Date Published: 1911 Binding: No binding LADY ABERDEEN GIFTING A DOG "PETER" TO LADY LAURIER Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, Autograph Letter Signed, 4 pages, dated June 30, 1911, from Hotel Great Central N.W., on "Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin" letterhead. The present letter is addressed to Wilfrid Laurier, who was apparently in..... More
Montreal House, Kent UK (near Sevenoaks): AMHERST, Jeffery (1717-1797). Place Published: Montreal House, Kent UK (near Sevenoaks) Publisher: AMHERST, Jeffery (1717-1797) Date Published: 1796 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding ASL, Amherst 1p. quarto, (22.5 cm x 18cm,) Montreal [House], docket names on reverse. Dated July 17, 1796, and reads..... More
Nova Scotia: [Dr. Alfred Roscoe Andrews]. Place Published: Nova Scotia Publisher: [Dr. Alfred Roscoe Andrews] Date Published: 1880-86 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover INFORMATIVE AND INTERESTING MANUSCRIPT LEDGER Folio - 4-7/8 x 12-3/4 inches. There are 120 pages (page numbers noted in pencil on each top page) in the..... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: No binding Autograph letter signed. Three pages, Flat size: 7-7/8 x 6 inches, now folded to 6 x 4 inches on small blind embossed 18 Berkeley Square letterhead. Dated July 28, 1897. Thanking the recipient for a copy of his book, gratefully received. Sir Squire Bancroft..... More
Date Published: 1877 Binding: No binding Autograph signed letter. One page, 8 x 5 inches, dated Columbia College, President's Room, May 10, 1877 introducing Reverend George W. Douglas to Professor Burgess. John William Burgess was a pioneering American political scientist. He spent most of his career at Columbia University and..... More
London: T.J. Barnardo. Place Published: London Publisher: T.J. Barnardo Date Published: 1888 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover T.J. BARNARDO MANUSCRIPT LETTERS SCARCE TO THE MARKET 2 page manuscript letter dated 5th Novr. 1888 from Barnardo in London, signed, to W.L. Cotton, editor. The Examiner Charlottetown P.E.I. Canada, and is..... More
Date Published: 1835 Binding: No binding Letter (duplicate) dated December 21, 1835 signed by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) to a British Rear Admiral (in Rio de Janeiro) about a midshipman had drowned. Written while Barrow was secretary of the admiralty. He was founder of the Royal Geographic Society, was a...... More
Date Published: 1836 Binding: No binding Letter dated April 6, 1836 signed by Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) British Rear Admiral about receiving a letter from Rear Admiral Hammond in South America. Very good condition. Letter (duplicate) signed by Sir John Barrow. Written while Barrow was secretary of the admiralty. He..... More
Date Published: 1823 Binding: Autograph Letter Signed (ALS), 2 pages. Hole near the ancient red seal. Bare Need, Newfoundland, May, 8th, 1823 to Oliver St. John, Justice of Peace, Harbour Grace, Surrogate Court. On the valuation of a boat owned by Mr. Hall for a Court judgment. Oliver St..... More
[London]: John Thomas Batt. Place Published: [London] Publisher: John Thomas Batt Date Published: 1771 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: A small 3-3/4 x 5-7/8 inches [30pp.] manuscript notebook devoted to J.T. Batt's executorship of the 2nd Earl Halifax dated 1771. (covering from May 18, 1771 - October 3 1771). Notebook..... More
London. Place Published: London Date Published: 1923 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding An early Lord Beaverbrook small (5 x 6.5 inches) letterhead note paper with Lord Beaverbrook signature. He was granted a peerage in 1917 as the 1st Baron Beaverbrook, the name "Beaverbrook" being adopted from a small community..... More
Date Published: 1887 Binding: No binding ROBERT BELL ALS SCARCE TO MARKET 2pp. letter, flat size 10-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches folded to 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches on Geological Survey of Canada Ottawa letterhead. Dated 1st March, 1887. Bell ALS scarce to market. Ben W. Austin Esq. Secry. Trinity Historical Society..... More
