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BRYANT, W. Cullen. (Ed.). États-Unis et Canada. L'Amérique du nord pittoresque. Traduit, revu et augmenté par B.-H. Revoil. Paris, A. Quantin, 1880.Folio. Contemporary half red morocco. With double-page map and numerous wood-engravings. 779 pp. [Boeknr.: 10426 ]

€ 175,00

BURROWS, E.H. Captain Owen of the African Survey. The hydrographic surveys of admiral W.F.W. Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada. His fight against the African slave trade. His life in Campobello Land, New Brunswick 1774-1857. Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1979. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. VIII,248 pp. [Boeknr.: 29306 ]

€ 35,00

CHAMBERS, F.J. The Unexploited West. A compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the natural resources of the unexploited regions of Northern Canada. Published under the direction of F.C.C. Lynch. Ottawa, 1914.Original wrappers (foot of spine sl. dam.). With many illustrations. XV,361,VIII,XI pp. [Boeknr.: 8222 ]

€ 45,00

CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DES ARTS INDIENS ET ESQUIMAUX DU CANADA. Masterpieces of Indian and Eskimo art from Canada. Paris, Musée de l'Homme, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1969. 4to. Wrappers. With many plates and illustrations (some in colours). [Boeknr.: 24964 ]

€ 35,00

CONSTANTIN-WYER, M. Les grandes figures coloniales. Champlain. Paris, (1931). Half leather. With illustrations. IX,240 pp. [Boeknr.: 8311 ]

€ 30,00

DAWSON, Samuel Edward. The Saint Lawrence Basin and its border-lands being the story of their discovery, exploration and occupation. London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1905.Original decorated green cloth gilt, (top of spine dam.). With folding map and many photographic plates. XL,451 pp. The northeastern part of the continent of North America, is the nearest to Europe, and has an interest of its own, inasmuch as it was the first part of the main continent to be reached from the Old World (Preface). - (Libr. stamps). [Boeknr.: 8151 ]

€ 65,00

DOYLE, J.A. The colonies under the House of Hanover. (The English in America). New York, 1907. Cloth (spine faded). With folding map. XVI,629 pp. [Boeknr.: 8249 ]

€ 65,00

DUFFERIN, (Harriot). My Canadian journal 1872 - 8. Extracts from my letters home written while Lord Dufferin was governor-general. London, J. Murray, 1891.Original cloth (sl. soiled). With folding coloured map and 10 wood-engravings. 18,422,(6) pp. First edition. - 'In all the countries she visited, she travelled whenever she could, with an ever-growing brood of little Dufferins behind her. Of course, it was part of her official duty to travel, but Lady Harriot was the perfect woman for the job' (Robinson, Wayward women, p.209). [Boeknr.: 8507 ]

€ 125,00

GIRARD, Alex. La province de Québec. Son organisation politique et administrative, ses ressources agricoles, minieres et industrielles. Quebec, Dussault & Proulx, 1905. Wrappers, uncut. With coloured frontispiece and many photographic plates. 318 pp. [Boeknr.: 8216 ]

€ 30,00

HARRISSE, H. Découverte et évolution cartographique de Terre-Neuve et des pays circonvoisins 1497-1501-1769. Paris 1900. Réimpression. Amsterdam, N. Israel, 1968. 4to. Cloth. With 26 plates, and 165 illustrations. IV,LXXII,416 pp. [Boeknr.: 14450 ]

€ 75,00

HARRISSE, H. Notes pour servir à l'histoire, à la bibliographie et à la cartographie de la Nouvelle-France et des pays adjacents 1545-1700. Paris, 1872. Réimpression. Amsterdam, Meridian Publishing Co., 1976. Cloth. XXXVI,370 pp. - Important contribution towards the bibliography and cartography of Canada. [Boeknr.: 6728 ]

€ 65,00

HAYWARD, V. Romantic Canada. With an introduction by E.J. O'Brien. Toronto, 1922. Half cloth. With many photographic plates by E.S. Watson. XIII,254 pp. [Boeknr.: 24701 ]

€ 45,00

MAP COLLECTION OF THE PUBLIC REFERENCE LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF TORONTO, CANADA. Toronto, 1923. Wrappers. 111 pp. [Boeknr.: 14435 ]

€ 35,00

MAX O'RELL. (BLOUET, Leon Paul). John Bull & Co. The great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. 20th thousand. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1894.Original pictorial cloth (top of spine sl. dam.). With many illustrations. XX,322 pp. 'A witty and humerous, but caustically written account of the principal British colonies' (Mendelssohn I, p.141). Ferguson 7154; NZNB B1050. [Boeknr.: 2111 ]

