Photo collection of 20 antique photographs dating from circa 1890s to 1920s, specifically 17 antique cabinet card photographs and 3 real photo postcards (priests or seminarians in cassocks)...

Séminaire de St. Hyacinthe, Quebec is one of the oldest secondary schools reserved exclusively for the education of boys. The Séminaire de St. Hyacinthe was founded in 1811 by Father Antoine Girouard....

This collection contains 16 items dating from 1886 to 1911, specifically 6 letters, 2 incomplete letters, 3 photo cards, 1 photo, 2 notes, 1 piece of sheet music, and 1 book.

George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades.

Weedon Grossmith was an English writer, painter, actor, and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) with his brother.

George Grossmith Jr. was an English actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies...

Small collection of 4 items dating from 1875 to early 1900’s, specifically 2 letters, 1 broadside and 1 book.

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Meynell was twice considered for the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom,...

Box 1, 1730-1798 - 13 case files containing:

518 pieces, - 77 ALS, 375 hand-written documents, 66 written receipts:

File 1 - Legal papers 1730 - 1779

File 2- Legal papers 1780 – 1789

File 3- Legal papers 1790

File 4- Legal papers 1791

File 5- Legal papers 1792

File 6- Legal papers 1793

File 7- Legal papers 1794

File 8- Legal papers 1795

File 9- Legal papers 1796

File 10 -Legal papers 1796

File 11- Legal papers 1797

File 12- Marie J Gabrion Rape Case 1798

File 13- Legal papers 1798...

The collection contains 30 items dating from 1937 to 1966 specifically, 28 letters, 1 typed statement and 1 autograph on note.

Dame Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. ...

The collection contains 4 items dating from 1931 to 1939 specifically, 1 letter and 3 books.

Irène Némirovsky born in Kiev, Ukraine was a novelist who lived most of her life in France after her family went into exile after the Russian Revolution. Although she wrote in French, she was denied French citizenship...

The collection dates from 1888 to 1892, and contains 16 items, specifically, 1 letter, 1 book, and 14 issues of two magazines.

Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist, best known for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), in which a Boston gentleman is placed in a trance in 1887, awakens in the year 2000, and is transported from a world of war and want to one of peace and plenty...

The collection contains 12 items dating from 1875 to 1909, specifically, 1 manuscript petition, 5 letters, and 5 letters and 1 printed forms with biographical information in manuscript.

Henry J. Morgan was a Canadian civil servant, lawyer, and author, best known for publishing collections of biographical sketches of notable Canadians such as Sketches of Celebrated Canadians, Bibliotheca Canadensis, and The Canadian Men and Women of the Time....

John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Lorne collection includes 26 items dating from 1868 to 1911 specifically, 7 holograph letters, 2 holograph ephemera and 17 Albumen Photo Cards (all CVD’s except one signed Cabinet Card)

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. The marriage was not a success, partly due to the fact that the groom was gay...

The collection contains 17 items in total: 2 signed manuscripts of poems; 13 Autographed Letters Signed and 3 Ephemera all covering time from 1895 to 1910.

Austin Alfred was an English critic, novelist and political journalist and appointed UK Poet Laureate in 1896. "He was included in a famous anthology of bad poetry, but the kind view is that at his best he was ‘a true but not a great poet." quoted from The Thoresby Society, The Leeds Library...

5-1/4 x 8-1/2 inches. Rustic green cloth book bound with two rare titles;

#1) The Law of 1863 relating to Roman Catholic separate schools in Upper Canada : together with extracts from the Common School Acts, departmental regulations, &c., affecting the Roman Catholic separate schools.

bound with

#2) Ontario and Manitoba. Anonymous, written by "A Canadian who has visited Manitoba to Discover the Truth" 1872 - 6pp., Pamphlet on the North West Rebellion. A Métis uprising led to the formation of Manitoba in 1870. In 1873, the Government of Canada established the North-West Mounted Police to police the NWT. ...

First edition. [6], [1]-182 pp., 5 x 8-1/4 inches. Original worn quarter leather binding with worn marbled boards, corners bumped, small piece missing from the top of the spine, an ex-library copy in good condition nonetheless.

First edition and only volume published. According to Casselman and Morley, this was only the third book to be copyrighted in the province of Canada. First published in the New Era or Canadian chronicle, v.2, no. 1-15, Mar.2-July 22, 1842.

An important work for the history of the War of 1812 from a Canadian viewpoint, ...

