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Thick 8vo. [2], xi-xv, [2], 18-692 pp. With numerous woodcut engraved advertisement illustrations. Original publisher's embossed polished calf, covers illustrated & embossed in blind, gilt lettering on spine (rear outer joint starting, wear to fore-edges, rubbing, occasional light foxing), still G copy. First edition of this excellent Victorian Canadian reference work with a focus on Eastern Canada, filled with an excellent range of early illustrated ads for businesses, manufacturers, and professions in Canada and the United States. The illustrated ads for Canadian companies encompass the Montreal Fire Engine Manufactory with a portable fire engine illustrated; the London Commercial Hotel opposite the Quebec Steamboat wharf, with scene of Quebec sidewheeler below the hotel; A.H. Armour & Co. Booksellers, Stationers, Printers & Bookbinders depicting a leather bound ledger; A. & S. Nordheimer Music & Musical Instruments, with image of a large piano forte, as well as the Hagar & Vogt Hamilton Organ Factory on Cannon Street. The final 100 pages entitled Advertisements from the United States captures an extraordinary mix of pre-Civil War American Businesses, including Brown, Lawson & Co. Wholesale Druggists, Boston; Edwards, Holman & Co. Salamander Safes; Bennet's Temperance House in Buffalo, NY; Gregory's California Express in New York dispatching Letters for California twice a month carrying gold dust, parcels packages, and valuables often ahead of the postal service; Fowler & Wells Phrenology specialists in New York featuring a phrenology head, as well as Hall's Rochester Threshing Machines, Separators and horse powers.…