Quebec: Printed For The Proprietor By Neilson & Cowan. Place Published: Quebec Publisher: Printed For The Proprietor By Neilson & Cowan Date Published: 1834 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover First edition. 4-1/2 x 7 1/8 inches. viii,(4), [1]-477pp. Original green cloth with spine sunned and paper label. Some very light... More about Hawkins's Picture of Quebec with Historical Recollections
London: Simkin, Masrhall & Co. Place Published: London Publisher: Simkin, Masrhall & Co. Date Published: 1847 Edition: 2nd Edition Binding: Second UK edition. 4.5 by 7.25 Inches, xii, [1]-492pp. Original blind stamped cloth covers with original spine saved and professionally rebacked. Back cover cloth with top half and spine... More about The Life and Correspondence of Major General Sir Isaac Brock
Ottawa: James Ashfield, photographer. Place Published: Ottawa Publisher: James Ashfield, photographer Date Published: [1885] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding QUITE SCARCE SHAKESPEARE PHOTO ESPECIALLY SIGNED Quite scarce photo or profile of Noah Shakespeare. Taken in Ottawa when Noah Shakespeare was an MP for Victoria. It is also only photo... More about Noah Shakespeare Signed Cabinet Card
New York: Sarony Major and Knapp. Place Published: New York Publisher: Sarony Major and Knapp Date Published: [1860] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Paper size: 11-1/2 x 27-1/8 inches. Image size: 7-7/8 x 26-1/2 inches. Printed in colour on period wove paper. Minor wrinkling along top edge in border... More about Victoria Bridge, Montreal, Canada. Summer View
Date Published: 1845 Binding: No binding A RARE AND IMPORTANT EARLY DOCUMENT FOR THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA Draft of Church Constitution Feb. 4th, 1845. Draft of A System of Management for the congregations under the inspection of the Missionary Synod of the United Secession Church in Canada. VII parts... More about Draft of Church Constitution letter [Missionary Synod of the United Secession Church in Upper Canada
Date Published: 1898 Binding: 4pp. Flat 9-7/8 x 8 inches, folded to 5 x 8 inches (was folded once more) House of Commons letterhead dated Kingsmere [Quebec], 15th Aug. 1898. 2 written pages. Addressed to Mr. Hopkins regarding a manuscript for an a new edition presumed for the “Bibliography... More about Letter from Bourinot to Hopkins regarding Royal Society of Canada (RSC) new edition
Date Published: 1873 Binding: No binding Two holograph letters written to Mr. Hyde Clark, London England. 1) 1873, Nov. 10th, Flat 9-3/4 x 7-7/8 inches, folded to 4-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches (was folded smaller. Small blind embossed logo in the top left corner. 4pp with 3 written pages. Referred to... More about Hugh Watt, Meaford Monitor publisher, two holograph letters
Date Published: 1879 Binding: Letter size 4-7/8 x 4-7/8 inches flat, was folded. Hand-written 1879 letter from Samuel Dawson of Dawson Brothers, Montreal booksellers on their letterhead to Henry J. Morgan, Ottawa. Dated May 1, 1879. Included is a FREE frank envelope which contained the letter. Letter contents refers... More about Hand-written letter from Samuel Dawson to Henry J. Morgan
Toronto: Dufresne photography. Place Published: Toronto Publisher: Dufresne photography Date Published: [1876] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Cabinet Card circa 1876: 4 x 7-1/2 inches. Signed and inscribed on bak by John T. Smith; "to Bro? John Wood, Yours Truly John Smith 235-1/2 Queen Street East. Toronto. James Juard... More about John T Smith of Toronto Cabinet Card signed
Date Published: 1856 Binding: No binding 14pp. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches, disbound, no covers Full title: RETURN: To an address from the Legislature Assembly to His Excellency The Governor General, dated the 19th instant, praying His Excellency to cause to be laid before the House, "copies of correspondence and other... More about Appendix (No. 7 and 8) RETURN: To an address from the Legislature Assembly to His Excellency The...
