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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
19053149821905. Illustrated with photographs mounted usually 2-4 on a page each captioned with over 80 leaves approximately 200 images. Printed recto only. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Laid into a modern half green morocco backed clamshell dropbox. Illustrated with photographs mounted usually 2-4 on a page each captioned with over 80 leaves approximately 200 images. Printed recto only. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. 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
1791WRCAM12536Quebec: Samuel Nielson 1791. Four issues. 2; 2; 4; 4pp. Printed in double-column format in parallel English and French. Folio. Slightly ragged on left margin. Very good. This extraordinary series of supplements to the QUEBEC GAZETTE demonstrates the extent to which feeling for the French Revolution had permeated the French population of Canada and the degree to which the British government was prepared to tolerate the expression of such Revolutionary sentiments. Most of the text of each issue all of the first two and part of the third and fourth is devoted to a long "Scheme of a Constitution" extracted from a late French publication entitled "Les Actes des Apotres." While recognizing monarchy as the necessary executive branch the text calls for a balance of power between the courts legislatures and executive. A surprising and interesting series to find published in Canada at this time in the same year that the Constitutional Act granted the first representative government to Canada. Not listed separately by Tremaine nor are supplements recorded in the appendix devoted to the .GAZETTE; however she notes two runs which include "almost all" of the supplements. Samuel Nielson 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
59255Victoria British Columbia. Folio 4 pages. A compilation of local news and advertising. unknown 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
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
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
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
1906WRCAM50950Montreal Toronto Quebec & Ottawa 1906. Seventy-seven works including numerous maps. Some original wrappers some volumes in contemporary leather bindings some in later yellow buckram. Some map volumes supplied at least in part in facsimile. Overall very good. A long run of the geological survey of Canada with some works printed in English and some in French. Comprises the progress reports and maps for the Canadian geological survey for a period of about fifty years. Includes the rare large folio atlas PLAN OF VARIOUS LAKES AND RIVERS BETWEEN LAKE HURON AND THE RIVER OTTAWA. Toronto 1857 listed as numbers 16-38 in Ferrier's ANNOTATED CATALOGUE.OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CANADA. The atlas is usually encountered in quarto format with the maps folded to conform to the smaller size. A copy of the Ferrier bibliography is also included with the collection. A complete detailed list of the works is available upon request. hardcover books
1842WRCAM39134Montreal: Printed by John C. Becket 1842. Broadside 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Printed in six columns. Small tears and creasing at all margins affecting a few words of text; significant loss at upper corners not affecting text. Good. A Canadian broadside advertising lands available in the Eastern Townships printed at the beginning of the region's transformation into a French-speaking area. In the early 1800s the Eastern Townships were an almost exclusively Anglophone region of Quebec. The American Revolution precipitated the flight of over 40000 Loyalists to Canada in the 1780s including a small handful to the largely unsettled region of Quebec between the St. Lawrence River and the U.S. border known as the Eastern Townships. The Loyalists cleared much of the rich land for farming which attracted a large number of immigrants from New England in the first decades of the 19th century. In the 1840s a rapid shift occurred in the region as French- speaking Quebecois from poorer areas began pouring in and the English speakers began emigrating to the U.S. and other parts of Canada. Francophones became a majority in the 1870s and today constitute over 85% of the population. <br> <br> The present broadside printed in English lists hundreds of lots for sale by the British American Land Company and includes over a column's worth of detailed descriptions of lands open for purchase. The following towns and areas are represented: Ascot Auckland Brompton Compton Clifton Clinton Ditton Dudswell Eaton Hereford Melbourne Newport Orford Shipton Stoke Weedon Westbury and Windsor in the County of Sherbrooke; Barford Barnston Bolton Hatley Potton and Stanstead in the County of Stanstead; Brome Ely Farnham Granby Milton Roxton Shefford and Stukeley in the County of Shefford; Acton Aston Chester Durhan Grantham Ham Kingsley Simpson Tingwock Warwick Wendover and Wickham in the County of Drummond; Sutton in the County of Missisquoi; Hemmingford in the County of Beauharnois; and improved farms in the district of St. Francis Territory Port St. Francis and the town of Sherbrooke. Not listed on OCLC and apparently unrecorded. Very rare. Printed by John C. Becket unknown books
190338161Washington D.C.: Privately printed 1903. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. 29 leaves of text printed double-column on rectos only with occasional manuscript ink corrections; 62 mounted photographs mostly 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches facing text on versos of printed leaves or on separate thicker paper. Original red ribbon tied green printed green wrapper.<br/> <br/>Likely privately printed account of an August 1903 camping and fishing trip into Canada's Muskoka region by fourteen people from the Indian Territory Arkansas Mississippi Kentucky Tennessee Washington DC and Northampton and Boston Massachusetts.<br/> <br/>Hosted by Major Breckenridge this trip was a follow-up to a 1902 trip ruined by bad weather and other problems and cut short. This 1903 trip was better organized and with a larger party. The group assembled at a cottage on Lake Rousseau north of Toronto and took canoes to camps on Lakes Blackstone and Crane near Parry Sound. The first four chapters relay descriptions of their travels camping gear fishing tackle boats the scenery local farms and preparations for various activities among many other details. The final chapter of the book "August 1903" was written by Mary Breckenridge and provides a detailed account of the fishing: "We now had a plentiful supply of fish. Luck was good for nearly everyone.to the major rested the honor of the largest fish a wall-eyed pike with a really ferocious countenance." The photographs closely track the narrative with the images reflecting the text opposite and show docks and buildings along the traveled routes scenes of the Canadian backwoods camps and members of the party engaged in various activities including swimming boating fishing cooking etc. Major Breckeridge wished to "provide a trip which would make his girls permanent lovers of fishing and camping and willing companions of his future expeditions for.none are too tender to cultivate the angler's art." He bought a small number of maple leaf pins which he distributed to the party and which became the badge of the Maple Leaf Club. Privately printed unknown books
1995049323Boston: Beacon Press 1995. 1st Printing. xi 179p. dj. Beacon Press unknown books
199544710Boston: Beacon Press 1995. Hardcover. xi 179p. very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Beacon Press hardcover books
