Watercolour painting, the original artwork for a Great Northern Railway (GNR) poster entitled 'The Skegness Cure', produced by GNR to promote rail travel to Skegness, Lincolnshire. The man in the picture with a bandaged foot has become so invigorated by the bracing air of Skegness that he has sprung out of his wheeled chair and is pulling it along, with his attendant now seated in it, as he skips along the beach. Artwork by John Hassall (1868-1948), the first great railway poster artist. After twice failing to gain a commission at Sandhurst, he emigrated to Manitoba, Canada, but later returned to England, where he started his own art school called the New Art School and School of Poster Design.

A travel guide to Canada with coverage of the various top attractions. Featuring colour photography and insightful background information, it lets you discover both the urban and the wild with guidance on exploring the glistening skyscrapers of Toronto, the restaurants of Montreal and the laid-back ambience of Vancouver.

Lithograph by G Scharf after J Paroisien, showing La Canada, a street in Santiago, the capital of Chile. Illustration from 'Travels into Chile, over the Andes, in the years 1820 and 1821' by Peter Schmidtmeyer, published in London in 1824.

Presents a sequel by the award-winning author. This book tells the story of Parvana, traveling alone across a war-ridden Afghanistan in an attempt to find her family. Deborah Ellis is the winner of the Governor General's Award in Canada...

Sr Martin Frobisher Knight. The noble flames that glow'd in his stout brest could ne're be quencet, nor by that ice opprest. Of Northerne Seas; His praise let him not want. Whole worth deserves a print of Adamant. That he may still guide ships: whose fame let grow. So long as sea shall have an ebbe and flow. AH'Frobisher made three voyages to present-day Arctic Canada, from 1576 to 1578, originally to discover the North

Poster produced for Great Western Railway (GWR) to promote rail travel to Cornwall. The poster shows a Cornish fishing village with a steep street lined with old houses sloping down to the harbour. A fisherman carrying a basket on his back is shown walking up the street, with the water, hills and a tall-masted ship in the background. Issued for display in the USA and Canada in association with Cunard Line, Boston, Massachusetts. Artwork by S I Veale (1890-1961). Dimensions: 1015 mm x 620 mm.

This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. It is broken down into sections dealing with Canada's culture, geography, people, history (from New France to the constitutional debates in the late 20th century)...

Three small tears on dust jacket- located on the spine, top and bottom of jacket. Minor scuffing. Very clean inner pages. Signed by author. Following the great success of her earlier book, Clean Clothes on Sunday, which tells of her Edwardian childhood, Davies continues the story of her life, from the time of her marriage until her husband's retirement from the army. Throughout all of this, she travels to India, returning to England in the midst of the Second World War and moving to Canada and America.

Engraving showing a Native American miner climbing a ladder made from a tree trunk. Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes, is on the border between the United States and Canada. The Native American population of the Americas was drastically reduced after the arrival of the Europeans due to war, disease, forced removal and relocation, and the destruction of traditional ways of life. Illustration from 'Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States. Part 5' by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), published in Philadelphia in 1855.

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell