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19561125558196Montreal : Published for the McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press 1956. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth silver spine lettersdust jacket79 pages illustrated five full page line drawings by Freda Guttman with some minor wear to dust jacket at top of spine with very small loss and at top corners of d.j.very slight tone to spine of d.j in protective mylar jacket. a fine example of the author's first book of which approximately 400 copies were printed. part of the McGill Poetry Series operated by Louis Dudek.First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice even as a young man. An unprecedented debut published to immediate acclaim. [Published for the McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press] Hardcover
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
elala6117Ottawa: Printed By Brown Chamberlin 1891. First Edition of this collection of the actual texts of First Nations treaties land cessions numbered treaties and surrenders relating to land and governance up until 1890 including the names of the signing Crown officials and First Nations representatives. Volume 1 contains an extensive index to the documents in the two volumes arranged alphabetically by First Nation township and the name of the Crown's representative in the transaction. The documents in the book are arranged chronologically. Also included are reproductions of the original maps used in the negotiation of the settlements. A third volume not present here was published in 1912. This is the main reference used by the Canadian government to deny and reject native Canadian land claims completely ignoring the oral tradition of the First Nations and also neglecting to include other important pertinent written accounts including information contained in the records of the Department of Indian Affairs. The documents “do not represent the entire spectrum of Treaties between the Aboriginal people and the Crown's representatives which were supposed to have been signed and negotiated under the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in a public meeting Review Article 141 or assembly held for that specific purpose. The St. Anne Island Treaty of 1796 is a case in point. The Treaty meeting was held at a public gathering on St. Anne Island in Lake St. Clair on August 30 1796. The Crown promised a large Reserve of the size of one Township then 92160 acres as well as free trade border crossing and other rights yet the record of this meeting is not in the Treaties and Surrenders book. There is only the surrender document Surrender #7 dated eight days later which implies erroneously that the Aboriginal people had surrendered or relinquished the land which at the Treaty negotiation they had agreed that they would in fact retain. This example is replicated throughout the history of Canada.†David T.McNab on the Brandon University website. 2 Volumes in 1. pp. 1 p.l. lxii 4 325; 1 p.l. 318. index. 66 plans 39 folding. modern calf. ownership entry of A.Dingman Indian Department Nov. 23rd 1894. elala6117 Ottawa: Printed By Brown Chamberlin, 1891 unknown
elala3241<p>Ottawa: 1889. The information regarding the extent and boundaries of the numerous Indian reservations in Manitoba and the North-West Territories allotted under Treaties 4 6 and 7 and part of Treaty 2 was gathered for the guidance of Indian Agents and other employees of the Department of Indian Affairs and for the use of the public especially settlers desirous of taking up lands in the vicinity of the reserves. The descriptions and accompanying plans were prepared by direction of Edgar Dewdney Indian Commissioner from the original records of the Department under the supervision of John C. Nelson in charge of Indian Reserve Surveys. Each description provides details on area situation and general features the number of Indian families in the band the name of the Chief the name of the surveyor by whom the reserve was laid out and the date of the survey. Peel 1765. folio. pp. 113. 1 leaf of errata tipped in. 83 folding colour lithographed plans. new quarter calf</p> [Ottawa: 1889]
elala6102<p>Montreal: Armour and Ramsay 1839. First Edition. Sir John Colborne's handling of the second rising in Lower Canada was quick efficient and severe. He proclaimed martial law took seven hundred and fifty-three prisoners within a week of which one hundred and eight were promptly brought to trial before courts-martial suspended three French-Canadian judges who challenged the suspension of habeus corpus and refused to allow French-Canadian lawyers to defend the rebels. These two volumes contain the complete transcripts of the trials for high treason of the one hundred and eight prisoners including Joseph Narcisse Cardinal Chas. Huot Guillaume Lévesque Jos. Robert J.-B.-H. Brien Charles Hindelang Pierre Rémi Narbonne James Perigo Louis Bourdon Charles Guillaume Bouc Benjamin Mott Joseph Duquette &c. Of these twelve were executed including Cardinal Duquette Narbonne & Hindelang fifty-eight were transported to the penal colony of New South Wales two were banished and twenty-seven were freed on bond; the rest remained in prison for a year before being released. TPL 2305. Lande 752. Dionne III 364. Sabin 10588. Story p. 699. Sweet & Maxwell III 178. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 376; 565 1blank iii. complete with half-titles. modern quarter calf library blindstamp in upper margin of first 4 leaves of each volume & small number rubberstamps on titles & in lower margin of 3rd leaf in each volume. elala6102</p> Montreal: Armour and Ramsay, 1839
