Robinson percy j (9 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. minor scuffing along edges and corners. staple binding.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. 24 p. 26 cm. B&w line drawings. Stapled paper covers. In original envelope with some small tears, wear, creases. Foreword by A. Y. Jackson.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 274 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in black and white card covers. Worn around the edges. Creased on the spine. Covers are darkened. VG. Book.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorPERCY J. ROBINSON was a well-known student of and writer on early Canadian history he painted, too, and was invited to exhibit with the Group of Seven.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xx, 274 p. 23 cm. 23 b&w maps and illustrations. Hardcover in dustjacket. Jacket has some wear to edges, rubbing or soiling to rear, and a price clipped front flap. Second Edition. First published 1933 by The Ryerson Press.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of the Toronto Carrying-place, and its rôle during the century and a half of French rule before the arrival of Simcoe, is the story of a dramatic and picturesque period in Toronto's past. Sometimes intimately, sometimes remotely, the Toronto Carrying-place was touched by the struggle for the control of the continent waged so long between the French on the St. Lawrence and the Dutch and English on the Hudson. The history of the region is a fascinating one, and the first full account of it, down to the founding of York in 1793, was written by Percy James Robinson in 1934, at the time of the centenary of the city of Toronto. This valuable record, unavailable for many years, is reprinted now with the addition of later material by the author. Its reappearance will be welcomed by all those interested in the early history of Canada. Toronto during the French Régime owes its beginning to the author's great interest in the historian Du Creux (whose Historiae Canadensis he had translated from the Latin), to his studies of the early maps of the region, and to his knowledge of the Huron language. He was intrigued, too, with the etymology of the name 'Toronto,' and he clarifies here the origin of the name, and describes how it travelled south from Huronia to the Toronto area.…

Cover: Sung with great success in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Aladdin. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1909]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Miss Clara Beck, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas dated 1909, 7 pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections.…

Zustand: ex-library. ~~ Toronto during the French Régime owes its beginning to the author's great interest in the historian Du Creux (whose Historiae Canadensis he had translated from the Latin), to his studies of the early maps of the region, and to his knowledge of the Huron language. The story of the Toronto Carrying-place, and its rôle during the century and a half of French rule before the arrival of Simcoe, is the story of a dramatic and picturesque period in Toronto's past. Sometimes intimately, sometimes remotely, the Toronto Carrying-place was touched by the struggle for the control of the continent waged so long between the French on the St. Lawrence and the Dutch and English on the Hudson. 24cm, xx, 254p. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being #303, with 22 plates, maps & illustrations, rear folding map, original blue fine grain linen, gilt titles, there are light and polite public library stamps on the title page and endpapers and some throughout in the top text margins Otherwise pretty much fine and clean and scarce.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. The Canadian Historical Studies series. xx, 254 p. 25 cm. 23 illustrations, including fold-out map at rear. Blue cloth hardcover in mylar-covered grey dustjacket. Top edge blue. Ink mark at top of jacket front panel. A few scuffs to jacket spine. Corners bumped. Latin and Greek inscriptions on first pages. Hinges repaired. Topics include the building of Fort Toronto or Rouillé, the Conspiracy of Pontiac, the Founding of York, etc. 4 appendices and index. First Edition. 500 copies printed, of which this is no. 418.…