Leavitt & Co.: Catalogue of the American library of the late Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. Part I, 1879yr,

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Auction Date: March 10, 1879 - March 10, 1879

Page Size: 2714 items in 28 pages

Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
TRACTS	Seventeen RARE tracts, bound in one volume, from the library of INCREASE MATHER, with a manuscript table of contents in his handwriting; having his name (autograph) on several of the title-pages, and occasional marginal notes. The binding is much w	London, and Cambridge, N. E.	v. y. (1643--1663)	USD -	155.00
TRACTS. Owen (John)	Church of Rome no Safe Guide, 1679.	London	v. y.	USD -	Not Sold
UDALL (JOHN)	The Key of the Holy Tongve: Wherein is conteineid, first The Hebrue Grammar .. out of P. Martinivs. Secondly, A practize upon the first, the twentie fift, and the syxtie eyght Psalmes, ... Thirdly, A short Dictionary, conteining the Hebrue woords that are	Leyden	1593	USD -	30.00
Usher (J.)Usher (J.)	Annales Vet. Testamenti. Annales Vet. Testamenti.		1650	USD -	3.00
BEAUMONT (JOHN)	Treatise on Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices.	London	1705	USD -	12.50
BRINLEY (JOHN)	A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches and Astrologers	London	1680	USD -	16.00
BRINLEY (JOHN)	The same		1680	USD -	19.00
CALEF (ROBERT)	More Wonders of the Invisible World: Or, The Wonders of the Invisible World Display'd in Five Parts. PART I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, Written by the Rev. Mr. C. M. P. II. Several Letters to the Author, etc. And his Reply relat	London	1700	USD -	190.00
CALEF (R.)	More Wonders of the Invisible World	Salem	1823	USD -	2.50
CALEF (R.)	The Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed. In Five Parts, etc.	Boston	1828	USD -	5.00
COOPER (THOMAS)	The Mystery of Witchcraft. Discovering, the Truth, Nature, Occasions, Growth and Power thereof. Together with the Detection and Punishment of the same. As also, the Seuerall Stratagems of Sathan, ensnaring the poore Soule by this desperate Practize of ann	London	1617	USD -	21.00
DRAKE (S. G.)	The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: its Rise, Progress, and Termination, as exhibited by Dr. COTTON MATHER, in The Wonders of the Invisible World; and by Mr. ROBERT CALEF, in his More Wonders of the Invisible World. With Preface, Introdu	Roxbury	1866	USD -	9.00
DRAKE (S. G.)	The same work		1866	USD -	10.50
DRAKE (S. G.)	The same work		1866	USD -	9.00
DRAKE (S. G.)DRAKE (S. G.)	Annals of Witchcraft in New England and elsewhere in the U. States Annals of Witchcraft in New England and elsewhere in the U. States	Boston	1869	USD -	8.75
ESSEX WITCHESESSEX WITCHES	A true and exact Relation Of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, executed in the County of Essex [England], .. arraigned and condemned at Chelmesford, .. 29 of July, 1645 .. Published by Authoritie A true and exac	London	1645	USD -	25.00
GLANVIL (Jos.)	A Blow at Modern Sadducism in some Philosophical Considerations about Witchcraft, with an Account of the Famous Disturbance at the House of M. Mompesson		1668	USD -	8.00
GLANVIL (J.)GLANVIL (J.)	Essays on several Important Subjects Essays on several Important Subjects	London	1676	USD -	4.25
GLANVIL (J.)	Saducismus Triumphatus, or full and plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. With a Letter of Dr. Henry More, on the same subject	London	1681	USD -	5.00
GLANVIL (J.)	The same.	London	1726	USD -	18.00
HALE (JOHN)	A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft, and How Persons Guilty of that Crime may be Convicted: And the means used for their Discovery Discussed, both Negatively and Affirmatively, according to Scripture and Experience. By John	Boston	1702	USD -	105.00
HALE (JOHN)	A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft.	Boston	1702	USD -	120.00
HALE (JOHN)	A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft, etc.	[Repr.] Boston	1771	USD -	90.00
HUTCHINSON (FRANCIS)	An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft.	London	1720	USD -	2.50
