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ANDERSON, Rev. Duncan.
Lays Of Canada And Other Poems.
Montreal: Printed By John Lovell & Son, 1890..
8vo. pp. 116, [1 leaf]. original blind-stamped cloth (cloth soiled, minimal stain to upper outer edge of leaves in first half). First Edition. Watters p. 7.
$60 USD Book Number: elala3803 Order / Enquire

[ANDERSON, William James] [1812-1873] (Compiler).
[Holiwell's Tourist Guide To Quebec].
[Quebec: 1872]..
12mo. pp. [5]-46. lacking the ads (pp. 1-4) & probably printed wrs. 11 mounted albumen prints. old cloth (bit spotted). First Edition. Scarce.
$1199 USD Book Number: elala3700 Order / Enquire

ANDREWS, Israel D[e Wolfe] [c1813-1871].
Communication From The Secretary Of The Treasury, Transmitting.the Report of Israel D.Andrews.On The Trade And Commerce Of The British North American Colonies.
Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854..
8vo. pp. viii, 851. without the maps (separately bound). original blind-stamped cloth (head of spine chipped, scattered foxing, several gatherings lightly browned). An important and exhaustive report on the trade and commerce of the British North American provinces for the years 1850-51, with particular emphasis on the Great Lakes trade. This is a reprint of the Senate document (32d Congress, 1st Sess., Ex. Docl. No. 112) published the previous year. Commissioned by the American Secretary of the Treasury, this was Andrews' second report (his first was published in 1851), in the compilation of which he was assisted by Thomas C.Keefer. Andrews, United States consul at Saint John, New Brunswick, was the chief promoter of the Canadian-American Trade Reciprocity Treaty of 1854. TPL 3403. cfGagnon I 121. cfSabin 1498.
$350 USD Book Number: elala1681 Order / Enquire

ANDREWS, W[illiam] D[arling] [1853-1903].
The Lifeboat And Other Poems With a Record of Eighteen Years' Service.
Toronto...: William Briggs, [c1890]..
12mo. pp. 80. frontis. portrait & numerous text illus. (many full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth wrs., gilt edges. Later Enlarged Edition. cfWatters p. 7.
$150 USD Book Number: elala3804 Order / Enquire

ARBER, Edward [1836-1912] (Editor).
The first Three English books on America. [?1511]-1555 A.D. Being chiefly Translations, Compilations, &c., by Richard Eden, From the Writings, Maps, &c., of Pietro Martire, of Anghiera (1455-1526).Sebastian Münster, the Cosmographer (1489-1552).Sebastian
Birmingham: 22 June 1885..
4to. pp. xlviii, 408. with half-title. title in red & black. decorative ornaments & initials. a few text illus. & several facsimile titles. original cloth (recased, some fraying to joints & extremities). With sections on Cabot, Columbus, Magellan, and Vespucci, and brief passages or mention of Newfoundland, Labrador, New France, Cartier, Frobisher, &c. O'Dea 22.
$350 USD Book Number: CBEeARBE13 Order / Enquire

AREY, Henry W.
The Girard College And Its Founder: Containing The Biography Of Mr. Girard, The History Of The Institution, Its Organization And Plan Of Discipline, With The Course Of Education.
Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., 1869..
12mo. pp. 85. engraved frontis. & aquatint portrait. original cloth (spine ends chipped, foxing to plates).
$59 USD Book Number: elala1683 Order / Enquire

ARFWEDSON, C[arl] D[avid] [1806-1881].
De Colonia Nova Suecia In Americam Borealem Deducta Historiola. Quam Venia Ampl. Fac. Phil. Upsal. Praeside Mag. Erico Gust. Geijer.
Upsala: 'Excudebant Regiae Academiae Typographi', [1825]..
small 4to. pp. 2 p.l., 34. folding engraved map. modern bds. (light dampmark in upper margin, repair to lower margin of title). First Edition of this scarce dissertation which deals mainly with the events leading to the formation of the Swedish West India Company. It is particularly valuable for containing a number of extracts from original documents preserved in the Palmskjold collection in the Royal Library of the University of Upsala which are not printed elsewhere. Among these are an account by Governor Risling of the attack made upon the Swedish colonies in New-Sweden by the Dutch under the command of P.Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherland in 1655 (pp. 23-30), and a paper concerning the Finnish emigration to America in 1664. Also included is a short biographical list of all of the Swedish ministers sent to the American colony. The map of New Sweden is copied from the P.Lindstrom map in Campanius Holm's history of the colony published in 1702. Howes A-303. Larson 58. Muller 1135. Sabin 1941. Winsor IV p. 495.
$649 USD Book Number: elala1684 Order / Enquire

ARFWEDSON, C[arl] D[avid] [1806-1881].
Forenta Staterna Och Canada Aren 1832, 1833 Och 1834.
Stockholm: L.J.Hjerta, 1835..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 1 p.l., [5]-326; 1 p.l., [331]-674. contemporary quarter roan (lacking front free-endpaper). First Edition in Swedish. Clark III 7. Howes A-304. Larson 62. Sabin 1942. cfDionne II 1093. cfDow I p. 186. cfLande 17. cfTPL 1819.
$450 USD Book Number: CFWreARF91 Order / Enquire

