Canadiana/Americana from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

Washington City: Printed By Roger C.Weightman, 1814. Shaw & Shoemaker 33320. cfTPL 6955. 8vo. pp. 28. modern cloth (foxing, lower outer blank corner of 2 leaves defective). elala6106

Toronto: Grip Printing and Publishing Company, 1885. An interesting pictorial record of the Northwest Rebellion, representing the principal events and battles: the fight at Duck Lake, the defence of Fort Pitt, the attack on the rebels at Fish Creek, the battle of Cut Knife Creek, the capture of Riel, the capture of Batoche, &c. As usual this copy… Read more about this item

Toronto: Champlain Society [Publ. Nos. XII, XIV, XV. XVII], 1920-28. First Edition, Limited 530 (Vols. I-II) and 550 copies (Vols. III-IV). TPL 1086. Howes W-644 (‘aa’ rating). 3 Volumes in 4. pp xv, 678, x; ix, 517, xi; viii, 551; 5 p.l., [543]-1061, xi. with half-titles. 11 plates. 8 folding maps (1 in colour) in rear pocket. original… Read more about this item

[Brockville]: 1842. First Edition. An important work for the history of the War of 1812 from a Canadian viewpoint, especially the siege of Detroit and the war in the northwest. Richardson, a participant in many of the events described, enlisted when he was only fifteen; he fought in the campaigns of 1812-13 and was captured by the Americans… Read more about this item

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1847. Second Enlarged Edition. A valuable source of information on the early events of the War of 1812, and on the opinions, intentions and actions of the man who is considered to have been "the heart and soul of the defence of Upper Canada" in the early months of the war." (Wallace) Brock came to… Read more about this item

Montreal: Armour and Ramsay, 1839. First Edition. Sir John Colborne's handling of the second rising in Lower Canada was quick, efficient and severe. He proclaimed martial law, took seven hundred and fifty-three prisoners within a week, of which one hundred and eight were promptly brought to trial before courts-martial, suspended three French-Canadian judges who challenged the suspension of… Read more about this item

Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1813. A collection of documents relating to the British handling of American prisoners during the War of 1812. The testimonies relate to the massacre, mistreatment, and detention of prisoners of war, impressment, violation of flags of truce, the role of native races in the British service, pillage and destruction of property, &c.… Read more about this item

8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 76(index), 2(errata), li, [1], 372, vi, 26, A-I, K-Y. with half-title. original cloth-backed bds. (covers soiled & worn but binding solid, spine label chipped, scattered light foxing). First Edition of this famous report, an eloquent and forceful indictment of the Family Compact Government, inspired and largely written by William Lyon Mackenzie. The grievances of the Reformers… Read more about this item

Toronto: 1851-55. Unhappy with the moderate policies adopted by the Baldwin-Lafontaine administration in Canada West, William McDougall and others founded the political reform movement known as the Clear Grits in 1849. Their principles, which sprang from British Chartist, Benthamite and American democratic roots, were promoted in McDougall’s newspaper, The North American, sometimes titled The Weekly North American, 1851-1855.… Read more about this item

Toronto: L.K.Cameron, 1909. First Edition. Jones’s 1906 map of Huronia shows the various Huron settlements in the area of Simcoe County, as they existed in the first half of the sixteenth century before the Huron population was basically annihilated by the Iroquois. It is based on documentary evidence as well as topographical investigation and a careful personal… Read more about this item

Toronto: Printed At The Scotsman Office, 1838. First Edition. TPL 2187. Casey I 1674. Lande 662. cfSabin 50881 (incorrect title?). 8vo. pp. 54. original printed wrs. (wrs. soiled, stained & chipped, spine taped). 2 ms. corrections in text. elala5891

Hamilton: Printed By T. & R.White, 1865. First Edition. TPL 4414. Casey I 3233. Lande S2451. Sabin 33313. 8vo. pp. 15. text in double columns. stitched, as issued. elala5890

Toronto: Hawkins & Co., Printers, 1878. First Edition. The work contains descriptions of all the latest fashionable and popular dances, viz: “2 Step Rockaway”, “3 Step Rockaway”, “4 Step Rockaway”, “Glide” Waltz, “Triune Glide”, and the latest changes in the “Lancers” and “Quadrilles”. The popular Toronto music and dance instructor from Oakville, Upper Canada, also ran the Music… Read more about this item

Toronto: Adam Miller, 1867. Third Canadian Edition. Not in TPL. cfTPL 9295 & 9614. 18mo. pp. 326. original blind-stamped cloth (extremities worn & chipped). ownership entry of Samuel Robert Stuart, Tottenham, Ontario, dated April 8, 1868. elala5885

Toronto: Willing & Williamson, 1878. Second and Best Edition, First Issue, with additional illustrations and a large folding map of Toronto in 1878 (the first edition had only 2 portraits). Morley pp. 235-36. 8vo. pp. vii, [1]errata, [v]-xii, 594. large folding map & 15 plates incl. steel-engraved frontis. portrait, 4 wood-engraved portraits & 10 wood-engraved views. ornamental… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Toronto News Company, 1885. First Edition. Watters p. 64. 8vo. pp. 27. text printed on rectos only. 6 lithographed plates by William Daniel Blatchly [1838-1903]. original gilt-stamped roan, all edges gilt (some wear to edges). elala5887

3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. lxii, [2], 442, [1 leaf]; viii, 458, [1 leaf]; xvi, 355, [1]ad. 2 photogravure portraits, 2 folding colour maps & 122 colour plates after original paintings by Charles Bird King & others (collated complete as per plate lists). tissue guards with legends. indices. original blind-stamped & gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Very good copies in… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Durie & Son, Montreal: Dawson Bros. & Toronto: Adam Stevenson & Co., 1872. First Edition. A scarce work detailing the canoe voyage undertaken by George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, together with Hudson’s Bay Company chief trader, Archibald McDonald, from York Factory (Man.) to Fort Langley (B.C.) in 1828. “Typical of all Simpson’s travels, this… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips And Co., 1821. First Edition in English. An epistolary account of the author’s travels to New York, Philadelphia, St. Thomas, St. Domingo, and Jamaica. Montulé then journeyed up the Mississippi from New Orleans on the Vesuvius, the third steamboat to ply the river, on to Albany, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls, crossing into… Read more about this item

Quebec: Dussault & Proulx, 1901. First Edition of this valuable collection of source material. Included are portraits of the principal characters on both sides in addition to numerous other plates, facsimiles of maps, plans and documents, sixteen previously unpublished documents, now printed verbatim, and a one-hundred-page bibliography of over 2,000 items. Dionne III 2728. 6 Volumes. 8vo. 73… Read more about this item