L'espion americain en Europe, ou lettres illinoises, qui renferment quantiteì d'anecdotes amusantes et instructives suivies d'un poëme intituleì la religion raisonnable. Par Mr. de V***. Londres: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1766.

First edition of the author’s first book. Text in French. [2], 332 pp., 8vo.; π1 A-U⁸ X⁶. Dark brown leather, gilt tooling on the spine, all edges stained red, slight damage at the top of the spine, corners bumped, previous owner’s name written on the title page...

Vol. 86, July to December 1759 (6 issues). Suite de la clef ou journal historique sur les matières du tems, contenant quelques nouvelles de littérature & autres remarques curieuses.

 480 pp.

On the English side their participation in the Seven Years’ War with General James Wolfe mentioned several times along with Generals Amherst, Murray, Johnson, Gage, and Stanwix and Admirals Saunders, Holmes, and Durell (Ticonderoga, Montreal, Niagara, Lake George, Pittsburgh, Ohio, etc.). Reference is made to 24 vessels of war and other transport vehicles under Wolfe’s command on the St. Lawrence River in the siege of Quebec (p. 59). Governor General Marquis de Vaudreuil and Marquis de Montcalm are stationed battle-ready in Quebec “avec une nombreuse garnison, qui a reçu depuis peu un convoi de 14 bâtiments chargés de vivres & munitions” (p. 231)....

William Doughtie A.R.C.A. was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1846 Edinburgh and came to Canada in 1870. He was a draftsman, painter, bookbinder and designer of textiles and wallcoverings.

10 Pencil Sketches:

At front of book;

• Large tissue paper with a number of pencil drawings. top: "thy face itself" 6 sets of drawings of animals and peoples faces that resembles those animals - Goose, Fox, Lio, Hog, Donkey and Cat?.

"Moods expressions" 10 drawings of people's faces that reflect their moods - Terror, Curiosity, credibility, distress, complacency, contempt. curiousity, contemplative and anger, attention, profound attention....

First edition, first printing, unrestored with ads. 7-5/8 x 5-1/4 inches. vi, 678pp., [8]ads, Dark blue cloth, original brown endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration...

This quite scarce, first printing of this classic of 19th century Canadian literature, an historical novel of Quebec. Possibly the most important novel in nineteenth century English-Canadian literature. Variant A binding with 8 ads: First text setting, Blue cover with black and gold; 8p of advertisements.  KR-1A.100...

Letters of a theologian to a bishop on this important issue if allowed to approve the Jesuits to preach and to confess increased again for a response to a prelate's refusal that Mr. Cardinal de Noailles made its powers to the Jesuits...

WITH THE ADDITION OF A FOUR PAGE SECTION FROM HIS OTHER BOOK, Canada under British rule (1760-1900), first edition, Toronto, The Copp Clark Company 1900. THIS ADDED SECTION OF A TITLE PAGE, FRONTICE PORTRAIT OF BOURINOT AND BLANK PAGE WITH AN AFFIXED AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) BY BOURINOT...

First edition. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. Original dark green cloth covers rebacked...

A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York from 1792 until 1833 and of Toronto from 1834 to 1893. Over 300 engravings of old houses, familiar faces and historic places, with maps and schedules connected with the local history of York and Toronto...

SCARCE EARLY WAR OF 1812 REPORTS ON GENERALS BROCK AND HULL 

Original and complete Issue of Niles' The Weekly Register dated Aug. 22, 1812. 16pp, p[401]-416, disbound.

Published from July 22, 1812, the Proclamation from Major-General Isaac Brock of Upper Canada on The Unprovoked Declaration of War By The United States. Very good condition....

First edition. 18, 4 p. 22 cm. Paper wraps. Disbound. Faint stain p. 16. Written by Lieut.-Governor Simcoe, in 1791, Prior to His Departure from England for the Purpose of Organizing the New Province of Upper Canada; to Which is Added Five Official Speeches Delivered by Him at the Opening or Closing of Parliament in the Same Province, with a Prefatory Notice by the Rev. Dr. Scadding. TPL 633

1876. London,T. Nelson and Sons

3rd edition. 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.

Two colour plates prior to title page, some light foxing on the preface page and the contents page but otherwise no foxing, Very good+ in original binding. ...

1903. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press First Edition. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches. iv, 126pp. Dark brown cloth cover with gilt type on spine and front cover. A signed note is pasted in the front fly leaf "with the compliments of the author SB Sinclar"

Very good condition.

