Moir john s editors (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Red cloth with gilt spine title; teg; l, 272, xxiii pp; illustrations; maps; index. # 524 out of 1250 copies printed. Fine condition. [WAH-M-3] The Preface states that the letters reproduced here were "selected on the basis of their value for the study of early nineteenth century Canadian history, because they reflect the experience and impressions of life in the colonies during a most formative decade and a half of their development. For each of the British North American colonies the letters to the Glasgow Colonial Society from its educated, observant and articulate missionaries cover such wide-ranging topics as living and working conditions, social behaviour, travel, patterns of settlement, economic development, denominational rivalries, church and secular politics, and cultural transfers.".…

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Light rubbing on the corners; no interior markings. This issue contains: Sectarian Strife in Dundas County by James R. McCartney; Jesse Happy, a Fugitive Slave from Kentucky by J. MacKenzie Leask; New Pages of Prehistory by J. N. Emerson; and The Histroric Location of the Hurons by Bruce G. Trigger; along with the usual features. Size: 4to. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. l+272+[xxiii members list] pages with frontispiece, maps, plates and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering and insignia to spine. Publications of the Champlain Society Volume LVIII. First edition limited to 1250 copies of which this is number 195. The Glasgow Colonial Society was a voluntary association of members of the Church of Scotland, founded in 1825 to provide clergy for Britain's North American colonies but dissolved about 1840 because of policy changes on the part of the Church. The correspondence received by the Society from the settlements constitutes an extensive and interesting source for the social and religious history of the pre-Confederation colonial period. Condition: Near fine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. l, 272, xxiii; index, notes, ill.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 272 pages; Copy #706 of 1250.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, No 1030#. Excellent condition as a new book never read since pages uncut. Top edge gilt and untrimmed other edges. Illustrated with maps and photos. l, 262pp, xxiii (index).

[0-9693425-2-7] 1994, an out of series copy from a limited edition of 1250. (Hardcover) Fine. Issued without dust jacket. l, 272, xxiii pp. Crested red cloth. Top edge gilt, frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, maps, index. Publisher series: Champlain Society 58. Locale: Maritime Provinces--Canada. (Canada, Correspondence, Glasgow Colonial Society).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Limited Edition. 8vo., red cloth lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Champlain Society edition, one of 1250 numbered copies, with 5 illustrations and 4 maps. A lovely copy.