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Sale Name
Catalogue of the American library of the late Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. Part I
Auction Date
03/10/1879 - 03/10/1879
Year of Sale
1879
Sale Number
#1879yr
Total Lots
2714
Sold Lots
2714
Lots Sold
100.0%
Unsold Lots
0
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
48,783.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
7,545,450.00

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN) The General Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer-Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning Ano: 1584. to this present 1624. With the Proceedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accidents

1624

 USD - 1,800.00
BRERETON (JOHN) A Briefe and true Relation of the Discouerie of the North part of Virginia; being a most pleasant, fruitfull and commodious soile. Made this present yeere 1602, by Captaine Bartholomew Gosnold, Cap- taine Bartholowmew Gilbert, and diuers other gentlemen t

1602

 USD - 1,600.00
The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God.

1640

 USD - 1,200.00
HUBBARD (WM.) The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New.---Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England For th

1663

 USD - 1,000.00
HUBBARD (WM.) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England For the Pr

1661

 USD - 700.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, etc.

1663

 USD - 550.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe UP-BIBLUM GOD Naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament.---Ne quoshkinnumuknashpe Wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John Eliot. Nahohtoeu ontchetoe Printeuoomuk.

1685

 USD - 500.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Mamusse Wunnutupanatamwe Up-Biblum God .. Ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe .. John Eliot. Nahohtoeu ontchetoe Printeuoomuk.

1685, 1680

 USD - 500.00
PSALMS The Whole Book of Psalmes, Faithfully translated into English Metre; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse, declaring not onely the lawfulnesse, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God.

1647

 USD - 435.00
NEW HAVEN COLONY New-Haven's Settling in New-England. And some LAWES for Government: Published for the Use of that Colony. Though some of the Orders intended for present convenience, may probably be hereafter altered, and as need requireth other Lawes added.

1656

 USD - 380.00
NEW HAVEN COLONY New Havens Settling in New-England. And some LAWES for Government, &c.

1656

 USD - 310.00
MATHER (COTTON) A POEM Dedicated to the Memory of The Reverend and Excellent Mr. URIAN OAKES, the late Pastor to Christ's Flock, and Praesident of Harvard-Colledge, in Cambridge, Who was gathered to his People on 25d 5mo 1681. In the fifty'th Year o

1682

 USD - 300.00
The Book of the General LAWS For the People within the Jurisdiction of Connecticut; Collected out of the Records of the General Court, Lately Revised, and with some Emendations and Additions, Established and Published by the Authority of the General Court

1673

 USD - 300.00
CHAMPLAIN Les Voyages de la Novvelle France Occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr de Champlain Xaincton-geois, etc. .. Ensemble vne Carte generalle de la description dudit pays, etc. map "Faicte l'an 1632 par le sieur de Champlain,"

1632

 USD - 280.00
MATHER (INCREASE)MATHER (INCREASE) A Brief History of the Warr With the Indians in NEVV-ENGLAND. (From June 24, 1675. when the first English-man was murdered by the Indians, to August 12, 1676. when Philip, alias Metacomet, the principal Author and Beginner of the Warr, was s

1676

 USD - 260.00
GILBERT (<i>Sir</i> HUMPHREY) A Discovrse Of a Discouerie for a new Pas-sage to Cataia. VVritten by Sir Hvm-frey Gilbert Knight. Quid non?

1576, Aprilis 12

 USD - 255.00
BULKELEY (GERSHOM) <i>of Wethersfield, Conn.</i> The People's Right to Election or Alteration of Government in Connecticott Argued, In a Letter; By Gershom Bulkeley, Esq; one of their Majesties Justices of the peace In the County of Hartford. Together with a Letter to the said Bulkeley, from a Friend of

1689

 USD - 235.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN) The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: .. from their first beginning Ano: 1584. to this present 1626, etc.

1632

 USD - 230.00
GORGES (FERDINANDO) America Painted to the Life, etc.

1659

 USD - 225.00
A DECLARATION OF FORMER Passages and Proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowgansets, with their confederates, Wherin the grounds and iustice of the ensuing warre are opened and cleared. Published, by order of the Commissioners for the united Coloni

n. d. [1645]

 USD - 215.00
SYMMES (THOMAS) HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE BATTLE AT PIGGWACKET. --- Lovewell Lamented. Or, A Sermon Occasion'd by the Fall Of the Brave Capt. John Lovewell And Several of his Valiant Company, In the late Heroic Action at Piggwacket. Pronounc'd at Bradford, May 16 1725 By Thomas Symmes, V. D. M. ... [With An Histori

1725

 USD - 215.00
ACTS AND LAWS, of His Majesties Colony of Connecticut in New-England.

1702

 USD - 210.00
MATHER (COTTON) AN ELEGY on The Much-to-be-deplored Death of that Never-to-be-forgotten Person, The Reverend Mr. NATHANAEL COLLINS; Who After he had been many years a faithful Pastor to the Church at Middletown of Connecticut in New-England, about the Forty-third year of

1685

 USD - 205.00
HUBBARD (WM.) MANITOWOMPAE POMANTAMOONK: Sampwshanau Christianoh Uttoh woh an Pomantog Wussikkitteahonat God.

1665

 USD - 205.00
PYNCHON (WILLIAM) of Springfield. The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, Iustification, &c. Cleering it from some common Errors, etc. By William Pinchin, Gentleman, in New-England

1650

 USD - 205.00
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  • <center><b>Swann<br>Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books<br>December 9, 2025</b></center> <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, <i>Americae pars Borealis,</i> double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, <i>Map of the United States,</i> London and Liverpool, 1827. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575. <center><b>Swann<br>Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books<br>December 9, 2025</b></center> <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, <i>Chart of the World,</i> oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800). <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, <i>A General Atlas,</i> 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 240: Anthony Finley, <i>A New American Atlas,</i> 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826. <center><b>Swann<br>Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books<br>December 9, 2025</b></center> <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 263: John Bachmann, <i>Panorama of the Seat of War,</i> portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, <i>Cosmographei,</i> Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, <i>Epitome Theatri Orteliani,</i> Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601. <center><b>Swann<br>Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books<br>December 9, 2025</b></center> <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, <i>Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae,</i> Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, <i>Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt,</i> 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623. <b>Swann, Dec. 9:</b> Lot 341: John James Audubon, <i>Carolina Parrot, Plate 26,</i> London, 1827.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
  • <b><center>SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions<br>The Odfjell Collection<br>Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books<br>Ending December 4th</center></b> <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY! <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911. <b><center>SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions<br>The Odfjell Collection<br>Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books<br>Ending December 4th</center></b> <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ]. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD. <b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> J.K. Rowling. <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,</i> 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Hooke, Robert. <i>Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.</i> London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Chappuzeau, Samuel. <i>The history of jewels,</i> first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 12:</b> Sowerby, James. <i>Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions,</i> London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.