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1. American Historical Association

Calendar of the American Fur Company's Papers. Part I: 1831 1840 & Part II. 1841 1849. (In 2

volumes). Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1944.

Washington. G.P.O. 1945. thick8vo, 22cm, 23cm, in 2 volumes, part 1:vii, p519 982 & part 2:

pp983 1951. (Including an extensive index of 250 pages), original blue cloth, gilt spine titles,

near fine sound complete set

100.00

The first volume in this series is on an unrelated subject - A bibliography of the British

Caribbean.


2. [ANDERSON, David]

Notes of the Flood at The Red River, 1852. By the Bishop of Rupert's Land. London. Hatchards.

[1852]. 17.5cm, [2],124p. frontis view, in the original blind stamped wavy grain brown cloth,

gilt titles on the spine and upper cover, expertly restored, new endpapers, inscribed with the

publisher’s compliments, a fine copy, rare

900.00

T.P.L. 3230. Peel 145. Lande 925. Sabin 1393. Casey 2301. The First Edition. Written in the

form of a diary, by Bishop David Anderson, 1814-1885, it gives a detailed description of the

great flood of 1852 at the Red River Settlement. A second edition appeared in 1873.


3. ANONYMOUS.

The Valley of the Saco and Foot Hills of the White Mountains via Portland and Ogdensburg

Railraod. (Cover title). Boston. R.A. Supply Co. Nd. [1887]. 12mo, 18cm, [ii],22, [iii]p., six text

illustrations from engravings, decorated printed wraps, some staining to wraps, very good

to fine, rare

125.00

List of Hotels and Boarding Houses along the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway.


4. [ATLAS]. HARRIS, R. Cole & Geoffrey J Mathews

Historical Atlas of Canada. Volume I. From the Beginning to 1900. Volume II. The Land

Transformed, 1800 1891. Volume III. Addressing the Twentieth Century. Toronto. University

of Toronto Press. 1987 1990. folio. 36cm, in 3 volumes, [16],198 & xviii,184 & xx,197pp., with

numerous double page colour plates and colour illustrations, in fine condition in fine jackets,

boxed in custom slipcase

250.00


5. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe

History of British Columbia, 1792 1887. San Francisco. The History Company, Publishers.

1890. thick8vo, 23cm, first separate edition, xxxi, 792p., with 20 maps (including one folding

map), bibliography, in the original brown cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine bright copy

150.00

Lowther 731. Reprinted separately in 1890. There is an extensive contents list in Lowther.


6. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe

Literary Industries. A Memoir. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1891. 12mo, 18cm, xxxi,446p.,

engraved frontis portrait, dark blue cloth, very good

30.00

The autobiography of an American historian, ethnologist and bibliophile, Hubert Howe

Bancroft (1832 1918). This is considered the 39th volume of Bancroft's monumental multi

volume history of the Pacific coast of North America in which he describes his methods of

historical research including travels in British Columbia.


7. BIG MANITOU Lake Historical Association.

Big Manitou Country, 1905 1980. In Two Volumes. Marsden, Saskatchewan. The Association.

1981. 4to. 27cm, in 2 volumes, 920 & 879pp., extensively illustrated, mapped endpapers, in

full green fabrikoid, gilt titles, fine set

100.00

A history of the districts around Big Manitou Lake and the villages of Marsden and Neilburg,

Saskatchewan, Canada. With extensive family histories.


8. BLACK, Norman Fergus

History of Saskatchewan and The North West Territories. Regina. North West Historical

Company, Publishers. 1913. 4to. 27cm, 2nd edition, xxiv,605p., with c.120 plates,

illustrations & portraits, original maroon cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, some slight wear

on the edges else a very good copy

250.00

Peel 3856. Note, 2nd edition without the biographical sketches A standard work, includes

much on prominent citizens, early fur trade, immigration and settlement. The author was a

former superintendent of schools in Saskatchewan 1906 09.


9. BODDAM WHETHAM, J.W.

Western Wanderings. A Record of Travel in the Evening Land. London. Richard Bentley and

Son. 1874. 8vo, 21.5cm, xii, 364p., 12 plates, rebound in half cloth & marbled boards, minor

worming, private library stamp on title page, very good

100.00

English traveller, John Boddam Whetham, (1843 1918) writes of a journey in the 1870's from

New York, via Niagara Falls, across the American West to the Pacific Coast. Includes five

chapters on travels through British Columbia; Vancouver Island and the Fraser Valley.


10. British Association for the Advancement of Science.

A Handbook to Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba, prepared for the 79th Annual

Meeting of the .... 1909, with notes on some of the chief points to be visited on the Western

Excursion. Edited by the Local Secretaries. Winnipeg. 1909. 17.5cm, 301p., with c.20 plates

of illustrations, views etc., and a large folding map in home-made rear pocket entitled "

Geological Map of Canada", by James White, 1909, plus 2 double page folded maps entitled

"Isothermo for the Year" and one folding map "Manitoba... Forests... 1905". In the original

green cloth, titles on the spine and upper cover stamped in black, very good copy

75.00

We cannot determine whether this map collation is correct. Peel 3452.


