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	The Union Bible Dictionary. Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union, 1839. 23 cm; 522 pages. Woodcut illustrations in text. Bound in full speckled calf , leather title label on spine. Worn, endleaves foxed, but sound and entire. Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 4466 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Original Ink press copy of autograph letter, signed. [London, circa 1815.]. Nine lines of text on 1 leaf unsized tissue stock, 21 x 1 cm. ¶ The original letter was apparently addressed to an arctic voyager: "I congratulate you upon your arrival from the North Pole to the temperate zone, where I hope you will find the magnet equally and still more powerfully attractive to the needle of American commerce." Autograph letter of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), composed in London, probably while Adams was minister to the Court of Saint James's (1815-17). The note is a copy produced on a "letter copying press," an early method of mechanical reproduction invented by James Watt in the 1780s. The letter copying press became quite popular in America. George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson were all enthusiastic practitioners, and Benjamin Franklin boasted that he could get three good copies out of it instead of the usual one. The method involved laying a dampened piece of unsized tissue over a fresh document written out in a prescribed ink, and sandwiching the two sheets into a table-top press. The ink adheres to the tissue, producing a readable copy. Ink press copies were early on considered legal representation of original documents. See Barbara Rhodes, "Before Photocopying: the art and history of mechanical copying, 1780-1938" (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1999). In 1815, Adams was in Europe to negotiate commerce and navigation treaties with England, France and Russia. USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 400.25 \| £UK 360.75 \| JP¥ 52954] Book number: 2058 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ALEXANDER, JAMES. A few hints on decimalizing the currency. Respectfully submitted for the consideration of the honourable the members of the Provincial Legislature and the mercantile classes of the province generally. Toronto, MacLear & Co, 1856, First edition. 21cm; 17 pages. Stiched and unbound, as issued. Very good ¶ A significant contribution to the discussion over the decimalization of currency in Canada (proposing a system based on British rather than American models). Reference Lande, LELS 193. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 3942 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ALMON, JOHN, ED. A collection of all the treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the revolution in 1688, to the present time ... London, Printed for J. Almon, 1772, First Edition. 22 cm; 2 volumes, viii, 404, [4]; iv, 342; folding table. Full calf with leather labels. Volume 1 rebacked; volume 2 joints starting. Labels unmatched--apparently one volume was sent to the binder for rebacking without sending the other as a model. Extremities scuffed. Fine bright copy. Important reference containing the text of all of Great Britain's international trade acts and commercial treaties. The treaties include settlements of the various French and Indian Wars (King William's War 1697, Queen Anne's War 1713, King George's War 1748, and the Seven Years War that ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763), as well as the settlements of European conflicts such as the War of the Spanish Succession (ended at the Peace of Utrecht, 1713), the War of the Austrian Succession (1748). It also includes the text of the Slave Act of 1713 (expanding the legal limits of the trade), details concerning the conversion to Sterling of French Canadian paper money (1766), and one of the earliest statements of conflict over the Falkland Islands (1771). References: Kress, 6848. USD 1000.00 [Appr.: EURO 667.25 \| £UK 601 \| JP¥ 88257] Book number: 3410 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BANK OF NORTH AMERICA. Printed document, accomplished in manuscript. [Philadelphia], July 20, 1795.. 70 x 180 mm. Typographical ornaments. Closed tear in left margin. Dividend check made out to Andrew Kennedy and signed by Robert Wells, cashier of the Bank of North America. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 2003 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING, FIRST BARON (1773-1848). He tells Twining about his apprehensions for peace in North America. Autograph letter, signed. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, February 14,, 1842. 