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

London: printed by R.N. for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's Head in S. Paul's Churchyard, 1694. 6th Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 6th edition. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches. (28pp.), 436pp. Old worn full leather covers with no text and weak hinges. Two previous owners names, one bookplate on inside cover and one penciled name on front end paper. Inside pages are a little age-toned and overall clean. Inside back cover with old hand-written annotation. Good condition.This work ultimately extended to five volumes of which this is Part 1. John Scott was an English clergyman, known as a devotional writer, and a defender of Anglican orthodoxy in his preaching. He became successively minister of St. Thomas's, Southwark, perpetual curate of Trinity in the Minories (before November 1678), rector of St. Peter-le-Poor, 1 Feb. 1678 (resigned before August 1691), and rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, being presented to the last benefice by the king, 7 Aug. 1691. He was buried in the rector's vault in St. Giles's Church in… Read More

[Toronto]: Various people, 1885. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 4 1/2 x 3 inches, about 50 pages, A new leather spine and nice new tight binding. In very good+ condition. Owned by Kitty Scott of Toronto in the 1880's. Charming little autograph album with, inscriptions, a few poems, 2 small coloured flower illustrations and of course many autographs. One of the autographs is a formerly significant person, that of of Harry Cockshutt, Brantford, in 1885. The Hon. Harry Cockshutt (1868-1944) youngest son of Ignatius and Elizabeth (Foster) Cockshutt was educated at the Brantford High School. He was employed in the family business, the Cockshutt Plow Co. Ltd. He rose through the ranks, becoming secretary-treasurer (1888), managing director (1893) and ultimately the president. He was the president of the Frost & Wood Co. of Smith's Falls, president of the Brantford Carriage Co., president of the Adams Wagon Co., and a director of the Bank of Montreal. He was elected president of the Brantford Board of Trade in… Read More

ND. No binding. Three signed items: 1) Signed inside printed black and white magazine portrait, 3-1/2 x 4 inches. "Ephraim Scott"2) Autograph card 3 x 1-1/2 inches. "E.Scott"3) Signed in white border of printed portrait on paper with two old vertical folds, 7 x 4-1/2 inches. "Ephraim Scott"All in good condition. Ephraim Scott was a Canadian minister. Editor of The Presbyterian Record. B.A. from Dalhousie in 1870, and M.A. in 1875. Awarded Doctor of Divinty from Presbyterian College, Halifax; from the United Presbyterian College of Edinburgh and from the Free Church College in Edinburgh. His first ministry was at Milford, NS for 3 years, then the United (Westminster) Church in New Glasgow for a long period. Published the Maritime Presbyterian and The Children's Record. Moved to Montreal and lived there for 35 years. The Ephraim Scott Memorial Church was named for him.

Niagara Falls, ON: Published by Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. First Edition. xi,(1), 257pp. (3). 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches. Soft cover with slight crease on bottom left, otherwise book in very good condition. Many illustrations in black and white plus colour. With bibliography and index.

