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1. ANONYMOUS.

Louisbourg in 1745. The Anonymous Lettre d'un Habitant de Louisbourg (Cape Breton).

Containing a narrative by an eye-witness of the Siege in 1745. Edited with an English translation by

George M. Wrong. Toronto. William Briggs. 1897. 27cm, 74p., printed wraps, fine

75.00

Text in English and French. The only known unofficial account of the siege from the French

standpoint.


2. ATKINSON, W. Christopher

A Historical and Statistical Account of New Brunswick, B.N.A. with Advice to Emigrants. Third

Edition, Greatly Improved and Corrected. Edinburgh. Printed by Anderson & Bryce. 1844. 12mo.,

16cm, xvi,284p. with folding map, one plate and 3 text illustrations, in the original full roan, gilt titles

and boards, a.e.g., top spine edge chipped otherwise a very good copy

100.00

T.P.L. 2511. Sabin 2288. Morley p21. Lande 20. Author served in New Brunswick from 1840

to 1842 as Presbyterian Minister. The book offers valuable advice and information to emigrants

regarding industry, natural history, social conditions, commerce, agriculture.


3. [BORDEN, Robert]

Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs. In Two Volumes. Edited and with a Preface by Henry

Borden. With an introduction by Arthur Meighen. Toronto. The Macmillan Company of Canada. 1938.

8vo, 22.5cm, 1060pp., with plates and illustrations, original dark blue cloth, top edges and jacket a

bit dust soiled, a fine set in very good jackets, in publisher’s slipcase

100.00


4. CANADA - Maps.

Sixteenth-Century Maps Relating to Canada. A Check-List and Bibliography. Ottawa. King's

Printer. 1956. 24.5cm, 283p. with 8 plates, appendices, bibliography, printed stiff green wraps, very

good

40.00


5. CANADIAN Expeditionary Force]. - PHOTOGRAPH.

Inspection of the 4th Division - C.E.F. By H.M. King George V. "C" Company-3rd Battalion-R.H.C. In Foreground." A framed photograph of the Fourth Division,

C.E.F. in England before the move to the Western Front. A contemporary inscription on verso of photo states: "Hanley Common-Hants- England- June 1916. Inspection

of the 4th Division- C.E.F. By H.M. King George V. "C" Company-3rd Battalion - R.H.C. In Foreground."

The photo is 12x 29cm (matted 18 x 36cm), in oak frame, backing paper frayed, with hand-written inscription, generally fine condition

150.00

A panoramic photograph of the 4th Canadian Division on parade before crossing to France in August, 1916. The Division fought in the Somme, Vimy Ridge,

Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, and the last Hundred Days. The troops taking in the salute in the foreground are the 73 Battalion, Royal Highlanders, [Black Watch]

C.E.F. A unique photograph framed professionally by Louis Morency, Sculptor and Gilder, Quebec.


6. COHEN, Leonard

The Favourite Game. London. Secker & Warburg. 1963. 19.5cm, the first U.K edition, 223p., green cloth, titles and decorations on the spine stamped

in silver, jacket is a bit toned, some small splash marks, a fine copy in very good complete jacket

350.00

Leonard Cohen's first novel. There was no Canadian edition at the time and the British publisher held the Canadian rights. Therefore, most copies

were price clipped by the distributor or publisher.


7. COLLINS, J.E.

Life and Times of The Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald. Premier of the Dominion of

Canada. Toronto. Rose Publishing Company. 1883. 8vo. 22cm, first edition, 642p., steel engraved

frontis portrait, (damp stain on the portrait plate only), index, bound in the original brown morocco

over marbled boards, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, gilt spine titles, some

foxing to the preliminaries, a very good to fine copy in attractive contemporary binding

100.00


8. DAWSON, John William

Acadian Geology: an account of the geological structure and mineral resources of Nova Scotia,

and portions of the neighbouring provinces of British America. Edinburgh. Oliver and Boyd. 1855. 18.5cm,

first edition, xii,388p., rear folding colour map (with some expertly repaired small tears), 4 plates, 35

illustrations, original cloth, free fly has a large chip, some light wear at the top edge, a very good to fine

copy

350.00

cf. TPL. 3159 & 3160 & 5663. Sabin 18951. Morgan p94. Dionne II-890. Not in Lande. "....Charles

Lyell, regarded by most earth scientists today as the father of modern geology, visited Pictou in 1842 to

examine the great coal deposits at Albion Mines (Stellarton) south of the town. His principal guide was

Dawson, and from this encounter grew a lifelong friendship based on mutual respect. In the mid 1840s

Dawson, with the encouragement and guidance of Lyell, did considerable field-work in Nova Scotia, the

results of which were published in the quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. At the same

time, on contract, he undertook exploration programs for mining entrepreneurs in search of commercial

mineral and coal deposits in Nova Scotia.

.... In 1854 Dawson was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of London and in that year he

completed the manuscript of his monumental work, Acadian geology . . ., which was published in

Edinburgh and London the following year. The work was a practical and authoritative guide to the

geology and economic resources of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The fourth

and final edition, revised and updated, appeared in 1891, having grown from an initial 388 pages to

almost 700". - DCB.


9. DAWSON, J. W.

Lecture Notes on Geology and Outline of the Geology of Canada. For the use of Students.

With Figures of Characteristic Fossils. Montreal. Dawson Brothers. 1880. 8vo, 22cm., 96p., 2 maps, 29

figures in text, 23 pages of figures of fossils, original fine pebble grained light blue green cloth, blind

ruled borders on boards, gilt upper cover titles, top and bottom of spine edges frayed, hinges

repaired else fine condition

250.00


10. [DISTURNELL, J[ohn].

The Picturesque Tourist: Being A Guide through the State of New York and Upper and Lower

Canada, including A Hudson River Guide; giving an Accurate Description of Cities and Villages,

celebrated Place of Escort, etc. New York. Published by J. Disturnell. 1858. 16mo, 15,5cm, ix,(-

11),298,[26]p., illustrated ads., with 15 plates and maps (inc. 1 folding and engraved vignette title),

original blind decorated cloth, gilt spine and upper cover titles and decorations, spine lightly faded

(titles clear), a fine copy

350.00

Except for the preliminaries perhaps the staining is not obtrusive. Originally published in

1844 the editor was O.L. Holley. This appeared to be a revised and expanded edition, (with 15 plates

rather than 10). The preface is signed by J.D. and does not mention Holley. Sabin 62693 (under title).