elala6215Montreal: Printed By William Gray 1817. First Edition. Rare. The Society was formed in 1812 at York to provide relief to injured veterans and those who suffered losses and distress as a result of the war with the United States. Subscribers committed a tenth of their income to the benevolent fund and soon other Districts and the wealthier cities of Quebec and Montreal followed suit. A subscription was opened in London by Lieutenant Governor Gore encouraged by the patronage of the Duke of Kent and Nova Scotia and Jamaica then also provided assistance. Officers of the Society included Chief Justice Thomas Scott Chairman Alexander Wood Secretary and Justice William Dummer Powell Justice William Campbell Reverend John Strachan Dr. William Warren Baldwin Thomas Ridout D’Arcy Boulton John Beverley Robinson John Small William Allan and William Chewett Directors. This detailed report which was probably edited by John Strachan who president and treasurer of the society contains minutes of meetings accounts and other records dating from 1812 to 1816. Dionne III 98. Gagnon I 3511. TPL 1099. Vlach 741. 8vo. pp. 419 1. 1 folding table. An uncut copy in later half leather spine ends chipped outer edges of last leaf chipped some foxing to outer leaves. elala6215 Montreal: Printed By William Gray, 1817 hardcover
2002547H0222Canada: Douglas & McIntyre / Vancouver Art Gallery. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. 1550548999 . Signed by E.J. Hughes upon title page. 226 pages. Index of works. Chronology. Selected bibliography. Oblong 11" x 12". "Lavishly illustrated with 100 full colour and 25 black-and-white reproductions of prints drawings and paintings this is the first full-scale volume to honour the artistic life and work of E.J. Hughes from the start of his long career in the 1930s to the present. His unique talent for depicting the landscape in a way that both he and viewers believe it should be rather than the way it actually is enables us to experience and understand place and nature in new and deeper ways." - from dust jacket. Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A marvelous gift for any devotee of E.J. Hughes and his magnificent art.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; E.J. Hughes British Columbia Canadian Artists Painters Landscape Painting Vancouver Island Signed; Signed by Authors . Douglas & McIntyre / Vancouver Art Gallery hardcover
1937617G1246Victoria British Columbia: The Archives of British Columbia/British Columbia Historical Association. Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Seventeen volumes individually and uniformly bound in green cloth with with red labels and gilt lettering upon backstrips. Index in each volume. Fold-out maps. Black and white plates. Includes all issues from 1937 through 1945 and 1947 through 1954. Bindings tight. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A magnificent repository of early British Columbia history. Very heavy. Special shipping considerations may apply.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; British Columbia Quarterly History . The Archives of British Columbia/British Columbia Historical Association hardcover
Unread. As new. Number 216 of limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by co-author R.E. Gosnell. "Few publications, if any, of similar size and excellence have been produced in Canada." - From Editor's Foreword. Part I includes 210 pages and eighteen chapters which constitute "a survey of events from the earliest times down to the Union of the Crown Colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada." Part II is "a history, mainly political and economic, of the Province since Confederation up to the present time." Part I is preceded and followed by dozens of tissue-protected black and white portraits of individuals influential in the early history of the province, complete with their brief biographies upon the tissue. Part II comprises eighteen chapters over 226 pages plus 5 pages of addenda followed by dozens of tissue protected portraits of "some of the men conspicuous as present day factors in development." Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright, and unmarked with zero wear. Brown suede exterior appears as fresh as the day it was applied over 100 years ago. This majestic fourteen pound tome measures 13" x 10.5" x 4". A magnificent acquisition for any serious collector of British Columbia history. A better copy will not be found. [Lowther 1607, Hale 2523, Edwards & Lort 3177, Strathern 495] Book
43587HUDSON'S BAY Company.<br /> Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons dated 26 May 1842; - for Copy of the existing Charter or Grant by the Crown to the Hudson's Bay Company; together with Copies or Extracts of the Correspondence which took place at the last Renewal of the Charter between the Government and the Company or of Individuals on behalf of the Company; also the Dates of all former Charters or Grants to that Company.<br /> Ordered by The House of Commons to be Printed 8 August 1842. folio 34.5cm 322p. docketed ; removed; text clean and untrimmed; docket leaf little torn at margin without any loss very scarce.cgc. T.P.L. 2526. Peel 210. This work includes letters from the Governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company. unknown
