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

London. Chatto & Windus. 1935. 8vo., 34cm, first edition, 372p., with 13 colour plate illustrations, map, appendix, indixe, original blue cloth, gilt spine titles, top spine edge worn, good to very good sound copy (tr).

Montreal. Eusebe Senecal. 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 21cm, first edition,half title, xiii,245p., in contemporary quarter maroon roan, raised blindruled bands, gilt titles & decorations in the panels, marbled boards,internal library stamps else very good to fine. (ads) Book ticket: DesAteliers de Reliure de Beauchemin & Valois, 255 & 258, rue St.-Paul,Montreal. Peel 260. "a sketch of Catholic missions arranged in the formof annals

Montreal. C.O. Beauchemin & Fils, Librairies-Imprimeurs. 1894, 1894. 22.5cm, 64p., appendices, minor annotating in pencil, disbound, tuck taped along spine, internally very good (s5.2) Peel (3) 2174. Monseigner Tache was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of St. Boniface and played an important part in the early stages of the Manitoba separate schools controversy. This is the third of three books that he published on the subject.

Saint Boniface. Imprime par "Le Manitoba" 1893, 1893. 8vo, 22cm, 2 volumes in One, 6,127pp., disbound, good. (N2). - Peel (3)2113, 2116. Two pamphlets relating to the Manitoba separate schools controversy in which the author, as Archbishop of St. Boniface, took an important part. The letter is addressed to Joseph Israel, Tarte Liberal Member of Parliament for L'Islet in Quebec. He was to play an important role in determining the Liberal compromise policy of 1896 towards the Manitoba Schools Question.

Montreal. The Montreal Paper Mills Company. [1891], 1891. Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, pp.33-64, 2 portraits, 2 facsimile letters, yellow printed wraps, fine (cnds).

Amsterdam. Andre de Hoogenhuyen. 1691. Hardcover. 16cm, 452,[18],[42]pp., index, notes, in contemporary speckled calf, real raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, gilt spine title, edges wornm top spine edge chipped, bit shaken but sound, good to very good, (hman.1). ~ Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d'Ablancourt (1606 1664) was a French translator noted for his translations of the Greek and Latin into French. He was a member of the Academie francais. This second volume contains Annals, Germania and Agricola by Tacitus.

Montral & Paris. Fides. 1952. Soft cover. tall8vo. 26cm, 159p., many plates and illustrations, appendices, colour illustrated wraps, some juvenile pencil scribbling on the last few leaves, masking tape on the spine, otherwise good to very good, sound The author was the Director of the School of Education at Saint Joseph University, New Brunswick.

London. Chatto & Windus. 1880. 20cm, new edition, 433,447,462,476pp., full hard grain dark morocco, marbled endpapers, raised bands, gilt titltes and edges, gilt decorated inner dentelles, hinges starting, thus a very good set. (Lt). The author (1828-1893) was a French critic, writer and historian. His views were that man was a product of heredity, historical conditioning and environment, and these views became the theoretical basis for the naturalistic school. This work, first printed in 1864, was translated by Van Laun and first published in English in 1871-72; it is one of Taine's best known works. He held the idea that history had to be examined in the light of the whole social fabric of any one nation, an idea that he had formed after studying the ancien regime, the French Revolution, and contemporary France; he was of the most influential intellectual figures of this period.

Richmond Hill, Ontario. Scholastic-TAB Publications Limited. 1973. Hardcover. oblong4to, 25x 22cm, 128p., double column, numerous illustrations,bibliography, index, brown blind-stamp decorated cloth, fine in very goodjacket. (ads) ~ A detailed study of the peoples of pre-Columbiancultures of North America including Mexico and Central America.Extensively illustrated with pen drawings by Professor George Tait of theFaculty of Education, University of Toronto.

Halifax, N.S., Printed by James W. Doley. 1880. 8vo, 21cm, 5th edition, 32p., alphabet signing illustration on the inside front wrapper, title page reprinted in frame border on the upper cover, two punch holes else fine condition. (sgc) WorldCat - 1 location, Un Victoria, 1885 edition. Amicus # 5369568.

Glasgow. Robert Forrester. 1871. 12mo, 19cm, reprint edition, 103,[1]p., quarter paper (rebacked) over paper boards, with an initial Advertisement Leaf and tipped in leaf by the reprint publisher, no spine label, the boards are dust worn otherwise a very good (internally fine) sound copy (gar). "This is a Reprint of the First Glasgow Directory (1783). Only one copy of the Original is known to exist. ... Guide for the easy ?nding out every inhabitant of the least note, in this City and the other towns and suburbs.

