![John Joseph Caldwell Abbott Letter signed [Canada's 3rd Prime Minister]. Sir John Joseph Caldwell ABBOTT.](/pictures/thumb/7608_01_LR.jpg?v=1499790506)
Montreal: J.C.C. Abbott. Place Published: Montreal Publisher: J.C.C. Abbott Date Published: 1876 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding ABBOTT, FIRST CANADIAN BORN PRIME MINISTER, SIGNED LETTERS ARE QUITE SCARCE 1 page, 8 x 10 inches, was folded now flat. Letter signed, “J.J.C. Abbott,” dated Montreal, Sep. 28th, 1876, on the..... More
Date Published: [1884] & 1895 Binding: Hard Cover Grant Allen, (Canadian-English science writer and novelist). This mini-collection includes; 1) ALS to Mr. Chatto of Chatto & Windus, n.d. but 1883-4, re publication of his novel entitled Philistia. 2) ALS to Andrew Lang, 10 February 1895, telling Lang that he won’t agree... More
London: George Virtue. Place Published: London Publisher: George Virtue Date Published: 1840 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover VIRTUALLY NO FOXING TO PLATES AND IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. First UK edition. 2 Volumes. 8 x 10-5/8 inches. [2],iv,[1]-140pp. 68 plates, including frontispiece portrait, and engraved title; iv,[1]-106pp. including 53 plates... More
Toronto: H. Belden Co. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: H. Belden Co. Date Published: 1878 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover First edition. 17-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches. [i-x], [1]-121pp. Atlas, rebound with new leather binding of spine and corner tips, plus black leather spine with gilt type, saving original front and... More
Date Published: [1908] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Photo IMPORTANT CANADIAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION WITH BALDWIN PROVENANCE Collection of 11 glass plate photos (plates measure 81mm x 100mm) in this collection with all in fine condition except "June Bug" with two cracks. They are housed in their original purpose built box with a.... More
Date Published: 1908 Binding: No binding AN IMPORTANT BORDEN LETTER Typed Letter, signed "R. L. Borden," dated Ottawa, August 26th, 1908, addressed to a Col. A. Audet, Montreal, written on House of Commons stationery. 27 lines on two 8 x 10 sheets, was folded now flat, first page with some toning mostly on right edge, otherwise very good condition. A...... More
London: Printed For The Author, and published By W. Faden. Place Published: London Publisher: Printed For The Author, and published By W. Faden Date Published: 1815 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover HANDSOME EDITION IN NICE CONDITION. VERY COLLECTABLE First edition. 6-1/4 x 10 inches. xv, [1]-640, lxxxvi (appendix &... More
![Proceedings of a Gen.[eral] Court Martial held Fort George 1810 signed by at least General Isaac Brock. Sir General Isaac BROCK, Sir James Henry CRAIG, J. B. CLEGG, Private Alexander WADDLE, John Baskerville or Baskervyle, Judge Advocate, d.1852.](/pictures/thumb/6664_01_LR.jpg?v=1419259642)
Fort George, UC. Place Published: Fort George, UC Date Published: 1810 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding UNIQUE BRITISH (CANADA) EARLY 1800's COURT MARTIAL DOCUMENT [20pp. with blank on recto of docket p.20] 20cm x 32cm (7-3/4 x 12-5/8 inches) A unique, rare and important piece of Canadian military history... More
Tryon County, NY. Place Published: Tryon County, NY Date Published: 1775 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding QUITE SCARCE WALTER BUTLER SIGNATURE Handwritten legal document, 6pp, 8 x 10 inches, tied with red ribbon upper left, Tryon County, New York, filed 21 May 1775 (March term in the fifteenth year... More
Date Published: 1879 - 1910 Binding: George Washington Cable was an American novelist and reformer being notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called “the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century,” as well... More
Date Published: [1850] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding TWO EARLY AND UNUSUAL PERSPECTIVES OF NIAGARA FALLS A beautiful pair of mid nineteenth century Niagara Falls watercolour views by a renowned British/Canadian landscape artist who documented in watercolours, a number in the Hamilton and Niagara area. Both trimmed to image... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1931 Binding: Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE, usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Caine's popularity during his lifetime... More
