Wm a martel (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No date, c. 1903. Extensive folio-size photographic view-book. Original olive green cloth hard covers, with gilt stamped title to front and light brown borders front and rear. Patterned endpapers. Moderate handling and bumping to covers; spine a little rubbed and perforated at edges. Hinges starting (at inner folds) but holding; rear endpaper is chipped along edges, and the hinge has been neatly reinforced. Inscribed "Compliments of Mr & Mrs O. H. Day, June 3, 1904 on front fly-leaf. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- still quite a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Smith-Ennismore Historical Society brochure laid in at front. viii,268pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 4to. [n.d., 1903?] Photographs and engravings by William A. Martel & Sons, Half-tone Engravers. 195 p.p. Fully illustrated in B&W. Descriptive essay from p.p. 3-10 by James Elder Steen. Half calf with cream paper boards. Unlettered spine. Chips to spine ends, bubbling to spine. Wear to coners, edges and joints. A few small damp stains to front board. Hinges cracked. Spotting and staining to pages, some pages creased. Several short tears and chips to interior. Perforations to p.p. 189-195. A historical and descriptive account of Winnipeg, Manitoba around the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth.…

Card Covers. First Edition, First Printing. Unpaginated [pp. 44]. Oblong 4to., measuring 26 x 31 cm. Illustrated bay card-covers bearing bright gilt lettering to the centre, and held with its original string binding. Wonderfully illustrated with striking black-and-white period photographs of the young city of only 7250 persons. Includes views of its many notable landmarks including its City Hall, various houses of worship, agricultural scenes and vignettes, its banking and centres of commerce, one stunning full-page plate depicting Indigenous leader Light Feather, many views of Brandon-area grain elevators, and much else. Light chips along the edges of the covers, faint foxing to the preliminary pages, and rear endpaper, else, leaves quite well-preserved. Overall, very good+. Exceedingly rare in commerce. See Peel #3349, also corresponds to OCLC #224912573.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair No dust jacket as issued. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. "Until a few years ago Winnipeg was deemed as one of the outer limits on the northern confines of this continent. The jumping off place, so to speak in the journey to discover the North Pole, and around and beyond it was nothing but a desert of snow for at least three-fourths of the year. The great 'New Empire,' of which it is the heart or pulse centre, was until lately deemed only a fit habitation for the buffalo and fur bearing animals, and was named by one of its explorers of less than half a century ago, 'The Great Lone Land.'" - p. 3. This work documents how very far Winnipeg had progressed since then. Eight pages of informative text are followed by 187 pages of magnificent, high-resolution historic photos of Winnipeg. Printed upon high-quality glossy stock. Undated but probably 1903, per Sloane, Roseneder & Hernandez 31. Both free endpapers loose but present bearing yellowed tape from earlier repairs. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Two clippings from page 194. Tape repair to p. 17. Few pen marks to original olive cloth on front board. Binding tender but intact. A worthy example of this exceptionally detailed and informative snapshot of Winnipeg over one-hundred years ago.; Photography; Folio. Illustrated by Wm. A. Martel & Sons (illustratore).…