Materia medica and therapeutics : a manual for students and practitioners
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.10
- Call Number
- 615.1 WAR
- Author
- Warner, L. F. (Levi Farr), 1822-1889
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Lea Brothers & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1892
- Series
- Students' quiz series
- Printer
- William J. Dornan
- Physical Description
- 223 p. ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- inside front cover:
"Grosvenor Lowey" [handwritten in ink]
"C.P. and S."
"1893"
"Ada Yates
1897" [handwritten in ink]
notes inside front cover, text, back cover and pages [handwritten in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Materia medica
- Therapeutics
- Pharmacology
- Notes
- Includes index.
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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
- 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.
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The cricket field: or, the history and science of cricket
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.38
- Call Number
- 796.358 PYC
- Author
- Pycroft, James, 1813-1895
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans
- Publication Date
- 1851
- Printer
- Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street Square
- Physical Description
- xvi, 242 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cricket
- Sports
- Notes
- "Dedicated to the members of the North Devon Cricket Club, by their sincere friend, the author."
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The arithmetic of electricity: a manual of electrical calculations by arithmetical methods, including numerous rules, examples, and tables in the field of practical electrical engineering and experimenting
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.71
- Call Number
- 537.02 SLO
- Edition
- 3d ed., rev.
- Author
- Sloane, T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor), 1851-1940
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1892
- c1891
- Physical Description
- iii-viii; 138 p. : ill. , tables ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- inside, "Chas. W. Davies"
- "43 Duke Street"
- "Halifax N.S."
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electricity
- Electricity--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Author's given name and dates : Sloane, T. O’Conor (Thomas O’Conor), 1851-1940.
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Electrical engineering for electric light artisans and students : embracing those branches prescribed by the syllabus ussyed by the City and Guilds Technical Institute.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.72
- Call Number
- 538 SLI
- Edition
- New ed.
- Author
- Slingo, W. (William), 1855-1935
- Brooker, A. (Arthur)
- Place of Publication
- London ; New York
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and co.
- Publication Date
- 1891
- Physical Description
- viii p., 1 l., 850 p. incl. illus., diagrs. fold. diagrs. 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electrical engineering
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Authors' given names and dates :
Slingo, W. Sir, (William), 1855-1935.
Brooker, Arthur
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Calvert's practical notes on screw cutting : with examples, formulae on fractional, decimal, diametral, millimetre, and rifle pitches ; various tables of change wheels for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, and 5/8 inch pitch guide screws ; notes on screw-cutting tools, illustrated ; with tables and information useful to turners and fitters
Marine insurance : a handbook
The American claimant and other stories and sketches
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
The practice of pharmacy : a treatise on the modes of making and dispensing official, unofficial, and extemporaneous preparations, with descriptions of medicinal substances, their properties, uses, and doses; intended as a hand-book for pharmacists and physicians and a text-book for students.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV976.148.51
- Call Number
- 615.4 REM 1892
- Edition
- 2nd ed., enl. and thor. rev.
- Author
- Remington, Joseph P. (Joseph Price), 1847-1918
- Place of Publication
- Philidelphia
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Co.
- Publication Date
- 1892
- c1889
- Physical Description
- iii-xxviii, 1266 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Inscription
- inside front page: "Langley & Co. Victoria" [purple ink stamp]
"OCT 26 1892"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pharmacy
- Medicine
- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Notes
- Includes index. Missing last 2 pages, ends at page 1262.
- "With over six hundred illustrations."
- Remington, Joseph P. (Joseph Price), 1847-1918.
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The beautiful life of Frances E. Willard, a memorial volume
Poetical works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV976.251.13
- Call Number
- 821 BAR 1856
- Edition
- 12th London ed.
- Complete ed.
- Author
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Publication Date
- 1856
- Physical Description
- vi, 520 p. : ill., front. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
A printed label adhered to the endpaper, with blanks filled in with black ink, reads:
"Victoria High School.
Senior Division.
