1. ABERDEEN, Lady The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893-1898. Edited with Introduction by John T. Saywell. Champlain Society, No. 38. Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1960. 24cm, lxxxiv,517p. with 2 portraits, illustrations, limited to 550 copies, this being #101, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy 100.00 In 1893 Lord Aberdeen became Governor General of Canada and he and Lady Aberdeen traveled extensively in Canada. Her journal is an important source of insight into the problems and times in the country during the 1890's. The appendix contains a biographical dictionary of principal persons and lists the members of the household.
2. [ABERDEEN, Lady] ORME, James Lawrence Countess of Dufferin Quadrilles. Composed and respectively Dedicated to her Excellency the Countess of Dufferin. Ottawa. J.L. Orme & Son. 1873. Folio. 35.5x 27cm, 7p., pianoforte score, illustrated wraps, advertisement on rear cover, some indentations along spine for entry into binder, light soiling, very good 100.00 The attractive cover illustration is a portrait of Lady Dufferin drawn around 1873 at about age 30. The music for five quadrilles is included, arranged for the piano. The composer, James Lawrence Orme (d.1893) was the founder in 1861 of the music business, J.L. Orme and Son, Ottawa. The rear cover of the sheet-music is a detailed advertisement for the Company. Interestingly the business still exists as an Ottawa furniture store.
3. [AGRICULTURE] ANDERSON, James The Improvement of Agriculture, and the Elevation in the Social Scale, of both Husbandman and Operative. Agriculture and Industrial Exhibition (By authority of the Board of Agriculture of Lower Canada.). Montreal. Printed by De Montigny & Company, Printers to the Board of Agriculture of Lower Canada. 1858. 23cm, 22cm, 22p., rose printed wraps, fine 150.00 T.P.L. 3774. A pre-confederation appraisal of Canada's agricultural situation and future. "What a mighty future awaits her! Let us then once and for ever disown petty squabbling and suicidal antagonism...let us disabuse ourselves of all sectional and sectarian heats...". James Anderson was the Editor of "The Canadian Farmers' Journal" and former Imperial Drainage Commissioner in Scotland.
4. [AGRICULTURE] LANGEVIN, Jean Answers to the Programme on Teaching & Agriculture. For Elementary School, Model School and Academy Diplomas. Approved by the Council of Public Instruction. Quebec. Printed by C. Darveau. 1864. 21cm, second English edition, 50p., yellow printed wraps, original wrappers bound in library binder, some annotating in pencil, very good 150.00 Langevin was the Principal of Laval Normal School, Quebec from 1858 to 1867, previously being professor of mathematics at the Quebec Seminary. From 1867 to 1892, he was Bishop of St. Germain de Rimouski. The book has the approbation of Pierre Joseph Olivier Chauveau, Superintendent of Education in Lower Canada, who was noted as establishing normal schools in the Province. He was Prime Minister of Quebec from 1867 to 1873.
5. [AGRICULTURE] SPENCER, J.B. (Editor) The Agricultural Gazette of Canada. Dominion of Canada, Department of Agriculture. Ottawa. GPO. 1914-1915. 8vo. Vol. 1. January to December, 1914. - Volume 2, 1915. 1042 & 1259pp., many plates and illustrations, bound in half black calf, spines scuffed, hinge on volume two started and bottom board damp stained affecting the margins on the last several pages otherwise very good, very scarce 200.00 "Not intended for general circulation however a limited number of copies are available to subscribers... This new magazine is published in the sincere hope that it may be of service to all those interested in the development and prosperity of Canadian agriculture...." Foreword.
6. AVERILL, Esther (Retold by) The Voyages of Jacques Cartier. Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. New York. The Domino Press. 1937. 28cm, 94p., text illustrations, orange cloth, gilt cloth, a fine copy in very good complete jacket 75.00 The Domino Press has now moved to New York and plans to issue children s books in collaboration with the best illustrators and printers (jacket)
7. ALGOMA District, Ontario. The Algoma District, and that part of the Nipissing District north of the Mattawan River, Lake Nipissing and French River. Their Resources, Agricultural and Mining Capabilities. 200.00 Toronto. Grip Printing and Publishing. 1884. 8vo. 22cm, 70p., large frontis folding map, original printed light green wraps, title repeated on the upper cover in ruled boards, a near fine copy. A brochure to encourage settlement of the Algoma District published by the Ontario Government.
8. ALMANAC. The Canadian Almanac, and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the year 1865... containing full and authentic commercial, statistical, astronomical, departmental, ecclesiastical, educational, financial and General Information... Toronto. W.C. Chewett & Co, [1864]. 8vo. 22cm, 100p., folding map, illustrated ads., in the original wavy grain cloth over boards, gilt titles, a fine copy 150.00 The Map; 37x 50cm, (14".5x 19.5"). Map of Canada West. Engraved & Published in the Canadian Almanack for 1865 by W.C. Chewett & Co, Toronto. Insert: List of Various Railway Stations, Western Section of the Province & their Respective Distances.
