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3 DIARY / MANUSCRIPTS
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This extraordinary 3 volumes set in full darkened red cloth covers with gilt type on the spines includes and 11 sewn reports, 31.5cm x 20cm (12.5 x 8 inches). A remarkable collection of 41 British Parliamentary paper ex Public Record Office (British National Archives) and 11 sewn reports in paper wrappers.
In 1871 the United States demanded compensation from Great Britain for damages inflicted on U.S. commerce during the Civil War by the Alabama, a Confederate warship built in England. The United Sates also demanded the resumption of use of Canadian and Newfoundland inshore fisheries, previously denied 1818-54 and after the 1866 lapse of the Reciprocity Treaty and also in dispute the ownership of San Juan Island (off the coast of British Columbia in the Straight of Georgia and concerning the Oregon boundary line). Restitution to Canada for Fenian raids, 1866-70 . The Treaty was settled in a series of arbitrations in Washington. "And yet 1870 and 1871 are perhaps remembered less for the vast strides taken by Canadian federalism than for the sudden marked improvement, somewhat at Canadian expense, which took place in Anglo-American relations as a whole -- culminating, as it did, in the Treaty of Washington, 8 May 1871, which has been held by some to be second only in importance for the United States to the Treaty of Versailles in 1783." quoted from The Cambridge History of the British Empire Vol. 3, page 294
Price: $ 7,500 USD #4368
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BATT, John Thomas (1746-1831) & MONTAGU-DUNK, George, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716-1771) (subject)
1771
A small 3-3/4 x 5-7/8 inches [30pp.] manuscript notebook devoted to J.T. Batt's executorship of the 2nd Earl Halifax dated 1771. (covering from May 18, 1771 - October 3 1771).
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, KG, PC was a British statesman of the Georgian era. Due to his success in extending American commerce he became known as "father of the colonies". President of the Board of Trade 1748-61, he aided the foundation of Nova Scotia, 1749, the capital Halifax being named after him.
This a manuscript account of the death and its aftermath of George MontaguDunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax. This account is written in the from a diary kept by Halifax's lawyer and executor, John Thomas Batt, who has filled this notebook with details of his efforts to keep Halifax's rapacious mistress at bay and the epic burning of papers at the late Earl's various house. Bit part players include Lord Hinchingbrooke (First Lord of the Admiralty), Sir George Osborn, and General Johnson.....
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Price: $ 1,250 USD
#7417
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KEMPT, General Sir James [c1765-1854] & NICOL, C. & JACKSON, Jonathan
EARLY 19TH EARLY COURT MARTIAL DOCUMENTS IN CANADA RARE
[8] Eight foolscap pages, secretarial; first and last leaves detached; old stab sewing holes. Old folds; browning to edges, short tears along folds.
Signed 'C Nicol... President', by the Judge Advocate and 'Approved James Kempt Com'r of the Forces.'
Jonathan Jackson 66th Regiment accused of desertion and loss of Regimental clothing with values given for items. Jackson pleaded guilty with certain exceptions.
Verbatim report of questions to Sergeant Patrick Hogan regarding loss of kit followed by similar reporting of interrogation of Peter Greengrass [?] 'Inhabitant of the neighbourhood of Quebec' who took Jackson in late at night and the following morning was asked by him for directions to Three Rivers but 'I told him the best road was to stay in my house as he was a Deserter' before handing him over the the guard....
Price: $ 2,500 USD #6667
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LAY, Janet "Jennie" Lindsey King (1876-1962) & KING, William Lyon MacKenzie, [1874-1950] (subject)
16cm x 13cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches),. WLMK died on July 22, 1950
A printed funeral note dated July 1950 from King's family upon his passing. "Funeral service, Wednesday, July 26, 1950 at Ottawa.
This printed note has the handwriting of Jennie K. Lay to a family friend, Mary.
