Three related George Bruce owned items are included;

#1) 1861 Enfield Pattern 60 Antique Rifle made by Charles Reeves Co. UK

#2) c1865 Sniper glasses

#2) 1864 holograph 3pp. letter on University College letter..

Genevieve Taggard was an American poet of thirteen poetry collections.

The collection consists of 21 items dating from 1922 to 1939, specifically five letters and notes written by Taggard, five letters written by others related to Taggard, three books (two with ALS), a program, two B&W photos, and several news clippings....

Greenland missionary work collection contains 4 items dating from 1818 to 1954 specifically 3 books and one ALS letter...

Donald Grant Mitchell, pseudonym Ik Marvel, was an American essayist and novelist known for nostalgic, sentimental books on American life.

The Donald G. Mitchell Collection consists of 4 ALS, 1 Manuscript, 1 Signature, 1 ANS 1 CDV and 3 signed books with material dating from 1864 to 1907;...

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Henry Cockshutt, and family (his wife, Isabelle, and their daughters). An archive of social correspondence mainly to Isabelle Cockshutt but also to her husband, Henry Cockshutt (1868 - 1944), who was the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. ...

First Editions from 1933 to 1955. An interesting archive of five early titles in Spanish by the Cuban poet, translator, critic and scholar Eugenio Florit. 4 of 5 books inscribed to his friend and colleague, H. R. (Hoffman Reynolds) Hays...

This Early Niagara Falls Suspension & Clifton Suspension Bridge Archive / Collection of 15 items enables one to follow the evolution of some events along the NFSB & CSB growth and history during the 1847-53 period and after. Most items are rare to scarce and include the following items:...

Edward Everett Hale American author, historian, editor, social reformer, and Unitarian minister. He was a long term member of the American Antiquarian Society. He is best remembered for his short story “The Man Without a Country.”

Collection includes 35 items dating from 1864 to 1917, specifically, 17 ALS, 2 partial ALS, 1 TLS, 1 ledger account book, 4 books with ALS in one, 2 photos and 7 Ephemera....

Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, lawyer. After the Clemens family moved to Hartford in 1871, Warner and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) became friends, and collaborated on The Gilded Age (1873–74)...

The collection consists of 16 items in total dating from 1863 to 1894, specifically, 10 letters, 5 signatures on cards or paper, and 1 book...

Thomas Keneally is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright and author. He won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List.

The collection contains 18 items dating from 1972 to 1993, specifically, 5 letters, 3 cards, 2 commemorative envelopes, and 8 books....

1839. First folio UK complete edition. 8-1/4 x 13-1/4 inches. House of Commons, London, 1839. [11 Feb. 1839]. Inside pages uncut (deckled edges) and bound in new half tan calf, red morocco label, raised bands new end papers and marbled boards with age-toned paper with very light spotting, otherwise in very good condition...

1852. First UK edition. 2 volumes, 20cm, Vol. 1; [2] (prelim ads.)xx,[1]-293,[1],[2 ads]. Vol. 2; [4], [1]-294, [2 ads].

In the original extra blind decorated green cloth, pictorial gilt decorations on the upper covers, gilt titles and decorations on the spines, stamping faded, corners and spine crushed. Hinges are cracked on both volumes...

Still, a good set in original unrestored green cloth binding of the first UK edition.

Susanna Moodie wrote these series of twenty-eight sketches, based on her difficult experiences and what to share these, thus she was "prompted by the hope of deterring well-educated people, about to settle in this colony,...

1857. 7th edition, enlarged. 12mo., 4.25 in x 7.5 in, xi, [1], [13]-218pp., 1[14], 40, 1(blank), [48]pp. 8vo, scarce in original brown boards, 2 plates, 5 illustrations (including 1 diagram). Very worn on the Spine with torn paper labels with words Settler’s Guide.

Classic work aimed at the woman emigrating from Britain to Canada, based upon the experiences of Traill, who by this point had spent over 25 years in 'the backwoods of Canada'. ...

[1846] & 1860. 2 volumes in one. 9cm x 14cm, (3-5/8” x 5-5/8”), Backwoods circa 1846 iv,prelims,[1] illust.list, [9]-233pp., [1]blank, 235-242pp.; [Bound with] Oregon 1860, [6]prelims, [7]-237pp., [1]ad.

Original soiled blue boards with gilt stamping on type on spine and people in a sleigh on the front cover and gilt page edges. Backwoods with 12 wood cut illustrations (all called for) plus Niagara Falls from the Ferry engraving at front....

An excellent complete copy of an 1866 book about Susanna Moodie’s husband, John W.D. Moodie.

1866. First edition. 4-1/8 x 6-3/4 inches, xvii, [1]poem, [19]-299pp., Actual photograph of Mr. Moodie affixed in inside front page by publisher as frontispiece portrait. Rebacked with new cloth spine and paper label and end papers preserving the original brown embossed cloth on front and back. Gilt type on front boards. Inside pages are very clean. Overall condition is near fine. ...

