175 pieces most pertaining to people who were in the fur trade: 21 ALS, 153 hand-written documents, 1 written receipt.

File 1 - Pattinson separation suit, 1801-2

File 2 - Pattinson vs. J.B. Castonguay, 1800

File 3 - Grant, Campion vs. Louis Cavilhe, merchant 1796-7

File 4 - James McGill, 1801-5

File 5 - John Stein Brook deposition, 1806

File 6 - McTavish, Frobisher vs. Louis Dumouchel , 1801

File 7 - James and John Finlay, 1787, 1800, 1805-7

File 8 - Cory family, 1793-5, 1800

File 9 - Nicholas Montour, 1795-8

File 10 - William Thorburn [of North West Company], 1803-4

File 11 - Charles Racette vs. Mrs. Coté, 1796

File 12 - McTavish, Frobisher & Co., 1799-1800, 1806-7

File 13 - J. Bleakley vs. C. Laframboise, 1801

File 14 Alexander Ellis Co., 1794-1800

File 15 William and John Grant, 1790. 1801

File 16 Dominique Rousseau, Joseph Bailly agreement, 1803

File 17 Abraham Cyler [Cuyler?] letter, 1775

File 18 Guillaume Chevalier de Lormier [Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier] (b1744-d1825), 1802-3...

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early 'modernist' literature - that is, experimental literature written during the first part of the twentieth century. He is one of the most influential, and most controversial poets of the twentieth-century however, Pound's antisemitism soured evaluation of his poetry.

The collection consists of 5 items dating from 1909 to 1979, specifically, 1 Autographed Letter Signed (ALS), 2 scarce association copies of private press books signed by Ezra Pound and 2 pieces of ephemera by Omar Shakespear Pound (1926-2010), Ezra Pound’s son....

This collection is comprised of 29 items dating from 1945 to 1997, specifically, 20 letters, 6 books, 1 manuscript, 1 card, and 1 news clippings.

Julian Gustave Symons was a British crime writer and poet who also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.

Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating was an English crime fiction writer, most notable for his series of novels featuring Ganesh Ghote of the Bombay CID. In 1985 he succeeded Symons as President of the Detection Club, a group of Britain’s foremost mystery writers....

Jules Romains (né Louis Henri Jean Farigoule), was a French poet, novelist, and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature sixteen times. Sinclair Lewis called him one of the six best novelists in the world.

The collection contains 17 items dating from 1904 to 1955, specifically 14 letters, 1 calling card, 1 inscribed & signed book, and 2 chapbooks, one inscribed & signed....

Will Durant was American writer, historian and philosopher, best known for his mammoth work The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant and won a Pulitzer Prize for this work. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy". Famous quote of his… History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

The collection contains 18 items dating from 1933 to 1975, specifically 2 typescripts, and 10 letters, 1 photo, 1 booklet, 1 postal cover, 2 notes, 1 bookplate....

Kathleen Norris was an American novelist, poet and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States.

Collection contains 37 items dating from 1914 to 1944, specifically 3 Autographed Letters Signed (ALS), 1 Autographed Note Signed (ANS) and 1 Typed Letter Signed (TLS), 1 card with signature, 1 Custom postal cover signed, 4 B&w Photos and 6 Books with 10 items in total inserted inside books including 1 book written and by her husband, Charles G. Norris along with 3 ALS inserted inside....

Gladys Hasty Carroll was an American novelist. Carroll believed that the history of common folk mattered most and her works (fiction and non-fiction) most presented their stories about the rural Maine of her childhood. Carroll earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her 1933 work, ''As the Earth Turns,''

Collection consist of 34 items dating from 1933 to 1963, specifically, 8 Autographed Letters Signed and 2 cards, 4 Books and 21 Ephemera....

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was of the most famous of modern French writers and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She wrote over 50 novels including Gigi (1944), and "Cheri" (1920) She was also a mime, an actress, and a journalist. Colette was married three times and her first husband, Henri Gauthier-Villars was a journalist writing under the name of "Willy". Colette was elected to the Belgian Royal Academy (1935), first woman president of the Académie Goncourt (1945, and President in 1949), and a Chevalier (1920) and Grand Officer (1953) of the Légion d'honneur. Colette died on 3 August 1954 in her apartment in the Palais-Royal, aged 81. She was given a state funeral.

Colette Willy was included in "The 100 Most Influential Woman of All Time" 2010 edited by Kathleen Kuiper, p220...

Bayard Taylor was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat. Taylor is widely accredited with writing the first American gay novel: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania.

