Search Results: Canada from Charles Agvent

London: George Virtue, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to heavy foxing throughout, mostly marginal, with some plates completely clean and others heavily foxed, most with just a spot or two of marginal foxing. The front cover of the first volume is detached with much of the spine lacking; the second volume's binding is fine. Overall a Good, solid set. W. H. Bartlett. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full heavily gilt-decorated dark brown morocco leather. Complete with a map, a portrait, 2 engraved title pages, and 116 steel-engraved views, all with tissue guards, by W. H. Bartlett.

The Hague: Gerard Vander Poel, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Some light toning throughout; upper joint split, covers bowed and soiled. Very Good. Two folio (7-3/4" x 12") volumes bound in one in contemporary full Dutch vellum, covers tooled in blind with large central blocked arabesque, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, early manuscript titling to the second compartment. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a map, and 41 plates. First Dutch Edition of a key work on Native American peoples. Lafitau was assigned as a Jesuit missionary to Canada from 1711-1718 and was based for much of that period among the Iroquois at Sault Saint-Louis. His work, written in an attempt to prove that the native American peoples were descended from Tartar stock, provides a wealth of information on the customs, religious beliefs, and social organization of the Iroquois and the other northern tribes. Field 851: "a grand cyclopaedia of Indian history, and… Read More

Montreal: The Lawtence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some soiling and pitting to the illustration on the panel. Folio in linen boards backed with pigskin leather housed in a slipcase. Collected, arranged, and annotated by Lawrence Lande, with an introduction by E. A.Collard. Copy #160 of 950 copies SIGNED by the editor. This essential work contains 2328 detailed entries and more than 200 illustrations. Unless otherwise noted the illustrations are actual size and reproduce the title page or title cover.

New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text. About Fine in a very lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper. The essayist's first book of nonfiction, well worth reading.

Halifax, NS: Gossip and Coade, Times Office, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Light scattered foxing, owner name on front endpaper, some looseness of front cover with internal tape reinforcement. Overall Very Good. Small quarto (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") in original brown cloth rebacked with heavy brown binder's tape with most of the original spine label pasted on; xxxix, 272, [1] pages. Illustrated with a folding lithographic frontispiece ("Parrsboro' From the Water, 1836"), a full-page lithograph ("Cape Split, 1836"), and a hand-colored folding map ("A New Map of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and part of New Brunswick," by C.H. Belcher), with "Explanation of the Maps" bound in.

London: C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. Later bookplates to pastedowns; some offsetting to maps and plates, scattered few stains, folding map with a patch on verso causing an area of browning near stub. Overall Very Good. First Issue (with title page dated 1813) of this Corrected and Improved Edition. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes in contemporary polished calf leather rebacked at an early date with gilt-lettering on the spines; xxxiv, 544, [2]; viii, 532 pages. Illustrated with 18 engraved plates including a large hand-colored folding map frontispiece, a full-page hand-colored map of Quebec, 6 hand-colored costume engravings, and 10 engravings of views tinted by hand with a sepia wash. Lambert "admired the easy independence and happiness of the Canadians, and the rising prosperity and freedom of the Americans." Lambert traveled through New York, South Carolina (in Charleston he admired the beautiful women, tasteful homes, and treatment of slaves), Georgia (he was… Read More