CANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1799-1939
1830
022 [ARCTIC TRAVELS, OR] /AN ACC[OUNT OF THE] SEV[ERAL] /LAND
EXPEDITIONS/TO DETERMINE THE/GEOGRAPHY/OF/THE NORTHERN PART/OF
THE/AMERICAN CONTINENT./ [rule] /DUBLIN:/PRINTED BY THOMAS I.
WHITE, 149 ABBEY STREET./ [rule] /1830./ [Original t.p. repaired
with blank paper; the bracketted parts in the above transcription
are a reconstruction from no. 028].
[A]2, B-L12/6, M4, N3 iii-viii, 9-188 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl.
(incl. in sigs. but not in paging) 133x80 mm.
Calf. Spine bears title stamped in gold.
F.f.l. 1830 (Arctic Bib).
A sequel in content to Arctic voyages (no. 029). Young William
and Patrick Jones hear Captain Mackey describe the land
expeditions of Hearne, MacKenzie and Franklin to discover a
Northwest Passage. As with nos. 027 and 029 the format is
somewhat conversational and a considerable amount of Christian
piety is included. Some condescension toward the Eskimo is
noticeable.
023 [FENELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe] 1651-1715.
ENSEIGNEMENT UNIVERSEL./METHODE JACOTOT./ETUDE DE LA LANGUE
FRAN|AISE./ [dbl. rule] /AVENTURES/DE/TELEMAQUE./ [dbl. rule] /SE
VEND A L'INSTITUTION DE/MM. N. LEMOULT ET L. POTEL./ [dbl. rule] /
[ornament] / Montreal:/IMPRIMERIE DE LUDGER DUVERNAY./ [dotted
rule] /1830./
Half-title.
A-D6 1-42 + I-VI pp. 158x94 mm.
Pink wrappers.
Contains uncut the first two books of Fénelon's story of the
adventures of Ulysses' son, Telemachus. Fénelon was a priest (an
archbishop) and an educator. Télémaque is written in the form of
Homer's Odyssey, but its purpose is moral edification. Pages I-VI
list the mythological figures and the place names of the first two
books.
024 HISTOIRE ABREGEE/DE LA/VIE DE N.S. JESUS-CHRIST,/OU SONT
CONTENUES/SES PRINCIPALES ACTIONS./ [swelling rule] /NOUVELLE
+DITION,/Imprimée sur cette de Paris de 1813./ [swelling rule]
/REVUE, CORRIGEE ET APPROUVEE,/POUR/L'USAGE DES ECOLES./ [dbl.
rule]/ QUEBEC:/DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE T. CARY ET CGNIE,/IMPRIMEURS
LIBRAIRES,/Rue Buade./ [rule] /1830./
[*]1, A-N6 1-158 pp. 175x103 mm.
Calf.
F.f.l. with a Canadian publ., Montreal, James Brown, 1821 (Gagnon
I 1675).
The 'Approbation', by the Bishop of Quebec, is dated 1830.
025 NOUVEL/ALPHABET DOUBLE/EN FRAN|AIS,/A l'usage des Commençans;/
DIVISE EN DEUX PARTIES./ [pict. ornament] /Montreal,/A LA
LIBRAIRIE FRAN|AISE/D'EDOUARD R. FABRE et Cie,/VIS-A-VIS LA
PRISON./ [dbl. rule] / 1830/
1-72 pp. 130x83 mm.
Blue wrappers.
F.f.l. 1830 (Amtmann I 320).
Part I is a very simple introduction to pronunciation and reading.
Part II is a series of maxims taken from the Bible.
026 [STRICKLAND, Agnes] 1796-1874.
THE/RIVAL CRUSOES,/OR/The Shipwreck./ [rule] /ALSO/A VOYAGE TO
NORWAY;/AND/THE FISHERMAN'S COTTAGE./ [rule] /FOUNDED ON FACTS./
[rule] /SECOND EDITION./ [rule] /LONDON:/J. HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD./ [1830].
Pr. S. & R. Bentley, Dorset St.
