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186816965Halifax N.S. 1868. Original printed wrappers stitched 61pp 3 blanks. Light wrapper soil several leaves with short blank margin tears. Good. Much on gold and coal mining. unknown books
1895512171895. Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia Statutes Canada. Nova Scotia. The Statutes of Nova Scotia 1865-67 1873-80 1882-84 1892-95. Halifax: Printed by Alpin Grant and other publishers 1865-67 1873-80 1992-84 1892-95. 18 books in all. Octavo 9" x 6". Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. lettering pieces to spines. Worn. A few boards detached backstrip lacking from one volume rear board from another internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines small stamps to title pages. $450. The first European settlement of Nova Scotia was founded in 1604 by the French who established the Acadia colony. A group of Scottish settlers arrived in 1621. Tensions between the French and English led to armed conflict. The British prevailed initially but they were later compelled by treaty to return to colony to France. Captured by the British during Queen Anne's War mainland Nova Scotia was ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island were likewise ceded after the Seven Years' War in 1755. In 1848 Nova Scotia became the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire. Despite a great deal of local opposition was one of the founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation 1867. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:84-86. unknown books