Dr. Chase's new receipt book, or, Information for everybody : the life-long observations of the author, embracing the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts in every department of medicine, mechanics and household economy : in fact a book for everybody, with remarks and explanations which adapt it to the every-day wants of the people, arrarged [sic] in departments, and copiously indexed.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1476
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3709.1
- Call Number
- 640 CHA
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Rose Publishing
- Publication Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- 393 p. [17] p.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Home economics
- Cooking
- Formulas, recipes, etc.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Author's full name and dates : Chase, A. W. (Alvin Wood), 1817-1885
- Includes index
The family cyclopaedia of useful knowledge : a complete library of useful information for the masses, embraced in the subjects of history, biography, natural history, travels, manners and customs, manufactures, vegetation, invention and discovery, mining, the sea, familiar science, the law, statistics, etc., etc.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5054
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV007.21.9
- Call Number
- 030 FAM
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- John S. Dorn Publisher
- Publication Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- xii, 14-544 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Books
- Notes
- "with two hundred and seventy-three illustrations" --t.p.
Gaskell's compendium of forms : educational, social, legal and commercial : embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition : together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and busniess laws and commercial forms : a political dictionary, a biographical dictionary, the government of the U. S., the states and territorial governments, colored charts, etc. etc., also a manual of agricultural, mechanics and mining, and a complete guide to parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference : elegantly illustrated
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3491
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.5288.1
- Call Number
- 031 GAS
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Fairbanks & Palmer Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- c1884
- Printer
- Blakely, Marsh & Co.
- Physical Description
- 920 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Bookkeeping
- Penmanship
- Letter writing
- Etiquette
- Parliamentary practice
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Author's full name and date: Gaskell, G. A. (George A.), 1844-
The home library of useful knowledge : a condensation of fifty-two books in one volume, constituting a complete cyclopedia of reference, historical, biographical, scientific and statistical : embracing the most approved and simple methods of self-instruction in all branches of popular education
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2002
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.17
- Call Number
- 030 PEA
- Contributor
- Peale, R. S. (Richard S.)
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Home Library Association
- Publication Date
- 1888
- c1887
- Physical Description
- 830 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Inscription
- "Mr. Morris Moss" "J. A. C. Maerriman" "Nov 27th 1888" [handwritten on certificate of membership in endpapers]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- "Compiled and edited by R. S. Peale, assisted by eminent specialists in each department" -- t.p.
- Includes index
- Contributor's full name is Peale, R. S. (Richard S.).
The pocket Oxford dictionary of current English
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3891
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- X2794
- Call Number
- 423 OXF
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, [Great Britain]
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date
- 1960
- Printer
- University Press
- Physical Description
- 950 p., [74 p.] ; 17 cm.
- Inscription
- Pocket / Oxford / Dictionary / If lost,.. S. Schofield / 4209 Maywood Street / Burnaby / HE 3-1478
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Object History
- 8029 McPherson Ave address (formerly 1270 McPherson Ave) occupied by John W. and Margaret Schofield in 1955 BC Directory. His occupation is listed as "slsmn Barham & Sands".
- Notes
- "Complied by F.G. Fowler & H.W. Fowler." -- title page. "Revised by H.G. Le Mesurier and E. McIntosh." -- title page. "Oxford at the Claredon Press" -- title page.