elala5930Ottawa: 1868. Reading: “I beg leave to state that in my opinion you as Registrar of Montreal are an officer of the Local Government and that by such Local Government your securities are to be approved.†Over the course of many years MacDonald supported George Herman Ryland Registrar of Montreal and former Clerk of the Executive Council for the Province of Lower Canada in his efforts to obtain financial compensation from the government. Ryland’s claim was based on a promise made to him by Lord Sydenham the first Governor-General of the United Province of Canada 1841. At the time of this letter Macdonald held the portfolio of Minister of Justice and was in the second year of his first term as Prime Minister. 4to. pp. 1 with integral blank. horizontal & vertical folds. with initialed free-franked cover. elala5930 Ottawa: 1868 unknown
1913559a9589British Columbia: British Columbia Historical Association 1913. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Unread. As new. Number 216 of limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by co-author R.E. Gosnell. "Few publications if any of similar size and excellence have been produced in Canada." - From Editor's Foreword. Part I includes 210 pages and eighteen chapters which constitute "a survey of events from the earliest times down to the Union of the Crown Colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada." Part II is "a history mainly political and economic of the Province since Confederation up to the present time." Part I is preceded and followed by dozens of tissue-protected black and white portraits of individuals influential in the early history of the province complete with their brief biographies upon the tissue. Part II comprises eighteen chapters over 226 pages plus 5 pages of addenda followed by dozens of tissue protected portraits of "some of the men conspicuous as present day factors in development." Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean bright and unmarked with zero wear. Brown suede exterior appears as fresh as the day it was applied over 100 years ago. This majestic fourteen pound tome measures 13" x 10.5" x 4". A magnificent acquisition for any serious collector of British Columbia history. A better copy will not be found. Lowther 1607 Hale 2523 Edwards & Lort 3177 Strathern 495. British Columbia Historical Association Hardcover
280 pages. Signed and inscribed upon front free endpaper by author to Roman Fast in June of 1949. Gouzenko was the Soviet embassy cipher clerk whose defection in 1945 marked the beginning of the Cold War. His revelations resulted in major investigations and dozens of arrests. Above-average wear to red boards. Binding intact. Unmarked. What appears to be a clipping from the dust jacket of a Second Printing copy is neatly affixed at half-title page. Said clipping provides major contemporary media reviews of this work. A treasure for your Espionage or Cold War collection. Book
34720Three-Rivers February 1839. Soft cover. 8vo 23cm 27p. in the original plain blue wraps string tied untrimmed upper wrap loose internal library stamps uncut near fine very rare. cgc Vallieres De St. Real Joseph Rmi. Judicial Decisions on the Writ of Habeas Corpus ad subjiciendum and on the Provincial Ordinance 2d Victoria Chap. 4 whereby the Habeas Corpus ordinance of 1784 has been suspended; With Notes. Three-Rivers February. 1839. On page 3: Mr. Justice Vallires de St. Real explained the grounds of his Judgement as follows . The opinion of Justice Jean Roch Rolland forms pp. 13--20. T.P.L. 7540. "Concerns the petitions of Celestin Houde and Joseph Guillaume Barthe for writs of habeas corpus. The Crown argued that the Habeas Cropus Act was sus-pended by the ordinance to authorize the apprehension and detention of persons charged with high treason etc.". Mr. Justice Vallieres de St. Real granted the writ; Mr Justice Rolland did not. T.P.L. 7540. Not in Gagnon; Lande; WorldCat locates 1 copy Un Sherbrooke Three-Rivers. Amicus cites a catalogue reference only. Not in ABE ABPC A&E. No other listings located. T.P.L. 7540. Sabin 98394. Concerns the petitions of Celestin Houde and Joseph Guillaume Barthe for writs of habeas corpus. The Crown argued that the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended by the ordinance of the Governor and Special Council of 8th November 1838 i.e. "An ordinance to authorize the apprehension and detention of persons charge with high treason etc". Mr Justice Vallieres de St. Real granted the writ; Mr Justice Rolland did not. TPL. An important judical document concerning the suspension of Habeas Corpus by Sir John Colborne in November 1838 with respect to those arrested fro Treason and sedition after the Rebellion of 1837. Three-Rivers, February 1839 unknown
elala5541<p>np: 1903. The delegates travelled by rail from Quebec to British Columbia and back to Nova Scotia. One hundred and twenty-four of the photographs some by William Notman and Sons depict cities and towns Montreal Ottawa Kingston Hamilton Toronto Winnipeg Calgary Vancouver Victoria Greenwood Nelson Quebec City St. John Halifax Sydney scenic views Niagara Falls the St. Lawrence River Thousand Islands North West Territories Banff Lake Louise Canmore AB the Rockies and Selkirk Mountains Vancouver Island Nanaimo Falls of Montmorency &c. scenes of the delegates enjoying themselves on an excursion to Muskoka rural life in La Prairie and Brandon Manitoba cattle ranching in Woodpecker AB First Nations and a First Nations girls' school in Brandon and the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways. The two smaller ones depict the members of the Canadian Committee of Arrangements and the delegates to the Congress. Provenance: Estate of Sir Wilfrid Laurier thence by descent through the family. oblong folio. 124 large albumen prints 186 x 240 mm. with printed captions below mounted on thick card plus 2 slightly smaller mounted on paste-downs. original leather heavily rubbed oxidized along joints & edges tear to head of spine fading to some of the photos. elala5541</p> np: 1903 hardcover
