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- Cary, Ferdinand Ellsworth, 1848- 1
- Cody, Sherwin, 1868-1959 1
- Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922 1
- Gregg, John Robert, 1867-1948 1
- Hunter, Robert, 1824-1897. 2
- Lemon, Don 1
- Meek, Thomas Sheppard 1
- Morris, Charles, 1833-1922 2
- Pitman, Isaac, 1813-1897 1
- Root, Charles P. 1
- Russell, Thomas Herbert, 1862-1947 1
- Stevens, C. M. (Charles McClellan), 1861-1942 1
The modern world dictionary of the English language : an original work on a new principle which compiles for each word the highest authorities of all dictionaries on orthography, pronunciation, etymology, meaning, origin, development, and use, including a condensed explanation of over fifty thousand important subjects ; to which is added a compendium of historical, biographical, geographical, scientific, religious, and sociological names, and a complete survey of human achievement in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries ; with especial reference to invention, exploration, and the development of civilization through scientific research ; illustrated with many colored plates and drawings, volume four
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary160
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.109.9
- Call Number
- 423 COL vol. 4
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Publication Date
- c1906
- Physical Description
- 1299 p., 124 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Editors-in-chief: Robert Hunter and Charles Morris.
- Includes supplement.
- Sab-Zyt
The modern world dictionary of the English language : an original work on a new principle which compiles for each word the highest authorities of all dictionaries on orthography, pronunciation, etymology, meaning, origin, development, and use, including a condensed explanation of over fifty thousand important subjects ; to which is added a compendium of historical, biographical, geographical, scientific, religious, and sociological names, and a complete survey of human achievement in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries ; with especial reference to invention, exploration, and the development of civilization through scientific research ; illustrated with many colored plates and drawings, volume one
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary161
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.109.10
- Call Number
- 423 COL vol. 1
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Publication Date
- c1906
- Physical Description
- xii, 1360 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Editors-in-chief: Robert Hunter and Charles Morris.
- A-Croop
Swedish-English conversation teacher. Engelska talo¨fningar ja¨mte grundla¨ggande ordfo¨rra°d med uttalsbeteckning, extensive conversation vocabulary for both languages reading and speaking self-taught through a simplified course of easy lessons for learners of either language
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5968
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV007.40.8
- Call Number
- 439 STE
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue & Co.
- Publication Date
- c1905
- Physical Description
- 127 p. : 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dictionaries
- English language--Dictionaries--Swedish
- Swedish language--Dictionaries--English
Pitman's commercial dictionary of the English language
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2558
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Pitman, Isaac, 1813-1897
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Call Number
- 650.03 PIT
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.74.1
- Call Number
- 650.03 PIT
- Author
- Pitman, Isaac, 1813-1897
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- The Commercial Text Book Co.
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Printer
- Isaac Pitman & Sons Press
- Physical Description
- 374 p. ; 11 cm.
- Inscription
- inside title page: "671403" crossed-out, "45", "20" [handwritten in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Commerce--Dictionaries
- English language--Dictionaries
Webster's self-pronouncing vest pocket dictionary, 51,200 words : containing also rules for spelling, punctuation, use of captials, etc. ; tables of weights and measures ; parliamentary law, postal information, revenue law of 1898, national bankruptcy law ; pointers in proofreading, etc., etc., etc.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2527
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
- Edition
- latest ed.
- Publication Date
- 1905
- Call Number
- 423 WEB
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.61.24
- Call Number
- 423 WEB
- Edition
- latest ed.
- Author
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Thompson & Thomas
- Publication Date
- 1905
- Physical Description
- 194 p. ; 14 x 6 cm
- Inscription
- scribbles in pencil handwritten on front pastedown
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Cover: Latest edition. Most complete.
The American cyclopedia of the automobile or, Motor cars and motoring self-taught : a work of reference & self instruction
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1816
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.48.12
- Call Number
- 625.6 RUS v.6
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Thompson & Thomas
- Publication Date
- c1909
- Physical Description
- 336 p. : ill. : 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Automobiles
- Automobiles--Design and construction
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Author's given name and dates as follows: Russell, Thomas Herbert, 1862-1947.
