Search Results: Quebec from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

London: House of Commons, 1848. 1st Edition. No binding. Very Good. THE FIRST LEGAL ACT FOR ENGLISH & FRENCH GOVERNMENT FOR CANADAFirst UK edition. 11-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches. 2 pages (2), [649]-650pp Disbound, Paper 1 x 1-1/2 inches missing on left border not affecting any type, otherwise, very good condition.Full title: Cap. LVI. "Act to Repeal So Much of an Act of the 3rd and 4th Years of Her Present Majesty, to Re-Unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, As Relates to the Use of the English Language in Instruments relating to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada" 14th August 1848. The Union Act, 1840, made English the only language for the work of both the legislative council and the assembly, although it did not prevent the unofficial translation of its documents into French. At the time the House of Assembly was a total of 84 seats with 42 each to Canada East (Lower Canada) and Canada West (Upper Canada). The population… Read More

London: Published by Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1831. 1st Edition. Disbound. Very Good. Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. LIII. [16th July 1830]First edition UK. 11-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. 2 pages [485]-486pp. Very good condition.• Persons naturalized may sit in Assembly of Lower Canada, and in Legislative Council• Act of naturalization not to have force of authority unless his Majesty's assent he signified to the same Socage was one of the feudal duties and land tenure forms in the English feudal system. It eventually evolved into the freehold tenure called "free and common socage", which did not involve feudal duties. Farmers held land in exchange for clearly defined, fixed payments made at specified intervals to feudal lords. The lord was therefore obligated to provide certain services, such as protection, to the farmer and other duties to the Crown. Payments usually took the form of cash, but occasionally could be made with goods. Wikipedia.

London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1838. 1st Edition. Disbound. Very Good. Anno primo, Victoriae reginae Cap. IX. [10th February 1838]4 pages [57]-60pp. Very good condition.Known as the "Lower Canada Government Act, 1838"Under this Act, the government of the Province of Lower Canada is to be handled by a Special Council rather than the Provincial Parliament as directed until November of 1840. The duties and limits of this Special Council are described. • The powers of the present Legislature of Lower Canada are suspended• Her Majesty may appoint a special Council for the affairs of Lower Canada• Members of the Council to take an Oath.• The Governor and Council may make Laws or Ordinances for the Government of Lower Canada• Such laws to be proposed by the Governor.• Limiting their duration.• Proviso as to imposing taxes.• Laws or Ordinances not to affect the existing laws respecting rights of election, etc.• No… Read More

London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1825. 1st Edition. Disbound. Very Good. First edition, rare. 11-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. 10 pages [537]-546. Disbound. Very good condition.Anno sexto Georgii IV. Regis. Cap. LIX. Act to provide for the extinction of feudal and seigniorial rights Full title: An Act to provide for the extinction of feudal and seigniorial rights and burthens on lands held à titre de fief and à titre de cens in the province of Lower Canada : and for the gradual conversion of those tenures into the tenure of free and common soccage, and for other purposes relating to the said province [22d June 1825].

NP: NP, 1947. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A WONDERFUL SELECTION OF SIGNATURES READY FOR DISCOVERY.6-1/2 x 8 inches unpaginated. New red leather spine with gilt type and new endpapers. Over 70 pages with one and up to 10 signatures per page - over 200 signatures. An autograph book covering over 50 years from 1894 to 1947. Very good condition. Numerous signatures, remembrances, comments predominately by ranking officials in the Church. Interesting entries from Bishops, Archdeacons, and many others from all over the world including Asia, Africa, New Guinea and many other fascinating origins, in excess of 200 signatures. A number of loose autographs, notes and newspaper clippings throughout are also included. Samples:J. W.Griswald, Bishop of Salvia August 20th 1913Walter S. Bromhead of Kenya, E Africa 7.7.28H.H.Montgomery (Bishop) August 12, 1906 - Quebec.