Not in T.P.L. or Waterston; cf. T.P.L. 7745 for 1844 edition and cf. Sabin 32538 & Lande s1079 for

Holley, 1844 edition


11. DOUGHTY, Arthur G. & Norah Story.

Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1819-1828. Selected and edited

with notes by... Ottawa. Public Archives of Canada. 1935. tall8vo, 25cm, xi,538p., index, half bound

in crimson morocco, raised black and gilt decorated bands, gilt extra border decorations in the

panels, gilt titles, red cloth boards, some minor wear, a fine copy in fine binding

250.00

During this period some government publications were bound in a presentation binding.

Typically 10 or 12 copies were done; one or two for the author, one for assistants, one for the King's

Printer, one for the Minister, etc.. These bindings had a somewhat consistent style. While the practice

continued in some departments the binding in modern times is a rather sad maroon buckram.

In Canadian Government Presentation Binding


12. DOUGHTY, Arthur G

(The Durham Papers). Report of the Public Archives for the Year 1923. Ottawa. King's Printer.

1924. tall8vo. 24cm, 410,70,25p., with 6 plate illustrations (of manuscripts), half bound in crimson

morocco, raised black and gilt decorated bands, gilt extra border decorations in the panels, gilt titles,

red cloth boards, some minor wear, a fine copy in fine binding

250.00

The papers in this collection (410 pages) contain the record of Lord Durham's proceedings

during his stay in the country, between May and November, 1838, and of the views entertained by

the Government in England reading them.



13. EDWARDS, James

Correspondence and Papers on Various Subjects. by the late William Edwards, of Clarence,

Ontario. Together with a Sketch of his Life. Compiled and arranged by his brother... Peterborough.

J.R. Stratton, Printer, Examiner Steam Presses. 1882. 25cm, 170p. printed in double columns, original

decorated green cloth, bevelled boards, very good to fine, very scarce

200.00

Subjects include: Scenes in the Life of a Canadian Pioneer; Rustic Jottings from the Bush;

Correspondence to Peterborough Examiner; Temperance; Religious; Essays of Dignity of Labour;

Ottawa Pioneers; Political; Miscellaneous; Poetry.


14. [FREEMASONRY].

The Book of Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Nova

Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Printed by Brother E.M. Macdonald, "Citizen" Steam Press. 1867. 20.4cm,

38,10pp., appendices, original dark blue suede, glazed satin endpapers, boards faded, some foxing,

a good to very good copy, rare

150.00

Appendices include a table of dues and forms for resigning from a lodge, applications for

membership and financial returns. Nova Scotia was noted as having the first established Freemason

lodges in Canada. Published under the authority of the Grand Lodge, by Charles J. MacDonald, Grand

Secretary


15. FROTHINGHAM, Richard

History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Also,

An Account of the Bunker Hill Monument. Boston. Charles C. Little and James Brown. 1849. 22cm,

first edition, ix, 420p., three folding maps, 15 engravings, appendices, blind-stamped cloth rebacked,

gilt decoration on front & back, one map torn (but repaired), a very good copy

250.00

A classic study of events in the early phases of the American Revolution by a prominent

Boston historian who credits assistance by Jared Sparks, James Savage and George Ticknor. The

Bunker Hill Monument was completed in 1843 and on the celebration eleven veterans of the Battle

attended. Two of the maps (Boston and the Battle of Bunker Hill) were drawn by Lieut. Page of the

British Army Corps of Engineers, aide-de-camp to General Howe in the Battle.


16. [JEFFREYS, C.W.] by Malcolm G. Parks

Discoverers and Explorers in Canada, 1497-1763. & 1463-1911. Drawings by Charles W.

Jefferys. Published by Imperial Oil Limited. n.d. [193?]?. 31cm, folio, in two portfolios, 28 24p., with

15 plates and illustrations from drawings by C.W. Jeffreys, notes, bibliography, original printed grey

wraps, fine in fine portfolios

100.00


17. KENNEY, James F.

Rapport surs les Archives Publiques Pour L’Annee 1935. Ottawa. King’s Printer. 1937. tall 8vo.

24cm, 26cm, bound in full morocco, raised gilt bands, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, some minor

wear, a fine copy in fine binding

100.00

Contains the State Papers of Upper Canada, for 1821-35. During this period some

government publications were bound in a presentation binding. Typically 10 or 12 copies were done;

one or two for the author, one for assistants, one for the King's Printer, one for the Minister, etc..

These bindings had a somewhat consistent style. While the practice continued in some departments

the binding in modern times is a rather sad maroon buckram.



18. KIRBY, James [Editor]

The British North American Almanac and Annual Record for the year 1864: A Hand-Book of

Statistical and General Information. Montreal. John Lovell. [1864]. 8vo, 22cm, Volume One [all

published], 368p., many illustrated ads, in the original elaborately blind decorated cloth, plain spine

slightly faded, repaired tear and small puncture without text loss on the advertisement leaf (free fly)

printed on yellow stock otherwise a fine copy, rare

400.00

T.P.L. 4288. Sabin 8116...states "the first American work of its kind re: the British American

Provinces. Not in Lande.


19. LAVAL, Paul

Lettre de Monsieur Laval, ci-devant Ministre a Conde-Sur-Noireau, a ses anciens co-

religionaires. Reimprime sur l'Edition de Paris, 1823. A Saint Philippe. Chez Joseph Hebert, Imprimeur.

1824. 12mo. 16.2cm, 52,[1]p., original plain wrappers, in fine condition

250.00

T.P.L. 1320. Gagnon I-2109. Casey 1158. Lande S1241. Dionne 156. A scarce and interesting

Canadian imprint. This little volume was printed at the parish of Saint-Philippe, under the auspices

of the Cure, Francois Pigeon, 1778-1838, who had established a printing press there in the early

1820's. Here he published a number of small works for the use of schools and houses of instruction,

and a short-lived newspaper in 1826, the Journal de Saint-Philippe.


20. LYELL, Charles

Travels in North America, in the years 1841-2; with Geological Observations on The United

States, Canada and Nova Scotia. New York. Wiley and Putnam. 1845. 12mo, 2 volumes in One, vii,251

& vi,231,[10]pp., ads., with 1 hand-coloured folding plate, colour map, 1 folding engraved view

(Niagara Falls), 2 engraved folding plates, large coloured folding map, text illustrations, original cloth

boards rebacked in modern cloth, gilt titles, very good to fine copy

400.00

T.P.L. 2539, Sabin 42761. Howes L-575. . - This edition not in Lande. Waterson p74. London

edition. - A leading scientist in the Darwinian years, Lyell found at Beauport, along the lower St.

