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187823510Chicago Illinois: Not Published 1878. Group includes 3 letters on Canada Southern Railway Lines Chicago letterhead: January 3 from W.H. Hurlburt Gen'l Western Passenger Agent to A. Jackson 2 pages on smaller note-size sheets concerning some lands in which he had an interest - back payments taxes; on Jan. 11th larger paper 1 page the same property is being discussed naming other parties - of Oldrich Blanchard and a Mrs. Long - there was a 'consideration' of $ 10000.00 mentioned at the close; January 22 asking Jackson to communicate as Hurlburt is traveling - he is trying to wind up the legalities of the lands concerned; with a 1873 short note written to Jackson on the letterhead of David Dall Vessel Agent 241 South Water Street Chicago asking for his fees due for freight on a schooner signed by Dall; light wear old fold lines; in very good condition. According to the C.S.R. Line letterhead it was the "Only Route Through Canada Under American Management." At this point in its history the Vanderbilt family exercised control over this rail line. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
189927283Ottawa: issued by authority of Hon. Clifford Sifton 1899. Only edition English issue there was also an issue in Swedish; folio pp. 10; includes 5 color maps partly double-p.; original printed wrappers; inside wrappers with information on the trade centers of Canada population and agricultural statistics; some spotting and staining of the wrappers but generally very good. <br/><br/> issued by authority of Hon. Clifford Sifton unknown books
1881WRCAM30264AMontreal: John Lovell & Son 1881. 219pp. plus large folding color map. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers three-inch closed tear in map. Contemporary stamp of the U.S. Geological Survey Library on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good. Issued by the Nelsen Valley Railway Transportation Company this pamphlet and map advertise a new route to the middle of North America. The route marked by a heavy red line takes potential passengers through Hudson's Strait to Churchill Harbor Canada then south by train to the United States border in northern Minnesota. PEEL 448. John Lovell & Son unknown books
1890319445Newfoundland and Labrador 1890. 91 photographs. Most photos measure 4 x 5 inches. A few captioned in manuscript on verso. Black cloth spine perished. 91 photographs. Most photos measure 4 x 5 inches. A few captioned in manuscript on verso. The images include several aboard ship and arriving at the dock as well as images along the river and campsite including scenic views as well as images of the unidentified travellers. Other Humber River images depict villages salmon fishing with women participating including one holding a rifle. A number of photos depict indigenous peoples possibly Inuit Innu Mi'kng or So. Innit of Nu nath Kavut. The travellers must have taken another passage north with images of Labrador cliffs and even an iceberg. unknown books
1840WRCAM19322N.p. 1840. Watercolor on stiff paper. 27.2 x 20.8 cm. With a rather unobtrusive 7 cm. tear through the lower left quadrant. Contemporary manuscript title on verso "An American Cutter." Overall a fine image. A handsome unsigned watercolor depicting a single-horse sleigh pulling a clever-looking American trapper with hunting dog barely keeping up. A lively image probably a Canadian scene very displayable. unknown books
1803WRCAM31186London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1803. 3pp. Two folio leaves. Split at fold chipped around edges dampstain on lower edge tape- repair on center fold. Good only. This act of Parliament addresses the issue of crimes committed in the British-controlled Pacific Northwest and specifically in Indian Territories. It provides that those who commit offenses in Indian Territories should be tried in the same manner as if the crimes occurred in the provinces of Lower or Upper Canada. The act also allows the governor of Lower Canada to empower Justices for the Indian Territories. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown books
1864WRCAM51979London: Religious Tract Society 1864. viii370pp. plus two maps one folding and six pages of advertisements. Original green publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Front hinge cracked boards slightly rubbed. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Light tanning and dustsoiling at text block edges. Very good plus. A scarce mid-19th century description and guide to Canada with several chapters on the colonial history of the country its commercial attractions and its native inhabitants. TPL 9165. LOWTHER 225. SABIN 8114. Religious Tract Society hardcover books
188021147Irving Publisher 35 King Street West 1880. 1 title page 1 blank vii-99 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers light chipping minor foxing faded numerical stamp on front wrap disbound loosened. A few minor spots of foxing else clean. Good. OCLC notes publishing date as 1880 and shows pages as beginning at vii as does this copy. OCLC 20727258 1 Brown University. unknown books
1900598851900. CANADA. CANADIAN YEAR BOOK FOR 1900. All About Canada. Toronto: Alfred Hewett 1900. 8vo. paper wrappers. Some edgewear and soil to wraps; three leaves lightly chipped. Very good wraps a little fragile. unknown books
