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JUNE 2016 - 31 items offered...
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8 COLLECTIONS
6 MANUSCRIPTS
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2 MAPS
3 EPHEMERA
2 PRINTS
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RAMSAY, George, 9th Earl of Dalhousie [1770-1838]
1819, Quebec
Foolscap bifolium (Gater 1811 - Britannia watermark) Secretarial, marginal browning; signed by George Ramsay as 'Dalhousie'. Dated Halifax 15. September 1819 and addressed to the Judge Advocate General, presumably Sir John Beckett.
Letter referring to lost papers re court martial of ensign 'Alain [?] Hutchinson of the 60 regiment' noting that the prisoner 'appears to be an unfit person to hold a commission in His Majesty's Forces'. Docket title to verso of second sheet.
Price: $ 750 USD #6669
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GASCOYNE-CECIL. Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, (1830-1903)
1884.
Autograph Letter Signed. Four pages 9 x 7 inches flat and was folded to 4.5 x 7 inches. Dated Chalet Cecil Puys, Dieppe Sept(ember) 13th 1884. Last page with removed quarter section re affixed with tape in two sections, some browning otherwise in good condition
It reads: My dear Sir John (Heron Maxwell)
A line before post goes out to thank you very heartily for your kind welcome to Dumfrieshire...
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Price: $ 625 USD
#4462
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FRAZER, Sir James George (1854-1941)
PERSONAL CONDOLENCE LETTER TO A FAMILY FRIEND'S WIFE
Autograph Letter Signed. Was folded, now flat two pages, 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Dated No. 1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C. 4,11th October 1919. A letter of condolence to Mrs. Oppenheim on the death of her husband, Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim, a renowned German jurist. It reads in part: "we counted him among our best friends in Cambridge. It was always a pleasure to meet him, he was always so bright, so cheerful and so interesting." [With original envelope.] ...
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Price: $ 395 USD
#4472
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TROUBRIDGE, Sir Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane , 3rd Baronet (1815-1867)
8pp holograph letter, two separate 4 pp, each flat size 23cm x 18 cm, folded to 11.5cm x 18 cm. (originally these pages were folded to a final size of 11.5cm x 5.8 cm but now at the 11.5cm x 18 cm. folded size). Near fine condition.
Letter from Captain Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge to his cousin Jane Letitia Troubridge Bruce, daughter of Captain Henry William Bruce RN; Halifax (Nova Scotia), 23 Dec. 1848...
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Price: $ 345 USD
#4608
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MCNEILL, Major General Sir John Carstairs (1831-1904)
8 x 5 inches. Autograph letter signed. One page. Dated Monday, [no month, no year] Confirming a fact to "dear Old Man."
John Carstairs McNeill was was a Scottish recipient for the Victoria Cross for bravery in New Zealand, when he was Lt Col., 107th Regiment, Ohaupo, (30 March 1864)...
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Price: $ 295 USD
#5034
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LOCKHART, John Gibson (1794-1854) & CUNNINGHAM, Alan (1784-1842)
Autograph letter signed. 7-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches. One page. Undated. Athenaeum, Wednesday. Blind embossed stamp. Small piece torn from botton right corner in balck border and small 1/4 inch hole in bottom left not affeting writing. minor soiling. Removed from a scrap book with removal markings on reverse. Good condition.
Note to [Alan] Cunningham arranging for friends from Edinburgh, the Cockburn's to see the Studio."
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Price: $ 275 USD
#4989
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HERIOT, George [1766-1844]
[1805].
London, Philips
8.25" x 5.25", brown cloth with gilt type on spine with sticker removed. Book plate has been removed from the front end paper. Probably an exlibrary copy. 4 black and white reduced size from final published 1807 book (not sepia aquatints) on heavier stock, plates complete, as called for and in very good condition. A nice copy...
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Price: $ 325 USD
#0111
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1873. London, T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row
4-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. viii, [9]-207p. including 3pp. appendix. Illustrated. Blue cloth covers with black decorative double border and gold gilt seal in center of cover high lighting the book title, gold gilt titles and decorative design on spine, some light edge wear to cover edges and corner slightly bumped, gift inscription on front endpaper dated 1874, two colour plates prior to title page, 1 wood cut plate, 21 wood cut illustrations. Very clean inside with no foxing, Very good+ in original binding.....
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Price: $ 325 USD
#0467
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COLLINS, Arthur (1682? - 1760)
1740. London, Thomas Osborne
First edition. Two Volumes bound in one. 8vo., 8" x 5", (20cm x 12.5cm), [4], 308, [8]pp. index; 89, [6]pp. index + [1]p adverts. Engraved head and tail pieces. Rebound with new leather spine, gold type on label with 5 bands and 5 embossed symbols on spine. Original front and back boards preserved as well as original end papers. Insides are very clean, no foxing. A very good+ to fine book.
