Robert W. Service collection contains 5 items dating form 1911 to 1929, specifically 3 books, 1 movie herald, and 1 photo...

Robert William Service was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon".

Adolf Ladenburg, two illustrated anti-Semitic manuscripts written in French about his wife and his mysterious death at sea. 1896. Illustrations done in ink and watercolour, signed F.B., identity unknown.

The manuscripts and drawings are intended to be satirical and humorous in tone. But the humor is grim and sadly anti-Semitic. During this period in France, anti-Semitism was quite prevalent, the most notable case of anti-Semitism being the case of Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most controversial and polarizing political dramas in French society....

William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. Le Queux mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I. He wrote 150 novels dealing with international intrigue, as well as books warning of Britain’s vulnerability to European invasion before World War I.

The collection has 4 items dating from [1897] to 1923, specifically, 2 letters, 1 manuscript and 1 book....

The collections contains 28 items dating from 1948 to 1991, specifically, 16 letters, 9 manuscript material, 2 silver gelatin prints and 1 book.

George Granville Baker was a British Catholic author and poet who prided himself on being an outsider. T.S. Eliot declared him a genius, and Yeats thought him the finest poet of his generation. Barker's personal life was passionate....

Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. In addition to being the Governor of New York for three terms from 1943 to 1955, he was the Republican nominee for the Presidential elections in 1944 and 1948.

The collections contains 88 items dating from 1938 to 1964, specifically, 16 letters written by Dewey, 8 letters written by other people, 15 photos, 45 buttons, pins and jugates, 2 cards/envelopes, a dinner program, and a pictorial campaign fan....

The Huxley family is a notable British family. Several family members have excelled in science, medicine, arts, and literature. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), the patriarch of the family, was a zoologist, comparative anatomist, and friend of Charles Darwin.

The collection contains 31 items dating from 1881 to 1989, specifically 23 letters, 2 booklets, 1 post card, 1 photo, 1 book, 1 typescript, and 1 telegram....

Helen Mason Grose was born and buried in Providence, Rhode Island, She was an artist and book illustrator.

This collection is comprised of the remnants of Grose’s personal papers (circa 1900-1964). The archive has approximately 100 b&w photos, most of which at one time were pasted into a photo album. There are approximately 80 letters and cards in the correspondence...

Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and political candidate. His novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) brought him early and wide renown.

The collection has 8 items dating from 1948 to 1997, specifically 6 letters, 1 signed book and 1 signed envelope....

32 legal manuscript documents including letters and documents dating from ND, 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804. The legal documents are regarding monies owed and the sale of Jacob Jordan’s (1770-1829) house and land in Terrebonne, Québec.

A number of people are seeking payments including a Montreal merchant , Samuel Dumas. William Claus and his wife Catherine Jordan are also seeking inheritance monies as is Jacob Jordan (1770-1829) Catherine's brother. A most interesting insight into the financial realities at the turn of the 18th century in early Québec...

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.

First Cdn. edition. 1839. Toronto, Robert Stanton

Book commonly known as the "Durham report". 5 x 8-1/4 inches. (2),[3]-142pp.,iv. (table of contents). 3/4 modern green morocco covers. Internally some occasional foxing at front and last few pages, but generally very clean and quite good condition. TPL 2263. Lande 206...

This copy, printed in Toronto by Robert Stanton is largest type size and pages on the three 1839 Canadian editions...

[France] First edition, 1756. 12mo: xlvii, [1], 352pp. This scarce work, presented in the form of an epistolary novel (a series of eighteen letters dated from July to September 1756), was written at the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War, a global conflict fought between France and Britain in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean.

Specific letters address issues such as “De l’Équilibre du Canada & des Colonies Septentrionales de L’Angleterre” (Lettre VI). To preserve peace in Europe, the author advocated a balance of power, the avoidance of conflict in the French and British colonies, freedom of the seas, and the promotion of trade and commerce...