Montreal: L.E. Desmarais photography, 1873. No binding. Very Good. SCARCE CDV OF SIR GEORGE-ETIENNE CARTIER2-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches Carte de Visite (CDV)Oval photo of Cartier.Printed on front - Sir Geo. Etienne Cartier, Baronet, Mort a Londres le 20 Mai 1873Printed on reverse - L.E. Desmarais - Photographe. Carre Chamboillez, 11, Montreal. Crease top left corner, pin hole bottom left side, stain top right side otherwise, very good condition.Appears to be a copy of a 1871 Notman photograph held at McCord Museum suggesting that L.E. Desmarais perhaps obtained a copy and generated this CDV using it. Photographer Desmarais, of Carré Chabooulez in Montreal, who has just opened a branch in Saint-Hyacinthe. Carré Chaboillez, No. 11, Montréal is the name of a "square" in downtown Montreal; in fact, a well-known square that used to be twice its current size. It is located at the intersection of Saint Jacques Street and Peel Street in downtown Montreal and was larger than it is today.L. E. Desmarais was listed… Read More

France: (Histoire des Voyages), 1780. 1st, 2nd issue. No binding. Good. First edition, 2nd state. Paper size: 15-1/2 x 10 inches Image size: 14-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Copper-engraved map, hand colouring in outline. Gulf of Saint Lawrence area. Hand colored antique map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence showing is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence river into the Atlantic Ocean. Gulf of Saint Lawrence / Newfoundland / Cape Breton / Anticosti / Prince Edward Island. Attractive cartouche. All copy in French.Two fold lines but otherwise in good condition. Plate nos. lower left and right: Tom XIII in 4°. No. 2; Tome 14 in 8°. First state is 1757 but this second state is circa 1780. (Kershaw, #590, p.218).

Paris: Charles de Montmorency, 1608. 1st Edition. No binding. Good. Charles de Montmorency, Duke of Damville (1537-1612). Document on vellum, Paris, 27 August 1608, 37 × 52 cm, 18 lines of text in a secretarial hand signed by Montmorency, folds, 4 holes affecting several lines, small split on the bottom right, otherwise good condition.Brevet de capitaine garde des côtes de la Saâne, Quiberville et ses dépendances [environs de Dieppe], accordé par l'amiral de France, Charles de Montmorency-Damville, à Aymar de Manneville (1552/1617), capitaine de 50 hommes d'armes, qui fut bailli et gouverneur de Gisors. Il l'invite à user de la force en cas de nécessité en particulier pour lutter « contre toutes descentes, incursions d'ennemys ou de pyrates... ». / Certificate of captain guard of the coast of the Saâne, Quiberville and its dependencies [near Dieppe], granted by the admiral of France, Charles de Montmorency-Damville, to Aymar de Manneville (1552-1617), captain of 50 men of arms, who was… Read More

Quebec: Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils 1840 Imprimerie de Middleton & Dawson 1838, 1840. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. IMPORTANT AND EARLY HISTORY OF QUEBEC FROM 1749 TO 1760First edition. 2 volumes in one: 155pp. & 207pp. Text in French. Rebacked 3/4 calf, original marbled boards, new eps. Title in gilt on spine. Bottom corners lightly worn. Book condition: Very Good + Edition.#1: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de Québec, 155pp. 1840, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils. First edition. (various pagings), ii, 7, 14, 32, 36, 24, 8, 8, 29. Collection of eight reports or relations each one having their own pagination. "The first three Memoirs are published according to the Manuscripts Lord Durham had obtained from the Archives of the Bureau of the Navy at Paris, at the moment when his lordship was on… Read More

Quebec: Societe Litteraire et Historique De Quebec, Impr. de W. Cowan et fils, 1840. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 4-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. , 1 v. (various pagings), ii, 7, 14, 32, 36, 24, 8, 8, 29. New burgandary cloth covers with gilt type on spine, new end papers. Collection of eight reports or relations each one having their own pagination. Xlibris with small stamp on back of title page only markings. Very good+ condition.Full title: Collection De Memoires et De Relations Sur L'Histoire Ancienne Du Canada, D'Apres Des Manuscrits Recemment obtenus des Archives et Bureaux Publics en France, Relation de ce qui s'est passé au siège de QuébecThe first three mémoires are from manuscripts Manuscript obtained from the Archives of the Bureau de la Marine à Paris by Lord Durham in 1838 just before he left Europe to take charge of the Government of Canada and shortly after his arrival at Quebec presented them to the Society, along with two others leaving their publication to the discretion of the… Read More