9. [ARCTIC] BERNIER, Captain J.E. Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to The Northern Waters and Arctic Archipelago of the D.G.S. "Arctic" in 1910. [Ottawa]. Department of Marine and Fisheries. [King's Printer. 1911?]. 25cm, first edition, [vi],161p. with 87 plates and illustrations, 3 folding maps, (the 3rd map loosely inserted at the rear), original brown cloth, gilt titles, gilt spine and cover titles, a fine copy 150.00 A.B. 2718. "Contains a report of a whaling patrol and exploring cruise, 1910-11, compiled from the log of J.E. Bernier; an account of the ship's track as far as the west coast of Melville Island on McClure Strait (with map); the wintering in Arctic Bay (east side of Admiralty Inlet, with map), and explorations along the shore of that inlet and eastward to Bylot Island; An overland trip to Fury and Hecla Strait and shores of the eastern part of Boothia Gulf, 1910; the crossing of Brodeur Peninsula and the surveying of the east shore of Prince Regent Inlet, 1911".
10. [ARCTIC]. FLEMING, Harvey Minutes of Council Northern Department of Rupert Land, 1821-31. Edited by R. Harvey Fleming, with an Introduction by H.A. Innis, General Editor, E.E. Rich. London. The Hudson Bay Record Society. 1940. 24cm, lxxvii,480p. appendices, frontis plates, Limited to 550 copies, this being 342, original blue cloth, t.e.g., a very good copy 75.00 Bridges the gap between the union of the two older fur companies and the consolidation of the new. Surveys the British American fur trade and its relation with the United States.
11. [FRANKLIN]. Edited by Richard C. Davis Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence. The First Arctic Land Expedition. 1819-1822 (and): The Second Arctic Land Expedition. 1825-1827. Toronto. The Champlain Society, 1995 & 1998. 23cm, in 2 volumes, cix,463 & lxxxi,421pp., with 12 plates, 7 maps, (some folding), 2 figures, crested red cloth, gilt titles, t.e.g., a fine set 200.00 Champlain Society volume numbers LIX & LXI. Davis provides detailed historical and critical introductions (including biographies of the main personalities involved) to accompany the transcription of the journals kept by John Franklin during his 1819-1822 and 1825-1827 expeditions to the shores of the polar sea. Appendices include correspondence during the exploration.
Champlain Society volume numbers LIX & LXI. 12. [ARCTIC] ISHAM, James James Isham's Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743 and Notes and Observations on a book entitled A Voyage To Hudsons Bay In The Dobbs Galley, 1749. [By Henry Ellis]. Edited with Introduction by E.E. Rich. Toronto. Published by the Champlain Society No. 12., 1949. 24cm, cv,352p. appendices, with 19 illustrations, limited to 550 numbered copies, this being number 101 original crest red cloth, t.e.g., a fine copy 100.00 T.P.L. 4705. "Isham's observations are not primarily concerned with the fur trade. Indeed as a serious guide to the practical merchants of the Hudson's Bay Company, they had grave defects, but they are a mine of interesting information to the historian, anthropologist and naturalist...".
13. [ARCTIC] LOW, A.P. Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune, 1903-1904. Ottawa. Department of Marine. 1906. 22.5cm, first edition, xvii,355p. frontis & 62 plates & illustrations, rear folding pocket map in colour, brown cloth, gilt titles, some related newspapers clippings loosely inserted, a very good copy 100.00 A.B. 2717. Holland p448. The narrative, with supplemental information from previous reports, of an expedition sent by the Canadian government to assert Canadian sovereignty over Hudson Bay and the Arctic islands and to establish police and customs stations. Low sailed up to Cape Herschel on Ellesmere Island, which he mapped and claimed for Canada. "He made many important surveys. Sent on an Arctic patrol in 1903, he wrote the well-constructed narrative Cruise of the Neptune." Story.
14. [ARCTIC] [McLOUGHLIN, John]. The Letters of John McLoughlin, from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and Committee, 1825-1846. Edited by E.E. Rich, with an Introduction by W. Kaye Lamb. The Champlain Society. Hudson's Bay Series. Nos. 4,6, & 7. In Three Volumes. Toronto. 1941-1944. 24cm, cxxviii,374 & xlix,427 & lxiii,341pp. frontis portrait, 3 folding maps, and 2 tipped in plates, Limited to 550 numbered copies, this being #342, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., a very good to fine set 300.00 Strathern 349. Smith 6433. T.P.L. 5325. "Edited from the original mss. in the H.B.C. Archives. W.K. Lamb's introduction constitutes a history of the fur trade as it involved McLoughlin, and a biography of him". (Strathern). Dr. John McLoughlin was a wintering partner of the North West Company until 1821, when it united with the Hudson's Bay Company. He accepted a commission with this Comp-any and in 1823 was sent as Chief Factor to the Columbia district. He was placed in charge at Fort George in 1824 but in 1826, moved his headquarters to Fort Vancouver, which he had built. These letters tell the story of the Hudson's Bay activities on the Pacific coast in the first half of the 19th century. They reveal all the Author's difficulties with the management of the fur trade, hostile Indians, obstructive Russians and pioneering Americans besides the problems of agricultural settlement and of missionary enterprise". (T.P.L.)
