vo, ullustrated card covers, French flaps, mlettered in black, maroon and white. "From a humble Acadian background, Bernardin Comeau chose to earn his livelihood on the sea. His vision, courage and determination led him from one challenge to the next eventually building Comeau Sea Foods as a thriving famfly business sustaining Clare's economy. This short biography portrays Be...
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Bicentenary Sketches and Early Days of the Church in Nova Scotia

By: VERNON, C.W. VROOM, F.W.

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Chronicle Printing Co. Ltd., 1910,

Seller ID: 69468

VERNON, C.W. Bicentenary Sketches and Early Days of the Church in Nova Scotia. With an Introduction by the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia and a Chapter onKing's College by Rev. Canon Vroom, D.D. Halifax : Chronicle Printing Co. Ltd., 1910. Pp (10),[1]-255,[1]-4,(1), port. frontis. + 34 leaves of plates. 8vo, full brown leather, gilt titles to spine. Contents: I) The Bicentenary of the Chruch of England in Canada ; II) A Brief History of the Diocese of Nova Scotia ; III) A Brief History of King's College, by Rev. Canon Vroom, D.D. ; IV) The first Anglican Service and the early days at Annapolis Roy...
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Bluenose Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1979

By: CROXALL, Peter (ed.). FORRESTALL, Tom) PYTMAN, Erma R. MacKEENAN, Karl

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fundy Group Publications Ltd, Yarmouth, N.S., 1979,

Seller ID: 84234

CROXALL, Peter (ed.). Bluenose Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1979. Yarmouth, N.S.: Fundy Group Publications Ltd., 1979. Pp [1]-35,(1) including covers. Illustrated. Triple Column. 4to, illustrated yellow stapled card covers. Contents : The Work of Tom Forrestall: Paintings Without Corners (by Karl MacKeeman, pp 5-6); Violet Hibbs: The Quilt Lady (by Peter Croxall, pp 7-9); Roots at New Ross Farm (by James Irving, pp 10-12); Diamonds and Coaldust (by Cliff F. Kennedy, pp 14-16); Name Your Price [about country auctions] (by Dorrie Phillips, pp 17-18); Early Lumbering Days in Nova Scotia and N...
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Centenaire de la mort du Pere Jean-Mande Sigogne, Missionaire de la Baie Ste-Marie et Premier curé de la paroisse Sainte-Marie

By: SIGOGNE, Jean-Mande)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1944,

Seller ID: 10138

(SIGOGNE, Jean-Mandé). Centenaire de la mort du Père Jean-Mandé Sigogne, Missionaire de la Baie Ste-Marie et Premier curé de la paroisse Sainte-Marie.(Yarmouth, N.S. : "Printed by The Lawson Publishing Co. Ltd."), [1944]. Pp (3),4-64. Mostly double column. Illustrated with over 60 photos. 8vo, stap led cream card covers. Contents : Le Père Sigogne; Notes Historiques Concernant la Paroisse Ste-Marie de Church Point; Origine et Developpement de la Paroisse Sainte-Marie de Church Point, N.S.; Enfants de la Paroisse Ste Marie dans le Sacerdoce; Le Père Sigogne et le College Sainte-Anne; et...
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Digby : A Novel. Second Printing in dustjacket

By: WALKER, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Collins, London, 1953,

Seller ID: 100321

WALKER, David. Digby : A Novel. London : Collins, (September, 1953). SecondImpression. Pp (6),7-254,(2). 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wat ters p.310, Rhodenizer p.792, Laugher p.586. A novel by this St.Andrews writer. "What happens when a very successful, highly respectable, very attractive, heavily married American business man (aged 41) escapes the toil of his eminently profitable daily life for a fling in the highlands. A great deal happened to Digby P. Ross. First, and most important, he met Fiona - a mad, beautiful and infallibly seductive highland chieftain (female). The ...
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Digby. First Edition in dustjacket

By: WALKER, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Collins, London, 1953,

