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192028022Melbourne: Government of the State of Victoria 1920. Very good condition. Advertising targeted at Americans for emigration to Victoria Australia. "Some facts about Victoria UST. - A Country which is progressive and prosperous where Settlers are required and will be gladly welcomed." For further information "apply either personally or by letter to the Land Settlement Agent. c/o Peck Judas Co. 687 Market St. San Francisco Cal."<br /> <br /> "The Government invites Settlers to come to Victoria preference being given to those experienced in Irrigation and possessed of sufficient Capital to take up land say $1500."<br /> <br /> 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" b&w map image with steamship lines in red verso with "Facts about Victoria. "Trove image: 26643672271. Government of the State of Victoria unknown
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184344013Toronto 5th of June: Canada Company Office Frederick Street 1843. folio. 31cm 4 pages folded on light weir tinted blue paper in mint condition very rare. mint. Being Twenty-One numerated questions with detailed paragraph answers concerning emigration. Subjects include costs wages crops climate society etc. taxes transportation . T.P.L. 2571 "The memorandum describes the land of the district facilities for settlement and cultivations also costs". In 1843 the Canada Company led by commissioner Frederick Widder issued publications to address numerous inquiries from British North America and the United States regarding settlement in Canada West formerly Upper Canada. These documents often featuring memos from local agents provided information on land in the Huron Tract and assisted in advising prospective emigrants on farming opportunities. Key details about the Canada Company around 1843: Active Promotion: The company was actively answering questions to boost immigration to the Huron District which contained about one million acres of land. Frederick Widder was a key figure having been appointed co-commissioner in 1839 leading to improved efficiency in the company's operations. By 1843 the company was operating more effectively following the Act of Union 1841 and was in the process of paying off its debt to the British. Various documents from 1843 and 1845 were published to promote the thriving towns such as Guelph and the surrounding Wellington District. Canada Company Office, Frederick Street unknown
1993007457Oxford United Kingdom: Berg Pub Ltd 1993. The emigration of single women from Britain to Southern Africa during 1820 - 1939. Number 6 of the 'Cross-Cultural Persectives on Women' series.186 pages incl. index; Clean. First Edition. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Berg Pub Ltd hardcover
0666900000.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0656085681.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1980004156New York: Arno Press 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Bound in full brown cloth stamped in maroon on cover and spine. Black and white illustrations. No dust jacket. Near Fine bright clean copy. <br/><br/> Arno Press hardcover
2989Llanrwst: Argraffwyd Gan John Jones 1840. 48pp. 12mo unopened save title original green wrappers chipped good condition"Yr Ail Argraffiad" Second edition - no record found of a "First". The author in a "Notice" the only English in the work says "I have disposed of my Book called "The American" to Mr. J. Jones Printer Llanrwst and grant to him all the right and Claim to the same. / B.W. Chidlaw A.M. / Paddy's Run Ohio. / Llanrwst Decr. 25 1839. The purpose of the pamphlet is to encourage Welsh emigration to Ohio Indiana and Illinois at an interesting time. It was translated twice 1911 and 1978 and a description of the latter says that the subtitle is "A look at the State of Ohio Notes on a Journey from the Ohio Valley to Wales History of Welsh Settlements in Ohio. Copies are held NSTC by Harvard the Bodleian the British Library and Library of Congress. NSTC describes this 1840 edition as the "Second Edition" translation of "Yr Ail Argraffwyd" but records no other. Llanrwst: Argraffwyd, Gan John Jones, 1840. unknown
188035999Augusta Georgia: Privately Printed. J. H. Estill Printer 1880. Limited numbered signed edition. Wraps. Fair. Stitched printed wraps. 8.5" x 7". 24 pages. Gray wraps with title on the front paper cover. Front cover creased on the edge. Rear wrap is detached and creased on the edge. Light edge toning to the paper. Very light foxing to the first few pages. This copy has a tipped in slip top of the title page "With the Compliments of Charles C. Jones Jr. Augusta Ga." The limitation page is the verso of the title page. This copy is numbered 118 of 250 copies and is signed "CCJ Jr." Jones authored the prefatory note pages 3-8. The first edition of this tract was originally published in 1724 with few known copies. The author settled 600 of his countrymen in Purrysburg South Carolina. Interior contents mostly clean. A fair to good copy.<br /> <br /> Howes P 653; Sabin 66726. Privately Printed. J. H. Estill, Printer unknown