15. [ARCTIC] RICH, E.E. Colin Robertson's Correspondence Book, September 1817 to September 1822. London. Hudson Bay Record Society. 1939. 24cm, cxxxi,372p. limited edition, this being #342, frontis, t.e.g. blue cloth, edge of boards is stained, still a very good copy 50.00
16. [ARCTIC] RICH, E.E. Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1870. With a foreword by Sir Winston Churchill. Toronto. M&S. 1960. 23.5cm, first trade edition, in three volumes, 687 & 400 & - 974pp. with 6 plates & 2 folding maps, mapped endpapers, blue cloth, gilt titles, a fine set in fine jackets 150.00 Originally published as volumes 21 & 22 of Hudson Bay Record Society series. This three volume edition is first trade edition. An indispensable source. An excellent history of the Company, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest, down to 1870 and the Deed of Surrender.
17. [ARCTIC] RICH, E.E. Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1671-1674. With an Introduction by Sir John Clapham. London. The Hudson's Bay Record Society. 1942. 24cm, lxviii,276p. appendices, Limited edition, this being #342, original crested blue cloth, t.e.g., fine 50.00
18. [ARCTIC] UNITED STATES. Bureau of American Ethnology. Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology... 1889-99. Washington. GPO. 1894. 4to. 28.5cm, xlvii,553p., with 50 plates (some in colour) and 200 illustrations, original olive green cloth, gilt titles and 2 gilt pictorial decorations, a fine copy 100.00 Contains: The Sea, by Matilda C. Stevenson - Ethnology of the Ungava District, by Lucien M. Turner - pp167-349. - A Study of the Siouan Cults, by J.O. Dorsey.
19. BARBEAU, Marius The Downfall of Temlaham. Illustrated by A.Y. Jackson, Edwin H. Holgate, W.L. Kihn, Emily Carr and A.D. Savage. Toronto. Macmillan. 1928. 8vo, 21.5cm, the first edition, xii,253p., with frontis and 12 colour plates from paintings... in the original grey linenbacked marbled boards with coloured printed paper labels on the spine and upper cover, a very good copy 50.00 Edison C20. Story of Kamalmuk and Sunbeams, BC Indians, and the legend of Temlaham, an Indian "Paradise Lost" on the Skeena River, by the well-know folklorist and anthropologist Marius Barbeau. A beautiful book.
20. BEGG, Alexander Alexander Begg's Red River Journal and Other Papers Relative to the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870. Edited with an Introduction by W.L. Morton. Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1956. 24cm, xxii, 636p. appendix, with folding map and 5 plates, limited to 550 copies, this being #101, in the original crested red cloth, t.e.g., fine 150.00 "This volume was prepared to make available, in the first instance, the journal kept by Alexander Begg in Winnipeg from November 16, 1869 to July 23, 1870. It consists of the day by day entries of an acute and curious observer at the centre of events,... It is a basic document for the study of the Red River troubles of 1869". (Preface).
Bound by Truslove, Hanson and Sloane 21. [BINDING] BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With a Portrait. London. Smith, Elder & Co. 1900. 19.5cm, xxi,667p., with frontis portrait, bound by Truslove, Hanson and Sloane in full polished calf, raised bands, gilt titles, all edges gilt, gilt ruled marbled endpapers, some light foxing, otherwise a fine attractive copy 250.00
Bound by Truslove, Hanson and Sloane 22. [BINDING] BROWNING, Robert The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, with Portraits. Two Volumes, bound as one. London. Smith, Elder & Co. 1906. 19cm, 748 & 786pp., with frontis portrait, general index, bound in full polished crimson calf, blind ruled raised bands, gilt titles, gilt decorated marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bound by Truslove, Hanson and Sloane, with the bookplate of Lord Ashbourne, upper hinge starting, a very good copy 150.00
23. [BINDING] KEATS, John The Complete Works and Letters of John Keats. Cambridge Edition. Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1899. 20.5cm, xxiv,473p., with frontis portrait, illustrated title page, bibliographic list of poems, index of first lines, titles, and letters, bound in full black morroco, with gilt titles and gilt ruled and decorated panels, gilt ruled and decorated boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, some wear, upper hinge just starting, a very good to fine copy in attractive fine binding 200.00
Riviere Binding 24. [BINDING] LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) with Explanatory Notes. London and New York. Frederick Warne and Co. Nd. (ca.1890). 18.5cm, the Albion Edition, x,630p., frontis portrait, index of first lines, bound by Riviere in full green polished grained calf, raised bands with gilt titles, gilt decorated patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, spine faded, otherwise a very good to fine copy 250.00
25. [BINDING] SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Reprinted from the Early Editions. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &c. London. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. Nd. (ca,1890). 19cm, xv,624p., bound in full crimson polished calf, ruled raised bands, gilt titles, gilt ruled marbled endpapers, gilt titles, all edges gilt, bookplate, a fine copy 250.00
26. BURPEE, Lawrence J. Little Book of Canadian Essays. Toronto. Musson Book Co. [1909]. 14cm, 87p. green cloth backed paper over boards, gilt titles, t.e.g., very good copy 25.00 Subjects include: Isabella Valancy Crawford, Charles Heavysege, Lampman, George Thomas Lanigan, C.P. Traill, John Hunter-Duvar, George Frederick Cameron.
