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A general collection of the ancient music of Ireland : arranged for the piano forte ; some of the most admired melodies are adapted for the voice, to poetry chiefly translated from the original Irish songs

Item is a reprint of an extremely rare 1811 edition of The ancient music of Ireland by Edward Bunting, who is recognized as a seminal figure in Irish musicology. Item was published by the Linen Hall Library.

Adult learning : access through innovation

Item is a presentation on improving Alberta's post-secondary education opportunities through the perspective of Mount Royal College in 1993. The presentation highlights the issues, vision, proposed strategy and priorities of Mount Royal College in adapting to the new knowledge-based economy.

Alberta's fight for freedom

Item is a series of booklets about the history and policies of the Alberta Social Credit League. Item was published by Alberta Social Credit League.

Alphabet and Verses

Item is a children's book containing an alphabet section followed by a series of instructive 12-page stories, poems, and vignettes. With the exception of the first poem, My Mother by Ann Taylor, the stories and poems have various unnamed authors and were originally published individually by Edward Lacey.

An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the villa to the cottage and the farm, including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings ; country inns, public houses, and parochial schools : with the requisite fittings-up, fixtures, and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens, and garden scenery : each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks

Item is a reference work intended to help improve homes and to create an appreciation of "architectural comforts and beauties." The author John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist and garden designer. Item was published by Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans.

Antarctica

Item contains photographs depicting wildlife, abandoned human activity, seascapes and landscapes in Antarctica. This book is a limited edition of 950 books, signed and numbered, plus 45 artist's proof and five production proofs, in linen and velvet presentation box. Net proceeds from this publication have helped the Save the Albatross campaign.

Appley Dapply's nursery rhymes

Item is a children's collection of nursery rhymes by Beatrix Potter, the creator of the Peter Rabbit series. This edition features new illustrated reproductions from the original 1917 edition.

Appley Dapply's nursery rhymes

Item is a first edition of Beatrix Potter's collection of nursery rhymes for children, and is accompanied by a booklet advertising Potter's other books and Peter Rabbit merchandise.

Betty Gillis, or, Honesty rewarded

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was printed and sold by John Marshall.

Canada in khaki

Item is a patriotic magazine containing photographs, war art prints, cartoons, military history, and personal recollections. Item was published by the Pictorial Newspaper Co.

Canada in khaki. No. 2

Item is a patriotic magazine containing photographs, war art prints, cartoons, military history, and personal recollections. Item was published by the Pictorial Newspaper Co.

Canada in khaki. No. 3

Item is a patriotic magazine containing photographs, war art prints, cartoons, military history, and personal recollections. Item was published by the Pictorial Newspaper Co.

Carry on : letters in war-time

Item contains letters written by Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson of the Canadian Field Artillery during World War I. Item was published by John Lane Company.

Cassell's shilling cookery

Item comprises a collection of frugal recipes from the late 1800s, accompanied by advertisements and unusual food items.

Chapbook col[lection] : early 1800s

Item is a collection of thirty-three chapbooks printed by various printers and publishers in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The collection contains short stories, poems, songs, and historical accounts from the 1800s. Most of the publications were printed anonymously, but contributing authors include: Allan Ramsay and Alexander Pope.

Chapbooks

Series contains chapbooks, which are small inexpensive pamphlet-like booklets that were popular from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Chapbooks typically consisted of current events, news, nursery rhymes, riddles, jokes, songs, and occasionally longer stories such as adventure tales, coming-of-age narratives, fairy tales, or traditional folk tales. While they were not originally produced for, or marketed to children, chapbooks became a popular form of children's literature and helped to usher in literature created specifically for children. Series contains moralizing chapbooks produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, collections of fairy tales, nursey rhymes, and ballads.

Children’s books in England : five centuries of social life

Item is a book analyzing the evolution of children’s literature through historical contexts. The work also reflects on the history of English social life, documenting the English people in their capacity as parents, guardians and educators of children.

Compendium maleficarum

Item is a collection of writing on witchcraft by Ambrosian monk Francesco Maria Guazzo, which was originally published in 1608. Contents of the work includes:

Preface to the reader -- Editor's introduction -- Foreword -- The first book. The nature and extent of the force of imagination ; Of artificial magic ; Whether this magic can produce true effects ; That witches effect their marvels with the help of the devil ; The men of old accredited witches with marvelous deeds ; Of the witches' pact with the devil ; By their terrible deeds and imprecations witches produce rain and hail, etc. ; The power of witches over external things ; Whether the devil and truly enrich his subjects ; Whether witches can by their art create any living thing ; Whether there truly are incubus and succubus devils; and whether children can be generated by copulation with them ; Whether witches are really transported from place to place to their nightly assemblies ; Whether witches can transmute bodies from one form to another ; Whether witches have power to make beasts talk ; Whether the devil can make men insensible to torture ; Whether by witchcraft and devil's work the sexes can be interchanged ; Whether the spirits of the dead can appear to men ; Of apparitions of demons, or spectres ; That cacodemons exercise their magic powers of their own will.

