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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

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

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.
$400 USD Book Number: elala1153 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, Samuel.
History Of The American Troops, During The Late War, Under The Command Of Colonels Fenton And Campbell, Giving an account of the crossing of Niagara by the troops under Gen'ls Gaines, Brown, Scott and Porter. The taking of Fort Erie, the battle of Chippew
[Rochester: Reprinted for George P.Humphrey, By Charles Mann, 1896]..
12mo. pp. 107. An uncut copy in original cloth-backed bds. (small piece chipped from upper blank margin of title). Fourth Edition, Limited to 300 copies. This is numbered 103 and initialed by Humphrey. The author was a volunteer from Adams County, Pennsylvania. His first-hand account of the capture of Fort Erie and the battle of Chippewa (pp. 5-76) is followed by topographical descriptions of Upper (pp. 77-92) and Lower Canada (pp. 92-107). Howes W-370. cfLande 896 & cfTPL 1021 (first edn.: 1829).
$231 USD Book Number: CITstWHI23 Order / Enquire

WHITEFIELD, George [1714-1770].
A Journal Of A Voyage From London To Savannah in Georgia. In two Parts. Part I. From London To Gibraltar. Part II. From Gibraltar to Savannah.
London: Printed for James Hutton, 1738..
8vo. pp. 64, [1]ad. woodcut ornament. uncut in modern half calf (light marginal dampmarks). Third Edition. Sabin 103534. cfHowes W-374. cfJCB I 591-92. See Clark I 177. [BOUND WITH:] WHITEFIELD, George. A Continuation Of The Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, From His Arrival at London, To His Departure from thence on his Way to Georgia. The Third Edition. 8vo. pp. iv, 115. woodcut title vignette. uncut. London: Printed for James Hutton, 1739. Sabin 103538. cfHowes W-374. cfJCB I 631. [BOUND WITH:] WHITEFIELD, George. A Continuation Of The Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal, During the Time he was detained in England by the Embargo. The Second Edition. 8vo. pp. iv, 40. woodcut title vignette. uncut. London: Printed by W.Strahan, and sold by James Hutton, 1739. Sabin 103540. JCB I 634. cfHowes W-374. [BOUND WITH:] WHITEFIELD, George. The Rev. Mr. Whitefield's Answer, To The Bishop of London's Last Pastoral Letter [With Supplement]. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 27, [1]; 8, [1]ad. complete with half-title. woodcut title vignette. uncut. London: Printed by W.Strahan, and sold by J.Oswald, 1739. Second Edition. cfSabin 103577. The first, third and fourth journals of the famous Methodist clergyman, George Whitefield, relating his 1737-38 voyage from London to Savannah, Georgia, and his ministerial duties in England. Whitefield made seven trips to America and founded an orphanage in Savannah.
$1499 USD Book Number: elala1927 Order / Enquire

WHYMPER, Edward [1840-1911].
Travels Amongst The Great Andes Of The Equator.
London: John Murray, 1892..
8vo. pp. xxiv, [2], 456. with half-title. 4 maps & plans (3 folding). 20 wood-engraved plates & 118 wood-engraved text illus. by Edward Whymper after F.Barnard, A.Corbauld, F.Dadd & others. Stonyhurst gilt-stamped prize binding of contemporary calf, gilt back (extremities rubbed, joints cracked). Second Edition. After many years climbing in the Alps, Whymper decided to organize an expedition to the Andes of Ecuador. His primary purpose was to study altitude sickness and the effect of reduced pressure on the human body. During 1880, he made two ascents of Chimborazo (20,498 feet), also claiming the first ascent, and made first ascents of half a dozen other great peaks ranging in height from 15,000 to 20,000 feet. He spent a night on the summit of Cotopaxi (19,613 feet), and was able to thoroughly study the features of the great volcano. Whymper's great contributions to science and exploration were recognized by the Royal Geographical Society, which in 1892 conferred on Whymper one of their Royal Medals "in recognition of the fact that, apart from his mountaineering exploits, 'he had largely corrected and added to our geographical and physical knowledge of the mountain systems of Ecuador, fixed the position of all the great Ecuadorian mountains, produced a map constructed from original theodolite observations extending over 250 miles, and ascertained seventy altitudes by means of three mercurial barometers." (DNB) Whymper also brought back important collections of rock specimens, volcanic dusts, and natural history specimens. He devised a popular form of tent which bears his name, and was able to suggest improvements in aneroid barometers. As usual this copy is without the separately published supplementary volume of scientific observations. Neate 899.
$649 USD Book Number: elala3278 Order / Enquire

WHYMPER, Frederick.
Travel And Adventure In The Territory Of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded To The United States - And In Various Other Parts Of The North Pacific.
London: John Murray, 1868..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xix, 331. lacking half-title. folding engraved map, 16 wood-engraved plates, & 20 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. title vignette). contemporary half calf (rubbed, neat gilt institutional crest on upper cover, some foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. An account of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66. Whymper, who was the artist on the expedition, describes their journey and experiences at Vancouver, Sitka, St. Michael, Norton Sound, Kamchatka and the west coast of the Okhotsh Sea, the Yukon Territory, their ascent and descent, by canoe, of the Yukon River, &c. Also included are remarks on fishing and the fur trade, the Russian and Indian settlements in Norton Sound, and the manners and customs of the Tchuktchis and the Co-Yukon Indians. The first five chapters contain the author's reminiscences of his travels in British Columbia in the 1860's, including an account of his trip to the interior of Vancouver Island in 1864 with Robert Brown's exploring expedition, and details of the Bute Inlet massacre. Arctic Bib. 19424. Field 1657. Smith 10977. Ricks p. 255. Lowther 320. Wickersham 6030.
$699 USD Book Number: elala1155 Order / Enquire

[WHYTE, William E.] [b. 1826].
O'er the Atlantic, Or A Journal Of A Voyage To And From Europe. By W.E.W. [Gwilym Iorwerth Gwynn.].
New York: Published And Sold For The Author By The American News Company, 1870..
12mo. pp. xxiv, [25]-295, [1 leaf]errata. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (slight fraying to extremities). First Edition. Whyte visited England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, and Canada. The last two chapters, pp. 263-295, relate his travels to Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, and Niagara Falls. Smith W72.
$150 USD Book Number: elala3128 Order / Enquire

WIESELGREN, Harald [Ossian] [1835-1906].
Öfver Atlanten.
Stockholm: Ivar Haeggströms Boktryckeri, 1876..
small 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 111. 13 text illus. (6 full-page) (14 called for on title-page, in error, or possibly including a front wr. illus. - the wrs. not present here). contemporary quarter roan (spine worn). First Edition.
$179 USD Book Number: CESveWIE57 Order / Enquire

WILBERFORCE, Samuel [1805-1873].
A History Of The Protestant Episcopal Church In America.
London: James Burns, 1844..
12mo. pp. 1 p.l., [5]-456. engraved frontis. map. folding table. contemporary half calf (rubbed, few institutional markings, scattered pencil scoring, edges of map ragged). First Edition. Not in Sabin.
$225 USD Book Number: elala1929 Order / Enquire

WILBY, Thomas W.
A Motor Tour Through Canada.
London: John Lane..., 1914..
12mo. pp. xviii, [1 leaf], 290. 31 plates after photographs. cloth (spine ends & corners slightly frayed, some foxing throughout, library bookplate on front paste-down). First Edition. The first cross-Canada tour by car from Halifax to Victoria and the first crossing of the Rockies by car.
$125 USD Book Number: elala4513 Order / Enquire

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