Ottawa: Published in at the office of the Surveyor General and Chief Hydrographic Service, 1937. 1st Edition. No binding & hard cover. Good. SCARCE TYPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF KINGSTON AREAOntario Kinston Sheet, Leeds and portions of Lennox and Addington, Frontenac Lanark and Grenville Counties. Showing Counties, Townships Cities Towns over and under 4,000 population boundries, Railways and Canals. Standard Typographical Map Sheet 10 S.W.Folded paper size: 10 x 12 inches. Flat paper size: 58-3/4 x 38-3/4 inches. Map canvas backed, folded, bound in hard cover 12-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches boards with gilded title on Cover. Good condition. Bound for Mr. Lesslie R. (Rielle) Thomson (1886-1958) was a mechanical engineer and pre-war professor of Civil and Fuel engineering at two Canadian universities.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 1st edition. 9 x 6 inches. (6),7-333pp. Signed By Tommy Douglas. Dedication on title page "To Ceil Porter / warmest regards / Tommy Douglas". In protective Brodart dust jacket not price clipped and marks and tear on back, good condition. Book is in near fine condition. Doris French has had an active career as a journalist, broadcaster and commentator in Ottawa. She has worked as a freelance journalist, as an editor for the Department of Labour, as a CBC journalist and as public relations assistant for the NDP caucus. She had a close collaboration with her subject, Tommy Douglas resulting in a vivid account of the man and the political movement he helped found. In November 2004 a nation wide vote by over one million Canadians selected Tommy Douglas as "The Greatest Canadian of all Time." Known as the 'Father of Medicare' - he launched it in Saskatchewan when he was premier of that province, first universal hospital… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. 2nd. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 2nd edition. 9 x 6 inches. (6),7-333pp. Signed By Tommy Douglas. Dedication on title page "To My Good Friend / Jimmy White/ With Best Wishes / Tommy Douglas". In protective Brodart dust jacket price clipped and marks and tear on back, good condition. Book is in near fine condition."Before Tommy Douglas died in 1986, he gave his medals to a constituent named Jimmy White. When White died a decade later, his family sold the medal at auction..." quoted from, Regina Leader-Post · 18 Apr 2012Doris French has had an active career as a journalist, broadcaster and commentator in Ottawa. She has worked as a freelance journalist, as an editor for the Department of Labour, as a CBC journalist and as public relations assistant for the NDP caucus. She had a close collaboration with her subject, Tommy Douglas resulting in a vivid account of the man and the political movement he helped found. In November 2004 a nation wide vote by over one… Read More

Toronto): McClelland & Stewart, 1975. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1st edition. 9 x 6 inches. (6),7-333pp. Signed By Tommy Douglas. Dedication on title page "Best Wishes to Tottie from Tommy Douglas". In protective Brodart dust jacket not price clipped and marks and tears on spine and back, blue 3/4 inch circle spine, blue letters on front cover name of Tommy Douglas, DJ in fair condition. Inside the book, Tottie or another precious owner highlighted a half dozen or so pages of some text and one page with a pencil comment, otherwise, book is in very good condition.Doris French has had an active career as a journalist, broadcaster and commentator in Ottawa. She has worked as a freelance journalist, as an editor for the Department of Labour, as a CBC journalist and as public relations assistant for the NDP caucus. She had a close collaboration with her subject, Tommy Douglas resulting in a vivid account of the man and the political movement he helped found. In November 2004 a nation wide… Read More

1863. No binding. Very Good. Braddock's field of battle plan British defeat near Fort Du Quesne. Image 9 x 5.5 inches (23x14cm). Steel engraving. Very good condition. from Taliaferro Preston Shaffner's History of the United States, Plate V Drawn and engraved for 'Shaffner's History of the United States' by W.W. Woolley. Circa 1863.

Ottawa: James Ashfield, photographer, 1885. 1st Edition. No binding. Good. QUITE SCARCE SHAKESPEARE PHOTO ESPECIALLY SIGNED Quite scarce photo or profile of Noah Shakespeare. Taken in Ottawa when Noah Shakespeare was an MP for Victoria. It is also only photo of him signed we could find. He is most known for being the author of the 1885 Chinese Immigration Act passed in Ottawa.4-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches Cabinet card of Noah Shakespeare signed and with imprint on the back of the photographer James Ashfield, Ottawa. Circa 1885 given Ashfield's photo studio was active from 1884 to about 1889 and Shakespeare was a federal MP for Victoria and in Ottawa between 1883 to 1887. Some spotting and slightly cropped at top right, otherwise good condition. A historically and politically important person quite scarce signed cabinet card. Noah Shakespeare was a labourer, photographer, politician, activist, and civil servant. He was married in 1859 to Elizabeth Pearson, a native of New York State and a daughter of Thomas… Read More

London: Printed for J. Morgan in Pater noster Row, 1757. 1st Edition. Disbound. Good. SEVEN YEARS' WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK First edition. 5 x 7-3/4 inches. (4),[1]-47pp.,(1) Disbound with half-title. D---- of N----e = Duke of Newcastle. Addressed to the Duke of Newcastle. Author attributed to John Shebbeare. Some spots otherwise good condition.ESTC T38137 The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1754 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America, known today as the French and Indian War.

ND. No binding. Cut signature of C.P.B. Shelley on 3 x 3/4 inch paper. C.P.B. (Charles Percy Bysshe) Shelley, was a Civil Engineer. He attended Kings College School later holding positions at King's College London: Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery, 1860-1890; Dean of Applied Sciences Department, 1873-1882; Emeritus Professor of Manufacturing Art and Machinery, 1890-1891..

