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Montreal Book Auctions: MONTREAL BOOK AUCTIONS LTD. L'Encan des Livres de Montreal. Catalogue of BOOKS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN INDIANS. MISCELLANEOUS and COLOUR PLATE BOOKS. CANADIANA, including : Catlin's North American Indians, 1876, with colour plates. Jesuit Relations. Thwa, 62,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 27, 1974 - June 27, 1974
Page Size: 210 items in 3 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BONNY CASTLE, Sir Richard H. Canada, as it was, is, and may be London

1852

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 75.00
2 RICHARDSON, John Wacousta Toronto

[1923]

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 8.00
3 SABINE, Lorenzo Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the American revolution Boston

1864

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 40.00
4 SCADDING, Henry Toronto of old Toronto

1873

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 15.00
5 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. Manufacturing and business opportunities in Western Canada along the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway [Winnipeg?]

[1912]

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 22.00
6 COURS abrege de Belles Lettres a l'usage du College de Montreal Montreal

1840

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 30.00
7 COWANS, David Anecdotes of a life on the ocean Montreal

1871

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
8 CUTHBERTSON, George A. Freshwater, a history and a narrative of the Great Lakes Toronto

1931

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 50.00
9 [FRAZER, C. A.] Atma, a romance, by A. C. F. [pseud.] Montreal

[1891]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 30.00
10 HAMILTON, James Cleland The Georgian Bay Toronto

1893

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 16.00
11 HUNTER, Francis James Colonel Gascoigne, VC., a story of travel, adventure & love, by Francis J. Hunter of Montreal [n.p.]

[n.d.]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
12 KENNEDY. In memory of the late Hon. William Costello Kennedy, P. C., M. P. [n.p.]

[1923]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 16.00
13 MONTPETIT, A.N. Les poissons d'eau douce du Canada Montreal

1897

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 20.00
14 READE, John The prophecy of Merlin, and other poems Montreal

1870

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 10.00
15 DE VOLPI, Charles P., and P. S. Winkworth Montreal, a pictorial record [Montreal]

[1963]

CAD 120.00 - 120.00 110.00
16 [GRANT, George Monro] Picturesque Canada [Toronto]

[1882]

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 35.00
17 PALARDY, Jean The early furniture of French Canada Toronto

1963

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 110.00
18 PELOQUIN, Claude eternellement votre [Montreal]

[1972]

CAD 125.00 - 125.00 110.00
19 PELOQUIN, Claude Jericho (poemes) [Longueil]

[1963]

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 24.00
20 PELOQUIN Claude Les mondes assujettis [Montreal]

[1965]

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 50.00
21 PELOQUIN Claude Pour la grandeur de l'homme [Montreal]

[1969]

CAD 120.00 - 120.00 120.00
22 PELOQUIN, Claude Le repas est servi [Montreal]

[1970]

CAD 60.00 - 60.00 35.00
23 ITINERANT SKETCHES Philadelphia

July, 1824

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 30.00
24 COKE, Edward Thomas A subaltern's furlough New York

1833

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 75.00
25 A FAIR REPRESENTATION of His Majesty's right to Nova-Scotia or Acadie London

1756

CAD 200.00 - 200.00 130.00
26 [HUMPHRYS-ALEXANDER, Alexander, calling himself Earl of Stirling] Narrative of the oppressive law proceedings to overpower the Earl of Stirling Edinburgh

1836

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 120.00
27 KAYE, Sir John William The life and correspondence of Charles Lord Metcalfe, late governor-general of India, governor of Jamaica, and governor-general of Canada London

1854

CAD 120.00 - 120.00 120.00
28 SHIRREFF, Patrick A tour through North America Edinburgh

1835

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 75.00
29 [ADAMS, John Turvill] The White Chief among the Red Men New York

1859

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
30 ALEXANDER, Hartley B. The religious spirit of the American Indian Chicago

1910

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 10.00
31 BOWLES, Samuel Our new West, records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean Hartford, Ct.

