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1. Map showing the route by road & navigation for connecting the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans [cartographic material] : to accompany S.J. Dawson's report of the red river expedition / compiled by Messrs. Bruce & Brunless.

Published / Created:: [1859]
Call Number:: BrSides Folio 2018 143
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Maps, Atlases & Globes
Alternative Title:: Map showing the route by road & navigation for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Description:: "Statement of distances by land and water, respectively, between Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, and Fort Langley, on Frazer's River.", From the Richard H. Rickard Papers., From: Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement ... By S.J. Dawson, 1859., and Relief shown by hachures.
Publisher:: J. Ellis,
Subject (Geographic):: Canada and Canada--Discovery and exploration--Maps.
Subject (Name):: Dawson, S. J. (Simon James), 1820-1902. Report on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement. and Rickard, Richard H.,---1885--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):: Discoveries in geography
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Map showing the route by road & navigation for connecting the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans [cartographic material] : to accompany S.J. Dawson's report of the red river expedition / compiled by Messrs. Bruce & Brunless.

2. The thistle reel [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1775]
Call Number:: 775.02.00.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire on governmental policy towards America. Depicts the Earl of Bute on the left and Earl of Mansfield with Lord North on the right dancing around a tall thistle which is draped with a Garter ribbon emblazoned with the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" having above it, at the center of a halo of light, the motto "Carduus benedictus." A devil hovers above the scene playing bagpipes. Mansfield holds a copy of the Quebec Bill, with a banner beneath him proclaiming "Nemo me impune lacessit". The banner beneath Bute is labelled "Noli me tangere."
Description:: Title from item. and Probably from the London Magazine v, 44, p. 56 of February 1775, although George gives date as March 1, 1775.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain, America., Canada, and Canada.
Subject (Name):: Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):: Colonies, Politics and government, and Freedom of religion
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The thistle reel [graphic].

3. [Album of proofs of illustrations for publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge] [graphic].

Creator:: Coates, Thomas, approximately 1802-1883, collector
Published / Created:: [1834-1836]
Call Number:: Quarto 724 834C
Image Count:: 111
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An album compiled by Thomas Coates, solicitor and sometime secretary to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, containing 340 proofs of wood engravings mounted on 68 leaves, with section titles and descriptions: Illustrations of the Hindoos / drawn on the blocks by Wm. Westall, A.R.A. 1835 (ca. [32] p.); British Canada 1835 ([8] p.); British costume ([3] p.); Old English sports ([8] p.); a group of 10 pages (some blank) with Roman ruins and other historic sites in Spain and Portugal; Illustrations of the Modern Egyptians / drawn on the blocks by the Author, Edwd. Wm. Lane Esq. 1836 (24 p.). Many of the ilustrations are captioned in blank ink by the same hand; others prints with pencil notations
Description:: Title from dealer's description., Bound in original black half morocco over marbled boards, spine decorate in gilt and upper cover with morocco label lettered "Scrap-book.", With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Coates. Below bookplate, slip of paper with the name and address of Mrs. Algernon Warren., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain
Subject (Topic):: Clothing and dress and Hindus
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Album of proofs of illustrations for publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge] [graphic].

4. [Illustrations of Ontario and Québec].

Published / Created:: [circa 1808]
Call Number:: WA MSS S-4271
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 87
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Pencil, pen and ink, pen and wash, and watercolor illustrations in a sketchbook, unsigned, by an unidentified artist of Ontario and Québec, Canada, circa 1808. Depicted are Newfoundland, “carrioles [sic] (carriages) of lower Canada”, “sledge of lower Canada”, “calash (carriage) of lower Canada”, Montmorency Falls on the Montmorency River, Church of Saint Ann, Saint Helen’s Island, “a pipe tomahak [sic]”, the home of Sir Jon Johnson, Fort Chambly, Chaudière Falls on the Ottawa River, the church and mills at Terrebonne, a canoe, Fort Saint Joseph, a dwelling house of the North West Company, Lake Huron, Fort William (a fur trading post of the North West Company), Lake Erie, the mountains near Lake Champlain, and Quebec City. Four illustrations are of unidentified individuals; one illustration is of three unidentified Indigenous people. Inscribed on the front endpaper: “Begun at Quebec, the 9th March 1808”.
Description:: Manuscript captions in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):: Canada, Champlain, Lake, Erie, Lake, Fort Chambly (Chambly, Québec), Fort Saint Joseph National Historic Site (Ont.), Thunder Bay (Ont.), Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.), Montmorency River (Québec), Newfoundland and Labrador, Old Fort William (Thunder Bay, Ont.), Ontario, Ottawa River (Québec and Ont.), Québec (Québec), and Sainte-Hélène Island (Québec)
Subject (Name):: North West Company.
Subject (Topic):: Indians of North America
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustrations of Ontario and Québec].