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Some books that I have recently bought, or that are waiting to have some pictures scanned.
Alphabet Books in Port Colborne, Ontario:
The English Illustrated Magazine, 1886/7
The Tricolor on the Atlas: ALgeria and the French Conquest; Francis Pulazky Esq., New York, 1855; with four tinted lithos
The Odonoghe: A tale of Ireland fifty years ago by Charles Lever, London, 1858; illustrations by H R Browne.
THe Land We Live In: A Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire, Vol I, published by Charles Knight, London, c. 1850. I only have the first of four volumes.
The Canadian Magazine, in 6 volumes; Toronto, 1895
The American Bookmaker, Vol XXIII No. 7, Jan 1897 (with tears and water damage)
Modern Practical Farriery
Steven Temple Books, Welland, Ontario, September 2015:
A Word to Us All by J. E. H. MacDonald with a note by Robert Stacey
Pan Pipes: A Book of Old Songs; by Theo(philus) Marzials, ill. by Walter Crane, 1883
Farming It, by Henry A. Shute, ill. Reginald B. Birch, Boston 1909
Hannelore Headley Books, St Catherine's, Ontario, September 2015:
Sights and Scnes in England and Wales, Vol II, Cassell, c. 1894.
The Colophon: Part 11, September 1932
The Leisure Hour, 1887
A Textbook on Electric Lighting and Railways, Scranton, 1901
Watts, 1817--1904 by W. Loftus Hare; London
The Great Fight: Poems and Sketches, by Willia Hendy Drummond M.D., Putnams, NY, ill. Frederick Simpson Coburn, 1908
Thrift Store, Port Colborne, September 2015:
L'Imitation d Jésus-Christ, traduction de Mr. Darboy; Paris, Morizot, 1855.
Aubrey, History of England, 3 vols, from Fowey Books in Cornwall.
Peter Parleys Annual 1886, London, 1886
Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic, edited by Marshall Everett, copyright L H Walter, 1912 (USA); Bought at cobourg Antique Marketplace, Ontario, Canada, August 2007
Famous Composers and their Music (1901 illustrated edition); I have 11 out of 14 thin volumes. Bought at Odyssey Books, 1439 Rue Stanley, Montreal, QC, Canada on 5th August 2007.
The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin, Illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster; New York, Macmillan, 1921. Bought at The Hudson Trading Post, Island Post, Vermont, September 2010.
The American Boy's Life of Washington by Mrs. Anna M. Hyde, published by Allen Brothers, New York, 1870.
William Shakspere: A Biography by Charles Knight, 1843, reprinted by Collier of New York. Bought at Odyssey Books, 1439 Rue Stanley, Montreal, QC, Canada on 5th August 2007.
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Around the World with A Business Man by Leander A Bigger, Vlume Four, published by The John C Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1910. Bought at The Hudson Trading Post, Island Post, Vermont, September 2010.
Historic Montreal Past and present published by Henry Morgan; it has paintings by Paul Caron. Undated, but more than 50 years since publication, and I think out of copyright here in Canada. Bought at Odyssey Books, 1439 Rue Stanley, Montreal, QC, Canada on 5th August 2007.
Alice Through the Looking Glass: I have found my copy of this book and scanned the first few images.
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith; Charles Scribner's Sons, New york, 1905 [bought 2007-02-01 at Librarie Books, 832 Chartres St., New Orleans, USA]
County Seats of Noblemen & Gentelmen of Great Britain & ireland, Vol I, Ed. by the Rev. F. O. Morris, B.A., published by William Mackenzie, London, 1880. This book has 39 full-page colour lithographs and a coloured title-page vignette. I have only the first volume. [bought 2007-02-02 Crescent Books, 204 Chartres St., New Orleans, USA]
A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations From the earliest dates to the present time by Charlotte M. Yonge, Vol. II. New York, 1882 [bought 2007-02-01 at Librarie Books, 832 Chartres St., New Orleans USA
Eden Musée Monthly Catalogue, August 1904, New York (47pp), [bought 2007-02-01 at Arcadian Books, 714 Orleans St., New Orleans]
An Old Sweetheart of Mine, James Whitcome Riley, illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy (see also Out To Old Aunt Mary's) Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1902 [bought 2007-02-01 at Arcadian Books, 714 Orleans St., New Orleans]
Les Aventures de Jean Paul Choppart by Louis Desnoyers, Paris, 1843 [bought 2007-02-01 at Arcadian Books, 714 Orleans St., New Orleans]
The True Story Book edited by Andrew Lang, London, 1900 [bought 2007-02-01 at Arcadian Books, 714 Orleans St., New Orleans]
Aventures De Gil Blas De Santllane by ``Le Sage'' Paris 1861 [bought 2007-02-01 at Arcadian Books, 714 Orleans St., New Orleans]
Cathedrals and Cloisters of Midland France, by Elise Whitlock Rose with illustrations from original photographs by Vida Hunt Francis; G. P. Putnam's (the Knickerbocker Press, NY), New York, 1907; 2 volumes [bought at Renaissance Books at Portree in the Isle of Skye, in July 2006]
I am Liam at holoweb dot net; let me know if you'd like me to scan specific images, or higher resolution copies, or have any interesting uses for these images, or like them. Tell me what colour socks you are wearing.