1979. First Edition signed by Author and by Editor.

Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"

Inscribed - "From one Scottish Printer's De'il [devil] to Another - With my Best Wishes - Tommy Douglas"...

 “In total, he [Douglas] provided the impetus for about a hundred pieces of legislation, several of which can be said to have shaped the Canadian identity.”

In recognition of this immense contribution, in 1980 he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada

1852.Second UK edition. 2 volumes, 5-1/4 x 8 inches. Original dark green cloth professionally re-backed with original spine some time ago. Original tan endpapers in both volumes.

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. ...

1903 First edition. 5-7/8 x 9-1/8 inches. 16pp. self cover, stapled. Very early and thus quite scarce Autographs catalogue, #16, June 1903, published by Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. Content is 11 pages of 394 autographed items, 6 books ads on 4 pages and the back cover promoting the benefits of collecting along with the many subjects he has sold to collectors. ...

1758. First edition. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches with new cloth spine, paper label, beige paper covered boards and new endpaper. 4 maps.

#1) - A Plan of the Fort and Bay of Frontenac with the adjacent Counties 18 cm x 11 cm - page 552

A detailed map of the Northeast portion of Lake Ontario near the Iroquois River and Bay of Niaoure, Fort Frontenac and published during the French & Indian War. Fort Frontenac was built by the French in 1673...

1838 - 23cm x 18.5cm, (9 x 7 1/4 inches). Soft cover booklet with professional paper repairs...

Inside with 50 pages containing neatly hand-written notes for math lessons with reference drawings with a number of the lessons on trigonometry (studies triangles and the relationships between the lengths of their sides and the angles between those sides)...

1987. 1st Oxford Press Paperback. 5 x 7-3/4 inches. 256pp. Near Fine condition.

Signed by author on the title page plus signed piece of ephemera ...

Athol Harold Lannigan Fugard was born June 11, 1932, Middelburg, South Africa. Dramatist, actor, and director who became internationally known for his penetrating and pessimistic analyses of South African society during the apartheid period.

Acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time in 1985

[1948] First Edition, first printing. (4),3-77(1 ad) 5 x 7-1/2 inches.

5 short plays by Tennessee Williams :

- Moony's Kids Don't Cry (1940);

- The Dark Room (1948);

- The Case of the Crushed Petunias (1948);

- The Unsatisfactory Supper (1946);

- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1948).

Provenance: Cultural icon Mavor Moore (1919-2006), the noted actor, writer, director, producer, critic and teacher who founded a host of Canadian artistic institutions.

Inscribed by “Mavor Moore New York, 1949" on front cover...

1996. First edition. Uncommon book. 9-1/4 x 10 inches. (4)-[5]-243pp

Illustrations (some Colored), maps included.

Descriptions and photos of historic houses in various Grey County townships as well as Clarksburg, Durham, Flesherton, Hanover, Markdale, Meaford, Owen Sound, etc...

1799-1806 [An officers notebook including various standing orders, mess rules, pay rosters and receipts for disbursements relating to the 66th Berkshire Foot in Canada, and the 62nd Wiltshire Foot elsewhere]. [Annapolis Royal, Halifax, England and elsewhere]. [s.n., 1799-1806].

A miscellaneous military notebook in the possession at least one officer serving in the 66th Berkshire Foot during its service in Canada, with 23pp of 'Standing orders' for the 66th regiment while at Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia), and several notes of disbursements and receipts of monies, largely 1799/1800, in Halifax (Nova Scotia).

Oblong 7 x 4-1/4 inches. 44 sheets with 88pp unnumbered with occasional evidence of excised leaves, the odd blank. Interleaved throughout with blotting paper...

1744. Carte des lacs du Canada. Dressee sur les manuscrits du Depost des cartes plans et journaux de la marine et sur le journal du RP. de Charlevoix

First edition. Bellin's scarce landmark map of the Great Lakes region published in 1744. The first obtainable example, preceded only by a 1742 proof copy noted by Kershaw.

