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Duncan McLaren
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HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825–1895) etc
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. His grandsons include Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the novelist and author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, and his brother, Sir Julian S. Huxley, (1987-1975), a biologist, eugenicist, and the first director of UNESCO. Sir Julian’s wife was Lady Juliette Huxley (1896–1994, née Mairie Juliette Baillot), a Swiss-French sculptor and writer. Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor, best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard which were based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.

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....
Price: $3,000 USD or $4,085 Cdn #8329
SITWELL, Dame Edith Louisa (1887-1964)
Dame Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She never married, but in 1927 she allegedly fell in love with the gay Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew (see the card below inviting Burnett to see his last portrait).

The collection contains 30 items dating from 1937 to 1966 specifically, 28 letters, 1 typed statement and 1 autograph on note....
Price: $2,850 USD or $3,880 Cdn #8307
DEWEY, Thomas E. (1902-1971)
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....
Price: $2,100 USD or $2,860 Cdn #8642
DEEPING, Warwick [George Davidson] (1877-1950)
Trained as a medical doctor at Cambridge University, Warwick Deeping served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. He abandoned medicine and became a full-time author. Seven of his novels were best-sellers, notably Sorrell and Son. During his career he published at least one or two novels annually as well as hundreds of short stories. His early work is dominated by historical romances. His later novels attempted to keep alive the spirit of the Edwardian age.

The collection contains 38 items dating from 1908 to 1950, specifically, 35 Autographed Signed Letters, 1 book (signature laid in), 1 movie herald, 1 photo card, and 1 custom postal cover signed in ink....
Price: $1,950 USD or $2,650 Cdn #8266
PARKMAN, Francis, Jr. [1823-1893]
Francis Parkman Jr. was an American historian, best known as the author of The California and Oregon Trail and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.

The collection consists of 6 items dating from 1849 to 1893, specifically 3 letters, 2 books with signatures, and 1 signed postcard ...
Price: $1,875 USD or $2,550 Cdn #8291
7 BOOKS
MAUD, Constance E. (Elizabeth) [1857–1929]
1906. London, Bickers & Sons
Beautiful custom made red leather covers for school prize with King's Hall Compton and Keep Troth - Make Good gilt embossed logo on the front cover. Some darker spots on spine and bottom left of front cover. Gilt edged paper edges. Inside a King's Hall Compton, PQ. presentation bookplate on marbled end papers noting this book a prize for Elocution, dated 1917. Marbled end papers and inside page are very clean and in fine condition....
Price: $145 USD or $195 Cdn #8816
ADAMS, Charles F. [Charles Follen Adams] [aka Yawcob Strauss (1842-1918)
7-1/4 x 5 inches. (3pp including frontispiece (portrait),i-77pp. Dark blue publishers cloth covers with worn corners and spine. Insides clean and very good condition. Scarce copy.
Quotations or Thoughts of other men. "Thoughts of other men gathered from here and there and recited in public readings by CHARLES F. ADAMS"

Charles Follen Adams was a Civil War soldier, poet and speaker. Principally known as the author of Leedle Yawcob Yawcob Strauss; Dialect Ballads; and other works. He came from revolutionary ancestors, being a descendant of Samuel Adams.
Price: $60 USD or $80 Cdn #8815
WORDSWORTH, William [1770-1850]
1836-37. London, Published by Edward Moxon
6 Volumes (vols. 1 & 2) 1836 and (vols. 3-6) 1837 for the 1st Moxon published edition. 4-1/2 x 7 inches. Vol.1 (3),vi-313pp,(5) ; Vol.2 (5),v-351pp,(1) ; Vol.3 (5),vi-355pp,(1) ; Vol.4 (4),vi-364pp, ; Vol.5 (4),vi-412pp ; Vol.6 (8),x-374pp.(2)...

...in scarce original publisher's cloth of Moxon's esteemed 1st 1836-37 new edition.

The great William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate, 1843 is considered the embodiment of the romantic movement in England...
Price: $775 USD or $1,050 Cdn #8814
[POTTER (Thomas) (1718-1759‏)]
1758. London, Printed and Sold by J.Towers
Second edition with additions. 5 x 8 inches. (2), [3]- 66pp. (2) Disbound with no half-title page. Price on title page: (Price 1s. 6d.)
Pages 60-63 deal with the war in America.