11. BULEY, R. Carlyle.

The Old Northwest. Pioneer period, 1815 1840. Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 1951.

thick8vo, 23.5cm, first edition 2nd printing, in 2 volumes, xiii, [2], 632 & viii, [2], 686pp., with

47 plate illustrations inc. 2 frontis plates and 14 maps, in full red cloth, spine sunned (titles

clear), else fine in very good slipcase

75.00


12. BUTLER, Sir William F.

Red Cloud. A Tale of the Great Prairie. With a foreword by Baden Powell and a memoir of the

author. Toronto. Musson. [1911]. 12mo, 19.5cm, (British sheets), 332p., with folding frontis

map and 6 plate illustrations, brick red cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, some slight wear at

the edges else a very good copy in good to very good jacket, scarce

125.00

Peel (3),1034. Cites 'Red Cloud. The Solitary Sioux,...' London. 1882. Fiction. "western Canada

before the advent of the ploughshares and the city". Jacket.


13. CANADA. Dept Trade and Commerce.

Census of Prairie Provinces 1926. Population and Agriculture. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta. Ottawa. King's Printer. 1931. thick sm4to, 24.6cm,

cxcvi,779p., with 436 tables, 3 large folding provincial maps, appendices, orange cloth, black spine titles, a fine copy, rare

200.00

The 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces was the eleventh for Manitoba since it was created in 1870, and the fifth for the provinces of Saskatchewan and

Alberta since acquiring provincial status in 1905.


14. CANADIAN National Railway.

12 Snapshots. Canadian Rocky Mountain along the Canadian National Lines. Published by

The Towen Sutton Co., Vancouver (for Canadian National Railway). Nd. [191? Or early

1920's]., being 12 professional snap shots "light weight glossy prints, to match your own

snapshots", in printed card folder case with address card with titles printed around the

margins, near fine

85.00

Cisco Bridge; Japser Park Lodge; Climbing Mountain by Motor, Mt. Edith Cavel..; "The

Confederation", Lytton, B.C.; Colin Range, 14th tee, golf course; freight train near Lytton;

Tubling Glacier, Mt. Robson; Hairpin Turn, Cavel Motor Road; Totem Pole, at Jasper; The

Confederation" Cisco Bridge. The photographs are numbered.


15. CATLIN, George

Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, with

Letters and Notes written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest

and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. With Three Hundred and Sixty Engravings from

the Author's Original Drawings.

London. Henry G. Bohn. 1866. sm4to, 26cm, the 10th edition, in 2 volumes, viii,264 & viii,

265, [i]pp., plus 180 engraved plates containing 313 illustrations (including 3 maps, one of

which is folding), in the original cloth, elaborately blind and gilt decorated, gilt pictorial

illustrations on the upper covers and spines (Native Americans), gilt titles, early inner hinge

repairs, spines and border somewhat sun faded, gilt stamping clear, a very good to fine set

400.00

Wagner Camp 84:10; Howes C 241. cf. Field 260 Sabin 11536 cf. Streeter 1805. Title altered;

from "Letter and Notes on the Manners,..." cf Wagner 84:1. & 84:6. Catlin was the earliest

painter of the Plains Indians. A monumental and popular work in American ethnology. The

etchings are well executed and are faithful representations of the objects and scenes

described in the book. He travelled for eight years doing research and painting among forty

tribes. The maps include tribe locations.


16. CHAPUT, Donald

Françios X. Aubry. Trader, Trailmaker and Voyageur in the Southwest, 1846 1854. Glendale,

California. The Arthur H. Clark Co. 1975. 8vo, 24cm, 249p., with frontis and 18 illustrations, 3

maps, (one folding), appendices, biblio., index, dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine (as

new) copy in plain shipped wrapper

50.00


17. CHILLIWACK, British Columbia

Map of Chilliwhack (sic) Municipality. 1945. Chilliwack. T.W. McKenzie. 1945. 37cm x 35cm, folded in brown printed wraps with local ads, binder whole in

the upper left corner not affecting text else very good to fine

50.00

Chilliwack, British Columbia was first incorporated as a city in 1908. Both the covers and map have an interesting variation in the spelling of Chilliwack.


