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1801079699London: T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies 1801. First edition. Leather Bound. 4to. 20th century fine leather binding. Folding maps with expert repairs. Wagner-Camp notes that 'Mackenzie discovered the river that now bears his name and descended it to the Arctic Ocean in 1789. In 1793 he became the first European to cross the North American continent north of Mexico'. Peel 55: "After the preface there follow 132 pages on the history of the fur trade in the North West. Some authorities think this was written by his cousin Roderick MacKenzie. According to the Dictionary of National Biography Voyages 1801 was compiled by William Combe from Mackenzie's notes. Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneaux Algonquin Chepewyan Nagailer and Atnah Indian languages." Sabin 43414 calls this the "first and finest edition T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies unknown
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
1867345581Halifax: James Barnes 1867. First edition of Murdoch's history bound with the first Halifax edition of the British North America Act. Murdoch: xv 1 543; xiv 624; xxiii 613pp. Several leaves of the table of contents bound out of order. British North America Act: 47 1pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper covered board. First edition of Murdoch's history bound with the first Halifax edition of the British North America Act. Murdoch: xv 1 543; xiv 624; xxiii 613pp. Several leaves of the table of contents bound out of order. British North America Act: 47 1pp. 3 vols. 8vo. The 1867 British North America Act united the three separate territories of Canada Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a single dominion called Canada. Murdoch: Sabin 51433; TPL 1447. British North America Act: Lande S386 James Barnes unknown
1863B337Ottawa: Authority of Parliament. c.1863-1904. Binding: some contemporary yellow cloth over board and some contemporary light green paper wrappers title in black ink on flat spine. Notes: Vol vi 1892-1893 Vol vii 1894 Vol viii 1895 Vol ix 1896 Vol x 1897 Vol xi 1898 Vol xii 1899 Vol xiv 1901 Vol xv 1902-1903 Vol xvi 1904 index 1863-1884 index 1885-1906. Some volumes have the map set of their own for example: map set to accompany vol vii 1894 map set to accompany vol xii 1899 map set to accompany vol xiv 1901 map set to accompany vol xv 1902-03 map set to accompany vol xvi 1904 map set of 1895 to accompany report on the Cascade Cola Basin Alberta map set of British Columbia Cariboo Mining district 1895. Also many individual volumes are illustrated with many maps within. Size: Large 8vo. Illustration: Illustrated with many maps. Volume: 12 volumes plus 9 map ca Category: Book Atlas & Cartography Authority of Parliament. hardcover
1829elala1084np: 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 3index 4-255. modern calf covers bit discoloured. The majority of the grievances were directed at the authoritarian regime of Lord Dalhousie as governor of Lower Canada and Governor-in-Chief of British North America 1820-28 when he was recalled. Included are grievances relating to Dalhousies establishment of a new Quebec Gazette his censure of Sir Francis Burton for having sanctioned a Bill of Supply his dismissal of militia officers and exercise of intimidation during elections his dismissal of justices of the peace and the unfair manner of jury selection. "Among other things the Montreal petitioners complained that contrary to the laws of England juries both grand and petty and both King's Bench and Quarter Sessions were being drawn exclusively from the town of Montreal rather than from the district at large. The committee chaired by Denis-Benjamin Viger concluded that this practice of jurors being "selected or as it were packed - summoned exclusively from among the inhabitants of a particular place or from a particular class - cannot be more compatible with liberty than it is with the rules of impartial justice. It is repugnant to every principle of our government and can only tend to the overthrow of the constitution of the country .The executive's control over the process of selecting juries became for the Patriotes yet another symbol of despotism and of the attempted exclusion of canadiens from their democratic rights given that they predominated in the countryside; a number of highly political jury trials for libel and sedition did nothing to help matters. The controversy only began to die down from 1830 when James Kempt ordered that jurors be drawn from the body of the district; the denouement came in 1832 when the legislature adopted a law regulating the qualification and selection of jurors " Donald Fyson Grand Juries Political Power And Citizenship In Quebec And Lower Canada 1764-1830 a paper for the 77th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Ottawa May 1998TPL 1549. Sabin 10568. cfCasey I 1279. Not in Dionne Gagnon or Lande. np: 1829. unknown
1838101145Toronto Canada 1838. Ephemera. Good. No Binding. Toronto: Printed at the Patriot Office 1838. pp. 133-160 2 161-167 1. Collation: 34-422. It's possible that this pamphlet was part of a larger work. Sewn gatherings the thread now gone no wrapper. Wove paper small pieces missing from the top right of the preliminary leaves and the last 2 leaves. Addressed to His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada the report was submitted by the Office of the Commissioners at Cornwall on 1 January 1838 by Jonas Jones the President of the Board. The report consists of the minutes of the Saint Lawrence Commission in 1837 with letters from engineers and contractors statement of expenditures 1834-7 and estimates of expenses for the completing the work on the Saint Lawrence Canals. Not recorded by Fleming's Upper Canadian Imprints 1801-1841. The only other copy of this imprint is located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto. unknown