Date Published: 1895 Binding: No binding Holograph letter. One page, 4-1/2 x 7 inches. Blind embossed type 10 St. Peter's Square, Ravenscourt Park letterhead. Dated February 22, 1895. Regretting that he cannot attend Miss Phelps’ concert. Probably Miss Laura B. Phelps violin virtuoso. Alfred Bishop was a British actor. Bishop..... More
Date Published: [1850] Binding: No binding 6-3/4 x 4-1/4 inches, Autograph letter signed W.H. Bogart. One page, 8vo. Dated Senate Chamber 11 March, circa 1850. Was folded with two horizontal and one vertical fold, now flat and glued into an autograph book with old glue residue on verso along left..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: No binding No date. Small 3-1/4 x 8 inch document, torn at the bottom, under the signature. About a land claim in Grand Paspebiac, in Gaspesie. Joseph (Francis) Bouchette Jr. (1800-1881), son of the Surveyor-General of Lower Canada sought funds to support his “Canadian Atlas”, an..... More
Date Published: 1898 Binding: No 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.Very good condition. Addressed to Mr. Hopkins regarding a manuscript for an a new edition presumed..... More
Date Published: 1867 Edition: 1st Binding: No binding George Bowen (Sheriff.) Document Signed. A Deed of Sale. Dated 27 April 1867 (Canada’s confederation year) . Deed to James Barlow. 4 pages. Legal folio. Very Good. Two period postage stamps included on deed. Signed by: W.E. Jones, Deputy Registrar, George Fredrick..... More
Date Published: 1882 to 1900 Binding: No binding 6 autograph letters signed, dating from 1882 to 1900, and a card, all to Mary Birkett, a long time family friend. Mentions of travel, his wife Annie, and one addressed 'at sea'. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey was a British politician, Governor..... More
Date Published: 1897 Binding: Autograph letter signed. Two pages, 6 x 4-1/2 inches, on 12 Cavendish Road, St. John's Wood blue embossed type letterhead. Dated Feb[ruary] 16, [18]97. Enclosing a cheque for the amount due. Frances "Fanny" Whiteside Brough was a Paris-born British stage actress who came from a...... More
Date Published: 1846 Binding: No binding BROUGHAM CONTINUES HIS FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY! Holograph 4pp. letter. Flat 7 x 8-7/8 inches folded to 7 x 4-1/4 inches. Dated 22 June 1846. To an unnamed recipient. It reads: "My dear Mr.P... Again, I am at your feet for aid - on Wednesday..... More
Date Published: [1948] Binding: No binding Draft of a book review of a Report on the Public Archives of Canada Single sheet of lined paper, 4to, Written from the University of Toronto, in pencil on both sides. Signed George W. Brown. Dated circa 1848 by mention of the appointment of..... More
Boulogne. Place Published: Boulogne Date Published: ND Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 2 page letter and B&W engraving of Buller. Two page autograph letter signed letter, 4-1/4 x 6-7/8 inches No date, Boulogne, Sunday. No year. 'My dear Morel, I am very sorry that being recalled to my of..... More
Belleville: Canon J.W. Burke. Place Published: Belleville Publisher: Canon J.W. Burke Date Published: 1897 Binding: No binding 4-1/2 x 7 inches. Autographed Letter Signed. Dated Rectory Belleville, 21 June 1897. To Lt. Col. Pouton., 15 Battalian City. Thanking the battalion for attending that day's service. Black 1/4 inch border and..... More
Date Published: [1785] Binding: No binding Holograph letter signed, two pages 9-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches, undated circa 1785, to his aunt Juliana French, (nèe Burke) [1728-1790], the sister of Edmund Burke. Letter refers to a trip with his father and a payment of 50£ to his cousin Capt Nagle. Light..... More
Date Published: ND Binding: Holgraph Letter from Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns to Benjamin Disraeli. One page, 7-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches. On House of Lords blind embossed letterhead. Dated 16 March. Most happy to accept an invitation from Disraeli ‘en garçon' as his wife will not be in..... More