Rare and Interesting Books
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Rare and Interesting Books
PatrickMcGahernBooks, Inc. (ABAC) since 1969 (Patrick & Liam McGahern) 368 Dalhousie Street (at George) Suite 301 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 7G3 Telephone (613)-230-2277 E Mail: [email protected] Hours: Monday to Saturday from 10:30 until 5:30 Visit our website “it works”: mcgahernbooks.ca Catalogue 233 Rare and Interesting Books A Christmas Miscellany Prices in Canadian Funds One of Canada's Oldest Counties 1. [ATLAS]. POPE, J.H. Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Halton Ont. Compiled and drawn from official plans and special surveys by J.H. Pope. Toronto. Walker & Miles. 1877. atlas folio, 45.3x36cm, 93p., complete with 74 leaves of maps and plates (including several double maps) and 21 pages of historical description of the county, in the original half black morocco grain leather and dark cloth boards with gilt decorated block titles and decorations in oval lay out, the pages have some foxing or are slightly dust wo rn bu t thi s a better copy than the two others we have seen 800.00 Morley, Ontario, p. 61. May, County Atlases, pp. 61-64. Halton County is on the north shore of Lake Ontario, west of Toronto. Its princ i pal to wn s a r e Burlington, Oakville, Bronte, Milton and Georgetown. [AUDUBON, John James & John J. Bigsby & De Witt Clinton & Henry Rowe Schoolcraft et al]. Annals of The Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Vol. I. [In Two Volumes]. Part the First. Part the Second. New York. Printed for The Lyceum by J. Seymour, and sold by G. & C. Carvill. 1825. 8vo, 23cm, iv,410,2pp., plus 29 engraved plates (bound in at the end, as issued), in original boards, one in quarter fine linen, the other in paper with paper labels, V2 spine is cracked and labels chipped, front board detached on volume 1, the boards are clean and sound with some slight edge wear, internally clean and sound, uncut and partly unopened, internally very good, very rare 900.00 The first volume of the "Annals" of The Lyceum of Natural History of New York formed in 1818. Included are two accounts on the swallow read by James Audubon. Important Canadian content is included by English physician and geologist, John J. Bigsby (1792-1881) : "A Sketch of the Geology of the Island of Montreal" with engraved map. Bigsby was serving with the British Army in the Canadas and later wrote of his travels in "The Shoe and Canoe" (1850). Other prominent authors include De Witt Clinton, Issachar Cozzens, Joseph Delafield, Abraham Halsey, John Torrey, Van Rensselaer, and Henry Schoolcraft, The Lyceum's name was later changed to The New York Academy of Sciences and as such exists today. 2. Among Best of the the Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page Illustrated Arctic Books 3. BELCHER, Captain Sir Edward The Last of the Arctic Voyages: Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, in Search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54. With Notes on the Natural History, by Sir John Richardson, Professor Owen, Thomas Bell, J.W. Salter, and Lovell Reeve. London. Lovell Reeve. 1855. sm4to, 24.6cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, xx,383,(24) & vii,419,pp., with 11 full colour lithographed plates, 25 litho plates (inc several tinted and scientific), and 4 maps (3 folding), 25 wood engraved text illustrations, in contemporary full polished calf, gilt decorated raised bands, full blind stamped decorations and borders in the panels, double red and black crushed morocco labels, gilt titles, gilt and blind ruled borders on the boards, blind decorated inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial engraved bookplate, some slight wear on the edges, expertly restored, a near fine attractively bound set 4,200.00 Abbey Travel. 645. A.B. 1241. T.P.L. 3409. Sabin 4389. Not in Lande. Hill (3) -106. Narrative of the five ship expedition under Belcher's command, in search of Franklin. The colour lithograph plates are, with the exception of the view portfolios of Creswel l , B r o w n e a n d M a y, t h e most attractive illustrations to grace an Arctic narrative since the coloured aquatints of the earlier Ross and Franklin voyages. Belcher was forced to abandon four of his five ships to the pack-ice just off Melville Island. Over one year later an American whaler, one thousand miles south, in Davis Strait found the Resolute less the crew, drifting towards them. It was returned to the United States where it was sold to the American government; after restoration it was presented to the British government. When it was retired and stripped down, oak from its planking was used to make a desk which was presented to the American Government and it is still in use today in the White House. Halifax-born Belcher gained considerable distinction as a surveyor in the Royal Navy. He served under on the western Arctic coastal survey in 1825-27, and subsequently headed surveys of the west coast of North and South America and in the South China Sea. In 1852, he was placed in command of an expedition of five ships (Resolute, Intrepid, North Star, Assistance and Pioneer) to search in the Canadian Arctic for Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. Belcher records his sailing through Wellington Channel and discovery of Exmouth and North Cornwall Islands and the Belcher Channel leading to Jones Sound. Also described is the meeting and rescue of Commdr. -2- order line - 613-230-2277 Robert McClure of the Investigator on northern Banks Island by the western arm of the expedition under Henry Kellett. Belcher's decision to abandon four ships icebound in Wellington Channel in 1854 led to his court-martial, and despite his acquittal, he continued to be severely criticized in England. Weather and ice conditions are recorded throughout, as well as optical phenomena, natural history, scurvy, etc., and a summary of results of Franklin's search expeditions to date. Appended are several scientific reports on natural history: John Richardson's on fishes, J. . Salter on fossils, Lovell Reeve on shells, Thomas Bell on crustacea, etc. Books in Tenni or Slave All the books in this section are Very Rare. We could not find any catalogue or on line listings and no auction records back to 1900. One site lists 5.5 million records. By the end of the eighteenth century the Slave Indians occupied a broad stretch of country behind both banks of the MacKenzie River from its outlet at Great Slave Lake to Norman, the basin of the lower Liard and the west end of Great Slave lake. They had the reputation of being a peaceable, inoffensive people, although they treacherously massacred many Nahani Indians of the upper Liard and drove the remainder into the mountains, then, a little later, destroyed a trading post of Fort Nelson. Surrounding tribes seldom ventured to attack them, attributing to them great skill in witchcraft. - Unlike the Chipewyan, the Slave, never ventured out on the barren grounds, but clung to the forests and the river banks, hunting the woodland and the moose. (Jenness). 4. BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter Language of the Indians of Mackenzie River in the North-West Territory of Canada. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1892. 16mo. 17cm, 126p., frontis, text sketch illustrations, text in syllabics with English titles, grey printed cloth, titles & decoration in black, fine 1,200.00 Bishop Bompas (1834-1906) served as a missionary priest of the Church of England in Canada's North-West for over thirty years being consecrated as the first Bishop of Athabaska in 1874. He was noted as translating a large number of biblical translations into aboriginal dialects. A scarce example of the use of Athabaskan syllabics, largely unknown in modern times. Not in Abe; Amicus; Wordcat; Lowther. B.C. Biblio.; 5. BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter] Prayers, Lessons and Hymns in the Tenni or Slavi Language of the Indians of Mackenzie River in the North-West Territory of Canada. Compiled by The Bishop of the Diocese. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1900. 16mo. 16cm, 40p., frontis, text in syllabics with English titles, grey cloth, titles & decoration in black, fine 900.00 Not in Banks. Not references as above. One of Bishop Bompas' many religious translations into aboriginal dialects. A scarce example of the use of Athabaskan syllabics . Includes a "Syllabarium". 6. BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter] Hymns in the Tenni or Slavi Language of the Indians Email: [email protected] Page - 3 - of Mackenzie River, in the North-West of Canada. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. [1890]. 16mo. 16cm, 118p., grey cloth with black titles & decoration, a fine copy 1,200.00 Not in Banks. Pilling (Athabascan) p42 lists the hymns translated by Bishop Bompas but also possibly by Reverend W.D. Reeve and gives the date 1890. 154 hymns as used by the Anglican Church are included in the Athabaskan Slave language using latin alphabet with English titles. 7. BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter] Hymns in the Tenni or Slavi Language of the Indians of Mackenzie River in the North West Territory of Canada. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1903. 12mo, 127p., in aboriginal syllabics with English titles, red cloth, water staining to edges & spine with some leeching to fore-edge & gutter, good 700.00 Formerly published in 1890, in Latin alphabet by Bishop Bompas or Rev. Reeve, this later edition has been published using Athabascan syllabics and includes 158 hymns as used by the Anglican Church. cf. Banks, p155 for first edition. 8. BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter] Part of the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Church. According to the Use of The Church of England. Translated into Tenni. London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1905. 12mo. 18cm, 196p., text in syllabics with English contents page, brown cloth, very good 800.00 Probably one of the many biblical translations by Anglican missionary bishop, William Carpenter Bompas (1834-1906). He was appointed first Bishop of Athabaska in 1874, first bishop of Mackenzie River in 1884 and first bishop of Selkirk (Yukon) in 1891. Retiring in the Yukon in 1905, he died there in 1906. An interesting translation book in scarce Athabaskan syllabics. 