One of the earliest appearances of Detroit, the Port of Chicago and four fictitious islands in Lake Superior, Philippeaux, Pontchartrain, Maurepas, and St. Anne, illustrated for the first time. This map is also noteworthy for the fictitious mountain range in Michigan and is rich with many Indian villages, army forts, trading posts, missions, rivers and portages are named...

1743. First edition, first state. An important 1743 map and is one of Bellin's earliest maps of any part of North America. This map covers all of North America from the Arctic to the Spanish Main, including modern day Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.

By far this map's most striking feature is the broad open water route extending westward from Lake Superior, through the Lake of the Woods (Lac des Bois), and continuing via the River of the West (Fleuve de L'Ouest) through Lake Winnipeg (Ouinipigon) to the mysterious Mountain of Radiant Stones (Montagne de Pierres Brillantes)....

1744. First Edition. Paper flat size: 5-5/8 x 7-3/4 inches to the neat-line with right border having #7 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified,

Copper engraved map of the Richelieu River, Lake Champlain and Lake George, with a portion of the St. Lawrence River. Lake George is called Lac du S. Sacrament, and it has an odd, round second lake above it. The English renamed the lake after King George II in 1755. ...

1744. First Edition. Paper flat size: 5-3/4 x 8 inches to the neat-line with right border having #39 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified,

Copper engraved map. Bellin's map of the coasts of "French Florida", following the first discoveries of Carolina, Georgia, and Northern Florida and extending from Cape Fear and the Cape Fear River to St. Augustine. Several forts are located (Fort Scheningh, Fort Wantoot, Fort Edisto, Fort Argyle) and several early towns (St. Augustine, Savannah, St. Joseph, New London, Charles Town (Charleston), James Town, Pediee, etc.)..

1744. First Edition. Paper flat size: 5-5/8 x 7-3/4 inches to the neat-line with right border having #38 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified,

Copper engraved map. Covers area of James Bay, the southern appendage of Hudson's Bay, with Fort Rupert and the other rivers entering it. Scale 1:3,400,000 Echelle de Lieues Marines de France....

1744. First edition. Detailed map of Acadia, Isle St. John, Isle Royale, Prince Edward Island (Isle Saint Jean) and adjoining regions.

Paper flat size: 12-1/8 x 8 inches to the neat-line with right border having #1 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified...

1744. First Edition. Paper flat size: 11-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches to the neat-line with right border having #3 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified, with 1/2 x 4-1/4 inch top left border lacking, four very small hole on bottom border repaired, otherwise, very good condition. Engraved by Dheulland.

Kershaw II, 423, p.81...

1744. First edition. Map of the Bay, Harbour and Port of Placentia on the Island of Newfoundland.

Paper flat size: 11-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches to the neat-line with right border having #2 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified, with some very light offsetting on the bottom and 3/8 x 5 inch top left border lacking, old holes in bottom order repaired, otherwise, very good condition. Engraved by Dheulland....

1744. First edition. Quebec city is located at the western edge of the map. This map centres on the Ile d'Orleans. It covers the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City east to Isle-aux-Grues. Good topographical detail with names along the banks of the river and anchorage, hazards, and navigable channels are identified. Engraved by Dheulland. 

Paper flat size: 10-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches to the neat-line with right border having #12 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified,...

1744. First edition, second state. Early copper engraved map of Quebec City. The map shows the area around the Quebec City basin, from Cap au Diamant in the west to Île d'Orléans in the east. Includes index and relief shown by hachures.

With 7 specific locations identified by a key below distance scale found at top right, the top half of a large compass rose is seen at bottom edge, fleur-de-lys and rhumb lines adding a unique and dramatic visual appeal to the map....

1744. First edition, first state. Paper flat size: 11-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches to the neat-line with right border having #11 sideways. Was folded, now flat and has been cleaned and deacidified, but with some old light stains on the bottom 10% and 1/4 x 4 inch top left border lacking, otherwise, very good condition.

