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Mercantile Mobility Chinese Merchants in Western Canada Hardcover Helen Kwan Yee Cheung 9781551954691 $39.95 HISTORY Mar 21, 2023

This exhibition catalogue traces a group of dynamic Chinese merchants and their business activities in big cities and small towns in Western Canada after they arrived from China, covering the mid-nineteenth century into the millennium. Their movements are illustrated on various maps and chronicled in many written accounts. By managing the flow of people, products, and money at the municipal, provincial, and global levels, these individuals added to the growth of the Canadian economy. Over a span of two years, curator Helen Kwan Yee Cheung met w... + Read More
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Immune Nations The Art and Science of Global Vaccination Hardcover Natalie Loveless 9780993849770 $39.99 ART Aug 22, 2022

This catalogue documents a multi-year art-science project called Immune Nations, produced on the occasion of its exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Initiated in 2014 and co-led by Steven Hoffman (York University), Sean Caulfield (University of Alberta), and Natalie Loveless (University of Alberta), Immune Nations brought together scientists, policy experts, academic scholars, and artists to work on an interdisciplinary and collaborative research-creation project tackling complex issues related to the use and ... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Ancestors Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs Paperback Sarah Carter 9781551954547 $39.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Dec 02, 2021

This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, humour, artwork, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs.... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections A Contemplative Angler Selections from the Bruce P. Dancik Collection of Angling Books Hardcover Justin Hanisch 9781551954059 $49.95 ART Oct 15, 2018

This exhibition catalogue shows nearly 100 highlights of an extraordinary collection of rare books and print ephemera about angling. Featuring the books of a single collector, Bruce P. Dancik, who is an angler-collector in the mould of Roderick Haig-Brown, the catalogue includes titles that have contributed significantly to the development of angling as a sport and as a philosophy. Many books in the collection are titles of extreme rarity, often illustrated with woodcuts, copper or steel engravings, chromolithographs, and photoengravings. The c... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination Highlights from the David McKnight Canadian Little Magazine and Small Press Collection Paperback David McKnight 9781551953663 $39.95 ART Apr 04, 2018

This exhibition catalogue features over 100 highlights of a large and extraordinary collection of Canadian little magazines and Canadian small press and micro-press imprints assembled by David McKnight. As a determined collector/librarian imbued with remarkable passion and resolve, McKnight invested 30 years developing a private collection that has considerable potential for literary research in the areas of Canadian Modernist poetry, avant-garde literature, and the production of small magazines in Canada. McKnight generously donated the collec... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Salt, Sword, and Crozier Books and Coins from the Prince-Bishopric of Salzburg (c. 1500—c. 1800) Paperback Felice Lifshitz 9781551953779 $39.95 ART Oct 17, 2017

Like the popes in Rome, the Prince-Bishops of Salzburg ruled over substantial territories as secular princes. Salt, Sword, and Crozier highlights their dual authority—the princely sword and the bishop’s staff or crozier—and the basis of their economic power in their control of natural resources such as salt. The exhibition showcases books from the Salzburg prince-bishop’s seminary library that were printed from the fifteenth through the early-nineteenth century, supplemented by coins minted under the authority of successive archbishops beginnin... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Mounties on the Cover Paperback Alert Henry (Al) Lund 9781551953694 $39.95 ART Apr 04, 2017

Over the course of fifty years, distinguished Staff Sergeant (retired) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Alert Henry (Al) Lund amassed the largest ever collection of Mountie books, magazines, and comics. From a collection of thousands, he selected approximately one hundred of his favourites for the exhibition and catalogue. In the books, magazines, and comics, the artists and illustrators have captured the image of the Mountie in a variety of styles and have often depicted him as a Canadian hero and world icon. Lund’s collection was donated... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections George Baxter, Master Colour Printer Oil-Colour Prints from the Donald and Barbara Cameron Collection Paperback Merrill Distad 9781551953526 $15.00 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES May 16, 2016

George Baxter (1804-1867) was a pioneer in advancing the art of colour printing. A perfectionist, Baxter not only engraved but also examined the prints as they were produced, often providing touch-ups by hand. Baxter's process was, in the end, uneconomical, and he died bankrupt, but no one did more to bring vivid artworks within financial reach of every household, or leave a more colourful legacy for generations of admiring collectors of Victoriana. His oil-coloured prints have given viewers pleasure since they began appearing in the 1830s. Tha... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections The Thinking Heart The Literary Archive of Wilfred Watson Paperback Paul Hjartarson 9781551953397 $34.95 DRAMA Oct 20, 2014

