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VAN RENSSELAER, Solomon [1774-1852].
A Narrative Of The Affair Of Queenstown: In The War Of 1812. With A Review Of The Strictures On That Event, In A Book Entitled, "Notices Of The War Of 1812".
New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. & Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836..
12mo. pp. viii, [9]-41, [blank leaf], 95 + [22]ads. folding map (frontis.). original embossed cloth (spine label & foot of spine chipped, stain on front cover, some foxing). First Edition. A reply to General Armstrong's Notices of the War of 1812, by the Commander of the advance American force attacking Queenstown, Oct. 13, 1812. The lengthy appendix (pp. 95) consists of letters and general orders relating to the affair. Howes V-40. Lande 872. Sabin 98548. TPL 929.
$450 USD Book Number: elala622 Order / Enquire

VANCOUVER CITIZENS' DIAMOND JUBILEE COMMITTEE.
1886-1946 Vancouver's Diamond Jubilee June 30-July 14, 1946...Official Souvenir Booklet. [Cover Title: 60 Years! Official Souvenur Vancouver's Diamond Jubilee].
Vancouver: [1946]..
12mo. pp. 96. text illus. & maps. pictorial wrs.
$50 USD Book Number: elala4748 Order / Enquire

VANCOUVER, George [1757-1798].
A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean, And Round The World.
London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1801..
6 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 410 [i.e. 406, pp. 29-32 omitted in pagination; 1 p.l., 418; 1 p.l., 435; 1 p.l., 417; 1 p.l., 454; ` p.l., 412, [2]ads. 2 folding engraved maps & 17 folding plates engraved by Landseer, Pouncy, & Fittler after W. Alexander, from sketches made "on the spot" by Sykes, Heddington, & others. contemporary tree calf, gilt backs, Vol. 1 rebacked with spine mounted, joints of other vols. cracked & some weak, some chipping to spine ends & wear to corners). Second (First Octavo) Edition, of the official account of "the most important [voyage] ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge." (Hill) Vancouver set sail for Nootka Sound on the first of April, 1791, charged by the British government with three tasks: firstly, to take formal possession, according to the terms of the Nootka Sound Convention, of the territory seized there by Spain, secondly, to conduct an accurate survey of the coast northwards from the 30th degree of north latitude, and thirdly, to search for a possible passage to the Atlantic. The expedition took five years to accomplish. Vancouver sailed westward by way of Cape of Good Hope, visited and conducted important surveys of the southwest coast of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands before he reached his destination. During the next three seasons, he systematically investigated the Pacific coastline from San Francisco to Cook's Inlet, explored the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, discovered the Gulf of Georgia, and circumnavigated the island since known by his name - Vancouver Island. His charts of certain portions of the northwest coast are the eariest and most accurate produced. His researches decisively proved that no passage existed between the Pacific and Hudson's Bay. Cox II 30-31. Ferguson 339. Hill p. 304. Howes V-23. Sabin 98444. Smith 10470. Strathern 582 (i). cfBell V18. cfCowan II 655. cfGraff 4456. cfLada-Mocarski 55. cfLande 1495. cfStreeter VI 3497. cfTPL 688. cfZamorano Eighty 77.
$9990 USD Book Number: elala3276 Order / Enquire

VANCOUVER. MARION SCOTT GALLERY.
Inspiration Four Decades Of Sculpture By Canadian Inuit. Curated by Norman Zepp.
Vancouver: 1996..
8vo. 94. 70 colour illus. & 1 b/w. pictorial wrs. Exhibition Catalogue.
$50 USD Book Number: dola239 Order / Enquire

VANCOUVER. SPIRIT WRESTLER GALLERY.
Fusion: Tradition & Discovery A Celebration Of Shared And Cross-Cultural Experiences.
[Vancouver: 1999]..
oblong 4to. [pp. 40]. illus. throughout in colour. pictorial wrs. inserted price list. Exhibition Catalogue.
$40 USD Book Number: dola240 Order / Enquire