A-Q6, [*]12 (A sig. misnumbered B; *4 wanting) 1-192 + [i-xxii]
pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 169x103 mm.
Frontis. & pl. dated Feb. 1826; each pl. bears 2 engrs.
Pp. [i-xxii], a catalogue of Harris publications dated 1830.
Quarter leather, gray paper on boards. Front bears title & sub-
title (for The rival Crusoes), pict. ornament, ed., rules &
imprint printed in black; back bears publ. device in black;
spine bears title & 8 fillets stamped in gold.
F.f.l. 1826 (Moon 834); this ed. 1830 (Moon).
Agnes Strickland's work is included here because of the importance
of the Strickland family to pioneer Canada. Agnes edited her
sister's Canadian Crusoes (see no. 094) and its title may have
been as much influenced by Agnes' The rival Crusoes as by Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe. Agnes's novel is very much a picture of its time
in its acceptance of the pervasive British class divisions, as two
young men from contrasting walks of life become friends while
shipwrecked on a desert island.
027 VOYAGES/IN THE/ARCTIC SEAS,/FROM 1821 TO 1825,/FOR
THE/DISCOVERY/ OF A/NORTH-WEST PASSAGE/TO THE/PACIFIC OCEAN./
[rule] /DUBLIN:/ PRINTED BY R. NAPPER, 140 CAPEL-STREET./ [rule]
/1830./
[*]2, A-K12/4 i-vi, 7-172 pp. Pl. frontis + 3 pl. (incl. in
sigs. but not in paging) 138x85 mm.
Calf. Spine bears 'Arctic Voyages', '2' & 6 fillets stamped in
gold.
F.f.l. 1830 (Arctic Bib 18989; Sabin 100841).
The preface states that 'The following book is the sequel of a
volume already published, under the title of "Arctic Voyages"
[read Arctic Travels].' Extracts from accounts of Parry's voyages
1821-23 and 1824-25 and of Lyon's voyage 1824. Here Captain
Mackey continues his acquaintance with the Jones family (see nos.
022, 028) and answers the boys' questions.
1831
028 ARCTIC TRAVELS;/OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE/SEVERAL LAND EXPEDITIONS/
TO/DETERMINE THE GEOGRAPHY/OF THE/NORTHERN PART OF THE AMERICAN
CONTINENT./ [pict. ornament with legend] / [dbl. rule] /
LONDON:/PRINTED FOR C.J.G. & F. RIVINGTON,/Booksellers to the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge:/ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,
AND WATERLOO-PLACE./ [rule] /1831./
Pr. Gilbert & Rivington, St. John's Square.
A1, B-P6, Q3 1 p.l., i-iv, 5-173 [174] pp. Pl. frontis. + t.p. +
2 pl. 140x90 mm.
P [174] adverts.
Brown fine bead-grain cloth. Front & back boards bear ornaments
within a dbl. border stamped in blind; spine bears title in
gold, rules in blind.
See no. 022.
029 ARCTIC VOYAGES;/BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DISCOVERIES/IN THE NORTH
POLAR SEAS,/IN/1818, 1819, & 1820./WITH AN/ACCOUNT OF THE
ESQUIMAUX PEOPLE./Compiled from the most Authentic Sources./
[pict. ornament] / [dbl. rule] / LONDON:/PRINTED FOR C.J.G. & F.
RIVINGTON,/Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge;/ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE./ [rule]
/1831./
Pr. Gilbert & Rivington, St. John's Square, London.
[A]1, B-P6, Q2 1 p.l., i-iv, 5-172 pp. Pl. frontis. + 2 pl.
139x83 mm.
Rebound. A.e. brown.
F.f.l. 1831 (Arctic Bib, BM).
In terms of content this precedes Arctic travels (no. 022). Here
two English boys, William and Patrick Jones, first meet Captain
Mackey who recounts the early attempts to find a Northwest Passage
ending with his own trips with Captain Parry in 1810 and 1820.
