Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1938
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    } 152 | 155 156 | 157 158 159 160 162 84, CHARING Cross ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2. 19 British North America—continued. BLUE BOOK, No. 93, UPPER CANADA : RETURN to an ADDRESS of the 3rd April, 1840, for the following STATUTES of UPPER CANADA ; v77z., 1793. Chap. 5. An ACT to provide for the SOLEMNIZATION of MARRIAGE in UPPER CANADA : and 1797. Chap. 14. An ActT for OBVIATING OBJECTIONS from a clerical Error in some of His Majesty’s LETTERS PATENT of GRANT lately issued, 5 pages, folio, stitched, 1840 8/= of UPPER CANADA, recognizing any of the various DENOMINATIONS of CHRISTIANS existing in that PROVINCE, 11 pages, folio, stitched, 1840 8/- BLUE BOOK, No. 96, An Account of the PROCEEDS of the SALE of CLERGY RESERVES in CANADA (under the Provisions of the Act 7 & 8 Geo. IV.) which are now invested in the ENGLISH FUNDS, together with an ACcouNT of the present ANNUAL INTEREST due upon the said INVESTMENTS ; distinguishing UPPER from LOWER CANaDA, 1 page, folio, 1840 4/6 BLUE BOOK, No. 127, UPPER CANADA: Copy of the ADpDREss of the UPPER CANADA House of ASSEMBLY, imploring HER MAJESTY’Ss GOVERNMENT to PROMOTE EMIGRATION to CANADA: and also, Copy of the PETITION of the CANADA COMPANY, that the £60,000 due from them to the Government may be employed for the FURTHERANCE of EMIGRATION to CANADA, 5 pages, folio, stitched, 1840 10/- BLUE BOOK, [ ?No.] PAPERs relating to the REMOVAL of the SEAT of GOVERNMENT, and to the ANNEXATION MOVEMENT, presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 24 pages, folio, stitched, 1850 12/- BRADLEY (A. G.) CANaDa in the TWENTIETH CENTURY, with 50 illustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1903 6/- CAMPBELL (WILFRED) CANADA, painted by T. MOWER MARTIN, with 77 full-page illustrations in colour, sq. 8vo., cloth, Black’s Colour Book, 1907 7/- CHAMPLAIN (SAMUEL DE) OEUVRES, publices sous le patronage de Il’ Université Laval par L’ABBE C.-H. LAVERDIERE, SECONDE EDITION, portrait and 92 maps and plates, 6 vols bound in 3, sm. 4to., half morocco (binding a little rubbed), Quebec, 1870 £5/5/- Champlain, French Governor of Canada, was born 1567, at Bronage, in Saintonge ; made his first voyage to Canada in 1603 ; explored the Coasts, 1604-07 ; on his third voyage in 1608 founded Quebec. In 1612 he was appointed Lieutenant of Canada and had a busy time with attacks on the Iroquois, explorations of the interior, and journeys to France, until 1629, when he had to surrender to an English fleet, and was carried captive to England. After being liberated, he returned to Canada in 1633. CHARLEVOIX (P. DE) JOURNAL of a VOYAGE to NORTH-AMERICA, undertaken by order of the French King, containing the Geographical Description and Natural History of that Country, particularly Canada. Together with an Account of the Customs, Characters, Religion, Manners and Traditions of the Original Inhabitants, translated from the French, FirsT ENGLISH EDITION, with 2 folding maps, 2 vols, 8vo., contemporary calf, gilt backs, Printed for R. and F. Dodsley, 1761 £8/10/- A very fine copy, with the half-titles. The accounts of the Indians of Canada, as written by this eminent historian, are amongst the most authentic which have ever been given us. ‘The Author had access to a great mass of documents of most unsuspected veracity. LETTERS to the DUTCHESS of LESDIGUIERES ; giving an ACCOUNT of a VOYAGE to CANADA, and TRAVELS through that vast COUNTRY, and LOUISIANA, to the GULF of MEXICco. . . . Being a more Full and Accurate Description of Canada, and the Neighbouring Countries than has been before published ; the Character of every Nation or Tribe, their Religion, Manners, Traditions, Government, Languages, the Trade carried on with them, &c., with the rare folding Wie (usually missing), 8vo., contemp. calf, neatly rebacked, Printed for R. Goadby and sold by R. Baldwin, 1763 £7/ 15/- Contemporary autograph of Willm. Tearle on title. An entirely independent translation of the foregoing work. COX (Ross) ADVENTURES on the COLUMBIA RIVER, including the Narrative of a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky MOUNTAINS, among various Tribes of Indians hitherto Unknown ; together with a Journey across the American Continent, First EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo., contemp. half morocco, 1831 £5/-/- Lacks the half-titles and has a few slight foxings, but a good sound copy. A fur-trader’s narrative of personal experience among the Indians ; full of adventure, history and character.
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