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

[London. Printed by Horace Cox]. (no printed title page). Hardcover. folio, 43.5x 28cm, (17" x 11"0, pp207-712,107, [= 617 pages plus the plates]., WITH. 11 COLOUR FASHION PLATES & 11 COLOUR TEXTILE PLATES, (the textile plates are chromo litho's.), double page engraved frontis, numerous engraved illustrations through out, many full page, spine cap wanting, both worn boards are loose, text block is clean and sound,(no foxing), rare (ds1). Great colour plates.

Quebec Women's Institutes. 1981. Soft cover. 22cm, 244p., stiff printed wraps, a very good copy (N2).

Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Qu'Appelle Historical Society. 1980. Hardcover. 28cm, x,479p., with maps, illustrations, illustrated endpapers, green cloth with black titles and illustration, a fine copy. (cnds).

London & New York. Ward, Lock and Co, Warwick House. [1885], 1885. Hardcover. sm4to, 23.5x 19.5cm, vingette title page and 26 leaves printed on one side each with a beautiful full colour chromo-litho plates or illustration (inc. 3 plates with 2 illus., & one full page plates), original light green cloth, elaborately gilt and colour decorated with two colour panel illustrations laid down on the upper cover, a.e.g., hinges re-glued, slightly dust worn, some wear on the edges and corners, a very good copy, rare (kds). - WorldCat indicates three editions in 1884 & 1885 but cites only two copies. The title page title (as opposed to the cover title) reads "Quacks kcau" as numerials on a clock. Each illustration is of ducks or ducklings.

Boston , (Lincolnshire). Wells and Lilly. 1826, 1826. Hardcover. Good. 22.2cm, 608p., (6)p.ads, index, three-quarter crimson roan, marbled boards, gilt title & bands, foxing throughout, covers & spine worn, front hinge broken but holding, good to very good, internally sound. (ds1). - Volume 38 includes numbers 65 and 66. The magazine was started in 1809. Articles include "Memoirs of Samuel Pepys" (1659-1669), "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816,1820, and 1824" (Waterton), "Observations of the Importance of the North American Colonies to Great Britain, by an old Inhabitant of British America" (Haliburton), "The State of Ireland" (1825), "Recent Discoveries in Africa, made in the Years 1823 and 1824" (Denham, Clapperton, Oudney), and "The Mission to Siam, and Hue, the Capital of Cochin-China, in the Years 1821,2" (Finlayson).

Np. Printed by The North Island Gazette. [ca.1985]. Soft cover. 27.5cm, 36p., illustrations from photographs, brown wraps, near fine. (Wst) A history of the schools of Quatsino, British Columbia.

Quebec. Printed for the Proprietor by Rollo Cambpell. 1860. Soft cover. 12mo, 20cm, 3rd edition, viii,135,[1]p., in the original printed blue wraps, with the title reprinted on the upper cover in decorated frame border and advertisements in a similar border on the bottom wrapper, corner a bit chipped on the cover otherwise a fine copy in the original wraps, rare in this condition. (qc) We have had the first edition, 1857 and other editions previously but never this Third Edition. An interesting history and guide to Quebec City. T.P.L. 3754 - 56. for 1st, 3rd and 5th editions. Not in Lande. Sabin 72606. Gagnon I-3052, for 1864 edition. On the 4th edition, published in 1864, the upper wrap but not the title page, indicates Charles Roger, author of the "Rise of Canada." as being the author. "The text was probably prepared for Russell by Charles Roger, a journalist and civil servant, in Lower Canada". TPL. Part II: contains, The Tourist's Guide, pp89-135. Part III. Contains, Manufactures, (businesses and… Read More

Quebec. Printed and sold by J. Neilson. [1809]. Soft cover. 24mo, 13.2cm, [33 inc. t.p.],34-153,[4]p., in the original plain blue wrappers, light damp stain on the margins of the preliminaries otherwise a very good to fine sound copy, the earliest issues are rare. (Ho.l) The Quebec Almanac. [Quebec, 1780-1841]. T.P.L. 707. Gagnon I-96. All volumes have sections in English and in French. Most of the volumes contain information on astronomy, calendars, events, courts in Quebec, duties and customs, members of the executive and legislative councils, of the Assembly and government departments, lists of notaries, surgeons, pilots, constables, military organizations and religious and educational institutions.

Quebec. Printed and sold by William Neilson. [1839]. Soft cover. 24mo, 14cm, 286p., preliminaries (1-30) are blank page interleaved, in the original printed wraps with title page reprinted in frame borders, spine paper chipped, some damp staining on the wraps, internally clean and sound, very good to fine. (Ho.l) Bissextile year (leap year) in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400.