Collected from records, manuscripts, and historians by Arthur Collins, esq. Edward, Prince of Wales, "The Black Prince" (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England...
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KALM, Peter (Pehr) [1716 - 1779] & URBAN, Sylvanus [CAVE, Edward] [1691 - 1754]
1751. London, Printed by E. Cave at St. John's Gate
First edition. 4-3/4 by 8-1/4 inches, 2,[3]-48. Complete 48 page Gentleman's Magazine January 1751 with Kalm's letter and A View of the Fall of Niagara full page image. New green cloth binding, paper label on front and new endpapers, age toned paper, some light foxing otherwise in very good condition.
Kalm was the first person to scientifically describe Niagara Falls in English from first hand experience and it is the first picture after Hennepin's to be founded on an actual sight of the Falls...
Price: $ 325 USD
#4736
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CUOQ, J. A. (Jean André) [1821-1898]
[1883]. Montréal, Chapleau & Fils, Imprimeurs-Editeurs 31 et 33 rue Cattè.
First edition, 2nd issue. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches. vii, (1 blank), [1]-238pp. undated but 1883.
Jean André Cuoq, was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1845, he came to Canada in 1846, and was appointed a missionary to the Indians at the Lake of Two Mountains, Lower Canada. Here he remained for many years, and he became an authority on the Indian languages. In his later years he retired to the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Montreal, and he died at Oka, Quebec, on July 21, 1898
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Price: $ 300 USD #6861
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MILL, John Stuart [1806-1873]
1869. London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
2nd UK edition. 4.5"x 8" tall, Original mustard cloth boards faded, crushed spines head and foot and brown coated end papers reinforced. blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Some pencil notations. Otherwise, over condition is very good.
"The object of this essay is to explain as clearly as I am able ... that the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong itself, and...
Price: $ 295 USD #1397
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HAMILTON, Lady Emma [1765-1815]
1815. New York, Sinclair Toussey and I. Lane
Small 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm (approx 7¾ x 4¾ inches), vi, 352pp.
Embellished with a Fine Portrait, after Romney. New brown leather spine with gilt type and rebacked preserving original marbled boards and end papers, previous owner's name neatly written on 1st blank, illustrated frontispiece...
Price: $ 245 USD #3598
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MERCER, Philip
[1929]. Macon, The J. W. Burke Company
First edition. 5-1/4 x 8 inches, (12), [13]-180pp. Medium blue cloth with gilt type on spine and front cover, very minor spotting, bit of corner bumping, otherwise a near fine copy. Frontispiece portrait, four other illustrations and a map.
John Pelham, a young West Point-trained artillery officer in the Confederate Army, was buried in Jacksonville, Ala., on March 31, 1863. None less than Robert E. Lee had remarked, after observing Pelham's skills at the Battle of Fredericksburg, where he used two small cannons to disrupt the entire federal formation for almost an hour, "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young."...
Price: $225 USD #1076
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SWIGGETT, Howard [1891-1957]
1933. New York, Columbia University Press
SCARCE WITH DUST JACKET.
6 x 9 inches. xxv,(3),[3]-309, (3).8vo. Dark blue cloth spine lettered in gilt, and with scarce dust jacket. Very Good+ condition.
Deals with warfare on the New York frontier during the American Revolution focusing on the controversial Walter Butler of Butler's Rangers, one of the most effective units serving with the British Army during the war.
Price: $ 225 USD #0841
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JOHNSON, E.[Emily] Pauline (Tekahionwake) [1861-1913] & E.H.N. illustrated by
1895. London, John Lane; The Copp Clark Co; Lamson, Wolffe & Co.,
First edition. 4-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. viii, [1]-[88pp],16pp ads. Publisher's decorated brown cloth covered boards with tomahawk stamped in black decoration and the name Tekahion-wake and gold letters on spine. Good condition only.
This is a wonderful book of poems by Mohawk Native American poet/author E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake. This is the first edition of this authors first book. An important book, generally regarded as the first work ever published by a Native American woman. Most of the 36 poems in this volume deal with her Native American heritage. Uncommon....
Price: $ 225 USD #2219
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BURKE, Sir Edmund [1729 - 1797]
1776 London, R and J Dodsley
4th edition of The Annual Register for 1763 printed in 1776. (4),[1]-216pp., Characters 1-307pp , 5pp contents. Bound in full leather with new leather spine, 5 bands, red and black leather labels with gilt type, 4 gilt decorations.
