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WENTWORTH, Sir John, Bart. [1737-1820].
Manuscript document, signed.
Halifax: 1806..
folio. 2 pages, with integral leaf (blank except for docket title on verso). with sea. (horizontal folds, few short tears along folds). WENTWORTH, Sir John, Bart. [1737-1820] [Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1792-1808)]. Manuscript document, signed by Wentworth and Ja. Gautier, Deputy Secretary, dated Halifax, February 1, 1806. The document concerns provisions for a female child of James De Lancey of Annapolis [1746-1804] [Army Officer, Loyalist, and Annapolis County Politician], officially appointing Thomas Barclay of New York, and William De Lancey and Thomas Ritchie, both of Annapolis, as her legal guardians. The child, named Ann, aged two at the time of the execution of the present document, was born after De Lancey's death in 1804.
$599 USD Book Number: elala849 Order / Enquire
WEST, Bruce.
The Man Who Flew Churchill.
Toronto.: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, [1975]..
8vo. pp. xix, 201. 4 plates. maps on endleaves. bds. dw. (corners slightly bumped). First Edition.
$46 USD Book Number: CSTeWEST39 Order / Enquire
WEST, Christopher.
Canada And Sea Power.
Toronto: McClelland & Goodchild, Limited, [1913]..
12mo. pp. 172. index. cloth (sunned). First Edition.
$67 USD Book Number: CSTnaWES39 Order / Enquire
WEST, John [1775?-1845].
The Substance of A Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America In the years 1820-1823.
Vancouver, Alcuin Society, 1967..
8vo. pp. xx, 186, [2 leaves]. folding coloured map. illus. by Donald Jarvis. cloth. uncut. bd. slipcase (little soiled). Limited to 500 numbered copies. Peel 156n.
$125 USD Book Number: elala4752 Order / Enquire
WEST, John [1775?-1845].
The Substance Of A Journal During A Residence At The Red River Colony, British North America; And Frequent Excursions Among The North-West American Indians, In The Years 1820, 1822, 1823. Second Edition, Enlarged With A Journal Of A Mission To The Indians
London: Printed For L.B.Seeley And Son, 1824..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xvi, 210, [1 leaf]errata, [209]-326. lacking half-title. folding engraved map. 3 engraved plates. 1 text illus. modern half calf (some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves). Second Enlarged Edition (first: 1824). An early account of the Red River Settlement by its first Protestant missionary. West was appointed Chaplain to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820. His journal relates his journey there via Hudson's Bay and York Factory, his visits to the company stations in the region: Brandon House, Fort Douglas, Qu'Appelle, Pembina, Salt Springs, Fort Daer, Norway House, Fort Churchill, &c., and much detailed and interesting information regarding the manners, customs, and quality of life, of the Chippeway or Saulteaux, Muskeggowuck or Swamp, Stone, and Sioux Indians. The second journal, which was also separately issued, records West's missionary tour of the Maritimes and visit to Upper Canada in 1825-26, under the auspices of the New England Company. TPL 7178. Wagner-Camp 27:2. cfBell W88, cfLande 1510, cfPeel 81, & cfStreeter VI 3696 (1st Edn.). Morgan p. 388. Sabin 102738. Story p. 705. Winsor VIII p. 79.
$1100 USD Book Number: CSTeWEST84 Order / Enquire
WETHERELL, Donald G. & Irene R. A. KMET.
Alberta's North: A History, 1890-1950.
[Edmonton]: University of Alberta Press, Alberta Community Development & Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, [2000]..
8vo. pp. xxi, [1], 403. text illus. & maps. biblio. index. pictorial wrs. Presentation Copy signed by both authors. First Edition.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2383 Order / Enquire
WETHERELL, J.E.
Three Centuries Of Canadian Story From John Cabot to John Franklin.
Toronto: Musson Book Company Limited, [1928]..
8vo. pp. x, [2], 338. frontis. text illus. index. cloth (sunned & stained). Signed presentation copy to Arthur Meighen dated December, 1928. First Edition.
$61 USD Book Number: CTHreWET82 Order / Enquire
WHEELER, A[rthur] O[liver] [1860-1945].
The Selkirk Range.
Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1905..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xvii, [1], 459. 95 plates. numerous text illlus. (1 full-page). 14 folding maps & profiles in separate volume with inner slipcase (some in colour). original cloth (some wear along slipcase edges). First Edition. A topographer and mountaineer, Wheeler conducted various government surveys in the Rockies, the Selkirks, Alaska and the Yukon, served as one of the commissioners on the Alberta-British Columbia boundary from 1913 to 1925, and founded the Alpine Club of Canada in 1906, serving as its first president until 1910. Part I of the present work gives an account of a topographical survey of a portion of the Selkirks adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway line, while parts II-IV provide a review of the previous travel and exploration, surveys, and mountaineering in the region (there is a separate chapter on lady mountaineers). Most of the illustrations are after photographs taken by the author. Edwards & Lort 3998. Lowther 1548. Neate 887 (incorrectly calling for 92 plates & 10 maps). Strathern & Edwards 3998.
