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

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