[VAUGHAN, Sir William] [1577-1641].
The Golden Fleece Divided into three Parts, Under which are discovered the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading.Transported From Cambrioll Colchos, out of the Southernmost Part of the Island, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Junior.
London: Printed [by W.Stansby, M.Fletcher & one other] for Francis Williams, 1626..
3 Parts in 1. small 4to. pp. 14 p.l., 149, [1]blank, 105, [1]blank, 96. woodcut headpiece & initials. lacking the folding engraved map by John Mason which is frequently wanting. handsomely bound in full gilt-paneled vellum antique, overlapping fore-edges (washed, V1-2 have been remargined and are evidently supplied from another copy, light soiling to outer leaves, overall a fine copy). First Edition. William Vaughan [1575-1641], Welsh scholar and poet, was an important figure in the early colonization of Newfoundland. In 1616 he purchased part of the colonization grant in Newfoundland held by the London and Bristol Company, obtaining a parcel of land lying in the southern part of the Avalon peninsula and including the harbours of Ferryland, Fermeuse, and Renewse. He christened his land Cambriol, hoping to found a new Wales in the New World. In 1617 he despatched his first Welsh colonists to Renewse; more followed in 1618 with Richard Whitbourne, whom Vaughan had appointed to act as governor. Unfortunately the venture collapsed the following year and Vaughan was forced to assign part of his grant, but in 1621 or 1622 he made a second attempt to establish a colony at Trepassey Bay. The present work, a curious mixture of verse, fable, and fact, was written to promote interest in the new colony. The fantastic plan for the book, in which a succession of historical characters present their grievances and appeals for justice before the god Apollo, was borrowed by Vaughan from Boccalini's Ragguagli di Parnaso, a translation of which Vaughan published the same year. According to the DNB, Vaughan was in Newfoundland when he actually wrote the Golden Fleece (1622-25), making this "among the earliest contributions to English literature in America". However, Gillian Cell (DCB) disputes this, finding no conclusive evidence to prove that Vaughan ever visited Newfoundland. ".The book, partly in verse, is an allegory with many references to his colony, to Whitbourne, his governor there from 1618-1619, and to John Guy and John Mason.In the third part the 'golden fleece' is described as 'the way to get wealth' by one main trade: the plantation and fishery of Newfoundland.". (O'Dea) ".an extraordinary work, in vivid contrast to the more prosaic and practical propagandist tracts on Newfoundland which Whitbourne and Mason had written.". (Gillian Cell, DCB) Alden 626/143. Arents 161-A. Baer 12. Bell V36. Church 409. JCB II p. 204. Lande S2269. O'Dea 62. Sabin 98693. STC 24609. TPL 6302 (lacking map). DCB I pp. 654-56. Winsor VIII pp. 188-90.
$14000 USD Book Number: elala1241 Order / Enquire

VENTRESS, Cora ET AL.
The Peacemakers of North Peace.
Fort St. John: Davies, Ventress and Kyllo, 1973..
4to. pp. 416, H1- H96, [2], 14(index). folding map. profusely illus. index. bds. dw. First Edition. Edwards & Lort 3820.
$77 USD Book Number: CNTeVENT52 Order / Enquire

VERBRUGGE, Louis & George.
Promenades Et Chasses Dans L'Amérique Du Nord.
Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1879..
12mo. pp. 3 p.l., 351. with half-title. uncut & partly unopened in modern wrs. (some foxing, soiling to pp. 168-69). First Edition. Including accounts of hunting for antelope and buffalo in the American west and caribou in Canada, with descriptions of New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Dodge City, Montreal, Quebec, Charleston, New Orleans. The last four chapters are concerned with Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti.
$141 USD Book Number: CRBomVER72 Order / Enquire

VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
Vernon's City of Guelph (Ontario) Miscellaneous, Alphabetical, Street And Business Directory For The Year 1937.
Hamilton: 1937..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 19-399. cloth (joints & extremities worn & frayed, a few stains & pencil notes & doodles).
$150 USD Book Number: dola999 Order / Enquire

VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
Vernon's City of Sudbury and Town of Copper Cliff.Directory For the Year 1956.Thirty-Sixth Edition Sold By Subscription Only.
Hamilton: 1955..
8vo. 2 p.l., 17-691, [2]. cloth.
$250 USD Book Number: elala3274 Order / Enquire

VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
VernonÕs Seventy-Fifth Annual City Of Hamilton Miscellaneous, Business, Alphabetical And Street Directory For The Year 1948.
Hamilton: Vernon Directories Limited, 1948..
4to. pp. 1330. b/w illus. cloth (slightly shaken with tear in front free endpaper).
$200 USD Book Number: aly1526 Order / Enquire

VERNON DIRECTORIES LIMITED.
VernonÕs Thirteenth Edition City of Orillia (Ontario) Directory 1969.
Hamilton: Vernon Directories Limited, 1969..
4to. pp. 208. cloth (shaken with some leaves loose). Thirteenth Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: aly1393 Order / Enquire

[VERNON, J.A.H. & S.E.H.VERNON] (Editors).
Ladywood 1892-1992.
[Toronto: G. Patrick H. Vernon, 1992]..
4to. pp. 4 p.l., 159, [1[, 12, 7, [1], 7, [1], 9, [1], 4, 2, [1]. maps & illus. biblio. bds. dw. (few short tears to edges of dw. else very good). First Edition, planned as a limited edition for family members. Ladywood, designed by Toronto architect, Frank Darling [1850-1923], was the Lake Simcoe summer residence of Herbert Evelyn Harcourt Vernon [1863-1943] and his wife, Mary Adelaide Harcourt Vernon [1861-1936], of Toronto. Rare.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2734 Order / Enquire

VETROMILE, Eugene [Anthony] [1819-1881].
The Abnakis And Their History. Or Historical Notices On The Aborigines Of Acadia.
New York: James B.Kirker, 1866..
12mo. pp. xi, [1]blank, [11]-171. additional wood-engraved title, 8 tinted lithographed plates, 8 (of 9?) wood-engraved plates, & numerous text illus. original cloth (worn & soiled, extremities frayed, significant foxing & some browning, a few short marginal tears). First Edition. Including chapters on the origins of the Abnakis, manners and language, hand-writing, villages in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, religion and superstition, public life, astronomy and division of time, domestic life, present condition, character, vindication of their character against accusations of cruelty and treachery, division of the parties amongst the Indians of Maine and the Indians of the British provinces, present treatment of native Americans east and west of the Mississippi, and the treatment of the California Indians. The tinted lithographs comprise views of the grave of brother Du Thet and the ruins of St. Savior's, the present state of the monument of the Rev Sebastian Râle, Sibayk Alnambay Udenek Pleasant Point Indian Village, Corpus Christi`s day at the Old-Town Indian village on the Penobscot River, Penaubsket Alnambay Udenek - Old-Town Indian village, Lewis Island - Indian village on the Schoodic Lakes, the death of Father Râle - killed by the English and Mohawks at Norridgewock, Au. 23, 1724, Old Point on the Kennebec in Maine, with Râle`s monument. Vetromile was a missionary in Maine. TPL 4546. Field 1602. Lande S2273. Not in Sabin.
$849 USD Book Number: elala3505 Order / Enquire

VICTORIA COMMITTEE ON CANADIAN RESPONSIBILITY IN VIETNAM.
Canada And Vietnam.
Victoria, BC: [c1966]..
12mo. pp. 16. self-wrs. with illus. on upper cover (partly spit along spine fold with slight loss to lower rear wr., rubberstamp & ownership entry on cover). First Edition.
$90 USD Book Number: dola844 Order / Enquire

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