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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

[London: 1843]., 1843. folio. pp. 10, [1 leaf]. disbound. Cundall 2854 (p. 146)..

[London], 1853. Cloth. very good. iv,15,[1]pp. Folio, sewn as issued. very good TPL 8295. 1853

[London], 1853. Cloth. very good. iv,15,[1];12pp. Two items Folio, sewn as issued. very good 1st item TPL 8295, 2nd item not in TPL. 1853

[London. Colonial Office]. 1837-1838. folio. 33cm,in 5 volumes, [iv], 114 & (ii)16 & 27 & 14 & iv,229pp., with 5 titlepages, disbound, cover titles dust soiled else fine. (cgc) T.P.L. 2068,2148, 2151, 2152, 2153. Cover title : Accounts and Papers: SeventeenVolumes.-(4.)- Colonies; Canada. Session 15 November 1837- 16 August1838. Vol. XXXIX. With handwritten note on verso : "The Book is to bepreserved in the Office of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of StateHome Department 1838." Extensive correspondence and dispatches betweenBritish Colonial Secretary, Lord Gleneig, and various administrators inthe British North America - Lord Gosford, Sir John Colborne, Sir FrancisBond Head, Sir Colin Campbell, Sir John Harvey, & Sir Charles A. Fitzroy.The correspondence relates to a critical time in the Canadas, theRebellions in both Upper & Lower Canadas and the growing demand forresponsible government.

London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1858. Undetermined. very good. 1st edition. 18pp. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm.) in original wrappers, sewn as issued with large folding hand coloured map. very good Lowther 67. Large folding hand coloured Litho map of "Reconnaissance of Fraser's River from Fort Hope to the Forks" by John Arrowsmith. 1858

folio. pp. 18. folding coloured lithographed map ‘Reconnaissance of Fraser’s River from Fort Hope to the Forks’ by John Arrowsmith. new quarter cloth.
"This fundamental document on the gold discovery on the Fraser River is the basis for practically all the guides and other pamphlets written on that famous gold rush." (Streeter) The blue paper includes correspondence between Governor James Douglas, Colonial Secretary Henry Labouchere and his successor Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and W.G.Smith, Secretary of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
The massive influx of miners attracted to the Fraser River district by the gold rush of 1858 led to the creation of the crown colony of British Columbia and was a major consideration in the British decision to terminate the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territorial rights in the West. In 1858 Governor Douglas renamed the former Hudson’s Bay Company post Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, Lytton, British Columbia in honour of the… Read More