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The Fraser Institute, established by the will of Hugh Fraser, was incorporated by an Act of Parliament on December 24, 1870. It opened in 1885 with its primary purpose as a library, “open to all honest and respectable persons whomever of every rank in life without distinction…for the diffusion of useful knowledge by affording free access to all desiring it to books, to scientific objects and to works of art.” (Statutes of the Province of Quebec, 1870). Prime Minister John Abbott served as the I...



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by Howard Staunton, William Shakespeare
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Works of William Shakespeare edited by Howard Staunton with copious notes, glossary, life &c.  In four volumes.
Topics: Howard Staunton, William Shakespeare, English drama -- Early modern 1500-1700, Mercantile Library...
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by François Guizot
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From the fall of the Roman Empire till the French Revolution Also a treatise on death punishments.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Europe -- Civilization -- History, Civilization, Europe
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by Francesco Guicciardini
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Translated from the Italian of Francesco Guicciardini.  Third ed.  In ten volumes.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Italy -- History-- 1492-1559, Italy
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by Paul de Rapin Thoyras
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Contenant l'interregne depuis la mort de Charles I jusqu'au rétablissement de Charles II & le regne de Charles II.
Topics: Angleterre--Histoire, Grand Bretagne--Histoire, Mercantile Library Association Montreal
In four volumes
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Greece -- Hisotry -- to 146 BC, Greece, William Below,...
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by Andrew Kippis
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Lives of the most eminent persons to have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland from the earliest ages to the present times.  Second edition.
Topics: Biography, Great Britain--Biographies--Dictionaries, Mercantile Library Association Montreal
British economics.
Topics: Money, Currency question, Commerce, John Wheatley, Mercantile Library Association Montreal
Is six volumes illustrated with plates. New edition with the author's last corrections and improvements to which is added a short account of his life, written by himself.
Topics: Great Britain -- History -- to 1485, Great Britain -- History, Great Britain -- History -- Tudors...
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Subtitle: With preliminary observations and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals.  Fourth edition.
Topics: Prisons -- Europe, Great Britain, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, John Howard, Hospitals...
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by Plutarque, trans. Amyot
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.Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, traduites de grec par Amyot, avec des notes et des observations, par Mm. Brotier et Vauvilliers.  Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigeé et augmenteé, par E. Clavier.
Topics: Plutarch, Plutarque, Amyot, Brotier, Vauvilliers, E. Clavier, Mercantile Library Association...
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by Francesco Guicciardini
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Translated from the Italian of Francesco Guicciardini.  Third ed.  In ten volumes.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Italy -- History-- 1492-1559, Italy
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by Francesco Guicciardini
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Translated from the Italian of Francesco Guicciardini.  Third ed.  In ten volumes.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Italy -- History -- 1492-1559, Italy
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by Howard Staunton, William Shakespeare
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Works of William Shakespeare edited by Howard Staunton with copious notes, glossary, life &c.  In four volumes.
Topics: Howard Staunton, William Shakespeare, Mercantile Library Association Montreal
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by Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
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Depuis Auguste jusqu'a Constantin, Nouvelle édition.
Topics: Emperors -- Rome, Rome -- Histoire -- 30 av. JC - 476, Rome -- History -- Empire 30 BC -476 AD,...
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by T. C. Hansard
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Forming a continuation of the work entitled "The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Year 1803".  New Series, commencing with the accession of George IV.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, English Parliament, Hansard, Great Britain -- Parliament...
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Des progrès du gouvernement représenttif en France.
Topics: Politique Pratiques de la -- France, France --Politique et gouvernement -- 1814-1830, Mercantile...
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by Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
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Depuis Auguste jusqu'a Constantin, Nouvelle édition.
Topics: Emperors -- Rome, Rome -- Histoire -- 30 av. JC - 476, Rome -- History -- Empire 30 BC -476 AD,...
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by John Bowring
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Collection of Polish poetry with notes and observations on the literature of Poland.
Topics: John Bowring, Kochanowski, Szymonowicz, Zimorowicz, Sarbiewski, Gawinski, Krasicki, We, gierski,...
