History of Canada, from the time of its discovery, till the union year (1840-41): translated from "L'Histoire Du Canada" of F.X. Garneau, and accompanied with illustrative notes, etc, by Andrew Bell.
Montreal. Printed and Published by John Lovell. 1860. 8vo., 21cm, the First Edition in English, in three volumes, xxii,404,382,442pp. in the ordinal blind decorated grey brown cloth, gilt spine titles, small internal library bookplates on the front endpaper and small circular ink stamp on the title pages, slight haze on the bottom spine panels from the removed paper call labels, A fine set. Item #44096
Lande 262. cf.TPL 2459. Story p309. "Garneau was inspired by a remark in Lord Durham's Report that the French Canadians had neither a history or a literature. Using such documents as were then available, he wrote a French-Canadian classic, Histoire du Canada."
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