18. CHITTENDEN, Hiram Martin

A History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and

Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland

Commerce with Santa Fe. Stanford,

New York. Francis P. Harper. 1902. tall8vo, 24cm, in 3 volumes, xxiv, [i], 482, [i] & viii, [i]483 892 &

893 1029pp., with 9 plates & large folding pocket map in v3, uncut and mainly unopened, in the

original fine grain dark green cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine bright set of the first edition, rare thus

1,250.00

Howes C 390. The most authoritative study of the western fur trade. Decker. Soliday. II 208. Graff

696. Rittenhouse 112.

Contains the adventures of Jedediah Smith, James Bridger, Ashley and others. Appendix contains

list of western forts and locates them; journal of steam boat voyages from St. Louis to Ft. Union,

etc. The author was an American lawyer, writer, lecturer, traveller. An officer of the Union Cavalry

Regiment in the Civil War; graduate of Columbia College; admitted to Supreme Court; travelled

extensively in B.C. and wrote many articles on his travels; lead an active outdoor life and explored

in the West; exhibited prehistoric Indian and Eskimo relics at fairs in London, Antwerp, San

Francisco, presented the collection to the B.C. Provincial Museum in 1893. Lowther p254 5.

The standard work on the subject and the essential starting point for research on the fur trade.


19. ERMATINGER, Edward

Life of Colonel Talbot, and the Talbot Settlement, Its Rise and Progress, with Sketches of the

Public Characters, and career of some of the Most Conspicuous Men in Upper Canada, who

were either friends or acquaintances of the subject of these memoirs. St. Thomas. Printed at

A. McLachlin's House Journal Office. 1859. 12mo, 17cm, The first edition, iv,[v vi],

(contents),230p., wanting the errata slip, (supplied on a typed note and loosely inserted), in

the original diamond grain blind decorated light brown cloth, gilt title on the upper cover,

glazed yellow endpapers, a fine bright copy

1250.00

Sir George Simpson's copy with his faint but clear signature on the free fly. ‘. T.P.L. 3358.

Morgan p116. Watters p496. The author was a ‘fur trader', businessman, politician, and

writer who spent ten years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company before settling in St.

Thomas. He made a successful career as a banker and founded the St. Thomas Standard.

Although he had disliked his early life in the fur trade, he defended the Hudson's Bay

Company in his book The Hudson's Bay Territories (1858).

Sir George Simpson's Copy


20. FRANCHERE, Gabriel (1786 1863)

Narrative of a Voyage to The Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814

or, the First American Settlement of the Pacific.. Translated and edited by J.V. Huntington. New

York. Redfield, 1854. 12mo. 18.5cm, the First Edition, 376, [8]p., book ads., with 3 wood engraved

plates., in the original dark blue green diamond grain cloth, blind stamped borders on the boards,

gilt spine titles, expertly restored, small thumb sized damp stain on the frontis and some foxing

throughout, a very good to fine thus

750.00

Lande 1180. TPL 985 Wagner Camp 16. Cowan p90. Field 558. Howes F 310. Sabin 25432. Smith

3244. Strathern 194. Gabriel Franchere, 1786 1863. First English language edition, with an

additional chapter and an appendix, the latter providing further information regarding the fate

of other members of the expedition. The first edition was published in French in Montreal in 1820.

The book is the most important source on John Jacob Astor's attempt in 1811 to establish the

first American settlement on the Pacific Coast. Franchère, then in the employ of the Pacific Fur

Company, was attached to Astor's expedition to the Columbia River to found a trading post at

Astoria. His narrative describes the difficult voyage out in the Tonquin, by way of Cape Horn, and

presents a faithful chronicle of events at Astoria from its founding until its surrender to the

Northwest Company in 1813. It includes an account of the author's five month overland return

journey three years later, up the Columbia River, through the Rockies and across the Canadian

prairies to Montreal It was the basis for Washington Irving's more famous novel, Astoria.

First Edition in English, with Additions


21. FRASER, Simon

The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806 1808. Edited with an Introduction by W. Kaye

Lamb. Pioneer Books, series. Toronto. Macmillan. 1960. 8vo. 22cm, 292p., with 3 maps, black

cloth, fine in fine jacket

25.00

The First Edition. "Although his major journey of exploration took place a century and a half

ago, the present volume is the first attempt to present his letters and journals in a complete

annotated edition." Introduction.


22. [HARGRAVE, James]

The Hargrave Correspondence, 1821 1843. Edited With an Introduction and Notes by G.P.

deT. Glazebrook. The Champlain Society, No. 24. Toronto. 1938. 24cm, xxvi,472p. with 3

plates & rear folding pocket map, limited to 550 copies, this being #335, original gilt crested

red cloth, t.e.g., small unobtrusive damp stain on the upper inside corner of the upper cover,

spine slight sunned else a very good to fine copy

225.00

"The letters printed here are, with few exceptions, addressed to James Hargrave. They were

written at posts from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Pacific coast, and from the southern

limits of the Hudson's Bay Territory to the Arctic circle. They form what is probably a unique

chronicle of the north and west in the days before newspapers. An attempt has been made

to choose letters that throw light on the conditions of the country, the conduct of the trade,

and the life of the traders. Since the letters are private, they reveal much that was necessarily

omitted from official correspondence". Introduction.


23. HEYDEN, Joseph Van der

Life and Letters of Father Brabant. A Flemish Missionary Hero. Louvain. Printed by J. Wouters.