1869

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 20.00
32 BRINTON, Daniel G. The American race Philadelphia

1901

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 7.00
33 BROWNELL, Charles de Wolf The Indian races of North and South America New York

1857

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 75.00
34 BURTON, Frederick R. Redcloud of the Lakes, a novel New York

[1909]

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 10.00
35 BUTTERWORTH, Hezekiah The wampum belt, or, "The fairest page of history", a tale of William Penn's treaty with the Indians New York

1896

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 8.00
36 CANFIELD, William W. The legends of the Iroquois, told by "The Cornplanter" New York

1902

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 14.00
37 CATLIN, George Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians London

1876

CAD 200.00 - 200.00 220.00
38 CURTIS, Natalie, ed. The Indians' Book, an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative New York and London

1907

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 26.00
39 DONALDSON, Thomas The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U. S. National Museum Washington, D. C.

1887

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 30.00
40 DRAKE, Benjamin Life of Tecumseh Cincinnati

1848

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 20.00
41 DRAKE, Samuel G. The aboriginal races of North America... 15th ed. New York

[c1880]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 24.00
42 EASTMAN, Charles A. The Indian today Garden City

1915

CAD 8.00 - 8.00 7.00
43 EGGLEST ON, Edward, and Lillie Eggleston Seelye Brant and Red Jacket New York

1879

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 32.00
44 EGGLESTON, George Cary Red Eagle and the wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama Chicago

[n.d.]

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 7.00
45 FROST, John, ed. The Book of the Indians of North America Hartford

1849

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 24.00
46 GRINNELL, George Bird Blackfeet Indian stories New York

1913

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 12.00
47 HARRISON, Charles Ancient warriors of the North Pacific London

1925

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 35.00
48 HODGE, Frederick Webb, ed. Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico Washington, D. C.

1907-1910

CAD 80.00 - 80.00 60.00
49 HAINES, Elijah M. The American Indian Chicago

1888

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 24.00
50 HUMPHREYS, Mary Gay, ed. Missionary explorers among the American Indians New York

1913

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 10.00
51 JESUITS. The Jesuit relations and allied documents, travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 Cleveland

1896-1901

CAD 900.00 - 900.00 950.00
52 JUDD, Mary Catherine, comp. Wigwam stories told by American Indians Boston

1901

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 14.00
53 LEUPP, Francis E. In Red Man's Land, a study of the American Indian New York [etc.]

[1914]

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 8.00
54 LUMMIS Charles F. The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories New York

1894

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
55 MACLEAN, John Canadian savage folk, the native tribes of Canada Toronto

1896

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 40.00
56 NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITIES, Cleveland. Incidents attending the capture, detention, and ransom of Charles Johnston of Virginia Cleveland

1905

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 22.00
57 NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITIES, Cleveland. A narrative of the captivity of Nehemiah How in 1745-1747, reprinted from the original edition of 1748 Cleveland

1904

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 45.00
58 NARRATIVES OF CAPTIVITIES, Cleveland. A short biography of John Leeth Cleveland

1904

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 22.00
59 PHILLIPS, W.S. Indian fairy tales Chicago

[1902]

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 14.00
60 SKINNER, Alanson Material culture of the Menomini New York

1921

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 18.00
61 SKINNER, Charles M. Myths & legends beyond our borders Philadelphia & London

1899

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 16.00
62 STONE, William L., elder Life of Joseph Brant-Thayen-danegea New York

1838

CAD 60.00 - 60.00 38.00
63 WEEKS, Alvin G. Massasoit of the Wampanoags [n. p.]

1920

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 9.00
64 WINTHROP, Theodore The canoe and the saddle Tacoma

1913

CAD 40.00 - 40.00 24.00
65 ZITKALA-SA Old Indian legends Boston and London

1902

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 10.00
66 MILLER, Linus W. Notes of an exile to Van Dieman's Land Fredonia, N. Y.

