Gustavus William Wicksteed Fonds
- CA RBD MSG 476
- Fonds
- 1825-1841
This material consists of a journal kept at St. Giles de Beaurivage.
Wicksteed, G. W. (Gustavus William), 1799-1898
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Gustavus William Wicksteed Fonds
This material consists of a journal kept at St. Giles de Beaurivage.
Wicksteed, G. W. (Gustavus William), 1799-1898
The collection consists of a German typescript titled "The Statischen Verhaeltnisse von Tragwerken," written in 1942, along with its English translation, "The Statical Conditions of Structures and the Methods of the Statical Calculation of Structures," completed in 1943. Both versions contain five foldable pages of illustrations.
Jacoby, Gustav
Grenfell Mission Photograph Collection
Collection consists of three albums containing photographs taken at Grenfell Mission and one framed photograph. Albums feature many photographs of St. Anthony and the region, its inhabitants, the medical staff at the Grenfell Mission, and activities such as dogsledding.
Collections consists of holiday greeting cards. Description is forthcoming and will be published as it becomes available.
Fonds documents Grant Woolmer's career as an antiquarian book dealer. The records include:
Card File. 1954 – 1998, 628.5 cm of 3" x 5" (7.5 cm x 12.5 cm) index cards describing every book owned and sold by Grant Woolmer giving description and price. Over 30,000 cards.
Catalogues. 1954 – 1998, 180 cm. Complete run of catalogues of Antique Book Shop, later Grant Woolmer Books. Over 400 different catalogues.
Financial Records. 1954 – 1998, 250 cm. 6 ledgers giving daily income and disbursements; invoices, etc.
Mailing list, undated, 5 cm. Some 200 names of institutions, dealers and private collectors mimeographed on 7 sheets.
Newspaper clippings and ephemera. 1980 –1998, 5 cm. File consisting of clippings and articles relating to the antiquarian book trade, as well obituaries of antiquarian book dealers and collectors. About 200 items.
Bates List Finder. 1980s – 1990s, 3 cm. Alphabetical telephone directory and addresses for frequently called numbers.
Woolmer, Grant
This volume contains 30 stories by Giovanni Guerini translated from Italian by Robert Sinclair.
Guerini, Giovanni, active 1875
Leoni's manuscript of "Li cinque ordini dell'Architettura civile nelle Misre di Palladio con altri Studi..." was written in Dusseldorf in 1708, and illustrated with Leoni's own drawings. This treatise was never published.
Leoni, Giacomo, approximately 1686-1746
German Society of Montreal Fonds
Includes minutes, membership lists and other materials related to the activities of the German Society of Montreal.
Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Montreal
Gerhard Richard Lomer Collection
Collection consists of Lomer's various business correspondence dated from 1913, 1920-1947, and 1953. It includes an essay titled "Logic: Deductive and Inductive," written in 1901 when Lomer was a second-year student at McGill University.
Lomer, Gerhard R. (Gerhard Richard), 1882-1970
Fonds consists chiefly of ephemera and correspondence relating to the work of wood engravers of Thomas and John Bewick of Newcastle, England, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The ephemera found in series 1 includes various examples of fine printing, including proofs and printed keepsakes featuring Bewick engravings from printers such as Havilah Press and Anchor and Acorn Press. Series 2 contains correspondence, chiefly between Geraldine Cole and booksellers, as well as general correspondence with friends and acquaintances. Series 3 consists primarily of bookseller descriptions and clippings and excerpts from catalogues describing Bewick works (generally with the catalogue cover appended to a loose page on which a Bewick item appears). Some are with accompanying correspondence. Also included in this series are documents listing all of the items found in the Cole-Bewick Collection at McGill Library. Series 4 consists of other ephemera related to Bewick and his life, including short biographical pieces, postcards and products featuring Bewick engravings and watercolours, and articles and clippings. The last file in this series contains 4 original letters from Thomas Bewick to various correspondents, dating between 1819 to 1825. Series 5 contains a number of subject files relate to specific projects or organizations, including the Bewick Society.
Cole, Geraldine Kennedy, 1927-2015