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JAMES STRACHAN
A Visit to the Province of Upper Canada in 1819. Aberdeen: D. Chalmers for James Strachan, Aberdeen, Longman, London [and others], 1820. 8º (210 x 123mm). (Lacks half-title, light spots on title). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, marbled edges (rubbed, endpapers spotted). Provenance: Adam Hodgson, Everton 1825 (inscription on front endpaper; pencil annotations in more than one hand) – William Garnett (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this guide for prospective immigrants, including an appendix of land and commodity prices at the end. It was probably written by Bishop John Strachan, brother of James (see TPL Errata: p. viii). Lande 812; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 4854; Sabin 92631.
Letter to the Editor of The Observer, an Upper Canadian Newspaper, in reply to his Remarks on the Rideau Canal. London: 1827. 8º (204 x 118mm). (Final verso soiled along fold mark.) Early 20th-century red half morocco., top edge gilt. Rare. Copac records only one copy at Southampton University. A reply to John Carey’s Rideau Canal : Remarks of the editor of the Observer of the same date. Authorship is attributed to Sir James Carmichael Smyth in a contemporary pencil note on the title-page, which adds the afterthought ‘erroneous in all his calculations’.
With 4 others: J. Howison, Sketches of Upper Canada (Edinburgh, 1821); G.F. Lyon, A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay (London, 1825; spine worn); Joseph Sansom, Travels in Lower Canada (London, 1820); Benjamin Silliman, A Tour to Quebec (London: 1822).
A Visit to the Province of Upper Canada in 1819. Aberdeen: D. Chalmers for James Strachan, Aberdeen, Longman, London [and others], 1820. 8º (210 x 123mm). (Lacks half-title, light spots on title). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, marbled edges (rubbed, endpapers spotted). Provenance: Adam Hodgson, Everton 1825 (inscription on front endpaper; pencil annotations in more than one hand) – William Garnett (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this guide for prospective immigrants, including an appendix of land and commodity prices at the end. It was probably written by Bishop John Strachan, brother of James (see TPL Errata: p. viii). Lande 812; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 4854; Sabin 92631.
Letter to the Editor of The Observer, an Upper Canadian Newspaper, in reply to his Remarks on the Rideau Canal. London: 1827. 8º (204 x 118mm). (Final verso soiled along fold mark.) Early 20th-century red half morocco., top edge gilt. Rare. Copac records only one copy at Southampton University. A reply to John Carey’s Rideau Canal : Remarks of the editor of the Observer of the same date. Authorship is attributed to Sir James Carmichael Smyth in a contemporary pencil note on the title-page, which adds the afterthought ‘erroneous in all his calculations’.
With 4 others: J. Howison, Sketches of Upper Canada (Edinburgh, 1821); G.F. Lyon, A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay (London, 1825; spine worn); Joseph Sansom, Travels in Lower Canada (London, 1820); Benjamin Silliman, A Tour to Quebec (London: 1822).
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