IMPORTANT CANADIAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION WITH SUPERB PROVENANCE  

These standard 3.25 x 4 inch glass-mounted lantern slides had likely been used as lecture slides by Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association group with some slides having applied labels with sequence numbers. Consequently all would be circa 1908 copy photographs rather than originals.

Includes the Glass Plate Photographs of The "Red Wing"  (The FIRST Successful Public Demonstration of an Airplane in North America) The "White Wing" FIRST Airplane equipped with Ailerons and 3-wheel landing gear "June Bug" FIRST Airplane to fly a Kilometer in public and winner of the first Scientific American Air Prize. The Wright Glider  1908...

"In the history of effective flying the [Bell's Aerial Experiment] Association ranks in precedence next to the Wright Brothers." (Parkin, Bell and Baldwin, p.41).

These slides are from the estate of the first British subject to fly in a heavier than air powered aircraft, Casey Baldwin and stayed in his family (grandson) until 1995.
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Joseph Heller Collection. A signed typed photocopy manuscript of "Something Happened" and other ephemera including signed letters.

Joseph Heller was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His second novel, published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22 and spanning more than a decade writing was "Something Happened".
8-1/2 x 11 inches. Photocopy of a typescript of the novel "Something Happened" dated 1974 (numbered 812pp). Signed on title page and dated by Heller, 4/21/76, New York City and appears to have belonged to Heller himself.

Signed ts., 1 p. from Something Happened entitled "I Get the Willies".
The book, "Something Happened", had mixed reviews (even to this day) with this positive side of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's quote on October 6, 1974 The New York Times book Review..."Is this book any good? Yes. It is splendidly put together and hypnotic to read. It is as clear and hard-edged as a cut diamond. Mr. Heller's concentration and patience are so evident on every page that one can only say that "Something Happened" is at all points precisely what he hoped it would be. "

PLUS EPHEMERA of typed letters signed. Click on link below for full details of all TSL's and many more photos.
This collection is on consignment with LDRB.

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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.

The hand-written diaries dates from 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. Plus 3 Ashby related books.

The author, Douglas W. Ashby, was born in 1898 in Leicester, England. His father died when he was 6. His grandfather had a shoe and boot factory. In the First World War, Ashby served as a clerk in the Army Service Corps at Darby. He was demobbed in June 1918

Ashby was a serious traveller and wrote about his experiences in many one-of-a-kind lucid, informative and entertaining diaries. Click on the link below for much more information and photos of a most interesting set of unique travel diaries. This collection is on consignment with LDRB.

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8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. xiii, [1], 306 pp. Bound in in contemporary calf, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Professionally rebacked, occasional dark spots and rub marks to leather, faint foxing to endpapers (bookplate removed).

Contents Including: Camping Out On The St. Louis, Fond du Lac, An Indian Tomahawked, Immense burdens borne by Indians, Feast on "tender bar", Dexterity of voyageurs, their character and temperament, The Savannahs, The North west Trail, Savannah Lake, Prairie River, A Ride To The Indian Village Of Saugeen, A logging "bee", Saugeen, Rivalry of towns, Grand council of Indians, Indian trail, Land hunters, A Bark Canoe Voyage Down The Severn, Scenery about Lake Simcoe, Disenchantment, John Story, An Indian warrior's story, Dismal night, Sturgeon Bay, Penetanquishence, Collingwood, Sydenham, The Annual Distribution Of Indian Presents At Manitoulin, Georgian Bay, Physical aspect of Indians, Chebonaning, La Cloche, Bruce copper mines, Indian settlement on Garden River... Click on link below for more details and photos.

Price: $ 225 USD OR $ 300 CDN     #1585   

KIRKE, Henry [1842-1925]

London, Bemrose & Sons, 21 Paternoster Row ; and Derby 1871.
xi, [1]-227pp + [4pp pub. ads.]. Frontis. folding map, errata slip.  Original brown decorated cloth rebacked, gilt and black printed square design to front and back boards. Spine top on Vol. 2 missing 1/4 inch at top and bottom crushed and old library faded letter on spine. Brown end papers with bookplate removed from inside front endpaper. Old bookplate removed on front endpaper.  Good condition, clean insides.

The colonial history of Newfoundland, Acadia and Canada, based on previously unavailable documents from the Record Office in London.

Price: $ 150 USD OR $ 200 CDN     #0604  

LAWRENCE, Joseph Wilson [1818-1892]

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1883. First CDN edition. 8-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. vi, [1]-108pp, 11pp., [1]. map, 12 wood-engraved plates and several text illustrations. Royal blue cloth, decoration in gilt. Spine ends and corners worn. Front hinge cracked. The text bright and clean. The text bright and clean.  Signed , dated and inscribed by the author to his sister, " B.J. Lawrence from from her brother JW Lawrence July 7, 1883."  Superb association copy!

Important bonus of  ephemera inside including;
1) Flyer ad for this book, 1783-1883. Foot-Prints, 10 x 8 inches folded in half. Loose in the book.
2) Centennial ribbon, 1783-1883, for Arbor Day 4th Oct, 7-1/2 x 2-1/2 . Loose in the book.
3) Arbor Day Sept 1883 flyer 8-3/8 x 5-1/2 inches folded in half.  Loose in the book.
4) NBHS Centennial Harvest Festival 4pp flyer Oct. 4, 1883. 7-5/8 x 9 inches folded in half and affixed to the first blank in this book

Price: $ 175 USD OR $235 CDN        #1792  

[1759]. [Edinburgh Scots Magazine Sept. 1759]   QUITE SCARCE

1st UK  edition. Copper plate engraving. 7.5 x 10 inches. Was folded, now flat. Some small markings outside of border otherwise very good condition.Map maker: Andrew Bell   Sculpt: A. Bell
In addition to the main map, which traces the river from Anticosti Island to the city of Quebec, there is an included extension, A Continuation of the River St. Lawrence from Quebec to Lake Ontario. There are three additional insets: one focusing on the Bay of the Seven Isles, another on Lake Champlain, and The Traverse or Passage from Cape Torment into the South Channel of Orleans Isle. The river is filled with soundings, anchorages, shoals, rocks, and islands.    

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[1768]. [Uppsala, Sweden Andrew Akerman "Atlas Juvenilis,"]

Original Hand Color. Size 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 (in inches)  Condition good with some spotting, bottom margin cut close
Miniature map, by Andrew Akerman (1721-1778). He was primarily a globe maker, but did produce two recorded atlases in Uppsala, Sweden during 1768.
This  map of Italy offered here is from his unrecorded atlas, "Atlas Juvenilis," also produced in 1768.

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1826. London. Autograph Letter signed, dated Admiralty, May 18th, 1826, addressed to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fry, Newgate. 21 lines, 1 p., with conjugate address leaf, approx. 5x7 inches, hinged on the left with linen onto a larger album page, very good condition.

Letter of introduction: My dear friend, Permit me to have the pleasure of introducing to you the Miss Waldegraves, sisters of Lord Radstock, very pious amiable people, and very desirous of your personal acquaintance. The tickets which I deputed to Bichenda to ask you for were for these ladies, than whom I can assure you, few individuals will more rightly appreciate the privilege you have thus given them. I am my dear friend, with truest esteem, very sincerely yours, W. Parry."

The original Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada was founded in 1939 by Member of Parliament Agnes MacPhail

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1820. NP. 23.7cm x 17.7cm (8-1/2" x 7 inches), The Rainbow; 3pp. manuscript poem, titled, dated (1820) and signed. Agetoned and yellowed paper with page 3 having a 1/2 inch piece of paper missing on the bottom right, not affecting any manuscript, otherwise, very good condition. 

This early poem (1820) written by John Holland, caused great publication. Holland's poem "The Rainbow" (1820), published anonymously around the same time as one on the same subject by Thomas Campbell written in 1819 (To the Rainbow) and also published it in 1821 in The New Monthly Magazine. Holland's  poem, "The Rainbow"  with later publishing was frequently anthologised as Campbell's.
John Holland (was an English poet and newspaper editor of the Sheffield Iris and co-editor of the Sheffield Mercury.

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1762. Québec. Marriage contract (certified copy of), 3 ½ folio pages; Quebec, September 6, 1762. Seal of wax to the document. Near fine condition. Rare document drawn up in a few months of the transfer of New France to the English. Last marriage contract on August 3, 1747 between Jean Urbain Martel of Belleville (1708-Ca. 1764), director of the Forging mills of Saint-Maurice to Quebec, and young lady Elisabeth Gastin (she will die; the following year shortly after her first child), in the presence of Charles marquis de Beauharnois (1671-1749), "d' chief; squadron of the naval armies of its majesty, Governor and Lieutenant General for Roy in toutte New France and country of Louisiana", of Mgr Henry Marie de Breil de Pontbriant (1709-1860), bishop of Quebec and adviser of Roy, Gilles Hocquart (1694-1783), Intendant of justice, organizes and finances of New France and country of Louisiana (of 1729 to 1748), and of various parents and friends. Click the link below for many more details and more photos.

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KEMPT, General Sir James [c1765-1854]

EARLY 19TH EARLY COURT MARTIAL DOCUMENTS IN CANADA RARE  

1828. Québec. [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.

General Sir James Kempt, GCB was a British Army officer, who served in the Netherlands, Egypt, Italy, the Peninsula, and British North America during the Napoleonic Wars. He famously led a British brigade at the Battle of Waterloo and later became Governor General of Canada.
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MALLET, A(llain). M(anesson). [1630 - 1706] 

1685. Paris,Jean (Johann) David Zunner
The paper measures approx 8  x 6 inches, (20 cm x 15 cm). This nice copper plate engraving is  printed on one side only.  Good condition.

This engraving is from "Description De L' Univers, Contenant Les Differents Systemes Du Monde", by Allain Manesson Mallet, published by Jean David Zunner (Zunner, Johann David)  in Paris, 1685.
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 - 1706) was a French cartographer and engineer. He started his career as a soldier in the army of Louis XIV.

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HILLINGFORD, Robert Alexander (1828-1904) artist & WELLESLEY, Field Marshal Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington [ 1769-1852] subject  

[1890]. NP. [8]  (31.25 x 20.25 inches - full colour)  Circa 1890. Quite scarce Wellington chromo. Light vertical stain to top left (clouds) of image; colours otherwise quite vivid and in generally very good condition.

No printed details on image It almost appears as though this is a water colour, however it is printed by chromo lithograph and some hand-colour and varnish added after. Printed signature in the plate is   Robert Alexander Hillingford was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.Click the link below for many more details and more photos.

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[Tuskegee, 15 May 1912.] Letter by Booker T. Washington with his signature, requesting a contribution of tools for the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, addressed to Mr. J. T. McCready, a manufacturer in Ohio. 8vo. Single-leaf printed stationery from the Tuskegeee Institute, produced by the Strathmore Paper Company from Massachusetts, with watermark reading '[Parch]ment 1911 Strathmore'.
Leaf measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Very good condition. Together with relative ephemera from the period.

Original letter from Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegeee Institute for African Americans, and leading Black rights activist, signed in his hand, only three years prior to his death.

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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".

EPIC was "a Canada-wide Fabian-type society" sponsored by the Ontario Woodsworth Memorial Foundation, founded in November 1962.
In his book Teeth of Time: Remembering Pierre Elliot Trudeau (PET) Ramsay Cook 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! Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades.

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