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BARROW, Sir John [1764-1848]
Letter dated April 6, 1836 and signed by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) British Rear Admiral about receiving a letter from Rear Admiral Hammond in South America.
Written while Barrow was secretary of the admiralty. He was founder of the Royal Geographic Society, was a great promoter of Arctic exploration and wrote much on his own explorations and travels. Barrow, Alaska, the Barrow Straits, etc. are named in his honor...
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Price: $ 225 USD
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LEBLANC, Raoul [1894-1948] & AUDET, François Joseph [1867-1943] (provenance)
1931. Autographed French Letter Signed (ALS) of Raoul Leblanc to François Joseph Audet. Letter, envelope and business card of Raoul LeBlanc.
The letter is confirming sending a copy of the first edition [January 1931] titled La revue de l'Université d'Ottawa. A nice piece of publishing history. Very good condition....
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Price: $ 225 USD
#4933
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RYBKOWSKI, Tadeusz (Polish, 1848-1926) & DOUGLAS, Reverend George William [1850-1926]
1886. 6-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches flat folded to 6-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches (was fold agin but now flat 4pp with page 1 and 3 with hand-written 2pp letter Tadeusz Rybkowski to Reverend George William Douglas in German. On Rybkowski letterhead and January 14, 1886.
Manuscript letters by Tadeusz Rybkowski are rare to the market...
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Price: $ 245 USD
#4981
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FAED, Thomas (1826-1900)
[1863] 7 x 8-7/8 inches flat folded to 7 x 4-1/2 inches. Very good condition. Autograph letter signed. Two pages (blind embossed Dobus London letterhead). Dated Royal Seahouse Hotel, Worthing. Sunday [1863] to the editor of The Athenaeum. William Hepworth Dixon a friend, and English historian and traveler. Noting a change in the title of his 1864 Academy work Bajth Fajther and Mither, and hoping it can be correctly noted, as "the Athenaeum is likely to be the first article on the exhibition ... "
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Price: $ 225 USD
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RIDDELL, Mrs. J[oseph] H. (nee Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan) (1832-1906)
1868. 9 x 7 inches flat, folded to 7 x 4-1/2 inches. Autograph letter signed. Three pages, [addressee panel cut out]. Dated London April 14th 1868. One word with smudging, otherwise, good condition. To an unidentified "Madam" returning a manuscript submitted for publication. In April Riddell had begun an editorship at St. James Magazine. In the letters she writes: "I am sorry to have to seem ungrateful for your kind note but the staff of the St. James is complete and I am obliged ... "
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Price: $ 245 USD
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LEE, Harriet (1757-1851)
[1835]. 7-1/4 x 9 inches flat folded to 7-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches. Autograph letter signed. Three pages, (with integral address leaf) Dated Saturday 4th April [1835]. Spotting and one small 1/2 x 3/4 inch piece of paper missing affecting one word, otherwise good condition.
To Mrs. Reynolds. It reads in part: "We were very sorry, My dear Mrs. Reynolds, that you are doing penance - but Heaven in one season will reward you for it. I don't doubt -three is a mystical number you know,..."
Harriet Lee was an English novelist and playwright. In 1786, she published The Errors of Innocence, a novel in five volumes, written in epistolary form....
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Price: $ 245 USD
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SEWELL, Elizabeth Missing (1815-1906)
1876. Three autograph letters signed:
#1). Autograph letter signed. Three pages, Dated Jan[uary]30, 1871. Letter to Fannie, with intimate and suggestive comments on a book she is reading.
#2). Autograph letter signed. Three pages, 8vo. Dated July 20, [18]90. Expressing appreciation to a Mrs. Dickey for friendship and support from many in America "whom I may never meet" but whose support gives "gladness and brightness."
#3). Autograph letter signed from F. Coddington, a pupil of Sewell's, passing the letters along to Reverend Douglas of New York. Born.
All in good condition.....
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Price: $ 245 USD
#5049
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NOTMAN, William [1826-1891]
[1900]. A nice circa 1900 albumen photographic view of the fort (Citadel and Quebec City from Point Levis circa 1865 view). Silver salts on paper mounted on card - Gelatin dry plate process rounded corners at top left and right.
Card size: 13-7/8 x 17-5/8 inches
Card size: 6-5/8 x 9-1/4 inches
At bottom right of photo number id in photo of 17305.
Some minor spots on photo, otherwise very good condition...
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Price: $ 580 USD
#7459
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ROSS, Alexander J. [d1894[ (photographer) & SMITH, Sir Donald Alexander, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal [1820-1914]
[1885]. Albumen photograph, 7.5 x 9 in., on 8 x 10 in. mount with the imprint of Ross, Best & Co., Winnipeg, with faded description in the negative dating the image at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on Nov. 7, 1885, at 9:30 AM, and identifying several of the men...