9. [BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter, translated by] [Bible]. The Epistles. Translated into the Teni (or Slave) Language of the Indians of Mackenzie River, North-West Canada. By The Right Rev. The Bishop of Mackenzie River. London. British and Foreign Bible Society. 1891. 16mo. 16.5cm, 269p., green cloth, fine 1,200.00 Anglican missionary priest, W.C. Bompas (1834-1906) served for over thirty years in the North-West Territory and published extensive religious works in various aboriginal languages. This book has inset title on front "Teni Epistles". 10. BOMPAS, Bishop William Carpenter, translated by] [BIBLE]. The Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles. Translated into the Tenni or Slave Language, for Indians of Mackenzie River, North-West Canada. By the Right Rev. The Bishop of Mackenzie River. In the Syllabic Character. London. British and Foreign Bible Service. 1891. 12mo. 18cm, 374p., text in native syllabics with English title-page, blind-stamp decorated maroon cloth, very good 1,100.00 Banks p157. Pillings, Athapascan, p114. Darlow & Moule, 8362. “The publication of this volume (ActsRevelation) completed the New Testament in syllabic character,”. A fine example of the use of Athabaskan syllabics, a - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc form rarely used today. Anglican Bishop Bompas (18341906) ministered for over thirty years in The North-West Territories and the Yukon. 11. SPENDLOVE, W., (translated by) [BIBLE]. Niootsi Edetle. Konde Nezo Tingli. St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St John Kogade. The Four Gospels in the Slavi Language of the Mackenzie River Indians, N.W, Territories, Canada. London. British and Foreign Bible Society. 1905. 16mo. 16cm, 344p., pebbled maroon cloth, gilt title on front, fine 1,000.00 Not in Banks. Reverend Spendlove was a prominent Anglican missionary priest in Canada's North-West Territories. He served in the parish of Fort Simpson from 1879 to 1886. Browse our Website - www.mcgahernbooks.ca We have c. 12,000 books listed on our website - Search by author, title, subject and keyword Sir William Osler was Bovells' protegee. 12. BOVELL, James M.D. (1817-1880). Outlines of Natural Theology for the Use of the Canadian Student, Selected and Arranged from the Most Authentic Sources. By James Bovell., M.D., Professor of Natural Theology in Trinity College, Toronto, C.W. Toronto. Printed by Rowsell & Ellis. 1859. 8vo, 22cm, first (sole) edition, iv,[v],5-649p., title page vignette, doublepage folding chart, 3 hand colour (geology) maps, text illustrations, in the original diamond grain cloth, triple blind ruled borders on the boards, plain spine (probably as issued), all edges stained red, spine faded, some light fade speckling on the upper cover, otherwise a fine copy of a very rare book 900.00 T.P.L. 5843 (lack title); Osleriana 2103. Not in Gagnon, Lande or Sabin. No listings or auction records located. WorldCat lists six copies, five in Canada and one in Maine. Amicus lists one copy. This is the first copy we have had. James Bovell (1817-1880), was born in the Barbados and educated in London, Edinburgh and Dublin. He became an Anglican clergyman and a medical doctor. In 1848 Bovell emigrated to Canada and began practicing in Toronto, where he became one of the most prominent physicians. He was associated with the shortlived faculty of medicine of Trinity University from 1850 to 1856 and with the Toronto School of Medicine from 1856 to 1870. He wrote Outlines of Natural Theology, 1859 & Plea Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page for Inebriate Asylums, 1862 and several other titles on religious subjects. - Rhodenizer. See lengthy biography in DCB. Highway Maintenance, 1840 13. BROADSIDE. Lower Canada. An Ordinance to provide for the improvement, during the Winter Season, of the Queen's Highways in this Province, and for other purposes... / Ordonnance pour pourvoir à l'amélioration des grands chemins de la reine, dans cette province, en hiver, et pour d'autres objets. Ordained and Enacted by the authority... C. Poulett Thomson. Quebec. Printed by J.C. Fisher & W. Kemble, Law Printers to Her Majesty. 1840. single sheet, 66 x43.5cm, (26" x 17"), double columns, bilingual, fine condition 250.00 "Enacted ... in the city of Montreal, the thirteenth day of May..., one thousand eight hundred and forty" At head of both English and French titles: Anno tertio Victoriae reginae, 1840, cap. XXV. Amicus 1. WorldCat. 1 copy McGill. 14. [Broadside/debenture]. Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway. $100. - Province of Ontario, Canada. $100.00. (Vignette). Debenture. In Aid of the Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway, No. 107., Under authority... attractive vignette illustration (train), green seal, in printer's decorated borders, document printed & completed in manuscript, cancelled in ink. Norwich, Ontario. Claidius Tidley, Printer. [1874]. 1p., oblong folio, 28x 43cm, very good to fine 250.00 15. CHABERT, M.de Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1750 et 1751, dans L'Amérique Septentrionale, pour rectifier les Cartes des Côotes de L'Acadie, de L'Isle Royale & de L'Isle de Terre-Neuve; et pour enfixer les principaux points par des Observations Astronomiques. Paris. De l'Imprimerie Royale. 1753. 4to. 25cm, the first edition, viii,288,[10]p., with 6 folding maps, one folding -4- order line - 613-230-2277 diagram and one folding chart; two engraved vignettes & several woodcut ornaments, in contemporary full mottled calf, real raised bands, gilt panel decorations and borders, original leather label gilt, marbled endpapers, boards and bands worn on the edges, internally clean and sound, very good 3,500.00 T.P.L. 222. Lande 114. Sabin 11723. This work recounts his voyage from Brest to Louisbourg & his four expeditions to the neighbouring coasts and island and records his charting, by astronomical observations, of the principal points of Acadia, Isle Royale, and Newfoundland. "Mr. Chabert's work is highly praised by the commission appointed by the French Academy of Science to examine it, and is recommended as a model to future navigators". (Sabin). The Very Rare First English Edition, 1797 Shipwrecked on Anticosti Island & Again on the Labrador Coast 16. CRESPEL, M. [Emmanuel]. (1703-1775). Travels in North America, by M. Crespel. With a Narrative of His Shipwreck, and extraordinary Hardships and Sufferings on the ISLAND OF ANTICOSTI; and an Account of That Island, and of the Shipwreck on his Majesty’s Ship Arctive, and Others. London. Sampson, Low, Berwick Street, Soho. 1797. 12mo, 18.5cm, xxviii,187,[1]p., book ad., untrimmed, complete with half title, rebound in late 19th early 20th full sheep, raised bands, blind device decorations in the panels, double leather labels gilt, blind stamped borders on the borders in 18th century binding style with dark brown centre panel, marbled endpapers, fine copy thus, very rare 10,000.00 Huntress 49C; 401C. T.P.L. 6667. (English translation of the author’s “Voiayes dy R.P. Emmanuel Crespel dans le Canada” published in Frankfurt 1742, q.v. The introduction contains a description of Anticosti, written by Thomas Wright). Siebert 254. Lande 163. Jones. Americana 657. Howes C-880, JCB III-3864. Sabin 17479. O’Dea 155. (1757). Includes a description of Labrador. Crespel was shipwrecked again, on his way home, on the coast of Labrador. Siebert's copy came from Rosenbach in 1949. It made 3,737us in 1999 at the Siebert Sale. Email: [email protected] Page - 5 - - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc was later given his brother 500.00 O'Dea. 1556. The author spent nine consecutive seasons in Newfoundland. The text is based on eight letters written by Fr. Crespel, a Recollet missionary, to his brother. The edited letters form a journal of Crespel's Canadian experience, including his participation in a 1728 expedition in present-day Wisconsin against Fox Indians who were interfering with the French trade at Lake Michigan and his 1736 shipwreck on Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. (Siebert 253-254). The First Edition in English, inspired by the thenrecent shipwreck of Lord Dorchester on Anticosti Island. Father Crespel left France for the Canadian missions in 1724. He accompanied expeditions to Michilimackinac, Green Bay, and the Wisconsin River, to Detroit and to Crown Point on Lake Champlain. He was ordered to return to France in 1736, the Renommee, struck a reef south of Anticosit Island, and broke up. Crespel with one group of survivors set out in the ship’s longboat for the mainland, while another group stayed near the wreck of the ship. Crespel was one of three survivors of the first group, and three sailors also survived near the wreck. Starvation, freezing, and scuvey killed all the others. (Huntress). A.Y. Jackson’s Copy, Signed 17. DUGMORE, A.A. Radclyffe The Romance of the Newfoundland Caribou. An intimate account of the life of the reindeer of North America. Illustrated with Paintings, Drawings and Photographs from Life by the Author. London. William Heinemann. 1913. 4to. 27.5cm, the first edition, viii,191p. with colour frontis and 72 illustrations, (mostly full-page plates), 8 text illustrations, rear folding map, original blue cloth expertly restored, gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, gilt framed gilt illustration (Caribou) on the upper cover, very good s o u n d c o p y - A . Y. Jackson’s copy signed and presented his brother “from A.Y. Jackson to H.A.C. Jackson (his brother). The Signature is in a different stronger ink, suggesting it 18. ESKIMO ART. World Wildlife Fund. Portfolio. The World Wildlife Fund Collection of the Arts of the Eskimos. (And): The Eskimo and Their Art, by James Houston (And): Animals of the Arctic, by Sir Peter Scott. . Introduction by Sonja Bata. (two fascicles). With Six Stonecut & Stenciled Plates, limited and numbered by Peter Pitseolak, Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010), Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013), Metick. Toronto. World Wildlife Fund. 1977. Double Elephant Folio. 