T.B. Lafferty. 2 Canadian Pocket diaries, 1891-2. In his 1891 diary, Lafferty has signed his name and his place of residence, Calgary N.W.T. (North West Territories). In the 1892 diary his place of residence is Perth Canada, the town in eastern Ontario southwest of Ottawa. Born in 1863 in Perth, Lafferty was the son of James Lafferty (1824-1881) and Elizabeth Brown Lafferty (1829-1901). He had seven brothers and four sisters. Four of his brothers became physicians, including James Delamere Lafferty, a founder of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and Calgary’s fifth mayor (1890-1). He married Nina Elizabeth Sutherland (1865-1922) on 8 December 1887. They had at least two children. In the 1890s Lafferty was a lawyer in Orillia, Ontario, with the firm McCosh & Lafferty. John McCosh was satirized in Stephen Leacock`s Sunshine Sketches as Judge Pepperleigh. Lafferty died in 1925. T.B. Lafferty information researched from a dozen sources including newspapers in Orillia and Toronto, cemeteries, etc....

Sheldon Christian archives. 1922-1935. Approximately 1,800 pp. These extensive archives contain manuscripts and typescripts of Christian’s plays, short stories, news stories, poems, correspondence, diary entries, and ephemera. Much of the material concerns Christian’s academic life at Tufts College, his literary pursuits, his editorship of the Tuftonian (1930-1) and the Beacon (Trinidad, British West Indies), his correspondence with publishers about the publication of his works, his romantic attachments, YMCA materials, church correspondence, and many pieces of miscellaneous ephemera including drawings, photos, and programs. There is also some secondary source material about Christian. With the archives are five books edited or written by him...

Box 3, 1800-1

7 case files containing:

392 pieces: 18 ALS, 344 hand-written documents, 30 written receipts.

File 1- Legal papers 1800

File 2- Legal papers 1800

File 3 -Legal papers 1800

File 4 -Legal papers 1800

File 5- Legal papers 1800

File 6- Legal papers 1801

File 7- Legal papers 1801...

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....

This NOSTROMO collection consists of 4 items dating from 1918 to c1926, specifically, 1 Joseph Conrad Autographed Letter Signed, 1 Book, NOSTROMO, 1918 and The Silver Treasure 1 Movie Lobby Poster & 1 Sepia Movie Photo based on the NOSTROMO book.

Joseph Conrad and "The book "NOSTROMO" was first published in 1904 after nearly three years of intensive writing inspired by actual events occurring a quarter of a century earlier. Perhaps had the original events which stimulated Conrad to write his monumental tome been related in a more linear manner told in a straightforward chronological manner, Nostromo might be as widely read as Heart of Darkness....

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 36 items dating from 1864 to 1917, specifically, 17 ALS, 2 partial ALS, 1 TLS, 1 ledger account book, 4 books with 1 ALS in one book, 3 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). It is for his share in this book, the first novel by either writer, that Warner is now best remembered. Warner was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-7) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted "The Editor's Drawer" until 1892, when he took charge of "The Editor's Study." He died in Hartford on the 20th of October 1900.

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....

Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic, poet, editor and a social historian who went on to become a representative of the America’s ‘Lost Generation’ after the World War I. In 1939, he received the ‘Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize’ for his poetry. In 1980, he was honored with the ‘National Book Award for Biography’ for his exceptional work, ‘And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade’.

The collection contains 23 items dating from 1930 to 1980, specifically 12 letters, 3 poems, 7 books, 1 photo and 1 signed newspaper article....

Archives of Dr. George Sandison Brock dating from 1882 to 1951, approximately 140 pp. with ephemera, and two related books.

Most of the collection relates to Dr. George Sandison Brock, FRCPE, FRSE (1858-1949), a physician at the British Embassy in Rome. During WWI, at the age of 57, he volunteered his services as head of the Villa Trento Field Hospital, situated in the Trentino–Alto Adige region between Udine and Gorizia in north-east Italy. For his services the Italian government in 1919 bestowed him the honour of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Brock was a good friend and colleague of the prominent British historian and academic George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962), who was in command of Villa Trento and served with a detachment of the British Red Cross on the Italian front and was present at all the major actions of the campaign, for which he was decorated with the Italian Silver Medal for Valour. Trevelyan’s defective eyesight meant that he was unfit for military service during the WWI. Instead, he commanded the 1st British Red Cross Ambulance Unit in Italy....

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh was a prolific English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries, best known for the recurring character of Chief Inspector Wexford. She also wrote more than a dozen novels under the pseudonym of Barbara Vine.

The collection is comprised 21 items dating from 1984 to 1992, specifically, 11 books, 3 letters, 4 commemorative envelopes, 1 note, 1 photo, and 1 typescript excerpt....

1869.Toronto, Published for the Compilers

Faded brown cloth hardcover, 3 x 4-1/2 inches, page edges dyed light red, (4) 186 pp. 221 hymns, text only, including an 8pp. index of first lines. Pencil note on ffep: "Purchased on board the propeller Enterprise, between Port Dalhouse and Toronto Aug. 25th, 1869." Very good condition...

