Ables, Tom

The Story of Buck Knives: A Family Business

El Cajun, CA, Buck Knives, Inc. 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. viii, 120. Tall 4to. Quarter marbled leatherette over tan cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, and front board. Portrait frontispiece, accompanied with many additional black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked and housed in fine, original, unclipped dustjacket. As new. Scarce in commerce in this edition, and state. Documents the four generations of the Buck family and their firm. .

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Book number: 7022

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: business; hunting; commerce

[The L.S. Howick Co.]

L.S. Howick; Manufacturer of Tents and Awnings, Tarpaulins, Truck Covers

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, The L.S. Howick Co. | Printed by Sun Print (Brandon, Manitoba, Canada), N.D. [Circa 1940-50's?]. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 11. 8vo. measuring 6" x 9". Illustrated, plain, twice-stapled, self-wrappers. Illustrated trade catalogue produced by the L.S. Howick Co. of Brandon, Manitoba with a variety of goods on offer including: Wall and Wedge Tents, Leg Aprons, Curtains, Folding Canvas Cots, Umbrella Tents, Bell Tents, Dunnage Bags. All goods accompanied with a detailed price-list. Bright, clean, and unmarked. Unusual trade catalogue with no holdings recorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, etc. .

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Book number: 5722

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: manitoba history; western canadian history; prairie; local history; business; commerce; trade catalogues

Kurt Faustig (Firm)

Faustig [Catalogue of Crystal Chandeliers, No. 183]

München, Germany, Kurt Faustig (Firm), [2002]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 288. Small 4to. Bound in bright red leatherette with gilt rules, and lettering to the spine, all gilt edges. Sumptuously illustrated with full-page captioned colour plates depicting a rich variety of crystal chandeliers offered by the German-based Faustig firm. Base of spine reads "183", presumably referring to the issue / series number. One very faint ciruclar mark to the rear board, otherwise the extremities remain near fine, contents remain entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked leaves and firm, sound binding; very good+ to near fine. A highly rare, and unusual trade catalogue. Rare to be offered in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #1304896860 indicating only one institutional holding at time of cataloguing. .

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Book number: 7023

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: trade catalogues; art; exhibition

[Sotheby's Park Bernet (Canada) Inc.]

Sotheby's Toronto: Inuit and Indian Art and Artifacts, December 1st and 2nd, 1981

Toronto, Sotheby's Park Bernet (Canada) Inc. 1981. First printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 75. Square 8vo. Replete with black and white photographs and illustrations, chiefly of Inuit soapstones. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. .

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Book number: 715

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: art catalogue; indigenous studies; canadian history; canadiana; canadian art; art history;

[Macdonalds Consolidated Limited]

Macdonalds Consolidated Limited, "Wholesale Grocers"; Cash with Order, Price List [Grocery Trade Catalogue] ; "Wholesale Grocers", Winnipeg - Man.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Macdonalds Consolidated Limited, July, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 32. 8vo. measuring 7" x 10". Coral, twice-stapled, card covers. Remarkable period grocery trade catalogue advertising a rich variety of fresh, dry, and preserved goods, fish, oysters, various meats, candies, sauces, alongside various household baking and cooking ingredients, farming implements, many medicines; all accompanied with an exhaustive price-list, corresponding sizes, et al. A most remarkable period trade catalogue offering insight into the rich offerings available to consumers in the early part of the last century (particularly before the Second World War). Rubbing, and some spotting to the cover, faint tide-marks to the margins of the initial pages (entirely unaffecting legibility of the text), else, very good. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Peel, LAC/BAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Guelph, McGill, et al. Rare indeed. .

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Book number: 6266

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: business; commerce; agriculture; trade catalogues; manitoba history; western canadian history; local business

Long, Gary; Catherine Lortie (Eds.)

Souvenir Collection of the Postage Stamps of Canada: 1988 (Complete with All Stamps)

[Ottawa, Ontario, Canada], Canada Post Corporation | Printed by Ashton-Potter Printers, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 48. Slim 4to. Silver cloth over boards with white lettering to the spine, and front board. Replete with black-and-white and colour photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in fine like slipcase. Accompanied with all the required stamps to complete the book. Scarce, in this condition and to be accompanied with all the stamps. .

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Book number: 1741

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: philatelic; stamp collection; collecting;

[Sears, Roebuck]; Joseph J. Schroeder Jr. (Ed.)

Sears, Roebuck & Co. ; 1908 Catalogue No. 117: The Great Price Maker

Northfield, Illinois, DBI Books, Inc. 1969. Card Covers. pp. 1184. Small 4to. Illustrated stiff card covers. Profusely illustrated with many hundreds of illustrations, photographic reproductions, etc. Very light foxing to the covers, else, extremities remarkably well-preserved in consideration of its age. Contents equally without blemish with clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding. Overall, very good. Scarce in commerce in this condition. .

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Book number: 4544

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

[D. Ackland & Son, Limited]

D. Ackland & Son, Limited: Hardware and Blacksmith Supplies, Catalogue No. 23, 1928

Winnipeg, Manitoba & Calgary, Alberta, [D. Ackland & Son, Limited], 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 140; accompanied with an extensive index. 4to. measuring 8.5" x 11". Illustrated card covers held with utilitarian black cloth backstrip bearing the crest of the firm to the lower-right margin of the front cover, and gilt lettering. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white, and (remarkably for its time) colour engravings, and illustrations demonstrative of the rich variety of goods on offer including those for: chains, bolts, wheels, springs, paints, plates, Lauson Gasoline Engines, belts, spark plugs, hitches, and much else. Extremities show light rubbing, some very light superficial tide-marks (entirely unaffecting text). Contents remarkably bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Includes original, perforated (remains attached), "Dealers' Discount Sheet" offering a 50% discount off goods comprising the catalogue. A remarkable, and scarce Western-Canadian catalogue of hardware goods. Unrecorded in commerce, or OCLC. Not in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. Very Good + Title Page: Catalogue No. 23, 1928: Wholesale; Heavy Hardware; Blacksmiths' Supplies; Implement Repair Parts; Vehicle Wood Goods; Hardwood Lumber.

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Book number: 4350

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: trade catalogues; business; economics; manitoba history; canadian history; local history; winnipeg; metal works

Witschi, F.

F. Witschi Successeur de U. Kreutter la Chaux de Fonds (Suisse) [Swiss Watch Parts Catalogue]; Fournitures Pour Réveils Et Pendules; Wecker Und Pendulen Furnituren, Alarm-Clocks and Clocks Materials

Switzerland, F. Witschi, June, 1949. Card Covers. pp. 56. 4to. Illustrated card covers. Profusely illustrated with a variety of black and white photographs, engravings, illustrations of various clock and alarm-clock parts. Text in English, French and German. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. Scarce. .

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Book number: 824

Catalogue: Antiques & Collectibles

Keywords: watchmaker's catalogue; history; tool catalogue; swiss watch;