This exhibition catalogue celebrates the life and work of avant garde poet and playwright Wilfred Watson. Drawing on the rich collection of letters, notebooks, manuscripts and sketchbooks in the University of Alberta Archives’ Wilfred Watson Fonds, this exhibition traces Watson’s development from his early encounters with the work of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Emily Carr to his decades-long engagement with the writing of Gabriel Marcel, Wyndham Lewis, and Marshall McLuhan, and from his initial work on stage to his career-changing involvement ... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Painted Faces on the Prairies Cantonese Opera and the Edmonton Chinese Community Paperback Helen Kwan Yee Cheung 9781551953380 $34.95 DRAMA Jul 15, 2014

This exhibition catalogue traces more than one hundred years of Cantonese opera in Edmonton within the changing dynamics of the Chinese community. It tells a story of life experiences on the Prairies by highlighting the inextricable relationship between Cantonese opera and the Edmonton Chinese community as this cultural practice moves deftly through historical periods between 1890 and 2009. This period has been selected to coincide with the arrival of the first Chinese in Edmonton in 1890 and the inscription of Cantonese opera onto the Masterpi... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Wow, open this! Paper Engineering in Books and Artists’ Books Paperback Kevin Zak 9781551953342 $33.50 CRAFTS & HOBBIES May 01, 2014

Throughout its history, movable elements in books, commonly called pop-ups, have been used to educate, entertain, and inspire both children and adults. "Wow, open this!" looks at the art and science of moveable elements incorporated into books. Books that delight children with that ‘wow’ moment, as a scene comes to life in their hands, were first used in scholarly works to help illustrate a vast array of topics such as geometry, architecture, medical and natural science, cryptography, astronomy, calendars, time telling, navigation, and cosmogra... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Collecting Culinaria Cookbooks and domestic manuals mainly from the Linda Miron Distad Collection Paperback Merrill Distad 9781551953243 $39.95 COOKING Oct 15, 2013

The Linda Miron Distad Culinaria Collection, housed at the University of Alberta Libraries, currently consists of more than 3,000 food-related texts from around the world, spanning several centuries. Collecting Culinaria accompanies an exhibit at the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library featuring cookbooks and household guides from the collection, as well as other selected items from the Library’s holdings. The catalogue highlights some of the collection’s most intriguing texts and their themes, including manuscript cookbooks, dietetics and h... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections All under Heaven The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully Paperback Walter Davis 9781551953199 $49.95 ART Jul 15, 2013

Floyd Sully, a Canadian collector fascinated by practical yet beautiful representations of China, laboured over 15 years to assemble this beautiful collection focused on maps, documentary paintings, and illustrated texts. It features works produced inside China and abroad that were created for both Chinese and Western viewers. This publication explores important dimensions of Chinese visual culture and offers a diverse and telling set of perspectives on the Chinese world as it underwent a process of profound transformation spanning five centuri... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Miriam Green Ellis Champion of the West Paperback Patricia Demers 9781551953151 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 09, 2013

This catalogue introduces the work of Miriam Green Ellis (1879-1964), pioneer woman journalist of Western Canada. Never one to follow a typical path, she steered clear of the "women’s page" and society columns; her livelihood was the agricultural beat. Ellis’s daring journey by river steamer from Edmonton to Aklavik in 1922--documented with a diary, travelogue, photographs and slides--launched and illustrated her subsequent "Land of the Midnight Sun" lectures, and secured her position as Western Editor for the Family Herald and Weekly Star. The... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections The Spacious Margin Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers Paperback Sylvia Brown 9781551953021 $39.95 ART Oct 30, 2012

The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of their Readers draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, presenting an array of readerly interactions with books in the form of annotations, improvements, corrections, ornamentation, and suggestive wear-and-tear. In this scholarly catalogue, Brown and Considine describe and contextualize the notable physical traces of readership and circulation for each of the 62 items displayed in the accompanying exhibition (The Spa... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book Hardcover Roger Pocock 9781551952970 $39.95 HISTORY Jul 28, 2012

