Canadiana from Neil Williams, Bookseller

Sidney, BC : Gray's Publishing , 1971 . First Edition . NF/VG . 8VO . Story of a now vanished police force. Illustrated with photos and written by a former Commisssioner of the force. Light edgewear to jacket. Gift inscription.

Toronto : Key Porter , 1985 . 3rd printing . NF/NF . 8VO . INSCRIBED by Chretien, ex Prime Minister of Canada. Lightest of wear to book and unclipped jacket. Rough label removal on rear jacket panel.

New York : Fleming H Revell , 1902 . Fourth Edition . VG . 8VO . Illustrated in black and white with photos and drawings by F Lowenheim. Bound in decorated tan cloth with oval of a sled dog on front board. Light wear, some rubbing to spine and front cover text and illustrations.

London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman , 1832 . First Edition . VG . 4TO . A Gazeteer of Lower Canada, produced in conjunction with Bouchette's larger 2 volume work of the topography of both the Canadas. Bouchette was the Surveyor-General of Lower Canada, the last to hold that post. He was an important figure… Read more about this item

Toronto : Viking , 1994 . First Edition . F/F . 8VO . A Chinese Canadian woman discovers her family.

Belleville, ON : Mika Publishing Company , 1974 . Fascsimile Reprint . Near Fine . 8VO . Originally published in Toronto in 1852. Canadiana Reprint Series NO 67. Two thick volumes with many foldout maps handsomely bound in gilt-decorated faux-morocco. Owner's bookplate in each volume otherwise in fine condition. Heavy, special shipping considerations may apply.

Montreal : Dawson Brothers , 1868 . First Edition . Near Fine . 12MO . An odd little bit of Canadiana variously attributed to Edward Ellice, a prominent merchant and landowner who was instrumental in the amalgamation of the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and one John Harris. The Book-Keeper of the title is the… Read more about this item

Toronto : William Briggs , 1902 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . Interesting snapshot of Canada in 1902 being a diary of a coast to coast trip by an intelligent and interested observer. Black and white photos. Bound in blue decorated cloth. Lightest of wear, a handsome copy.

Vancouver : Mitchell Press , 1960 . First Edition . VG/VG . 8VO . Foreword by Eileen Laurie. A fascinating record of a ridiculously difficult cattle drive from Alberta to the Klondike. Foldout map frontis of routes to the Yukon, outlined in red, foldout copies of original document, original material and marginalia printed in red. Lightest of wear… Read more about this item

Winnipeg : Stovel Company Ltd. , 1931 . First Edition . NF . 8VO . With the famous wood engravings by Philipps. Signed by author and illustrator and published in an edition of 968 copies of which this is #47. An epic poem on the life and times of the early settlers of Western Canada, complete with… Read more about this item

London : George Allen and Unwin & Nelson , 1911 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . Canada from the viewpoint of a British aristocrat in 1911 - quite a comprehensive and knowledgeable survery. Large coloured fold-out map at rear. Bound in red gilt-stamped cloth. Overall light wear, small area of damage on fore-edge of front cover,… Read more about this item

London : Hudson's Bay Company , 1920 . . VG . 4TO . Bound in cream card with gold stamping and yapped edges. Many illustrations plus fold-out map at rear and fold-out of facsimile of original charter. Original presentation card laid in. Edges worn with some tears as usual. Some soiling to covers.

Victoria : Government Printing Bureau , 1880 . First Edition . VG in Wraps . 8VO . In orignal orange paper wraps. Non-circulating ex-library copy with usual markings, several labels taped to covers. In a remarkable state of preservation considering the fragile paper binding.

Ottawa : King's Printer , 1929 . First Edition . Good . 8VO . Two large folding charts, pocket at rear is empty. In stiff card covers with original covers laid on, red cloth spine.

Ottawa : Maclean Roger & Co , 1880 . First Edition . Fair . 8VO . With Sanford Fleming's presentation slip to Judge Gray ( probably John Hamilton Gray, previously a New Brunswick politician and at the time of publication a judge of the British Columbia Supreme Court) on front pastedown. Bound in the original gilt and… Read more about this item

Ottawa : Maclean Roger & Co , 1877 . First Edition . Good . 8VO . Large fol-out frontis map. In stiff card cover with original covers laid on, red cloth spine. A non-circulating ex-library copy with usual interior markings, white accession numbers on spine. Overall light wear.

London : William Harrison Ainsworth , 1827 . Third Edition . Good . 8VO . Third Edition. De Roos's travels in the Americas and observations on the threat of the US Navy (not much apparently). Illustrated with fold-out frontis and 12 very nice plates from drawings by the author. The fold-out is a large panorama of Quebec City.… Read more about this item

Guelph, Ont. : The World Publishing Company , 1882 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . The field for investment, the home of the emigrant, being a full and complete history of the country, its geography, area, situation, and boundaries, its early history and progress, incidents of the settlement from the earliest period up to the present… Read more about this item

Ottawa : A S Woodburn , 1885 . First Edition . VG . 8VO . A later work by Canadian pioneer and author Catherine Parr Traill, illustrated with 8 chromolithographs from painting by her neice Agnes Fitzgibbon, daughter of Suzanna Moodie. Heliotype portrait frontis. Bound in green pebbled cloth, quite elaborately decoreated in gilt, AEG. Scattered foxing, some… Read more about this item

Victoria : Horsdal & Schubart , 1980 . First Edition . New . 8vo . Saga of the building of the Russian American Telegraph - "a finely-honed reconstruction of one of the greatest adventures - and most magnificent failures - in commercial history." A new copy in fine condition.