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Catalogue
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America
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101.
[MOREAU, JACOB-NICOLAS]. Memoire contenant le Précis
des Faits avec leurs Pièces justificatives, pour servir de
Réponse aux Observation. [sic] envoyées par les Ministres
d'Angleterre dans les Cours de l'Europe. Paris, de L'Imprimerie
Royale, 1756. $2,675
12mo; f, pp. vii, (1), 70, 73-276; contemporary mottled calf; spine
gilt; marbled endpapers; a very good copy. Pp. 71-72 omitted in
the pagination, but there is no loss, the gathering and catchword
being perfectly correct; the Pièce No. IX is misnumbered
XI.
Howes M791 (incorrect pagination); Sabin 47511; TPL 250; JCB I;
1123; Lande 657; Vlach 549; Dionne II:548; vide Gagnon II:1369 and
Streeter Sale II:1013 (first [4to] edition of the same year). The
French had issued a "Memorial," presenting her side in
the dispute with England; the English had replied with their "Observations
on that Memorial" which they sent to the European nations,
in which they stated their position on the Ohio region, put forth
their claims to the area west of the Alleghanies, and justified
their belligerence. This is the French reply to the Observations,
accusing the English of unwarranted aggression and war-mongering,
and accusing Washington of having assassinated de Jumonville. This
work embodies extracts from Washington's Journal (pp. 105-144) taken
on his surrender of Fort Necessity and, although in translation,
it is the first printing of those extracts, which are not to be
confused with his first Journal which was printed at Williamsburg
two years earlier. There are also documents and letters by Albemarle,
Braddock, Villiers, Sir William Johnson, Stobo and Washington. A
very important document pertaining to the colonial history of America,
and the importance of the results of the Seven Years' War (French
and Indian War).
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Scarce Arctic "Blue Book"
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102. [NARES, Sir GEORGE]. GREAT BRITAIN. ADMIRALTY. Arctic
Expedition, 1875-6. Journals and Proceedings of the Arctic Expedition,
1875-6, under the Command of Captain Sir George S. Nares, R.N.,
K.C.B....London, Harrison & Sons, [1877]. $6,000
Folio; pp. vii, 484; 15 plates (many folding) and 17 maps (mostly
folding, and some with partial contemporary colour); 33 in-text
illustrations; recent period-style quarter calf and marbled paper
over boards; fine expert restoration to folds of two maps; a fine,
clean, complete copy.
Arctic Biblio. 45255; Cooke & Holland, p. 239. One of the scarcer
of the British "blue books". This contains the reports
and journals of the expedition attempting to reach the North Pole
by Smith Sound and Robeson Channel, and the exploration of adjacent
coasts. The "Alert", under Sir George Nares, wintered
at Floeberg Beach, near Cape Sheridan on northeast Ellesmere Island,
and sent out sledge parties westward along the northern coast, eastward
to Greenland, and northward toward the Pole. The "Discovery",
under Captain H. F. Stephenson, wintered at Discovery Harbour in
Lady Franklin Bay, sending out sledge parties eastward to Greenland
and along its northern coast to Sherard Osborn Fiord, southwest
on Ellesmere Island to the head of Archer Fiord, and westward into
The Bellows. After the first winter of what was projected to be
two winters, the expedition was forced to return to England (in
1876), due to the ravages of scurvy.
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103.
NEAL, DANIEL. The History of New-England Containing an Impartial
Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country to
the Year of our Lord, 1700. To which is added The Present State
of New-England, With a New and Accurate Map of the Country. And
an Appendix Containing their Present Charter, their Ecclesiastical
Discipline, and their Municipal-Laws. London, J. Clark, 1720. Two
volumes. First edition. $2,500
8vo; f, pp. vi, x, [2], 330; 2 ff, pp. 331-712; folding engraved
map, coloured in outline; mounted engraved portrait of the author
(not called for) tipped-in as frontispiece to vol. I; title-pages
printed in red and black; later half-morocco, marbled paper over
boards, and marbled endpapers; t.e.g.; binding edges worn; tiny
excision at head of title of vol. I (no affect); small wormhole
to tail of sigs. D-F of vol. I (no affect to text); few old repairs
to folds of map (no loss); light age-toning throughout; a tight
and clean copy of a scarce work.