3 maps with some paper tears repaired,
(1) A new map of the British Dominions in North America with the limits of the Governments annexed hereto by the late peace treaty of October 7th 1763 by Thomas Kitchin. From Florida in the South to Hudson's Bay in the North (with inset of Florida). 3 inch paper tear going into map images and a couple of fold tears all professionally repaired.
(2) Correct chart of the seat of war on the coast of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy by Thomas Kitchin dated 1763.
(3) An accurate map of the seat of the war in the Kingdom of Prussia (Bohemia, Lusatania, Silesia, Saxony and Westphalia by Thomas Kitchin dated 1763. Bottom edge of paper uneven and maks affecting some type along the bottom below the neat line.
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Price: $ 675 USD #2190
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1878. St. John, NB, R and J Dodsley
16" x 12-3/4", (4), [5]-95 pages plus [4] directory. New leather binding, preserving original black cloth, front with gilt tooled type.
Drawn and Published by Roe Brothers, St. John, N.B., illustrated, 1878. Canadian atlas, detailed, nicely hand colored county, province, geological, outline maps, with sections on history, minerals, Magdalin Islands, and Newfoundland. Fourteen pages of descriptive text at front including data on temperature, population, schools,products, geology, and banking
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Price: $ 595 USD #4492
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LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid [1841-1919]
1875, Arthabaskaville, Québec
"Wilfrid Laurier," dated Arthabaskaville, 10th April, 1875, addressed to Donald Alexander MacDonald, Postmaster General, Ottawa. 17 lines on one 8vo sheet, docketed by MacDonald on the verso, vertical fold, near fine.
PITTAWAY & JARVIS, Photographers, Ottawa. Hon. Wilfrid Laurier. [Ottawa, ca. 1890's] Original photograph,......
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Price: $ 1,750 USD #7437
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LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid [1841-1919] & ROBERT, E.A. (Edmund Arthur) [1864-1935] (provenance)
1909, Ottawa
7-7/8 x 10-7/8 inches, 4-1/2 p. Laurier's letter on sheet with red embossed seal at top of the Prime Minister's Office Canada.
Typed letter, signed, from Prime Minister, Wilfrid Laurier to E.A. Robert at the Eastern Townships Bank building Montreal, enclosing a four page copy of the report of the International Waterways Commission to the Minister of Public works regarding the Cedar Rapids Power Company's application to construct works in the St. Lawrence River at the Cedar Rapids for the development of electric power....
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Price: $ 1,900 USD #7443
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KING, William Lyon MacKenzie, [1874-1950]
September 15, 1937, 8 x 6 1/4 inches, 4pp., Letter, is two (2) typed pages with MacKenzie's handwriting inserted, originally folded now flat, with 3/8 inch tear on top edge and 1/4 inch tear on bottom edge, otherwise very good condition. Typed signed letter (TSL) with MacKenzie King signature and mention of Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 as well as WLMK's family roots connections.
Dated September 15, 1937 on Laurier House, Ottawa letterhead where Mackenzie King resided as Prime Minister. Personal signed letter from Prime Minister Mackenzie King to Mary (Mrs. R.F. Scott) Toronto Ontario.
Hand written salutation: My dear Mary:...
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Price: $ 1,500 USD #4422
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MATANIA, Fortunino [1881-1963] (artist) & SHORTER, Clement (editor and director)
1916. [London], The Sphere & Tatler Ltd, 6 Great New Street, Fetter Lane, E.C.
A portfolio of twelve photogravure signed prints in original folder, with printed tissue fly-leaves bearing titles and descriptions. This includes an introduction to the work of Matania (with photograph) written by Clement K Shorter, Editor and Director, The Sphere, dated 30 September 1916.
All prints have a blind stamp to the lower left corner of the print which reads: "Fine Art" "O*OPH*A" "Trade Guild" and the signature of F. Matania in pencil. The description for each print is printed on the tissue guard in the lower right corner. Overall in good condition...
Price: $ 1,600 USD #7424
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CHÂTELAIN, Henry Abraham [1684-1743] & LAHONTAN, [Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce], [La Hontan] Baron de [1666 - 1715] & HENNEPIN, Father R. P. Louis [1640 -1705?]
1718. The Hague.
Coloured. A good and dark impression. Decorative colours. VG+ condition. Size: 14.4 x 16.8 inches. 36.7 x 42.7 cm.
A series of 12 engravings together with descriptive text, derived from the works of Lahontan and Hennepin.
They illustrate the methods of the Indians hunting buffalo and similar animals, the Pipe of Peace, the dances in honour of important meetings or occasions, and the emblems of the various tribes.....
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Price: $ 750 USD #1608
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