The December 2013 issue of the Canadian Numismatic Journal has an important story on page 633 by writer Alan Roy about the 1961 discovery on Magdalen Island (a North American French territory in the Gulf of the Saint-Lawrence) of a hoard of unbound copies of Pierre Napoleon Breton's pioneering catalogue entitled Illustrated History of Coins and Tokens relating to Canada.

The owner of the hoard was planning to liberate their BTU content, and gave them away to a token collector on a numismatic search mission. The story reviews the distribution practices of pre-Great War publishers, a very informative discussion. The RCNA, the Journal's publisher, has the URL www.rcna.ca, and I think numismatic bibliophiles would find the annual digital membership fee of $32.00 a good investment to have online access to this story!