Search Results: History from Augustine Funnell Books

London: London Stereoscopic Company Postcard. Very Good. No Binding. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. No date (post 1907). Cards include: Tower of London; Tower Green, Place of Execution & St. Peter's Church; Traitor's Gate & the Gun Carriage Used to Convey the Body of the Late Queen Victoria; the White Tower, From South; Groups of 16th Century Armour; Yeomen of the Guard (Beefeaters); Byward Tower From S.W.; Bloody and Wakefield Towers; Royal Chapel of St. John; Bell and Byward Towers; St. Peter's Church; and the Regalia. All cards are unused and still packaged in original envelope. Cards NF (reverse of Regalia card shows off-setting from envelope flap), in G moderately worn envelope w/light soil, handling wear/creasing..

Fredericton: Maritime Hospital Service Association, 1985. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 136 pages (including bibliography, appendices, index), illustrated. Faint sticker shadow to top right corner of front cover, light surface wear. Internally tight and clean..

Chatham: Miramichi Literacy Writers / Miramichi Literacy COUNCIL, 1985. Book. Illus. by Lynn Johnston, Dawn MacLean, Cindy Barry. Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st editions. Octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" tall. A collection of booklets intended to assist adults with the difficult but thoroughly rewarding chore of learning to read. Reading levels vary from 3.9 through 4.8., with each title ranging from 15 to 23 pages in length, with the final page of each being a word list. .

Dartmouth: Marshland, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A Liverpool orphan's fight for survival -- memories -- experiences -- 1930s." 165 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear..

Uigg: Abby Press Book. Illus. by Vanessa A. Raven (back cover illustration). About Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. No date (1996). Boudreault took 14 years to write this novel, which tells the story of the beginnings of Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island, of "the Jolliets and Arsenaults, the first Acadians on its shores, and of the Mi'Kmaq people. And it is about the MacLachlans and McCallums and MacKays, and especially of the Stewarts and others who sweated for its salty bays and red soil." 497 pages (plus afterword, maps, brief author biography, Island chronology). Mildly cocked, a bit of rubbing, edgewear, two thinly creased corners, author's name/address stamp to inside back cover. Internally tight and clean..

Aberdare: Cynon Valley History Society, 1992. Book. Illus. by Mansel Jones (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A companion publication to 1986's Volume One, of which there were only 3000 copies printed, all of which were snapped up pretty quickly. This volume contains "nearly 200 photographs of local industrial, sporting, social and commercial scenes among others, together with a good selection of rail and road transport." An intriguing pictorial recored. Pictorial boards, unpaginated, colour frontispiece, corrigenda to Volume One, index of plates..

Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, 1982. Journal. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The fifth title in the Occasional Papers of the Department of English, R.M.C. series, this one "intended to be a research support document for use with 'The Acadian Magazine', Canada's first literary journal." (The compilers make the same claim for another magazine toward which they turned their attention, "The Nova-Scotia Magazine," and since it began life in 1789, 37 years before this one, it would seem that the true credit as Canada's first literary journal goes there). Photocopied typescript, stapled, 39 pages (including indices). A suggestion of wear..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1944. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on the spread of the beech scale (an insect introduced into the Maritimes), a list of flora introduced into the neighbourhood of Windsor, N.S., the birds found in a small area of Fredericton, N.B., the use of Fucus Vesiculosis and Fucus Nodosus as fertilizer, a Japanese beetle outbreak in Halifax, Part III of a 4-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, and more. Red wraps, pages 137-194, two in-text maps. Faded wraps, light general wear. Internally tight..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1945. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on forest insects of Newfoundland, plutonic rocks of the Musquash area, wild plants as a source of carotene, skunk removal, repairing fractured deer bones, Part IV of a four-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, lepidoptera taken in-and-near Fredericton, the James S. Lord collection of birds' eggs, and more. Red wraps, pages 1-80, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1946. Journal. About Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on the biological reconnaissance of ponds in the P.E.I. national park, green-gilled clams and bivalves on P.E.I., using flight traps in studying aphid movement, the rock vole in New Brunswick, Jefferson's salamander on P.E.I., and more. Contributors include M.W. Smith, C.J. Kerswill, R.P. Gorham, F.C. Hirtle, C.C. Smith, Blythe Hurst, and Herbert Habeeb. Red wraps, pages 81-122, illustrated. Faded wraps (although every copy of this issue I've ever seen has been the same colour, so perhaps it isn't really faded at all), light general wear. Internally tight..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1943. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on flora introduced to the neighbourhood of Windsor, N.S., the history of plum culture in New Brunswick, Part I of a 4-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, the golden-winged woodpecker, lead-zinc-silver ore in Reserve Brook, and more. Red wraps, pages 51-86, illustrated w/2 figures. Light general wear. Internally tight..

