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Toronto: Coles Publishing Co.. Very Good-. 1971. Softcover. Private bookplate on endpaper. ; Coles Canadiana Collection; Facsimile reprint of the London 1809 edition. .

Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1971. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+.

Toronto: Coles Publishing Co, 1971. Reprint. Paperback. 406,8vo,Nf, Facsimile reproductions of the original published in London, 1809, part of the Coles Canadiana Collection.

Forgotten Books, 2018. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection, 1971. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp 406

Toronto, Canada: Coles Canadiana Collection, 1971. Reprint of 1809 edition. 406 pp. Brown card covers. Light wear along the edges. VG. Trade Paperback.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

GB: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). LACKS THE MAP Has three folding tables. Very clean tight text most suitabel to rebind. An 1814 inscription on loose blank at start shows the book was presented to William Graham at Seminary Thorp Arch. . 1st Edition. VG+.

London: Longman, Hurst ,Rees and Orme, 1809. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 406. 8vo. Re-bound in wine-red buckram with strengthened hinges and plain endpapers. Folding map, 3 folding tables. Large folding map has been re-backed. The binding is a bit pedestrian in appearance but quite serviceable and in very good condition. The contents show expected foxing, mainly near the beginning of the book, but it is not untoward. Overall, a good plus copy of a scarce and important comment on early Canadian political and economic history.

London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1809. 22.5cm, the first edition, [xiii],406p. engraved folding frontis map, folding tables, rebound in grey paper over boards and paper label, heavy foxing throughout, the folds have all been guarded in an early non-acid repair tape (no bleed through), a good sound working copy.(cdn). Lande 281. Morgan p160. Gagnon I-1548. Sabin 28393. Story p679. ' Waterston p24. Gray stayed in Quebec City and Montreal. His letters cover three years travel in pursuit of business and social pleasures. He writes dramatically of the fine air of winter at Montmorency and Chaudiere Falls; sleighs and wagons on ice, the dog sledges on country roads. Gray also describes a emerging intellectual life, politics in the Assemblies and a first growth of journals in Lower Canada. He created controversy by including remarks about British fears that a French army could march into Lower Canada from the United States and be welcomed by the French Canadians. But he reassures potential… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Good. Tall octavo, 406pp. Folding map present, though inserted after the Contents. There are (apparently) three folding charts called for, and they appear to all be present here, though it appears that the binder rather lazily kept two of the plates, which had been printed on the same sheet, together, thus creating one very long folding chart (if this is unclear, we will endeavor to explain). There does not seem to be any missing content. Front board and front free endpaper detached, but present. Folding map bears some old repair work, and was re-inserted into the book upside-down. Leather dry, and corners worn. The internal contents are clean, crisp, and bright. A serviceable reading copy in a contemporary binding, which could benefit from some inexpensive structural repair work. In good condition overall. Very important survey of Eastern Canada dating to the eve of the War of 1812. Sabin 28393.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Pp. [xvi], 406, frontispiece folding map with hand-coloured route, tables (3 folding). Contemporary binding of half brown calf and double-marbled boards, flat back lined in gilt, gilt title direct to spine, plain taupe endpapers. Covers rubbed and scuffed, corners rubbed and rounded. Water-staining with some spotting to the prelims and end-pages, front hinge cracked between the title-page and Preface, offsetting and browning to map with 14 cm slit along one fold, offsetting and browning of map has affected the pages adjoining the map, top half of map coming loose from the binding, very occasional offsetting within text, otherwise good. Booksellers' small ticket of "B & J.F. Meehan, Export Booksellers, 32 Gay Street, Bath" to bottom edge of front pastedown.

London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1809. 8vo, 22.5cm, (tall copy), the First Edition, [xiii],406p., with engraved folding frontis map, 3 folding tables, in the publishers quarter brown backed light grey original boards, (untrimmed), new paper label, upper hinge broken, otherwise in fine condition in clear mylar wrapper. (Cdn). Provenance: Purchased by ... from Francis Edwards Ltd., 83 Marylebone High Street, for £35.00. Their addressed invoice enclosed. Lande 281. Morgan p160. Gagnon I-1548. Sabin 28393. Story p679. Waterston p25. Gray spent three years in the colony of Lower Canada, possibly in the employ of British timber interests, studying the law, government, rules of commerce and the political situation. Gray came to the conclusion that Canada was worth preserving, but he raised a hornet's nest by expressing doubts that the French Canadians were fitted to receive the benefits of the British constitution' (Story).

Large fldg. Map & 3 fldg tables The rest of the title page reads Its Productions-Trade-Commericial Importance And Political Relations. Illustrative Of The Laws, The Manners of the People, and the Peculiarities of the County and Climate. Exhibiting Also the Commercial Importance of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, & Cape-Breton; and Their increasing Ability, in Conjunction with Canada , to furnish the necessary Supplies of Lumber and Provision to our West-India Islands

London, 1809. [14],406pp. plus folding map and three folding tables. Later three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Some foxing and tanning, folds of map reinforced on verso. Good. Gray gives an account of his three-year residence in Lower Canada, with observations of the commercial, legal and political aspects of the country. "Gray came to the conclusion that Canada was worth preserving, but he raised a hornet's nest by expressing doubts that the French Canadians were fitted to receive the benefits of the British Constitution. His contemptuous remarks about the cultural level of French Canadians were bitterly resented" - Story. LANDE 282. DIONNE II:939. KRESS B.5510. TPL 824. GAGNON I:1548. SABIN 28393. VLACH 359. GOLDSMITHS 19842. STORY, p.679

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orne, Paternoster-Row, 1809. Leather bound. Very good. [TRAVEL] [HISTORY]. Spine title: Gray's Letters from Canada Fold-out map: Map of Canada, &c. with an inset Bason of Quebec First edition. 8vo; [xiv], 406pp; brown straight-grain morocco, gilt-paneled boards, 4 gilt spine compartments, a round insert with the gilt-stamped initials "RT" and an arm embowed holding an arrow; marbled endpapers; armorial bookplate of Marquess of Headfort on front pastedown; fold-out map; 3 fold-out tables; internally clean and bright; head of joints starting, some shelf wear to boards; very good.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809., 1809. 8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 406. large folding engraved map (frontis.). 3 folding leaves of tables. Uncut in modern quarter morocco (map with repaired tears along folds – no loss). First Edition. A description of the author's impressions of his three-year stay in Lower Canada, during which time he studied the legal, commercial and political situation of the colony, probably on behalf of certain leading British timber merchants. "Gray came to the conclusion that Canada was worth preserving, but he raised a hornet's nest by expressing doubts that the French Canadians were fitted to receive the benefits of the British Constitution. His contemptuous remarks about the cultural level of French Canadians were bitterly resented." (Story) Dionne II 939. Gagnon I 1548. Goldsmiths' 19842. Kress B.5510. Lande 282. Morgan p. 160. Sabin 28393. TPL 824. Watters p. 962. Vlach 359. Story p. 679.. 1st Edition.