[1920]. tall8vo, 24.5cm, 249p., frontis portrait, 4 plates, index, in the original printed grey

wraps, cover worn & chipped, printed on somewhat fragile paper, in blue grey clam shell box

with paper labels, Not in Amicus. WorldCat locates 6 copies (none in Canada). Edwards 1717,

cites B.C. Archives; Lowther 1649. Rare

450.00

Brabant, (1845 1912), a Belgian Jesuit, founded the Hesquiat Mission on Barkley Sound in

1869, remaining there until he became apostolic administrator of Victoria diocese in 1908.

Edwards 1717. Lowther 1349.


24. HOWAY, Frederic W.

The Early History of the Fraser River Mines. Archives of British Columbia, Memoir No. VI.

Victoria. Printed by Charles F. Banfield. 1926. 24.5cm, xvii,126p., 10 plates, printed on rag

paper, uncut, in full linen, titles stamped in black, bevelled boards, near fine

150.00

Lowther 1690. "Comprised of correspondence. 'The letters that are in this volume consist of

a part of the correspondence of Richard Hicks from October, 1858, to May, 1859; of Chartres

Brew, the Chief Inspector of Police and Assistant Chief Gold Commissioner, from November

1858, to April 1859; of Judge Begbie from January, 1859, to March, 1859; together with a few

scattered but illuminating documents. The selection, however, has been carefully made with

a view of showing the men, and the life of the time, the difficulties of maintaining order and

collecting revenue, and generally the conditions prevailing in the Colony of British Columbia

that is, on the Fraser River when it was in its swaddling clothes".


25. HUYSHE, Captain G.T.L.

The Red River Expedition. London and New York. Toronto. Macmillan and Co. & Adam,

Stevenson and Co. 1871. 12mo, 19cm, the First Edition, xi,276p., 3 folding maps 1 portrait

plate (Riel), 2 text illustrations, folding table, appendices, index, original cloth, expertly

restored, gilt spine titles, fine copy

350.00

Peel (3) 575. "A member of Wolseley's staff describes the experiences of the troops en route."

Cooke 176. A contemporary eye witness account of the Red River Rebellion of 1870. Captain

Huyshe was a Rifle Brigade officer on the staff of Sir Garnett Wolseley. He gives a vivid

description of the difficulties of the journey from Toronto to Manitoba and an interesting

overview of the Red River Settlement.


26. KEATING, William H.

Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the

Woods, &c. performed in the Year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, under the

command of Stephen H. Long. Compiled from the notes of Major Long...

London. Geo. B. Whittaker. 1825. 8vo, 22.5cm, the first London edition, in two volumes,

xiii,458 & 248,156pp. with engraved folding map and 8 plates (inc. 5 views and 2 hand

coloured plates of shells), binders error (plates bound in wrong places), complete with half

titles, in the original green cloth with paper labels, complete with half titles, a fine uncut

copy, rare thus

2,000.00

With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, bart., Rudding Park.

T.P.L. 1284. Lande 1260. Gagnon 1856. Morgan p159. Howes K20. Peel 82. Sabin 37137.

Keating was a geologist and historiographer on Long's second expedition to explore the

headwaters of the Mississippi in 1823, notable for its wealth of information, especially on the

Indians. Most of the second volume relates to the Red River Settlement and to Fort William

on Lake Superior. The appendix contains notes and observations on natural history.


27. KENYON, Charles R.

The Young Ranchmen or Perils of Pioneering in the Wild West. Illustrated by Walter S. Stacey.

London. W.& R. Chambers, Limited. N.d. 18cm, 282p., 48p.ads, 4 plates, numerous text

illustrations, green decorated cloth, gilt titles & figure on front, light foxing to endpapers &

leaf endings, a very good to fine copy

100.00

A boys' book of adventures in the 19th century American West.


28. LAUT, Agnes C.

The Fur Trade of America. New York. Macmillan. 1921. 8vo, 21.5cm, first edition, 341p. frontis

& 32 plate illustrations, brick red cloth, gilt titles, appendix, bookplate, a near fine copy

50.00

Covers both fur farming and trapping in two parts, each part having an appendix.


29. LORD, John Keast (1818 1872).

The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia. London. Richard Bentley. 1866. 8vo,

20.5cm, the First Edition, in 2 volumes, xvi,358 & x,375pp., with 11 plates, 2 title vignettes, in the

original green cloth, gilt titles and border decorations on the spines, gilt borders and gilt fish

vignettes on the upper covers, some slight foxing early and late on volume one and on the last

few leaves of volume two, a fine bright set

600.00

T.P.L. 4516. Lande 1290. Lowther 275. Sabin 42035. Starkman p92. Sage p131., Albee p100. Wood

441. Bruns L 124 "Very Scarce". Phillips p238. Haller 559. The author was a naturalist and

veterinary surgeon. Written for the general reader from the author's observations and experien-

ces while he was the naturalist for the British North Amer-ican Boundary Commission, for whom

he travelled extensively. He found a number of new species. The plates are of birds and other

nature subjects, views and indigenous peoples. His collection of B.C. mammals, birds, fish,

insects, etc, are in the British Museum.