125 x 205 mm; 4 pages, last page blank except for manuscript docket. Usual folds. ¶ Alexander Baring's career as an international financier had included speculating in large tracts of American wilderness, and negotiating the Louisiana Purchase between France and the United States. The bank he helped establish at the end of the 18th century endured until 1995, when it was brought down by a rogue trader. After his distinguished career, Baring came out of retirement in 1842 in order to serve as British Ambassador to negotiate with Daniel Webster, an old friend, for the settlement of the disputed boundary between the United States and Canada. Here en route to America, he writes to Thomas Twining, financier of the East India Company (and still known for his tea), that "the subjects of difference with our transatlantic children are unfortunately numerous and various, and nothing but the very extreme importance I attach to the maintenance of peace would have induced me to make an Experiment somewhat hazardous and presumptuous for my time of life." USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 500.5 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66193] Book number: 4898 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	AUDOUIN, FRANÇOIS XAVIER. Du commerce maritime, de son influence sur la richesse et la force des états, démontrée par l'histoire des nations anciennes et modernes; situation actuelle des puissances de l'Europe, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la France et l'Angleterre; réflec. Paris, Baudouin, an IX, [1800]. 8vo (21 cm); 2 vols. [4], 280, [2]; [4], 258, [4] pages. Half titles present. Bound in contemporary half sheep over marbled paper-covered boards. Red and green labels on spine. Few contemporary annotations in margins in ink. Rubbed at edges, but clean, sound and entire. Cf. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 18002.1. Not found in bibliographies of Americana, yet text includes extensive comment on the American War of Independence and on the Compagnie des Indes. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 2146 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE BANK. One dollar chartered bank note payable on demand. Queenston, 1841. 185 x 80 mm engraved bank note, accomplished in manuscript . Vignettes of a bridge over a river, of St. George on horseback slaying a dragon, a dog's head with a banner ("fidelity"), and a portrait. Engraved by Rawdon, Wright and Hatch, New York. Pay on demand note made out to C. Noble, endorsed by the bank's president and its cashier. Somewhat worn, yet sound and entire. ¶ Canadian chartered bank notes were paper money issued by private banks. The Niagara Suspension Bridge Bank apparently expired before the birth of its namesake, the Niagara Suspension Bridge, which became the first working railway suspension bridge in 1855. The bank issued no notes after 1841. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 4880 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BARBEAU, MARIUS. Quebec: Where Ancient France Lingers. Quebec, Libairie Garneau, 1936, First edition. 21cm; 173 pages. Bound in "class project" half calf over tan buckram, raised bands. Original illustrated endleaves retained. Original illustrated front wrap bound in. This copy inscribed by Regina Lenore Shoolman, one of the persons named by the author on the dedication page. Custom cardboard slipcase. Very Good. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 3573 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BARBEAU, MARIUS. Totem poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Ottawa, F. A. Acland, 1929, First edition. 25 cm; vi, 275 pages, including map and 33 half-tone plates. Bulletin, National Museum of Canada, no. 61; Anthropological series, no. 12. Good condition, with shelf wear, toning at edges, spine tanned, hinges reinforced with linen tape. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 4326 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BENNETT, PHINEAS, JR. (FL. 1760S). Autograph document signed. Genevere [New England], [January] 18, 1765.. 1 p. Semi-literate warrant for the payment of a debt in silver "old tenor.". USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 \| £UK 60.25 \| JP¥ 8826] Book number: 1930 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BERNARD, ANTOINE. Histoire de la Louisiane, de ses origines à nos jours. Quebec, La Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, Université Laval, 1953. 8vo; 446 p. Original green printed wraps, negligibly worn. Unopened. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 1602 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BERNARD, FRANCIS, SIR. Printed Document, signed. Boston, January 27, 1764.. 1 p. Warrant from the province of Mass. Bay Endorsed on verso by Col. Josiah Dwight and Samuel Barrett. Repaired on verso along the fold and guarded at edges. Francis Bernard was appointed colonial governor of Massachusetts in 1760. His turbulent term of office saw the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the quartering of troops in Boston. USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 200.25 \| £UK 180.5 \| JP¥ 26477] Book number: 1932 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BIDDLE, NICHOLAS. Dizzy in Paris, the future Fed Chairman gets wind of a trade agreement, but Jefferson won't stand for it. Autograph Letter, signed. Paris, February 10, n.d. [1807], addressed to W. D. Patterson, commercial agent for the United States at Nantes.. 