27. BRYANT, William Cullen Bryant (edited by) Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and other Picturesque Features of Our Country. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood, by Eminent American Artists. Vols. 1 & 2 (of 6). New York. D. Appleton & Co. 1872. folio, 33cm, iv,392 pp., engraved title-pages, with 17 engraved plates including frontispieces, hundreds of text plates and illustrations from wood-engravings, in the original brick brown pebbled cloth, gilt block titles and gilt decorated panels and borders on the spine and upper cover, some foxing on the engraved plates, fine condition 200.00 "Picturesque Amerca" first appeared in parts as a magazine series in Appleton's Journal. Artists include Harry Fenn, Granville Perkins, R. Swain Gifford, A.R.Waud, Thomas Moran, A.S. Hazeltine, W.L.Sheppard, J.A. Suydam. These two volumes include essays on Florida, Virginia, Long Island, New Orleans, Yellowstone, Niagara, Maine, Tennessee, New Hampshire. An important series that introduced the whole of the United States to the general reader.
28. CANADA. 1796. Order of the Governor in Council, of the 7th. July 1796, for the Regulation of Commerce, between this Province and the United States of America. Quebec. Printed by Command of his Excellency the Governor; by William Vondenvelden... 1796. 4to. 26cm, 16p., bilingual title pages and text, rebound in later half calf, black cloth boards, double crimson and black leather labels, gilt titles, blanks, library stamp on the front endpaper, a fine copy thus 1,500.00 Tremaine. Bibliography of Canadian Imprint, 1751-1800. # 994 - T.P.L. 692. Added title page in French; English and French on opposite pages. Even numbers on recto. Odd numbers on verso. Another edition was published in the same year. Cf. T.P.L. 691.
29. CANADIAN Liberal Party Canada and the Navy. The Real Emergency. The Nationalist-Conservative Alliance and Some of its Consequences. How British Interests have been Sacrificed to Serve Party Ends.... (Publication No. 8). (cover title). Ottawa. Issued by the Central Information Office of the Canadian Liberal Party. 1913. 8vo, 22cm, 20p., printed self wraps on fragile paper, fine considering 50.00 Sub titled: What Policy should Canada adopt? The Conservative Policy-An immediate expenditure of $35,000,000 for the three most powerful battleships in the world...the Liberal Policy-A Canadian Naval Service in accordance with the unanimous resolution of the House of Commons of March, 1909.
30. CANADIAN Liberal Party Canada and the Navy. Is There An Emergency? Conflicting Opinions Examined in the Light of Facts. Which Policy Should Canada Adopt? The Conservative Policy-An immediate expenditure of $35,000,000 for the three most powerful battleships in the world...the Liberal Policy-A Canadian Naval Service in accordance with the unanimous resolution of the House of Commons of March, 1909. (Publication No. 6). (cover title). Ottawa. Issued by the Central Information Office of the Canadian Liberal Party. 1913. 8vo, 22cm, 24p., printed self wraps on fragile and somewhat brittle paper, one corner chipped off, good to very good 50.00
31. CARRUTHERS, J. Retrospect of Thirty-Six Years' Residence in Canada West: being a Christian Journal and Narrative. Hamilton. Printed for the Author by T.L. M'Intosh. 1861. 12mo. 18cm, 253p., in the original pebbled green cloth, some edge wear, a very good copy 150.00 T.P.L. 4049. Gagnon II-322. Mathews p223. Sabin 11081. A record of the author s labour as a Presbyterian missionary and his travels in the western and central parts of Upper Canada from 1825-1861. The book contains observations on social life and conditions, as well as the political and economic climate. There is a chapter on the discovery and settlement of Canada, 1535-1749, and a discussion of the Seven Years' War.
Champlain Society No. 2. 32. DENYS, Nicolas The Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America (Acadia). Translated and Edited, with a Memoir of the Author, Collateral Documents and a Reprint of the Original, by William F. Ganong. Toronto. Champlain Society, Publication No. 2. 1908. 24cm, xvi, 625p. with 16 plates & 15 maps, limited to 550 copies, this being #39, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., spine lightly faded (less than normal - titles clear), a very good copy, scarce 850.00 T.P.L. 67. From the first edition, Paris 1672. This is both the first English edition and the second French edition as well as the first reprint of the original. Denys lived in Acadia from 1633 to 1671. The first edition was published in Paris, 1672. Denys was a merchant, arrived in Acadia in 1632 and spent the next forty years trying to develop the colony. The present title is a vivid account of Acadia and a reminder that Denys, despite many reverses, promoted French colonial development there for four decades.