Rare. No locations indicated at WorldCat and including Library and Archives Canada.

2nd edition. 1834. Practical notes made during a tour in Canada, Edinburgh & London. [iii]-xvi, 426pp.[1], plus folding map in front pocket. 19th-century polished calf, gilt, spine gilt extra, leather label stamped in gilt. Minor soiling, corners worn. Contemporary bookplate. Internally clean. Map backed on linen. Bottom birder small tear on p.413 not to text, other wise, very good condition.

2nd (and best) Edition containing Notes of a Second Visit, made in 1833 with additional "notes made during a second visit to Canada in MDCCCXXXIII." and includes a large map which was not in the 1833 first edition of only 379pp.

This large map, 15-1/2 x 26 inches, is now rare itself. It is titled "Map of the British North American Provinces and Adjoining States 1833". ...

1738.Amsterdam, Chez Jacques Desbordes

First Edition. 4-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. [2], [3]-399, [1] pp., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded). Original brown leather, re-backed preserving most of original spine with elaborate gilt decorations, brief title in gilt, 5 bands. Marbled endpaper and edges. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrations: engraved allegorical frontispiece with portrait of Newton, by J. Folkema after L.F. Dubourg; engraved portrait of Voltaire, by Folkema; 7 engraved diagrams on 7 leaves of plates (one folded) and 60 small engraved diagrams in the text, all unsigned....

1886.[Montréal]

Second edition. French text. (1),[1]-39pp.(1 ad). 8-1/4 x 11-1/4. Bound in soft cover. Inside pages include the 39pp text...

This is a narrative of the events and incidents of the Resistance such as the Duck Lake fight, the Indian rising, the Frog Lake Massacre, and the military campaigns against Riel and the Metis. The publication is extensively illustrated with drawings...

1823.Hartford, Silas Andrus

First edition. 5 x 8-1/4 inches. x, [2], [13]-392 pp. 3 plates (2 portraits, frontispiece of Murray, and James Monroe). Appendix: Character and official services of James Monroe; Familiar letters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Tree calf, rubbed along the edges and corners, sprinkled edges, split on the spine, lacking part of the cap at the spine bottom, offsetting from the plates and some foxing. Overall good condition. Signed by F.A. Canfield, the book’s printer, who donated the book to the New Jersey Historical Society...

1852.London, Richard Bentley

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....

1975.Toronto, McClelland & Stewart

1st edition. 9 x 6 inches. (6),7-333pp. Signed By Tommy Douglas. Dedication on title page "To Ceil Porter / warmest regards / Tommy Douglas". In protective Brodart dust jacket not price clipped and marks and tear on back, good condition. Book is in near fine condition...

In November 2004 a nation wide vote by over one million Canadians selected Tommy Douglas as "The Greatest Canadian of all Time." Known as the 'Father of Medicare' - he launched it in Saskatchewan when he was premier of that province...

1810.New York, McCarty and White

18cm x 11cm, (6.75" - 3.75"), v, [2], [8]-p.274, appendix to p.312, Original binding of full brown leather with red label and gilt type on spine. Spine edge along front board is starting to crack but attached. General wear to boards..

Overall condition is good....

Autograph Document Signed twice, once in the text and once at the end, by Walter Butler as attorney for the defendant in a case before the County of Tryon Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. Walter studied law in Albany and was admitted to the bar in 1775 shortly before the start of the American Revolution in upper New York state. Very good condition.

Walter Butler (1752-81) Loyalist who became a captain in Butler's Rangers, formed by his father, John. He was captured in 1777 by Continental Army troops commanded by Lt. Col. Marinus Willett, but escaped after a few months. Walter Butler was probably the most hated Loyalist in America...

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.'...

Small 4to. Legislature Council 1st Session 5th Parliament. Rebound with new spine. Many log entry summaries from the 5th Parliament (1854-55) laws passed. Railway Bills, Banks, Church Relief, Mining, Telegraph, Masonic, College, and more! 190 pages are listed and indexed however some pages are missing (taken out long ago). Full Index. Very nice Canadian historical item....

Folio - 4-7/8 x 12-3/4 inches. There are 120 pages (page numbers noted in pencil on each top page) in the ledger along with a number of pasted in notes. Covers very worn with inside pages in good condition. Early Handwritten ledger, to keep the accounts of a Dentist / Doctor, in earlier days of Nova Scotia. The ledger owner is considered Dr. Alfred Roscoe Andrews based on some of the pasted in notes found inside the diary. Entries include "To attend wife (night), extract tooth, set arm, to attend to wife comfort. With payments by cow, sheep, chicken, work on buggy, sleigh repair, by books, by cords of wood, etc. ...

Size : 37 x 50 inches. Hand-coloured. Folded, in good condition. Below title cartouche: Projected by F.N. Gisborne. Drawn by Gust. Smith.

