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
BOSTON. GORDON (<i>Rev.</i> Wm.)BOSTON. GORDON (<i>Rev.</i> Wm.)	Plan of a Society for making Provision for Widows by Annuities Plan of a Society for making Provision for Widows by Annuities		1772	USD -	1.88
BOSTON. [GREEN (JOSEPH)]	Entertainment for A Winter's Evening: being A Full and True Account Of a very strange and wonderful Sight seen in Boston on the twenty-seventh of December At Noon-Day. The Truth of which can be attested by a great Number of People, who actually saw the sa	Boston	n. d. [1749--1750]	USD -	20.00
BOSTON. HALES (J. G.)	Survey of Boston and its Vicinity.	Boston	1821	USD -	1.00
BOSTON. [HOMANS (I. S.)]	History of Boston, from 1630 to 1856.	Boston	1856	USD -	2.25
BOSTON. [HOMER (J. L.)]	Notes on the Sea-Shore. Sketches descriptive of Hull, Nahant, and South and North Shores, Islands in Boston Harbor, Vicinity of Boston, etc.	Boston	1851	USD -	1.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION. [DOUGLASS (Wm.) <i>M.D.</i>]	Inoculation of the Small Pox As practised in Boston, Consider'd in a Letter to A---S---[Alex. Stuart] M.D. & F.R.S. in London		1722	USD -	120.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION. BOYLSTON (Zabdiel)	An Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New-England, .... With some short Directions to the Unexperienced in this Method of Practice. Humbly dedicated to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, By Zabdiel Boylston, F.R.S. The Second Edition	London	1726	USD -	40.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION	[A Friendly Debate, between Mun-Dungus Sawney and Academicus]	[Boston]	[1722]	USD -	3.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION. [DOUGLASS (<i>Dr.</i> Wm.)]	The Abuses and Scandals of some late Pamphlets In Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox, Modestly obviated, and Inoculation further consider'd in a Letter to A---S---M.D. & F.R.S. in London		1722	USD -	26.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION	Inoculation of the Small Pox as practised in Boston, Consider'd in a Letter to A---S---M.D. & F.R.S. in London. [By Dr. Wm. Douglass]		1722	USD -	28.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION. COOPER (Rev. Wm.)	A Reply to the Objections made against taking the Small Pox in the Way of Inoculation etc., The Third Impression [with a Preface, dated March 4, 1729--30]		1730	USD -	25.00
BOSTON. INOCULATION. KNAPP (S. L.)	Extracts from a Journal of Travels in North America, consisting of an Account of Boston and its Vicinity. By Ali Bey		1818	USD -	0.50
BOSTON	Local Loiterings, and Visits in the Vicinity of Boston; by a Looker-on.		1845	USD -	1.25
BOSTON. LOVELL (JOHN)	A Funeral Oration Deliver'd At the Opening of the Annual Meeting of the Town, March 14th, 1742. in Faneuil-Hall in Boston: Occasion'd By the Death of the Founder, PETER FANEUIL, Esq;		1743	USD -	3.50
BOSTON. LOVELL (JOHN)	The same		1743	USD -	1.00
BOSTON. MASSACREBOSTON. MASSACRE	A Short Narrative of The horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment; .. with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe A Short Narrative of The horrid		1770	USD -	3.25
BOSTON. MASSACRE	A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment, .. With some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe	London, repr.	1770	USD -	2.75
BOSTON MASSACRE	A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, etc., With some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe	Boston	1770	USD -	2.25
BOSTON MASSACRE	A Fair Account of the late Unhappy Disturbance at Boston in New England; . With an Appendix, containing Affidavits and other Evidences .. not mentioned in the Narrative published at Boston	London	1770	USD -	7.00