Date Published: 1867 Binding: No binding flat: 8-7/8 x 7-1/4 inches Folded: 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches (was folded smaller originally) Letter opening contents; Dear Sir In compliance with your wish I forward the information relating to the Beach at Herne Bay. The Ecclesiastical Commission are the owners of the foresaid... More about copy holograph letter Jno Jordan to Captain Starkee? regarding Herne Bay, Kent
Date Published: 1983 to 2007 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Lawrence Hill (b1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, educator, and documentary writer. His epic novel, The Book of Negroes, tells the spell-binding story of a girl, Aminata Diallo, forcefully brought to South Carolina from West Africa at the time of... More about Lawrence Hill collection
Date Published: 1844 to 188? Binding: Captain Frederick Marryat was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novels and for his children's novels. He is probably one of... More about Captain Frederick Marryat collection
Date Published: 1838 to 1876 Binding: Elihu Geer was a printer and publisher in Hartford, Connecticut. He operated a printing shop and stationery store. Geer also published the Hartford Journal from 1843-1844 and Geer's Hartford Directory. Geer 's Hartford City Directory for 1876-7 has a listing for Mark Twain... More about Elihu Geer collection
Date Published: 1941 to 1988 Binding: Hugh MacLennan (was a Canadian novelist and English professor at Lower Canada College and McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards. The collection contains 6 items dating from 1941 to 1988 specifically, two signed books, a pamphlet, a magazine, a letter, and... More about Hugh MacLennan collection
Date Published: 1848 to 1865 Binding: Black paper boards, quarter bound in plum leather, gilt tooling. Damage to the spine (black tape repair) and corners, and front cover separated. Some inside pages torn. Some foxing or age toning throughout and several tears and fair condition for the Album itself... More about Album of American sheet music and patriotic ephemera
Date Published: 1844 to 1890 Binding: Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat. Taylor is widely accredited with writing the first American gay novel: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania. The collection contains 12 items dating from 1844 to... More about Bayard Taylor collection
Date Published: 1874 to 1916 Binding: William Dean Howells nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, was a prolific realist novelist, literary critic (Atlantic Monthly), poet, and playwright. He was a close colleague and friend with many major American writers of the nineteenth century, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry... More about William Dean Howells collection
Date Published: 1925 to 1942 Binding: Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and award-winning children’s book author winning the first Newberry Medal in 1922 for “The Story of Mankind”. In 1942 he was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina for his contribution to the Dutch resistance... More about Hendrik Willem Van Loon collection
Date Published: 1818 to 1954 Binding: Greenland missionary work collection contains 4 items dating from 1818 to 1954 specifically 3 books and one ALS letter. 3 Books (1 ALS letter with one book) • James Montgomery. Greenland, and Other Poems. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst... More about Hans Poulsen Egede collection (1686-1758
Date Published: 1694, 1955, 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Pierre Berton / Farley Mowat three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items. The three items are all personally connected to these two Canadian literary giants. Born less than a year apart, Berton and Mowat were passionate story tellers of... More about Mowat / Pierre Berton three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items
Date Published: [1935] Binding: No binding A VERY RARE MANLY MACDONALD EARLY CHRISTMAS CARD Christmas Greeting Card circa 1930's Flat: 12-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches Folded: 6-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches Image: 4-7/8 x 3-3/4 inches The printed Manly MacDonald "The Red Mill" image, slightly out of register when printed, was trimmed... More about Christmas Card Print of Bruce’s Mill titled “The Red Mill” after a Manly MacDonald painting
Date Published: 1936 to 1995 Binding: No binding & hard cover Rumer Godden was a poet, memoirist, an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction and children’s books. She was born in Sussex, but grew up in India, in Narayanganj. Many of her 60 books are set in... More about Rumer Godden collection
Date Published: 1928 to 1987 Binding: Dorothy Livesay is considered one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets and the winner of two Governor General’s Awards (1944, 1947). Following the publication of Green Pitcher (1928) when she was only nineteen years of age, she published Signpost (1932). This was followed by twenty-two... More about Dorothy Livesay collection
Date Published: 1887-1920 Binding: No binding & soft cover Amy Lowell was an American poet critic, and woman of letters who became a powerful leader in the modernist poetry movement known as Imagism. She was posthumously was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. The collection consists of three... More about Amy Lowell collection