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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Few marks; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No. 191 of a Limited Edition. Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 7" x 9 3/4." xxx, [1]-392 pages, complete. Two black-and-white folding maps tipped in back, complete. The maps are by Samuel Hearne and are titled, "A Plan of Albany River ., 1774," "Plan of Moos River ., 1774," and "Plan of Slude River." Fourteen additional pages in back listing members and libraries who are subscribing to the Hudson's Bay Record Society. Front colophon: "This copy is No. 191 of a limited Edition which is issued only to subscribers to The Hudson's Bay Record Society." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning throughout and slight wear to edges. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slightly bumped corners. Binding is tight. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. Volume XVII in the Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society series. A collection of reprinted journal entries from 1783-1785 relating to the Hudson's Bay Company's posts in the Southern Department of Hudson Bay. Excerpt from Preface: "This is the first volume to be published by the Record Society which deals specifically with the affairs of the posts at the Bottom of the Bay--the Southern Department as it was later called. There the earliest posts established by the Company were set up and there the earliest effects of French competition were felt." Contents are listed as follows: "Preface," "Introduction," "Moose Fort Journal, 1783-84," "Moose Fort Journal, 1784-85," "Appendix A: Moose Fort Correspondence Books, 1783-84 and 1784-85," "Appendix B: Posts," "Appendix C: Biographies," "Appendix D: Standard of Trade, 1783-84," "and "Index." The Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 as a fur trading company. HBC once controlled a commercial monopoly throughout the entirety of Rupert's Land, a territory expressly formed for HBC's monopoly. Rupert's Land also comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The Canadian government gained control of Rupert's Land in 1870 following negotiations with HBC. HBC is still in business to this day as Canada's largest and oldest corporation. Today, HBC is commonly referred to as "The Bay" and has many brick-and-mortar retail stores as well as an online store. HBC has since changed its product line to reflect current interests, and as of 2023, no longer sells animal fur products.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No dust jacket. First Edition. Toronto, Ontario:: The University of Toronto Press, 1941. A clean, square, tight copy. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Political Economy Series, No. 11. Includes papers on: Railway Finance; Urban Transportation; Canadian Waterways; Regulation of Transportation; British Railways Act of 1921; etc. Tables. Bibliographical references. Index. Includes a list of the published writings of Professor W. T. Jackman. Bound in the original red cloth. This copy is from the library of, and bears the small ownership signature of Ernest W. Williams, Jr., Ph.D. Dr. Williams was Professor of Transportation in the School of Business, Columbia University. He authored: Freight Transportation in the Soviet Union Including Comparisons with the United States; Economics of Transportation (with Marvin L. Fair); Transportation and Logistics (with Marvin L. Fair); The Outlook for Domestic Air Transport; The Outlook for The Railroad Industry; The Regulation of Rail-Motor Rate Competition; Liner Conferences in the Container Age: U. S. Policy at Sea (with Gunnar K. Sletmo); Manpower -- A Prime Resource; etc. Williams edited The Future of American Transportation. He served as a consultant to various government agencies including the Bureau of the Budget, Office of Defense Mobilization, and Department of Commerce. Dr. Williams was honored with the Distinguished Member Award from the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the American Economic Association (AEA). . Signed by Ernest W. Williams. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No dust jacket. 8vo. ix, 167pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine EX-LIBRARY. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966. Appears unread. Near Fine EX-LIBRARY, stamped "WITHDRAWN" on title page and rear endpaper. Clean, square, tight copy. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. With 112 illustrations and 15 tables. Bibliographical References. Subject Index. Author Index. Original green cloth. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine EX-LIBRARY/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. xiv, 329pp.…