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
	Public Statute Laws. Book II. Oct. 1808--May, 1819	Hartford	1808--1819	USD -	5.25
	Public Statute Laws [Session Acts] 1827--33	Hartford	1827--1833	USD -	2.00
	PUBLIC STATUTE LAWS, &c. Compiled in obedience to a Resolve of the General Assembly, May, 1835	Hartford	1835	USD -	1.00
	PUBLIC STATUTE LAWS, (Session Acts,) 1836, 1837, 1839, 1839--43, 1845--50, 1854. (10)	Hartf. and N. Haven	1836--1854	USD -	2.50
Swift (Zeph.)	System of the Laws of Connecticut.	Windham	1795	USD -	6.00
WEDGWOOD (W. B.)	Statutes of Connecticut, reduced to Questions and Answers for Schools and Families.	Hartford	1844	USD -	0.60
Kirby (E.)	Reports of Cases adjudged in the Superior Court, with some determinations in the Supreme Court of Errors (1785--88)	Litchfield	1789	USD -	6.00
	RESOLVES and PRIVATE ACTS of the State of Connecticut, 1789--1836	Hartford	1837	USD -	2.25
	Resolves and Private Acts, May Session, 1837, to May Session, 1846, inclusive	Hartf. and N. Haven	1837--1846	USD -	1.13
PUBLIC ACTS	Sessions 1871--73.	Hartford	1871--1873	USD -	3.00
GENERAL ASSEMBLY	Public Documents of the Legislature of Connecticut, 1871, 1872, and 1873.	Hartford	1871--1873	USD -	0.75
GENERAL ASSEMBLY	SENATE JOURNAL, 1866,--71,--72,--73; House Journal, 1865,--68,--71,--72,--73; Special Acts, 1871--73.			USD -	1.20
	COLONIAL RECORDS of Connecticut: 1636--1689, edited by J. Hammond Trumbull. (3 vols.)---1689--1716, edited by C. J. Hoadly.	Hartford	1850--1870	USD -	30.00
	COLONIAL RECORDS, 1636--65; edited, with notes, by J. H. Trumbull	Hartford	1848	USD -	4.00
	Account of the Number of Inhabitants in the Colony of Connecticut, Jan. 1, 1774, with an Account of the Number of Inhabitants, taken Jan. 1, 1756.	Hartford	1774	USD -	26.00
	Agricultural Society of Conn. Transactions for 1854.	Hartford	1855	USD -	0.50
BARBER (J. W.)	Historical Collections of Connecticut	New Haven	[1838]	USD -	5.50
BISHOP (ABRAHAM)	Connecticut Republicanism. An Oration delivered in New Haven, Sept. 1800.	Philadelphia	1800	USD -	4.00
Blue Laws	The Code of 1650, to which is added some Extracts from the Laws of New Haven Colony, commonly called, Blue Laws	Hartford	1822	USD -	3.50
Blue Laws	The Code of 1650, to which is added some Extracts from the Laws of New Haven Colony, commonly called, Blue Laws			USD -	2.00
Blue Laws	The same	Hartford	1825	USD -	1.00
Blue Laws	The same	Hartford	n. d.	USD -	1.00
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	Philadelphia	1689	USD -	235.00
BULKLEY (JOHN)	An Impartial Account of a late Debate at Lyme, in Connecticut, (On the three following heads, viz., I. The Subjects of Baptism. II. The Mode of Baptizing. III. The Maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel.) .. To which is added, A Narrative of one la	New London	1729	USD -	45.00
	Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Memoirs	New Haven	1810	USD -	3.50
Connecticut Historical Society	Collections	Hartford	1860, 1870	USD -	6.00
Connecticut Historical Society	Act of Incorporation	Hartford	1825	USD -	0.60
	CONNECTICUT REGISTER (Green's), 1785, 1786, and 1789 to 1848	N. London and Hartford	1785--1848	USD -	12.40
	CONNECTICUT REGISTER (Norton & Russell's), 1827, 1828, 1829	Hartford	1827--1829	USD -	0.60
	CONNECTICUT REGISTER (Bradley's), 1847 to 1856, inclusive, 1859, 1861, 1862.	Hartford	1847--1862	USD -	5.20
CONNECTICUT RIVER IMPROVEMENT	Act to incorporate Conn. River Co.		1824	USD -	2.63
CUTLER (TIMOTHY)	Rector of Yale College. The Depth of the Divine Thoughts: and the Regards due to Them. A Sermon delivered in the Audience of the General Assembly ... at New-Haven, Octob. 18th, 1719, RARE.	New London	1720	USD -	3.00
DE FOREST (J. W.)	History of the Indians of Connecticut	Hartford	1851	USD -	1.50
	ELECTION SERMONS: 1713 to 1830 (inclusive), in good order for binding, except the Sermon for 1727, which wants the last leaf. 114 Sermons.			USD -	57.00
	ELECTION SERMONS: 1717 to 1830 inclusive	v. p.		USD -	24.25
ELIOT (JARED), <i>M.A., of Killingworth.</i>	An Essay on the Invention, or Art of making very good, if not the best IRON, from black Sea Sand	New York	1762	USD -	31.00
ELIOT (Jared)	An Essay upon Field-Husbandry in New-England, As it is or may be Ordered	New London	1748	USD -	6.50
ELIOT (Jared)	A Continuation of the Essay upon Field-Husbandry .. The Fourth Part	New York	1753	USD -	6.75
ELIOT (Jared)	The Sixth Essay on Field-Husbandry.	New Haven	1759	USD -	1.25
ELIOT (JARED)	Essays upon Field-Husbandry in New England	Boston	1760	USD -	13.00
ELIOT (Jared)	BRAINERD Family in the United States, Genealogy of, by Rev. D. D. Field, D.D.	New York	1857	USD -	2.50
ELIOT (Jared)	DAVENPORT Family, History and Genealogy of, by A. Benedict Davenport	New York	1851	USD -	2.00
ELIOT (Jared)	CHAUNCEYS, Memorials of the, by Wm. Chauncey Fowler	Boston	1858	USD -	3.00
ELIOT (Jared)	FOOTE Family; or, the Descendants of Nathaniel Foote, one of the First Settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., by Nathaniel Goodwin	Hartford	1849	USD -	4.50
ELIOT (Jared) GOODWIN (NATHANIEL)	Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts	Hartford	1856	USD -	2.50
ELIOT (Jared) HINMAN (R. R.)	Catalogue of Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, [new edition,]	Hartford	1852--1856	USD -	18.50
ELIOT (Jared) HOLMES (John)	Letter of Directions to his Father's birthplace; with Notes and a Genealogy, by D. Williams Patterson	New York	1865	USD -	1.00
ELIOT (Jared)	HUNTINGTON Family, Genealogical Memoir of, by Rev. E. B. Huntington	Stamford	1863	USD -	3.00
GENEALOGY. Hinman (R. R.)	Catalogue of First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut	Hartford	1846--1848	USD -	17.00
ELIOT (Jared)	STEBBINS. A Genealogy of the Family of Mr. Samuel and Mrs. Hannah Stebbins, from 1707 to 1771	Hartford	1771	USD -	30.00
ELIOT (Jared) Thomson (John)	Genealogy of [the descendants of], by Ignatius Thomson	Taunton	1841	USD -	5.25
GENERAL ASSOCIATION of Connecticut	Address to the Consociated Pastors, etc.	N. York	1776	USD -	21.00
GENERAL ASSOCIATION of Connecticut	Minutes of the Gen. Conference, 1st and 3d Ann. Meeting, with Minutes of Gen. Association, 1869, 1871.			USD -	0.50
GOODRICH (C. A.)	Stories on the History of Connecticut.	Hartford	1829	USD -	1.00
GOODRICH (C. A.)	History of Connecticut.	Hartford	1833	USD -	1.00
GOODRICH (JOHN)	Civil and Executive Officer's Assistant, with the Power and Duty of Justices of the Peace [according to] the Laws of Connecticut	New Haven	1793	USD -	0.50
HINMAN (R. R.)	Antiquities, or Letters from English Kings and Queens to Governors of the Colony of Conn., with their Answers, and other Documents.	Hartford	1836	USD -	0.50
HINMAN (R. R.)	Historical Collection from Records, &c., of the Part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution	Hartford	1842	USD -	7.00