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.

1841. First UK edition. xxiv, 110 p. ; 18 cm. Orig. cloth. From the Pickering Collection of Bernard Warrington, with his bookplate, believed only 500 copies of this printed and scarce....

R.E. Lee states “It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.”

[1829]. 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....

1801. First edition. 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches, Bound in a contemporary Full marbled leather binding with gilt decorated spine, there is some loss to the leather at top of rear board and inside pages agetoned, .

From a collected work of accounts...

1) Travels Through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797

By Isaac Weld (8), [1]-126pp. Two plates.

2) Travels through the United States of North America, the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada.

By the Duke de La Rochefoucault Liancourt. [127]-279pp,(1).

1853. First edition. 5 x 8 inches. (7)[5]-298pp. New leather spine with 5 bands and gilt type on leather label, new marbled paper over boards and new endpapers.

With much moralistic poetry penned by such writers as Mrs. Elizabeth Eames, Rev. Bro. Nelson Brown, J.R. Thompson, J.C. Hagen, and others; short stories written by P.G. Benson J. Lossing, Mrs. M.L. Gardner, E. Louisa Mather and others; and a biographical sketch of William W. Moore, Grand Sire. J.W. Dunbar Moodie, husband of Susanna Moodie, with his poem "Song of Praise to the Creator" on page 223/224 of Canadian interest.

1894. First Edition. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. (4),xxxvi, [37]-241pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth binding with silver stamped floral design and title lettering, floral endpapers.

Catharine Parr Traill was a Canadian naturalist who also wrote: "The backwoods of Canada: Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer"; "Canadian Wildflowers"; "Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains"; etc.

Contents of this book include: sunrise and sunset on Lake Ontario; the English sparrow, a defence; the spider; in the Canadian woods; alone in the forest; on the island of Minnewawa...

1881. Later US edition. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, Rebacked preserving original brown cloth spine, front and back boards. Black and faded gilt type on soiled boards. New endpapers. (6), [5]-240pp. Nice woodcut full title page illustration of two squirrels. Inside pages age toned pages. Overall condition is Good+...

1840. First edition. 4-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. , 1 v. (various pagings), ii, 7, 14, 32, 36, 24, 8, 8, 29. New burgandary cloth covers with gilt type on spine, new end papers. Collection of eight reports or relations each one having their own pagination.

 Eight reports content titles:

1. Mémoire sur l’état présent du Canada, attribué à M. Talon, 7 p.

2. Mémoire sur le Canada (1736), attribué à M. Hocquart, 14 p.

3. Considérations sur l'état présent du Canada (1758), 29 p.

4. Histoire du Canada par M. l'abbé de Belmont, 36 p.

5. Relation du siège de Québec en 1759 par une religieuse de l'Hôpital Général de Québec, 24 p.

6. Jugement impartial[4] sur les opérations militaires de la Campagne en Canada en 1759, 8 p.

7. Reflexions sommaires sur le commerce qui s'est fait en Canada, 8 p.

8. Histoire de Veau de vie en Canada, 29 p.....

INTERESTING & HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN LETTER

North Fork, C[reek] N[ation], 1 March 1870. Quarto (24,5x19,5 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on creamy lined laid paper, bind stamped monogram in the left upper corner. Written in a legible hand. Fold marks, a couple of minor splits on outer folds, but overall a very good letter.

letter revealing the thoughts of an influential Creek Nation public figure on the approaching changes in the federal administration of the Indian Territory. In spite of a series of protests by the Native Americans, the Indian Appropriations Act, which was to be signed a year later (March 1871), abolished the system of treaties between them and the government, declaring that "no Indian nation or tribe" would be recognized "as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty."

Dated 9th December, 1828, [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 and signed by James Kempt Com'r of the Forces.'...

23.7cm x 17.7cm (8-1/2" x 7 inches), The Rainbow; 3pp. manuscript poem, titled, dated (1820) and signed.

John Holland was an English poet and newspaper editor of the Sheffield Iris and co-editor of the Sheffield Mercury. Throughout his journalistic life, he wrote numerous works on botany, geology, local history and topography, in addition to biographies and sermons. ...

Journal kept by S. Pendleton, of Isleboro Maine, first the mate and later the Captain. Seaman's Journal of a Voyage (log book), the Brig Annandale of Camden, Maine, commencing 3 December 1851 and ending 22 November 1853. 3 additional entries on last leaf for 23-5 November 1853. [166 pp.].

The U.S. brig ANNANDALE was built at Lincolnville, Maine, in 1846, and was registered at Boston, Massachusetts, at 177 tons. brig ANNANDALE was registered at Boston, Massachusetts, at 177 tons...