Newmarket: Privately published, 2014. Book. Illus. by Anthony Ventura (cover illustration). Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Oblong octavo. Playter provides brief histories of numerous hotels/drinking establishments in Newmarket, Ontario, with information on the advent of Prohibition, which saw them all closed by 1911. Forewords (misspelled in both instances as "foreward") by Dan MacPherson and L. Keith Taylor). Black cloth, 20 pages, illustrated. Lightly scuffed cloth in similar dust jacket. A nice copy of an uncommon item..

Kingsport: Royal Military College of Canada, 1984. Journal. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The seventh title in the Occasional Papers of the Department of English, R.M.C. series, this one a research support document for a New Brunswick literary journal published by Robert Shives in Saint John. Photocopied typescript, stapled, 72 pages (including indices and books reviewed). A hint of general wear..

St. John's: Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Oblong octavo. From the back cover: "-- takes the reader on an exciting journey of archaeological discoveries which have uncovered evidence of more than five millennia of human occupation of Port au Choix." 64 pages, illustrated. Light general wear..

Aberdeen: Aberdeen Historical Society (printed by Friesen Printers), 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The history of a small Saskatchewan community, containing information on groups, businesses and people, with 160 pages of family histories, hundreds of photographs, and a number of recipes. Red cloth w/gilt illustration/spine lettering, 307 pages. Somewhat cocked, light corner wear, light general wear. A nice copy. This item weighs more than the average book, so additional postage may be required..

Chorley: N.B. (Nelson Brothers) Colour Print Limited, 1994. Book. Illus. by Jill M. Aldersley (cover illustration). Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A History of the area from early times." Illustrated boards, 195 pages, illustrated. Light general wear..

St. Stephen: Print'N Press Ltd. Book. About Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Originally published in 1875 as 'Annals of Calais, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Including the Village of Milltown, Me., and the present Town of Milltown, N.B.' before this undated reprint, published as 'Beginnings, The Settlement of The St. Croix Valley.' Contains much information on the area, including genealogical material. 129 pages, including appendix. Rubbing, previous owner's name to top edge of front cover, handling wear, impressions, light soil..

London: Sands & Co., 1901. Book. Poor. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In 1900, Sir Frederick M. Hodgson, governor of the Gold Coast, demanded to sit on the Golden Stool, sacred to the Ashanti people of the Akan interior (present-day Ghana). He hadn't a clue how serious his demand would seem to the Ashanti, who immediately prepared for and waged war rather than let the honour of their sacred object be thus demeaned. This is the story of the consequences, by two of the participants. This copy comes with a two-page printed insert from Hodgson to The Right Honourable J. Chamberlain, M.P., reporting details of the death of Captain P.H.A. Leggett, assistant inspector of the Gold Coast Constabulary, during the hostilities, and asking that Chamberlain convey to Leggett's relatives his "profound sympathy and the sympathy of all the European officers who were associated with" Leggett. The insert was once affixed to the top left corners of the front… Read More

London: New English Library (NEL) 01675, 1974. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st NEL edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Military History No. 3. "A story of bravery, stupidity and treachery played out under the blazing sun of the Punjab." 174 pages + two pages of advertisements for other NEL titles, illustrated w/in-text maps. Tanning, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Text in Estonian. B.G. (Bengt Gottfried) Forselius was a 17th-century Estonian educator who introduced a number of educational innovations, among them the creation of a spelling system that simplified both the teaching and learning of Estonian. An uncommon title, and if you can read Estonian, you can be the envy of everyone on your block. Navy leatherette w/gold lettering to front cover/spine, 116 pages. This copy inscribed on reverse of first end paper (my Estonian is a bit rusty, and I'm not terribly familiar with the process Forselius created to facilitate learning the language, so please forgive me if I don't provide an accurate translation -- or even a wildly inaccurate one). Light general wear..