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WEBB, Walter Prescott.
The Texas Rangers A Century Of Frontier Defense.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [xv], [584]. with half-title. numerous text illus. from photographs or drawings by Lonnie Rees. original cloth (spine faded). First Edition of the definitive history of the Texas Rangers. Howes W-194. Jenkins 212. Rader 3595.
$200 USD Book Number: elala1924 Order / Enquire
WEBB, William Seward [1851-1926].
California And Alaska And Over The Canadian Pacific Railway.
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1890..
4to. pp. 1 p.l., xix, 190. with half-title. 4 etched plates (incl. frontis.) mounted on India paper (tissue guards marked 'proof'). 88 photogravures. few text illus. uncut in contemporary roan, elaborately tooled in gilt, top edge gilt (extremities & joints rubbed, head & tail of spine chipped). First Edition: letter-press edition limited to 500 copies. The American businessman recounts his railway journey, on a private train, through the western United States and Canada. The work contains descriptions of Denver, Colorado Springs, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Northern California, Montana, Alaska (pp. 141-170), Manitoba, Victoria, Winnipeg &c. Smith 10804. Lowther 906. cfRicks 251. cfWickersham 6481. cfArctic Bib. 19208. Not in Peel.
$769 USD Book Number: CBBliWEB93 Order / Enquire
WEBBER, W.L.
The Thundering "Tootooch" Legends. Folk Tales of the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians.
[Seattle: Ace Printing Company, 1936]..
8vo. pp. xxi, 38. frontis. & text illus. pictorial wrs. Second Edition.
$60 USD Book Number: dola243 Order / Enquire
WEBSTER, Daniel [1782-1852].
The Great Speeches And Orations.With An Essay On Daniel Webster As A Master Of English Style By Edwin P.Whipple.
Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1895..
8vo. pp. lxiii, 707. engraved frontis. portrait & engraved title vignette portrait. text in double columns. original cloth (library stamp on front paste-down & on p. v, small numbers in white & small white blotch on spine).
$100 USD Book Number: elala1925 Order / Enquire
WEINFELD, M ET AL.
The Canadian Jewish Mosaic.
Toronto, New York.: John Wiley & Sons, [1981]..
8vo. pp. viii, 511. biblio. index. cloth. dw.
$51 USD Book Number: CINeWEIN45 Order / Enquire
WEINRICH, Peter H.
A Select Bibliography of Tim Buck General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada 1929-1962.
Toronto: Progress Books, 1974..
8vo. pp. xv, [1], 50. text illus. index. cloth. dw. (slightly soiled). First Edition.
$36 USD Book Number: CINSeWEI13 Order / Enquire
WEIR, Arthur [1864-1902].
The Romance Of Sir Richard Sonnets, And Other Poems.
Montreal: William Drysdale & Co., 1890..
12mo. pp. vii, 121. original cloth. First Edition. Watters p. 208 (3 copies).
$75 USD Book Number: elala3892 Order / Enquire
WEIR, E. Austin.
The Struggle For National Broadcasting In Canada.
Toronto & Montreal: Macmillan Limited, [1965]..
8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 477. 8 double-sided plates. biblio. index. wrs.
$31 USD Book Number: CIReWEIR65 Order / Enquire
WELD, Charles Richard [1813-1869].
A Vacation Tour In The United States And Canada.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1855..
8vo. pp. xi, 394, [2]ads. folding engraved map (frontis.). original black-stamped cloth, neatly rebacked preserving endleaves (outer margin of map neatly repaired). First Edition. Uncommon. The author was a lawyer, scientist, secretary to England's Royal Society, and an authority on Polar explorations. His tour of North America included Boston, Ogdensburg, Prescott, Kingston, Cobourg, Peterborough, Lakefield, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Niagara, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore, and New York. Topics range from life in the Canadian back woods to slavery in the American south. The volume is dedicated to his half-brother, Isaac Weld, whose Travels Through.North America (1799) excited so much interest fifty-five years earlier. TPL 3620. Howes W-234. Dionne II 1362 (no mention of map). Clark III 505 (no mention of map). See Morgan p. 387 (citing incorrect date 1856; no mention of map).
$400 USD Book Number: elala339 Order / Enquire
WELD, Isaac [1774-1856].
