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171132615London: Timothy Goodwin. Good. 1711. First English Edition; First Printing. Softcover. University library withdrawal bound In plain brown paper wraps with double blank endpapers. All library markings reside on these covers/endpapers except for typed accession number and small university stamp to blank verso of title page. Contents are crisp and quite bright with only occasional light foxing. "Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Queen's Head against St. Dunstan's Church Fleetstreet 1711." First English translation of the original Latin of 1574. First page past the newer paper covers are the half-title page: "Franco-Gallia translated by the author of the Account of Denmark." Last page is the one marked 144. One advertisement on verso of half-title page. Very scarce 1711 first English translation. ; 144 pages . Timothy Goodwin paperback
178822927Londres J.-P. Lyton 1788 -in-12 plein-veau 4 Tomes reliés en 2 volumes, reliure plein veau havane marbré in-douze (binding full calfskin in-12)(17,3 x 10 cm), RELIURE D'EPOQUE, dos long (spine without raised bands), décoré "or"et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), titre frappé "or" avec un filet "or" en encadrement, tomaison frappée "or", pièce de tomaison sur fond maroquin vert olive avec un filet "or" en encadrement, entre nerfs à fleuron "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or" avec rinceaux "or" aux angles, roulette "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet "or" de part et d'autre et en tête et en pied, plats marbrés décorés à froid d'un filet à froid en encadrement, roulette "or" sur les coupes avec manques de dorure, toutes tranches lisses rouges, marque page en tissus, sans illustrations (no illustration) excepté une vignette au titre (différente à chaque fois) gravée sur bois en noir, en noir, (319) + (324) + (319) + (308) pages, 1788 Londres : J.-P. Lyton Editeur,
1785118723paris thou 1785 4 A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1785, 4 volumes in-8, 512 - 512 - 592 - 584, 111 pages, contient les 2 tableaux dépliants et les appendices, sans l'atlas de planches.Demi reliure à coins, dos longs portant titres et tomaisons dorés sur pièce de cuir respectivement orangé et vert, tranches mouchetées, gardes blanches. Reliures usées mais solides (cuir épidermé, coins frottés, mors interne en partie apparent), nombreuse erreurs de pagination, sans manque, un cahier du tome I dont les pages ne sont imprimées que sur une face du feuillet (sans manque) intérieur frais, bon état général.
1764LBW-23811764. 221 x 349 mm.
1764LBW-2382[1764]. 208 x 297 mm.
1764LBW-23851764. 208 x 340 mm.
1785PHO-1570Paris, Moutard, 1785. 3 volumes in-8, demi veau époque, dos à nerfs, charnières fendues, coiffes absentes, coin et coupes usés, 3ff.-viii-519pp., 2ff.-591pp., 2ff.-477pp., quelques rousseurs.
1800P2-6C-1Paris, imprimerie de Munier, chez Lepetit jeune, 8 [1800]. 3 vol. in-8° (210x130mm) ; Illustré de 10 planches (sur 12) h.-t. (qqs pp. lég. brunies, rares taches ou mouill. marg., large mouill. au début du vol. II), carte dépliante du Canada. ÉDITION ORIGINALE DE LA TRADUCTION de ce récit de voyage aux États-Unis et au Canada que l'explorateur irlandais Weld (1774-1856) entreprit afin d'y étudier les conditions de vie car il était persuadé que les Irlandais auraient à y émigrer massivement. Il porte un jugement sévère envers l'Amérique, lui préférant le Canada. L'édition originale en anglais parut à Londres en 1799. Illustré de 9 planches (mont Vernon et maison de Washington, rivière de Patowmac - i.e. rivière Hudson -, chutes du Niagara et de la rivière Mohawk, cap Diamant...) et d'1 carte dépliante figurant l'Amérique du Nord. First French edition of the travel through USA and Canada which Weld also made as research into countries for the Irish to emigrate to. Illustrated with 1 folding map and with 9 (of 11) plates. (REF: P2-6B)
1792WRCAM12534Quebec: Samuel Nielson 1792. 4pp. printed in double-column format in parallel English and French. Folio. Torn at bottom corner affecting a few words else very good. This issue contains two proclamations by Allured Clark the lieutentant-governor acting in the absence of Lord Dorchester. The first is an ordinance for cases appealed to the Executive council while the second relates to the law courts. The remainder of the issue is taken up with news items and advertisements. Copies are noted by Tremaine in an appendix. Samuel Nielson unknown books
1780PHO-2207Nyon l’Ainé, Paris, 1780, 2 vol. in-12 de XIV - XVIII -389 pp. et 1 f.- 352 pp., relié plein veau marbré époque, dos à nerfs orné avec pièces de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges, petits manques au dos, coiffes sup. arasées, coins usés, légères épidermures.