33. The DOMINION Illustrated - Special St. John, N.B., Number.. St. John, N.B. Its History, Present Condition and Future Outlook.. The Sabiston Litho. & Publishing Co. 1891. folio. 36cm, 56p., text printed in triple columns, with illustrations from engravings and photographs, (including view and portraits and maps), staple bound, wraps, a bit soiled, internally very good 50.00
34. EDDIS, William Letters from America, Historical and Descriptive; comprising Occurrences from 1769 to 1777, inclusive. London. Printed for the Author, and sold by C. Dilly. 1792. 8vo. 21.5cm, first edition, [xliv],455p., errata, list of subscribers (35p.), rebound in quarter dark brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, blind decorations in the panels, crimson morocco labels, marbled boards and endpapers, a fine copy 600.00 T.P.L. 505. Sabin 21891. Howes E-41. Not in Lande.. - Eddis was Surveyor of Customs at Annapolis, Maryland. These forty letters narrate events leading up to the Revolution and cover the progress of the war. They provide a valuable record of the development of revolutionary and loyalist attitudes. The last letters relate his experiences after refusing to take the oath of allegiance offered him by United States authorities. Includes his flight to England via the West Indies.
35. FRANCHERE, Gabriel Journal of a Voyage on the North West Coast of North America during the Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814. By Gabriel Franchere. Transcribed and translated by W. T. Lamb; edited with an Introduction and Notes by W. Kaye Lamb. Toronto. The Champlain Society. No. 45. 1969. 24cm, ix,330p. with 4 plates and 3 maps (one double-page), limited to 825 copies, this being #101, t.e.g., a fine copy 100.00
36. [FREEMASON] ANONYMOUS The Barton Lodge, No. 6. Hamilton, Ontario. Sesqui-Centennial Celebrations. 1795-1945. Scottish Rite Cathedral. November 14, 1945. Hamilton. The Barton Lodge. Nd. (ca.1945). 23cm, 8p., gold wraps, very good to fine 40.00
37. DUNLOP, M.W. (Editor-in-Chief) A History of the Grand Lodge A.F.&A.M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario, 1855-1955. By Walter S. Herrington, and Roy S. Foley. Toronto. McCallum Press. 1955. 8vo, 23cm, 380p., many portraits, appendix, list of Grand Masters, index, blue cloth, gilt titles, very good to fine copy 50.00 In 1855, thirty Canada West and Quebec lodges, banded together to form the Grand Lodge of Canada. In 1887, the name was amended to "The Grand Lodge of Ancient and -Accepted Masons of Canada in the Province of Ontario", headquartered in Hamilton. A major, well-illustrated, history.
38. FOUNTAIN, Paul The Great North-West and the Great Lake Region of North America. London, New York... Longmans, Green. 1904. 8vo. 22.5cm, 355p., in the original fine grain linen, gilt titles, a very good copy 45.00 The book begins with the author's early experiences near Lake Temiskaming in 1865. Chapters include Winter in the Solitary Wilderness; Fishing, Journey to Fort Severn... the last third of the book deals with the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior area.
39. [FREEMASON] LOWTHER, John S., History of Royal Victoria Lodge, A.F. & A.M. No. 57- Q.R. 1876-1951. Compiled & Written by John S. Lowther. [Montreal]. Privately printed. 1951. 8vo, 23cm, 120p., with 2 portraits tipped in, red Lodge crest laid on (p72), illustrated endpapers, dark blue cloth, silver titles & decoration, a fine copy 125.00 The 75th anniversary history of a Montreal Masonic lodge. One of the charter members was General G.H. Nye, a former Confederate general in the American Civil War. Includes lists of regular and life members as of June 30th, 1950.
