Search Results: Authors starting with O from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

Various: Various, 1682. 1st Edition. Disbound. Good. 9 Popish Plot tracts collection items, specifically #4, #9, #10, #11, #13, #15, #16, #19 and #25 about this political and religious controversy from 1679 to 1682.Concocted by Titus Oates and others (Israel Tonge, William Bedlow, Robert Jenison, and Edward Tuberville), the Popish plot (1678-1681) was an alleged Catholic conspiracy to re-introduce the Catholic faith into England and to assassinate Charles II. Despite it being a fiction, belief in the plot became widespread. At least 22 Catholics were sent to their deaths. Anti-Catholic hysteria precipitated the Exclusion Bill Crisis, which attempted to exclude the King's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York (a Catholic), from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. Eventually, Oates's intricate web of accusations fell apart, leading to his arrest and conviction for perjury.#4 The Tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent., for Conspiring the Death of the King, and the Subversion of the… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. First edition. 2 Volumes. 6 x 9 inches. xix, [1], 826; [6], [827]-1450. Original pictorial tan cloth stamped in black and white with very slightly bumped corners. Internally very clean and near-fine condition. Several double-sided facsimile illustrations, indexes. Very good+ condition. Definitive bibliography for Newfoundland & Labrador, with 6299 entries. This reference work covers material published up to 1975 pertaining to Newfoundland and Labrador, excluding periodicals. This includes books, pamphlets, government documents, unpublished theses and reports, letters, diaries and films. The second volume contains author, title and subject indexes. Complied by Dr. Agnes C. O'Dea and editor was Anne Alexander.

Regina: Corson Printing, 1935. 1st Edition. No binding. Near Fine. Circa 1935 brochure, size 6 x 9" folded, 4 pages. Promoting and explaining the concept of Social Credit. Near fine condition.Uncommon. Copies of this ephemera political pamphlet only located at 4 Canadian institutions. Of historical note: In 1935, five CCF MPs were elected to Parliament including Tommy Douglas, who later became the first CCF Premier, elected in Saskatchewan in 1944.

[London]: Ordered by the House of Commons, 1827. 1st Edition. Disbound. Very Good. First edition. 13-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. (3),4-7pp.(1). Scarce.Contains details of new land regulations to encourage settlement and selling land to the Canada Company and Clergy Reserve Land section.Running title: Regulations for granting lands in the British North American provinces.Original issued in series: [Parliamentary papers / Great Britain. Parliament (1826-1830). House of Commons] ; 254, 1827."Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 9 April 1827."Dated (p. [2]): Colonial Department, Downing-street, 6th April 1827.

London: Colonial Office & House of Commons, 1853. 1st Edition. Disbound. Good. #1) Return to an address of The House of 6th May 1839, for a copy of the address to Her Majesty from the Bishop of Montreal and the clergy of the Church of England in Upper Canada, praying for a judicial decision respecting the clergy reserves, either before the Judges of England or before the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council; together with a copy of any despatch, or part of any despatch, to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of that Province, relative to the said Address, especially of Despatch bearing date the 15th of January last. Arthur, George, Sir, (1784-1854). Glenelg, Charles Grant, Baron, 1778-1866. ; Mountain, George J. (George Jehoshaphat), 1789-1863. ; Strachan, John, 1778-1867. ; Stuart, George Okill, 1776-1862.[London] : Colonial Office, Downing Street, 16th May 1839. 13-1/2 x 8-1/2. 4 pages.Copy of a despatch from Sir G. Arthur K.C.H. to Lord Glenelg, dated Toronto, 28th Nov. 1838 -- To… Read More

London: Colonial Office & House of Commons, 1846. 1st Edition. Disbound. Good. Some aging, edges with some tears, chipping and #2 Foreign Corn paper with top left corners torn. Fragile and scarce Parliamentary Papers, otherwise all in good condition. #1) Canada: return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 15 May 1835, for, copy of a despatch from the Right Honourable Thomas Spring Rice to Lord Aylmer, authorizing him to pay the officers of the civil government of Canada certain monies not appropriated to that purpose by the Legislature of Canada.C opy of a despatch from the Right Honourable Thomas Spring Rice to Lord Aylmer, respecting pay of the officers of the civil government of Canada[London : HMSO, 1835]13-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. 2pp.Original issued in series: [Parliamentary papers / Great Britain. Parliament (1835-1837). House of Commons] ; 211, 1835."Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 18 May 1835." Mr Roebuck. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18… Read More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4 NICE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES First UK edition. 4-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. vii, (3), 320 pp, Full brown tan calf, gilt-ruled boards and edges, raised bands with gilt decorations in the panels, red morocco label, (small piece missing in label, slightly effecting type) marbled edges and endpapers. Over all very good copy. Internally age toned paper and some spotting on borders of plates.4 chromolithograph plates entitled "Cape Hotham", "Breaking through the ice", "Resolute winter quarters" and "Sledge travelling", all drawn by Lieutenant Osborn and lithographed by M & N Hanhart, and 7 engraved illustrations in text. Engraved folding map (190 x 600 mm) coloured with blue in outlines "shewing the track of H.M.S. Pioneer, in search of Sir John Franklin, 1851-1852" by Trelawney Saunders. TPL 3193 An account of Osborn's search for Franklin in Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound, and wintering experiences at Griffith Island. Informative… Read More

Toronto: William Briggs, 1898. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. First edition. xii, [2], [15]-578pp. Near fine in burgundy cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt cover design. Tissue-guarded frontis. Previous owner's bookplate. 24 text illustrations including frontis portrait. A beautiful copy. History of Norfolk County Ontario, pioneers, Scottish lineage, the Smiths, French Hugenots, IIsrael Wood, Captain William Franklin, the Welsch nobility offshoots, Sitts, Middleton Browns, Potts, etc. The author's original 1898 edition sold 1,100 of the 1,200 copies printed. The remainder burnt in a fire.Biblio ref; Morley p. 75 Egbert Americus Owen was a local historian born in Norfolk County. Series of sketches and essays which tell the story of pioneer life in Long Point Settlement in Norfolk County Long Point dips into Lake Erie near Port Dover, Fort Rowan, Ontario and is renowned for its fishing, conservation and wild life and bird sanctuaries.