George Cruikshank was a celebrated British caricaturist, book illustrator, and friend of Charles Dickens.

The collection consists of 5 items dating from 1831 to 1872, specifically a manuscript, 3 books formerly owned by Cruikshank and a carte-de-visite,

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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.

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Price: $900 USD or $1,225 Cdn #7770

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist, dramatist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered America’s greatest living author. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

The collection consists of 40 items dating from 1900 to 1941, specifically 4 letters, 1 signed page, 18 photos, 2 books, a glass plate, and 14 ephemera (2 pieces of sheet music, 7 programs and playbills, 2 lobby cards, and 2 post cards). One of the playbills prints letters of appreciation from Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt to Alexandra Carlisle, an English actress and suffragist who settled in the United States.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American novelist, playwright, and author, often called the American Agatha Christie. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. It was one of her books, 1930 The Door, that produced the phrase, "The butler did it," and in her prime, she was more famous than her chief rival, England's Agatha Christie.

The collection includes 14 items, dating from 1914 to 1948, specifically, 12 photos, 1 book (a publisher’s dummy), and 1 letter. There are 7 signatures by Rinehart.

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Price: $900 USD or $1,225 Cdn #8768

Lord Dufferin, in 1872 became Canada’s third Governor General of Canada in 1872. His six-year tenure (1872- 1878) was a period of rapid change in Canadian history. During his term, Prince Edward Island was admitted to Confederation, and several well-known Canadian institutions, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Intercolonial Railway, were established.

Collection of 6 items circa 1870 to 1880 of 6 ephemera items; 1 albumen Cabinet Card, 3 albumen CVD's, Dufferin cut signature with long salutation and Ontario's Farewell to the Earl of Dufferin 1878 booklet.

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Price: $125 USD or $170 Cdn #2849

1846. London, Published by Rudolph Ackermann

First edition, first issue. [6], 326, [4] pp. A very handsome book, near fine condition. Illustrations by Henry Thomas Aiken. Six colour aquatint plates and coloured additional engraved title page (dated November 19, 1846); 43 wood engraved text illustrations by Cook. Plates engraved by J. Harris. 6 x 9-1/2 inches, full dark green Morocco, 5 raised bands on the spine, title and author’s names stamped in gilt on the spine, all edges gilt. 2 leaves of publisher’s advertisements at the end; also bound in is the original cloth cover from the upper board. Stamped on the bottom of the front pastedown in gilt: “BOUND FOR CHAS. J. SAWYER. LTD. LONDON.

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Price: $450 USD or $610 Cdn #9019

First edition. 2 volumes in one: 155pp. & 207pp. Text in French. Rebacked 3/4 calf, original marbled boards, new eps. Title in gilt on spine. Bottom corners lightly worn. Book condition: Very Good + Edition.

#1: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de Québec, 155pp. 1840, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils.

#2: Mémoires sur le Canada, depuis 1749 jusqu'à 1760. En trois parties; avec cartes et plans lithographiés. 207pp 1838, First edition. Imprimerie de Middleton & Dawson VII, [1], [1]-207pp. [1], [3 appendice, corrections],[1]. Includes 13 maps and plans (some very faded) including 7 folding plates.

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Price: $400 USD or $540 Cdn #3691

1852. London, Richard Bentley. Second UK edition. 2 volumes, 5-1/4 x 8 inches. Original dark green cloth unrestored. Original tan endpapers in both volumes. Both volumes have a gilt embossed illustration on front covers, which depicts a log cabin with campfire and 3 people. Both volumes have slightly crushed spine ends and bent corners and previous owner’s name neatly written on the title pages.

Second, and considered better or more complete edition, with an extra, 41 pages (pp. [295]-336) chapter entitled, "Canadian Sketches," added to volume II, which does not appear first London edition, volume II.

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Price: $300 USD or $475 Cdn #2541

1847. London, Simkin, Masrhall & Co.

Second UK edition. 4.5 by 7.25 Inches, xii, [1]-492pp. Original blind stamped cloth covers with original spine saved and professionally rebacked. Back cover cloth with top half and spine faded. Previous owners name and dated Toronto 1908 on top right inside front blank. Very little foxing present very clean text. Very good condition. Previous owners name on inside front cover end paper.

Nice copy of a scarcer book than the first edition published two years prior in 1845 with only 468pp. Additional material in this volume amounts to about one third of the first edition.

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was the cousin of the author and editor, Ferdinand Brock Tupper.

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Price: $325 USD or $440 Cdn #7786

SCARCE JUDAICA BOOK 

1938. Berlin, Philo Verlag First edition, 5 x 7 inches. (6), 284pp (numb. in 2 columns and two page numbers per page). Original decorated brown cloth with black text imprinted on spine and front cover cloth, 18,5 x 14 cm. With 20 coloured maps (1 folded) of countries and regions around the world, including one world map displaying distances from Berlin, after Gretel Wiesenthal.

