Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] collection consisting of 19 items dating from 1934 to 1955, specifically, 3 books, 1 film script, and 15 photos.

Karen Blixen also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, was born at Rungstedlund, Denmark. In 1914 she came to Africa to marry her half cousin and carry out dairy farming in the then British colony of Kenya. Her husband had, however, changed his mind and wanted to farm coffee. After her divorce, she remained on the farm and fell in love with an English man, Denis Finch Hatton. She returned to Demark in 1931 when Hatton died in a plane crash and her farm could not sustain itself. Following her departure from Africa, she turned to writing and published popular works as Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937), and Babette’s Feast (1950)...

The collection has 6 items dating from 1894 to 1929, specifically 1 autographed signed letter and 5 books.

William Bliss Carman (poet, essayist, journalist) was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick on 15 April 1861. As an integral member of the Confederation School of Canadian poetry, Carman’s work helped to shape a poetic voice in Canada. He was strongly influenced by the Romanticism of the nineteenth century and is best remembered as a lyrical poet of the Maritime landscape....

Collection contains 14 items dating from 1850 to 1913, specifically 12 letters and 2 photo cards. All documents written in French and in good condition.

Jean Casimir-Périer was a French politician and wealthy businessman. He was the son of Auguste Casimir-Périer , the grandson of Casimir Pierre Périer, premier of Louis Philippe, and the great grandson of Claude Périer, one of the founders of the Bank of France. He entered public life as secretary to his father, who was Minister of the Interior under the presidency of Thiers. In 1893-4, he was Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs. After the assassination of President Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist, he became President of the Third Republic in late June 1894...

Box 2, 1798-9 - 7 case files containing:

535 pieces, - 70 ALS, 391 handwritten documents, 74 written receipts.

File 1- Legal papers 1798

File 2- Legal papers 1798

File 3- Legal papers 1798

File 4- Legal papers 1798

File 5- Legal papers 1799

File 6- Legal papers 1799

File 7- Legal papers 1799..

Robert Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, autobiographer, music critic and lyricist. The Garden of Allah (1904) a romance set in Northern Africa that sold nearly a million copies and was adapted for both stage and was made into a film three times.

This collection contains 36 items dating from 1902 to 1946, specifically 30 autographed letters signed, a partial letter, 2 books with ALS affixed, a leaflet, a post card photo album, and 1 signed photo...

Six rare books, including a pre-published date presentation copy of a 1912 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and two early translations, as well as several signed pieces of Leacock ephemera.

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a professor of political economy, a platform entertainer, a social commentator, and Canada’s greatest humorist....

Thomas Hughes was a British lawyer, judge, politician, social reformer and prolific author. His most famous work is the semi-autobiographical novel, Tom Brown’s School Days (1857). A Hughes Scholarship was founded at Oriel College, Oxford. It was a closed award, open only to members, or sons of members, of some co-operative organisations. The first scholar was elected to Oriel in 1884. It was later combined with an award honouring Vansittart Neale.

The collection has 13 item dating from 1865 to 1883, specifically, 8 letters and 5 cartes-de visite (CDV)...

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, ...

William Gerhardi, later 1971, Gerhardie, was an Anglo-Russian playwright and novelist. At the beginning of his career, he was the toast of literary London and won praise from Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and other notable authors. The reaction of the general public never approached the literary response, however. In 1939, he stopped publishing. Thereafter, he lived in relative seclusion, although he told his friends that he was writing a novel entitled “The Present Breath”, a tetralogy in one volume (see correspondence below with Neville Braybrooke).

This collection includes 16 items dating from 1960 to 1976, specifically, 14 letters, 1 partial manuscript/typescript and 1 photo...

