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Rare Books and Special Collections Fonds
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Robertson Masson & Co. Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 1308
  • Fonds
  • 4 May 1835 - 16 October 1844

This fonds contains records created by Robertson Masson & Co. as part of their work as merchants between 1835 and 1844. Robertson Masson & Co. were based in Montreal and served clients in Ontario, Quebec, and in the northeastern United States.

Records in this fonds are arranged chronologically, and are divided into files based on the year of their creation. The fonds consists primarily of business correspondence that includes information about accounts and orders, as well as financial records such as bills, receipts, and statements of account.

Robertson Masson & Co.

Francis Okely Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 131
  • Fonds
  • 1778

This collection consists of "Hiel's letters. Thirty letters on theological subtleties". Upton, 1778. A note by E. Dowden ascribes the authorship of this work to Okely.

Okely, Francis, active 1778

Ann Hobbs Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 132
  • Fonds
  • 1866

This copy of Ann Hobbs' The Discarded Daughter, a Tragedy was made from Philipps MS.23881 in the British Museum by J. Smith.

Hobbs, Ann, active 1866

Ann Diamond fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 1353
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1975 and 1994

The fonds consists of Ann Diamond's manuscripts and literary archives.

Diamond, Ann, 1951-

Vera Frenkel Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 1354
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1950 and 1989

Fonds consists of correspondence, exhibition and performance files, film and video files, lectures and writings, teaching files, drawings, designs, posters, ephemera and clippings, primarily from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Frenkel, Vera

Grant Woolmer fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 1356
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1998

Fonds documents Grant Woolmer's career as an antiquarian book dealer. The records include:

  • Card File. 1954 – 1998, 628.5 cm of 3" x 5" (7.5 cm x 12.5 cm) index cards describing every book owned and sold by Grant Woolmer giving description and price. Over 30,000 cards.

  • Catalogues. 1954 – 1998, 180 cm. Complete run of catalogues of Antique Book Shop, later Grant Woolmer Books. Over 400 different catalogues.

  • Financial Records. 1954 – 1998, 250 cm. 6 ledgers giving daily income and disbursements; invoices, etc.

  • Mailing list, undated, 5 cm. Some 200 names of institutions, dealers and private collectors mimeographed on 7 sheets.

  • Newspaper clippings and ephemera. 1980 –1998, 5 cm. File consisting of clippings and articles relating to the antiquarian book trade, as well obituaries of antiquarian book dealers and collectors. About 200 items.

  • Bates List Finder. 1980s – 1990s, 3 cm. Alphabetical telephone directory and addresses for frequently called numbers.

Woolmer, Grant

David Rou Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 136
  • Fonds
  • 1797

Fonds contains manuscript of "Cours de réligion en vers," 1797.

Rou, David, active 1797

Baron John Belasyse Belasyse Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 140
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1680

Fonds consists of "spiritual testament" dedicated to his sisters, Lady Vavasor and Lady Ingram, written while Belasyse was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

Belasyse, John Belasyse, Baron, 1615-1689

Philip Pearsall Carpenter Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 144
  • Fonds
  • 1819-1877

Carpenter's "Orations on philosophical topics" stem from his days as a student at Manchester College, York.

Carpenter, Philip P. (Philip Pearsall), 1819-1877

Franco Moline Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 145
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1790

These papers consist of "Decimas" and "Quarteros", i.e. poems "compuestas a D. Franco Moline".

Moline, Franco, approximately 1790

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