Lawrence, at Halifax and Pictou, at Niagara and Gananogue, fossil deposits suggesting cataclysmic

pre-history. From Toronto, riding north on horse-back over the circling ridges, he checked the

possibility of a vast sea as forerunner of the Great Lakes. The journal form of this important two

volume work adds immediacy. (Waterston). - Lyell travelled extensively throughout Canada and the

United States, from up-state New York to the Carolinas, through Kentucky, Ohio, and into Canada,

where he travelled from Niagara to Toronto, Kingston, Montreal and Nova Scotia. (1).


21. MAURAULT, L'Abbe J. A.

Histoire Des Abenakis, dupuis 1605 jusqu'a nos jours. Sorel. Imprime a L'Atelier

Typographique de la "Gazette De Sorel". 1866. thick 12mo, 19cm, xi],631,[ii, vi]pp., in contemporary

quarter black leather, gilt spine titles, marbled boards, a fine copy

400.00

T.P.L. 4520. Not in Lande. Sabin 46948. Gagnon I-2289. Dionne I-947. Morgan p253. Pilling.

Algonquin, p346. A standard work. The once populous Abenakis were part of the Algonquin

federation, who inhabited the northeast coast from New England to the St. Lawrence. With few

records available and no access to government documents, Maurault relied, for much of his history,

on American and Canadian works about the colonial wars (King William's War, 1689-97; Queen

Anne's War, 1702-13 & the Seven Years' War, 1756-63), in which the Abenakis had fought beside the

French. It includes some account of their manners and customs. The critics of the time were charitable

towards this ambitious work, devoted to a tribe in danger of extinction.


22. Meredith, Alden G.

Mary's Rosedale and Gossip of "Little York". Ottawa. The Graphic Publishers. 1928. 19.5cm,

280p., with 12 plates and illustrations, "graphic endpapers", blue patterned cloth, gilt titles and

decorations, previous owner's signature, jacket is chipped along the upper edge, a fine copy in very

good jacket

75.00

The author's only book (though she wrote numerous articles on the early history of Upper

Canada); an account of the influential Jarvis family & the establishment of the ultimate Compact

neighbourhood surrounding their home (which they called Rosedale). Attractively printed and

bound by the Graphic Publishers of Ottawa.


23. MIDDLETON, Jessie Edgar

Toronto's 100 Years. Toronto. The Centennial Committee. 1934. 25cm, 228p., including many

illustrated ads., with 82 fine line drawn illustrations by Charles F. Comfort, C.W. Jeffreys, Stanley

Turner, T.W. McLean, etc. in the original decorated stiff wraps, very good

25.00


24. [MONTREAL].

The Growth of a Great Port. Montreal. Published by the Harbours Commissioners of Montreal.

1927. Folio, 30.5cm, 79p., with 3 coloured maps on 2 double-page, plates, many illustrations,

mapped endpapers, colour decorated paper over green cloth, very good condition

100.00


25. MOODIE, Susanna

Roughing It In The Bush, or, Forest Life in Canada. Illustrations in Colour by R.A. Stewart.

Toronto. Bell & Cockburn, 1913. 21cm, xix,[1],568,[1]p., colour frontis., 2 portraits and 14

tipped in plates, including 8 in colour from paintings by R.A. Stewart, original red linen, t.e.g., a very

good to fine copy

75.00

First printing of this attractive illustrated edition.


26. MORGAN, Henry James [editor]

The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Hand-book of Canadian Biography of Living

Characters. Toronto. Briggs. 1912., large-thick8vo., 22cm, the second edition, 1218p. original red

cloth, gilt titles, fine

75.00


27. [NOTMAN, W.]

Portrait of a Period. A Collection of Notman Photographs 1856 to 1915. Edited by J. Russell

Harper & Stanley Triggs. With an Introduction by E.A. Collard. Montreal. McGill University Press. 1967.

folio. (35.5cm), no pagination, with 174 plates, (including 2 folding & one in colour), original brown

cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket

75.00


28. OJIBWAY HYMNAL

Anamie-Nagamonan. Kakina Enishinabewiieg, Kitchitwawing Kije-Manito: Kitchitwawinig

Endasso-Winsoieg. Nipigon, Ontario. Printed in Belgium, by Desclee de Brouwer & Co. 1931. 17cm,

370p., original black pebbled cloth, spine gilt., a fine copy

125.00

A hymn book in the Ojibwa language, including hymns to be sung at Christmas, Vespers, in

honor of various saints, and Latin hymns.


29. [OTTAWA]. AHEARN, Thomas

Appreciations. Honourable Thomas Ahearn, P.C. (Compiled by Fred Cook). Printed for private

circulation only. [Ottawa. 193?]. 8vo. 25cm, 42p., tipped in frontis portrait, blue cloth, gilt cover titles,

a fine copy, author's signed presentation copy to Judge Hyndman, with 1p., Autograph Letter,

Signed, seven lines, on the stationary of "The Ottawa Gas Company", dated Dec. 31st, 1937. Mr.

Ahearn was president and director of numerous large firms including being president of the Ottawa

Gas Company. He was chairman of the Federal District Commission

75.00


30. PARKMAN, Francis

Francis Parkman’s Works. In 12 Volumes. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World; 2. The Jesuits in North America; 3. La Salle and the Discovery of

the Great West; 4. The Old Regime in Canada; 5. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; 6. A Half Century of Conflict (2 Vols.); 7. Montcalm and

Wolfe. (2 Vols.); 8. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada (2 Vols ); 9. The Oregon Trail.

Toronto. George N. Morang. 1898. 8vo, 19.5cm, various paginations, photogravure frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, numerous plates,

in green cloth with extra gilt stamping on the spine, a fine attractive set

250.00

With Joseph Pope's signature


31. POPE, Joseph

Memoirs of The Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald. G.C.B., First Prime Minister

of the Dominion of Canada. In Two Volumes. Ottawa. J. Durie & Son. [1894]. 8vo. 22.5cm, first

Canadian edition (British sheets), in 2 volumes, xvi,392 & x,369pp., frontis portraits, appendices,

index, dark green cloth, gilt spine titles & front crests,, with Sir Joseph's Pope signature tipped in, gift

inscription on title page, a very good to fine set of the scarce first Canadian edition

250.00

Interesting gift inscription from Montreal lawyer Donald Macmaster, to Austin Mosher, with

letter, related newspaper clippings, and gift inscription across the title page. Sir Joseph Pope served

as private secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 to 1891 and was appointed Macdonald 's

literary executor.


