The collection contains 4 documents dating from 1875 to 1896.

Henry J. Morgan was a Canadian civil servant, lawyer, and author, best known for publishing collections of biographical sketches of notable Canadians such as Sketches of Celebrated Canadians, Bibliotheca Canadensis, and The Canadian Men and Women of the Time. He was a founding member of the Canada First movement, a Canadian nationalist movement that promoted the British Protestant component as central to Canadian identity. One of his most significant achievements was the accumulation and description of state records, an effort that helped lay the foundation for the later development of a national archives. He retired from the government in 1895 and devoted the remainder of his life to writing.

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Price: $150 USD or $205 Cdn #9051

Five (5) important and scarce Parliamentary Papers published between the nomination of Lord Durham as Governor General and High Commissioner to British North America and just before his resignation in September 1838; dealing with his Nomination, his Acceptance of the Post, his Terms of Reference, his Powers, his Titles, his Duties, the Constitution of a Special Council, all Appointments made by him to the Special Council, Copies of Ordinances and Proclamations and all Minutes of the Proceedings; in relation with Lower Canada, Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. From January 20th to August 2nd 1838. The House of Commons. Some edge open tears, otherwise very good condition.

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Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #8379

Collection of a group 14 items of miscellaneous, ephemera, letters and photographs of Navy ships relating to Canada including HMCS Provider, HMS Ariadne, other Ships and Bou-Mahni Mines Algiers materials. Dates on photos are period dates not we believe when the prints were made.

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Price: $50 USD or $65 Cdn #8178

First Editions from 1933 to 1955. An interesting archive of five early titles in Spanish by the Cuban poet, translator, critic and scholar Eugenio Florit. 4 of 5 books inscribed to his friend and colleague, H. R. (Hoffman Reynolds) Hays, American poet, novelist, critic, playwright, translator, social anthropologist, and educator. Hays had a special interest in Spanish language writers and was the author of "12 Spanish American Poets" 1943 of which Eugenio Florit was one of the poets.

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Price: $95 USD or $125 Cdn #7847

Collection of 6 items circa 1870 to 1880 of 6 ephemera items; 1 albumen Cabinet Card, 3 albumen CVD's, Dufferin cut signature with long salutation and Ontario's Farewell to the Earl of Dufferin 1878 booklet.

Lord Dufferin, in 1872 became Canada’s third Governor General of Canada in 1872. His six-year tenure (1872- 1878) was a period of rapid change in Canadian history. During his term, Prince Edward Island was admitted to Confederation, and several well-known Canadian institutions, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Royal Military College of Canada, and the Intercolonial Railway, were established.

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Price: $95 USD or $125 Cdn #2849

QUITE SCARCE EARLY OJIBWA LANGUAGE BIBLE

2nd edition. 7 x 4-3/4 inches. iv, [1]-717pp. Bound in full calf with four raised bands, red label and title in gilt. Old staining on pages, otherwise good condition.

With attached original 4 x 6-1/4 inches photograph cabinet card of Rev. S. G. (Sela Goodrich) Wright (1816-1906) in at end of book.

The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ: Translated into the Language of the Ojibwa Indians. Language: Chipewyan, prefatory material in English : text in Chippewa.

1st edition was published in 1844 with (iv),643pp. 2nd edition, this one, published in 1856 with (iv)717pp. Third and fourth editions with (iv)717pp published in 1875 and 1928.

Sabin 57091 ; Pilling (Algonquian), p. 51-52 (1844, 1856 and 1875 eds.)

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Price: $1,250 USD or $1,700 Cdn #9038

RARE JUDAICA BOOK

First edition. 1857. Israelite People's Library. V. German = American sketches for Jewish emigrants and non-emigrants. Text in German.

(2),[3]-108pp, 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. Original printed blue boards and paper over spine almost worn away. Exlibris book With two old stamps on title-page ("Eigenthum des jüdisch-theol. Seminars zu Breslau" and "Dr. B. Beersche Bibliothek") and 2 scattered marg. library stamps in Hebrew (unread); some lvs. w. faint waterstain in upper blank margin. Backcover with publisher's adverts. Covers weak with back cover almost detached. Overall condition is fair.

Anonymous 1857 book of Jewish emigration to the United States. It describes the experiences of a German Jew who arrived in America in 1853. Provides unusual data about New York Jewry as well as a stimulating, critical - albeit in some parts prejudiced - view of it.

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Price: $250 USD or $340 Cdn #8649

Includes years for 1804, 1807, 1818, 1830, 1834, 1837 and 1840. All text in German.