1846

CAD 300.00 - 300.00 120.00
67 [PETYT, George] Lex parliamentaria, ou traite de la loi et coutume des parlements Quebec

1803

CAD 150.00 - 150.00 90.00
68 GREAT BRITAIN. Colonial Office. Hudson's Bay Company [London]

[1842]

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 110.00
69 GREAT BRITAIN. Colonial Office. Hudson's Bay Company [London]

[1850]

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 110.00
70 GREAT BRITAIN. Colonial Office. Hudson's Bay Company

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 65.00
71 PARRY, Sir William Edward Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage London

1821

CAD 200.00 - 200.00 220.00
72 PARRY, Sir William Edward Journal of a second voyage for the-discovery of a North-West passage London

1824

CAD 200.00 - 200.00 240.00
73 BARTLETT, Robert A. The last voyage of the Karluk Boston

[1916]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
74 CHEADLE, Walter Butler Cheadle's journal of trip across Canada, 1862-1863 Ottawa

1931

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 38.00
75 CROMPTON, F. C. B. Glimpses of early Canadians: Lahontan Toronto

[1925]

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 10.00
76 FOUNTAIN, Paul The great North-West and the Great Lake region of North America London, [etc.]

1904

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 9.00
77 MORGAN, Lewis H. The American beaver and his works Philadelphia

1868

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 45.00
78 NEWHOUSE, S., and others The trapper's guide, a manual of instructions New York

1869

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 35.00
79 SMITH, F.Dumont Book of a hundred bears Chicago

1909

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
80 SMITH, John, captain The generall historie of Virginia Glasgow

1907

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 17.00
81 WALLACE, Dillon The long Labrador trail New York

1907

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
82 BROCKETT, L. P. Our western empire, or, The new West beyond the Mississippi Philadelphia & Brantford, Ont.

1881

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 16.00
83 SAVILLE, Marshall H. The goldsmith's art in ancient Mexico New York

1920

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 24.00
84 BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE. Long Lance by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance New York

1928

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 14.00
85 GILMORE, James R. The advance-guard of Western civilization New York

1888

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 10.00
86 KENTON, Edna Simon Kenton, his life and period, 1755-1836 Garden City

1930

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 9.00
87 MACKENZIE, Sir Alexander Voyages from Montreal New York

1903

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 22.00
88 MACKENZIE, Sir Alexander Voyages from Montreal [Toronto]

[1927]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 16.00
89 FARIS, John T. On the trail of the pioneers New York

[1920]

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 8.00
90 SANDERSON, Edgar Heroes of pioneering London

1927

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 10.00
91 STRANG, Herbert, ed. Pioneers in Canada London

[n.d.]

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 6.00
92 SNIDER, C.H.J. In the wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers London

1913

CAD 15.00 - 15.00 12.00
93 BOSWORTH, Newton Hochelaga depicta [Toronto]

[1901]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 24.00
94 BRADLEY, A. G. The United Empire Loyalists, founders of British Canada London

[1932]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 18.00
95 CANADA AND ITS PROVINCES.. . Adam Shortt, Arthur G. Doughty, general editors Toronto

1913-1917

CAD 200.00 - 200.00 160.00
96 CANADA AND ITS PROVINCES. One hundred and twenty Canadian historical pictures [n. p.]

[n.d.]

CAD 100.00 - 100.00 70.00
97 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. Canadian scenes, July-August 1927, Diamond jubilee of Confederation [n.p.]

[1927]

CAD 20.00 - 20.00 30.00
98 DENT, John Charles, and others The Canadian portrait gallery Toronto

1880-1881

CAD 50.00 - 50.00 55.00
99 DENT, John Charles The last forty years: Canada since the the union of 1841 Toronto

[1881]

CAD 30.00 - 30.00 20.00
100 DOUGHTY, Sir Arthur George The cradle of New France Montreal

1908

CAD 10.00 - 10.00 7.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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