BOSTON MASSACRE	Trial of W. Wemms, J. Hartegan, W. M'Cauley [and others,] Soldiers in his Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot, for the murder of C. Attucks, Samuel Gray [and others], on Monday evening, March 5th, 1770 .. Taken in short-hand by J. Hodgson		1770	USD -	16.00
BOSTON MASSACRE	Trial of the British Soldiers of the 29th Regt. of Foot, for the Murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray [and others], March 5, 1770		1824	USD -	1.25
BOSTON MASSACRE. HANCOCK (JOHN)	Oration delivered March 5th, 1774, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to commemorate The Bloody Tragedy of the 5th of March, 1770	Newport	1774	USD -	3.00
BOSTON MASSACRE	FIFTH OF MARCH ORATIONS, (original editions,) 1771--1783; Oration on the Re-interment of Warren's Remains, 1776; and Fourth of July Orations, 1783--86;		1771--1786	USD -	26.00
BOSTON MASSACRE	Orations delivered in Boston [1771--83] to commemorate the 5th of March, 1770		[1785]	USD -	5.00
BOSTON MASSACRE	Orations delivered (in) Boston [1771--83] to commemorate the 5th of March, 1770; Second Edition		1807	USD -	5.50
BOSTON MASSACRE. Noble (O.)	Oration in Commemoration of March 5th	Newburyport	1775	USD -	7.50
BOSTON	Municipal Register for 1851	Boston	1851--1852	USD -	0.60
BOSTON	Newest Keep-Sake for 1839; containing the Doings of a recent Benevolent Convention.		1839	USD -	0.30
BOSTONBOSTON	Observations on Several Acts of Parliament,. and also on The Conduct of the Officers of the Customs, since those Acts were passed .. Published by the Merchants of Boston. Observations on Several Acts of Parliament,. and also on The Conduct of the Officers		1769	USD -	10.00
BOSTON. OTIS (JAMES)	Rudiments of Latin Prosody; with a Dissertation on Letters, and the Principles of Harmony in Poetick and Prosaick Composition		1760	USD -	11.50
BOSTON. (Pemberton)	Catalogue Of Curious and Valuable BOOKS, belonging to the late Reverend & Learned, Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton, Consisting of Divinity, Philosophy, History, Poetry, &c. generally well Bound: To be Sold by Auction, At the Crown Coffee-House in Boston, the Secon	Boston	1717	USD -	13.00
BOSTON. QUINCY (J.)	Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston, during Two Centuries, 1630--1830		1852	USD -	1.50
BOSTON. QUINCY (J.)	History of the Boston Athenaeum; with Biographical Notices	Cambridge	1851	USD -	2.75
BOSTON	Railroad Jubilee in 1851, Account of		1852	USD -	1.25
BOSTON. SARGENT (WINTHROP)	Boston: a Poem.		1803	USD -	4.50
BOSTON. SHAW (C.)	A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston		1817	USD -	6.00
BOSTON	Shawmut: or, the Settlement of Boston by the Puritan Pilgrims.		1847	USD -	0.63
BOSTON. SHURTLEFF (N. B.)	Topographical and Historical Description of Boston		1871	USD -	8.00
BOSTON	Sketches of Boston, past and present, and of some places in the Vicinity, [by J. L. Homer,]		1851	USD -	0.50
BOSTON. SNOW (C. H.)	History of Boston.		1828	USD -	15.00
BOSTON. SNOW (C. H.)	History of Boston.		1828	USD -	11.00
BOSTON	Solemnities at the Stone Chapel and Festival at the Exchange, in honour of the Russian Achievements over their French invaders		1813	USD -	1.00
BOSTON	Tax List. List of Taxpayers, showing the amount of Real and Personal Estate, etc.		1822	USD -	0.60
BOSTON. Tea (Destruction of) HOLLEY (ISRAEL)	Sermon preached at Suffield, [Conn.] Dec. 27, 1773, the next Sabbath after the Report arrived, that the People at Boston, had destroyed a large quantity of Tea, etc., by Israel Holly	Hartford	1774	USD -	22.00
