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[WILCOCKE, Samuel Hull] [1766?-1833].
A Narrative Of Occurrences In The Indian Countries Of North America, Since The Connexion Of The Right Hon. The Earl Of Selkirk With The Hudson's Bay Company, And His Attempt To Establish A Colony On The Red River.
London: Printed By B.McMillan, Sold By T.Egerton., 1817..
8vo. pp. xiv, 152, [2 leaves], 87. 19th century half calf (lacking spine label). old ms. notes on a few pages. First Edition. This anonymous pamphlet was issued under the direction of the London representatives of the North West Company to counter charges of unwarranted aggression and destruction of the Selkirk settlement on the Red River, levelled against them by John Halkett in his Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement (1817). The Narrative presents a brief outline of the establishment and growth of the Selkirk Colony from 1812, and attempts to defend and justify the North West Company's actions as the natural consequence of the encroachments, hostilities and provocations of Lord Selkirk and the Hudson's Bay Company. Although sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice, the elder, the work was probably prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, "a hack-writer in the employ of the North West Company". (TPL) Gagnon II 1948. Lande 1313. Peel 50. Sabin 20699. Streeter VI 3675. TPL 1108. Vlach 761.
$2200 USD Book Number: CILNa[WI52 Order / Enquire

[WILCOCKE, Samuel Hull] [1766?-1833].
A Narrative Of Occurrences In The Indian Countries of North America, Since The Connexion Of The Right Hon. The Earl Of Selkirk With The Hudson's Bay Company, And His Attempt To Establish A Colony On The Red River; With A Detailed Account Of His Lordship's Military Expedition To, And Subsequent Proceedings At Fort William, In Upper Canada.
Montreal: James Brown, 1818..
8vo. pp. xiv, 154, [4], 96. contemporary tree sheep (head & tail of spine defective, institutional bookplates & several rubberstamps, some scattered foxing). from the library of William Henry Allen Davies, fur-trader for the Hudson's Bay Company [d. 1867], with his signature. First Canadian Edition. This anonymous pamphlet was issued under the direction of the London representatives of the North West Company to counter charges of unwarranted aggression and destruction of the Selkirk settlement on the Red River, levelled against them by John Halkett in his Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement (1817). The Narrative presents a brief outline of the establishment and growth of the Selkirk Colony from 1812, and attempts to defend and justify the North West Company's actions as the natural consequence of the encroachments, hostilities and provocations of Lord Selkirk and the Hudson's Bay Company. Although sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice, the elder, the work was probably prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, "a hack-writer in the employ of the North West Company". (TPL) Dionne III 105. Peel 106n. Sabin 20699n. TPL 1110. Vlach 762. Vlach, Impressions Québécoises, 1097. cfGagnon II 1948. cfStreeter VI 3675.
$1800 USD Book Number: elala4753 Order / Enquire

[WILCOCKE, Samuel Hull] [1766?-1833].
Récit Des Événemens Qui On Eu Lieu Sur Le Territoire Des Sauvages Dans L'Amérique Septentrionale, Depuis Les Liaisons Du Très Hon. Comte De Selkirk Avec La Compagnie De La Baie D'Hudson, Et La Tentative Faite Par Ce Comte De Fonder Une Colonie Sur La Rivière Rouge...
Montreal : James Brown, 1818..
8vo. pp. xi, [1]blank, 137, [1]blank. 89. old wrs., new cloth spine with remains of printed paper spine label. ownership entry on of J.N.Provencher, possibly Joseph Norbert Provencher [1787-1853], Roman Catholic missionary to the North West (1818), later bishop of St. Boniface (1847-53). modern quarter calf clamshell box. First Edition of the French Translation by Montreal lawyer Hughes Heney [1789-1844]. This anonymous pamphlet was issued under the direction of the London representatives of the North West Company to counter charges of unwarranted aggression and destruction of the Selkirk settlement on the Red River, levelled against them by John Halkett in his Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement (1817). The Narrative presents a brief outline of the establishment and growth of the Selkirk Colony from 1812, and attempts to defend and justify the North West Company's actions as the natural consequence of the encroachments, hostilities and provocations of Lord Selkirk and the Hudson's Bay Company. Although sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice, the elder, the work was probably prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, "a hack-writer in the employ of the North West Company". (TPL) Dionne I 127. Gagnon I 2940. Lande 1513. Peel 108. Streeter VI 3679. TPL 1109. Vlach 763. Vlach, Impressions Québécoises, 1098. cfSabin 60367 [vide RÉCIT].
$2200 USD Book Number: elala4754 Order / Enquire