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Price: $ 4,750 USD
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SOUTHEY, Robert [1774 -1843] & NELSON, Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson [1758-1805] (subject) & HAMILTON, Lady Emma [1765-1815]
1887.
Edinburgh and London, Bickers and Son, Leicester Square
HANDSOMELY BOUND WITH 12 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.
8vo, 21.5cm x 14.5cm, vix, [2, list of plates], 351pp., [2 signatures], 8 1/2" x 5 1/4" . Very good+ with a professional rebacking using all original spine and boards. It is one of the most favoured of many books on Nelson.
It has twelve illustrations by Westall, printed in Woodburytype, Plans. These have been printed separately and attached to the pages in the book. Included is the famous "Death of Nelson"...
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Price: $ 265 USD
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1904. London, R. & R. Clark, Ltd.
14.5cm x 14.5cm (5.5" x 8.25"), xii, 372pp. With Portrait and Sketches. Printed for Private Circulation Only. Frontispiece portrait and 14 additional plates, folding map at rear. "LANGTON, ANNE, settler, artist, author, teacher, and musician.
In 1833 John Langton immigrated to Upper Canada and took up residence on Sturgeon Lake, near such other genteel settlers as Thomas Alexander Stewart*, Samuel Strickland*, Thomas and Catharine Parr Traill, John and Susanna Moodie, and their families...
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Price: $ 250 USD
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WRIGHT, Robert & WOLFE, General James [1727-1759] (subject)
1864. London, Chapman and Hall
First edition. 8-3/4 x 6 inches, xxxi, [1 blank], 626pp (including index). Rebacked, preserving original embossed brown cloth, with new end papers. Frontispiece (photo portrait of Wolfe) one of the first photos to be used in a book...
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JAMESON, Mrs. Anna Brownell, (née Murphy) [1794-1860]
[1844]. New York Wiley & Putman, 161 Broadway
UNCOMMON 2ND USA EDITION OF THIS TITLE
8vo. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2", viii, (2), [9]-311pp., (2),[1]-339pp. Two volumes in one. N.D. New leather spine and quarter bound with original worn marbled boards and original marbled end-papers front and back. Very light foxing on a few pages. Very attractive book in very good+ condition. Circa 1844. signature date 1845 on preface page...
Price: $ 225 USD
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ARNOLD, Isaac N(ewton). (1815-1884) & ARNOLD, Benedict, (1741-1801) subject
1880. Chicago, Jansen, McClurg & Co.
6" x 8 1/2" tall, lovely 3/4 brown leather (a few spots the top leather has peeled away, more so on the back cover); with marbled boards and matching marbled end papers. Top edge gilt; 444 pages; in mylar protective wraps. Illustrated by Frontis engraving. Very Good+ condition.
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Price: $ 250 USD #0635
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STRICKLAND, Jane Margaret [1800-1888] & TAYLOR, Jefferys
1848. London, Henry G. Bohn, York Street Covent Gardens
THIS 1848 EDITION LESS COMMON THAN THE 1ST 1843 EDITION.
2nd UK edition. 18cm x 11.5cm, iv, 85; p86-94; 95-185, [3 with 2pp ads] 2 plates (frontis and p34). Original green cloth, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Yellow end papers. The two plates are engraved by W.G. Mason after J. Gilbert...
Price: $ 195 USD #0808
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BIBB, Henry [Walton] [1815-1854] & MATLACK, Lucius C. (introduction)
[1850]. New York, Published by the author New York : No. 5 Spruce Street
19cm x 12cm (7.5" x 5"), Reading Copy. Funky amateur rebinding. Pages fragile, foxed, several with knicks & tears. Title page, frontispiece and chapter one (of 20 chapters) are missing. Top of page 132, lower 1/3 of p.69 & bottom of p.21 missing. Ten full-page plates still somewhat present. Poor condition....
Price: $ 195 USD #1326
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DWIGHT, Theodore, Jr.
1828. New York, Carvill, G & C.
3rd US edition. 5-7/8 x 3-5/8 inches. iv, (2)map, [7]-403pp. Profusely illustrated with 19 maps (1 double-page and 18 single-page) and 11 engraved plates. Inside agetoned paper with some sporadic light foxing. Very good condition....
