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Verlag: Assembly House, 2015
ISBN 10: 0993658814ISBN 13: 9780993658815
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: House of Assembly, Adelaide, 1893
Anbieter: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australien
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Zustand: A very good copy. Folio, with two large colour folding maps; uncut in recent cloth. One of only 750 copies published: this rare printing is not recorded by Ferguson. Sir Thomas Elder, who had earlier financed the first great desert journey of Ernest Giles, in 1891 fitted out the expedition of David Lindsay, the celebrated Northern Territory explorer and surveyor general. In 1883 Lindsay had led an expedition into Arnhem Land, travelling to the Gulf of Carpentaria. He went on to explore extensively in the MacDonnell Ranges region before his last and most important work, this scientifically equipped expedition made possible by the sole support of Sir Thomas Elder. The object of the expedition was to explore the unknown interior of Western Australia between the routes laid out by Forrest in 1874 and Giles in 1875 'for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia'. Lindsay's expedition arrived in Geraldton in January 1892, besieged by internal conflict: the entire scientific team, except for Lawrence Allen Wells, resigned. This marked an abrupt end to David Lindsay's career as an explorer and closed down an expensive expedition that produced very few new discoveries. This is the official report by the leader of the expedition, complete with maps. It predates the first public edition printed by C.E. Bristow. Published by order of the South Australian House of Assembly on 3 October 3 1893 at a cost of ninety seven pounds, four shillings and seven pence plus over thirty-three pounds for the lithography of the large folding maps. In the summary of the work Lindsay states that the expedition travelled 2,745 miles through unexplored country, whilst 80,000 square miles was explored and mapped. 'The abandoment of the expedition was a terrible disappointment to me. That men had so little sense of duty to their leader and to their generous employer should have been the primary cause of the break up of such a splendidly-equipped expedition.'. .
Verlag: House of Assembly, Cape Town, 1933
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Columns 1-1480 plus index and pre-proceedings pages (complex). A resolute copy which has been lazily stored. The boards are much worn, marked, stained, scuffed all about. Despite such evidence of negligence, the boards are steady and placid. The contents are benign. There are marks from storage and age to early and later pages. Nonetheless the contents are healthy and assured. They are diligent and precise (spectacles may be required!), assured and competent, clean and clear, confident and certain. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: The House of Assembly, Toronto, 1836
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Appendix to the Journal of the House Assembly of Upper Canada, of the Second Session of the Thirteenth Provincial Parliament. VI William IV. Session 1836-7. Vol. 2. ix, 575 p. 30 cm. Rebound with burgundy leather spine and blue paper covered boards. Signature on front free endpaper. Library stamp on title page and reverse. Intermittent spotting. Title page and first few pages have chips and small tears. Title continues: "With power to send persons and papers, and also the Books of Account and other Records of the Canal company - and to take such steps as might be deemed necessary to enable the House to arrive at the knowledge of the actual state and condition of the past and present affairs of the Canal. Together with the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee, and an Appendix, containing various reports and other documents relating to the business and affairs of the canal." This committee was struck to investigate the canal's enormous cost overrun after the "Father of the Welland Canal," William Hamilton, was suspected of corruption. The most substantial report published on the construction of the canal. Printed by William Lyon Mackenzie, elected first mayor of the newly incorporated City of Toronto in 1835. He became a member of the Legislative Assembly for Upper Canada that same year, representing the County of York. Printed the year before the Rebellion of 1837 attempted to make good on Mackenzie's promises of reform; for him the end result was flight to the United States. The title page reminds us the Lieutenant Governor at the time was Sir Francis Bond Head who MacKenzie called "Sir Francis Bone Head." Includes a list of witnesses as well as their evidence on such details as: the Welland Canal Company; bank contracts; timber contracts; canal management; "costly favoritism," contractors; engineers salaries; leasing water power in New York; etc.
Verlag: Halifax. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly. [1875], 1875
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Soft cover. sm4to, , 25cm, 11,[1]p., appendix, original printed blue wraps, very good,scarce.