173814194Amsterdam: Herman Uytwerf 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes pp. xiv 370 6; 430 6 with six folding plates and a folding map. Modern full-leather with marbled endpapers. Title pages clipped at upper and lower edges; damage with losses to three plates repairs to back of map; all else very good. Le Beau was transported from France to Quebec in 1729 probably on a charge of libertinism. According to his own account he was appointed a clerk in the Beaver Office and then chief clerk in the King's warehouses. Bored and depressed he stole gunpowder from the warehouses and set off for New England. A warrant for his arrest was issued but he escaped encountering many perils natural and human before he reached Boston and eventually sailed for Holland. His ensuing work on his adventures in North America includes much detail on Huron Iroquois and Algonquin customs but its style has been dubbed fanciful. Howes L-167 describes the work as "a basically veracious narrative from competent authorities though somewhat romanticised." The Dictionary of Canadian Biography argues that Le Beau "deserves credit for painting an exact picture of the customs and character of the Canadians" noting that "the best chapters are those that discuss the habits of beaver and the religious ideas of the Indians." Siebert #14; Field 229; Sabin 39582. Herman Uytwerf hardcover books
176311860Londres, sans nom, 1763 ; 8 tomes in-12 ; demi-chagrin vert-sapin, dos lisses à grand décor de rinceaux et roses dorés, 4 faux-nerfs dorés, palette en queue, tranches marbrées multicolores (reliure du tout début XIXe) ; VIII, LX, 415 ; (4) en tête à chaque volume ; VIII, 560 ; IX, 566 ; VI, 454 ; VIII, 484 ; VI, 477 ; VI, 483 ; VI, 375, (1) pp. ; chaque tome a sa propre table alphabétique ; 2 portraits gravés par Legrand au tome 1er.
1788WRCAM12524Quebec: William Brown 1788. 4pp. printed in double-column format in parallel English and French. Folio. Dbd. some dust soiling at top and bottom else very good. Contains a proclamation by Lord Dorchester for the regulation of the civil courts of Canada as well as general news of the town ship arrivals etc. William Brown unknown books
1745WRCAM51842Paris 1745. 2pp. on a folded sheet. In French. Previously folded. Two small holes along folds of blank leaf. Light foxing and tanning. Very good. An entertaining letter written in 1745 by French minister Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux Comte de Maurepas to scientist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau at Versailles requesting on behalf of Gilles Hocquart the Intendant of New France in Canada that new thermometers and other scientific instruments be sent to Quebec. The author notes that although the old thermometers were graded to measure temperatures down to -15° on the Réaumur scale it had in fact only recently been -27° or -28°. Even if the thermometers had been able to measure temperatures that low according to Maurepas the cold had caused the measuring liquid inside the instruments to separate permanently rendering them useless in any event. He therefore asks that four new Réaumur thermometers capable of measuring down to - 35° be sent along with several astronomical instruments for making navigational observations. unknown books
1798PHO-2046Paris, De l’Imprimerie de la République, An VI-An VII [1798-1799]. 5 volumes in-8 (22,5x14cm), 1f.-CCI-1f.-294pp.-1f., VII-529pp. (3 tableaux dépliants), VIII-474pp.1f. (8 tableaux dépliants), VIII-494pp., XII-559pp.-2ff., avec 13 cartes en copies, relié toile moderne, pièce d’auteur, titre et tomaison, non rogné, mouillures.
1763LBW-45201763. 564 x 865 mm.
1760PHO-12672 ouvrages en un vol. in-12, rel. d'époque, plein cuir marbré ,dorure sur les coupes, dos à 5 nerfs, caissons ornés de fleurons dorés, titre dans une pièce de cuir marron, trois tranches rouges. Rousseurs, mouillures , manque la pièce de titre, coiffe sup. usé et fente intérieure
1795PHO-1044Paris : Bastien, An III. (1795) 7 volumes in-8 ; AVEC , PAUW recherches philosophiques sur les Américains , An III , 3 volumes in-8 , XIV-421pp, 475pp,482pp. AVEC : PAUW : Recherches philosophiques sur les Égyptiens et les Chinois. Paris : Bastien, An III, 2 volumes in-8, carte dépliante (déchurure sans manque), XVIff,472pp , 466pp; AVEC : PAUW : Recherches philosophiques sur les Grecs. Paris : Bastien, An III, 2 volumes in-8 , XVI-400pp,366pp . Reliure d’époque en basane marbrée, dos lisse orné avec titre et tomaison , quelques manques de cuir , petit travail de ver sur 10ff ,Tome 1.