"A natural history work, but with some sporting material. In volume one, there are six chapters

on fishes and fishing, including salmon and salmon fishing by the Indians, trout fishing by the

author; halibut fishing with line and bait; sturgeon spearing; and descriptions of various fishes

including herring, candlefish, whitefish, sticklebacks and others. One chapter has five pages on

the pronghorn antelope and its hunting in Klamath country. Volume II is predominately natural

history, including one chapter with brief descriptions of the big game animals and a segment on

how to track moose". Heller

With Six Chapters on Fish and Fishing


30. MAIR, Charles & Roderick MacFarlane

Through The Mackenzie Basin. A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty

Expedition of 1899. With a Map of the Country Ceded and Numerous Photographs of Native

Life and Scenery, Also, Notes On The Mammals And Birds of Northern Canada. By Roderick

MacFarlane. Toronto. William Briggs. 1908. 22cm, first edition. 494p. frontis portrait & 49

plates & illustrations, original decorated brown cloth, two photographs laid down on the

cover, a fine copy

100.00

Peel 2004. Smith 6486. Tourville. Wickersham, Wicks Richards. Mair was secretary of the

commission that was sent to negotiate land transfers with the Cree and other Indians. An

important account


31. [MAP Victoria, B.C.] Herbert Cuthbert, compiled by

Tourists' Map and Guide to Victoria and "The Island of a Thousand Miles of Wonderland".

(cover title). Victoria, British Columbia. The Association. 1916. folio, 52x 70cm, large map in

4 sections, folded in sixths to: 26x 12cm, tourist information and tours on verso, a fine copy

75.00

The map is divided into 4 sections: Victoria, B.C.; Saanich Peninsula and Malahat Drive;

Georgian Circuit. (An international auto tour).; the southern half of Vancouver Island. With

extensive tourist information, e.g. in 1916, the Empress Hotel charged $2.00 a day. "A bit of

England on the Pacific" (cover).


32. [MAP MANITOBA ]

Map of the District Adjacent to Lake Winnipegosis and Manitoba. Province of Manitoba. Scale: 5 miles to one inch. Classification of Lands by Quarter Sections

for Settlement Purposes. Prepared by the Topographical Surveys Office. 1921 Edition corrected to December I, 1920. [Cartouche]. Ottawa. Surveyor

General's Office. 1921. Large multi colour map: 53cm x 71cm (21 in x 28 in), linen backed, colour coded legend, folded into brown cloth binder, some cover

wear, the map is in fine condition

50.00

A very detailed map designed to show the areas avail-able for homesteading and agriculture. A colour coded legend shows 10 different soil classifications

of lands


33. MARSHALL, William I.

The Hudson's Bay Company's Archives Furnish No Support to the Whitman Saved Oregon

Story. Chicago. Published by the Author. 1905. 23cm, 36p., printed wraps, very good

condition

40.00

The author disputes the myth that Whitman saved Oregon.


34. MAUDE, Aylmer

A Peculiar People. The Doukhobors. London. Archi-bald Constable & Co. 1905. 20.5cm, first

edition, xi,338p. with 15 plates and 2 maps, appendices, original green cloth, gilt titles, t.e.g.,

very good to fine

85.00

Not in Edwards. Amongst other things, Aylmer Maude the translator of Tolstoy provides

the "First consecutive sketch, in our language of this interesting sect". There are chapters on

the `first years in Canada'; and Tolstoy, in which the novelist is criticized by Maude for his

views on the Doukhobors.

First English Language Account of the Doukhobors


35. McCORMICK, J. Hanna

Lloydminster, or, 5,000 Miles with the Barr Colonists. London. Dranes (Ye Olde St. Brides

Presse). N.d. c.[1923]. 18.5cm, 254p., frontis portrait, 10 photographic plates, appendix, red

cloth, gilt titles, spine faded, some cover wear, very good.

200.00

A scarce account of the Barr Colony established in 1903 on the present day boundary of

Saskatchewan and Alberta. The frontis portrait is of George Exton Lloyd (in the uniform as

chaplain, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada), who became leader of the Colony and the centre of

which, Lloydminster, was named after him.


36. [MINNESOTA].

Minnesota, the Empire State of the New Northwest, the Commercial, Manufacturing and

Geographical Centre of the American Continent. Published by the Board of Immigration for

the state of Minnesota. President: Governor John S. Pillsbury. Secretary, John W. Bond.

St. Paul. H.M. Smyth & Co., Printers. 1878. 8vo, 88p., large folding frontis map of Minnesota,

original printed light green wraps with title repeated in frame border on the upper wrap,

contemporary company name stamped on the upper cover, very good to fine

200.00

Immigrants pamphlet addressed: "To Laboring Men To Landless Men To All Men, of

moderate means, and men of wealth, who will accept homes in a beautiful and prosperous

country ".


