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2 COLLECTIONS
2 MANUSCRIPT DIARIES
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BOOKS
2 MAPS
3 EPHEMERA
3 PRINTS
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HELLER, Joseph (1923-1999)
A signed typed photocopy manuscript of "Something Happened" and other ephemera including signed letters.
8-1/2 x 11 inches. Photocopy of a typescript of the novel "Something Happened" dated 1974 (numbered 812pp). Signed on title page and dated by Heller, 4/21/76, New York City and appears to have belonged to Heller himself. Signed ts., 1 p. from Something Happened entitled "I Get the Willies".
The book, "Something Happened", had mixed reviews (even to this day) with this positive side of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's quote on October 6, 1974 The New York Times book Review..."Is this book any good? Yes...
2 TLS to Don Carpenter (American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling), 6 September 1962 and 19 January 1963, re views and reviews of Catch-22 and the merits of San Francisco versus New York...
Price: $3,000 USD #7392
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ADE, George (1866-1944)
Hand-Made Fables inscribed book and 11 signed Ade letters
A very nice and unique collection of the famous George Ade (1866-1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright consisting of an Ade inscribed 1920 book, Hand-Made Fables plus 11 signed letters all housed in a custom dark brown linen box.
11 Ade Signed letters:
1) TLS to Harry Strobe, 17 November 1904, enclosing a letter (not present) for Miss Taylor to give to Mr. Savage or Mr. Marion at the New York office
2) TLS to scenario writer Emily Brown Heininger, 7 August 1920, with envelope, thanking Heininger for her verses and stating that he has taken a vow to write no more fables for the magazines...
Price: $1,800 USD #7384
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COCHRANE, A.F (Midshipman )
6 volumes consisting of logbooks and diaries with many illustrations and b&w photos. 1905-1912.
Midshipman Cochrane's logbooks, with concise daily entries in exquisite handwriting, depict routine naval duties and ship activities, including cleaning, navigating, firing, landing and sailing. Detailed descriptions of shore leave activities are also included; we learn about the writer's adventures hunting, fishing, driving automobiles, reading (especially Kipling) and golfing.
Although Cochrane paints a detailed picture of daily life on a British ship in early 20th century, it is the illustrations that make these volumes unique. For the first two volumes, Cochrane drew many maps, diagrams and drawings showing the ships and voyages in great detail. Highlights include vol. l's drawing of Esquimalt Harbour and fold-out maps of Suez Canal and the ship's route....
Vol. 1 - Log of the H.M.S. Ships Flora, Grafton, Barfleur, Vengeance and Glory, 15th February 1904 to 28 August 1905.
Vol. 2 - Log of the H.M.S. Glory and Africa, 1st October 1905 to 15th March 1907.
Vol. 3 - Log of the H.M.S. Forward and Achilles, 8th August 1908 to 20th December 1909.
Vol. 4 - Log of the H.M.S. Achilles, 21 December 1909 to 19 December 1910.
Vol. 5 - Log of the H.M.S. Achilles and Myrmidon, 20 December 1910 to 30 July 1911.
Vol. 6 - Log of the H.M.S. Liverpool, 31 July 1911 to 30 July 1912.
Price: $22,000 USD #7388
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CONWAY, George M.
1904. George M. Conway. Travel diary of a trip on a ship from Cardiff, England to Naples, to Almeira (Andulsia, Spain), and then return to Newport, and finally home by train to Bristol. 26 June-23 July 1904.
Bound in black cloth, all edges red. Written in mostly in ink. The author often makes pencil notes in the margin for a day's entry, writes the entry in ink on that page, and then on the next page, re-writes the entry with a few changes or additions. viii, 174, [17] pp. 232 × 180 mm.
George M. Conway was 26 years of age when he took this trip. Included in the journal are copies of the ship's log for several days, 3 hand-drawn maps, clippings, and a plan of a temple (Jerusalem area, and nothing to do this trip). Approximately 100 pages are original content relating to the voyage....
Price: $ 1,000 USD #7389
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LEACOCK, Stephen [Butler] [1869 - 1944]
1912.
Published in New York, by John Lane
A TRUE RARITY - 1ST AMERICAN ISSUE WITH DUST JACKET OF SUNSHINE SKETCHES
Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. New York: John Lane, 1912. First American issue, first printing, in jacket. The jacket, featuring an illustration of Jos. Smith by Hovsh on the front panel, is in good condition...
Although WorldCat records approximately 26 copies of the first American issue of Sunshine Sketches, the book in jacket is a true rarity on the market. Carl Spadoni, the author A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock, includes a black-and-white copy of the jacket, which he obtained from Robert Dagg Rare Books catalogue 24 (October 1996), the only other known copy of the first American issue in jacket. Spadoni did not examine the Dagg copy because it was sold privately. No other copy in jacket has come on the market until now.
