THE SELKIRK SETTLEMENT ON THE RED RIVER. 1396. NARRATIVES of John Pritchard, Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun, and Frederick Damien Heurter, respecting the Aggressions of the North-West Company against the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon the Red River. 8vo, half roan, uncut. Lond. 1819

VERY RARE. These narratives were drawn up by eye-witnesses of the occurrences at the Red River Settlement in 1815, etc., including the attack on Fort Douglas, the massacre of Governor Semple and his party.

1397. NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES in the Indian Countries of North America, since the Connexion of the Right Hon. the Earl of Selkirk with the Hudson's Bay Company, and his Attempt to establish a Colony on the Red River, with a detailed Account of his Lordship's Military Expedition to, and subsequent proceedings at Fort William, in Upper Canada. 8vo, scored russia, gilt back (name on title). Fine copy. Lond. 1817 Written, evidently, by one of the North West Company, giving their version of the troubles in opposition to that of the Earl of Selkirk. Ascribed to S. McGillivray.

1398.

Translation of the same, in French. 8vo, original paper wrappers, uncut. Montreal, 1818

1399. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS connected with the Disputes between the Earl of Selkirk and the North-West Company at the Assizes held at York in Upper Canada, October, 1818, from Minutes taken in Court. half calf.

8vo, Montreal, 1819

Comprises the trials of the partners and servants of the North West Company, in connection with the Massacre of 1815-16, charged with "high treason, murder, robbery and conspiracy." York is the old name of Toronto.

1400. SELKIRK (THOS. DOUGLAS, EARL OF). A Letter to the Earl of Liverpool from the Earl of Selkirk; accompanied by a Correspondence with the Colonial Department, 1817-18-19, on the Subject of the Red River Settlements in North America. Svo, half morocco, pp. 224.

[Lond.: Privately printed, 1820] Lord Chief Justice Denman's copy, with presentation inscription from Lord Selkirk.

1401. Esquisse du Commerce de Pelleteries des Anglois, dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, avec des Observations relatives à La Compagnie du Nord-Ouest de Montreal. Par le Comte de Selkirk. Svo, half roan. Montreal, 1819

1402. SIMPSON (W. S.) Report at Large of the Trial of Charles de Reinhard for Murder (committed in the Indian Territories, Sept., 1816), held at Quebec, May, 1818; with a Summary of the Trial of Archibald McLellan, indicted as an Accessary. 8vo, half roan. Montreal, 1819

THE SELKIRK SETTLEMENT ON THE RED RIVER. 1403. WEST (JOHN, of the Hudson's Bay Company). Journals of the Residence in the Red River Colony, and frequent Excursions among the Northwest American Indians, 1820-23. 3 plates. 8vo, half morocco (2 leaves very slightly damaged).

Lond. 1824

1404. SELWYN (A. R. C.) AND DAWSON (G. M.) Descriptive Sketch of the Physical Geography and Geology of Canada. Large colored maps in pocket. Royal 8vo, half calf neat. Montreal, 1884 1405. Works. The Imperial edn. Edited by Charles Knight. Numerous engravings on steel after Cope, Leslie, Frith, Maclise and others. 2 vols. folio, half morocco, gilt back and edges. Lond. Virtue, n. d.

SHAKSPEARE.

1406. SILLIMAN (BENJAMIN). Remarks made on a Short Tour between Hartford and Quebec. 9 full-page views of Quebec, etc. Crown 8vo, half calf (joints broken, and a little soiled). New Haven, 1824

1407. SIMPSON (SIR GEORGE). Narrative of a Journey Round the World, 1841-42. By Sir George Simpson, Governor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in North America. Map and portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth (damaged), uncut. Lond. 1847

1408. SINDING (P. G.) History of Scandinavia, from the Early Times of the Vikings and Northmen to the Present Day. Portrait and map. Post 8vo, cloth. Phil. 1862

1409. SLAVERY. Original MS. Brief before the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, Hilary Term, 1800. The case of Nancy, a Black Woman claimed as a Slave. Brief by Ward Chipman. 86 pp., folio.

1411.

