Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/3
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    79 Bouchette (Joseph, Swurveyor-Gen. Lower Canada) Brirish Dominions in NortH AMERICA, or a Topographical and Statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, N.B., Nova Scotia, plans and litho- graph plates (some slightly spotted); a Topographical Dictionary of the Province of Lower Canada ; tugether 3 vols, 4to., c/., 1832 £3'5s The lithograph plates include views of Montreal, Halifax, Frederiction, Bytown (Ottawa), Quebec, Fort Chambly. This work is one of the principal authorities on Boundary Lines. 80 Burford (Robert) DusxRrerion of a Vinw of the Crry of Qursxc, folding plate and 12 pages of text, 8vo., hf. cl., 1830 18s $1 ——— Description of a View of the Faurs of Niagara, folding plate and 12 pages of text, 8vo,, wrapper, 1833 12s 82 Burpee (L. J.) On the Otp ArHapaska TRAIL (Exploration in the Rockies and Adventures of Fur-Hunters in the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Day), allusts., 8vo., cl. [1927] 10s 6d 83 Canadian North-West: its Harty DevELoPMENT and its LecisuaTive RE- corps; Minutes of the Councils of the Red River Colony and Northern epartme :t of Rupert’s Land, ed. by Prof. Oliver, maps, 2 vols, 8vo., c’., Ottawa, 1914 : ‘§£2 10s 8t Canadian Tourist, accompanied by a Map of the Ramroaps and WATER Coursss in CanapA and U.S., folding maps and plates, 12mo.,. cl., Montreal, 1860 6s 85 Carmichael-Smyth (Maj.-Gen. Sir James) Precis of the Wars in Ganapa, 1755-1814, with Military and Political Reflections, 8vo., c/., 1862 £3 86 Chabert (M. de) Voyvace en 1756 et 1751 dans L’ AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, avec Observations Astronomiques, 6 folded charts and plans, sm. 4to., con- temporary calf, Paris, 1753 £4 M. Chabert surveyed the coasts of Acadie (Nova Scotia), Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island), Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island), and part of Newfoundland. 87 Charlevoix (P. Fr. Xavier de) Hisrorre et Description GENERALE de la NovuvELLe FRANCE, avec le Journal Historique d’un Voyage dans l Amérique Septentrionale, charts by Bellin and botanical plates, 3 vols, 4to., contem- porary calf, Paris, 1744 £10 One of the most important works relating to the establishment of the French in Canada, with authentic accounts of the Indians, not only of Canada, but also of the French Dominions on Lower Mississippi. 38 JOURNAL of a VoyacE to NortH AMERICA... containing the Geo- graphical Description and Natural History of that Country, particularly Canada; together with an Account of the Customs, Characters, Religion, Manners and Tradition of the Original Inhabitants, maps, 2° vols, 8vo., contemporary calf, 1761 £10 The first edition in English. 89 Colby (C. W.) Canapran Types of the OLp Recaime, 1608-98, portrazts und plates, 8vo., cl., 1908 12s 90 Cooney (R.) Comprnpious History of the NorRTHERN Part of Province of New Brunswick and District of GaAspx, 8vo., cl., 1896 £1 5s 91 Crouse (N. M.) In the Quersr of the Western Ockran [from the late 15th to mid 18th Century], with 12 reproductions of the maps of the early explorers, 8vo., cl., 1928 (pub, 25s) 10s Traces comprehensively the work carried on by explorers in their efforts to find the route to ‘‘ the Western Ocean,’ the mysterious passage which for three centuries served as an incentive for discovery to those who sought a short cut tothe Far East. 92 Dunraven (Barl of) The Great DivipE: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874, 2/lusts., Svo., c/., 1876 £1
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