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[Montreal or Toronto]: 1858-1880; 1882, 1884. Into the Canadian Wilds in the 1870s. A remarkable record of a.... Read More about Dwight & Wiman Sporting Club. [Records]. Sketches of Hunting Trips
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Ottawa, Canada: by the author, 1855. Second edition (with text re-set and signed with letters). Winslow Homer’s Earliest Book Illustrations. Superb plates, and the first, largest and most impressive viewbook by this Canadian artist and designer (1823-1894), who subsequently published topographical works on Niagara and eastern Canada (see Lande 1862-866)..... Read More about Hunter's Ottawa Scenery, in the Vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada
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![A Diary kept while with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896 [caption title]. Benjamin Hoppin](/pictures/thumb/321014.jpg?v=1614633651)
[New Haven, Ct.]: [1897]. Privately-published first edition, first issue. With manuscript corrections and excisions by the author throughout. Privately-printed and distributed by the author, this first issue of 80-pages is heavily revised in manuscript Hoppin's hand. The first edition was notably error-filled, prompting a second issue of 83-pages as well..... Read More about A Diary kept while with the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896 [caption title
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. Read More about Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies
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[Quebec: 1857]. Manuscript copy of a report on the state of education in the province, originally composed in 1789 by the Bishop of Quebec, presented here in a mid-19th-century copy. "In this lengthy report the Committee considers the question of education from the most elementary level to the universities and..... Read More about Extrait d'un Journal d'un Comité Du Conseil Chargé de Rapport sur l'objet d'education de la...
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Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Number 51x of 50 copies. Inscribed "To Robert W. Highbie/ from the printer/ Frank E. Hopkins/ 1924." Printed at the Marion Press. One of 50 Copies. Streeter: Hunter’s narration of his journey “to the Yukon in quest of Frances Lake” is taken from his..... Read More about Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923
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Philadelphia: Printed by William Dunlap [but G. W. Mentz/ E. C. Clay], 1758 [but 1828]. Reprint of the very rare 1758 editions, extracted from Ashbel Green's "Memoirs of the Rev. Joseph Eastburn" Journey through Canada. Captured in 1756 near Oswego by the French and Indians, Eastburn was taken to Canada..... Read More about A Faithful Narrative of the Many Dangers and Sufferings as well as the Wonderful Deliverances of...
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Parkman Club Publications, Dec. 10, 1895. First Edition and the first publication of the Parkman Club. Inscribed to Eliza Parkman from the Parkman Club. Inscribed “To Miss Eliza Parkman with the kindliest greetings of The Parkman Club of Milwaukee.” The Parkman Club was organized December 10th 1895 for..... Read More about Nicholas Perrot. A Study in Wisconsin History
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[Pittsburgh, Pa.]: Iron City Fishing Club, 1981. RARE. Club is in Georgian Bay, Ontatrio orhganized by Pitttsburgh, Pa. gentry. Read More about Iron City Fishing Club. 100th Anniversary
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1981. Karsh Praises Fellow Photographer Eisenstaedt. Yousuf Karsh (1908-) famous portrait photographer writes to photojournalist Eisenstaedt. Both men did memorable photographs of Winston Churchill, Karsh's being the more famous ("Karsh", Churchill said, "you have immortalized me.") Karsh, who had begun his career in Ottawa in 1932--shortly before Eisenstaedt joined the..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed. "For Alfred Eisenstaedt, My distinguished Colleague and friend with...
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[Privately printed, n.d., ca. 1910]. With application for membership laid in. Read More about Kedgemakooge Rod and Gun Club of Nova Scotia, Ltd
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London: Blackwood, 1885. First edition. Read More about Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies
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St. John's Nfld: J.C. Withers, Queen's Printer, 1881. Second Edition, Enlarged. RARE See p. 74 for the author's feelings about mills dumping their detritus into salmon rivers, which is still happening 125 years later. Read More about Sporting Notes in Newfoundland
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London: R. Phillips, 1800. Second and most extensive English-language edition. The second — and most extensive — English-language edition of this important narrative of travel in the United States and Canada in the last decade of the eighteenth century, after the French first edition and the abridged English translation of..... Read More about Travels Through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois and Upper Canada,...
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Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, 1965. First edition. No. 562 of 950 signed copies. Read More about The Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana in the Redpath Library of McGill. Collected, Arranged...
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C.1880. RESTIGOUCHE. Charles Lanman (1819-1895) trained under Asher B. Durand and at 28 became an elected associate of the National Academy of Design in 1846. Lanman made sketching trips to every state east of the Rockies, many of which were published in American magazines. Washington Irving called him "the picturesque explorer..... Read More about Pencil drawing of "View of the Restigouche River."
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London: Richard Bentley, 1854. Later edition, first published by Bentley in 1848. Fishing in New York State, Canada and Maine. Read More about Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and in the United States
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. First edition. Read More about Recollections of Curious Characters and Pleasant Places
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[New York: 1937]. First edition, no. 26 of 150 copies. Inscribed to Mary Akeley. Inscribed on the title page, "To an adventurous and courageous lady, Mary Akeley, with appreciation of the accomplishments and friendly Greetings Herbert S. Connell 1934." This is the same Mary Akeley of African fame. Read More about Moose Hunting in the Laurentians
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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1892. New Edition. Read More about B.C. 1887 A Ramble in British Columbia
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Québec: Atelier Typographique de J.T. Brousseau, 7, rue Buade (First Part); Imprimé par E.R. Fréchette 21, rue la Montagne (Second Part), 1861. Seconde Edition. "There are 2 practically identical editions of this early and important, systematic work on the birds of Canada. The first edition was published in April, 1860..... Read More about Ornithologie du Canada. D'après la Nomenclature de Baird
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London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. The author served in Canada in the suppression of the Rebellions of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service and the rebellions, impressions of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, "A Race Through the United States" south to New Orleans, a meeting..... Read More about Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life
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Boston: Dana Estes & Company, [1912]. First edition. Read More about Camp Fire Reminiscences. Tales of Hunting and Fishing in Canada and the West
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Syracuse, N.Y: J.G.K. Truair and Printers, Office of the Daily Journal, 1859. First edition. Read More about The Rev. J.W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life
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![History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B.]....](/pictures/thumb/249440.jpg?v=1581916344)
[np]: Privately Printed, [1933]. First edition, one of 100 copies. Signed by the author “F.W. Lowery” on the title page. Account of a salmon fishing trip on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island, by Douglas, McCloy, Ward, Belknap, the president of Consolidated Paper, and the author (who remains anonymous throughout his..... Read More about History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 90 of 950 copies of the first state. A splendid collection of captioned sailing and nautical photographs of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, by the Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Halifax. A beautiful copy in the pictorial box (now uncommon) and glassine..... Read More about Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures
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