Quebec. Printed for the Proprietor. 1867. Soft cover. 12mo, 19.5cm, Fifth Edition, 138p., complete with half title, [including 10 pages of ads.], bound in contemporary half roan and marbled boards with the original printed wraps, fine condition. (qc) An interesting history and guide to Quebec City. On some earlier issues starting 1857, Willis Russell, proprietor of the Russell Hotels, is listed as the author, without any mention of Charles Roger. Roger also wrote, The Rise of Canada, 1856 & Ottawa, Past and Present, 1871. T.P.L. 3754 - 56. for 1st, 3rd and 5th editions, all atributed to Russell. Not in Lande. Sabin 72606. Gagnon I-3052, for 1864 edition. The title is reproduced on the upper wrapper. On the 4th edition, published in 1864, the upper wrap but not the title page, indicates Charles Roger, author of the "Rise of Canada." as being the author. "The text was probably prepared for Russell by Charles Roger, a journalist and civil servant, in Lower Canada". TPL. Part II: contains, The Tourist's… Read More

Quebec.Printed for the Proprietor by G.T. Gray. 1864. Soft cover. 20.5cm, viii,147,[1]p. in the original printed pink wraps, wraps are turned down at the edges else very good to fine copy (cds) T.P.L. 3754-56. for 1st, 3rd and 5th editions. The title is reproduced on the upper wrap.

Quebec. Printed for the Proprietor by P. Lamoureux. 1857. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 19.5cm, the first edition, iv,160,[2]p., ads., in the original printedpink wraps, light damp stain affecting the bottom third, dust worn, verygood copy of the scarce first edition (qc) An interesting history andguide to Quebec City. T.P.L. 3754 - 56. for 1st, 3rd and 5th editions.Not in Lande. Sabin 72606. Gagnon I-3052, for 1864 edition. The title isreproduced on the upper wrap On the 4th edition, published in 1864 theupper wrap but not the title page, indicates Charles Roger, author ofthe "Rise of Canada." as being the author. "The text was probablyprepared for Russell by Charles Roger, a journalist and civil servant,in Lower Canada". TPL. Part II: contains, The Tourist's Guide, pp89-135.Part III. Contains, Manufactures, (businesses and industries) pp136-160.

Montreal. Printed at the Canada Gazette Office. 1847, 1847. Hardcover. 12mo, 17.5cm, xi,204p. title vignette, pp191-204 are ads., original worn cloth, rebacked with new paper label, very good to fine copy, rare (cnds) T.P.L. 2867. Lande S1846. Gagnon I-1626. Ryder p252. Sabin 67045.

Montreal. Printed at the Canada Gazette Office. 1847. 12mo, 18cm, xi,204p., title vignette, pages 191-204 are ads., in half mottled brown calf, gilt ruled spine panels, crushed crimson morocco label, gilt titles, marbled boards, a fine copy. (Qc). With the engraved armorial bookplate, "P. Masson". T.P.L. 2867. Lande S1846. Gagnon I-1626. Ryder p252. I.

Glasgow & London. The Literary Press. 1938. Soft cover. 25cm, [32]p., with 3 maps, 1 double sectional cutaway diagram and 68 plates and illustrations, illustrated stiff wraps, near fine, (ho.2).

Inverness. Printed at "The Highland News" Works. 1899. Soft cover. 8vo, 21cm, 38p., original printed wraps, near fine (sc). ~ Inverness in the Tudor period and Mary Queen of Scots' visit in 1562. An address given by the Town Clerk of Inverness and also President of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club.

London & New York. Chapman & Hall & Robert M. McBride & Company. 1926. 8vo. 22cm, 260p., limited edition of 1000 copies, this being #873, hand-made paper, quarter tan fine grain linen backed colour decorated paper over boards, t.e.g., boards are uniformly slightly dust worn otherwise near fine, tired matched jacket with cover paper label loosely inserted, (lt). ~ Part of a series "XVIII Century French Romances". Includes: The Queen of Golconda; Ah! If Only...; The Dervish. Translated by Eric Sutton with an Introduction by Hugh Walpole. Printed at the Curwen Press.

Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 22cm, first American edition, 58p., colour frontis, title-page vignette, 26 colour text illustrations, beige cloth, colour illustrations on upper & lower covers, library plate on front paste-down, child s scribbling on rear free endpaper, covers worn & soiled, good Thomson 110. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. A scarce Harte juvenile book published shortly after his move to London in 1885. A fine match between author and illustrator.

Ottawa. National Capital Commission. 1961. 23cm, 325p. numerous portraits, maps & illustrations, (inc. several colour plates), white cloth, jacket has large chip, a fine copy in chipped jacket. (On).

[Montreal?]. A McAllister, Printer. 1889. one sheet folded to 4 p., on light weight pink paper with title in frame border, fine (n12) Lists the conductor, elocutionist, manager & principal artists.