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by Lower Canada Board of Agriculture
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Transactions of the Lower Canada Board of Agriculture 1853-1857.
Topics: Farming Lower Canada, Farming Periodical, Agriculture Lower Canada, Lower Canada Board of...
Is six volumes illustrated with plates. New edition with the author's last corrections and improvements to which is added a short account of his life, written by himself.
Topics: Great Britain -- History -- to 1485, Great Britain -- History, Great Britain -- History -- Tudors...
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by Francesco Guicciardini
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Continuation of the Pisan War, Valentino's exploits in Romagna, Kings of France and Spain agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between themselves....
Topics: Italy -- History -- 1492-1559, Italy, Pisan War, Duke Valentino, Battle of Terra-nuova, Battle of...
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History in six volumes
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, World history, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Edward Nares
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Story of Montreal's Fraser Hickson Institute from mid-nineteenth Century to the 1970's.
Topics: Fraser-Hickson Institute, Fraser Hickson Library, Fraser Institute, Mercantile Library Association,...
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by George Edouard Desbarats
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A Canadian pictorial weekly.
Topics: George Edouard Desbarats, Dominion Illustrated, Canadian Periodicals (English), Canada-Periodicals,...
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by M. le comte de Lacépède
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Depuis les derniéres années du cinquième siécle jusque vers le milieu du dix-huitième.
Topics: Histoire--Europe, Comte de Lacepede, Mercantile Library Association Montreal
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by Robertine Barry
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Periodique montréalaise bi-mesuel.  Publiée 1902-1909. "Gazette canadienne de la famille."Bi-monthly Montreal periodical created by Robertine Barry. Published 1902-1909.
Topics: Periodical, French Canada, Montreal, Robertine Barry, Francoise, Jules-Mario Lanos, Laure Conan,...
Third edition corrected and amended.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Plutarch's Morals
Nouvelle edition revue, corigée, considérablement augmentée, et omée de belles figures en taille-douce, 1755.
Topics: Obtsacle Imprévu, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Nericault Destouches, Mercantile...
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by Robertine Barry
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Periodique montréalaise bi-mesuel.  Publiée 1902-1909. "Gazette canadienne de la famille."Bi-monthly Montreal periodical created by Robertine Barry. Published 1902-1909.
Topics: Periodical, French Canada, Montreal, Robertine Barry, Francoise, Jules-Mario Lanos, Laure Conan,...
Containing a correspondence with a committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, their report and remarks thereon.
Topics: Fuel--Testing, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mercantile Library Association of Montreal
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by Samuel Miller
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Guide to gentlemen's costume suitable for fancy dress balls and private theatricals. 180 illustrations
Topics: costumes, theatre, fancy dress, Samuel Miller
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by Robertine Barry
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Periodique montréalaise bi-mesuel.  Publiée 1902-1909. "Gazette canadienne de la famille."Bi-monthly Montreal periodical created by Robertine Barry. Published 1902-1909.
Topics: Periodical, French Canada, Montreal, Robertine Barry, Francoise, Jules-Mario Lanos, Laure Conan,...
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by M. le comte de Lacépède
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Depuis les derniéres années du cinquième siécle jusque vers le milieu du dix-huitième.
Topics: Histoire--Europe, Europe--Histoire--500-1800, Europe--History--500-1800, Mercantile Library...
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Sent by the Governor - General of India in the year 1795.
Topics: British -- Burma, British, Burma, Mercantile Library Association
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by Thomas Chalmers
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Treatises on the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation.
Topics: Natural theology, Thomas Chalmers, Human beings, Human beings--Constitution, Human...
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by An Authority
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The Quebec Gazette/Gazette du Quebec, a bilingual journal of Lower Canada published by an Authority.
Topics: Québec, Quebec -- Quebec, Québec (Québec) --Newspapers, Mercantile Library Association Montreal,...
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by George Edouard Desbarats
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A Canadian pictorial weekly.