1795E0029<b>Samuel Hearne was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean</b><br /><br />xliv458 pages with two of four engraved plates after drawings by the author both folding and four of five folding engraved maps. Quarto 11 3/4" x 9 3/4" bound in full leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. HillI page 141. Sabin 31181 First edition.<br /><br />Manuscript journal was found by La Pérouse when he captured Fort Albany; later one of his conditions of surrender was that it be published. Samuel Hearne 1745 – November 1792 was an explorer fur-trader author and naturalist. He was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean In 1774 Hearne built Cumberland House for the Hudson's Bay Company its first interior trading post and the first permanent settlement in present Saskatchewan. From 1769 to 1772 Hearne was employed in north-western discovery searching especially for certain copper mines described by Indians as "Far-Away-Metal River". These copper mines were found in the Barren Lands where the ground is permanently frozen to within a few inches of the surface creating in many areas vast stretches of mosquito- and fly-infested swamp during the summer thaw. For this reason it was decided that travel in winter was preferable. His first attempt began on 6 November 1769. The large size of the expedition and too much European equipment being carried led to the desertion of his Indian guides and the failure of the expedition. His second commencing 23 February 1770 failed because his quadrant was broken and much of his equipment was stolen. Learning from the mistakes of the first two expeditions Hearne contrived to travel as the only European with a group of Indians led by the great chief Matonabbee. The group also included eight of Matonabbee's wives to act as beasts of burden in the sledge traces camp servants and cooks. This third expedition set out in December 1770 in order to reach the Coppermine River in summer by which he could descend to the Arctic in canoes. Matonabbee kept a fast pace so fast they reached the great caribou traverse before provisions dwindled and in time for the spring hunt. Here all the Indian hunters of the north gathered to hunt the vast herds of caribou migrating north for summer. A store of meat was laid up for Hearne's voyage and a band of warriors joined the expedition. Matonabbee ordered the women to wait for his return in the Athabasca country to the west. The Chipewyans were generally a mild and peaceful people however they were in a state of conflict with the Inuit. A great number of Indians joined Hearne's party to accompany them to the Coppermine River with intent to murder Inuit who were understood to frequent that river in considerable numbers.2 On July 14 1771 they reached the Coppermine River a small stream flowing over a rocky bed in the "Barren Lands of the Little Sticks". A few miles down the river just above a cataract were the domed wigwams of an Eskimo camp. At 1am on July 17 1771 Matonabbee and the other Indians fell upon the sleeping Eskimo in a ruthless massacre. Approximately twenty men women and children were killed; this would be known as the Massacre at Bloody Falls. A few days later Hearne was the first European to reach the shore of the Arctic Ocean by an overland route. By tracing the Coppermine River to the Arctic Ocean he had established there was no northwest passage through the continent at lower latitudes. This expedition also proved successful in its primary goal by discovering copper in the Coppermine River basin. However an intensive search of the area yielded only one four-pound lump of copper and commercial mining was not considered viable. Matonabbee led Hearne back to Churchill by a wide westward circle past Bear Lake in Athabasca Country. In midwinter he became the first European to see and cross Great Slave Lake. Hearne returned to Fort Prince of Wales on 30 June 1772 having walked some 5000 miles and explored more than 250000 square miles.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Rebound in attractive leather with raised spine bands. Lacks frontispiece map and two plates. Plate I A North West View of Prince of Wales's Fort and Plate IV A Winter view of the Athapuscow Lake. Some internal spotting. Small repair to title page and verso and front free end paper edge else a better than very good copy. Printed for A Strahan and T Cadell hardcover
17200101766London: printed for D. Browne at the Black-Swan etc. 1720. Leather Bound. pp. 4 304. 8vo. Full leather binding in Cambridge style with an expertly rebacked spine. Leather title labels lettered in gilt 5 raised bands. Ink spill to foredge of 50 pages. "An account of the expedition of 1711 by its leader written as a reply to criticisms of his conduct of the unfortunate affair" - Sabin 101050. TPL 148. With leather bookplate of W A William Alfred Westropp Foyle Beeleigh Abbey: who along with his brother founded the iconic eponymous London bookshop; and a second bookplate featuring a lion and unicorn with only "Libertas No 3494 printed for D. Browne at the Black-Swan, etc. unknown