1855649201855. CANADA. CENSUS OF THE CANADAS. 1851-2. Agricultural Produce Mills Manufactories Houses Schools Public Buildings Places of Worship &c. Vol. II only. Quebec: Printed by Lovell and Lamoureux at their steam-printing establishment Mountain Street. 1855. Volume two only. First edition of the second volume of the first national Canadian census. 8vo.: iv474 pp. 1 errata. Original green cloth title and maple leaf printed to spine within a single-rule. Ex library; without any external marks and having only a bookplate and two discreet embossed stamps within. Text leaves are clean; although a few leaves near the end have shallow creasing at the fore-edge. Cloth is sunned particularly at spine showing moderate soiling and staining overall with wear at corners and to a couple of spots on spine. The upper joint is starting and there is a horizontal closed tear at spine. A good working copy. unknown books
1860263494Toronto 1860. Invitation printed on a pink card addressed in manuscript to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Pond and signed by the Secretary of the Committee. 4 x 6 inches. Remnants of prior mounting on verso. Invitation printed on a pink card addressed in manuscript to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Pond and signed by the Secretary of the Committee. 4 x 6 inches. A scarce piece of ephemera relating to the Prince of Wales's 1860 visit to Canada to mark the opening of the Victoria Bridge. unknown books
1817WRCAM32892Quebec 1817. Twenty-four volumes. Later brown cloth red and black gilt morocco labels. Printed in alternating English and French. Slight wear to and moderate soiling on covers. Occasional foxing. First view leaves of first volume torn along lower blank margin. Occasional old institutional markings. Overall very good. A large and impressive archive of Canadian laws. In an effort to pacify the disparate French and British populations of Canada the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided Canada in two. Upper Canada was primarily populated by Loyalist emigrants of the American Revolution while the citizenry of Lower Canada which included Quebec was mostly of French descent. These are the laws of Lower Canada printed in English and French. Though the first volume appeared in 1793 it includes material from the first session of the first Parliament held in December 1792. The series continued till 1836. "Public accounts are included in the early numbers of the Journals and from 1809 to 1835-36 Sessional papers are published as appendices to the Journals" - TPL. Present here is a complete run from its inception to 1813 with an additional volume for 1817. The twenty- third twenty-fourth and twenty fifth volumes are lacking. Scarce. OCLC locates only six complete runs. <br> <br> A prime resource for the study of Canadian legal history. TPL 640. SABIN 10491. OCLC 11820245 48957532. TRÉMAINE 835. hardcover books
1840WRCAM32893Montreal 1840. Five volumes of six. 10030; 621; 10510; 16178; 20222130pp. Quarto. Later cloth red and black gilt morocco labels. Moderate soiling on covers library labels at toe of spines. Uniform light toning. Perforated library stamps on titlepages occasional additional library markings. First twenty pages of last volume in typescript facsimile. Overall very good. Lacks the sixth volume. An important collection of Canadian laws as passed by the Special Council of Lower Canada from 1838 to 1840. When the Patriot Uprising of 1838 caused Canadian officials to suspend the 1791 constitution which had divided Canada into the Upper and Lower Provinces each with their own legislature and establish martial law the provincial judiciary assumed administrative control in the form of the Special Council. The Special Council continued in an administrative capacity until the Union Act of 1840 which reunited the provinces with a single legislature. A fundamental cause of the Patriot Uprising was the ambiguous extent of judiciary power; based on the reign of the Special Council recorded in detail here judicial powers were more clearly defined via the Union Act. TPL calls for six volumes bound in three. The present set features each volume bound separately lacking the sixth volume. The large portions of unnumbered pages at the end of each contain sessional papers appendices and indices. <br> <br> Key insight into a tumultuous period of Canadian legal history. The journals were also issued in French. OCLC locates only five copies none of which appear to be complete. TPL 2173. GAGNON I:1830. OCLC 12010933 63013527. hardcover books
1860WRCAM10894Quebec 1860. 39pp. in French. Original green printed wrappers. Light chipping along spine; minor stains at foot of front wrapper not affecting text. Overall very good. Second edition. General sketch of Canadian resources and institutions. Sabin cites only an 1857 edition published in Toronto. Description of Canada her people resources revenue etc. Scarce. unknown books
188633766Ottawa Canada: Dept. of Indian Affairs 1886. First Edition. 77pp. Original printed wrappers small piece missing at lower front joint; some soiling Peel 1587. This is the answer to Malcolm Cameron's speech in the House of Commons April 15 1886. Much on the Indians of Canada Dept. of Indian Affairs unknown books
1886WRCAM35578Ottawa 1886. 77pp. in French. Original printed wrappers bound in later cloth and marbled boards; handwritten paper label affixed to front board. Front wrapper detached. Closed tear in outer corner of pp.21-22 affecting a few characters of text. Overall very good. An official point-by-point refutation of Malcolm Colin Cameron's criticisms of the Canada Department of Indian Affairs issued in the year following the North-West Rebellion. PEEL 892 English ed. hardcover books