Sir Hector Langevin, Minister of Public Works.

Lithographed by: G.E. Desbarats & Co., Montreal.

Shows Canada from Alberta to Manitoba.

Identifies telegraph lines and railroads.

Sectioned, folded. Enclosed in black publisher's binding stamped: Maps. Dominion of Canada Telegraph and Signal Service. Dept. of Public Works.Cartouche includes figures of buffalo and Plains Indian teepee....

5th state. Canada. Lithographed edition map. Folded paper size: 13-14 x 20-3/4 inches. Flat paper size: 25-24 x 20-1/2 inches.

Printed map. "By A. K. Johnston F. R. G. S." Two visual scales [67 mm=90 geographical miles] and [63 mm=100 English miles]. Includes "References to the Townships". Running title and page number in upper right margin, "National Atlas 38".

Hand-colored outline. With “References to townships” Paper joined along center on verso to the 20-1/2 inch horizontal. Good condition...

First edition. Image: 39.2 x 26.2 cm (15.4” x 10.3”) . Currier & Ives B&w lithograph in an antique Birdseye Maple frame. Titled: 'The Railroad Suspension Bridge, Near Niagara Falls; Length of Bridge 822 Feet, Height Above Water 240 Feet', 1856, John A. Roebling, Engineer (builder of the Brooklyn Bridge).

Tear to the lower left corner, as well as a small 1 inch tear on either side in the right and left margin. There also is a water stain that is mostly visible in the center of the sky, and a few light toning lines from the original wood backboard, fair condition...

Black and white silver circa 1935 (LMM age 61) print with white border. Depicts the beloved Montgomery looking straight at the camera with a stylish hat cocked smartly over her right eye. Size: Paper- 13.9 cm x 10.7 cm. Image: 13 cm x 9.9 cm. Printed on glossy paper.

Original signature of L.M. Montgomery from the lower middle rising to the right on an angle through a dark part of her clothing.

Verso has the number “39” stamped on the top right corner....

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, 2004.

Paper size: 15 x 13-1/2 inches

Image size: 10 x 10-1/2 inches

Fine condition....

6-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches, No date probably circa 1888. Reverse is blank.

A scuff mark on top left corner and border edge flaking otherwise very good condition....

8 x 10-1/4 inches, was folded not flat. Typed Letter Signed, dated Ottawa, 9th June, 1910, on stationery of the Prime Minister's office, addressed to W. F. Alloway, Winnipeg. 6 lines on one sheet. Minor 3/8 inch open tear in black border fold long open separations, W in Wilfred signature smudged, otherwise in near fine condition.

Response letter to Alloway regarding two senior Canadian Pacific Railway management executives very positive. ...

Typed Letter, signed "R. L. Borden," dated Ottawa, August 26th, 1908, addressed to a Col. A. Audet, Montreal, written on House of Commons stationery. 27 lines on two 8 x 10 sheets, was folded now flat, first page with some toning mostly on right edge, otherwise very good condition.

A lengthy letter discussing Conservative Party strategy for the upcoming 1908 federal election. ...

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.

Population for Lower Canada and Upper Canada by Counties, Towns and Villages, as well as Origins and Religions in 1851: Population in Lower Canada, 890,261; in Upper Canada, 952,004, for a total of 1,842,265 inhabitants. Population of Montreal City, 57,715; of Toronto City, 30,775....

[Tuskegee, 15 May 1912.] 8.5 x 11 inch Booker T. Washington letter with his signature.

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. He is requesting a contribution of tools for the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, addressed to Mr. J. T. McCready, a manufacturer in Ohio...

Plus 4 pieces of ephemera, all in fine condition..

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.)"

Bill. An Act to incorporate the Ottawa Valley Railway Company.

"Received and read, first time, Friday, 1st April, 1859. Second reading, Saturday, 2nd April, 1859."

Mr. Ferres..

Broadside. 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...

Quarto, 2p. Disbound, small holes in margin, stains on folds and soiled.

Legislative Assembly

1st Session, 4th Parliment, 16 Victoria, 1853

Petition of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Grand Junction Railroad Company

On the Motion of the Hon. Mr. Young : Ordered to be printed, Monday, 14 March, 1853. Printed, 16th March 1853....

Quarto, 1 p. Disbound, small holes in margin.

Signature of R. Bell at top of back panel.

1st session, 5th Parliament, 18 Victoria, 1854

Petition of Montreal and Bytown Railway Company.

(Mr Prévost) Ordered, by Legislative Assembly to be printed 11th Dec., 1854

Quebec, printed by Lovell and Lamoureux, Mountain Street....

Quarto, 2p. Disbound, small holes in margin.

Signed by R. Bell on top of final page.

Petition.

1st session, 5th Parliament, 18 Victroia, 1854

Petition of the Hon. Augustin N. Morin and others, praying for a Charter, by the name of “The Northern Pacific Railway Company”, &c, &c. ...

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. Scarce document.... TPL 1256.