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SMITH, William.
A Yorkshireman's Trip To The United States and Canada.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. First edition.
Tall 8vo., orig. red cloth stamped in black and gilt, T.E.G., xvi, 317, (3)pp.ads. Front free e/paper stuck to pastedown o/w a near fine copy.
The author stops in the Canadian cities of Chatham, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal and Quebec and also makes the usual visit to Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands. (pp.226-229, 261-290).

$250

Book Number: 4123

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SOUTHESK, Earl of.
Saskatchewan and The Rocky Mountains. A Diary and Narrative of Travel, Sport, and Adventure, During a Journey Through The Hudson's Bay Company's Territories In 1859 and 1860.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875. First edition.
Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth, xxv, 448pp. Ex-library with stamp on the preface, traces of library numbers on spine, lacking the front free e/paper, with wear to spine ends but still an acceptable copy of this important book.
"One of the classics of early western travel literature." (Peel)

$350

Book Number: 12766

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SPECK, F.G.
Family Hunting Territories and Social Life of Varous Algonkian Bands of the Ottawa Valley. ISSUED WITH: Speck, F.G. Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa.
Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915. Two volumes in one as issued. Department of Mines, Geological Survey. Memoir 70, No. 8, Anthropological Series andDepartment of Mines, Geological Survey. Memoir 71, No. 9, Anthropological Series
Sm. 4to., orig. wrappers, 87, vii pp. Fine.

$150

Book Number: 32965

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STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur.
Adventures In Error.
New York: Robert M. McBride, (1936). First edition. With a presentation inscription from the author to D.M. LeBourdai.
Tall 8vo., cloth, viii, 299pp. Spine faded o/w near fine.

$300

Book Number: 5994

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STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur.
Hunters of The Great North.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1922). First edition. With a signed presentation inscription from the author.
Cloth, vii, 301pp. White lettering on spine completely gone, damp stain to lower portion of spine and upper cover, but an acceptable copy.

$250

Book Number: 5990

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STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur.
The Northward Course of Empire. With an Introduction by Dr. Edward Nelson.
London: George Harrap, nd. (1924?) From Stefansson's library with a rubber stamp reading "Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Stefansson Library 4 St. Luke's Place, New York, 14, NY."
Cloth, xx, 274pp. Bookplate, inner rear hinge cracked, cloth rubbed o/w a very good copy.

$250

Book Number: 5749

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STEWART, David A.
Early Assiniboine Trading Posts of the Souris-mouth Group 1785-1832.
NP: The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, 1930. Transaction No. 5 (New Series), July 1930.
Tall 8vo., orig. printed wrappers, (40)pp. Bookplate o/w about fine.

$125

Book Number: 33210

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STUART, James.
Three Years in North America.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833. In two volumes. First edition.
8vo., cont. full calf, raised bands, gilt, labels, ix, 495, (1), vi, (1)-580pp. With a rubber stamp on e/papers from an institution and scuff marks on spines from removal of what was probably stickers bearing shelf numbers but still a nice, attractive set.

$500

Book Number: 4124

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STUART, James.
Three Years in North America.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833. In two volumes. Second edition, revised.
8vo., cont. cloth, leather labels, xii, 525, (1), viii, (1)-544pp. Bookplate, spines faded o/w a near fine set.

$375

Book Number: 28466

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(TANNER, John).
Grey Hawk Life and Adventures Among the Red Indians. Edited by James Macaulay.
London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, nd. (1909). New edition, with four illustrations in colour.
8vo., orig. dec. red cloth with a large pictorial paper panel on the upper cover, (xvi), 341, (18)pp.ads. Name o/w a fine copy.

$125

Book Number: 28896

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TAYLOR, Francis.
The Last Three Bishops Appointed by the Crown for the Anglican Church of Canada.
Montreal: John Lovell, 1869. First edition.
Square 8vo., orig. purple cloth, (xxii), (23)-281pp. Some minor marks at edges, spine faded to light brown as is common with purple cloth but certainly a very good copy.
Contains a large chapter on Rev. J. Strachan, First Bishop of Toronto.