1855082714Ottawa: William S. Hunter 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. pp. 19. Folio. Rebacked blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board page edges gilt. Newer endpapers. 15 engravings and a map: frontispiece vignette title fold-out map 13 tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards. Some foxing to tissue guards. An important early view book of Ottawa this edition with the addition of railroad routes to the folding map. Lithographs by John Perry Newell and John Henry Bufford; after William S. Hunter. With 6 of the views attributed to Winslow Homer thus representing his earliest book illustrations. Text in double columns. Sabin 33937. TPL 3563. William S. Hunter hardcover
18414444951<p>printed for the author by F. B. Penniman hinges cracked and weak but still holding title page coming loose black cloth worn remnants of spine label light foxing pages 145-148 missing from pagination no actual missing pages unmarked rare.</p> self-published hardcover
1870126536London: William Clowes and Sons 1870. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 223 12pp. Folio. Modern blue cloth boards. Fine clean copies. very good Peel 3 - 565 566. Includes: despatches from the governor Sir John Young pages 1-169; despatches from the secretary of state Earl Granville 170-180; correspondence between the Colonial Office and HBC 181-219; correspondence between the Colonial Office and Sir John Rose 220-223; and Reuter's telegrams 223 1870 William Clowes and Sons hardcover
1835List2711St. John New Brunswick British North America 1835. Three 8 x 13 inch pages folded. Toning at folds; fine. With a clipping from the Quebec Gazette Monthly March 1835. Fine. Little biographical information is available on Thomas Kent save that he was a sailor aboard the Britannia and that the newspaper clipping included here identifies him as “a colored man.†Offered here is a notarized copy of Kent’s testimony concerning the wreck of the Britannia and the consequent deaths of its Captain Thomas Millidge Walker its mates Woodward and Elliot and its cook George Monroe who was also a Black man.<br /> <br /> The Britannia was owned by New Brunswick merchants Isaac and John G. Woodward who may have requested the notarized testimony for insurance purposes: the notary writes that it was written on their behalf and emphasizes that:<br /> <br /> “That the capsizing of the said Brigantine and her subsequent loss arose solely from the excessive violence of the Gale and a tremendous Sea and not from any default or negligence of the Captain or Crew.â€<br /> <br /> The ship had sailed from New Brunswick on December 21 1834 for Berbice in Dutch Guyana with a load of lumber and fish. Six days later the ship’s trials began. Kent testifies that the Britannia:<br /> <br /> “was hove to in a violent gale of wind from the north West; that a few minutes before midnight a very heavy sea struck her and capsized her on her beam-ends; . That this appearer i.e. Kent was washed overboard when the sea struck the vessel but fortunately succeeded in getting on board again when he discovered three other Seamen on Deck.â€<br /> <br /> According to the clipping the other survivors were James Potter William Phillips and Thomas Gibb. They survived solely because they had been on deck; the others “being below were drowned in the Cabin.â€<br /> <br /> The storm began to let up the next morning but “this appearer and the other three Seamen remained on the wreck nine days nearly all of which time it blew a gale of wind.†The men survived “by their fortunately catching a shark on which and a few potatoes that floated up from below they subsisted.†After nine days they were rescued by the Caledonia a packet ship traveling from New York to Liverpool. Arriving in Liverpool three weeks later the men are still not recovered from the ordeal:<br /> <br /> “one of the Seamen saved afterwards died in the Infirmary at Liverpool from fatigue and exposure; . this appearer was also so ill in Liverpool from the same causes that his life was greatly despaired of.â€<br /> <br /> Overall a harrowing account of interest to scholars of maritime history and Canadian history and of Black people’s roles therein. unknown
184922524London: Richard Bentley 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 7.75" x 4.75" pp xii 13-308; vii 1 9-328 pp in original brown blindstamped cloth spines decorated in gilt patterned endpapers with publisher's advertisements. Chipping to cloth at spine ends old repairs visible at joints but still an attractive set uncommon in the original cloth. Wagner-Camp 169: "John McLean entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company during the winter of 1820-21 and worked in the Ontario area for the next decade. He was then sent to New Caledonia by way of the Saskatchewan River and to Fort St. James on Stuart's Lake in British Columbia. Streeter finds McLean's style entertaining but the Company's methods of suppressing competition prosecutable under present United States law." Field 996: "the largest portion of these volumes is devoted to the narration of incidents of travel among the Indians of the territory; descriptions of the life habits and character of the different tribes inhabiting it and the relations of the Hudson's Bay Company to them. All of the statements of the author confirm the most authentic accounts of others.The last volume terminates with a vocabulary of Indian dialects." Graff 2640; Smith 6418; Streeter VI: 3712; Sabin 43514; TPL 2729. Richard Bentley hardcover