HOLLISTER (G. H.)	History of Connecticut	Hartford	1857	USD -	8.00
LEDYARD (JOHN)	Journal of Capt. Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1776 to 79	Hartford	1783	USD -	5.00
LEDYARD (John)	Journal of Captain Cook's Voyage.	Hartford	1783	USD -	0.50
MATHER (C.)	Seasonable Thoughts upon Mortality. A Sermon occasioned by the raging of a Mortal Sickness In the Colony of Connecticut ... Boston Lecture, 24. d. 11. m. 1711--12	Boston	1712	USD -	21.00
MILITIA	New Exercise of Firelocks and Bayonets. Published by a Lover of the Art Military.	New London	1717	USD -	3.50
MISSIONARY SOCIETY of Connecticut	(Vol. I.) A Narrative of Missions, 1793--4, 1794--5, 1796--7.	N. Haven	1794--1797	USD -	10.00
MOHEGAN CASE	Governor and Company of Connecticut, and Mohegan Indians, by their Guardians.--- Certified Copy of Book of Proceedings before Commissioners of Review	London	1769	USD -	115.00
PEASE (J. C.) and NILES (J. M.)	Gazetteer of Connecticut and Rhode Island	Hartford	1819	USD -	2.25
PERCIVAL (J. G.)	Report on the Geology of Connecticut	New Haven	1842	USD -	2.50
[PETERS (<i>The Rev.</i> Sam.)]	A General History of Connecticut. By a Gentleman of the Province.	London	1781	USD -	65.00
[PETERS (<i>The Rev.</i> Sam.)]	The same	London	1781	USD -	27.50
[PETERS (<i>The Rev.</i> Sam.)]	A General History of Connecticut ... By a Gentleman of the Province.	London	1782	USD -	17.00
[PETERS (<i>The Rev.</i> Sam.)]	The same.	N. Haven	1829	USD -	3.00
PETERS (SAMUEL)	A Sermon, preached at Charlotte Chapel, Pimlico, the 25th of March, 1787, on the death of Thomas Moffatt, M.D. Late of New London, in Connecticut	London	1787	USD -	8.00
ROBBINS (ARCHIBALD)	Journal, containing an Account of the Loss of the brig Commerce, and of the Slavery and sufferings of the Author, and the rest of the crew upon the Desert of Zahara.	Hartford	1817	USD -	0.50
Rogerenes. ROGERS (JOHN)	A Midnight Cry from the Temple of God, to the Ten Virgins, "Awake, awake, arise, and gird your Loins, and trim your Lamps, for behold the Bridegroom cometh," etc. n. t. p.	n. p. [prob. New York]	n. d. [about 1702]	USD -	10.00
Rogerenes. ROGERS (JOHN) ROGERS (JOHN)	Servant of Jesus Christ, Giving a Description of the True Shepherds of Christ's Flock, And also of the Anti-Christian Ministers; ... Also Something touching Baptism and the Lord's Supper.	Newport	1754	USD -	5.00
Rogerenes. ROGERS (JOHN) ROGERS (JOHN) <i>the second.</i>	Answer to a small Pamphlet [by Cotton Mather] entituled, A Monitory Letter about the Maintenance of an Able and Faithful Ministry	n. p. [New York?]	n. d. [1726]	USD -	5.00
Rogerenes. ROGERS (JOHN) PRATT (PETER)	The Prey taken from the Strong; or, An Historical Account of the Recovery of One from the Dangerous Errors of Quakerism. By the Subject of that Mercy. Added, an Account of the principal Articles of the Quaker's Faith, and A Brief Answer to John Rogers Boa	New London	1725	USD -	7.00
Rogerenes. ROGERS (JOHN) ROGERS (JOHN)	Answer to a Book by Peter Pratt, entitled, The Prey taken from the Strong	[N. Y.?] and sold at his house in New-London	1726	USD -	9.00
Rogerenes. ROGERS (JOHN) BOLLES (JOHN)	To Worship God in Spirit, & in Truth, is to Worship Him in the True Liberty of Conscience. With an Answer, by Jacob Johnson	n. p.	1756	USD -	3.00
Rogerenes. BOLLES (JOHN) and WALTERHOUS (JOHN)	Concerning the Christian Sabbath, also some Remarks upon a Book by Eben. Frothingham	n. p.	1757	USD -	6.00