2 leaves, 185 mm x 230 mm (7 1/2 inches x 9 inches ); salutations, 28 lines of text. Integral address leaf, with remains of paper seal and franking marks. Folded, but in excellent condition. ¶ Having served three years as Secretary to the United States Minister in France, Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) is getting ready to leave Paris. He writes to his friend in Nantes, "Pray is a man's head in a greater uproar when he arrives at than when he quits Paris. The brains, in all cases where there are any, must be in a sad state of disorderÖ." He goes on to mention a dispatch from James Monroe, (1758-1831; fifth United States President 1817-1825), at this time engaged to re-negotiate the "Jay Treaty" on trade with Britain that enraged France to the point of fighting an undeclared naval war with the United States. Biddle writes, "A gentlemen just arrived brings dispatches from Mr. Monroe. The contents of the treaty will not be known until its ratification, but from all accounts it is perfectly satisfactory for usÖ." Monroe's secret treaty did not please President Thomas Jefferson, who declined to submit it to the Senate for ratification, but sent it back to revision. During the presidency of James Monroe, Biddle became chairman of the Second Bank of the United States, a position equivalent to the modern Chairman of the Federal Reserve. USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 400.25 \| £UK 360.75 \| JP¥ 52954] Book number: 2371 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BIDDLE, CLEMENT. Printed document, accomplished in manuscript and signed. Philadelphia, June 10, 1793. Protest of a note.. 20 x 25 cm; 1 printed leaf, accomplished in manuscript, signed and docketed on verso. Quaker patriot Clement Biddle (1740-1814) signs here in his capacity of notary and Tabellion public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 200.25 \| £UK 180.5 \| JP¥ 26477] Book number: 2094 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BIRIUKOV, PAVEL (1860-1931). [Title in cyrillic letters] Dukhoborchy ; sbornik statei, vospominanii, pisem i drugikh dokumentov : s prilozheniem risunkov i izbrannykh Dukhoborcheskikh psalmov. Moscow, I.N. Kushnerev, 1908, First edition. 20 cm; 236 pages. Several half-tone plates in text. Bound in later blue cloth. Title page mounted. Joints tender and hinges split. Reference: Horvath, A Doukhobor bibliography, 43. ¶ Articles, memoirs, and letters compiled by P.I. Biriukov (or Birykov) relating to the Doukhobors' emigration from Russia to Canada. Issued in series: Izdanie posrednika, no. 689. From Julie Rak's web site on Doukhobor culture: "The Doukhobors are a group of Russian language-speaking religious dissenters who migrated to Canada in 1899. Today there are between 30,000 and 40,000 Doukhobors in Canada, and another 30,000 in Russia. They had been persecuted in tsarist Russia for their religious beliefs, which included the conviction that pacifism and non-compliance with militarism is essential to Christian practice because the law of God is greater than the laws of a secular state. These convictions culminated in the 1895 Burning of Arms in Russia, when Doukhobors destroyed their weapons and refused, despite tsarist persecutions, to serve in the Russian army" (http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrak/doukhobors.htm). USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 267 \| £UK 240.5 \| JP¥ 35303] Book number: 4268 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BLAIR, EMMA H., ED. AND TRANS. The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, ... Bacqueville de la Potherie, ... Morrell Marston, ... and Thomas Forsyth. Cleveland, The Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1911-12, First edition. 2 volumes. 23 cm; 372; 412 pages, including illustrations. Lacks folding map frontispiece in volume 1, supplied in facsimile. Rebound in red buckram. Light but pervasive damp mark through first 50 pages of volume 1. Remains of old library blindstamp on title pages and on one text page, with archival tissue paper repairs. Lower margin excised from prelimary leaf (table of contents) in volume 2, expertly repaired. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 217 \| £UK 195.5 \| JP¥ 28684] Book number: 4627 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BLANAR, MICHAEL. Early British Travellers in French Canada. Montreal, Faculty of Letters, University of Montreal, 1960. Cloth, 28cm. Carbon copy of unpublished Ph.D. thesis, typed on University of Montreal stock, illustrated with original photographs and photostats. Inscribed by the author, with ALs laid in. Endorsed in ink by appropriate faculty members. The dissertaion is a valuable source on the early exploration of North America. The author went on to the English faculty at Loyola College, devoiting his career to pedagogy in place of research. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63.5 \| £UK 57.25 \| JP¥ 8384] Book number: 2958 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BLOOMFIELD, LEONARD. Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. Ottawa, F. A. Acland, 1930, First edition. 25 cm; [4], 346 pages. Text in English and Cree. Published as Bulletin #60, Anthropological Series, #11, by the National Museum of Canada and the Canada Department of Mines. Good condition, with shelf wear, toning at edges, spine tanned, hinges reinforced with linen tape. ¶ The oral texts presented here were collected on the Sweet Grass Reserve in Saskatchewan in 1925. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 4325 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BRENTFORD, BURKE; LOG CABIN LIBRARY. Rocky Mountain Sam, or, Wind-specter of the Black-feet. New York, Street & Smith, 1896, #397. Original edition.. 31cm; 48 pages. Illustrated on cover with comic woodcut vignettes of a bear hanging from a balloon, and of a daisy chain of men ("Indians," in the text) hanging from a balloon piloted by Rocky Mountain Sam and The Professor. Stapled. Pulp stock toned, as in all surviving copies. Fore edge frayed, last leaf torn. ¶ Dime novel in the "Log Cabin Library" series. Episodic plot held together by character of Rocky Mountain Sam and his balloon escapades in the Indian territories. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 4130 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. An act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing a Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction within certain parts of North America. Dublin, George Grierson and Martin Keene, 1821. Folio (30cm); pages 569-575. Disbound. References: Streeter Sale VI: 3694; Soliday, Western Americana I:1204. "Behind this act lies the history of the struggle between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company of Montreal. From the year 1803 the struggle between the two companies for supremacy in the West and on the Pacific had been a series of murder and robbery. This act gave jurisdiction in all the territories west to the Pacific to the Hudson's Bay Company, which meant that all the vast territory from New York to the pacific, and from the Arctic Sea down to Oregon and North California became the possession of that company. Further, the act made all free traders and members of the Northwest Company outlaws." --Peter Decker in Soliday, Western Americana. Dublin issue. USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 500.5 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66193] Book number: 2489 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. An act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing a Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction within certain parts of North America. London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1821. Folio (30cm); pages 569-575. First page yellowed. Disbound. References: Streeter Sale VI: 3694; Soliday, Western Americana I:1204. "Behind this act lies the history of the struggle between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company of Montreal. From the year 1803 the struggle between the two companies for supremacy in the West and on the Pacific had been a series of murder and robbery. This act gave jurisdiction in all the territories west to the Pacific to the Hudson's Bay Company, which meant that all the vast territory from New York to the pacific, and from the Arctic Sea down to Oregon and North California became the possession of that company. Further, the act made all free traders and members of the Northwest Company outlaws." --Peter Decker in Soliday, Western Americana. USD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 834 \| £UK 751.25 \| JP¥ 110322] Book number: 2490 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. An Act to amend the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies [1 & 2 Vict. c. 19] London, George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838, First printing. Reference: Izhak Gross, "Parliament and the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, 1835-38," The English Historical Review 96 (1981) 560-576., 30 cm; pages [181]-191. Disbound. Evenly toned. ¶ The British Parliament passed legislation in 1833 abolishing slavery in most of its colonies, but however well-intentioned, the law was ineffective. It created a new category of near-slavery, called apprenticeship, that was heavily abused and in practice did little to change the situation of the ex-slaves. The present amendment to the 1833 Act of Parliament was passed to correct the application of the apprenticeship system, as a compromise between abolitionists and the intrerests of the West Indian plantations. The entire category of apprenticeship was canceled later the same year. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 4885 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. Hudson's Bay Company. ...Copies or extracts of the correspondence which took place at the last renewal of the Charter.... London, 1842. Folio. 32 pages. Text contains a copy of the Charter of Hudson's Bay Company, and correspondence related to the Company's application for a renewal of the grant for exclusive trade with the Indians: A request from the undersecretary of State for the Colonies to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for their opinion on the matter; their reply, in favor; the undersecretary's acknowledgement of it, and so forth, until the transmission of the grant of a license to trade, all written between February 10, 1837, and June 7, 1838. USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 400.25 \| £UK 360.75 \| JP¥ 52954] Book number: 3261 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BURR, DAVID. Confiscation of Loyalist Property after the Revolution. Autograph document, signed. Fairfield, Connecticut, April 24, 1784, addressed to John Lawrence, treasurer of the State of Connecticut.. 1 leaf, 200 x 167 mm. 8 lines of text and salutations. Endorsed on verso. Usual folds. Very good condition. one of the provisions of the treaties ending the American Revolution in 1783 banned the confiscation of Tory property. The State of Connecticut had been attempting to confiscate the property of Hannah and William Jarvis of Stamford, but had to cease the action in light of the treaty. This document, signed by Burr as court clerk, provides compensation of court costs to those who had sued for the Jarvis property in Stamford. William Jarvis later became secretary of the province of Upper Canada. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 2216 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.