$75

Book Number: 21316

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THELLER, E.A.
Canada In 1837-38, Showing, By Historical Facts, The Causes of the Late Attempted Revolution, And Of Its Failure.......
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners/New York: J. & H.G. Langley, 1841. In two volumes. First edition. Louis Blake Duff's copy with his bookplate in each volume.
8vo., orig. brown cloth, 264; 316pp. Cheap paper browned around the perimeter of the pages, heads and feet of spines chipped away, (heads missing about 1/2") outer hinge of volume one starting but still a very good set.
The experiences of the American author who joined the American filibusters on the Canadian border. He was subsequently captured on Lake Erie, tried as a privateer and found guilty of treason. Theller describes his imprisonment and eventual escape from the Citadel at Quebec and provides accounts of other American sympathizers and rebels.

$650

Book Number: 21364

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(THOREAU MACDONALD'S COPY).
First Steps In General Knowledge. Part IV. The Vegetable Kingdom.
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1856. Thoreau MacDonald's copy with his signature and date on the front free e/paper, "Thoreau MacDonald 1934 Thornhill Ontario."
12mo., orig. cloth, 187pp. A fine copy.

$350

Book Number: 32146

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THORINGTON, J. Monroe.
The Glittering Mountains of Canada. A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents In The Canadian Rockies 1914-1924.
Philadelphia: John W. Lea, 1925. First edition. 1 of 1500 copies signed by the author.
Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth, xxii, 310pp. Lower front corner very slightly bumped, a few faint marks on upper cover but in fact an near fine copy.

$450

Book Number: 7392

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THORNTON, WIllis.
The Country Doctor. A Story based on the 20th Century Fox Photoplay. With Pictures of the Dionne Quintuplets.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1936). First edition.
Sm.4to., orig. cloth backed pictorial paper boards, (131)pp. Bookplate o/w about fine in the pictorial d/w which has some light wear to the spine ends but is still very nice.

$225

Book Number: 29392

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TOWNSEND, Charles W.
A Labrador Spring. With Illustrations From Photographs.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1910. First edition.
8vo., orig. blue cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, black & white, (x), 11-262pp. Spine slightly darkened o/w a fine copy.

$125

Book Number: 32715

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TRAQUAIR, Ramsay.
The Old Silver of Quebec.
(Toronto): Macmillan, (1973). Reprint. (first published 1940).
Cloth, 168pp. With illustrations. Fine in d/w.

$45

Book Number: 14360

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TRUEMAN, Stuart.
The Ordeal of John Gyles. Being an account of his odd adventures, strange deliverences & c. as a Slave of the Maliseets.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1967). Second printing. Signed by the author.
Cloth, 155pp. Fine in a rubbed d/w.
Story of John Gyles who was captured by the Maliseet Indians and taken from his home in Maine to New Brunswick.

$35

Book Number: 14377

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TUTTLE, Charles E.
Our North Land: Being a Full Account of the Canadian North-West and Hudson's Bay Route, Together With A Narrative of the Experiences of the Hudson's Bay Expedition of 1884. Including a Description of the Climate, Resources, and Characteristics of the Native Inhabitants Between the 50th Parallel and the Arctic Circle.
Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson, 1885. First edition.
Tall thick 8vo., orig. green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on upper cover and spine, xvi, (17)-589pp. Folding frontispiece map torn without loss, mark on upper board, some light rubbing o/w near fine.

$300

Book Number: 29116

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(UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO).
University of Toronto Faculty Fifteenth Annual Dinner. Gymnasium Dec. 2nd, 1901.

Printed stiff cards, tied. 8pp. including covers, with original ties. The first and last leaves (covers) are printed and decorated in colour. The 6 inside leaves, printed on the rectos only include the "menu" and "toasts" with a small drawing and appropriate quotation. For example, Potatoes, French Peas" are accompanied by two quotations from Shakespeare relating to potatoes or peas. Near fine.

$250

Book Number: 32603

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