76x 61cm, (30"x 24"), being 1 sheet (title) and 2 fascicles including 2 sheets & 4 sheets (illustrated), with wraps with folded flaps and printed paper title plates on the upper covers, plus six stone cut & stencil plates, with tissue guards, limited to numbered 220 sets, this being #180, portfolio is bound in quarter reversed calf? and beige linen, with a sculpted metal figure set on a leather label inset on the upper panel, very rare, plates are spectacular 5,000.00 The Plates: - Peter Pitseolak - Hawk - Stonecut & Stencil. 180/220 Dorset, 1977. Colour. Signed. - Kananginak - Walrus - Stonecut. 180/220 Dorset, 1977. Colour. Signed - Kenojuak - Owl of the Sea - Stonecut. 180/220 Dorset, 1977. Colour. Signed - Mitki - (Ducks) - Stonecut & Stencil. 180/220 Dorset, 1977. Colour. Signed - K a n a n g i na k Caribou - Stonecut. 180/220 Dorset, 1977. Colour. Signed - K a n a n g i na k Oniengmungjuaq (Big Male Musk Ox). St o ne c u t . 1 8 0 / 2 2 0 Dorset, 1977. Colour. Signed The prints were produced in Cape D o r s e t , N o r t hwe s t Territories, using stone cut method. The print Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page makers were Ottochie, Esgyoudluk, Saggraktoo and Kananginak. The portfolio was designed in Montreal by David Denbeigh and Robert Reid. The text sheets were printed by The Press of A. Colish at Mount Vernon... portfolio was bound in New York by George Wieck at Moroquain Bindery. (Intro). Each plate includes signatures and seals. -6- order line - 613-230-2277 19. GENTILCORE, R. Louis & C. Grant Head Ontario's History in Maps. with a cartobibliographical essay by Joan Winearls. Toronto, Buffalo, London. Published for The Ontario Historical Studies Series by The University of Toronto Press. 1984. oblong atlas folio. 40.5x 31cm, 284p. with 268 plates (mainly in colour), list of sources, blue cloth, a fine copy in good to very good jacket 150.00 Investigation of the Hudson's Bay Company 20. GREAT BRITAIN. [HUDSON'S Bay Company]. Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. [London]. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 31st July and 11th August, 1857. folio. 32.2cm, xviii,547p. the first edition, with 3 folding linen backed lithographed maps, hand-coloured, Inc. the one issued later and usually wanting, bound in half crimson Russia, cloth boards, gilt spine titles, rare - Rare with the maps. 2,000.00 Note: The leather bound and pewter-trimmed portfolio contains explanatory texts accompanied by drawings and artist biographies. This specially commissioned work of six prints for the 1977 Art of the Eskimos, a co-operative project between the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative and the International World Wildlife Fund. The portfolio "is dedicated to the animals o f the Arctic and those men and women around the world." Each print is blind embossed with the Panda symb o l o f t he World Wildlife Fund. No copies on A&E, Amicus, ABPC, ABE. Waddington June 2014 est 3500 / 5000. WorldCat locates 1 copy at UBC. T.P.L. 3729. Peel 1 8 8 . S a bi n 33549.Lowther 52. Gagnon II-1713. Streeter VI-3400, later printing). "The report is a very important document illustrating the deve lopment of theNorth west. Over six thousand questions were considered by the committee which finally ceded certain portions of the Hudson's Bay Company lands to Canada, and recommended that the Company's connection in Van- couver be terminated. Vancouver was annexed to British Columbia in 1866, though the H.B.C. continued its connection until April of the following year". (Streeter). "An important document containing the evidence of many witnesses on the suitability of Rupert's Land for agricultural settlement". (Peel). Maps: I - Map of North America (44.6 x 54.5cm) drawn by J. Arrowsmith. II - Aboriginal map of N.A. denoting boundaries and locations of various Indian Tribes, (50.1x 60cm), drawn by J. Arrowsmith. III - Map of the North West Part of Canada, Hudson Bay and Indian Territories, (62.6x 48.1cm), drawn by Thomas Devine. Devine produced an atlas of the counties of Upper and Lower Canada, in 1853. First Edition of this Important Book 21. HEAD, Sir Francis B. A Narrative. London. John Murray. 1839. 8vo, 22.5cm, first edition, viii,488,38,(appendix),8p., Murray ads., in the original slightly ribbed light green cloth, gilt spine and Email: [email protected] Page - 7 - cover titles with gilt vignette, blind ruled triple borders on the boards, spine slightly faded, yellow coated endpapers, a very good copy of the first edition 200.00 T.P.L. 2276. Dionne 1172. Gagnon I-1636. Sabin 31133. cf. Lande 416-417. Sir Francis Bond Head, 17931875, was the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1835-1837. While professing to be a liberal, his reactionary policies in Upper Canada were in no small way a cause of the armed uprising in December 1838. Though he was able to suppress the rebellion, the home authorities were so displeased with his actions, that he would never again hold a public office. This work, while admittedly self-serving, is well written, and contains a valuable perspective on the affairs of Canada during a troubled time. - It contains comments on Lord Durham's Report, 1839.1839. - Appendix A: Memorandum on the Aborigines of North America. Appendix B: with separate printed title page "Addresses to Sir Francis B. Head from the Legislatures of the British North American Colonies... on his Resignation from the Government of Upper Canada. Colour Plates & Illustrations, hand-stenciled (Pochoir) from Paintings by Clarence Gagnon 22. HEMON, Louis Maria Chapdelaine. Illustrations de Clarence Gagnon. Paris. Editions Mornay. 1933. sm4to, 25cm, 206p., With 55 colour illustrations from paintings by Clarence Gagnon. limited edition of 1950 copies, this being number 873, In Fine Signed Binding: full fine grain brown morocco, blind ruled large raised bands, gilt titles in the panels, with inlaid colour leather illustration on the upper cover, bevelled boards, wide triple gilt ruled inner dentelles and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., with the original (birch bark) colour printed wraps and wrapper spine panel bound in on separaterear guards, Signed by the binders “C.A. Dorion, & Fils”, fine condition 3,500.00 C.A. Dorion, & Fils (Relieurs). Dorion who was active in Quebec City in the 20's and 30's, was a good bookbinder, some binding were done in the "art deco style". The present binding is in a sympathetic ‘Maria Chapdelaine’ period style and deserves the definition “Fine Binding”. This is the most celebrated and desirable edition of Hemon's famous novel, with the beautifully coloured illustrations by Clarence Gagnon on which he worked for three years. This, with Rouquette's Le Grand Silence Blanc and Blake's Brown Waters, are the only books that Gagnon illustrated. This is one of the corner-stones in any collection of Canadian illustrated books. All the colour illustrations are hand stenciled (pochoir). This results in a much more attractive image, having the appearance of being hand-painted into the text. This process is distinctly better than the normal printed colour illustration process. All the original illustrations were acquired by Col. R.S. - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc McLaughlin, who donated them to the McMichael collection. 23. HEMON, Louis Maria Chapdelaine. Illustrations de Clarence Gagnon. [Facsimile Reprint]. Quebec. Art Gloval, Libre Expression. 1980. 4to. 25cm, 206p., with 55 colour illustrations, bound in full linen with colour illustration in-laid on the upper cover and spine and cover titles stamped in black and dark brown, near fine, this book is scarce 300.00 After the original this edition has the best colour reproduction of this Canadian illustrated classic by Gagnon. 24. HERIOT, George Travels through the Canadas, containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on some of the Rivers and Lakes; with an account of the Productions, Commerce, and Inhabitants of those Provinces. To which is subjoined a Comparative View of Manners and Customs of several of the Indian Nations of North and South America. Illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author. London. Printed for Richard Phillips. 1807. 4to. 26.2cm, the first edition, xii,602,[ii]p., with 27 aquatint plates by Stadler and Lewis after Heriot (6 being double folding) and a folding coloured map, bound in half maroon brown crushed morocco, gilt decorated raised bands, double gilt borders in the panels, gilt titles, double gilt borders on the boards, marbled boards, t.e.g., an excellent copy the plates being good clear strikes, - a fine attractive copy 5,000.00 T.P.L. 805. Lande 433. Sabin 31489. Hill p142/3. cf. Abbey 618, describing a later issue with coloured plates without text. One of the most important books about Canada. Heriot's information is drawn from personal knowledge and in the second part, which contains detailed descriptions of Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page -8- order line - 613-230-2277 T.P.L. 535. Howes H-679. Sabin. Not in Lande. The papers relate to the devastation of the Mohawk Valley by Johnson, to Joseph Brant and to John Butler, 1780. American Indian cultures, from Lafitau, Lahonton, Mackenzie & Vancouver among others, as well as from manuscripts he consulted for his 1804 history of Canada at the Jesuit Library in Quebec. The final 31pp. contain Father Rasle's vocabulary of the Algonquin language. Heriot's book contains important material on Western Canada and is particularly detailed on the fur trade, voyages to the North, Eskimos and the cod fishery. It is also "The Earliest And The Most Important Aquatint Book Published On Canada" (Hill)... "Illustrated books on North America are curiously few in the period with which we deal. By far the most interesting is Heriot's Travels through the Canadas.... interesting for its aquatints..." [Prideaux, Aquatint Engravings. pp254-55]. Heriot was deputy Post Master of Canada. Number 55 of 80 Copies Printed 25. HOUGH, Franklin B.