030 HISTOIRE/ANCIENNE,/DES EGYPTIENS, DES ASSYRIENS, DES/MEDES ET
DES PERSES, DES GRECS,/DES CARTHAGINOIS./A L'USAGE DE LA
JEUNESSE./NOUVELLE EDITION,/Revue et corrigée par l'auteur./
[ornamental rule] / QUEBEC:/Imprimé chez T. CARY & Co./Rue Buade./
[rule] /1831./
A-X6 (last leaf blank; the general signing pattern is that the 3rd
leaf is signed 2, but there are erratic exceptions to this) 1-
250 pp. 138x83 mm.
Calf. Spine repaired with paper.
Lande II S1068 lists an 1831 ed. with 240 (1) pp.
031 PERRAULT, Joseph François, 1753-1844.
ABREGE/DE/L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA,/PREMIERE PARTIE,/[SECONDE PARTIE,]
Depuis sa Découverte jusqu'à sa Conquéte, [sic] /par les Anglais,
en 1759 et 1760./ [rule] /RE'DIGE' [sic] PAR JOS. F. PERRAULT,
PROTONOTAIRE,/A l'usage des Ecoles Elémentaires./ [rule] /QUEBEC:/
IMPRIME' [sic] PAR THOMAS CARY & COIE./Au Chien d'Or, Rue Buade./
[rule] /1831./
A-P8, Q5 (A3 is signed A & A4 is signed A2) 1-250 pp. 148x93 mm.
Quarter leather, blue paper on boards.
F.f.l. 1831 (Lande II S1771, NUC).
Part II begins on page 125. There are 5 parts in 4 volumes (see
nos. 043, 044, 050). Perrault was a French-Canadian author who
held the office of Prothonotary of the Court of Queen's Bench for
many years. He also founded an elementary school in Quebec. (Bib
Can). According to Gagnon I who lists the edition published by P.
& W. Ruthven, this was a feeble work of composition for the
elementary schools and given gratuitously to poor children.
1832
032 BIBAUD, Michel, 1782-1857.
L'ARITHMETIQUE/A L'USAGE/DES/ECOLES ELEMENTAIRES/DU/BAS-CANADA./
[dbl. rule] /PAR M. BIBAUD,/AUTEUR DE "L'ARITHMETIQUE EN QUATRE
PARTIES."/ [dbl. rule] /MONTREAL:/DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE/WORKMAN ET
BOWMAN./ [rule] /1832./
A-I6 1-108 pp. 179x104 mm.
Blue paper on boards; spine backed in cloth.
F.f.l. 1832 (NUC).
Bibaud was chiefly known as a journalist and a historian, but
according to DCB he wrote a number of works on arithmetic
including the above in 1832.
033 [DEAN, Christopher C.].
HUGH CLIFFORD:/OR/PROSPECTIVE MISSIONS/ON THE/NORTH-WEST
COAST,/AND AT THE/WASHINGTON ISLANDS./ [rule] /BY THE AUTHOR
OF/Conversations on the Sandwich Islands Mission, Claims of
the/Africans, etc. etc./ [rule] / [four lines of quotation] /
[rule] /REVISED BY THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE./ [swelling rule]
/BOSTON:/MASSACHUSETTS SABBATH SCHOOL UNION:/ Depository, 47
Cornhill./ [dotted rule] /1832./
c. 1832 Christoper C. Dean.
[*]2, 1-76, 82 1-102 pp. 144x84 mm.
Quarter leather, marbled paper on boards. Spine bears title &
dbl. fillets stamped in gold (lower part of spine wanting).
F.f.l. 1832 (NUC).
Page 1 gives the address of the Massachusetts Sabbath School as
No. 24, Cornhill, Boston and the agent as C.C. Dean. The text is
in the usual question and answer format of the period and is most
condescending towards the Indians.
034 HISTOIRE/ROMAINE, DEPUIS LA FONDATION DE ROME,/JUSQU'A LA FIN DE
L'EMPIRE D'OCCIDENT;/A L'USAGE DE LA JEUNESSE./ [ornamental rule]
/ NOUVELLE +DITION,/Revue et corrigée./ [ornamental rule]
/QUEBEC:/IMPRIME' [sic] PAR THOMAS CARY & CIE./Au Chien d'Or, Rue
Buade./ [rule] /1832./
A-Y6, Z2, Aa2 1-272 pp. 139x90 mm.