Sir Harold [Mario Mitchell] Acton was a British writer, aesthete, and scholar wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography. Born near Florence to a prominent Anglo-Italian family, he was educated at Eton College and Oxford. After serving as an RAF liaison officer in the Mediterranean, he returned to Florence, restoring his childhood home, Villa La Pietra

This collection contains 12 letters dating from 1963 to 1967 and 11 written in Italian concerning his talks at several venues in Italy for the Associazione Culturale Italiana Acton proposes to talk about the Bourbons in Naples, Galiani, and Lord Acton...

1983. London, George Allen & Unwin

The McMaster University Edition. xxxiv, 554 pp. Blue cloth with gold stamping on the spine and upper board, top edge gilt, clear mylar jacket. Fine condition. Signed by all five editors.

The inaugural volume of this mammoth scholarly edition.

"The first volume contains a great deal of varied and interesting writing from Russell's first decade as an independent thinker...

First Edition.1961.Toronto, Hawkshead Press

[16] pp. in white illustrated card covers, wire-stitched. A very good copy but the third leaf is not original and is a cream-coloured facsimile. Signed by Atwood on a card affixed to the verso of the front cover.

Author’s first book. A collection of seven poems published when Atwood was only 19 years old. According to Atwood, the edition size was only 220 copies. Issued by John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press as Book One, Market Book Series. One of the great rarities of contemporary Can Lit.

Includes years for 1804, 1807, 1818, 1830, 1834, 1837 and 1840. All text in German.

Interesting witness of the early days of German-American inhabitants to Maryland and others to Pennsylvania. Illustrations show farmers at work and at rest. Damaged or incomplete and in poor condition, all sold as is. ...

First edition. Israelite People's Library. V. German = American sketches for Jewish emigrants and non-emigrants. Text in German.

(2),[3]-108pp, 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. Original printed blue boards and paper over spine almost worn away....

Anonymous 1857 book of Jewish emigration to the United States. It describes the experiences of a German Jew who arrived in America in 1853. Provides unusual data about New York Jewry as well as a stimulating, critical - albeit in some parts prejudiced - view of it...

Second UK edition. 1847. London, Simkin, Masrhall & Co. 4.5 by 7.25 Inches, xii, [1]-492pp. Original blind stamped professionally rebacked. Very little foxing present very clean text. Very good condition. Previous owners name and gift from a friend inscription March 6, 1884 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...

First edition. 1878.Toronto, H. Beldon Co.

17-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches. [i-x], [1]-121pp. Atlas, rebound with new leather binding of spine and corner tips, plus black leather spine with gilt type, saving original front and back boards, with gold tooled embossed front cover. Engraved title page includes a coat of arms with a lion and a unicorn. Some covers scuffing and minor soil or thumb marks internally otherwise, overall near fine condition of this important local atlas.

Maps and views of various towns located in the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Colored maps and black and white scenes identifying land owners....

First edition. [1684] [London], [Printed for J. Dunton] 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. (1) plate, [1]-272 (i.e. 282) pages. Pages 73-82 omitted in numbering as normal. Contemporary full leather, no type, spine split at bottom 1-1/4 inches on right, worn spine ends and worn corners. Previous owner's name on right page (back of illustration) and this page with 1/4 inch paper repaired on right border. Inside pages are age-toned, a number of pages with small folded corners, and some bottom border 1/8 inch worm holes (p.59 to p144) not affecting type. Otherwise, good condition.

Ref: Wing K80 ; McAlpin Coll. IV 174...

SCARCE US FIRST EDITION OF THIS MOODIE TITLE

First edition, [1853]. New York, De Witt & Davenport. Complete in one volume. (blank), (2), (3)-359pp., 12.5cm x 19.5cm, (5" x 7 3/4"); Original elaborate gilt-stamped, decorated red cloth; some rubbing and age-toning to panels, bumping to corners, rubbing and age-toning to spine, some wear and 1/4 inch tearing to spine ends, more so on top one. One old library 1-1/4 inch diameter blind embossed stamp on front end paper. ...

First US edition. 1932. New York, The Dial Press. 7-1/2 x 5 inches. (10), 3-278pp. Signed by author on front end paper. Book is very good condition. Dust jacket with chips along edges and more so at top and bottom of spine, otherwise, good condition.