HUTCHINSON (T.)	The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692. By Governor Thos. Hutchinson. From an unpublished Manuscript in the Mass. Archives. With notes by Wm. F. Poole	Boston	1870	USD -	0.50
LAWSON (DEODAT)LAWSON (DEODAT)	Christ's Fidelity the only Shield against Satan's Malignity. A [Lecture] Sermon at Salem-Village, the 24th of March, 1692 .. a time of Publick Examination of some Suspected for Witchcraft. Christ's Fidelity the only Shield against Satan's Malignity. A [Le	Reprinted, London	1704	USD -	10.50
	A MAGICAL VISION, Or a Perfect Discovery of the Fallacies of Witchcraft, As it was late represented in a pleasant Sweet Dream to a Holy sweet Sister, etc.	London	1673	USD -	15.00
MATHER (COTTON)MATHER (COTTON)	Late Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, Clearly Manifesting, Not only that there are Witches, but that Good Men (as well as others) may possibly have their Lives shortned by such evil Instruments of Satan. The Second Impression	London	1691	USD -	46.00
MATHER (COTTON)	The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England: And of Several Remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring. By Cotton Mather. Published by the Special Command of his Excellency the Governo	Boston, printed: Repr. London	1693	USD -	40.00
[MATHER (COTTON)]	Pietas in Patriam. The Life of Sir William Phips, Knt., Governor of Massachusetts.	London	1697	USD -	16.00
MATHER (INCREASE)	Angelographia, or A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Power of the Holy Angels, and the Great Benefit which the True Fearers of God Receive by their Ministry: .. in several Sermons: added, A Sermon concerning .. the Fallen Angels: Also, a Disquisition c	Boston	1696	USD -	12.00
[POOLE (Wm. F.)]	The Mather Papers.---Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft. Reprinted [100 copies, only,] from the Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 28, 1868	Boston	1869	USD -	5.50
[POOLE (Wm. F.)]	Cotton Mather & Witchcraft. Two Notices of Mr. Upham his Reply.	Boston	1870	USD -	2.25
	SALEM WITCHCRAFT, Comprising [Calef's] More Wonders of the Invisible World, and [Cotton Mather's] Wonders of the Invisible World: With Notes, etc., by S. P. Fowler	Salem	1861	USD -	2.00
	SALEM WITCHCRAFT: Comprising [Calef's] More Wonders of the Invisible World, and [C. Mather's] Wonders of the Invisible World: With Notes and Explanations, by S. P. Fowler	Boston	1865	USD -	3.25
SALEM WITCHCRAFT	Records of Salem Witchcraft, copied from the Original Documents.	Albany	1864	USD -	8.00
	SOME FEW REMARKS upon a Scandalous Book, against the Government and Ministry of New-England, Written by one Robert Calef. Detecting the Unparrallel'd Malice & Falsehood of the said Book ... Composed and Published by several Persons belonging to the Flock	Boston	1701	USD -	23.00
THACHER (J.)	An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts, and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions. Also, an Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem, in 1692	Boston	1831	USD -	2.50
	TRYAL OF WITCHES at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the County of Suffolk, March, 1664, Before Sir Matthew Hale, Kt.	London	1682	USD -	10.50
	Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, March, 1664: Before Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. .. Reprinted verbatim from the Original Edition of 1682.	London	1835	USD -	26.00
UPHAM (C. W.)	Lectures on Witchcraft, comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem in 1692	Boston	1831	USD -	2.00
UPHAM (C. W.)	Salem Witchcraft, with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions upon Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects	Boston	1867	USD -	12.00
UPHAM (C. W.)	The same.	Boston	1867	USD -	17.00
WEBSTER (JOHN)	The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, wherein it is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, .. But that there is a Corporeal League made betwixt the Devil and the Witch, or that he sucks on the Witches Body, or that Witches are tur	London	1677	USD -	36.00