Prize
for
General Proficiency
Presented by
"A friend of Education"
Awarded to
Miss Annis H. Hicks
JPMcLeod, Principal.
Victoria, June 1888"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- Full author name given as follows: Browning, Mrs. Elizabeth (Barrett) 1806-1861.
- A version of this work, given in two volumes and published by Thomas R. Knox & Co, is available in the collection.
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Rules of etiquette and home culture or, What to do and how to do it
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV976.251.16
- Call Number
- 395 HOU
- Edition
- 24th ed. , rev. and ext.
- Author
- Houghton, Walter R. (Walter Raleigh), 1845-1929
- Beck, James
- Woodburn, James Albert, 1856-1943
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Company
- Publication Date
- 1890
- c1889
- c1884
- Physical Description
- 421 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Etiquette
- Manners and customs
- United States--Social life and customs
- Notes
- "by Professor Walter R. Houghton, A.M., Professor James K. Beck, A.B., Professor James A Woodburn, A.B., Professor Horace R. Hoffman, A.B., A.B. Philpott, A.B., F.E. Lyster, A.M., and Mrs. M.R. Houston".
- Author's given name and dates: Houghton, Walter R. (Walter Raleigh), 1845-1929
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An English and Chinese dictionary
The new student's atlas
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.502
- Call Number
- 912 COL
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- William Collins, Sons, & Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date
- [1899]
- Physical Description
- 1 atlas : col. maps ; 27 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Atlases
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C.
- Notes
- Includes index
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Steps to Christ
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.518
- Call Number
- 234 WHI
- Author
- White, Ellen G., 1827-1915
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Review and Herald Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- c1892
- Physical Description
- 153 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "G. V. _alles Esq." [handwritten inside front cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Salvation
- Christian life
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C.
- Notes
- Author's full given name and dates: Ellen Gould Harmon White 1827-1915
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The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott : including introduction and notes with illustrations and portrait
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.30.4
- Call Number
- 821.74 SCO
- Author
- Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Series
- The Lansdowne poets
- Printer
- Morrison and Gibb
- Physical Description
- viii, 629 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., front. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Verso of frontispiece:
"To Miss Florence Hatch
From a Sincere Friend
__th McCarthy
Vancouver, B.C. April 13th '93." [written in blue ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Ballads
- Notes
- includes advertisement for "Selected List of Standard Works - The Imperial Poets" and "Selected List of Standard Works - The "Cavendish" Library"
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Memorial and letters of Rev. John R. Adams, D.D.: chaplain of the Fifth Maine and the One hundred and twenty first New York regiments during the war of the rebellion, serving from the beginning to the close
War in South Africa and the dark continent : from savagery to civilization
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.30.6
- Call Number
- 968.2 HAR
- Author
- Harding, William
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Dominion
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 11-550 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- South African War, 1899-1902
- South Africa--History
- Notes
- "The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers. Embracing the explorations and settlements, wars and conquests, peoples and governments, resources and produces, of this the least known, yet by nature endowed as the richest and most wonderful of continents, and a detailed history of the causes and events of the British-Boer War" --T.p.XXX
"Superbly illustrated with half-tone engravings made from photographs taken expressly for this book" --T.p.
Author's given name and dates: Harding, William Harry, 1941-
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The story of South Africa : an account of the historical transformation of the dark continent by the European powers and the culminating contest between Great Britain and the South African Republic in the Transvaal War
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.30.22
- Call Number
- 968 RID Copy 1
- Author
- Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
- et al.
- Place of Publication
- Guelph, Ont.
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- xvi, 888 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- South African War, 1899-1902
- South Africa--History
- Notes
- "by John Clark Ridpath, Edward S. Ellis, John A. Cooper, and J.H. Aiken"
Author's given name and dates: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Author's given name and dates: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
"Copiously illustrated with colored maps, half-tone portraits, sketches, scenes of war pictures, in the best style of reproduction"
- Copy 1 of 2
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