Search Results: Titles starting with M from Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)

various: various, 1919. No binding. Good. This archive collection contains 37 items dating from 1832 to 1919, specifically 24+ letters, 6 photos, and other pieces of ephemera. Although some documents have folds, stains, tears and nicks, most of the material is in good condition.These family archives which originate in Scotland pertain to immigration and settlement in southern Ontario, Canada (Brant County and Chatham) and the USA (Pennsylvania and Texas). Several individuals are prominent in the letters and other documents: James Macfarlane, a teacher in Brant County in the 1850s and 1860s, uncle of Dr. Alexander MacFarlane; Dr. Alexander MacFarlane (1851-1913), born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, married Helen Mattie Swearingen of Texas in 1885 (1871-1927), and died at Chatham, an educator, author, logician, physicist, and mathematician, who taught at universities in Edinburgh and St. Andrews, the University of Texas, and Lehigh University; and his son, Alexander Swearingen Macfarlane (1896-1918), born… Read More

1947. 1st Edition. No binding. Good. Original 1947 ad for Rt. Hon. William Lyon MacKenzie King Colour Portrait by Yousuf Karsh for Maclean'sPage measures 14" x 10" approx. in good condition. William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG (December 17, 1874 - July 22, 1950) was a Canadian lawyer, economist, university professor, consultant, civil servant, journalist, teacher, and politician. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921, to June 28, 1926; September 25, 1926, to August 6, 1930; and October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948. With over 21 years in the office, he was the longest-serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history. He is commonly known either by his full name or as Mackenzie King. Mackenzie was one of his given names, not part of his surname, but he was never publicly referred to as simply "William King". Friends and family called him by his nickname, "Rex", for his quick temper, and ruthlessness. As a boy his motto was "Help those that cannot help… Read More

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1868. 1st. No binding. Very Good. First US edition. Measurement with Vine Border:   270 x 340 mm (10-5/8 x 13-3/8 inches) (Plus Margin). Copyright Date in Lower Margin:  1867.The reverse side of the map is blank.  The map's corner is printed with the altas page number 5. With an inset map of Halifax on bottom rightCounties, cities, towns, lakes, rivers, mountains, and transportation routes are shown.Beautifully engraved hand-coloured map with two 1/2 inch open tears on right border, otherwise, in very good condition. The map was created and copyright in 1867, the same year present-day Canada was created,  when the British North American Act united Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Dominion of Canada. This map was then published in Philadelphia one year later,  in 1868,  in the atlas titled "Mitchell's New General Atlas Showing Maps of the Various Counturies of the World, Plans of Cities, etc".Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792-1868) been… Read More

[Ottawa]: Department of Interior, Lithographic Office (A. P. Low, Surveyor, D. E. V Eaton, Cart.), 1896. 1st Edition. No binding. Good. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT QUEBEC & LABRADOR COLOURED MAP First edition. 29,3 x 90,7 cm on a folded sheet of 17 x 39 inches. Bar scale in miles. Shows rivers and lakes, trails, some geographical names between James Bay and the coast in a narrow band along the border. The proposed boundary is shown in red. "From A.P. Low's map of Labrador" (lower left corner). Scale 41 miles to one inch.Was separated at some folds now repaired with "Iwani Natural" Japanese tissue, two 1-1/2 inch tear in left top and left borders, otherwise, in good condition.Very scarce and important colour map created by order of the Clerk of the Privy Council John Jos. McGee to establish the Dominion's position. Note - "Dependency of Labrador". Map of part of Labrador illustrating the proposed Northern Boundary of the province of Quebec "To accompany the report of the Deputy Minister of the Interior,… Read More

London: Published by Jas. Wyld, Geographer to His Majesty. Charing Cross East, 1835. 5th Edition. Slip case. Very Good. QUITE SCARCE 1835 (5TH STATE] EDITION OF THIS UPPER CANADA MAP Linen-backed and folding wall map. Full title: A Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c. with the Countries Adjacent from Quebec to Lake Huron, compiled from original documents in the Surveyor General's Office.Binding: Folded and housed in the publisher's original cloth case 4-5/8 x 8-1/4 inches with paper labels. Folded linen-backed map: Flat; 36 x 23-1/4 x 23-1/2 inches. Folded; 5-1/8 x 8 inches. Very good conditionWinearls, 30.5 First issued in 1800 by Smyth and subsequently revised by Wyld, this map of Upper Canada contains detailed information on the counties, districts, townships, transportation systems, place-names and northern Ontario ('Great Tract of Wilderness') &c. It also includes portions of Quebec, Michigan Territory, New York, Pennsylvania. Much of the… Read More

Toronto: Published by John Lovell, 1856. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. First edition, scarce. 20 x 14 in. 40 pages. Original leather spine and corners with gilt type on worn cloth cover. Inside pages are in very good condition with small pin holes old library name O.F.M. Québec on three of the 40 text pages. With a folding table and 7 folding maps on 6 sheets (with one extra map not called for on the ‘Maps Accompany this Report') Six long folding map pages are generally very good condition with some wear. Contains the following maps: #1.- Surveys of the Principal Rapids of the River St. Lawrence between Prescott and Lake St. Louis... DIVISION 3. from Lake St. Francis to Pointe au Diable comprsing the Coteau Rapids. (colour) 41 x 19-3/4 inches.#2.- Survey of the Rapids of the River St. Lawrence between Prescott and Lake St. Louis... DIVISION 4 from Pointe au Diable to Pointe au Moulin comprising the Cedar Rapids. (some colour) 60-1/2 x 19-3/4 inches.#3.- Survey of the Rapids of the River St.… Read More

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1952. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Second edition. 7 x 9-7/8 inches. xii,(1),140 pp. Signed "R.V. Tooley Oct. 28, 1952" on front end paper. Rust cloth boards with gilt text on spine. Spine right side with top 1/2 inch an bottom 1-1/4 inch tear. Insides clean. No D.J. Good condition otherwise.With 104 illustrations (several coloured illustrations including frontis). "This standard work gives full information and illustrations of the principal map-makers and map publishers and their work from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, combining an appreciation of the popular decorative side of early maps with historical and bibliographical notes." from inside cover.

London: Margaret Crewe, 1926. No binding. Very Good. Margaret Crewe signature on 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 inch envelope dated 1926. [accompanied by a letter from her secretary, J. Corbett and dated 1st July, 1926.Envelope is wrinkled on left side with the writing going through the M in Margaret in the signature otherwise in good condition. Margaret Etrenne Hannah ('Peggy') Crewe-Milne (nee Primrose), Marchioness of Crewe (1881-1967), Political hostess; second wife of 1st and last Marquess of Crewe; daughter of 5th Earl of Rosebery. The marriage made her stepmother to her new husband's three daughters from his first marriage, the eldest Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes (1881-1948) being only 5 months younger than Peggy, and 15 year old twins lady Celia Hermione and Lady Helen Cynthia (who was known by her middle name of Cynthia) Crewe-Milnes. Robert's son Richard Charles Rhodes Crewe-Milnes (1882-1890) from his first marriage had died when he was 7 years old."Peggy" became known as Lady Crewe and Baroness… Read More

1921. GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA, 1883-1888Signature along with letter from his secretary dated September 21, 1921 providing this signature.Lord Lansdowne was Governor General during turbulent times in Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald's government was in its second term and facing allegations of scandal over the building of the railway (the Pacific scandal), and the economy was once again sliding into recession. The North-West Rebellion of 1885 and the controversy of its leader, Louis Riel, posed a serious threat to the stability of Canada. Yet Lord Lansdowne took the opportunity to travel extensively throughout western Canada in 1885, meeting many of Canada's First Nations peoples. While the railway to British Columbia was not completed, this did not stop the Governor General from travelling throughout the Rockies on horseback and by boat. On his second trip out west, Lord Lansdowne took the new Canadian Pacific Railway, and was the first Governor General to use the line all the way out west.His… Read More