Rogerenes. BOLLES (JOHN) and WALTERHOUS (JOHN) [BOLLES (JOSEPH)]	An Addition to the Book, Entituled, The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived. It being a short Account of some remarkable Persecutions in New-England, etc.	n. p. [New York?]	n. d. [1758]	USD -	14.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	Annals of the Troubles in the Netherlands, from the Accession of Charles V., a proper and seasonable Mirror for the present Americans.	Hartford	1778--1782	USD -	41.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	Annals of the Troubles in the Netherlands	Hartford	1778	USD -	2.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	A CONFESSION OF FAITH Owned and Consented to by the Elders and Messengers Of the Churches in the Colony of Connecticut in New-England, Assembled by Delegation at Say-Brook September 9th. 1708. New-London in N. E. Printed by Thomas Short. 171	New London	1710	USD -	100.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	A Confession of Faith, &c.	New London	1710	USD -	75.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	A Confession of Faith &c.	New London	1710	USD -	75.00
SAYBROOK PLATFORM	A Confession of Faith, &c.	New London	1760	USD -	5.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	A Confession of Faith, &c.	Bridgeport	1810	USD -	1.00
ROMANS (BERNARD)	A Confession of Faith, &c.	Hartf.	1831	USD -	0.50
Separatists. FROTHINGHAM (EBENEZER)	Articles of Faith and Practice, and Covenant of the Separate Churches in this Land. Also, a Discourse on the Privileges of the Church of Jesus Christ	Newport	1750	USD -	6.00
Separatists. FROTHINGHAM (Eben.)	A Key to unlock the Door, that leads in, to take a fair View of the Religious Constitution established by Law in the Colony of Connecticut	n. p. [Boston?]	1767	USD -	3.00
STRICT CONGREGATIONALISTS	An Historical Narrative and Declaration, shewing the Cause and Rise of the Strict Congregational Churches in the State of Connecticut, and their present Views, etc. Also, a Profession of their Faith and several Heads of Argument respecting Church D	Providence	1781	USD -	2.50
Shepard (C. U.)	Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut	New Haven	1837	USD -	1.00
[SIGOURNEY (<i>Mrs.</i> L. H.)]	Sketch of Connecticut Forty Years since.	Hartford	1824	USD -	3.50
	Society for Promoting Agriculture in Connecticut. Transactions	New Haven	1802	USD -	1.00
Stamp-Act. INGERSOLL (JARED)	Letters relating to the Stamp-Act	New Haven	1766	USD -	10.00
Stamp-Act	New Collection of Verses applied to the 1st of Nov. 1765, including a Prediction that the S---p A--t shall not take place in North America, etc.	New Haven	n. d. [1765]	USD -	10.00
Stamp-Act	Liberty and Property vindicated and the St .. pm. n burnt. A Discourse on burning the Effige of the St---pm -- n in New London.	Boston, repr.	1766	USD -	8.50
STILES (EZRA)	A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I.	Hartford	1794	USD -	60.00
SUSQUEHANNAH COMPANY. GALE (BENJ.)	Letter to J. W. Esquire, containing a Narrative of the principal matters which were Subjects of the Debates and Resolves of the General Assembly of Conn. Colony, in May, 1769	Hartford	1769	USD -	61.00

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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.
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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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