$513 USD Book Number: CEEeWHEE57 Order / Enquire
WHELAN, Patrick J[ames] (Defendant).
Trial Of Patrick J.Whelan For The Murder of The Hon. Thos. D'Arcy McGee.Reported For The Ottawa Times By George Spaight, Esq., And Revised By A Barrister In Attendance [Cover Title].
Ottawa: G.E.Desbarats, Printer, 1868..
8vo. pp. 88. photo portrait of Whelan mounted on verso of title. original printed wrs. (rear wr. wanting, front wr. detached, badly chipped at edges & with tear down centre which means the portrait is split in half as well, there are a few old crude paper repairs to the tears but there is no loss, some chipping to the edges of the outer leaves, spine taped). First Edition. Scarce. Whelan, an Irish immigrant, was charged with the assassination of McGee on the morning of April 7, 1868, found guilty, and publicly hanged in Ottawa on Feb. 11, 1869. Although the murder was generally believed to be part of a Fenian conspiracy, the crown never accused Whelan, and charges against other alleged members of the conspiracy were dismissed. Casey I 3543.
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WHERRETT, George Jasper.
The Miracle of the Empty Beds: A History of Tuberculosis in Canada.
Toronto & Buffalo: University Of Toronto Press, [1977]..
8vo. pp. xx, 299. 4 double-sided plates. text illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$61 USD Book Number: CEReWHER91 Order / Enquire
WHITE, Arthur V.
Long Sault Rapids St. Lawrence River An Enquiry. (Canada Commission of Conservation Committee On Waters And Water-Powers).
Ottawa: Mortimer Co., Limited, 1913..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 384. 25 plates (including 3 folding maps). index. cloth (front & rear hinge cracked, front endpaper missing). First Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: CITngWHI40 Order / Enquire
WHITE, Henry [b. 1879].
Gold Regions Of Canada. Gold: How And Where To Find It! The Explorer's Guide And Manual Of Practical And Instructive Directions For Explorers And Miners In The Gold Regions Of Canada, With Lucid Instructions And Explanations As To The Rocky Strata, Peculiar Shale Rocks, Veinstone, Etc. In Which Gold, And Many Other Valuable Minerals, Are To Be Found In That Region; With Easy Modes Of Determination And Analysis.
Toronto: Maclear & Co., 1867..
16mo. pp. v, [1]blank, [7]-108. 2 folding lithographed maps (1 hand-coloured). original blind-stamped cloth wrs., rebacked (tear in frontis. map neatly repaired - no loss). First Edition. Very Scarce. "The object of the following pages is, to supply to the gold mining emigrant coming into Canada, as well as those already in this country, with the information necessary to enable them to conduct, with felicity and certainty, the researches and operations which are essentially necessary to a successful issue in gold mining, as well as that of other operations of a similar nature.This work is therefore expressly prepared, with its accompanying geological maps, as a manual for explorers, and is designed to supply a want now very generally felt, respecting the Madoc Gold discoveries, and the occurrence of other valuable minerals in that (comparatively) unexplored and extensive region of Laurentian rocks.". (Preface) The author was a provincial land surveyor. White also discusses nickel, silver, tourmaline, cobalt, manganese and other minerals. The discovery in 1866 by a prospector of gold in Madoc township, Hastings County, led to a substantial but short-lived gold rush. The appended advertisements in this work offer lands for sale in the Madoc gold regions, mining tools from Belleville merchants, and one by White himself seeking partners with capital to develop mineral lands in Canada East and West. Morgan p. 289. TPL 4642.
$1399 USD Book Number: elala1154 Order / Enquire
WHITE, I[srael] C[harles].
The Geology Of The Susquehanna River Region In The Six Counties Of Wyoming, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia Montour, And Northumberland. [At Head of Title: Second Geological Survey Of Pennsylvania: Report Of Progress G7].
Harrisburg: Published By The Board of Commissioners For The Second Geological Survey, 1883..
8vo. pp. xxx, 464, [6]. 2 folding colour charts in rear pocket, colour frontis. map & numerous full-page text figures. original cloth (scuffed & slightly shaken).
$150 USD Book Number: elala1926 Order / Enquire
WHITE, James.
Altitudes In The Dominion Of Canada.Assisted By George H. Ferguson (Canada Commission of Conservation).
Ottawa: The Mortimer Co., Limited, 1915..
2 Vols. 8vo. pp. xxiii, 603; xii, 251. 6 folding maps (4 in rear pocket). index. cloth. Second Edition.
$205 USD Book Number: CITtiWHI18 Order / Enquire
WHITE, Michael Gladstone.
Windsor Days Before Yesterday: A Picture Book.
Windsor: Red Oak Press, [1992]..
folio. pp. 124. profusely illus. bds. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies, numbered by the author.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2491 Order / Enquire
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