London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown andGreen. 1824. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 23cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, xvi,419 &vii,400pp., with 2 aquatint frontis views, 2p. plan, in the originalpublisher's boards, paper labels, (worn), uncut and partly unopened,original owner's signature on the front paste down endpapers, clean, ina clamshell box of half crushed dark green morocco, gilt decorated wideraised bands, gilt corner and center decorations in the panels, crimsoncrushed morocco labels, gilt titles, marbled boards, fine binding, a verygood to fine set of the first edition, rare thus.(cgc) T.P.L. 1299.Dionne 1018. Gagnon 3460. Lande 824. Sabin 94229. - The two plates, whichare by T. Brown, are fine examples of early lithography. Edward Talbotwas born in Ireland in 1796, and emigrated with his family and a partyof Irish immigrants to Middlesex County, near London, Ontario, UpperCanada in 1818. He was successively a teacher and a journalist, foundingthe radical "London Sun"… Read More

London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. 1824. 8vo. 23cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, xvi,419 & vii,400pp., with 2 aquatint frontis views, 2 page plan, in the original publisher's boards, new paper labels, uncut, private library stamp on the verso of the title page, preliminaries including title page and frontis in both volume have some foxing or toning, (not obtrusive), the rest of the text is clean and sound, a very good to fine set of the first edition. ~ T.P.L. 1299. Dionne 1018. Gagnon 3460. Lande 824. Sabin 94229. - The two plates, which are by T. Brown, are fine examples of early lithography. Edward Talbot was born in Ireland in 1796, and emigrated with his family and a party of Irish immigrants to Middlesex County, near London, Ontario, Upper Canada in 1818. He was successively a teacher and a journalist, founding the radical "London Sun" in 1831. He travelled extensively throughout Upper and Lower Canada, and was only 23 when he wrote this work which was… Read More

Wien. (Vienna). Ben Kaulfuss und Krammer, Buchbaandbiern. (sp.). 1825. 8vo., 22.3cm, first German edition, 140p., index, beautifully bound in quarter tan niger morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt tiles along leather spine label, marbled boards, inner matched hinges, a fine copy, rare.(cgc). Not in NAC/Aurora; WorldCat indicates only 1 copy, in Berlin. T.P.L. 2/7138. An abridged German translation of his "Five Years' Residence in the Canadas" published in London in 1824. Sabin 94230. LC, one copy. Edward Allen Talbot, (1801-1839) was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and emigrated to Canada with his father in 1818. He was an inventor, a militia officer, a schoolmaster, an author, and a journalist. In 1821 he founded the London [Ontario] Sun and later Freeman's Journal. He sympathized with the rebels of 1837, and in 1838 he left Canada for the United States and died in the poor house at Lockport, New York, in 1839. He is chiefly remembered for Five Years' Residence in the Canadas... London. 1824, in 2… Read More

London. John Lane The Bodley Head. 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, The First London Edition, 320p., with 56 plate illustrations & maps from photographs and drawings, original blue cloth, gilt spine titles, slightly dust worn else a very good copy, internally clean. (Ar) A.B. 17390. An informal account of the activities of the trading company, Isak Isaksen Aktieselskap, owners and operators of Norkap II, dealing sealskins, seal oil, polar bears, mush ox hides and walrus tusks. Author notes the company's carrying trade, herring fishing, hunting and other expeditions, in Greenland and Barents Sea, 1929-33.

London. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 22.5cm, The First London Edition, 320p., with 56 plate illustrations & maps from photographs and drawings, original blue cloth, spine titles stamped in black, a fine copy in good only jacket. (Ar) A.B. 17390. An informal account of the activities of the trading company, Isak Isaksen Aktieselskap, owners and operators of Norkap II, dealing sealskins, seal oil, polar bears, mush ox hides and walrus tusks. Author notes the company's carrying trade, herring fishing, hunting and other expeditions, in Greenland and Barents Sea, 1929-33.

Auburn. Miller, Orton & Mulligan. 1855. Hardcover. 19cm, 359p., frontis portrait, fine grain cloth with gilt titles, some wear at the edges, a very good to fine copy.(amp).

Toronto. H. & W. Rowsell, printers, Kingstreet. 1841. Soft cover. 8vo, 24cm, 66p., in the original dark brown pebbledcloth with gilt borders on the boards, with new dark crimsonleather label, new endpapers with the original pale blue/greyendpapers bound in, (giving the impression of wraps), with aprivate library paper title label on the upper cover, a fine copy,rare. (cgc) Free fly inscribed; "1905-06. 22 Bryanston Square W.given to us by Lord Colville after his father's death. The verseswere written in by Lord Colville who was A.D.C. as Lieut Coville toSir George Arthur, in Canada". In pencil. T.P.L. 2495. Fleming,#1594, U.C. Imprints to 1841. "Verses, as recited at its meetings,celebrating the activities of this convivial club of limited andmilitary membership. (An account of the Tandem Club is givien byJohn Ross Robertson in his Landmarks of Toronto, Toronto,1894-1914. V2, p1040-1048)". TPL.

Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 1960. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 24cm, vii,206p., indexes, original blue cloth with gilt spine titles, white and green dust-jacket, a fine copy in a very good jacket (B8).

Halifax. A.&W. MacKinlay. 1880. Hardcover. 16mo, 15cm, second edition, viii,95p., brown decorated cloth, water stops on the rear board, else very good to fine "Prescribed by the Council of Public Instruction for use in the Public School of Nova Scotia". Professor Lawson would be George Lawson (1827-1895), prominent botanist and professor of chemistry at Dalhousie University from 1863 until 1895.