Interesting witness of the early days of German-American inhabitants to Maryland and others to Pennsylvania. Illustrations show farmers at work and at rest. Damaged or incomplete and in poor condition.

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Price: $50 USD or $65 Cdn #8652

#1 - A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family; who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania. In the spring, 1780.

Philadelphia, printed: London: reprinted and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, M.DCC.XC. [1790] ; by [William Walton (1740-1824)]

The second British edition of this scarce captivity narrative, after the first edition printed in Philadelphia the previous year. iv, [5]-124pp.

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Price: $300 USD or $405 Cdn #8283

First editions. 6 Volumes (vols. 1 & 2) 1836 and (vols. 3-6) 1837 for the 1st Moxon published edition. 4-1/2 x 7 inches. Vol.1 (3),vi-313pp,(5) ; Vol.2 (5),v-351pp,(1) ; Vol.3 (5),vi-355pp,(1) ; Vol.4 (4),vi-364pp, ; Vol.5 (4),vi-412pp ; Vol.6 (8),x-374pp.(2)

Bound in the original green cloth covered boards with bent corners, gilt title lettering on spine. Vol. 1 Includes foxed Wordsworth portrait, preface, dedication to the 1815 edition and errata slip.

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Price: $200 USD or $270 Cdn #8814

RARE BOOK - NO OTHER COPY FOUND

First Edition, rare. The Evangelist: Selected and Arranged by Douglas Russell and G. C. Needham. Toronto: Published for the Compilers by W. C. Chewett and Co., 1869.

Faded brown cloth hardcover, 3 x 4-1/2 inches, page edges dyed light red, (4) 186 pp. 221 hymns, text only, including an 8pp. index of first lines. Some shadows to some leaves from pressed flowers, sometime removed. Insides clean. Tight binding. Pencil note on ffep: "Purchased on board the propeller Enterprise, between Port Dalhouse and Toronto Aug. 25th, 1869." Very good condition.

Rare. No locations indicated at WorldCat and including Library and Archives Canada.

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Price: $275 USD or $375 Cdn #8697

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT PRE-FRENCH & INDIAN WAR MAP

1744. First edition. Scarce pre-French & Indian War map of Canada, from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario and including the Northern portion of New England. Size to neat-line: 22-1/4 x 16-1/2 inches. 35 rotted on it's side on the left side border outside the neat line confirming it is a first edition in good condition. "Debruslins Sculpsit" engraved below the neat-line at the bottom right.

Reference: Kershaw 490.

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Price: $400 USD or $545 Cdn #8608

1827. First edition. French text. Plan of the Saguenay River. Lakes, Rivers & Streams, as well as the quality of the soil of the Terrein and the Woods located on either side of the said River of Saguenay, made according to an Esquise and Information given by Pascal Taché ecuier, Lord of Kamouraska, after having resided during the space of twenty two years doing the Pelleteries Trade at Pointe Bleu, Shéhutimitsh and Tadoussac, made by the Soussigné Clerc Arpenteur, A. Larue, Quebec 27th Dec (emb) re 1825. (spelling and punctuation as written ).

Reduced to one half the scale of the Original Plan of A (dolphus). Larue by W (illiam) Sax, Land Surveyor, Quebec April 1827. Eng (rave) d by J (ames). Smillie Jr. Black and white copperplate engraving on wove paper with the water mark "Balston & Co, 1825". Dimensions: 43.0 x 56.5 cm. Ladder; 1 '' = 4.25 leagues. Good condition.

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Price: $450 USD or $610 Cdn #8391

QUITE SCARCE 1835 (5TH STATE] EDITION OF THIS UPPER CANADA MAP

1835. 5th edition. Linen-backed and folding wall map. Full title: A Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c. with the Countries Adjacent from Quebec to Lake Huron, compiled from original documents in the Surveyor General’s Office.

Binding: Folded and housed in the publisher’s original cloth case 4-5/8 x 8-1/4 inches with paper labels. Folded linen-backed map: Flat; 36 x 23-1/4 x 23-1/2 inches. Folded; 5-1/8 x 8 inches. Very good condition

Winearls, 30.5

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Price: $700 USD or $955 Cdn #8741

1830. First edition. Paper: 14-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Image: 13-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches. Early hand-coloured stipple and line copperplate engraving on wove paper, "The View Of Montreal, From Saint Helens Island". Inscribed in the plate, l.l.: R.A. Sproule. Delt; l.r.: W.L. Leney. Sc.; l.c.: VIEW OF MONTREAL. / From Saint Helens Island. / Published by A. Bourne. Montreal. 1830. Professional conservation of this print was done including removing old repairs, washed, light bleaching and any fragments reattached. Condition now considered very good, brighter and much cleaner.