Topics: George Edouard Desbarats, Dominion Illustrated, Canadian Periodicals (English), Canada-Periodicals,...
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by J. Ross Robertson
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Embracing a general history of the craft and its origin, but more particularly a history of the craft in the Province of Upper Canada, now Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada from 1749-1858.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Freemasons -- Canada -- History, Freemasons -- Canada --...
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by Francesco Guicciardini
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Translated from the Italian of Francesco Guicciardini.  Third ed.  In ten volumes.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Italy --History 1492-1559, Italy
Illustrated with charts and envgravings.  In five volumes.
Topics: Northern Europe -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Travel, Northern Europe,...
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Considérations sur les dernières révolutions de l'europe.
Topics: Politique Pratiques de la -- France, France --Politique et gouvernement -- 1814-1830, Mercantile...
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by Plutarque; Amyot
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.Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, traduites de grec par Amyot, avec des notes et des observations, par Mm. Brotier et Vauvilliers.  Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigeé et augmenteé, par E. Clavier.
Topics: Plutarch, Plutarque, Amyot, Brotier, Vauvilliers, E. Clavier, Mercantile Library Association...
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From 1820 to 1831, both inclusive, presented to both houses of parlaiment by command of his Majesty
Topics: George Richardson Porter, Charles Knight, William Clowes, Great Britain. Board of Trade, Mercantile...
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Epistolary correspondence, visitation charges, speeches ad miscellanies of the right reverend Francis Atterbury, DD Lord Bishop of Rochester with historical notes and brief memoirs of the author.  In five volumes. 
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Francis Atterbury, John Nichols, Bishop Atterbury,...
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by Lower Canada Board of Agriculture
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Transactions of the Lower Canada Board of Agriculture
Topics: Farming, Lower Canada, Farming Periodical, Agriculture, Lower Canada, Lower Canada Board of...
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by Oban Times
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Death and burial of Rev. Dr. W.P. MacKay of Hull as reprinted from Oban Times August 29, 1885
Topics: W.P. MacKay, George Cleazy, Eulogies, Scotland, Hull Oban
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by Chevaliers de Malthe
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Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de Jean de Jerusalem, appelles depuis chevaliers de Rhodes et aujour'hui Chevaliers de Malthe par monsieur l'Abbe de Vertot, de l'Academie des Belles-Lettres.
Topics: Chevaliers Hospitaliers de Jean de Jerusalem, Abbe de Vertot, Chevaliers de Rhodes, Chevaliers de...
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Histoire ancienne
Topics: Histoire ancienne, Egyptiens, Persia, Medea, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Babylon,...
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by John Gifford
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History of France from the from the earliest time to the accession of Louis the Sixteenth with notes, critical and explanatory.
Topics: History--France, John Gifford, Histoire--France, France, Mercantile Library Association Montreal
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by Francesco Guicciardini
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Translated from the Italian of Francesco Guicciardini.  Third ed.  In ten volumes.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Italy -- History-- 1492-1559, Italy
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by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Bonaventure Dacier baron,
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Containing and account of the cruel civil wars between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence....
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, France, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Bonaventure...
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by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu; Thomas Nugent; M.d'Alembert
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Montesquieu's analysis of systems of law.
Topics: Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, M. de Alembert
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by Publisher
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Memoirs of important British people, 1799.
Topics: Earl of St. Vincent, Mr. Sheridan, Thomas Erskine, Charles Hutton, Lord Hawkesbury, Den Milner,...
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by Jules Gossin
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Lectures récréatives a l'usage de la jeunesse religieuse.
Topics: Eglise Cathoique, Berquin, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Jules Gossin
Illustrated with charts and envgravings.  In five volumes.
Topics: Northern Europe -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Travel, Northern Europe
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by George Edouard Desbarats
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A Canadian pictorial weekly.
Topics: George Edouard Desbarats, Dominion Illustrated, Canadian Periodicals (English), Canada-Periodicals,...
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by George Edouard Desbarats
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A Canadian pictorial weekly.
Topics: George Edouard Desbarats, Dominion Illustrated, Canadian Periodicals (English), Canada-Periodicals,...