Customs in the Port of Toronto, sent to William Morris, Receiver General, Montreal. Folio, one page, Toronto to Montreal,

Robert Stanton was a businessman, public servant, publisher and a prominent member of the Family Compact....

1883. First edition Size : 52-1/2 x 40 inches. Hand-colored. Various tears at folds, no loss of paper, otherwise good condition. Includes table of distances; key to 4 types of telegraph lines. Scale [ca. 1:703 000], (W 140°--W 52°/N 58°--N 41°). Depths shown by soundings.

A large scale wall map of Newfoundland, the Maritime Provinces, and Quebec east of Montreal. All telegraph lines, both submarine and land, are shown and identified by nationality...

Ellen Terry was an English stage actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. She is considered greatest English actress of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Circa 1886. Portrait of Ellen Terry 24.5cm x 16.5cm (9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches)

Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn famous silver gelatin portrait of Ellen Terry circa 1886 originally owned by listed American illustrator Artist Eric (Federic) Pape (1870-1938) and later from recent previous owner, Warren Coolidge ...

Large silver gelatin photograph of Derek Walcott and Ben Okri by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies, three-quarter length, both seated, smiling at one another. Douglas-Menzies' label on verso with details of the shoot, 128 Kensington Church Street, Date: 2004.

Paper size: 15 x 13-1/2 inches

Image size: 10 x 10-1/2 inches

Fine condition...

Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucia poet and playwright. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 was awarded to him

Ben Okri is a Nigerian novelist, poet, and essayist.

His honors include an OBE, Italy’s Premio Palmi and Premio Grinzane Cavour, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award...

Large silver gelatin portrait photograph of George Barker by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies head and shoulders, looking into the camera, photographer's label on verso with details of the shoot, Norfolk, March 1990.

Paper size: 16 x 12 inches

Image size: 14-1/2 x 11 inches

Fine condition.

George Granville Baker was a British Catholic author and poet. He wrote Poems (1935), with the support of T.S. Eliot. ...

6-1/2 x 8 inches sheet (engraved image size is 3-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches.

In very good+, clean condition with attractive full hand colour.

A fine 18th century [1719] birds-eye view of Quebec, by A.M. Mallet. Mallet was a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century Paris under King Louis XIV. ...

Six hand-coloured views of residences and street scenes in Quebec:

(3) Huntingdon,

(1) Clarenceville

(2) Stanstead. 

From a circa 1881 Belden Co. County printed Atlas. Each image has been trimmed and mounted on a light white card. Hand coloured, some light foxing otherwise, very good condition. Sizes vary....

Circa 1760. Very early edition. This hand-coloured engraving was trimmed to the edges, 11-1/2 x 17-3/8 inches and mounted to a dark card stock. The English only title was mounted on the reverse on the reverse of the dark mounted card. 

Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yd John

Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck

Heny. Parker & Eliz. Baken'ell..

Broadside. 1837. First edition.

Caption Title. To the Honorable the House of Commons House of Assembly. Submitted by and with printed signature of Wm. H. Draper. 7-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches (was folded). 1 leaf. January 11, 1837. Disbound, small holes in margin folds, and light creases , otherwise very good condition.

Ref: Fleming: UC Imprints 1172, p.309...

8 x 10 inches, 4pp House of Commons Canada letterhead, Ottawa, February 25th, 1914. Only first page typed and signed. Last page handwritten is 25th of February 1914 Sir Wilfrid Laurier Lord Strathcona dead.

An answer to Lady Strathcona, relating to the death of Lord Strathcona. Isabella Sophia Hardisty (1825–1913) became Isabella Sophia, Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal was Lord Stathcona's wife and they had one child, a girl, Margaret Charlotte Smith [Howard] (1854-1926)....

First edition. [Caption title]. Population of Upper and Lower Canada according to returns (1851-52).

Folded Table, 20-1/2 x 7 inches Disbound, small holes in margin, small repairs, otherwise good condition.

Census of 1851.

This census includes Canada East (Quebec), Canada West (Ontario), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia....

RARE - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY FOUND

Quarto, 9 p. Disbound, small holes and tears in margin. Signed by R. Bell on top of back page.

No. 224. 2nd Session, 6th Parliament, 22 Victoria, 1859 "(Private Bill.)"...

Most interesting history of the Ottawa Valley Railway Company starting with this Bill in 1859 to be discovered...

First CDN edition. A Bill (as amended for the Committee) for uniting the Legislatures of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada. (London), The House of Commons, 1822.

Quarto, 9, [1] pages, stitched. British Parliamentary Paper #616. 

[York] : Printed by Charles Fothergill, 1822

"31 July, 1922" at head of caption title. At head of title on page 9 verso: 3 Geo. IV. Sess. 1822.

Charles Fothergill (1782-1840) was a businessman, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada. In 1822, he was appointed King's Printer and moved to York (Toronto)..