Quarter leather, blue paper on boards.
F.f.l. 1832 (Lande I 1850).
Pages 244 to 268 are a set of questions on the history of Rome
with corresponding paging for the answers.
035 HISTOIRE/SAINTE,/PAR DEMANDES ET PAR REPONSES,/SUIVIE/D'UN
ABREGE DE LA VIE DE/N.S. JESUS-CHRIST,/A l'usage de la Jeunesse./
[ornamental rule] /QUEBEC:/Imprimé chez T. CARY & Co./Au Chien
d'Or, Rue Buade./ [rule] /1832./
A-F8, G4, H2 1-105 [106-07] pp. 146x89 mm.
Calf. Spine bears fillets stamped in blind.
No earlier listing has been found.
The 'Approbation' [p. 106] is dated 1832.
036 [HOLMES, John] 1799-1852.
NOUVEL ABREGE/DE/GEOGRAPHIE MODERNE;/SUIVI D'UN APPENDICE,/ET D'UN
ABREGE/DE/GEOGRAPHIE SACREE,/A l'Usage de la Jeunesse./ [swelling
rule] /QUEBEC:/Se trouve chez NEILSON & COWAN, No. 3, Côte de la
Basse-Ville./ [rule] /1832./
c. 1832 Samuel Neilson & William Cowan.
A6, [*]4, B-F4, G2, H-T4, V6 i-xii, 1-160 pp. 177x105 mm.
Calf. Spine bears 6 dbl. fillets stamped in gold.
F.f.l. 1831 (Wallace); Lande II S1082 lists the 1832 ed. with a
fold. plan; Amtmann I 223 lists an 1832 ed. in 2 vols.
Label mounted inside front cover bears ABREGE DE GEOGRAPHIE./
[rule] /PREMIERE PARTIE:/ [rule] /NOTIONS PRELIMINAIRES,/ [rule]
/AMERIQUE,-EUROPE./P. [160] is an errata page. John Holmes,
rebaptised Jean, was a priest, an educator and an author. His
Géographie moderne was reissued and re-edited until 1884.
'Holmes' influence on the history of education in Lower Canada was
profound.' (DCB).
037 MOUSTALON, M.
ABREGE/DE/MYTHOLOGIE,/A L'USAGE/DES/MAISONS D'EDUCATION./ [rule]
/PAR M. MOUSTALON,/AUTEUR DE LA MORALE DES POETES ET DU LYC+E DE
LA/JEUNESSE./ [swelling rule] /A QUEBEC:/se trouve chez NEILSON &
COWAN, No. 14,/Côte de la Basse-Ville./ [rule] /1832./
[A]6, B-D6, [E]4 1-56 pp. 174x103 mm.
Yellow wrappers. Front as t.p. within a dbl. border.
F.f.l. 1832 (Lande I 2022).
The 'Avertissement', dated 1832, states that this work is 'le
meilleur' of all those that have been written in French for the
young. The text is composed chiefly of brief descriptions of the
Greek heroes. In a note, the publishers reveal that they are
obviously worried about the impact of the myths on the young.
However, they leave it to the teacher to point out the impieties
and the lies in the myths and the superiority of the dogmas of
'Révélation' over the beliefs of ancient cultures.
038 [TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland)] 1802-1899.
THE ADVENTURES/OF/LITTLE DOWNY:/OR, THE/HISTORY OF A FIELD
MOUSE./A MORAL TALE./BY SUSANNA STRICKLAND./ [pict. ornament] /
LONDON:/PUBLISHED BY DEAN AND MUNDAY,/THREADNEEDLE-STREET./
[1832].
B-K6 1-102 + [i-vi] pp. Pl. frontis. 144x81 mm.
Frontis. signed W[illiam] H[enry] Brooke del & J[onathan]
Engleheart sculp. & dated February 1, 1832.