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Price: $ 20,000 USD
#7394
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1710 Dublin, Printed by Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy Pepyat, bookseller in Skinner-Row
FIRST EDITION OF TREATISE, A VERY SCARCE PHILOSOPHY BOOK
First Edition. 5 x 8 inches. iii, (3), 214pp. Bound in dark brown contemporary full leather with blind embossed design on front and back boards. Original endpapers and preliminary leaves have been repaired. Some worm holes various sizes (2mm wide by 4mm to 20mm long) with one up to three letters in a word per page affected from pages 43 to 143, minor foxing and staining. Overall thus, in good condition. Stored in a deluxe clamshell box with brown cloth, quarter dark brown leather, gilt tooling, rounded spine with raised bands.
George Berkeley was one of the three most famous British Empiricists. (The other two are John Locke and David Hume...
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Price: $ 15,000 USD
#7386
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EVELYN, John (1620-1706)
1664. London, Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their shop at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
First edition. (folio, 295 ×185 mm). Bound in contemporary full calf with some spine leather starting but holding firm and spotting on back cover with some leather on front cover long ago peeled . Original end papers at front with old book plate removed. Back board end paper lacking. Previous owners name neatly written on first blank page. Otherwise, in very good condition. Stored in a buckram box, marbled end papers, with an ornamental, leafy leather spine label on the box.
Evelyn was first presented in 1662 as a paper to the Royal Society. It was published as a book two years later in 1664, and is recognised as one of the most influential texts on forestry ever published...
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EREMITA, Victor (editied by - pseudonym) & KIERKEGAARD, Søren Abbye [1813-1855] (author)
1843. Copenhagen, University bookshop C.A. Reitzel.
Text in Danish. 2 vols. 4-1/2 x 7-5/8 inches each. XX, [2], 470; [8], 368 pp. Første Deel indeholdende A.'s Papirer. Anden Deel, indeholdende B.'s Papirer, Breve til A. (2 Bd.). Forord dated 3 November 1842. First edition, ownership inscription (Theodor Sommerfeldt) on titles, half-title in vol. 2 only, tears to half-title and title in vol. 2 (neatly repaired), light dampstaining to upper margins top centre. Bound in quarter calf (with raised bands and gilt tooling light fading to spines) and marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Overall, in good condition...
As a thinker, Kierkegaard had to wait for the twentieth century to find his audience; he is now generally considered to be, however eccentric, one of the most important Christian philosophers." (Printing and the Mind of Man, # 314.)
Price: $ 4,000 USD
#7393
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VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet 1694-1778)
1738. A Amsterdam, Chez Jacques Desbordes.
VG COPY OF AN IMPORTANT SCIENCE BOOK INTRODUCING NEWTON PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE
First Edition. 4-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. [2], [3]-399, [1] pp., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded). Original brown leather, re-backed preserving most of original spine with elaborate gilt decorations, brief title in gilt, 5 bands. Marbled endpaper and edges. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrations: engraved allegorical frontispiece with portrait of Newton, by J. Folkema after L.F. Dubourg; engraved portrait of Voltaire, by Folkema; 7 engraved diagrams on 7 leaves of plates (one folded) and 60 small engraved diagrams in the text, all unsigned. Engraved device of Jacques Desbordes (on title page), by C. Duflos after L.F. Dubourg (signed L.F. Du B.);...
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Price: $ 3,500 USD
#7395
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ATWOOD, Margaret [1939 - ]
1961. Toronto, Hawkshead Press.
First Edition. 5 x 6-3/4 inches. [16] pp. in white illustrated card covers, wire-stitched. A fine copy. However, the third leaf is not original and is a cream-coloured facsimile. Signed by Atwood on the title page.
Author's first book. A collection of seven poems published when Atwood was only 19 years old. Atwood handset the book herself with a flat bed press, designed the cover with linoblocks. It was the first publication ever released by Atwood, and comprises seven poems.
According to Atwood, the edition was comprised of 220 copies. Issued by John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press as Book One, Market Book Series. One of the great rarities of contemporary Canadian Literature...
Price: $ 1,000 USD #7385
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JOMINI, Antoine Henri, baron de (1779-1869)
1807 Paris, Giguet et Michaud
4to, 8" x 10.5", (19 of 20 plates, virtually all folding) With large engraved 'Carte Generale Pour l'Intelligence de la Guerre de Sept-Ans' and related Battle Plans for Lowositz, Prague, Kollin, Roisbach, Breslau, lagemdorf, Leuthen, Zomdorf, Hohenkirch, Cunersdorf, Minden, Zullichau, Maxen, Landshut, Lignitz, Torgau, Reichenbach, Freyberg (lacking Plate XIII --Battle of Krefeld). Comtempoary worn leather spine and leather label with gilt type and 5 gilt stars and double rules.
A Paris, Chez Giguet et Michaud, Imprimeurs-Libraires, Rue des Bons-Enfants, No. 34; Magimel, Libraire, Rue de Thionville, No. 9. M DCCC VII. (1807)...
Price: $ 1,250 USD #4331
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JAMESON, Mrs. Anna Brownell, (née Murphy) [1794-1860]
1826 London, Henry Colburn.
VERY GOOD SCARCE COPY OF ANNA JAMESON'S FIRST BOOK RE-TITLED
Author's first book. A fictitious account of her travels in Italy. This book gained her a certain notoriety when it was revealed to be fictitious rather than strictly autobiographical.
