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Catalogue
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America
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51.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. (Colonial Office). Correspondence relative
to The Recent Disturbances in the Red River Settlement. Presented
to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, August,
1870. London, William Clowes & Sons, 1870.
[bound with]:
Correspondence relating to Disturbances at Red River, 1869-70. London,
Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, 1875. $1,850
Folio; pp. ix, 223; original blue printed wrappers (reinforced),
and - pp. 11, wrappers with cover title, fine; both bound together
in later quarter-calf and cloth; very good copies of two scarce
works.
Peel 303; second work is not in Peel, Casey or Lande, and relates
mainly to the question of compensation to the Company for losses
sustained in the course of the disturbances at Red River.
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52.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. Return to an Address of the Honourable the
House of Commons, Dated 26 May 1842; - for, Copy of the Existing
Charter or Grant by the Crown to the Hudson's Bay Company; Together
with Copies or Extracts of the Correspondence Which Took Place at
the Last Renewal of the Charter Between the Government and the Company,
or of Individuals on behalf of the Company; also, for the Dates
of all former Charters or Grants to that Company. Ordered, by The
House of Commons, to be printed, 8 August 1842. $400
Folio; pp. 32, [2]; bound into contemporary marbled cardboard wrappers
which are worn; text clean and untrimmed; very scarce.
TPL 2526; Peel (2003) 210. Includes: Copy of a Letter from the Governor
of the Hudson's Bay Company to Lord Stanley enclosing Copies of
a Charter, and Crown Grant to the Hudson's Bay Company of the exclusive
Trade with the Indians ...
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53.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. Anno Regni Georgii II Regis. An Act for
the Encouragement of the Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom; and
for taking off several Duties on Merchandizes Exported; and for
reducing the Duties upon Beaver Skins, Pepper, Mace, Cloves, and
Nutmegs Imported; and for the Importation of all Furs of the Product
of the British Plantations, into this Kingdom only ... London, John
Baskett, And by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills,
deceas'd, 1722. $175
Folio; caption title; pp. 243-256; removed.
An effort to alleviate the high duties on raw materials which are
to be processed in England. Further, all skins and furs from British
possessions are to be imported directly into Britain and not landed
into other ports.
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54.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. A Report from the Committee, appointed to
consider The State of His Majesty's Land Forces and Marines, So
far as relates to the Distribution of the Money, granted by Parliament
for the Pay, - to the Number of Effective Men, and the Methods of
Mustering and Recruiting, the said Land forces and Marines. With
an Appendix. [London], 1746 [but 1803]. $300
Folio; f, pp. 75-211; removed; a very good, very clean copy.
Relates to all of the British forces, in the New World as well as
the Old, and investigates the disbursements in the forces, misuse
of funds, disappearance of allotted funds, etc. There are also references
to Canso, Placentia, St. John's, Annapolis Royal, Castle William
in New England, Massachusetts-Bay, the West Indies, etc., as well
as comments about Generals Murray, Oglethorpe, Philipps, Wentworth,
St. Clair, Blakeney and Fraser. "... that at Annapolis Royal
Provisions are very cheap; but that at St. John's they are excessively
dear, the Price of a Pair of Shoes being 12 s. and that at Placentia
and Canso, he believed the Men could not furnish their own Provisions
so cheap as they are provided for them."
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55.
[GUTHRIE, WILLIAM]. Lettre au Comte de Bute, à l'occasion
de la retraite de M. Pitt, & sur ce qui peut en résulter
par rapport à la Paix. Traduit de l'anglois sur la troisième
Edition. Londres, 1761. $300
Small 8vo; pp. 111; recent paper wrappers; label or bookplate removed
from inside front wrapper; a very good, very clean copy.
TPL 345; vide Sabin [40527] (Eng. ed.). "Published in three
English editions in 1761, when Bute was manoeuvring Pitt's retirement
to conclude a peace; the authorship has been attributed to Wm. Guthrie
(1708-1770), a miscellaneous writer patronized successively by the
Pelham and Bute administrations. The letter is translated here by
Edme Jacques Genet, d. 1781, interpreter-secretary, apparently,
to Comte de Provence, later Louis XVIII. It includes a discussion
of peace terms advocating the retention of Canada at any cost."
-(TPL) Sabin claims the author to be Stuart.
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