The collection has 16 items dating from 1867 to 1899, specifically 14 letters and 2 signed books.

Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet, orientalist, translator, and journalist, best known as the author of The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem in an elaborately Tennysonian blank verse that describes, through the mouth of an “imaginary Buddhist votary,” the life and teachings of the Buddha. Arnold was honored with Newdigate Prize, 1852, for The Feast of Belshazzar; Companion of the Star of India, 1877; Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire, 1888....

Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, playwright, essayist, Librarian of Congress, lawyer and writer who was associated with the Modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. MacLeish was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

The collection contains 13 items dating from 1940 to 1981, specifically 5 letters, 4 typescripts, 2 Library of Congress donation forms, and 2 photos..

5 Canadian politicians are represented in this collection of 12 item dating from 1888 to [1991], specifically, 3 letters, 6 photos, 1 pamphlet, 1 card, and 1 statement....

Knighted in 1921, John Martin-Harvey was an English stage actor. He joined Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre company in 1882 and for many years he played only minor parts in Irving's productions... He also starred in a number of films. One of his admirers was Robertson Davies, who used him as a model for Sir John Tresize in The Deptford Trilogy (1970-75).

The collection consists of 69 items dating from 1915 to 1943, specifically 59 letters, 5 signed notes, 1 telegram, 1 caricature card, and 3 signed photo postcards....

Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, and academic. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his poetry...

The collection is comprised of 19 items dating from 1968 to 2017, specifically, 1 typescript, 6 books, 1 letter, 8 photos, 1 small broadside and 2 e-mail exchanges....

Kate Douglas Wiggin was the author of numerous children's books, notably, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; she also founded the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, and devoted much of her working life to children's welfare and charities...

The collection consists of 14 items dating from 1900 to 1938, specifically, 4 books, 2 calendars, 1 letter, 1 photoprint, 2 leaflets, and 2 photo postcards. A few unrecorded...

Beatrice Harraden was an influential British novelist, publishing seventeen novels, besides journalism and letters to the editor, short stories, a suffrage play and pamphlet, and children's books. She was a leader of the suffragette movement, the Women’s Social and Political Union....

The collection contains 14 Autographed Letters Signed, circa 1890s-1914....

Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of science and religion, and an historian of philosophy...

This collection consists of 18 Boutroux autographed letters signed (ALS) all written in French and dating from 1908 to 1913...

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a best-selling English novelist who wrote approximately 100 novels and 40 anthologies of short stories. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue.

The collection contains 13 items dating from 1913 to 1940, specifically, 5 letters, 5 photos, 1 autograph, 1 custom postal cover signed and 1 book....

Charles Kingsley was an Anglican clergyman, university professor, historian and novelist, the author of many books

Henry Kingsley his younger brother, was an English Writer; Novelist; Artist; Painter; Draughtsman; Gold-miner and exponent of Muscular Christianity.

The collection consists of 14 items dating from 1857 to 1870, specifically, 5 letters, 1 note, 7 photos (cartes-de-visite), and 1 post card ...

4th edition. [1854]. 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. , [3]-72pp. (6pp. with 2 leaves of B&W plates [front and added title page], Chromolithographed pictorial top board with publisher’s advertisement printed on rear. Cover title: Little Downey....

A very nice clean copy...

Together six 18th and 19th century Quaker publications bound in 1 vol., occasional spotting, light browning...

#1 - A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family

#2 - A Summary of the History, Doctrine and Discipline of Friends 1799

#3 - Meditations Written During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever, in the City of Philadelphia, In the Year 1793

#4 - Christ's Spirit A Christian's Strength 1801

#5 - Some Account of the Convincement and Religious Progress of John Spalding 1801

Some Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts 1817

The Universe of Light. London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1933. Greenish blue cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket. 283 pages with 26 illustrated plates, some in colour....With 2 TLS

William Henry Bragg was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman. He shared the Nobel Prize in physics with his son, William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), in 1915 "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"...

First edition. First 3 volumes of 5 only. Text in Spanish. Small 4to, 20.5 cm x 15 cm.

Vols. I, & II [20], xxiv, 200; xvi, [8], 230 pp. With 15 folding copper-engraved maps and battle-plans, a few with hand-coloring. period calf.

Vol. III (12), 320 p. Sólo Tomo III, that contains books seventh, eighth and ninth from the work. In the end, torn drop-down plate (only left a fragment)....

First US english edition. 1854, 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches, 376pp [8, ads], illustrated with three plates and enlarged from the original French edition. Rebacked with original spine relaid with publisher's dark green cloth with gilt stamped letters and small beaver at head of spine, boards with perimeter blind stamped, and new endpapers.