This copper-engraved map shows the Saguenay River in Quebec, which flows from Lac St.-Jean into the St. Lawrence River and places of the Saguenay, often of Native American in origin, the best known at the time to navigators and explorers...

[1715 & 1728] "Castor de 26 pouces de Longueur entre tête et queue". One 1715 first edition, second state and the other 1728 first edition, third state.

"On this representation of a beaver (not necessarily very flattering for him!), It is written: "Beaver 26 inches long between head and tail." We find it difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of the ancients for whom this animal was very exotic. It must be said that if New France never brought back gold, it provided an enormous number of furs...

[1896] Paper Size: 32-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches. Image Size: 29-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches - Scarce black & white original photogravure after Stanley Berkeley, c1896 published by L. Hildesheimer & Co. Limited, London & Manchester. Printed in Austria

There is a 2" and a couple of 1/2" imprinted with coloured pencil repairs to the image at the top right and centre, and the y in Berkeley's pencil signed name has a small section of paper pulled off affecting the Y, otherwise signature in very good condition....

1926. First edition. Was a four-page, now flat, Norman Studios bright graphics film poster promotional brochure, or pressbook for the movie called "The Flying Acel" with an all colored cast. Size: 14-1/2 x 18-1/2 inches flat. 3 colours one size (yellow, red & black) and 1 colour verso black.

This 1922 movie featured famed rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett, along with accomplished actors Lawrence Chenault, Anita Bush and Steve “Peg” Reynolds. Promotional brochure meant for mailing was folded, now flat. Very good+ condition...

1926. First edition. Norman Studios bright graphics film large stone litho poster for the movie called "The Flying Ace" with an all coloured cast.

Nice stone litho promotional theatre and promotional poster of 3 sheet poster printed in three sections. Multi colours one size (yellow, red brown & black) and verso blank. Printed by the Richey Litho Co. Final full size approximately 41 x 81 inches flat once assembled with the six approximate size 13-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches folded poster sections. Quite scarce....

1928. First edition. Norman Studios bright graphics film large stone litho poster for the movie called "Black Gold" with an all coloured cast. Nice stone litho promotional theatre and promotional poster of 3 sheet poster printed in three sections, flat not folded. Multi colours one size (yellow, red, green & black) and verso blank. Printed by the Richey Litho Co. Final full size approximately 41 x 81 inches flat once assembled with the three sheets rolled poster sections. Quite scarce to rare.

Condition: Given the number of folds in each of the three poster sections, some fold tears in each, with wear to fold lines with some edge wear and some archival tape reinforcement to a few fold lines on reverse. These are fairly typical of old vintage poster sheets, even unused copies like this. All three folded poster sections otherwise are in good condition. The 3 poster rolled sections will have to be assembled and ideally backed to be fully displayed....

3 pages. Dated 1830 printed document with hand-written details. Contract written by W.L. Whiting & Co, forwarding agent located in Prescott, and docketed on the verso of the second page. For the shipment B & Q (best and quickest) of 80 barrels of flour proof (moisture proof) from Prescott, Upper Canada to Montreal by « Two Batteaux » (planked batteaux boats), along the St. Lawrence River.  Freight charges with insurance amounting to £10.7.6 to be paid to James McCutcheon. 

Small paper hole, 3/8 x 1/2 inches due to the removal of the wax seal not affecting any text, otherwise, very good, folded...

A Typed Letter Signed (TLS) dated, Ottawa, Feb. 2, 1929 from Adam Shortt to Professor J.P. Pritchard, Professor at Queen's University regarding the Choice of the Capital of Canada 1839-41 (Kingston Capital of Canada) with a stapled 2 page TLS response to Professor Pritchard's questions by Adam Shortt .

Also included is a reproduction copy of an 1840 dated communication by C. Poulett Thompson, of Public Archives of Canada (10 pages) extensively annotated by Professor J.P. Pritchett along with another 1840 copy of a one page letter from J. Russell of Public Archives....