Travels Through The States Of North America, And The Provinces Of Upper And Lower Canada, During The Years 1795, 1796, And 1797.
London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1799.
4to. pp. xxiv, 464. 5 engraved maps & plans (1 folding & partially coloured in outline) & 11 engraved plates (incl. frontis.). complete with the rare erratum slip relating to one of the plates, mounted at foot of plate list. contemporary mottled calf, rebacked (some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves). First Edition of one of the most popular American travel narratives. Weld came to North America with the hope of finding more cheerful prospects than those offered by war-torn Europe, but after two years he left "without a sigh, and without entertaining the slightest wish to revisit it." Story notes that "his account of Canada (letters 21-25) is a clear and sustained description of an area and a way of life that pleased him more than had the United States." The plates are engraved after original sketches by the author. Clark II 132. Gagnon I 3701. Howes W-235. Lande 890. JCB II 4062. Sabin 192541. TPL 708. Vlach 754. Story p. 103. Winsor V p. 284 & VIII pp. 174 & 491.
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WELLER, J.L.
Report On The Welland Ship Canal...June 30, 1915 [i.e. 1914].
Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915..
8vo. pp. 12. 4 plates. 2 folding maps. wrs.
$100 USD Book Number: dola475 Order / Enquire
WELLS, Eric.
Winnipeg Where the New West Begins An Illustrated History. With Special Material Contributed by Edith Paterson Editorial Coordination by Margaret Colvin Tropp.
Burlington, Ontario: Windsor Publiocations (Canada) Ltd., [1982]..
4to. pp. 288. profusely illus. (some colour). index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$45 USD Book Number: CLLnnWEL73 Order / Enquire
WELLS, W[illiam] B[enjamin] [1809-1881].
Canadiana: Containing Sketches Of Upper Canada And The Crisis In Its Political Affairs.
London: Printed For The Author By C. and W.Reynell, 1837..
2 Parts in 1 [Part II with separate title, but pagination continuous]. 8vo. pp. 84; [85]-202. Uncut in original plain blue wrs. (spine defective - removed from a bound volume, light spotting to outer leaves, lower portion of back wr. wanting). First Edition. Wells, the son of a loyalist who immigrated to Canada from New Hampshire in 1787, studied law in the office of Marshall Spring Bidwell in Kingston. Called to the bar in 1833, he practised law in Prescott and also worked as a journalist. From 1834 to 1836 he represented Grenville in the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, where he soon took an active part in the reform movement. The present work was written while Wells was in England (1836-37), where he had gone to protest the actions of Sir Francis Bond Head and present the demands of the Reformers to the colonial secretary, Lord Glenelg. "Though the book contained inaccuracies and was extreme in its treatment of Head and prominent Tories such as John Strachan, it was a clear and well-argued presentation of the radical Reform programme of the time. It advocated such measures as responsible government, an elected legislative council, control of the clergy reserves, separation of church and state, annulment of the charter of the Canada Company, revision of charter of King's College (Toronto), abolition of primogeniture, adoption of the secret ballot, reform of the land granting system, and a more equitable distribution of public offices. Wells ended with a threat of armed rebellion and the "forced separation" of the British North American colonies, should all other means of reform fail." (DCB) Wells himself did not take an active part in the rebellion of 1837 but fearing arrest, he fled to Ogdensburg, and did not return to Upper Canada until November, 1838. TPL 2125. Casey I 1582. Sabin 102611. Watters p. 746. Not in Lande. DCB XI pp. 913-14.
$1299 USD Book Number: elala1152 Order / Enquire
WELNETZ, Bob.
Ships Of The Great Lakes On Postcards.
Manitowoc, Wis.: Manitowoc Maritime Museum, [1976]-1977..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 78, [2]; 80. profusely illus. pictorial wrs. First Editions.
$75 USD Book Number: dola417 Order / Enquire
WENTWORTH, Benning.
Manuscript document, signed.
Halifax: 1799..
folio. one page. (horizontal folds, few short tears at folds, small hole in upper blank margin). WENTWORTH, Benning [Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia]. Manuscript document, signed by Wentworth, dated Halifax, September 24, 1799, authorizing the "Return of Lodging Money due to Benning Wentworth Esqr. Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, between the 25th day of June and the 24th day of September 1799 inclusive".
$300 USD Book Number: elala848 Order / Enquire
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