First edition. 3-3/4 x 5-7/8 inches. 6 wood-engraved frontis, title page,[5]-208pp.

Early history of Moravian missionaries and their attempts in converting the American Indians to Christianity. The author was an instructor of Hebrew at Wesleyan University and later founded the Biblical institute at Newbury, Vermont, of which he was president till 1848...

3rd Edition. 8 x 5 inches, xxv (1), [1]-508 pp.(appendix to page 508) Illustrated, 16 plates including a portrait frontispiece...Autographed and inscribed by the author using both his Christian name and his Indian name Timus.

Title continued, together with his later experiences in official and business capacities and a brief description of resources, beauties and advantages of the new Northwest, the several Indian wars, etc.

Great Classic - Early Northwest historical Americana narrative! Hunter and his family emigrated overland in 1852...

First edition. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches, (1 blank) (10), [1]-183pp. including index, (1) blank. Dark blue original cloth with gilt type and emblems embossed into front cover with original brown end papers.

Previous owners name, E.T. Sturdee, affixed to front end paper. Four plates and four portraits including frontispiece of Judge Robert Duncan Wilmot, who was later Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick...

First UK edition. 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches. 35pp(1)...

Overall condition good....

Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the British government's request for Canada to send a militia to fight for Britain in the Second Boer War.

First edition. 4-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches, 1 blank, 4pp, 1 blank, [5]-368pp. Blue cloth with gilt type and one decoration on the spine...

This book was owned by Sir Max Aitken, who became Lord Beaverbrook. It has 2 bookplates, one saying Sir Max Aitken and one saying Beaverbrook (used Acheson Batchelor to engrave his bookplate). inside the front cover. Signed “W.M. Aitken” in pencil on title page and page [5]..

First Edition 6 x 9-1/8 inches. xvi, [17]-589. with half-title many plates and 2 folding coloured maps ; frontis map with a few fold tears...

"Based on the author's observations during the expedition of 1884, and on reports of other Canadian explorers and surveyors, a narrative of the expedition with notes on white, native and halfbreed peoples, the villages, missionaries and economic life observed along Labrador, the posts of Ungava Peninsula, Churchill, York Factory and the islands of the Bay; accounts of fighting field ice, bear hunting, and the work of Hudson's Bay Co."...

Second edition. 1816. 2 volumes., xxxii, 254; viii, 338: 8vo...

Several tracts on the history of Port Royal des Champs, the influential Cistercian convent, which expounded the Jansenist theories of philosophy, education, religious observance and the social duties of men. Schimmelpenninck (1788-1856) begins with a translation of an early survey of Port Royal by Dom Claude Lancelot...

First Edition. 1931. 9-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches. 63 pages. : folded plans. Signed by D.B. Harkness, previous owner on front cover. Also included is a May 1931 Toronto Daily Star newspaper clipping with an article titled "Former Status Retained by Social Service Bodies.

Provenance: D.B. Harkness was Acting Secretary, Unemployrnent Relief Branch, Department of PubIic Welfare, , Secretary of the Manitoba Social Service Council, Secretary of the Social Service Council of Ontario...

First edition. 1824. 5 x 8-1/4 inches. vi, [3]-330pp. New leather spine with gilt type, new marbled boards and endpapers...Songs and Odes by the Rt Hon George Canning MP. This collection of celebrated satire and verse, written by John Wolcot, was originally published in London in 1791 and was much copied and parodied....

Peter Pindar was the pseudonym for satirist and poet John Wolcot. His humour was generally coarse, and not infrequently profane. He soon discovered a paying enterprise in ridiculing the private life of the king...

First edition. [1947] 5-1/4 x 8-3/8 inches. (6),[7]-298pp. Red cloth covers with dull gilt on spine and front cover, sunned on bottom front cover 1/2 inch, otherwise very good condition. Illustrated with 12 b&w photographs. A very nice collectable local historical book of a small Ontario town (Hanover, in Grey County)...

Scarce inscribed and signed by the author "With the kindest regards of the Author, Josephine Elizabeth Hahn...

Marriage contract 1762. (certified copy of), 3-1/2 folio pages, 8 x 12-3/4 inches; Quebec, September 6, 1762. Seal of wax to the document. Near fine condition...

...certified and signed by

Jean-Claude Panet (1719 - 1778) on page 2, lawyer, judge and notary, on page 3 signed by James Murray (1721-1794), sergeant, colonel d' infantry and General governor of the province of Quebec. The other signature under the red seal and below General James Murray on page four is Hector Theophilus Cramahé (1720-1788),

Letter of Joan Peveril Ward Poole (Joanie) to her father Sir Reginald Ward Edward Lane Poole, a British lawyer on Batterwood House near Port Hope letterhead. Asking her father to see Lionel Massey "who Is Vincent Massey's son" If he comes up from Balllol...