The Countess Mountbatten's Own Legion of Frontiersmen was conceived and organized in 1905 as a body of frontier sentinels, and they first published The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book in 1909 as their training and survival manual. Long out-of-print, copies command steep prices in the antiquarian book market. This facsimile edition of the Pocket-Book features documents, photographs, and maps drawn from the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library's Sir Samuel Steele Collection, and also includes the papers of Roger Pocock (1865-... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Recalling the Buffalo The Martin S. Garretson Collection Paperback Ken Tingley 9781551952963 $39.95 HISTORY Jun 20, 2012

Cowboy, conservationist, and curator Martin S. Garretson was widely considered one of the foremost experts on the natural history of the buffalo as well as one of the preeminent advocates for the preservation of the North American bison for several decades during the early twentieth century. His personal mission to save the buffalo from imminent extinction and to inform the American public of the important role the buffalo played in North American history resulted in Garretson amassing a fascinating collection of material related to the bison a... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections The Last Best West Glimpses of the Prairie Provinces from the Golden Age of Postcards Paperback Ken Tingley 9781551952727 $39.95 ART Mar 01, 2011

Settlement and urbanization of the Canadian Northwest coincided with the greatest popularity of the postcard. Settlement, along with the building of a transcontinental railway and the industrialization of central Canada, were the three pillars of the National Policy in the years following Confederation. These themes also were the subject of thousands of images preserved in postcards. By the first decade of the 20th century, many cities, towns, and villages were home to photographers who produced a mass of these fascinating and informative image... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections The John H. Meier, Jr. Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Collection: 1936-2009 Paperback John H. Meier, Jr. 9781551952642 $39.95 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Sep 01, 2010

"This catalogue presents examples of first editions of all the English-language titles that have won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (GGs) from its inception to the present. If we look at the list as a whole, it soon becomes apparent that it represents most of the great Canadian authors of the twentieth century. This collection thus gives a fascinating perspective on the history of publishing and printing in Canada in the twentieth century. It is my hope and desire that exhibiting highlights from my collection... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Journeys Beyond the Neatline Expanding the Boundaries of Cartography Paperback Matthew J. Rangel 9781551952581 $39.95 ART Jun 01, 2010

Published to accompany a 2010 exhibit at the University of Alberta's Cameron Library, this unique double catalogue showcases 25 pieces of cartographic artwork by Matthew Rangel and Michael Coulis. In their own way, each artist pushes the aesthetic and intellectual conventions of mapmaking "beyond the neatline"- exploring the connection between physical journeys and inner landscapes, place and personhood, geography and memory. Curated by University of Alberta Map Librarian David Jones.
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections The Other Side of Gold Mountain Glimpses of Early Chinese Pioneer Life on the Prairies from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection Paperback Brian L. Evans 9781551951898 $39.95 HISTORY Jun 01, 2010

In June of 2010, the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections Library mounted an exhibit of documents, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera which provided significant insight into Chinese pioneer life on the Canadian Prairies. Written by exhibit curator Brian Evans, the accompanying exhibit catalogue chronicles the stories of these immigrants as they welcomed new opportunities, struggled with racism, and became integral parts of the communities in which they lived.
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Marginated Seventeenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers Paperback Sylvia Brown 9781551952567 $39.95 ART Feb 01, 2010

Meaning "provided with marginal annotations," marginated neatly describes the items featured in this extensively researched catalogue. From presentation inscriptions to readers' commentaries to children's doodles, the variety of annotations that appear in these 17th-century books gives unique insight into the lives of their readers-and, indeed, into the lives of the books, as they passed from owner to owner. This catalogue was published to accompany a 2010 exhibit at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library and feature... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Legacy of Empire Treasures of the University of Alberta's Central European Library Collection Paperback Franz A.J. Szabo 9781551952338 $39.95 ART Aug 01, 2009

The University of Alberta Libraries houses one of the most outstanding collections of Austrian, Habsburg and Central European materials in North America. This unique strength has at its heart the acquisition of two major Austrian collections: the famous "Priesterseminar" library of the Archbishop of Salzburg, purchased in 1965, and the library of Viennese Juridisch-Politische Leseverin, purchased in 1969. The Salzburg Collection, one of the most important collections in Canada for Central European law studies, consists of the original law colle... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Woolf's Head Publishing The Highlights and New Lights of the Hogarth Press Paperback Elizabeth Willson Gordon 9781551952406 $39.95 ART Feb 01, 2009

