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The Seventh Report From The Select Committee Of The House Of Assembly Of Upper Canada On Grievances; to whom were referred Lord Viscount Goderich’s Despatch, to His Excellency Sir John Colborne, of the 8th November, 1832. To Which Is Added, The Report From The Same Committee, On The Petition Of William Forsyth, Late Proprietor Of The Niagara Falls Pavilion. W.L.Mackenzie, Esq. Chairman. Ordered, by the House of Assembly, to be Printed, (2,000 copies) 10th April, 1835.

(MACKENZIE, W[illiam] L[yon] [1795-1861]). UPPER CANADA. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. SELECT COMMITTEE ON GRIEVANCES. 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.
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De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus Quae Defossa Reperiuntur. Addita Dissertatione Fabii Columnae De Glossopetris.

SCILLA, Augustino [1629-1700]. 4to. pp. 4 p.l., 73, [5]. with half-title. additional engraved title & 30 engraved plates numbered 1-28 incl. 2 bis plates 11 & 23. engraved headpiece & initials. 19th century bds. (worn, paper chipped from spine & corners, scattered light foxing). bookplate & signature of Swiss-born American biologist & geologist, Louis Agassiz [1807-73]. Harvard University bookplate recording the copy as the gift of Agassiz’s son, scientist & engineer Alexander Agassiz. First Edition of the Latin Translation (first published in Italian in 1670) of this pioneering illustrated study of fossils by Italian Baroque artist and paleontologist Agostino Scilla. His researches in Sicily and Malta led to the publication of this work which affirmed that they were not of supernatural or divine origin but the remains of living creatures trapped in mud or soil that later turned into rock. Scilla also correctly identified what had previously been considered magical objects called ‘glossopetrae’ or ‘tongue stones’ as sharks’ teeth. In the appended dissertation Fabio Colonna describes how he had burnt these fossils to show that they were made of lime, organic matter, rather than minerals. The plates, engraved by Pietro Santi Bartoli after drawings of fossil specimens made by Scilla, include depictions of fossilized animal bones, teeth, shells, corals, snails, a hammer head shark and white shark. Scilla’s fossil collection was acquired in 1717 by John Woodward, an English physician, and now forms the nucleus of the collections of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University. Nissen ZBI 3780 (calling for frontispiece & 31 plates, apparently in error).
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