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OCTOBER 8, 2015 - 20 items offered...
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9 BOOKS
1 MAP
3 EPHEMERA
3 PRINTS
3 MANUSCRIPTS
1 PHOTO
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1902 New York, A. Wessels Company
8vo. 211pp. #428 of limited edition of 500 copies. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Cornplanter's English name came down as John O'Bail. He was the earliest settler in Warren County, Pennsylvania, and a contemporary of George Washington. They became close friends during the Revolutionary War. Cornplanter was often referred to as one of the most valiant warriors of his tribe, of superior sagacity and eloquence. He first fought with the British during the war as chief of the Seneca Nation, but when his people were deserted by their British allies he took part in Indian treaties with the American government. For his help during the ensuing Indian war he was given land in several locations. In 1789 the recommendation was made that Chief Cornplanter be given a grant of 1500 acres of land in western Pennsylvania...
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Price: $ 155 USD
#0651
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[GRAYSON, William J. (1788-1863)]
1855. Charelston, John Russell. Harper and Calvo, Printers. 32 Chalmers-street.
Scarce, 2nd edition (1855)
Has the armorial coat of arms bookplate of John Julius Pringle.
An early tract of imitation Dryden/Pope era poetry extolling the virtues of slavery and the evils of abolitionist beliefs relating to the socio-economic practices of the period in the American South. A defense of southern slavery in the form of a story in verse.
(The institution of slavery, the author observes, has made the slave himself "from a savage, an orderly and efficient laborer. It supports him in comfort and peace. It restrains his vices. It improves his mind, morals and manners. It instructs him in Christian knowledge ")
This is an important work in the history of South Carolina
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LANGTON, Anne [1804-1893] & PHILLIPS, Ellen Josephine (edited by)
1904. Edinburg, UK., R. & R. Clark, Ltd.
(5.5" x 8.25"), xii, 372pp. With Portrait and Sketches. Printed for Private Circulation Only. Frontispiece portrait and 14 additional plates, folding map at rear.
Within days of her [Anne's] arrival [1833 Upper Canada] she had also embarked on a self-imposed, spare-time project that took years to complete: sketching her surroundings so that William's family and other relatives would have "some sort of a notion what this world of ours is like." She kept journals for the same reason.....
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Price: $ 375 USD
#1432
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HAMILTON, Lady Emma [1765-1815]
1815. London, Henry Colburn
NICE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY FULL POLISHED CALF
Attractive engraved bookplate of James Campbell on inside front cover fly leaf.
Emma, Lady Hamilton, the lover of Admiral Nelson. Nelson had become a national hero on the moment of his death in the decisive naval battle against the French off Cape Trafalgar in 1805. A decade later Emma, chased by creditors, was ending her days in exile and penury in Calais. But there remained a public fascination for her extraordinary life story....
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Price: $ 750 USD
#0588
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HARDY, Captain Cambell (1831-1919)
London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion
Pictorial color frontispiece trout . Illustrated with engravings. Canada; Nova Scotia. Acaida and Newfoundland All black and white page Illustrations called for are present. Sketches of sport and natural history in the lower provinces of the Canadian Dominion including hunting of deer, caribou and moose. Set in the Maritime Provinces and with notes on Newfoundland....
Price: $ 195 USD #1393
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BIGSBY, John Jeremiah (1792-1881)
1850. London,
Chapman and Hall
The author was a British army surgeon and geologist who came to Lower Canada in 1818. In 1819 he went on a geological expedition, touring the Canadas to investigate the resources of the various areas. Bigsby was appointed medical officer and secretary to the British Boundary commission which, at that time, was involved in determining the boundaries in the Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie areas, the surveying of the northern areas of Lake Huron, and the surveying also of the large wild area of Fort William and the Lake of the Woods. This account of his experiences of these ventures, which took place between 1819 and 1822.....
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Price: $ 750 USD
#0079
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SHEA, John Dawson Gilmary [1824 - 1892] & CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francois-Xavier De [1682 - 1761]
1866. New York, John Gilmary Shea
7-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches (18cm x 27.5cm) - 6 volumes. Limited to 250 copies in Octavo (iv) 286, (iv) 284, (v) 312, (vii) 308, (ix) 311, (ix) 256pp. Three-quarter crimson leather over marbled boards, 5 raised bands, gilt spine fleurs-de-lys device, gilt spine rules. Translated with notes by John Gilmary Shea. 18 maps, 15 plates, 4 facsimiles - tissue guarded. Howes C 307. Almost as scarce as the original French edition of 1744...
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Price: $ 1,200 USD
#0879
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CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francois-Xavier De [1682 - 1761]
1763. London, R. Goadby, and Sold by R. Baldwin in Pater Noster-Rowinches,
INTERESTING PROVENANCE WITH SOME CONTEMPORAY TEXT NOTATIONS
8vo, 7-3/4 X 4-3/4 inches, xiv] (2), 384 pages; contemporary calf covers. Rebacked with new leather spine and red leather label with gilt type. Complete with Errata leaf, which follows Table of Contents. Does not contain the map, of which most historians agree "map generally missing and probably not inserted in all copies".
Overall condition is near fine.....
Price: $ 1450 USD
#0847
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HADDEN, Lieut. James Murray (d1817)
& ROGERS, Horatio
1884. Albany, New York, Joel Munsell's Sons, 82 State Street
First edition book about the Revolutionary War era.
