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Heath's new German dictionary in two parts, German-English -- English-German
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1608
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Weir, Elizabeth
- Publication Date
- 1888
- Call Number
- 433.21 WEI
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4005.1
- Call Number
- 433.21 WEI
- Author
- Weir, Elizabeth
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Publisher
- D. C. Heath & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1888
- Printer
- Cassell & Company, Limited
- Physical Description
- v-xiv, 1112 p. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- inside cover page: "Oct '96" [handwritten in pencil] "1.00"[handwritten in pencil] "Stephen Hull"[handwritten in ink] "2136 Fifth Ave. Seattle Wash." "U. of W."
- Library Subject (LOC)
- German language
- English language--Dictionaries
- English language
Hill's French-English and English-French vest-pocket dictionary
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary561
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.5.20
- Call Number
- 443.21 STE
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- David McKay
- Publication Date
- c1898
- Physical Description
- xix, 300 p. ; 14 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- French language--Dictionaries
- English language--Dictionaries
- Notes
- Author's given name and date: Stevens, C. M. (Charles McClellan), 1861-
A dictionary of the English language : with supplement, containing over 12,500 new words and antries, and a vocabulary of synonyms of words in general use : and an appendix, which embodies a pronouncing dictionary of biography, embracing the names of newarly then thousand persons of all ages and countries : pronouncing vocabularies of modern Christian names and Latin proper names, and scripture proper names, together with various other useful tables
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2358
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV976.18.1
- Call Number
- 423 WOR
- Edition
- New ed.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Co.
- Publication Date
- 1897
- c1886
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- Notes
- Author's full name and dates: Worchester, Joseph Emerson, 1784-1865
An English and Chinese dictionary
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2425
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Lobscheid, W. (William)
- Edition
- Second ed., rev. and enl.
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Call Number
- 495.1 LOB 2nd ed
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.500
- Call Number
- 495.1 LOB 2nd ed
- Edition
- Second ed., rev. and enl.
- Author
- Lobscheid, W. (William)
- Contributor
- Inoue, Tetsujiro, 1856-1944
- Place of Publication
- Tokio [Tokyo]
- Publisher
- Z. Huzimoto & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Physical Description
- 1357 p., [3] leaves of plates; 27 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Chinese language--Dictionaries--English
- English language--Dictionaries--Chinese
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C.
- Notes
- "Revised and enlarged by Tetsuziro Inouye, Bungakushi " -- title page.
- "32 Year of Meiji" -- title page.
- Author's full name and title is Lobscheid, W. (William) Reverend
An English and Chinese Dictionary
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2426
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Lobscheid, W. (William)
- Edition
- Rev. and enl.
- Publication Date
- 1883
- Call Number
- 495.1 LOB
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.501
- Call Number
- 495.1 LOB
- Edition
- Rev. and enl.
- Author
- Lobscheid, W. (William)
- Contributor
- Inoue, Tetsujiro, 1856-1944
- Place of Publication
- Tokio [Tokyo)
- Publisher
- J. Fujimoto
- Publication Date
- 1883
- Physical Description
- 1357 p. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Chinese language--Dictionaries--English
- English language--Dictionaries--Chinese
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C.
- Notes
- "Revised and enlarged by Tetsuziro Inouye, Bungakushi " -- title page.
- "16 Year of Meiji" -- title page.
- Author's full name and title is Lobscheid, W. (William) Reverend
The Baptist book of praise for public and private worship : prepared for the use of the Baptist denomination (especially of the English Baptist churches, Sunday schools, young people's societies, etc., in Wales and Monmouthshire)
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2715
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV974.63.17
- Call Number
- 782 EDW
- Publisher
- The Baptist Book of Praise Committee
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Printer
- W. Crofton Hemmons
- Physical Description
- 350 p. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Hymns
- Notes
- "edited by W. Edwards (hymns) [and] W.T. Samuel, R. Rhedynog Price (tunes, chants, anthems)." -- title page
English wit and humor : classified under appropriate subject headings, with, in many cases, a reference to a table of authors
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3878
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV005.42.4
- Call Number
- 827 HOW v.1
- Contributor
- Howe, W. H. (Walter Henry), 1848-
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- George W. Jacobs & Co.
