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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015 - 19 items offered...
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9 BOOKS
1 MAP
1 EPHEMERA
3 PRINTS
3 MANUSCRIPTS
1 PHOTO
1 COLLECTION
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MOODIE, Susanna [Susannah Strickland] [1803-1885] & WARD, Mrs. Catherine G.
1829. New York, S & D. A. Forbes.
RARE 1st US EDITION OF THIS EARLY SUSANNA MOODIE TITLE.
24mo - 14cm x 9cm, (5 5/8" x 3.5"). 100p. Latimer; 80p., Adelaide Two books in one. "Forbes Juvenile Library" #2 in the Series. Hardcover with worn leather spine. The front board is a combination of the two title pages. Back cover an ad for the publisher, S&D. A. Forbes Company.
The first edition of Hugh Latimer was the UK 1828 edition and reprinted in UK in 1834. Both UK editions are considered rare copies with copies only being located in LAC (two 1834 copies), McGill (1834), TPL (1828), Carleton University, Wayne State University and Rutgers University
(Rutgers note author as Strickland, Jane Margaret, 1800-1888. incorrectly)
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Price: $ 2,000 USD
#2629
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TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland Mrs. Traill C.P.) [1802-1899] & HARVEY, William (illustrator) & STRICKLAND, Agnes [1796-1874 edited by
1852. London, Aurthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. 25 Paternoster.
SCARCE COPY OF PERHAPS TRAILL'S MOST WELL KNOWN BOOK.
3/4 contemporary original leather binding with marbled cover paper, plain brown reinforced endpapers and red speckled pager edges. Catharine's children's story Canadian Crusoes: a tale of the Rice Lake plains (1852), in which three young offspring of pioneers heroically survive two years on their own in the unsettled wilderness north of Lake Ontario...
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Price: $ 1,000 USD #0462
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SMITH, Arthur D. Howden & ASTOR, John Jacob (subject)
1929. Toronto, Philadelphia, Lippincott Co.
8vo, 296pp, index, 16 illustrations.
The value on this item is the old signed paper originally tipped and glue has dried with paper now laid in, propably the end of a letter closing and signed John Jacob Astor. A nice clean John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) signature uncommon in the market these days.
The value on this item is the old signed paper originally tipped and glue has dried with paper now laid in, probably the end of a letter closing and signed John Jacob Astor. A nice clean John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) signature uncommon in the market these days.
Astor was a fur trader and merchant, with his trading posts first opened the West after the Louisiana Purchase and were thus a key part of American history. He was the new nation's richest man, and arguably its first great businessman.
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GRANVILLE, George, Baron Lansdowne [1666-1735] & BATEMAN, William, 1st Viscount Bateman (1695-1744) (provenance)
1732. London,
J. Tonson & L. Gilliver
First edition, one volume only.
8-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches. (1), small errata pasted on page), [1]-191; (1), (13),[205]-563(1). 32.0 x 6.0 cm. Original full brown leather, quite worn on boards with 1-1/2 x 2-1/2 inch section missing, spine with 6 bands and decorative gilt, red leather label with gilt type. Insides clean and complete but front boards loose and cracked. Overall condition is fair.
Engraved head and tail pieces by G. Vander Gucht and with several large engraved initials.
Book plate of William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman on front paste-down....
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Price: $ 245 USD
#6868
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1920 London, The Hudson's Bay Company
half-title, blank (2), frontis, title, (1), vii-xvi, 1-129, (1). 8-3/8 x 10-7/8 inches. New bindings on book. New leather spine with 5 raised bands and gilt decorations and type, new red cloth boards with original Hudson's Bay armorial suede HBC gilt stamped logo attached to front cove. New endpapers with Sotheby's bookplate on front endpaper re-affixed - The Duke & Duchess of Windsor Thursday, September 11,-19 1997. A 6-1/2 x 10 inches Hudson's Bay Company presentation light card is loosely inserted on front endpaper . Printed on this card is Presented by the Governor and Company of Adventures of England trading into Hudson's Bay to (handwritten - His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, KG) to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Great Royal Charter. 1670=2nd MY= 1920...
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Price: $ 425 USD
#4798
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BURKE, Sir Edmund [1729 - 1797]
1761. London, printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall,
1, v (3 blank),[ 1]-496, 7 (contents), Rebacked with calf spine, bound in full leather. Very nice copy! A 2nd edition of the 1758 copy printed in 1761 with Edmund Burkes preface to the series (preface out of sequence but complete).
The French and Indian wars 1756-1763. Includes a nearly full page report of this infamous massacre, in part... A considerable fort, called Fort "William-Henry, had been built on the southern edge of the Lake George, in order to command that lake and to cover our frontiers...