The collection contains 15 items dating from 1844 to 1890 specifically, 2 ALS letter, 3 cartes-de-visite, 2 books (including his first book), 5 postcards, a pictorial playing card and Engraving and paper with signature....

Sally Benson was an American screenwriter and short story author, best known for her semi-autobiographical stories collected including the creator of Judy Graves, the awkward, ungainly yet curiously appealing adolescent heroine of the “Junior Miss” stories in The New Yorker and “Meet Me in St. Louis,” published in 1942, which comprised pleasant fragments about a year in the life of a family of St. Louis. Hollywood made it into a popular musical in which Judy Garland sang “The Trolley Song.”

The collection consists of 21 items dating from 1942 to 1949, specifically, 12 letters from her husband, 3 photos, 1 film script, 2 pieces of sheet music, 2 lobby cards, and 1 press kit for a movie....

First Edition, Scarce. 1838. Montreal, Armour & Ramsay. This is the first of his works to be published in Canada. 8-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. (6), [5]-145, [1] errata, iv. New leather spine and leather corner tips on original marbled boards. Spine has 5 bands, red label with gilt type and 5 gilt decorative symbols.

Inscribed by Richardson on the first blank after the end paper to a military Major (from the Author). On the same page, another previous owner in 1939 noting his father also owned this book. Inside page with some sporadic light foxing, otherwise in very good+ condition. A very nice copy....

First Edition 1979 signed by Author. 9 x 6 inches. (6), 7-288 pages. Clear brodart protecting illustrated dust jacket; light edgewear; creasing to corners. Dark green leather-look boards; stamped gilt lettering.

Inscription on half-title page, "Tommy Douglas".

Very clean, sound copy. Very Good/Very Good. Chronology of Main Events in Douglas' Political Life; Suggestions for Further Reading; illustrated with a number of black and white reproductions of photographs from Douglas' political career....

1st edition 1975. 9 x 6 inches. (6),7-333pp. Signed By Tommy Douglas. Dedication on title page "Best Wishes to Tottie from Tommy Douglas". In protective Brodart dust jacket not price clipped and marks and tears on spine and back, blue 3/4 inch circle spine, blue letters on front cover name of Tommy Douglas, DJ infair condition. Inside the book, Tottie or another precious owner highlighted a half dozen or so pages of some text and one page with a pencil comment, otherwise, book is in very good condition....

First edition 1955. Good+ /Very Good-. 6 x 9 inches. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 292pp. Errata slip. Maps, drawings by A.W. Davey, illustrated endpapers,

The front endpaper bears an inscription "To Paul Malles with Kindest Regards [signed] T. C. Douglas Premier of Sask. Nov 25th 1955" during the time Douglas was premier of the province (from 1944 to 1961) ...

1627. Date printed on the Colophon Page, the last page. M DC XXVII

One of the earliest and most widely circulated dictionaries in the 16th century was Ambrogio Calepino’s Dictionarium.

9 x 14.5 x 5 inches. 1,884 total pages: [6],1582pp. ; 302pp.[1]. Leather bindings very worn. Inside pages with various degrees of foxing. Overall condition fair. Book is very heavy and extra postage will be required....

First UK edition 1852. 2 volumes, 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches, xx,[1]-293,[1],[2 ads]; [2 ads]; [4],[1]-294; [2 ads], Original green cloth with gilt and blind embossed spine and front cover, rebacked with original sunned spine laid down. Some ink staining on the front free endpaper, bumping to the corners, a few very minor spotting and smudge marks scattered periodically throughout the books. Overall, very good condition....

2nd UK edition 1873. 4 1/4” x 6 5/8”. viii, [9]-207p. including 3pp. appendix. Illustrated. Rebacked with original mottled green cloth covers with gold gilt seal in center of cover high lighting the book title, gold gilt titles and decorative design on spine, new end papers. Boards rubbed, previous owners name on front free endpaper and title page, a handful of pages thumbed, page 13 with frayed edges, otherwise contents good. Numerous black & white engravings including one page fronts illustration.

Generally light foxing throughout with some place none and some places a little heavier. Good plus in original binding....

First Irish edition 1760. Disbound pamphlet; 8vo (20 x 12 cm); 38 + [2] pp. (last leaf blank); woodcut ornamental head-piece. ESTC T087099.

One of the many responses from the "pamphlet war" unleashed by the publication of A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men, on the Prospect of Peace...