Pp. [i-vi] adverts.
Light yellow paper on boards. Front & back bear overall design &
the title 'Little Downy'; spine backed in cloth.
June 5, 1838.
This ed. dated by illus. [1832].
The publisher evidently made an error in putting Susanna
Strickland's name on the title-page rather than that of her sister
Catharine. The title is attributed to Catharine Parr Strickland
by Sara Eaton in Lady of the backwoods (p. 30) and by Michael
Peterman in OCCL.
1833
039 [HOLMES, John] 1799-1852.
NOUVEL ABREGE/DE/GEOGRAPHIE MODERNE,/SUIVI D'UN APPENDICE,/ET D'UN
ABREGE/DE/GEOGRAPHIE SACREE,/A L'USAGE DE LA JEUNESSE./ [rule]
/SECONDE PARTIE./ [rule] /A QUEBEC:/CHEZ NEILSON ET COWAN./ [wavy
rule] /1833./
c. 1833 Samuel Neilson & William Cowan.
[*]2, A-N6 (sig. M is repeated) [i-iv], 161-277 + i-xxxii + 1-16
+ [i-ii] pp. (Errata slip between pp. [iv] & 161) 177x102 mm.
P. [i] at end advert.
Calf. Spine bears dbl. fillets stamped in gold.
See no. 036.
040 MEILLEUR, Jean Baptiste, 1796-1878.
COURS ABREGE/DE/Leçons de Chymie,/CONTENANT/Une exposition precise
et methodique des principes/de cette science, exemplifie. Cet
ouvrage/elementaire, redige d'apres les meilleurs/auteurs, est
adapte; a une capacite/ordinaire, et destine a l'usage/de la
Jeunesse Canadienne,/PAR/J.B. MEILLEUR,/Docteur en Médecine;
Membre du Bureau Medical d'exami-/nateurs; Membre Correspondant de
la Societe; d'Histoire/Naturelle de Montreal; Membre Honoraire de
la/Societee Medicale et Philosophique de l'etat de/Vermont, et de
plusieurs autres./ [2 lines of quotation] / [ornamental rule]
/Montreal:/DES PRESSES DE LUDGER DUVERNAY,/IMPRIMERIE DE LA
MINERVE./No. 29, Rue St. Paul./ [dotted rule] /1833./
Half-title.
[1-2]4, 34, 2-184 (sig. 15 is repeated) i-xxiv, 9-144 pp.
217x124 mm.
Light blue paper on boards (spine mended).
F.f.l. 1833 (Gagnon I 2359, Lande I 1975, TPL 5006).
Meilleur, M.D., LL.D. was a writer on education, and the first
Superintendent of Education for Lower Canada. 'This treatise on
chemistry for the young was the first of its kind written by a
Canadian and published in Canada.' (DCB).
041 MEILLEUR, Jean Baptiste, 1796-1878.
A. Desroches./NOUVELLE/GRAMMAIRE ANGLAISE./ [swelling rule]
/REDIGEE/ D'APRES LES MEILLEURS AUTEURS,/PAR/J.B. MEILLEUR
M.D./AUTEUR D'UNE ANALYSE DE L'ALPHABET FRAN|CAIS,/A L'USAGE DE
CEUX QUI PARLENT LA LANGUE/ANGLAISE; ET DU COURS ABREGE DE LE|ONS
DE/ CHIMIE,/A L'USAGE DE LA JEUNESSE CANADIENNE./ [dbl. rule] /
(Il est deux langues qui sont maintenant universelles et
communes/aux peuples de l'Europe et de l'Amerique; ce sont la
langue francaise/et la langue anglaise; la premiere est
remarquable pour l'elegance,/et l'autre pour la force de ses
expressions.)/ [ornamental rule] /IMPRIME PAR A.C. FORTIN,/St.
Charles/Village Debartzch./ [dotted rule] /1833./
1-120 pp. 163x106 mm.
Quarter leather, blue paper on boards.
F.f.l. 1833 (Bib Can, Gagnon I 2360).
