Showing 202 results

Archival description
Only top-level descriptions Rare Books and Special Collections Fonds
Print preview View:

3 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

Frederick Allison Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 996
  • Fonds
  • 1815-1821

Allison's memoirs of Napoleon are accompanied by his watercolour drawings of Napoleon and St.Helena.

Allison, Frederick, active 1815-1821

Frederick Griffin Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 224
  • Fonds
  • 1827-1876

The fonds consists of documents and letters accumulated during the course of Griffin's legal career, including: dockets of the firm Griffin & Sewell, 1833-1875; legal notes by Griffin concerning wills, sales, and mortgages 1850-1876; legal documents of property transfers and marriage contracts 1826-1860; and notes on marine insurance in the St Lawrence 1843-1848. There are as well two notebooks of legal definitions, dating from approximately 1860.

Griffin, Frederick, 1798-1879

Frederick William Torrance Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 220
  • Fonds
  • 1856 - 1861

The fonds consist of copies of deeds, some of which concern the British-American Land Co., that were executed by Torrance for the period 1856 to 1861, and a notebook of opinions on Québec legal questions, including copies of letters from the firm Torrance & Morris (1857-1859).

Torrance, Frederick William, 1823-1887

George Brown Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 172
  • Fonds
  • 1882

This is a dictionnary and a grammar of the language used by the inhabitants of the Duke of York Island, New Britain Group, Territory of New Guinea.

Brown, George, active 1882

George William Lemon Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 284
  • Fonds
  • 1788-1831

This collection consists of Lemon's accounts as agent to the Royal Exchange Assurance Office, 1804-1831. Also included are miscellanies of verse, 1788-1789 and a translation of the works of Virgil.

Lemon, George William, active 1788-1831

Geraldine Cole Fonds

  • CA RBD Bewick MS 012
  • Fonds
  • 1813-2016

Fonds consists chiefly of ephemera and correspondence relating to the work of wood engravers of Thomas and John Bewick of Newcastle, England, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The ephemera found in series 1 includes various examples of fine printing, including proofs and printed keepsakes featuring Bewick engravings from printers such as Havilah Press and Anchor and Acorn Press. Series 2 contains correspondence, chiefly between Geraldine Cole and booksellers, as well as general correspondence with friends and acquaintances. Series 3 consists primarily of bookseller descriptions and clippings and excerpts from catalogues describing Bewick works (generally with the catalogue cover appended to a loose page on which a Bewick item appears). Some are with accompanying correspondence. Also included in this series are documents listing all of the items found in the Cole-Bewick Collection at McGill Library. Series 4 consists of other ephemera related to Bewick and his life, including short biographical pieces, postcards and products featuring Bewick engravings and watercolours, and articles and clippings. The last file in this series contains 4 original letters from Thomas Bewick to various correspondents, dating between 1819 to 1825. Series 5 contains a number of subject files relate to specific projects or organizations, including the Bewick Society.

Cole, Geraldine Kennedy, 1927-2015

German Society of Montreal Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 829
  • Fonds
  • 1835-1955

Includes minutes, membership lists and other materials related to the activities of the German Society of Montreal.

Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Montreal

Giacomo Leoni Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 51
  • Fonds
  • 1708

Leoni's manuscript of "Li cinque ordini dell'Architettura civile nelle Misre di Palladio con altri Studi..." was written in Dusseldorf in 1708, and illustrated with Leoni's own drawings. This treatise was never published.

Leoni, Giacomo

Giovanni Guerini Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 43
  • Fonds
  • Approximately 1875

This volume contains 30 stories by Giovanni Guerini translated from Italian by Robert Sinclair.

Guerini, Giovanni, active 1875

Grant Woolmer fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 1356
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1998

Fonds documents Grant Woolmer's career as an antiquarian book dealer. The records include:

  • Card File. 1954 – 1998, 628.5 cm of 3" x 5" (7.5 cm x 12.5 cm) index cards describing every book owned and sold by Grant Woolmer giving description and price. Over 30,000 cards.

  • Catalogues. 1954 – 1998, 180 cm. Complete run of catalogues of Antique Book Shop, later Grant Woolmer Books. Over 400 different catalogues.

  • Financial Records. 1954 – 1998, 250 cm. 6 ledgers giving daily income and disbursements; invoices, etc.

  • Mailing list, undated, 5 cm. Some 200 names of institutions, dealers and private collectors mimeographed on 7 sheets.

  • Newspaper clippings and ephemera. 1980 –1998, 5 cm. File consisting of clippings and articles relating to the antiquarian book trade, as well obituaries of antiquarian book dealers and collectors. About 200 items.

  • Bates List Finder. 1980s – 1990s, 3 cm. Alphabetical telephone directory and addresses for frequently called numbers.

Woolmer, Grant

Results 61 to 70 of 202