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
SUSQUEHANNAH COMPANY	State of the Lands said to be once within the Bounds of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut, west of New York	New York	1770	USD -	32.00
SUSQUEHANNAH COMPANY	Right of the Governor and Company of Connecticut to the Lands within the Limits of their Charter, stated and considered, in a Letter to J. H., Esq.	Hartford	1773	USD -	25.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS	Report of the Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly [of Conn.] to Treat with the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania	Norwich	1774	USD -	28.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS [SMITH (W.)]	Examination of the Connecticut Claim to Lands in Pennsylvania, with an Appendix	Philadelphia	1774	USD -	16.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS [TRUMBULL (B.)]	Plea in Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the Contested Lands West of New York	New Haven	1774	USD -	5.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS [TRUMBULL (B.)]	Plea in Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the Contested Lands West of New York			USD -	6.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS	The Susquehannah Case	[Norwich]	[1774?]	USD -	32.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS [BIDWELL (B.)]	The Susquehannah Title Stated and Examined	Catskill	1796	USD -	32.50
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS PATTERSON (ALEX.)	Petition to the Legislature of Pennsylvania for Compensation for Monies Expended and Services Rendered in Defence of the Pennsylvania Title against Connecticut Claimants	Lancaster, Pa.	1804	USD -	3.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS. CONNECTICUT GORE	Articles of Agreement for Conducting the Business of the Conn. Gore Land Company		1796	USD -	33.00
SUSQUEHANNAH AND WESTERN LANDS. CONNECTICUT GORE	Rise, Progress, and Effect of the Claim of the Proprietors of the Conn. Gore	Hartford	1802	USD -	22.00
TRUMBULL (Benj.)	History of Connecticut. Vol. I.	Hartford	1797	USD -	6.50
TRUMBULL (Benj.)	History of Connecticut.	New Haven	1818	USD -	8.00
TRUMBULL (JONA.)	Address of His Excellency Governor Trumbull, to the General Assembly etc., Declining any further Election to public Office, With the Resolution of the Legislature thereon	New London	1783	USD -	1.00
WOLCOTT (ROGER)	Poetical Meditations, being the Improvement of some Vacant Hours .. With a Preface by the Reverend Mr. [John] Bulkley of Colchester	New London	1725	USD -	40.00
TALCOTT (JOHN)	MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK, 1674--88; including his accounts with the Colony, of his receipts and disbursements, as Treasurer, during the INDIAN WAR, 1675--6. Continued by his son, Samuel Talcott, to 1728.			USD -	105.00
	The Original Records of the Hartford County Court, April 8th, 1718, to June 9, 1719. Also, Records of the Court for the Trial of Small Causes, in Hartford, [before Hezekiah Wyllys Esq. J. P.,] June 21, 1727--May 17, 1731: and of the Court of Chancery or E			USD -	10.00
WOLCOTT (ROGER)	A Manuscript Outline History of Connecticut: being a narrative "of what hath fallen within [his] remembrance and observation,"		1759	USD -	52.50
DEANE (SILAS)	Memorial to Congress, Dec. 21, 1778; with the Documents by which it was supported; the Proceedings of the Committee of Secret Correspondence on his appointment (Mch. 2, 1776) as Agent and Commissioner to France, and his Instructions; Statement of his Acco			USD -	45.00
	TRACTS (Political) 1744--1799			USD -	6.00
	TRACTS (Political) 1800--1803.			USD -	5.50
	TRACTS (Political) 1804--1816			USD -	3.75
	TRACTS (Political, &c.) 1816--1830			USD -	2.50
	TRACTS (Political, &c.) 1834--1854			USD -	0.90
	Tracts (Ecclesiastical Controversies, etc.) 1737--1800.			USD -	11.00
Hartford. Devotion (John)	Discourse, May 25th, 1766, occasioned by that Alarming Providence, the Demolition of the School-House, by Gun Powder	Hartford	[1766]	USD -	1.75