Seller ID: 16470

WALKER, David. Digby : A Novel. London : Collins, [August] 1953. Pp (6),7-254,(2). 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Watters p.310, Rhodenizer p.792, Laugher p.586. Winner of the 1953 Governor-General's Award for English-language Fiction. "What happens when a very successful, highly respectable, very attractive, heavily married American business man (aged 41) escapes the toil of his eminently profitable daily life for a fling in the highlands. A great deal happened to Digby P. Ross. First, and most important, he met Fiona - a mad, beautiful and infallibly seductive highland chieftai...
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Doctor's Pilgrimage. First Edition

By: BRASSET, Edmund A. CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Lippincott , 1951,

Seller ID: 98229

BRASSETT, Edmund A., M.D. A Doctor's Pilgrimage. Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., (1951). First Edition. Pp (10),11-256. 8vo (143 x 208 mm), blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Roland, Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine: A Bibliography, Volume 1, p.124; Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 1714; Watters p.469, Rhodenizer p.467. A well-written & pleasant memoir of medical practice in Nova Scotia. New Waterford, Canso, the Nova Scotia Hospital, Little Brook, near Digby. During times of financial worry in New Waterford, Brassett and his new wife developed an admirable bib...
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Doctor's Pilgrimage. First Edition

By: BRASSET, Edmund A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lippincott , 1951,

Seller ID: 20935

BRASSETT, Edmund A., M.D. A Doctor's Pilgrimage. Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott Co., (1951). First Edition. Pp (10),11-256. 8vo, blue cloth. Roland, Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine: A Bibliography, Volume 1, p.124; Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 1714; Watters p.469, Rhodenizer p.467. A well-written & pleasant memoir of medical practice in NovaScotia. New Waterford, Canso, the Nova Scotia Hospital, Little Brook, near Digby. During times of financial worry in New Waterford, Brassett and his new wife developed an admirable biblio-salve: "When things got very bad ...
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Gems from Scotia's Crown

By: LOCKHART, Agnes Helen

Price: $150.00

Publisher: American Printing and Engraving, 1897, : 1897

Seller ID: 41609

LOCKHART, Agnes Helen. Gems from Scotia's Crown. Boston : "Print of American Printing and Engraving Company", (1897). First Edition. Pp (2),3-47,(1 page touristic ad by the Dominion Atlantic Railway, urging us to 'Celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee by Taking a Trip This Summer through the Land of Evangeline in Nova Scotia") + frontispiece. Oblong 8vo, decorated green cloth with head of Queen Victoria in gilt on front board, plain spine. Not in any of our references. Agnes Helen Lockhart was a graduate of Sacred Heart School, Halifax and seems to have later settled in Massachusetts.A viewb...
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Gems from Scotia's Crown. First Edition, red cloth, Signed

By: LOCKHART, Agnes Helen

Price: $200.00

Publisher: American Printing and Engraving, 1897,

Seller ID: 110735

LOCKHART, Agnes Helen. Gems from Scotia's Crown. Boston : "Print of American Printing and Engraving Company", (1897). First Edition. Pp (2),3-47,(1 page touristic ad by the Dominion Atlantic Railway, urging us to 'Celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee by Taking a Trip This Summer through the Land of Evangeline in Nova Scotia") + frontispiece. Oblong 8vo, decorated red cloth with head of Queen Victoria in gilt on front board, plain spine. Not in any of our references. Agnes Helen Lockhart was a graduate of Sacred Heart School, Halifax and seems to have later settled in Massachusetts. A...
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Geography and History of the County of Digby. grey wraps as is

By: WILSON, Isaiah W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Halifax, 1900,

Seller ID: 94598

WILSON, Isaiah W. A Geography and History of the County of Digby. Halifax, N.S.: 1900. Pp [i]-xv,(1),[1]-456. 8vo, printed grey wrappers. Contents : 1. General Description of Nova Scotia - Ancient County of Annapolis -- Digbyincluded in its limits -- Boundaries of latter County-- Geography -- Natio nal History -- Climate. 2. Earliest Historical References and Descriptions -- French Explorations. 3. Aborigines and their Footprints -- Acadians and their Entrance within the County -- Notes and Relics of Ancient Settlements. 4. Earliest Land Grants in the County -- Primary English Settlers -- Indu...
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Good Gestes : Stories of Beau Geste, his Brothers, and certain of their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion. Canadaian edition in dj.