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Price: $450 USD or $610 Cdn #8003

1848. First edition. Paper Size: 17.25' x 12.25" Image Size: 11" x 7.5" Colour lithograph, with additional hand-colouring, printed by Cattier.  Some foxing in outer border and border scuffing in a couple of places, otherwise overall very good condition.

This lovely lithograph of Horseshoe Fall, with Terrapin Tower in the distance at left. Goupil, Vibert & Co. published a set of 54 of Kollner's views of American cities, including eight prints of Niagara. A finely observed view of one of the great natural wonders of the world.

J. Harper Early Painters and Engravers in Canada p.183; Spendlove The Face of Early Canada p.72

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Price: $375 USD or $510 Cdn #4547

Very interesting and rare circa 1880’s albumen photo of Queen Victoria with Princess Beatrice and Queen Victoria's her 4 dogs plus a circa 1876 Queen Victoria hand-written note photographed: Victoria, Beatrice - "Waldmann" "Fern", "Sharp" and "Noble" . Princess Beatrice, was Queen Victoria youngest child and wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944). Original albumen photo of a presumed circa 1877 Charles Burton Barber painting, with some foxing and a bit faded otherwise good condition.

This photo is unusual in part because it appears to be a very similar image of Charles Burton Barber* oil on canvas painting "Queen Victoria with Princess Beatrice and a Group of Dogs (before Apr 1877)" which shows Queen Victoria seated near the Slopes at Windsor painted for the Queen from photographs. Princess Beatrice stands beside her and they are surrounded by four dogs: Waldmann, Fern, Sharp and Noble. Barber was paid £24 for the picture on 2 April 1877. It was originally hung at Osborne House, it was transferred in 1903 to Buckingham Palace. The painting is held at the Royal Collection Trust (RCIN 406403). Our albumen photograph is virtually the same image as the Barber painting except for the angle on the head of Princess Beatrice. 

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Price: $100 USD or $135 Cdn #8284

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT RARE CANADIAN HAND-SIGNED PRINTED DOCUMENT

This 1982 Charter printed document is in a wooden frame 25-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches. The printed document is flat size 22-7/8 x 17-1/2 inches (not examined outside of frame). The printed document is flat size 22-7/8 x 17-1/2 inches (not examined outside of frame). The value and historical importance of this document is the hand-signed Trudeau's (1982) and Chrétien's signatures.

The first inscription is located on top right right, specifically, "P.E. Trudeau 1982" the same year as the signing of the original Canada Act which included the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The second hand-signature located on the top left is "Best Wishes, Jean Chrétien" (not dated). Chrétien was one of the four people who signed the two original Canada Act documents in April 1982. 

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Price: $5,000 USD or $6,800 Cdn #8729

FIRST CANADIAN 1801 PRINTING OF PROCLAMATIONS REGARDING THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND "ACT OF UNION" AND A NEW UNION JACK FLAG DESIGN.

Circa 1801. First Canadian edition on paper watermarked with "Cobb's Patent 1798". 8-1/4 x 10 inches. [2]-11 p., Bilingual with English and French on facing pages. Disbound, removed from bound volume, tear marks on spine edges not affecting text, some age-toning to paper, otherwise, very good condition.

[Quebec, printed by Pierre-Edouard Desbarats, New Printing Office. 1801] - John Neilson became a 50% partner in 1800 but not named in this business] Hare & Wallot state that the records of the printer, John Neilson, indicate that only 150 copies of this proclamation were printed.

Hare et Wallot 2. Vlach, Impressions, 635. TPL 755, Lande 388. Gagnon I;11.

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[1775]. Autograph Document Signed twice, once in the text and once at the end, by Walter Butler as attorney for the defendant in a case before the County of Tryon Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. Walter studied law in Albany and was admitted to the bar in 1775 shortly before the start of the American Revolution in upper New York state. Very good condition.

Walter Butler (1752-81) Loyalist who became a captain in Butler's Rangers, formed by his father, John. He was captured in 1777 by Continental Army troops commanded by Lt. Col. Marinus Willett, but escaped after a few months. He was probably the most hated Loyalist in America, amongst other things, because he commanded the Loyalist raiding party (which included Joseph Brant, a Mohawk chief) that attacked Cherry Valley on November 11, 1778 and the massacre after the battle.