[WILLARD (SAMUEL)?]	Some Miscellany Observations on our Present Debates respecting Witchcrafts, in a Dialogue between S. and B. By P. E. and J. A. Philadelphia, Wm. Bradford, for Hezekiah Usher, 1692.	Reprinted, Boston	1867	USD -	4.75
	The Witches: a Tale of New-England The Witches: a Tale of New-England	Bath [Me.]	1837	USD -	9.50
	--- Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Her Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay, May 29, 1706 to May 30, 1711	[Boston]	[1869]	USD -	2.25
	--- The Charter granted by King William and Queen Mary---Acts and Laws of the Province. [With additional Acts of May and October Sessions, 1714,]	Boston	1714	USD -	7.00
	--- The same. With Session Acts, May, 1714--Nov. 1719	Boston	1714[--1720]	USD -	12.00
	--- The Charter and The Explanatory Charter: Table: and Acts and Laws of the Province. With Session Acts to April, 1735	Boston	1726[--1734]	USD -	11.00
	--- The same. With Session Laws to July, 1737 (p. 626), with some manuscript "Justiciarie Records" of Thomas Barton, Esq., of Salem, 1746--51	Boston	1726[--1737]	USD -	11.00
	--- The Charter and Explanatory Charter. Table. Acts and Laws of the Province. With Session Acts, Nov. 1726--Jan. 1738--9	Boston	1726[--1738]	USD -	17.00
	--- Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court, (at the several Sessions) November, 1738, to May, 1742		1739--1742	USD -	15.00
	--- The Charter, &c. Explanatory Charter. Table. Acts and Laws of the Province. With Session Acts, May, 1742--Nov., 1752	Boston	1742[--1752]	USD -	11.00
	--- The Charter, &c. Acts and Laws of the Province. With Session Acts to Jan., 1762	Boston	1759[--1762]	USD -	10.00
	--- Temporary Acts and Laws	Boston	1742	USD -	5.00
	--- Temporary Acts and Laws	Boston	1755	USD -	5.00
	--- Temporary Acts and Laws.	Boston	1763	USD -	11.00
	--- Temporary Laws. The Acts Contained in this Book were ordered to be left out of the last Impression of Temporary Laws and printed by themselves, viz., Impost Act, [1762], Act for granting an Excise upon Spirits, &c. [1762], Act for providing and mainta	Boston	1763	USD -	2.50
	--- Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province	Boston	1814	USD -	4.25
	--- Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth, From the Commencement of the Constitution, [Oct., 1780--May, 1789,]	Boston	1789	USD -	14.00
	--- Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth. 1781, Sept.	Boston	1781--1801	USD -	14.00
	--- Acts and Laws, May, 1802, to Jan., 1803, pp. 1--234, with Title of Vol. IV; Nov. 1804--Mch. 1805, (pp. 543--698).	Boston	1802--1805	USD -	5.00
	--- Resolves of the General Assembly of the State. Sessions, 1779, May 26--Sept.	Boston	1779--1805	USD -	8.00
	JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE of Representatives. May, 1717		1717--1723	USD -	7.50
	Journal of the House of Representatives; May, 1760--April, 1761		1761--1769	USD -	30.00
	Journals of the Provincial Congresses, 1774--75	Boston	1838	USD -	1.50
	SPEECHES OF THE GOVERNORS of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1775, and other Public Papers relating to the Dispute between this Country and Great Britain.	Boston	1818	USD -	1.00
	Collection of Acts or Laws passed in the State of Massachusetts Bay relative to the American Loyalists.	London	1785	USD -	1.50
	--- The same	London	1785	USD -	1.50
[Parsons (T.)]	Result of the Convention of Delegates at Ipswich to take into Consideration the Constitution proposed by the State Convention	Newburyport	1778	USD -	7.00
[Parsons (T.)]	Result of the Convention of Delegates at Ipswich to take into Consideration the Constitution proposed by the State Convention			USD -	3.75
	Journal of the Convention for framing a Constitution for Massachusetts, 1779--80	Boston	1832	USD -	0.60
	Constitution agreed upon by the Convention, 1779--80, and ratified by the People, Oct. 25, 1780	Worcester	[1780]	USD -	2.00
	Address from the General Court to the People of Massachusetts	Boston	1786	USD -	4.50
	Debates, Resolutions, and other Proceedings of the Convention convened Jan. 9, 1788, to ratify the [Federal] Constitution; with the Constitution prefixed	Boston	1788	USD -	1.00
	--- The same. With the Amendments which have been added.	Boston	1808	USD -	0.60