The second book. Dealing with the various kinds of witchcraft, and certain other matters which should be known. Of soporific spells ; Witches use human corpses for the murder of men ; Of Witches' Poisons ; Of tying the points ; Of incendiary witchcraft ; The devil wishes to perpetuate the race of witches ; Of the various ways by which witches vent their spite upon the human race ; Of the different diseases brought by demons ; Why God permits the devil so to busy himself with witchcraft ; The laws observed by witches in causing and in curing sickness ; Witches use something of religion in healing sickness ; Threatening or beating witches is the best method of removing the spells cast by them ; After the many blasphemies committed by witches, the demon at last tries to induce them to kill themselves with their own hands ; Upon those who have once fallen into his power the devil keeps a tenacious grip, even when they stand tortured before their judges, or in holy places, or wherever they may be ; A summary in a few words of all the crimes of witches ; The devil deceives and seduces by means of false revelations or apparitions ; Of the appeal to God ; Of the trial by single combat ; Of vulgar purgation by fire ; Of superstitious folk.

The third book. Treating of the divine remedies for those who are bewitched, and of other certain matters. Whether it is lawful to remove a spell in order to heal one that is bewitched ; How to distinguish demoniacs and those who are simply bewitched ; Recent examples of the mercy of God and tyrrany of the devil ; Of divine and supernatural remedies.

De betoverde weereld : zynde een grondig ondersoek van't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de geesten, deselver aart en vermogen, bewind en bedrijf: als ook't gene de menschen door derselver kraght en gemeenschap doen, in vier boeken ondernomen

Contains four volumes published as one. Volume 1. De betoverde weereld -- Volume 2. Der betoverde weereld, het tweede boek -- Volume 3.Der betoverde weereld, het derde boek -- Volume 4. Der betoverde weereld, het vierde boek.

Demonolatry

"Drawn from the capital trials of 900 persons, more or less, who within the last fifteen years have in Lorraine paid the penalty of death for the crime of witchcraft." Translated by E. A. Ashwin. Edited with introduction and notes by the Rev. Montague Summers. Reprinted from the original French which was published in Lyon in 1595.

Der Anti-Nazi : Redner und Pressematerial uber die N.S.D.A.P.

Item is a collection of loose-leaf pages of facts and counter-arguments refuting Nazi claims and anti-Semitic propaganda, produced by a secret organisation of German Jews. The loose-leaf format allowed for the easy and covert distribution of information during public meetings.

Eaton's Farm News Service

Item is a loose-leaf publication of prairie agricultural information on a variety of topics such as crops, farm animals, farming equipment and buildings, home furnishings, food preparations and more.

Edward the Black Prince, or, a tale of the feudal times

Item is an adventurous narrative of Edward the Black Prince embarking on an epic journey. This penny dreadful was originally released in 36 weekly installments costing a penny each, with each installment clearly labeled with its corresponding part number at the bottom of the opening pages. The weekly installment details are visible along the inner margins, particularly where the pages are less tightly bound.

Eskimo place names and aid to conversation

Item is a guide for army and naval personnel to the Inuit languages as spoken by the natives of Labrador, Hudson Straits, Hudson Bay, Baffin Island, south and north Greenland. Item was published by The Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy under authority of the Secretary of the Navy.

Fragments away from France. Vol. VIII

Item is a collection of cartoons, mostly about soldiers' life, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather that were originally published weekly in The Bystander magazine during World War I.

Fragments from France. Vol. IV

Item is a collection of cartoons, mostly about soldiers' life, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather that were originally published weekly in The Bystander magazine during World War I.

Fragments from France. Vol. V

Item is a collection of cartoons, mostly about soldiers' life, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather that were originally published weekly in The Bystander magazine during World War I.

Fragments from France. Vol. VI

Item is a collection of cartoons, mostly about soldiers' life, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather that were originally published weekly in The Bystander magazine during World War I.

Gardening for children

Item is a book of practical gardening instructions for children, published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Herewith the clues

Item is an interactive murder mystery case file, in which the reader examines physical evidence and clues to correctly guess the murderer.

History of the horn-book

Item is a book on the history of the horn-book. Hornbooks were an early form of reading primer that was used to educate children from the middle ages until the 18th century. Hornbooks consisted of a page of text, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, fixed into a frame with a handle.

History of the horn-book

Item is a book on the history of the horn-book. Hornbooks were an early form of reading primer that was used to educate children from the middle ages until the 18th century. Hornbooks consisted of a page of text, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, fixed into a frame with a handle.

Home nursing handbook

Item is a Canadian home nursing handbook intended to act as a guide for family members providing in-home illness or injury care.