The Hogarth Press is perhaps most famous for its association with Virginia Woolf, as she was both a partner in the Press and its most important author. But there is more to the Press than Woolf herself. This catalogue, published to accompany a 2009 exhibit at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, highlights the broad international scope of the Hogarth Press, as well as the variety of genres and surprisingly diverse range of titles it published.
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Golden Cockerel's Polite Erotica A Legacy of Endurance and Distinction Paperback Robert J. Desmarais 9781551951836 $39.95 ART Oct 01, 2008

Published to accompany a 2008 exhibit at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, this catalogue explores one of the great British private presses and its contribution to the fine press movement. While the sixty books in the catalogue represent barely a quarter of Golden Cockerel's total output, the selection shows how the Press expressed its individuality and continued a tradition of fine book production against the odds. In using the words "endurance" and "distinction" in the title, the curator endeavoured to captur... + Read More
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Brilliant Strokes Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection Paperback Ka Bo Tsang 9781551952161 $29.95 ART Sep 08, 2008

Baimiao, shuanggou, gongbi, xieyi, and mogu. These words define unique Chinese painting techniques or methods, each of which is seized by the artists whose work is shown in the exhibition, "Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection," at the University of Alberta Museums in 2008. These paintings span a period of five hundred years, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. Brilliant Strokes, the book, is a stunning accompaniment to the exhibition: art enthusiasts and readers intrigued by Asian art are inv... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections A Most Dangerous Voyage An Exhibit of Books and Maps Documenting Four Centuries of Exploration in Search of the Northwest Passage Paperback Jeannine Green 9781551952031 $39.95 ART May 01, 2008

Arctic exploration has long captured the interest and imagination of explorers, nations, and the public. For more than 400 years, European explorers were lured to the Arctic to try to discover a commercial trading route to the Far East, where gold, spices, silk, and other valuable goods were readily available. Expeditions failed to locate the elusive Northwest Passage because virtually nothing was known about the Arctic Archipelago. Early mariners believed that Arctic waters were not frozen for the entire year, but of course it was a false hope... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Mappae Mundi Representing the World and its Inhabitants in Texts, Maps, and Images in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Paperback Michael Fox 9781551951874 $39.95 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Feb 01, 2008

This catalogue showcases some of the treasures of the University of Alberta's Map and Special Collections, as well as other U of A Libraries, particularly in terms of resources to aid in the study of the cultures of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The curators have focused on "facsimiles," and one of the ways to view the exhibit is in terms of the art of the facsimile, from early twentieth-century black-and-white photographs to twenty-first-century colour, digital photographs on CD-ROM. A second theme is ancient book production, from the papy... + Read More
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Dressed to Rule 18th Century Court Attire in the Mactaggart Art Collection Paperback John E. Vollmer 9781551952147 $29.95 ART Oct 15, 2007

Art takes many forms. In this selection of Asian court attire, dating from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the phrase "you are what you wear" resonates. Vollmer journeys back to the thirteenth-century Chinese Empire, where ancestors of the ruling Manchu conquerors dressed fittingly. These exquisite costumes remind us that royalty once set fashion standards the way that celebrities do today, but that these garments also promoted distinct national and political messages that helped keep a ruling minority in power for nearly three centuries. Dressed... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Randolph Caldecott His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers Paperback Robert J. Desmarais 9781551952079 $39.95 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Jun 20, 2006

Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the picture book genre. In celebration of this remarkable achievement, Desmarais offers a convincing account of how Caldecott established a new standard of taste in children's picture books. The featured books are from the author's personal collection.
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections First Impressions The Fledgling Years of the Black Sparrow Press 1966-1970 Paperback University of Alberta, English & Film Studies 9781551951720 $39.95 ART May 01, 2003

Showcasing archival materials from the early years of John Martin's Black Sparrow Press, this catalogue brings to light the collaborative relationship between writers, editors, designers, and presses. Prominently featured are the works of poets Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and others. The exhibit, which took place at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library (home of the Black Sparrow Press Archive), was curated by twelve University of Alberta graduate students under the guidance of Dr. Michael J. O'D... + Read More