40. [FREEMASON] MacDOUGALL, George Dewar A History of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Nova Scotia or "Sixty Years Among the Royal Craftsman". New Glasgow. 1930. 8vo. 21cm, 57p., plus 3 portrait plates, tables, staple stitched, original printed red wraps, very good copy, scarce 45.00
41. [FREEMASONRY]. MARSH, E.J. (compiled by). History of Union Lodge, No. 7, A.F. & A.M. Grimsby, Ont. The Lodge at the Forty Mile Creek. Grimsby, Ontario. The Independent Print. 1949. 8VO, 22.5cm, 60p., frontis & 10 illustrations, map, stiff printed blue wraps, "Grimsby" in black ink on the upper cover else very good to fine copy. 50.00
42. [FREEMASON] SMITH, R.W. Bro. Henry T. History of St. Andrew's Lodge. A.F. & A.M., No.16, G.R.C. 1822-1922. Written by the authority of the Lodge by... Toronto. The Macoomb Press. 1922. 8vo, 22.5cm, 208p., plus many plates of illustrations, portraits and composite portraits, original blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration on the upper cover, on laid paper, mainly unopened, some slight wear at the edges expertly retouched, a very good to fine sound copy Toronto. 100.00 History with details of members 1822-1922 and various Lodge locations around
Limited to 500 Numbered 43. GUILLET, Edwin C. Toronto, From Trading Post to Great City. Toronto. The Ontario Publishing Co. 1945. 24cm, xx,495[1]p. With c.175 illustrations and plates from photographs, limited edition of 500 copies, this being #100, and signed by the author, mapped endpapers, blue fabrikoid, titles faded, otherwise a fine copy 75.00
44. JEFFERYS, Charles W. Canada's Past in Pictures. Written and Illustrated by... Toronto. The Ryerson Press. 1934. folio. 30.5cm, 131p. with c.50 plates reproduced from drawing and plates, original grey cloth, a very good copy 75.00
45. LANGDON, John E. Canadian Silversmiths, 1700-1900. Toronto. The Stinehour Press. 1966. 4to. 28cm. xx,249p. with 76 plates and illustrations, limited to 1000 copies, original dark blue cloth, author's signed presentation copy, a fine copy in good edge frayed jacket 200.00 The second and best edition; the first to be issued in larger format. Langdon, a noted authority on Canadian pewter and the art of the silversmith, was the author of five books on the subject. His collection of early Canadian silver went to the ROM, and his library of over one thousand books went to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.
Signed by the Author 46. LeMOINE, J. M. Ornithologie du Canada. D'Apres La Nomenclature de Baird. 1ere Partie. Seconde Edition. Quebec. Atelier Typographique de J.T. Brousseau. 1861. 12mo, 18cm, 104p., in the original quarter plain brown cloth backed marbled boards, signed by the author, a fine copy, rare 400.00 The first edition, identical to this edition, was published in April, 1860. An early and important systematic work on the birds of Canada. Wood. "One of the earliest books on birds in Canada." Wood p.431; cf. Lande, S 1275 & TPL 4073 for the first edition, Amicus. 1 copy.
47. MacGILLIVRAY, Royce & Ewan Ross A History of Glengarry. Belleville. Mika Publishing. 1979. 8vo. 23cm, 709p., many illustrations, maps, bibliography, notes, index, red cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, bookplate, else fine in near fine jacket 65.00 a comprehensive history narrating and analysing the social, political and economic life of the County from the United Empire Loyalist days to the present. (Jacket)
48. [MAP] North America. Sheet I: Nova Scotia with Part of New Brunswick and Lower Canada. London. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. (1844). 41x 33cm (16" x 13"), topographical, engraved, fine 100.00 A detailed, topographical map first published in 1832 by Baldwin and Cradock, London (listed on lower edge). Printed in "Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" published by Chapman & Hall in 1844. Prince Edward Island, the Magdalen Islands and Sable Island are included in the map.
49. [MAP]. - TALLIS. British America. The Illustrations by H. Warren, & Engraved by Rob. Wallis. The Map Drawn & Engraved by J. Rapkin. London & New York. John Tallis & Company. [185?]. 27.5x 34.5cm, folded, colour in outline, very good condition With Polar vignettes of the Fury and Hecla, Equimaux, Polar Bears, Whale Fishing, Seals, and Montreal. 200.00
50. [MAP]. - TALLIS. North America. The Illustrations by H. Warren, & Engraved by Rob. Wallis. The Map Drawn & Engraved by J. Rapkin. London & New York. John Tallis & Company. [185?]. 27.5x 34.5cm, folded, colour in outline, very good condition 200.00
51. [MAP]. - TALLIS. West Canada. The Illustrations by H. Warren, & Engraved by Rob. Wallis. The Map Drawn & Engraved by J. Rapkin. London & New York. John Tallis & Company. [185?]. 34.5 x 27.5cm, folded, colour in outline, very good condition 200.00 With vignettes of Kingston, Ontario; Lake Superior; and Niagara Falls.
52. MARTIN, Chester Red River Settlement. Papers in the Canadian Archives Relating to the Pioneers. Ottawa. Archives. 1910. 24.5cm, 27p., bound with circa 200 blank pages, bound in half dark morroco over marbled papers, with matching marbled endpapers, gilt titles, gilt ruled raised bands, a very good to fine copy Peel 2108. 125.00
53. [OTTAWA]. ATLAS. City of Ottawa. 1932. [Ottawa. Department of Works. 1931]. Oblong Folio. 34x 44cm, title-page vignette (city crest), 12 full-page colour maps, street index, bound in stiff card stapled covers, some official annotating, front cover taped along hinge, upper corner clipped, ink mark on front board, internally fine, rare 400.00 A series of maps of the eleven wards, with streets, in Ottawa as of 1932. Wards consist of Rideau, Ottawa, By, St. George, Riverdale, Capital, Central, Wellington, Dalhousie, Elmdale and Victoria. A key colour map of the City of Ottawa displays the ward and city boundaries. In 1932 Ottawa's boundaries were the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers and the Experimental Farm. The atlas appears to be for official use and is approved by F.C. Askwith, Commissioner of Works
54. [OTTAWA Imprint]. PHILLIPS, J.A. The Ghost of a Dog. A Christmas Story. In Four Acts; with a Prologue and Epilogue. Ottawa. A.S. Woodburn, Printer. 1885. 16mo, 16cm, first edition, 128p., plus 26 pages of ads (front & rear), printed grey paper over boards, spine worn, very good, nicely signed to Henry J. Morgan 200.00 English journalist and author, John Arthur Phillips (1842-1907) lived in Ottawa from 1878 to his death in 1907. This is a scarce Ottawa imprint, expertly restored. Includes a fascinating collection of Ottawa business advertisements.