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First edition. 1869. Quite scarce. 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. 3 pages [32 & 33 Vict.] Ch. 101. Known as "The Canada Rupert's Land Loan Act" It accompanies Bill 240 which was published in 1868. Near fine condition. Peel 503, p.57

In 1863, a group calling itself the International Financial Society orchestrated a takeover of HBC. The new owners of the Company quickly increased HBC’s market capitalization by promoting settlement, minerals, and a transcontinental telegraph — all based on selling or leveraging the Company’s vast land holdings. However, the Governor and Committee soon realized that any attempt at promoting settlement would have to wait until there was a functioning government in place. The Company embarked on negotiations to sell its territories, first to Britain, who didn’t want them, and then to the Province of Canada, who had no means to purchase them and, in any case, did not recognize HBC’s claim to the land. With the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, the transfer of Rupert’s Land could finally move forward. The new federal government had an authority the Province of Canada did not.

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Price: $275 USD or $375 Cdn #8833

First edition. 1849. 13-1/2 x 8-3/8 inches, was folded twice now flat, printed form with manuscript writing on both sides. faded seal on top right of one panel. Some agetoning of very light blue paper otherwise very good condition.

First Welland Regiment Military Commission bestowed upon Thomas C. Street by the Governor General of British North America, Nova Scotia, PEI, etc. - James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine & signed by him. -

Thomas Clark Street, son of Samuel like his father was a ruthless land and mortgage accumulator and businessman with interests in grist, textile and sawmills. While independently minded he is generally considered a solid Family Compact Tory. He rose to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Welland Militia, was a trustee of Trinity College, President of the Niagara Falls Suspension Company, etc. When he died in 1872 he left an estate of between 3 to 4 million, regarded as the largest of his time in Ontario.

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First edition. 1823. 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; Was folded, now flat. Pieces and sections of 15-3/4 x 12-3/4 inches. paper missing but no text, otherwise condition is good. Broadside proclamation to have lands escheated. Printed in English and French in parallel columns. Castle of St. Lewis, Quebec, November 12, 1823 printed at top. 13 lines of English text and 14 lines of French text. At bottom, printed text; By Command of His Excellency the Governor in Chief, [who not identified, was The Earl of Dalhousie (1770-1838] Andrew W. Cochran, Secretary.

The text states that owners of the land in the three Townships of Lochaber, Buckingham and Templeton on the Ottawa River must present by June 1, [1824] confirm their performance of the conditions of settlement which the said Letters Patent were granted or lose their land. Therefore these escheated lands are taken back by the Crown for non-fulfillment of conditions by the original owners.

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Price: $500 USD or $680 Cdn #7804

OCLC locates no copies.

First editions. 1980 & 1981. Brantford, ON

 #1 Calendar:

Woodland Indian Games Calendar 1981 [Cover title]. 1980 [Brantford, Ontario]: [The Woodland Indian Cultural Educational Centre], .

Oblong, comb bound self wrappers. [26] pp. Very good plus with minimal wear.

The calendar features 13 full page illustrations of Native American games by Bill Powless, who was born and raised on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, and has had numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada.

#2 Calendar: 

Woodland Indian Agriculture Calendar 1982 [Cover title]. 1981. [Brantford, Ontario]: [The Woodland Indian Cultural Educational Centre]

Oblong, comb bound self wrappers. [26]pp. Very good plus with minimal wear.

This is the WCC's 1982 calendar, also with 13 full page illustrations by Bill Powless. Month and day names are in Ojibway.

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Price: $275 USD or $375 Cdn #9026

RARE BROADSIDE - NO COPIES FOUND

1858] Broadside. 19-1/2 x 12 inches. From “Ale” to “Zinc”, including more than 325 articles in four columns. “Prohibited; Books and Drawings of an immoral or indecent character”. “Emigrants wearing apparel, tools and effects in actual use and accompanying the owner; Free”. One small hardly visible professional repair to substitute a small section of missing text (1 ½ x 1 inch in the middle of column #2), folds, creases, otherwise very good condition.

Rare and very informative early Canadian Tariff broadside.

1858 Tariff background: The recession in 1857 sharply reduced government revenues and led the Tories to raise duties again through the Cayley-Galt Tariff of 1858 (one of the first protective tariffs in Canadian history).

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Price: $295 USD or $400 Cdn #8084