- Publication Date
- c1898
- Physical Description
- 220 p. : port. ; 16 cm.
- Inscription
- English / Wit and / Humor / Philadelphia / George W. Jacobs & Co. / Publishers / copyright, 1898
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Humor
- Notes
- Preface signed: W.H. Howe
- Author full name given as follows: Howe, W. H. (Walter Henry), b. 1848.
- Published originally in London in 1891 under title: Everybody's book of English wit and humour.
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-
I.C.S. reference library, v 21 : english grammar, punctuation and capitalization, letter writing
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2846
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV973.106.9
- Call Number
- 425 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton
- Publisher
- International Textbook Co.
- Publication Date
- c1905
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : diag. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- Title page: "13-6692" [stamped in green ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Grammar
- English language--Punctuation
- English language--Capitalization
- Letter writing
- Notes
- "A series of textbooks prepared for the students of the international correspondence schools and containing in permanent form the instruction papers, examination questions, and keys used in their various courses." -- t.p.
- Includes index.
The parallel New Testament Greek and English. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, being the authorized version set fourth in 1611, arranged in parallel columns with the revised version of 1881 and with the original Greek according to the text followed in the authorized version, with the variations adopted in the revised version
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2000
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.15
- Call Number
- 225.48 SCR
- Contributor
- Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date
- 1892
- Printer
- C.J. Clay, M.A. and Sons
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 1104 p. ; 22 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Bible. New Testament
- Christianity
- Bible
- Notes
- "as edited by the late F.H.A. Scrivener" -- t.p.
- "This revised version is the joint property of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge" -- t.p.
- Contributor's full name and dates : Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891.
Pictures of English history
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary458
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV987.5.63
- Call Number
- 941 PIC
- Place of Publication
- [London]
- Publisher
- [T. Nelson & Sons]
- Publication Date
- 1893
- Series
- Royal school series
- Physical Description
- vii-viii, 270 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Readers--History
- Great Britain--History
![River and town on the English Coast, [1880] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/477/477-771.jpg?width=280)
River and town on the English Coast
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39452
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.6 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a river and town on the English Coast. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.6 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-771
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a river and town on the English Coast. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.
- Subjects
- Geographic Features - Rivers
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![River and town on the English Coast, [1880] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/477/477-771.jpg)
Webster's pocket pronouncing dictionary of the English language : condensed from the original dictionary
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1605
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4002.1
- Call Number
- 423 WEB
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Publication Date
- 1858
- Physical Description
- ii-iv, 313 p. ; 13 cm.
- Inscription
- inside front cover: "Miss J.E. Simpson"[handwritten in pencil] "Who'se she?"[handwritten in pencil] printed sticker label inside back cover, gold foil: "Moir's Halifax Canada" pencil notes inside back cover small sticker label, red/gold: "DALGLEISH, Stationer, B. Salterton."
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- Notes
- "Condensed from the original Dictionary by Noah Webster, LL.D." .
- "with accented vocabularies of classical, scripture, and modern geographical names".
- "containing 10,000 more words than Walker's Dictionary".
- Author's given name and dates : Webster, William G. (William Greenleaf), 1805-1869.
The complete works of William Shakespeare
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1883
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.19
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Contributor
- Craig, W. J. (William James), 1843-1906
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Printer
- Horace Hart
- Physical Description
- viii, 1350 p., [31] leaves of plates ; ill., front. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Half-title page: "Frank B. Street" [written in black ink] Verso of frontispiece: "Frank B. Street" [written in pencil] Back fly leaf: list of numbers and names of Shakespeare plays, written in pencil.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English drama
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
- English poetry
- Notes
- edited, with a glossary, by W.J. Craig
- contributer full name given as follows: Craig, W. J. (William James), 1843-1906.