Quebec: British Government. Place Published: Quebec Publisher: British Government Date Published: 1793 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 28cm x 20cm, 4 page document plus loose pay detail sheet (18.5cm x 22.5cm) tipped-in on inside of folded 4pp. Document signed “Dorchester” partially printed and completed by hand. 4pp folio with... More
Montreal, Quebec: Sir Guy Carleton. Place Published: Montreal, Quebec Publisher: Sir Guy Carleton Date Published: 1775 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Written in French, on a watermarked, fine-laid paper, dated June 24, 1775, Boldy signed by Sir Guy Carleton in dark brown ink. Carleton’s signature, is next to an... More
Date Published: 1904 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Soft Cover Travel diary of a trip on a ship from Cardiff, England to Naples, to Almeira (Andulsia, Spain), and then return to Newport, and finally home by train to Bristol. 26 June-23 July 1904. Bound in black cloth, all edges red. Written in... More
Date Published: 1917-1920 Binding: A literary archive collection includes: 4 manuscript notebooks of poems and a few stories, written in pencil (approximately [410] pp. of written text) and two books, one signed. Circa 1917-20. Many drafts of poems are untitled, and some are crossed out. Approximately [410] pp. of... More
Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep and Others, Port Folio. Place Published: Philadelphia Publisher: Bradford & Inskeep and Others, Port Folio Date Published: 1810-16 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding A fantastic collection of 19 Port Folio prints in very good+ to near fine condition from the Port Folio Magazine. Each B&w..... More
Toronto: Abbott Mill Press. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: Abbott Mill Press Date Published: [1990] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: VOLUME 1 EDITION WITH 50 PLATES IN FINE CONDITION - RARE First edition, first printing. Casson's Casson [volume one] Square Regal Format. 13 x 14 inches. Pagination (34), (4), (100), (1)... More
Date Published: 1935 to 1990 Binding: No binding & hard cover Walter D. Edmonds was an American novelist and author of children’s and historical novels, including his best-selling work, Drums Along the Mohawk in 1936. In 1942 he won a Newberry Medal for ''The Matchlock Gun,'' about a boy in... More
![Enten-Eller. Et Livs-Fragment [Either or A life-Fragment]. Victor EREMITA, Søren Abbye KIERKEGAARD, - pseudonym, author.](/pictures/thumb/7393.jpg?v=1540307233)
Copenhagen: University bookshop C.A. Reitzel. Place Published: Copenhagen Publisher: University bookshop C.A. Reitzel Date Published: 1843 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover UNCOMMON WITH ONLY 525 COPIES OF THIS EDITION PUBLISHED. First edition with the often lacking half-titles. Text in Danish. 2 vols. 4-1/2 x 7-5/8 inches each. XX, [2]... More
London: Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their shop at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-Yard. Place Published: London Publisher: Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at... More
Quebec: Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils 1840 Imprimerie de Middleton & Dawson 1838. Place Published: Quebec Publisher: Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils 1840 Imprimerie de Middleton & Dawson 1838 Date Published: 1840-38 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover ... More
Date Published: 1950-1993 Binding: Christopher Hammond Fry was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. This collection includes 1 Typescript; 3 Autographed Letters Signed;... More
Date Published: 1967 to 1993 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Joseph Heller was an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His second novel, "Something Happened" published in 1974, spanning thirteen years after Catch-22, his best-known work. Something Happened has failed to achieve the renown of Catch-22 but... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips. Place Published: London Publisher: Printed for Richard Phillips Date Published: 1807 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover SCARCE OLDER HAND-COLOURED EDITION WITH VERY ATTRACTIVE PLATES. First edition. 8-1/4 x 10-18 inches. xii, [1]-602 p.,1 l., Old reback with worn leather spines and black label with... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, no. 6, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars. Place Published: London Publisher: Printed for Richard Phillips, no. 6, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars Date Published: 1807 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover First edition, first printing. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. xii errata, [ 1]- 602pp., [10] plate list & 9 ads. Likely... More