1801. No binding. Very Good. F(rancis). Maseres cut signature dated July 13, 1801. Very good condition. Francis Maseres was an English lawyer. He is known as Attorney General of the Province of Quebec, judge, mathematician, historian, member of the Royal Society, and cursitor baron of the exchequer. On 4 March 1766, he was appointed Attorney General of the new British Province of Quebec, the fomter French Canada conquered in 1760 and denitively ceded by France through the Treaty of Paris in 1763. He was sworn in office on 26 September 1766 and exercised his functions until the autumn of 1769. In March 1768, the Carleton government requested of him a report on the reform of the province's law system. He submitted his report in February 1769. He went back to England, but remained involved in the movement for a constitutional reform of Quebec which resumed at full speed with the end of the American War of independence in 1783, and which was concluded with the adoption of the Constitutional Act of 1791… Read More

London: printed for D. Henry and R. Cave at St. John's Gate, 1759. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Included are maps of the French Indian war at Quebec and Crown Point (New York). First edition. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, (6),[3]-643 pp. including the year-end supplement and 17pp. index. Original leather spine cracked at hinges, five raised bands with original red label present. Original marbled paper-covered boards with moderate to heavy edge wear, well worn especially at corners. Pages clean inside with age toned paper. Most folding plates with a tear near gutter as well as occasional unintended folds. January to December 1759, 12 monthly issues. Original 1759 accounts and maps of the French Indian war at Quebec and Crown Point (New York). Included are 3 maps relating to above topic ;1) the Island of Orleans with the Environs of Quebec [issued within a month of the surrender of Quebec] and 2) An Authentic Plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery to the Falls of Montmorency. 3) The third map is of the… Read More

London: printed for D. Henry and R. Cave at St. John's Gate, 1759. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good. First edition. Eight months only, from May 1759 to Dec. 1759. 5.5" x 9", (6), [199]-730pp. Contemporary covers make of heavy paper thus soft cover, soiled. Front cover with pieces missing to the cover edges more so on the bottom right. Contents overall about very good, Inside many pages are uncut (unopened) and all pages are untrimmed (deckled). All 17 plates as called for from May to Dec. 1759 are present. All are very good+ except the Chair for the Deaf and Have which has stains on it. Page 560 misprinted page 590.June 1759 64 pages text. Of note, p 204, Fort Frederick, at Crownspoint. p528-530 have Wolfe's instructions in 1755 landing article. p466-475 various letter regarding the taking of Quebec 1759 and p.555 & 620 more relating to Quebec Map and Plate contents: I. a map of the Country between Crown Point and Fort Edward, showing Ticonderoga and Lake George, (New York). p204 II. Folding Map of the… Read More

1793. No binding. Very Good. SIGNED GUY CARLETON MONEY RELATED DOCUMENT 4 pages, 8 x 12-1/4 inch and 1 page affixed to page three, of detailed accounts, dated, Quebec, October 28, 1793, giving an account of money that is owed from October 25th to December 14th 1793.Moderate soiling with tattered edges professionally repaired and minor browning, otherwise in very good condition. Exlibrary small stamp (W.C Putnam collection Davenport Public Museum) on p2, p4 and mounted insert page on p3. Sir Guy Carleton served in America beginning in 1758. He was governor of Quebec and commander of British forces in Canada (1775-77), during which time he repelled Montgomery and Benedict Arnold's attack on Quebec, defeated Arnold on Lake Champlain and re-took Crown Point. From 1782-83 he was Commander in Chief in Canada from 1791 to 1796.William Clement Putnam was born on June 26, 1862, in Davenport, Iowa, the city in which he spent his entire life. He was a voracious reader whose love of history was piqued early. At… Read More

London: Bickers & Sons, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Beautiful custom made red leather covers for school prize with King's Hall Compton and Keep Troth - Make Good gilt embossed logo on the front cover. Some darker spots on spine and bottom left of front cover. Gilt edged paper edges. Inside a King's Hall Compton, PQ. presentation bookplate on marbled end papers noting this book a prize for Elocution, dated 1917. Marbled end papers and inside page are very clean and in near-fine condition.5 x 7-1/4 inches. (12),3-299pp.(1). 11 unnumbered leaves of illustrated plates by Henry Ospovat, illustrator. A very nice attractive custom bound "Heroines of Poetry" book in overall near-fine condition with interesting provenance relating to King's Hall (Compton, Quebec). 10 stories contents:• Maid of the swan-skin (William Morris)• The fair maid of Astolat (Mallory)• Sâvitrî the faithful wife (Edwin Arnold)• The peasant maid (Longfellow)• The little duchess (Browning)• A hero's mother… Read More

