Sales catalogue: Marks and Co

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/35
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    treet Americana—continued. 74 CANADA.—Apams (A. Letra) Frecp and Forrest Ramses, with Notes and Observations on the NATURAL History of EASTERN CANADA, 2llustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1873 10/- 75 CANADA.—Bacon (Epcar Mayurew) The Hupson River, from Ocnan to Sources, His- torical, Legendary, Picturesque, wth folding scoinona] map (in pocket) and 100 dlustrations, 8vo., cloth, New York, 1902 10 ee THE AUTHOR’S COPY, WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. 6 CANADA.—Biassy (Joun J.) The SuHor and Canon, or Pictures of TRAVEL in the Canapbas, illustrative of their Scenery and of Colonial Life, with Facts and Opinions on Emigration, State Policy, and o'her Points cf Public Interest, THz AUTHOR’S OWN copPY, undoubtedly prepared for a Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with his Numerous MS. Corrections and Additional Notes neatly written in ink ; together with 6 maps, 41 plates-and 18 vignettes, MOSTLY ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK AND SEPIA DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR, 2 vols, 8vo., rebound in plain cloth [1850] £40 All the extra maps and drawings, together with the manuscript corrections and additions, remain unpublished, as no second edition of the work appeared. A copy of the published edition, with 4 maps and 21 plates, accompanies the corrected copy, the latter having only 3 maps and 7 of the plates. The original drawings include:—-“ Falls of Montmorence and Quebec in the distance ’’; ‘‘ Cap Sante, Church and St. Lawrence, 50 miles above Quebec ’’; ‘‘ The Deep River Ottawa’; “ Feriole and its Double Sunset ’’; ‘‘ Falls of the Rideau, Ottawa River ey Sketch of the Ruins on the Ottawa ee *“ Cul de Sac near the Head of River des Francais’’; ‘° Mr. ousseau’s House, Bay of St. Paul’’; ‘* Church and Presbytery at St. Thomas, L. Canada as) ‘* Foyst Henry *’; ‘“‘ Lake Ontario”’; “‘ Lake Huron, from Lake George’’; ‘‘ Bay near Coles Tavern, diver St. Lawrence’”’; ‘‘ Fort Henry, Kingston, in 1819 ’’; “‘ Mouth of Montreal River,” etc. F ** John Jeremiah Bigsby, b. 1792, d. 1881, Geologist; M.D., Edinburgh, 1814; Army Medical Officer at Cape, 1817; commissioned to report on geology “ot Upper Canada, 1819; British Secretary and Medieat Officer of Canadian Boundary Commission, 1822; Fellow Geological Society, 1823; F.R.S., 1869; practised Medicine at Newark, 1827-46, and in London, 1846-81; published Scientific and other Writings.’’—D.N.B. Epitome. fre 77 CANADA.—Gacnon (Ernest) CHansons Popunarres du Canapa, recuillies et publiees avee annotations, etc., TROISIEME EDITION, 8vo., strongly bound in buckram, Quebec, an 78 CANADA.—Harpy (Captain Campsett) Forest Lirz in Canapa: Sketches of Sport se Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion, coloured front. of the American brook trout, vignette on title and 10 plates, 8vo., half red morocco gilt, t.e.g., uncut (title foxed), 1869 18/- 79 CANADA.—Kent (H.R.H. Epwarp, Duke of) Lirs, Hicherabed by his CorRESPONDENCE with the Ds SALABERRY J'amiILy, never before published, extending from 1791 to 1814 [and including Matter relating to Affairs in Canada], 3 photo.-portraits, 8vo., morocco gilt, Bose 1870 : 80 CANADA.—Kunasrorp (W1LL1AM) The History of Canapa [from the EaRLiest Date of the Frencu RuueE to the Deatru of Lorp SypENHAM], 1608-1841, CompLEeTE SET, with Indexes, maps, &c., 10 vols, 8vo., cloth (back strip of Vol. 7 torn), 1887-98 £5/5/- 81 CANADA.—Muituais (J. G.) NewrounplLaNp and its UnrroppEN Ways, numerous tllustra- tions by the Author and from photographs (some coloured), roy. 8vo., original cloth (little loose), 1907 15/- 82 CANADA.—Rowan (Joun J.) The Emtcrant and Sportsman in CANADA: some Ex- periences of an Old Country Settler, with Sketches of Canadian Life, Sporting Adventures, and Observations on the Forests and Fauna, folding map, 8vo., half brown morocco (stamp on title), 1876 8/- 838 CANADA.—SovutussK (James Carneciz, 6th Earl of) SASKATCHEWAN and the Rocky Mountains: a Diary and Narrative of Travel, Sport and Adventure during a Journey through the Hupson’s Bay CoMPANY’S TERRITORIES in 1859 and 1860, wth 2 maps, 9 plates and 22 woodcuts in the text, 8vo., cloth, scarce, Hdinburgh, 1875 £2/2/- Presentation copy from the Author, with inscription on half-title, ‘‘ John Rae, Esqre. M.D., with kind regards from Southesk, Jan. 20, 1875.” 84 CANADA.—Serrton (Ernest Tuomeson) The ARcTIC PRAIRIES: a Canoe Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylmer Lake, profusely illustrated, 8vo., cloth, 1912 10/- 85 CHART showing the Track of HMMS. ‘* SIBYLLE,” when cruising between the Coasts of GREENLAND and LABRADOR in 1809, original drawing, with remarks, manuscript, 24 pages, folio, signed C. Uptin, Capt., Oct., 1809 ; Track of H.M.S. ‘‘Srpyiie” [in the ATLanTic], 14th Feb. to 16th April, 1810, with small water colour drawing of the ship; CHART of H.M.S. ‘f Tatpor ” [South of Ireland], Aug., 1810, with water-colour drawing of a soldier and sailor, and a small seascape ; together with 33 similar charts, in one vol, atlas folio, half morocco, 1808-10 £3/10/- The whole of the charts are mounted on linen backed cartridge paper, and are thus well preserved.
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