Criticism of the ill fated attempt by the British to take the port of Rochefort in France in Piccadilly. Country gentleman = Thomas Potter, ’The candid reflexions’ is by Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland.
Blame for the failure of the expedition on commanding officer, Sir John Mordaunt. Very good condition.
ESTC T33817...
Price: $75 USD or $100 Cdn #8796
[SHEBBEARE, John, (1709-1788)]
1757. London, Printed for J. Morgan
First edition. 5 x 7-3/4 inches. (4),[1]-47pp.,(1) Disbound with half-title. D---- of N----e = Duke of Newcastle. Addressed to the Duke of Newcastle. Author attributed to John Shebbeare. Some spots otherwise good condition.
ESTC T38137...
Price: $115 USD or $155 Cdn #8794
[MARLBOROUGH, Charles Spencer, third Duke of] [1706-1758] etc
1758. London, printed for A. Millar in the Strand.
First edition, 5 x 8 inches. (1), [5]-116p. Disbound. Pp. 62-63 omitted in paging; despite pagination text is continuous. Printed signatures on p.64 of Marlborough. George Sackville. John Waldegrave. These were the General Officers Appointed to Inquire into Causes of Failure of the Rochefort Expedition, 1757. His Majesty’s Warrant directing the said Inquiry, Appendix containing the Papers referred to in the said Report.
ESTC T44729...
Price: $150 USD or $200 Cdn #8791
[NEWCASTLE, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, (1693-1768)] (subject)
[1761]. London, Printed for R. Griffiths, in the Strand
First edition. (3), [2]-48pp. 5 x 8-1/8 inches. Disbound with a half-title. On the resignation of W. Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, from the office of secretary of state in 1761. N******** = Newcastle.
ESTC T70216

Our copy is not dated but probably a 1761 first edition...
Price: $300 USD or $400 Cdn #8787
1 MANUSCRIPTS
W.L. (William Lapin) Whiting
1830. Prescott, UC
Interesting Cargo contract document an early fur trade voyageur showing an important and lively commercial river link between Upper and Lower Canada...

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.
Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #8645
3 MAPS
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772] (cartographer)
1744. [Paris].
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, with 1/4 x 3-3/4 inch top right border lacking, otherwise, good condition.

Engraver Desbruslins stated.
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. This waterway was an important route between Montreal and the Hudson River, and it was important tactically during the French and Indian War.
Tooley, (MCC 96) #695...
Price: $125 USD or $170 Cdn #8626
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772] (cartographer)
1744. [Paris]
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, with 1/4 x 3-3/4 inch top right border lacking, otherwise, good condition. Engraver Desbruslins stated.

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....
Price: $125 USD or $170 Cdn #8623
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772] (cartographer)
1744. [Paris]
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, good condition. Engraved by Dheulland.
Kershaw II, 423, p.81...
Price: $125 USD or $170 Cdn #8621
9 EPHEMERA
British Government - Act of Parliament
1873.London, printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Queen's printer.
[36-37 Vict.] Canada Loan Guarantee. [CH.45 ]
Scarce. 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. 4 pages. Very good+ condition.
Short title: This Act may be cited as " The Canada (Public Works) Loan Act, 1873."

Together with the Canadian Confederation, the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway was a task originally undertaken as the National Dream by the Conservative government of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald. In 1873, John A. Macdonald and other high-ranking politicians, bribed in the Pacific Scandal, granted federal contracts to Hugh Allan's Canada Pacific Railway Company (which was unrelated to the current company) rather than to David Lewis Macpherson's Inter-Ocean Railway Company which was thought to have connections to the American Northern Pacific Railway Company. Because of this scandal. John A. Macdonald and the Conservative Party was removed from office in 1873....
Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #8835
British Government - Act of Parliament
1869. London, printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Queen's printer.
Quite scarce. 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. 3 pages [32 & 33 Vict.] Ch. 101. Known as "The Canada Rupert's Land Loan Act" It accompanies Bill 240 which was published in 1868. Near fine condition.
Peel 503, p.57...

In 1869, HBC reached an agreement to transfer Rupert’s Land, granted to the Company in the Royal Charter, back to the Crown. The deal was finalized in 1870 - without consulting Indigenous Peoples - and the land was included in the new Dominion of Canada three years after Confederation, making way for settler colonialism in western Canada...
Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #8833
British Government - Act of Parliament
1863.London, Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode
At head of title: Anno vicesimo sexto & vicesimo septimo Victoriae Reginae. CAP. LXXXIII. An Act to define the Boundaries of the Colony of British Columbia, and to continue an Act to provide the Government of the said Colony. [28th July 1863]

Scarce. 12 x 7 inches. 2 pages, [729]-730. Small spot on front and back border paper edge, otherwise, very good + condition.

Boundaries of British Columbia: "British Columbia shall for the purposes of the said Act, and for all other purposes, be held to comprise all such territories within the Dominions of Her Majesty as are bounded to the South by the territories of the United States of America, to the West by the Pacific Ocean and the Frontier of the Russian Territories in North America, to the North by the sixtieth parallel of north latitude, and to the East, from the boundary of the United States northwards, by the Rocky Mountains...
Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #8832
British Government - Act of Parliament
1859. London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode (printer) .
3 pages, [157]-159.
Cap. XXVI. Running title: North-western Territories (British America). Imprint from colophon.
This Acts key points:
• Justices of the Peace in the British American Indian Territories authorized to try Offences summarily, and punish by Fine or Imprisonment. Her Majesty may deem expedient for the Conduct of the Trade with the Indians, and for diminishing or preventing the Sale and Distribution of Spirits to the Indians, or for promoting their Moral and Religious Improvement.
• The Power to establish Courts of Record not to be affected
• Her Majesty, by Order in Council, may make Regulations for the Trade with the Indians
• Hudson's Bay Company, British Columbia, and Vancouver Island not affected.
• The Crown reserves the right to make regulations for the conduct of trade with the Indians (including the diminish or preventing the sale of spirits) and for the erection of Indian Colonies....
Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #8831
British Government - Act of Parliament
1849. London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode
11-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. 4 pages, [405] to 408...

Vancouver Island Becomes a Colony. In the wake of the Oregon Treaty, Britain was anxious to establish a permanent presence in the Pacific Northwest to protect against further American expansion. On January 13, 1849, a Royal Charter of Grant leasing to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) for ten years, at an annual fee of seven shillings. In exchange for proprietary rights, the Charter of Grant required the HBC to promote colonization, and accept the appointment of a royal governor...
Price: $195 USD or $265 Cdn #8830
Great Britain. Colonial Office.
1839 to 1853. London, Colonial Office & House of Commons
#1) Return to an address of The House of 6th May 1839, for a copy of the address to Her Majesty from the Bishop of Montreal and the clergy of the Church of England in Upper Canada, praying for a judicial decision respecting the clergy reserves...
Price: $230 USD or $310 Cdn #8822
GZOWSKI II, Casimir Stanislaus [1848-1922]
Two certificates for Casimir S. Gzowski Jr.;

#1) 1866 CW 18th January Second Class certificate: Was folded, now flat, 14-1/2 x 10 inches. Parchment two sided with printed type and handwritten on front and handwritten docketed information on the reverse. Signed, ?. Colonel, Commandant of School of Military Instruction Toronto. Very good condition.

#2) 1867 CW 8th November First Class Certificate: Was folded, now flat, 14-1/2 x 10 inches. Parchment two sided with printed type and handwritten on front and handwritten docketed information on the reverse. Signed, ?. Colonel, Commandant of School of Military Instruction Toronto. Good condition.

Casimir S. Gzowski, II [1848-1922], was a stock and Exchange broker in Toronto, Ontario. The family resided at 60 Glen Road, Rosedale, Toronto; there were 12 children of the marriage. Interment in the family vault at St James Cemetery. His father was Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski (1813-1898) and his grandson was Peter Gzowski (1934-2002) a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio shows...
Price: $250 USD or $335 Cdn #4341
British Government
RARE COPY OF EARLY EMIGRATION AND DISPOSAL OF CROWN LAND

1834.London, House of Commons
8 x 13 inches. (2),[3]-47pp.
"Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 14 August 1834."
Dated (p. [1]): Colonial Department, Downing-Street, 14 August 1834. John Lefevre.
Original issued in series: [Parliamentary papers / Great Britain. Parliament (1833-1834). House of Commons] ; 616, 1834. Tables....
Price: $380 USD or $515 Cdn #8818
British Government
1840. London, House of Commons
13-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. No binding. (2), [3]-47pp.(1).
Official British Government paper on Upper & Lower Canada. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 March 1840. 18 dispatches, June 1839 to March 1840, with enclosures, between the Marquis of Normanby, Sir John Colborne, Rt. Hon. C. Poulett Thompson and Lord John Russell.
Lacking 3 maps. Age-toned paper, disbound and pages separated, otherwise, good condition.
TPL 2365...
Price: $250 USD or $340 Cdn #8817
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