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MACKENZIE, Alexander.
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Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country.
London
T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Cobbett and Morgan & W. Creech
1801
In 1789, Mackenzie's crew which included French-Canadian voyagers, his wife and several others, paddled off in a birchbark canoe from Fort Chipewyan in Central Canada.…More details Price: £10,000.00
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MACGILLIVRAY, William.
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The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar.
London
printed for private circulation [by command of Queen Victoria, who had purchased the manuscript after MacGillivray’s premature death]
1859
There is an elaborate printed presentation note pasted to the front free endpaper ‘This work, printed by command of the Queen, is presented to The…More details Price: £2,000.00
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HUME, David.
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Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding, by the author of the Essays Moral and Political.
London
A. Millar
1748
These Philosphical Essays by the great sceptic of the Scottish Enlightenment were intended to update Volume I of his Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) which,…More details Price: £5,800.00
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GRAHAME, Kenneth. SHEPARD, E.H.
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The Wind in the Willows.
London
Methuen
1931
The book was originally published in 1908 but this was the first edition with illustrations that Kenneth Grahame approved and the only edition he signed.…More details Price: £11,000.00
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[CARSTARES, William].
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The Scottish toleration argued: or, an account of all the laws about the Church of Scotland ratify'd by the Union Act. In a letter from a Scots gentleman to a member of Parliament
London
printed for S. Popping at the Raven in Paternoster Row
1712
Although Carstares was a strong and pivotal supporter of the Act of Union, and the Hanoverian succession, as this pamphlet shows, he was alarmed by…More details Price: £480.00