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GAY, John (1685-1732)
1733. Fables: Volume 1, Fourth edition. 7-3/4 x 4-7/8 inches. (14),[1]-194pp. Rebacked with newer leather spine, red leather label with gilt type preserving original boards with worn corners and original endpapers. Internally agetoned paper with periodic spotting, otherwise overall condition is very good. Illustrations with engraved title vignette, 50 text copper engravings after designs by William Kent and John Wootton, and 50 engraved tailpieces. Dedication page from John Gay to William Duke of Cumberland. ....
Price: $145 USD #1024
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MILTON, John [1608 - 1674] & NEWTON, Thomas [1704 - 1782]
1770 & 1765. 4 volumes total with HOLOGRAPH NOTE BY NEWTON. Paradise Lost A Poem in Twelve Books (1770 complete In two volumes) lxxxvi, [27 critique] [3, 1 plate], 3-510, [1 blank]; [8, ]5-463, [184 index, 1 blank] and Paradise Regain'd: A Poem In Four Books Thomas Newton ( 1704-1782), bishop of Bristol, fellow of Trinity College, chaplain to George II, dean of St. Paul's,wrote works on the prophecies, sermons,an autobiography, but mostly remembered for editing Milton's works. ....
Price: $995 USD #0936
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BIBB, Henry [Walton] [1815-1854] & MATLACK, Lucius C. (intro)
[1850]. Bibb's narrative is one of the best slave narrative and is also one of the scarcer ones. In January 1851, Bibb joined with Josiah Henson to form the Refugees' Home Colony in Canada for escaped slaves. He also established Canada's first African American newspaper, the Voice of the Fugitive. Its first edition was issued January 1, 1851. It promoted the anti-slavery cause, temperance, and self-reliance through education, while denouncing the prejudices against people of African ancestry.....
Price: $4,750 USD #6728
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VERNE, Jules (Gabriel) [1828 - 1905] (featuring)
1876. FIRST CANADIAN EDITION (FRENCH) OF 2 JULES VERNE CLASSICS. This entire volume has the complete serialization of two Jules Verne novels. Issues # 1-25 have the Jules Verne classic : "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea." in the French language and HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED. Very good Condition. The issues # 27-52 have the complete serialization of the Jules Verne novel: "Adventures of Captain Hatteras - the English at the North Pole", also heavily illustrated in every issue. . ....
Price: $875 USD #1610
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HARMON, Daniel Williams (1778-1842)
1820. Original leather boards, rebacked with period style leather spine, 5 gilt ruled, gilt lettering on older red leather label. Some boards wear on corner. Previous owner's contemporary signature "James Wilson Baker, La Chine, July 6, 1824" on front free endpaper.
"His (Harmon) fame rests solely but solidly on his Journal, which is not only a fine descriptive narrative of life in the trade during the early years of the 19th century, but also a moving account of moral dilemmas confronted and resolved." ...
Price: $1,750 USD #0920
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OSBORN, Lieut. Sherard (1822-1875)
1852. Four chromolithograph plates entitled "Cape Hotham", "Breaking through the ice", "Resolute winter quarters" and "Sledge travelling", all drawn by Lieutenant Osborn and lithographed by M & N Hanhart, and 7 engraved illustrations in text. Engraved folding map. An account of Osborn's search for Franklin in Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound, and wintering experiences at Griffith Island. Informative notes on west Greenland Eskimos, ice conditions, hunting adventures, and sledge journeys....
Price: $ 1,250 USD #1206
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1837. SCARCE EARLY ALL FEMALE POETRY BOOK "The idea of the present volume is, we believe, entirely new. Among all the poetical compilations which have been made, not one, to our knowledge, has consisted of the productions of female authors exclusively..... It contains productions of forty different writers - in all nearly one hundred pieces. The last piece is inserted, rather from the fact that it was written by Queen Elizabeth, than from any intrinsic merit. The rest are, in the judgment of the compiler, all good specimens of poetical talent ; some of them of surpassing excellence. D.F. Jr" Boston 1836...