[ed.] The Northern Invasion of October 1780. A Series of Papers Relating to the Expedition from Canada under Sir John Johnson and Others, against The Frontiers of New York, which were supposed to have Connection with Arnold’s Treason, prepared from the originals With An Introduction and Notes by Franklin B. Hough. Bradford Club Series, No. Six. New York. John B. Moreau, for the Bradford Club. 1866., sm4to. 25.5cm, xv,[16]-224p., frontis and 1 folding map, limited to 80 copies, this being #55, rebound in half simulated brown morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt title, marbled boards, internal private library stamps on the title page else a fine copy, attractively bound 350.00 Provenance: A.E. Ritchie, who was Canadian Ambassador to Washington and Ireland (and bibliophile); with his signature on the free fly. One of the Most Important 18th-Century Cartographers of North America 26. JEFFERYS, Thomas The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America. Giving a particular Account of the Climate, Soil, Minerals, Animals, Vegetables, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, and Languages, together with The Religion, Government, Genius, Character, Manners and Customs of the Indians and other Inhabitants. Illustrations by Maps and Plans of the principal Places, collected from the best authorities, and engraved by T. Jeffreys, Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Part I. Containing A Description of Canada and Louisiana. Part II. Containing Part of the Islands of St. Domingo and St. Martin, the Islands of St. Bartholomew, Guadaloupe, Martinico, La Greande, and The Island and Colony of Cayenne. London. Printed for Thomas Jefferys. 1760. folio, 36.5 xcm, the First Edition, (title page printed in black and red), 2 Volumes in one, [8],168 & [4], 246p., (plus duplicated *pages 129-138 but not the pasted on errata slip on p80, part 2), with 18 finely engraved folding maps & plans, Bound in full calf with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt decorated dark maroon leather label, gilt decorated panel borders on the boards, normal slight offsetting or transfer, (light browning), two maps slightly over-folded, Montreal map with short reinforcement along fold on the verso, New Orleans map with small tear at gutter without loss, a fine attractively bound copy 28,000.00 First Edition, corrected issue, with asterisked pages Email: [email protected] Page - 9 - *129-*138 in addition to the original leaves in the first part, this addition is often wanting. “Additional information concerning the capture of Quebec, received after the printing Part I, necessitated the insertion of the starred duplicate pages”. (Howes). T.P.L. 319, Lande 471, Sabin 35964, Howes J-83, Streeter I- 128. Vlach 406. Field 775, Waldon p454, Gagnon I -1778. JCB. 1260 An important work by "one of the century’s most prolific and important English map publishers." (Tooley, Dictionary, p. 335). Streeter describes this as “A monumental geographical work important equally for its text as well as its maps”. As the leading map supplier of his day Jefferys was a principal figure in the emergence of London as an international centre of cartographic enterprise. The Maps and Plans (nearly all of which are folding) include:--- Map of Canada and the North Part of Louisiana; Plan of the City of Quebec; Plan of the Town and Fortifications of Montreal; A New Map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain; Plan of the City and Harbour of Louisburg; Authentic Plan of the River St. Laurence, etc.; North America from the French of Mr. D’Anville, Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio; Plan of New Orleans, the Capital of Louisiana. The West Indies [general map]; Guadaloupe, one of the Caribbean Islands..; The Island of Hispaniola; An Authentic Plan of the Town and Harbour of Cap-François; Plan of the Town of Basse Terre; Martinico, one of the Caribbean Islands; Plan of the Town and Citadel of Fort Royal; Plan of the Town and Fort of Grenada; The Island and Colony of Cayenne; Plan of the Town of Cayenne. These finely detailed & attractive maps are of particular interest and importance. 27. KIP, William Ingraham Early Jesuit Missions in North America: Compiled and Translated from the Letters of the French Jesuits, with Notes. By William Ingraham Kip, Corresponding Member of the New York Historical Society. New York. Wiley and Putnam. 1846. 12mo, 18.8cm, xiv,[ii],321,32,ivp., ads., 2 parts in One volume, folding frontis map, complete with half title, in the original fine ribbed light greyish blue cloth, blind stamped decorations and borders on the spine and boards, gilt spine titles, some occasional slight foxing, fine copy partly unopened 250.00 T.P.L. 7866. Howes K176. Sabin 37949. Field 1215. Contains account of the Iroquois martyrs, The Wanderings of Father Rasles, 1689-1723, Father Marest’s Journeys through Illinois and Michigan, 1712, Voyage up the Mississippi 1727, mission to the Illinois 1750, missionary life amongst Abernakis 1722, Montcalm’s expedition to destroy Fort George 1757. Etc. - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc Bellin Map of Hudson’s Bay & Labrador, 1760. 28. [MAP]. BELLIN, [Jacques Nicholas]. Carte de la Baye de Hudson. Pour servir a la Histoire Generale des Voyages. Paris. Par M.B. Ing de la Marine. 1757. 1 folio sheet, 24x 32cm, images (22x 30cm), folds, reduced right margin, very good to fine, representative of Be1lin's accurate, detailed work 300.00 Detailed engraving depicts Hudson Bay and Detroit de Hudson as Well as 'Labrador nomme anciennement par les Francois Nouve. Bretagne', and all of James Bay of Whose east coast, depicted notionally, it is said, 'Toute cette Coste n'est presque pas connu.' Various Hudson Bay forts and posts located along the Western shores of James and Hudson Bay are identified, some with both their English and French names (to accommodate variable residents) as are several major tributaries. However, the most common identifier is 'inconnue'-- as in the case of the region southwest of Hudson Bay of which it is said, 'Etendue de Pays entierement Inconnue'. Likely from Prevost's multi-volume Histoire Generale des Voyages, (1746- 1757) for which Bellin prepared maps as 'Ingr. de la Marine'. 29. [MAP]. RUSSIA. (SAYER, Robert). The European Part of the Russian Empire, From the Maps Published by the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg, with the New Province on the Black Sea. [WITH]: The Asiatic Part of the Russian Empire, From The Maps Published by the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg, with the New Discoveries of Captn. Cook, Etc. London. Published by Robert Sayer. 1st May, 17881790. two sheets joined, 21" (54cm) by 51.5" (130.5cm), a fine detailed engraved map with original outline handcolouring, of Russia, including the east "Asiatic" and west "European" portions, in fine condition 450.00 Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page The First Edition with 10 Tinted Engraved Plates 30. MacKAY, Charles (1814-1889). Life and Liberty in America: or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-58. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1859. 12mo, 19.5cm, in 2 volumes, The First Edition, vi,[2],343. & 336pp., with 10 tinted engraved plates, bound in half dark green polished calf, gilt ruled raised bands, double red calf labels gilt, green cloth boards, t.e.g., a fine clean (no foxing) set 600.00 T. P. L . 8 7 3 8 . L a n d e S1419. Sabin 43355. Howes M-118. Mackay was a popular songwriter & poet who made a lecture tour. Good observations on Native Americans, Irish immigrants, Mormons, slavery, rice plantations, American literature and art, Americanisms,slang, Montreal, Toronto,Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Canada. Interesting illustrations. Account of an eight-month lecture tour in North America by poet and journalist, Charles Mackay. Portions of the work originally appeared in issues of the Illustrated London News, of which Mackay was an editor. He visited the major cities of the eastern and southern states, commenting on slavery, American literature, art, science and politics, Americanisms and American slang, the Mormons, rice plantations, &c. The section on Canada (Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Ottawa) occupies chapters XII-XX (pp. 194-336) of Volume II. The three plates of Canadian subjects include 'Break-Up of the Ice on the St. Lawrence', 'The Victoria Tubular Bridge, Montreal', and 'Toronto, Canada West'. The Discovery of the North-west Passage Association Presentation Copy - 10 - his mother . Rachel Creswell, 1803-1888, was the daughter of p r i s o n r e f o r m e r, Elizabeth Fry, and married Capt. Francis Cresswell, 1789-1864, in 1821. They were the parents of the artists, Commander Samuel Gurney Cresswell, who was on this expedition. Originally starting out as a search for Sir John Franklin by way of the Bering Strait, the expedition accomplished what none before had done, the discovery of theNorth - West Passage, for which McClure and his crew shared the 10,000 pounds offered by the British Govern-ment. Cf. Arctic Bib. 10563 (for 2nd ed.). Smith 6232. T.P.L. 8507. Lada-Mocarski 145. Sabin 43073. Based on the logs and journals of Capt. Robert Le M. M'Clure, [McClure; Maclure], who comman-ded the expedition, this book tells the story of the final achievement of the long and devoted quest for the North-West Passage. The Investigator accompanied the Enterprise, under Commander Collinson, to search for Sir John Franklin. The narrative describes the perils from the ice in the Beaufort Sea, contains remarks on the progress of the Franklin Search, and a great deal of detailed information on Arctic wildlife. The Investigator also explored Banks Island, penetrated Prince of Wales Strait and spent three winters imprisoned by ice on the north shore of Banks Island. Here they were met in April, 1853, by a party from the Resolute (M'Dougall), which was anchored 160 miles away east of Melville Island. The Investigator's crew sledged to the Resolute and returned eastward with its crew to England, thus completing the first ocean to ocean passage north of America. From Cresswell to his Mother - Presentation Binding 31. M'`CLURE, Robert With 120 Impressive Hand-Coloured Portrait Plates of North American Indians The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. Investigator, Capt. R. M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854. Edited by Commander Sherard Osborn. From the Logs and Journals of Capt. Robert le M. McClure. Illustrated by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell, R.N. London. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 1856. 8vo. 21cm, The First Edition, xix,405p., with 4 lithographed plates (by Cresswell) and colour folding map, in presentation style contemporary binding: rebacked in full dark blue polished calf, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, dark crimson morocco label gilt, gilt and blind decorated borders on the boards with corner gilt decoration devices, and gilt and blind ornate centre panel decorations on the boards creating oval design motif, inner linen hinges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bookplate, some transfer to the title page else a fine copy 3,000.00 With the bookplate “Mrs. F. Cresswell, Bank House”. Indicating that this is a presentation copy from the Artist to order line - 613-230-2277 32. McKENNEY, Thomas and James Hall History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia. Published by Rice, & A.N. Hart. 1855. 4to, 27.3x 18.5cm, in three volumes, plus 120 hand-coloured plates, (with tissue guards), after the original oil painting by Charles Bird King, in the original brown morocco publisher’s bindings, raised black ruled bands, gilt titles in the panels, extra blind and black stamped decorations on the boards and in the panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, top and bottom edges had stamps which were removed, new tissue guards, text has some occasional toning as usual, the plates are strong clear strikes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,500.00 Howes M129. Sabin 43411. Field 992. The royal octavo edition followed the great folio volumes of 1836-44. The Email: [email protected] Page - 11 - brilliantly coloured plates, in excellent condition in this set, are fine examples of American lithography of the period. “Mostly the work of [Charles Bird] King, these are the most colourful portraits of Indians ever executed. Originally issued in twenty parts (in nineteen); but few sets were - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc west of the Mississippi visited only by occasional trappers and the courageous Lewis and Clark, in a land considered distant and remote, 1830-1840's. The work is an eloquent record of Indian life while it was still largely untouched by white influence. First White Man to Cross the Continent 33. MacKENZIE, Alexander Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Lawrence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary account of the fur trade of that country. London. Printed for T. Cadell... 1801. 4to. 27cm, the First Edition, cxxxii,412p., complete with half title & engraved frontis portrait by P. Condé after T. Lawrence & 3 large engraved folding maps, in half speckled tan calf, wide gilt decorated raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, crushed black morocco label, gilt titles, gilt ruled borders on the boards, marbled boards and endpapers, a clean copy without the foxing or transfer often associated with this book, a fine copy attractively bound with the scarce half title 7,500.00 T.P.L. 658. Lande 1317. Sabin 43414. Strathern 343. Peel 25. Gagnon 2190. Morgan p240. Hill p187. retained in that impracticable form. The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire”. (Howes). “The work is one of the most costly and important ever published on the American Indians. The plates are accurate portraits of celebrated chiefs, or of characteristic individuals of the race; and are coloured with care, to faithfully represent their features and costumers. (Field). It faithfully records the features and dress of celebrated American Indians who lived and died before the age of photography. Their tribes resided First edition of the classic narrative of the first white man to cross the continent. ... "the earliest expedition made by a white man in this direction. His investigations, although pursued at so early a period of Arctic exploration, were remarkable for their accuracy; Sir John Franklin more than once expressed his surprise at being able to corroborate their correctness in his own explorations. Some Indian vocabularies are included. (Sabin). Mackenzie's journals recount his two expeditions undertaken on behalf of the North West Company in their attempt to break the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade. The first expedition, in 1789, from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska down what is now known as the Mackenzie River to the Arctic constitutes the first trip to the Arctic from the Canadian Prairies. The second, in 1792-93, from Fort Chipewyan over the Rocky Mountains by the Peace and Fraser Rivers to the Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page Pacific, is distinguished as the first overland expedition to reach the Pacific, north of Mexico. The maps are the earliest of certain parts of Canada. Also included is a lengthy account of the development of the fur trade in the North West, generally attributed to the author's cousin, Roderick Mackenzie. Account of the 1837 Rebellion By One of the Leading Participants 34. McLEOD, Donald A Brief Review of the Settlement of Upper Canada by the U.E. Loyalists and Scotch Highlanders, in 1783, And of the Grievances which Compelled The Canadas To Have Recourse To Arms In Defence Of Their Rights And Liberties, in the Years 1837 and 1838, Together with a Brief Sketch of the Campaigns Of 1812, '13, '14, with an Account of the Military Executions, Burnings, and Sackings of Towns and Villages, by the British, in the Upper and Lower Provinces, during the Commotion of 1837 and '38. By D. M’LEOD, Major General, Patriot Army, Upper Canada. Cleveland: Printed for the Author by F. B. Penniman. 1841. 12mo, 18.3cm, the First Edition, 292p., in the original plumb cloth with paper spine label, some occasional light foxing (mainly in the margins), spine (not the label) bit slightly faded, a fine copy, very rare 4,500.00 T.P.L. 2292. Sabin 43535. Lande Sl435. Howes M-158. Not in Smith. War of 1812 (Bibliography). Pagination fault; page 145-148 dropped, as issued. No modern auction records or listings, last copy was 1972. Provenance: P?. A., P?. Bull. Loudonville, Ashland County, Ohio. Donald M'Leod, 1779-1879, joined the British Army in 1803 and fought in the War of 1812, at Queenstown's Heights, Chrysler's Farm and Lundy's Lane. In 1816, he settled in Canada, at Prescott, where he founded a school and later a "reform" newspaper, The Grenville Gazette. During the Rebellion of 1837-38, he joined the Patriot Army and became the General commanding the Western Division. He was arrested and tried at Detroit, but was acquitted, after which he settled in Cleveland. This important work begins with a histoiy of the settlement of the Loyalists in Upper Canada, including a chapter on the settlements at Glengary. M'Leod then reviews the major battles of the war of 1812, in which he was an active participant. The balance of the work is a major review of the Rebellion of 1837-38; the administrations which led to the uprising; the events in Lower Canada at St. Dennis, St. Charles, and St. Eustache; - 12 - order line - 613-230-2277 those in Upper Canada, at Toronto, Navy Island, and on the western frontier; and the aftermath of arrests, trials, executions and deportations. Also included in the text is a translation of Louis Joseph Papineau's rare Histoire ck l'Insurrection, written in 1839. Includes details of the rebellion of 1837 and the organization, within Ohio and New York, of a patriot army for the invasion of Canada. (Howes). The author was a veteran of the War of 1812 and afterward took part in the rebellion. (Sabin). The author gives a very comprehensive account of the military executions, burnings and sacking of towns by the British during the commotions of 1837 and 1838. Those who prate of our unviolated Northern border choose to forget this incident where a rebel army of invasion was actually organized in Ohio and New York State, equipped, and directed from within the borders of those States, without too much meddling by the authorities. Many of the members of that Army were native Americans. PARIS. 1612 Le Mercure Francois. [Edited by Jean & Etienne Richer]. Le Mercure Francois ou La Suite de L'Histoire De La Paix. Commenceant l'an M.DC.V. [1605]. pour suite du Septenaire du D. Cayer, & finissant au Sacre du TresChrestien Roy de France & de Nauarre Loys XIII. Paris. Par Jean Richer:... 1612. 17cm, [vi],534 foliated pages, engraved title page, bound in contemporary full vellum, some staining to the preliminary (5) leaves, vellum a bit wrinkled, dust worn, very good copy 2,500.00 In this, the first volume of the first review issued in France, will be found, folio 291, the narrative of the navigations of the French in Canada before the foundation of Quebec by Champlain, in 1608, and at folio 518, the baptism of the Grand Sagamo de Canada by the Sieur Poutincourt. Lande 629. Sabin 47931. This annual register of events was edited in turn by Jean and Etienne Richer, Pere Joseph, and Theophraste Renaudot. In it is found the first published account of the voyages of Champlain and the establishment of the Jesuits in Canada. A large part of the Mercure is devoted to voyages and travels, e. g. 1608. "Des Colonies que les Anglois ont mene en la Virginie en ceste annee. 269.a. 1608, "Voyages faicts en la Nouvelle France ou Canada". 1612, "Les anglois cherchent en vain le chemin de la Chine par le septentrion" Very important publication, containing the following articles relating to the early history of America; Voyages faits en la Nouvelle France ou Canada du sieur des Monts 1604; Voyage du sieur de Pont-grave, 1605; Voyage du sieur de Pointrincourt, 1606; Voyage des sieurs de champdore & Champlain, 1608. 35. Woodstock, Canada West, Imprint 36. MALCOLM, John, Published by Malcolm's Genealogical Tree of the Royal Family of Great Britain. Woodstock, C.W. Published by John Malcolm. "Lithographed by John Ellis, King St., Toronto." 