Hartford. Devotion (John) Dorr (Edward)	The Duty of Civil Rulers to be nursing Fathers to the Church of Christ. Election Sermon, May IXth, 1765.	Hartford	1765	USD -	0.50
Hartford. Devotion (John) Dorr (Edward)	A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Honorable Daniel Edwards, Esq; of Hartford, ... Who Departed this Life, (at New-Haven,) September 6th, 1765	Hartford	[1765]	USD -	3.25
Hartford. Devotion (John) DWIGHT (T.)	History of the Hartford Convention; with a Review of the Policy of the U. S. Government, which led to the war of 1812	New York	1833	USD -	2.50
Hartford. [FITCH (THOMAS)]	An Explanation of the Say-brook Platform; or, The Principles of the Consociated Churches in the Colony of Connecticut	Hartford	1765	USD -	5.00
Hartford. Devotion (John) Hawes (Joel)	Address delivered Nov. 9, 1835, at the close of the Second Century from the first Settlement	Hartford	1835	USD -	1.25
Hartford. Devotion (John) Perry (Jos.)	Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Nathanael Hooker, Pastor of the fourth Church in Hartford, (comprising a biographical sketch,)	Hartford	1770	USD -	3.00
Hartford. Devotion (John) Perry (Jos.) Porter (W. S.)	Historical Notices of Connecticut; No. 1. Hartford in 1640	Hartford	1842	USD -	2.00
Hartford. Devotion (John) Perry (Jos.) Strong (Nathan)	Sermon, delivered before the People who were collected to the Execution of Moses Dunbar, Who was condemned for High Treason against the State of Connecticut, and executed March 19th, A. D. 1777	Hartford	1777	USD -	2.00
Hartford. Devotion (John) Perry (Jos.) [Stuart (I. W.)]	Hartford in the Olden Time, by Scaeva.	Hartford	1853	USD -	2.50
Hartford. Devotion (John) Perry (Jos.) DIRECTORIES	Hartford Pocket Register [and Business Directory], 1825.			USD -	17.55
	Hartford Pocket Register, with a Sketch of the Reception of Gen. La Fayette.	Hartford	1825	USD -	0.65
	--- Pamphlets (12) Wadsworth (D.) Sermon at the Opening of a New Meeting House [First Church], Dec. 30, 1739	N. London	1740	USD -	9.63
	--- Pamphlets (15) Abel Brewster's Brief Memoir, with a Picture of H. 1832.		1844	USD -	7.50
Hartford	Pamphlets (17) Chittenden's Reply to charge of heresy, 1845.			USD -	4.39
Hartford	Pamphlets. Amer. Asylum for Deaf and Dumb; Reports, 1835 to 1839, Hartford.			USD -	0.50
Hartford. Trinity College	Considerations on the Establishment of a Second College in Connecticut, 1824; Remarks on Washington College and on the "Considerations" etc., ut supra, 1825; Examination of the Remarks etc. 1825; Laws, n. d.; Benjamin (P.) Poem before			USD -	8.75
Hartford. Trinity College	Catalogue of Delta Phi Fraternity Society, 1851.			USD -	2.00
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	Gallaudet's Sermon at the opening of the Conn. Asylum, April 20, 1817; Laurent Clerc's Address, at the public examination, 1818; Gallaudet's Sermon on the Duty of instructing the D. & D., 1824; Annual Reports, 1st to 38th (1817--1854) inclusive, and 51st		1817--1867	USD -	4.20
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	Retreat for the Insane. Report of Com. of Conn. Medical Society, Constitution, &c., 1821; T. Robbins Address at Dedication of the Retreat, 1824.			USD -	0.50
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	The Hartford Gazette, Vol. I. (Jan. 13--June 26, 1794)	Hartford	1794	USD -	15.00
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	The Connecticut Courant, Jan. 1, 1810--Dec. 28, 1813.	Hartford	1810--1813	USD -	18.00
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	Rural Magazine and Farmer's Monthly Museum. Edited by S. Putnam Waldo. Vol. I. (all published)	Hartford	1819	USD -	4.00
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	The Museum; a [weekly] Miscellaneous Repository of Instruction and Amusement.	Hartford	1825	USD -	4.00
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	The Literary Casket: devoted to Literature, the Arts, and Sciences. (Semi-Monthly), 1826--7.	Hartford	1826--1827	USD -	3.75
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	The Literary Casket: devoted to Literature, the Arts, and Sciences. (Semi-Monthly), 1826--7.			USD -	3.00