1410. SMITH (GOLDWIN). Canada and the Canadian Question. (French Canada before and after the Conquest, History of Upper Canada, etc.) Map Post 8vo, cloth. Toronto, 1891 The United States: an Outline of Political Map. Post Svo, cloth. N. Y. 1893 The United Kingdom: a Political History. 2 vols. post 8vo, cloth. Toronto, 1899 1413. SMITH (G. BARNETT). Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria. Portraits (2). Post 8vo, cloth.

History, 1492-1871 1412.

Portraits (2).

Lond. 1888

1414. SMITH (CAPT. JOHN). Works, 1608-1631. (True Relation, Map of Virginia, New England's Trials, Generall Historie of Virginia, True Travels, etc.) Edited, with Introduction, Bibliography, etc., by Edward Arber. Facsimiles of the original maps. Thick small 4to, half morocco. Birmingham (Eng.), 1884

1415. SMITH (WILLIAM). Discourses on Public Occasions in America. The Second edn. 8vo, calf. Lond. 1762 Second and best edition, containing four pieces not in the previous one. These discourses, and appendix, are on the Ravages of the French and Indians; Thanksgiving discourse on the Reduction of Louisbourg; on the Conversion of the HeathenAmericans; on Braddock's Defeat; on the Opening of the Campaign of 1758; A General Idea of the College of Mirania (New York), etc.

1416. SMITH (WILLIAM). The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery, to which is annexed a Description of the Country, an Account of the Inhabitants, etc. 8vo, original calf. Lond. J. Almon, 1776

66

1417. SMITH (WILLIAM). History of Canada; from its First Discovery to the Peace of 1763 (the second volume reads to the year 1791"). 2 vols. in 1. Royal 8vo, half calf. Quebec: Printed for the author by J. Neilson, 1815 First edition. Very rare. With the slip of "population of Canada in 1784," which is very seldom met with, and the separately printed leaf of errata in vol. 1.

Of this extremely rare history of Canada only 300 copies were printed, and for some reason it was not issued until 1826. Chief Justice Smith expresses some opinions in it, which he may probably have thought would give offence, and therefore delayed its issue to the public until he was on the point of leaving Canada for England. In fact, it is stated that it was Mrs. Smith who left orders for its publication, and not he. The first volume, it appears from a letter the author wrote, was ready in the beginning of 1812, and it is evident from the Finis" at the end of that volume that no more was contemplated. It is also curious that the second volume ends "end of the second volume," as though another was written or about to be written; but if it was ever published, no copy is known. The present copy is a fine, clean, perfect copy, with large margins.

1418. SMITH (W. H.) Canada, Past, Present and Future: an historical, geographical, geological and statistical account of Canada West. Fronts. and XI. maps. 2 vols. royal 8vo, cloth. Toronto: Maclear [1851]

1419. SMITH (W. M.) Canadian Gazetteer of all parts of the Upper Province; or Canada West. Large map and plates. Svo, cloth (embossed stamp on title). Toronto, 1846 The earliest Gazetteer of Upper Canada.

1420. SMITH (T. W.) History of the Methodist Church of Eastern British America. 2 vols. post 8vo, cloth.

Halifax, 1877-90

1421. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Annual Report of the Board of Regents, 1888-93, and 1895; Reports of the National Museum for 1887, 1889-93 (3 copies of 1890); Smith's Catalogue of Noctuidæ, 1893. Many of the vols. illustrated. 18 vols. thick 8vo, cloth. Wash., v. d.

1422. [SMYTH (D. W.)] A Short Topographical_Description of Upper Canada; with a Gazetteer of that Province. 8vo, calf. Colored map of Upper Canada (published to accompany the same), size 23 x 34 in., mounted on linen and folded in 4to case. As 2 vols. (name on title).

Lond. Faden, 1799-1800

Both the valuable collection of notes and the map were made by Surveyor-General Smyth at the desire of General Simcoe. 1423. SMYTH (SIR J. CARMICHAEL). Copy of a Report to the Duke of Wellington relative to His Majesty's Provinces by a Commission, of which Sir J. M. Smyth was president, and Lt. Col. Sir G. Hoste and Capt. Harris were members. Folio, limp roan. [Lond. 1825]

Lithographed facsimile of the original engrossed report. Only 25 were issued, and it was published in no other form. The commission was sent to report on the defence of Canada in view of a possible American invasion.

