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OCTOBER 2016 - 36 items offered...
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6 COLLECTIONS
7 MANUSCRIPTS
2 PHOTOS
14
BOOKS
2 MAPS
3 EPHEMERA
2 PRINTS
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ASHBY, Douglas W. [1898-196?]
The author, Douglas W. Ashby, was born in 1898 in Leicester, England. Ashby was a serious traveller and quote about his experiences in many one-of-a-kind lucid, informative and entertaining diaries.
Ashby's greatly detailed hand-written diary journals describe his travels in Europe, Scotland, and England with his wife and other family members. Lots of serious walking with the topography insightfully and beautifully described including interactions with the locals. Fascinating and informative travel reading.
Ashby's 12 Diaries include 12 diaries, 1926-9, 1931, 1945-8. Totaling 2,326 diary pages in all as well as 24 hand-drawn maps and other pen-and-ink vignettes..
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Price: $ 4,000 USD
#7516
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DODGE, Mary (Elizabeth) Mapes (Lizzie) [1831-1905] & STUART, Ruth McEnery (1852-1917) (provenance) & WIGGIN, Kate Douglas [1856-1923] (provenance)
Mary Mapes Dodge was an American children's writer best known for her story Hans Brinker (1865). She was also editor of the illustrated magazine Hearth and Home and the phenomenally successful children's periodical, St. Nicholas Magazine.
Collection material dates 1878-1902.
Seven Autographed Signed Letters;
1) ALS dated "Feb 4." and addressed to "My dear Suzy", an answer to a young reader of Dodge's St. Nicholas Magazine, because her co-editor William Fayal Clarke is mentioned. "I am so sorry that one of the Cronies had to go away, by the doctor's orders!' Signed "Mary Mapes Dodge | Author of | Hans Brinker | + James Mapes Dodge."
2) June 11, 1878, Charles A Raymond letter asking for an autograph and Dodge's reply written on bottom of letter with her signature
4) ALS to Kate Douglas Wiggin (to Upper West Side New York address), addressed to 'My dear Mrs Riggs' (the writer and early childhood educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1856-1923), a brief, - note ...
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Price: $ 2,800 USD
#7519
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PRIESTLEY, J.B. (John Boynton) [1894-1984]
J.B. Priestley was an English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster. He was one of England's last great writers. Priestley gained considerable fame as "the voice of the common people", as he was often called, a patriotic radio broadcaster, second in popularity only to Winston Churchill.
Collection material dates 1933-1981 and includes 10 Typed Signed Letters (TSL), 2 Signed Typescripts , 27 B&w photos and a small medal.
Signed Letters (TSL) example;
...to Denis Forman of Grenada Television Ltd., 7 November 1977, thanking him for his warm and witty letter. 2 short articles about Priestly; a colour Wills's cigarette card of Priestley, n.d.;
Signed Typescript example;
...5 pp., signed by Priestley, dated "Sunday, 20th 1940" on p. 1. The text is for his final war-time broadcast for the BBC, which begins: "This is my last Sunday postscript for some time, perhaps the last I shall ever do."...
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Price: $ 3,000 USD
#7526
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WIGGIN, Kate Douglas [1856-1923]
Kate Douglas Wiggin was the author of numerous children's books, notably, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; she also founded the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, and devoted much of her working life to children's welfare and charities.
Collection material dates 1901-1922 and includes 11 Autographed Signed Letters, 2 Signed Books, 7 Ephemera (some signed) and 2 Photos (one signed).
Signed Letters (ASL) example;
...from New York, headed with a printed dog and ribbon with inscription "Malo Mori quam Foedari" ("I would rather die than be dishonored"). Signed "Kate Douglas Riggs (Mrs. George C.)", the name of her second husband. Re her founding of the Silver St. Kindergarten in San Francisco in August 1878.
ephemera content example;
...The Rebecca-Calendar. (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1916). Approx. 60 leaves, silk ties. Each leaf has quotes from the 1903 Peter Parley to Penrod original. Illus. with colour plate on cover by F.C. Yohn and with 2-colour illus. on text pages. 52 pp. of quotations from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with ornamental cover printed in gold and a four-colour illustration on cover, inside pages printed in green and brown, tied with a silk cord and tassel...
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Price: $ 4,000 USD
#7530
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WILCOX, Ella Wheeler [1850-1919]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author, poet and mystic rosicrucian. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse.