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by Arthur Tilley
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Collection of Saint Beuve's articles from 1835 to 1864.  In French, preface and introduction in English 
Topics: Sainte Beuve, Moliere, Montaigne, Mme. Geoffrin, Beaumarchais, La Fontaine, La Bruyere, Taine,...
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With the collection of records and an index.  Revised and corrected, with additional notes and a preface calculated to remove certain difficulties attending the perusal of this important history by the Rev. E. Nares, D.D. With a frontispiece and twenty two portraits in four volumes.
Topics: Reformation--England, Sander, Nicholas--1530?-1581--De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani,...
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Question propseé par l'academie de Berlin
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Philosophie, Philosophy, Academie de Berlin
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by Plutarque; Amyot
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.Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, traduites de grec par Amyot, avec des notes et des observations, par Mm. Brotier et Vauvilliers.  Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigeé et augmenteé, par E. Clavier.
Topics: Plutarch, Plutarque, Amyot, Brotier, Vauvilliers, E. Clavier, Mercantile Library Association...
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by Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières Riccoboni; Madame Riccoboni
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Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée.
Topics: Women--France--Social conditions--Fiction, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, France,...
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Histoire ancienne
Topics: Histoire ancienne, Egyptiens, Persia, Medea, Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Babylon,...
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by Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
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Depuis Auguste jusqu'a Constantin, Nouvelle édition.
Topics: Emperors -- Rome, Rome -- Histoire -- 30 av. JC - 476, Rome -- History -- Empire 30 BC -476 AD,...
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by J. Ross Robertson
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Embracing a general history of the craft and its origin, but more particularly a history of the craft in the Province of Upper Canada, now Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada from 1749-1858.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, Freemasons -- Canada -- History, Freemasons -- Canada --...
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by George Edouard Desbarats
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A Canadian pictorial weekly.
Topics: George Edouard Desbarats, Dominion Illustrated, Canadian Periodicals (English), Canada-Periodicals,...
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Sent by the Governor - General of India in the year 1795.
Topics: British -- Burma, British, Burma, Mercantile Library Association
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by Arthur Helps
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And its relation to the history of slavery and the government of colonies.
Topics: Slavery -- Latin America, Esclavitud -- America, Trato a los Indios -- America, America -- Historia...
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by Robertine Barry
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Bi-monthly Montreal periodical created by Robertine Barry. Published 1902-1909. Périodique montréalaise. Publiée 1902-1909. “Gazette canadienne de la famille”.
Topics: Periodical, French Canada, Montreal, Robertine Barry, Francoise, Jules-Mario Lanos, Laure Conan,...
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by Institut Canadien
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Institut Canadien, bibliotheque, Montreal,  Quebec, Canada.  Vis a vis de l'opinion et de l'autorite diocesaine Affaire Guibord, l'index.
Topics: Institut-Canadien, Institut Canadien, Alphonse Doutre, Gonzalvez Doutre, J.O. Turgeon, H....
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by Francis Head, Sir
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or, Paris in 1851.  Two volumes complete in one.  New edition.
Topics: Mercantile Library Association Montreal, France -- Paris, Paris (France) -- Description and travel,...
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by Henry Stebbing
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Mid-nineteenth century poem about Jesus and his life.
Topics: Henry Stebbing, Jesus, Christianity, English Poetry
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by Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal
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Published sporadically 1872-1933.  Canada's first numismatic periodical.  Covers all aspects of collecting. Bilingual.Organe officiel de la societe d'archeologie et de numismatique de Montreal. Publiee 1872-1933.  Bilingue.
Topics: Numismatics, Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, Collectors and Collecting,...
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by Walter Thornbury
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Life of Turner founded on letters and papers furnished by his friends and fellow academicians.
Topics: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1755-1851, Painting--England--Biographies, Mercantile Library...
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by Robertine Barry
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Bi-monthly Montreal periodical created by Robertine Barry. Published 1902-1909.
Topics: Periodical, French Canada, Montreal, Robertine Barry