Halifax [Black & white steel engraving]
- Used
- Condition
- Edges of the paper has small nicks and tears not into image
- Seller
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Coloured engraving showing Halifax from Dartmouth Charles Magnus, [1826-1900], was a print publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer working in New York City from 1850 to 1899 who issued over a thousand different letter sheets, maps, song sheets, envelopes, and separate prints. Magnus was born Julian Carl Magnus in Elberfeld, Germany, and emigrated with his family to New York City between 1848 and 1850.Lettersheets were created to comply with, yet circumvent, postal regulations that based the price charged for mailing a letter on the number of sheets of paper. The letter sheets, measuring 8.5 x 21 inches, could be folded in half, providing four pages for writing but the Post Office regarded them as one sheet of paper. Illustrations, often birds-eye views or detailed street scenes of cities, were printed in a rectangular space at the top of the first page of the folio to increase their commercial appeal.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schooner Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47905
- Title
- Halifax [Black & white steel engraving]
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges of the paper has small nicks and tears not into image
- Publisher
- Published by Charles Magnus & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- Halifax [Circa 1873]
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Terms of Sale
Schooner Books Ltd
We guarantee our books are as described. All books returnable within 10 days for any reason.Shipping is extra and is calculated at time of purchase. GST is applicable to sales within Canada. We accept visa, mastercard, paypal, cheque or money order(international if outside Canada)
About the Seller
Schooner Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2007
Halifax, Nova Scotia
About Schooner Books Ltd
We are an open shop with a large general inventory of rare used and out of print books.We have been in business for over 30 years and welcome vistors to both our open shop as well as to our internet sites.Our specialties inclued Atlantic Province history and literature,early Canadiana, genealogy, illustarted books, Children's books, fine bindings, etc, etc.
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