37. MORICE, A.G.

Fifty Years in Western Canada: Being the Abridged Memoirs of.... Toronto. The Ryerson Press.

1930. 20cm, x,267p., with 16 plates and illustrations, black stamped fine grain cloth, a fine

bright copy

100.00

In the early 1900s, Morice established a printing operation from a cabin behind his church at

Fort St. James, communicating with the outside world via the post office at Quesnel, and he

produced a collection of his essays, printed in British Columbia, by his own Stuart Lake

Mission Press, in 1902. Hence an argument can be made that British Columbia's first truly

independent publishing house was at Fort St. James and Father Morice began the tradition

of self publishing in British Columbia.


38. NUTE, Grace Lee

Documents Relating to Northwest Missions, 1815-1827. Edited with notes and introduction

by Grace Lee Nute. St. Paul. Minnesota Historical Society. 1942. 8vo, 23cm, first edition,

xix,469p., glossary, index, dark blue cloth, small damp stain blemish on the upper cover

otherwise a very good to fine copy

75.00

Peel (3) 166. Covers relations between the upper Mississippi Valley and Canada as revealed

in Indian affairs, Indian missions, and the fur trade.


39. [PHOTOGRAPH]. - Holland's Ranch, Alberta

A group of men, women and horses in the Porcupine Hills on Holland's Ranch in southwestern Alberta in the 1890's. Grouped with horses and wagons the

event appears to be gathering for a polo match. The photograph (20 x 21cm) is captioned "S. A Smyth, "The Ranchmen's Photographer," Calgary, Alberta"

and in period framing with metal decoration and backed in wood. Calgary. S.A. Smyth. c.[1890]. Photograph 20x 21cm, black & white, contemporary

framing, fine

$250.00

Photographer Sydney Alfred Smyth "The Ranchmen's Photographer" was based in Calgary and worked from c.1883 to 1900. Polo arrived in southwestern

Alberta in the late 1800's and became popular with Alberta ranchers and as indicated by this photograph, a social event.


40. [PHOTOGRAPH]. - Holland's Ranch, Alberta

Three horsemen posing before a polo match with an audience of women in the background. The photograph (18x 24cm) was taken in Alberta's Porcupine

Hills on Holland's Ranch in the late 1890's by Calgary photographer, S.A. Smyth. The photograph is matted and backed in wood. [Calgary. S.A. Smyth.

c.[1890]. photograph (18x 24cm), black & white, contemporary framing, some fading to picture but still distinct, good

$200.00

Calgary photographer, A S. Smyth called himself "The Ranchmen's Photographer" and produced works from c.1883 to 1900. Polo had become very popular

in Alberta in the late 1800's among ranchers. From this photograph it is obvious the matches were popular social events. Caption on the back in the upper

left corner “Ladies Dominion Race. Beaver Creek Aug.16th. 1895” Then in center “Beaver Creek Polo Team 1894, Pincher Creek Challenge Cup, Beaver Creek

Challgenge Cup Aug.14th, Garnett Faukards Sept. 12”


41. POLLARD, W.C.

Pioneering In The Prairie West. London. Arthur H. Stockwell. Nd. [1934]. 12mo, 18cm, 110p.,

plates, pebbled green cloth, gilt titles, blind ruled borders, a fine bright copy in very good

jacket

40.00


42. [PRINT]. WARRE, Henry James

Fort Garry. [London]. Dickson and Co. 1848. 18.5 x 29cm plus title and margins, hand coloured lithograph, a blemish along the fold has been expertly in-

filled from behind , a very good to fine view, rare

3,000.00

An important and early view of Winnipeg. “Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory” was published in 1846 by Dickinson & Co, in London and

was dedicated to the Hudson Bay Company. Captain Henry James Warre was a British officer on Duty in Canada. He examined and reported on river

communications between Montreal and the Red River settlement in the Oregon Territory. He and Captain Vavasour set out to Oregon on the Pacific coast

on a reconnaissance expedition in connection with the Western Boundary dispute. Warre was an accomplished draughtsman and a talented artist, and a

fine collection of his water colours can be found in the National Archives and in the Sigmnud Samuel Collection. (Spendlove)

Warre - Winnipeg/Fort Gary - 1848


43. [PRINT]. VANCOUVER.

"Vancouver View." (caption). A beautiful chromo lithograph print of the mountains near Vancouver painted from the residence of the Governor of

Vancouver Island. By Canadian landscape painter, Jessie H. Raycroft. Toronto. 1888. 25x 31cm, colour print, captioned, matted, in fine condition

250.00

From: "The Progressive Art Guide" by J.H. Raycroft & Minnie Cron Wheeler. Toronto. 1888. Ideal for framing.