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Price: $ 495 USD
#1682
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CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de [1574-1635] & edited SLAFTER, Rev. Edmund F. & translated by OTIS, Charles Pomeroy
1880 & 1878. Boston, The Prince Society
TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION , 8 1/2 x 7 inches, Vol.I: viii, 340 pp., illus., 1 folded map but lacking the large folding map of carte de la Nouvelle France 1632. Vol.II: xiv, 273 pp., illus., maps. Rebound in 3/4 leather with original marbled boards and matching marbled end papers. On spine, new black leather label with gold type, 5 bands and decorative gold-stamped tooling. Inside pages all untrimmed....
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Price: $ 495 USD
#2298
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OSBORN, Sherard (1822-1875)
1852. New York, G. P. Putnam
Issued as part of Putnam's semi-monthly library. This first American edition, without appendix, plates and folding map as published in the first UK 1852 edition published the same year. Book deals with Greenland Eskimos, voyage by Baffin Bay and wintering at Griffith Island. From the preface: My motive is twofold: to tell of the doings of a screw steam-vessel, the first ever tried in the Polar regions, and by a light, readable description of incidents in the late search for Sir John Franklin, to interest the general reader and the community at large upon that subject...
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Price: $ 125 USD
#1195
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ROBERTS, Sir Charles George Douglas [1860 - 1943] subject: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe [1792 - 1822]
1892. Williamson Book Company, printed by J. J. Anslow, Windsor, NS
RARE true first edition with emotional Roberts inscription / signature and in overall very good condition. Predates the listed first edition, dated 1893.
With inscription on half title page;
"Among all my poems this is my favourite. Charles G.D. Roberts June 27, 1929"
Possible this copy owned by Roberts?
A poem, comprised of thirty-one verses, honouring the birth of Percy Shelley (1792-1892)....
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Price: $ 195 USD
#1802
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ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles [1688-1766]
1757 Paris, Atlas Universal
Second State of the Partie de l'Amerique Septent map originally published in 1755 - Kershaw II, 355.
Printed during the French and Indian War. Robert de Vaugondy's superb map of French Canada with an inset on the lower left of the still not completely defined Great Lakes.
The highly decorative title cartouche features a woodland scene with a canoe and a fierce-looking beaver and in the distance an Indian village...
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Price: $ 975 USD #1716
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C.C.F. Central Office
1935 Regina, Corson Printing
Brochure, Size 6 x 9" folded, 4 pages.
Uncommon. Copies of this ephemera political pamphlet only located at 4 Canadian institutions.
Of historical note: In 1935, five CCF MPs were elected to Parliament including Tommy Douglas, who later became the first CCF Premier, elected in Saskatchewan in 1944....
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Price: $ 195 USD #3638
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LAHONTAN, [Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce], [La Hontan] Baron de [1666 - 1715] (author) & DE LA BARRE, Joseph-Antoine [1622-1688] (subject)
[1703]. [London} [Printed for H. Bonwicke...]
First edition. 7-1/8 x 4-1/2 inches. Copper engraving. Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Published in: New Voyages to North America, LaHontan 1703. Vol. 1 p.43
Some text printed on the sheet;
* The Militia and Regular Troops
* The Canons and Boats of the Army
* Interpreter
* French Officers
Joseph-Antoine le Fèbvre de LaBarre was the Governor of New France from 1682 to 1685. He had previously been Governor of Auvergne and of the French Antilles (1666 and 1667, then temporarily until 1669)...
Price: $ 175 USD #6696
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ANON
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Paper: 9-1/4 x 6 inches , Image: 7 x 4 inches. Small vignette steel plate engraving. Hand colored.
Undated most likely a mid 19th century image. Print shows the death of Tecumseh from a bullet fired probably by Colonel Richard Johnson at the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada, on October 5th, 1813.
Very good condition....
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Price: $ 145 USD #4520
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JAMESON, Mrs. Anna Brownell, (née Murphy) [1794-1860]
ND. Very nice (undated) 4pp ALS by Anna Jameson, important Victorian authoress, to Mrs Rathbone, regarding the loss of a daughter, etc..
The multi-talented Victorian Irish author and art critic Anna Brownell Jameson [1794-1860] was one of the few female writers in the late 1820s to gain notoriety as not only an amazing writer, but also as a strong supporter of the feminist movement in all genres of literature. As a nomadic writer of fiction and stalwart researcher in women's studies, she was also among the female writers of her time who served to show just how far a writer is willing to go for inspiration. Her travels took her to Italy, Spain, France, Scotland, Canada and the United States, among others...