Illustrirte Zeitung. Nr. 3716, Kriegsnummer 7

Item is a wartime issue of a German magazine, the "Illustrated Newspaper," which was founded in Leipzig by Johann Jakob Weber and published from 1843 to 1944. Item contains articles, photographs, and illustrations relating to World War I.

Illustrirte Zeitung. Nr. 3725, Kriegsnummer 16

Item is a wartime issue of a German magazine, the "Illustrated Newspaper," which was founded in Leipzig by Johann Jakob Weber and published from 1843 to 1944. Item contains articles, photographs, and illustrations relating to World War I.

Illustrirte Zeitung. Nr. 3780, Kriegsnummer 71

Item is a wartime issue of a German magazine, the "Illustrated Newspaper," which was founded in Leipzig by Johann Jakob Weber and published from 1843 to 1944. Item contains articles, photographs, and illustrations relating to World War I.

Illustrirte Zeitung. Nr. 3800, Kriegsnummer 91

Item is a wartime issue of a German magazine, the "Illustrated Newspaper," which was founded in Leipzig by Johann Jakob Weber and published from 1843 to 1944. Item contains articles, photographs, and illustrations relating to World War I.

Illustrirte Zeitung. Nr. 3807, Kriegsnummer 98

Item is a wartime issue of a German magazine, the "Illustrated Newspaper," which was founded in Leipzig by Johann Jakob Weber and published from 1843 to 1944. Item contains articles, photographs, and illustrations relating to World War I.

Illustrirte Zeitung. Nr. 3811, Kriegsnummer 102

Item is a wartime issue of a German magazine, the "Illustrated Newspaper," which was founded in Leipzig by Johann Jakob Weber and published from 1843 to 1944. Item contains articles, photographs, and illustrations relating to World War I.

Island

Item is a limited edition of 150 copies; the first 26 copies are lettered A-Z and are signed by the author and artist. This book is E of A-Z.

KZ : Bildbericht aus fünf kozentrationslagern

Item contains an illustrated report by the American War Information Office on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces. This item was published while the Allied forces liberated prisoners from concentration camps across Germany. Shocked at the discovery of the systematic murder of prisoners, the Allied forces published this illustrated report to inform Germans of the war crimes Germany committed.

Legionari di Roma in terra iberica (1936 XIV-1939 XVII)

Item is book documenting the Italian intervention, on behalf of the Francoists, during the Spanish Civil War. Item was produced and edited by the Damiano Chiesa Artillery Regiment of Italy and contains works written by various Italian authors, journalists, and military personnel praising Mussolini's involvement in the Spanish conflict. Item contains many illustrations, photogravures, and portraits.

Madge Blarney, the gipsey girl

Item is a chapbook for children covering moral and religious themes produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts. Item was printed and sold by John Marshall.

Magic leaves : the Christmas number of Once a Week

Item is a book of short Christmas stories that was collected and published by the London literary periodical, Once a Week. The contents include:
Next door to Bulliman's by Hain Friswell -- September 21st, 1870 by Rev. Charles Kingsley -- A first-class return by J.S. Rice -- The charity dinner by Litchfield Moseley -- A fool's story by George Halse -- A very big Christmas story by Harry Lemon -- Law and physic by Tom Hood -- Awdry court by Sir Charles Young -- The old four-poster by Walter Maurice -- The last but one of Whicksy Junior by Charles H. Ross -- Christmas eve in a belfry by Litchfield Moseley -- Glenfyne gleanings by Cuthbert Bede -- Little blue cloak by Percy Fitzgerald.

Maß und Gewicht aller Staaten der Erde

Item is a clandestine publication, sometimes referred to as 'camouflage literature', containing news coverage of the Spanish Civil War which was strictly censored in Nazi Germany.

Miscellaneous pamphlets

Item is a collection of seven chapbooks for children by various authors, printed and published by various publishers, and bound in a single volume. Contributing authors include: Reverend T. Clark, Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, and Mary Martha Sherwood.

Miss Cavell - Fusillée par les Allemands à Bruxelles - le 12 Octobre 1915

Item is an original World War I poster, printed in Paris, depicting British nurse, Edith Cavell. Cavell taught and practised nursing in Belgium and helped soldiers escape back to Britain when the Germans invaded. When Cavell was arrested, imprisoned, and executed for her work she became an iconic propaganda figure for military recruitment in Britain.

More Fragments from France. Vol. II

Item is a collection of cartoons, mostly about soldiers' life, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather that were originally published weekly in The Bystander magazine during World War I.

No matter how thin you slice it-- : 63 cartoons

Item is a collection of political cartoons by Stewart Cameron, reprinted from the Calgary Herald. Cartoons detail the early administration of Alberta's Social Credit Party, which governed from 1935-197, and the party's leader William Aberhart.

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