Narrow Results By
- 1930s 11310
- 1940s 10760
- 1920s 10590
- 1910s 6683
- 1900s 6155
- 1950s 5396
- 1960s 4171
- 1970s 3622
- 1980s 2193
- 1990s 1388
- 1890s 1351
- 2000s 788
- 1880s 761
- 1870s 683
- 2010s 402
- 1850s 224
- 1860s 193
- 1800s 95
- 1840s 70
- 1820s 58
- 1830s 52
- 2020s 32
- 1780s
- 1810s 21
- 1750s 11
- 1790s 11
- 1770s 9
- 1700s 6
- 1740s 3
- 1760s
- 1570s 2
- 1600s
- 1720s 2
- 1080s 1
- 1300s 1
- 1500s 1
- 1530s 1
- 1550s 1
- 1560s 1
- 1610s 1
- 1620s
- 1680s 1
- 1690s 1
- 1710s 1
- 1730s 1
1723 Copy of ‘A Life of Mahomet’ Possibly Morant’s (?) and Japanese Stamp Collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54220
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 2 books; one 18th century, one 20th century stamp book. Includes 1723 copy of âA Life of Mahometâ by Humphrey Prideaux; missing front/back covers, replaced with plain brown paper covers. Handwritten title âMahometâ written on front cover and side binding in different handwritings; âĤ
- Date Range
- 1723
- [ca. 1900 - ca. 1920]
- [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]
- [ca. 1940 - ca. 1960]
- Reference Code
- M300 / III / D / 5 / 91 and 95
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M300 / V500 / S20
- Sous-Fonds
- M300
- Sub-Series
- M300 / III / D / 5 : Personal Interest and Gifts
- Accession Number
- Unknown
- Reference Code
- M300 / III / D / 5 / 91 and 95
- Responsibility
- Nicholas Morant (?), Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- 1723
- [ca. 1900 - ca. 1920]
- [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]
- [ca. 1940 - ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 2 books (1 published, 1 stamp book)
- History / Biographical
- Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724) was born in Cornwall and eventually became a Doctor of Divinity. Prideaux was an author of multiple textual works pertaining to faith and particularly Christianity. He was the Dean of Norwich from 1702 until his death in 1724.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 2 books; one 18th century, one 20th century stamp book. Includes 1723 copy of âA Life of Mahometâ by Humphrey Prideaux; missing front/back covers, replaced with plain brown paper covers. Handwritten title âMahometâ written on front cover and side binding in different handwritings; front believed to be by Nicholas Morant (?), side unknown. Also includes book of Japanese stamps collected by Nicholas Morant; many not dated, various designs and sizes, annotated on covers with Nicholas Morant's personal ink stamp.
- Storage Range
- In file box M300 / III / D / 5 / 75 to M300 / III / D / 5 / 91
- Geographic Access
- England
- Japan
- Canada
- Access Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified owner(s).
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified owner(s).
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- 'Mahomet' book must be stored with protective barrier to prevent further damage (i.e. acid-free paper).
- Biographical Source Notes
- https://www.ccel.org/ccel/prideaux
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1016
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
1 image
- Title
- Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 4.5 cm
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Bludgeon Hammerhead
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.06.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1012
- Description
- An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.
1 image
- Title
- Bludgeon Hammerhead
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 11.1 cm
- Description
- An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1012
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1009
- Description
- a large stone with an indentation around it to attach thong.