By: WREN, Percival Christopher

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., Toronto, 1930,

Seller ID: 103145

WREN, Percival Christopher. Good Gestes : Stories of Beau Geste, his Brothers, and certain of their Comrades in the French Foreign Legion. Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., (1930). Canadaian Edition. Pp (4),5-332. 8vo, grey cloth with raised lettering to front and black lettering to spine. Contents : 1. What's in a Name. 2. A Gentleman of Colour. 3. David and His Incredible Jonathan. 4. The McSnorrt Reminiscent. 5. Mad Murphy's Miracle. 6. BuriedTreasure. 7. If Wishes were Horses. 8. The Devil and Digby Geste. 9. The M ule. 10. Low Finance. 11. Presentiments. 12. Dreams Come True. Spine browne...
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Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. #133 of 500

By: MORSE, William Inglis.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: A. Smith & Co, London, 1929,

Seller ID: 100543

MORSE, William Inglis. Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. With photographs by the author. London : Printed by A. Smith & Co., 1929. "Designed by W. B. Dalton and W. H. Amery with the Assistance of the Artistic Typography Class of the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London. Printed under the direction of H. G. Wicks by A. Smith & Co., 30 Sangley Road, London, S.E.6". Pp. (17),2-110,(2),+ plates. Number 133 of 500 copies. 4to, quarter-calf with red cloth boards, gilt lettering and five raised bands to spine,...
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Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. #304 of 500.

By: MORSE, William Inglis

Price: $450.00

Publisher: A. Smith & Co, London, 1929,

Seller ID: 92404

MORSE, William Inglis. Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. With photographs by the author. London : Printed by A. Smith & Co., 1929. "Designed by W. B. Dalton and W. H. Amery with the Assistance of the Artistic Typography Class of the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London. Printed under the direction of H. G. Wicks by A. Smith & Co., 30 Sangley Road, London, S.E.6". Pp. (17),2-110,(2),+ plates. Number 304 of 500 copies. 4to, quarter-calf with red cloth boards, gilt lettering and five raised bands t...
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Guides, All Guides : A history of Girl Guiding in Nova Scotia 1911-1977

By: HUTCHINS, Nancy Bowden

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1977, : 1977

Seller ID: 26955

HUTCHINS, Nancy Bowden. Guides, All Guides : A History of Girl Guiding in Nova Scotia 1911-1977. Research by Helen Cummings. (Halifax : "Printed by McCurdy Printing Co. Ltd.", 1977). First Edition. Pp (8),1-134,(2). With 34 b&w photos as well as some other illustrations in the text. 8vo (152 x 228 mm), art-illustrated white cardcovers with red lettering to front & spine and a monochrome photo of Hutchins on the rear. Nancy Bowden Hutchins was living in Smith's Cove at the time of publication. Foreword by G. Elizabeth Gosse. 1. The Early Years; 2. Provincial headquarters; 3. Guid...
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Hunting. With contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Rev. E.W.L. Davis, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson6th ed.

By: BEAUFORT, Duke of and Mowbray MORRIS Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1891,

Seller ID: 40973

BEAUFORT, the Duke of and Mowbray MORRIS. Hunting. With contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Rev. E.W.L. Davis, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson. With illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton. Sixth Edition. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. Pp (4), [v]-xii, [1]-373, (1), (2,ads), col.frontis. Text illustrations. 8vo, illus brown cloth. In the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. See Hand, A Bookman's Guide to Hunting, Shooting, Angling, and Related Subjects, B214. Cocked, edgeworn, name, else very good. 60.00
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Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. Blue cloth, as is.

By: McLEOD, Robert R.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Markland Publishing Company, 1903,

Seller ID: 93090

McLEOD, Robert R. Markland or Nova Scotia : Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties. N.pl.: Markland Publishing Company, 1903. Pp (2),3-603,(5), frontispiece + 121 p. of black and white plates, maps and charts. Large 8vo, blue cloth with black decoration and borders to front, gilt lettering to spine, all edges dyed red. Morley p.77, Watters p.708, Rhodenizer p.559, Tennyson 32, Tennyson, Cape Bretoniana 89, MacDonald, Bibliography of Victoria County, 194. Chapters: 1. History of Nova Scotia; 2. Geology of Nova Scotia; 3. Introduction to the County Histories; 4. History of Annapolis ...
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