Price: $200 USD #1389
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FRANCHERE, Gabriel [1786 - 1863] & HUNTINGTON, J.V. (translated and edited by)
1854. New York, Redfield
8vo, 5.5" x 7.5", 376pp [8, ads], Rebacked with original spine relaid with publisher's dark green cloth with gilt stamped letters & small beaver at head of spine, boards with perimeter blind stamped, and new endpapers. First edition in English, illustrated with three plates and enlarged from the original French edition. First published in French in 1820, Franchere's work was "the first printed account in book form of John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish the Pacific Fur Company post at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Price: $ 225 USD #1418
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TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland Mrs. Traill C.P.) [1802-1899]
1836. London, Charles Knight
Stated second printing. Small 8vo. viii, (1)-351pp. All the 20 illustrations called for and frontispiece & map of southern Upper Canada from Lake Ontario to Three rivers primarily p[1] not called for. Composed of letters written by the author to her mother and friends in England, the Backwoods includes much useful and interesting information on home-making under pioneer conditions, pioneer recipes for making maple sugar, vinegar, &c.....
Price: $ 225 USD #1511
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By Special Artists and Botanists & ILES, George, 1852-1942
[1895]. Montreal, The Montreal Star
First Canadian edition. 11-1/2 x 8 inches oblong. Unpaginated, [6] + 144 plates, each with 2 color plates, (288 illustrations in total) text on recto or verso.
A nice copy in contemporary custom leather binding with 288 beautiful colour chromolithograph of flowers.
On verso of title page is a b/w illustration by Maud Humphrey, mother of Humphrey Bogart. Published in 18 parts by the Montreal Star [circa 1895]....
Price: $ 200 USD #1620
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MARMUR, Jacland (1901-1970) & WOELMER, K.S. (Dust jacket illustrated b
1932. New York, The Dial Press
SCARCE AUTHOR SIGNED COPY OF THIS TITLE
First US edition. 7-1/2 x 5 inches. (10), 3-278pp. Signed by author on front end paper. Book is very good condition.
Nautical adventure novel of ship's crew that gets involved in a South American civil war.
Jacland Marmur was born in Poland, February 14, 1901 and died in San Rafael, California in 1970...
Price: $ 195 USD #2102
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LAMPTON, Archibald [1861-1899]
1888. Ottawa, J. Durrie & Sun 1888
First Edition First Issue of Archibald Lampton's First Book (self published) 5-1/4 x 7-5/8 inches. v,(2),[1]-151pp. Original maroon cloth...Scarce.
Lampman, Archibald, Canadian poet, civil servant one of the "Confederation" group of poets. Exlibris attractive book plate of Edwin R. Holden. Likley this Edwin R. Holden (1835-1914) who was President of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad...
Price: $ 250 USD #2154
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[GLEIG, George Robert] by the author of The subaltern,
1827. London, John Murray
Third UK edition, corrected and revised. 12mo, 7" x 4.25", iv, 387pp[1]. Full blind stamped contemporary full black morocco leather, edges rubbed, flat-raised gilt bands to the spine, original leather label with gilt titles.
Gleig comment on the successes and failures of the war on page 358 ... "in absolute monarchies, where war is more properly the pastime of kings, than the desire of subjects, non-combatants ought to be dealt with as humanely as possible. Not so, however, in States governed by popular assemblies....
Price: $ 245 USD #2310
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BURKE, Sir Edmund [1729 - 1797]
1760. London, R. & J, Dodsley
Second edition. 5-1/4 x 8 inches, vii (preface), [1], [1]-494pp., [8 contents with one page publishers list] Bound in full leather, rebacked with new leather spine, 5 raised bands, gilt stamped date and gilt stamped red leather label. Overall very good condition.
Campaigns in North America (Chapt 6) including Expeditions in Ticonderoga & Crown Point (Sir William Johnson defeats the French), and Niagara, Expedition against Quebec (Chapt 7, p35), Gen Wolfe killed, etc. (56 pages for this section plus p.281 & 451)...
Price: $ 245 USD #2607
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SMEDLEY, Dr. Robert C. [1832 - 1883]
1883. Lancaster PA, Printed at the Office of the Journal
7.25" by 5", xiv, [26]-407, [1] pp. Rebound in modern gilt-lettered black buckram with gilt type on spine and front boards. New endpapers. Portrait frontis plus 27 full-page plates [collated complete], full-page illus. Edges untrimmed. Internally clean. Very good+ condition. Not recorded by Blockson.
Published posthumously, Dr. Robert C. Smedley authors an account of Underground Railroad operations in southeastern Pennsylvania....
Price: $ 195 USD #2794
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[TODD, Alfred, 1819-1874]
1851. Québec, Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, Rollo Campbell, Printer
First edition, "From the 20th day of May to the 30th day of August / And in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady QUEEN VICTORIA / Being the 4th Session of the 3rd Provincial Parliament of Canada Session 1851".