[WILCOCKE, Samuel Hull] [1766?-1833]. (Editor).
Report Of The Proceedings Connected With The Disputes Between The Earl Of Selkirk And The North-West Company, At The Assizes, Held At York, In Upper Canada, October 1818. From Minutes Taken In Court.
Montreal Printed, London: Re-Printed By B.McMillan.Sold by Egerton, Whitehall, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, and J.Richardson,.
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xxv, 225, [1]blank, 203, [1]blank, 48. 19th century calf (some wear to spine). First London Edition of the controversial Selkirk trials. Following the violent attack on the Red River settlement and massacre at Seven Oaks in 1816 of Governor Semple and twenty of his men, Lord Selkirk instituted legal proceedings against the North West Company. The subsequent trial was little more than a farce. All of the North West Company's influence and power was brought to bear on behalf of its employees and partners; some prisoners were released, others escaped, and the place of trial was shifted from Lower Canada to York, where the Company was linked through family ties with some of the province's leading figures. The delays and setbacks seriously eroded Selkirk's finances and health, and the trial did not finally take place until 1818. Each of the accused was acquitted, and several months later, Lord Selkirk, along with his agent Miles Macdonnell and other Selkirk supporters, were indicted for conspiracy to ruin the trade of the North West Company, and Selkirk himself was fined 2,000 pounds for damages. The Report is divided into three parts: I - The Trial of Paul Brown and François Firmin Boucher; II - The Trial of the Accessories: John Siveright, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser; III - The Trial of John Cooper and Hugh Bennerman. The postscript relates the indictment of Selkirk and the preface contains a defence of the North West Company against the 'calumnies' of the press. Lande 1367. Peel 112n. Sabin 79016. TPL 1146. cfDionne III 113, cfGagnon I 2988, cfStreeter VI 3687, cfVlach 563 (Montreal Edn.).
$3497 USD Book Number: elala1156 Order / Enquire

WILKINS, Harriet Annie [1829-188].
Wayside Flowers. With A Preface By The Rev. William Stephenson.
Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Company, 1876..
8vo. pp. viii, [9]-255. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (cloth soiled, extremities frayed, back joint cracked, bit shaken). First Edition. Watters p. 212.
$75 USD Book Number: elala3893 Order / Enquire

WILLIAMS, John [1664-1729].
The Redeemed Captive Returning To Zion: Or, A Faithful History Of Remarkable Occurrences In The Captivity And Deliverance Of Mr. John Williams.
Greenfield, Mass.: Thomas Dickman, 1800 [i.e. 1802]..
12mo. pp. 248. contemporary calf (very worn, moderate foxing throughout, few marginal tears). Sixth Enlarged Edition. "One of the most famous and most popular captivity narratives.As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty, [it] ranks next to the Rowlandson captivity narrative, published in 1682." (Howes) The Reverend Williams, in charge of the church at Greenfield when it was attacked by Indians in 1703, was carried off to Canada along with his family and other members of the community, his wife and two of his children being tomahawked along the way. The narrative was originally published in Boston in 1707; added for the first time in the present edition is the 'Historical Sketch of Deerfield' by John Taylor (pp. 198-220). Evans 39104. Howes W-461. Sabin 104270. Shaw & Shoemaker 3560. cfField (listing 6th edn. as published in 1795). cfAyer 311. cfTPL 141. cfGagnon I 3712-13 & II 2263-64.
$500 USD Book Number: elala1930 Order / Enquire

WILLIAMS, Walter (Editor).
The State Of Missouri An Autobiography Edited For M.T.Davis, F.J.Moss, B.H.Bonfoey, W.H.Marshall.The Missouri Commission To The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
[Columbia, Missouri: Department of Publication of the Missouri Commission], 1904..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 592. with half-title. 4 folding maps. numerous text illus. & maps. original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities frayed). First Edition. Prepared for the Missouri exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, this 'autobiography' of the state contains chapters on the climate, agriculture, live stock, dairying, manufactures, major cities, counties, &c.
$75 USD Book Number: elala1931 Order / Enquire