Price: $ 210 USD #2689
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LAZELLE, Henry Martyn [1832-1917]
1911. Georgeville, Quebec Province
Remarkable military perspective written with a powerful pen.
Autograph Letter Signed. Georgeville, Quebec Province, August 31, 1911. 5 pp. 7¾ x 10". The aged General pens an essay/letter which begins My Dear Mr. Norris. What follows is what reads more as an essay on the Civil War. Superb content throughout: "The experiance (sic) of several years in charge of the publication of the records of the Rebellion convinced me that the history of the civil war can never be fairly written with good result as they are not traced to their real sources - campaigns may be described and battles gloried or mourned over, but minor fundamental can never be measured...Spotsylvania Court House and Kenesaw Mountain were unnecessary exhibitions of the slaughter of men - Chancellorsville of a great blunder by a half intoxicated Commander who provided neither scouts nor screen of cavalry..."4...
Price: $ 850 USD #3082
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PARRY, Sir William Edward R.N. [1790 - 1855]
1838 . London
Autograph Letter signed, dated Admiralty, 1st June [n.d.] (likely between 1836 when Parry was employed at the Admiralty, and 1839, when his wife, Bella, died) addressed to a friend, Sarah.
32 lines on two 8vo pages, approx. 5x7 inches, hinged on the left with linen onto a larger album page, very good condition.
A friendly letter:
"Dear Sarah, I am charged with Bella's letter to get franked, and I will not let it go without one line from myself to assure you how much we long to see you, and that we have this morning at breakfast, made a regular arrangement for your coming to see us, and we do hope that you will give us that pleasure. We are delightfully situated, close to the Zoological Gardens, and you shall sit up all night, if you like it, to hear the beasts roar & howl! But seriously, we shall depend upon your coming to see us, and I think we can make it agreeable to you for a week, tho' we are not gay people, and cannot promise you public amusements. Believe me, dear Sarah, your affecte. Friend, W. Parry...
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MULOCK, Sir William [1843-1944]
No Date .
4-1/2 x 6 inches. Black and white period photo of Sir William Mulock and others at a ceremony early 19th century. Photo affixed at top to a dark brown paper. Fine condition.
Sir William Mulock, was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1881 to 1900, negotiating the federation of denominational colleges and professional schools into a modern university....
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The T.B. Higginson Complete Collection includes 9 folders written to and by T. B. Higginson of many letters plus 8 letters highlighted and 6 booklets written and published by him. Sold only as a collection
HIGGINSON, T.B. (Thomas Boyd) [1912-1994]
1929-1984 item collection dates.
Thomas Boyd Higginson (1912-1994) was a retired teacher and High School principal locating in many areas across northern, central and eastern Ontario. His hobby was collecting, researching, writing and publishing local Ontario Canadiana. He published booklets primarily from the Old Rectory Press in Burk's Falls, Ontario. He was married to Norma Emmeline (nee Cooke) Higginson (1915-2013)....
CONTENTS:
9 File Folders #4876:
1) Copies of Letter (Higginson) 7 copies of typed letter from 1887-1925 various authors
2) TB Higginson re: Lockhart, LaMoine, Butler, Martin. reference info
3) 56 letters from Wm F.E. Morley to T.B. Higginson dated from March 11, 1966 to Jun 20, 1979. William F.E. Morley was the Special Collections Curator of the Douglas Library at Queen's University. Content deals with books, booklets, bulletins and many other related subjects. Obviously they had a trusted relationship on a common topic, Canadiana and history.
4) Roebuck Album. Research material and letter around 1966 relating to J.A. (John Arthur) Roebuck (1801-1879) Dealing with interesting 1828 watercolors by Roebuck auctioned in 1965
5) Librarians, Archivists, Historians and Collectors to T.B. Higginson. About 20 letters dated from 1965 to 1984 covering various topics on booklets, historical research and related
6) Dorothy E. Coate to T.B. Higginson. Rosseau, Ont. 1971 to 1972 primarily. Dealing with local parish, Church of the Redeemer history in Rosseau and the Coate family history. A couple of notes and two letter, both many pages.
7) Dora Hood Bookseller. A few letter 1957 & 1968 relating to book sales to Higginson.
8) Typescripts. Three typescripts of booklets or subjects (Moria O'Neill in Alberta, Ancestry of George Malcom Sinclair and Bonnie Norma Higginson and Ancestry of William Cooke Higginson and Mary Margret Innes.
9) Algoma 100 contributions. 4pp. small thin sheet on Saint Mary's Church Beatrice and others. A typescript of the History of Christ Church Englehart.
6 Booklets by T.B. Higginson,
each 5-1/2 x 8-1/2...
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