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LOT 566

Lot 566

Collection of 25 Canadian Historical Pamphlets, 19th and early 20th centuries

Collection of 25 Canadian Historical Pamphlets, 19th and early 20th centuries
Lot 566 Details
Collection of 25 Canadian Historical Pamphlets, 19th and early 20th centuries

on varous subjects such as indegenous artefacts and cultures, stone age and early European settlements, geology and geography,entomology, etc.,

each approx. 10 x 6.5 in — 25.4 x 16.5 cm

Estimate $200-$300

Realised: $175
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

Note:

20 pamphlets signed by the author
i)E.S. Rogers. FALSE FACE SOCIETY OF THE IROQUOIS  (Toronto: The Royal Ontario Museum & The Governors of the University of Toronto, 1989.) Signed by Canadian historian Ramsay Cook.
ii)H.P. Brumell “NOTES ON MANGALESE IN CANADA” (from the American Geologist, Vol X August 1892) signed “Compts of the Author”
iii)Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey (Washington: Department of the Interior, 1874) Signed by the Canadian geologist Robert Bell.
iv)REPORT OF THE PETER REDPATH MUSEUM OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY  (Montreal: Redpath Museum, January 1883) Signed by the Canadian geologist Robert Bell.
v)Henry S. Washington, INGNEOUS COMPLEX OF MAGNET COVE, ARKENSAS, Bulletin of the Geological society of America. June 1900. Signed by the Canadian geologist Robert Bell.
vi)J.M. Lemoine. EDINBURGH-ROUEN-YORK. GLIMPSES, IMPRESSIONS, CONTRASTS (Quebec: P.G. Delisle Publisher, 1881) Signed by the Canadian geologist Robert Bell. (with compliments card inside, signed by Lemoine)
vii)G.F. Matthew A QUARRY WORKSHOP OF THE STONE AGE IN NEW BRUNSWICK, Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada” (1900) excerpt from Vol. 6 Pages 61-69. Signed “with the author’s regards”
viii)Professor E.E. Prince, Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries. Special Appended Reports: HOW TO ESTABLISH A TROUT POND, THE PACIFIC FISHING INDUSTRIES OF CANADA, Ottawa. 1906. Inscribed to “H.M. Ami, 1912 E.E.P.” Henry Marc Ami (1858-1931) Canadian geologist and paleontologist
ix)James H. Coyne THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SITE NEAR PORT DOVER OF THE WINTERING PLACE OF DOLLIER de CASSON AND BREHAUT de GALINEE, 1669-1670, (Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 1925) Inscribed to Rev. Father Hingston 1934.
x)Walter M. Tovell ANCESTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR SHORLINES, reprint pamphlet from the Proceedings of the Geological Association of Canada, 1966. Signed at top.
xi)George E. Laidlaw ONTARIO EFFIGY PIPES IN STONE (Reprinted from the Archeological Report, 1914) inscribed “Compts G.E.L.” at top.
xii)George E. Laidlaw OJIWA MYTHS AND TALES (Reprinted from the Archeological Report, 1915) 24 pages. inscribed “Compts G.E.L.” at top.
xiii)George E. Laidlaw OJIWA MYTHS AND TALES (Reprinted from the Archeological Report, 1918) 76 pages. inscribed “Compts G.E.L.” at top.
xiv)J.F. Whiteeaves MESOZOIC FOSSILS (volume one) (Montreal: Geological Survey Office of Canada, 1876). Inscribed “Henry M. Ami/ 1881” at top
xv)Norman Hillmer, THE INCREDIBLE CANADIAN: MACKENZIE KING AND THE COMMONWEALTH, The University of Leeds Review, volume 22, 1979. Signed at top.
xvi)Francis Hincks. THE BOUNDRIES FORMERLY IN DISPUTE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITE STATES, (Montreal: John Lovell, 1885) inscribed at top: “Presented to the Congl Library by the author”
xvii)R.S.M. Bouchette, THE JUSTINIAN PANDECTS, (Quebec: the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1877) signed “with the kind regards of the authour”
xviii)E.M. Chadwick HERALDRY IN BRIEF, Reprinted from Acadiensis, 1906. Ownership signature of Vincent Massey, with his bookplate inside.
xix)L’abbe Elie-J. Auclair MEMORIES DE LA SOCIETE ROYALE DU CANADA, (May 1938) Inscribed at top and dated December 1938.
xx) W. Sherwood Fox, A VOICE FROM THE FIFTIES, (offprint from Queen’s Quarterly, 1943) inscribed at top
unsigned

Five unsigned pamphlets
1.Louis Edouard Wood, (Pseudo Félix Poutré) THE CASKET, OR THE BURIED TREASURE,, Part One and Part Two. Published by Montréal, 1872 (two volumes)
2.George D. (George Dalrymple) Ferguson THE ETRUSCAN QUESTION, by G.D. Ferguson 1886
3.Charles James Stewart Bethune THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIS,. Volume 7. London, 1872
4.Robert D. McGibbon Thomas D Arcy McGee. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE ST. PATRICK’S SOCIETY OF SHERBROOKE, P.Q., by Robert D. McGibbon of Montreal, Barrister (March 17th, 1884)
5. J. Beaufort Hurlbert. CURRENTS OF AIR AND OCEAN IN CONNECTION WITH CLIMATES, REGIONS OF SUMMER RAINS AND SUMMER DROUGHTS, (Salem: 1884)

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