Howes N26; Sabin 52140; European-Americana 720/178. The author describes
the original state of the colonies and the arrival of the Puritans
from England; the wars with the Indians and the witchcraft mania;
the laws of the colonies, just and unjust, sensible and foolish;
the impact of the Jesuits; those men who contributed to the early
history of the colonies, etc. A classic for its time, written by
a man who had never set foot in the country about which he wrote.
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104. [NEW FRANCE]. [LAWS OF FRENCH CANADA]. An Abstract of
Those Parts of the Custom of the Viscounty and Provostship of Paris
[bound with]:
The Sequel of the Abstract Of those Parts of The Custom of the Viscounty
and Provostship of Paris, which were received and practised in the
Province of Quebec, in the Time of the French Government: containing
The Thirteen latter Titles of the said Abstract ...
[bound with]:
An Abstract of the Criminal Laws That were in Force In the Province
of Quebec in the Time of the French Government ...
[bound with]:
An Abstract of the Several Royal Edicts and Declarations, and Provincial
Regulations and Ordinances, that were in Force in the Province of
Quebec in the Time of the French Government; and of the Commissions
of the several Governours-general and Intendants of the said Province,
during the same Period.
[bound with]:
An Abstract of the Loix de Police; or Public Regulations for the
Establishment of Peace and good Order, that were in force in the
Province of Quebec, in the Time of the French Government ... London,
Eyre & Strahan, 1772-73-73-72-72. $3,850
Folio; f, pp. iv, 33, [1]; 2ff, pp. 154; f, pp. 157-174; f, pp.
14; 2ff, pp. 31; all half-titles and/or titles in English and French.
All bound in a single folio volume of contemporary half-calf and
paper-covered boards; binding very worn; text has some ink-stains
and some soiling; age-browned throughout; table of contents in a
neat contemporary hand on rear endpapers; old repairs to final two
leaves, with one word in the "Déclaration de Roi"
lacking; a tight copy of a scarce compilation of eighteenth-century
laws.
TPL 443, 449, 442, 441; Sabin 66985, 67061, 17852, 66984, 66983;
Gagnon I: 7; Lande 2; Dionne II: 772, 780, 779, 773, 774; Vlach
566, 565, 564. An extremely important collection of laws issued
under the aegis of the British government ten years after France
lost its colonies at the end of the Seven Years' War. Governor Guy
Carleton had requested their compilation prior to his institution
of the Quebec Act of 1774, in order to familiarize British legislators
with both the French civil and criminal law systems; the legal experts
who worked on them included François-Joseph Cugnet, secretary
to Carleton, and Francis Maseres, former Attorney-General (1766-69)
of Quebec. Cugnet and Maseres had a falling-out over the controversial
Quebec Act which followed their legal opus.
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105.
[NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY]. Massachusetts. General Court. North-Eastern
Boundary Committee... Reports and Resolves in Relation to the North-Eastern
Boundary. [Boston, 1838]. $500
8vo; pp. 76; 2 large, folding maps (one based on Mitchell, the other
on Dashiell); recent cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a very good
copy.
TPL 5127; Gagnon II: 229; Sabin 69725; vide Casey 1636 (1 map only).
When the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, the line drawn between
the northeastern states of the new Republic and the bordering territory
of the British colonies was never clearly delineated. Thus followed
a period of sixty years, fraught with uncertainty and danger. By
early 1842, however, there had developed between Great Britain and
the United States a mutual understanding that a compromise line
could be agreed to by both governments; the final settlement of
1843, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, was brought about more by mutual
compromise, fostered by Daniel Webster and Alexander Baring (Lord
Ashburton), than by actual clarification of the meaning of the original
Treaty. This was one of the reports that helped speed along the
final ratification.
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