1796elala1784Quebec: William Vondenvelden 1796. 1796. 4to. pp. 2 p.l. 16 blank leaf. text in French & English on opposite pages. modern wrs. Order in council enforcing the terms of Jays Treaty 1794. The Treaty arranged reciprocal concessions regarding trade and commerce between the United States and British North America and provided for the appointment of a commission to settle the north-eastern boundary and for the withdrawal of British troops from American territory. Tremaine 994. Dionne I 40. Lande 552. TPL 692. Vlach 40. Vlach IP 66. Quebec: William Vondenvelden, 1796. unknown
17498859Paris, Ballard fils, 1749. 2 volumes in-12 de [4]-LVI-182-[4]; [4]-319 (la pagination saute de 312 à 315) pages, plein veau marbré de l'époque, dos à nerfs richement ornés, pièces de titre et tomaison rouge et marron, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, simple sur les coupes, tranches dorées.
178910440A Londres et se trouve à Paris, Chez Le Jay fils et Maradan, 1789. In-8 de XVI-336 pp., veau havane marbré, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin vert, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
1721WRCAM13347Paris 1721. 4pp. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Light soiling. Contemporary inscription. Very good. A French royal decree concerning the importation of Canadian beaver pelts into France. This is a variant of the issue listed by Wroth; OCLC locates only one copy at Harvard which appears to be Wroth 890. Not in EUROPEAN AMERICANA. Rare. <br> <br> From the library of Cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne 1727-94 Minister of Louis XVI Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française Brienne wielded significant power as as head of the Finance Ministry which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 presumably as an attempt to save his life. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 890 ref. MAGGS FRENCH COLONIZATION OF AMERICA 224 this copy. OCLC 70682396 ref. unknown books
1795PHO-2286Paris, chez Buisson, An 3 de la République (1795), 4 volumes Texte : 3 tomes in 8° (21x13,5cm), XXIV-391pp, (4) 386pp, et (4) 371pp., veau raciné époque, dos lisse avec pièces de titre rouge et tomaison noire, tranches dorées, frises aux plats, roulettes interne, petits frottements. Atlas : in-4° (31,5x24cm), titre, table des planches, 28 planches HT, portraits, cartes, plans, vues. Exemplaire à toutes marges. Reliure d’attente, dos manquant, carte détachée avec tache aux plis,
177623234London 1776. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio. Second edition of this important report first issued in 1749 and bound here as issued with 12 other committee reports first published between 1737 and 1765. Folio 486 pp with one folding map not related to the Hudson's Bay report in a later binding of quarter leather and marbled boards. Each report has its own title page but a title page for the full volume is lacking; otherwise a fine copy. According to ESTC N69513 four volumes of these committee reports were officially ordered to be printed on 28 June 1773 and were published in 1774-1776. They were reprinted along with 11 additional volumes and an index between 1803 and 1820. The 1803 reprint of this report is commonly found but this 1776 edition is scarce. See Peel 26 TPL 213. In 1749 the House of Commons appointed a committee of enquiry into the lands and trade of the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. It was undertaken as a result of a petition made by a group led by Irishman Arthur Dobbs who hoped to have the HBC''s trade monopoly revoked on the grounds that their policies had led to a loss of British control of the fur trade and that showed little interest in promoting expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage. The Report offers a history of the Company from its formation and includes the journal of Joseph La France a pioneer trader with the Indians inhabiting the region of the Great Lake who describes visits into French Canada the state of the fortresses there and French trade with the Indians. It also includes testimony given before the Committee by many witnesses including serveral people employed by the HBC as well as merchants engaged in trade in HBC territory. The Appendix includes the text of the HBC's charter a list of vessels sent by the HBC in search of a Northwest Passage tables of the HBC's annual sales and exports "A Journal of a Voyage and Journey undertaken by Henry Kelsey to discover and endeavour to bring to a Commerce the Naywatamee Poets an unidentified people who may have been the Hidatsa or Gros Ventre 1691" and much other interesting material. hardcover
175222438London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet 1752. First Edition. 8vo pp vi 84 95 with 3 folding maps. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt rules. Small bookplate "Lavington" on front pastwdown and one "From the Wilberforce Library Backsettown" on front free endpaper. Frontis map slightly misfolded but overall a near fine copy. Robson was a former employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who had worked as a surveyor and "Supervisor of the Buildings" i.e. construction superintendent. His experiences convinced him that the Company was mismanaging its holdings so badly that all of northern North America would soon be taken over by the French. Hill 1477 describes this account as one of the earliest and certainly the fullest of works that had hitherto been published on the Hudson Bay Territory" and explains that "Robson with a sound knowledge of the locale and of the personnel of the Hudson's Bay Company condemned the company for its failure to promote enterprise and development in its lands." The first 84 pages are the narrative the remaining portion of the book is an appendix giving an account of the discovery of Hudson's Bay and English activities there. The maps are: "A Draught of Nelson & Hayes's Rivers" Plate I "A Draught of Churchill River" Plate II and "Plans of York and Prince of Wales's Fort" Plate III which also includes an illustration of two snowshoe designs. Field 1312; Graff 3532; Sabin 72259; Smith 8728; Streeter VI 3648 TPL 217 Lande 1418. Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet unknown