Ottawa 1906. Disbound 262p; 3p 1; 4p. Very good plus. 8vo. Disbound from original Sessional Paper No.18. Leaves remain secure. Remarkably bright tight and clean. The scarce English printing of this exceedingly uncommon title. An important work for Canadian genealogy. Hardcover
Ottawa: Printed by MacLean Roger & Co. 1883-195 1st edition. hardcover 94p; 247p; lxviii 130p. Very good. Tall 8vo. Black quarer-leather green cloth boards lettering in gilt to spine. Bound by Carswell Co. Of Toronto. Ex-libris with usual suspects. P.94 of 1882 dampstained faintly through to p.84. Else internally bright and clean. An exceedingly important collection of reports which detail the beginning of Library and Archives Canada under Douglas Brymner. Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co. Hardcover
1912. Janu. Janu. Digest of Canadian Cases 1912 Canada. Lear Walter E. and Eduard Fabre Surveyer Editors. Digest Canadian Case Law January 1911 September 1912 Omitting Cases Included in Digest Canadian Case Law 1900-1911. Toronto: The Carswell Co. Ltd. 1912. xxii 970 pp. Original cloth black-stamped titles to front board and spine. Some shelfwear and soiling internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small stamp to title page. A solid copy. $50. With glossary of words and phrases. The Digest Canadian Case Law has an interesting publication history. Its first series also known as the C.L.T. Edition was published annually from 1881 to 1899. This was followed by a 1901-05 digest edited by Lear and Surveyer who digested French-language reports. Also edited by Lear a group of annuals were published in 1909 1910 1911-1912 and 1912-13. A uniform edition with additional reports covering 1900-21 followed in 1922. OCLC locates 18 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:12. unknown books
1871. Winnipeg: Coldwell and Cunningham 1871 1873-1887. Winnipeg: Coldwell and Cunningham 1871 1873-1887. Manitoba Statutes 1871-1887 Canada. Manitoba. Statutes of Manitoba 1871-1887. Winnipeg: Printed by Coldwell and Cunningham Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 1871 1873-1887. 12 books in all. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Later quarter cloth or calf moderate to heavy shelfwear backstrips lacking from two volumes several boards loose internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spine small stamps to title pages. $500. One of the ten provinces of Canada Manitoba was established in 1870. It was the first province created from the Northwest Territories. These volumes document the early legal and social history of the province an interesting period that marked its final transition from a collection of territorial settlements to a mature political entity. No sets of these early statutes on OCLC. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:75. unknown books
1854. Fredericton: 3 Vols. Complete set. 1845-1855. Fredericton: 3 Vols. Complete set. 1845-1855. First Compilation of New Brunswick Statutes Canada. New Brunswick. The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick. Printed Under the Authority of an Act of the Legislature. Fredericton: J. Simpson Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 1854-1855. Three volumes. Complete set. Octavo 9" x 6". Recent cloth gilt titles to spines endpapers renewed. Clean tears to first page of Volume I Preface annotations in early hand to margins of Volume I in some places interiors otherwise clean. Ex-library. Small stamps to title pages. $450. Only edition. Volume II: The Public Statutes of New Brunswick Passed in the Year 1854 Together with Those Unrepealed by the Revised Statutes; Volume III: The Local and Private Statutes of New Brunswick. Settled by the French New Brunswick was taken by the British in 1759 and incorporated into the colony of Nova Scotia. Its population expanded significantly through an influx of Loyalists after the American Revolution. Its enlarged population and distance from Halifax the capital of Nova Scotia led the colonial administrators to establish New Brunswick as a separate colony in 1784. The first collection of New Brunswick acts covering the years 1786-1805 was published in 1805. The Revised Statutes was the first compilation. In 1867 New Brunswick was one of the six colonies that became the Canadian Confederation. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 3:77. unknown books