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	The Union Bible Dictionary. Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union, 1839. 23 cm; 522 pages. Woodcut illustrations in text. Bound in full speckled calf , leather title label on spine. Worn, endleaves foxed, but sound and entire. Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 4466 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Original Ink press copy of autograph letter, signed. [London, circa 1815.]. Nine lines of text on 1 leaf unsized tissue stock, 21 x 1 cm. ¶ The original letter was apparently addressed to an arctic voyager: "I congratulate you upon your arrival from the North Pole to the temperate zone, where I hope you will find the magnet equally and still more powerfully attractive to the needle of American commerce." Autograph letter of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), composed in London, probably while Adams was minister to the Court of Saint James's (1815-17). The note is a copy produced on a "letter copying press," an early method of mechanical reproduction invented by James Watt in the 1780s. The letter copying press became quite popular in America. George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson were all enthusiastic practitioners, and Benjamin Franklin boasted that he could get three good copies out of it instead of the usual one. The method involved laying a dampened piece of unsized tissue over a fresh document written out in a prescribed ink, and sandwiching the two sheets into a table-top press. The ink adheres to the tissue, producing a readable copy. Ink press copies were early on considered legal representation of original documents. See Barbara Rhodes, "Before Photocopying: the art and history of mechanical copying, 1780-1938" (New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1999). In 1815, Adams was in Europe to negotiate commerce and navigation treaties with England, France and Russia. USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 400.25 \| £UK 360.75 \| JP¥ 52954] Book number: 2058 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ALEXANDER, JAMES. A few hints on decimalizing the currency. Respectfully submitted for the consideration of the honourable the members of the Provincial Legislature and the mercantile classes of the province generally. Toronto, MacLear & Co, 1856, First edition. 21cm; 17 pages. Stiched and unbound, as issued. Very good ¶ A significant contribution to the discussion over the decimalization of currency in Canada (proposing a system based on British rather than American models). Reference Lande, LELS 193. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 3942 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ALMON, JOHN, ED. A collection of all the treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the revolution in 1688, to the present time ... London, Printed for J. Almon, 1772, First Edition. 22 cm; 2 volumes, viii, 404, [4]; iv, 342; folding table. Full calf with leather labels. Volume 1 rebacked; volume 2 joints starting. Labels unmatched--apparently one volume was sent to the binder for rebacking without sending the other as a model. Extremities scuffed. Fine bright copy. Important reference containing the text of all of Great Britain's international trade acts and commercial treaties. The treaties include settlements of the various French and Indian Wars (King William's War 1697, Queen Anne's War 1713, King George's War 1748, and the Seven Years War that ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763), as well as the settlements of European conflicts such as the War of the Spanish Succession (ended at the Peace of Utrecht, 1713), the War of the Austrian Succession (1748). It also includes the text of the Slave Act of 1713 (expanding the legal limits of the trade), details concerning the conversion to Sterling of French Canadian paper money (1766), and one of the earliest statements of conflict over the Falkland Islands (1771). References: Kress, 6848. USD 1000.00 [Appr.: EURO 667.25 \| £UK 601 \| JP¥ 88257] Book number: 3410 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BANK OF NORTH AMERICA. Printed document, accomplished in manuscript. [Philadelphia], July 20, 1795.. 70 x 180 mm. Typographical ornaments. Closed tear in left margin. Dividend check made out to Andrew Kennedy and signed by Robert Wells, cashier of the Bank of North America. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 2003 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING, FIRST BARON (1773-1848). He tells Twining about his apprehensions for peace in North America. Autograph letter, signed. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, February 14,, 1842. 125 x 205 mm; 4 pages, last page blank except for manuscript docket. Usual folds. ¶ Alexander Baring's career as an international financier had included speculating in large tracts of American wilderness, and negotiating the Louisiana Purchase between France and the United States. The bank he helped establish at the end of the 18th century endured until 1995, when it was brought down by a rogue trader. After his distinguished career, Baring came out of retirement in 1842 in order to serve as British Ambassador to negotiate with Daniel Webster, an old friend, for the settlement of the disputed boundary between the United States and Canada. Here en route to America, he writes to Thomas Twining, financier of the East India Company (and still known for his tea), that "the subjects of difference with our transatlantic children are unfortunately numerous and various, and nothing but the very extreme importance I attach to the maintenance of peace would have induced me to make an Experiment somewhat hazardous and presumptuous for my time of life." USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 500.5 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66193] Book number: 4898 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	AUDOUIN, FRANÇOIS XAVIER. Du commerce maritime, de son influence sur la richesse et la force des états, démontrée par l'histoire des nations anciennes et modernes; situation actuelle des puissances de l'Europe, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la France et l'Angleterre; réflec. Paris, Baudouin, an IX, [1800]. 