Toronto: The Rose Publishing Company, 1886. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. First edition. 8.5 x 5.5 inches,. (5), [3]-135 pages, frontis of author, many b/w illustrations, text in two columns; brown cloth, beveled edges/gilt titles. Gilt decorate cover extremities quite worn, soiling internally end papers spotted. Fair condition. An uncommon novel.This was Sheppard's first book, a fiction, "Dolly," which appeared first in serial form in the Toronto "News" Sheppard started the famous Canadian Magazine "Saturday Night" in 1887. Sheppard's magazine began as a broadsheet that kept its readers up to date on current events, Toronto's upper crust and what books to read. Originally called Toronto Saturday Night. One key to Sheppard's (Toronto) Saturday Night success was the uncommon focus and attention paid to Women and Women's issues.

Ottawa: Published by Borealis Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. First edition. 6 x 7 inches. [1]-59,(1). Soft cover. White and pink card wrapper covers with black lettering to front and spine.Near fine condition and signed by Carol Shields on inside page.This is the author's second volume of 50 poems published, 2 years after her first "Others" Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Governor General of Canada made Carol an Officer of the Order of Canada. She subsequently (2002) was made a Companion of the Order of Canada - Canada's highest honour. Also in 1998, Carol was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, 1890. 1st. No binding. Very Good. 18, 4 p. 22 cm. Paper wraps. Disbound. Faint stain p. 16. Written by Lieut.-Governor Simcoe, in 1791, Prior to His Departure from England for the Purpose of Organizing the New Province of Upper Canada; to Which is Added Five Official Speeches Delivered by Him at the Opening or Closing of Parliament in the Same Province, with a Prefatory Notice by the Rev. Dr. Scadding. TPL 633.

ND. No binding. Signature of Jules François Simon of a French sentiment note on 5-1/4 x 2-3/4 inch paper. Jules François Simon was a French political leader, philosopher, and theorist of the French Radical Party who as premier in 1876-77 became a central figure in the formative crisis of the Third Republic.

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

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1903. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First Edition. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches. iv, 126pp. Dark brown cloth cover with gilt type on spine and front cover. A signed note is pasted in the front fly leaf "with the compliments of the author SB Sinclair"Very good condition.Samuel Bower Sinclair, was a Vice-Principal Normal School, Ottawa, Canada when he wrote this book. Published 1903 as thesis for PH.D. degree, Chicago University.Contents: Introduction.- The empirical objection. The dynamic conception of science. - The dynamic conception of education.- Educational aims and means.- The psychological factor of educational science.- The technique of educational science.- Appendix: Quotations from replies received from university professors.

1966. No binding & hard cover. INTERESTING EDITH SITWELL COLLECTION Dame Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She never married, but in 1927 she allegedly fell in love with the gay Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew (see the card below inviting Burnett to see his last portrait). The collection contains 30 items dating from 1937 to 1966 specifically, 28 letters, 1 typed statement and 1 autograph on note.• ALS to Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966); Shakespeare scholar), Sunday, [?28 October 1937], 4 pp., thanking him for his charming letter and saying how sorry she was that he could not come to her lectures because of his cold, "My colds are always like the San Francisco earthquake, so I can sympathise", and… Read More

Victoria (BC): The Adelphi Book Shop, Ltd., 1969. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. First edition. Limited edition of 750 copies. 6 x 9 inches. 67 ppSigned and inscribed "for Miss Evelyn MacDonald with the Best Wishes of the author" on the front end paper. Brown imitation leather boards and book in fine condition. Foreword by Samuel Rothstein. Near fine condition. Content based on a lecture for librarians, intended primarily to identify important books relating the exploration and beginnings of British Columbia. The contents includes lectures on Spaniards versus Russians, The British Approach by Land and Sea, The French Look In and The Americans Reach out. Illustrated in black and white wityh facsimiles of letters and drawings. From the copyright page, "First published as the complete issue of the British Columbia Library Quarterly for January 1969... in an edition of 750 copies. With a foreword by Samuel Rothstein. An account of important books concerning the early exploration and history of… Read More