1 image
- Title
- Clubhead
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- a large stone with an indentation around it to attach thong.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1009
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Decorative Vase
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0217
- Date
- 1760 â 1800
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0217
- Description
- A cylindrical, bottle-shaped handthrown vase, straight-sided, shouldered and necked with a lip on the top of the neck. Decoration heavy over a heavily crackled ecru surface. Decorations in green, blue, and white enamel of harbour scene in landscape, shelters, and blossoming trees. Typed label on boâĤ
1 image
- Title
- Decorative Vase
- Date
- 1760 â 1800
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 15.3 cm
- Description
- A cylindrical, bottle-shaped handthrown vase, straight-sided, shouldered and necked with a lip on the top of the neck. Decoration heavy over a heavily crackled ecru surface. Decorations in green, blue, and white enamel of harbour scene in landscape, shelters, and blossoming trees. Typed label on bottom: âcylindrical, stained Ecru glaze; landscape design, richly ornamented, green and blue enamel; Kioto; 1780.â
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- E. S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0217
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Descriptions des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue466
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1781
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 I
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Published Date
- 1781
- Physical Description
- 247 pages
- Series
- Volume 1 of 2
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Descriptions des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14957
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1781
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 II
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Bonnant
- Published Date
- 1781
- Physical Description
- 285 pages
- Series
- Volume 2 of 2
- Call Number
- DQ823 B69 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Die Eisebirge des Schweizerlandes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1199
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1760
- Author
- Gruner, Gottlieb Sigmund
- Publisher
- Bern : Ben Ubraham Wagner, Cohn
- Call Number
- DQ22 G7
- Author
- Gruner, Gottlieb Sigmund
- Publisher
- Bern : Ben Ubraham Wagner, Cohn
- Published Date
- 1760
- Subjects
- Alps
- Call Number
- DQ22 G7
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Dissertationis physicae de itineribus per Helvetiam
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2290
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1781-84
- Author
- Schinz, Salomone
- Publisher
- Turici : Ex Officina Gessnerina
- Call Number
- DQ22 S33 (3 parts)
- Author
- Schinz, Salomone
- Publisher
- Turici : Ex Officina Gessnerina
- Published Date
- 1781-84
- Call Number
- DQ22 S33 (3 parts)
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Essai sur l'hygrometrie
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2263
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1783
- Author
- Saussure, Horace Benedict de
- Publisher
- Neuchatel : Samuel Fauche
- Call Number
- QC915 S3
- Author
- Saussure, Horace Benedict de
- Publisher
- Neuchatel : Samuel Fauche
- Published Date
- 1783
- Call Number
- QC915 S3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1001
- Description
- a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.
1 image
- Title
- Meteorite
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- metal
- Description
- a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.
- Subject
- prehistory
- geology
- Credit
- Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1001
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Nouvelle description generale et particuliere des glaciers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue467
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1785
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Publisher
- Geneve : Barde
- Edition
- Nouvelle ed
- Call Number
- QE576 B69
- Author
- Bourrit, Marc Theodore
- Edition
- Nouvelle ed
- Publisher
- Geneve : Barde
- Published Date
- 1785
- Physical Description
- 3v
- Subjects
- Alps
- Call Number
- QE576 B69
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Observations faites dans les Pyrenees pour servir de suite a des observations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2092
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1789
- Author
- Ramond de Carbonnieres, Louis Francose Elisabeth
- Publisher
- Paris : Belin
- Call Number
- DC611 P988 R34
- Publisher
- Paris : Belin
- Published Date
- 1789
- Call Number
- DC611 P988 R34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Petrified Wood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
1 image
- Title
- Petrified Wood
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.1 x 15.3 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
- Subject
- pre history
- paleontology
- botany
- Credit
- Gift of Bill de Haan, Canmore, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
- Date
- 1602 â 1750
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0256
- Description
- A sturdy wooden chest with heavy iron hardware, lockable, with key, but key is broken, and the chest cannot be (1979) opened. Design of solar medallions, six of them, on lid, plus date "1602" in steel or iron riveted to lid. Other solar medallions scattered on other surfaces. Most of the edges of tâĤ
1 image
- Title
- Sea Chest
- Date
- 1602 â 1750
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 30.5 x 52.0 cm
- Description
- A sturdy wooden chest with heavy iron hardware, lockable, with key, but key is broken, and the chest cannot be (1979) opened. Design of solar medallions, six of them, on lid, plus date "1602" in steel or iron riveted to lid. Other solar medallions scattered on other surfaces. Most of the edges of the wood are finished with strapping iron. Some wood splitting. Heavy brown colour overall. Label on bottom reads "Mrs. Mackay Plews".
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0256
Images
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Sketch of a tour through Switzerland
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1697
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1787
- Author
- Martyn, Thomas
- Publisher
- London : For G. Kearsley
- Call Number
- DQ22 M37
- Author
- Martyn, Thomas
- Publisher
- London : For G. Kearsley
- Published Date
- 1787
- Call Number
- DQ22 M37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Tableaus topographiques, pittoresques, physiques...de la Suisse
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue107
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1780
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.1 pt.1
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Published Date
- 1780
- Subjects
- Alps
- Zurlauben, Baron de
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.1 pt.1
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Tableaus topographiques, pittoresques, physiques...de la Suisse
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15141
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1780
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.1 pt.2
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Published Date
- 1780
- Subjects
- Alps
- Zurlauben, Baron de
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.1 pt.2
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Tableaus topographiques, pittoresques, physiques...de la Suisse
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15142
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1780
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.1 pt.3
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Published Date
- 1780
- Subjects
- Alps
- Zurlauben, Baron de
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.1 pt.3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Tableaus topographiques, pittoresques, physiques...de la Suisse
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1780
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.2 pt.1
- Publisher
- Paris : Imprimerie de Clousier
- Published Date
- 1780
- Subjects
- Alps
- Zurlauben, Baron de
- Call Number
- DQ22 T3 v.2 pt.1
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.