The Jewish owned Philo Verlag, was forcibly closed a month following the publication of this guide, by which time the Nazis decided they were no longer willing to permit Jews to leave Germany

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Price: $125 USD or $165 Cdn #8650

1813. New York, Collins & Co. Early edition.

5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches, viii, [9]-48pp. Paper wraps missing and minor creasing on last couple of pages. Overall good condition.

"Extracted from a work, written by Erasmus, entitled Antipolemus, or The plea of reason, religion, and humanity, against war; translated and published in London 1794."-- Advertisement inside page [iii]. Translated From the Latin of Erasmus.

First paragraph...If there is in the affairs of mortal men any one thing which it is proper uniformly to explode; which it is incumbent on every man, by every lawful means, to avoid, to deprecate, to oppose, that one thing is doubtless war. There is nothing more unnaturally wicked, more productive of misery, more extensively destructive, more obstinate in mischief, more unworthy of man as formed by nature, much more of man professing Christianity.

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Price: $100 USD or $135 Cdn #3582

First Edition. 1999. Wiarton, ON Red House Press

218p. 9-1/2 x 10 inches. Photography by Charles Ven den Ouden.

Signed Ruth Cathcart, June 4, 2000.

This book includes photographs and brief historical sketches of historic houses of Bruce County. The author draws a connection between the architecture, a developing provincial community, and the circumstances and character of the families who built both.

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Price: $100 USD or $135 Cdn #8698

#1) Too Much Happiness. MUNRO, Alice -

2009. 1st Can. printing (McClelland & Stewart/Douglas Gibson imprint)

#2) Lives of Mothers & Daughters, MUNRO, Sheila - 2001. 1st Canadian printing (McClelland & Stewart/Douglas Gibson imprint)

- scarce signed/inscribed association copy from Munro to Sheila Laidlaw-Radford, sister of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro (nee Alice Laidlaw)

#3) Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland MCCLELLAND, Jack

- 1998. 3rd printing softcover (only edition published), Key Porter Books

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Price: $125 USD or $165 Cdn #8765

[1930]. Roma, E.N.I.T

First edition. 4-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. (6)- (128pp.) [Eight 16pp sections, one for each region - Pistoia - Lucca - Volterra - San Gimignano - Arezzo - Perugia - Gubbio - Aquila]. Each region 16 page B&W section with a map and numbers photos. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper, Villa Collina Ridente, E.M. May. Some spotting on covers otherwise, very good+ condition.

Provenance: E.M. May taught at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and during the summers traveled in Europe. In 1904, she founded the Travel School for American Girls, based in Paris and Florence, which offered an eight-month educational program and which flourished until the outbreak of World War I.

Quite scarce copy of an Italy art centres guidebook circa 1930 with only 3 copies found in WorldCat.

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Price: $100 USD or $135 Cdn #8951

1999. Toronto, UofT press. First edition. xxiii,(1),[1]-629pp. 6 x 9 inches. Blue cloth with gilt type and decorations on spine and cover titles. Over 1,200 new entries. Signed by both Fleming and Alston on title page. Fine condition.

Marie Tremaine's Bibliography was originally published by University of Toronto Press in 1952 and has been described as 'the cornerstone of bibliography and book history studies in Canada'. This supplement corrects the original book and adds considerably to its contents.

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Price: $120 USD or $160 Cdn #8967

1950. Ottawa, "Jennie" Lindsey King Lay

16cm x 13cm (6 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches),. WLMK died on July 22, 1950  

A printed funeral note dated July 1950 from King's family upon his passing. "Funeral service, Wednesday, July 26, 1950 at Ottawa. Interment, Thursday, July 27, 1950 at Toronto.

This printed note has the handwriting of Jennie K. Lay to a family friend, Mary.

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Price: $175 USD or $235 Cdn #4390

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT QUEBEC & LABRADOR COLOURED MAP

1896. [Ottawa], Department of Interior

First edition. 29,3 x 90,7 cm on a folded sheet of 17 x 39 inches. Bar scale in miles. Shows rivers and lakes, trails, some geographical names between James Bay and the coast in a narrow band along the border. The proposed boundary is shown in red.

Albert Peter Low was a Canadian geologist, explorer and athlete. His explorations of 1893-1895 were important in declaring Canada's sovereignty over the Arctic, and eventually defining the border between Quebec and Labrador

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1856. Toronto, Published by John Lovell

First edition, scarce. 20 x 14 in. 40 pages.