55. PERKINS, Simeon The Diary of Simeon Perkins. In 5 volumes. Cham-plain Society Nos., 29, 36, 39, 43 & 50. Toronto. The Champlain Society. 1948-1978. 8vo. 24cm, in 5 volumes, xxxiv,298 & lviii,531 & xliv,477 & lxxii,550pp., limited to 550 copies, this being #342, maps and plates, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., volume 4 spine cloth slightly faded otherwise the set is generally fine 500.00 T.P.L. 4761. Volume One: edited by Harold A. Innis, 1766-1780 - Volume Two: edited by D.C. Harvey with notes by C.B. Fergusson, 1780-89 - Volume Three: edited with notes by C.B. Fergusson, 1790-1796 - Volume Four: edited with Introduction and Notes by C.B. Fergusson, 1797-1803 - Volume Five: edited with an Introduction and notes by C.B. Fergusson, 1803-1812. Each is limited variously from 500 to 775 copies. - Please Note: Volume one is as rare as volume five is common. Volume two is now definitely uncommon just as volume four is not. Most of the value is in the first volumes. Perkins was a New Englander who settled in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1762. He became a prominent merchant, member of the House of Assembly and judge of probates. The diary begins with the early days of settlement in Nova Scotia, contacts with New England, West Indies, and Europe. It shows how the effects of the American Revolution on the colony drove its people in self-defence to engage in privateering which they were to continue later for profit.
56. SANGSTER, Charles The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and Other Poems. Kingston. John Creighton and John Duff. 1856. 18cm, 186p., extra stock yellow free fly, in the original blind stamped cloth, spine faded, titles clear, a very good to fine copy 100.00
Seton's Signed Presentation Copy to Robert Bell 57. SETON, Ernest E.T. The Birds of Western Manitoba. (Offprinted: From the Auk, Vol. III. No. 2, April, 1886]. pp145-156 & 320-329. in one volume, self wraps, author s signed presentation copy to Dr. Robert Bell, very rare 1,500.00 Not in Merle Johnson, not in Peel(3). No standard references located. "A List of the Mammals of Manitoba", 1886. by the Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society, is often referred to as Seton's first appearance in print but it was published in May, 1886. Present title is April, 1886. Peel (3) 1919, locates another title "The Birds of Manitoba", Washington, 1891, offprinted from the Smithsonian Proceedings.
58. SHORTT, Adam & Arthur G. Doughty Documents relating to The Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791. Selected and edited with notes by... With: Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1791-1818. Selected and edited with notes by Arthur G. Doughty and Duncan M. McArthur. In Two Volumes. Ottawa. S.E.. Dawson. 1907 & 1914. 24.5cm, xiv,734p & xiii,576pp., some maps torn (as usual) and with repairs, bound in half brown morocco leather over green boards, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt titles, some wear at the edges, previous owners bookplates (see below), a very good to fine set 200.00 John Kimble Abbott is the son of Prime Minister John Abbott, and was a political commentator and lobbyist and a WWII Royal Canadian Airforce pilot in the infamous "Demon Squadron".
In Government Presentation Binding 59. SHORTT, Adam & Arthur G. Doughty Documents relating to The Constitutional History of Canada, 1759-1791. Selected and edited with notes by... Ottawa. S.E.. Dawson. 1907. 24.5cm, xiv,734p, some maps torn (as usual) and with repairs, bound in half red calf over red cloth boards, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt titles, some wear, a very good copy 100.00
60. SIMMS, Florence Mary Etoffe du Pays. Lower St. Lawrence Sketches. Toronto. The Musson Book Co. [1913?]. 12mo. 16.5cm, 87p., with 3 photographic plates including frontis, colour illustration on front cover, grey printed wraps, fine 45.00 The author, an Englishwoman, writes of a holiday in Quebec in the early 1900's. "...competent sketches written in a holiday mood". (Norah Story).