Samuel Bower Sinclair, was a Vice-Principal Normal School, Ottawa, Canada when he wrote this book....

3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, tiny filing hole. Hotel Cecil, Strand W.C. [London] red embossed logo letterhead, 30 June 1902 Autograph Letter Signed Wilfrid Laurier, while in office as Prime Minister of Canada, to Sir Frederick Young, thanking him for the copy of his last book (probably Pioneer of Imperial. Federation in Canada 1902), and explaining that he and his wife are unable to accept Sir Frederick s courteous invitation due to "many engagements of an official character". PS with WL initials....

1888. Ottawa, Sandford Fleming

Autograph letter signed to Sir Frederick Young, Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute . Four pages, folded to 5 x 8 inches.

Dated Ottawa 10th March 1888. To Sir Frederick Young, secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute. Offering congratulations on his recognition by the Queen and congratulations on being awarded a knighthood, and his work on unifying the Dominions. Fleming defacto indicates his full support for the British Empire, imperialism and uniting the Empire....

9-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches. Autograph manuscript signed "Caroline Wilson." One page. dated February 7, 1839.

Draft of a poem titled Ex Gx or EG...died aged 18 years. Signed in fountain pen. The letter is neatly sewn, at the left edge, to 1/2 inch album page flap, small red was seal at top left half covered by this strip, otherwise very good condition.

Caroline Fry, later Mrs. Caroline Wilson can rightfully be considered a church theologian, a writer, a poet and a Christian educator...

Holograph 4pp. letter. Flat 7 x 8-7/8 inches folded to 7 x 4-1/4 inches. Dated 22 June 1846. To an unnamed recipient. It reads: "My dear Mr.P... Again, I am at your feet for aid - on Wednesday next I have to preside at the anti-slavery meeting and I shall be obliged to say something on the present state of slave track. 40,000 negroes carried yearly with Cuba.

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux. He was also a noted orator, wit, man of fashion, and an eccentric....

2pp. letter, 4-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Dated Oct. 28/(18)51 and from Trimont House (Hotel)

Rev. Dear Sir, I regret very much that I was not in the hotel when you did me the favour of calling; and yet more that it has not been within my power to return your visit. I hope you believe that I have only been prevented calling Rev. Tos A? Clinch in you by accept actions which though not matters of business I was not well able to set aside. I must even now leave many matter of untruth from instruction? with out examination....

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....

First edition. 1744 Scarce pre-French & Indian War map of Canada, from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario and including the Northern portion of New England. Size to neat-line: 22-1/4 x 16-1/2 inches. 35 rotted on it's side on the left side border outside the neat line confirming it is a first edition. "Debruslins Sculpsit" engraved below the neat-line at the bottom right.

Reference: Kershaw 490....

First edition, first state. [1744] Copperplate engraving. Paper flat size: 11-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches to neat-line with right border imprinted a sideways 14 and "Dheulland Sculp" engraved on bottom right. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified, with some faded old stains in the bottom 10%, and top left border strip 1/4 x 4 inches lacking, otherwise very good condition.

The map shows the city of Quebec, the St. Lawrence River and the St. Charles River. Various places of the city shown, such as the bishopric and the stewardship, with places numbered and listed to the right of the map. "Dheulland sculp" engraved below the neat-line at the bottom right.

References: Kershaw 1048 ; Toolley p.208-209...

[1789] Germany Klanber

Image: 42 x 58cm. (16-3/4 x 23 inches) Paper: 45.9 x 62.5 cm. (19-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches) circa 1789. Older coloured engraving by Theod. Falckeysen after the painting by Benjamin West. Type in center surrounding logo badly faded, in some cases unreadable. Soiling to paper edges and a few minor open paper edge tears on border not affecting image. Old paper repairs with one on border edge going into image 1/4 on the right side. Overall good+ condition. ...

The 1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the tenth Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in May 3–13, 1960 hosted by Prime Minister Maurice Harold Macmillan in the UK. The 1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ meeting may well prove to have initiated a new stage in Commonwealth development. This was the first Commonwealth conference since Malayan independence in August 1957....

First edition. 1791. London. Folio (11-1/2 inches). General title leaf imprint from series t.p., pages [1269]-1296. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headpiece ornament, and decorative initial. Text in black letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Very good. TPL 629

The bill was introduced in the House of Commons by William Pitt in March of 1791. The act was passed by the British Parliament on June 10, 1791, and was to take effect on December 26, 1791. This was a first step towards Canadian Confederation....