Folio 8 3/4" x 13", viii, [1]-362pp, [i]-Lx index. New leather spines and end papers, rebacked preserving original boards and leather corner tips. Front board edge crushed and edges worn. Insides very good...
Price: $ 250 USD #3001
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SPENDER, John A. (John Alfred), 1862-1942 & PEARSON, Weetman Dickinson, 1st Viscount Cowdray [1856-1927] (subject)
[1930]. London, Cassell
RARE COPY, MORE SO SIGNED, OF THIS WEETMAN PEARSON BIOGRAPHY
First UK edition. 8vo, 316pp. b/w plates,. Inscription on from endpapers "To H. Davey from Cowdray". Scarce. The Cowdray signature is likely that of third Viscount Cowdray and includes a newspaper and magazine article tucked inside on the third Visocunt Cowdray. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, businessman and landowner: born 27 February 1910; succeeded 1933 as third Viscount Cowdray...
Price: $ 225 USD #3344
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RIKER, J.C. (John) (publisher)
[1850]. New York, J. (John ) C. Riker
UNCOMMON ALBUM BOOK FROM THE FAMOUS RICKER CO. NY
First US Edition. 9" x 11" approximately, Floral Album. Frontis, title page, second chromolith title page . Approximately 150 pages of primarily white and some coloured blank pages. Inside 24 full page B&W engravings are spaced throughout the different coloured pages...
Price: $ 245 USD #3523
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SIMONS, N. W. (Nathaniel Wells) edited by & Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 & Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767
1841. London, William Pickering
First UK edition. xxiv, 110 p. ; 18 cm. Orig. cloth. 1841. From the Pickering Collection of Bernard Warrington, with his bookplate, believed only 500 copies of this printed and scarce. The letter is addressed to the Marquis of Townshend who served under Wolfe in the Quebec Campaign. "The brigadier-general is Lord George Townshend, against whom the writer makes serious charges for incompetency in the campaigns in Canada....
Price: $ 225 USD #4685
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MOODIE, Susanna [Susannah Strickland] [1803-1885]
[1855]. New York, De Witt & Davenport
First US edition. 12.5cm x 18.5cm, (5" x 7 5/8"), [2]blank, viii, [9]-362pp.,[6]ads. [1]blank. The fact that a couple of previous Moodie novels were more successful when reprinted in the United States is evinced by the decision of the New York firm of Dewitt and Davenport to publish Geoffrey Moncton prior to its release by Bentley in the UK; the English edition thus appeared a year later as The Monctons (2 vols, 1856).....
Price: $ 225 USD #4797
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WILKES, J.
1797. London, Modern Geography
Size: 7.1 x 9 inches, 18.1 x 22.9 cm Condition: B+ Good impression...
Very uncommon hand-coloured map showing British claims after the end of the Revolutionary War. The map shows an unusual configuration of interconnected lakes and rivers leading to Mackenzie Bay (The Sea) at the top.
Kershaw #396.
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Price: $ 450 USD #1837
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NORMAN, Richard Edward (1891-1961) & CRINER, John Lawrence (1898-1965) & BOYD, Kathryn & REYNOLDS, Steve
1928, Florida, The Norman Film Studios
Folded multi-panel promotional brochure meant for mailing (folded size 11" long and 3 1/2" wide). Opens up to a size of 21 7/8" x 14". With orange, blue, and black poster cover with photographs showing scenes from the movie with text as follows: Coming To This Theater. (This Is An Exact Reproduction Of Window Card). The Norman Film Studios . Presents Black Gold. Thrilling Epic Of The Oil Fields With All Colored Cast. One Of The True Stories Of Living Colored Examples. A Smashing Photo-Play Co-Starring Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd, Original Lafayette Players. Steve Reynolds, "Peg" [,] Alfred Norcom, United States Marshal, L.B. Tatums and The Entire City Of Tatums, Oklahoma....
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Price: $ 650 USD #7428
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HERIOT, George [1766-1844]
[1807]. [London], Richard Phillips by T. Gillet
First edition. 5-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches (image), 8-1/2" x 10-3/4" overall. Beautifully gilt framed with UV glass, matted with acid-free board: matt outer dimensions 13 x 14-1/2 inches. Original aquatint view of Niagara Falls by George Heriot: "View of the Falls of Niagara, from beneath the bank on the Fort Slausser side." From Heriot's Travels through the Canadas, London: Richard Phillips, 1807. Aquatint by Frederick C. Lewis. ...
Price: $ 275 USD #0112
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