32. PRINGLE, J.F.

Lunenburgh or the Old Eastern District. Its settlement and early progress: with personal

recollections of the town of Cornwall, from 1824; to which are added A History of the King's Royal

Regiment of New York and other corps; the Names of all those who drew land in the counties of

Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, up to November, 1786; and Several other lists of interest of the

descendants of the Old Settlers. Cornwall. Published by the Standard Printing House. 1890. 22cm, the

first edition, xix,421,[2]p. appendices, original blind ruled blue cloth, near fine copy

200.00

Inscribed by Alexander John Macdonell (Greenfield), author of Sketches Illustrating the Early

Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada, to A.H. O’Brien. Probably the A.H. O’Brien who was

the author of the T.C. Haliburton bibliography published in 1909.

Morley p21. First Edition. With extensive lists of settlers, military and civil officers;

bibliographical notes. Lunenburg, later called the Eastern district, comprised the present counties of

Prescott, Russell, Grenville and the united counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. It includes

some of Carleton and Leeds also.

An Interesting Association Copy


33. RUSSELL, Benjamin (Historical Review by)

Nova Scotia Blue Book and Encyclopaedia. Biographical Sketches by James Conwell.

WITH:

New Brunswick Blue Book and Encyclopaedia. [Toronto]. Published by Historical Publishers

Ass. 1932. 4to. 27.5cm, 127,44,67p., in elaborately blind stamped dark blue fabrikoid, spine titles

faded, some slight wear at the edges, else a very good sound copy

50.00

Includes New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.


34. [SIMILAR]. CONWELL, James

New Brunswick Blue Book and Encyclopedia. Biographical Sketches by James Conwell. WITH:

Nova Scotia Blue Book and Encyclopaedia. [Toronto]. Published by Historical Publishers Ass. 1932.

4to. 27.5cm, 44,127,67p., in elaborately blind stamped dark blue fabrikoid, spine titles faded, extra

gilt stamped upper cover, rear board has some discolouration, a very good copy

50.00

Includes Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.


35. SHORTT, Adam

Documents relating to Currency, Exchange and Finance in Nova Scotia, with prefatory

documents, 1675-1758. Selected by Adam Shortt, completed with an introduction by V.K. Johnston,

and Revised and Edited by Gustave Lanctot. Ottawa. Board of Historical Publications. 1933. 25cm,

xlix,495p. index, half bound in crimson morocco, raised black and gilt decorated bands, gilt extra

border decorations in the panels, gilt titles, red cloth boards, some minor wear, a fine copy in fine

binding

250.00

During this period some government publications were bound in a presentation binding.

Typically 10 or 12 copies were done; one or two for the author, one for assistants, one for the King's

Printer, one for the Minister, etc.. These bindings had a somewhat consistent style. While the practice

continued in some departments the binding in modern times is a rather sad maroon buckram.



THE ARCTIC

36. [ANTARCTIC]

The National Geographic Magazine, October 1932. Volume LXII, Number Four. Special Map

Supplement of the Antarctic Regions and Sixteen pages of Illustrations in Full Color. Washington.

National Geographic Society. 1932. 25.5cm, 387-512p., illustrations, ads, loosely inserted large

folding map, very good

40.00


37. BERNIER, J.E.

Report on the Dominion of Canada Government Expedition to the Arctic Islands and Hudson Strait on board the D.G.S. "Arctic". [1908-09]. Ottawa.

Government Printing Bureau. 1910. 8vo, 23.5cm, xxix,529p., with c.175 plates and illustrations (mainly from photographs by the author) and 4 folding

maps, green cloth, gilt titles, ex-library, good to very good sound condition

125.00


38. BLANCHET, G.H.

Keewatin and Northeastern Mackenzie. A General Survey of the Life, Activities, and Natural

Resources of this Section of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Ottawa. Dept. of the Interior. 1930.

25cm, 78p. with 52 illustrations and 2 maps (one rear folding), vocabulary, original printed blue

wraps, a fine copy, uncommon

50.00


39. BURROUGHS, John & John Muir & G. B. Grinnell.

Alaska. Volume 1 & 2. Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. Harriman Alaska Expedition, with cooperation of

Washington Academy of Sciences. New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1901. sm4to. 26cm, the first edition,

[xl],183 & 185-383pp., being volumes 1 & volume 2 (the narrative) of 14, title pages printed in red and black,with 39

color chromo-litho type plates after Gifford, Dellenbaugh, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Knight and Walpole & 85

photogravure plates after Edward Curtis, C. Hart Merriam, and others & 5 maps, and numerous text illustrations,

original green cloth, gilt spine titles and gilt borders and decoration on the boards, t.e.g., a fine set in original cloth

jackets

900.00

A.B. 6676. The first two volumes are the narrative of the expedition, the rest are the scientific results. The

official narrative of the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. Financed and organized by American railroad baron,

Edward H. Harriman, and under the guidance of the Smithsonian Institution and Washington Academy of Sciences,

the expedition travelled from Seattle to Sitka, to the Aleutians, into the Bering Sea to the edge of the Arctic Ocean.

The 100-member expedition included naturalists John Muir and John Burroughs, photographer Edward Curtis,

ornithologist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, artist R. Swain Gifford, cartographer Henry Gannett and ethnologist George Bird

Grinnell. A scientific reconnaissance, the itinerary was decided on-route, by committees of specialists, for scientific

investigations and collecting of specimens. In two-months, the Expedition covered some 9,000 miles and collected

around 50,00 specimens. Twelve volumes of the scientific results of the Expedition were eventually published by

the Smithsonian Institution, 1910-14.

The first edition of "Alaska" is of particular interest since it features a large set of photogravures after Curtis

printed with a quality found in no later editions or online downloads. The trip is noted as launching the career of the

photographer. Interestingly, Harriman's private motive for the expedition was his interest in the Kodiak bear which

he secured (and killed to the chagrin of John Muir) on Kodiak Island, the first ever measured and photographed.