London: printed for J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1769. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Set in Canada, it is considered to be the first Canadian novel.First edition. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. [vii], [1], 240; [2], 240; [4], 223, [1]; [4], 213, [1]. Lacking leaf L1 (pp. 217-8) in vol. 1 (but with a photocopy of the missing text supplied), and also the half titles in each volume; C6 (pp. 35-6) loose in volume III (secured in place with an old pin); short tear in H1 in volume IV (no loss), and final leaf K11 with a more serious tear, affecting the text but without loss. Good condition overall. Marbled paper boards, quarter calf, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, spines chipped at tops and bottoms, morocco labels. Manuscript notes (2 pp.) in an early hand on the endpapers to vol. Manuscript is about the province of Quebec, "according to an acct. taken by General Murray in 1765", noting its agriculture and its progress in exporting 'corn, timber, fish, skins, leather, furs &c". Later inscription of W.M. Stawell, and… Read More

1897. No binding. Very Good. Israel Tarte was a notary, journalist, newspaper owner, and politician. Tarte came to prominence as editor of several newspapers, Le Canadien, L'Evénement, La Patrie and the Quebec Daily Mercury. He was a Minister under Wilfrid Laurier. "The four elements that made him what he was - a francophone, Catholic, Canadian, and British subject - sometimes led him, in politics, to try to square the circle." DCB Typed letter signed with Free Frank envelope. One page, 8 x 10 inches. Dated Office of the Minister of Public Works, Ottawa, September 6th, 1897. Letter refers to a dispute between lumber and agricultural interests and suggesting he will attempt to work out a solution. (With some Tarte handwritten additions). To Cambridge member of parliament Duncan Graham (1845-1934), who had just won a by-election in 1897 to Parliament (his only term) after a contested vote count in the 1896 Laurier landslide.

Ottawa: The Mortimer Company, 1911. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-. GIFT INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR ARTHUR DOUGHTY ON HALF-TITLES First edition. 10-1/4 x 8 inches, 2 vols. Original paper wraps. Beige card covers with black titles. Spine and covers worn and tears (1" and 3") on bottom of spines. Paper cover considered good- condition.Vol 1: Gift inscription in French on half-title written by Arthur Doughty, [16],[1]-p.166, 14 colour plates. , . Vol 2: Gift inscription in French on half-title written by Arthur Doughty, [4], p.167-p.388, [2 appendix]. 22 colour plates. Insides are very good+ condition however a tear on one page not affecting text. map at end of volume one, Quebec Battlefield Park with one small 3/4 tear where it fold out at the far left edge not affecting border or text and one page uncut.Original owner had this set given by Arthur Doughty in 1912. An inscription written by Doughty stating this is in the front end papers of each volume.Content includes: Jacques Cartier, Samuel… Read More

London: William Pickering, 1841. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First UK edition. xxiv, 110 p. ; 18 cm. Orig. cloth. From the Pickering Collection of Bernard Warrington, with his bookplate, believed only 500 copies of this printed and scarce.The letter is addressed to the Marquis of Townshend who served under Wolfe in the Quebec Campaign. "The brigadier-general is Lord George Townshend, against whom the writer makes serious charges for incompetency in the campaigns in Canada. Written by Junius...."--Sabin, A dict. of books relating to America, no. 36903. Ascribed also to Charles Lee, and Henry Fox. cf. Dict. of nat. biog., v.57, p. 124. Full title: JUNIUS. "A letter to an honourable brigadier general, commander in chief of His Majesty's forces in Canada", London, 1760, now first ascribed to Junius, to which is added "A refutation of the letter, etc., by an officer", with incidental notices of Lords Townshend and Sackville, Sir Philip Francis and othersAuthor: Junius, 18th cent; Simons, N. W.… Read More

1952. 1st Edition. No binding. Louis St. Laurent (February 1, 1882 - July 25, 1973), 12th Prime Minister of Canada, signature on Prime Minister 4 x 5 inch card stock. CIrca 1952 based on signature on Office of the Prime Minister note card used.Fine condition. Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent) , (February 1, 1882 - July 25, 1973) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from November 15, 1948, to June 21, 1957.Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through Jean Chrétien) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders. He died on July 25, 1973 at 91 years of age.