ARFWEDSON, C[arl] D[avid] [1806-1881].
The United States and Canada, In 1832, 1833, and 1834. In Two Volumes.
London: Richard Bentley, 1834..
8vo. pp. vii, 433; vii, 418. 2 lithographed frontispieces. index. uncut in original bds., rebacked with with remains of printed spine labels mounted (some foxing to plates & outer leaves). First Edition. Arfwedson visited New York, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Washington before making an excursion into Canada, where he passed through Niagara Falls, Toronto, Kingston, Quebec and Montreal. His narrative includes his impressions of the Shaker community at Lebanon Springs and the gun factory at Springfield, as well as considerable discussion of social and economic questions, slavery, temperance societies, Indians and the American penal system. Arfwedson in fact came to America with the humanitarian William Crawford, who was sent by the British government to inspect the prison systems of the United States. Chapters XI-XII (pp. 312-353) relate specifically to Canada. Dionne II 1093. Dow I p. 186. Howes A-304. Lande 17. Sabin 1943. TPL 1819.
$961 USD Book Number: CFWeARFW8 Order / Enquire

ARMSTRONG, Frederick H.
A City In The Making Progress, People & Perils in Victorian Toronto.
Toronto & Oxford: Dundurn Press, [1988]..
8vo. pp. 358. many full-page b/w illus. cloth. dw. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: CMSCiARM91 Order / Enquire

ARMSTRONG, Frederick H.
Toronto The Place of Meeting."Partners In Progress" By Gordon Pitts, Assisted by Geoffrey Simmins.
[Toronto]: Produced in Cooperation With The Ontario Historical Society Windsor Publications, [1983]..
4to. pp. 303, [1]. numerous illus. (few colour). cloth (tipped-in presentation leaf). dw. First Edition.
$46 USD Book Number: CMSroARM23 Order / Enquire

ARNOLD, Matthew.
Discourses In America.
London & New York: Macmillan And Co., 1889..
8vo. pp. xi, [1 leaf], 207. untrimmed in original cloth (spine faded & extremities frayed).
$65 USD Book Number: elala1685 Order / Enquire

ART PUBLISHING COMPANY.
"Canada" A Portfolio Of Original Photographic Views of Our Country...
Toronto: [1894]..
oblong folio. over 400 half-tone illus. (most full-page). original cloth (shaken, inner front hinge cracked & weak, spine ends & corners worn & frayed). First Edition.
$200 USD Book Number: elala4974 Order / Enquire

ASHE, Thomas.
Travels In America, Performed In The Year 1806, For The Purpose Of Exploring The Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, And Mississippi, And Ascertaining The Produce And Condition Of Their Banks And Vicinity.
London: Printed For Richard Phillips By B.McMillan, 1809..
8vo. pp. 316, [4]index. modern bds. Second Edition, abridged from the original in three volumes issued the previous year. An extremely unflattering view of America and Americans by a man whose entire career Clark notes "was checkered with intrigue, misrepresentation, and fraud. Embarking on the Ohio in April, 1806, Ashe and two servants began a trip to New Orleans on a flatboat.The chief reason for his journey was an intense interest in archaeological remains. He uncovered Indian tombs, sought bones of extinct animals, and climaxed his trip by swindling Dr. William Goforth out of a skeleton of a mammoth. Enlivened by misrepresentation and exaggeration, Ashe's account is interesting and highly readable. Apparently he realized that a book devoted largely to the condemnation of Americans would be profitable." (Clark) "Interesting in spite of its snarling asperity and numerous lies." (Howes) Clark II 134 (2). Howes A-352. Sabin 2180.
$400 USD Book Number: elala3236 Order / Enquire

ASPLUND, John [d. 1807].
The Annual Register Of The Baptist Denomination, In North-America; To The First Of November, 1790. Containing An Account of the Churches and their Constitutions, Ministers, Members, Associations, their Plan and Sentiments.
[Richmond, Virginia: 1791]..
small 4to. pp. iv, 5-16, 17-44, 45-52, 53-56, 57, [blank], 69-70. Uncut & stitched in original wrs. First Edition, Second Issue of this bibliographically complicated work, composed of sheets from various printings; according to Evans no copy made up wholly of first issue sheets is known. The author, a Swede living in Richmond, says that he walked approximately seven thousand miles in eighteen months, visiting about two hundred and fifty churches, fifteen associations, and became acquainted with two hundred and fifty ministers. Pp. 53-[60] contain An abstract of principles held by the Baptists.published in Philadelphia 1742, followed by an Index and Remarks (Errata). Evans 26579. cfHowes A-361. cfLarson 66-67. cfSabin 2221-22.
$1499 USD Book Number: elala1687 Order / Enquire

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