	Constitution of the State and of the United States, Declaration of Independence, and Washington's Farewell Address, printed by Order of the General Court, and by them recommended to be read as a School Book.	Stockbridge	n. d.	USD -	1.00
	--- The same.	Boston	1805	USD -	0.50
	Constitutions of Massachusetts and of the U. S., Declaration of Independence, and Washington's Farewell Address	Brookfield	1807	USD -	0.50
	Constitutional Convention, 1820--21. Journal of the Debates and Proceedings	Boston	1821	USD -	0.50
	Constitutional Convention, 1853. Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings	Boston	1853	USD -	1.65
[CURTIS (G. T.) <i>and others</i>]	Discussions on the Constitution proposed to the People of Massachusetts by the Convention of 1853.	Boston	1854	USD -	0.50
LEAVITT (Jona.)	Summary of the Laws of Massachusetts relative to Paupers.	Greenfield	1810	USD -	0.50
	The Overseer's Guide; or, a History of the Laws of Massachusetts respecting Paupers.	Brookfield	1815	USD -	0.50
[Ames (Ellis)]	Qualification for Voting in the Provincial Charter of Massachusetts	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	0.50
[Ames (Ellis)]	A Model for Erecting a Bank of Credit; with a Discourse in Explanation thereof. Adapted to the Use of any Trading Countrey, where there is a Scarcity of Moneys: More Especially for his Majesties Plantations in America.	London, Reprinted at Boston	1688 [1714]	USD -	25.00
[Ames (Ellis)] DUDLEY (PAUL)	Objections to the Bank of Credit lately projected at Boston. Being a Letter upon that Occasion, to John Burrill, Esq; Speaker to the House of Representatives for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay	Boston	1714	USD -	10.00
[Ames (Ellis)]	Some Considerations Upon the several sorts of BANKS Propos'd as a Medium of Trade: and Some Improvements that might be made in this Province, hinted at	Boston	1716	USD -	27.00
[Ames (Ellis)]	The Present Melancholy Circumstances of the Province Consider'd, and Methods for Redress humbly proposed, in a Letter from one in the Country to one in Boston	Boston	1719	USD -	27.00
[Ames (Ellis)] [COLMAN (JOHN)]	The Distressed State of the Town of Boston, &c. Considered. In a Letter from a Gentleman in the Town, to his Friend in the Countrey	Boston	1720	USD -	11.00
[Ames (Ellis)]	A Letter from One in the Country to his Friend in Boston, containing some Remarks upon a late Pamphlet, entituled, The Distressed State of the Town of Boston, &c.	Boston	1720	USD -	11.00
	A Vindication of The Remarks of One in the Country, upon The Distressed State of Boston, from some Exceptions made against 'em in a Letter to Mr. Colman	Boston	1720	USD -	21.00
	--- A Project for the Emission of an Hundred Thousand Pounds of Province Bills, in such a Manner as to keep their Credit up Equal to Silver, and to bring an Hundred Thousand Pounds of Silver Money into the Country in a few Years	Boston	1720	USD -	10.50
	Reflections On the Present State of the Province of Massachuset-Bay in General, and Town of Boston in Particular; Relating to Bills of Credit and the Support of Trade by Them: As the same has been lately represented in several Pamphlets	Boston	1720	USD -	16.00
--- COLMAN (JOHN)	The Distressed State of the Town of Boston Once more Considered. And Methods for Redress humbly proposed. With Remarks on the pretended Country-man's Answer to ... The Distressed State of Boston &c. With a Schaeme for a Bank laid down: And Methods	Boston	[1720]	USD -	25.00
	--- New News from Robinson Cruso's Island, in a Letter to a Gentleman at Portsmouth	Cruso's Island [Boston]	1720	USD -	26.00
	--- News from the Moon. A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 7. Numb. 14. Page 53.---Tuesday, May 2. 1710.	n. p. [Boston]	n. d. [1721?]	USD -	10.00
	--- A Letter to an Eminent Clergy-Man in the Massachusett's Bay, Containing some Just Remarks, and necessary Cautions, relating to Publick Affairs in that Province	n. p. [Boston]	1720--[1721]	USD -	16.00
	--- A Letter from a Gentleman in Mount Hope, to his Friend in Treamount	n. p. [Boston]	n. d. [1721]	USD -	11.00

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