18584106Jacksonville Fl: March 15 1858. Very good plus. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Old mailing folds. An informative dispatch from antebellum Florida from A.C Scranton to "Friend Barton" in 1858. In his letter Scranton reports that despite some problems he is enjoying southern people and general life in Florida: "The people generally in the south are very kind & hospitibal but I need hardly to tell you that Florida has got some hard times as every new state or Territory has but thare is a more healthy Emigration coming in every year I have been fortunate anough to find some Northern people here which makes it seam a little more like home to me. I am boarding with a family from Georgia whome I like first rate & I do just as I would at home so that things are quite pleasant here considering I am amongst strangers."<br /> <br /> He then provides information on Jacksonville and then two disasters that hit his adopted hometown: "Jacksonville is the largest place in Florida & had at one time about 3000 inhabitants it is not as large as it was once some three years ago it was visited by a very destructive fire & burned nearly half of the town. Last summer there was some kind of Fever here that almost prostrated the place some called it the Yellow Fever & some the African but none could tell for certin.about a hundred & fifteen or twenty that died here in 3 months & a grate many left the town nearly all the stors wer closed not a sound of a hammer was to be heard. When cold weather came it stoped the sickness and it seams quite lively now. It has been for many years a grate resort in the winter season for invaleds but on account of the sickness last summer thare are but few this winter if it continus healthy this summer the place will revive but if not it will kill it entirely."<br /> <br /> Scranton also discusses the transportation system that served Jacksonville and the recent winding down of the Seminole Wars: "It is situated on the Johns River about 23 miles from the mouth and is connected with Charleston & Savana by a regular line of steamers that runs up the river a hundred miles to a place called Platka whare Emigrants land & then travel by land to the interior to settle the country thare is a railroad building from this place to Tallahasse the capital of the state a distance of a hundred & eighty miles which wen completed will be a little help to this place. There is also another in progress from Fernandina a new town that lays in the North East corner of the state to a place called cedar keys on the gulf side whare they intend to carry the US mail direct from New Orleans to New York insted of going round by Key west & will shorten the time considerable. Florida has cost Uncle Sam a large some of money.the government.will make a treaty with them & send them into the Indian Territory & then close the Indian war in Florida." Almost all of the Seminoles remaining in Florida relocated to Indian Territory in the year this letter was written.<br /> <br /> A wonderfully-detailed firsthand account of Jacksonville and its development and challenges during the late 1850s. A printed transcription accompanies the letter. March 15 unknown
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2000015455CN The Hague: Kluwer Law International 2000. Cloth/Laminated Boards. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book The harmonization of the different European legal systems has reached the field of asylum and immigration policy. The Maastricht Treaty has established the legal basis for a common migration policy. Numerous resolutions recommendations joint positions and actions were adopted by the EU Council based on the "third pillar" in the Maastricht Treaty. Within the "first pillar" the European Community has enacted regulations on visa policy based on Art. 100c EC - Treaty. Additionally several agreements with third countries on immigration issues were set into force. This text comprehensively describes the present state of the harmonization process concerning migration policy in the European Union. Particular emphasis is laid on the legal status of third-country nationals with regard to entry and residence. Furthermore the gaps within EU regulations are evaluated in an attempt to search for a homogenous European migration policy. 568pp.N.B.Front board slightly marked. Kluwer Law International hardcover
187846954Red Cloud: Argus Steam Print n. d. ca 1878. 1878. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 13 1/2" x 12" illustrated map on one side plus pictures of the Farmers and Merchants Bank and the home of J. L. Miner Red Cloud and front and rear cover panels. The other side promotes Webster County and Red Cloud plus views of homes of prominent residents as well as businesses. A promotional booklet with plat map produced by the real estate firm of Warner & Warren of Republican Valley. Touted here are both Webster County and the city of Red Cloud including the businesses public schools street-car lines factories creamery real estate railroads and more. Advertisements for the Burlington & Missouri River Railway as well as the Chicago Burlington and Quincy R. R. both of which ran from Chicago to Red Cloud are included as well. The map of Webster County Nebraska shows the town of Red Cloud and sixteen of its neighboring counties as well as railroad lines rivers and property divisions. This map was produced by Fort Abstract Co. of Red Cloud said here to keep a complete set of books and plats of all towns and sub-divisions. Illustrations depict buildings in Red Cloud various residences of town citizens and appealing views of the town. Red Cloud was founded on homestead land in 1871 by a group of men including Silas Garber 1833-1905 who would go on to serve as Nebraska's Governor from 1875 to 1879. The town was named by Garber and local businessmen in honor of the chief of the Olgalala tribe of the Teton-Lakota Sioux. When Webster County was organized Red Cloud was designated as the county seat. In 1879 the Burlington & Missouri River Railway reached Red Cloud -- stimulating immigration from America's eastern seaboard and bringing a variety of cultural heritages to town including those of Germany Scandinavia Great Britain and Canada Austro-Hungary aka Bohemians and so forth. The town's cultural melting pot was marvelously depicted in the literary works of Willa Cather who lived in Red Cloud for several years with her family beginning in 1883 at the age of nine. Cather would use the town as the basis for such fictional towns as "Black Hawk" in My Antonia 1918. We could find no copies recorded in OCLC. A few small old water stains to the rear cover short separations and small punctures along old folds. Argus Steam Print, n. d. (ca 1878). unknown