WILLIAMSON, James A[lexander] [b. 1886] (Editor).
The Voyages Of The Cabots And The English Discovery Of North America Under Henry VII And Henry VIII.
London: Argonaut Press, 1929..
4to. pp.xiii, 290, [1 leaf]. with half-title. 4pp. publisher's ads loosely laid in. 13 maps (incl. folding frontis.). title vignette. Uncut & largely unopened in original quarter vellum. Limited to 1050 numbered copies on Japon Vellum. Cox II p. 195. Howgego C7. National Maritime Museum I 250. O'Dea 1955.
$410 USD Book Number: CLLeWILL49 Order / Enquire

WILLIS, N[athaniel] P[arker] [1806-1867].
Life, Here And There: Or Sketches Of Society And Adventure At Far-Apart Times And Places.
Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co. & Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., 1854..
8vo. pp. vii, 377, [12]ads. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine sunned, piece torn from rear flyleaf). Not in Sabin.
$75 USD Book Number: elala1932 Order / Enquire

WILLOX, D.
With The British Bowlers In Canada. 1906. A History Of A Famous Tour With Descriptive Sketches Of Many Of The Players, And Most Of The Towns Visited.
Glasgow: D.Gilfillan & Co., [c1907]..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 262, [2]ads. 23 plates after photographs. text illus. original morocco-grained cloth, gilt back (spine ends damaged, corners worn, frontis. mounted onto front paste-down, inner rear hinge cracked). First Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: elala5687 Order / Enquire

WILLSON, [Henry] Beckles [1869-1942].
The Great Company Being A History Of The Honourable Company Of Merchants-Adventurers Trading Into Hudson's Bay.With An Introduction By Lord Strathcona And Mount Royal.
oronto: Copp, Clark Company, Limited, 1899..
8vo. pp. xxii, [17]-541. with half-title. title in red & black. folding map, 14 plates & numerous text illus. (some full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth (spine dull & trifle frayed at foot). First Edition. Peel 1587.
$150 USD Book Number: CLLeWILL8 Order / Enquire

WILSON, F.A. & Alfred B. Richards.
Britain Redeemed And Canada Preserved. In Two Parts.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850..
8vo. pp. xxx, [1 leaf], 556. complete with half-title. 5 plates (incl. folding plan of the Manner of Working the Railway Between Each of the 400 Mile Distances) & folding map. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (hint of foxing to plates & first few leaves, 2 small tape repairs). First Edition. With a view to relieving economic distress and working class poverty in Great Britain, and preventing the loss of the Canadian colonies to the United States, the authors advocate an extensive immigration scheme, the building of a transcontinental railway utilizing convict labour in spaced prison camps along the line of construction, and the creation of a convict colony on the Island of Anticosti. TPL 3124. Dionne II 1293. Lande 898. Peel 136. Goldsmiths' 36909.
$384 USD Book Number: CLSitWIL86 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Francis.
Francis Wilson's Life Of Himself.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924..
8vo. pp. 7 p.l., 463. title in red & black with vignette. 61 illus. on 57 plates (incl. frontis. portrait). Uncut in original quarter cloth. First Edition.
$125 USD Book Number: elala1933 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Thomas.
Transatlantic Sketches; Or, Travelling Reminiscences Of The West Indies And United States.
Montreal: Printed By John Lovell, 1860..
12mo. pp. 1 p.l., x, [11]-179. without the errata slip mentioned by TPL. contemporary calf (spine faded, front joint cracked, head of spine chipped, corners worn). Inscribed 'To Mrs.(?) Hopkins with the Authors Compts., Montreal April 1860. First Edition. Wilson's descriptions of Trinidad (Chapters II-VII) and Cuba (Chapters VIII-XI), are particularly extensive, with much on the cultivation of sugar and processing of sugar cane, the abolition of slavery, insects, the cocoa plantations, social life in Havana, government of Cuba, the cigar trade, &c. His brother, Robert, owned a large sugar plantation in Trinidad. Wilson also describes his visits to St. Thomas, Barbados, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, and Niagara. TPL 8868. Dionne III 985. Not in Sabin.
$450 USD Book Number: elala1158 Order / Enquire

WINGFIELD, Alex[ander] H[amilton] [1828-1896].
Poems And Songs, In Scotch And English.
Hamilton, On.: Printed At The "Times" Book And Job Office, 1873..
12mo. pp. xvi, 255, [1]. (2 preliminary leaves misbound). original gilt-stamped cloth (covers stained, some foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. Watters p. 213.
$60 USD Book Number: elala3894 Order / Enquire

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