Studies in the scriptures, series ii : the plan of the ages
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3916.1
- Call Number
- 289.92 RUS v.2
- Edition
- 784,000 ed.
- Place of Publication
- Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
- Publication Date
- 1909
- c1891
- Series
- A helping hand for Bible students
- Physical Description
- 371 p. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Volume 2 of 2
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The sky pilot : a tale of the foothills
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4017.1
- Call Number
- 813.5 CON
- Author
- Connor, Ralph, 1860-1937
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 300, [6] p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "1919", in pencil inside front cover
"E.L. Keyes. / 1333 Howe St / Vancouver. / B.C.", handwritten in pencil inside front and back covers
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
- Object History
- Ernest Leslie Keyes was born August 29 1902 to Richard and Isabella Keyes (nee McGregor) in Vancouver. Richard Keyes worked for the CPR. Ernest Keyes later married Beryl Edna Palmer in 1930. Ernest died in 1954 in Victoria. His cousin by marriage was BVM donor Alma Keyes.
- Notes
- frontispiece only
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Josiah in New York; or, a coupon from the fresh air fund.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4022.1
- Call Number
- 813.4 OTI
- Author
- Otis, James, 1848-1912
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Hurst and Company
- Publication Date
- c1893
- Physical Description
- 259 p.
- Inscription
- “Robert La Porte”, handwritten in red pen inside front cover, crossed out in black crayon
“10”, in black crayon inside front cover
“To Georgie / from mamma.”, handwritten in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in red pen
“15”, in pencil inside front cover
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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The Christian year
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4058.14
- Call Number
- 821.79 EDI
- Place of Publication
- [s.l]
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Physical Description
- 244 p. ; 11 cm.
- Inscription
- "g 35" -- handwritten in pencil on endpaper (front).
"To my dear mother / with loving wishes / from her affecate / daughter / A.E. Zate" -- handwritten in ink on the first page
"1890 and --- years that follows" -- handwritten in pen on the first page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Church year
- Hymns, English
- Notes
- "Aids to the inner life" -- cover
- "T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty" -- the last page
- Includes index.
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Complete lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll
Touching incidents and remarkable answers to prayer
Surveyor's tables : being the tables from the Manual of land surveying
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV984.58.33
- Call Number
- 526.9 HOD
- Author
- Hodgman, F., 1839-1907
- Place of Publication
- Michigan
- Publisher
- F. Hodgman
- Publication Date
- 1897
- Physical Description
- i-vi; 127 p. : tables ; 15 cm.
- Inscription
- "W.J.H. Holmes"
"1.50"
inside back pages have handwritten notes
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Surveying
- Notes
- Author's given name and dates: Hodgman, F. (Francis), 1839-1907.
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Field-book for railroad engineer. Circular and parabolic curves, turnouts, vertical curves, levelling, computing earth-work, transition curves on new lines and applied to existing lines, together with tables of radii, ordinates, long chords, logarithms, logarithmic and natural sines, tangents, etc., and a metric curve table.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV984.58.37
- Call Number
- 625 HEN
- Edition
- 2nd rev. ed.
- Author
- Henck, John B.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Co.
- Publication Date
- 1898
- c1854
- Physical Description
- xv; 164 p. : diagr. ; 14 cm.
- Inscription
- "Presented by W.H.T. Twigg BCLS May 17 1934"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroad engineering
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- Author's given name and dates: Henck, John B. (John Benjamin), 1816-1903.
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Elementary arithmetic on the unitary system
Julius Caesar
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.76.13
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Contributor
- Dent, Walter
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son
- Publication Date
- 1893
- Series
- The junior school Shakespeare
- Physical Description
- xiii, 114 p. 18 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"Mary Hart
Medicine Hat
Alta" [written in pencil]
Title page:
"Alexander High School" [written in pencil]
Back endpaper:
List of exams, written in pencil.
Throughout book:
Doodles, study notes and markings highlighting passages of text, written in pencil.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English drama
- Notes
- with introduction and notes by Walter Dent
- Includes index.
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Reveries of a bachelor: or a book of the heart
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.76.26
- Call Number
- 818 MAR
- Author
- Marvel, Ik.
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Publisher
- R. H. Woodward & Company
- Publication Date
- c1893
- Physical Description
- 282 p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "No. 30", handwritten in pencil on front endpaper
"Sara Gordon Mac Donald / Christmas 1893. / M.A.S.", handwritten in blue ink on fly-leaf
"I wonder y she thought him good", handwritten in pencil p.260, 'good' underlined
"(I su nI)"?, handwritten in pencil p.260
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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1000 ways to get rich; or, Book of knowledge : an immense collection of the most saleable and money making discoveries, formulas, recipes, mechanical secrets and methods, from which persons of very moderate capital can commence a renumerative business in any city or village
Elements of algebra
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.5
- Call Number
- 512 WEN
- Author
- Wentworth, G. A. (George Albert), 1835-1906
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Publisher
- Ginn & Co.
- Publication Date
- c1881
- 1893
- Series
- Wentworth's series of mathematics
- Physical Description
- x, 325 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "May M. Ayers / Union Road / Lot - 33 / P. E. Island" [handwritten inside front cover]
"Esther Abbott / P. W. C. / 1899-1900" [handwritten inside front cover]
"A____ 15-___ / 1895" [handwritten inside front cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Algebra
- Notes
- Author's full name and dates: G. A. (George Albert) Wentworth, 1835-1906.
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The complete works of William Shakespeare
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.19
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- 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.
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The works of William Shakespeare : with life, glossary, etc.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.20
- Call Number
- 822.3 SHA
- Edition
- Universal ed.
- Author
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- 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.
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From manger to throne : embracing a new life of Jesus the Christ and a history of Palestine and its people
The pilgrim's progress
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.59
- Call Number
- 823.4 BUN
- Edition
- Abridged
- Author
- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688
- Contributor
- Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry), 1837-1928
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Series
- Standard English Classics
- Printer
- The Athenaeum press
- Physical Description
- vii, 119 p,
- Inscription
- "H.A. Sutton", stamped in purple on front endpaper
"E" ?, stamped in purple on front endpaper
"n883 / 101", in pencil inside front cover
"25", in pencil on back endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Juvenile fiction
- Notes
- "Notes and biography by D.H.M."
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Masterpieces of the world's best literature ancient and modern : volume i
Masterpieces of the world's best literature ancient and modern : volume ii
Masterpieces of the world's best literature ancient and modern : volume iii