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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Auction Details
Americana & Canadiana
Canada Book Auctions
Canada Book Auctions is pleased to announce an auction of rare books, maps, prints, photographs, and ephemera. Including an interesting selection of historical material from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Americana including Civil War and the West; early Canadiana, including Arctic, Bibliography, and many Pre-Confederation imprints. Important literature, including Margaret ATWOOD and Leonard COHEN. Featuring Montblanc: Art of Writing, a unique collection of manuscript poems and notes by Canadian literary giants including Margaret Atwood, Robertson DAVIES, Timothy FINDLEY, Michael ONDAATJE, and others. Including Canadian Art Portfolios with work by A.J. CASSON, Harold TOWN, J.W. MORRICE, Jack CHAMBERS, Emily CARR, Ted HARRISON, Glen LOATES, W.J. PHILLIPS, and others. Plus maps, prints, and photographs from a Vancouver collection, including historical portraits and views, atlases, Toronto insurance maps, and Hamilton wall maps.
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![[ALASKA] HUNTING. PRINT, CARVED FRAME. 1910-20s](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530053_1_x.jpg?height=300&quality=70&version=1726178725)


![[ALASKA] HUNTING. PRINT, CARVED FRAME. 1910-20s: Photographic print of hunting party (possibly recreational fishing trip), mounted to stiff sheet in frame of natural material, carved with scene of ship on water amid icebergs/mountains. Circa](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530053_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)

![[ALASKA] CURTIS, ASAHEL, ETC. LOT OF 3 TOGETHER: ALASKA. A lot of 3 silver prints sold together. One print by ASAHEL CURTIS, showing man carving canoe or totem, in 11" x 14" mat. Other two marked "Miles," numbered on the print lower right. Prints:](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530055_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[BLACK AMERICAN] KNAFFL, SILVER PRINT. 1897: Knaffl & Bro. 'HONEY DOES YO LUB YO MAN?' Konxville, Ten., 1897. Large framed silver print. Print (sight): 15.5" x 19"; frame: 22.5" x 26". Generally very good condition, from sight: some spotting](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530056_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[BLACK AMERICAN] LOT OF 9 PIECES SOLD TOGETHER: BLACK AMERICAN. A lot of 9 pieces sold together. Including: Stevens, Florence Carrington. UNCLE RODERICK'S PHILOSOPHY [SIGNED]. Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell, 1911. 8vo, wraps with photo mounted to upper,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530057_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[CARICATURE] GILLRAY. VALLEY OF SHADOW OF DEATH: Gillray, James. (NAPOLEON) THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH: The Rhenish Confederation of Starved Rats Crawling out of the Mud / Dutch Frogs Spitting out their Spite / American Rattlesnake Shaking](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530058_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)


![[PHILADELPHIA] WILLIAM BIRCH. LOT OF 5 PRINTS: PHILADEPHIA; published by WILLIAM BIRCH. A lot of 5 prints sold together. All mounted to paper. Including: Birch, William. THE WATER WORKS, IN CENTRE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA. TAKEN DOWN IN 1827. *](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530061_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![GEORGE WASHINGTON. WATERCOLOUR.: GEORGE WASHINGTON. Watercolour. Signed Fotwell Pine/Pinet [?]. Unfinished design started on verso. Image: 4.25" x 3.5"; sheet: 14" x 11". Generally very good condition, various imperfections; some](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530062_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[PRINTS] BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. LOT OF 2 TOGETHER: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. A lot of 2 prints sold together. Including: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. French. Print: 8.25" x 5.75"; sheet: 12.5" x 9.5". * Goldar. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. J. Fielding, September 23, 1785.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530063_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)

![[CIVIL WAR] ALBUMEN + TRANSCRIPTION OF LETTER: CIVIL WAR: "A SKETCH OF A RAID," 5th NEW YORK CAVALRY. Albumen portrait of NY Cavalry soldier Henry Gilleo, mounted to card, mounted to larger letterpress sheet with transcription of sitter's letter](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530065_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[CIVIL WAR] ELMER ELLSWORTH, REBELLION MARTYR: Sartain, William. COLONEL ELMER E. ELLSWORTH. ONE OF THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE GREAT REBELLION. 2 copies, one trimmed. Prints: 11" x 9.25"; sheets: 19" x 15", 15.5" x 12". Generally very good](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530066_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[CIVIL WAR ETC] LOT OF 20 PIECES OF EPHEMERA: CIVIL WAR. A lot of approximately 20 pieces sold together. Including silver print photo of Devil's Den in Gettysburg; 4 pieces of manuscript and related of Albert N. Buck of St. Albans, Vermont; 14](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530067_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[CIVIL WAR] LOT OF 3 VOLUMES SOLD TOGETHER: CIVIL WAR. A lot of 3 volumes sold together. Including: Warner, Ezra J. GENERALS IN BLUE. Baton Rouge / London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. 8vo, cloth boards, dust jacket. * Vaughn,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530068_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)




![[AMERICA] PHILADELPHIA. LOT OF 4 VOLUMES TOGETHER: AMERICA; PHILADELPHIA: A lot of 4 volumes sold together. All quarto, paper or cloth boards, dust jackets, worn. Including: Eisenhart, Luther P. HISTORIC PHILADELPHIA. FROM THE FOUNDING UNTIL THE](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530073_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[BOOKS] RAILROAD. LOT OF 3 VOLUMES TOGETHER: RAILROAD. A lot of 3 volumes sold together. Including: Kraus, George. HIGH ROAD TO PROMONTORY. BUILDING THE CENTRAL PACIFIC (NOW THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC) ACROSS THE HIGH SIERRA. California: American](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530074_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
![[LITERATURE] LOT OF 6 VOLUMES SOLD TOGETHER: COOPER J. FENIMORE. A lot of 3 works in 6 volumes sold together. Including: THE PIONEERS, OR THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA; A DESCRIPTIVE TALE. 2 vols in 1. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. Large](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8124/343618/186530075_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1726178725)