The Mary Jennie is referring to in this note is most likely Mrs. Mary Scott, 82 South Drive, Toronto, Ont. A friend of MacKenzie's parents and whom he had previous personal correspondence with. WLKM had very few friends and family and rarely showed his private side in public which makes these type of personal communications insightful and rare. Highly collectable......
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Price: $ 295 USD
#4390
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ANON
1835.
London, Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street
RARE JUVENILE BOOK
Rare. At Sotheby auction in 1976. Only one copy located in Canada (TPL, Osborne collection). Five copies in USA and three copies outside North America.
from the PREFACE. "Many words are not wanting to preface so humble a performance as this little book, which aims only at affording amusement to children of an early age. The author I willing to hope, from her own recent recollection of the taste of persons at that period of life, that the form of Dialogue, though not very usual in such works, will not make it unpleasing to them, if she has succeeded in the endeavour to render the story interesting, and the language familiar....
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Price: $ 1,500 USD
#3513
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1840-1838 Quebec, Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec
RARE FIRST EDITIONS ON VERY EARLY QUEBEC HISTORY
2 volumes in one: 155pp. & 207pp.
#1: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de Québec, eight reports content 1840 155pp. First edition
#2: Mémoires sur le Canada, depuis 1749 jusqu'à 1760. En trois parties; avec cartes et plans lithographiés. 207pp 1838, First edition....
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Price: $ 1,500 USD
#3691
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(HART, Julia Catherine Beckwith [1796-1867]) By an American
1831. Exeter, [N.H.] Published for the trade B H Meder
This is the second novel, 1831 edition, by Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart [ 1796 - 1867 ]
"Hart's second novel, Tonnewonte, was published in New York state (1824-1825), probably after the Harts had moved to Rochester. Set in the United States and France, it tells the story of Theodore, a Frenchman who eventually must choose between an aristocratic life with his natural relatives in his native country and a democratic life as a hardworking farmer with adopted relatives on the American frontier in Tonnewonte, New York. Theodore, after fighting against Napoleon at Waterloo, finally decides to return to the greater freedom and happiness of America....
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TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland Mrs. Traill C.P.) [1802-1899] & FITZGIBBON, Agnes Dunbar [(MOODIE) (MRS. CHAMBERLIN)] [1833 - 1913]
1869. Montreal, Printed and Published by John Lovell St. Nicholas Street
Large folio (14.5"x11"). 10 full-page colour plates of paintings of Canadian wild flowers (with tissue guards).
Excerpts from the preface of the book reads as follows:
...First, the designs - all the flowers having been copied from Nature's Own Book, by Mrs. Fitzgibbon - then the subsequent grouping and lithographing on stone by her own hand, and finally the colouring of each separate plate - a gigantic effort to be executed by one person. With a patriotic pride in her native land, Mrs. F. was desirous that the book should be entirely of Canadian production, without any foreign aid, and thus far her design has been carried out; whether successfully or not, remains for the public to decide. ...
And finally it was at last agreed that the Book of Canadian Wild Flowers should be the work of Mrs. Fitzgibbon, and the descriptions of the plants as delineated by her hand, should be selected and adapted to suit the subjects of the Plates from Mrs. Traill's MS.... Toronto, December, 1868. C.P. Traill
Price: $ 900 USD
#3595
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ROLPH, Thomas [1801-1858]
1844. London, John Mortimer
A SCARCE COPY AND RARE WHEN SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
First edition. 5-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. xii, [1]-376pp. In original dark green cloth neatly rebacked and with most of original back-strip laid down. Lacks half-title and with the list of subscribers.
Inscribed: "To Brother Wyld from the Author Brother Rolph".
Rolph was the emigration agent for Upper Canada and the province of Canada from 1839 to 1843. Very good condition......
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Price: $ 995 USD
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FUDGER, Hannah, (1883-19--) complied by & FUDGER, Harris Henry (1852-1930) subject & MASSEY, (Charles) Vincent [1887-1967] provenance
IMPORTANT TORONTO MERCHANT BOOK WITH GREAT PROVENANCE.
1931. Toronto, Printed for private circulation
10 x 7-1/2 inches. [8], 119pp. 21 leaves of plates. Each plate accompanied by tissue sheet with descriptive letterpress. Full leather with gilt type on the spine, Harris Henry Fudger, quite faded. Overall in very good condition.
H.H.Fudger was the president of Simpson's Toronto for over 30 years.
Owned by Vincent Massey with his bookplate pasted on the front endpaper.....
Price: $ 175 USD #5840
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MACDONALD, Captain John A.
1910. Toronto, W.S. Johnston & Coy
QUITE SCARCE IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. A NICE COPY
First edition. Octavo. 255 pp, Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on front cover (bottom corners are bumped with frontispiece portrait inserted, map and a few illustrations in text.
In scarce DUST JACKET, good condition with soiling with tears along the bottom and top corner.
Internally, very good+ condition....
Price: $ 150 USD #0531
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COFFIN, Levi [1798 - 1877]
1876. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
First UK edition. 5-1/2" x 8-3/4 inches. 712pp. Original publishers pebbled maroon cloth...
A memoir by Levi Coffin (October 28, 1798 - September 16, 1877), an American Quaker, abolitionist, and businessman. Coffin was deeply involved in the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, and his home is often called "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad."
Price: $150 USD #2900
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COPPINGER, J(ohn). B.
1855. New York, Sherman & Co., 1 Vesey Street
First edition. 7-3/4 x 4-3/4 inches, (4), [1]-235pp. (2 blank), Original dark green blind-stamp cloth rebacked preserving original darkened green spine with dulled gilt type...
A fiction novel of Indians and pioneers in the Canadian wilderness (Ontario). The tale deals with the Lake Simcoe and Chippeway regions and Lake Muskoka, Rice lakes and St. Ann are also referred to.
An Indian narrative of the Fenimore Cooper school....
Price: $ 125 USD #1702
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JONES, Rev. Peter (Kahkewaquonaby) [1802-1856] (translator)
1897. Sarnia, International Evangelical and Corporate Mission of Algoma and the North-West
First edition. 4-7/8 x 4-1/8 inches. 128pp. Original light green wraps with some very light browning to cover perimeter, otherwise in fine condition.
More text from the cover wrap...
Ojibway, published by The York Auxiliary Bible Society, in York, U.C., (now Toronto, Ont.) A.D. 1831, corrected for this edition : King James, published at London, England, A.D. 1611, translated out of the original tongues, with former translations diligently compared and revised : also, at end of Gospel...
Price: $ 155 USD #2525
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ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista
[1750] Venice, Albrizzi's Atlante Novissimo
Printed area approx.: cm 44,8 x 35,2
Paper size approx.: cm 54,8 x 42,2
Strong and dark impression on very strong paper. Original colors.
Fine and decorative 1740 De L'Isle's copper engraved map of Canada and portion of United States. Map is filled with a lot of topographical details as well as cities, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. Decorative title cartouche showing a pastoral scene to top left corner.
"An interesting and rare map of Canada as it was known circa 1708....
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Price: $ 750 USD #3284
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Québec Chamber of Commerce
1817-1821. Québec, Printed for the proprietors at the New Printing-Office
RARE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS FOR EARLY QUEBEC COMMERCIAL HISTORY
Six Commercial single page, two sided, Lists from Quebec, regarding the arrival and departure of ships, imports, exports and other news relating to this trade. Five are entitled "The Commercial List" and the other is "The Quebec Commercial List". Approximate size is 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches except the 1817 which is smaller 11 3/4 x 7 inches)
Vol. 2 No. 11 July 28, 1817
Vol. 6 No. 14 August 16, 1821
Vol. 6 No. 15 August 23, 1821
Vol. 6 No. 16 August 30, 1821
Vol. 6 No. 17 September 6, 1821
Vol. 6 No. 18 September 13, 1821.....
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Price: $ 995 USD #4359
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HILLIER, George (17??-1840) & RIDOUT, Samuel (1778-1855) & MATTICE, John, ANDERSON, Delia and MCDONELL, ElizaWOOD, G
1825. Cornwall, Upper Canada Government
Land Board Eastern District Cornwall
6th Aug. 1825
Return of location of lands now vacant and grantable submitted for the approval of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor [ie, Sir Peregrine Maitland] at York.
The process for Land Grants in Upper Canada was greatly impacted by the influx of the United Empire Loyalists form the 1780's and on. A British-style settlement, complete with a balanced constitution, common law and free and non-military earned land tenure. Land granting was considered the first business of government and this document is thus an important and informative original source one signed by prominent Upper Canadians in 1825, George Hiller and Samuel Ridout regarding land grants in the Cornwall district.....
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Price: $ 750 USD #4342
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NORMAN, Richard Edward (1891-1961) & PICKETT, Bill & BUSH, Anita & MILLS, Billy
All four movies were an "all colored cast" silent film produced in 1920's.
Multi-picture black and white promotional brochure meant for mailing but this one not folded. 4 pp., numerous photographs from the films, 12" x 9 1/2" opens to 19" x 12".
* Green Eyed Monster (1919)
* The Love Bug (1920)
* Crimson Skull (1921)
* The Bull Dogger (1921)....
Bill Pickett, an authentic Black American cowboy and Wild West star of the Mexican bullring, is remembered as 'the father of bull-dogging,' the art of biting the tender part of a steer's lip and wrestling it to the ground, a technique he learned from his dog Spike herding cattle...
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Price: $ 225 USD #3525
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[NORMAN, Richard Edward (1891-1961)] & subject LOUIS, Joe [Barrow] (1914-1981)
[1940] [NORMAN FILM MANUFACTURING CO.]
12-1/4 x 6 inches, small tear on top right 1/2" just touching top of S in LOUIS, otherwise Very good+
Flyer copy: Joe Louis vs King Levinsky, the 1935 boxing sports match ("Only Exclusive Fight Picture of Joe Louis Detroit's Sensational Colored Bomber versus King Levinsky Chicago's Knockout Artist"; "See the greatest colored fighter AT HIS BEST"; "The Man Who Knocked Out BAER and CARNERA"; "Every Move Slowed, Analyzed By the New Slow and Fast Action Talking Picture Camera"; "Better Than a Ringside Seat") ....
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Price: $ 195 USD #3527
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ROEBLING, John Augustus [1806-1869] & PARSONS, Charles R., [1821-1910]
[1857] [New York], Currier & Ives
Image: 39.2 x 26.2 cm (15.4" x 10.3") Currier & Ives hand-coloured lithograph Titled: 'The Railroad Suspension Bridge, Near Niagara Falls; Length of Bridge 822 Feet, Height Above Water 240 Feet', 1856, John A. Roebling, Engineer (builder of the Brooklyn Bridge). The image was printed from two lithographic stones: a tint stone, in light brown ink; and a key stone in black ink. Watercolour in greens, blues reds and browns was hand-applied over the printed image print and was professionally cleaned and washed along with filling of any paper losses and reinforcing with Japanese tissue, otherwise, very good condition...
Price: $ 1,250 USD #2910
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KELLY, John David [1862-1958] (artist) & BROCK, Sir General Isaac [1769-1812] (subject)
SCARCE PRINT OF THE DEATH OF GENERAL BROCK
1896, Toronto Lithographing Co.
Paper Size: 25 x 33 inches.
Image Size: 23-1/2 x 30-5/8 inches.
An original chromolithograph of a painting that depicts a scene from the Battle of Queenston Heights.
Nice bright colours for this print not always present with the print.
Centerd at the bottom of the painting inside the image, is the printed signature of "J. D. Kelly 1896", and the words "Push on York Volunteers! Brock's dying words". American troops are shown in the background....
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Price: $ 1,100 USD #6841
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