various: various, 1958. No binding & hard cover. Mary Elizabeth Quackenbush Brush (1857-1940) was an American children's author. Born in Herkimer, New York, southeast of Utica, she was the daughter of Isaac and Mary Ann Rasbach Quackenbush. Her ancestors were among the very early settlers of the state, several having served with the Continental army in the Revolutionary war. She attended Herkimer schools and graduated from the old Madame Platt's Academy, Utica. In October 1877, she married Abram Stephen Brush, a native of Nyack, New York, and a graduate of Harvard Law School. They had 3 had three children: Henry Raymond Brush; Louise M. Brush; and Donald Livingston Brush. Her brother was Henry Marcus Quackenbush (1847-1933), an American inventor and industrialist who founded the H.M. Quackenbush Company widely known for its air rifles and for the invention of the metal, spring-jointed Nutcracker. Mary E.Q. Bush collection contains over 12 items dating from 1883 to 1958, specifically, 6 books, 4 b&w… Read More

1948. No binding & hard cover. Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American novelist, playwright, and author, often called the American Agatha Christie. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. It was one of her books, 1930 The Door, that produced the phrase, "The butler did it," and in her prime, she was more famous than her chief rival, England's Agatha Christie. The collection includes 14 items, dating from 1914 to 1948, specifically, 12 photos, 1 book (a publisher's dummy), and 1 letter. There are 7 signatures by Rinehart.1 "dummy" Book:• The Street of Seven Stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. Green cloth, stamped in silver on the cover. Cloth water stained. Some staining to endpapers. Spine panel of the jacket and spine of the book blank, as are the jacket flaps. The jacket is in very good condition (small pieces missing on the creases of the flaps and a nick on the front cover). A rare publisher's dummy… Read More

London: Printed for Jacob Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in Ludgate Street, 1758. 1st Edition. Disbound. Good. SEVEN YEARS' WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK First edition. 4-3/4 x 8 inches. (1), [3]-76pp. Disbound lacking title page. Price One Shilling. An officer = Henry Seymour Conway.A reply to 'The expedition against Rochefort fully stated and considered' by Thomas Potter. Good condition."Perhaps a reissue of the first edition of the same year, which was printed by William Bowyer." Lancaster and Maslen (eds) The Bowyer Ledgers 4147ESTC N4482 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.

1840. 1st Edition. First edition. Moor House, in the W.R. of the County of York. The Residence of John Maude Esqre. Magistrate & Deputy Lieutenant. Author of "A Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800".Rare larger lithograph [c.1840.] view in vibrant original colour, J. Whatman paper watermarked 1838, sheet 245 x 300mm. 9-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches. Stain spots. Watermark in paper of 1838. An attractive view, a lady reading or perhaps sketching on the edge of a lake in the foreground. 'Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800' was published in 1826.

Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS First edition. 12 x 9 inches. 95 pp. Softcover. Near-fine condition. Green and Desmarais, librarians at the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the U. of Alberta, Canada, provide a catalog to go with an exhibition held there from May to August 2008 that details 59 books and maps published from 1565 to 1983 by Arctic explorers such as James Cook, George Vancouver, John Franklin, William Edward Parry, George Back, Elisha Kent Kane, and William Gilkerson. The exhibition documents four centuries of exploration in search of a Northwest Passage around the coast of Baffin Island and through or south of the islands between Baffin and the Beaufort Sea to the Pacific. Jeannine Green was head of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta. She received a BASpec and Master's Degree in Library Science from the University of Alberta and was a sessional lecturer at the… Read More

London: printed for J. Scott at the Black-Swan in Pater-noster-Row, 1756. 2nd Edition. Disbound. Very Good. SEVEN YEARS' WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK 2nd edition with the addition of some important facts. 5-1/4 x 8-1/8 inches. (2),[3]-36p. Disbound, lacking half-title. Alex Irvine previous owner name signed on title page. Very good condition. Quite scarce edition.ESTC T59135 ; Sabin, 49820Full title: A Modest Address to the Commons of Great Britain, and in particular to the Free Citizens of London, Occasioned By the ill Success of our present Naval War with France, and the Want of a Militia Bill. The Second Edition, with the Addition of some important Facts. Gentle Ways are first to be used, and it is best if the Work can be done by them: it is good to use Supplications, Advices and Remonstrances; but it must not be left undone if they fail. Sydney's Disc. on Gov. Chap. III. § 40ESTC T81155 (first edition)Cf Sabin 49820 for first edition of 34 p. Sabin notes the pamphlet "contains… Read More