Search Results: Titles starting with H from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Np. The Wardroom Mess Committee H.M.S. Vernon. 1956. Hardcover. 24.5cm,114p., with illustrations from photographs, appendices, blue cloth withgilt titles, a bit faded (titles clear), a very good copy. (mt).

Sydney, Australia. RAN Sea Power Centre. 2001. Soft cover. Fine. 21cm, xx,311p., appendices, stiff printed wraps, a fine copy (mt).

Np. Np. [1967?], 1967. Soft cover. 8vo, 22.5cm, no pagination, [70]p., with 37 plates and illustrations, 4 map plates, printed stiff card wraps, very good to fine, scarce (s8) Cooke p85. A well-illustrated history of Canada's premier West Coast naval establishment, first commissioned as HMCS Naden in 1922. An interesting look at a pre-Integration Royal Canadian Naval establishment including "Daily Routine" for 1930 and 1965. Also included are lists of Senior Naval Officers and Captains of HMCS Naden from 1922 to 1966.

Philadelphia. The Jewish Publication Society of America. 1975. 4to. 29cm, first edition, second printing, 494p., with 200 facsimile plates, illustrated endpapers, bibliography, index, gilt decorated linen, fine condition in near fine jacket (bks). ~ An extensively illustrated view of the evolution of the Passover Haggadah, from the beginning of Hebrew printing in the fifteenth century to the present day. Five centuries of Jewish history.

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. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Hardcover. 1889. 8vo. 22.5cm, xxiii,423p., ads, with 3 colour folding maps, appendix, index, original olive green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, internal library stamps a very good sound copy (tgc).

Montreal. Gazette Printing Co. 1909, 1909. Soft cover. 25cm, 26p. plus 4 plates, limited to 300 copies, original printed wraps, author's unsigned presentation copy, fine (n13).

Montreal. Gazette Printing Co. 1909. Soft cover. 25cm, 26p. plus 4 plates, limited to 300 copies, original printed wraps, a fine copy (bgc).

Montreal. Gazette Printing Co. 1909. Soft cover. 25cm, 26p., plus 4 plates, limited to 300 copies, original printedwraps, string tied, wraps loose else near fine. (Lt) Read before theRoyal Society of Canada, May, 1908, and reprinted from its Transactions,1909.

Peterborough. Rotary Club of Haliburton. 1964. 8vo, 66,20p., many illustrations, stiff printed card wrappers, fine copy (gar).

Np. Howard & Kutsche Publishers, n.d. c.[1902?]. Hardcover. oblong 4to, 19.3x 26.3cm, 128p., with c.250 plates and illustrations (inc.many full page and some composites), holograph page numbers and spine title, original green cloth, titles and pictorial decorations stamped in red, white and dark green, some wear at the spine edges, otherwise very good With a 2p holograph index to the illustrations loosely inserted - Text chapters include His Majesty's Military Force; The King's Ships and Sailors; The Charming Public Gardens; Commercial Halifax; The Sound Financial Institutions; Through the Business District; Our Steamship Lines; Social and AthleticClubs; Dartmouth and Its Attractions.

London. J.M. Dent. Hardcover. 1925. 23.5cm, x,126p., charts of hall marks, date letters and guarantee marks, red decorated cloth, spine titles faded else a fine copy (agc) "An explanation of the Hall Marks placed upon Gold and Silver Articles, to guarantee the Standard, and struck by Authority of Act of Parliament, by the various Companies of Goldsmiths and Guardians of the Standard of Wrought Plate, in England, Scotland and Ireland, with representations of the Hall Marks as impressed, together with notes on the guarantee marks of several Foreign Countries.

West Berkeley & San Francisco. [1912]. Soft cover. 8vo., 22cm, 32p., with c.60 plates, illustrations & composites, original printed brown wraps, plus "New Schedule of Prices" leaf loosely inserted, a fine condition, rare (Pol).

Toronto & Vancouver. Clarke, Irwin. 1975. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. 26cm, first edition, 304p. extensively illustrated including plan drawings, orange cloth, a very good to fine copy in similar jacket (s16.4).

Troy, N.Y. Press of Prescott &Wilson. Published for the Author. 1847. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18.5cm, first edition, 163p.,original brown blind-stamp decorated cloth, leaves browned, lacking rearfree (blank) endpaper, lightly worn, a very good copy. (Mt) A scarce"rankers" memoir of the Peninsular War. Anthony Hamilton (b.1779)enlisted in the 43rd Light Infantry and served in the battle of Vimiero,Corunna, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca and Vittoria. In thelatter he was captured by the French. After service in the West Indies,Hamilton was discharged at Quebec in 1819 as a sergeant , eventuallysettling in the United States.

New York. National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. 1918. 19.5cm, 225p., over 200 car and truck illustrations with specifications, illustrated card covers, slight wear, very good sound copy (scs). - A detailed and well-illustrated overview of the American automobile industry in its early stages. Includes a section on electric passenger vehicles.

Ottawa. Printed by G.E. Desbarats. 1867. Soft cover. 8vo, 22.5cm, 79p., frontis view of the Parliament, 6 plans (4 to a page), folding Ottawa street map, table, original printed wraps, wraps slightly dust worn else a fine copy, rare. (N12) T.P.L. 9542. Casey 3443. Not in Lande. One of the earliest works giving historical and descriptive information relating to Ottawa. It predates all but Hunter's Ottawa Scenery in Morley's listing of Ottawa local histories which it is not in.

New York. Burt Franklin. 1967. 21.5cm, 22p., burgundyfabrikoid, a fine copy. (bks) Reprinted with revisions from Paper, May30, 1917. Burt Franklin: Bibliographical & Reference Series, #218.

Cincinati. Robert Clarke & Co., Publishers. 1862. 12mo, 19cm, Fourth Edition, (6),121, xlii,6p., appendex, ads., in the original diamond-grain light brown cloth, gilt spine titles, this book was gnawed on the back spine bottom corner and has been expertly restored, it is a very good to fine sound copy otherwise, rare.(mt). We located listing for the first edition, 1861, and 2nd edition, but none for this 4th issue. (same coalition). A scarce Work. Cf. Kelly... Dict American Medical Biography, (Tripler) p1225. Blackman p105.

Montreal. Dawson Brothers, Publishers. 1888. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, 102p.,addenda, notes, red cloth, gilt titles, some staining to covers, someannotating, good. (Cdn) An important Canadian 19th century referencecollected by Frederick McCord (1856-1908), law clerk for the House ofCommons, Ottawa from 1887. An interesting association copy signed by(Colonel) Walker Powell, Adjutant General of Canada from 1875-1896 andnoted for organizing the militia system in Canada. His annotations appearto update some entries until 1891.