61. SMITH, John The True Travels, Adventures, & Observations of Captaine John Smith. Faithfully Reprinted from the Original Edition: with an Introduction by John Gould Fletcher & a Bibliographical Note by Lawrence C. Wroth. New York. Rimington & Hooper. 1930. Folio. 32cm, ix,[12],80p., No. 123 of 377 numbered copies designed and printed by Richard W. Ellis at the Georgian Press. With a portrait frontispiece after the original of 1630, facsimile reproductions of the original title leaf and the folding engraved plate, full in full linen, with paper label, beveled boards, a fine copy 75.00 Smith, one of the last of the Elizabethan adventurers, was leader of the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia. He was an important man in the colony and because of his friendly relations with the Indians was able buy corn which made it possible for the colonist to survive the first winters. Once Smith was captured by unfriendly Indians. According to the story he told later, he was about to be killed when Pocahontas, the chief's twelve-year-old daughter, begged that he be saved. He was responsible for getting London to send settlers who would be farmers, fishermen and workers rather than gold-seekers, which led to the building of a successful colony. In 1614 he returned from England where he had been recuperating after an injury, to explore and map the coast of New England. He wrote many books about his adventures. John Smith died in 1631.
62. STILES, H. M., (Compiled by) "Who's Who". A Complete Compendium Containing Facts and Figures, in Story and Illustration, of the Town of Smiths Falls and Its Inhabitants, showing its Present Status and Potential Possibilities as an Ideal Place in which to live, thrive and be happy, and an unrivaled location for prospective manufacturing concerns to establish and prosper. The Railway Metropolis of the Ottawa Valley.. [Smiths Falls]. Edited & Published by Record- News Press Ltd. 1924. folio, 30cm, first edition, 94,[2]p., with over 200 plates, illustrations and numerous portraits, in the original printed stiff card wrappers, wraps bit worn, index page bit frayed along the fore edge, a very good copy of the scarce first edition 150.00
63. [SOUVENIR Playing Cards]. Pictuesque Canada. Souvenir Playing Cards. Montreal. Published by Canadian Pacific Railway News Service. Manufactured by Canadian Playing Card Company. Nd. 9x 6.5cm, with a different photo scene illustrated on each card, includes one joker, and one index card listing the views, colour portrait of the Chateau Frontenac in gilt frame border on the upper cover, all edges gilt, in double slipcase boxes, very good to fine 85.00
64. TACHE, J.C. Notice Historiographique sur la Fete Celebree a Quebec le 16 Juin 1859, jour du Deux Centieme Anniversaire de L'Arrivee de Monseigneur de Montmorency-Laval en Canada. Quebec. M. L'Abbe L.J. Casault. 1859. 23cm, 72p., self wraps, very good to fine 50.00
65. THELLER, E.A. Canada in 1837-38, showing, By Historical Facts, the causes of the late attempted revolution, and of its failure; the present condition of the people, and their future prospects, together with the Personal Adventures of the Author, and others who were connected with the revolution. Philadelphia. Henry F. Anners. & New York. J & H.G. Langley. 1841. 12mo. 19cm, the first edition, 2 volumes in One, 264 & 316pp., a fine copy rebound in a contemporary style quarter brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, marbled boards, contemporary circular library stamp on volume two title page, a fine attractively copy, scarce 650.00 T.P.L. 2217. Gagnon I-3513. Lande 832. Morgan p370. Story p699. Sabin 95297. An interesting first hand account of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper and Lower Canada, and its aftermath. Theller, an American, had practiced medicine in Montreal for several years, and later returned to the United States and joined the American Filibusterers along the Canadian border. He was captured on Lake Erie while in command of a privateer, and was tried and condemned for high treason. The narrative contains considerable detail regarding his trial and imprisonment and his subsequent escape from the Citadel in Quebec, as well as accounts of other rebels and their sympathizers, including Sutherland, Lount, Matthews, Montgomery, Morden, Andeerson, Hunter, Morrison, Durand and Wilfred Nelson.
66. VIETH, F.H. Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1835. Including also Sporting and Dramatic Incidents in Connection with Garrison Life in the Canadian Lower Provinces. Montreal. Printed by John Lovell & Son. 1907. 22.5cm, xi,[3], 308p. with 68 illustrations, original blue pebbled cloth, gilt titles, a very good to fine copy 50.00 Vieth was born and educated in Halifax, and served as an ensign in the 63rd or West Suffok Regiment during the later stages of the Crimean War, 1854-6. The book contains sporting and dramatic incidents in connection with garrison life in the Canadian lower provinces, but mostly Halifax and Nova Scotia.
67. YOUNG, G.A. The Canadian Question. London. James Ridgway and Sons. 1839. 8vo, 21cm, viii,[5]-83p., complete with half title, grey paper over boards with crushed crimson morocco label along the spine, fine 250.00 T.P.L. 5170. Lande 914. Sabin 106076. Casey I-1711. A discussion.. "The form of constitutional government best adapted to the position, the manners and usages, of the people of Canada, is the principal subject... to be discussed". - "We would rather consider the government at home as the central power, presiding over both the United Kingdom and the Colonies; but by giving our American fellow-subjects a voice in the Imperial Legislature, and a free system of local government, we would, at the same time, protect them against the exercise of that power in a manner prejudicial to their interests". Included is the Petition of the British Inhabitants of Montreal, in 1822, praying for a Legislative Union of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada. pp75-83. Reprinted from the British and Foreign Review, for July 1838 and Jan 1839". Preface
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