1862. c. 108x 77cm, (42.5"x 26.5"), lined backed colour lithograph, edges frayed, some finish cracking, two stains on the bottom right corner, fragile but sound, very rare 500.00 Email: [email protected] Page - 13 - "Entered accord to Act of Provincial Parliament in the year 1862 by John Malcolm in the office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada." "Lithographed by John Ellis, (17951877), King St., Toronto." No standard references, listing or auction records located. Not on Amicus. University of Toronto Libraries, on line lists one copy as above. British Library, records one copy with a different imprint as follows: Malcolm's Genealogical Tree of the Royal Family of Great Britain. (Drawn & engraved by J. C. Davis.). Author: John Charles DAVIS. Publisher: London: John Malcolm, [1862] . The First Paris Edition 37. MILTON, Vicomte & W.B. Cheadle Voyage de L'Atlantique Au Pacifique. A travers Le Canada, Les Montagnes Rocheuses et La Colombie Anglaise. Traduit de L'Anglais avec l'autorisation des auteurs par J. Belin-De Launay. Paris. Librairie De L. Hachette. 1866. 8vo. 24cm, the first French edition, 387p. with 22 plates from wood-engravings and 2 double-page maps, bound in quarter red morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt border decorations in the panels, red pebbled cloth boards, blind stamped decorated borders on the boards, wavy grain silk endpapers, armorial bookplate, bookseller ticket, a near fine copy in beautiful contemporary binding 250.00 The First Edition in French. Peel 249. "This work attained an immediate popularity and ran through many editions, seven within two years. It was again reprinted in 1875 and 1901. A French edition was published in Paris in 1866, and an abridged version of the latter in 1872. Though published as a joint work, it appears to have been written by W.B. Cheadle. - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc With 30 Striking Hand-coloured Floral Plates 38. MOORE, Thomas, & William P. Ayres. et al The Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, and Natural Science. January to June, 1850. [Volume 1 only; of 3]. London. William S. Orr and Co. 1850. 4to. 26cm, xii,324p., colour engraved half-title and 32 hand-coloured plates, tissue guards, numerous woodcut text illustrations, index, three-half bound in dark green morocco, gilt decorated wide raised bands, gilt spine titles, all edges worn, top spine edge chipped, hinges cracked, text loose and some sections jumped, as is - plates are near fine clean condition 350.00 The first of a three volume series published from 1850 to 1852. Thomas Moore was the Curator o f the Botanic Garden, Chelsea. This volume includes articles: In Botany (Henfrey); In Entomology (Westwood); In Natural Science (Bushnan); In Floriculture (Barnes); and In Judging Florists’ Flowers (Glenny). With thirty striking lithographic hand-coloured floral plates and two of insects. With 71 Beautiful Hand Colour Plates 39. MORRIS, F.O. A History of British Butterflies. London. Groombridge and Sons. 1860. sm4to. 25cm, iv,168,29pp., with 71 hand colour plates, 2 black & white plates, tissue guards, publisher's ads on endpapers, in the original elaborated blind and gilt decorated green cloth, near fine copy 375.00 Text by Irish curate, Franci s Orpen Morris (1810-1893) a prolific writer of miscellaneous subjects but noted for his ornithologyand entomology. Colour illus -trations by Alexander F r a n c i s Ly d o n an d printing by Benjamin Fawcett. A classic book of Victorian entomology first published in 1857 40. MUNRO, W. B. Documents Relating to the Seigniorial Tenure in Canada, 1598 - 1854. Edited, with Historical and Explanatory Notes, by William Bennett Munro. Toronto The Champlain Society, No. 3. 1908. tall8vo, 24cm, cxxiii,380p., limited to 550 copies, this being #333, original crested red cloth. t.e.g., near fine 200.00 T.P.L. 3459. "In this volume an endeavor is made to bring together some serviceable selections from the source material available for the study of the Seigniorial Tenure in Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page Canada from its introduction by the French government to its abolition in 1854". Editor's Preface. Contents: Historical Introduction by W.B. Munro, (a discussion of seigniorial tenure till the act of 1854 and its results), pp.[xv]-cxvi. Documents nos. 156, 1598-1743; Documents, part 2, nos. 57-85, 1760-1852. In the Original Boards 41. MONRO, Alexander New Brunswick: with a brief outline of Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Their History, Civil Divisions, Geography, and Productions: with statistics of the several counties, affording views of the resources and capabilities of the provinces, and intended to convey useful information, as well to their inhabitants, as to emigrants, strangers, and travellers, and for the use of schools. Halifax. Printed by Richard Nugent. 1855. 8vo, 22cm, iv,[1],384,[1],[1]p. (errata and ads.), with 2 folding maps, in the original cloth backed boards with paper spine label, upper hinge mainly cracked, boards worn, label worn, maps over folded, a good sound copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.00 T.P.L.. 3591. Lande 638. Sabin 50007. Contains detailed histories, chronologies and descriptions of these provinces - 14 - order line - 613-230-2277 This steel engraved frontis illustration is the first view of the nationally strategic view of the Rideau Canada, Ottawa. See DeVolpi. Ottawa. Plate 8. Lande 883. T.P.L 1691. Waterston p53. Sabin 99606. Howes V-96. 43. [OTTAWA Area]. South Mountain, Ontario [General Store Manuscript Journal]. A hand-written ledger, dated South Mountain, running from November 1865 to July 1870. The name of the business is not provided but hundreds of entries list customers, items purchased and payment. Although over 400 pages, the ledger has numerous leaves clipped and the first six pages have been covered with 19th century magazine and newspaper clippings of a young woman's interest, a unique item 500.00 Manuscript. 1865-1870. folio. 34x 20cm, c.400p., hand-written, in half reversed calf, pebbled cloth boards, leather spine title "Journal", spine heavily worn, wear on the board edges, covers worn, contents very good The village of South Mountain is located in the county of Dundas in eastern Ontario. An interesting mix of products sold - hardware, clothing, food, cloth - as expected in a nineteenth century country store. The customer names include Hyndman (saw mill owner), Fell, Richardson, Beggs, McConkey, Reverend Bell, Ridley and many more making this an valuable research item for Eastern Ontario genealogists. The use of old journals as scrapbooks was a common undertaking, as unlike today, paper could be a scarce commodity in rural areas. The First View of the Strategic Rideau Canal. 42. [OTTAWA]. VIGNE, Godrey T. Six Months in America. [Vol. 2. Only]. London. Whittaker, Treacher & Co. 1832. 12mo, 19.5cm, 276p., with 2 steel engraved plate views, original publisher’s green cloth, paper label (worn), spine edges worn, very good, internally fine, rare 1,200.00 Original Wanted Poster For the FLQ Murderers of Pierre Laporte “Locks on the Rideau Canal, at Bytown on the Ottawa River”. Drawn by Godfrey T. Vigne, Engraved by Englehart. 44. QUEBEC. SURETE du Quebec / Quebec Police Force. Reward (up to) $150,000. The Governments of Canada and Quebec jointly offer rewards of up to $75,000 for information leading to the arrest of the kidnappers or murderers of Mr. Pierre Laporte. Rewards in the same terms, are also offered for information leading to the arrest Email: [email protected] Page - 15 - of kidnappers of Mr. J. R. Cross.... Simard, Francis [portrait and physical description] ...Carbonneau, Marc [portrait and physical description]...Rose, Jacques [portrait and physical description] Rose, Paul [ po rtrai t and physical description.]....Maurice St. Pierre, Directeur General, Surete du Quebec. Circ. No: 81/70. Recompense (jusqu'a) $150,000. Les Gouvernements du Canada et du Quebec offrent conjointment des recompenses jusqu'a concurrence de $75,000. Pour des renseign-ments qui conduiraient a l'arrestation des ravisseurs ou des meurtriers de M. Pierre Laporte. Des recompenses semblable aux meme conditions sont aussi offrertes pour des renseignments qui conduiraient a l'arrestation des raviss-eurs de M. Cross.... [n.p., Montreal? 1970.], pictorial broadside, overall 40.5 x 50.5cm. (16 x 20 inches), 1 vertical and 1 horizontal fold, 4 half-tone illustrations (portraits), expertly backed, in fine condition 3,500.00 Rare Wanted Poster marking one of the most pivotal and tragic "coming of age" events in Canadian political life in the 20th century. A Classic in the History of Travel & Exploration 45. PARK , Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park. With An Appendix containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell. London. Published by W. Bulmer & Co. for the Author. 1799. 4to. 26cm, The First Edition, xxviii,372,xcii, [iv]p., engraved frontis portrait (Park), 2 folding maps, 1 folding chart, & 5 engraved plate illustrations, in contemporary full speckled calf boards rebacked, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, dark maroon crushed morocco label gilt, gilt decorated border on the boards, new endpapers, some wear on the boards, general fold map which is coloured in outline is trimmed to the text, a very good to fine attractive copy of the First Edition of the travel and exploration classic 2,750.00 On 21 June 1795, Park reached the Gambia River and ascended it 200 miles to a British trading station named Pisania. On 2 December, accompanied by two local guides, he started for the unknown interior.[8] He chose the route crossing the upper Senegal basin and through the semi-desert region of Kaarta. The journey was full of difficulties, and at Ludamar he was imprisoned by a Moorish chief for four months. On 1 July 1796, he escaped, alone and with nothing but his horse and a pocket compass, - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc and on the 21st reached the long-sought Niger River at Ségou, being the first European to do so.[9] He followed the river downstream 80 miles to Silla, where he was obliged to turn back, lacking the resources to go further.[10] On his return journey, begun on 29 July, he took a route more to the south than that originally followed, keeping close to the Niger River as far as Bamako, thus tracing its course for some 300 miles.