042 MORRIS, William, 1786-1858.
THE/ACCOUNTANT'S GUIDE,/FOR/ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS/IN CANADA./ [rule]
/BY WILLIAM MORRIS./ [rule] /PUBLISHED/BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE
PARLIAMENT OF/LOWER CANADA./ [dbl. rule] /QUEBEC:/1833./
[*]2, 1-106 [i-iv], 1-120 pp. 171x104 mm.
Quarter leather, light blue paper on boards. Front as t.p.
F.f.l. 1833 (Bib Can, NUC).
The prefatory 'notice' is dated 1833, and the author tells us that
the 'Provincial Legislature voted fifty pounds toward the expenses
of the publication, that the price might be reduced, that all the
children may be supplied with a copy.'
043 PERRAULT, Joseph Francois, 1753-1844.
ABREGE/DE/L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA,/EN QUATRE PARTIES./TROISIEME
PARTIE./Depuis l'Establissement d'une Chambre/d'Assemblée jusqu'à
l'Année 1815./A l'usage des Ecoles Elémentaires./ [ornamental
rule] /PAR JOS. FR. PERRAULT, PROTONOTAIRE./ [wavy rule]
/QUEBEC:/Imprimee par P. & W. Ruthven,/Rue Ste. Ursule,/1833./
c. 1833 Peter Ruthven & William Ruthven, Quebec.
[A]2, B-L12/6, M9 [i-iv], 1-197 pp. 138x90 mm.
Quarter leather, blue paper on boards.
044 PERRAULT, Joseph Francois, 1753-1844.
ABREGE/DE/L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA,/EN QUATRE PARTIES./QUATRIEME
PARTIE,/Depuis le depart du General Provost/jusqu'a celui du Comte
Dalhousie./A l'usage des Ecoles Elémentaires./ [ornamental rule]
/PAR JOS. FR. PERRAULT, PROTONOTAIRE./ [wavy rule]
/QUEBEC:/Imprimée par P. & W. Ruthven,/Rue Ste. Ursule,/1833./
c. 1833 Peter Ruthven & William Ruthven, Quebec.
[A]12, [B]6, C-I12/6 (I12 wanting) 1-165 pp. 142x90 mm.
Half leather, beige paper on boards.
1834
045 LENNIE, William, 1779-1852.
THE/PRINCIPLES/OF/ENGLISH GRAMMAR;/COMPRISING/THE SUBSTANCE OF ALL
THE MOST APPROVED/ENGLISH GRAMMARS EXTANT BRIEFLY/ DEFINED, AND
NEATLY ARRANGED;/WITH/Copious Exercises,/IN/PARSING AND SYNTAX./
[rule] /BY WILLIAM LENNIE,/AUTHOR OF THE "CHILD'S LADDER TO THE
BIBLE."/ [rule] /THE NINETEENTH EDITION./ [swelling rule] /
MONTREAL:/PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. BOWMAN,/ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
STREET./ [rule] /1834./
A-K12/6 i-iv, 5-179 [180] pp. 137x77 mm.
P. [180] advert. for this vol.
Brown coarse diaper cloth.
NUC lists a 2nd ed. Edinburgh, printed by Oliver & Boyd for the
author, 1812 (NUC); no earlier listing than 1834 with a Canadian
publ. has been found.
Lennie was a teacher of English in Edinburgh. He bequeathed land
to the town council for founding four bursaries in Edinburgh
University to be called the 'Lennie Bursaries.' His Principles of
English grammar was extensively used. (DNB). The Preface makes it
clear that the grammar is intended for children.
046 LE LIVRE/DES ENFANS./ [pict. ornament] /QUEBEC:/IMPRIME' [sic]
PAR THOMAS CARY & CIE./Rue Buade, Chien d'Or./ [rule] /1834./ [all
within a border].
1-24 pp. 178x103 mm.
Wdcts.
Beige wrappers. Front bears title, pict. ornament, a verse by
Racine, rule & imprint all within an ornamental border; back
bears three wdcts., publ. & place within a dbl. border.
