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1873 - 2nd US edition.
According to Judith Myers (Jules Verne: A Bibliography), the second edition is preferable since the first had damaged type. Unlike the 1st British or U.S. editions, the Smith edition has "Seas" rather than "Sea" on the cover...
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1863 Harper & Brothers
Fanny Kemble, well-known English actress, was married to Pierce Butler, a Philadelphia resident and Georgia slave-owner and visited with him his plantation in the Sea Islands in 1838 and 1839. Of strong anti-slavery sentiment, she did not learn of Butler's "dreadful possessions" until after her marriage in 1834 Kemble's name became permanently linked to the issue of slavery when, in 1863, she published her most famous volume, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. "I think I should die if I had to live here," Kemble confessed after a season on the Butler lands, and her journal of those days hauntingly records the "simple horror and misery" she saw as the plight of the slaves....
Price: $145 USD #1265
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1877. This scarce, first printing of this classic of 19th century Canadian literature, an historical novel of Quebec. Possibly the most important novel in nineteenth century English-Canadian literature. Variant A binding with ads: First text setting, Blue cover with black and gold; 8p of advertisements. The Golden Dog was issued in February 1877...
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1851 London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Richardson traveled from London to New York, across Canada and down the Mackenzie River, exploring the coastal regions to the Coppermine River. He gives details of Indian and Eskimo customs and language as well as the geography of he North West.
2 volumes, viii, 413; vii, 426 pages. Includes 10 coloured lithographic plates with further illustrations within the text...
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[1760]. French & Indian War map illustrating General Lord Jeffrey Amherst's expedition against the French at Montreal in 1760, which led to the surrender of the city in September of that year. Map shows the region along and south of the St. Lawrence River extending from Quebec to the Thousand Islands, and then around Lake Ontario and to the Niagara River. Forts, Indian tribes, rivers, portages, and other such information is clearly presented....
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circa 1815. Scarce engraving of Harrison and the Battle of the Thames. 3 mounted officers at right; battle in background. Small stone engraving. The U.S. victory helped catapult Harrison into the national limelight and eventually the presidency. ...
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6 HAND-COLOURED PLATES TITLES:
* HABITANS IN THEIR SUMMER DRESS
* ONE OF THE SEMINARY BOYS AT QUEBEC AND A GENTLEMAN IN WINTER DRESS
* AN OFFICER OF THE BRITISH ARMY AND A MERCHANT OF QUEBEC IN THEIR WINTER DRESS
* FRENCH HAPITANS OR COUNTRYMEN
* A FRENCH CANADIAN LADY IN HER WINTER DRESS AND A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST
* AN INDIAN AND HIS SQUAW...
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circa 1890. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's last...
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Price: $1500 USD #3612
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One page Autograph Document Signed, dated Marblehead April 14, 1761: "Whereas Malachy Salter, Esqr Stands engaged to the Government of Nova Scotia in the sum of on Hundd pounds that Currency wch he gave his note for, in Lieu of a note for Sd sum given up to Bourn & Freeman wch they originally gave for so much in behalf Eziekiel Gilman Esq bearing Date....
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Autograph Letter signed, dated Admiralty, May 18th, 1826, addressed to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fry, Newgate. 21 lines, 1 p., with conjugate address leaf, approx. 5x7 inches, hinged on the left with linen onto a larger album page, very good condition....
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June 7, 1768 - Dated French and Indian War period, Manuscript Document Signed, "Benja(min) Cobb," regarding British Military payments being made via Halifax and Quebec... This letter is addressed to Henry Kneller, British Chief of Board of Ordnance in Boston during the French and Indian War period...
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Dr. Thomas Logie was a professor of Romance Languages. Born London, Ontario. Graduated University of Toronto 1887. Special student at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 1887. He immediately thereafter entered the Johns Hopkins University as special student in Romance Languages. Associate professor of romance languages at Rutgers University 1888. PhD from Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) 1890, with thesis titled: "The dialect of Cachy- Picardy". Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins, 1891. Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Rutgers, 1893. Cross appointment as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, Williams College, 1890-1893.)...
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Autograph album of O.T. Brown of Poughkeepsie, New York. Largely a collection of autographs of friends and acquaintances.
There are about 130 signatures of fellow student of O. T. Brown. Also included is an 1875 pamphlet from the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. ...
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During the beginning of the twentieth century, as women's suffrage gained in popularity, suffragists were subject to arrests and many were jailed. Finally, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to pass what became, when it was ratified in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment which prohibited state and federal agencies from gender-based restrictions on voting..
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