[11] At Kamalia he fell ill, and owed his life to the kindness of a man in whose house he lived for seven months. Eventually he reached Pisania again on 10 June 1797, returning to Scotland by way of Antigua on 22 December. He had been thought dead, and his return home with news of the discovery of the Niger River evoked great public enthusiasm. An account of his journey was drawn up for the African Association by Bryan Edwards, and his own detailed narrative appeared in 1799 (Travels in the Interior of Africa). Park’s book was a success because it detailed what he observed, what he survived, and the people he encountered. His honest descriptions set a standard for future travel writers to follow. This gave Europeans a glimpse of what Africa was really like. Park introduced them to a vast, unexplored continent. After his death public and political interest in Africa began to increase. He had proved that Africa could be explored. Perhaps the most lasting effect of Park's travels, though, was their influence on European governments 46. PRIESTLEY, J.B., (Edited, with Introduction & Notes). Essayists Past and Present. A Selection of English Essays. (The Fireside Library). New York. Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press. 1925. 16mo. 17cm, 320p., original green cloth, gilt spine titles, near fine copy 200.00 Essayists include Steele, Addison, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Hazlitt, Hunt, Thackeray, Smith, Stevenson, Lucas, Belloc, Chesterton and Lynd. With long introductory literary criticism on the essay by J.B. Priestley. With 12 Fine Hand-Colored Views 47. SCHOMBURGK, Robert Hermann, (1804-1865). Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana After Sketches Taken During the Expedition in 1835-1839. London. Ackermann. 1841. Royal Folio, 53x 36cm, First Edition, with 12 fine hand-colored lithographed views Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page by George Barnard, Coke Smyth and P. Gauci after Charles Bentley, printed by Gauci and Charles Hullmandel, plus hand-colored additional lithographed title page by M. Gauci af ter Charles Bentl ey, pri nted by P. Gauci , 1 2 wood-engraved illustrations by G. P. Nicholls after Charles Blunt, the views all after original sketches by John Morrison, 1 engraved map by John Murray, hand-colored in outline in red and blue, Subscriber's list - 2 pages - dedication to the Duke of Devonshire with his arms in gilt (unusual). - Bound in the original brown morocco, expertly rebacked, raised gilt ruled bands, gilt titles on the upper cover, fine 11,000.00 "Schomburgk, who in a subsequent expedition laid down the Schomburgk line, dividing British Guiana from Venezuela, was knighted in 1844" (Abbey). As is made clear in the preface, James Morrison (the expedition draughtsman) made sketches under the direction of Schomburgk. These were then worked up by Charles Bentley in London, and plates were produced from these finished sketches. Abbey Travel 720; Tooley 447; Sabin 77796. The plates are fine clear strikes and as always the - 16 - order line - 613-230-2277 excellent Ackerman plates capture the warm atmosphere of the subject. With 1,937 Fine Hand-Coloured Plates by J. Sowerby& J. De C. Sowerby & J.W. Salter ... 48. SOWERBY, John Edward English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Third Edition. Enlarged, Re-arranged According to the Natural Orders and Entirely Revised. With descriptions by John T. Boswell, LL.D., F.L.S., etc. and N.E. Brown, of the Royal Herbarium, Kew. The Figures by W.H. Fitch, N.E. Brown, and John Edward Sowerby. [In 13 Volumes including Supplementary Volume]. London. George Bell & Sons. 1887-1899. sm4to. 25cm, 13 vols., viii,235 & 246 & 273 & 265 & 231 & 213 & 194 & 296 & 239 & 183 & 216 & 216 & 332 & 213pp., errata leaves, 1937 colour hand-coloured chromolitho plates by J. Sowerby, J. De Sowerby, J. W. Salter and John Edward Sowerby. , volume indexes, bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, wide gilt ruled and decorated raised bands, gilt titles, dark blue combed cloth boards, t.e.g., some slight wear on the edges, some volumes have minor green water colour splashes on the top or fore-edges otherwise a very good to fine sound set attractively bound 1,500.00 Five of the 13 volumes, the condition is uniform Nissen, 2227. Plate collations vary. Sowerby's English Botany was originally published in 36 volumes from 1790 to 1820 with the third revised and updated edition being published from 1872 to 1893. This edition is a special re-issue of the third edition for "Nature" periodical. A classic study of 19th century English indigenous flowering plants noted for its extensive and beautiful illustrations. A mammoth set. The Rare First Edition in incomplete jacket Interesting Signed Association Copy 49. SMART, ELIZABETH. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. Elizabeth Smart. (red) London. PL Editions Poetry London. (red). 1945. 8vo, 21.2cm, The Rare First Edition, 54p., title page printed in black and red, in the original orange red cloth, gilt titles along the spine, with the raiments of the jacket expertly laid down as illustrated below (the panel not shown is black), Jacket designed by Gerald Wilde. 1,200.00 Author’s Signed Presentation to her close friend from early days, Graham Spry. To Graham with love from Bono fidie Betty (Elizabeth Smart*), (will do better late). At the foot of the page * I have know GS for 18 yrs. (inked out line), :ES. (1928 - 1946 on). Email: [email protected] Page - 17 - Benson & Toye. Oxford Companion Canadian Literature, p1074-75. Moss. Reader’s Guide to the Canadian Novel, pp258-260. “This is a love story unique in the telling. Elizabeth Smart has written a brilliant and difficult prose poem, which is all the more remarkable for being so little known. ... it conveys the frantic intensity and nearly hysterical lucidity of a young woman overwhelmed by love. ...”Moss. The entry in Oxford Companion... by Rosemary Sullivan, Smart’s biographer. Graham Spry, (1900-1983) was a Canadian broadcasting pioneer, business executive, diplomat and socialist. 220. SMART, ELIZABETH. [BROADSIDE]. Rose Died. Broadsheet. Hand printed at imprimerie dromadaire. 1984. folio. 36x 20.5cm, printed in black and title in red, one page, limited to 126 numbered and signed copies, this being #108, fine 75.00 “... the most moving poem in the volume, (The Collected Poems, 1992), is the harrowing elegy to her daughter, Rose, who died at the age of thirty-five... “ Oxford Companion... “This broadside was published to raise money to help defray costs for Elizabeth Smart’s appearance at Harbour Front. It is a cruel irony that not many copies sold. With the Often Missing Frontis Portrait 50. SPEED, John The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Habits, Warres, Coines, and Seales: with the Successions, Lives, Acts, and Issues of the English Monarchs from Julius Caesar, unto the Raigne of King James, of famous Memorie. The Third Edition, Revised, enlarged, and newly corrected, with sundry descents of the Saxons Kings, Their Marriages and Armes. London. Published by George Humble, Popes-head Pallace, at the signe of the White Horse. 1632. thick folio, - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc 34cm, The Third Edition, Revised, enlarged, [xvii],1237, [iv,80],pp., (numerous errors in the pagination), pp.10431086 assigned to recto only, i.e., foliated], trimmed, unpaginated “The Second Index, or Alphabetical Table containing the principal matters in this history”, Engraved frontis portrait of the author, printer’s device of Humble on title, woodcut head & tail pieces and initials throughout, many in text illustrations including full page genealogies, numerous woodcuts throughout of coins and seals, text in double column, Bound in full early mottled calf, expertly rebacked in mottled calf, blind ruled raised bands, blind decorated borders on the boards, crushed crimson morocco label, engraved bookplate, Engraved frontis and title page chipped and somewhat dust worn and laid down, 2" diminishing oval puncture on pp.825-848 with text loss, over all a very good sound copy, uncommon with the frontis 3,000.00 S.T.C. (2nd ed. ) 23049. Lowndes p2472. John Speed, c.(1552-1629), is best known today as a cartographer. His atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine contained the first individual county maps of England and Wales, the first detailed maps of the provinces of Ireland, the first set of county maps consistently attempting to show the boundaries of territorial divisions, and the first truly comprehensive set of English town plans. In his own time, he was also highly regarded as an historian, and he was encouraged to begin his History of Great Britaine by William Camden and other fellow members of the Society of Antiquaries. This work, first published in 1611, elephant folio, is a companion to Speed's famous atlas, but is complete in itself. (In the first editions, the pagination was continuous through both volumes, which is why the present edition commences with 'the fifth book' and the table of contents includes the 'first four' books [ie., the atlas]). This edition is a variant of one published in 1631, and has the peculiar pagination noted by Lowndes. The frontispiece portrait of Speed, by Savery, (often wanting, see note enclosed) appeared in the later editions of most of Speed's works. Other illustrations include portraits of kings, royal seals and coats of arms, coinage, etc. The First Edition - First Issue 51. TWAIN, Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York. Charles L. Webster and Company. 1885. 8vo, 21x 16.5cm, the first edition, first issue, 336p., photographic frontis portrait and 174 illustrations from engravings, in the original decorated green cloth rebacked with the original spine laid down, gilt and black stamped block titles and pictorial decorations on the spine and upper cover, board edges slightly worn, some wear on the bottom board, some fading, new endpapers, initial illustration hand Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page coloured (not as issued), some occasional slight foxing on the text forge margins, good to very good 900.00 - 18 - order line - 613-230-2277 Montgomery, Morden, Andeerson, Hunter, Morrison, Durand and Wilfred Nelson. First Book on Salmon Fishing in Canada 53. TOLFREY, Frederic The Sportsman in Canada. London. T.C. Newby. 1845. 