The Narrative of the Expedition


40. CANADA. Parliament. [Le Nord-Quest].

Correspondance et Documents Relatifs aux Evenements Recemment survenus dans les

Territoires du Nord-Ouest

together with:

Rapport du Comite Special sur les Causes des Troubles du Territoire du Nord-Ouest en 1869-

70.

together with:

Message Du Gouverneur-General, (Dufferin), transmettant copie de la correspondance

relative a la sertence de mort prouncee contre Ambroise Lepine pour le meutre de Thomas Scott, a

Fort-Garry.

together with:

Rapport du Commissaire de la Police Montee du Nord-Ouest, 1874. Ottawa. 1874-1875.

tall8vo. 24cm, 161, 208, 40, 71pp., in One volume, bound in quarter black sheep, gilt spine titles,

marbled boards, printed on somewhat fragile paper, internal library stamps, some wear on the edges

of the boards else a fine copy

750.00

First volume cf. Peel (3) 542 (earlier issues). 2nd volume, Peel (3) 545. V3; Not in Peel. V4: Peel

712.


41. CANADA. [Minister of the Interior].

The Yukon Territory. Its History and Resources. Ottawa. GPO. 1907. 24cm, first issue, 140p.

plus 35 plates (inc frontis) & 8 text illustrations, folded graph, original brick brown cloth, gilt titles on

the upper cover, in very good to fine condition

75.00

Contents include: historical, constitution & government, physical features, mining,

commercial conditions, transportation, and general information. The plates are particularly

interesting.


42. CARR, William Guy

Checkmate in the North. The Axis Planned to Invade America. Toronto. The Macmillan Co.

1944. 8vo. 304p., with 17 plates of illustrations, blue cloth, very good in very good complete jacket

50.00

Account of the building of the air base at Goose Bay, Labrador, 1941-42, with a chapter on

flying ice patrols.


43. CIGARETTE CARDS.

Polar Exploration. A Series of 25 Cigarette Cards, issued by John Player & Sons. Nottingham. Imperial Tobacco Company. N.d. c.[1910]. each 3.5x

6.5cm, being 25 captioned colour cards, descriptions on the verso, a fine complete set, scarce

150.00

A striking collection of illustrated cigarette cards denoting Polar exploration from Vikings to Scott's Antarctic Expedition of 1910. Franklin's Arctic

Expedition of 1819-22 and relics of the Franklin Expedition of 1845 are featured. Other cards show scenes of the Inuit, Shackleton, Scott, Hudson, Cabot,

Peary, Ross, Parry, Hoppner, and Andre.


44. [COOK, Frederick A.]. MORRIS, Charles (Edited by)

Finding the North Pole. Dr. Cook's Own Story of His Discovery, April 21, 1908. The Story of

Commander Peary's Discovery, April 6, 1909. Together with The Marvelous Record of Former Arctic

Expeditions. With an Introduction by George W. Melville, Rear Admiral Retired. The Survivor of Three

Arctic Expeditions who Recovered the Records of the Jeanette Expedition, and also the Remains of

De Long and his Companions and was given a Gold Medal by Congress for his Distinguished Services.

N.p. W.E. Scull. 1909. 23.5cm, xv,448p., frontis portrait, c.100 plates and illustrations, original light

blue grey illustrated cloth, with an oval map laid down on the upper cover, some marks on the frontis

portrait, a very good copy for a subscription book

50.00


45. COOK, Frederick A.

Return from the Pole. Edited, with an Introduction, by Frederick J. Pohl. New York. Pellegrini

& Cudahy. 1951. 23cm, first edition, x,335p. frontis portrait, map, chronology, notes, bibliography,

blue cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket

40.00

A.B. 21287. Cook's posthumously published account of his long return journey from the Pole,

including a winter passed in a cave.


46. [COOK, Captain James] - MAP. Engraved by James Rapkin

The World Mercator’s Projection Shewing the Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. London. John Tallis & Co. 1851. sheet size 27x 36cm, image

size 19.5x30cm, centre fold as issued, outline colour, very good to fine

200.00


47. COOKMAN, Scott

Ice Blink. The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition. New York. John Wiley &

Sons, Inc. 2000. 22.5cm, first edition, xii, 244p., text illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index,

fine in fine jacket

25.00

"Ice Blink" was the name nineteenth-century sailors gave polar mirages, caused by light

reflected off the ice pack. An appendix provides a muster roll of officers and men of HMS Erebus and

HMS Terror.


48. DE BRAY, Emile Frédéric

A Frenchman in Search of Franklin. De Brayès Arctic Journal, 1852-1854. Translated and

Edited by William Barr. Toronto, Buffalo, London. University of Toronto Press. 1992. 8vo. 23cm,

xxii,339p., frontis portrait, maps and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, green cloth, a fine copy

in fine jacket

35.00


49. FORCE, Peter

Supplement to Grinnell Land. Read at Ordinary Meeting of the National Institute, July, 1853.

(caption title). Washington . Robert A. Waters, Print., [1853?]. 8vo, 23cm, 52p., folding frontis map

(small chip at one fold on the top margin), with the original printed (title) blue wraps bound into

quarter linen backed boards, library stamps, very good, no other references or listings, rare

350.00

T.P.L.292. Day 4039. "The question is a very simple one: - who first discovered the land to the

northward of Wellington Channel?"


50. [FRANKLIN]. LIVINGSTON, Peter

Poems & Songs; with lectures on the Genius and Works of Burns, and the Rev. George

Gilfillan, and Letter on Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions. Edinburgh. Printed by Mould & Tod.

1881. 12mo, 19cm, 10th edition, 143p., in the original red cloth, blind stamped decorations and

borders on the boards, plain spine dust worn otherwise a very good copy

50.00

Contains; pp13-23 "Second Edition of A Letter addressed to the Queen on Sir John Franklin,

and the Arctic Regions".


51. GRAHAM, Maxwell

Canada’s Wild Buffalo. Observations in the Wood Buffalo Park. With an appendix a

Reconnaissance in the home of the Wood Buffalo. Ottawa. The King’s Printer. 1923. 24.5cm, 17p.,

frontis map, illustrations from photographs, large rear folding colour map, light blue wraps, very

good

50.00


52. HEALY, M.A. (Captain)

Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1884.