44. RIDDELL, Henry Somerville Hutton

The Red River Expedition of 1870. A Paper read before the Literary and Historical Society of

Quebec, March 15th, 1871. Quebec. Printed by Middleton & Dawson, at the "Gazette" General

Printing Establishment For Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. 1871. tall8vo, first separate

edition, 97 136p., interleaved with un-numbered blank pages, original front blue paper wrapper

with the title page printed inside a line border in contemporary purple half morocco, smooth

spine gilt lettered & decorated, marbled sides, endpapers little foxed else a very nice copy.

Inscribed at head of front wrapper "Sir John Robinson Bart: with the Author's Compliments" and

with the large contemporary armorial Robinson bookplate on front endpaper.

850.00

The 1870 Red River expedition was the military force sent to Manitoba after the transfer of

Hudson's Bay territory to Canada. It was comprised of 400 British regular forces and 800 Ontario

and Quebec militiamen. The expedition left Toronto in May 1870 and hoped to restore order and

relieve Fort Garry which had been seized by Louis Riel after the Red River Rebellion. In August the

expedition arrived to find Fort Garry deserted. The British force returned to Ontario and left the

militia to garrison the community. Riddell was an officer of the 60th Rifles in the expedition.

This is one of a small number of offprints from the author from Literary and Historical Society of

Quebec. Transactions. n.s., [vol.3], pt. 8.

Inscribed Participant's Account By an Officer of the 60th Rifles


45. ROBERTSON, J.P.

A Political Manual of the Province of Manitoba and the North West Territories. Winnipeg.

Printed by The Call Printing Company. 1887. 20cm, first edition, 209, [13]p., frontis portrait,

plates including 1 colour lithograph, rear folding map, rear ads, brown cloth, gilt title on

front, internal library marks, very good copy

100.00

Peel 1025.A scarce provincial manual, the first since Manitoba's entry into Confederation in

1870, prepared by John Palmerston Robertson (1841 1919), Provincial Librarian. With a

frontispiece portrait of James Cox Aitkins, Lieut. Governor of Manitoba (1882 1888). Rear

notices are given for obtaining land in the Province by The Canadian North West Government

Lands, Hudson's Bay Company, and Canadian Pacific Railway Company. A very detailed

"Railway & Guide Map of Manitoba" shows sections of 640 acres available for settlement.


46. [VIEW BOOK]. - [GOWEN, Frank]. Gowen Sutton Co.

Rocky Mountains of Canada. Hand Colored Edition. A Series of 20 Specially Selected Views Printed in Real Photogravure. Vancouver. The Gowen Sutton Co.

Nd. [191?/192?]. oblong, 16x23cm, no pagination, with 20 hand colored plates, (being 19 colour illustrations on 14 plates, with one illustration laid down

on the upper cover), red string bound stiff brown card wraps with raised red title lettering and outlined in black, with small plate laid down in blind framed

borders, a very good to fine copy, rare

250.00

Frank Gowen, (1878 1946). Post card Photographer. Born in the UK. He was active in Brandon, Man & Vancouver, 1914 1919. There is a business address for

him at 1465 Broadway (1914 1916) & 719 W. Georgia St. (1917). He worked in Brandon, Manitoba in 1907. By 1916 he was in partnership as Gowen &

Stevens. He incorporated under the name Frank Gowen Co. Ltd. Gowen subsequently incorporated under the name Gowen Sutton Co. Ltd. Postcard

historians, Fred Thirkell & Bob Scullion's... Frank Gowen's Vancouver (2001) examines Gowen's out put as a post card photographer.


47. [VIEW BOOK]. - HUTCHINS, Geo. L.

Portland, Oregon. "The City of Roses". (Souvenir of .... cover title). Portland, Oregon. Walker & Weinstein Bros, Publishers. Nd. [190?]. oblong8vo, 15x 23cm,

47p., being 23 sepia half tone plate views with descriptive letter press opposite, on special canvas grain paper, original printed stiff brown wraps with illus

laid down on the upper cover, the 2nd and 3rd plate are damaged on the front bottom margin just touching the image, the bottom wraps is chipped on

the same corner otherwise this unusual view book would be near fine

100.00


48. [VIEW BOOK]. - KENDERDINE, G.

Twelve Views of Saskatchewan. Winnipeg. Lithograph-ed in full colour by Stovel Company

[1933]. 8vo. 22x 19cm, [32]p., with 12 tipped colour plates, original printed card wraps with

colour plate laid down on the upper cover, upper cover front corners clipped else a fine copy

50.00

Peel 3343. Ausustus Frederick La Fosse Kenderdine, 1870 1947. Received art training in

England; farmed and ranched near Lashburn, Sask., 1908 20; held a one man art show in

Saskatoon, 1920; joined Univ. Sask., as art instructor, organized Summer Art School at Emma

Lake; director of fine arts at Regina College from 1934 until his death.


