Librairie O Vieux Bouquins Livres rares et anciens - Rare books

Catalogue  220
Premières Nations & Arctique / N.A. Indians & Arctic

|163.  ACHARD, Eugène. «Au temps des Indiens Rouges. Récits et légendes». Montréal, Librairie Générale Canadienne, 1948. 126 p. (21 cm). Couvertures rigides illustrées. Illustrations.     20 $

164.  BENMOUYAL, Joseph. «Étude archéologique de sites Eskimo aux Iles Belcher, T.N.O.». Ottawa, Musées Nationaux, 1978. XIII,257 p. (27 cm). Commission Archéologique du Canada, Dossier No 76; volume commémoratif de Diamond Jenness.    20 $

165.  BRESSANI, F.G. & MARTIN, Félix. «Relation abrégée de quelques Missions des Pères de la Compagnie de Jésus dans la Nouvelle-France». Montréal, des Presses à Vapeur de John Lovell, 1852. 336 p. (23 cm). Jolie reliure moderne. Avec cartes et illustrations ainsi que le feuilllet d’errata. Traduction du Père Félix Martin qui ajoute un avant-propos, une biographie de l’auteur et un grand nombre de notes et de gravures; le texte original est de 1653.     250 $

166.  BUTLER, Captain William Francis. «The Wild North Land: being the story of a winter journey, with dogs, across Northern North America». London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. X,(l),358 p. (22,5 cm). Second edition. Original green cloth with gilt text on spine & gilt decoration on the front board and spine; folding map, illustrations and a portrait. Account of a journey to Lake Athabasca, and to the Pacific via the Peace River in 1872-73. Light wear, a very good copy. Scarce title and edition.  Peel 356.    275 $

167.  CAMPBELL, Marjorie Wilkins. «Mc Gillivray, Lord of the Northwest». Toronto & Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Co., 1962. XIII,337 p. (24 cm). Original cloth and pictorial dust jacket. Portrait and map endpapers. Biography of William Mc Gillivray who lived in Montreal and was for over twenty years the chief director of the North West Company of Montreal.    45 $

168.  DE MISHAEGEN, Anne. «Mush! Un hiver en pays Cree». Montréal, Librairie Beauchemin, 1933. 243 p. (20 cm). Illustrations & carte. Territoire du Manitoba.    35 $

169.  FALLON, Joseph. «Heroes of Huronia, 1649-1949, Rev. Paul Raguenau’s narrative of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, Saints John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalement, Charles Garnier and Noel Chabanel, slain by Iroquois in 1649». Fort Ste Marie, The Martyrs’ Shrine, 1948. 34 p. (22 cm). Profusely illustrated.    25 $

170.  FREUCHEN, Dagmar (editor). «Peter Freuchen’s Adventures in the Arctic». New York, Julian Messner Inc., 1960. 383 p. (22 cm). Publisher’s cloth and pictorial dust jacket. Best of Peter Freuchen’s Arctic adventures.     15 $

171.  GARDNER, Gérard. «Considérations sur la valeur économique du Grand-Nord Canadien». Montréal, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, 1952. 115 p. (24 cm). Étude No 5.    20 $

172.  GROS-LOUIS, Max. «Le premier des Hurons». Montréal, Éditions du Jour, 1971. 241 p. (19,5 cm). Illustrations. Autobiographie du Grand Chef de la Nation. Bel exemplaire.    20 $

173.  HARRIS, William Richard. «The Cross-Bearers Of The Saguenay». London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920. 202,(1) p. (18 cm). Publisher’s cloth and pictorial dust jacket. Map and illustrations. Being a record of the lives of the early Franciscan missionaries, an account of the Algonquin nation and their religious and domestic customs; also the lives and adventures of the early missionaries to the Montagnais & a description of the scenery of the Saguenay River. Very nice copy.    65 $

174.  INNIS, Harold Adams. «The Fur Trade in Canada. – An introduction to Canadian Economic History». Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1956. XI,463 p. (23 cm). Revised edition. Publisher’s cloth & dust jacket. Very good copy & an extremely important work by the most remarkable economic historian for Canada. Scarce!    150 $

175.  KANE, Paul. «Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territory and Back Again». Edmonton, Hurtig Publishers, 1974. LXIV,329 p. (21 cm). Illustrations; first softcover edition.    30 $