€ 40,00

MILTON, William Fitzwilliam and Walter Butler CHEADLE. The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploration a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains. London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, (1867).Original green pictorial cloth gilt, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map and 8 engraved plates. XXIV,394 pp. Seventh edition, first published in 1865. - 'A lively narrative of a sporting trip from England across Canada and return from British Columbia by sea, June, 1862 - March, 1864. This work achieved considerable popularity and drew attention to the agricultural, and mining possibilities of the Canadian West' (TPL 4340). - A fine copy.Sabin 24631; Wagner & Camp 420. [Boeknr.: 26399 ]

€ 175,00

PERRET, Robert. La géographie de Terre-Neuve. Préface de Marcel Dubois. Paris, E. Guilmoto, 1913. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With maps and plates. VI,372 pp. Dealing with Newfoundland. - O'Dea 1568: 'A scholarly treatise'. [Boeknr.: 8180 ]

€ 65,00

PROULX, M. En route pour la Baie d'Hudson. Tours, Alfred mame et Fils, 1893.Original decorated boards, gilt (spine ends sl. dam.), a.e.g. With woodengraved portrait and 19 fine woodengraved plates. 157,(1) pp. Fine illustrated account of a trip on the Abitibi river to Hudson's Bay, with details on the Eskimos. - (Some foxing). [Boeknr.: 28758 ]

€ 75,00

ROSS, John. Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the reports of James Clark Ross and the discovery of the northern magnetic pole. (With:) Appendix to the narrative .. London, A.W. Webster, 1835.2 volumes. 4to. Later blue cloth with original title-label to spines. With portrait of John Ross, 6 maps and charts (1 folding) and 43 lithographed and mezzotint plates (19 in colours). XXXIII,740; XII,120,CXLIV,CII pp. First edition. - Sir John Ross (1777-1856) set out in 1826 with the small paddle-steamer the Victory, after the failure of his voyage in 1821. He spent the years 1829-1833 in the far northwest. He successfully waethered repeated Arctic winters and systematically accumulated a wealth of scientific data and reached the North Magnetic Pole in 1831.The Victory was crushed in the ice and Ross and his men were rescued by a whaler, the Isabella, in August 1833 at Lancaster Sound, after a terrible trek South. The introduction contains a chronological summary of previous explorations in search of a Northwest Passage. - Rare subscriber's copy with the Appendix.Abbey, Travel, 636; Sabin 73381; Arctic Bibl. 14866; Stam, Books on ice, p.22; Hill 1490. [Boeknr.: 1373 ]

€ 1800,00

ROY, Pierre Georges. Les monuments commémoratifs de la province de Québec. Québec, Ls-A. Proulx, 1923. 2 volumes. Wrappers, uncut. With numerous plates. 357; 360 pp. - Publié par la Commission des Monuments Historiques de la Province de Québec. [Boeknr.: 8359 ]

€ 125,00

SMITH, G. Barnett. Canada: its rise and progress. London, S.W. Partridge & Co., 1898.Original decorated cloth. With frontispiece. 320 pp. - (The Romance of Colonization). [Boeknr.: 8139 ]

€ 45,00

(WARBURTON, George Drought). The conquest of Canada. London, R. Bentley, 1849.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 2 engraved frontispieces. XXXI,(1),432; (4),508 pp. First edition; with 2 errata slips. - Major Warburton was in Canada from 1844 until 1846. His narrative is an important work about the English and French in Canada.Sabin 101274; TPL 8039. [Boeknr.: 8326 ]

€ 150,00

WEST, Benjamin. The death of General Wolfe. London, Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, 1776.Contemporary handcoloured engraving after Benjamin West by William Woollett. ca. 47 x 59,5 cm. General James Wolfe (1727-1759) died during his famous victory over the French at Quebec, which delivered Canada into the hands of the British. The engraving depicts the general surrounded by his officers and a native American warrior, with ships in the background. The original heroic painting by Benjamin West (1738-1820) of 1771 was an instant success and the engraving by William Woollett which followed was one of the most commercial successful prints ever published (Von Erffa & Staley, The paintings of Benjamin West, p.213). - Mounted on linnen, occasionally faint rubbing, otherwise fine. [Boeknr.: 32289 ]

€ 2250,00

WHITE, James. Altitudes in the dominion of Canada with a relief map of North America. Ottawa, 1901. Original cloth. With folding coloured map. X,266 pp. - (Geological survey of Canada). [Boeknr.: 8400 ]

€ 45,00

(WRIGHT D'ARUSMONT, Frances). Views of society and manners in America; in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820. By an English woman. 2nd American edition. New York, E. Bliss and E. White, 1821.Contemporary half calf. XII,387 pp. Frances Wright (1795-1852) visited both the United States and Canada. Later she sat up a colony, called Nashoba, for the rehabilitation of Negro slaves in Tennessee. (Cf. Robinson, Wayward women, p. 197/198 on Frances Trollope). This New York edition has additions and corrections by the auhtor. - (Foxed).Sabin 105597; TPL, 2 Suppl., 7059. [Boeknr.: 8394 ]

€ 175,00

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