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Catalogue
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America
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61.
HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY OF MANITOBA. BRYCE, Rev. [GEORGE]
& C[HARLES] N[APIER] BELL. Original Letters and other Documents
relating to the Selkirk Settlement. Winnipeg, Manitoba Free Press,
1889. $200
8vo;
pp. [3]-9, printed in double-columns; original printed paper wrappers;
few tears to front wrapper; tight and very clean.
Peel 1089; not in Casey. A combined effort by two eminent historians,
published as Transaction No. 33 of the Society and read before the
Society on January 17th, 1889. The work consists of "Some Letters
of Lord Selkirk hitherto unpublished, and some of the Early Laws
of the Settlement." This was a special meeting, "the object
of which was to hear a number of original, and hitherto unpublished
letters and documents relating to the early settlement of this country
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62.
HOLMES, ABIEL. The Life of Ezra Stiles. Boston, Thomas &
Andrews. May, 1798. First edition. $125
Thick 8vo; pp. 403; wanting frontispiece portrait; contemporary
full roan little worn; small piece lacking from head of spine; lightly
age-browned throughout; 3 signatures at rear heavily foxed; ex-library,
with two bookplates (Suffolk Circulating Library and Vermont State
Library) and 2 light blind-embosses (Vermont State Library); no
stamps or perforations.
Not in Howes; Evans 33889; Sabin 32582. A contemporary biography
of Stiles (1727-95), well-respected Congregational clergyman and
president of Yale College, written shortly after his death from
the manuscript given to Holmes by Stiles.
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All the Necessities of Life!
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63. [HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY]. Anno Regni Georgii III. An Act
to Allow the Exportation of a Limited Quantity of Wheat-meal or
Flour, Oats, Oatmeal, Grotts, Barley, Pease, Beans, Malt, and Biscuit,
to Hudson's Bay, in North America, for the Benefit of the Hudson's
Bay Company, and their Servants residing there. London, Charles
Eyre and William Strahan, 1774. $200
Folio; caption-title, pp. 655-658; removed.
This was an interesting time for the "Company of Adventurers";
the French were no longer rivals for the fur trade, having been
forced to give up their continental North American territories in
1763, at the end of the Seven Years' War; the North West Company
had not yet come into being as rivals, and the American Revolution
was not yet a distraction.
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64.
HUGUET-LATOUR, L.A. Annuaire de Ville-Marie. Origine, Utilite
et Progres des Institutions Catholiques de Montreal. Premiere Annee,
1863. Montreal, Eusebe Senecal, 1864. $250
8vo; pp. xiv, (2), 192. Later half-calf and marbled boards. A very
good copy.
Not in TPL; Gagnon I: 130; Dionne: 120. This is the first of a series
that was published under this title until 1877, and under slightly
different titles until 1882.
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65.
[HUMPHRYS-ALEXANDER, ALEXANDER, Earl of Stirling]. Narrative
of the Oppressive Law Proceedings. Narrative of the Oppressive Law
Proceedings, and other measures, resorted to By The British Government,
and numerous private individuals, to overpower the Earl of Stirling,
and subvert his lawful rights. Written by himself. Also a Genealogical
Account of the Family of Alexander, Earls of Stirling, &c. compiled
from mss. in the possession of the family; followed by an historical
view of their hereditary possessions in Nova Scotia, Canada, &c.
by Ephraim Lockhart, Esq. with a copious appendix of Royal Charters
and other documents. Edinburgh, [James Walker, printer], 1836. First
edition. $650
4to; pp. vi, (2), 176; pp. 8; pp. vi, 77, (1); tipped-in errata
slip; large folding family tree; 2 facsimile letters. Original paper-covered
boards; neatly rebacked, with original paper label laid down. A
fine, large, uncut and partially unopened copy.
TPL 1974; Sabin 33826; Lande 461. William Alexander (1567?-1640),
a British poet born in Scotland, was tutor to Prince Henry of Scotland
and was invited to England on the invitation of James I of England,
upon the latter's accession to the English throne. In 1621 he was
granted tracts of land in Nova Scotia ("New Scotland")
and his holdings in America were increased substantially through
a grant by Charles I of land encompassing a major part of what is
now the northeastern portion of the United States. He became Viscount
Stirling in 1630 and Earl of Stirling in 1633. The titles lapsed
in 1739 when the last earl died without issue, and the tracts of
land had been ceded to France. William Alexander, Revolutionary
War hero, and self-styled Earl of Stirling, asserted his claim to
the title of "Sixth Earl of Stirling"; although the claim
was never upheld by the House of Lords, he was in fact referred
to as Lord Stirling throughout his life. The subject of the present
work, grandson of the latter William Alexander through his mother,
again lays claim to the earldom, and here presents many charters
and affidavits relating to his family's putative Nova Scotia claims.
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