Washington. GPO. 1889. 4to. 28cm, 129p. with 40 plates [16 being full-page, 22 with double illustrations,

& 2 full colour lithographed bird plates], rebacked in half black fine grain fabrikoid in the original brown

cloth boards, a very good to fine copy

350.00

A.B. 18400. The expedition sailed to the Bering and Chukcki Seas, during which an exploring

party under Lt. Cantwell (A Narrative of the Exploration of the Kowak (Kobuk) River); landed at Hotham

Inlet on Kotzebue Sound to survey the Kokuk River. The report includes details of the local illness that

Eskimos, the natural history of maritime Alaska, and information concerning a new volcano in the Bering

Sea. (illustrated with 6 photographs).

Healy was born on a plantation in Georgia, the son of an Irish immigrant father and a slave

mother. Among his brothers were Patrick Healy, a Jesuit priest who became president of Georgetown

University, and James A. Healy, the first African-American Bishop of Portland, Maine. He ran away from

home twice to go to sea, and ultimately became the first African-American Commander in the service of

the Coast Guard, having joined the Revenue Cutter in 1865. Apparently, Jack London's novel, Sea Wolf,

was based in part of the noteworthy life of Captain Healy. His race was strategically ignored during the

tenure of his long and distinguished service for the Coast Guard. He spent the last portion of his career

cruising up and down the Alaskan Coast, aimed at controlling contraband trade and supervising the

whaling fleet. A film biography about him, made for television, was produced during 1999.


53. KANE, Elisha Kent

The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative. New York.

Harper & Brothers. 1854. 8vo. 23.cm, the first edition, xi,[-12],552p., appendices, with 6 steel

engraved plates and 8 tinted litho plates, 3 maps (one folding) and 141 text illustrations from

engravings, in the original brown cloth, blind stamped borders on the spine and boards, gilt spine

titles, gilt pictorial decorations on the spine and upper cover, spine slightly faded, some wear on the

top and bottom of the spine edges, a very good sound copy

225.00

A.B. 8381. "Narrative (by the surgeon) of the First Grinnell Expedition under Lt. DeHaven, on

the `Advance' and the `Rescue', to Lancaster Sound - Wellington Channel region, 1850-51. Contains

an account (based mainly on Kane's day-to-day journal) of the organization and course of the

expedition to Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Wellington Channel. It also includes the drift in ice in

that region, Sept. 1850 - June 1851, with comments on the Eskimos, animal life, hunting, ice

conditions".


54. KERSTING, R. (Editor)

The White World. Life and Adventure within the Arctic Circle Portrayed by Famous Living

Explorers. Issued under the auspices of The Arctic Club. Collected and Arranged for the Arctic Club by

Rudolf Kersting. New York. Lewis, Scribner & Co. 1902. 21cm, 386p., frontis and 66 plates, illustrations

(inc. portraits), original dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles, illustration laid down on the upper cover,

spine lightly faded,, a very good copy

100.00

A.B. 8556. Twenty-two chapters by various explorers, topics include, Arctic Rescue by Schley;

Farthest North with Greely by Brainard; Polar Hospitals, Henry Biederbick; An Arctic Bear Hunt, by

Francis Long; Superstitions of the Eskimo, Middleton Smith; Daily Work of an Arctic Explorer,

Frederick A. Cook. etc.


55. LEITH, C.K. & A.T.

A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay. Madison, Wisconsin. [Privately; Cartwell Printing Co].

1912. 8vo. 23.5cm, 203p., map & 37 plates from photographs, brown cloth, gilt spine and cover titles,

some light foxing, a very good to fine copy

200.00

A.B. 9858. Narrative of the author's geological expedition, in the summer of 1909, when his

four-man party canoed down Moose River to Moose Factory, sailed along the east coast of James and

Hudson Bay to Richmond Gulf. From there two of the party returned shortly in the same way, and

A.T. Leith and companion remained till Christmas, returned by dog team and snowshoes early in

1910.


56. McCLINTOCK, Capt. [Francis L].

A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. The Voyage of

the ‘Fox' in the Arctic Seas. London. John Murray. 1859. 8vo, 22.5cm, The First Edition, xxvii,403,[1]p.

Murray books ad., with 15 engraved plates and views, 3 folding maps, one folding facsimile of the ̀ Record

found of Franklin's Expedition', in three quarter dark calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all

edges marbled, crimson label, gilt raised ruled panels, with gilt decorations in the panels, in signed

binding by C. Winstanley, Manchester, with the orignial owner’s name (1860) on the title page, a fine copy

in attractive binding

500.00

A.B. 10555. Sabin 43043. Smith 6220. T.P.L. 8741. cf. Lande for later editions. Account of Lady

Franklin's final searching expedition on the `Fox', under McClintock, 1857-59, which finally determined

the fate of the Franklin expedition. The work, as well as being a journal of the expedition, includes

observations on the Eskimo, geography and climate. The appendix includes a list of relics of the

expedition.

McClintock (1819-1907) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy and discovered proof of

the fate of Franklin. This book was one of the most successful 19th century Arctic books and went through

many editions. By discovering that a navigable water route existed east and south of King William Island,

he located the most feasible North West Passage route and the one used by Amundsen.

In a Signed Binding, C. Winstanley Manchester


57. MELVILLE, George W.

In The Lena Delta. A Narrative of the Search for Lieut-Commander De Long and His

Companions, followed by An Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method of

Reaching the North Pole. Edited by Melville Philips. Boston & New York. Houghton, Mifflin &

Company. 1885. 8vo. 22cm, xiii,[2],497p., frontis portrait and 15 plates & 4 double-page maps, index,

original brown cloth, gilt spine titles, black stamped titles and pictorial illustrations on the upper

cover, some wear at the top of the top and bottom of spine edges, some scaring to the endpapers,

else very good to fine condition

200.00

A.B. 11239. Melville was chief engineer aboard the 'Jeannette', and gives an account of its

voyage, loss, and the retreat of the crew over the ice to Siberia and of his attempt to find De Long in

the Lena Delta. Later he was chief engineer aboard the Thetis, under Schley, during the Greely rescue.