Date Published: 1902 to 1932 Binding: Robert Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, playwright, short story writer, autobiographer, music critic and lyricist. The Garden of Allah (1904) a romance set in Northern Africa that sold nearly a million copies and was adapted for both stage and was made into... More
Washington DC: C. Francis Jenkins. Place Published: Washington DC Publisher: C. Francis Jenkins Date Published: [1923] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Two original images transmitted in circa 1923 by “Radiovision” and his written and inscribed 1925 book, "Vision By Radio" Washington DC, C. Francis Jenkins (1867-1934) TWO OF THE... More
Date Published: 1888-1929 Binding: Various bindings Jerome K. Jerome was an English author best known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. He had a number of occupations then including journalism and school teaching, and a number of disappointments with the rejections of many short stories and satires... More
New York: Lovell, Adam, Wesson printed by Lake Champlain Press. Place Published: New York Publisher: Lovell, Adam, Wesson printed by Lake Champlain Press Date Published: 1877 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover 1877 FIRST EDITION OF THIS LITERATURE CLASSIC IS QUITE SCARCE First edition, first printing, unrestored with ads. 7-5/8 x.... More
A Cologne: Chez Jean Frédéric Motiens. Place Published: A Cologne Publisher: Chez Jean Frédéric Motiens Date Published: 1761 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover A RARE AND IMPORTANT BOOK ON EARLY QUEBEC RELIGION First edition. 12mo (164 x 100 mm). vii, [1]-2l5pp. Newer modern rich burgundy leather, new end papers, with..... More
Arthabaskaville: Wilfrid Laurier. Place Published: Arthabaskaville Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Date Published: 1875 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Autograph Letter signed, "Wilfrid Laurier," dated Arthabaskaville, 2 Oct. 1875, addressed to Henry James Morgan. 43 lines in French on 3 octavo pages, fine condition. Laurier is writing his friend Morgan confirming... More
Ottawa. Place Published: Ottawa Date Published: 1910 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 8 x 10-1/4 inches, was folded not flat. Typed Letter Signed, dated Ottawa, 9th June, 1910, on stationery of the Prime Minister's office, addressed to W. F. Alloway, Winnipeg. 6 lines on one sheet. Minor 3/8 inch... More
Ottawa: Wilfrid Laurier. Place Published: Ottawa Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Date Published: 1918 Binding: No binding UNUSUAL SIGNED WILFRID LAURIER COLLECTABLE EPHEMERA Very unusual and interesting ephemera item includes 4 items; 1) Envelope, 9 x 4 inches, Registered, Free-franked and addressed to Mr. N Hassard, Toronto; on reverse a House of... More
Arthabaskaville: Wilfrid Laurier. Place Published: Arthabaskaville Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Date Published: 1875 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding EARLY LETTER FROM CANADA'S FIRST FRANCOPHONE PRIME MINISTER “Wilfrid Laurier,” dated Arthabaskaville, 10th April, 1875, addressed to Donald Alexander MacDonald, Postmaster General, Ottawa. 17 lines on one 8vo sheet, docketed by MacDonald... More
New York: John Lane. Place Published: New York Publisher: John Lane Date Published: 1912-1940 Edition: 1st, American issue Binding: Hard Cover RARE SUNSHINE SKETCHES 1ST AMERICAN ISSUE WITH DUST JACKET & 31 OTHER ITEMS Collection contains 32 items in total dating from 1912 to 1908, including; 1 Sunshine Sketches 1912... More
Date Published: [1903] Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert Leighton unpublished typescript novel "Sir James Bridges" collection Robert Leighton (1858-1934) wrote many adventure stories for boys and was the first literary editor of the Daily Mail. His wife was Marie Connor Leighton (1865–1941) who wrote a large number of... More
London & [Amsterdam]: printed for Benj. Tooke ; printed by Alexander Lintman. Place Published: London & [Amsterdam] Publisher: printed for Benj. Tooke ; printed by Alexander Lintman Date Published: 1681 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: A RARE AND ULTRA RARE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME This volume is a bound-with, 2... More
New York: S & D. A. Forbes. Place Published: New York Publisher: S & D. A. Forbes Date Published: 1829 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover RARE 1ST US EDITION OF THIS EARLY SUSANNA MOODIE TITLE. First US edition. 14cm x 9cm, (5-5/8 x 3.5 inches). 100p. Latimer; 80p., Adelaide... More