Verlag: Ordered by the House of Assembly to be printed, Adelaide, 1861
Anbieter: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australien
Folio, printed on blue paper, 24 pp.; with a large two-sheet folding map; neatly bound in later cloth, a fine copy from the collection of Rodney Davidson, with his bookplate. Rare official printing of John Macdouall Stuart's journal of his fourth expedition through central Australia, noteworthy for the discovery of the Finke River, Macdonnell Ranges and the geographical centre of the Australian continent. The expedition followed the disbanding of Stuart's party, which had assembled for prospecting in the Davenport Range. After finding no gold the men rebelled and were paid of in Chambers Creek. Shortly afterwards, on 2 March 1860, Stuart set off into the vast wilderness with two companions, William Kekwick and Benjamin Head. The party lost important provisions to flooding and suffered terribly from scurvy and malnutrition; indeed Stuart lost the use of his right eye. They discovered the Finke River and Macdonnell Ranges before ascertaining the exact centre of the continent on 22 April 1860. Stuart writes 'To-day I find, from my observation of the sun.that I am now camped in the centre of Australia. About two and a half miles to the N.N.E. is a high mount. I wish it had been in the centre. I shall go to it to-morrow and build a cone of stones, plant the British flag, and name it Central Mount Stuart. We have been in search of permanent water all day, but cannot find any.'. For the following month they searched fruitlessly for water, frustrating plans for further travels to the north-west. Rains in May allowed a dash to Tennant's Creek and two months later the group, now emaciated with hunger and fatigue, returned to Chambers Creek. Stuart, Keckwick and Head received a heroes welcome in Adelaide, their discovery of the exact centre of Australia prompting the South Australia government of to fund Stuart's next expedition to cross the continent in direct competition with Burke and Wills. Published as House of Assembly paper 65 of 1861. .
Verlag: Toronto: M.Reynolds, Printer to the Hon. the House of Assembly, 1835., 1835
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 76(index), 2(errata), li, [1], 372, vi, 26, A-I, K-Y. with half-title. original cloth-backed bds. (covers soiled & worn but binding solid, spine label chipped, scattered light foxing). First Edition of this famous report, an eloquent and forceful indictment of the Family Compact Government, inspired and largely written by William Lyon Mackenzie. The grievances of the Reformers are listed in detail and demands are made for an elective legislative council and responsible government. A landmark document in the political history of Upper Canada. Francis Bond Head, in his Narrative (1839; p. 7), described it as "a large octavo grievance volume, in boards, containing 553 closely-printed pages.it has been calculated (I believe accurately) that there exist in this book more than three times as many gross falsehoods as pages!" Fleming 892. Gagnon I 2196. Lande 859. Sabin 10577. TPL 1929. Watters p. 885.
Verlag: Quebec: Re-Printed by Order of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, 1829., 1829
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 377. partly unopened in later cloth (some foxing throughout). The report, p. [1]-10, is dated July 22, 1828, and is followed by minutes of evidence, May 8-July 15, 1828, pp. 11-328, and an appendix of supporting documents, pp. 329-77. Among the witnesses listed on [p. iii] are Samuel Gale, Edward Ellice, John Neilson, Denis Benjamin Viger amd Austin Cuvillier. The British parliamentary Canada Committee was set up in 1828 to study the grievances of Upper and Lower Canada. "Its major recommendations were that a tax should be imposed on unimproved lands held by speculators; that the laws, customs, and religion of the French Canadians should be respected that the crown revenues should be surrendered to the colonial Houses of Assembly in exchange for a Civil List; that steps should be taken to sell the Clergy Reserves and to divide the proceeds fairly among all Protestant denominations; and that the revenue from the Jesuits Estates should be used for education." (Story p. 145) TPL 1486. Dionne III 217. Lande 385. Sabin 10576. cfGagnon I 2989.
Verlag: Quebec. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly, and Sold by John Neilson. 1798, 1798
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 4to, (in fours), 23x 17.5cm,[8], preliminary leaves [-2],3-204p., French and English title pages and printed in English and French on facing pages, in original half calf and marbled boards, red leather spine label, ex-library with bookplate and stamps on both tp's., else a fine clean copy. (cgc) Tremaine 1094. TPL640. Gagnon I: 1830. The Journals were published in very small editions of 100 copies, for use of the Members of the House of Assembly. Printed from 1793 to 1836, the first Journal was issued after the first session of the Lower Canada House of Assembly in December of 1792. The Constitutional Act of 1791, divided Canada into two parts, Upper and Lower. Lower Canada being pre-dominately French speaking, necessitated any official documentation being in both English and French. The House of Assembly had the authority to levy taxes in the Colony and to pay the administration. An Abstract in this issue lists the Civil Administration payments and pensions to the civil ministration for 1797. With the approbation of the Governor-in-Chief of the Canadas, General Robert Prescott.
Verlag: Quebec. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly, and sold by John Neilson, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796], 1796
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Soft cover. 4to. 24.5cm, 2p.l.,318p., added French title page, text in French and English on facing pages, 5 folding leaves included in the pagination, small repairs to English title-page, rebound in half speckled tan calf, black and gilt ruled bands, crushed green morocco label, gilt titles, with the contemporary marbled boards, a fine copy (ds1). - Tremaine 996. Tremaine notes: "The House ordered that 100 copies of its Journal of the fourth Session of the first assembly, Nov. 20, 1795 - May 7, 1796 be printed in English and French for the use of Members and that none but the printer be so licensed to print the same. An index was issued later.without printer's name of date.upon paper with the date 1807 in the watermark. It is only occasionally found with copies of the Journal." This 41p. Index is not with our copy.