Remnant of old leather binding to spine; age-toning and light soiling to title-page, which also shows two small ink notations; small stain and soiling to last (blank) page; one corner bumped; light edge-wear; two or three leaves a bit rough and stained along the fore-edge, not affecting any text; otherwise clean and sound....

First Edition 1946. 7-1/4 x 9-3/4 inches. (4), [5]-101 pages including index plus a tipped-in frontispiece litho of Ritchie. Light blue paper covered boards with a new dark blue cloth spine strip with new paper label and new endpapers. The boards are a little soiled otherwise near fine condition.

Charles Vincent Massey, (1887-1967) was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada Canada's first Canadian-born Governor General, the 18th since Canadian Confederation.....

First edition 1880 Berlin (Ontario); Kitchener. 6-1/2 x 9 inches. Soft cover booklet. 40 pages self cover with old worn and broken green spine. Complete but in fair condition only. German language.

An annual publication containing information pertinent to each day of the year such as the time the sun rises and sets, weather predictions, holidays, seasons, astrological and astronomical data, sayings and proverbs, poems, short stories, cartoons, advice for farmers and tips for family members....

Circa 1892. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" . 18pp. Solied covers, inside end papers reinforced, new end paper at back and agetoned paper, otherwise good condition overall.

Short collection of mostly religious lullabies, illustrated with numerous sepia drawings. Undated but late nineteenth century. Colour picture of a baby in its cradle attended by two young girls on the front cover.

Unpaged. Illustrated in sepia throughout.

Contents: A Child's Prayer, Little Bell, Sleep Baby Sleep, Grace for the Child, and We are Seven....

Later edition. iii-110pp. Light green printed paper covered on both front and back boards with markings or solid spots overall. Purple cloth spine and long ago rebacked. 1869 date on cover printed paper board. 1864 printed on title page of inside pages. Endpaper with previous owner's name and 1872 date, with marks overall on both sets of endpapers. Remainder of insides in very good condition. No map [Mackinlay's map of the province of Nova Scotia, including the Island of Cape Breton / compiled from actual & recent surveys, 1865] but not in all editions...

First edition 1898. 18,[8]p., 8vo, original printed wrappers, cover-title, good condition. (Publications of the Christian Social Union. No.53, Sept. 15, 1898) With: Investigation of hours and other conditions in the Mercantile Establishments of Boston, with a Report of the Work of the League from March to November, 1898 / The Consumers' League of Massachusetts.

Early Mackenzie King publication on the working hours of women and girls in non-manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts....

8 x 10 inches holograph letter on Blind embossed letterhead "Office of the High Commissioner for Canada" 9, Victoria Chambers, London. S.W. dated 22nd April 1890. Letter to Routledge NY publisher's provinding them with a sketch of Sir Charles Tuppers' Life (not included here) and a previous reference of a printed paper, both of which they could make use of should they think it proper in the upcoming book "Men of our time". Signed J.G Colmer.

Joseph Grose Colmer was a career civil servant and served as the Secretary to the Canadian High Commissioner (Charles Tupper) in London, England in 1884...

• Autograph letter signed on inside of stamped folded letter addressed to Mr. Putman- publisher Waterloo Place, Regent Street, London now flat, 8-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. Dated May 5, 1846, asking Putman to forward the note and payment.

• Printed page 4-3/4 x 7-3/8 inch with B&W portrait of Martin F. Tupper

Martin Farquhar Tupper was an English Barrister, writer, poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy....

Autograph Letter Signed. One page on Treasury Chamber Whitehall, SW, with blind embossed Chancellor of the Exchequer letterhead. 4-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches. Dated 19/11 [circa 1879 while in office]. Sending payment of 10 pounds.

George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen British statesman and businessman....

Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Disraeli. One pages, 4-3/8 x 7-1/8 inches. Dated 3 Hamilton Place St. John's Wood, 2 October 1848.

Arranging a meeting and expressing condolences on the loss of his father that month.

Samuel Phillips was an English journalist. He was known for his harsh reviews in The Times (from 1845) a post he filled for the rest of his life and the Literary Gazette (1843-46). ...

Autograph letter signed, 3 pages 8vo. Dated South Somercotes, 20 December 1856. To Lord Beaconseld. Apologizing for not getting the "great book" to him. Likely the book being referred to is "A General Introduction To The Apostolic Epistles: With A Table Of St. Paul's Travels And An Essay On The State After Death" (1861) by Frederick Martin.

Seeking clarity of some of the passages relating to Ephesus, an ancient Greek city on the coast of lonia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selcuk in lzmir Province, Turkey.

