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Octavo. Original Printed Wrappers. (21.4 cm x 14.7 cm), Grey printed wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover. 56 pp. + 11 publ. adverts (including rear cover), 1 map; Contemporary light pencil signature of A[lexander] Kirkwood [1823-1901] at head of upper cover. Kirkwood, farmer, author and civil servant, wrote many articles and treatises which eventually earned him a position with the Ontario Crown Lands Department where he became a senior officer. Kirkwood’s most significant work as a government promoter of agricultural expansion was an officially sanctioned book entitled The undeveloped lands in northern & western Ontario . . . (1878), written with his colleague Joseph J. Murphy. He is remembered largely for the prominent role he played in the establishment of Ontario’s first and most famous provincial park, Algonquin Park. (see DCB online article by Gerald Killan). Interior crisp and clean. Covers soiled, primarily to spine and edges, otherwise a very good, tight copy. Peel (3) 896. [2079]

First Edition. Octavo. Original Wraps. (21.3 cm x 14.7 cm), pp. 56, [8] adverts. + advert. to rear cover, original printed paper wrappers, sewn binding. Adverts include those from The Saskatchewan Express, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and Emigration information. Mild tanning around the edges, slight chipping at the spine head & tail, else very good plus copy in the original wrappers. Contents include: Canadian Pacific Railway; Beauty and fertility of the country; Comparison with the Western States; The Soil and its Agricultural capacities; Frosts; Inducements offered by our Prairie Lands to Settlers; Building, Timber, Fuel and Fencing; Information on Tree Culture; Coal and Peat; Mineral Resources; Farming; Utilizing the Buffalo; Fruit; Flax; Hemp; Bees; The Colony System of Emigrating; Outfit and Prices; Routes; Private Lands; Homestead and Tree Planting; among others. Peel (3) 896. [1729]