Jacques Mikaël Der Mikaëlian, better known as Jacques Hélian was a famous French big-band orchestra conductor for French music-hall. After the liberation of France from Nazi occupation, he was very popular. Between 1945 and 1949, he recorded more than 70 songs for Columbia Records.

The collection contains 6 items dating from circa 1950 specifically 1 Manuscript, 3 B&w signed photos and 1 poster....

Faith Baldwin was a U.S. author of romance and fiction, publishing some 100 novels, often concentrating on women. The New York Times wrote that her books had "never a pretense at literary significance" and were popular because they "enabled lonely working people, young and old, to identify with her glamorous and wealthy characters.

The collection has 16 item dating from 1913 to 1971, specifically 8 cards, 3 letters, 2 photos, 1 typescript, 1 designed custom postal order, and 1 book....

This archive collection contains 37 items dating from 1832 to 1919, specifically 24+ letters, 6 photos, and other pieces of ephemera. Although some documents have folds, stains, tears and nicks, most of the material is in good condition.

These family archives which originate in Scotland pertain to immigration and settlement in southern Ontario, Canada (Brant County and Chatham) and the USA (Pennsylvania and Texas)....

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (b.1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist...

The collection contains 51 items dating from 1975 to 2019 specifically 1 signed book, 49 photos, and 1 program...

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE, usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Caine's popularity during his lifetime was unprecedented.

Collection contains 26 items dating from 1889-1931, specifically, 14 Autographed Letters Signed, 2 Typed Letters Signed, 1 B&w photo signed and 9 Ephemera...

1756. First edition. Six letters from A-d B-r ... 5 x 8 inches. (2), 101pp., (1). Disbound lacking the half-title. Six letters from A-d B-r to Father Sheldon’ was an attack on Archibald Bower by Bishop John Douglas...

bound with;

1756. First edition. Mr. Bower's Affidavit. 49pp., lacking the title page. [London : printed for W. Sandby] Mr. Archibald Bower’s affidavit in answer to the false accusation brought against him by papists...

1757. First edition. (4) 35pp 4-3/4 x 8 inches. Disbound with a half-title

Robert Bertie of Chislehurst in Kent was the 5th son of the Duke of Ancaster...

Contains a letter inquiring into the misconduct of Lord Robert Bertie and his involvement in defeat after the British Navy failed to relieve Minorca from a French siege, Admiral Byng was executed on his own quarter deck for this defeat.

1962. 5 x 8 inches. vi, [7]-95pp. Original green cloth boards with gold type on spine. Scuffing marks to front board. Overall very good condition.

South Australian Facsimile Edition No. 30. Photocopies from the original book published in 1839. All pages are copied on 4pp sheets and folded in book so each page is untrimmed as a two page section, complete, no missing pages....

1894. London, T. Nelson 4-3/4 x 7 inches, vii, 2 illust. list, [9]-p.185, 3pp. appendix. Illustrated with 19 illustrations. Original blue boards with gold and black type. Gold stamped illustration on spine and front cover. Spine edges and corners mildly rubbed. Inside very clean. Very good+ condition....

1887. Albany, Joel Munsell’s Son’s

The historical writings of the late Orsamus H. Marshall relating to the early history of the West. Contents;

Introduction. ; A sketch of some of the Indian tribes which formerly dwelt on the borders of the Great Lakes. ; Champlain's expedition against the Onondagas in 1615. ;...

1842. New York, G. Lane & P.P. Sandford,

First edition. 3-3/4 x 5-7/8 inches. 6 wood-engraved frontis, title page,[5]-208pp. Original broth cloth with gilt type on spine and blind embossed two rectangles on front and back covers. Spine ends and corners worn. Insides are agetoned and light foxing with minor dampstaining including frontispiece and title page. A good copy....

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. Original dark brown end papers with previous owners name barely visible...

“The novel's action takes place just before the fall of New France, when the supporters of the popular Chien d'Or trading house, headed by the bourgeois Philibert, struggle against the decadent and corrupt Grand Company of the Intendant BIGOT.

[1860]. Maclear & Co.

First edition. 14 x 19 inches open and 7 x 4-1/4 inched folded. Was folded now flat with archival tape at the folds and very small bottom left corner lacking on this fragile paper map, otherwise good condition.

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

Original Hand Color. Size 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 (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....

Coloured print, Paper: 29-3/4 x 22-1/2 inches. Image: 25 x 17 inches. Variation graphics reprint done probably the mid twentieth century (circa 1960) from the original 1756 engraving. Near fine condition. The Great Harry man-of-war, the largest ship in the world in the reign of Henry VIII...

1830. London, Gentleman’s Magazine of Fashions

Paper size: 8-7/8 x 12 inches. Image size: 3-1/4 x 8 inches.

Heavy card stock a little yellowed with age and some very light soiling but hand colouring is strong - very good condition.

Antique print of British officer in full dress uniform....

1844. [London, Great Britain. Colonial Office]

First edition. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be printed, 21 May 1844. Parliamentary Paper no 304, 21 May 1844, 3 pages. Good condition, disbound, some smudges. Scare legal document.

All the charges incurred during those years for the Army, Navy, Ordnance and Commissariat in the Canadas in consequence of the Rebellion..

Parliamentary Paper No. 54, 25 February 1839. At foot of t.p.: "524."

19 [1] pages. pages loose and some smudges otherwise, good condition.

TPL 2149

An exceptionally important document detailing 885 persons arrested for high treason in connection with the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada, including those executed and those transported to prison colonies. ...

Memorandum addressed by Sir Francis Head to Lord Glenelg, dated the 21st day of May last.

Parliamentary Paper no 516.

6 pages. Very good condition.

Signed and dated (p. [1]): Colonial Office, Downing-street, 19 June 1838. G. Grey. "Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 18 June 1838.

Memorandum addressed to Lord Glenelg (Secretary of State for Colonies during the Rebellion) by Sir Francis Head (Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1837) in which he responded to five questions concerning measures he took to quell the rebellion in Upper Canada; ...

The Newport Mercury, October 12, 1811, four page newspaper.

Approximately 40 column inches in length describing why USA should be at war with the Britain. 4 pages, 12.5" x 19" deep, folded to 12.5" x 9.5" approximately. The pages have be torn apart along the 20" height in the centre leaving a ragged edge. No type is affected. Otherwise condition is good....