The complete library of universal knowledge : ten great books in one volume : the culmination of centuries of human effort showing the newest conditions of industry, commerce, invention, science, art, literature, philosophy, etc., etc. : including also self-instruction in bookkeeping, computation, correspondence, points of law and legal forms, penmanship and shorthand supplemented by review questions for students
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1467
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3697.1
- Call Number
- 031 CAR
- Contributor
- Cary, Ferdinand Ellsworth, 1848-
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- C.F. Beezley
- Publication Date
- c1904
- Physical Description
- 702 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Contains: Modern inventions and discoveries--Wonders of industrial progress--A Vivid array of facts concerning diferent nations--A Thousand things worth knowing--Solid food for sound minds--Facts for the curious--Self-instruction in bookkeeping--Commercial arithmetic and ready reckoner--Law without a lawyer--Self instruction in letter writing--Spelling and punctuation--Self instruction in modern writing--Self instruction in short-hand writing--One hundred ways to make money
- review questions for students are in the back
- Contributor's given name and contribution: Cary, Ferdinand Ellsworth (editor)
Enquire within upon everything
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary462
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV987.18.3
- Call Number
- 031 ENQ 1906
- Edition
- 103rd ed.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Madgwick, Houlston and Co.
- Publication Date
- 1906
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- "Enlarged and Thoroughly Revised" -from title page
- "Enlarged edition / revised to date" -from the spine
- Publisher formally known as Houlston and Sons
Everybody's pocket cyclopaedia of things worth knowing; things difficult to remember; and table of references
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary159
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV989.4.1
- Call Number
- 032 LEM
- Author
- Lemon, Don
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Madgwick Houlston
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Physical Description
- 242 p. : ill., maps, 14 cm.
- Inscription
- Title page: "MWatson 51 Nimms St Middle Park Melb Victoria" [written in pencil] other handwritten notes in pencil, words are indiscernible.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Includes index.
The home library of entertainment instruction and amusement
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1700
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Meek, Thomas Sheppard
- Publication Date
- 1902
- Call Number
- 032 MEE
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV984.12.4
- Call Number
- 032 MEE
- Author
- Meek, Thomas Sheppard
- Place of Publication
- St. Louis
- Publisher
- N.D. Thompson Pub. Co
- Publication Date
- 1902
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 544 p. [80] leaves of plates ; front., ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper" "Mr. Shei__" [written in blue ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Readers and speakers--1870-
- Notes
- Contents: Book I. Fireside gems from our popular poets -- Book II. The model speaker and reciter -- Book III. Games, amusements and sports -- Book IV. The songs we love to sing -- Book V. The home book of etiquette -- Book VI. Wonderful and remarkable things and facts -- Book VII. Biography anecdote of the great
- "richly embellished with over 100 duograph and half-tone engravings"
Webster's new unabridged dictionary of the English language
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2317
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
- Edition
- New and enl. ed.
- Publication Date
- 1901
- Call Number
- 423 WEB 1901
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV977.39.1
- Call Number
- 423 WEB 1901
- Edition
- New and enl. ed.
- Author
- Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
- Contributor
- Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Thompson & Thomas
- Publication Date
- 1901
- Physical Description
- xvii, 1281 p., 1074 p. ; ill. (some col.) : 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- Notes
- "Containing fully 45,000 more words, definitions and phrases than are to be found in the latest editions of Webster's and Worchester's unabridged dictionaries; and about 25,000 more words than are contained in Webster's Interational Dictionary, making them ost comprehensive and complete dictionary of the English language extant."--t.p. "Illustrated with 2000 engravings"--t.p. "Greatly englarged and thoroughly revised to daye by Rt. Rev. Samual Fallows"--t.p.
The art of writing & speaking the English language : dictionary of errors
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3830
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Cody, Sherwin, 1868-1959
- Publication Date
- c1905
- Call Number
- 428.34 COD
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV004.20.15
- Call Number
- 428.34 COD
- Author
- Cody, Sherwin, 1868-1959
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls Company
- Publication Date
- c1905
- Physical Description
- 136 p. ; 14 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Errors of usage
- English language--Idioms
Gregg shorthand dictionary
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary362
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- New and rev. ed.
- Publication Date
- c1901
- c1916
- Call Number
- 653 GRE
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV989.9.36
- Call Number
- 653 GRE
- Edition
- New and rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Gregg Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- c1901
- c1916
- Physical Description
- 208 p. : ill. : 16.5 cm.
- Inscription
- "________" [Handwritten in blue ink, crossed out with black marker] "Sprott Shaw Vancouver BC" [Handwritten in blue ink on front endpaper] "S 2636 L" [Handwritten in pencil on front endpaper] "Grace Horwood 4304 Oxford St. Vancouver B.C." [Handwritten in pencil on front flyleaf] "Student Sprott Shaw School" [Handwritten in pencil on front flyleaf] "H209" [Handwritten in pencil on front flyleaf] "lan McMaster 336 Hast. Sprott-Shaw Schools Vancouver BC." [Handwritten in blue ink on title page] "Except [symbol] Expect [symbol] Accept [symbol]" [Handwritten in pencil on page 206]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Shorthand
- Shorthand--Gregg