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Octavo. Inscribed. (24.5 cm x 16 .8 cm), pp. 89, colour plate of porcupine quill work, 162 illustrations, original printed paper wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover. INSCRIBED at head of front cover "With comps. of D Boyle." Covers chipped and dust soiled, apart from minor stains contents on whole very good. Includes contributions by G.E. Laidlaw and A.F. Chamberlain. Boyle, 1842-1911, self-taught archaeologist and ethnologist became an authority on the archaeology of Ontario , and was appointed curator of the museums of the Canadian Institute and the Ontario Dept. of Education.

Section II, 1891. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada . (Read May 27, 1891), Quarto. (29.8 cm x 22.3 cm), pp. 45-59 + 2 plates. Peach-coloured printed wraps, sewn binding. Lacking rear cover. Fragile front cover chipped along bottom edge and spine, cover dust soiled, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce item. (Not found in Lowther).

Octavo. Title continues: Homesteads; to Mining and to the Preservation of Forests from Destruction by Fire. (24.5 cm x 16.5 cm), pp. iv, 52 + 4 inserted plates, large folding two-colour frontispiece map (appears to have been tipped-in upside down). Original salmon-coloured printed paper wraps, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover, stapled binding. Covers lightly soiled, piece missing from upper outer corner affecting the word "District" in title, a few short closed tears to bottom edge, else very good, clean copy. Includes the 1885 Act forming the District of Rainy River, the 1890 Free Grant and Homestead Act, Forms and Affidavits referred to in the Acts, and the Act to Preserve the Forests from Destruction by Fire. [2301]

Octavo. (24.5 x 16 cm), pp. [xiii], 86; 4 facsimiles. Grey printed paper wraps, stapled binding. Unopened, uncut copy. Lightly soiled covers with tanned spine and margins, spine chipped primarily at head & tail, else very good copy.

Octavo (21.1 cm x 13.9 cm), pp. 32, original printed tan paper wrappers, map on inside rear cover, illustration to inside front cover, list of Government Agents on rear cover, stapled binding, title-page reproduced in frame to front cover. Covers tanned primarily to margins, tail of spine chipped with small split, 3 minor nicks, 2 short closed tears to lower edge of rear cover, staples starting to oxidize, else a very good, tight, clean copy. Interesting chapter on "Lands in Algoma--Where and How to Obtain Them.--Ontario Free Grant and Twenty Cents an Acre Lands and Dominion Indian (Surrendered) Lands." [2228]

Octavo. (24.2 x 17.1 cm), pp. 103-122, 5 pages of illustrations + 1 text illustration. Gilt lettered, black cloth boards, original beige printed wrapper bound-in. Covers rubbed at tips and edges, nick to the spine, front hinge split though still tight, otherwise a very good copy with the text near fine. [2161]

[Toronto: The Association, 1896?], Printed by The Carswell Co., Ltd., Octavo. (21.7 cm x 14.6 cm), pp. 8, original printed blue wraps, stapled binding. Front and rear covers detached but present, covers lightly soiled and chipped, light crease to lower outer corner throughout text, very faint vertical crease where pamphlet may once have been folded; one contemporary ink addition to p.3, and several to the list of Officers on p.7. In red ink is the addition of Dr. G. Sterling Ryerson's name as President (he became the second President of the Association after the death of John Beverley Robinson), also in red ink is a correction of the name Charles Gamble, Q.C. to 'Clarke' Gamble, in black ink is the addition of 'Southern Branch" (Rt. Hon. D. Tisdale M.P ...), and under Honorary Vice-Presidents these names were added: The Earl of Carnwath, Maj. Gen. C.W. Robinson C.B., Sir Chas. Hibbert Tupper Q.C., K.C.M.G., and Lt. Col. Chas. Crutchley, Scots Guards D.A.A.G.