Grammar for common schools : to which has been added an appendix on composition for use in Canadian public schools
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary163
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.120.8
- Call Number
- 425 TWE
- Edition
- Canadian ed.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont.
- Publisher
- W. J. Gage & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1891
- Physical Description
- x, 178 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "W15" -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on endpaper (front). "Maggie Emily Patterson / Lockerby S.D. / Boulton / Manitoba / Canada" -- handwritten in ink on flyleaf. Various handwritting through signature.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Grammar--1870-1949
- English language--Composition and exercises
- Notes
- Includes index.
- "Above authorized by the Board of Education, Manitoba."
I.C.S. reference library, v 22 : spelling, penmanship, vertical penmanship, stenography, typewriting
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2844
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV973.106.7
- Call Number
- 371.3 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton
- Publisher
- International Textbook Co.
- Publication Date
- c1905
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. diag. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- Paper book cover: "Miss Katie Wilton, Nelson, B.C." [written in black ink] Title page: "13-6692" [stamped in green ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Orthography and spelling
- Penmanship, English
- Penmanship
- Typewriting
- Shorthand
- Spellers
- Notes
- "A series of textbooks prepared for the students of the international correspondence schools and containing in permanent form the instruction papers, examination questions, and keys used in their various courses." -- t.p.
- Includes index.
Select poems : edited with introduction, notes and appendix
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary351
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV989.9.25
- Call Number
- 821.8 ALE
- Contributor
- Alexander, William John, 1855-1944
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Copp, Clark
- Publication Date
- 1896
- Physical Description
- xxix, 288 p., [6] p. of plates; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpapers: doodles of swastikas, in black ink. "Ethel Anderson Junior A, Room 3, Division VI, Locker 70 V.H.S." [written in black ink] "Fr. Page 164 I (1, 2, 3) Written out" [written in pencil] "Look up dates of Dunbar, Worcester and death of Cromwell." [written in pencil] Back endpapers: "musician artist sculptor poet (All arts are different ways of expressing beauty" [written in blue ink] "Sonnet is composed of. --" [written in black ink] "Broadside A large piece of paper with a ballad or personal _____ written on one side" [written in pencil] "T.N. Hibben & Co. Booksellers and Stationers Victoria, B.C." [on red sticker adhered to endpaper] Throughout book: Study notes and markings highlighting passages of text, written in pencil and blue ink.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- English literature--Study and teaching
- Notes
- "edited by W.J. Alexander"
- Contributor's full name and dates: Alexander, William John, 1855-1944.
Shakespeare's Macbeth
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3187
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.187.2
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Contributor
- French, Charles Wallace, 1858-1920
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication Date
- 1917
- c1898
- Physical Description
- xliii, 185 p. : front. ; 15 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper: "W240" [written and crossed out in blue ink] "60" [written in pencil] "Harry Heaslif" [written in black ink] "write a note of witch lore" [written in pencil] Throughout book: Study notes and markings highlighting passages of text, in black ink and pencil.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
- English drama
- Notes
- edited with notes and an introduction by Charles W. French
- Includes index to notes.
- includes advertisment and list for "Macmillan's Pocket Series of English Classics"
The works of William Shakespeare : with life, glossary, etc.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1884
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.20
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Edition
- Universal ed.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Publication Date
- 1893
- Printer
- Morrison and Gibb
- Physical Description
- vii, 1124 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Title page: "Frank B. Street 6176 Walker Ave. Burnaby 1, B.C." [stamped in blue ink] verso of title page: "Pound." [written in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan
- English poetry--Early modern
- Notes
- "carefully edited from the best texts and compared with recent commentators by the editor of the "Chandos" classics." -- t.p.
The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's-maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. : also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda ; with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2141
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV978.36.1
- Call Number
- 648 BEE
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1880
- Physical Description
- xxxix, 1112 p. : ill (some col)
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Home economics
- Cooking, English
- Manners and customs
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
- Cookbooks--1860-1869
- Notes
- Author's given name and dates: Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865.
- Includes index.