12mo, 20cm, the First Edition, in 2 volumes, iii,283,[iv] & 286,8pp., ads., with 10 engraved plates (inc. 2 frontis), plates on slightly smaller stock, as issued, with half title in volume one, in the original fine grain red cloth, blind ruled bands and gilt titles on the spines, blind ruled borders and corner decorations and blind decorated device in the boards centre panels, original coated yellow endpapers, spines relayed, inner hinges re-enforced, some slight foxing on the plates but they are very good clear strikes, binding slightly dust worn but a very good to fine copy of the rare first edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00 BAL 3451. "Notice: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author". A good copy of the first issue with all points. Considered one of the finest works in American fiction 52. THELLER, E.A. Canada in 1837-38, showing, By Historical Facts, the causes of the late attempted revolution, and of its failure; the present condition of the people, and their future prospects, together with the Personal Adventures of the Author, and others who were connected with the revolution. Philadelphia. Henry F. Panners. & New York. J & H.G. Langley. 1841. 12mo. 19cm, the first edition, two volumes bound in One, 264 & 316pp., rebound in contemporary style quarter brown calf, raised gilt ruled bands, black stamped decorations in the panels, crushed crimson morocco label gilt, marbled boards, a fine clean copy attractively bound 600.00 T.P.L. 2217. Gagnon I3513. Lande 832. Morgan p370. Story p699. Sabin 95297. An interesting first hand account of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper and Lower Canada, and its aftermath. Theller, an American, had practiced medicine in Montreal for several years, and later returned to the United States and joined the American Filibusterers al o ng the Canadi an border. He was captured on Lake Erie while in command of a privateer, and was tried and condemned for high Treason. The narrative contains considerable detail regarding his trial and imprisonment and his subsequent escape from the Citadel in Quebec, as well as accounts of other rebels and their sympathizers, including Sutherland, Lount, Matthews, T.P.L. 2744. Lande 2255 (5 plates). Gagnon I-3546. Dionne II-1231. Story p679. Waterston p75. Westwood & Satchell p.210.---Bruns T52. - “Very rare.” Includes a lengthy description including “appendix through (v2),286, containing best flies for North American rivers, and how to tie them.” Phillips p377. Wetzel p223. An attractive rare book, interestingly illustrated. Tolfrey, a military officer stationed at Quebec, arrived in Canada in 1816 and remained about four years. A lively account, his book is full of fishing and hunting experiences, as well as some history of the establishment of the early Email: [email protected] Page - 19 - racing and sporting clubs in Canada and the theatrical per-formances given in the second decade of the century. As well he covers life and gaiety of garrison life. Gagnon remarks that the book also contains interesting biographical details of governors Sherbrooke and Richmond and of other leading citizens. Tolfrey was the editor of the famous angling classic known for its colour plates: Jones's Guide to Norway.. 54. TRAILL, Mrs. (Catherine Parr) Lost in the Backwoods. A Tale of the Candian Forest. London, Edinburgh & New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1896. 12mo, 18cm, viii,9-319p., with 32 plates and illustrations from engravings, (inc. frontis), in the original elaborately pictorial decorated light blue cloth, gilt title and title panel on the spine and upper cover, pictorial illustrations, decorations and borders stamped in black, “Our Boys’ Select Library”, series stamped in border on the upper cover, some slight wear on the edges else a very good to fine copy attractively decorated 75.00 A reprint of the author’s third book, “The Canadian Crusoes”, first published in 1852. - Patrick McGahern Books, Inc now it is. Together with the Laying Open of Certain Enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that Countrey, and the means laid downe for reformation thereof. Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmoth... and published by Authority. London. Imprinted at London by Felix Kingston. 1622. 4to, trimmed, 17.5x 12.5cm, [22],107,[5]15pp., head and tail devices, in modern full vellum, black morocco label, gilt title along the spine, marbled edges, a fine copy, a rare book 17,500.00 O'Dea 51b. T.P.L. 4656. cf. Lande 894 & 895 for 1st & 3rd, Church 397. Sabin 103331. This is the second edition, enlarged with "A Loving Invitation" appended instead of being issued separately. It also contains at the end 15pages of letters from Newfoundland, dated in 1622, and gives the only account of Avalon, the colony founded by Sir George Calvert, and abandoned in favour of Maryland. 55. VANCOUVER, George, edited by W. Kaye Lamb A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World. 1791-1795. In 4 Volumes. [Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society. Second Series. No. 163-166]. London. The Hakluyt Society. 1984. 21.5cm, xx, 1752pp., 4 frontis portraits, 46 plates including frontispiece portraits, large folding map in rear pocket (Vol. I), appendices, bibliography, index, blue cloth, gilt decoration on upper covers, gilt spine titles, a fine set in fine jackets 200.00 The first annotated edition of Vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication in 1798. His narrative has been supplemented by logs or journals by other members of the expedition. With a very significant introduction and appendices by W. Kaye Lamb, former Dominion Archivist and National Librarian of Canada. Includes a large facsimile map: "A Chart shewing part of the Coast of N.W. America with the tracks of His Majesty's Sloop ‘Discovery' and Armed Tender ‘Chatham'" The "Father of New-Found-Land", 1622 56. WHITBOURNE, Richard (1579-1628) A Discourse and Discovery of New-Foun-Land, with many reasons to procue how worth and beneficiall a Plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than Whitbourne was a south Devon man from Teignmouth, appren-ticed to a merchant adventurer, who sailed extensively around Europe and to Newfoundland. In the Armada he sailed in his own ship. He spent some 30 years cod fishing off Newfoundland, and also governed Vaughan's colony of Renews from 1618 to 1620, when the venture was abandon. He was the first to hold a court of Justice in North America at Trinity in 1615. Known as the "Father of New- Found-Land", his work is to that colony as Champlains works are to New France. Whitbourne was especially successful in attracting Englishmen to Newfoundland by providing as he does here a general description invitation to settlers. Also of interest is Whitborne's acc-ount of seeing a creature of legend, "Now also I will not omitt to relate some thing of a strange creature, which I first saw there in the years 1610,... "Whitbourne's Discourse belongs in the general category of Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca Page promotional literature, but it is set apart from similar pieces of rhetoric by the wider knowledge of the island revealed in it and by the genuine note of warmth and sincerity in Whitbourne's character. He had been voyaging to Newfoundland since 1579 and knew the coastline of the country well. ... Beneath his ‘rough style' and occasionally surly manner there is, a new feeling in literature about Newfoundland: regard for the country, not for what it could return in the way of profit, but for itself. There is a real anger in Whitbourne when he lists the abuses committed in Newfoundland by visiting European fishermen: practices such as burning down the forests around the bays and mindlessly dropping ballast into harbours that are ‘so beautifull...' "... O'Flaherty. Rock Observed p12. - 20 - order line - 613-230-2277 career officer in the British army. He served with distinction in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and Africa, including the Ashanti campaign (1873-74) and the Nile Expedition against the Mahdi in 1884-85. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1895 and retired in 1901. *Note. The morocco used in fine bindings during this era is thinly tanned with the result that these binding, while among the most beautiful and artful, should be handled with care. **Probably, General Sir Arthur Grenfell. Wauchope GCB GCMG CIE DSO (1874–1947), was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Educated at Repton School, Wauchope. 57. WOLSELEY, Viscount [Garnet] The Story of a Soldier's Life. by Field-Marshall Viscount Wolseley. Westminster. Archibald Constable & Co. 1903. 8vo, 22cm, first edition, in 2 volumes, xi,398 & xi,383,[4]pp. ads., with 2 photogravure portraits, 2 maps (one folding), and one illustration, (Fort Garry), in contemporary half crushed crimson morocco, fine grain crimson cloth boards, wide gilt decorated raised bands, decorated four rule borders in the panels with gilt monographs & vignette illustration in the top and bottom panels, gilt titles, gilt rule borders on the boards, marbled boards, t.e.g., armorial bookplate “Arthur Grenfell” - signed binding “Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, some slight wear on the edges*, a very good to fine set attractively bound 400.00 See No. 54, Above. He came to Canada in 1861 and command-ed the Red River Expedition in 1870. On his return to England he is believed to have written three articles in Blackwood's that were critical of the Canadian government's failure to make adequate pre-parations for the force. When the derogatory remarks are deleted from the articles, the account is similar to that given in the present work. He had been greatly impressed by the work of the Canadian voyageurs, and in 1884, when given command of the expedition that ascended the Nile in a vain hope of saving Gordon, he obtained a corps of voyageurs from Canada. Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) was a Ordering: - Call or Email Anytime. 613-230-2277 or email to: [email protected] - Give your name first and the item number(s) you would like to order. - VISA & MASTERCARD accepted, give card number and expiry date. - Prices are in Canadian Funds and are net. Cheques are payable to Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. - Postage Charges are extra & are billed at cost. 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