BOSTON. Tea (Destruction of) HOLLEY (ISRAEL)	A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes, by a Citizen of New York	New York	1834	USD -	3.25
BOSTON. Tea (Destruction of) HOLLEY (ISRAEL)	Traits of the Boston Tea Party, being a Memoir of Geo. R. T. Hewes with a History of that Transaction. By a Bostonian	New York	1835	USD -	3.00
BOSTON. THATCHER (B. B.)	The Boston Book: being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature.	Boston	1837	USD -	1.50
BOSTON	THURSDAY LECTURE SERMONS. 1701--1797.		v. y.	USD -	9.00
BOSTON	TRIALS OF PIRATES. Arraignment, Trial, and Condemnation of Capt. John Quelch and others of his Company, for sundry Piracies, Robberies and Murder, at the Court-House in Boston, June 13, 1704. Perused by [Gov.] Joseph Dudley, etc.	London	1705	USD -	9.50
BOSTON	VADE MECUM for America: or a Companion for Traders and Travellers... To which is added, the Names of the Streets in Boston		1732	USD -	6.00
BOSTON	Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants in Town Meeting assembled, Oct. 28 and Nov. 2, 1772		[1772]	USD -	4.50
BOSTON	The same			USD -	3.00
BOSTON. WARREN (JOHN)	An Eulogy on the Hon. Thomas Russell, Delivered, May 4, 1796; with A Monody, sung after the Eulogy		1796	USD -	0.50
BOSTON. WARREN (J. C.)	The Great Tree on Boston Common		1855	USD -	1.25
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)]	Proposals for Printing by Subscription the History, etc. of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Brazen [i. e. Pownal], Commander of an American Squadron in the last Age .. In three Volumes in Quarto, Adorn'd throughout with Cuts. By Thomas Thumb, Esq;	n. p. [Boston]	1760	USD -	13.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)] WHITMAN (Z. G.)	Historical Sketch of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company		1820	USD -	2.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)] WHITMAN (Z. G.)	The same. 2d edition		1842	USD -	5.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)] WINES (E. C.)	A Trip to Boston, in a series of Letters		1838	USD -	1.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)]	WONDERFUL (The) APPEARANCE of an Angel, Devil & Ghost, to a Gentleman in the Town of Boston, In the Nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of December, 1774. To whom in some Measure may be attributed the Distresses that have of late fallen upon that unhappy M	New York	[1775]	USD -	8.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)]	THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE and Historical Chronicle. MDCCXLIII.---MDCCXLVI. Vols. I.--III. 3 vols.		1744--1746	USD -	75.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)]	The AMERICAN MAGAZINE, Jan.--August, Nov., and Dec., 1744, and Jan., 1745. 11			USD -	16.00
[WATERHOUSE (SAMUEL)]	The same, January, June, and August, 1744. 3			USD -	2.50
	THE ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement. Vol. I. For the Year 1774 [Jan.--Dec.]; Vol. II. Jan.--March, 1775. 22		1774--1775	USD -	30.00
	--- BOSTON MAGAZINE (The) Vols. I--III. (Oct. 1783--Oct. 1786)		1783--1786	USD -	63.00
	--- The Gentleman and Lady's Town and Country Magazine. Vol. I. May--Nov. 1784, incomplete, 5 numbers			USD -	6.50
	--- Courier de Boston; Affiches, Annonces, et Avis. Nov. 1--26, April--Oct., 1789 (all published)		1789	USD -	12.00
	--- THE MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE. Vols. I--VIII.		1789--1796	USD -	56.00
	--- THE NIGHTINGALE or a Melange de Litterature, a Periodical Publication [Weekly]; edited by J. Lathrop, jun. Vol. I. May to August, 1796.		1796	USD -	6.50
	--- Columbian Phoenix and Boston Review		1800	USD -	2.00
	--- New England Quarterly Magazine, Nos. 2, 3		1802	USD -	2.50