176.  LOW, A.P. «Rapport de l'expédition du Gouvernement du Canada à la Baie d'Hudson et aux Iles Arctiques à bord du Navire du Gouvernement du Canada "Le Neptune", 1903-1904». Ottawa, Imprimerie Nationale, 1912. XV,345 p. (23,5 cm). Reliure de toile originale, ornée d'une gravure. Ills. Carte dépliante en couleurs.    85 $

177.  LYDEKKER, John Wolfe. «The Faithful Mohawks». Cambridge, at the University Press, 1938. XII,(1),206 p. (22 cm). Original cloth and dust jacket. Illustrations and folding map. Foreword by Lord Tweedsmuir. The alliance of the Mohawks with the British and their fights against the French. Nice copy.    85 $

178.  MALAURIE, jean (dir.). «Le peuple Esquimau aujourd’hui et demain / The eskimo people to-day and to-morrow. Quatrième Congrès International de la Fondation Française d’Études Nordiques. Rapports scientifiques publiés sous la direction de Jean Malaurie». Paris, Mouton, 1973. XIV,696 p. (25 cm). Reliure en plein bougran, couvertures imprimées conservées. Cartes. Cachet. Collection "Bibliothèque Arctique et Antarctique" No 4.     85 $

179.  OLIVER, E.H. (editor). «The Canadian North-West. Its early development and Legislative Records. Minutes of the Councils of the Red River Colony and the Northern Department of Rupert’s Land» (2 volumes). Ottawa, Archives Publications No. 9, 1914-1915. 688; 689-1348 p. (24 cm). Original wrappers; without the maps as it happens so often. A very complete picture of Pioneer Legislation & a survey of the Constitutional Development in the Prairie Provinces.    150 $

180.  SASSEVILLE, Jérôme & SHEA, Dr John Gilmary. «Notes on the two Jesuits Manuscripts belonging to the estate of the late Hon. John Neilson of Quebec, Canada. By l’abbe Sasseville, F.R.S.C. and Dr. John Gilmary Shea. – Edited by Geo. M. Fairchild, Jr., Vice President Canadian Club, and Member Antiquarian Society of Montreal». New York, Privately Printed, 1887. 15,(1) p. (25 cm). Cloth bd., printed wraps present. Limited to 100 numbered copies; with the autograph of John Neilson. The printer was Léon Bossue dit Lyonnais, Editor and proprietor of the Maple Leaf at New York. First study is: «Detailed description of a very old manuscript, containing Prayers, Instructions, and a Catechism in the Illinois language, written by Père Allouëz, for the use of Père Marquette, both Jesuit Missionaries of the Seventeenth Century, in the Countries of the West». Second study entitled: «Detailed description of a Manuscript containing a Dictionary of the Montagnais Language (in French), composed by Père Anselme Silvy, Jesuit Missionary in Canada, in the Seventeenth Century». Extremely scarce & important piece. Amtmann, S-318; Lande 2177.    350 $

181.  SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS). ABORIGINES COMMITTEE OF THE MEETING FOR SUFFERINGS. «Some account of the conduct of the Religious Society of Friends towards the Indian tribes in the settlement of the colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania with a brief narrative of their labours for the civilization and Christian instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1843. – Published by the Aborigines’ Committee of The Meeting for Sufferings». London, Edward Marsh, 1844. (Publications relative to the Aborigines, No. 9). 2 p.l.,X,[11]-247 p. (22 cm). Modern cloth, very good copy. Front. (col. Map), folding map (North America, including Russian America). With much Canadian interest: Abenakis, Iroquois, Huron, Micmacs, Etchemins…  Field 1466; Sabin 86572.    450 $

182.  STANBURY, W.T. & SIEGEL, Jay H. «Success and Failure: Indians in urban society». Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1975. XXXI,415 p. Publisher’s cloth and dust jacket. Professor Stanbury’s sample of 1095 status Indians living off reserve in the urban centres of British Columbia, compared with at every point with non-status Indians, with Indians on reserves, with Indians in other parts of North America and with the white society among whom they move.     45 $|

Acadie et Provinces de l'Atlantique / Atlantic Provinces
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