F.f.l. 1834 (Amtmann I 277; TPL 1843).
A child's first book with the alphabet, numbers, sounds and simple
sentences.
1835
047 [DEMERS, Jerome] 1774-1853.
INSTITUTIONES/PHILOSPHICAE/AD USUM/STUDIOSAE JUVENTUTIS./ [4 lines
of quotation] / [rule] /QUEBEC:/EX TYPIS THO. CARY & SOCII./
[rule] /1835./
c. 1835 Thomas Cary & George Desbarats.
A-Aa8, Bb4, Cc2 1-395 pp. 216x128 mm.
Half leather, brown paper on boards. Spine bears title & 14
fillets stamped in gold. A.e. marbled.
F.f.l. 1825 (CIHM, NUC).
Jerome Demers was a Catholic priest, an author, and a teacher at
the Seminaire de Québec where he taught philosophy and science.
His Institutiones philosophicae was based on his classroom
lectures and is the first philosophy text book produced in French
Canada. It presents logic, metaphysics and ethics in Latin and a
treatise in French, 'Preuves de la religion révélé', taken from
the Philosophie de Lyon (1823). Demers was greatly interested in
politics and in the section dealing with ethics, there is a
disucssion of political philosophy. (DCB).
048 [GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold] 1793-1860.
THE/CAPTIVE OF NOOTKA:/OR THE/ADVENTURES OF JOHN R. JEWETT./
[pict. ornament] /NEW YORK:/J.P. PEASLEE./1835./
c. 1835 J.P. Peaslee.
[1]8 (1st leaf wanting), 2-168 (recto of leaf 5 of sig. 14 is also
signed 10), 174 (last 2 leaves blank), [*]1 (blank) iii-xii,
13-259 pp. (i-ii wanting) 130x104 mm.
Full-page illus., frontis. wanting.
Parley's library.
Brown dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front & back boards bear
ornaments stamped in blind; spine bears series title, 'J.R.
Jewett', ornaments & rule in gold, ornaments in blind.
In his autobiography, Recollections (vol. II p. 543), Goodrich
lists the 1st date of publication as 1832, but he was not always
accurate.
Goodrich was an American author and publisher who frequently used
the pseudonym, Peter Parley. He produced over 100 informational
books for children, most written in an avuncular tone. In his
autobiography Recollections, he shows his dislike of works of
imagination for children. From all accounts, his books were very
popular, very much so in England where they were both imitated and
pirated. John Jewett was an armourer aboard an American fur-
trading ship when it was destroyed by the Nootkas in 1803. He and
one companion were spared by Chief Maquina but he was held captive
for two years. This account for children is freely adapted from
Jewett's journal published in 1807.
049 THOMPSON, Zadock, 1796-1856.
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY/OF/LOWER CANADA./DESIGNED/FOR THE USE OF
SCHOOLS./ [rule] /BY ZADOCK THOMPSON, A.M./LATE PRECEPTOR OF
CHARLESTON ACADEMY./ [rule] / [ornamental rule] /STANSTEAD AND
SHERBROOKE, L.C./PUBLISHED BY WALTON & GAYLORD./ [dbl. dotted
rule] /1835./
c. 1835 Joseph S. Walton & Asa Gaylord.
[A]2, B-K6, L2 i-iv, 5-116 pp. Pl. frontis. 164x103 mm.
Hand-col. fold. frontis. map.
Quarter leather, beige paper on boards. Front as t.p. within an
ornamental border; back bears adverts. within an ornamental
border; spine bears 4 gold fillets.
F.f.l. 1835 (Lande II S2197; TPL 5063).
Preface is dated 1835 at Charleston Village, Hatley. Here the
author laments the lack of Canadian geographical and historical
material for use in the schools. He also shows himself as an
educator ahead of his time as he proposes that a child should
begin the study of geography 'with his own neighbourhood, and with
those objects which are open to his personal observation'.