	--- Monthly Anthology		1803--1811	USD -	18.00
	--- The Polyanthos; a monthly Magazine; edited by J. T. Buckingham.		1806--1812	USD -	17.00
	--- The Polyanthos; enlarged; edited by J. T. Buckingham		1812--1814	USD -	9.00
	--- The Panoplist.		1806--1820	USD -	14.00
	--- The Emerald, or Miscellany of Literature.		1806--1807	USD -	3.00
	--- The Emerald; (New Establishment.) Vol. I.		1807--1808	USD -	3.50
	--- The Ordeal; a critical Journal of Politicks and Literature		1809	USD -	4.50
	--- BOSTON MONTHLY MAGAZINE; edited by S. L. Knapp. Vol. I. and Nos. 1, 2, of Vol. II. (all published)		1825--1826	USD -	4.25
	--- Bowen's Boston News Letter and City Record, Jan. 1826 to Jan. 1827. Edited by J. V. C. Smith		1826	USD -	6.00
	--- Mechanic's Magazine.		1830	USD -	2.00
	--- NEWSPAPERS. THE BOSTON Gazette, (Edes & Gill), one number (146) in 1758, and continuous from March, 1762, to Dec., 1764			USD -	35.00
	--- Newspapers. THE BOSTON GAZETTE, Jan. 1768--Dec. 1769 (Nos. 666--768)			USD -	25.00
	--- -- The same, Jan. 13, 1777--Dec. 28, 1778 (Nos. 1130--1270)			USD -	39.00
	--- -- BOSTON GAZETTE and EVENING POST, the two papers bound in one file, Jan. 1765--Dec. 1766			USD -	31.00
	--- -- BOSTON CHRONICLE, for the year 1768			USD -	9.00
	--- -- Boston Newspapers, 1764--82			USD -	160.00
	--- ALMANACS. Travis (Daniel) An Almanack of Coelestial Motions, etc. for .. 1709.---The same, for 1711.			USD -	3.50
	--- ALMANACS. An Almanack of the Coelestial Motions, etc., for the year of the Christian AEra, 1712 .... Fitted to the meridian of the Island of BARBADOES ... By Edward Holyoke, M. A. of Harvard College at Cambridge	Boston	1712	USD -	9.00
	--- An Almanack for the Year 1713 .. By a Lover of the Mathematicks	America	1713	USD -	4.00
	--- The Farmers Almanack (Corrected and Amended) For the Year 1714. By N. W[hittemore], A Lover of the Truth	America	1714	USD -	2.50
	--- The Young American Ephemeris For the Year 1715 ... By Increase Gatchell, Etat. 16, Apprentice to George Brownell School-Master, who Teacheth Writing, Cyphering, Navigation &c. Also Musick, Dancing &c.	Boston	1715	USD -	2.00
	--- An Almanack, for the Year, 1718. By Thomas Paine, B. A.	Boston	1718	USD -	14.00
--- (Robie.)	An Almanack .. for the Year, 1714 .. By Thomas Robie, M. A.	Boston	1714	USD -	7.50
--- INTERLEAVED ALMANACS	(Nine) Almanacs, with Interleaved record of the weather, &c., by Rev. STEPHEN WILLIAMS, of Longmeadow: ---T. Paine's Almanack for 1719.			USD -	13.50
	--- Almanacs		1701	USD -	21.50
	--- TRACTS. Copy of Letters sent to Great Britain by Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver and others, and returned to America, and laid before the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. 1773.---Resolves of Committee appointed to consider [the above] Lette	New London	1773	USD -	12.50
	--- PAMPHLETS: 1740--1800. T. Prince's Account of the Revival of Religion in Boston, 1740--43.		1823	USD -	8.25
	--- Pamphlets, 1801--1825. By-laws and orders, 1801. Facts &c. on bridge to [Dorchester Neck]		1806	USD -	7.20
	--- Pamphlets, 1827--1832. Review of case of the bridge to Charlestown		1827	USD -	7.20
	--- Pamphlets, 1835--1844. Eliot's address at opening Odeon		1835	USD -	1.25

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

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Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
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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.

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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.
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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.