1859WRCAM11310Montreal 1859. ii122pp. Dbd. Bit tanned else good. Prints many extracts from documents as well as biographical sketches of French viceroys and officers who served in North America of importance to Canadian history. unknown books
1878WRCAM35569Ottawa: Ministère d'Agriculture 1878. 68pp. plus folding map. Frontis. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped at extremities with significant loss to rear wrapper. Else very good. Later French edition of a popular promotional guide first issued in 1876. This volume contains a long speech by Earl Dufferin governor of Canada on the regions in question with many humorous references to the U.S. With a finely detailed frontispiece map of Canada and the northern U.S. in English dated 1874. PEEL 438 another ed. Ministère d'Agriculture unknown books
1878WRCAM35568Ottawa: Department of Agriculture 1878. 64pp. plus folding map. Frontis. Original printed wrappers. Foot of spine chipped else very good. Later edition of a popular promotional guide first issued in 1876. This volume contains a long speech by Earl Dufferin Governor of Canada on the regions in question with many humorous references to the U.S. With a finely detailed frontispiece map of Canada and the northern U.S. dated 1874. PEEL 438 another ed. Department of Agriculture unknown books
1847WRCAM45153Montreal: Lovell et Gibson 1847. 94pp. plus four folding letterpress tables. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached bottom corner chipped; older manuscript notation at top of cover two older institutional ink stamps. Several institutional stamps in text else quite clean. Good plus. Report by the superintendent of schools of Upper Canada on the measures put into place for the establishment of a normal school under the Common School Act. Not in TPL. Only three copies recorded in OCLC - University of Quebec Library and Archives of Quebec and the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. SABIN 74569. Lovell et Gibson unknown books
1831WRCAM50737Quebec: Ordered by the Assembly to the printed 1831. Four volumes bound in one. 56; 61; 47; 50pp. 20th-century red three-quarter calf and cloth spine gilt. Bookplates on front pastedown. Some minor foxing and soiling. Very good. Two government reports each printed in English and then French regarding the exploration of Lower Canada. Scarce; not cited in TPL Lande or Gangon. Relatively early for Canadian imprints. Ordered by the Assembly to the printed hardcover books
183534163Quebec: Printed by Thos. Carey & Co 1835. 8vo. xxviii 2 2 192 30pp. Contemporary cloth paper label on spine soiled and worn.<br/> <br/>Regulations regarding the British regiment stationed in Canada.<br/> <br/>The introductory leaf is signed in print by Duncan McDougall the Lt. Col. commanding the regiment.<br/> <br/>TPL 1888. Printed by Thos. Carey & Co unknown books
1849WRCAM22323Montreal: Armour & Ramsay 1849. 21533pp. plus large folding map 36 x 19 1/4 inches. 12mo. Original green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Map detached from book with tape reinforcements on verso along several folds. Else clean and very good. A rare anonymous Canadian guide book containing Edward Staveley's fine engraved map of Canada: "A Map of Canada Compiled from the latest Authorities. By Edward Staveley. Montreal 1848. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnson Edinburgh for Armour & Ramsay Montreal." With inset maps of Montreal Quebec Niagara Kingston and Toronto. This map is well-known and first appeared separately in 1844. The text consists of interesting descriptions of tourist destinations historical essays a tariff schedule for all manner of produce and accounts of the primary Canadian cites and towns. This is the fourth issue of the map and the first edition of THE CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. TPL 2975. GAGNON I:661. PHILLIPS MAPS p.197. DIONNE 565. SABIN 10627. Armour & Ramsay hardcover books
1830WRCAM33087Quebec 1830. Two volumes bound in one printed alternately in English and French. 7288; 410- 13934-1958pp. Quarto. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards Very good. A reprint of the first collection of Canadian statutes as it appeared in 1795 to which has been added the first printings of the provincial statutes for 1797 to 1800. The first 186 pages of the first volume of statutes appear here as original sheets remaindered from the first edition. According to Tremaine these sheets were occasionally offered as "complementary sections" of the 1830 reissue. In the second volume statute titles appear only for those statutes no longer in force. The series ceased publication in 1831. In all a useful resource for early Canadian laws. TPL 644. GAGNON 2:2046. SABIN 10497. TREMAINE 943 1053. hardcover books
1848WRCAM47361London 1848. 171pp. Folio. Modern half morocco and red cloth spine gilt. Cloth bubbling. A bit of light soiling. Near fine. The late 1840s saw a major push for the colonization of Vancouver Island. This series of thirteen letters includes a document issued by the British Crown establishing the right of the Hudson's Bay Company to colonize the island. The report describes Vancouver Island and the prospects for colonization. One of the reports is by James Douglas a fur trader and Hudson's Bay Company official who in 1851 succeeded Richard Blanshard as governor of Vancouver Island. Considered the "father of British Columbia" Douglas became the first governor of the colony of British Columbia in 1858. The Hudson's Bay company controlled the development of Vancouver Island until 1866 when it was annexed to British Columbia. STREETER SALE 3399. GAGNON 3460 TPL 2908. LOWTHER 7. hardcover books