1424. SOUTHESK (EARL OF). Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains; Narrative of Travel and Sport through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories, 1859-60. Maps and illusts. 8vo, cloth. Edinburgh, 1875

1425. SPANISH DICTIONARY. Velasquez' SpanishEnglish and English-Spanish Dictionary, with Pronunciation. Thick royal 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1865

1426. SPENCER (HERBERT). Works: Comprising, First Principles; Principles of Ethics, 2 vols.; Principles of Psychology, 2 vols.; Principles of Sociology, 2 vols.; Principles of Biology, 2 vols.; Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative, 3 vols.; Social Statics; Recent Discussions in Science, Philosophy and Morals; Illustrations of Universal Progress; The Factors of Organic Evolution. Together 16 vols. post 8vo. N. Y. 1887-93 1427. SPONGES. Paleozoic Reticulate Sponges. By Jas. Hall and J. M. Clarke Thick 4to, cloth. Numerous fine plates. (Univ. of the State of New York.)

N. Y. and Albany, 1898

Statistical and

1428. STANLEY (HENRY M.) The Congo, and the Founding of its Free State: a Story of Work and Exploration. Map and illusts. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1885 1429. STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK. Historical Annual of the States of the Civilized World. Edited by J. S. Keltie, etc. For the years 1887 (24th annual issue), 1890, 1893, 1895-96, 1898-1902. 12 vols. crown 8vo, cloth. Lond., v. d. CANADA.

For the years

1430. STATISTICAL YEAR BOOK OF Pub. by the Department of Agriculture. 1889 (5th year of issue), 1890, 1892-1900. (2 copies of 1893.) 12 vols. 8vo, crimson cloth. Ottawa, 1890-1901

1431. STEPHENS (T.) Madoc; an Essay on the Discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the XIIth century. Edited by L. Reynolds. 8vo, cloth.

Lond. 1893

1432. STEVENS (C. E.) Sources of the Constitution of the United States, considered in relation to Colonial English History. Post 8vo, cloth. N. Y. 1894

1433. STEVENS (HENRY). Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana, or a Descriptive Account of my Collection of Rare Books relating to America (2,934 items). 2 vols. crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. Whittingham, 1862 1434. Catalogue of the American Books in the British Museum. Thick royal 8vo, cloth.

Lond. 1866

1435. Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discoveries of America, 1453-1530, with Comments on the earliest Charts and Maps, the Mistakes of the early Navigators and the Blunders of the Geographers, etc., etc. Front. and 16 photo-lithographic facsimiles of the earliestknown maps of America, arranged on five sheets, in pocket. Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut. New Haven, 1869

Only 75 copies printed.

1436. STEVENS (T.) Around the World on a Bicycle. Numerous illusts. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth.

N. Y. 1887-88

1437. STIRLING (SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF). The Monarchicke Tragedies, Croesus, Darius, The Alexandræan, Julius Cæsar. Newly enlarged. Small 4to, finely bound by W. Pratt in full crushed levant morocco gilt, gilt edges (a slight repair to title and a trifling hole in two leaves of the Alexandræan tragedy neatly repaired, but on the whole a good copy).

Lond. V. Simmes for Ed. Blount, 1607 Very rare. Containing the blank leaf in Darius, and the blank leaf preceding the title of The Alexandræan Tragedy. Very few copies are met with having these two leaves.

This issue contains the First edition of Julius Cæsar and the First London edition of Darius, this latter being the original issue of that edition, printed with separate signatures and title, and previously included in the edition of 1604. The Croesus and the Alexandræan are both second editions.

Apart from the interest of its being the work of the first proprietor of Nova Scotia, a greater interest is in its place in early English poetry. Some have even supposed that Shakespeare had one or two passages in mind, and borrowed and used the same idea in some of his later plays. The principal of these passages is that which bears a faint resemblance to Shakespeare's "cloud-capp'd towers" in The Tempest (IV., i.), and found in one of the choruses in Julius Cæsar. The resemblances are, however, of so slight a nature as to be most probably mere coincidences, but his position in the first ranks of English versifiers is undisputed. It is very probable that