Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Philadelphia. Friends' Book-Store. 1871. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, 268p., black pebbled cloth, missing front free end paper, a fine bright sound clean copy (ds1). - A Connecticut Quaker's diary. Samuel Scott was born in London in 1719 and died in 1788 in Hartford, Connecticut in 1788. He had been a Quaker minister for thirty-six years. Originally published in Philadelphia in 1809.

[London], Quaritch, 2006. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. sm.folio 35x 25.5cm, li,[3], 33p., limited to 500 copies, with 10 coloured illustrations and a reproduction of the original Columbus Letter, dark blue cloth, in pictorial jacket, as new. (tr) First publication of this edition: Story of the first printed account of the New World, usually known as Christopher Columbus's Letter to Santangel or simply the Columbus Letter. - The version of it which the London bookseller Bemard Quaritch bought in 1890 and sold in 1892 was and is, by common acclaim, the most valuable item of printed Americana ever to have appeared on the market. No other copy of this, the earliest edition, a folio printed in Spanish at Barcelona in 1493, is known. For the 1493 Barcelona edition, see Printing & the mind of man 35.

Utrecht Antwerp. Spectrum Publishers. 1953. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, xi,450p., indexes, full black cloth, red label, gilt titles, near fine copy (gar).

Montreal.Librairie Beauchemin, Limitee. 1906. Hardcover. 19cm, 158p., title-page vignette,frontis, 12 plates, errata lip tipped-in, red pictorial cloth, fine .Text in French. (Qc) A book published in celebration of the twenty-fifthanniversary of the formation of the Abbey of Notre-Dame-du-Lac at Oka,Quebec. Formed in 1881 by Trappist monks from France, the abbey is nowknown as the Cistercian Abbey or La Trappe d'Oka and is one of thelargest Trappist monasteries in the world.

Quebec. Des Ateliers de LegerBrousseau. 1864. Soft cover. 12mo.18cm, 127p., original yellow printed wraps, withtitle reprinted on the upper cover in frame border, some soiling to thewraps, lacking the plain spine cap, title name clipped, very good, veryscarce. (qc) T.P.L. 2316. Lande s83. Reports include: Hudson's BayMission (A.M. Garin); Wamontashing Mission in the Northwest Territories. (P. Andrieux); Red River Mission (Tessot); Labrador Mission ( Arnaud);and Vancouver Mission (Modeste). The book also includes a list of thevarious native tribes that the missionaries were minister-ing to byFather Louis Lafleche. The Society was founded in Lyons, France in 1822and the annual Reports were started in 1839.

Quebec. Des Ateliersde Leger Brousseau. 1864. Soft cover. 12mo.18cm, 127p., original yellowprinted wraps, with title reprinted on the upper cover in frameborder, some soiling to the wraps, lacking the plain spine cap,title name clipped, very good, very scarce. (qc) T.P.L. 2316. Landes83. Reports include: Hudson's Bay Mission (A.M. Garin);Wamontashing Mission in the Northwest Territories. (P. Andrieux);Red River Mission (Tessot); Labrador Mission ( Arnaud); andVancouver Mission (Modeste). The book also includes a list of thevarious native tribes that the missionaries were ministering to byFather Louis Lafleche. The Society was founded in Lyons, France in1822 and the annual Reports were started in 1839.

Quebec. Des Pressesa Vapeur de J.T. Brasseau. 1857. Soft cover. 20cm, xxi,104p., original printedpink wraps, with title reprinted on the upper cover in frameborder, some soiling to the wraps, lacking the plain spine cap,very good copy, very scarce.(qc) T.P.L. 2316. Lande S83. Reportsinclude: Hudson's Bay Mission (A.M. Garin); Wamontashing Mission inthe Northwest Territories. (P. Andrieux); Red River Mission(Tessot); Labrador Mission ( Arnaud); and Vancouver Mission(Modeste). The book also includes a list of the various nativetribes that the missionaries were ministering to by Father LouisLafleche. The Society was founded in Lyons, France in 1822 and theannual Reports were started in 1839.

[ Montreal. 1896, 1896. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo, 23cm, 8p., self wraps, unopened, fine (Pol) ~ Not in Peel (3). Amicus 1 copy. - The meeting of the bishops involved was held in Montreal on 6 May 1896.

[Quebec]. National Assembly. [1973]. Hardcover. folio. 43cm, number 215 of a limited edition of 300, unpaginated (around 100p.), triple column, black cloth, elaborate gilt decorated borders and titles on the boards, marbled endpapers, wide inner linen hinges, fine (Ewc). - A facsimile reprint of the Test Roll in use from the Taillon government of 1884 to the Bourassa government of 1973. Since 1867, members of the National Assembly had traditionally made a loyalty oath "I do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria" (King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth). The original Test Roll from 1867 to 1887 had been destroyed in a fire in 1884.