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2002006274Bronx New York U.S.A.: Hw Wilson Co 2002. 818pp/illus. Provides information and statistics about American immigration covering emigration from Europe Africa Asia the Americas and Oceania from the earliest days to the present time. Usual markings - otherwise clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Hw Wilson Co hardcover
2010SBS-9780754676102ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2010SBS-9780754676102ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
192221011461922. Malta Government Printing Office 1922. Foolscap folio. Original blue printed wrappers; pp. ii 71; margins of wrappers a bit frayed upper outer corner dog-eared; otherwise clean and fresh.Very rare first edition of this discussion of emigration from Malta to Australia Canada the US France and other European countries. 'The natives of the Maltese Islands are people of pure European race born within the British Empire who require no such leavening in order to carry and preserve the traditions of the British Empire and I submitted to Colonel Smith that physically and morally they are the equals of any of the Northern European people' p. 16. Great!'Mr Casolani 1869-1940 was Superintendent of Emigration in charge of the Department of Emigration until he retired in 1930. During his period in office more than 30000 prospective migrants applied and were interviewed by Mr Casolani. In 1921 we find him in France discussing the possibility of sending Maltese workers to those zones devastated by the First World War - this resulted in 624 workers being sent to France to work under the same conditions as the French. Apart from his enormous energy in his position he is probably best known for his capacity to convince the authorities including the imperial authorities in the UK of the need for establishing organised migration from Malta particularly to places like Australia. He made enormous efforts to convince the authorities in the UK including the various Australian States representatives that Maltese would make good migrants in Australia. He wrote endlessly about the suitability of Maltese migrants. He himself has noted: ""I have succeeded in creating a favourable image of our migrant"". He was always harping on the need for the preparation of migrants for their new destination. This involved not only the necessity to learn English but ""must also be prepared by being introduced to the laws customs history and geography of the country the intend to live in"". In particular he encouraged technical education evening classes for all adults and special courses on skills which were in demand' MaltaMigration.com.COPAC locates only two copies at Manchester and Oxford. unknown
1984ZB1114517Instituto Espanol de Emigracion 1984. 130 pp. Paperback very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Instituto Espanol de Emigracion paperback
1334463808.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
186935505London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 217 pages. Green cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the borders with gilt stamped title on the front cover. Illustrated with an oval albumen photograph portrait of William Gilpin first Governor of Colorado and three large folding maps in front. Possible ex-institutional copy with 4 very faint black numbers top of the spine with a small label removed lower spine. Appears the rear flyleaf is pasted down to the rear paste down. No other markings found in the book. Covers are light shelf worn and edge worn. Corners are bumped. Heavy foxing to the end papers. The title page frontispiece photograph and maps all have some light to moderate foxing. Light occasional foxing to some of the text. <br /> <br /> Various copies of this work have different collations some including additional photograph plates. This copy has the frontispiece photograph and three maps only. From wikipedia: William Henry Blackmore 1827-1878 was an English lawyer who gained a fortune by exploiting a large social network as an investment promoter. He used his fortune for philanthropy primarily centered on his interest in Native Americans but ended his life after a failed investment deal related to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.1<br /> <br /> Howes C 607; Graff 318. Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
188118727London: Her Majesty''s Sationery Office 1881. Very good condition. Circular providing information to those emigrating to Australia with an Addendum inserted at the front listing important changes in eligibility requirements recently imposed by the Agent General for New South Wales. <br /> <br /> The addendum states the changes which will take effect following June 1 1881: "Emigrants will be required to pay a moiety of the passage money. Only married couples not exceeding 35 with our without children and single women will be eligible." The circular provides descriptions of New South Wales resources including gold mining: "The Government is empowered to proclaim Crown lands to be gold fields and to grant what are called "miners' rights on the payment of a small fee which enables any person to search or dig for gold. Leases of auriferous tracts of alluvial ground . for limited periods may be granted at annual rents under special conditions as regards labour and machinery". Also includes current price lists of clothing & food principal trades and rates of wages railways telegraphs and customs duties. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo circular 12pp with color folding map. Color map showing the counties in color as well as established railways and those in progress. Map by J. Bartholomew FRGS. Trove 2385679. Her Majesty''s Sationery Office hardcover