Hartford. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb	The Silk Culturist and Farmer's Manual. F. G. Comstock, Editor. Monthly.	Hartford	1835--1837	USD -	2.75
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.	London	1656	USD -	380.00
NEW HAVEN COLONY	New Havens Settling in New-England. And some LAWES for Government, &c.	London	1656	USD -	310.00
New Haven Colony	New Havens Settling in New England. And some LAWES for Government, etc. 1656	[Repr. Hartford]	[1858.]	USD -	5.00
New Haven Colony	Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638--1664; ed. by C. J. Hoadly	Hartford	1857--1858	USD -	10.00
New Haven Colony. Lambert (E. R.)	History of New Haven Colony.	New Haven	1838	USD -	3.00
New Haven. Bacon (L.)	Thirteen Historical Discourses, on the completion of Two Hundred Years from the Beginning of the First Church	New Haven	1839	USD -	3.00
New Haven Colony. Barber (J. W.)	History and Antiquities of N. Haven	New Haven	1831	USD -	4.00
New Haven Colony. Barber (J. W.)	Views in N. H. and Vicinity, with descriptions	New Haven	1825	USD -	4.50
New Haven Colony. Dwight (Timo.)	Statistical Account of the City of New Haven	New Haven	1811	USD -	1.00
New Haven Colony. Pierpont (<i>Rev.</i> James)New Haven Colony. Pierpont (<i>Rev.</i> James)	Sundry False Hopes of Heaven, Discovered and Decryed. In a Sermon in Boston, 3d. 4 m. 1711. With a Preface by the Rd. Dr. [Cotton] Mather Sundry False Hopes of Heaven, Discovered and Decryed. In a Sermon in Boston, 3d. 4 m. 1711. With a Preface by the Rd.	Boston	1712	USD -	16.00
New Haven Colony. [SHERMAN (ROGER)]	A Caveat against Injustice, or an Enquiry into the evil Consequences of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange, Wherein is considered, whether the Bills of Credit on the Neighbouring Governments, are a legal Tender in Payments of Money, In the Colony of Connect	New York	1752	USD -	100.00
New Haven Colony	Daggett's S. at installa. of Nath'l Sherman at Mt. Carmel, 1768.			USD -	3.50
New Haven	Kingsley's Histor. Address, 200th Anniv., 1838			USD -	2.75
New Haven	Manual of 1st church (with cat. of members, 1758--1847), 1847.			USD -	2.10
New Haven	Charter of the City of New Haven	New Haven	n. d. [1784]	USD -	2.50
New Haven	American Historical Magazine and Literary Record	New Haven	1836	USD -	11.50
New Haven	CONNECTICUT GAZETTE (The) No. 1, April 12, 1755, to No. 100, March 5, 1757.	New Haven	1755--1756	USD -	160.00
New Haven	Some Reflections on the Law of Bankruptcy; wrote at the Desire of a Friend: shewing, That such a Law would be beneficial to the Publick, and analogous to Reason and our Holy Religion, and by Him humbly recommended to the Consideration of the Publick	New Haven	1755	USD -	5.00
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE	Collegii Yalensis, quod est Novo-Portu, Connecticutensium, Statuta, a Praeside et Sociis sancita. In Usum Juventutis Academicae.	Novo-Portu	1755	USD -	26.00
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Clap (T.)	Annals or History of Yale College	New Haven	1766	USD -	27.00
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE	Annals or History of Yale College			USD -	12.00
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Baldwin (E.)	Annals of Yale College, to the year 1831	New Haven	1831	USD -	7.00
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Dana (James)	The Heavenly Mansions. A Sermon preached May 14, 1795, at the Interment of the Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College	New Haven	[1795]	USD -	0.60
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Dwight (<i>Pres.</i> T.)	Decisions of Questions discussed by the Senior Class in 1813 and 1814.	New York	1833	USD -	1.50
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Woolsey (T. D.)	Historical Discourse, 150 Years after the Founding	New Haven	1850	USD -	1.25
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE	Triennial Catalogues. Catalogus Eorum qui in Collegio-Yalensi, quod est Novo-Portu Connecticutensium ab Anno 1702, ad Annum 1769, alicujus Gradus Laurea donati sunt. E typis T. et S. Green [1769].			USD -	11.00