1836
050 PERRAULT, Joseph Francois, 1753-1844.
ABREGE/DE/L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA,/En cinq Parties./CINQUIEME
PARTIE,/ Depuis le départ du Comte de Dalhousie, jusqu'à/l'arrivée
du Lord Gosford et des Com-/ missaires Royaux./ [rule] /PAR J.F.
PERRAULT, PROTONOTAIRE,/ [rule] /Quebec;/ Chez P. RUTHVEN,
Imprimeur-Libraire, Rue/St. Jean, No. 15, vis-à-vis de la Rue de
Palais./ [rule] /1836./
c. 1836 Peter Ruthven & William Ruthven, Quebec.
[A]12, B6, C12, (unsigned sig. in 6s), D12, E-Q6, [R]2 1-244 pp.
140x90 mm.
Quarter leather, gray paper on boards. Spine bears rules stamped
in blind.
1837
051 [HAWKS, Francis Lister] 1798-1866.
UNCLE PHILIP'S CONVERSATIONS/WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE/ABOUT/THE WHALE
FISHERY, AND POLAR REGIONS./ [rule] /WITH/NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON
WOOD./ [pict. ornament] /LONDON:/PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON,
CHEAPSIDE;/TEGG AND CO. DUBLIN; R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW; AND/J.
AND S.A. TEGG, SYDNEY, AND HOBART TOWN./ [rule] / 1837./
Pr. C. Whittingham, Chiswick Press.
[A]6, B-CC8 (A6 & CC8 wanting) iii-x, 1-399 pp. 130x100 mm.
Numerous text illus., one signed Jackson sc.
Quarter leather, marbled paper on boards.
F.f.l. with title Uncle Philip's conversations with the children
about the whale fishery and polar seas. New York, Harper, 1836
(NUC).
Dr. Hawks was a minister of the Episcopal church and a versatile
author. (Allibone). Information about whaling and specifically
the voyages of Ross and Parry are recounted by Uncle Philip with
questions and interjections from the nephew.
1839
052 MURRAY, Lindley, 1745-1826.
INTRODUCTION/TO/THE ENGLISH READER:/OR,/A SELECTION OF PIECES,/ IN
PROSE AND POETRY;/CALCULATED TO IMPROVE/THE YOUNGER CLASSES OF
LEARNERS IN READING,/AND TO IMBUE/THEIR MINDS WITH THE LOVE OF
VIRTUE./TO WHICH ARE ADDED,/RULES AND OBSERVATIONS/FOR ASSISTING
CHILDREN TO READ WITH/PROPRIETY./ [dbl. rule] /BY LINDLEY
MURRAY,/Author of an English Grammar, &c. &c./ [dbl. rule] /
TORONTO, UC. PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY EASTWOOD & Co./ [dotted rule]
/1839./
A-N6 i-xiv, 15-156 pp. 180x105 mm.
Pale blue paper on boards; spine backed in cloth.
F.f.l. York, Longmann & Rees, 1801 (BM, NUC); f.f.l. with a
Canadian publ. Hallowell, U.C., Joseph Wilson, 1832 (TPL 1726).
Part I: Pieces in prose; Part II: Pieces in poetry.
053 PERRAULT, Joseph Francois, 1753-1844.
TRAITE/D'AGRICULUTURE,/ADAPTE AU CLIMAT DU/BAS-CANADA,/ REDIGE PAR
JOS. FRS. PERRAULT,/POUR L'USAGE DES ETABLISSEMENTS
D'EDUCATION/DANS LES CAMPAGNES./ [swelling rule] / [pict.
ornament] / [dbl. rule] /Quebec:/IMPRIME PAR FRECHETTE & CIE., No.
8,/RUE LA MONTAGNE./ [rule] /1839./
c. 1839 Frechette & Co.
[*]1, A12, B6, C12, D5 1-69 + i-iii pp. 138x86 mm.
Blue wrappers.
F.f.l. 1839 (Bib Can, NUC, TPL 7548).
Part I of Perrault's two-part Traite d'agriculture pratique, 1831.
This contains instructions for teachers and pupils of the
elementary schools of the parish for the cultivation of a kitchen
garden.