A UK edition was published in 1930.

Nautical adventure novel of ship's crew that gets involved in a South American civil war...

First edition. 1886. Toronto, The Rose Publishing Company. 8.5 x 5.5 inches,. (5), [3]-135 pages, frontis of author, many b/w illustrations, text in two columns; brown cloth, beveled edges/gilt titles. Gilt decorate cover extremities quite worn, soiling internally end papers spotted. Fair condition. An uncommon novel.

This was Sheppard’s first book, a fiction, “Dolly,” which appeared first in serial form in the Toronto "News". Sheppard started the famous Canadian Magazine “Saturday Night” in 1887...

1st French edition. 1866. Paris, Hachette. [iii], 387 pp. (8vo) contemporary red morocco backed cloth, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, 21 plates and two maps. Rebacked with original spines and end papers. Edges lightly rubbed; light foxing; else very good. First edition in French.

Library bookplate on front end paper of “Doctors Andre Gaultry” Ex Libris...

Autograph Letter signed, "Wilfrid Laurier," dated Arthabaskaville, 2 Oct. 1875, addressed to Henry James Morgan. 43 lines in French on 3 octavo pages, fine condition. Laurier is writing his friend Morgan confirming requests made to Laurier and confirming positive results on these requests. As well, Laurier is profusely thanking Morgan for the present of "state trials" (most likely the Report of the State Trials on the 1838-39 Canadian Rebellion). Laurier writes "It is a precious work in every respect, which for me, is of so much use that you cannot imagine [how helpful it is]"

Laurier was elected for the first time in 1871 to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, and was re-elected in 1874, this time to the House of Commons, where he would spend the rest of his career, nearly 45 years (1874–1919)....

Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, Autograph Letter Signed, 4 pages, dated June 30, 1911, from Hotel Great Central N.W., on "Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin" letterhead. The present letter is addressed to Wilfrid Laurier, who was apparently in London at the end of June 1911. The letter deals with the patronage, thorough Ishbel Aberdeen, of a "long-coated dog" called "Peterbob", as a gift by Wilfrid Laurier to his wife, Lady Laurier.

"Dear Mr. Laurier I am enclosing you the certificate of registration of little "Peterbob" commonly called "Peter" with certificate also of transfer to Lady Laurier in the books of the Kennel Club...

1920. [Ottawa] Dept. of the Interior

Very large attractive original Railway map of Canada on 8 sections, each section map: 36 x 30 inches (paper size). Some soiling in margins not affecting the map itself, some creasing. Department of the Interior, Canada, Honourable Arthur Meighen, Minister. W.W. C

J.E. Chalifour, chief geographer.

53 railways named & indexed; railways in operation and under construction; table of railway distances; cities & towns; lakes & river. Shows railway routes in operation and under construction, and steamships routes. Scale 1:2,217,600...

[1715] [Paris]. Two copper engravings from [1728] edition, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

#1 Iroquois fighting and hunting below Outagamis Lake ...

#2 Four animals considered weapons...

Two copper engravings of from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. An ox hunting and cooking (smoking) scene. Very good condition.

Sauvages boucanant des viandes: Boucanage is a method of preserving meat and fish native to the Americas that involves smoking food for long hours. ..

Two copper engravings of Combat entre deux Vaisseaux Anglois et François (Fight between two vessels, English and French from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. A great battle between two three-masted ships firing cannons [at Placentia]. Very good condition....

Two copper engravings from 1715 snd 1728 editions, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

Prints of the Battle of English and the French at Placentia, September 1692, at Fort St. Louis (Castle Hill) in Placentia, Newfoundland at “Grande Baye de Plaisance”. Legend or table of 16 identifies the the positions of the warships involved, route of the vessels, and several important geographical details...