Collection material dates 1899-1916.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox collection incudes 10 ASL, 12 TSL, 2 signed post cards, long poem signed manuscript, unsigned Cabinet Card of a young Wilcox, 3 framed poems and metal plate, signed ephemera, 2 signatures, typed letter and 19 post cards relating to Wilcox
ephemera content example;
...Ella Wheeler Wilcox Signed very long 2pp Manuscript Poem
* Signed manuscript poem entitled "The Last Letter", circa 90 × 19 cm, 1 long sheet written on both sides, repaired and enclosed in mylar within a protective stiff-card folder, n.d.;...
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Price: $ 4,000 USD
#7529
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VAN DYKE, Henry [1852-1933]
Henry van Dyke was an English professor at Princeton University, a poet, short story writer, clergyman, and Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Collection material dates 1892-1931.
Autographed Signed Letters (ASL)
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*3 ALS to George Park Fisher (American theologian and professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale University), 18 February 1897, 12 September 1902, and n.d (the latter 6 pp.), re ("our chance of a good talk on the yacht was gobbled up by an academic misunderstanding"), their shared Christian values, and Van Dyke's appreciation of Fisher's History of Christian Doctrine..
ephemera content example;
* TLS to Hilda E. Woodruff, 29 November 1927, writing that he is pleased that students at her school have read two of his stories: "I am particularly glad to know the Jewish boys and girls whom you teach find something to interest them in the stories and nothing to wound their feelings. After all, the little children whom Jesus of Nazareth took into his arms and blessed were Jewish children, and I believe we ought not to forget it."...
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Price: $ 2,500 USD
#7528
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ANON
8 x 10 inches. Period 1/2 morocco over decorative paper, Six leaves with watercolours, including some hand-colored floral designs. 19th century, perhaps circa 1830, manuscript containing poetry by various authors including Scott and Byron as well as some unpublished poetry.
Some content;
To Spoil the rosés soft perfume
It was Providence intended,
Our pains and pleasures should be blended
We smile to-day, to-morrow mourn
nor find a rose without a thorn"
poem from circa 1820 book, Conversations on Botany
Watercolour of Rose with Thorns on next page...
"Why does the painful thorn presume; Sonnet; Farewell; An Ode to Friendship 4pp. (not William Woty poem);
A Woman "Oh woman how I long to see"...
Price: $ 845 USD
#7511
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CARLETON, Sir Guy 1st Baron DORCHESTER [1724-1808] & POWELL, John
Document signed ("Guy Carleton"), one page (15 x 9 3/8 in.; 381 x 240 mm), Montreal, 19 June 1777, to John Powell, Deputy Paymaster General at Quebec, being an order for payment in the amount of five hundred pounds sterling made out to John Campbell, Commandant and Superintendant of Indians in the province of Quebec, countersigned by Powell on the verso; one short fold tear otherwise very good+..
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Price: $ 1,900 USD
#3432
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BROWN, Moses (1738-1836)
7 ½ x 10 inch autograph manuscript signed, no place or date but 1829. Folds with minor tears and one small hole near signature but not affecting. Overall condition very good "...it is now the 23rd day of the ninth month 1829 the anniversary of my birth day, and being mercifully preserved to the age of ninety one years...my Heavenly Father, who hath graciously brought me through many trials and varied dispensations to the present time...."
New England abolitionist, industrialist. Brown funded the design and construction of the first factory houses for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution, Slater Mill. Brown became an active abolitionist, an advocate for African Americans both slave and free.
He, together with his brothers, founded Brown University.
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Price: $ 750 USD
#2884
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GREY, Charles (1729-1807) & signed by Edward Argles, Mayor Maidstone UK
Manuscript Document Signed as General Commanding the Southern District consisting of the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, two pages, 12¼ x 7¾ inches, Maidstone, Jan. 4, 1798. "Account of Contingent Expences for His Majesty's Service...from 1st to 31st December 1797...." fine condition. Grey's signature is bold.
Charles Grey (1729-1807) was a British general who served in the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary War; 1st Earl Grey. In 1777 he earned the nickname "No-flint Grey" after the Paoli Massacre nighttime attack, because he had collected flints from the muskets of his troops before they engaged the American troops using bayonets, thus maintaining the element of surprise. His son was the Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey...
Also signed by Edward Argles, Mayor Maidstone UK a town, a parish, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred, in Kent.
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Price: $ 750 USD
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CAMPBELL, John George Edward Henry Campbell, Marquess of LORNE and 9th Duke of ARGYLL [1845-1914]
Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 8vo. Dated on India Office blind embossed letterhead. March 6,1869. Declining a dinner invitation...
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne and later 9th Duke of Argyll, married Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Louise at Windsor in 1871.
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Price: $ 145 USD
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HUME, Joseph (1777 -1855)
Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Dated Bryanston Square. 9th Dec[ember], 1831. With seal affixed to face of letter. Some paper attached to reverse from being previously mounted and removed. With noted, otherwise in very good condition. Sending notice of receipt of a committee resolution, and agreeing to present the committee report to the King....
Joseph Hume (1777 -1855). Scottish doctor and Radical MP.
The recipient, Sir John Heron-Maxwell, 6th Baronet (1808-1885), was a captain in the Royal Navy. Captain Sir John Heron-Maxwell of Springkell, 6th Bt.
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Price: $ 75 USD #4474
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REED, Thomas Arthur (1871-1958) & WALLACE, William Stewart [1884-1970] & JONES, Thomas Mercer [1795-1868] (subject)
Manuscript letter, initialed, one page, 8vo, Dated Jan.4, 1950 on his personal letterhead, Toronto to Dr. [William Stewart] Wallace, Toronto. Initialed "T.A.R." (Thomas Arthur Reed). Approximatley 120 words providing historical information relating to Thomas Mercer Jones 1796-1868 who was a commissioner of the Canada Company and later a magistrate and bank manager in Goderich. Creased where folded. Very good condition....
Thomas Reed was a writer and musician.
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Price: $ 45 USD
#5095
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BELL, Alexander Graham [1847-1922] & BALDWIN, Frederick Walker "Casey" [1882-1948]
IMPORTANT CANADIAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION WITH SUPERB PROVENANCE
Collection of 11 glass plate photos (plates measure 81mm x 100mm) in this collection with all in fine condition except "June Bug" with two cracks.
These rare glass plates come from the earliest period of powered, heavier than air flight, from the aerial laboratory of an under-appreciated and highly significant early aviation pioneer, Alexander Graham Bell.
Accompanied by a letter of provenance note signed in 1995 by Casey Baldwin's grandson. Interesting to note that the famous Upper Canadian lawyer and reform leader, Robert Baldwin (1804-1858) is the grandfather of Casey (Fredrick Walker) Baldwin....
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Price: $ 5,000 USD
#3443
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JENKINS, Charles Francis (1867-1934)
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 images:
* [Sybil Almand] transmitted Photograph circa 1923: 4-1/2 x 2-13/16 inches, image 3-3/8 x 2-3/8 inches.
* Capt Kurado transmitted Photograph circa 1923:
2-13/16 x 3-7/16 inches, closed tear in blank space to right of text 5/8 inches long...
There is one original in the Library of Congress in the copyright collection and seven other Radiovision with the same provenance as ours, now in a private television museum. We know of no others in public or private collections.
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Price: $ 3,500 USD
#3504
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BARTLETT, W[illiam] H[enry] [1809 - 1854] & WILLIS, N[athaniel] P[arker] [1806 - 1867]
SCARCE COLOURED COPY
1842. First edition. 2 Volumes. 10-1/2 x 8 inches. Vol.1; 2 p.l., 128pp. contains frontispiece portrait of W.H. Bartlett, title page with an engraved vignette titled "Wigwam in the Forest", and a general map of Canada ; Vol.2; 2 p.l., 116pp. includes engraved frontispiece entitled "Montreal from the Mountain", and title page with engraved vignette entitled "The horse-shoe falls"
The engravings were done by Willis Cousen and others. In total, there are 119 steel-engraved plates as called for (64 ; 55), all of which, except the map, are hand-coloured, each tissue covered. All hand-colored plates, are generally clean except a relatively small number of plates in both volumes with spotting and some marks primarily outside the plate area...
Price: $ 2,100 USD #7476
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HERIOT, George [1766-1844] & BIDDLE, Moncure (1882-1956) (provenance)
1807. London, Printed for Richard Phillips
Condition overall is very good. A very nice copy.
First edition, first printing. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. xii errata, [ 1]- 602pp., [10] plate list & 9 ads. Likely early 20th century contemporary 3/4 brown leather and marbled paper boards.
Complete with all plates called for including 27 plates - 26 sepia aquatints (6 folding) & 1 line engraving of moose and a folding hand-coloured engraved map of the St. Lawrence.
The charming plates include: Views of Quebec taken from Port Levi (folding frontispiece); The Azores; View of St. Paul's Bay; Quebec from Cape Diamond; Quebec from Beauport; Falls of Montmorenci;
'the earliest and the most important aquatint book published on Canada'. Sabin 31489.
"Illustrated books on North America are curiously few in the period with which we deal. By far the most interesting is Heriot's Travels Through The Canadas." - Prideaux, p.254-55...
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Price: $ 3,500 USD
#7478
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RAMSAY, George, 9th Earl of Dalhousie [1770-1838]
1824-29. Québec, Thomas Cary, George-Paschal Desbarats
VERY RARE CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS WITH SUPERB PROVENANCE.
The Quebec Mercury with The Quebec Gazette In eight volumes;
published by [Cary, Thomas] & [Brown, William]
The Quebec Gazette, 1823-26, 3 bound volumes: One hundred and sixty-four issues bound in three volumes
The Quebec Mercury, 5 bound volumes: Five hundred and fifty-one issues bound in five volumes...
These now rare and historically important Canadian printed newspapers include many laws and legal issues reported for the first time publicly relating primarily to Lower Canada. Add to this, the excellent provenance of Dalhousie who as the Governor -in-Chief of Canada (1819-28) the top "law maker" in Canada. A beautiful set in very good+ condition!
The Lord Dalhousie provenance has an additional collection attraction beyond the obvious importance and rarity of these volumes relating to Canada's early history. Dalhousie is considered the first patron of the arts in Canada.
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Price: $ 19,000 USD #3533
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COCHRANE, A.F (Midshipman)
6 volumes consisting of logbooks and diaries with many illustrations and b&w photos. 1904-1912.
Unpaginated. 33 cm. Over 260 attractive colour maps, diagrams, drawings and b&w photos. First two volumes consist mainly of hand-drawn maps and drawings while the latter volumes are illustrated with photos. 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...
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...
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Price: $ 15,000 USD
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REEVES, John [1752-1829]
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, JOHN REEVES!
1793.
London, published by J. Sewell, Cornhill
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...
In 1978 Keith Matthews argued that Reeves's work, the "first published identification of the West Country merchants with villainy, had been read and broadly accepted by every recent historian."
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Price: $ 2,200 USD
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JONES, Charles Henry (1837-1911) & JONES, Jehu Glancy (1811-1878)
1759.
London, printed for D. Henry and R. Cave at St. John's Gate
8¼ x 5 inches, [2 blank, 6,[3]- 643, [17 index] pp. Full leather, with original spine, 5 raised bands, red leather label with gilt type...
All 23 maps and plates called for present and complete thus with three examples shown here;
1) An Authentic Plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery to the Falls of Montmorency. (Wolfe, the taking of Québec in 1759)
2) A map of the Country between Crown Point and Fort Edward, showing Ticonderoga and Lake George
3) A map of the Island of Orleans with the Environs of Quebec.
The October 1759 magazine is a very historic Canadiana issue month, including four articles; 1. General Wolf'e's letter to Sec. Pitt on the taking of Quebec, 2. Proceedings of the army before the Taking of Quebec, 3. Brig. Gen. Townsend's account of defeating the French Army, 4. Articles of Capitulation, Lists of the guns, military stores, &c in Quebec.
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Price: $ 975 USD
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EVELYN, John (1620-1706)
1664.
London, Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry,
First edition. (folio, 295 ×185 mm). Bound in contemporary full calf... other than described in listing, overall very good condition...
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.
[16], 120, [2], 4, [2], 5-40, [2], 41-50, [2], 55-83, [3] pp.: Title in red and black with engraved arms, woodcuts. with errata and imprimatur leaves.
3 parts in one vol. Sylva, or, A discourse of forest trees.
Stored in a buckram box, marbled end papers, with an ornamental, leafy leather spine label on the box.
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Price: $ 4,700 USD
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1859. London, Aurthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. 25 Paternoster
Uncommon 2nd edition
Original publisher's camel coloured cloth lettered and decorated gilt on spine, with blind-stamped covers. , Small 8vo. Pages:: xi, [1blank], [1]-344, [2]. appendix, 347-362p., 18pp ads. [12] leaves of plates, incl. frontispiece : With 16pp publishers' catalogue at rear. Frontis and 12 engravings. Neat name on front endpaper. New joints, linings, and headcaps repaired. Very clean and a very good pleasing copy.
Written after The Backwoods of Canada (1836), it is her second Canadian book.
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Price: $ 275 USD
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House of Assembly of Lower Canada
1834. Québec, Printed and sold by W. Neilson
Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. From the 7th January to the 18th March, 1834... Quebec: c.1834. 17-3/4 x 10-7/8 inches, New leather spine with gilt type preserving original blue boards quite worn, new end papers, 495 pp.[1], 67pp. index [1]. Content on Canadian laws and political matters.
Ex-library with only marking on English title page having a small perforated Library name. Occasional light stains and paper with old impression (blank) marks. Text in English and French. Otherwise, very good or better of a scarce title. Large and heavy book.
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[CANADIAN Illustrated News Periodical]
3rd edition, viii, [9]-201pp. 7-1/8 x 4-3/4 inches. viii, [9]-201pp. Red pictorial cloth with black and gilt type on spine and front boards. Backboard with stain, crushed spine ends. Internally very good condition. Overall condition would be rated very good.
Inscribed and signed by editor.
Rev. Elam Rush Stimson was Church of England clergyman and was editor of the Church Herald (Toronto). He was minister from 1859 to 1864 at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. He is buried in the St. George United Cemetery, St. George, Brant Co., Ontario.
Price: $ 125 USD
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BRETON, M. (translated by)
1805. NP, Printed by Guilleminet
"Collection of Interesting Voyages in all parts of the world for the instruction and amusement of the youth (...)" traduit de l'allemand et de l'anglois par M. Breton.
Two (2) books bound together in the same volume. Troisieme Annee - Tomes onzieme & douzieme (Year IV - Volumes XI & XII). Published by J. E. Gabriel Dufour in Paris / Amsterdam during the year MDCCCV (1805 - An XIII). Printed by Guilleminet. Illustrated with a fold-out map entitled "Europe partie septentrionale par Herisson, geographe" (created by Beauble fils, dimensions: 21 x 33.5 cm / handcoloured outlines), as well as with an engraving placed as a frontispiece (legend: "Enlevement du jeune prince Ivan III par ordre de l'Imperatrice Elizabeth").
2 volumes in one. 3 x 5 inches. Text in french. 458 pages in total (4), map, ([1]-224pp, 14p.; (5), [1]-219pp). Full leather binding. Gilt ornaments on spine. Good condition overall.
A 15-page catalogue displaying the list of subscribers can be found the volume's end...
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Price: $ 95 USD #7373
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LAURIE, Major General [John Wimburn], (1835-1912) & RIEL, Louis David [1844 -1885] (subject)
1887. Ottawa, Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co.
Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. 38pp. Softcovers, bound as issued in the original printed self-wrap. The stitching if broken and the book is thus disbound and lacking the rear wrap which had no printing on it. 38 pages (of 39 pages). Page 39 is missing which a full page chart labeled F [not unlike the charts on pages 36 & 37. "Supplies taken north from Moose Jaw...". Considered good condition overall...
This pamphlet addresses the Riel Rebellion of 1885.
Price: $ 60 USD #1343
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STREET, Alfred B[illigs]. [1811-1881]
1866. Albany, Joel Munsell
xiv, 2, [3]-324pp. 2 blank. Large paper edition. Rebacked preserving the original gilt decorated green cloth spine, top-edge gilt, and new endpapers. Nice steel engraved portrait of the author, Alfred Street with his printed signature, opposite colour title page. Attractive special coloured printed engraved title page and wide-margined pages. Internally clean. Boards with some light marks and single inked catalog number at base of spine but faded and covered over,otherwise in very good condition.
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Price: $ 50 USD #1283
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GARVIN, J.W. (John William) (1859-1935) & CRAWFORD, Isabella Valancy [1850 - 1887] subject
1905. Toronto, William Briggs
4-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches, (3 including tissue guarded portrait plate), 309pp., original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and perimeter gilt rules. New endpapers. Cover a little marked and a dent in the top board, otherwise in very good condition. 86 poems.
With introduction by Ethelwyn Wetherald, Author of The House of the Trees, Tangled in Stars, The Radiant Road, etc., etc. This volume contains 86 poems of superior merit of which 52 appear for the first time in book form. Collected in Books I. through IV. which are: Book I.; Book II.; Blank Verse; and finally Dialect Verse. Contents pages are followed by a Page of Manuscript in Facsimile...
Price: $ 45 USD #1914
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METELLUS, Johannes, derived from & ACOSTA, J. DE
[1600]. Cologne, America sive Novis Orbis
SCARCE EDITION VERY EARLY MAP OF CENTRAL CANADA
Size: 6.7 x 8.5 inches. 17.0 x 21.5 cm. Uncoloured.
With wide margins. Paper very slightly age-toned. Very good condition. German text on verso. 1st German edition of this map.
This interesting map is a slightly reduced version of Cornelis Wytfliet's 1597 map of the same title.
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Price: $ 1,000 USD #0042
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HACHETTE, Louis Christophe Francois
1827. Condition: B+ Color: hand-coloured Size: 13.6 x 9.5 inches, 34.6 x 24.2 cm. Very nice example that is very good less a small area of toning in a blank area east of the Antilles. Upper margin is a little rough.
This finely engraved map reflects America's claim for the Louisiana Purchase reaching the Pacific Ocean and into British Columbia representing the Fifty-four Forty or Fight! dispute. The map illustrates the westward expansion period of the United States extending into present-day Canada in the Northwest, while Mexico still occupies California and the Southwest...
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Price: $ 245 USD #2563
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QUEBEC. Provincial Police Force. SURETE DU QUEBEC / QUEBEC POLICE FORCE & ROSE, Paul [1943-2013] (subject)
Police FLQ large bilingual wanted poster, overall 40.5 x 50.5 cm. (16 x 20 inches), 4 half-tone illustrations (portraits), one colour black, one side only, fine condition.
This FLQ wanted poster is an integral part and a scarce historical document associated with one of the most important events in Quebec and Canadian history...
Provenance: Owned by the police officer who arrested Paul Rose, Albert Lisacek (1933-2012). Lisacek, known either as Little Albert, or Kojak. "During his 25 years with the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police force, his questionable crime-fighting tactics, especially during the October Crisis in 1970, earned him a reputation as the toughest cop in the country." Quoted from Globe and Mail 2012 article.
Paul Rose was the leader of the Chenier cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), an armed group. On October 10, 1970, the cell kidnapped Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declared that any decision regarding the demands of the terrorists would be taken jointly by the federal government and the government of Quebec...
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Price: $ 2,200 USD #6769
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HABERMANN [HAVERMANN], F(ranz). Xaver). [1721 - 1796] & LEIZEIT, Balthasar Frederic - Engraved by
SCARCEST OF THE FIVE QUEBEC VUE D'OPTIQUE SERIES PRINTS
[1770]. ACADEMIE
This beautiful contemporary hand-coloured, engraved Quebec circa 1770 engraving is framed behind glass in an antique, slightly worn, wooden frame. Measurements including frame: 57 cm x 47 cm (22-1/2 x 18-1/2 inches. Image approximately 31 x 40 cm.
These prints offered middle and upper-class viewers in Europe a glimpse of far-off places as North America (Quebec, New York and Boston). As well, traveling vendors, went to fairs offering views of the images through the Optical Machine for a small fee to the very curious general public.
Price: $ 975 USD #7512
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STANLEY, Sir Frederick Arthur, 1st Baron Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby (Lord Stanley of Preston) [1841-1908] & WALTON, Charles William [Active 1872-1891]
[1880]. London, published by Morris & Co.,
RARE. WE CAN FIND NO OTHER COPIES OF THIS ENGRAVING.
No date but probably circa 1880 when he would be about 39 years old. [Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby].
"Lord Stanley" engraving London published by Morris & Co. 392 Strand W.C. Drawn by C.W. Walton. Paper size is 17-1/2 x 23-5/8 inches. Plate mark size is 10-1/2 x 13 inches. Image size is 5 x 7 inches.
Signature Imprint: Lord Stanley ( [facsimile signature] ) Stanley family motto, "Sans Changer" or without changing. Printed image of Lord Stanley with different toned white background is mounted on a larger heavier white sheet with black imprinting
Price: $ 1,900 USD #3439
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