DECEMBER 22, 2014 Issue
A quick and interesting browse over this Holiday Season with 11 items offered and lots of details and photos. HAPPY HOLIDAYS and Good hunting! 

- 3 BOOKS

- 1 MAP

- 3 PRINTS

- 2 MANUSCRIPTS

- 2 EPHEMERA
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3 Books...

1825  London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
"The greatest attraction of the present volume, will, however, undoubtedly be its containing the fullest and most accurate descriptions of numerous ruined towns and cities in the Great Plain of the Haurin, the ancient Auranites, the very names of many of which have not before been made public ; as well as faithful pictures of the state of manners in these highly interesting and almost untrodden regions, which are likely to afford matter of agreeable consideration to readers of all classes."
Price: $1,900 USD      #1563

MILL, John Stuart  [1806-1873]

1869, 1st Edition, UK, London, Longmans, Green and Dyer.  

"The object of this essay is to explain as clearly as I am able ... that the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human  improvement, and that ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on one side, nor the disability on the other" John Stuart Mills

The radical nature of Mill's call for women's equality is often lost to us after over a century of protest and changing social attitudes. ...read more 

Price: $1,900 USD         #0482

LEWIS, Sinclair Harry [1885 -1951]
1925 London, Jonathan Cape
 Presentaiton copy  from Lewis to Herman Scheffauer during one of his frequent trips to Paris during the 1920's. Written in blue ink. "To Herman Scheffauer with the warmest greetings of Sinclair Lewis. Paris. Guaranty Trust & Co. 3 rue des Italiens."  Scheffaeur (1878-1927) was a San Franciscan, poet, playwright and translator ( esp. of Thomas Mann's works), member of the Carmel literary colony in California. ...read more
Price: $ 750 USD          #1562
 1 MAP...

METELLUS, Johannes, derived from
The basic cartography derives from Gerard Mercator's world map of 1569, which first depicted a large body of water inland in the extreme north. There has been much speculation as to what this might refer to. It has been suggested that it could be a record of a voyage unknown to us that visited Hudson Bay, it could even be remnants of the Verrazano sea theory ... read more
Price: $1,250 USD       #1633
 3 PRINTS...

DONOHUE, Maj. C.]
Print showing the American Fenians routing British troops at the battle of Ridgeway in 1866 just after the American Civil War. The battle was fought between an Irish-American invading force against Canadian regular troops. This was the largest of the Fenian Raids into Canada and the only Fenian victory. The battle flag on the Fenian troops reads "I.R.A."... read more
Price: $3,500 USD          #3509
STANLEY, Sir Frederick Arthur, 1st Baron Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby (Lord Stanley of Preston) [1841-1908]
 & WALTON, Charles William  [Active 1872-1891]
In 1892, this Lord Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby gave  a treasured North American sports icon - the Stanley Cup to symbolize hockey Championship. It is the same Stanley Cup the National Hockey League competes for each year now. He was the 6th Governor General of Canada. RARE. WE CAN FIND NO OTHER COPIES OF THIS ENGRAVING .....read more
Price: $2,900 USD       #3439

LAMBERT, John [1775-c1816]
2 AQUATINTS - AMERICA:
PUBLISHED IN 1810
* SARATOGA, VIEW OF GENERAL BURGOYNE'S ENCAMPMENT
* PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE THE FIRST COLONISTS LANDED IN NEW ENGLAND. ... read more
Price:  $60 USD        #5618
 2 MANUSCRIPTS...





 

BROCK, Sir General Isaac  [1769-1812]
 & CRAIG, Sir James Henry [1748-1812] 
 & CLEGG, J. B. (John Baskerville or Baskervyle) [1773-1861] (Judge Advocate)
 & WADDLE, Private Alexander (d.1852) 
Even a casual student of Sir Isaac Brock and the beginnings of the War of 1812 will totally agree British desertions to USA were a serious and undermining concern that Brock faced in 1805 shortly after his arrival til his death in 1812. In fact, Brock's early days in Canada saw him prevent a mutiny at Fort George.
So little is known and written specifically about this desertion issue. There appears to be no other original primary source court martial documents to be found from 1804 to 1820 relating to the British before and after the War of 1812 until now.

The  comment below promoting a CBC documentary summarizes the pre-War of 1812 situation well, especially the last comment...

When the War of 1812 was declared... Canada had 500,000 people (some of whom had recently been Americans) to America's seven million. Brock had only 1,600 troops to defend a 1,200 mile border. And he had the same worries Guy Carleton had had in 1774: Would the citizens fight the enemy or embrace them?
"My situation is most critical," Brock wrote to the adjutant-general in Montreal, "not from anything the enemy can do but from the disposition of the people - the population, believe me, is essentially bad - a full belief possesses them all that this province must inevitably succumb...    Most of the people have lost all confidence. I, however, speak loud and look big."
It was difficult to look big given the state of affairs. To compound his problems there was rampant desertion in the Canadian militia, many of them going over to the Americans. Quoted from the People's History produced by CBC...
NO OTHER ORIGINAL BRITISH (CANADA) EARLY 1800's COURT MARTIAL DOCUMENT FOUND    read more
Price: $15,000 USD        #6664

PARRY, Sir William Edward R.N. [1790 - 1855]
 & FRY, Elizabeth (Betsy) (n�e Gurney) [1780-1845]
1826. Autograph Letter signed, dated Admiralty, May 18th, 1826, addressed to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fry, Newgate. The recipient of the letter was almost certainly Elizabeth Fry, 1780- 1845, the famous British prison reformer, who had in 1817 formed an association for the improvement of female prisoners in Newgate, and later instituted an order of nursing sisters.. ...read more
Price: $1,500 USD           #3295
 2 EPHEMERA...



Steamboat Office, Rochester 1849
The steamers:
BAY STATE Capt.Van Cleve
CATARACT Capt. Chapman
ONTARIO Capt. Throop
NORTHERNER Capt. Childs
One of the above boats will Leave Rochester Every Evening!
At 7 o'clock, for Lewiston. Cars leave Lewiston o the arrival of the Boat, for Niagara Falls and Buffalo....read more
Price: $1,500 USD           #3324

1919, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR
The Canadian Pacific Irrigation Colonization Co. Ltd. Commission Certificate $191.30 No.3245
Calgary, Canada December 18th 1919
During the Canadian Pacific Railway's construction of the national railway in the 1880s, it became involved in the sale and settlement of land. Part of the provisions made by the government to the company were 25 million acres (10 million ha) of land in a belt along the railway.....read more
 Price: $ 325 USD      #3427

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