An act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing a Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction within certain parts of North America. by Great Britain - 1821

First published by Temple Press in 1931. In the original dust jacket. Blue cloth binding.
LIMITED EDITION. No 346 signed by author. 456 pages. Nice clean tight copy, no inscriptions, some foxing on endpapers. A Scarborough book collectors first choice!
The Rowntrees of Scarborough The background to the originator of the Scarborough history. There have been records of Rowntrees living in North Yorkshire for centuries. One particular Rowntree – Peter (who was a yeoman, in Easby during the reign of James 1) seems to be the common ancestor of many distinguished people. Some of his descendants settled in and around Scarborough. Many of them joined the Society of Friends in the aftermath of the English Civil War. Throughout the 19th century, the North Yorkshire town of Scarborough grew rapidly, firstly as a centre of the fishing industry with a small, though fashionable Spa and then with the coming of the railway in 1845, as the hugely successful 'Queen of Watering Places', catering for a much wider… Read More