8vo (21 cm); 2 vols. [4], 280, [2]; [4], 258, [4] pages. Half titles present. Bound in contemporary half sheep over marbled paper-covered boards. Red and green labels on spine. Few contemporary annotations in margins in ink. Rubbed at edges, but clean, sound and entire. Cf. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 18002.1. Not found in bibliographies of Americana, yet text includes extensive comment on the American War of Independence and on the Compagnie des Indes. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.5 \| £UK 120.25 \| JP¥ 17651] Book number: 2146 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE BANK. One dollar chartered bank note payable on demand. Queenston, 1841. 185 x 80 mm engraved bank note, accomplished in manuscript . Vignettes of a bridge over a river, of St. George on horseback slaying a dragon, a dog's head with a banner ("fidelity"), and a portrait. Engraved by Rawdon, Wright and Hatch, New York. Pay on demand note made out to C. Noble, endorsed by the bank's president and its cashier. Somewhat worn, yet sound and entire. ¶ Canadian chartered bank notes were paper money issued by private banks. The Niagara Suspension Bridge Bank apparently expired before the birth of its namesake, the Niagara Suspension Bridge, which became the first working railway suspension bridge in 1855. The bank issued no notes after 1841. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 \| £UK 150.25 \| JP¥ 22064] Book number: 4880 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BARBEAU, MARIUS. Quebec: Where Ancient France Lingers. Quebec, Libairie Garneau, 1936, First edition. 21cm; 173 pages. Bound in "class project" half calf over tan buckram, raised bands. Original illustrated endleaves retained. Original illustrated front wrap bound in. This copy inscribed by Regina Lenore Shoolman, one of the persons named by the author on the dedication page. Custom cardboard slipcase. Very Good. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 3573 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BARBEAU, MARIUS. Totem poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia. Ottawa, F. A. Acland, 1929, First edition. 25 cm; vi, 275 pages, including map and 33 half-tone plates. Bulletin, National Museum of Canada, no. 61; Anthropological series, no. 12. Good condition, with shelf wear, toning at edges, spine tanned, hinges reinforced with linen tape. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 4326 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BENNETT, PHINEAS, JR. (FL. 1760S). Autograph document signed. Genevere [New England], [January] 18, 1765.. 1 p. Semi-literate warrant for the payment of a debt in silver "old tenor.". USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 \| £UK 60.25 \| JP¥ 8826] Book number: 1930 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BERNARD, ANTOINE. Histoire de la Louisiane, de ses origines à nos jours. Quebec, La Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, Université Laval, 1953. 8vo; 446 p. Original green printed wraps, negligibly worn. Unopened. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 1602 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BERNARD, FRANCIS, SIR. Printed Document, signed. Boston, January 27, 1764.. 1 p. Warrant from the province of Mass. Bay Endorsed on verso by Col. Josiah Dwight and Samuel Barrett. Repaired on verso along the fold and guarded at edges. Francis Bernard was appointed colonial governor of Massachusetts in 1760. His turbulent term of office saw the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the quartering of troops in Boston. USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 200.25 \| £UK 180.5 \| JP¥ 26477] Book number: 1932 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BIDDLE, NICHOLAS. Dizzy in Paris, the future Fed Chairman gets wind of a trade agreement, but Jefferson won't stand for it. Autograph Letter, signed. Paris, February 10, n.d. [1807], addressed to W. D. Patterson, commercial agent for the United States at Nantes.. 