#1) État de la pêche de morue faite par les français en 1773. Liv. XVII. No. 1. Broadside. 245 × 445 mm.

#2) François Pascal Delattre. Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale, au nom du comité d'agriculture et de commerce, sur la pétition des pêcheurs françois, de pouvoir s'approvisionner de sel étranger. Paris: de l’Imprimerie Nationale, 1790. 15, [1] pp., no binding.

#3) Loi concernant la pêche de la morue & du hareng, & le commerce de ces denreìes donneìe a Paris, le 10 Avril 1791. Orléans: chez Jacob l’Aîné, Imprimerie du Deìpartement, 1791. No. 759. Bifolium, 3, [1] pp....

1823 Québec, The Executive Council, Castle of St. Lewis, Quebec

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Was folded, now flat. Pieces and sections of 15-3/4 x 12-3/4 inches. paper missing but no text, otherwise condition is good. Broadside proclamation to have lands escheated.

Printed in English and French in parallel columns. Castle of St. Lewis, Quebec, November 12, 1823 printed at top. 13 lines of English text and 14 lines of French text. At bottom, printed text; By Command of His Excellency the Governor in Chief, [who not identified, was The Earl of Dalhousie (1770-1838] Andrew W. Cochran, Secretary. ...

1849 document. 13-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches, was folded twice now flat, printed form with manuscript writing on both sides. faded seal on top right of one panel. Some agetoning of very light blue paper otherwise very good condition.

First Welland Regiment Military Commission bestowed upon Thomas C. Street by the Governor General of British North America, Nova Scotia, PEI, etc. - James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine & signed by him. - Thomas Clark Street, son of Samuel like his father was a ruthless land and mortgage accumulator and businessman with interests in grist, textile and sawmills. While independently minded he is generally considered a solid Family Compact Tory. He rose to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Welland Militia, was a trustee of Trinity College, President of the Niagara Falls Suspension Company, etc. When he died in 1872 he left an estate of between 3 to 4 million, regarded as the largest of his time in Ontario...

• #1) January 5, Front Page, c. 6 - "REVOLT IN CANADA" - letter from Lockport dated Dec.27. Concerning the armament of Navy Island and the insurrection in Upper Canada - 300 patriots under Duncombe at London - the only force In the province is now on Navy Island and Is 800-1000 strong under Van Rensselaer - Navy Island belongs to the Crown and is 1.5 miles above Chippewa - more on the Patriot force, militia, Indians, McNabb, a list of prisoners in jail for treason - late news from the 29th of increased forces opposite Navy Island with artillery, etc - 22 Column Inches ALSO, p. 3, c. 1 - "SPECIAL MESSAGE" of NY Governor W. L. Marcy dated Albany, January 2, 1838 about the invasion of New York by armed force from Upper Canada and the destruction of the Caroline - 9 Column Inches ALSO, p. 3, c. 4 - "SERIOUS ASPECT OF THE UPPER CANADA REVOLT" - letters and details on the Capture of the Caroline - 30 Column Inches ALSO, p. 3, c. 5 - "MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR HEAD" to the Parliament of Upper Canada on the progress of the revolt - 32 Column Inches...

War of 1812 - 39 issues from The Weekly Messenger, Boston, Massachusetts newspapers

About 60% with some written content descriptions, virtually all with some War of 1812 related content. The papers are in good to fair condition, heavy rag paper with foxing and some tears.

• 1813 May 28, P.3, col.3, - “GOOD NEWS” from the North-Western Army, Lower Sandusky. The enemy repulsed. General Harrison’s dispatch regarding the British defeat against General Proctor. P.3, col 4, - North-West Army. General Harrison’s account of the raising of the Siege of Fort Meigs story is lacking details such as the capture of 650 Kentucky Militia and defeat. 2 col. inches. P3, col. 4, “GENERAL STAFF” accounts of various regiments casualties. 4-1/2 col. inches...

43 issues from 1814 War of 1812 New England Palladium, Boston, newspapers. About 40% with some written content descriptions, virtually all with some War of 1812 related content. The papers are in only fair condition, heavy rag paper with foxing and tears.

• 1814 January 21 P1, col. 4&5, - ABSENT OFFICERS, ARMY and BRITISH NEAR DETROIT 15-1/2 col inches in total. P2, col. 4, - NEW YORK, MILITARY CONSCRIPTION. 7-1/2 col. inches...