49. [View Book]. - REGINA

Regina. The Capital City of Saskatchewan. Regina. The Board of Trade. (1920's). Oblong 16mo, 17cm x 25cm, (32)p., 37 photographs, rear folding panorama,

printed grey wraps, very good to fine

75.00

Views of Regina, Saskatchewan in the early1920's, a period of great prosperity for the city. This is reflected in photos of bustling downtown and farming

operations in the vicinity. A four section panorama shows the main street and the railway yards.


50. [VIEW BOOK]. - REGINA, Saskatchewan

Regina. Before & After Cyclone, June 30, 1912. Regina. P.T. Evans & K.L. Fenney. [1912]. oblong4to. 16x 26cm, (16)p., 15 photographs, red pictorial wrappers,

very good

75.00

The cyclone struck Regina on the 30th of June, 1912 and severely damaged an area 3 blocks wide and 12 blocks long. 30 people were killed, 200 injured

and 2,500 left homeless. The graphic "after the cyclone" photographs are by K.L. Fenney.


51. [VIEWBOOK]. - WINNIPEG.

Winnipeg, Canada. Published by the City Council September, 1903. Winnipeg. Printed by The Telegram Printing Co. 1903. oblong folio, 23x 30cm, [48]p.,

with 110 illustrations including 35 full page plates, statistical charts, presentation plate on verso of front cover, original string bound stiff dark brown

wraps, gilt title on front, a fine copy

100.00

Photos by Steele & Company. A well illustrated and informative book on the City of Winnipeg in a period of meteoric growth and prosperity. "Compliments

of Alder-man D.D. Wood, Winnipeg, Canada."


52. WADE, Mark Sweeten.

The Overlanders of '62. Edited By John Hosie. Archives of British Columbia, Memoir No. IX.

Victoria. Printed by Charles F. Banfield. 1931. tall8vo, 24.5cm, xiii,174, [2]p., frontis & 22

plates and portraits, original full pressed linen, bevelled boards, spine and upper cover titles

stamped in black, inner linen hinges as issued, a fine bright copy

150.00

Gives an account of the largest party of fortune seekers to cross the Canadian West to the

Cariboo Gold Fields. "Largely based on five diaries, this book describes the passage of some

one hundred and fifty people from the East, across the Rockies, to the Caribou. It also briefly

mentions other overland journeys to the Pacific during the period". Lowther 1734. Wing W

643.


53. WATSON, Robert

Dreams of Fort Garry. With Wood Cut Illustrations by Walter J. Phillips. An epic poem on the

life and times of the early settlers of Western Canada, complete with glossary and historical

notes. Winnipeg. Stovel Company. 1931, 24cm, the first edition, 63p. with 20 wood cut plates

by Phillips, limited to 968 copies, this being #919, signed by Phillips and Watson, printed on

rag paper, historical note, tan brown paper over boards with wood cut illustrations and title

on the upper cover, faint splash on the upper spine, in black slipcase (which is more

commonly found with some rubbing and/or edge wear), this is a fine copy in near fine

slipcase

650.00

Peel 3285. W.J. Phillips is celebrated for his work in wood cuts and colour wood cuts as well as being an excellent water colourist. Most of his subject matter

deals with the prairies and Rocky Mountains.

Woodcuts by W.J. Phillips Limited & Signed


54. WESTON,Chesmer

Reminiscences Among The Rocks in connection with the Geological Survey of Canada.

Toronto. Printed for the author by Warwick Bro's & Rutter. 1899. 20cm, ix,328p. with 15 illus

& portraits, green cloth, a fine copy

150.00

An early history of the Geological Survey, including the explorations of the author.


55. WHEELER, W.O.

The Selkirk Range. Ottawa. Published by the Department of the Interior. 1905. 24cm,

xvii,[1],459p. frontis portrait, plus 95 plates and illustrations; with separate portfolio of maps

containing 14 folding maps (including 2 folding illustrations and one chart), in the original

brown cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, a fine bright set, scarce with the accompanying

portfolio of plates and maps

350.00

Neate 887. An account of a topographical survey of British Columbia's Selkirk Range adjacent

to the C.P. railway, accompanied by a review of travel and exploration and mountaineering

in the region Lowther 1548. Part 1 of the book is an account of a topographical survey of a

portion of the Selkirk Mountains adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway line. Parts 2 4

cover exploration, previous surveys, and mountaineering in the area.


56. WINTHROP, Theodore

The Canoe and the Saddle, Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests; and

Isthmiana. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1864. 12mo, 18.5cm, 7th edition, 375p., original blind

stamped covers rebacked, new endpapers & spine titles, fine thus

65.00

A travel book, first published in 1862, of the American North West with a vocabulary of

"Chinook Jargon". The addition of "Isthmiana' outlines the American author's tra vels in the

Isthmus of Panama. Theodore Winthrop (1828 1861) was killed early in the American Civil

War while serving with the 7th New York Regiment. This is one of five books, published

posthumously. Howes W584.


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