58. MOWAT, Farley

Never Cry Wolf. Toronto & Montreal. McClelland and Stewart. 1963. 20.5cm, first Canadian

edition, 247p. a fine copy in a fine jacket with a second completely different publishers' jacket

50.00


59. NANSEN, Fridtjof

Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram" 1893-96 and

of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lt. Johansen. With an Appendix by Otto

Sverdrup.. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1897. 8vo., 24cm, in 2 volumes, the first U.S. edition, 587 &

729 ,4,pp., ads., gravure etched frontis portrait, 16 colour plates, 120 b/w plates, 4 folding colour

pocket maps, text illustrations and maps, in the original dark grey cloth, nautical cover designs and

titles in gilt and colors, gilt spine titles, t.e.g. a fine set in the original publisher's pictorial cloth binding

300.00

Nansen, one of the most significant figures in the history of Arctic exploration, was originally

a naturalist. He decided in 1888 to attempt the crossing of Greenland, and with five companions,

including Otto Sverdrup, set off in June of that year. The crossing, by small boat, ski and sledge,

achieved many important scientific objectives, including meteorological observations, as well as

illustrating the ideal methods of Arctic travel. His most important achievements were on the Fram

Expedition of 1893-96. He established the nature and drift of the Arctic Ice-pack, having deliberately

allowed the ship, built to his own design, to be frozen into the ice. During the expedition, Nansen,

with one companion and 3 dog sledges, achieved the highest latitude yet attained (86o14').


60. NEATBY, L.H.

Conquest of the Last Frontier. Athens. Ohio University Press. 1966. 23.5cm, first U.S. edition,

425,[vi],p. with 4 maps, (3 double page), illustration, illustrated endpapers, full linen, fine in very

good jacket

20.00

Based on explorers' journals and logs, it tells the exciting story of the final stages of the

opening of the Arctic.


61. [ONTARIO] . Dept of Crown Lands. E.J. Davis, Commissioner.

Report of the Survey and Exploration of Northern Ontario 1900. Printed by Order of the

Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Toronto. Printed and Published by L.K. Cameron, King's Printer.

1901. 8vo, 24cm, First Edition, xxiii,294p., folding frontis map (repaired), & c. 200 plates and

illustrations from photos., index, in half tan brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, black leather label,

brown cloth boards, ex-government library copy with stamps on the front endpapers, some wear at

the edges, upper hinge restored, on somewhat fragile paper few copies survive, rare

350.00

The Report gives the results of ten Exploration Survey Parties each including Surveyor's

Report, Land and Timber Estimator's Report and Geologist's Report. The area to be explored was to

be north of the Canadian Pacific Railway track from the Ottawa River to the western boundary of the

Province including Rainy River, Thunder Bay, Algoma, Nipissing, and James Bay. With an extensive

collection of photographs and folding map showing territory explored.


62. [PARRY, William] Compact Disc

Parry’s Barrel Organ. Saydisc Records. Scott Polar Research Inst. In case, fine

25.00

John Longman’s New Invented Patent Barrel Organ with bells, drum and triangle built between 1801 and 1816 which accompanied Sir William

Edward Parry’s Arctic Expeditions in the early 19th century.


63. PATTERSON, R.M.

The Dangerous River. Sidney, B.C. Gray's Publishing. 1966. tall8vo, 24.5cm, The First

Canadian Edition, 272p. frontis & 20 plates and illustrations, glossary, appendix, mapped endpapers,

wine cloth, very good to fine in very good complete jacket

50.00

A classic of the northern travel, paddling the South Nahanni.


64. PORSILD, A. E.

Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Ottawa. National Museum of Canada.

Bulletin No. 146. 1957. 8vo. 24cm, 209p., numerous text line specimen illustrations and numerous

text maps, botanical vocabulary, index, full marron ribbed cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, a fine copy

75.00

Normally found only in stiff wraps, this copy has the special government binding done for

the author, the Minister, King's printed and etc... In many ways still the best book on the subject.


65. ROBERTSON, W. N.

Yukon Memories. Sourdough Tells of Chaos and Changes in the Klondike Vale. Toronto.

Hunter-Rose. 1930. 19cm, first edition, 359p. map and 20 plates and illustrations including portraits,

in the original red cloth, titles stamped in black, some foxing but a fine bright copy in slightly dust

soiled but fine complete jacket

150.00

AB 14682; Tourville 3839. Personal account by a member of a party of ten who went into the

Klondike in 1898 and came out in the summer of 1899.


66. ROBINSON, Bradley

Dark Companion. London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1948. 12mo. 20cm, the first London

edition, 256p., with 6 illustrations, mapped endpapers, blue cloth, black stamped spine titles, very

good copy

40.00

Illustrations not included in the first edition, New York, 1947; four of which were taken very

near the North Pole. - Matthew Henson, conqueror of the Arctic Ice, Co-Discoverer of the Pole.

Introductions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan, Peter Freuchen. (Jacket) A.B.

14683. Henson was Peary's companion on many expeditions to the Arctic and was co-discoverer in

their claim to have reached the North Pole with four Eskimos, Eginwah, Ootah, Seegloo and Okeah,

on their seventh expedition to the Arctic.


67. ROSS, Sir John

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord De Saumarez. From Original Papers in

Possession of the Family. London. Richard Bentley. 1838. 8vo, 21.5cm, in 2 volumes, ix,440 &

xi,438pp., with 2 engraved frontis portraits, 7 engraved plates, appendices, index, in contemporary

half calf, gilt decorated raised bands, elaborate full gilt decorations in the panels, leather labels,

marbled boards, upper hinge of volume one crudely re-glued, half inch chipped from the head of the

spine, volume labels wanting, good to very good, internally sound and clean

400.00

De Saumarez (1757-1836), was a British Naval Commander, born in Guernsey. He served in

the navy during the American Revolutionary war and was invalided out from the West Indies, (1774-

82), and distinguished himself in the 3rd Dutch War. He fought at L'Orient (1795) and Cape St. Vincent

(1797) and he served with Nelson and was second in command at the battle of the Nile (1798), at

which he was wounded. In 1801, as vice-admiral he fought his greatest action off Cadiz, defeating

fourteen French-Spanish ships with six. He commanded the British Baltic fleet sent to assist the

Swedes from 1809 to 1813 and after a vigorous campaign he was promoted to admiral in 1814, and

subsequently commanded at Plymouth (1824-27). - This title is one of the "Naval Memoirs; series" by

the famed Arctic explorer and Royal Navy admiral, Sir John Ross.