1900811G2234Toronto: E.L. Ruddy. Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages including thirty-two magnificent pages of vintage Toronto ads at back. Black and white photographic plates. List of Officers. Roll of Honour. Music and words to the regimental march "Highland Laddie". Presents the origin and history of this regiment and a short account of the Highland regiments from time to time stationed in Canada. Printed upon coated paper. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding taped at front hinge and title page. A worthy reference copy of this important Canadian military history. Dornbusch 62 Cooke 3 p.132.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The 48th Forty-Eighth Highlanders of Toronto - Canadian Militia - The Origin and History of This regiment and a Short Account of the Highland Regiments from time to Time Stationed in Canada Military History Canada Black Watch Fraser's Highlanders 84th . E.L. Ruddy hardcover
1836elala1147<p>Toronto: R.Reynolds Printer 1836. 1836. 8vo. pp. 256 4. original cloth-backed bds. short split in upper front joint covers spotted some scattered light foxing. A scarce and important report. Charles Duncombe a prominent American-born physician and politician in Upper Canada was appointed in 1835 to visit and report upon the systems of education pursued in the United States and to offer recommendations for the educational institutions of Upper Canada. His report pp. 68 in which he stresses the need for practical education and adequate financial support for common schools and teacher education is followed by a lengthy appendix of supporting documentation pp. 69-256. Although Duncombe's proposals were not immediately implemented many would be introduced under the administration of Egerton Ryerson and would form the basis of Ontario educational policy until 1871 i.e. local assessment elective school boards female education the creation of normal schools non-sectarian religious instruction &c. Fleming 1059. Gagnon I 1201. Sabin 21268. TPL 2011. DCB IX pp. 228-32. Hardcover.</p> Toronto: R.Reynolds, Printer, 1836. hardcover
1829elala1046Quebec: Re-Printed by Order of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 377. partly unopened in later cloth some foxing throughout. The report p. 1-10 is dated July 22 1828 and is followed by minutes of evidence May 8-July 15 1828 pp. 11-328 and an appendix of supporting documents pp. 329-77. Among the witnesses listed on p. iii are Samuel Gale Edward Ellice John Neilson Denis Benjamin Viger amd Austin Cuvillier. The British parliamentary Canada Committee was set up in 1828 to study the grievances of Upper and Lower Canada. "Its major recommendations were that a tax should be imposed on unimproved lands held by speculators; that the laws customs and religion of the French Canadians should be respected that the crown revenues should be surrendered to the colonial Houses of Assembly in exchange for a Civil List; that steps should be taken to sell the Clergy Reserves and to divide the proceeds fairly among all Protestant denominations; and that the revenue from the Jesuits Estates should be used for education." Story p. 145 TPL 1486. Dionne III 217. Lande 385. Sabin 10576. cfGagnon I 2989. Quebec: Re-Printed by Order of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, 1829. hardcover
1835431G1376London: A.W. Webster 1835. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume I only. xxxiv 740 pages. 25 plates - some in colour 5 maps including 1 fold-out. Library binding. Nine-inch opening to fold-out map now bound opposite page 1. Minimal library markings. Gift greetings - dated 1866. Faint signature atop title page. Above-average external wear. Contents and binding sound. Arctic Bibliography 14866. A.W. Webster Hardcover
189982100No place of publication indicated; February 1899. First separate edition of this translation. Lightly creased where folded with the tiniest losses at one intersection;an excellent example. About 16 x 11 inches. BAL21582 noting that this broadside was produced for Whitman in February 1899. For an earlier translation by William Sloane Kennedy see BAL 21605. Text in three columns. Translated from "La Nouvelle Revue" 1st of May 1888. unknown
1848087004London: Printed by E. Couchman 1848. First edition. Paperback. pp. 44. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Trace of pencil marks to corner of cover and one tiny chip otherwise crisp and unmarked. Peel 228: "The charge was to the jury at the beginning of the trial of a Native for murder and deals with whether the charter rights of HBC extended to judicial authority over Natives." Scarce. Printed by E. Couchman paperback
18560006091London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Commander S. Gurney Cresswell R. N. with four lithographs and a folding map . Octavo xix 405 ii 24pp. in blue embossed publisher's cloth leaf 13/14 has a repaired horizontal tear lacks preliminaries; rebacked in new quarler leather new endpapers and paper label. <br/><br/>On this voyage in the "Investigator" the found the westward entrance to the desired Northwest Passage in the Prince of Wales Strait traveling in a route which is detailed in color on the folding map here. Due to unthawed pack ice -through several summers - they had to abandon the "Investigator" to her fate in the ice. M'Clure's name appears on at least eight geographical sites around Alaska and the Northwest Territory. Note: co-author Osborn also became an Admiral. Illustrated by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell R. N. with four lithographs and a folding map. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts hardcover