Price: $ 175 USD #0091
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MALLET, A(llain). M(anesson). [1630 - 1706]
[1683]. Black and White original copper plate engraving. Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially in Labrador.
"This birds-eye-view of Newfoundland was published by Mallet in 1683...This map appeared in his octavo atlas Description de l'Universe...It is partly based on Sanson but the shape of the Avalon Peninsula shows the influence of contemporary Dutch sea-charts." ...
Price: $155 USD #4743
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BOUCHETTE, Joseph [1774 -1841] (author)
& FADEN, William [1750-1836] (publisher)
& WALKER, John (engraver)
1815. York is shown as it was around 1797. The York Garrison is shown for the first time in any map. The H.M.Schooner Anadaga 14 Guns wrecked but raised by Lieut. Joseph Bouchette and brought to b. where she again grounded but was afterwards brought to c. The dotted lines d.e.f.g. shew the breaking of the Ice in the Spring. Bouchette was promoted on May 12, 1794 to a second Lieutenant at the age of 20 as a result of his daring....
Price: $245 USD #5605
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FERRARIO, Giulio [1767-1847]
1827. A beautifully hand colored aquatint with additional hand-colouring. The Nuu-chaf-nulth (Nootka) People have occupied the Nootka Sound for over 4,000 years and their name means the People of all along the Mountains or for short the West Coast People. The largest tribe of the Nootka are the Tla-o-qui-aht (Calayoquot) who claim to be originally from Kennedy Lake, east of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, New Spain...
Price: $175 USD #1503
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LAHONTAN, [Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce], [La Hontan] Baron de [1666 - 1715]
[1703]. -3/8 x 4-1/2 inches.
2 Rackets Orignalds or elks
Copper engraving of Indians of North America Elk hunting
Published in: New Voyages to North America, LaHontan 1703. Vol. 1. P. 55...
Price: $125 USD #6695
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CICOGNARA, Count (Francis) Leopoldo [1767-1834] & ZANETTI, Alessandro
1830. Letters from Leopoldo Cicognara do not often come to market and this 1830 letter to his friend Zanetti will present more insight into Cicognara.
Leopoldo Cicognara was born to a noble family in Ferrara, Italy. He was an Italian poet and an amateur artist, a patron of the arts, and one of the founding fathers of the discipline of Art History. He held various political and diplomatic posts and was also president of the Fine Arts Academy of Venice from 1808 to 1827...
Price: $625 USD #4784
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[1880]. Autograph Document Signed ("Ph: Schuyler"), one page, 6¾ x 7¾ inches, Albany, July 8, 1793. Acknowledging receipt from John C. Schuyler of "six hundred and seventy six pounds three shillings and one penny half penny, by his bond and mortgage of this date"...
Price: $325 USD #5043
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SOMERSET, Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry, 1st Baron Raglan [1788-1855]
1829. Clearly a covering letter accompanying now lost court martial papers 'for the trial of Captain Robison of The Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies', asking for consideration and including 'two Dispatches and their enclosure relative to that Officer and Lieutenant Screeny from Lieutenant General Darling.'...
Price: $500 USD #6668
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HALIBURTON, Judge Thomas Chandler [SLICK, Sam Samuel] [1796 - 1865]
1846. ASL instructing members of the legislature to attend the next session. Haliburton was the first Canadian author to acquire an international reputation, and the first colonial writer to be awarded an honorary degree by Oxford (1858). ....
Price: $425 USD #1847
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[1888]. Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893). Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there. During the American Civil War, he served the Union as a brigadier general in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland...
Price: $ 145 USD #4480
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1913. Written from a Grosvenor Square, London address in March 1913, it refers to an up-coming reception for the Duke of Connaught. The handwritten letter looks to be written by another hand but the salutation and signature are that of Strathcona. Signed at 95 years old, one year before he died. ...
Price: $375 USD #4309
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