68. ROSS, Sir John

Relation du Second Voyage fait a la recherche D'un Passage au Nord-Ouest. Par sir John Ross,

Capitaine de la marine royale, chevalier de l'ordre du bain, etc. Et De Sa Residence Dans Les Regions

Arctiques Pendant Les Annees 1829 a 1833. Contentante le rapport de capitaine de la marine royale

sir James Clark Ross et les observations relative a la decouverte du Ple Nord. Ourage Traduit sous les

Yeux de L‘Auteur, Par A.-J.-B. Defauconpret. Bruxelles. Wouters et Co. 1844. thick8vo, 23cm, in 2

volumes, 279 & 296pp., large rear engraved folding map, in the original printed light yellow wraps

with titles repeated on the upper covers in publisher's decorated frame borders, uncut and

unopened, a fine set in black cloth clam shell box with black leather label

300.00

The first French edition was Paris, 1835.


69. [ROSS, John] [HUISH, Robert]

The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, To The Arctic Regions; for the Discovery of a North

West Passage; performed in the years 1829-30-31-32- and 33. To which is prefixed An Abridgement

of the former Voyages of Captns, Ross, Parry, & Other Celebrated Navigators to the Northern

Latitudes. Compiled from Authentic Information and Original Documents, transmitted by William

Light, Purser's Stewart to the Expedition. Illustrated by Engravings from Drawings Taken on the Spot.

London. Printed for the Proprietors, Published by John Saunders. 1836. thick8vo, 21.5cm,

[1],716,[1],44p. (supplement), engraved frontis portrait of Ross and engraved vignette title page, and

6 engraved plates, 1 folding table, dictionary of the Esqimaux language, appendix, and supplement

"On the Position of The North Magnetic Pole". Rebound in modern blue cloth, gilt spine titles, foxed,

a very good copy

300.00

Please note: in this copy the printed title page (as above) is placed before the appendix and

pagination is indicated on the verso with the last page on an introduction printed to one third from

the bottom. cf. A.B. 7528.


70. RUSSELL, Alex. J.

The Red River Country, Hudson's Bay and North-West Territories, considered in Relation to

Canada, with the last report of S.J. Dawson, on the line of route between Lake Superior and the Red

River Settlement. Ottawa. Published by G.E. Desbarats. 1869. 8vo, 21.5cm, xv,202p., rear folding map,

original printed wraps with title repeated in frame borders on the upper cover, a very good sound

copy

250.00

Gagnon I-3107. Peel 287. Streeter 3736.

Second Edition. - Actually the First Edition as the entire first run was destroyed by fire in the

printer's office, there was another issue in 1870 in Montreal, same imprint. A description of the

Canadian North-West, including the far north regions of the Peace and Slave Rivers, written with a

view to promoting the acquisitions of Rupert's Land by Canada.


71. SCORESBY, William

The Polar Ice (1815). The North Pole (1828). (Facsimile reprint). Whitby. Caedmon of Whitby,

Publishers. 1980. 12mo, 20cm, pp261-338 & 20p., folding map, beige cloth, paper spine label, near

fine

40.00

Facsimile reprints of two Scoresby essays: "On the Greenland or Polar Ice" and "Remarks on

the Probability of reaching the North Pole: being an examination of the recent Expedition under

Captain Parry...".


72. STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur

The Friendly Arctic. The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. New York. Macmillan. 1943.

thick8vo. 22.5cm, new edition, with new material, xxxvii,812p. frontis & 102 plates and illustrations,

8 maps (inc. two rear pocket folding colour maps), green cloth, slight dust worn, a very good to fine

copy

75.00

The narratives of the Stefansson - Anderson expedition, 1908-1912. This expedition

produces major geographic and ethnographic discoveries in the western Canadian Arctic


73. WELZL, Jan

The Quest for Polar Treasures. London. George Allen & Unwin. 1933. 8vo. first edition in

English, 352p., full wavy grain linen, spine and cover titles stamped in dark blue, spine dust worn,

very good to fine

50.00

Polar exploration, gold-fever, prospecting & hunting in the Canadian Arctic & Alaska. A

continuation of his first book, Thirty Years in the Golden North. From a note loosely inserted “in the

days of literary snobbery, and of sham wild-west romance, Welzl’s book makes extremely refreshing

reading”


74. WILKINS, Sir Hubert

Under The North Pole. The Wilkins-Ellsworth Sub-marine Expedition. [New York]. Brewer,

Warren & Putnam. 1931. 8vo. 24.5cm, first limited edition, 347p., limited to 275 numbered copies, on

rag paper, this being numbered 214, signed by Wilkins & Sloan Danehhower, frontis portrait being a

tipped in studio photograph made by Hal Phyfe for this edition & 38 plates and illustrations from

photographs, bound in half blue cloth and grey paper over boards, full gilt spine decorations and

titles, t.e.g., very good to fine

400.00

Signed to Lorna Maitland, who was engaged to Wilkins. Maitland was engaged to Wilkins in

London in 1925. Wilkins broke off the engagement when he married Suzanne Bennett in 1929.

Wilkins and Maitland corresponded long after he was married. A.B. 19493. Account of the

background and plans to explore the Arctic basin north of Spitsbergen in the submarine "Nautilus".

Includes chapters by Stefansson, Simon Lake and Sloan Danenhower.

Limited Edition of 275 Copies - An Interesting Association Copy


75. WOODWARD, Frances J.

Portrait of Jane. A Life of Lady Franklin. London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1951. 8vo, 22.5cm,

382p. with 8 plates and portraits, rear endpaper mapped, a near fine copy in very good jacket

75.00


76. WRIGHT, Noel

New Light on Franklin. Ipswich and London. W. S. Cowell Ltd. 1949. 12mo, 18.5cm, first (sole)

edition, x,[11]-125p., with 7 text illustrations, in the original blue cloth, titles stamped in dark blue

on the upper cover, plain spine faded, very good copy, rare

250.00

Association copy: with May Fluhmann's bookplate on the front endpaper with the author's

unsigned presentation on the free fly "The Society of Antiquaries, With the author's compliments,

22.9.49"

Not in AB. Privately printed and not for sale to the public. Wright later expanded the book

and published it as "Quest for Franklin", 1959. May Fluhmann was an Arctic author and collector; she

was particularly interested in Franklin. There is a short bio of her collection on Amicus


77. YOUNG, Arminius

A Methodist Missionary in Labrador. Toronto. Publishers, Messrs. S. and A. Young. 1916.

12mo. 19.5cm, 180p. frontis and 22 illustrations, including a map, brown cloth with a portrait illus.

laid down on the upper cover, near fine copy

50.00

O'Dea 1647. The author spent two years in Labrador.


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