Two copper engravings from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

An Iroquois Battle Scene with French soldiers. Ambush of the Iroquois. Iroquois village. Runners. Long hill on which 500 Iroquois were ambushed. Fur traders . Regular troops. Path. Mr. Dinouville. Savages Amisetalies...

Two copper engravings from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

Engraving illustrates Native Americans on snowshoes and with a brayer, a piece of fabric that passes through a belt of rope both on the front and on the back (snowshoes)...

Two copper engravings from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

Canoes and canoeing - Iroquois Indians - Boats...

Two copper engravings from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

Savages killing martens or wild cats as well as deer with arrows. Fox who kills himself by a rifle and a Savage killing a bear on a tree . Boat in water with three savages...

Two copper engravings from 1715 and 1728 editions, each 3-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches approximately. Very good condition.

West at the top. A group of indigenous canoes. On the eastern shore of the lake are the French, Jesuit, Huron, and "Savage" villages, with an Ottawa Village to the left of the others. Shows Isle of White Wood, Isle of Missih makinack, a plan of Lake Hurons where the whitefish fishing would take place as well as fathoms of water indicated. A village of François B. Maison ...

Very interesting and rare circa 1880’s albumen photo of Queen Victoria with Princess Beatrice and Queen Victoria's her 4 dogs plus a circa 1876 Queen Victoria hand-written note photographed: Victoria, Beatrice - "Waldmann" "Fern", "Sharp" and "Noble" . Princess Beatrice, was Queen Victoria youngest child and wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944). Original albumen photo of a presumed circa 1877 Charles Burton Barber painting, with some foxing and a bit faded otherwise good condition...

A nice circa 1900 made albumen photographic view of the fort (Citadel and Quebec City from Point Levis circa 1865 view). Silver salts on paper mounted on card - Gelatin dry plate process rounded corners at top left and right.

Card size: 13-7/8 x 17-5/8 inches

Image size: 6-5/8 x 9-1/4 inches

At bottom right of photo number id in photo of 17305.

Some minor spots on photo, otherwise very good condition...

First edition. Burnaby BC, printed by Hemlock printers. National Book Collecting 3rd Contest 2012 Poster. 11 x 17 inches paper with plastic edges sealed to protect poster but plastic does not appear to be affixed to poster. 4 colours one side, black, yellow, red and orange. Fine condition. Quite rare ephemeral poster to market.

The Third National Book-Collecting Contest will be launched on Monday 30 May 2011 during the Bibliographical Society of Canada’s AGM at the University of New Brunswick...

Canada. Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 8 May 1838 ; - for, RETURN of the Names and Quality or Station of the several Persons arrested in Upper Canada, and placed in Confinement in the Prisons in Toronto, and other Places in the Province, on a charge of Insurrection or Treason; the Dates of their Arrest and Discharge; and if Tried, whiter by Court Martial or Civil Courts, with the Result of such Trials severally; also, the Number in Prison at the time of the last Despatch, "Colonial Office ... James Stephen."...

This rare volume is a bound-with 2 first edition volumes in 1. Full leather, probably pigskin and soiled, more so on spine and edges. 4 x 6 inches. ;

First book; Directions for the Latine tongue by the translator of Religio medici. [John Merryweather]

1681. First edition. London :

Second book; Janua linguӕ italicӕ brevissima by Dominico 1691 Anthonio de Christiano, Alexander Jansz Lintman, [c1637-1718] printer. 30p. not numbered. First edition, ..

Five (5) important and scarce Parliamentary Papers published between the nomination of Lord Durham as Governor General and High Commissioner to British North America and just before his resignation in September 1838; dealing with his Nomination, his Acceptance of the Post, his Terms of Reference, his Powers, his Titles, his Duties, the Constitution of a Special Council, all Appointments made by him to the Special Council, Copies of Ordinances and Proclamations and all Minutes of the Proceedings; in relation with Lower Canada, Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. From January 20th to August 2nd 1838. The House of Commons. Some edge open tears, otherwise very good condition....