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199894720Boston: Beacon Press 1998. Hardcover. xiv 160p. brief inscription by the African American social worker/activist first printing dj. Beacon Press hardcover books
199866152Boston: Beacon Press 1998. Hardcover. xiv 160p. first printing dj. Inscribed and siugned by the African American social worker/activist. Beacon Press hardcover 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
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
1909WRCAM51980Winnipeg 1909. 301pp. plus numerous plates and two large folded maps. Olive publisher's cloth. Maps in portfolio tipped onto rear pastedown. Light shelf wear text moderately tanned. Very good. "Prepared for the 79th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1909 with notes on some of the chief points to be visited on the western excursion." With articles on history commerce agriculture mining and other topics. PEEL 3254. hardcover 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
1774WRCAM11950London 1774. pp.1899-1904. Folio. Dbd. Very good. with: AN ACT FOR AMENDING AND EXPLAINING AN ACT. London. 1775. pp.1227-29. Folio. Dbd. Very good. These acts proposed to pay for the court system in Quebec and Canada by putting a duty on hard liquor and charging licensing fees. 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
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
291190hardcover. near fine. 220 full-color photographs. 261 pages. Folio red cloth. Ottawa Canada: McClelland and Stewart Limited 1976. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Text in English and French.<br/><br/> 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
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