Quebec. (Charles St. Michel). 1864. Soft cover. Very Good. folio. 70x 58cm,each 4p., newsprint, 8-9 columns, folded in quarters, tearing along creases, very good. (qc) Two scarce copies of a pre-Confederation Quebec daily newspaper. With extensive advertisements (banks, insurance companies, medicinal remedies, books) and shipping information (Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, Grand Trunk Ferry Steamship). Both issues contain columns on the American Civil War "American Dispatches. Latest War News!!". The paper appears to have Conservative Party leanings and the September 15th issue contains a column by James Skead, Conservative member of the Legislative Council of Canada for Rideau Division (Ottawa)seeking re-election (he won the election serving from 1862 to 1867 then becoming a senator). The editor denigrates the Parti Rouge about their complaints -"the ordeal we have to pass". The newspaper existed from 1850 to 1888 when it continued as the "Morning Chronicle". Published on newsprint, these early… Read More

(Quebec). Printed by Order of the Legislature. 1881. Soft cover. 8vo, 20.5cm, 75p., blue printed wraps, missing rear cover, upper corner clipped and tape stained, contents very good (cdn). - Thomas Jean Jacques Loranger (1823-1885), prominent Quebec politician and judge, was one of the first French Canadians to specialize in constitutional law.

Ottawa. 1874 1875. Hardcover. tall8vo. 24cm, 161, 208, 40, 71pp., in One volume, bound in quarter black sheep, gilt spine titles, marbled boards, printed on somewhat fragile paper, internal library stamps, some wear on the edges of the boards else a fine copy. (cgc) First volume cf. Peel (3) 542 (earlier issues). 2nd volume, Peel (3) 545. V3; Not in Peel. V4: Peel 712.

Np. Rockwood Historical Society. Nd. [1965]. Hardcover. 22.5cm, 133p., wine cloth, signed by the editor, fine. (wst).

Boston. Patrick Donahoe. [1853]. Hardcover. 8vo. 19cm, xii,265p., original green cloth, black and gilt stamped decorations, borders and titles on the spine and cover, beveled boards, top and bottom spine edges worn else a very good sound copy. ~ Loeber p1085. Religious and moral instruction in the form of a story of the trials of a family of orphan children at the hand of various types of proselytizers. The book speaks harshly of American Protestantism. It describes various aspects of American life, such as railroad construction (Brown)". The author resigned his position a rector of the University of St. Mary in Chicago, to become a missionary to the Chippewa Indians and in 1875 to gold miners in Eureka, California.

London. Hakluyt Society. 1993. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. folio. 35cm, xxxi,229p., frontis plate illustration of the originaledition, 3 plates, appendices, dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, giltcover ship vignette, a fine copy in fine jacket. (ads) Hakluyt Society,Extra Series Volume 45. The only extended original prose work in Englishby Hakluyt. 'It is the most elaborate and important prospectus forEnglish colonisation in North America to have been written in thesixteenth century.'.

London. The Hakluyt Society. 1974, 1974. Hardcover. Fine. 22cm, xxvi,xiii,705p., 54 illus. (title pages), maps including one rear folding, blue illustrated cloth, fine copies in fine jackets (tgc) A reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as a collector, editor, translator and author of travel literature.

London. Hakluyt Society. 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. folio. 35cm, xxxi,229p., frontis plate illustration of the original edition, 3 plates, appendices, dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt cover ship vignette, a fine copy in near fine complete jacket (ewc). - Hakluyt Society, Extra Series Volume 45. The only extended original prose work in English by Hakluyt. 'It is the most elaborate and important prospectus for English colonisation in NorthAmerica to have been written in the sixteenth century.'.

New York. William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1989. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23.5cm, first edition, 272p., fine in fine jacket (s3.8) Includes "Winning Time", an account of the season at Santa Juanita with three top professionals.

Montreal. "True Witness" Office & D.& J. Sadlier & Co. Soft cover. [1892]. 21cm, 24p., printed on fragile paper, wraps chipped at the edges and loose, very good thus, rare.

Toronto. McClelland and Stewart. 1972. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 23cm, 128p., with 12 illustrations by David Shaw, illustrated beige cloth, fine in fine jacket (cdn). A collection of twenty folk tales from around the world Canadian native and Innuit stories. Leslie Quinton is the pen name for the Canadian writers of childrens' literature: Madeline A. Freeman, Lyn Harrington and Audre McKim.