Octavo. (22.3 cm x 14.5 cm), pp. 78 + Contents leaf, errata to inside front cover, original printed paper wraps, sewn binding. Peel (3) 1200 notes two folding maps. This copy has two additional folding maps loosely inserted: 1) Map of the Dominion of Canada, shewing the extent and situation of its public lands, also its geographical relation to the British Isles. Published by order of the Hon. the Minister of the Interior, 1884. Coloured map, 57.5 cm x 28.5 cm. Shows great circle routes between Great Britain and Canada, including route from Liverpool to Fort York (Churchill). Light tanning to margins with faint damp stains to top margin and some nicks to bottom margin; 2) Map shewing proposed route of the Manitoba and Hudson's Bay Railway. Winnipeg: Bishop Co., n.d. In blue and white, 104 cm x 79 cm., near fine; Covers soiled, primarily to margins, dust soiling to margins of title-page and folded verso of rear map and adjacent blank. Otherwise, a very good copy enhanced by the two additional maps. In the fall of 1870 Bell, 1854-1936, travelled from Ontario to Fort Garry as a member of the Wolseley expedition. At the time of writing he was secretary of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, and later became treasurer of the Winnipeg Board of Trade and a prominent and active member of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba.. Peel (3) 1200. [2245]
Octavo (21.7 cm x 14.7 cm), pp. [5]-70, large 8-fold, 2-colour map, original printed pale green paper wrappers, stapled binding. Covers dust soiled, tanning to the edges of fist page (p.5), else very good, clean copy. [1944]
Octavo. (21.8 cm x 14.5 cm), pp. 20, largely unopened. Original, fragile, tan printed wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover, sewn binding. Covers soiled, rear cover shows damp staining around margins, chipping with short tears, chipping to spine ends, else very good copy. [2224]
Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1886. Octavo. (21.7 cm x 14.3 cm), pp. 20 (includes upper & lower cover). Original cream printed paper, pamphlet-stitched binding. Covers dust-soiled, with browning around edges, else very good copy. [1967]
Octavo (22 cm x 14.2 cm), pp. 32, folding coloured map. Original litho'd paper wraps by Copp, Clark Co., Toronto. Ontario coat of arms to lower cover, stapled binding. Covers lightly dust soiled, particularly around edges, nick at head of spine, else fine copy. 2-page discussion of 'The Agricultural College and Model Farm', near the City of Guelph. [2383]
Octavo. (22.2 cm x 14 cm), pp. viii, 231, tan printed paper wraps, sewn binding. Covers lightly soiled, chipping and minor cracking to spinestrip, small pieces missing at head & tail, 10.5 cm slit at front cover joint, lower front and rear corners missing. Contents very good and clean. Among others, contents include: On the Origin and the Language of the Scottish Highlanders (Mr. Hugh MacLean); On the Early Settlement of the Lower Provinces by the Scottish Gael, &c. (Rev. D.B. Blair); The Early Settlement of Glengarry (Mr. John MacLennan, Ex-M.P.); The Literary Aspect of the Keltic Settlement in the Counties of Stormont and Glengarry (Mr. George Sandfield MacDonald, B.A.); The Celt in the North-West (Rev. Prof. Bryce, LL.D.); A Translation of the Oldest Celtic Document Extant, and of its Etruscan Companion (Professor Campbell, M.A.) [2341]
Col. J.W. and Mr. C.C. Judy, Auctioneers. Toronto: Printed at the Mail Job Dept., n.d. [c.1888], 8vo. (22 cm x 15 cm), pp. 56, blue printed paper wraps, stapled binding, 4 illustrations with illustration of bull on lower cover. Some fading at the spine with a bit of rust to the upper and lower covers at the staples, else very good, clean copy. In the Intro, Mossom Boyd & Co. explain their regret in getting out of the business, and would only be keeping one bull and five or six females to form the nucleus of a future herd. 65 lots for auction, in groups of Females and Bulls with the pedigrees of each animal. [1776]
Octavo (21.8 cm x 14.7 cm), pp. 48. Large, two-colour, folding frontispiece map. Original grey printed wrappers, title-page reproduced in frame to upper cover, stapled binding. Slightly soiled around the edges, chipping to tail of spine, else near fine copy. (Text in French); Villeneuve 4108. [2092]
Octavo. (23.8 cm x 15.7 cm), pp. 15, printed self-wraps, pamphlet-stitched binding. Covers dust soiled, covers detached but present, lightly chipped, light vertical crease down centre where pamphlet was obviously folded, tanning to text margins, else a good copy of a rare Canadian pamphlet. [2233]
Original Illustrated Wrappers. (17.7 cm x 12.7 cm), pp. 65, 66-68 adverts + frontispiece and 15 inserted half-tone photo plates. Cream, illustrated paper wraps, adverts to rear cover, inside rear cover and inside front cover, stapled binding. Covers lightly soiled, one small closed tear to bottom edge of front cover, spine chipped with 2.5 cm piece missing from tail, otherwise a very good plus copy of a fishing rarity. "To those whom Fortune has presented, from her store of gifts, the particular one most dear to lovers of the rod and gun, the desire to seek the haunts of fish and game, I dedicate this work. He who casts the fly, or he who prefers the gun, can find equally satisfying sport in the territory described." - from dedication. [2287]