Frederick Martin, M.A. ; R.D. (1803/4-1864) Rector in 1848 at South Somercotes, Lincolnshire, England, Honorary Canon of Lincoln Cathedral, and Chaplain to the Bishop of St. David's. Frederick Martin was a student or fellow of Trinity College in Oxford, Cambridge or Dublin....

Autograph Letter Signed from Henry Edward Manning to Benjamin Disraelii. One page, 4-5/8 x 7-3/8 inches. Dated December 9, 1867 with printed 8 York Place, W. letterhead. Arranging a meeting.

Henry Edward Manning was a member of the Oxford movement, which sought a return of the Church of England to the High Church ideals of the 17th century....

Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Disraeli. One page, 4-5/8 x 7-3/8 inches. Circa 1879, on embossed blue type letterhead, 11 Downing Street, Whitehall July 5th. Arranging a time to meet.

Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of lddesleigh. British statesman who served under two of Britain's most influential Victorian-era leaders, William Ewart Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli...

One page ALS, 3-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches, (1 page letter on of 4 pages (two blank, 7 x 4-1/4 inches flat), Dated Albany, June 3, 1845. Delaying a meeting due to a "Railway Committee."

Charles Cecil John Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland styled Marquess of Granby before 1857, was an English Conservative politician and Conservative Leader in the Commons...

Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Disraeli. One page. 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches. Dated Malvern, Tuesday, no year. Arranging a time to meet.

Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was British politician, poet, and critic, chiefy remembered however as a prolific novelist...

Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 4-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. Dated January 7, (1877). Sending a copy of his Poetical Works (not included, letter only). Written on purple embossed 'Cenngaelan' letterhead perhaps by another hand and signed by Kenealy.

Edward Vaughan Kenealy was an Irish barrister and writer. In 1850, he published an eccentric poem inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe, a New Pantomime....

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Disraeli . Two pages, 7 x 5-1/4 inches flat. Undated but 1854. Sending two copies of Counterparts, for Mrs. Disraeli, the other for Mr. Disraeli. Sending specially bound copies a week before publication. 1-1/2 inch tear on 2nd panel otherwise very good condition.

Elizabeth Sarah Sheppard was a British author, a disciple of Benjamin Disraeli. ...

1718. The Hague

Coloured. A good and dark impression. Decorative colours. VG+ condition. Size: 14.4 x 16.8 inches. 36.7 x 42.7 cm.

A series of 12 engravings together with descriptive text, derived from the works of Lahontan and Hennepin.

They illustrate the methods of the Indians hunting buffalo and similar animals, the Pipe of Peace, the dances in honour of important meetings or occasions, and the emblems of the various tribes...

1877. London, London Fine Art Association

Image: 28-1/4 x 16 inches.

Paper: 29-1/4 x 18 inches.

Black and White engraving. Removed from frame with image and type below image in very good condition. Small 1/2 inch vertical tear under E in gazette but not touching E. The border outside this area which was previously framed is in poor condition. The poor border would not be seen matted.

Chelsea pensioners sitting round a wooden table outside the Duke of York inn, one reading the paper with the news of Waterloo to the many people gathered around with them...

ACT JUNE 27, 1825 TO CREATE THE CANADA COMPANY

1st edition. Folio, 6pp. [629] - 634, drop-head title beneath coat of arms on first leaf, disbound. ["The Canada Company was a large private chartered British land development company, incorporated by an Act of the British parliament on June 27, 1825, to aid the colonization of Upper Canada. Binding edge with some tear holes, otherwise very good condition.

TPL#1353 ...

10-3/8 x 8 inches. Typed letter signed by McNicoll positively responding to J. Ritchie Bell, manager of the Montreal Sailors' Institute acknowledging him being elected as a member of the Board of Management of the Montreal Sailors' Institute.

In 1862, the Protestant Montreal Sailors’ Institute (MSI) was established for the “material, social, moral and spiritual welfare of seamen temporarily in the port of Montreal"...

Upper Canada : return to addresses of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 8 & 21 May and 8 June 1838, for, Copy of instructions to the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, relative to proceedings against persons recently arrested in that Province : extract of a despatch from the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, relative to the disposal of the prisoners convicted of treason in that province : copies of the several acts of the Legislature of Upper Canada in the last session, for the preservation of the peace, and for the trial of persons charged with insurrection and revolt against the government of the province, stating the dates on which the several bills received the royal sanction....

Canada. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 14 June 1838; - for, COPY of an Explanatory Memorandum addressed by Sir Francis Head to Lord Glenelg, dated the 21st day of May last.

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; ...