Original leather spine and corners with gilt type on worn cloth cover. Inside pages are in very good condition with small pin holes old library name O.F.M. Québec on three of the 40 text pages. With a folding table and 7 folding maps on 6 sheets (with one extra map not called for on the ‘Maps Accompany this Report') Six long folding map pages are generally very good condition with some wear.

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Price: $400 USD or $540 Cdn #8392

1) Victoria and Island Touring Map.

Circa 1925. Scarce. Victoria and Island Publicity Bureau (Publisher) Colonist Lithograph (Printer).

2) Provincial Parks on Vancouver Island

[1977] Scarce

Folded Size: 4 x 9 inches

Flat size: 27-3/4 x 18 inches

3) Map of Vancouver Burnaby New Westminster British Columbia compliments of Belkins Moving & Storage

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Price: $100 USD or $135 Cdn #8276

Three circa 1760-65 hand-coloured Naval battles hand-coloured engravings

#1. Circa 1765. Title: The Brave Capt Tyrrill in the Buckingham of 66 Guns & 472 Men defeating the Florissant, Aigrette & Atlante, three French Ships of War, the 3rd of Novr 1758...

#2. Circa 1760. Title: The Glorious Action off Cape Francois 21 Octobr. 1757, between Three English and Seven French Ships of Warr...

#3. Circa 1760. Title: The Gallant Action (off the Isle of Man) where the brave Capt. Elliot Defeated and Took the Marshall Belleisle. SMYTH (Smith), Sir HERVEY [1734-1811] & engraved by Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777.

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[1895]. [Ottawa], [Topley Photographers]

1 inch brown leather frame with gold 1/8 inch mat with a signed 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 inch black & white photo of Lord Aberdeen, Easel support on verso. Edwards & Sons of Regent Street London W.1. were the frame retailers. Photo of Lord Aberdeen probably by Topley photographers, Ottawa circa 1895. Photo not examined out of frame.

Lord Aberdeen was Governor General during a period of political transition, throughout the terms of four Prime Ministers - Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. 

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[1911]. Five Niagara Falls photos, all signed and or inscribed by Jennings at the reverse. Measurements: Each is 10" x 8". Condition: Very good, some losses and creasing.

In this set there are three similar prints made of the foot of the American Falls. Three are prints of the same image each with different exposures and thus visual effects.

Notes on the reverse of two of these prints give some details;

Provenance: From the estate of Lois C. Jennings, wife of Ralph Jennings Sr. who was the son of William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946).

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1839. London, British Government

Three (3) important and scarce Parliamentary Papers published between the nomination of Lord Durham as Governor General and High Commissioner to British North America after his resignation in September 1838; dealing with the Durham Report’s criticism and justification for their disagreement to this report.

Lord Durham had a number of political enemies in both Great Britain and Canada They scrambled to respond to his report after the fact with Lord Durham not focus on these and his very large report submitted in February 1839 with the 5 appendices was being absorbed, understood and debated. These Parliamentary Papers responses were written in June, July and August of 1839. Lord Durham died about a year later on July 28, 1840.

A fascinating insight to the many difficulties and challenges Lord Durham faced in publishing and supporting his famous report which led to a series of reforms and changes. These included uniting the two Canadas into a single colony, the Province of Canada, in 1841 (Act of Union) and the report also paved the way for responsible government.

Some edge open tears and paper toning, otherwise all in very good condition.

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Price: $650 USD or $875 Cdn #8378

1859. Toronto, Province of Canada

15-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches, was folded now flat, typed and handwritten manuscript and transfer document with docketing information handwritten on verso. Faded seal, bottom corners folded back more, otherwise very good condition. Some content and detail...

James Robert Gowan of the Town of Barrie in the County of Simcoe, Township of Vespra…William McMaster, the assignee of John Lowry, to when compensation was allowed for deficiency in the lot Number one, in the Seventh concession…

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1928. Florida, The Norman Film Studios

First edition. 14 x 22 inches opened flat, (folded size 11 inches long and 3-1/2 inches wide and will be mailed folded size). 4 page multi-panel promotional brochure meant for mailing . With orange, blue, and black poster cover with photographs showing scenes from the movie with text as follows: Coming To This Theater. (This Is An Exact Reproduction Of Window Card). The Norman Film Studios . Presents Black Gold. Thrilling Epic Of The Oil Fields With All Colored Cast. One Of The True Stories Of Living Colored Examples. A Smashing Photo-Play Co-Starring Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd, Original Lafayette Players. Steve Reynolds, "Peg" [,] Alfred Norcom, United States Marshal, L.B. Tatums and The Entire City Of Tatums, Okla.

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Price: $130 USD or $175 Cdn #8804