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE	Triennial Catalogues. 1778--1868.	New Haven		USD -	7.50
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE	Annual Catalogues of the Members of Yale College, 1801, '02, '04, '05, '06; 1814, 1817--1848, (wanting 1829), 1850, '59, '61, '64, '67.			USD -	4.10
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Library	Catalogue of the Library of Yale College	N. London	1743	USD -	3.15
New Haven. YALE COLLEGE. Commencement Theses	Theses, quas in Coll. Yal. defendere conabuntur Juvenes Artibus initiati, in Comitiis Publicis, 1747, 1752, 1757, 1763--68, 1770, 1773, 1774, 1785, 1786, 1790, 1793, 1797.		1747--1812	USD -	7.35
New Haven. Yale College	Quaestiones pro Modulo Discutiendae, in Comitiis Publicis a Laureae Magistralis Candidatis, 1763, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1774, 1782, 1786, 1787.		1763--1787	USD -	2.50
New Haven. Yale College	Class Records. Classes of 1816, 1819, 1833, 1837 (4), 1849 (2), 1850, 1856, 1858, 1862.			USD -	1.95
New Haven. Yale College	Valedictory Poems and Orations, 1836--43, 1845, 1850, 1853, 1854, 1856, 1858--62, 1864.			USD -	4.00
New Haven. Yale College	Addresses to Alumni, by Spring, 1817; Silliman, 1842; Bushnell, 1843; Bacon, 1848; Dana, 1856; Sprague, 1860.			USD -	0.60
New Haven. Yale College	Phi Beta Kappa Orations: by E. G. Marsh, Mar., 1797; Chauncey, 1797; Jarvis, 1805; Gould, 1825; Percival (Poem), 1825; Hillhouse, 1826; Kent, 1831; Everett, 1833; Bushnell, 1837; Mellen, 1839; Barnes, 1840; Dickson, 1842; Hall, 1844; Wright, 1845; Barnard			USD -	3.80
New Haven. Yale College	Catalogues of the Conn. Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, 1813,--18,--26,--32,--35,--38,--41,--47,--52.	New Haven		USD -	1.62
New Haven. Yale College	Societies. Linonian. Catalogue of members, 1841; Catalogues of Library, 1834, 1837, 1841; Andrews's Oration, 1841.			USD -	1.88
New Haven. Yale College	Alpha Delta Phi, Eells's Oration, 1839. Psi Upsilon, Catalogue, 1849. Alpha Kappa Epsilon, Catalogues, 1855, 1858. Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Songs, 1866.			USD -	0.60
New Haven. Yale College. TRACTS	The Present State of the Colony of Conn. considered. A Letter &c. [by Dr. Benj. Gale].	n. p.	1755	USD -	6.50
New Haven. Yale College. TRACTS	Gale (Benj.) Calm and Full Vindication of a Letter to a Member of the Lower House, [on the] Taxes imposed on the Students of Yale College	N. Haven	1759	USD -	7.50
New Haven. Yale College. TRACTS	Mortuary, 1764--95. Daggett (N.) Sermon on Death of President Clap, Jan. 8, 1767.	New Haven	1763--1795	USD -	13.00
New Haven. Yale College	Almanac. The College Almanack, for the year 1761. By a Student of Yale College.	New Haven	1761	USD -	2.75
New Haven. Yale College	A View of the Calvinistic Clubs in the United States	n. p.	n. d. [ab. 1800]	USD -	3.00
New Haven. Yale College	Pamphlets (10) Pemberton's Sermon at Yale College, 1741.	v. p.	1741--1757	USD -	3.00
New Haven. Yale College	Pamphlets (13) Letter to the Clergy of Conn., 1760.	v. p.	1760--1787	USD -	3.50
New Haven. Yale College	Pamphlets (14) Laws, 1795.			USD -	4.20
New Haven. Yale College	Pamphlets (11) Fitch's Discourses on Sin; and Thanksgiving Ser., 1828.			USD -	2.75
New Haven. Yale College	Pamphlets (14) Brainerd's Address to Medical Institution, 1840.			USD -	1.40

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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.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
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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.
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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.

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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

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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).

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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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