E.C. Kyte autograph letter signed, two pages, 8vo, dated "From the Librarian, Queen's University, June 21,1940. To Rupert Davies, sending along an editioned copy of the first book printed about Fort Frontenac and sharing details about the early history of Kingston. Rupert Davies (1879-1967) was the publisher of the Kingston Whig Standard, and a Senator appointed by Mackenzie King. He was the father of the Canadian writer, Robertson Davies...

5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inch title page from "We Twa" with inscribed note, "For Richard A. A. McDowell with sincere regards and many thanks for all his tokens of kind thought and friendship signed Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair" plus Aberdeen and Temair, September 1925". Attached sheet (reverse) engraved 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inch page with portrait from her book "We Twa" 2 vol. Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen (published 1925, London)....

[1759]. Copper plate engraving. 7.5 x 10 inches. Was folded, now flat. Some small markings outside of border otherwise very good condition.

Map maker: Andrew Bell  Sculpt: A. Bell

In addition to the main map, which traces the river from Anticosti Island to the city of Quebec, there is an included extension, A Continuation of the River St. Lawrence from Quebec to Lake Ontario.

There are three additional insets: one focusing on the Bay of the Seven Isles, another on Lake Champlain, and The Traverse or Passage from Cape Torment into the South Channel of Orleans Isle. The river is filled with soundings, anchorages, shoals, rocks, and islands....

1st edition. [1838]. Image 7 x 4-3/4 inches. Engraving hand-coloured depicting a view of Niagara Falls showing people in a small boat rowing towards the falls.

Engraving matted and shrink wrapped, not examined outside of this wrapping. Very good or better condition...

[1960]. Coloured print, Paper: 29-3/4 x 22-1/2 inches. Image: 25 x 17 inches. Variation graphics reprint done probably the mid twentieth century (circa 1960) from the original 1756 engraving. Near fine condition. The Great Harry man-of-war, the largest ship in the world in the reign of Henry VIII....

Large albumen photo. ND. Card: 16-7/8 x 14 inches Photo: 13-3/8 x 10-1/4 inches. The Louis Bergdoll Brewing Co. Protiwiner Lager Beer  29th & Parrish Street, Philadelphia. Group of men outside large building with a couple holding beers. Men are not identified however considered employees and management of the company. ...

One Xmas card [1964], signed by Alexander and and his wife, Margaret Alexander, flat 14 x 5-1/4 inches folded to 5-1/4 x 7 inches.

Two cards, yellow one, 6 x 4 inches, signed by Alexander of Tunis and pink one 5-3/4 x 3 inches, signed by Margaret Alexander of Tunis and dated May 26, 1946....

Hand calligraphy of mid 18th century British 21st, Nov. 1786 Indenture parchment agreement with William Perkins and Edward Crawshaw.

Size: 26-3/4 X 21-1/2 inches.

Likely a land related agreement. William Perkins of Little Duoorfields in the Parish of Saint Giles, Norwich...in consideration of the sum of five shillings apiece lawful cash of Great Britain to the said Edward Crawshaw and I William Perkins......

• Dated Friday April 3, 1885

• Dated Monday April 6, 1885

• Dated Thursday April 9, 1885 Twelve O'Clock, early edition.

• Dated Thursday April 9, 1885 later edition.

• Dated Saturday April 25, 1885

• Dated Wednesday May 13, 1885

• Dated Monday May 25, 1885 (not complete only 4 pages)...

Flat 21 x 16 inches folded to 8 x 10-1/2 inches. George Washington Perkins and his wife, Isabella Perkins Mortgage 13th May, 1899 with Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Foresters Mortgage for $17,000.

Town lot number four (4) situated on the north side of Wellington Street at the junction of the said Wellington Street north Vittoria Street . Lots 19 and 20 on the East side of Vittoria Street.

This land is very close to the present day Ottawa Parliament buildings....

Typed letter signed to Doug ?. One page. 8 x 11 inches. Dated August 17, 1979. A form letter, addressed and signed in McClelland's hand.

Promoting an advance signed copy of Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man. The book was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1979 and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award.

Fine condition....

1854. Quarto, 2 pages. Disbound, small holes and tears in margin. Signed by R. Bell on top of back panel. 1st Session, 5th Parliament, 18 Victoria, 1854

Resolutions to repeal all duties of Customs, specific and ad valorem on an important list of articles, including sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, tobacco, cigars, wine, whiskey, rum, brandy, gin, etc. ...