2 leaves, 185 mm x 230 mm (7 1/2 inches x 9 inches ); salutations, 28 lines of text. Integral address leaf, with remains of paper seal and franking marks. Folded, but in excellent condition. ¶ Having served three years as Secretary to the United States Minister in France, Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) is getting ready to leave Paris. He writes to his friend in Nantes, "Pray is a man's head in a greater uproar when he arrives at than when he quits Paris. The brains, in all cases where there are any, must be in a sad state of disorderÖ." He goes on to mention a dispatch from James Monroe, (1758-1831; fifth United States President 1817-1825), at this time engaged to re-negotiate the "Jay Treaty" on trade with Britain that enraged France to the point of fighting an undeclared naval war with the United States. Biddle writes, "A gentlemen just arrived brings dispatches from Mr. Monroe. The contents of the treaty will not be known until its ratification, but from all accounts it is perfectly satisfactory for usÖ." Monroe's secret treaty did not please President Thomas Jefferson, who declined to submit it to the Senate for ratification, but sent it back to revision. During the presidency of James Monroe, Biddle became chairman of the Second Bank of the United States, a position equivalent to the modern Chairman of the Federal Reserve. USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 400.25 \| £UK 360.75 \| JP¥ 52954] Book number: 2371 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BIDDLE, CLEMENT. Printed document, accomplished in manuscript and signed. Philadelphia, June 10, 1793. Protest of a note.. 20 x 25 cm; 1 printed leaf, accomplished in manuscript, signed and docketed on verso. Quaker patriot Clement Biddle (1740-1814) signs here in his capacity of notary and Tabellion public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 200.25 \| £UK 180.5 \| JP¥ 26477] Book number: 2094 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BIRIUKOV, PAVEL (1860-1931). [Title in cyrillic letters] Dukhoborchy ; sbornik statei, vospominanii, pisem i drugikh dokumentov : s prilozheniem risunkov i izbrannykh Dukhoborcheskikh psalmov. Moscow, I.N. Kushnerev, 1908, First edition. 20 cm; 236 pages. Several half-tone plates in text. Bound in later blue cloth. Title page mounted. Joints tender and hinges split. Reference: Horvath, A Doukhobor bibliography, 43. ¶ Articles, memoirs, and letters compiled by P.I. Biriukov (or Birykov) relating to the Doukhobors' emigration from Russia to Canada. Issued in series: Izdanie posrednika, no. 689. From Julie Rak's web site on Doukhobor culture: "The Doukhobors are a group of Russian language-speaking religious dissenters who migrated to Canada in 1899. Today there are between 30,000 and 40,000 Doukhobors in Canada, and another 30,000 in Russia. They had been persecuted in tsarist Russia for their religious beliefs, which included the conviction that pacifism and non-compliance with militarism is essential to Christian practice because the law of God is greater than the laws of a secular state. These convictions culminated in the 1895 Burning of Arms in Russia, when Doukhobors destroyed their weapons and refused, despite tsarist persecutions, to serve in the Russian army" (http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrak/doukhobors.htm). USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 267 \| £UK 240.5 \| JP¥ 35303] Book number: 4268 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BLAIR, EMMA H., ED. AND TRANS. The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, ... Bacqueville de la Potherie, ... Morrell Marston, ... and Thomas Forsyth. Cleveland, The Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1911-12, First edition. 2 volumes. 23 cm; 372; 412 pages, including illustrations. Lacks folding map frontispiece in volume 1, supplied in facsimile. Rebound in red buckram. Light but pervasive damp mark through first 50 pages of volume 1. Remains of old library blindstamp on title pages and on one text page, with archival tissue paper repairs. Lower margin excised from prelimary leaf (table of contents) in volume 2, expertly repaired. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 217 \| £UK 195.5 \| JP¥ 28684] Book number: 4627 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BLANAR, MICHAEL. Early British Travellers in French Canada. Montreal, Faculty of Letters, University of Montreal, 1960. Cloth, 28cm. Carbon copy of unpublished Ph.D. thesis, typed on University of Montreal stock, illustrated with original photographs and photostats. Inscribed by the author, with ALs laid in. Endorsed in ink by appropriate faculty members. The dissertaion is a valuable source on the early exploration of North America. The author went on to the English faculty at Loyola College, devoiting his career to pedagogy in place of research. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63.5 \| £UK 57.25 \| JP¥ 8384] Book number: 2958 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BLOOMFIELD, LEONARD. Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. Ottawa, F. A. Acland, 1930, First edition. 25 cm; [4], 346 pages. Text in English and Cree. Published as Bulletin #60, Anthropological Series, #11, by the National Museum of Canada and the Canada Department of Mines. Good condition, with shelf wear, toning at edges, spine tanned, hinges reinforced with linen tape. ¶ The oral texts presented here were collected on the Sweet Grass Reserve in Saskatchewan in 1925. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 4325 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BRENTFORD, BURKE; LOG CABIN LIBRARY. Rocky Mountain Sam, or, Wind-specter of the Black-feet. New York, Street & Smith, 1896, #397. Original edition.. 31cm; 48 pages. Illustrated on cover with comic woodcut vignettes of a bear hanging from a balloon, and of a daisy chain of men ("Indians," in the text) hanging from a balloon piloted by Rocky Mountain Sam and The Professor. Stapled. Pulp stock toned, as in all surviving copies. Fore edge frayed, last leaf torn. ¶ Dime novel in the "Log Cabin Library" series. Episodic plot held together by character of Rocky Mountain Sam and his balloon escapades in the Indian territories. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 4130 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. An act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing a Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction within certain parts of North America. Dublin, George Grierson and Martin Keene, 1821. Folio (30cm); pages 569-575. Disbound. References: Streeter Sale VI: 3694; Soliday, Western Americana I:1204. "Behind this act lies the history of the struggle between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company of Montreal. From the year 1803 the struggle between the two companies for supremacy in the West and on the Pacific had been a series of murder and robbery. This act gave jurisdiction in all the territories west to the Pacific to the Hudson's Bay Company, which meant that all the vast territory from New York to the pacific, and from the Arctic Sea down to Oregon and North California became the possession of that company. Further, the act made all free traders and members of the Northwest Company outlaws." --Peter Decker in Soliday, Western Americana. Dublin issue. USD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 500.5 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66193] Book number: 2489 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. An act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing a Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction within certain parts of North America. London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1821. Folio (30cm); pages 569-575. First page yellowed. Disbound. References: Streeter Sale VI: 3694; Soliday, Western Americana I:1204. "Behind this act lies the history of the struggle between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company of Montreal. From the year 1803 the struggle between the two companies for supremacy in the West and on the Pacific had been a series of murder and robbery. This act gave jurisdiction in all the territories west to the Pacific to the Hudson's Bay Company, which meant that all the vast territory from New York to the pacific, and from the Arctic Sea down to Oregon and North California became the possession of that company. Further, the act made all free traders and members of the Northwest Company outlaws." --Peter Decker in Soliday, Western Americana. USD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 834 \| £UK 751.25 \| JP¥ 110322] Book number: 2490 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. An Act to amend the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies [1 & 2 Vict. c. 19] London, George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838, First printing. Reference: Izhak Gross, "Parliament and the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, 1835-38," The English Historical Review 96 (1981) 560-576., 30 cm; pages [181]-191. Disbound. Evenly toned. ¶ The British Parliament passed legislation in 1833 abolishing slavery in most of its colonies, but however well-intentioned, the law was ineffective. It created a new category of near-slavery, called apprenticeship, that was heavily abused and in practice did little to change the situation of the ex-slaves. The present amendment to the 1833 Act of Parliament was passed to correct the application of the apprenticeship system, as a compromise between abolitionists and the intrerests of the West Indian plantations. The entire category of apprenticeship was canceled later the same year. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 4885 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	GREAT BRITAIN. Hudson's Bay Company. ...Copies or extracts of the correspondence which took place at the last renewal of the Charter.... London, 1842. Folio. 32 pages. Text contains a copy of the Charter of Hudson's Bay Company, and correspondence related to the Company's application for a renewal of the grant for exclusive trade with the Indians: A request from the undersecretary of State for the Colonies to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for their opinion on the matter; their reply, in favor; the undersecretary's acknowledgement of it, and so forth, until the transmission of the grant of a license to trade, all written between February 10, 1837, and June 7, 1838. USD 600.00 [Appr.: EURO 400.25 \| £UK 360.75 \| JP¥ 52954] Book number: 3261 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.
	BURR, DAVID. Confiscation of Loyalist Property after the Revolution. Autograph document, signed. Fairfield, Connecticut, April 24, 1784, addressed to John Lawrence, treasurer of the State of Connecticut.. 1 leaf, 200 x 167 mm. 8 lines of text and salutations. Endorsed on verso. Usual folds. Very good condition. one of the provisions of the treaties ending the American Revolution in 1783 banned the confiscation of Tory property. The State of Connecticut had been attempting to confiscate the property of Hannah and William Jarvis of Stamford, but had to cease the action in light of the treaty. This document, signed by Burr as court clerk, provides compensation of court costs to those who had sued for the Jarvis property in Stamford. William Jarvis later became secretary of the province of Upper Canada. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 2216 Click here to order or inquire at Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio.