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FEBRUARY 2016 - 20 items offered...
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2 COLLECTIONS
1 MANUSCRIPT DIARY
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BOOKS
2 MAPS
3 EPHEMERA
3 PRINTS
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Price: $ 300 USD #7410
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HELL, General Ernst-Eberhard (1887-1973)
Price: $2,900 USD #7402
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SAMUEL, Sir Stuart (1856-1926)
8-3/4" x 6-3/4", 58pp. single sided with many more blank pages.
An important North American travel diary - Sir Stuart and Herbert Samuel manuscript travel diary written by Sir Stuart Samuel, brother of Herbert Samuel, recording a visit they both made to America in 1888, written in a neat legible hand
Stuart's and Herbert's journey starts off traveling to Queenston, Liverpool to take the "SS Etruria" to America. On the way in a coach they meet a couple and the Gentleman asks them to 'take charge' of his wife who was suffering from depression, and escort her back to America as he cannot return. Surprisingly they are and she goes with them. They arrived in New York in record time. Arriving in New York where Sir Stuart describes the Statue of Liberty which had only been erected a few years before...
Price: $ 1,900 USD #4287
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LORD, John Keast (1818-1872)
1866.
London, Richard Bentley
First Edition. 2 volumes. 20cm x 13 cm, (7-3/4 x 5-1/4 inches), iv, [2], 358; vii, [3], 375 pp. Illustrated with woodcut plates. Half red calf and boards, gilt-decorated spines, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, top edges gilt.
Complete with 11 engraved plates and vignettes to both title pages and errata sheet in each volume. Plates show a camp on the boundary line, Indian burial ground, various fishes, a group of Spokan Indians, the Kettle Falls, etc. The valuable collections he made of mammals, birds, fishes, insects, and other specimens are now in the Natural History Museum, London....
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Price: $ 375 USD
#4354
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REEVES, John [1752-1829]
1793.
London, J. Sewell, Cornhill; J. Debrett, Piccadilly; and J. Downes
Signed and inscribed by the author, "For Mr. Wright with The Author's Compliments" A quite rare and highly collectable first edition thus.
[8],167,[5], cxvi p; 8vo. Leather binding. 167 pages, plus 116-page appendix. 22.5cm x 14cm x 2cm (8.75" x 5.5" x 0.75").
In April 1793 Reeves completed his famous History of the government of the island of Newfoundland, the first comprehensive account of the island's past. In keeping with his own experience, he focused on "the struggles and vicissitudes of two contending interests. - The planters and inhabitants on the one hand, who, being settled there, needed the protection of a government and police...
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Price: $ 3,200 USD
#2423
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1761 Cologne, Jean Frédéric Motiens
Scarce biography of the first Bishop of Quebec
Contains much useful information about the late 17th century history of the region. Although the terminal leaf indicates this to be the end of the first volume, only one was published. First Edition of this scarce book, the earliest biography of François Xavier de Laval de Montigny [1623-1708], first bishop of Quebec (1674-88) and one of the most powerful and influential figures in seventeenth century New France....
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Price: $ 2,500 USD
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[DUROCHER, Flavien (1800-1876)]
1847. Ka Iakonigants, Nte Opishtikoiats [Quebec] Nte Etat William Neilson.
VERY SCARCE. A monument has been erected in his honour in the city of Quebec.
First edition. 4 x 7 inches. (3) [3]-67pp., [2] p. : ill., music. 2 plates, full page at frontis and smaller 1/3 page on last page, #67. Quebec Native American hymnal music/chant/song book. Overall good condition now with repairs.
Author was a Canadian born missionary and parish priest who worked extensively with the indigenous people of Quebec, Canada. The present treatise contains chant masses in the Montagnais dialect of the North American Indians which was was disseminated amongst the inhabitants of various missions including those at Saguenay and Tadoussac...
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[HOWE, Julia Ward [1819 - 1910]]
1854. Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
3rd UK edition. 4-1/4 x 7-1/8 inches. iv,[1]-186pp.(4) (8) ads. Cover and binding edges have some wear and fading Small bookplate with name (John Wells) on inside front cover.
Book is in good condition.
Published Anonymously, but the author is Julia Ward Howe. Julia Ward Howe is today best known as the writer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. She was married to Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind, who was also active in abolitionism and other reforms. Julia Ward Howe published poetry, plays and travel books, as well as many articles...
Price: $ 55 USD
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One Who Knows [ Riel ]
1886. Thompson & Moreau.
First edition. 12mo. 20.5cm, 200pp. In original light green printed wraps . Illustrated with frontispiece and three full-page plates with some chipping on spine affecting text plus small hole on front wrap.
The Truth About Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion Written only months after Louis Riel's execution in November 1885.
"This book was first published in New York in 1886. It is a rather subjective analysis of the troubles of 1870 and 1885 accompanied by a series of newspaper articles carefully chosen to support its bitter and malevolent point of view....
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Price: $ 75 USD
#0639
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W.H.B. & Co. (publisher)
[1885]. London, ON?, W.H.B. & Co. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
5.5" X 4.75"
WHB & Co was a 19th century publisher. Most of their publications involving education, city views, travel books, exploration guides. There was even another version of the Toronto book with only 24 views instead of 30. Circa 1885. Uncommon.
SIGNED AT BACK IN PURPLE INK 'Wm Frost 1886-1887'.
Overall very good condition....
Price: $ 80 USD #4625
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BEVAN, Alan & WELLS, Kenneth & CRAIG, Kenneth
1961, Toronto, Evidence Publications
5.5" x 8", Soft Cover overall in good condition.
Art, literature, jazz and current events of the beatniks of Toronto. A periodical connected with and modern for its time. Scarce set of the first 3 editions.
EVIDENCE Magazine was born out of the conviction that there is agood deal of serious writing being done for which there is no adequate outlet in Canada . It is designed to provide this outlet. The Editors sincerely hope the magazine will gain the support of serious, energetic,aggressive writers, and an audience appreciative of these qualities, and with an abhorence of ugliness in whatever form it becomes manifest....
Price: $ 95 USD #3635
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STOBO, Robert (1727-1770) & CRAIG, Neville B. (1787-1863)
1854, Pittsburgh, John S. Davidson.
First US edition. 3-1/2 x 5-3/4 inches. 1 p.l., [v]-vi, [ix]-xii, [13]-92p. Pasted to the verso of the front fly-leaf is a fold-in map of Fort Duquesne, dated 1754 by the Major, who was imprisoned there.
Overall, very good condition. A nice copy.
Major Robert Stobo was an 18th-century Scottish-born colonial American frontiersman and soldier. Stobo was an officer in the Virginia militia who, during the French and Indian War, acted as a spy while a prisoner-of-war at Fort Duquesne. He was later convicted as a spy in Quebec and, while a prisoner there, he was able to gain invaluable knowledge of the local area which was later used by British forces during the capture of Quebec...
Price: $250 USD #1359
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LONDON MAGAZINE (publisher)
1759 London, London Magazine
Coloring: Uncolored, was folded now frames flat. Image: 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. Mat Size: 13-1/2 x 16 5/8"
Frame size: 19-1/2 x 22 inches
Condition: Very good condition
The first map of the Siege of Quebec. Gives detailed operations of the siege and shows key battle sites and encampments. An inset shows the Plan of the Action gained by the English near Quebec, Sep. 13, 1759. The various groups of war ships are shown in and around the harbor, including Admiral Holmes Division, Admiral Saunders Division and others...
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Price: $ 575 USD #0097
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KITCHIN, Thomas [1718-1784]
[1760], London Magazine, Feb. 1760
Paper size: 10 x 8-1/4 inches.
Image size: 8-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches excluding type outside printed border. Copper engraving.
Scarce map of the region of Tennessee, western North Carolina and northern Georgia. It is one of the earliest printed maps of western North Carolina. The map focuses on the Cherokee lands at the headwaters of the French Broad, Little Tennessee, and Savannah Rivers and was issued as a result of the Indian attacks of 1759-60...
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Price: $ 975 USD #6858
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JENKINS, Charles Francis (1867-1934)
[1923], Washington DC
Two original images transmitted in circa 1923 by "Radiovision" and his written and inscribed 1925 book, "Vision By Radio" Washington DC, C. Francis Jenkins (1867-1934)
TWO OF THE FIRST IMAGES CIRCA 1923 TRANSMITTED BY C. FRANCIS JENKINS OVER RADIO WAVES USING HIS MECHANICAL TELEVISION TECHNOLOGY.
Two of the actual photographs he transmitted c1923. As far as we know there is one original in the Library of Congress in the copyright collection and seven others with the same provenance as ours, now in a private television museum. We know of no others in public or private collections.
Includes JENKINS' INSCRIBED BOOK:
JENKINS, C.[harles] Francis. 1925. Vision By Radio. Radio Photographs. Radio Photograms. Washington, D.C.: Jenkins Laboratories, Inc...
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Price: $ 4,500 USD #3504
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TRUDEAU, Pierre Elliot [1919-2000]
8-1/2 x 11 inches, on Université de Montreal blue engraved logo letterhead with typed Public Law Research Institute.
Pierre Trudeau typed and signed, Pierre E. Trudeau, 1963 letter responding to an invitation from a July 26, 1963 letter (carbon copy of this letter included) to participate in a new concept called "Exchange for Political Ideas in Canada".
In his book Teeth of Time: Remembering Pierre Elliot Trudeau (PET) he states on page 31 - In May 1966 we both attended a curious conference at Glendon College in Toronto convened by EPIC. Des Sparham, its organizer, was an Englishman who had worked to create "New Party Clubs" Still some PET interest in EPIC three years later!
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Price: $ 1,750 USD #5620
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BUTLER, James Wandesford, 1st Marquess of Ormonde [1777-1838] & BUTLER, Somerset Richard, 3rd Earl of Carrick (1779-1838)
15 x 9-1/2 inches flat, folded to 7-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. Signed partially printed document. Two pages. Dated 29th February 1832. With Ormonde red wax seal and signature.
Appointing Somerset Richard the Earl of Carrick, to be a Deputy Lieutenant in the County of Kilkenny...
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Price: $ 1,250 USD #5017
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JOUVANCOURT, Hugues de [1918-1978] & HERIOT, George [1766-1844] (subject)
1973, . Montreal, Editions La Frégate
Showcase of 39 colour reproductions of watercolours, colour wash drawings and aquatints drawn by George Heriot during his stay in Canada in the early 1800's. Bilingual book (separate French and English pages.
Hugues de Jouvancourt [1918 - 1978] Canadian, Quebec Listed Artist.
Approx. 25.5cm x 33.5cm (10 x 13¼ inches) Near Fine. 16pp, 78pp (image on every other page) , 6pp,[4]blank, not numbered however, the book version had 110 printed numbered and initialed and 10 labeled HC. Printed on heavy Carlyle Japan paper with deckled edges. Tan heavy card slip case with gilt symbol on front...
Price: $ 1,000 USD #1898
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GRANT, Rev. George Munro [1835-1902]
1882, Belden Bros Toronto Art Publishing Company.
UNCOMMON IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS ISSUE.
A complete First Edition Set of the original 36 separate parts. Approximately 880 pages with Over 500 engravings on wood Folio.
24-36 pages in each of the 36 parts .... each one has a full page front engraving with thin paper to protect and numerous engravings in the text. It is bound in drab blue and off white covers with decorations of maple leave and a circle with two profiles. Each one also has the publisher and author printed in black.
The back cover of each one says:
"Panorama of Canadian History and Life from Jacques Cartier's day." The Art Department is supervised by L.R. O'Brien, President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the literature by George Munro Grant, and the engraving by George Smith....
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Price: $ 195 USD #0081
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CONDE, Peter (engraved by)
1801. London, Published by T. Cadell
First edition. Plate Size 8 x 5 Ins, 18 x 12 cms . A fine Stipple-engraved portrait of MacKenzie by P. Conde after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Mounted and ready to frame.
Some border spotting, otherwise very good condition.
In 1793 North West Company trader Alexander Mackenzie became the first European explorer to cross the American continent north of Mexico, following a route through northern Canada...
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Price: $ 175 USD #1727
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