Contents: Preface, Calendar for 1776, Calendar for 1777, Authorities, An Explanatory Chapter by the Editor, Hadden's Journal, Hadden's Orderly Books, Appendix, Index
Excerpt - An Explanatory Chapter by the Editor: On the 10th of August, 1864, the editor purchased of Mr. J.W. Bouton, the well known book seller of New York, two morocco book formed cases, which had just been received by him from Mr. Henry Stevens, of London. The were nearly eight inches high, about five inches wide, and contained eight pocket memorandum books, two of which were a manuscript journal kept by Lieut. James M. Hadden...
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Price: $ 325 USD
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LAMBERT, John [1775-c1816] & COOPER, (engraver)
1810 London, Cradock
Original hand-colouring. Small but attractive map shows the area from Quebec Ile d'Orleans to the Plains of Abraham. Fortifications, encampments, Fleets, and villages are shown and named. The map may be based on the map prepared by Holland, Debbieg, and Des Barres circa 1780's....
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Price: $ 245 USD #1573
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The Connecticut Courant newspaper
1792 Hartford, Connecticut
10 x 16.75" inches, 4pp.
AN EARLY AND IMPORTANT DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY
The main article concerns hearings in London England in the House of Commons regarding slavery and the horrors of the Middle Passage with William Wilberforce again leading the charge....
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Price: $ 750 USD #2862
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ANON
1943 [Toronto], Massey Hall
6" x 9", 12pp. with a 4pp self cover and 8pp inside, stapled.Includes a second sheet promoting the Mendelssohn Choir performance on Tuesday Dec. 28th, 1943.
Only copy found at the Victoria University in University of Toronto in the Pratt Family records....
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Price: $ 150 USD #1883
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REMINGTON, Frederic Sackrider [1861-1909]
& E.M. Ashe, illustrated by
1897 Harper's Weekly
Very early 1897 Ice hockey scene. Black & white engraving. Newspaper page size is 10.5 x 15.5 inches and the actual hockey image is 8.5" x 6". The illustration drawn by E.M. Ashe titled "Hockey at the St. Nicholas Rink, New York City" from Harper's Weekly -- January 30, 1897 Page 117...
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DELAUNAY, Robert [1749 - 1814] & WEST, Benjamin [1738-1820] (after) & WOLFE, General James [1727-1759] (subject
[1790]. London, Tessari et Cie.
Medium: ORIGINAL ENGRAVING
Robert De Launay (French, 1754-1814) after Benjamin West La Mort du Général Wolf à Québec, late 18th century engraving on laid paper 40.3 x 45.9 cm
Print beautifully framed ( (UV resistant glass) and incorporate the famous poem he is rumored to have quoted crossing the river and taking Quebec - from Gray's Elegy ."The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
"Now, gentlemen," said he, when he had finished, "I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec."
This was the poem Wolfe was said to have rather written than take Quebec...
Price: $ 1,200 USD #1188
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FRANKLIN, Sir John [1786-1847]
1823. London, John Murray
Size: Paper; 10 x 8 inches and Image: 8 x 5-1/4 inches.
Old tape marks on bottom left and right corners but not effecting text or image, otherwise, very good condition.
The three in this set include:
1. The Falls of Wilberforce
2. Winter Travelling on Great Slave Lake
3. Expedition landing in a Storm...
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Price: $ 195 USD #2406
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JOHNSON, Sir William, 1st Baronet [c1715-1774] & OWEN, William publisher
1756. London, W. Owen, Temple Bar
18.5cm x 12cm paper size, foxing, copperplate engraving, uncoloured from the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences " Divided into its Hundreds, Containing all the Burroughs & Market Towns".
Contemporary engraving... made when Johnston was about 45 years of age. (Tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy By Michael Johnson, Jonathan Smith p11)....
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Price: $ 175 USD #2594
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BARROW, Sir John [1764-1848]
1835 . Letter (duplicate) dated December 21, 1835 signed by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) to a British Rear Admiral (in Rio de Janeiro) about a midshipman had drowned. Written while Barrow was secretary of the admiralty. He was founder of the Royal Geographic Society, was a great promoter of Arctic exploration and wrote much on his own explorations and travels. Point Barrow, Alaska, the Barrow Straits, etc. are named in his honor. Very good condition....
Price: $ 195 USD #2801
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BEAVERBROOK, William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron [1879-1964]
1923. An early Lord Beaverbrook small (5 x 6.5 inches) letterhead note paper with Lord Beaverbrook signature. He was granted a peerage in 1917 as the 1st Baron Beaverbrook, the name "Beaverbrook" being adopted from a small community near his boyhood home. The note is dated 17, July, 1923...
Price: $ 95 USD #3142
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DUFFERIN, Lord, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava [1826 - 1902]
1900 . Dufferin was a Governor General of Canada. ALS on black-bordered mourning stationery. 2 ½ pages, 4 7/8" x 7 7/8" Clandeboye. Ireland. April 13, 1900. Accompanied by original black-bordered envelope. As one might infer from this letter's dateline, Lord Dufferin's son was killed during the Second Boer War. This loss took a heavy toll on Dufferin, who withdrew from public life soon thereafter and died 2 years later....
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PEARY, Robert Edwin [1856-1920]
[1894] [1909]
1) Albumen photograph of Peary's ship "The Falcon"
2) Albumen photograph of Captain Henry Bartlett,
3) Unknown person (child?) at the helm of the ship. Mounted albumen photo on card. .
4) Dr. J. W. GOODSELL, surgeon. Mounted albumen photo on card.
5) Charles PERCY, steward. Mounted albumen photo on card. 6-1/2 x 4 inches
We have found 4 of these 5 specific albumen photos (1,2,4 &5) were used as photos printed in two books written and published by Frederick A. Stokes Company who most likely had these and used them to produce the final printed books...
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