"(Her husband, Robert ) Jameson encouraged his wife in writing and in the publishing of her first travel book. Published anonymously in 1826 by R. Thomas under the title "A Lady's Diary" and then again in 1826 by Colburn as "Diary of an Ennuyée".
4 3/4" x 7 1/2", x, [1], [3]-354pp + errata. Brown quarter leather original binding (corners & spine). Marbled cloth on front and rear boards. The spine has been expertly repaired....
Price: $ 995 USD #1280
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LAMBERT, John [1775-c1816]
1810 London, Cradock
Quebec and its environs with the operation of the seat drawn from the survey made by order of Admiral Saunders. Drawn by I. Lambert. Cooper, sculpt. Published, Febr 1st 1810 by Rd. Phillips, London.
Image: 4-3/8 x 6-1/2 inches
Paper: 5 x 8-1/4 inches
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...
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Price: $ 245 USD #1537
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BELDEN, H. Co.
1878, Toronto, H. Belden Co.
17-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches. [i-x], [1]-121pp. Atlas, rebound with new leather binding of spine and corner tips, plus black leather spine with gilt type, saving original front and back boards, with gold tooled embossed front cover. Engraved title page includes a coat of arms with a lion and a unicorn. Some covers scuffing and minor soil or thumb marks internally otherwise, overall very good condition of this important local atlas.....
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Price: $ 950 USD #6657
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MACDONALD, Sir John A[lexander]. [1815-1891]
Authentic original May 6 1856 cover and legal contents with signed initials of [Sir] John A MacDonald and address in hand. Both sides of cover and initials with document contents inclosed. Stampless government official free rate, signed with JAMD AG initials in LL corner. (AG =Attorney General of Canada West) Addressed to: J Linton Esq , Clerk of the Peace, Stratford , CW. Postmarked: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY CANADA MAY 6 1856 (located at Toronto).
CONTENTS: (Original printed document by the Queen's Printer) 'Resolutions to be moved in the Committee of the Whole by the Hon. Mr. Attorney General Macdonald on Wednesday the 7th of May 1856' (Judiciary system of Canada West legislation)...
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Price: $ 3,500 USD #3574
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STOWE, Dr. Emily Howard (nee Jennings) [1831-1903]
Rare document, signed 6 1/2" x 8", death certificate by Dr Emily Stowe from June 19, 1887. This is a physician's death certificate for the wife of james Aikenhead of the well known Hardware store chain. There is also few mourning letters relating to Mrs. Aikenhead as an added bonus.
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe (1831 -1903) was born in Norwich Township, Oxford County, Ontario. She is very significant both for medical history as she was Canada's first female medical practitioner, and of course she is one of Canada's most significant suffragist and women's rights movement leader. One of the most important females in Canadian history....
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Price: $ 1,750 USD #4189
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VARIOUS authors
47 small pieces of legal signed document for road maintenance and repairs from 1853- 1856 in Mono Township.
These 47 documents vary in size and condition with an average size of 7" x 3 " and average condition good however a number of old water stains to sides. Virtually all are docketed with a number and or description and many are signed by the person receiving payment.
A fascinating collection of pre-confederation documents relating to the building and improved roads infrastructure in Upper Canada, specifically Mono Townships which is just north of Orangeville....
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Price: $ 1,500 USD #4351
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BROCK, Sir General Isaac [1769-1812]
[1896], . [Toronto] [William Briggs Toronto Litho Co.].
Paper size: 10 x 7 inches
Image size: oval shape; 5-1/2 x 4 inches
Under the oval image is printed (copyright 1896 by L.M. Taylor)
Printed Brock signature. In small type at the bottom is printed By Permission from a minature hereto unpublished.
Print had two small holes at the top as this page was one of the pages from a calendar bound by string through the holes.
Overall in very good condition...
Price: $ 65 USD #6743
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STANLEY, Sir Frederick Arthur, 1st Baron Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby (Lord Stanley of Preston) [1841-1908] subject
1879, London, Vanity Fair, Vincent Brooks Day & Son Litho.
Vanity Fair, May 24, 1879. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm.
Stanley, Frederick Arthur - Politician - with Caption ' War ' - An Original Vanity Fair ''Spy'' Print. Very good condition....
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Price: $ 75 USD #1661
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BOUCHETTE, Joseph [1774 -1841] (author)
1815. Published by W. Faden, Charing Cross
Plan Town of William Henry printed Aug. 12, 1815, London. Map was folded now flat.
Paper size: 9-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches
Image size: 8-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches
Engraving has a faint offsetting from another page along lower 2 inches, otherwise in very good condition. An attractive and historic early view of Plan Town of William Henry [Sorel-Tracy now].
Sorel is the fourth oldest city in the province of Quebec. Its formation began in 1642 when Charles Huault de Montmagny, first Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of New France, built Fort Richelieu here as a defense for settlers and river travellers against the Iroquois...
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Price: $ 125 USD #5611
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