![Contrat de mariage [marriage] (copie certifiée de l'époque) Québec, 6 septembre 1762 for Jean Urbain Martel of Belleville (1708-Ca. 1764) and Elisabeth Gastin. General James MURRAY, Hector Theophilus CRAMAHE, Jean-Claude PANET.](/pictures/thumb/3625_01_LR.jpg?v=1406672301)
Québec: James Murray. Place Published: Québec Publisher: James Murray Date Published: 1762 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: WRITTEN ONLY THREE YEARS AFTER THE TAKING OF QUEBEC IN 1759 Marriage contract (certified copy of), 3-1/2 folio pages; Quebec, September 6, 1762. Seal of wax to the document. Near fine condition. Rare... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Place Published: London Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Date Published: 1852 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover First UK edition. 4-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. vii, (3), 320 pp, Full brown tan calf, gilt-ruled boards and edges, raised bands with gilt decorations in the panels... More
![Letter addressed to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fry signed by William Edward Parry. Sir William Edward R. N. PARRY, Elizabeth FRY, Betsy, née Gurney, 1790 - 1855.](/pictures/thumb/3295_01_LR.jpg?v=1434414237)
London: Sir William Edward Parry. Place Published: London Publisher: Sir William Edward Parry Date Published: 1826 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Autograph Letter signed, dated Admiralty, May 18th, 1826, addressed to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fry, Newgate. 21 lines, 1 p., with conjugate address leaf, approx. 5x7 inches, hinged on the... More
[New York ]: [Frederick A. Stokes Company]. Place Published: [New York ] Publisher: [Frederick A. Stokes Company] Date Published: [1894] [1909] Binding: No binding 1) Albumen photograph of Peary's ship "The Falcon" , 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 inches, mounted to paper with notes. Penciled rectangle for cropping image drawn on photo... More
[Made by Hughes Aircraft Company]. Publisher: [Made by Hughes Aircraft Company] Date Published: 1972-75 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Wooden Case ANIK MEANS "LITTLE BROTHER” #1) HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY. [circa1972-75]. Barrel shaped model in metal 2-3/4 inches high x 3 inches diameter, shiny blue and black colours , mounted on a.... More
![Standing Orders in Annapolis Royal Manuscript Diary [British Army in Canada]. Lieut. S S. Lyle, R. Lloyd .](/pictures/thumb/7615_01_LR.jpg?v=1512146759)
Date Published: 1799-1806 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Soft Cover [An officers notebook including various standing orders, mess rules, pay rosters and receipts for disbursements relating to the 66th Berkshire Foot in Canada, and the 62nd Wiltshire Foot elsewhere]. [Annapolis Royal, Halifax, England and elsewhere]. [s.n., 1799-1806]. Oblong 7 x 4-1/4... More
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh & Innes. Place Published: Edinburgh Publisher: Oliphant, Waugh & Innes Date Published: 1816-17 Edition: 2nd Edition Binding: Hard Cover UNCOMMON EDINBURGH EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WITH INTERESTING PROVENANCE. 4 volumes, each 8vo, 22cm x 14cm, (8.5” x 5.5”), Vol.1, x, [1]-525pp., Vol.2, vii, [1]-542pp., Vol.3, vii, [1]-482pp.,index[53[,errata..... More
London: published by Morris & Co. 392 Strand W.C. Place Published: London Publisher: published by Morris & Co. 392 Strand W.C. Date Published: [1880] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding WE CAN FIND NO OTHER COPIES OF THIS ENGRAVING. No date but probably circa 1880 when he would be about... More
Date Published: 1928-1970 Binding: TATE IS NOTED FOR HIS POEM "ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD" (Dec. 1926) Allen Tate (American poet, critic, essayist and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress). "Tate was a well-known man of letters from the American South, a central figure in the fields... More
Date Published: 1903-1924 Binding: Taylor, Bert Leston was a journalist, doggerel poet, and humorist. At the height of his literary career, he was a central literary figure of the early 20th century Chicago renaissance as well as one of the most celebrated columnists in the United States . William... More
Guernsey: printed and published by Stephen Barbet. Place Published: Guernsey Publisher: printed and published by Stephen Barbet Date Published: 1835 Edition: 1st, 2nd issue Binding: Hard Cover RARE GUERNSEY FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO RELATIVE First edition, second issue. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xii, 234. with... More